Chapter 78 Unnecessary Worry
Jiang Jianni really wanted to open a milk tea shop, a pastry shop, and a fried chicken shop as soon as possible, but opening a shop isn't something you can just do by talking about it.
Moreover, with the Lunar New Year approaching, it's not suitable to undertake any major undertakings.
All I can do is patiently teach Lu Sitian how to make milk tea, pastries, and fried chicken whenever I have free time.
Lu Sitian was focused on making money to buy a house after the New Year, and she was also afraid of wasting the good opportunity provided by her second uncle, so she studied very hard.
Fortunately, this girl is really skillful and, as she said, very good at cooking—if she had encountered a culinary genius with terrible skills, the milk tea shop would have really gone out of business.
As a result, the Lu family's home was filled with the aromas of milk, tea, sweet pastries, and the savory scent of fried foods during this period.
As a result, the Lu family's neighbors kept coming over to ask if the Lu family had found another housekeeper.
These things taste good the first few times you eat them, but after eating or drinking them too much, they really get cloying.
Soon, Lu's parents stopped smiling.
Even though Lu Sitian's cooking got better and better, her pastries became more and more delicious, and her fried foods became more and more crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, they were starting to lose their appetite.
Especially Lu's father.
The smell makes me want to run away from home: "Honestly, I used to be unable to afford good food, but now I eat it every day, so why do I feel like throwing up just from the smell?"
Lu's mother sighed, "Me too."
During the hardest times, let alone meat, grass roots and tree bark were considered delicious as long as they could fill our stomachs.
The good days hadn't lasted long before they started to look down on it.
These are clearly all good things.
If you really can't finish it, you can only give it away.
Before long, even those who were on good terms with the Lu family couldn't resist their kindness—they weren't so shameless that they would reciprocate if the Lu family gave them nice things.
I can't stand having to send it back every day.
Not every family is like the Lu family, where the whole family makes money.
So after Lu Sitian finished making it, Jiang Jianni delivered it to the Jiang family.
It was fine once or twice, but when she delivered it for the third time, Yang Yuemei couldn't sit still anymore. She asked Jiang Jiani in a panic what was wrong.
"Other people's daughters, even when they send things back to their parents' home, they only do it every now and then."
"Unlike you, who sends gifts every single day, and they're always good stuff."
"What if the Lu family gets upset?"
"You've only been married for less than six months, you can't just get a divorce already, can you?"
She's very happy that her daughter is loyal to her parents' family.
But her daughter's out-of-place attitude of emptying out her in-laws' house really frightened her.
If Jiang Jiani gets divorced in less than a year after getting married, people will definitely gossip.
People won't say anything bad about the Lu family; they'll just say that Jiang Jiani is like a wild boar that can't eat fine chaff, or a sparrow that can't become a phoenix.
These days, divorces are not uncommon.
Divorce doesn't really affect men much; they can remarry and live a normal life.
But divorced women are constantly criticized and gossiped about wherever they go.
Those who quickly found a new husband and got married were fortunate, but those who didn't were having a tough time.
The gossip of outsiders, the disdain of parents, brothers, and sisters-in-law—if one's mentality is even slightly fragile, one simply cannot withstand this blow.
This kind of thing has happened before.
Just two streets away in the steel mill's residential compound, a woman was kicked out by her husband because she couldn't have a child after five years of marriage.
As it turned out, her family home had nowhere for her to stay.
All I did was spread out my bedding in the living room at night and sleep there, then roll it up during the day to make room.
She did all the housework, even washing her sister-in-law's underwear.
Even so, I'm still constantly being criticized for being a freeloader.
Her parents also complained that she was incapable of keeping a man's heart, saying that she wasn't the only woman who couldn't have children, and why other women were able to win over men who stayed with them for life while she was kicked out.
What's even more pitiful is that the girl never went to school because her family favored boys over girls. She was beaten so badly by her ex-husband that she was disfigured and couldn't find a partner or a job.
Later, unable to bear the disdain from everyone around her, she hanged herself on a rope in her window and committed suicide.
Her family even blamed her for committing suicide at home, saying it brought bad luck to the family, and then abandoned her in the wilderness.
Yang Yuemei desperately didn't want her daughter to end up in that situation.
Jiang Jianni was stunned for a moment, then gently patted her face: "Oh, Mom, didn't I tell you?"
"What did you say?"
Yang Yuemei looked bewildered.
She quickly became alert and said, "You can't be, you can't be..."
Jiang Jianni was both amused and exasperated, waving her hands repeatedly: "No, no, don't think such nonsense."
"Xiangyang has a cousin named Lu Sitian, right? I've told you about her before."
Yang Yuemei nodded: "I did say that. He's only one year older than your sister."
"Oh, this girl has such a hard life..."
Seeing that she was about to launch into another heartfelt sigh, Jiang Jianni quickly stopped her: "Alright, stop talking."
"I mean, this young lady wants to open a food shop and is looking for a local to help her, so I recommended you to her..."
Lu's mother was speechless for a moment before finally finding her voice: "Me? I can't do it, can I? I've hardly ever worked, how could I possibly help them..."
Jiang's father patted her hand: "Don't rush. Let's hear what Jia Ni has to say first."
Jiang Jianni sighed inwardly.
Yang Yuemei is like that.
Logically speaking, she was the eldest of five sisters. Grandpa Yang only had these five daughters, so there was no phenomenon of favoring boys over girls or showing favoritism towards any one of them.
But Yang Yuemei developed this insecure demeanor.
She's hardworking and resilient, but she lacks the decisiveness and efficiency that an older sister should have.
She was even less devoted to her husband than Yang Yuezhi.
Yang Yuezhi at least knew how to put in the effort for her love, but Yang Yuemei just believed whatever others said, and making a decision seemed like it would cost her her life.
Jiang Jianni was speechless, but could only encourage her: "Lu Sitian is a sixteen-year-old girl from the mountains. She can't even understand Mandarin when she comes to Pingyang, but she still has the courage to open a shop and do business."
“You have over ten years of work experience, and you’re a local.”
"Besides, it's just asking you to be someone's assistant, not to be the boss. What do you have to worry about?"
"If you make money, they'll pay you a salary and give you bonuses; if you lose money, they won't ask you for it. What are you afraid of?"
"They said that if you're willing to help them, they'll give you a base salary of 160 a month."
"If business is good, there will be a bonus."
Yang Yuemei didn't hear the rest of the sentence at all; her mind was still filled with the first one: "One hundred and sixty?"
She works at a restaurant every night until 8 or 9 pm washing dishes, and the owner only pays her a little over 30 yuan a month.
She repeated in disbelief, "I'm just an assistant, and they're willing to pay me 160?"
She couldn't help but glance at Jiang's father.
Wow, this salary is almost catching up with her husband Lao Jiang's salary!
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