Chapter 178: Poor Relatives, Rich Relatives
The next day, Chen Guilan called the village committee and told Chen Guisheng about this.
Without saying a word, Chen Guisheng rode his tricycle to bring over those undershirts. Although these undershirts were long-sleeved, they were all single-piece.
It's not in season at this time.
Chen Juan sells each piece for fifteen yuan at the market.
Chen Guilan sells it for 20 yuan at Hualian Department Store. If you bargain, she will sell it for 18 yuan. If you buy two, it will be reduced to 15 yuan.
At the end of the day, I can sell about ten or eight pieces.
After Su Jiaojiao found out, she said it would be better to sell the goods at the snack street so that she wouldn’t have to ride a bicycle to Hualian Shopping Mall every day to sell the goods.
The weather is getting colder and it's snowing.
The road is not easy to walk on.
Chen Guilan thought so too. There was no need to keep guarding the remaining three or five leather jackets in Hualian Shopping Mall, so she simply took those undershirts back to the snack street.
I started setting up stalls again.
But her mood this time when setting up the stall was different from the previous times. It was not because these were Chen Juan’s goods, not theirs, that she was not in a hurry.
But after going through so many things, Chen Guilan's mentality has also changed.
Everything is excessive or insufficient. Goods that cannot be sold simply cannot be sold. It is because the direction is wrong, not the problem of the goods.
These base shirts made by Chen Juan are worn in spring and autumn. She sells them in winter, which is the wrong season. It is normal for her to sell only ten or eight pieces a day.
Chen Xiaohong was very happy to see Chen Guilan back: "Aunt Chen, you finally don't have to work anymore. We are together again."
"Yes, I'm not going to work anymore." Chen Guilan felt that the days when she worked at Jiali Garment Factory were like a dream.
After going around in circles, she is back again.
She called Qin Shuang every two or three days. Qin Shuang was in good condition and said she would come back to celebrate the New Year with them.
Wang Hua and the others didn't go to Qingyuan during this period, so she couldn't go either.
It all depends on how they arrange it.
"When our house is ready by the end of the year, we'll be neighbors again." Chen Xiaohong was happy at the thought of living in a new house. "Wang Jian and I have agreed to get married next year."
"That's great, we're just waiting for the wedding." Chen Guilan liked Chen Xiaohong's personality very much, especially because Chen Xiaohong and Su Jiaojiao got along well.
When Wang Yunying was walking with Chen Ju to the snack street, they saw Chen Guilan selling clothes from a distance. Chen Ju was about to go up and say hello when Wang Yunying grabbed her and said, "What are you doing?"
"That's my aunt!" Chen Ju pointed at Chen Guilan.
"What aunt? When did she ever take us seriously?" Wang Yunying was very dissatisfied with Chen Guilan and Su Jiaojiao.
Even though Chen Mei had offended Su Jiaojiao, so much time had passed, but Su Jiaojiao still held a grudge and ignored Chen Mei's kindness, as if someone owed them something.
"Mom, it's a good thing that my aunt and Jiaojiao found Chen Juan last time. Otherwise, if anything happened to Chen Juan, no one would be able to take responsibility." Chen Ju didn't understand why their family couldn't get along with Chen Guilan.
"What do you know?" Wang Yunying dragged Chen Ju away. "I'm telling you, stay away from her from now on. She's a divorced woman with a child and will only be a burden to us."
When they got home, Wang Yunying told Chen Mei about Chen Guilan setting up a stall in the snack street. Chen Mei sneered, "Without Qin Shuang, my aunt is nothing. She was so glorious when she was working, but now she's back from setting up a stall, looking shabby. And Su Jiaojiao is still trying to show off to me. What's she showing off about?"
"Who says it's not?" Wang Yunying knew that Chen Guilan had been quite successful for a while when she was working. "When she first got divorced, your father tried to persuade her to remarry, but she refused, thinking she was very capable. Now Su Houli is getting married, what does she have?"
"They're both so good at pretending!" Chen Mei got angry when she thought about how Su Jiaojiao made her look down on her in front of Li Mingrui. "Last time, she even went to our factory and asked for a thousand yuan worth of fabric for Chen Juan. If it weren't for my face, she wouldn't have been able to get that price at all."
"Is this really true?" This was the first time Wang Yunying heard Chen Mei say this. "What does Chen Juan need so much fabric for?"
"Open a small workshop at home!" Chen Mei said disdainfully, "My second uncle adopted a child, and the family expenses are high. Su Jiaojiao wants to help Chen Juan."
"They can barely protect themselves, yet they're still trying to help your uncle." Wang Yunying thought it was ridiculous. "The mother and daughter are really good at pretending to be rich. I wonder how long they'll stay in the snack street. In the end, they'll have to go back to the village."
It's really troublesome for their family to have two such poor relatives.
Who would want to associate with these two families!
"By the way, when will the houses in Century Garden be delivered?" Chen Mei asked Wang Yunying.
"Originally it was said to be the end of this month, but later they said it might be postponed. Who knows!" Wang Yunying was proud when she mentioned the house in Century Garden. "Next year when your brother comes back, we'll open a restaurant for him. Then your father and I will have completed our mission."
"You only have eyes for your son." Chen Mei knew that the house in Century Garden was the new home prepared for Chen Jiang, and said sourly, "You don't care about your daughter's affairs at all!"
"Nonsense, how could I not care about you?" Wang Yunying was unhappy. "Your partner is pretty good, isn't he? They said they'd get married next year, and you could just get married in their new house, so it wouldn't be embarrassing for you."
The man is a regular employee at a fertilizer factory, has a city hukou, and a stable job.
Have a house in the city.
The conditions are very good.
This is the son-in-law that Chen Guichang carefully selected, and both he and his wife are very satisfied with him.
Only then did Chen Mei stop talking.
The new phone stayed in Su Jiaojiao's hands for a month. It was not until the Chinese New Year that she went to the business hall to apply for a card. Since she had it, she might as well use it. It would just sit there anyway.
The phone is a flip phone, silver in color, and pretty good.
It just had too few functions, just the ability to receive text messages, make and receive calls, etc. She asked Li Na to make her a phone case, set it to silent mode, and carry it with her.
When Chen Guilan saw her new cell phone, she thought she bought it.
Su Jiaojiao said it was a gift from a lottery at the sales office. Chen Guilan was surprised: "Buy a house and get a free phone? It must have cost thousands of yuan."
"I'm just lucky, there's nothing I can do about it." Su Jiaojiao calmly showed her phone to Chen Guilan. "It costs money to make and receive calls on a cell phone, and it's 60 cents per minute."
"So expensive?" Chen Guilan handed the phone back to Su Jiaojiao like it was a hot potato. "Then keep it. What are you going to do with such an expensive thing?"
Su Jiaojiao just smiled.
She took out the phone book from her bag and entered the phone numbers one by one.
Lu Jingyou, Wang Hua, and Qin Shuang, these three have mobile phone numbers, and the others have landline numbers.
The new cell phone is still useful, replacing the phone book.
She looked at Lu Jingyou's phone number and hesitated for a moment. Should she call him?
Wang Hua said he went to the northwest and that the signal there was not very good, so I thought about it and decided to give up.
Mainly because she didn't know what to say to him.
After thinking about it, Su Jiaojiao called Qin Shuang with her new phone and asked about her health: "Aunt Qin, are you doing well recently?"
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