Chapter 34: The Wang family is left with nothing left to lose after the King of Tianliang is defeated!
Wang Zhenbao likes Sister Zhang, the confinement nanny who takes care of her, very much. After all, as the baby being cared for, she knows best whether Sister Zhang is attentive in taking care of her.
So when Wang Zhenbao heard his mother say that she was going to give Sister Zhang a red envelope, he felt that Sister Zhang was still very worthy. He patted Sister Zhang's arm with his little paws and said: Work hard, and you will get red envelopes in the future.
Of course, Sister Zhang couldn't understand the meaning of the little movements of a baby who was not even a month old, but when she saw Wang Zhenbao smiling so sweetly at her, she was very happy that the child she was taking care of was close to her.
And she really wasn't lying. Wang Zhenbao was the most well-behaved child she had ever taken care of. He was very easy to take care of and rarely disturbed anyone's sleep by having a mixed day and night schedule.
When Sister Zhang was taking care of those annoying babies in the past, she was able to stick with it only because of the high salary. She felt that the value of her labor was more than worth the high salary.
But now that she is taking care of Wang Zhenbao, Sister Zhang sometimes feels embarrassed for getting paid so high a salary because Wang Zhenbao is so well-behaved and easy to take care of. She will take the initiative to add some extra workload to herself so that the employer feels that it is worth the high price to hire her to be the confinement nanny.
It was precisely because of Sister Zhang's behavior that Li Guihua felt that Sister Zhang was a good person. After all, an employee who is willing to take the initiative to do extra work will definitely not be lazy in her job. This is why she was willing to give Sister Zhang a red envelope.
After Si Yuan came back from the store in the evening, Li Guihua privately told him about the red envelope she had given to Sister Zhang.
Si Yuan had no objection and nodded: "Since she has done a good job, it is only right to give her a red envelope as a reward to motivate her to work more actively."
After all, she is the woman who will work with the original owner to expand the business and establish the Wang Group in the future. Li Guihua still knows how to motivate employees' work enthusiasm.
Because of how Li Guihua herself felt as an employee, she knows how her employees feel now. No matter how many nice words she says or how many big promises she paints, they are not as practical as giving bonuses or raising wages.
Therefore, Li Guihua is always generous when it comes to rewarding employees, which also makes the employees respect her as the boss's wife very much.
After all, he is the financial sponsor. As long as the salary is enough, who would complain about the job?
Si Yuan would not mind being generous to his employees. To him, money is just something outside of his body and something that is easily available. He would not care about using money to buy people's hearts.
In the few months since he came across the time travel, Si Yuan went to the restaurant opened by the original owner and Li Guihua once a week and had already fully understood the situation of the restaurant. Although he did not want to work hard like the original owner to develop the catering business personally, he was still willing to make some changes to the restaurant's business model to make the restaurant business better and make more money.
As a result, Si Yuan has recently taken home more restaurant revenue than before, and Li Guihua is delighted: "Based on this momentum, the business is so good that if we reopen the restaurant, we don't even need to ask the bank for a loan. The cash flow we have is enough to support us to open a restaurant."
Si Yuan listened to Li Guihua excitedly talking about his business plan of opening a restaurant and then a chain of restaurants. He felt a little regretful that he had run the restaurant so well. He didn't want to work so hard running a chain of restaurants.
The reason he can be a hands-off boss now is that the original owner's restaurant has been open for a long time and the employees are all skilled workers. He changed the management methods and systems and let the employees do things according to the rules, so he, as the boss, does not need to do anything.
But if the diner is converted into a restaurant, then he as the owner will have a lot of work to do.
Si Yuan said quickly, "There's no rush to open a restaurant. We don't have enough money saved yet. If we use it all to open a restaurant, we won't have much money left. We have Zhenbao now, and we'll have a lot of money to spend in the future. What if we lose money opening a restaurant? Zhenbao is still young, and we can't just leave it all to Sister Zhang. We, as parents, also need to have enough time to accompany Zhenbao..."
The main idea of Si Yuan’s words is that you can’t open a restaurant now for the sake of your children.
Li Guihua works so hard to pursue her career just to give her children better material conditions. She doesn't want to put the cart before the horse and neglect her children for the sake of her career.
Therefore, Si Yuan could easily convince Li Guihua by using Wang Zhenbao as an excuse.
Wang Zhenbao, who was lying in the cradle nearby but not asleep, was quietly eavesdropping on her parents' conversation. When she heard that her mother was about to take the first step in building their family's catering empire, she felt a little excited. Was she witnessing the first step of her parents' fortune?
But soon she heard Si Yuan's persuasion, and Wang Zhenbao's heart skipped a beat. Yes, if her parents were busy with their careers, they would definitely not have time to accompany her like in her previous life.
Although Sister Zhang took good care of him, Sister Zhang was not his parents after all. Wang Zhenbao still wanted his parents to be with him more. It didn’t matter whether they became rich or not.
In her previous life, her family went bankrupt and she only had tens of millions in assets left, but she still lived her life as usual, didn't she?
So Miss Wang Zhenbao, who regarded money as dirt, decided to stop her parents from abandoning her to pursue their careers. She suddenly burst into tears.
Li Guihua was startled by her daughter's sudden cry. She quickly picked up Wang Zhenbao from the cradle, rocked her in her arms and coaxed her: "Be good, Zhenbao, don't cry."
While coaxing him, she checked Wang Zhenbao's condition, wanting to know why the child was crying, whether he had peed or defecated, or was in pain somewhere... However, after checking, she found nothing, so the only possibility left was that the child might be hungry. She said to Si Yuan, "Go make a bottle of milk for the child."
Si Yuan nodded, then skillfully adjusted the water temperature and made a bottle of milk.
Sister Zhang, who was preparing postpartum meals for Li Guihua today, saw Si Yuan's actions and quickly put down her work and said, "Sir, let me make the milk."
Si Yuan shook the bottle in his hand and said, "It's okay, just do your thing, I've already made the milk."
Sister Zhang looked at the bottle in Si Yuan's hand and went back to her own business. In fact, she was no longer surprised by Si Yuan's way of making milk. She had long known that Si Yuan had skilled techniques in making milk, so she could rest assured. But Si Yuan is the employer, so when Sister Zhang saw this, she would naturally ask whether she should let her come. Otherwise, what if the employer thinks she has no good eyesight?
Sister Zhang had expected Si Yuan's answer, but she still had to ask.
Si Yuan returned to the master bedroom with a bottle of water at the right temperature and stuffed the bottle into Wang Zhenbao's arms. Wang Zhenbao then skillfully used all four limbs to hold the bottle and began to drink milk.
Although she wanted to continue pestering her mother to coax her, the milk smelled so good. Although she was not very hungry now, when she smelled the milk, she couldn't help but hold the bottle and drink the milk.
The sweet and rich aroma of milk wafted from the little cub. Si Yuan watched as her two little hands were holding the bottle to drink milk. As she drank, her two little feet lifted up. He couldn't help laughing: "Guihua, look at Zhenbao's feet. Every time she drinks milk, she lifts her feet up unconsciously out of joy. It seems like she wants to hold the bottle with her feet."
Li Guihua looked at her daughter's adorable appearance with a gentle smile on her face, and she also teased her daughter along with Si Yuan's words.
Wang Zhenbao understood what her parents said. She thought about how she couldn't go against her baby's instinct to do something that made her so embarrassed that she dug her toes into the ground. She immediately put her feet down out of embarrassment, and took the bottle away. She just closed her eyes embarrassedly with the pacifier in her mouth.
Si Yuan looked at Wang Zhenbao's actions and said meaningfully: "Guihua, have you noticed that our daughter seems to understand what we say? Moreover, she seldom cries after she was born. Sometimes, even if she cries, it's just dry crying, as if she is deliberately using crying to attract our attention..."
When Wang Zhenbao heard what his father said, his heart skipped a beat with nervousness. Was he not acting like a baby well enough? Am I going to be exposed? Is your father suspicious? She had never expected that her father was so perceptive when he was young, and she was so scared that she quickly pretended to be like, "I don't know what you are talking about, I just want to play with my feet."
Although Wang Zhenbao felt that she was her parents' daughter and it didn't matter if she was recognized, she couldn't speak now and couldn't explain her true identity. If her parents really suspected that there was something wrong with her, she wouldn't be able to explain and it would affect her relationship with her parents.
So Wang Zhenbao tried hard to act more like a baby, but Wang Zhenbao had no idea what a real baby looked like. She had never given birth to a child before, let alone raised a child, so Wang Zhenbao's way of pretending to be a baby was to act stupid and do some meaningless stupid actions, such as biting her fingers, crying and making a fuss for no reason, just because she didn't want people to suspect that she was not a real baby.
Seeing Wang Zhenbao start to act awkwardly and disguise herself, Si Yuan decided to let her go for now, so he changed the subject: "...Our daughter is really smart and cute. We can see her intelligence since she was young. She must have inherited our smart brains."
The original owner and Li Guihua both had low education and ordinary backgrounds, but they were really smart, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to make their careers big and strong.
Unfortunately, their only daughter was spoiled by them and became naive and innocent. She did not inherit their intelligence, nor did she have the life experience of hardships they had when they were young.
Li Guihua now looks at Wang Zhenbao's daughter through a filter eight hundred meters thick. She said as a matter of course: "Of course our daughter is the smartest. Sister Zhang said that she is a smart, well-behaved and sensible child."
Wang Zhenbao, who thought she had aroused her parents' suspicion, immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, her parents just thought she was smarter than ordinary children.
Wang Zhenbao is not really stupid, she is just spoiled by her parents and has become naive. She has just been reborn and has no experience or vigilance, so she does not behave like a real baby.
Fortunately, her parents were new parents and had no idea what a real baby behaved like, so they were not surprised by some of the strange things she exhibited.
It was Sister Zhang, a confinement nanny who had taken care of many babies, who noticed that something was wrong with her. However, no matter how much Sister Zhang felt that Wang Zhenbao was different from others, she would not think that Wang Zhenbao was a reborn girl. At most, she thought that the child was just smart.
Sister Zhang simply praised Wang Zhenbao for her natural intelligence, as she showed that she behaved differently from other babies. After all, this was not her child but her employer's child, so of course she had to praise him for his good qualities and there was no need to think too much about it.
Wang Zhenbao carefully observed her parents and Sister Zhang's attitude towards her. After making sure that there was no problem, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief and continued to act like a baby to attract her mother's attention and ask her mother not to abandon her to open any restaurant.
Sister Zhang is a confinement nanny. She is only responsible for taking care of Li Guihua during her confinement period and helping her take care of the baby. Her job ends when Li Guihua is out of confinement.
Wang Zhenbao originally liked Sister Zhang very much and hoped that Sister Zhang would continue to be his family's nanny.
Wang Zhenbao took it for granted that the family should always have a nanny. After all, her family had always had a nanny as far as she could remember in her previous life. Even after the family went bankrupt, they still kept a nanny.
A lean camel is bigger than a horse. Even though the Wang family is in a better condition than ordinary people after bankruptcy, they still have the conditions to hire a nanny.
So Wang Zhenbao never thought about how heavy a burden it would be to hire a nanny with an annual salary of tens or even hundreds of thousands of yuan when the family's annual income was only a few hundred thousand yuan.
But Wang Zhenbao was a little scared by what her father said today, whether intentionally or unintentionally. Perhaps she shouldn't let outsiders stay by her side to take care of her. She was worried that someone would find out that something was wrong with her because of her rebirth.
If it was her parents who discovered that something was wrong with her, she could explain it to them after she learned to speak. But if someone else discovered that something was wrong with her, she would be unable to sleep or eat.
So when Li Guihua finished her confinement and gave Sister Zhang a big red envelope, and sent Sister Zhang away, Wang Zhenbao didn't cry at all. She just rolled her eyes like black grapes, lay obediently in her mother's arms, and watched Sister Zhang leave with her big red envelope in her hand with a smile on her face.
After Li Guihua finished her confinement, the first thing she did was to go to the store to check on the situation before firing her confinement nanny, Sister Zhang.
Wang Zhenbao also knew this. After all, her mother, a career-oriented woman, never avoided her, the baby, when she discussed business matters with her father at night.
After Sister Zhang left, Wang Zhenbao acted particularly clingy to Li Guihua. Whenever Li Guihua wanted to put her down, she would cry loudly, even if it was thunder without rain, which made Li Guihua feel very distressed.
After Li Guihua took her daughter to a restaurant once, she saw her daughter’s red eyes from crying and she no longer dared to go out with her daughter in her arms.
Wang Zhenbao used this method to draw Li Guihua's attention to herself. She liked her mother's wholehearted attention to her.
After dealing with a dispute with a food supplier, Si Yuan returned home and told Li Guihua about the matter.
Li Guihua felt that Si Yuan handled the situation very well, so she didn't say much. Instead, she told Si Yuan that her daughter Wang Zhenbao had been too clingy to her recently.
Li Guihua's tone was both distressed and happy. She was distressed because her daughter was too clingy to her and it was difficult for her to leave her daughter to go to work. She was happy because her daughter had such deep feelings for her that she liked to stick to her so much.
After listening to this, Si Yuan frowned slightly. He keenly sensed that something was wrong.
Wang Zhenbao was too clingy to Li Guihua, which occupied all of Li Guihua's mind and energy, forcing Li Guihua, a career-oriented woman, to become a stay-at-home mom raising children.
Si Yuan felt that this was very unfair to Li Guihua.
Although he didn't want to open a restaurant and work hard on his own, he also didn't think about just lying down and not making any money.
Even though Si Yuan thought that money was external to one's body and need not be taken seriously, he also knew that when in Rome, one should adapt to the Romans. In this ordinary little world without extraordinary powers, money was an indispensable symbol of power. Although one could still live without money, life would not be so comfortable.
If he wants to lie down, he needs to have enough money. Money cannot solve all problems in this small world, but it can at least solve 90% of the problems.
Si Yuan still needs to make money, of course, but he doesn't want to choose the same hard way of making money as the original owner. He prefers an easy way of making money, which gives him more time to comprehend the laws of the small world and improve his spiritual realm.
Si Yuan does not have the ambition to work in the catering industry, but that does not mean Li Guihua does not have this ambition. Wang Zhenbao's way of sticking to Li Guihua will definitely affect Li Guihua's career pursuits.
Thinking that the strong woman who had originally been destined to build a restaurant empire with her husband would become a mother without a career in the future, Si Yuan felt that he could not just sit back and do nothing.
He had no intention of discriminating against non-working mothers. He just felt that Li Guihua should be given a chance to choose, rather than letting Wang Zhenbao confine Li Guihua to the identity of a mother.
Who says mothers can’t have their own careers?
Si Yuan asked Li Guihua: "So Guihua, what do you think? If you need, you can let me take care of the treasures, and you can do the work you want without worry."
Li Guihua was stunned. She had never thought that her dull and taciturn husband would say such words.
Even Li Guihua herself subconsciously believed that taking care of children was what she, as a mother, should do. Even if she was ambitious, she only wanted to pursue her career while taking care of her children. She never thought of pursuing a career herself and letting her husband stay at home to be a full-time dad.
She didn't expect Si Yuan to take the initiative to bring it up.
Si Yuan held Wang Zhenbao in his arms. Looking at the baby in his arms who had an adult soul in his small body, he smiled and said to the baby in his arms, "Mom has an important job. How about Zhenbao stay with Daddy in the future? Daddy will take you to see Mommy often..."
Si Yuan looked like he was coaxing a child and didn't seem like he was really talking to the child at all. Li Guihua didn't find it surprising.
Even Wang Zhenbao herself didn’t feel that her father was really talking to her. She was thinking in her heart whether it was right or wrong for her to disrupt her mother’s work in order to let her spend more time with her…
But she just hopes that her parents, who were busy with work and rarely accompanied her when she was a child, could focus on her and spend more time with her.
Wang Zhenbao looked listless because he couldn't figure out what was going on. Li Guihua was shocked: "Is Zhenbao sick? Why does he look a little weird?"
Li Guihua went to get a thermometer to take Wang Zhenbao's temperature and did various checks. Only after she was relieved that Wang Zhenbao was not sick.
But Li Guihua was still a little confused: "Zhenbao is not sick, why is he suddenly so sick?"
Si Yuan knew how long Wang Zhenbao had been struggling. He smiled and said, "Maybe she was tired of crying today. After all, she cried for most of the day to prevent you from leaving her to work. Crying is a physical activity for a child."
After her mother's panicked check to see if she was sick, Wang Zhenbao did not dare to show that she was depressed, and quickly gave her mother a sweet toothless smile, which was very adorable.
Li Guihua breathed a sigh of relief when she saw her daughter regain her energy.
After hesitating for a long time, Wang Zhenbao was still reluctant to let her mother give up her career and revolve around her. After that, she was no longer as clingy as before. Instead, she became much more sensible. When Li Guihua was busy with work, she pestered Li Guihua to take her with her. She would quietly accompany Li Guihua and play by herself so that Li Guihua could work with peace of mind.
Wang Zhenbao just wants her parents to be with her, not that she wants her parents to lose their careers or jobs, so she decided to change herself. She is not a real baby, and she can be very obedient and accompany her parents to work.
As long as the family can be together, it's the same whether mom and dad come home to accompany her or she is brought along to accompany mom and dad.
Wang Zhenbao discovered that his parents' restaurant had become a big restaurant again. This was the first of his parents' chain restaurants and the first step in the Wang family's catering empire.
Wang Zhenbao was accompanied by his parents throughout the whole process and participated in the establishment of this big restaurant.
Although Wang Zhenbao found that this restaurant was much larger and more luxurious than the first chain restaurant of Wang Group in her previous life, she didn't take it to heart.
It was not until the restaurant named Jueweixuan opened half a year after she was born and until she was six years old and went to primary school that the Wang family still had only this one restaurant and never opened a second branch. Wang Zhenbao realized belatedly that the flapping of her butterfly wings seemed to have caused the Wang family's chain restaurant empire to die.
Now the Wang family’s entire income depends on this restaurant.
Wang Zhenbao supported his face with his two chubby little hands, looking a little distressed, and sighed solemnly.
Si Yuan, who was watching TV with her, heard her sigh and asked, "What's wrong with Zhenbao? Who made you unhappy? Why are you sighing?"
Wang Zhenbao said without even looking up: "I was wondering if Mom and Dad are not planning to open a branch of the restaurant?"
Si Yuan answered calmly, "We don't plan to open a branch. After all, we can't take care of it if we open a branch. We manage the taste and reputation. If we can't guarantee the quality and taste of the dishes in the branch, opening a branch will only cause our Jueweixuan's reputation to decline."
Wang Zhenbao blinked her big eyes. She understood what her father said, but her family had opened so many chain stores in her previous life, and there was no decline in reputation. Why couldn’t they open branches in this life?
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