The new sister-in-law is a bit timid and doesn't dare to talk to people she doesn't know well, but she loves to laugh. She's shy about speaking, but she'll return your smile.
The two children were very sensible; they started calling Manager Lu, their father, "Dad" the day after he entered the house.
The boy's name is Mingfeng. After adding Manager Lu's surname, it becomes Lu Mingfeng, a very nice name. A few days ago, Manager Lu found him a school that was close to that courtyard and sent him there to study.
Start with the basics.
The daughter's name was Minglan, Lu Minglan. She was also very sensible, and Manager Lu sent her directly to Zhou Heng's wife to learn embroidery.
Minglan used to know a little embroidery, but she never had a proper teacher. Now that she has a place to learn, she studies with Nannan every day and is quite diligent in her studies.
Minglan's appearance resembled her mother's; she was quite pretty. After she arrived, several single young men from the workshop would run to the embroidery workshop all day long, and Xiuhua chased them away several times.
Li Mai chuckled. These young men were quite bold. Minglan was Manager Lu's daughter; they couldn't just marry her as they pleased. If they wanted to, they'd have to show some real talent.
Manager Lu prefers diligent and capable young men.
On the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, Zhu Qiang also married into the Liu family. He did not have Li Mai buy him a house, but Li Mai gave him a silver note of five hundred taels and told him to settle down and live his life on his own.
Zhu Qiang thanked Li Mai.
He usually saves his monthly salary, so he doesn't really have any expenses.
Lu Qian was grateful to Zhou Tao for protecting him in the past, so he gave him three hundred taels of silver when he got married.
Only then did the Liu family realize how many people cared for Zhu Qiang. They treated Zhu Qiang like their own son and urged them to have children soon so they could hold their grandchildren.
The two elders knew that their son was not capable in the past and Xiao Qing was still a young woman, so they believed that the young couple could get along well.
After finishing their business with these two people, Li Mai and Zhou Quan were also making arrangements for their family. In early July, they would set off to inspect the shops before heading to the capital.
This time, the whole family of five went out together, along with Chu Yan, Zhou Quan with Li Dong by his side, Zhu Zhu with Xi Que by her side, and Yan Bao and Yu Bao with two maids and two guards by their side.
Li Mai didn't have anyone to serve her. She didn't like having people around her all the time, mainly because Zhou Quan liked to stick to her all the time, and it was inconvenient to have people serving her with him.
They said if they can't come back in October, they might spend the Lunar New Year in Beijing.
Therefore, family matters and business matters should be arranged in advance.
She also gave me the blueprints for the Golden Jade Pavilion by the end of the year.
Let them arrange the sample production; there's no need to release three new products every month. When it seems to be the off-season, just release one new model. Hold onto the styles and wait until before the New Year to release them, and sales will pick up.
Manager Cui agreed.
Not long after Li Mai set a time to leave, Mrs. Qi and Mr. Yang suddenly came to visit together.
Li Mai hosted them inside the trading company.
Li Mai glanced at the two people and immediately noticed something was off; the two seemed a bit too close.
"Xiaomai, I'd like you to take my pulse." Madam Qi's face flushed slightly as she spoke.
Li Mai raised an eyebrow, and the next moment, she seemed to understand something. She nodded with a smile and placed her hand on her wrist.
Mr. Yang seemed a little nervous while she was taking his pulse.
Li Mai chuckled inwardly, but didn't show it on her face, calmly taking the pulse.
After taking her pulse, she smiled and nodded at Madam Qi.
Madam Qi was stunned. Was it true?
"Is it true, Mrs. Zhou?" Mr. Yang asked anxiously.
Li Mai smiled and nodded. "What, you two are both my patients, so you don't trust my medical skills anymore?"
The two slowly turned their heads and looked at each other. Suddenly, they did something that even Li Mai hadn't expected.
In a moment of excitement, they suddenly lunged at each other and embraced tightly.
He kept repeating, "It's there! It's there! It's really there!"
Li Mai sighed and covered her forehead in exasperation. She had no choice but to quietly disappear from the house, leaving them some private space.
When Zhou Quan returned from inspecting the workshop, he was delighted to see Li Mai swinging on the swing outside the door. He ran over and pushed her to swing.
"Wife, are you waiting for me outside?" Zhou Quan asked while pushing her away.
Li Mai: ......
"Um!"
That was the only answer she could give.
After the two played for a while, Li Mai's door opened, and Mr. Yang and Mrs. Qi came out together.
"Ahem, Xiaomai, I'm sorry, we got a little excited just now. We'll head back now, and we'll host a banquet for you all in a few days to celebrate," Madam Qi said, glancing apologetically at Li Mai.
"Okay, congratulations!" Li Mai congratulated the two of them with a smile.
"Thank you. We've decided against the wedding banquet. We'll just have a meal with some close friends to announce that we're together," Mrs. Qi said, glancing at Mr. Yang.
"That's good too. Happiness is something you have to give yourself." Li Mai sincerely wished them well. Neither of them had been happy in the first half of their lives, and she only hoped that they could be happy in the second half.
She could already foresee how happy the child in Madam Qi's belly would be; it was a child that the two of them had longed for for half their lives.
The two said goodbye to Zhou Quan before leaving. Zhou Quan, still looking bewildered, saw them off. When he returned, he asked Li Mai curiously, "Xiaomai, what's going on with them?"
Li Mai smiled and said, "They got together and had a child."
"Well... that's good too!" Zhou Quan originally wanted to say what was so strange about it, but then he suddenly remembered that these two people had difficulty having children, so they should indeed be happy now that they had a child.
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