Chapter 117 I didn't know that it was Molly's shop.
Molly made milk for the children, and as they drank it, their emotions gradually calmed down. Grandpa Ji, Grandma Ji, and Mo An, however, still looked completely lost.
Old Ding's servants were knocked unconscious and locked in a storage room. Molly woke them up and gave them two days off.
Glug—
Molly's stomach rumbled, and she looked at Mo An, "Let's have lamb hot pot for lunch."
Mo An blinked, snapping out of his daze. He first walked over and gave Molly a tight hug before heading towards the kitchen.
Seeing this, Lu Lu came over and hugged Molly, then went to the kitchen to help.
Mo Chuyang followed suit, hugging Molly for a long time before letting go, and went to the kitchen to help Mo An and Lu Lu.
"Molly, are you alright?" Grandma Ji asked.
Molly shook her head. "Grandma, I'm fine."
Grandma Ji was relieved. "It's good that you're alright."
"Thanks to Molly, our family is safe this time." Grandpa Ji was shocked by Molly's skills and couldn't help but feel fortunate that such a capable daughter-in-law was in their family.
When Ji Hefeng hurriedly returned home, Molly was playing with several children, while his grandparents watched on the side with faint smiles on their faces. The aroma of food wafted from the kitchen, where Mo An was busy preparing meals with his two nephews.
It's a heartwarming scene, not like someone who has just gone through a life-or-death ordeal.
Ji Hefeng returned with more than a dozen people. He was slightly out of breath, and the people behind him were even more breathless.
"Are you all alright?" Ji Hefeng asked.
“We’re all fine, no one’s hurt. The bodies are in Grandpa and Grandma’s yard.” Molly pointed outside. “They’re all dead.”
Ji Hefeng breathed a sigh of relief. "I'll take some people to handle it."
Molly nodded. "Come over for hot pot later."
Ji Hefeng really wanted to, but there wasn't enough time. "We need to take the bodies back, and we can eat them when we get back tonight."
Ji Hefeng led his men to the courtyard of Grandpa Ji and Grandma Ji. When they saw the dead bodies of the five people on the ground, they were all stunned.
The items inside were intact, with only minor signs of a struggle; the five people on the ground were all killed with a single blow.
It should be noted that Zhao Chengfeng was already among the top tier of the military, and the men who followed him were all incredibly powerful. They died before they could even put up a fight.
Ji Hefeng merely raised an eyebrow, not particularly surprised by the scene. What surprised him was Molly's composure, given it was her first time killing someone. She showed no discomfort whatsoever, as if she had experienced similar things many times before.
But is it possible?
Ji Hefeng shook his head, guessing that Molly probably viewed killing as killing prey.
The mutton smelled delicious, but the others didn't have much of an appetite; only Molly and the six children ate with gusto. Each child held a piece of meat, slowly nibbling at it with serious expressions.
"Sis~"
Mo An hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but then stopped.
Molly looked up, silently asking, "What's wrong?"
"Am I too useless?" Today's events severely impacted Mo An.
Molly asked in surprise, "How could you have such an idea?"
Mo An lowered his head and remained silent. Among his peers, he considered himself unmatched, but when faced with an enemy, he was utterly powerless to fight back.
"Sister, I want to become as amazing as you."
"If you mean being as strong as your sister in martial arts, then that's probably difficult," Molly said ruthlessly.
Mo An thought about it seriously, "So if I were to go up against my sister, I could only win by using my intelligence."
"Mmm. Using your brain is much better than using force." Molly took a bite of mutton. "If none of you are eating, I'll finish it myself."
"Sister, you eat. There's more in the kitchen. I'll go get it for you." Mo An skipped away happily.
"Is it really Zhao Chengfeng?" Wu Guyu rushed over to confirm when he heard that Zhao Chengfeng's body had been brought back.
The person they searched for so long couldn't find, and now he's dead.
Ji Hefeng hummed in agreement. "It was my oversight; I should have thought of that. Your side is heavily guarded, so he didn't have a chance to act. But over at my place—"
Ji Hefeng was still shaken. If Zhao Chengfeng had attacked before Molly got home, his family would have been in serious trouble—
He couldn't imagine the consequences.
"We were all negligent." Wu Guyu also felt a sense of lingering fear. They had been guarding all the checkpoints and had focused their attention on the area outside the city, but they didn't know when Zhao Chengfeng had entered the city and had brazenly entered Ji Hefeng's home.
However, Wu Guyu was quite surprised by one thing: "Molly's skills are actually that good?"
"Yes. She's naturally strong and fast. She used to support her three children by hunting," Ji Hefeng said, half-jokingly.
“That’s truly a gifted individual,” Wu Guyu said. “With Zhao Chengfeng dead, the hidden danger has been eliminated, and we can finally breathe a sigh of relief.”
During this period, in order to guard against Zhao Chengfeng, they were all on high alert and exhausted.
"I'm planning to change careers," Ji Hefeng suddenly said.
Wu Guyu was taken aback. "Why?"
With Ji Hefeng's abilities and experience, he may very well reach the highest position in the future.
“Go start a university and become its president,” Ji Hefeng said with a half-smile. “I want to change places and stay for a while.”
That day, Grandpa Ji and Grandma Ji suddenly said that they would go to Uncle's house for dinner that night.
"Your uncle said it was firstly to celebrate your cousin's discharge from the hospital, and secondly to thank Xiaofeng for helping to retrieve the goods. The whole family got together for a simple meal," Grandma Ji said. As the eldest in the family, no one wanted family harmony and brotherly love more than her.
Molly: "Are the six little ones going too?"
"Okay, go ahead, consider it a visit to familiarize yourself with the place." Grandma Ji went to change the six children's clothes. "It's windy outside, wear more clothes, be careful not to catch a cold."
"Wear the down jacket that arrived yesterday, hmm?" Ji Hefeng said to Molly.
Molly didn't care what she wore, "The black one?"
"The red one, please. You have fair skin, and red looks good on you." Ji Hefeng turned to look for clothes.
Molly: "So, what should we bring for our first visit?"
“A fruit basket,” Ji Hefeng blurted out.
Molly's lips twitched. It was a rather perfunctory response, but he liked it.
The snow has melted a bit in the last couple of days, and there's some water on the roads. Molly and Ji Hefeng each drove a car, and it took them about twenty minutes to get to their uncle's house.
My uncle's family lives in the two-courtyard siheyuan that Grandpa Ji bought before. It's in a great location with complete surrounding facilities and convenient living.
There is plenty of space in front of the gate to park cars.
Ji Yi and the six children put on shoes and wanted to walk as soon as they got off the bus.
Fortunately, there were many people in the family, and each person could hold one child's hand. The children wobbled and took big steps; if someone hadn't been holding their hands, they would have fallen down long ago.
Upon hearing the sound of a car outside, the uncle and cousin Ji Heguang came out to greet them, their faces beaming with smiles, as if the gloom of having their goods stolen had dissipated.
"With the Lunar New Year approaching, business in the shop is getting better and better," the uncle said with a smile. "Now we have people in the south put our goods on the train, and we just pick them up when they arrive here. We don't have to travel back and forth, which just adds up to the shipping costs and increases our expenses. But it's safer this way, and we feel more at ease."
Grandpa Ji nodded, "It's good that you think this way."
Ji Heguang said, "We do have other ideas, but we can only wait until after the New Year to see."
"Stop chatting and come in for dinner," Auntie called to everyone.
Two hot pots were set up in the restaurant, stewing mutton. On the table were sliced mutton and beef, various meatballs, beef offal and mutton offal, and several baskets of vegetables.
"Please sit down quickly, let's eat and chat." The uncle first pulled out chairs for Grandma Ji and Grandpa Ji, and only sat down after the two elderly people were seated.
The children also had their own seats, which were small, round stools, with each child having a small wooden bowl and a wooden spoon.
Ji Shuo looked at his younger brothers and then at Mo An and his older brothers. It was the first time the house had been so lively, and the feeling was quite novel.
The adults were talking, while the children were focused on their food and remained quiet.
"They're not even a year old yet, and they're already eating by themselves?" Auntie looked at the six little bundles of flesh, their chubby cheeks puffing out as they ate their food so earnestly that it was impossible not to like them.
The second wife was incredibly lucky; she gave birth to six children in one pregnancy, and they were all so robust.
The aunt looked at her daughter-in-law and thought, "If only she could have one or two more children."
Zhou Min pretended not to see her mother-in-law's look. She was focused on her business and didn't want to go through the ordeal of childbirth again.
After the meal, Zhou Min brought out a large cake.
"Isn't today anyone's birthday?" Grandma Ji looked at everyone present, worried that she might have forgotten because of her bad memory.
"This cake isn't something you can only eat on a birthday. Let's celebrate He Guang's discharge from the hospital and have our whole family cut it together to drive away bad luck," Auntie said.
The others naturally had no objections.
However, the people from the second wife's family all had strange expressions when they saw the words on the packaging box.
"This is a cake shop called Sweet Cake. It's very popular. I only managed to order this cake two weeks in advance," Zhou Min said with a smile, her slightly raised eyebrows revealing a hint of pride.
Well--
The second wife's family members looked at each other, unsure of what to say.
"Their cakes and bread are very good, you should eat more later." Zhou Min handed the knife to Ji Heguang, indicating that Ji Heguang should be in charge of cutting the cake.
Ji Heguang distributed the cake to everyone, saying, "This shop is very popular and should be making a lot of money. We would like to open a shop like this, but it's hard to find equipment and skilled workers. I heard that every night several groups of people are staking out outside that shop, trying to poach the two workers, but they haven't succeeded."
Molly was surprised; how come she didn't know about this?
Ji Hefeng squeezed Molly's hand and whispered in her ear, "Don't worry, after the New Year I'll send a few people to Hong Kong to learn baking there. When they come back, I'll open a branch for you."
Molly: "You're thinking long-term."
Until they finished eating the cake, no one mentioned that the cake shop called Sweetie was owned by Molly.
Grandpa Ji sighed, "I'll find another opportunity to bring it up with the eldest son later."
Grandma Ji felt a headache coming on. "You should talk to him about this yourself."
"Maybe we should keep it a secret," Mrs. Ji said, disagreeing with telling the eldest son's family. "If they also want to open a shop and ask Molly for staff and equipment, will Molly agree or not?"
"This—" Grandma Ji hesitated.
“Let them figure it out themselves. There are countless businesses out there; there’s no need for the whole family to squeeze into this path.” Grandpa Ji said without any hesitation, “I’ll refuse when the time comes.”
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief after hearing Grandpa Ji's words.
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