Chapter 301 I Only Treat You as My Sister (19)
Lin Shichu didn’t know whether Lian Shangrui saw his mother afterwards.
In the end, only the kidnappers were punished, and the person behind the kidnapping was never found out, so the case was left unresolved.
But Lian Shangrui didn't seem to take it to heart. He still came to school every now and then and was still obsessed with painting, as if nothing had happened.
However, his paintings were sent by his housekeeper to participate in a national art competition, where he unexpectedly won the first prize. He became some kind of talented young painter and caused a sensation in the school for a while. However, because he was too low-key, the excitement soon passed.
But Lian Shangrui's enthusiasm for giving Lin Shichu portraits has not disappeared. He doesn't know what obsession he has with Lin Shichu, but he just focuses on her face and paints her. After painting the whole person, he paints only parts, such as Lin Shichu's eyes, mouth, upper body, and left side of her face... Although the paintings are very beautiful in imagery, they always make people feel a little weird. Fortunately, Lin Shichu is generous and doesn't despise it. Since Lian Shangrui gave it to her, she accepted it.
"Shichu, have you finished making that skin care product? My sister wants it too!" Fan Meiling approached Lin Shichu and asked expectantly.
Ever since she brought home a bottle of Lin Shichu's homemade skin care products, which her sister took for testing and found to be trustworthy, she set her sights on Lin Shichu and no longer needed any other skin care products on the market but only Lin Shichu's.
Not only does she use it herself, her sister has also become a loyal customer of Lin Shichu.
"It's done." Lin Shichu replied, then took out a small bag from his schoolbag and handed it to Fan Meiling.
Fan Meiling's eyes lit up immediately, and she took it impatiently. She lowered her head and opened the bag to see four small jars neatly placed inside. She immediately smiled happily: "Thank you Shichu! You really are my Doraemon!"
"Meiling, how come you use it up so quickly? It seems like you just bought two cans from Shichu two weeks ago, and now you want more?" Qian Qingqing asked with a puzzled look on her face.
"Hey, I'm not just using it myself. My sister, my mom, and my sister's colleagues all want them too!" Fan Meiling said with a smile, and quickly hid the four cans in her hands in her schoolbag like treasures.
"Then aren't you a middleman?" Qian Qingqing said quickly, but after she finished speaking she realized something was wrong and quickly covered her mouth.
Fan Meiling looked at Lin Shichu cautiously, afraid that she would be angry, and said: "Shichu, I didn't make any profit from the price difference, I sold it to them at the original price! If you don't like it, then I won't buy it for them next time..."
Lin Shichu said indifferently: "It doesn't matter. In fact, it's okay to make a profit from the price difference, as long as the price difference is not too big and I don't feel like I've suffered a loss."
When Fan Meiling heard her say this, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief and became happy again. She even said excitedly, "Shichu, how about I find customers for you? You just need to concentrate on making the finished product. We can make this business bigger and stronger!"
Fan Meiling was ambitious, and Lin Shichu shook her head firmly: "No, I don't want to turn myself into a workshop worker. Don't forget that we are still in the third year of high school. If we delay our studies because of this business, wouldn't that be a loss of the big picture and a neglect of the main purpose?"
Fan Meiling immediately sighed in disappointment: "You are right, I took it for granted."
"Also, strictly speaking, my homemade skin care products are actually three-no products. They have not gone through formal legal production procedures. It's okay to do it privately on a small scale, but if it gets out of hand, I'll be arrested." Lin Shichu educated them on the law.
Fan Meiling and Qian Qingqing's eyes widened in shock. "Will they be caught again? What should I do now? Should I return these to you?"
Fan Meiling asked nervously. It was obvious that Lin Shichu's words frightened her. After all, she was still a simple student who had not yet entered society. She panicked when she heard that it was illegal.
Lin Shichu smiled and said, "You don't have to be so nervous. With such a small sales volume and a profit of less than a certain amount, people won't even bother to look at you. But my business really can't be expanded any further. Meiling, you don't have to find customers for me."
After hearing this, Fan Meiling heaved a sigh of relief, but also felt a little regretful, as if her ambitions had not been fulfilled, or that her talent had not been recognized. No, it was that she had just started to realize her talent had not been recognized...
"Then we can just use it ourselves!" Qian Qingqing said happily. She was a very open-minded person. Touching her face which had become much smoother, she didn't think about whether it was business or not at all.
The semester ended quickly. As expected, Lin Shichu ranked first in the grade. Lian Shangrui, who was a sluggish guy, was ranked second in the grade, which shocked everyone.
But no one suspected him of cheating. After all, the surveillance cameras in the examination room were not for show, and he had no need to cheat.
Because of her significant improvement in academic performance, Lin Shichu was dragged away by her parents during the Chinese New Year and enjoyed the envious and jealous looks of many of her peers. She was the "other people's child" that made her cousins grit their teeth.
After returning to her hometown, even her grandparents, who had always been patriarchal and had never concealed the fact that they favored boys over girls, were particularly kind to her, and their treatment was almost comparable to that of Lin Cong.
After the Chinese New Year, Lin Shichu had to go to class again soon. After all, it was his last semester in high school, so he had to seize the time to study.
After going to school and attending classes for almost a week, Lin Shichu suddenly realized that Meng Shiyang seemed to have never appeared!
"Qingqing, did Meng Shiyang not come to class?" Lin Shichu asked Qian Qingqing, the gossip-savvy person.
"Yeah, he hasn't come to school since the New Year. You just realized it now?" Qian Qingqing gave Lin Shichu a look that said "you're so slow".
"I was busy studying, and now I find it's pretty good." Lin Shichu said, "Then do you know why he didn't come?"
"Of course I know!" Qian Qingqing's eyes sparkled and she lowered her voice and said,
"I secretly heard what the head teacher and the dean of studies said. They said Meng Shiyang's grandmother's illness has become more serious and she can't leave home without someone to take care of her. Also, the head teacher said that this semester we will mainly focus on reviewing, so we sent the outline to Meng Shiyang and he can review it at home by himself."
Lin Shichu immediately understood that although Meng Shiyang was a scumbag, he was still a good grandson to his grandmother. So this good grandson, who failed to lure other innocent girls to be free babysitters, had to do it himself.
"Meng Shiyang is so pitiful. His father is still alive, but he doesn't care about him. He is so cold and heartless." Qian Qingqing stood up for Meng Shiyang.
Lin Shichu thought, isn’t being cold and ruthless a family tradition?
Father Meng inherited Old Lady Meng's ruthlessness, so he could ignore his own mother and son; and Meng Shiyang also inherited it, so he could join Old Lady Meng in slandering the original owner of the previous life without blinking an eye, confusing right and wrong and being ungrateful.
(End of this chapter)
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