Chapter 16: Setting Up a Stall
Inside the envelope was twenty yuan.
A worker at the rural supply and marketing cooperative earned only twenty-five yuan a month, which was just one of Qin’s father’s red envelopes.
This indicated their family’s financial situation.
What problems did Qin Yanci have that forced them to choose her, such an incompatible daughter-in-law?
Sigh.
No need to think about it.
Just live each day well.
After walking home, Li Junlu glanced at her from behind. “Didn’t Yanci come back with you? Did you ask him about what I told you yesterday?”
Ying Sisi felt impatient as soon as she heard Li Junlu speak. She held back her anger and replied, “I asked. He said he was assigned to the geological survey team, but he doesn’t plan to go. He wants to pick up his studies and go to university.”
Li Junlu was displeased and took on a condescending tone to lecture her. “Why would you give up a good job to go to university? What if you can’t get in? I’ll definitely have a word with him when I see him tomorrow.”
Ying Sisi shot back, “His own father hasn’t said anything; who are you to say?”
Li Junlu: “.”
Just then, Li Yuwei walked out of the room. Seeing Ying Sisi looking calm and in good spirits, she couldn’t understand how Ying Sisi had managed to escape from Qin Yanci’s wrath. Was he playing a game of cat and mouse?
He must be!
And what about the university?
In her past life, he had changed jobs several times before deciding to study again.
He had worked extremely hard and only missed by two points in the end.
And he blamed her for affecting his studies.
A typical case of not being able to drop a deuce and blaming gravity.
Ying Sisi shot a glance at Li Yuwei, giving her a cold stare.
Li Junlu noticed and scolded, “Sisi, what’s wrong with Yuwei? Why are you looking at her like that?”
“Why don’t you ask her?” Ying Sisi retorted and went back into her room.
Li Yuwei bit her lip, tears welling in her eyes, looking ready to cry. This made Li Junlu feel both heartbroken and angry. He knocked on the door and said, “Li Sisi!”
“It’s Ying.”
Li Junlu stumbled back in frustration. “Don’t think that just because you got the license with Yanci, I won’t dare to discipline you. Come out and apologize to your sister!”
Ying Sisi opened the door while holding her bag and pushed Li Junlu aside. “How do you know it’s my fault if you don’t ask for the reason? By the way, I need to tell you something: your precious daughter has been flirting with someone called Brother Feng near her grandmother’s house.” After saying that, she ran away.
Li Junlu didn’t know who Brother Feng was, but he had heard Song Hanmei mention the notorious Feng Shuangxi many times.
A no-good character, always up to no good.
He immediately connected the two and looked at Li Yuwei with a questioning gaze. “Is the Brother Feng, Sisi mentioned really Feng Shuangxi?”
Li Yuwei’s face turned pale.
How did Ying Sisi know?
She quickly denied it. “She’s framing me!”
Li Junlu was about to continue questioning Ying Sisi.
But Ying Sisi had already run away.
He cursed, “That little brat thinks that just because she married into the Qin family, she can do whatever she wants. If she gets bullied later, don’t come to me for help!”
Li Yuwei was waiting for this remark, a smirk forming on her lips.
She was looking forward to seeing Ying Sisi get beaten and having no one to turn to.
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Ying Sisi ran to the black market with the bag containing her paper cuttings and found a spot in the middle to set up her stall.
Her window decorations were intricately and festively cut.
As soon as she set them up, people started to come over to look.
“Is this the dragon and phoenix coming together? How much is it?”
Ying Sisi had just set up and didn’t dare to ask for too much. “Yes, big sister, it’s two cents a pair.”
“That’s so expensive?”
Ying Sisi explained, “It took a lot of time to make. The magpie on the plum branch is cheaper, only one cent a pair; you can buy that instead.”
The customer picked one up to examine and then pulled out money to buy two pairs.
(End of Chapter)
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