Chapter 88: Someone is scheming, someone is thinking about him.
On the way Dai Hengxin sent Xiao Yingchun back to the store, Xiao Yingchun looked through the messages and found that there were more than a dozen messages in the family group, two
of which were @ her. One of them was from her aunt Pan Huamei.
She said that it was grandpa's birthday tonight and asked Xiao Yingchun to go to dinner.
Xiao Yingchun thought about it and replied in the group: "I'm going to Huizhou City this afternoon and won't be able to make it back for dinner."
Then she sent a special red envelope of 200 yuan to grandpa in the group, and considered celebrating his birthday.
Cousin Xie Yulin: "What are you doing in Yongzhou City? What's more important than grandpa's birthday?"
Xiao Yingchun thought about it and replied: "For a job interview."
Xie Yulin was immediately speechless.
After a while, Xie Yulin started to taunt again: "You didn't come, so you just gave me a 200 yuan red envelope and thought it was done?"
Xiao Yingchun replied immediately this time: "How much did you give as a filial gift, cousin? Let me see a screenshot?"
Xie Yulin was speechless again.
He never gave money, always following Ge Chunyu around for free meals and drinks.
After a moment, Xie Yulin angrily shouted in the chat group, "I didn't give any, but my mom did."
"You're paying on behalf of my aunt. My aunt and her family used to give a thousand."
Xiao Yingchun replied again, "How much did my aunt give?"
Xie Yulin: ...
Ge Chunyu: ...
How much did Ge Chunyu give?
She always claimed her family was struggling, and she only gave two hundred yuan each time, a token of appreciation. She
then had to find ways to get more from her grandparents...
But those who claimed they were struggling owned two houses and even took out a loan to buy a new one for their son.
Meanwhile, her parents never mentioned their own financial difficulties. After the car accident, they didn't have much savings, so they quickly ran out of money and had to borrow money everywhere to continue their lifeline.
In the office of a state-owned enterprise, Pan Huamei sipped tea while silently watching Xie Yulin and Xiao Yingchun bicker in the chat group, feeling a strange sense of satisfaction.
It had to be Xiao Yingchun who dared to tear down the fig leaf of Ge Chunyu and Xie Yulin.
What were their difficulties?
After so many years of scrimping and saving, their family already had several houses!
They just had trouble paying the elderly.
Seeing that the group chat had quieted down, Xiao Yingchun was about to put away his phone when Pan Huamei suddenly sent a private message: "Yingchun, what kind of job are you looking for? Is the salary high?"
Xiao Yingchun didn't answer, but instead asked: "Aunt, do you have any good job recommendations? If so, I won't have to work outside."
This time, Pan Huamei replied quickly: "Our company is hiring temporary workers. Although it's on the front line of the workshop, the salary is not bad. After the probation period, it's 4,000 yuan a month with five insurances, but you have to work in shifts."
"Would you like to give it a try?"
Xiao Yingchun sneered: Only 4,000 yuan a month with shift work, and after deducting the five insurances, what would the net profit be more than 2,000 yuan?
That's right, why would her aunt think of her if she had a truly good job?
Her two children worked as ordinary office clerks in their company, and they only took home a little over 3,000 yuan a month.
"No, thank you, aunt. I'd better go to Huizhou."
After rejecting Pan Huamei, Xiao Yingchun hung up the phone and closed his eyes.
Dai Hengxin's car was not driving fast, and he would look at Xiao Yingchun from time to time.
But Xiao Yingchun was either playing with his phone or closing his eyes to rest. He and Xiao Yingchun could not communicate effectively.
It seemed that before they knew it, the two of them had nothing to say.
Disappointment and sadness accumulated little by little, and he knew: he was getting farther and farther away from Xiao Yingchun.
No matter how slow you drive, you will get to your destination eventually. When the car stopped in front of the Yingchun convenience store, Xiao Yingchun got out of the car neatly.
Like every time before, Xiao Yingchun waved at Dai Hengxin, smiling sweetly and distantly: "Thank you for treating me to dinner, drive slower..."
Dai Hengxin was reluctant to turn around, so he simply parked the car in front of the Yingchun convenience store, waiting for Xiao Yingchun's car to park. "I'm going to see my grandpa."
Zhao Jiping hadn't expected Dai Hengxin to come at this hour; he usually took a nap by then. Seeing Dai Hengxin looking downcast, he thought something had happened to him.
"What's wrong?"
Dai Hengxin plopped down on Zhao Jiping's old sofa. "Nothing."
"Nothing, why are you looking downcast? Did you have another argument with your mom?"
Dai Hengxin shook his head and told him about Liu Xiaomei.
Zhao Jiping was shocked!
Liu Xiaomei was also a relative of Zhao Jiping's, and he knew her.
How could this girl, who had always seemed so well-behaved, have such malicious thoughts?
"No wonder Xiao Yingchun renovated the second floor of her house and replaced all the doors and windows after being robbed a while ago? This was the reason?"
It turned out that these weren't just ordinary thieves, but were targeting Xiao Yingchun at Liu Xiaomei's behest, thinking she had antiques?
Dai Hengxin had no idea Xiao Yingchun had completely renovated the second floor; he had assumed she had simply replaced the doors and windows.
After hearing what his grandfather said, he was stunned for a moment.
Renovating a house completely would cost at least tens of thousands of yuan.
If Liu Xiaomei hadn't instigated the thief to steal, Xiao Yingchun, who was always frugal, would never have done so!
He was the source of everything.
Thinking of this, Dai Hengxin became depressed, his head drooping and his shoulders slumped, feeling weak.
Zhao Jiping sighed, "It's already happened, it's too late to say anything. Your mother... oh!"
"She's really confused."
Zhao Jiping always felt that Zhao Chengfeng had delayed the marriage of Dai Hengxin and his sister.
It was just that Zhao Chengfeng didn't think so.
"Grandpa, I'm going home first." Dai Hengxin suddenly stood up and strode out of Zhao Jiping's house.
When he returned to the Yingchun store, he found the door closed and Xiao Yingchun's white Mazda had already driven away.
Obviously, she had gone out.
Where did Xiao Yingchun go? To Huizhou.
She was going abroad in a few days and wanted to buy two formal suits.
It was just the right time to go downtown to buy things because he wanted to avoid his grandfather's birthday party.
In the shopping mall in Huizhou, Xiao Yingchun walked around twice and bought a light blue new Chinese-style dress and a white shirt with a black knee-length umbrella skirt.
After thinking about it, Xiao Yingchun went to choose two pairs of matching shoes.
It was enough.
Looking at the time, it was almost dark.
It should be around seven o'clock when he gets home, just in time to miss his grandfather's birthday party. Maybe he can even have dinner with Fu Chenan?
Xiao Yingchun decided to drive home.
When Xiao Yingchun got home and entered the store, Fu Chenan was already there.
Fu Chenan felt disappointed when he didn't see Xiao Yingchun. He had already prepared to leave some food for Xiao Yingchun, so he finished eating and left.
Who knew that Xiao Yingchun would come back just after they had divided the food.
Fu Chenan's face became visibly happy: "You're back? Look what I brought back?"
Xiao Yingchun watched Fu Chenan show off by carrying two brocade boxes, one large and one small, from the ground, and asked curiously: "What are these?"
Fu Chenan first pointed to the larger one at the bottom: "This is what His Majesty the Emperor gave me when I went to the palace today..."
(end of this chapter)