Shrewd wife of Lin brothers

Chapter 503 Different from you

　　Lin Chen’s face fell. His expression turned gloomy as he plopped his head in Su Wan’s lap and answered in a muffled voice, ” I am different from you Wan wan, you are good at many things. And I can’t even do anything right, you gave me a shop to manage and look what I did, maybe everyone was right. I am nothing but a bumbling idiot, you don’t have to lie to me to make me feel better. I understood what I am and from now on I will just stay at home and do nothing but farming  at least that’s something I can’t mess up.”

Su Wan pursed her lips as she knocked the back of his head with her knuckles, ” look at you such a pessimist.” Then she paused for a short while to wait for him to look up but when he didn’t, she sighed and added, ” and I didn’t lie to you, you are indeed my favourite.”

” Why what do I even have?” his response was just as dry as the rest of the speech but Su Wan could feel his anticipation. She smiled rather craftily before speaking, ” because you are the most comfortable to be around. You know how to praise someone and make them feel at ease unlike your brothers, Jing is too silent and Yan is too difficult to understand. Rui is nice but he is too elegant for someone like me, and Yu, well he is too sly for me to handle. Compared to them you are easy to be around and talking with you doesn’t take much trouble, that’s why I can say that you are like my best-“

” Best husband?” exclaimed Lin Chen as he pulled away from her lap and looked at her with his shiny eyes. Su Wan wanted to say ‘best friend’ but before she could speak, Lin Chen jumped the gun and looking at those puppy dog eyes, she can’t even say that – she wasn’t trying to say best husband, he will only shrivel up like a sour plum. Thus, she smiled awkwardly and nodded, ” That’s right, best husband. But don’t tell your brothers that I said this, they will become unhappy.”

Lin Chen nodded though he was rather stunned he still felt that the clouds that were hanging over his head were slowly being lifted. He looked at his wife who was so delicate that he and his brothers were willing to pamper her to the moon and back, they all thought that Su Wan was a naive little girl and didn’t understand much about them. Lin Chen especially thought that he was too dark for Su Wan and maybe she will never really understand him that was why he put up so many pretences but after watching her console him, and that too so eloquently, he knew that she always knew. She knew about everything that he feared or was ashamed of.

” Don’t you think that I am a failure compared to my brothers?” asked Lin Chen with some hesitation as he carefully looked at Su Wan trying to gauge her reaction. He didn’t want to miss the disappointment in case she was hiding it and keeping it in under the wraps such that he won’t feel bad but surprisingly Su Wan looked at him with a patient smile and patted his head as she said, ” You idiot, of course not! Why will I think that you are my husband too and to me no matter what you all are the same, whether you earn more or less it really doesn’t matter.”

” but I-“

” And if it really bothers you that much then I will let you know why Yu and Yan are good at handling their businesses. The two of them don’t do everything by themselves instead they have taught some trusted workers and these workers are the one who helps them in taking care of the bustling business unlike you who only sticks to his daily routine and never try to get closer to any of the workers. You might have been nice to them but once in a while, you need to hand out praises, and bonuses and even take a few workers as your trusted aides. It has been months since you started working in the shop but you didn’t even hand out any bonuses at the end of the year, maybe it never occurred to you. But it means a big deal to the people you are leading, Chen. Never forget that you are not just their boss but the leader, you need to rely on your workers and have them rely on yourself, cultivate feelings and trust with them instead of just boss and employee relationships.” Then she sternly looked at Lin Chen and further added, ” and if you can’t do all of that, then you need to ask for help.  That’s what you did wrong, Chen.”

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” Aish,” Shen Junxi finished his drink just as Su Wan returned with a Lin Chen whose eyes were red as a rabbit. No one said a thing as if they haven’t noticed as Shen Junxi slammed his wine cup on the table, and furiously roared, ” Just who was the one who did such a terrible thing, we were really lucky that the thing stopped at just rashes and a few boils, last I heard a missy from the capital burned her skin so terribly that even her family couldn’t recognise her!”

” How boorish” commented Shen Zizhen as he flicked the fried peanut that flew in his lap because of Shen Junxi’s sudden smashing punch to the tabletop, Shen Junxi of course heard his brother’s comment and looked up to glare at him but Shen Zizhen just ignored him as he wisely shared his own view, ” I think that would have certainly happened if the lady from the Wang family didn’t make such a loud splash in a way we should be thanking her for making so much noise.”

Lin Chen, who barely recovered from his gloom received another shock as he hurriedly asked, ” Second uncle what do you mean?”

” Stupid boy, did you receive many complaints about the cream perfume causing rashes?” asked Shen Zizhen a bit unkindly but no one said anything to stop him instead they turned to look at Lin Chen who shivered and tried to make himself look as inconspicuous as possible with his giant physique. 

” I did” he answered, his voice as small as that of a mosquito.

” And you didn’t tell us?” Lin Yan who has been the calmest one among the five raised his voice for the first time. Lin Chen closed his eyes as he mumbled a quick apology but Lin Yan was too angry to listen to it. This brat why didn’t he tell them sooner? If he did that then things wouldn’t have reached to this point.