Chapter 603: You’ve Been to Their House?
Chapter 603: Chapter 603: You’ve Been to Their House?
Mother Lin was also startled by these words, “No way, that Zhuang Yang is just an orphan she raised. How could he compare to you, her own daughter? Is she still guarding against you?”
At this, Mother Lin’s expression changed even more, “Could she doubt that you’re not her daughter?”
Lin Jiayi glanced at Mother Lin indifferently, “Whether I’m her biological daughter or not is just a matter of what you say, right? As long as you insist, she’ll have to believe it even if she doesn’t want to. The most important thing now is to make her value me. That Zhuang woman has her own skills, and she surely hopes her daughter is capable too. Only when she sees my ability will she be willing to hand over her things to me.”
Lin Jiayi had previously thought about working with Li Guangyuan. She knew her own capabilities well.
Her small tricks probably wouldn’t impress Zhuang Jingshu. To quickly demonstrate her abilities, she could only take shortcuts.
Mother Lin also realized this, “You’re clever, don’t worry. I’ll take care of this. I will definitely persuade your second sister to give you the bun shop. After all, she’s just doing it to make money. When the time comes, you give her some money, it will be like buying her bun shop. I don’t think she’ll be unwilling.”
The two chatted as they entered Qin Family Village.
It was Mother Lin’s first time visiting Qin Family Village. She was thinking of asking someone for directions to Qin Yang’s house when she saw her elder daughter walking straight in one direction.
So she quickly followed.
After walking for a while, Mother Lin couldn’t resist asking, “Have you been to their house before?”
Logically speaking, the elder daughter and younger daughter didn’t get along, and as a mother, she had never been to the younger daughter’s house. The elder daughter was even less likely to have come to their house.
Lin Jiayi paused slightly, then continued walking as if nothing happened, “Guang Yuan often comes to the village’s wholesale market to sell vegetables. You have no idea how popular your younger daughter is. The Qin Family is a prominent family in the village; not many don’t know where their house is.”
Despite saying this, when the two stood at the gate of the Qin family, their feelings were quite complicated.
Lin Jiayi almost couldn’t recognize the appearance of the Qin family. If it weren’t for the row of old houses in the back, she would’ve suspected she had found the wrong place.
The once spacious yard now had two rows of houses. The front row clearly comprised newly built red brick big tile houses.
The courtyard walls were also newly rebuilt—tall walls, with impressive gate piers, and the two front doors were clearly customized, wider and taller than ordinary doors.
The courtyard was still neat and clean.
In her impression, no matter when, the Qin family’s yard was always neat and clean.
It would never be like the Li family’s yard, full of chicken droppings and leaves.
Seeing the yard of the Qin family, Mother Lin immediately regretted it.
“Look at this. I did my research, and the Qin family is a good family in ten miles and eight villages. I went through so much trouble to find this good family for you, yet you refused to marry and wanted to marry that poor ghost Li Guangyuan. Now, do you see how much worse the Li Family is compared to the Qin Family? These good days were given to someone else, and if you had listened to me earlier, obediently married Qin Yang, you would be the official’s wife now. That dead girl wouldn’t have any say, and you wouldn’t come trying to negotiate with her. You might even own the bun shop yourself…”
Lin Jiayi didn’t want to hear these words from her mom. In her past life, she listened to her mom, obediently married Qin Yang, and ended up being a widow for life, raising an ungrateful wolf.
Although she didn’t know why there was such a big change in the Qin family this life, Lin Jiayi was also clear that even if she did marry into the Qin family, their days wouldn’t look like they do now.
She didn’t want to accept it but had to admit that Lin Chuxia had some skills in business.
Just like that woman.
“So what’s the use of saying these things now? Better to think about how to persuade Lin Chuxia later.”
“Right, right, now’s not the time for this,” and her elder daughter had already recognized that woman as her mother. From now on, she’d be richer than Qin family’s kind of household.
The two entered through the gate, and after taking a few steps into the courtyard, Mrs. Qin, who was coaxing the child in the house, heard the commotion.
Seeing two unfamiliar women walking into the courtyard, she placed her granddaughter in the baby carriage and quickly went out to greet them.
“Who are you two…”
She looked them over, the older woman was about the same age as herself, her eyes scanning everywhere.
The younger one was immediately eye-catching.
She had two daughters-in-law and a daughter, and the children were all working outside, some as store managers, some as managers.
Having been to the city, she considered herself more worldly than her peers, more accepting. Yet, seeing the young woman in front of her, she found her eye-watering.
That hair looked like a firecracker had exploded on her head, her face painted like a monkey’s butt, and her lips like she’d been chewing on a dead rat.
And those clothes—it’s just early summer, the temperature hadn’t risen yet, and she already wore a dress, wouldn’t that be cold?
And those shoes with such high heels, wasn’t she afraid of twisting her ankle?
As Mrs. Qin was sizing them up, they were also sizing up Mrs. Qin.
Lin Jiayi’s impression of Mrs. Qin was being industrious.
Qin Yang’s father was not in good health and bedridden young.
Mrs. Qin not only helped with the fieldwork but also took care of Qin Yang’s father, her back bent early from labor, her hair turned gray early too.
But this Mrs. Qin not only stood tall and straight, but her hair was jet black with only a few gray strands mixed in, even fewer than her mother’s gray hair.
Mother Lin had the same feeling upon seeing Mrs. Qin, her hair was jet black, with few wrinkles on her face, especially her skin, fair and plump, obviously not needing to work in the fields.
Couldn’t compare with having sons.
Mrs. Qin had two sons, who married early, there was no need for her to labor in the fields?
Unlike her, with two daughters ahead, leaving no helper in the home.
Her son was still in school, waiting for him to marry to support them, who knows how long that’d take.
Upon hearing Mrs. Qin ask, Mother Lin chimed in, “In-law, I’m Chuxia’s mom. I heard Chuxia came back, so I specially came with her older sister to visit her.”
Once she heard it was Lin Chuxia’s mother, Mrs. Qin immediately became enthusiastic, “Oh, it’s the in-law, please come in, come in, you came all this way, you must be tired, right? If you’d told us earlier, I would’ve had the elder son pick you up at the station.”
Mother Lin appreciated Mrs. Qin’s attitude. She had worried the dead girl would tell the Qin family bad things about them and they’d come to a closed door.
Now, thinking about it, that dead girl was shrewd. How could she talk bad about her mother’s family, making her husband’s family look down on them?