Chapter 49: Lin Xiangyi Discovers Xie Qingxiao’s Petty Side

Xie’s mother thought for a moment and said, “If you really need help, I’ll go ask your Uncle’s wife and Guoguang’s wife tomorrow morning?”

She was referring to Xie Qingxiao’s father’s elder brother’s wife, also her sister-in-law, Aunt Xie, and Aunt Xie’s daughter-in-law.

“That’s great, then I’ll leave this to you, Mom,” Lin Xiangyi smiled, “Just help with the initial preparations, we’ll handle the selling ourselves.”

“Okay!” Xie’s mother smiled.

“By the way, Father and Mother, your wages…” Lin Xiangyi remembered.

“Xiangyi, why are you bringing this up again? We said we don’t need it,” Xie’s mother immediately refused, “We’re family, why are you being so formal?”

“Dad and Mom, that’s true, but,” Lin Xiangyi glanced at Xie Qingxiao and said, “There’s a saying, ‘Even brothers should settle accounts clearly.’ Of course, you’re our parents, we’re grateful for your willingness to help us.”

“But we also have an elder brother and two sisters. If they see you helping us so much, they might misunderstand that you two favor us, wouldn’t that be bad?”

Father and Xie’s mother were both taken aback. They seemed to have overlooked this situation. Not to mention their eldest son and two daughters, their eldest daughter-in-law already felt that they favored Xie Qingxiao…

“Dad and Mom, don’t refuse. We need to pay you wages, let’s just do one yuan per day,” Xie Qingxiao said directly.

“…” Father and Xie’s mother finally stopped refusing this time.

…

That night, Lin Xiangyi discovered another personality trait of Xie Qingxiao – he was very petty.

He said he’d make her wait, and he really made her wait. He wouldn’t stop until she admitted he wasn’t being insincere.

Lin Xiangyi was really speechless. She didn’t know where he got all this energy after a busy day. She was already so tired she was drowsy.

But remembering that she had something to ask him, she still forced herself to stay awake and wait for him.

Xie Qingxiao came back from washing up and saw her still awake. He got into bed, pulled her into his arms, and said, “Didn’t you say you were sleepy? Why aren’t you sleeping yet? Want to do it again?”

“You’re enough!” Lin Xiangyi quickly broke free from his embrace and said angrily, “I wanted to ask you, are you going to get the goods yourself tomorrow?”

“Yeah,” It was hot, so Xie Qingxiao didn’t try to hug her again. He pulled her hand and rubbed it while saying, “You get some more sleep. I’ll wake you up when I get back from getting the goods. Zhang Pengfei and Wang Xiaofeng will probably come back with me tomorrow. With more people, you won’t be so tired.”

“Okay,” Lin Xiangyi responded readily.

The meaning of her making money was to make her life better. With more people, she certainly wouldn’t take on everything herself.

As for Xie Qingxiao, she was carrying his child. It was only right that he did more.

Lin Xiangyi fell asleep peacefully.

They didn’t know that Zhang Pengfei was fuming after going to find Wang Xiaofeng!

After Xie Qingxiao and Lin Xiangyi returned home, Zhang Pengfei rode his bicycle and went to find Wang Xiaofeng without stopping.

However, Wang Xiaofeng wasn’t home. His mother said he went on a date with his girlfriend.

Zhang Pengfei told Wang’s mother his intention and wanted her to tell Wang Xiaofeng when he came back.

Unexpectedly, when Wang’s mother heard that Xie Qingxiao wanted to find Wang Xiaofeng to do business together, her face showed undisguised disdain. Her attitude was very condescending as she said:

“Pengfei, you guys do your business yourselves, don’t need to involve our Xiaofeng. In the past, our Xiaofeng was young and didn’t understand things, now he’s settled down, he’s got a girlfriend and will get married soon. My husband and I found him a job, he’s also planning to settle down. From now on, you guys should come to our house less often, I don’t want him to hang out with you guys, those stray cats and dogs, lest he be corrupted by you.”

Zhang Pengfei was almost furious. Wang Xiaofeng was the one with the best family background among the three of them. Both his parents were working, he was an only child, and he was very spoiled.

He and Xie Qingxiao had always known that Wang’s parents were a bit arrogant and looked down on them, so they rarely came to Wang’s house.

But Zhang Pengfei never expected that Wang’s mother would be so rude to his face.

Zhang Pengfei wasn’t someone with a good temper. He immediately laughed angrily: “We’re stray cats and dogs? Then you can talk to cats and dogs, aren’t you also a beast? I knew it, no wonder your breath stinks! Don’t let us come to see your son? You’ve got the wrong person, go tell your son that yourself. After all, it was him who was crying and begging us to protect him when he was being bullied! We can’t even get rid of him!”

God knows Zhang Pengfei said this completely out of anger. He actually truly considered Wang Xiaofeng as a brother. The coincidence was that Wang Xiaofeng returned at that moment and heard his words.

Wang Xiaofeng’s face turned pale, he rushed over and started fighting with Zhang Pengfei.

Zhang Pengfei knew he was wrong, so he didn’t fight back at first. Later, seeing the girl who came back with Wang Xiaofeng, Wang Xiaofeng’s girlfriend, was actually Lin Huihui’s good friend, Zhu Meiyun, who had once admired Xie Qingxiao but was rejected and hated Xie Qingxiao so much that she spread rumors about him, which also implicated them, he questioned Wang Xiaofeng.

Then he was provoked by Wang Xiaofeng’s words and started fighting with him.

Wang Xiaofeng was an only child who was protected and pampered by his family. He couldn’t beat Zhang Pengfei who had to rely on himself for everything.

Of course, Zhang Pengfei didn’t fare well either. He was pulled apart by Wang’s family and their neighbors and then driven away.

Fortunately, he wasn’t seriously injured. He rested for a night and was back to his usual lively self, but he was furious.

When Xie Qingxiao went into town to find him to go get the goods together, he couldn’t help but vent his anger, letting out a string of words full of insults:

“…Damn it, he’s actually with that bitch Zhu Meiyun! That bitch was interested in you before, but after you rejected her, she rolled her eyes at us and said bad things about us, and she was the most vicious in her insults! When you and your wife got married a few days ago, Zhu Meiyun was Lin Huihui’s bridesmaid, and she even confronted us! But he turned around and got together with Zhu Meiyun?”

“It’s fine if he got together with her, after all, love is unstoppable, but damn it, he’s being sneaky about it, he’s not a man at all!”

“By the way, Brother, you know what, he also said we’re beggars, said he was giving us face by hanging out with us before? Damn it, he’s getting a bit too big for his britches. He used to follow behind us and we couldn’t get rid of him, otherwise, why would I bother being brothers with him? He’s born in the city, so what? His parents are both working, so what? He dares to look down on me…”

Zhang Pengfei had known Xie Qingxiao for a long time. When he was young, his stepfather didn’t feed him, and he fainted from hunger. It was Xie Qingxiao’s grandmother who saved him.

He knew that this grandmother was kind. Sometimes when he was too hungry, he would sneak into Xie’s grandmother’s house, and Xie’s grandmother would give him something to eat out of pity.

Through this, he got to know Xie Qingxiao and became good brothers.

But they met Wang Xiaofeng in middle school. Wang Xiaofeng’s family was well-off, he was plump and white, and he looked easy to bully. Because he never lacked food and money, he was extorted by some bad boys.

Xie Qingxiao and Zhang Pengfei helped him once out of kindness, and he clung to them, following them everywhere.

They couldn’t get rid of him, and over time, they became brothers.

They never expected that things would turn out this way.

Xie Qingxiao’s face was gloomy. He waited for Zhang Pengfei to finish before saying, “From now on, let’s pretend we don’t have this brother.”

Zhang Pengfei had finished venting and his anger had subsided. He immediately nodded: “Okay!”

It had come to this, there was no need to try to mend things.

Even if Wang Xiaofeng said it in anger, his mother’s disdain for them was a fact. Moreover, Wang Xiaofeng’s words might not have been just anger.

They didn’t need to embarrass themselves.