Chapter 58: Going to the Well to Wash Clothes with Xie’s mother

Lu Dingyuan was furious when he heard Lin Xiangyi badmouthing them, and he directly shouted, “Lin Xiangyi, what are you talking about?”

“Who are you yelling at?” Xie Qingxiao was about to package the braised meat for the two older brothers who had returned, and when he heard Lu Dingyuan’s words, he casually threw the scissors he had just put down towards Lu Dingyuan.

It just grazed the face of one of the brothers.

The two brothers: “…” He’s truly a ruthless person, resorting to violence without hesitation. Fortunately, they were wise enough to avoid a confrontation with him.

Lu Dingyuan was pulled back by Lin Huihui’s quick reflexes, narrowly dodging the scissors.

His face instantly turned dark, and he looked coldly at Xie Qingxiao, shouting, “Xie Qingxiao!”

“What? Want to fight?” Xie Qingxiao sneered.

“You’re attempting murder!”

Xie Qingxiao smirked, “I just slipped.”

“You!” Lu Dingyuan was enraged by Xie Qingxiao’s shameless attitude.

The three young men were startled and dared not speak.

The two older brothers, having bought their braised meat, hurriedly left.

Lu Dingyuan and Lin Huihui did not speak further.

Xie Qingxiao and Lin Xiangyi were too lazy to bother with them. They tidied up and went home.

As their figures faded into the distance, the remaining few people breathed a sigh of relief. The three looked at Lu Dingyuan and Lin Huihui, curiously asking, “Huihui, what exactly did you do to make them hate you so much?”

What did they do? Couldn’t it be that Xie Qingxiao and Lin Xiangyi did something?

She was the one related to them, yet they immediately assumed it was her fault?

Lin Huihui looked at her three colleagues with surprise and grievance, “I, I…”

She stammered for a while but couldn’t speak.

Lu Dingyuan stepped forward, took Lin Huihui’s hand, and looked at the three young men, saying in a deep voice, “It’s not what we did, but what they did! That woman is Huihui’s stepsister, and she used to bully Huihui all the time. She’s very malicious. You should stop buying from them in the future, who knows what kind of poison she might put in their food.”

The three young men: !!!

They subconsciously glanced at the braised meat in their hands. Poison?

Soon, they felt it was impossible. The couple seemed decent and trustworthy, not like bad people at all.

Suddenly, they remembered Lin Xiangyi saying that Lu Dingyuan and Lin Huihui were not good people.

It’s best to stay away. Lu Dingyuan and Lin Huihui might be telling the truth, but who can guarantee that the couple’s words are false?

The three of them chuckled awkwardly, saying, “Oh, like that. We’ll buy less of their braised meat from now on. Well, Lin Huihui, we have something to do, we’ll be off then.”

With that, the three of them hurriedly left.

Lin Huihui was about to explode with anger. In her opinion, they were simply trusting Lin Xiangyi.

What kind of magic does Lin Xiangyi possess?

Lin Huihui was extremely unwilling to accept this.

Lu Dingyuan’s face darkened further, feeling that the three were truly stupid.

He had already pointed it out, yet they still believed Lin Xiangyi. Oh well, if they want to die, could he stop them?

“Huihui, you should interact with them less in the future. They don’t know a good thing when they see one,” Lu Dingyuan said.

Lin Huihui nodded, a bit aggrieved.

Lu Dingyuan felt very sorry for her and wanted to cheer her up, asking, “Do you still want to eat braised meat?”

Last night, Lin Huihui had eaten braised meat from Lin Xiangyi’s place at her colleague’s, and she had been craving it ever since.

But even though she craved it, seeing that the braised meat was sold by Lin Xiangyi, she felt disgusted.

She would never buy braised meat from Lin Xiangyi!

Of course, she wouldn’t say this in front of Lu Dingyuan. She just said, “I want to, but my sister won’t sell it to us. Oh well, forget it.”

“We won’t buy from them,” Lu Dingyuan said with a smile, “We’ll buy meat from the butcher shop and make it ourselves.”

Lin Huihui’s eyes lit up, and she hurriedly asked, “Brother Dingyuan, can you make it?”

Lu Dingyuan said, “I saw them put things like Sichuan peppercorns and star anise, we’ll just add the same things, and it should taste similar.”

“That’s great, let’s go make it now!” Lin Huihui pulled Lu Dingyuan, as she trusted him.

Lu Dingyuan was very intelligent, quick to learn. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to enter the mechanical factory’s professional field just by self-study after graduating from high school without any professional training.

They were both confident, but a few hours later, reality struck them.

The taste of Lu Dingyuan’s braised meat was completely different from Lin Xiangyi’s!

Because they lived in a cramped apartment building, the rooms were very close together, and the kitchen was shared. The neighbors couldn’t stand the smell and scolded them.

Lu Dingyuan wasn’t the type to argue, and Lin Huihui had to pretend in front of Lu Dingyuan, so they endured a scolding.

Lin Huihui didn’t want to eat any braised meat anymore.

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In a blink of an eye, a week had passed.

During this week, Xie Qingxiao and Lin Xiangyi’s braised meat business was doing very well.

Lin Xiangyi was good at maintaining customer relationships. In the past ten days, she had accumulated a group of loyal customers, so much so that their daily sales of braised meat were now stable at around 70 jin.

Of course, Zhang Pengfei was also a good salesman. He could sell 50 jin by himself, earning 10 yuan in commission every day.

That day, Lin Xiangyi woke up at 7:00, earlier than usual. After finishing breakfast, Xie Qingxiao and Zhang Pengfei hadn’t returned yet.

Now that everyone was familiar with the process and had gotten the hang of it, they worked faster and had more time.

Lin Xiangyi told Xie Qingxiao to get more rest in the morning and not rush to get the goods too early.

Xie Qingxiao listened to her and changed his routine to waking up at 6:30 and returning around 8:30.

Lin Xiangyi had nothing to do, and seeing Xie’s mother carrying clothes to wash, she said to her, “Mother, are you going to the well to wash clothes? Wait for me, I’ll go too.”

Xie’s mother was surprised, “Didn’t you wash clothes last night?” She saw their clothes already hanging on the bamboo poles.

Xie Qingxiao and Lin Xiangyi washed their clothes after showering every night.

They came back too late from selling braised meat, and by the time they finished showering, it was already dark. They didn’t go to the well to wash, but washed them at home using the water they had carried back.

This water was mainly carried back by Big Aunt Xie, Su Xiaomei, and Zhang Pengfei. They were all very diligent, and they felt they had to work harder for the money they earned.

Therefore, Big Aunt Xie and Su Xiaomei would come earlier to carry water.

After the water was used to dispose of the offal at noon, Zhang Pengfei would take advantage of the time when Xie Qingxiao and Lin Xiangyi were making braised meat to go and carry water back.

So the Xie family always had enough water.

However, Xie’s father and Xie’s mother didn’t like washing at home.

They were very simple and kind. Even though they had spent money, they didn’t want to add too much work for Big Aunt Xie, her daughter-in-law, and Zhang Pengfei. Since they had time, they usually went to the well to wash.