Chapter 69: Sun Lanjun’s Shock

For breakfast this morning, Xie’s mother made a pot of thin porridge, steamed sweet potatoes and taro, and four eggs.

Sun Lanjun didn’t want to eat anything else, she just wanted to eat eggs. She had already seen Xie Qingxiao eating breakfast, and only Lin Xiangyi hadn’t eaten yet. She thought that she would leave one egg for Lin Xiangyi.

She and Xiao Ni would eat three.

However, Xie’s mother came in and told her that the four eggs would be one each for her, Xiao Ni, Lin Xiangyi, and Xie Qingxiao. Xie Qingxiao wouldn’t eat it, so it would be left for Lin Xiangyi.

This meant that she and Xiao Ni could only eat two.

Sun Lanjun agreed on the surface, but she was about to curse Xie’s mother out in her heart. What was wrong with them eating one more? They weren’t coming back every day.

Even if they had to leave two for Lin Xiangyi, they were all back now, why didn’t the old woman cook a few more? She was so stingy.

If Xie’s mother knew what she was thinking, she would probably drown her with her saliva. Sun Lanjun didn’t come back often, but she hadn’t eaten fewer eggs.

She had been reluctant to eat the eggs saved up at home, and besides selling them, she had sent them to the county for them to eat.

How dare she call her stingy?

After breakfast, Sun Lanjun and Xiao Ni played in the yard. She kept looking at Lin Xiangyi’s door, but it remained closed.

She was really lazy, just like Xie Qingxiao used to be. Birds of a feather flock together.

Sun Lanjun despised Lin Xiangyi in her heart. She didn’t have a formal job, so why didn’t she get up early to help her mother-in-law with the chores?

If she didn’t have a formal job, she wouldn’t dare to be so lazy.

The old woman was also really something, she didn’t even ask Lin Xiangyi to do anything. Where was the energy she had yesterday when she slammed the door and called her out to work? She was so biased towards Lin Xiangyi!

Sun Lanjun originally wanted to help Xie’s mother with the chores because she needed something from her, but now she didn’t want to do anything anymore.

They were both daughters-in-law, and Lin Xiangyi slept until so late without getting up, why should she help Xie’s mother with the chores?

So she felt at ease and played with Xiao Ni.

Xie’s mother didn’t expect Sun Lanjun to do any chores, so she didn’t ask her to do anything.

There wasn’t much to do anyway, just making breakfast and washing her and Xie’s father’s clothes. Xie’s father had gone to feed the chickens and pigs, so she didn’t need to go.

It was much easier than before when they hadn’t hired Aunt Xie Su Xiaomei and the others to work.

It was almost eight o’clock when Aunt Xie, Su Xiaomei, and Xie Guoqiang arrived.

Aunt Xie saw Sun Lanjun in the yard and greeted her with a smile: “Oh? Arong’s wife is back?”

“Yes, it’s summer vacation, so I brought Xiao Ni back to see grandpa and grandma,” Sun Lanjun said with a smile.

Aunt Xie immediately praised her: “That’s great. Your father and mother always talk about how much they miss you and Xiao Ni. Old people are like that, they like to be lively. You should bring Xiao Ni back to see them more often when you have time.”

They both knew that these were just polite words.

Aunt Xie knew what kind of person Sun Lanjun was.

Sun Lanjun also knew that Aunt Xie was lying. The old woman might miss Xiao Ni, but she definitely didn’t miss her. She probably wished she would never come back.

“Where’s Xiangyi?” Aunt Xie didn’t know Sun Lanjun well, she only heard about her from Xie’s mother, and her impression of her was already biased. She wanted to find Lin Xiangyi.

When it came to Lin Xiangyi, the smile on Sun Lanjun’s face faded, and her tone couldn’t hide a hint of malice: “She hasn’t gotten up yet. I have to say, my sister-in-law really can sleep. She went back to her room to rest at eight o’clock last night, and she still hasn’t woken up. My mother has been working all morning.”

She wanted to say that Lin Xiangyi was lazy.

It was almost six o’clock, and the sky was already bright, especially in the countryside, people got up early. Her mother-in-law had been working all morning, and Lin Xiangyi hadn’t gotten up yet, wasn’t that lazy?

Aunt Xie paused.

When she first arrived to help with the work, she was also surprised to see Lin Xiangyi get up at eight o’clock, but to say that Lin Xiangyi was lazy… Compared to people who got up early and worked hard, Lin Xiangyi was indeed not diligent.

But she had the capital to be lazy. Her mind was so sharp, she could make so much money, and her husband was so supportive of her, so what was wrong with being lazy? If she had that kind of brain to make money, she would be lazy too!

What was wrong with Arong’s wife? Her tone was so obviously disdainful and accusatory. They were a family, why was she trying to ruin Xiangyi’s reputation?

But Sun Lanjun was telling the truth. Although her malice was revealed, she didn’t express it directly.

Aunt Xie couldn’t help Lin Xiangyi by drawing a conclusion, but she completely lost her good impression of Sun Lanjun.

She had heard Xie’s mother talk about Sun Lanjun’s character before, and she thought that Sun Lanjun was from a good family, so her personality was inevitably a bit spoiled. She even advised Xie’s mother to relax.

Now it seemed that Sun Lanjun was a bad seed, whoever got close to her would be unlucky.

When Xiangyi got up later, she had to tell her to stay away from Sun Lanjun!

“By the way, aunt, what are you doing here so early in the morning?” Sun Lanjun saw that Aunt Xie didn’t answer her, and she was angry and suspicious. She wondered if her ill intentions had been seen through by Aunt Xie, so she changed the subject and asked.

She knew that Xie Guoqiang had come to do business with Xie Qingxiao, but why had Aunt Xie and Su Xiaomei come?

The countryside was so poor, how could they be so free? Could it be that they had heard that she was back and had come to mooch off her?

Sun Lanjun was instantly alert. Her parents had also been from the countryside, but they had found jobs in the city and moved their household registration there, so they had city registration.

Then her parents’ poor relatives, one by one, came to mooch off them. Today this one would borrow grain, tomorrow that one would borrow money… She had been afraid of these poor relatives since she was a child.

Just like she had been afraid of Xie Qingxiao.

Aunt Xie didn’t know what Sun Lanjun was thinking, but she could see the alert look on her face and knew that she wasn’t thinking good things. It was as if they had come to steal something. She immediately said with a bad temper: “We’re here to work.”

Sun Lanjun asked again: “What kind of work?”

“Ah Xiao and Xiangyi hired us to work,” Aunt Xie said. “They need people to do business, and they pay us one yuan a day.”

She said this on purpose.

She had heard A Ying say that Sun Lanjun had always looked down on Ah Xiao? Bah, Ah Xiao was so successful now!

Sun Lanjun was incredulous: “You’re saying that Ah Xiao and Xiangyi hired you to work?”

“Yes,” Aunt Xie said again. “Ah Xiao and Xiangyi’s business is doing quite well. Look, our Guoqiang is here today.”

Sun Lanjun: “…” She couldn’t believe it.

She thought that Xie Qingxiao’s business was just a small operation, barely enough to make ends meet. But they could actually afford to hire people?

And one yuan a day?

That meant they would earn about thirty yuan a month.

She was only earning thirty yuan a month as a primary school teacher!

And Aunt Xie and her daughter-in-law’s wages added up to about sixty yuan, and Xie Guoqiang… They were all earning so much, how much were Xie Qingxiao and Lin Xiangyi earning…