Chapter 55

Er Bao pursed his lips, unable to say anything. He looked at his aunt, then at his mother, and finally remained silent.

His eyes shifted around, showing his embarrassment.

Yi Bao silently remembered his dad’s name. His dad’s name is Lin Guodong.

San Bao’s little ears twitched. “Bad person outsider…”

After a moment of silence, the voice of the shopkeeper rang out, “Braised tofu, braised fish, three bowls of shredded pork and pickled vegetable noodles, ready for pickup.”

“Coming,” Ning Shu got up. When she reached the pickup window, she asked, “Comrade, can I have five more bowls? We want to pour out the soda and drink it.”

“Yes, you can. Take these things down first and come back for the bowls, don’t block the way here.”

“Okay, thank you, comrade.” Ning Shu picked up the three bowls of noodles first.

“Mom, I’ll get them.” Er Bao followed her.

Yi Bao was used to looking after San Bao, so he didn’t come.

“No need, you sit down. Watch our seats, don’t let anyone take them.” Ning Shu didn’t trust him to carry the bowls.

Er Bao was stunned, unable to believe that someone would try to steal their seats.

So he said seriously, “Mom, rest assured, I will watch your seat closely.”

When Er Bao returned to his seat, he nervously watched anyone coming in through the restaurant door, afraid they would come to steal his mother’s seat. Luckily, no one came to take the seat while Ning Shu was getting the food, so Er Bao breathed a sigh of relief.

“Come on, let’s celebrate with soda before eating.” Ning Shu poured the two bottles of soda into the five bowls, even San Bao got three sips.

“Mom, what are we celebrating? Is it someone’s birthday?” Er Bao had only celebrated once, on San Bao’s birthday, so he thought it was someone else’s birthday.

Lin Xiao Jing was also puzzled. After the incident just now, she had relaxed a lot and was no longer as restrained as before.

She didn’t feel awkward facing Ning Shu anymore.

Ning Shu said, “No, as long as there is good news or something meaningful, we can celebrate. Last time was San Bao’s birthday, this time it’s because I earned some money.”

Ning Shu didn’t hide the fact that she earned money. If she got a job and sold it to Lin Xiao Jing, then Lin Xiao Jing would definitely know about it.

Even if it wasn’t from her, she would hear about it from someone else, so it didn’t matter whether she mentioned it or not.

“Celebrating Mom earning money,” Yi Bao said happily.

“Celebrating Mom earning money,” Er Bao echoed his brother.

San Bao held his bowl and started drinking soda.

He didn’t understand the profound meaning of celebrating.

Lin Xiao Jing was somewhat surprised. Ning Shu had earned money again? She had sold her previous job, and now she had earned money again? What was going on? However, Lin Xiao Jing didn’t ask.

After finishing the soda, Ning Shu said, “Xiao Jing, you have a bowl of noodles for yourself. San Bao won’t eat much, so we’ll share a bowl. Yi Bao and Er Bao can share another bowl. If it’s not enough, we’ll order more.”

“Mom, I’ll share some of mine with you.” Yi Bao remembered the incident when he shared his food with his aunt and hurriedly expressed his thoughts to his mom.

“I still have some, I’ll share mine with Mom too.” Er Bao always followed his brother.

“You guys eat yours, I have mine.” As she spoke, Ning Shu even picked out the shredded pork from her noodles and gave it to Yi Bao and Er Bao.

Er Bao looked puzzled and asked, “Mom, don’t you want to eat meat?”

“I don’t feel like eating meat today.” She wasn’t lying; she really didn’t want to eat it because the shredded pork was mostly fat, and she preferred lean meat.

So she just gave all the shredded pork to the two boys.

Yi Bao’s eyes reddened slightly. He didn’t believe that Mom didn’t want to eat meat.

He knew how much Mom loved meat.

Even at home, Mom would eat meat. There must not have been much meat today, so Mom gave it to them.

Mom was so kind, he had never thought of sharing his food with Mom before.

He was really unfilial. In the future, he would earn lots and lots of money to buy lots and lots of meat so that Mom wouldn’t have to give her meat to them.

“Mom, I don’t want to eat meat today either. You can have my meat too.” Yi Bao looked at his mom moved, saying something that shocked her.

Ning Shu: “…” Did she mishear? “Yi Bao, you’re a child. Eating meat can help you grow taller and stronger, so you can’t be picky. You should eat both meat and vegetables.”

But she didn’t want him to be so filial.

She really didn’t want to eat fatty meat, even if it was shredded fat.

However, Yi Bao’s filial piety made her very satisfied, so satisfied that… even if she liked to eat fatty meat, she might give it a try a little more.

Er Bao looked at his mom and then at his brother, then he smiled and said, “Mom, brother, are you both not eating meat today? I really want to eat it.” So, his smile was very bright, as if saying, give me all your meat.

Yi Bao wanted to say that he wasn’t not eating meat, he just wanted to give it to Mom.

But he had just said he wasn’t eating meat, so he couldn’t take it back now, or he would be a lying child. What should he do?

Ning Shu looked at Er Bao, who was eager to eat meat, and Yi Bao, who opened his mouth but didn’t know what to say.

She felt that Er Bao was really Yi Bao’s nemesis. She patted Yi Bao’s shoulder and said, “Even though you don’t want to eat meat today, you still need to eat a little to grow tall, okay?”

“What about you, Mom?” Yi Bao persisted.

“I’m not feeling well in my stomach today. When my stomach feels better next time, I’ll eat. If I don’t have enough to eat then, I’ll ask you for some, okay?”

“Okay.” Yi Bao finally felt relieved. Mom didn’t eat because her stomach wasn’t feeling well. If she ate, she would feel even worse.

Lin Xiao Jing was greatly shocked. She absolutely didn’t believe that Ning Shu didn’t want to eat meat today, but Ning Shu actually gave the shredded pork to Yi Bao and Er Bao, which she couldn’t believe.

However, the fact was that Ning Shu really didn’t eat the shredded pork.

So, a mom who would give her meat to her children to eat must be a good mom.

Ning Shu had really changed for the better.

Lin Xiao Jing looked at her own bowl of shredded pork noodles, hesitated for a moment, then pushed it towards Ning Shu, saying, “I have some shredded pork here, take some back to eat.”

This was bought by Ning Shu, so it was only right to share it with her. Besides, Ning Shu had also shared her shredded pork with her two nephews.

Lin Xiao Jing tried to justify her actions.

Ning Shu raised an eyebrow, somewhat surprised.

However, she smiled and said, “I really don’t want to eat today. You know, if I want to eat, I will definitely eat. I’m not that fussy.” She was really a kind girl.

Seeing her expression, Lin Xiao Jing felt that she wasn’t lying, so she didn’t pursue it further.

Ning Shu took a bite of noodles herself and then fed San Bao a bite.

Eating and chatting was a common practice among Chinese people, so she didn’t just focus on eating. “Xiao Jing, have you ever thought about buying a job?”

“What?” This question caught Lin Xiao Jing off guard.

She had never thought about buying a job. Of course, she knew that if there was a way, she could buy a job.

However, their family didn’t have the means, nor did they have the large sum of money required to buy a job.

There were six laborers in the family, but with so many children, the annual allocation of grain was not enough for the whole family.

They had to spend money to buy more, so there was hardly any money saved in the family.

She was already very grateful that her parents could afford to send her to high school.

When she didn’t pass the entrance exam to high school, she even spent an extra year studying.

So she never even thought about buying a job, let alone considered it.

“We don’t have that much money at home,” Lin Xiao Jing shook her head. “And even if we did, it would be earned by my parents, older brothers and sister-in-laws are working together. So it’s impossible for them to buy a job for me. Not to mention my parents, even my eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law wouldn’t agree.”

Ning Shu thought for a moment. “You can borrow money from your parents. After you buy the job, you can use your salary to repay the debt. During the repayment period, you can also pay your sister-in-law and second sister-in-law five yuan in interest each year. They should agree to that.”

These days, daughters-in-law may not be able to save five yuan in private savings in a year.

Lin Xiao Jing was shocked. Could it be done like this? “How… how does that work?”

Her mind wasn’t very sharp, so she listened to what Ning Shu said, and it sounded good, but she didn’t quite understand.

Ning Shu gave her an example. “For example, if a job costs 600 yuan, you can repay 200 yuan a year. Pay them with 17 yuan for January to November Then 13 yuan for December, Thats 200 Yuan overall. But in December, you can pay the 10 yuan interest, which is equivalent to giving 23 yuan. Even if you only earn 20 yuan a month, you’ll have 240 yuan a year. You just need to put out 210 yuan, leaving you with 30 yuan, 30 yuan is enough to last a year. In three years, the job will be yours.”

Ning Shu was just giving an example. She would decide how much to sell the job for based on what position the factory manager rewarded her with. “Also, workers have various tickets. You can transfer them every month, which can earn you an extra one or two yuan per month, or 20 yuan per year.”

Lin Xiao Jing was stunned. She was stunned by what she heard.

After she absorbed Ning Shu’s words one by one, she gradually realized that Ning Shu was really smart. It seemed like this could really work.

Ning Shu is really smart. No wonder she dares to come up with ideas involving her third brother.

She probably realized that her third brother couldn’t do anything to her, so she dared to do it.

Although she felt some sympathy for her third brother, she still had to praise Ning Shu.

She’s really amazing.

Then, Lin Xiaojing remembered what Ning Shu had said at the school gate and was somewhat surprised and delighted.

“You… you mean there’s a job you can sell to me?”

Ning Shu nodded. “But it’s not certain yet. It will be available by the end of December. If you’re interested, I can keep an eye on it for you, and you can also ask your parents for their opinion.”

“Yeah, I… I’ll ask my parents for their opinion when I go back this week.” Lin Xiao Jing would definitely not be vague about such matters.

“Okay.” Ning Shu nodded and stopped talking. She had offered the idea, and if Lin Xiao Jing could convince her parents to buy the job, she would sell it to her.

Anyway, she wouldn’t agree to an installment plan or pay interest. “But it’s not certain yet. Besides talking to your parents, don’t let the news leak out, or it would be embarrassing.”

“I understand.” Lin Xiao Jing’s voice trembled with excitement.