Aunt Hua told this matter to Uncle Hua, and Uncle Hua was so happy that he couldn’t sleep all night. Even though he didn’t show it on his face, who would complain about having more money? Now they had saved enough money to settle down in the city. Later on, they would cultivate less land and focus on running their shop instead. He didn’t believe that their whole family, being diligent, couldn’t make money by keeping the shop open all day. Otherwise, they would split the earnings between nighttime and daytime, each to their own. How wonderful that would be.
Doing business, really, the more you do it, the simpler and wiser you become. Now, Uncle Hua had a basketful of ideas, but the current issue was that, Qin Xiangyang and his siblings owned half of the shop. Of course, they didn’t feel uncomfortable or resentful about it in their hearts.
After all, the business originally belonged to the two siblings, and they were benefiting from it, so they couldn’t possibly end up resenting them.
Country folk are honest, and they wouldn’t even think of such things. Of course, if Qin Xiangyang and his siblings were really willing to give the shop to them, wouldn’t that be even better?
Aunt Hua also had plans in her mind, tossing and turning all night, unable to sleep. Human nature – who can claim they aren’t selfish? The so-called love, at most times, actually still revolves around loving oneself the most.
Today was enrollment day, and students had gradually started arriving at the school. Qin Xiangyang paid the school fees for himself and his sister, only about 10 yuan per person, and also collected the textbooks. After returning home, they wrapped the book covers with kraft paper so that after a semester, the books would still be in good condition.
This year they were in the fourth grade. Qin Xiangnuan calculated the time; it was the year 1985. Waiting another two years, by the time they were in junior high school in 1987, state-owned enterprises were performing worse and facing dissolution or transformation. Those who had always believed they had iron rice bowls were also losing them, the security they had once believed in. Those who ate state-provided grain were starting to learn a new term, that is, "laid-off". Didn’t she buy that vegetable market? Once the enterprise broke up, the land would have to be returned to the state. It was at that time that the foreign enterprise came to invest, and they took a fancy to that plot of land right away. It was just a pity that there was still a contract in effect. She wanted this opportunity. With that tea market, at the very least, the three generations of the family, even without the shop at the train station, could still make ends meet.
The vegetable market would bring them a very substantial profit.
When they were about to take the books back, they happened to meet Hu Li, who was taking Qin Xiangmei to enroll.
Qin Xiangmei was now a third-grade student, truly, she had fair skin, her eyes slightly upturned, monolids, thin eyebrows and eyes, indeed more pleasant-looking than most children, but compared to her past life, she seemed much more ordinary.
Qin Xiangnuan clearly remembered that at this time in her previous life, Qin Xiangmei’s eyes had grown larger, and the monolids had turned into double eyelids, and by the time she reached junior high, she had a set of double eyelids. But now, she still had monolids, just like Qin Pengfei.
Therefore, this lifetime’s Qin Xiangmei could no longer become the one from her previous life, the one who could trample Qin Xiangnuan under her feet.
Qin Xiangnuan touched the jade pendant hanging around her neck and then followed behind Qin Xiangyang, leaving the school without looking back.
Bastards, raised by a wolf, born to a mother but not raised by one, Hu Li forcefully spit at the backs of the Qin siblings, indeed harboring a deep and intense loathing.