When Lin Sanshui and Mrs. Jiang came back, Lin Pandi walked out of the kitchen still looking frail, but her face was beaming with a happy smile, "Uncle and Auntie are back, hurry up and freshen up, the meal will be ready soon!"
Lin Sanshui and Mrs. Jiang exchanged a puzzled glance.
While Lin Pandi was not around, Lin Sanshui called Erhu over and asked, "What’s going on? Why is she in our house?"
Erhu pointed miserably towards Gu Nian’s room, "Little sister brought her back, I really don’t know. Can you not ask me and go ask little sister instead."
"Useless!" Lin Sanshui scolded contemptuously, as if he had obtained the answer he wanted to know.
Behind him, Erhu wiped the sweat off his forehead.
Well, that’s really the extent of his usefulness.
Now with the eldest brother not around, he can’t upset either his parents above or his little sister below.
After all, although the family hasn’t said it, it is an accepted fact that the little sister is now the family’s god of wealth.
Lin Sanshui walked into Gu Nian’s room and immediately saw Gu Nian’s ingratiating smile. This text is hosted at NovєlFіre.net
Originally, he felt a bit annoyed, but it dissipated instantly.
Walking over, Lin Sanshui tapped her forehead in mock irritation, "Come on, confess honestly, what’s up with Pandi?"
Gu Nian shook Lin Sanshui’s arm without hiding anything.
Lin Sanshui wasn’t a heartless person; otherwise, he wouldn’t have adopted Gu Nian.
Seeing this, he sighed helplessly, "You silly girl, Pandi is different from others, it’s not just about adding a pair of chopsticks and another mouth to feed. You’ve seen how troublesome Mrs. Zhang is. We took Pandi in out of kindness, but will Mrs. Zhang let it go at that?"
Gu Nian pulled a contract out from her bosom and said, "Don’t worry, I have this."
"What is this?" Lin Sanshui took it and looked it over but couldn’t understand it, though it did somewhat resemble a land deed, with red fingerprints on it.
"It’s a contract of sale!"
Gu Nian’s casual words startled Lin Sanshui.
"Whoa! Where did this come from?"
"From Sister Pandi. I gave her ten taels of silver this morning, didn’t I? She went back and asked the village chief to write up a contract of sale, then had her parents press their fingerprints on it before giving the silver to her family."
Lin Sanshui became cautious, "The way you say it, this girl is quite calculative. But who knows if she’ll be grateful or not."
People are like that; too kind and they get bullied, too ruthless and they make others wary.
When even her biological parents could be guarded against, Lin Sanshui couldn’t help worrying whether she might do something bad to their own family.
Thinking of this, Lin Sanshui confiscated the contract of sale and said, "The person is already here, and it’s not good to drive her out now. How about I keep this contract, and let her stay for a few days, and later... we’ll deal with later things later."
No matter if Mrs. Zhang comes looking or Lin Pandi has any thoughts, as long as they have this contract in hand, they aren’t afraid of any tricks.
Thus, Lin Pandi managed to stay with them, and the matter of Zheng Shaochen buying the cold jelly recipe was not concealed from the family by Gu Nian, and she split half of the silver with Lin Sanshui.
Moreover, she also decided to start selling cold jelly in town the next day. Seeing as it’s already August, if they don’t sell now, the weather will get cold, and people won’t want this cooling treat anymore.
The weather was good, and with Lin Pandi on board, they had enough hands to help.
However, when making the cold jelly, Mrs. Jiang firmly refused to let Lin Pandi help, afraid that she would learn the recipe.