Ji family.
Ever since Ji Huai broke something in the store last time, Tong Zhenmei was so angry that she cursed every day for several days.
Those who didn't know thought that the other party had broken into the family's ancestral grave.
Despite the scolding, the store still needs to be tidied up.
In the past few years, I have been making a living by opening a store. No matter what, I have to open the store again.
Tong Zhenmei asked Ji's father to pay for the decoration and opening of the store, but how could Ji's father have any money? He had to pay back the rent money for the house he built.
No money
Tong Zhenmei had a big argument with Ji's father again, and finally took out two thousand yuan from Ji's father, and she went to get some more herself, and then she opened the store.
I thought I could keep doing it, but unfortunately, after the regular customers came, most of the items were not available, and the various snacks were neither fish nor fowl.
After holding on for two months, he couldn't hold on any longer, so he called Ji Yun back and asked her to learn. Xia Ni also went to learn.
When I come back, I earn 10,000 to 20,000 yuan a month, and give her half of it.
Ji Yun agreed. She had nothing to do, so she went to study for a month and then came back to work.
But she doesn't have Shani's patience. She's just as lazy as Ji Yong'an in cooking. She learns things half-heartedly and doesn't take her cooking seriously. She doesn't have enough heat to fry things and makes snacks poorly.
The store's business also declined, and she could barely earn a few thousand a month. When Ji Yun saw it, she didn't want to do it because she was working so hard, so Tongzhenmei gave her one or two thousand.
Quit.
During the Chinese New Year, Ji Yongan also came back and held on for a while.
But he didn't respond to any of the customers' calls. He just sat there and played with his cell phone, as if he hadn't woken up. Only ghosts would enter a shop like this.
Finally, in the end, I couldn’t even pay the water and electricity bills, and I couldn’t drive.
Everyone is a pauper, and the virgin Mei quarrels with Ji's father every day.
"If you don't give me money, where can I get it?" Tong Zhenmei looked at Ji's father who came back, "What's the use of building that shabby house every day?"
"Are you going back to live?"
"How could we not build the ancestral house?" Ji's father was very traditional. When he heard what she said, his expression dropped, and he said solemnly, "Falled leaves return to their roots. You have to go back to wherever you go. Otherwise, how can you live up to the previous generation?!"
It is said that it is an incense house that must be worshiped from generation to generation. There are gods above and ancestors below. If you ignore it, it is disrespectful and there will be bad retribution.
"People are going to starve to death. Go build that shabby house. Don't come to the town anymore. Go back to your countryside." Tong Zhenmei scolded him and then scolded Ji Huai, "Ji Huai just followed you. , I have been unlucky for eight lifetimes. I didn’t learn from the good ones, but learned from the rubbish ones.”
"If you didn't make a fuss, could he leave? I didn't see you asking if he was doing well." Ji's father answered with a bad look on his face.
"Didn't Xiaoyun say that? I'm selling chicken feet at a street stall, and my life is so bad? I won't starve to death!" Tong Zhenmei had a gloomy face, looking even more sarcastic, "We are the ones who are having a bad life. The store is gone, will the whole family drink the northwest wind?"
"Ever since that Xiagougou man got married, nothing good has happened. He didn't even try to get married in the first place. He might be trying to suppress our family, especially me."
"Xiao Ni is also a daughter-in-law after all, but her words are so unpleasant." Ji's father couldn't stand listening anymore.
Xiagougou people are a curse word, which means people in caves who are poor, ignorant, uneducated and stupid.
"What's wrong with me just scolding her? I can scold whoever I want, and I will scold you." Tong Zhenmei jumped up again, pointing at Ji's father, "You are the least capable in the whole street. Since I Since I met you, what have you accomplished? How much money have you made? I see that you will never make much money until you die."
"You are the most useless. I married you because I was blind."
"Okay!" Ji's father was also angry, with veins popping on his forehead, and yelled, "Did I give you less money?"
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The two started to quarrel again, and Ji's father couldn't win over Tong Zhenmei at all. Instead, he was so angry that his face turned red.
Just at this moment, Ji Yongan hurriedly ran in, his voice unable to contain his excitement, "Mom, Mom."
He has been a jobless vagrant since he came back from the capital a few years ago. He is idle every day and has high ambitions and low abilities. The job in this town is worth three thousand a month, but he doesn't like it. He thinks ten thousand is the minimum standard.
It would be weird to find a job.
"What?!" Tong Zhenmei shouted angrily, very unhappy.
"Why are you so angry?" Ji Yongan walked up with a playful smile and took the opportunity to say, "I saw my brother and sister-in-law. They are working in the store over on Xihe Street."
Of course I was working part-time, but I never thought it was a shop owned by two people.
"What?" Tong Zhenmei's anger was transferred instantly, "How do you know?"
Ji Yong'an: "Really, my friend and I went to have tea and saw that my brother was working as a chef and my sister-in-law was working as a cashier. I'm afraid I'm going to get pregnant."
"I want to go take a look." Tong Zhenmei said, looking at Ji's father with a strange look, "I won't be back for the New Year. Maybe I'm tired of it. Let's see how capable we are!"
"The child is living a good life, why are you going to cause trouble?" Ji's father raised his voice and spoke.
"Am I causing trouble? The whole family goes out to work, who will take care of Xiaofan? Is she about to give birth? Who will take care of her? Who will take care of the two children? Ji Huai has a family and will not go back, so he will go out to be a beggar to support his two children and his wife? "Tong Zhenmei snorted coldly, and after questioning, she said directly, "When you come back to live at home and open a shop, it will be difficult for someone to raise the child? It will make life difficult for everyone. Will you pay for the family's future expenses?"
Ji's father was so blocked that he didn't know how to reply.
He has many aspects to consider. Generally speaking, he naturally hopes that Ji Huai and his wife can come back, open a shop, live in the family house, be together as a family, have someone to take care of their children, and have income at home.
Ji Yong'an couldn't wait to ride on his small electric car and pull Tong Zhenmei to the other side.
At this time, on the other side of town.
"Half a pound of lemon chicken feet."
"Hello, please settle the bill at table 8."
"A salt-baked chicken package."
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"Hello, the total is thirty-nine yuan."
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The store was a little busy in the afternoon. Two waiters were walking back and forth. Shani was sitting at the counter as a cashier. She was nine months pregnant and her baby was due to be born next month. Ji Huai didn't let her do many things. do.
She didn't dare to do it herself. This pregnancy was even more difficult than when she was pregnant with Ji Huai. Now she couldn't sit or stand, and she was still tossing and turning while lying down.
After sitting at the counter for a while, she couldn't sit still anymore, so she stood up and wanted to walk.
"Where to go?" Ji Huai was about to come out with a plate.
"What does it taste like again?" Shani looked at the river shrimp on his hand. One shrimp was split into two and covered with a layer of minced garlic.
Since she said it was delicious last time, he asked the fisherman to keep it and send it to them if he caught any river shrimp.
I haven't been able to catch them lately, and I just sent two today.
"Hot and sour." Ji Huai said.
She was very hot-tempered and was said to be sour and spicy. He really wanted to have a daughter.
Shani sat down again, holding her belly. There were four pieces of shrimp on the plate. She looked at the plate and said, "I am becoming more and more luxurious."
After saying that, he added, "Where's Xiaofan? Let him come down to eat the shrimps."
"There are only two in total. If he doesn't eat it, I'll bake him a chicken wing next time." Ji Huai said without hesitation.
"Call him for me." Shani looked helpless.
"Don't scream." Ji Huai gave her a back look, turned around and went to the kitchen. It was time to pick up the salt-baked chicken in the pot.
He didn't shout. Shani still thought about her son if she had something delicious to eat. She walked to the stairs and shouted twice.
No one responded.
She held her hand on the armrest and was about to go upstairs when Ji Huai saw her.
"I'm going to call you, okay?" Ji Huai put his hand on his forehead and walked upstairs with long strides. As he walked, he said, "Xiaofan? My son!"
After a while, he came down again, this time in a much softer voice, "Asleep."
"Okay." Shani held her belly and walked back.
As soon as he sat down, Ji Huai took out the big chicken drumstick and said, "Don't eat it when he's asleep. Eat this too."
"I'll give it to him when he wakes up, otherwise I have to cook it." Shani still couldn't bear to eat.
"If it doesn't happen, I won't feed him when he wakes up." As soon as he finished speaking, the waiter called from the kitchen, and he went back to work.
Shani looked at the delicious shrimps and a fragrant big chicken drumstick on the table, and swallowed her saliva.
Since she became pregnant with this child, she has really been craving for meat. Her small body can fit a salt-baked chicken, and sometimes she can eat more than Ji Huai.
She touched her belly and looked down again. She really didn't want to eat, it must be the child.
"Xiaoxia, take a look at the counter for a moment." She said to the waiter.
She had just checked out a few tables in the store and could take some time off. She carried the plate to an empty table, sat down, and pulled out a pair of disposable gloves.
His cooking skills are always good. He caught the river shrimp this morning. They were very tender. After eating one piece, he wanted to eat another piece.
The customers who came in were attracted and asked her what to order. Shani was very apologetic and said, "I'm sorry, I made this for myself."
"That's it." The customer felt a little regretful and walked to the side to sit down.
outside the door.
"Mom, this is where I saw my sister-in-law." Ji Yongan followed Tong Zhenmei and pointed to the store.
"The decoration is not bad." Tong Zhenmei glanced at it and looked it over for a moment, "You can also hire people to do the work."
She was losing money in business, and when she saw someone making money, she felt sour in her heart, "When no one eats it, if you hire someone to work, you'll even lose your underwear!"
The two walked in.
"Welcome, what would you like to eat?" the waiter greeted.
Shani was sitting with her back to the door, so she didn't see the two people coming in at all.
Seeing that there was no one at the counter, Tong Zhenmei frowned and looked at Ji Yongan, who was also confused, "Mom, I really saw it, my sister-in-law is at the front desk."
As soon as the words came out of her mouth, the voice made Shani freeze up, her body stiffened, and cold sweat broke out on her back.
She wasn't afraid, it was just that she had lived comfortably for too long, and she didn't want to see this family coming to cause trouble and make herself uncomfortable.
There is a feeling that the good times are coming to an end.
"Are you looking for someone?" The waiter looked at the two people and was a little confused.
"Yes, your cashier's name is..." Before Tongzhenmei could finish her words, she saw a pregnant woman sitting in front of her. She walked over and saw that it was Shani. She raised her eyebrows and said, "Here, everyone is there." I won’t respond to people anymore.”
She looked so arrogant, staring, and fierce, making her difficult to deal with at first glance.
"Sister-in-law, we are eating shrimp." Ji Yongan looked at the prawns on the table, wondering if he was deliberately reminding her.
It was a really good day.
Tong Zhenmei looked at it again and said deliberately, "Is this a lobster? I have never eaten such a big shrimp."
She said so. When Shani saw that the customers in the store were looking at her, she quickly said, "Sit down, Yong'an, sit down too."
The two of them were really polite and sat down.
"It's river shrimp, try it..." Shani pushed the remaining two pieces of shrimp meat forward, and was about to say that Ji Huai made it, but finally swallowed it hard and said firmly, "It tastes good."
"No wonder you don't want to go back. The treatment is so good? Can you still eat at work?" Tong Zhenmei didn't know what she meant. She looked around with a faint smile, "Where is Ji Huai? Isn't he with you?"
"He's in the kitchen." Shani managed to say.
She had a premonition that they were about to be entangled. The only good thing was that the other party didn't seem to know that the store belonged to them.
"Where's your boss?" Tong Zhenmei suddenly asked the waiter next to her, adding in passing, "My daughter-in-law has such a big belly, why do you still let her work? This can't be solved with just a little food. "
The waiter looked at Shani and said quickly, "I have to work myself. You have forgotten that I also worked until more than nine months when I was pregnant with Xiaofan."
"What? Does this mean I don't care about you anymore? I deliberately let you work for more than nine months?" Tong Zhenmei said with a straight face, "You didn't say you were fine at the beginning, how can you do it?"
"So I can work now." Shani answered.
Tong Zhenmei felt very uncomfortable after hearing her words. She squinted her eyes, frowned, and said in a harsh tone, "You are not afraid of being laughed at outside. You are pregnant. Those who don't know may think that our Ji family abuses you."
"If you don't go back to your home, will you feel comfortable outside?"
Even if she wanted to beg Ji Huai and his wife to go back and open a shop, she was too temperamental to say soft words. Moreover, she always treated the two of them forcefully and scolded them.
Shani's tone was unhurried, "I didn't mean to mistreat them. It was us who wanted to work hard. It was a bit hard, but it was okay."
They are really not afraid of being laughed at and are very comfortable outside.
To be honest, even begging for food is more comfortable than staying at Ji's house. At least there is no psychological pressure and you won't be dependent on others.
She didn't scold Tong Zhenmei, but what she said made Tong Zhenmei feel very resentful. She was so scolded that she couldn't stand it anymore. She raised her voice and said, "You mean, you will never go back in this life, right?" ?”
"We didn't think about it that way. I listened to Ji Huai and we have been busy recently... Shani made an excuse.
"Bang!" Tong Zhenmei hit the table and pointed at her, her tone undeniable, "Go home with Ji Huai right away!"
Shani put her hand on her belly, comforted the child, and said no more.
She knew that Tong Zhenmei was simply a shrew, vulgar and irrational. She was not afraid of anyone and felt that she was the most reasonable. She had a child in her belly, so it would be foolish to quarrel with her.
If anything happens, Ji Huai has to come.
The waiter had already gone to the kitchen, and Ji Huai came over just in time to see Tong Zhenmei acting up again.
"What are you doing?" He walked over with a sullen face and said to Shani, "Go upstairs first."
Shani stood up and wanted to leave quickly.
"What are you leaving for?" Tong Zhenmei looked at the two of them and informed directly, "Pack your bags and take them home."
How can I open my shop at home if I still stay outside
To dare to run away from home is simply the opposite.
"Are you here to eat? Free air conditioning is not allowed here." Ji Huai was not polite and spoke lightly.
"Have you ever talked to your mother like this?" Tong Zhenmei's face was full of anger, but she could do it, and shouted, "Call your boss out, I want to ask him if he will continue to invite you. Officer!"
"Go back right away, you hear me?! We've been making trouble for more than half a year, it's enough!"
It's impossible to apologize. If you don't settle old scores with two people, it's just a gift. At worst, he will ruin this place. Where else can the two of them go but go home
Ji Huai ignored her and helped Shani to go to the stairs. Facing her worried eyes, he whispered soothingly, "Go up first."
Shani knew her own body well and did not dare to cause trouble, but she was afraid that Ji Huai would smash the store like last time, "Don't be impulsive, you will scare me."
Ji Huai nodded.
"Didn't I say I wouldn't let her leave?" Seeing that Shani was still walking, Mai Zhen stood up immediately, which made her angry.
Ji Huai came over and blocked her way, saying in a cold tone, "What exactly do you want to make trouble for?"
"As a mother, I beg you to go back. Did I make a fuss? What did your wife say to you again?" Tong Zhenmei pinned the blame on Shani again, "What is happening at home? What do others think of our family? , what do you think of me and your dad?"
"Do you have no father or mother? We are all dead, so you don't want to go back, right?"
After she finished speaking, Ji Yongan took the opportunity to say, "Brother, don't make mom angry. We are all one family, how can there be any hatred? How hard it is for you to take your sister-in-law outside..."
"I'm not working hard at all." Ji Huai interrupted him with a sarcastic tone, "Xiao Ni and I used to work hard to have food for ourselves. We couldn't even afford to buy a toy for Xiao Fan. Now the two of us I can still save money every month, and my life is more comfortable than at home.”
"I don't know who I worked for during those years, but my life was very comfortable."
Both Tong Zhenmei and Ji Yongan's expressions changed, but she refused to admit defeat, "So, I have treated you badly? I gave birth to you and raised you. You will never be able to repay this kindness in your life. Now that you have grown up, you feel that you can Got it!"
Ji Huai saw that the customers were all watching and looked at Tong Zhenmei, "Do you have to be embarrassed here?"
"Who is embarrassed?" Tong Zhenmei exploded, "How can you talk? Are you not afraid of being struck by thunder and annihilating your descendants?"
Look, when you curse, your own son will die with curses.
Ji Yongan wanted to save face, so he pulled Tong Zhenmei's sleeve and said, "Mom, don't be embarrassed. Keep your voice down, you will embarrass me."
Tong Zhenmei's tone softened, a bit too soft indeed, but she looked at Ji Huai with a very unhappy and angry look.
This time, this son made her so angry that she smashed the store, spent money on renovations and lost money. She hated this couple, especially Shani, who was from the mountains and valleys and was full of bad luck.
"I've been unlucky for eight lifetimes. I smashed the store and ran away..."
Before Tongzhenmei finished speaking, Ji Huai interrupted, "Don't you make enough money in the past few years to compensate?"
"Do you think you make a lot of money?" She became more reasonable and started to scold her.
"Isn't it much?" Ji Huai looked at her, "Do you really think we are fools? Wasn't that money spent by eldest sister, Yong'an and you? It's more than 100,000 or 200,000 yuan a year, right? You were just greeting the guests , Yongan and eldest sister, aren’t they useless people who only know how to eat and drink?”
"By the way, did you use the 40,000 yuan to become famous in the capital?" After he finished speaking, he looked at Ji Yongan with a light gaze.
Ji Yongan didn't dare to look at him. In fact, he was too scared to death. For a while, he hesitated and didn't dare to speak. He was very embarrassed.
"Have you spent it all? It's only been a few months, and you're already living a better life than those white-collar workers, right?" Ji Huai sneered, "Are you asking us to go back and open a store? Okay, I'll pay the most rent by then, and the rest, It won’t have anything to do with you.”
"I'm your mother!" Tongzhenmei started to kidnap her morally again.
How much is the rent? What can be done
Ji Huai's face suddenly changed, and he was completely devoid of warmth. "If it weren't for my mother, do you think I would talk to you so politely? Can't you tell I'm very angry?"
"Xiao Ni is about to give birth. What were you making a fuss about just now? You made me angry, so I went to smash up your shop again. Not to mention the shop, I also shoveled the building for you. Do you think I dare? "
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"Brother, if you have something to say, say it well. Say it well." Ji Yongan's hands and feet were really trembling. Ji Huai had a bad temper. He remembered that once in junior high school, he had to fight with someone with a knife.
He is ignorant and uneducated, as stubborn as a cow, very ignorant, and cannot get back what he is looking for. He is a scholar and will not be so reckless.
"Have you ever thought about talking to me? Leave before I'm angry." Ji Huai looked at Ji Yong'an and pointed at the door.
"Mom, let's go first and come back next time." Ji Yongan quickly pulled Tong Zhenmei, "Let's go, let's go."
"Why are you afraid of him? He's worthless!" Tong Zhenmei gritted her teeth and said bravely, "If he dares, I'll fight him with a knife and beat him to death. What's the point of keeping him alive?! He gave birth to a beast!"
Having said that, he still followed Ji Yongan and pretended to be dragged away.
Ji Huai took a few deep breaths, looked at the tables of customers in the store, and said in an apologetic tone, "I'm sorry, I made everyone laugh because of family matters. I will send you a chicken feet later to express my apology. I hope you can forgive me."
People who witnessed the whole process only thought that this old lady was really annoying, and she was not lovable in appearance. However, the owner of the store was honest.
Watching the show for free was enjoyable and did not affect my mood.