Chapter 103: You Are Unworthy ①
“Renting a vegetable stand in the market, the rent should include management fees, right? Aren’t there cleaners to tidy up?” Nie Qiu asked incredulously.
Zhang Qitian tapped Nie Qiu’s head, “This is such a big market, there’s only one cleaner, and she’s an old lady. She cleans up the garbage left by people buying vegetables and the garbage in the aisles. You have to clean your own vegetable stand.”
“Is that so?” Nie Qiu asked in disbelief.
“What else do you think?” Zhang Qitian rolled his eyes, “Watch the stall for me. I’ll go get the contract sorted before Zhen Zhen gets off work.”
Watching Zhang Qitian leave, Nie Qiu took a deep breath and stood in the very center of the stall. How would she explain this to Nie Aifang when she got home? Would she have to lie to Nie Aifang? Thinking about this borrowed life, she hadn’t told Nie Aifang that she wasn’t her daughter; wasn’t that also a form of deception?
Nie Qiu chuckled. She liked the love Nie Aifang gave her but didn’t have the courage to speak it out. To make Nie Aifang, to make herself live better, she…
“Young lady, how much for this water bamboo per jin?” A young woman stood in front of the vegetable stand, picked up a piece of water bamboo, and asked Nie Qiu with a smile.
Nie Qiu snapped back to attention, looked at the price list posted inside, and said with a smile, “Eleven yuan per jin.”
Nie Qiu weighed the vegetables for the woman. Gradually, a few more people came to buy vegetables. Nie Qiu smiled and dealt with each one. In less than twenty minutes, Nie Qiu saw Zhang Qitian return and then enter the market administrator’s office. A moment later, he came out with the signed contract and returned to his stall.
“I used my ID card,” Zhang Qitian said. “You said before that we should also sign a note. It’s not that I don’t trust you, it’s just for caution.”
Nie Qiu smiled and nodded, taking the contract Zhang Qitian handed her. “Okay, I understand. I’ll head back for today then.”
Zhang Qitian nodded and watched Nie Qiu leave.
When Nie Qiu returned home, Nie Aifang was making dumplings. Nie Qiu solemnly moved a stool and sat opposite Nie Aifang. “Mom, I need to tell you something.”
Nie Aifang put a thumb-sized piece of filling into a dumpling wrapper and said with a smile, “Go ahead! What is it?”
“I have a classmate whose family sells vegetables. They recently rented a vegetable stand and are looking for someone to help,” Nie Qiu also took a dumpling wrapper and started making dumplings.
“What’s wrong? You want to help?” Nie Aifang asked.
“No, Mom. It’s just helping them sell vegetables. I’m good friends with my classmate, and I told him to ask you to go,” Nie Qiu said with a smile. “This way, you won’t have to stay up so late every night! Mom, Teacher Yue is your age, but she looks ten years younger than you!”
“You want me to go?” Nie Aifang’s eyes widened in surprise, and she shook her head repeatedly. “I’m not going, I’m not going. Qiu Qiu, tell your classmate tomorrow that I’m not going.”
“Mom…” Nie Qiu said a little loudly, “Mom, I don’t want you to be so tired anymore. My classmate said they pay a salary of four thousand yuan a month. Mom, that’s more than we make selling barbecue… Just go! Please! You sleep so late every day, I worry about you! Mom, even if it’s for me, please go?”
“Four thousand yuan?! That much?!” Nie Aifang was even more surprised. “Nie Qiu… this… so much… is it true?”
Nie Qiu nodded, knowing Nie Aifang was tempted. “The money is a lot, but it’s also tiring, and you need to be good at talking to sell well. And… they just rented the vegetable stand and haven’t cleaned it yet. If you’re going to do it, you’ll have to clean it yourself.”
Nie Aifang pondered for a moment, then nodded vigorously. “I’ll go, I’ll go. Selling things is my specialty. We sell barbecue, which is also selling things. I can definitely talk to people when selling things. I’ll go.”
Nie Qiu smiled. “Then… since you’ve agreed, you can’t go back on your word!”
Nie Aifang nodded, looking a bit anxious. “Then… what about the new tricycle we bought?”
Nie Qiu smiled. “Vegetable vendors have to collect the vegetables brought by people from the countryside every morning! Take the oil tank off the tricycle and use it to transport vegetables.”
Nie Aifang nodded. “Alright! We have to sell all the barbecue tonight before we can pack up.” After wrapping the last dumpling, Nie Aifang put the dumplings into a bag, preparing to make dinner. After dinner, she would have to go out to set up the stall again.
“Mom, let me help you!” Nie Qiu stood up and followed Nie Aifang into the kitchen.
Nie Aifang placed the dumplings and other items on the kitchen counter for cooking, then washed her hands and rolled up Nie Qiu’s sleeves. “Let me see if your injury has healed. If your injury has healed, I’ll let you come with me.”
“If you didn’t let me go, I would have gone myself!” Nie Qiu rolled up the sleeves of both her arms herself and said with a smile, “Besides, I went yesterday too.”
Seeing that Nie Qiu’s hands no longer had any bruises or anything, Nie Aifang smiled and rubbed Nie Qiu’s wrist. “Okay, okay, you can go, you can go.”
Li Mingxue, carrying a pair of shoes, knocked on Li Kai’s door. “Xiao Kai, the shoes you bought have arrived. I checked at the specialty store, and they are genuine.”
Li Kai took off his headphones, put down the pen in his hand, opened the door, and took the shoes Li Mingxue handed him. “I’ll transfer the money to your account tomorrow.”
“No, no, we’re siblings, we don’t need to be so formal.” Li Mingxue didn’t care that Li Kai was blocking the doorway and squeezed into Li Kai’s room on her own, sitting on the bed. “Xiao Kai, come, come, tell your sister about the girl you like, okay?”
Li Kai placed the bag in his hand on the cabinet, put on his headphones, sat at his desk, picked up his pen, and said, “There’s nothing to talk about. Sis, I still have homework to do. Can you leave?”
“Just tell your sister! Don’t worry, I won’t tell Mom and Dad, absolutely not.” Li Mingxue took off the headphones Li Kai was wearing and said with a smile, “I bought you shoes, and I didn’t even ask you for money. Just tell me!”
Li Kai helplessly put down the pen in his hand, turned his chair to face Li Mingxue, and said, “There’s really nothing to talk about. I’ll transfer the money for the shoes to your account tomorrow, or I can do it now.” As he spoke, Li Kai took out his mobile phone from his purse and opened his Alipay bank account.
As soon as Li Mingxue saw this, she quickly said, “Okay, okay, if you don’t want to talk, then don’t! Why are you giving me money? I’ll consider this a gift for my future sister-in-law.”
Hearing Li Mingxue say this, Li Kai unhesitatingly entered the password in his contacts and transferred the money. In less than two seconds, Li Kai completed the transfer on his phone and then looked up at Li Mingxue. “This is my gift to her, not yours.”
Seeing the transfer information on Li Kai’s phone, Li Mingxue burst into laughter. “You actually care about this! Haha… Who gives it doesn’t make a difference, right? Anyway, even if I get to know her in the future, I won’t tell her! Why are you so awkward! Haha…”
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