Chapter 235: Nineties: Spring Water Family Chapter 235: Haven't Seen Each Other for Over a Month, Thoughts Keep Me Awake at Night

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Protagonist:

Lin Xiyu

"Done."

The female cousin seized the chance to slip away: "The shop is on me, you don't need to worry about it, I'm going right now to find that agent I know and have her take me to look for shops."

"I'll also go talk to my former colleagues about this, see what they think......"

Chen Xiulan didn't want to listen to her old mother nag anymore either, so she promptly got up and walked out the front door.

"Maternal Grandmother is the best, you're the one who dotes on me, thinking of everything for me."

Lin Xiyu found it amusing, hugging Maternal Grandmother's arm and acting spoiled.

"You did the right thing with this, not treating your mom as an outsider......"

Maternal Grandmother smiled with relief: "No matter what, she's still your mom, you two mother and daughter getting along well makes Maternal Grandmother very happy, it counts as putting a worry to rest."

"I've already thought it through......"

Lin Xiyu affectionately rubbed against Maternal Grandmother's shoulder, currying favor: "From now on, the matter of supervising teaching quality at the training class will be handed to my mom, and she'll still be the Academic Affairs Director, having proper work to do, she won't feel bored and empty because Younger Brother went out of town for school."

"You let your mom manage things, you'd better think it through clearly."

Maternal Grandmother knew her own daughter inside out: "Her personality is too domineering, she's used to making others listen to her, the training class is something you and Wu Meng partnered to open, it's impossible for everything to go according to her wishes, if conflicts really arise, you'll be caught in the middle, and that'll be difficult."

"Maternal Grandmother's words really reminded me......."

Lin Xiyu deeply agreed: "Opening a training class can't be done recklessly, there must be rules and regulations, I'll go back right now and draft the rules and regulations properly, from now on let them each handle their own responsibilities and do things according to the rules and regulations."

"You go be busy then."

Maternal Grandmother, her eldest daughter relieved, covered her mouth and yawned again.

"I'll help you back to bed to lie down....."

Seeing Maternal Grandmother was tired, Lin Xiyu helped her rise from the chair.

"Okay."

Maternal Grandmother smiled with relief, letting her support her back to the bedroom to rest.

Lin Xiyu helped her lie down, then kept her company chatting for a while, Maternal Grandmother was old and couldn't fight off sleepiness, before long she started dozing off, closing her eyes.

Seeing her breathing was steady and her body had no major issues, Lin Xiyu only then set her mind at ease, quietly closed the door, and left Maternal Grandmother's house.

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The female cousin truly lives up to being an old hand in the renovation industry, extensive connections, many channels.

She had people cast a wide net, and sure enough, within two days she found a shop to her liking.

This street-front shopfront wasn't far from Lao Dongmen, on Dashan South Road, right next to Qinglong Bridge, the original landlord ran a restaurant, business was bad, wanted to sell.

The female cousin saw the shop was surrounded by dense residential areas, the price was fair too, and after contacting the landlord they reached a preliminary purchase intention.

Lin Xiyu and Wu Meng heard the news and also went to look at the shop, saw it was about what they expected, both were very happy, decided on the spot, paid the deposit, signed the purchase agreement.

The female cousin was very savvy at doing business, Lin Xiyu entrusted the follow-up matters to her as well.

Since she hadn't resigned yet, she couldn't openly start a company, so Wu Meng was appointed Legal Representative, the business license registered her name.

"Hahaha, Yuncai Education, this name is too clever......"

Wu Meng got the business license, laughed exaggeratedly looking up at the sky: "Unexpected, really unexpected, I also have a day where the salted fish turns over and I become the boss myself."

"This girl, happy to the point of almost going crazy."

Wu Father and Wu Mother were both very happy for their daughter, and even more full of gratitude toward Lin Xiyu.

"Mengmeng, from now on the financial authority of the training institution will be handed to you......"

Lin Xiyu went along with the two elders' wishes: "Dealing with the Industrial and Commercial Bureau people, tax payment matters I don't understand, you're the expert, you put more thought into it......"

"Rest assured....."

Wu Meng cradling her round pregnant belly, full of accomplishment: "This I'm good at, guarantee I can handle it all properly, won't make any mistakes."

"Shop renovation, will take ten-odd days....."

Lin Xiyu gave her an appreciative look, then said: "Let's take advantage of this time to hand out more flyers, do some publicity, strive to open in late August, before the new semester starts, recruit the first batch of students."

"This matter I'll take."

Wu Mother proactively volunteered, taking the task on: "You print them and I'll go distribute flyers, I know the Old City District well, know lots of people, can drum up more business for you."

"Sounds good......"

Lin Xiyu smiled in agreement: "I'll also have Guben's Maternal Grandmother help publicize a bit, she knows quite a few people from dancing too, everyone working together, strive to open soon."

"Good!"

Wu Meng's whole family was very excited, very enthusiastically chiming in loudly.

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Guben's trip to Shanghai this time was not as smooth as imagined, Miao Ke was interested in investing in the game company but having him produce hundreds of millions in funds all at once was no easy matter either.

The final result was still Yingrun Investment seizing the opportunity to insert itself, taking twenty percent of the equity.

The person Yingrun Investment sent to negotiate business with Xingyao was Hu Qin.

Speaking of Hu Qin, he truly does have some schemes and methods.

Using last time's investment failure, he actually brought down the Supervisor and took that position himself.

Four years later, he got his opportunity again, the news of Xingyao's intention to change shareholders had just been released, and he couldn't wait to show up at the door, extending an olive branch, expressing intention to cooperate again.

Non-company internal personnel equity change procedures are complicated, time-consuming.

Guben had no choice but to stay in Shanghai to handle this, by the time the dust settled, it was already two and a half months later.

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How a game company operates has nothing whatsoever to do with Lin Xiyu.

During this period, she did not idle either; accompanied by her female cousin, she visited another old Chinese doctor, and while taking medicine and seeing the doctor, she also found time to help Wu Meng with the training class opening preparations.

Days passed swiftly in busyness, and in the blink of an eye it arrived at late August; Yuncai Education officially opened for business.

With Wu Meng's mother's vigorous publicity, and Grandma Gu's staunch support, the training class successfully recruited its first batch of students.

Chen Xiulan and three retired veteran teachers familiar with her undertook the Chinese and mathematics teaching tasks.

As for the English teacher, it was just as previously anticipated — not easy to find at all; they could only hire two university students currently enrolled at the normal university to temporarily serve as training teachers.

Lin Xiyu personally assessed their listening and speaking abilities, and supervised their teaching progress.

The two also cherished the off-campus internship opportunity, taught students very conscientiously, and their good performance won high recognition from Chen Xiulan and the other veteran teachers.

Homework tutoring proceeded in an orderly manner, and the training institution's operation and management also gradually entered a proper track.

Wu Meng, this boss, had a wonderful time; whenever the training class held lessons, she would personally come to the site to sit in, looking at the children who came to study, smiling so broadly her mouth could not close.

She was easygoing by nature; when she smiled she had two little dimples, very endearing. Before long, she had hit it off completely with the parents waiting outside the classrooms.

Once she got familiar with the parents, she took advantage of the chatting and joking to promise them benefits, persuading them that for every new student they brought in, they would receive an extra commission.

With benefits to be had, the parents were also very active, publicizing everywhere among relatives and friends, with remarkable results, bringing quite a few new student sources to the training class.

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In the initial opening period, student numbers were few, and the training class implemented small-class teaching; each class had only ten people.

On the two weekend days, Chinese, mathematics, and English — one lesson each was arranged for morning and afternoon.

Students gradually increased; a class of 20 still found the classroom insufficient, and Wu Meng stirred again, wanting to change one lesson into two lessons.

Increasing class hours meant the teachers' working hours would also have to be extended.

The two normal university students were fine with it; earning money, they had no objections.

The retired teachers were different; old in age, their stamina could not keep up, some did not want to work that hard, and beat a retreat.

Wu Meng had no choice but to hire four additional teachers to take on the new teaching tasks.

With more teachers, Chen Xiulan naturally and justifiably was promoted to Teaching Group Leader, once again regaining the glory of her days as Academic Affairs Director at school.

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In late September, Guben finished the company's affairs and returned from Shanghai; by then the training class had already taken initial shape and scale.

Little female cousin Nana also benefited; without spending extra money, she could attend lessons at her own family's extracurricular tutoring class for free.

With Lin Xiyu's tutoring during summer vacation, plus the training class teachers' meticulous explanations, Nana's English grades advanced by leaps and bounds, from bottom of the class to a leap into the top three of the grade.

The dazzling grades not only greatly astonished the school teachers, but also attracted the attention of interested parties.

A parent of a classmate in the same class, upon learning of this, could not suppress curiosity and inquired about the details from her.

Nana is still young; a 10-year-old child does not have so many schemes, and very straightforwardly gave away her female cousin.

Of course, when the little girl spoke, she was extremely proud, carrying a touch of reverence, and praised her female cousin to the skies.

That classmate's parent is a loudspeaker; once the matter was spread, before long someone was moved, and came to the door with heavy money, wanting to hire Lin Xiyu to tutor their own child's homework.

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Wangfu Pool West Street.

Guben got off the taxi, carrying his suitcase, and arrived at the alley entrance; as luck would have it, he ran right into that classmate's parent who had come to visit the house.

The couple was visiting for the first time, did not know the way, and circled the nearby alley several times before finding the correct location.

The two stood at the alley entrance, craning their necks to peer inside, wanting to confirm whether this was indeed that household.

"Who are you looking for?"

The alley is not deep; inside there is only one household. Guben looked at the couple with some suspicion.

The couple looked very unfamiliar; he could be certain he had never seen them before.

"Ah?!"

The couple did not expect someone behind them, and both jumped in fright in unison.

"Excuse me, is this Teacher Lin's home?"

The husband was fairly reliable; the fright lasted only one second, and he was the first to calm down, assuming an inquiring posture.

"Which Teacher Lin are you looking for?"

Guben, seeing him inquire about his own wife, frowned with some displeasure.

"Lin Xiyu, Teacher Lin."

The man sensed something was off; fearing he might misunderstand, he hurriedly explained.

"What business do you have looking for her?"

Guben narrowed his eyes, not answering but counter-questioning.

"It's like this....."

His wife spoke up first: "We heard Teacher Lin is very good at tutoring English, and want to ask her to tutor our child's homework."

"If it's tutoring homework, why don't you go to the training class?"

Guben was very dissatisfied with their delusion of occupying his beloved wife's private time.

"Teacher Lin doesn't teach at the training class."

The wife smiled embarrassedly: "We want to ask her to give the child one-on-one tutoring, that's why we came uninvited, rashly disturbing you."

"Even knowing it's a disturbance, then there's no need to come."

Guben unceremoniously dropped a line, carried his suitcase and squeezed between the two, leaving them behind.

"......."

The couple looked at each other, both a bit dumbfounded; only after a good long while did they react — they had been snubbed, and before they could even act, they had eaten a closed-door soup.

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Old House.

Lin Xiyu sat under the Pomegranate Tree cutting paper, and hearing the movement outside the Door, she looked over curiously.

Guben entered the Door carrying luggage, and at a glance he saw his beloved wife's tranquil and elegant figure.

"Haven't seen each other for two months, did you miss me?"

He set the suitcase on the ground and walked over in quick steps.

"What do you think?"

Lin Xiyu deliberately teased him, returning a playful smiling face.

"If you ask me, it's definitely missing me to the point of sleepless nights......"

Guben gave a teasing smile, came up close, scooped with both hands, and picked her up in an embrace.

"You're imagining things beautifully."

Lin Xiyu said coquettishly annoyed: "I'm busy, no time to miss you."

"Looks like I came back too late, Madam is angry."

Guben gave a black-bellied smile, carrying her in big strides toward the Bedroom: "Then I must perform well, to relieve Madam's lovesickness suffering."

"Hey hey....."

Lin Xiyu was both ashamed and annoyed: "What do you want to do?"

"Whatever Madam is thinking in her heart, that's what I'm preparing to do......"

Guben continued being black-bellied, startling Lin Xiyu so her heart and liver trembled in disorder.

"Stop fooling around, it's almost school dismissal time, Grandma and Ruirui will be back soon."

"Let them come back, we'll close the Door, they won't hear anything."

"Broad daylight, what nonsense are you spouting?"

Lin Xiyu punched him twice, struggling wanting to get down.

Guben gave her no chance to break free, carrying her in swift strides into the Bedroom.

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Outside the Old House Door.

The couple unwilling to give up, stood rooted in place negotiating countermeasures.

"That person just now, is Teacher Lin's family member, right?"

"I think so......"

"He seems to not quite welcome us."

"No need to doubt, it's just not welcome......"

"Then what to do? Can't see the person, then no way to ask her to tutor our son, our Guo Guo's other subjects grades are all good, just English dragging behind, just that little bit can't test into a good high school, too regrettable."

"Why not try again?"

"How to try?"

"Go directly over and knock on the Door."

"Aren't you afraid they'll chase you out?"

"If not this way, you say what to do?"

"That man might be Teacher Lin's partner, he doesn't welcome us, doesn't mean Teacher Lin doesn't welcome us, perhaps Teacher Lin isn't home right now, we'll just wait at the Doorway, maybe luck is good and we'll run into her herself."

"How long you want to wait?"

"At least until dark."

"It's only 4 PM, until dark still over two hours, you want to stand rooted here the whole time?"

"Liu Bei invited Zhuge Liang still three visits to the thatched cottage, we for our daughter to test into a good university, waiting two more hours what's the matter?"

"Fine, you say wait then wait, anyway already came, thick-skinned wait a bit more."

The couple were just negotiating, when from inside the courtyard wall came a man's teasing laughter, and a woman's soft coquettish scolding.

Both their ear roots twitched, simultaneously turning their bodies slightly, looking toward the direction the laughter came from.