Chapter 275

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Protagonist:

Chai Mi

"It's Chai Mi again!!!" Chai Min muttered through gritted teeth.

Right now, Chai Min finally had a day off.

Her final mock exam results were still decent; she ranked in the top ten in her class, and if she worked hard, she might have a chance to enter the key class.

As a result, she had just returned home and hadn't even had time to share the good news with Chai You Fu and Song Qiuping when her maternal grandfather, Da Lao Song, came storming in aggressively. Without a word about anything else, he first gave Chai You Fu a thorough tongue-lashing.

The gist was that Chai You Fu had no ability; for twenty-odd years his salary had basically remained unchanged, and the family situation was also basically unchanged, and so on.

Chai Min listened carefully and caught the drift: it should be because Song Qiushui had earned a bit of money, ran to Da Lao Song's convenience store to "unload" on him, making Da Lao Song feel he had lost face, so he came to Chai You Fu's house to vent.

However, Chai Min attributed all responsibility for this entirely to: it was that money-losing goods Chai Mi deliberately stirring up trouble with that idiot Song Qiushui.

After Da Lao Song left, Chai Min sat alone in the room with a gloomy expression, silently thinking: Chai Mi, you really deserve to die.

The thing was, Chai Min was also a bit surprised; logically speaking, Chai Mi wasn't this kind of personality.

Whether in her previous life or this life, Chai Mi always acted "pretending" to be refined and elegant. For something like earning sixty yuan, Chai Mi shouldn't have come out to show off.

But in reality, Chai Mi went and showed off to her maternal grandfather Da Lao Song.

This made the rather face-conscious Da Lao Song furious, and he ran to her own house to throw a tantrum.

However, when it comes down to it, it's still because Chai You Fu really doesn't strive.

Chai Min felt stifled and disappointed, but also helpless. After all, Chai You Fu lived off a dead salary, and although the family was in the countryside, they didn't have much land; wanting to get some windfall money was almost impossible.

And her own mother was a "simpleton who loves to show off" type, evenly matched with Song Qiushui...

This family...

Sigh!!!

Chai Min sighed: I still have to rely on myself!!!

Thinking of this, Chai Min came out of the room, composed herself, walked to Song Qiuping's room and said: "Mom, you and Dad don't listen to my maternal grandfather's angry talk. That Chai Mi just got lucky and earned a bit of lousy money; is sixty yuan a lot? Not a lot at all. What's there to show off about? Chai Mi deliberately went to show off in front of my maternal grandfather, the purpose being to make him angry, so he'd come back and make our family fight. That Chai Mi, she's too vicious; that money-losing goods, a belly full of bad water."

Song Qiuping's face looked ugly; she glared fiercely at Chai You Fu and scolded: "Isn't it all because of your dad this useless waste? He just guards that bit of dead salary! Now there are plenty of people getting rich doing business. Capable people, who would still do his kind of work? I heard several capable teachers at the school have all gone into business, each earning more than the last. Just your dad, still guarding that two hundred yuan a month salary swaying about, who knows when he'll sway to the end."

Although Song Qiuping didn't go out much and didn't like chatting with others.

But at home she vaguely felt: the money in hand was becoming less and less enough to spend.

And when she went to the market fair, over this half year she also felt prices were getting higher and higher. Those peddlers, many had switched from the original bicycles to motorcycles...

The whole scene was one of thriving prosperity.

But her own family had no change whatsoever.

As the saying goes, rowing against the current, if you don't advance you retreat.

Everyone else has money, while Chai You Fu still has a two hundred yuan a month salary, which looks especially glaring.

Chai Mi sold dumplings and earned sixty yuan in half an hour. If she sold two sessions, it would equal Chai You Fu's monthly salary.

This huge sense of disparity made Song Qiuping angrier the more she thought: "Why don't you go do business then!"

Chai You Fu gave Song Qiuping a sideways glance: "Womenfolk! Long hair, short sight, what do you know. Doing business has risks. It's not like you think, there's profit and loss. Profit is fine to say, but what if there's a loss?"

Song Qiuping was speechless.

If there was a loss, Chai Min's school tuition wouldn't even be available.

Sigh...

But she couldn't just keep guarding this two hundred yuan job forever!

Song Qiuping's brain was slow; she didn't know what to say. She looked at Chai Min, feeling her daughter had studied and knew more, wondering if she might have some good ideas.

Chai Min froze...

Chai Min did have a good idea, and one that could make her rich overnight.

That was to marry a rich man...

But the bunch of poor ghosts in the village couldn't satisfy this "great" dream of hers at all. The foundation for marrying a rich man is...

First, you need to know a rich man.

And Chai Min was studying; over this long time, the only one who might truly be a tycoon was that Zhou Fang who once gave Chai Mi twenty thousand yuan in gift money.

But Chai Min didn't know him.

Chai Min was furious, but helpless.

Why are all tycoons around Chai Mi, while all around her are poor ghosts.

As for other connections, Chai Min couldn't think of any either.

Do business? She wouldn't... it's not that she wouldn't, but she had no capital.

"I can definitely find a sure-profit-no-loss business." Chai Min declared solemnly.

But Chai You Fu only glanced at Chai Min, then mocked in his heart: Chai Min, you don't have that brush...

"You just study well." Chai You Fu dropped this sentence and went out the door.

Chai Min was retorted by Chai You Fu, feeling depressed, but also didn't know how to refute.

However, her own family had no money, but Da Lao Song had money.

Chai Min stayed home for a while, then went to her maternal grandfather's convenience store to take a look.

She tentatively asked if Da Lao Song could help Chai You Fu start some business.

Da Lao Song froze: "I just repaid your dad over two thousand yuan for the famine relief. Your grandpa gave it back then, now he insists on taking it back. You think my maternal grandfather's house is a credit union, that I have however much you want? Three thousand, two thousand I have, more than that I don't have much."

Chai Min felt even angrier.

If it weren't for Chai Mi tricking Chai You Fu into sending money to the old house, I might have had an extra two or three thousand in startup capital, but now there isn't much left.

Chai Min wasn't thinking of going into business right away; she still wanted to wait and see.

She had never done business, and didn't know how to do it. She had just watched many people do business, and felt this thing was very easy...

Returning from Da Lao Song's place, Chai Min pretended to make a trip to the old house, but as a result...

No one paid her any attention.

Chai Zhongxiao couldn't be bothered to look at her, and as for Third Uncle Chai You De, his face was even uglier.

Chai Min, helpless, prepared to go home.

Just after walking a few steps, she thought again: since Chai Mi incited Da Lao Song to go to her own house and scold Chai You Fu.

Then why can't I go to Chai Mi's house and sow some discord?

Chai Min felt she could also go and sow discord between Chai Youqing and Chai Mi.

After all, the relationship between Chai Mi and Chai Youqing is actually very subtle, and everyone can see this.

Chai Min let out a cold laugh: Hehe! Chai Mi, you won't let me have it easy, so I'll make you suffer...

So Chai Min went to Chai Mi's house...

When Chai Min arrived, Chai Mi was boredly watering vegetables in the vegetable garden.

Growing vegetables is different from other things; this stuff needs watering every two or three days. If it rains it's a bit better, but recently it hasn't been raining much, so watering vegetables has instead become physical labor.

Rural life is originally very... very boring. If it weren't boring, why would more and more rural people want to escape the deep mountains and rush toward broader cities?

To put it bluntly, it's still boring.

But Chai Mi has already adapted to this kind of boring life; isn't life just like this, boringly busy, not knowing what one is busy with?

Life seems to be the same.

Very busy, but why very busy, basically no one knows.

Anyway......

Being busy is right.

If not busy, others would say you're no good.

Chai Mi just repeated pressing water and watering vegetables in this bored way.

The rhythm of watering vegetables, pressing water.

Lifting her head, she discovered it didn't seem so boring anymore.

Because the sickly Chai Min had come.

"Cousin Sister, busy are you... your body is really good, so capable and diligent, one look and it's a life of hard labor..."

As soon as Chai Min finished speaking, Chai Mi laughed...

"Right right right, Cousin Sister I'm just a hard-labor life. Unlike you, Cousin Younger Sister, so many disasters and difficulties, one look and it's a life of enjoying blessings in the hospital."

Chai Min's complexion instantly wasn't very good; her face flushed red, she excused herself saying she just misspoke, but then turned and said: "Cousin Sister also doesn't know to yield to me a bit?"

Chai Mi blanked for a moment, stopped the work in her hands, pointed at the pressurized well: "Come, Cousin Sister yields to you... didn't expect Cousin Younger Sister to like working so much, you're making me embarrassed. Then you do it, I'll watch you work....."

Chai Min's face twitched, she cursed inwardly: Chai Mi really fucking pretends to be confused while understanding perfectly.

"Aiya, Cousin Sister I mean, other matters, you as the Cousin Sister should yield to me a bit."

Chai Mi laughed and entered the house; she wasn't very willing to speak with this sickly one, because every time she spoke with Chai Min, Chai Mi would have a kind of stifling feeling, very oppressive.

And this Chai Min isn't properly studying at school, meddling in the family's trivial broken matters all day, really fucking annoying.

Generally speaking, the countryside in this era places great emphasis on seniority and some other rules.

For example, even if several families don't get along, they absolutely won't extend it to the children's level.

Chai Mi and Chai You De's family are extremely at odds, but it was only the first time Chai Dajun went to destroy seedlings that Chai Mi beat him once; at other times, Chai Mi never went to find trouble with Chai Dajun.

Not to mention, usually when going out, if she ran into someone bullying Chai You De's little son, Chai Mi would also turn her elbow inward.

Affection is affection, principle is principle.

But the most crucial thing is, this isn't jianghu killing, there's no need to make it as cruel as destroying someone's family.

But, very obviously, Chai Min doesn't understand this.

Chai Mi entered the house, glanced at the little sister, then Su Wan asked: "Chai Min came? What did you come for?"

"Nothing fucking good." Chai Mi said unsatisfied: "The moment she arrived it was yin-yang strange talk babbling, I'm in a good mood, couldn't be bothered to pay her attention."

"Ai....... all our own family's own sisters, your Second Uncle only has this one daughter, usually she's always getting sick, your Second Uncle and Second Aunt don't really discipline her much, and she's in high school so not home much, maybe it's because she entered the city, her speech is different from us rural folks, right? You also shouldn't always look at her with different eyes. All our own family people, whatever should be said or shouldn't be said, you're at least a few months older than her, just yield to her a bit, don't get angry with her or anything."

Su Wan nagged on persuading, then also called Chai Min into the house: "Is it Chai Min, come in and sit a while, what are you standing outside for? Haven't seen you for half a month, you've gotten white again."

Chai Mi thought hehe: Chai Min really has gotten white again, and whiter than a White Bone Spirit.

This point, Chai Mi admires to no end.

After all, ordinary people can't turn white like Chai Min.

Chai Min's whiteness is an extremely pathological white, the kind of ghastly pale. When people describe a woman's skin, it's nothing more than fair, skin like congealed fat, porcelain doll, but definitely no one describes a girl as white like a White-Faced Ghost.

But Chai Min belongs to that kind of white like a White-Faced Ghost.

If you don't praise her for being truly white, you'd be letting her down.

Hearing Su Wan's greeting, Chai Min entered the house, laughing: "Auntie (Da Niang) hello..."

One "Auntie hello" directly almost made Chai Mi break down.

Chai Mi just felt very weird, but couldn't say what kind of feeling.

Su Wan didn't think that much, instead enthusiastically took out some fruit for Chai Min to eat.

Bananas, grapes, apples, all there.

Chai Min picked grapes to eat herself; she likes sweet things more.

"Auntie, I heard my Cousin Sister did business, and business is unbelievably good. They say, in that half hour, she earned sixty yuan. I originally came to congratulate, congratulate my Cousin Sister. Our Chai Family, ancestors and generations all honest farmers, never produced any businessmen. Still, it's my Cousin Sister whose mind is sharp with spirit light, doing business also formidable. Truly our Chai Family's model..." Chai Min spoke unhurriedly: "Now the reform spring breeze blows everywhere, north and south of the great river all prosperous. Doing business is a good way out, how does that saying go: black cat white cat, catching the mouse is a good cat."

Chai Min thought she had put it very well.

But Chai Mi immediately lowered her head in thought, and after a moment said calmly: "It's just so-so."

Actually, Chai Mi knew that Song Qiushui going out to blow cow would surely draw others' displeasure.

But she never expected the first one displeased would be Chai Min.

"Cousin Sister is joking. Doing business isn't something just anyone can do—look at my father, he can't. My father and his two brothers can't either. Generation after generation, it was only at Cousin Sister's place that someone first did business. Cousin Sister has opened a new path; from now on, the genealogy will have to give you a single page..."

Chai Mi frowned: "Er..."

The last one who talked this nonsense was Song Qiushui.

But as mentioned before, half of the Chai Family genealogy is gone.

The other half was eaten by sheep when someone was out herding sheep.

And in recent years, no one has repaired the Ci Tang, and no one cares about it; whoever dies will have to open a separate page in the genealogy first.

"Cousin Sister is joking. I'm in charge of the genealogy now; if you want a separate page, you can have one. I can decide this. It's just a genealogy, isn't it? Simple. I've always thought Cousin Sister you were excellent, getting into High School and entering as Top Ten in County; when I write the genealogy later, I'll list you separately—what do you say?"