Chapter 39

"Sister-in-law, are you inside?"

Outside the bathhouse, Yan Yan Jiedi called out and walked in.

"What do I do?"

Yu Li panicked, so anxious she was about to cry.

If her sister-in-law saw her and Chen Tian alone together in the women's bathhouse, she would definitely tell Yan Yan Jiecheng and Yan Yan Bugui.

If that happened, she would have no face to show anyone.

She would also be accused by Yan Yan Jiecheng of having an improper relationship with Chen Tian.

If that spread, her life would be ruined.

"Sister Yu Li, come in quickly."

Chen Tian pulled Yu Li over, and the two hid in a cubicle.

The cubicles were small rooms separated by wooden boards, just enough for one person to bathe.

They weren't completely separated; there was a gap of more than thirty centimeters at the bottom to let the water flow out.

Closing the door of the small cubicle, Yu Li finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The space inside was narrow, and Yu Li and Chen Tian were pressed tightly together.

"Yan Jiedi, you're here."

Yu Li pretended to be calm.

Chen Tian had his feet off the ground and his hands braced against the wall, so he couldn't be seen from the outside.

"Sister-in-law, I called you several times, why didn't you answer?"

Yan Yan Jiedi muttered.

"Oh, I was bathing, the water was too loud, I didn't hear you." Yu Li turned on the faucet, and the sound of "splashing" water immediately rang out. "Oh."

"Huh, Sister-in-law, why are you still wearing clothes while bathing?"

"How can you wash like that?"

Yan Yan Jiedi chose the cubicle opposite Yu Li and asked with some confusion.

Yu Li’s face turned bright red immediately.

Chen Tian had a mischievous smile on his face.

This Yan Yan Jiedi was truly a divine assist.

Yu Li glared at Chen Tian, and to avoid being exposed, she had no choice but to take off her clothes.

Chen Tian wouldn't miss such a good opportunity.

Yu Li had no mind to bathe anymore, standing blankly, not daring to speak.

Outside the cubicle, Yan Yan Jiedi’s voice was full of joy.

"Sister-in-law, the turtle soup you brought back from Chen Tian's house today was so delicious."

"It's a pity there was only one piece of meat, and Dad ate it all; I didn't get to taste a single bit." Like Jia Jia Zhangshi, Yan Yan Bugui was someone who favored boys over girls.

However, Yan Yan Bugui wasn't as hateful as Jia Jia Zhangshi.

He wasn't much better to his three sons, Yan Yan Jiecheng, Yan Yan Jiefang, and Yan Yan Jiekuang, than he was to Yan Yan Jiedi.

Yan Yan Bugui was a calculator; he only cared about himself. Chen Tian reached out his hand.

Yu Li couldn't help but tremble.

"I-is that so? It was just leftovers from Chen Tian's house, there wasn't much meat anyway." The water was too loud, and Yan Yan Jiedi didn't hear the strangeness in Yu Li's tone.

"Sister-in-law, it's really great that you can clean for Chen Tian."

"I heard Mom say that Chen Tian is some kind of engineer, and he seems even more powerful than the First Uncle."

"Do you know what an engineer is?"

To keep Yan Yan Jiedi from finding out, Yu Li had to endure and talk to her.

"Engineer, I don't know exactly what they do either."

"Your brother said that Chen Tian is a big shot in the factory, even the factory director has to respect him."

"A month, he seems to have a salary of over two hundred yuan."

Young Yan Yan Jiedi had never seen so much money.

"Oh my god, over two hundred yuan, that's too much!"

"Dad only has a salary of over 60 yuan a month, so wouldn't Chen Tian be able to eat meat every day?"

Yan Yan Jiedi’s tone was full of envy.

"Sister-in-law, can you bring back more good food in the future?" Today was the first time Yan Yan Jiedi had eaten something truly good.

She envied Yu Li for being able to help Chen Tian.

Chen Tian smiled mischievously.

"That's all Chen Tian's, I'm embarrassed to take it, I have to get his permission." Yu Li and Yan Yan Jiedi chatted back and forth like this.

Chen Tian was happy to be at ease.

After a while, Yan Yan Jiedi felt bored being alone.

Usually, she came to bathe with the Third Aunt, but tonight, she didn't know what happened; after eating the turtle soup Yu Li brought back, she felt very hot and broke into a sweat.

Young girls loved to be clean and couldn't stand it, so she came to the bathhouse.

"Sister-in-law, actually, it's not that I'm saying it, but you're so beautiful and have such a good figure."

"It's a pity you married my brother."

Yan Yan Jiedi was already in middle school and had her own views on beauty and ugliness.

In Yan Yan Jiedi’s view, Chen Tian was the best in the whole courtyard.

Young, educated, tall and handsome, with a high salary, and an extraordinary status.

A man like Chen Tian was the most excellent.

Looking at her brother Yan Yan Jiecheng, he was older than Chen Tian, not as good-looking, lazy and stupid, and just a junior worker—he was a Pacific Ocean away from Chen Tian.

"If you ask me, if you're going to marry, you have to marry a man like Chen Tian to live a good life."

"Look at you, after marrying into my family, sometimes you don't even get enough to eat."

"If my brother were half as excellent as Chen Tian, it would be smoke rising from our family's ancestral grave." Yan Yan Jiedi envied Chen Tian’s life very much.

In this era, the life of an ordinary worker could only be described as barely enough to eat, not starving to death.

There was no way around it; every family basically had several children, only one or two laborers, and food and everything else was supplied in fixed quantities.

Very few families had fat kids.

Of course, Bang Geng was an exception.

The Jia family had Sha Zhu helping out, so Bang Geng and Jia Jia Zhangshi didn't lack for anything.

Sha Zhu brought back two lunch boxes from the factory every day, which were full of good food and dishes, basically all meat, and very oily.