CH 65

Grandma Luo was discharged from the hospital some time ago and even attended the opening ceremony of the car beauty shop. She has also been in better spirits lately. Probably because of the fall she had, now she’s more careful when going up and down stairs. In Grandma Luo’s eyes, she hasn’t seen her granddaughter get married and have children yet, so she can’t rest assured and leave.

When Jiang Sihan came over with something, Grandma Luo was sunbathing on the balcony.

“It’s unfortunate, Beibei isn’t home,” Grandma Luo said with a smile. “She and Xiao Zhou have gone to the shop early in the morning. They’ve been busy lately and sometimes don’t come home until dawn.”

Lately, Luo Bei has been really busy. The car shop has been doing good business every day, with daily turnover increasing. Currently, there are only four people in the store, including her. In addition, her online store has also picked up recently, with numerous orders coming in every day. Sometimes, she has to pack and ship items until very late at night before she can rest.

Jiang Sihan has heard about these things, but doesn’t know the details.

He feels lost in his heart, as if he’s becoming more and more distant from his friends, but he has no way to do anything about it. “I came to see you, but I’ll have to leave soon.”

Jiang Sihan is really getting popular now, though he’s still a bit far from those small-time internet celebrities. He’s a regular on the hot search list and has almost always had events every month all over the country. He doesn’t even have time to get a good night’s sleep.

Grandma Luo also knows that Jiang Sihan has been doing well lately, and her tone is full of admiration. “Xiao Jiang, you’re a big star now too. You’ll only get better and better in the future. Being busy is not a bad thing. If you live well, your parents will feel at ease too.”

“En.” Jiang Sihan nodded. He understood the reasoning behind it all. He wasn’t particularly tired, nor was he dissatisfied with his current life. But he just felt like something was missing. “I’ll go to Beibei’s store when I have some free time in a few days. I’ve only seen it in her Moments.”

“The store is not small. Beibei moved the warehouse there too. She and Xiao Zhou are busy every day. Sometimes I go over to bring them food, and they don’t even have time to drink water. But Beibei told me that their business is doing very well now, and they’re making a lot of money.”

Jiang Sihan smiled, “Beibei has always been a capable person, and Xiao Zhou is too. They can definitely make their business thrive.”

“Xiao Jiang, do you still want to keep your room here?” Grandma Luo asked hesitantly. “You’re not living here now, and it’s a waste of money to keep it empty. Although you don’t lack this money now, it’s still a waste.”

If it were another landlord, they would want their tenant to keep renting as long as possible, especially for basement rooms like this one. There weren’t many people renting now, and it was five hundred yuan a month. But Grandma Luo didn’t think that way. She thought that Jiang Sihan earned his money the hard way, so it was natural to save a little if he could, why waste it?

Jiang Sihan shook his head. “Beibei also mentioned this to me before. I don’t want to cancel it for now, let’s just leave it as it is. Grandma Luo, I really like it here, and I don’t want to leave.”

Grandma Luo sat on the rocking chair and smiled kindly at him, “I’ve welcomed and sent off many tenants here. Xiao Jiang, you’re a person who will achieve great things. In the future, you’ll be living in villas and high-rises. This is just a place for you to stay for now.”

“Xiao Jiang, do you have a girlfriend now?” Grandma Luo asked with a smile again.

Jiang Sihan shook his head and said, “No, I’m busy and don’t have time to think about that.”

Grandma Luo suddenly reached out and patted Jiang Sihan’s shoulder, speaking warmly, “That’s good, Xiao Jiang, you are a fortunate person. Grandma Luo hopes that you will continue to be fortunate.”

Jiang Sihan didn’t understand Grandma Luo’s meaning.

He hadn’t been here for long and was about to leave. When he reached the door, he stopped and asked, “Grandma Luo, do you think Beibei and Xiao Zhou will end up together?”

Grandma Luo smiled kindly and nodded, “Maybe.”

An unusual feeling swept through Jiang Sihan’s heart, and he paused for a moment, but said nothing.

Recently, Luo Bei had some money to spare, she had several tens of thousand yuan, so she began to work on the tea business introduced to her by the female boss. She asked Zhou Jianguo about it, and Zhou Jianguo said it was feasible, but he had no intention of investing. It was her own private business, and how much she earned was her own business. Although Luo Bei was a bit disappointed, she had no objections.

The tea business was not large, and Luo Bei only decided to get into it after understanding it. Of course, she didn’t expect to make a lot of money from it. The female boss had already told her in advance that even if they encountered good opportunities throughout the year, they could only earn tens of thousands of yuan at most, which was just pocket money.

There are certainly risks involved in this, but Luo Bei feels that the money she earns now is still a long way from the down payment, and the interest in the bank is low, so she might as well take it out and invest it.

Recently, Zhou Jianguo and Luo Bei have been as busy as dogs. The online store business is good, and the car beauty shop business is also good, but they don’t have enough manpower. Currently, the policy is to treat Zhou Jianguo like a livestock, and Luo Bei like a man… Not to mention emotional entanglements, they don’t even have time to think about what to eat for lunch every day!

The old man who drives a multi-million-yuan luxury car occasionally comes over and would lecture Zhou Jianguo from time to time. Luo Bei has always felt that if he hadn’t paid 5,000 yuan, Zhou Jianguo would have wanted to argue with him on the spot.

The old man seems to like coming here. Every time he comes, he asks Zhou Jianguo to wash his car by name. It is said that watching him work so hard washing the car makes him feel like he can eat an extra bowl of rice when he goes back…

Every time Zhou Jianguo sees him coming, he gets a headache.

But there’s nothing they can do. After all, he’s a VVIP client… The apprentice is too afraid to wash the Rolls-Royce, so he has to do it himself. The key is that the old man is always very picky.

“Next time, I’ll tell him that he needs to pay an extra five yuan, no, ten yuan for every time we wash his car!” Zhou Jianguo sat holding boxes of food and started complaining to Luo Bei, “The time and energy I spend washing his car could allow me to wash another car!”

Luo Bei comforted him, “Actually, I think Teacher Zhou is a pretty good person. He’s polite to us…”

Zhou Jianguo gave her a cold look, “Don’t betray me just because he gave you a box of chocolates.”

Luo Bei : “…”

Okay, the wealthy old man gave her a box of chocolates when he came before, saying that someone else gave it to him and he didn’t like sweet things. He happened to think that Luo Bei was suitable for it, so he gave it to her to eat.

“Tell him next time that he needs to pay extra, ten yuan!”

“…I’m embarrassed to say that. He’s so nice.”

Zhou Jianguo snorted.

He really hates that old man.

Unfortunately, no one understands him, because the old man never picks on anyone else, only him.

Recently, there was another thing that made Luo Bei happy.

It was originally related to Chen Lan. Although Chen Lan had moved out of the urban village a long time ago, Luo Bei kept in touch with her mother and learned about some of Chen Lan’s recent situation from her.

This time, Mother Chen was coming over with Fang Jingzhou, who had also started winter vacation. The reason for this was that Chen Lan was hospitalized.

Luo Bei had a feeling of “just as expected” when she heard about this. Previously, Chen Lan had boasted to her about finding a wealthy boyfriend who rented a downtown apartment for her and gave her tens of thousands of yuan in living expenses every month. At the time, she had thought that it would be good if Chen Lan had really found a reliable boyfriend, maybe she could have avoided that kind of ending. However…from what she learned from Mother Chen, the boyfriend Chen Lan found was a married man.

In fact, Mother Chen did not want to trouble Luo Bei with all of this, after all, family affairs should not be made public. But she had to come over here, and Fang Jingzhou insisted on coming along after accidentally hearing about it. Now approaching the Chinese New Year, every household is busy preparing for New Year’s goods. Her husband doesn’t know how to take care of the kid. And especially after a child went missing in their small county town recently and was found dead by the river, Mother Chen also did not want to leave her grandson at home. Mother Chen was afraid just thinking about it, so she had to bring Fang Jingzhou with her. However, she came here to take care of her daughter and did not have time to take care of her grandson. After thinking it over, Mother Chen thought of Luo Bei.

Fang Jingzhou also wanted to come along because he wanted to see Luo Bei. If Luo Bei was not in this city, he would not have insisted on coming along.

Of course, Mother Chen did not reveal everything, but Chen Lan’s situation was not trivial. Coincidentally, the married man that Chen Lan found was someone that Luo Bei’s previous female boss knew.

During a chat, Luo Bei understood the cause and effect.

The married man in question is a man who married in, who is handsome and has a sweet tongue. When he was young, he married a wealthy local’s only daughter to avoid struggling for twenty years. He himself doesn’t have much ability, and his wife’s parents are also powerful people, so he hasn’t accomplished much. At one point, he met Chen Lan and the two quickly became involved. Chen Lan thought she had hooked a rich man, intentionally or unintentionally, and ended up getting pregnant. When this was discovered, the wealthy family couldn’t tolerate it!

The woman didn’t need to personally confront the situation. Her male cousins stepped in and beat the scumbag until he was hospitalized, and then they divorced. Of course, he didn’t get much money in the divorce, as the woman’s assets were all under her parents’ name, and they were shrewd people. When the news got out, the woman’s family felt ashamed and didn’t go easy on Chen Lan either. She ended up having a miscarriage, but it’s unclear if she went to the hospital on her own.

After listening to this story, Luo Bei didn’t know what to say. It was quite a bizarre situation.

Mother Chen was coming to take care of her daughter, but since Fang Jingzhou didn’t want to be left alone in her hometown, he could only ask Luo Bei to help take care of him for a while, of course, with compensation for living expenses.