Chapter 1024: Unreasonable (1)
Chen Feng and Chen Qingqing were very hardworking. They were even planning to go to school next year, so they had to seize the opportunity to make more money.
They diligently set up their stall every day.
That morning, they came to set up their stall as usual. Zhong Bingyuan was bored of staying at home, so she followed her siblings to help out.
Their stall now had many more items. There were steamed buns, wontons, and dumplings. Besides that, there was their best-selling noodles.
Today, their business was as good as usual. The siblings had hired two women to help them, but they were still very busy.
Zhong Bingyuan sat there watching her siblings bustle about. She was delighted to think that their prospects had grown brighter and brighter!
She felt a warmth that she had never experienced before.
As time passed, the breakfast rush began. The stall grew busier and busier. Zhong Bingyuan smiled and happily went to help.
Chen Feng and Chen Qingqing doted on her and they would not permit a little girl whose wound still had not healed to work. They only allowed her to carry a bowl now and then and collect money.
The girl was very happy. She had lived with this older brother and sister for four years. Their lives in the past four years had been too hard. Of course, she was happy that they could earn so much money now.
She was very pretty and her smile was especially sweet. The customers all liked her.
Zhong Bingyuan had come looking for her daughter almost every day. Zhong Bingyuan was her darling and her only support in the Zhong family. But she had lost the girl four years ago. During those years, she could not sleep at night. She longed for her daughter’s return day and night.
She could not have any more children. For the rest of her life, Yuan Yuan would be her only child. Zhong Guangping preferred daughters and the Zhong family also had few girls. Her position in the Zhong family was so high because she had given birth to a daughter.
Her darling daughter. She must certainly bring her back. She was the Zhong family’s young lady. She should be enjoying everything that the Zhong family could provide. Why should she stay in this place and suffer?
The Chen house was so dilapidated, and now they even brought her daughter out, exposing her to the public gaze as an entrepreneur. How embarrassing for her daughter!
Zheng Lin was on the street quite near Chen Qingqing’s stall. She could only look on as her daughter suffered.
She felt even angrier when she remembered what Zhong Guangping had said to her.
Zhong Guangping knew that Zheng Lin sought out Zhong Bingyuan every day. He saw that Zheng Lin had grown emotionally unstable recently, and he tried his best to spend more time with her. Today, he saw her here and hurried over. “Lin Lin, it’s so cold, and your health is poor. Why are you out here? What if you catch a cold?”
Zheng Lin turned and looked at him, her eyes red.
“You know that it’s cold? You know that I might catch a cold out here? Have you seen our Yuan Yuan? She’s so badly injured and is still out here running a stall and working even though it’s so cold today.
“Who are they? They’re entrepreneurs, which is so shameful. But you won’t let me bring Yuan Yuan away? If others get to know about this, my daughter will have no standing among the upper class.”
Zhong Guangping frowned when he heard such mean words falling from Zheng Lin’s lips. He had already explained things to Zheng Lin countless times. Why wouldn’t she listen?
Zhong Guangping turned his gaze to Zhong Bingyuan, who was at the stall.
The girl’s head was still swathed in bandages, but she was dressed very warmly. Her smile was very innocent. He could tell that she was very happy!
The current Yuan Yuan was much livelier than his memory of his daughter from four years ago.