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Chapter 292 - 283: Big Brother Xia’s Approach

Chapter 292: Chapter 283: Big Brother Xia’s Approach

Recently, Xia Lin’s summer clothes have been very popular, especially in the Fish Tail Street Market, where regular visitors are well aware of a clothing wholesale store that also sells retail.

Retail prices, although a few yuan more expensive than wholesale, are already quite cheap compared to department stores.

Most of Xia Lin’s summer collection is targeted at young women, so there is a consumer base with spending power.

Additionally, many people from the city and other municipal areas come here to stock up on goods.

At the end of the month, the profits are significant. Today, she came to deposit the money she had recently earned.

With three thousand yuan in her pocket, Xia Lin was quite happy, so when she learned that the Wei Family had come over, she had some extra free time and made a special effort to get closer to them.

In her previous life, she truly hadn’t known about the animosity between Wei Jincheng and the Gao Family. She only knew that Wei Jincheng hated Gao Shu. It turned out that Wei Jincheng and Gao Shu were half-brothers, no, not even that—Wei Jincheng was stolen. But that didn’t stop her from making Madam Gao suffer for a few days.

And then there was the child in her belly, now was a good opportunity.

So, a few days ago, she had secretly handed over the business matters to her big sister-in-law for handling.

Big Sister-in-law Xia came today not to deposit but to withdraw money.

Because they had set their eyes on a house, in fact, Xia Lin had also taken out one thousand yuan, preparing to help them look for a house in this area, so they could settle down here in the future.

Although one thousand yuan wasn’t enough to buy a house, Big Brother Xia also said that the rest would be considered a loan to her.

It would be deducted from her salary in the future.

Xia Lin agreed, after all, having family around meant she had someone to rely on, didn’t she?

She had it all planned out: when able, she would buy several more houses, and get one for her parents.

She was prepared to have her mother come and help take care of the child. With six or seven more months, there was plenty of time to save up and buy a house.

Autumn and winter clothes are the most profitable.

Recently, she had been considering hiring a college student studying design to procure some nice clothing styles.

With just her own design style, the range was too limited.

If there were more elements and styles available, the variety would be greater and the clientele would follow suit.

Also, she was planning to design a few styles of men’s clothing to sell, as men’s clothing tended to be more profitable than women’s.

Xia Lin had everything planned out well, including the time she would spend in the hospital. What she hadn’t expected was that her big brother and sister-in-law would use the money in her card for the house.

Her big sister-in-law wanted to find a house next to Fish Tail Market for convenience in commuting to work. Ideally, it would be near a school, so it would also be convenient for the children to go to school.

They had already found a suitable place a few days ago, just one street away from Fish Tail Street Market. There were two options: one with three ramshackle rooms and one with a two-story building.

A few days ago, she had brought Xia Lin to see it, and at that time Xia Lin wasn’t very satisfied.

The two-story building was indeed nice, built more than ten years ago, with two bedrooms downstairs and three upstairs. There were plenty of rooms for Mr. Xia and Mrs. Xia when they came to visit, shaped like an ’L’, and the kitchen was also quite large.

Xia Lin felt that the tiled house was a better option because it was cheaper and there was the potential for future redevelopment.

But Big Sister-in-law Xia and Big Brother Xia thought that despite the house being cheaper, it had fewer rooms. Yangyang and Haohao could sleep together, but what about their little sister? One room was simply not enough for three siblings, and where would their parents stay when they came over?

Xia Lin thought waiting for five or six years for redevelopment and getting a new house was more economical.

Big Brother Xia and Big Sister-in-law Xia didn’t understand how redevelopment worked. Just thinking about five or six more years, which wasn’t certain—Yangyang was already ten, and in five or six years, he would be getting married. By then, if there weren’t enough rooms, which girl would marry into their family?

In her heart, Xia Lin actually felt it was expensive, one for four thousand five hundred and the other for three thousand.

She was short by more than one thousand yuan, yet she still wanted to buy an apartment.

Moreover, fabric for autumn and winter was expensive, so she had to save some money to purchase fabric.

Besides, she truly thought that the broken three-room place was decent, better located than this one, as the second house in the alley. Even if it wasn’t demolished, there was a chance it could be requisitioned when the road was widened in the future.

Now every city is busy with planning, and sooner or later, these low houses would be torn down.

Although she had never paid attention to when this area would be demolished, being next to Fish Tail Street allowed her to anticipate what would happen in the future.

In contrast, this two-story townhouse was nice and came with a yard, but it was situated at the very back of the alley on a narrow street, behind a large granary. She couldn’t foresee what would become of it.

Therefore, she wanted Big Sister-in-law Xia to consider something more secure, but unfortunately, Xia Lin had been unable to convince her. Taking advantage of her hospital stay these past few days, she thought about buying this house.

...

Jingqiu and Jiang Nanzhou returned from the bank and hid the passbook in a very secret place.

In fact, it was hidden under a ceramic tile beneath the head of the bed. This was Jingqiu’s first time learning about this place, and she curiously glanced at Jiang Nanzhou, waiting for his explanation.

Jiang Nanzhou said with a smile, "When I was helping my dad patch up a hole in his bedroom, I got the idea. I thought it would be pretty secure, so when the apartment was being tiled, I quietly came over and pried one tile loose and hollowed it out."

"That’s a good idea, thieves wouldn’t normally discover it. Let’s dig a secret nook like this in the townhouse too. My dowry needs to be well hidden."

"Hehe, okay, tomorrow is Sunday. Let’s go back there."

"Hmm, sounds good."

After stashing the items, Jiang Nanzhou went to his team, while Jingqiu planned to find Luo Xinyue to see if she was free to go shopping with her.

Unexpectedly, Gao Qing, whom she had not seen in a week, suddenly came over.

"Qingqing," Jingqiu said with distress upon seeing her haggard face.

Gao Qing hugged her as soon as she saw her and said with a crying tone, "Qiuqiu, I’ve been wronged."

Jingqiu quickly invited her in and poured her a glass of water, "I heard about it, what exactly happened? You were impulsive. She was pregnant, why would you touch her?"

"I was just momentarily angry. Can you believe how malicious she is? She actually said that Wei Jincheng is my dad’s child, causing my mom to misunderstand.

She hit me first, and she had my brother... If Gao Shu hadn’t been protecting her, I would never have been able to lay a hand on her. Later, my brothers pulled me away, trying to calm me down, and I let go."

"Qiuqiu, do you believe me? It really was her own fault she fell. Truly. I hardly put any force on her arm, and my hands were almost off her when she went down, but no one believes me. And Gao Shu said that he no longer wants me to call him brother, that he doesn’t have a sister like me, hehe. Well, I won’t call him that, who cares? I have plenty of brothers, and I don’t need him."

"I believe you."

"..."

"You... believe me?"

"Hmm, Qiuqiu, thank you for believing in me."

Jingqiu silently patted her back, comforting her, "It’s okay, don’t dwell on this, heaven sees what you do, and if you didn’t do it, then you didn’t. You have a clear conscience."

"Qiuqiu, you saying that makes me feel much better. But everyone at home says it was me who pushed her. Of course, my mom believes me."

"Well, there you go, why are you still troubled?"

"But now my sister-in-laws avoid me whenever they see me, and they won’t even let their kids play with me. In their eyes, I’ve become the evil auntie."