Transmigration: On the Gossip Front
Chapter 379 Unlucky Female Educated Youth 79_1

Chapter 379: Chapter 379 Unlucky Female Educated Youth 79_1

Zhao Ya listened to the affairs of Zhang Xia’s husband’s family and couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief, "Thank goodness, thank goodness."

"Actually, it turned out that a prominent family took a liking to you, thinking you could have a matchmaking with their child."

What? A prominent family? How come she didn’t know anything about it? Huang Lei looked utterly bewildered, completely unaware of such a thing.

"Originally, they talked to me about it, and I even met the young man, a fine and spirited fellow."

"He’s doing quite well now."

"After I returned, I mentioned it to your grandfather, and he directly said it wasn’t suitable."

"The other side brought it up a few times, but I always said it wasn’t suitable."

"Later, you married Ho Ming, and the other side also got married," recalled Zhao Ya, who had seen that family’s daughter-in-law before.

Back when they were getting married, she watched the bride and groom enter the house, really a girl blessed with good fortune. But after bearing two children, she became thinner and thinner.

Even though there was a nanny at home, and she was a full-time housewife, she kept losing weight.

Now that she thought about it, maybe these were the so-called rules of a wealthy family; even a well-matched marriage might not bring happiness, let alone one where the bride marries above her station.

Ah, is that so? Filled with curiosity, Huang Lei kept asking Zhao Ya, who the person was, "If they could bring it up with you, it seems the relationship isn’t all that bad."

"How could they be so calculating," Huang Lei said with righteous indignation.

"Once I know who they are, if there’s ever a chance to cooperate, I can be more cautious."

"Otherwise, if I get calculated against again, that would be very bad." She definitely couldn’t let on that she just wanted to know the gossip, or Zhao Ya would absolutely not reveal anything.

Thus, Zhao Ya was fooled by Huang Lei’s words and let slip which family it was.

Which family was it? Huang Lei’s mouth fell open, "Lucky, oh so lucky."

It was really a near miss from falling into a deep pit. In the original owner’s memory, after Fan Xiaofei made it big, he once cooperated with a family of standing in the Capital City.

Fan Xiaofei thought by leveraging the other party’s influence, he could break into the Capital City market.

But to everyone’s surprise, this family of standing turned out to be on its last legs; their foundation was not very strong after various struggles.

After being managed by a so-called capable person, the outwardly glossy family enterprise was hollowed out inside.

They first cheated their in-laws, then deceived unsuspecting nouveau riche from outside the region.

Fan Xiaofei’s assets took a heavy hit in this ordeal, suffering a deep wound to his vitality.

With no cooperation between the two families, Huang Lei wouldn’t be keeping an eye on them, but she hadn’t realized that in her ignorance, they had already schemed against her twice.

How could Huang Lei bear this? She absolutely couldn’t tolerate it, especially since these people truly had no bottom line.

To cheat someone, they didn’t care whether they had previously helped their family in some way; as long as they could swindle someone, they would. They didn’t worry about anything else.

But now, she couldn’t say too much to Zhao Ya. Looking at the old lady’s demeanor, she clearly didn’t know the true situation of that family and just thought they were a prominent household.

Huang Lei made a mental note of the matter, thinking that if possible, she should still be vigilant.

"Yes, with a large family and big business, cooperation is bound to bring all sorts of trouble." Huang Lei said, and then started playing with her two sons whom she hadn’t seen for a long time.

Listening to their joys and sorrows from the past days, even though she would call every day to check on the children,

When they saw their mother after a long time, they were very excited and had so much to say.

Huang Lei also discerned their intentions from their ceaseless chatter, which was that they wanted to go to the seaside.

"Want to go to the seaside?"

"Yes, to the southernmost seaside. We’ll take a plane." They had frequented the seaside and flown on airplanes before, but they had never taken a plane to the seaside.

Hearing this, Huang Lei laughed and said, "Chengcheng, when you have your winter break, we’ll take a plane to the seaside."

Whether it was Huang Lei or Ho Ming, no matter how busy their business got, they always remembered that one of them had to stay in Capital City. It was absolutely crucial that they didn’t both leave at the same time.

This way, if something happened at home, they could be the first to rush back and handle it.

Lately, Huang Lei had been pondering over one matter, which was whether to enter the real estate market. In the next twenty years, this industry would truly be insanely booming.

However, after giving it some thought, she concluded that although it was booming, it could also collapse quite rapidly, and the need for capital was truly enormous.

Her current business in traditional Chinese medicine for body conditioning and the Chinese herbal beauty industry was indeed doing well.

She had established her own Chinese herbal medicine production bases all over the country. Originally, she didn’t want the hassle and preferred to simply buy from the farmers.

But not only was the price volatile, the main issue was that sometimes the product quality was too inconsistent.

After a few incidents with unstable quality raw materials, Huang Lei decided that if she couldn’t get stable supplies, then she might as well secure her own land for cultivation.

That way, she could have better control over quality, and also ensure production wouldn’t be easily interrupted by upstream supply chains.

Because she was investing quite a bit in this area, Huang Lei’s business empire appeared not to be doing very well to outsiders, giving off a sense of stagnation.

Huang Lei was also contemplating how to make money on a larger scale. Invest in the financial market?

For instance, the imminent subscription warrants for stocks. Many people were skeptical of this when it first emerged.

Yet, it quickly became sought after, and at its peak, a set could cost nearly one hundred thousand to two hundred thousand.

Even Huang Lei, someone who had earned a lot of money, was frightened by this amount.

She still hadn’t decided whether to make this investment. After thinking it over, she figured she’d decide whether to buy when the time came.

Maybe by then she would have forgotten about it, or perhaps someone would take the initiative to ask if she was interested in purchasing one or two, and she would consider following suit to see if it was worth it.

With that thought in mind, Huang Lei set the matter aside and began discussing the winter holiday arrangements with Ho Ming.

The restaurant would still have a holiday during the Spring Festival, as most people tended to have their gatherings at home during this time.

Occasionally, some restaurants would stay open during the Spring Festival, but they would take a break afterwards. The Medicinal Meal Workshop would close on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month and not reopen until halfway through the first lunar month.

This was the one time of year when everyone at the shop could take a break, and Huang Lei was planning for the Medicinal Meal Workshop to remain open during the Spring Festival if possible.

If she could, she hoped the day would come a bit later so that they could take their two children out to play during the Spring Festival.

Ho Ming, knowing that his children hoped to take a plane to the seaside during the winter break, naturally had no objections.

"By the way, are you interested in going abroad? We could go to Southeast Asia."

A client had mentioned their business trip to Southeast Asia, citing, "The expenses there aren’t very high, and there’s an abundance of fruit."

"I was thinking, during winter, the temperature on the southern islands isn’t very high, and the kids might find the water too cold to swim in. It might be better to go to Southeast Asia."

Since they wanted to go to the seaside in winter, presumably to swim in the sea, a trip to Southeast Asia definitely seemed like the better option.