Stepmother Reborn: Dad, my mom hasn't hit me for three days

In a blink of an eye, Jilin and Yaoyao came back from vacation. When she came back, Jidong and Youcai also came back.

Zhang Xiuhua looked at Youcai and asked, "You seem to have lost weight?"

Youcai raised his neck proudly, "Of course! You said I was fat, so I immediately lost weight. Now I only weigh 170 pounds."

"If you lose a little more weight, you'll have a well-proportioned figure." Zhang Xiuhua nodded with satisfaction, and suddenly laughed strangely, "The power of love is really great."

Youcai blushed and hesitated, "Where is the love? I just listened to you."

Zhang Xiuhua didn't believe this nonsense. If he was really obedient, why did he gain weight again after being advised once before? It was only because the woman disliked him that he started to lose weight.

Zhang Xiuhua looked at Jidong again and patted him on the shoulder. "Not bad! You've grown taller than before."

Before, she was always worried that Jidong would not grow tall. Because he was one year older than Baolin, but he was not as tall as Baolin. But now, he is already 1.78 meters tall. It would be even better if he could grow a few centimeters taller.

Before Jidong could say anything, Youcai asked her for a reward, "Aunt Zhang, this is all thanks to me. Every time he came to see me, I made a lot of delicious food for you."

Jidong rolled his eyes. "You treated me like a guinea pig, letting me taste your food, and yet you still made yourself sound so great. How shameless of you!"

Youcai was of course embarrassed, and raised his head, "So, is the food I cooked delicious? Do you like it very much?"

Jidong snorted, "No matter how delicious it is, you can't let me eat so much at once. If I can't control myself, I might really be fed into a fat man by you."

After putting down their luggage, Jidong and Youcai cooked together. He was in charge of lighting the fire, while Youcai was in charge of cooking.

Youcai served the dishes and, like protecting a chick, said, "Then don't eat the food I made later."

Ji Dongyin said sympathetically, "You use people forward and don't use them backward. You don't have a brain. Don't expect me to assist you in the future."

Zhang Xiuhua was puzzled, "What assist?"

Youcai was afraid that Jidong would let something slip, so he quickly used chopsticks to pick up a piece of sweet and sour pork and stuffed it into Jidong's mouth. He turned his head and said to Zhang Xiuhua, "Nothing. He said he wanted to help me lose weight."

Zhang Xiuhua was skeptical.

When Youcai took the dishes out, Zhang Xiuhua asked quietly, "What assist?"

Jidong glanced outside and said quickly, "He's chasing someone and asked me for advice."

Zhang Xiuhua suddenly realized what was going on. Just as she was about to ask for more details, Youcai came in from outside. She immediately straightened up and left the kitchen.

While eating, the four children in the family felt a little disappointed when they saw that Zhuzhu and Baolin had not returned.

Youcai shook his head with regret, "These two are the duo that livens up the atmosphere in the family. Without them, it feels like ten people are missing from the family."

Yaoyao held it in for a long time, but couldn't help it anymore, "Brother, if you were missing from our family, it wouldn't be ten people missing, it would be twenty people missing."

This means that he alone can take on the roles of Zhuzhu and Baolin.

Jidong burst out laughing, and the other children followed suit.

Youcai was stunned for a moment before he realized that Yaoyao was annoyed by him. He snorted, "What do you know! People with a personality like mine are better. There will be no dull occasion wherever I go."

Zhang Xiuhua also smiled, "Yes, Youcai is a good character. Your sister is also very good, she is able to concentrate on her studies."

She did some Tai Chi and then asked them about opening a store in the capital.

Youcai talked endlessly, "It's going well. Last year's crackdown affected business, but after the Chinese New Year, the authorities were less strict, so I reopened the store and business is going well. There are more people than before. Jidong's store is also doing very well. It's just that I don't have enough funds, so I have only opened five stores for the time being."

Zhang Xiuhua also talked about the store she opened in the county. "Business is really good. It's just that it's hard to find a store, and I'm too busy. I grow cabbage and gala apples at home."

Jidong also nodded, "Just run this store well. If you run more, you won't be able to manage it and it will be a mess! The person I found, He Qiu, is responsible for giving advice, one is responsible for getting the upper-level relationships, and one is responsible for management. We are all college students, and he is also managing while learning."

Many husband-and-wife shops in the south are doing well. It's not that they don't want to open branches and expand their scale, but they have limited ability and can't manage it. The biggest advantage of my aunt is that she knows where her ability lies and she is never blindly confident, which is particularly good.

Everyone was eating when Guoxiang's loud voice was heard outside. He came to look for Youcai.

There is a reason why this pair of good brothers can play together: they both have the same loud voices.

Zhang Xiuhua smiled and explained, "Since Guoxiang came back, he has been coming to see you every now and then. Today I finally got the chance."

Youcai also put down his bowl and stood up. Before he could walk out the door, Guoxiang had already walked in from outside.

The two brothers hugged each other and laughed happily, "Oh, you've lost weight."

"You're dark!"

Youcai asked Guoxiang to sit down and eat with him. Zhang Xiuhua also invited him to sit down.

Guoxiang was not polite. Now is not the past. Every household grows so much land and has enough food. He picked up some food with chopsticks and told Youcai about his work in the south.

His experience this year was truly wonderful. In the first three months, he was unfamiliar with the street vendors in the south and was often chased away by patrol teams and his goods were confiscated.

Youcai interrupted, "Isn't the South reforming and opening up? Why are there still patrols?"

"It is not allowed to set up stalls on the roadside, which affects the appearance of the city. When the vendors saw the patrol coming, they ran away very fast. I didn't understand at first, but I was caught. All the money I earned in a month was lost." Guoxiang was very depressed. In order to save money, he bought a bicycle as a means of transportation. A bicycle costs 180. He worked hard for a month to earn so much, but it was confiscated and it was all gone.

"Because the money I earned was not as much as working as an employee, my father didn't allow me to set up a stall, so I had to work on the construction site with them. But the person in charge ran away, and they went to collect the debt. My father didn't allow me to go, so I went to purchase goods again. This time I learned my lesson, didn't get caught, and made some money." Guoxiang explained his situation in a few words.

He said it easily, but Youcai could hear his hardship, "So what are you going to do next year?"

Hearing what he said, I realized that the money earned from setting up the stall this year was not much.

"My parents agreed to let me set up a street stall." Guoxiang sighed, "But my dad doesn't plan to go to the south to work anymore."

"What about the remaining wages? You don't want it?" Jidong asked anxiously.

"No, I don't think I can get it back. It costs so much money. The project has been stopped. The government needs to find someone to take over, and it doesn't have that much money." After Guoxiang answered, Youcai said, "I also want you to go to the capital with me. My barbecue stall business is doing well."

If it was last year, Guoxiang would definitely be tempted, but now he has other ideas, "I want to set up a stall by myself and make money with my own hands. I don't believe I can't make money. It doesn't matter if I can't read, I can still live a wonderful life with an active brain!"

Zhang Xiuhua thought these words sounded like chicken soup. She looked at him several times and asked, "Who did you learn this from?"

Guoxiang scratched his head, a little embarrassed, "It's a colleague I know, he specializes in selling socks. Don't underestimate socks, the business is good. The income is not worse than that of a worker."

Youcai didn't say anything, "Okay, if you're not happy in the South, come back and find me."

"Do not worry."

After the meal, the two men agreed to go home to discuss things.

After the two left, Jidong laughed and said, "Guoxiang was holding back a lot of anger. He wanted to prove that he could still make money even if he didn't study. He came up with this plan because his parents disliked him before, which hurt his self-esteem."

Jidong also heard about the conflict that Youcai had during the college entrance examination. It was normal for Guoxiang to feel angry and want to prove himself because everyone in the family praised Youcai and despised him.

Zhang Xiuhua nodded. "Young people just want to prove themselves. As long as they work hard, it'll be fine."