Chapter 43 Making Trouble
Chapter 44 Making Trouble
The next morning, the eldest aunt took Old Lady Fang straight to the Qingchun Restaurant, but when they arrived at the place in high spirits, they found that the restaurant was closed.
The eldest aunt was confused, what does it mean? Did they know that she would come today, so they ran away in advance?
Old Lady Fang’s legs became a little unsteady after standing for a long time, so she directed her eldest daughter-in-law to go to their house to find them, but Wang Huizheng had never been to the second wife’s new house, so how would she know where they lived.
"Mom, how about we wait for a while?"
Old Lady Fang thought about it and agreed. The two of them waited at the door. But time passed by minute by minute, the surrounding shops were open, but the Qingchun Restaurant was still closed.
The sun was already very hot at this time. Old Mrs. Fang felt a little dizzy after being in the sun for so long. She quickly called out to her eldest daughter-in-law, "Hui Zheng, I can't stand it anymore. Let's go home first and come back when it's cooler."
Wang Hui Zheng couldn't stand the sun any longer. Hearing this, he immediately took the old lady away. But not long after they left, Fang's mother came to the store.
The weather has been getting hot in recent days, and the people queuing up to buy braised noodles can't stand the morning sun, so they all hid under the eaves.
An older sister who often came to queue up saw Fang's mother open the door, and immediately stepped forward to say hello, and told her what happened just now when a group of mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law were waiting at the door.
"Boss, the woman who made trouble yesterday is here again! She brought an old woman with her. Fortunately, they couldn't stand the sun and just went back, otherwise they would have made trouble in your store again today!"
Fang's mother frowned when she heard it. An old woman?
Yesterday, her elder sister-in-law came to the store to make trouble and was pushed out by people queuing to buy things. Before she could intervene in the store, her sister-in-law ran away. Did she bring her mother with her today?
"I see, thank you for telling me."
Fang's mother was worried all afternoon. She always felt that her mother-in-law and elder sister-in-law came with bad intentions, but she didn't do anything shameful. Maybe they came to the store just to take a look out of curiosity?
Around three o'clock in the afternoon, the braised noodles were basically sold out. There were only a few boxes left, and Fang's mother didn't plan to sell any more. It was almost May, and the weather was getting hotter. Many of the ingredients in the store could hardly be kept until the next day. Fang's mother was afraid that people would get sick from eating, so she threw away all the leftover food from the past two days.
Fang's mother packed up her things, closed the door, and went to the vegetable market to buy ingredients for tomorrow.
When the sun was setting slightly, Wang Huizheng came again with Old Lady Fang, but when they arrived, the mother and mother were stunned.
"Are they giving up? Why haven't they been open all day?"
Old Lady Fang's hands were shaking with anger. She had made two consecutive trips, but hadn't even seen a single person. What the hell was going on?
Wang Huizheng was also a little angry. "Mom, they must have known we were coming, so they deliberately stayed closed. I don't believe they stay closed every day. Let's
come back tomorrow!" After a long day of tossing and turning, Old Lady Fang was aching all over. She fanned herself with her straw hat for a moment, then waved her hand weakly. "Forget it, let's go home today. I'm dizzy from the sun..."
Seeing this, Wang Huizheng had no choice but to take the old lady back.
Aunt Wang Huizheng hadn't rested well all night because of this incident, mainly because she was too suffocated. No matter how much she thought about it, she couldn't sleep. At dawn, she ran to the front of the Qingchun Restaurant. Seeing her again, the nearby shopkeepers kindly told her that their restaurant was only open five hours a day and she could come to their restaurant if she wanted to eat.
Wang Huizheng was stunned. So after all his troubles, he just missed it. After finding out the opening time, Wang Huizheng asked for leave from his work, then went home and took his mother with him again, arriving at the restaurant at a quarter past noon.
Old Mrs. Fang, looking at the long line in front of the restaurant, finally believed that the Fang family restaurant was doing well. Thinking of the huge amount of money coming in every day, Old Mrs. Fang finally perked up. As soon as the tricycle stopped, she immediately helped herself off.
Old Mrs. Fang walked straight to the door without looking around, and shouted in a loud voice, "Chunxia, open the door!"
Fang's mother, who was busy inside, was startled by her mother-in-law's voice. She tiptoed to see the old woman outside the door with an unexpected look on her face, and was shocked: Why is my mother-in-law here?
Fang Qing had just finished class and was a little surprised to see her grandmother, but she still opened the side door swiftly, let her grandmother in to rest, and poured two glasses of water for her grandmother and her aunt.
"Grandma, please sit here and rest for a while. It's crowded right now. I'll come talk to you later when the crowds have thinned out. Have you had lunch yet? My mom made some braised noodles. Would you like some?"
Old Mrs. Fang watched the mother and daughter bustling about for over an hour. It wasn't until the students went back for lunch and the shop gradually emptied out that Mrs. Fang finally took off her apron and came over.
"Mom, sister-in-law, why are you here? My shop is small and hot, so I'm sorry to have kept you waiting. Are you thirsty? I have some boiled water."
Old Mrs. Fang had just finished a serving of braised noodles and a bowl of vegetarian soup. She leaned back in a chair, eyes closed, and when she heard her second daughter-in-law's voice, she barely lifted her eyelids for a glance, then closed them again.
"Don't bother. Let's sit down and talk,"
Mrs. Fang said, wiping her apron with her hands and nervously sitting down next to the chair. "Mom, what do you want to say? I'm listening."
Old Mrs. Fang was still trying to figure out how to start when Wang Huizheng, standing behind her, couldn't help himself. He spat out the toothpick in his mouth, stood up, and walked a few steps around the shop with his hands behind his back.
"My second sister-in-law is such a hidden talent! Not only is she a good cook, she's also smart. She opened a shop without making any noise. You must be making a lot of money from this shop every day, right? Now I have to tell you about you. You didn't even tell us that you opened a shop. Do you still consider us a family?"
Fang's mother stood up and explained that she had no time before because of renovations, so she went to visit her sister-in-law, but the door was closed, so she just left something at the door.
Speaking of this, the eldest aunt suddenly remembered that one day someone knocked on the door. She saw through the crack in the door that it was Liu Chunxia who deliberately didn't watch the door, but she didn't expect that the person had left the things and left.
Wang Huizheng coughed at the thought, "Oh, that's fine. But even so, you should have invited us to the opening ceremony. I think you just don't want us to know!"
Just as Wang Huizheng was about to continue speaking, Mrs. Fang coughed, and Wang Huizheng remembered the main reason they came here.
"Oh, by the way, my mother and I came here this time, first, to see how our Fang family's restaurant is doing, and second, since you all have the money to buy a new house and open a restaurant, the living expenses you gave Mom before should also be increased."
Fang Qing, who was standing aside, saw that Grandma and Auntie were acting weird, and knew that they had come with bad intentions. She didn't expect them to make such a request.
Fang's mother stood up, looked at her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, took a deep breath, "I wonder how much living expenses Mom wants?"
(End of this chapter)