ushernet Chapter 382: Unfit Foster Mother 23
Chapter 382: Unfit Foster Mother 23
Yuan Chun got word and made a special trip to Li the Second’s meat stall just before the market closed. After a round of haggling, she bought all the meat on his stall at wholesale price.
Saved herself a substantial amount of money.
"Second Brother Li, if there’s leftover meat tomorrow, keep this price, I’ll take it all. Just deliver it directly to my store."
Grudges are grudges, but not taking advantage of a deal makes you a fool.
Yuan Chun happily pedaled home on her tricycle, carrying nearly a whole pig’s worth of meat.
Li the Second was quite furious, but he was helpless. Though this price was ten percent cheaper than selling to nearby restaurants, it saved him time and effort and eliminated the need to beg the restaurants to buy.
It’s just... another wasted day today, earned only a few bucks.
Li the Second dejectedly closed his meat stall and rode his tricycle home, only to hear the eldest sister-in-law crying again next door.
Li Er’s wife sighed, "The kids’ father, you’re back... Ugh, your big brother woke up, you better go to the hospital and see him, they say he’s become silly."
Eldest Li had been in a coma for three days, and an hour ago, he finally woke up.
He forgot everything, and his personality was like that of a five or six-year-old child, crying at the drop of a hat.
Old Lady Li and Eldest Li’s wife were in the hospital room, crying sorrowfully and sadly.
Yuan Chun heard the news from the mouths of several aunties the next morning.
A group of old ladies sat together gossiping about Eldest Li becoming silly, quite vigorously.
Yuan Chun even offered them a small dish of sunflower seeds to snack on.
Ever since Eldest Li turned silly, the Li family no longer dared to be arrogant and acted much more discreetly.
After Li the Second’s meat stall suffered several losses, along with Eldest Li’s meat stall, it was transferred to an out-of-town businessman who came to Beijing.
Afterward, Li the Second called in favors to get a job as a gatekeeper at a government office.
Half a year later, Yuan Chun heard that Eldest Li’s wife had run away, leaving Eldest Li and three children behind, and went to work in the south.
Since then, Eldest Li and his three children became Old Lady Li’s burden.
Old Lady Li no longer had the time to meddle in others’ affairs.
In the blink of an eye, three years had passed.
The walls of the old neighborhood had big signs of demolition painted on them.
During this time, Yuan Chun’s grocery store expanded threefold, and last year, she specially built a few rooms in the front and back yards. Thus, the house and money she received from the demolition were more than the original owner, with an extra house, a shop, and thirty thousand more yuan.
According to the original owner’s memories, Yuan Chun took this money and went to an old neighborhood set to be demolished in a few years. She bought two adjacent four-entry courtyard houses and purchased two school district houses near Beijing’s best junior and senior high schools, one for investment appreciation and the other to ensure her son could attend these top schools based on the property certificate.
Her son is eight years old and currently in second grade.
Only a few years until junior high.
Those school district houses have already been rented out.
A year’s rent is enough for her and her son to live on.
Before moving, Yuan Chun held a three-day clearance sale at her grocery store, selling off more than half of the merchandise. The unsold items were packed up, ready to be brought to the new home for opening another grocery store.
Before moving, Aunt Zhang prepared a table of dishes, invited her children and Yuan Chun’s mother and son to gather and celebrate.
Yuan Chun had some marinated food in her fridge, so she sliced up a plate of pig’s head meat, a plate of pig ears, fried a plate of small fish, and a plate of small shrimp, and brought two bags of liquor peanuts over.