257: Chapter 256: No Hurry 257: Chapter 256: No Hurry It had been a long ti since I’d seen Old Lady Zhao when she ca to see Lin Xia that day.
Lin Xia had just returned from picking up so goods from the clothing store.
When she arrived, Lin Dong was chatting with Old Lady Zhao.
Lin Xia handed the goods to Liu Caifeng before warmly taking Old Lady Zhao by the hand and asking, “Old Lady Zhao!
Have you been here half the day?
Did you co to buy sothing?”
Ever since last year, when Old Lady Zhao had asked her to help with another sausage-stuffing favor, she hadn’t visited for quite a while.
Sotis, she did miss her, but she was just too busy to make ti to see her.
Even though she had hired help and had Lin Dong looking after the stall, so custors still preferred to get their goods directly from her.
No one could match her dexterity.
Old Lady Zhao laughed, “I ca to buy so things and thought I’d drop by to see you all!”
Lin Xia tugged at her hand, “Then let’s go!
We can go up to the house and talk!
You haven’t visited Xiaoqiu’s shop since it opened!”
“The shop is up and running?
Then I really must take a look!” Old Lady Zhao said, as she and Lin Xia walked arm in arm out of the greenhouse.
The two of them chatted on their way to the house.
Old Lady Zhao asked, “Lin Xia!
Did your second brother write to you?”
Lin Xia told the truth, “He wrote to when he first got to Ji City, but not since then!”
Old Lady Zhao cursed softly, “That damned kid!” Seeing Lin Xia’s eyes widen, she smiled and said, “I thought he would write to you!
They only sent one letter ho too, after all this ti?
It’s been since after the fifteenth of the first lunar month, and now it’s almost August…
It makes one worry!”
They say a mother worries when her child travels a thousand miles away, and she really did get anxious every ti she thought about it.
It’s not easy being far from ho, especially when dealing with sothing like Clivia.
She, who normally didn’t care for news or newspapers, now bought them regularly to read.
“Old Lady!
My second brother and Ma Hao are together, surely they’re fine!
You’ve forgotten last ti, haven’t you?
We were all worried sick, but in the end, my brother was alright…” Lin Xia said, choosing her words to sound pleasant.
Old Lady Zhao might worry, but she never thought the worst.
“That’s true!
Besides, they went to stay with Ma Hao’s relatives; they should be fine!”
Old Lady Zhao’s concern shifted, “How’s the business in Lin Qiu’s shop?”
“It’s going very well!” Lin Xia chatted with her idly.
Lin Qiu was very happy to see Old Lady Zhao too; she was like their closest elder.
Old Lady Zhao looked around inside and outside the shop and praised earnestly, “You’ve done a really nice job here!”
The three of them sat down in the shop to talk for a while, and then Lin Qiu went to the back room to fetch so fruit and pour water.
At that mont, Wu Zhengyang ca back from work.
Instead of going directly into his house, he stepped into the shop.
Lin Xia looked up and asked, “Off work?”
“Yes!” Seeing Lin Xia with an old lady and no sign of Lin Qiu, he cleared his throat with slight embarrassnt, “I’m here for my trousers!”
“Then you’ll have to wait a mont!
Xiaoqiu went to get so water and will be back soon; I don’t even know which pair is yours,” Lin Xia said without getting up.
Truth be told, she could have looked for them since Lin Qiu’s finished work was all piled together.
Wu Zhengyang said he would co back later and then hurried out.
Old Lady Zhao noticed sothing was different and quietly asked, “Who is that young man?”
“He’s the oldest son from our neighbors next door!
He and Lin Qiu are—”
Lin Xia didn’t finish her sentence, but Old Lady Zhao understood what she ant.
She couldn’t help but smile, “He looks like a spirited young man!
What do you think?”
Lin Xia laughed, “I don’t want to interfere too much.
Let’s see what the two of them think!”
Old Lady Zhao held onto Lin Xia’s hand without letting go, “Xiaolin!
Speaking of which, you’re twenty-one now, right?
Your sister…
is it not ti for you, too…”
She said this as a way of testing the waters.
Lin Xia busily waved her hand with a smile, “I’m not in the mood for that right now; when I et the right person in the future, we’ll see!”
With Lu Zheng in her heart, naturally, she had no room for anyone else.
Of course, she did not feel that she and Lu Zheng had a future at this ti.
She genuinely did not want to look for anyone.
“Right!
There’s no rush for this matter!” Auntie Zhao, knowing that her own second child was not around, was more than happy that Lin Xia wasn’t in the mindset to find a partner.
She was about to ask about the Lu man, but she swallowed her words back down.
So things were better left unknown.
At that mont, Lin Qiu ca back with the washed fruits.
Lin Xia deliberately teased her, “Wu Zhengyang just ca to pick up his pants!”
Lin Qiu nervously asked, “Sis!
Did you give them to him?”
Lin Xia laughed, “No!
I couldn’t find them!
When did he make pants again?
Didn’t he just have a suit made the other day?”
“He brought the fabric to make them the other day!” Lin Qiu tried to maintain her composure, “Auntie Zhao!
Have so fruit!”
Auntie Zhao held back a laugh, “Okay!”
After chatting for a while longer, Lin Xia invited Auntie Zhao to stay for a al.
Auntie Zhao did not accept, saying she wasn’t hungry as she had eaten before coming and that she still had things to buy that she hadn’t finished.
So Lin Xia left with Auntie Zhao.
Wu Zhengyang must have heard so noise because he ca into the store.
“Are the pants ready?”
“They’re ready!” Lin Qiu found the pair of pants Wu Zhengyang had made and handed them to him.
Wu Zhengyang took them but did not leave imdiately, “Lin Qiu!
Are you free tonight?
I was hoping to ask you out to watch a movie!”
Lin Qiu’s heart pounded like thunder; who had ever asked her out before?
And the person asking was soone she liked and felt good about.
“I…” But she hesitated; they weren’t in that kind of relationship yet, so going out to watch a movie alone with him, what would that imply?
“Do you have ti?” Wu Zhengyang anxiously awaited her response.
“I don’t have ti!
You should ask soone else!” Lin Qiu still thought about the bits and pieces she had heard that day.
Wu Zhengyang walked away, disappointed, with the pants in hand.
Lin Qiu didn’t feel good about it, but going to the movies just like that, who knew what others might gossip about them.
Madam Wu saw Wu Zhengyang coming ho with a pair of pants in hand, and her expression soured.
She asked in resignation, “What’s happening, young man?
You just had a mouthful of food and left the house; now you’re back with a pair of pants, clearly, you’ve been to Lin Qiu’s place again.”
Wu Zhengyang did not want to tell his mother what had happened, “It’s nothing!
Mom!
I’m going to lie down for a bit; call when it’s ti to go to work!”
“Alright!
Sleep without worrying!” Madam Wu watched him enter the room, then, after a while, she went to her second daughter’s store.
Wu Zhenghong was lying on the makeshift brick bed in the corner of the room with closed eyes; when her mother entered, she opened them.
“What’s going on?”
Madam Wu saw the neighboring clothing store had closed its doors, so she knew they had gone to the back to prepare their al.
Therefore, she spoke without reservation, “The young one again made a pair of pants at Lin Qiu’s place!
I saw him returning with the pants, and his face seed off!”
“Mom!
Like I said, if the young one is willing, just find a reliable person to act as a matchmaker and talk to them.
If Lin Qiu is also willing, wouldn’t it be simple for the two of them to just start dating directly?
It’d save the young one from hanging in limbo like this, unable to go up or down!”
In the past few days, Madam Wu had been grappling with this matter.
She also made inquiries in the greenhouse, and indeed her inquiries revealed quite a bit.
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