I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 698: The Fearful Meets the Funeral Goals

Chapter 698: Chapter 698: The Fearful Meets the Funeral Goals

"What are you laughing about?" Fan Huang asked.

"Those two brats, they are broke now, right? Can’t even afford to pay a nanny?"

Chen Lijun seemed to have already seen a scene where a desperate Yu Jingting and his wife would beg her in tears.

"..." Fan Huang wanted to say that his wife was becoming more and more childish, but he dared not.

"What, do you really believe that those two kids can create a miracle? So many people from the Fan Family couldn’t figure out a solution, so how could two little brats turn things around?"

"Can’t say for other kids, but if it’s my daughter and son-in-law, I think there’s still some hope."

"This is just blind self-confidence. Even if Yu Tiegen is capable, and even if Suizi is cunning, a talented woman can’t cook without rice. Without money, without capital, how could they create a miracle?"

Chen Lijun saw a subtle change in Fan Huang’s expression, guessed that the old thing was not convinced, and suddenly had an inspiration to tease honest people.

"Why don’t we make a bet?"

"Huh?"

"If these two kids can’t turn losses into gains, you are to wash my socks for a month."

"When did you ever wash socks?"

"Um..." Chen Lijun pondered, she seems to have never washed socks. Weren’t socks something you throw into the washing machine and they come back clean and tidy in your closet by themselves within days?

"How about you bring me lunch for a month? You would need to personally deliver it to my office." Chen Lijun changed her condition.

"I can do that, but what if I win?" Fan Huang asked leisurely.

Chen Lijun put her hands on her hips.

"How could you possibly win? Are you delusional? How could they pull it off?"

"So, you are determined to take advantage of me?" Fan Huang sharply spotted a loophole in her words.

"Eh..." Chen Lijun found herself caught red-handed and didn’t want to admit it, grudgingly said, "If they can pull it off, I promise I’ll meet any condition you propose. How about this, you wouldn’t lose in this bet, would you?"

Chen Lijun was sure she would win, so she deliberately offered Fan Huang a great deal as bait.

"Alright, let’s make the bet. We’ll write it up and sign it when we get home." Fan Huang confidently replied.

"Why do we need to sign a document, do I look like someone who would deny a debt?"

"You do." Fan Huang was weary from her past antics. Such a "high-stakes" bet must be put on paper.

Liu Xi brought a nanny into the house and explained why she was there. Suizi was barely keeping her smile together.

She had forgotten about the nanny.

Before, Suizi was a "rich lady" and never thought that one day she would become poor overnight.

Her in-laws had gone to the border for money, she had to go to grad school, so someone had to take care of the three children’s meals at home. She decided to hire a day-time nanny to take care of the kids’ three meals a day, as well as pick them up and drop them off. She planned to solve everything with "money power".

At the time, Suizi declared that "money was not an issue". As long as the nanny cooked well and was honest, she was willing to pay above market price, richly hiring a nanny.

Now that the nanny was here, Suizi felt like crying.

"This aunty is from my colleague’s home. She worked at their place for over a year. Her cooking skills are very good, she is local, she doesn’t need to live in, and she can meet all your requirements."

"Regarding the salary..." Suizi almost humbly asked, could you give us a couple of months to pay it?

"Oh right, there is a requirement about the salary. Aunty has an emergency at home and needs a half year salary in advance. But don’t worry, her previous employer can provide a guarantee. It was only because the previous employer was eager to go abroad that this good nanny could be transferred to you."

What Liu Xi said was also the truth.

Now, although there are many nannies coming to the city for work, finding one who’s known and comfortable to work with is not that easy.

On hearing about the advanced half-year salary, Suizi felt her vision go black.

She wanted to ask Liu Xi for a loan, but remembering her mother’s troublemaking face, it was probable that Lady Chen Lijun was waiting for her to ask for help so she could jump in and accuse her of misconduct.

"When can the aunty come?" Yu Jingting asked.

"She’ll have to wait a month until the previous employer goes abroad, are you in a hurry?" Liu Xi asked.

Suizi quickly shook her head. No, not in a hurry.

Those who are poor don’t have the luxury of urgency.

"Then we can sign the contract and she can come directly after one month." Yu Jingting decided firmly, even though they were encountering some difficulties right now, they still couldn’t let the children and their wife suffer.

After sending Liu Xi and the nanny away, Suizi wanted to cry but no tears came out.

"Will we be able to afford the nanny’s salary a month from now?"

Who’d have thought that she’d be pushed to her limits by a single piece of money. It was easy to go from frugality to extravagance but tough to go from extravagance to frugality.

"It’s enough. After attending the birthday banquet tomorrow, the two of us should go and check out the factory. We should also ask Chen He about the situation at the Wireless Factory now."

The next day, the family went to the banquet. While the elders were chatting, Yu Jingting pulled Chen He over to their table.

"The Wireless Factory? What do you guys want to know about this for? It’s a mess, get as far away from it as you can." Chen He learned that they wanted to know about the Wireless Factory; his head shook like a fan and he lowered his voice to say.

"The Fan Family is almost fighting over this. Initially, the third branch of the family urged everyone to invest in it, but as soon as the money was thrown in, that was the end of it. Fan’s third son is not cut out for this. He had to show off, but now he’s almost become a laughingstock among the circle."

"How bad is it?"

"Let me put it this way, the machines have been sold long ago. The factory also owes hundreds of thousands to outside parties. Just the other day, I passed by and saw tables, chairs, stools, being all moved out by the debt collectors."

"So you’re saying that only the factory building is left?" Suizi’s vision went black again. The half-year nanny fee, how to cope!

"You are quite optimistic. The factory building? They’ve stripped the door frames and windows! When they were taking down the door frames, we were watching from outside. We were talking at the time, about who is so unlucky to take over such a mess, it is really bad luck to the extreme."

"..."

After Chen He finished speaking, he even let out a couple of laughs. After his laughter subsided, he realized that Yu Jingting and his wife were not laughing, he vaguely felt something was wrong.

"Why are you two looking so gloomy?"

"I’m the one who’s afraid of death, and he is the one who is here to arrange the funeral." Suizi squeezed out a rather grotesque smile and said, please call us unlucky couple from now on.

"Could it be you two are taking over—— How much working capital would you have to transfer from our paper mill to fill that big hole?" Chen He couldn’t help but stop laughing.

"If we could take money out of the paper mill, would we have to worry like this?" Suizi with her gloomy face pocketed a bottle of pesticide, unscrewed it and started drinking.

Chen He next to her was startled.

"Jingting, why are you not stopping her?"

"Do you want a sip?" After finishing, Suizi passed it to Chen He. Chen He was horrified.

"It’s fake."

To play a trick on her dad, Suizi had cleaned a glass bottle and filled it with drink. She made a pesticide label and stuck it on. Since then she carried it with her everyday. She was planning to sip from the bottle every time she encountered her increasingly childish mother, just to rattle her.

As this table was busy discussing, there was a commotion at the front.

"Everyone stay back, if anyone comes closer, I’ll take poison!"