Reborn as a Rich Woman in the Eighties
Chapter 257 - 256: No Hurry

Chapter 257: Chapter 256: No Hurry

It had been a long time since I’d seen Old Lady Zhao when she came to see Lin Xia that day.

Lin Xia had just returned from picking up some 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 come to buy something?"

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.

Sometimes, she did miss her, but she was just too busy to make time to see her.

Even though she had hired help and had Lin Dong looking after the stall, some customers still preferred to get their goods directly from her.

No one could match her dexterity.

Old Lady Zhao laughed, "I came to buy some 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 me 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 home too, after all this time? 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 time she thought about it.

It’s not easy being far from home, especially when dealing with something 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 time, 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 some fruit and pour water.

At that moment, Wu Zhengyang came 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 embarrassment, "I’m here for my trousers!"

"Then you’ll have to wait a moment! Xiaoqiu went to get some 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 come back later and then hurried out.

Old Lady Zhao noticed something 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 meant.

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 time 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 meet 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 time.

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.

Some things were better left unknown.

At that moment, Lin Qiu came back with the washed fruits.

Lin Xia deliberately teased her, "Wu Zhengyang just came 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 some fruit!"

Auntie Zhao held back a laugh, "Okay!"

After chatting for a while longer, Lin Xia invited Auntie Zhao to stay for a meal.

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 some noise because he came 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 immediately, "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 someone 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 time?" Wu Zhengyang anxiously awaited her response.

"I don’t have time! You should ask someone 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 home 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 me when it’s time 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 meal.

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 seemed 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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