The Reborn Sidekick Rejected The Male Lead-Chapter 320 - 310: Aunt Liu Comes to Visit

The next day, it was Luo Xinyue who knocked on her door, but Lu Jingqiu did not respond despite a long wait.

This scared Luo Xinyue out of her wits, hurriedly asking Shang Ze to climb over the wall to check, but unfortunately, their house had a high wall with glass shards on top, making it impossible to climb over.

In the end, Luo Xinyue almost shouted herself hoarse before Lu Jingqiu heard any noise and sleepily came downstairs to open the door for her.

The moment she opened the door, Luo Xinyue first gave a sigh of relief and then said, both anxious and angry, "Why are you only opening the door now? You scared me to death, I thought something had happened to you."

Lu Jingqiu rubbed her eyes and said, "I came downstairs as soon as I heard the noise."

"You just heard me now? I’ve been shouting for twenty minutes."

"Ah, twenty minutes?"

Luo Xinyue checked the time and said, "Are your pancakes ready? Let Ah Ze take them over first. It’s fine if the two of us go a bit later."

Lu Jingqiu looked at the time and saw it was already six o’clock.

She hurriedly invited them inside, where Shang Ze had brought a basket filled with a stack of pancakes. They added the ones Lu Jingqiu had made, which were quite a few.

She made sure they remembered to have breakfast, then went off to the shop on her bike.

After they had gone, Luo Xinyue finally said with lingering fear, "I was so scared just now; just imagine you’re home alone, and something happens at night, and none of us would know about it. You don’t even have a phone at home. Oh my, the fear I felt, thinking of all the things that could go wrong, afraid that something might have happened to you."

"Xinyue, sorry to have worried you. I stayed up late making pancakes yesterday, and last night I just went to bed and fell asleep. Ever since getting pregnant, I’ve been extremely sleepy," Jingqiu explained.

"My mother said that pregnant people tend to be sleepy, but I also stayed up late working yesterday, and I’m really tired too. Niannian said that we don’t need to go so early today; there will be a lot of people, and we should rest up. It will be fine for us to just go and supervise later. I’m planning to head over sometime after ten," said Luo Xinyue.

Seeing it was still early, Lu Jingqiu suggested, "Shall we sleep a bit more? You can sleep at my place. Pick any room you like, or you can sleep with me if you want."

"That sounds good."

So, the two of them went back to sleep, and didn’t wake up until after ten.

When they finally got up, they were truly hungry, so Lu Jingqiu quickly made a couple of local-style pancakes with eggs.

She sliced some steamed buns and fried them in a pan, cooked an egg for each person, added some greens, sliced a tomato, slathered on some of the sauces they had at home, and each had a glass of pure milk.

After biting into it, Luo Xinyue was amazed by the flavor, "Wow, this is so delicious! Qiuqiu, if you were to sell these for breakfast, they would definitely be a hit."

Lu Jingqiu laughed, but before she could reply, they heard a familiar voice at the door picking up the conversation, "What’s going to sell well?"

"...Aunt Liu, this is... the elder aunt, right?"

"Xiao Qiu, I’ve been too busy with work to come over, and you didn’t come back last week either. I mentioned what you said the other time to my elder sister; she hesitated for several days before agreeing. So here we are, looking for you to ask if your shop has opened yet and whether you still need us to make pancakes."

"Yes, we need them, we definitely do. I’ve been too busy lately, I haven’t visited the compound. Please come in and sit down, Aunt Liu, elder aunt."

Aunt Liu, seeing that they were eating, did not enter the living room, but said hastily, "You eat, you eat, we can just sit in the dining room and talk."

Luo Xinyue said, "Aunt Liu, to be honest, our shop started a trial run two days ago, and for the past couple of days, we’ve been making our own pancakes. It’s alright now because of the holidays, but once the school term begins, we really won’t have the time."

Aunt Liu said, "If you need us to do it, we can start today."

The auntie next to her also agreed reservedly.

Lu Jingqiu said, "That would be wonderful, auntie. Right now, we need over fifty pancakes each day. You can help us make them at night, and just deliver them to the shop at around five in the morning the next day. Of course, after they’re made, they definitely should not be left out to dry, they must be covered with something, preferably with oil paper."

The auntie nodded repeatedly, "Alright, over fifty pancakes are no trouble, I will make sure they don’t dry out. Back in our hometown, we would normally just cover them in the pot."

Lu Jingqiu said, "Auntie, you probably know this even better than us who don’t cook much. We pay one cent for each pancake. If you need flour, you can buy it at the grain and oil shop on Fish Tail Front Street, we can give you a cost price."

Aunt Liu, seeing that the matter was settled, hurriedly said, "We really do need flour. Xiao Qiu, that last time you mentioned selling steamed buns to me, my sister and I discussed it. We steamed two pots of buns the other day and tried selling them outside our compound for two days. It turned out we could actually sell them. Now my sister doesn’t feel hopeless anymore and is willing to do it.

Yesterday, I just found her a rental place right over on the second street up front, right at the head by the roadside, not too far across from the vegetable market on the road. It’s a colleague’s house, two yuan per month. My sister can set up a stove there and sell steamed buns. Yesterday, we cleaned up at home and planned to find someone to make a sign. Early this morning, someone helped to install a window in the kitchen area, turning it into a sales window. Right now, I’m going to check out the market to buy a set of steamers. I’m passing by here, so I stopped by to ask about your pancake situation."

Luo Xinyue said, "What a coincidence, I live in that alley too. How come I didn’t notice?"

Aunt Liu laughed and said, "We just rented it. Someone was living there until recently, and it wasn’t much to clean up. My sister only moved there last night, and it wasn’t until this morning that there was any commotion. Right now, they are installing a window in the house. You wouldn’t have known since you were at Xiao Qiu’s place. Our sign, we’ll have it up tonight, and tomorrow morning my sister will start selling steamed buns."

Luo Xinyue laughed and said, "Having someone sell steamed buns in the alley will save my family a lot of trouble in the future."

Lu Jingqiu said, "Good then, Aunt Liu, our shop is right opposite the train station, in one of the newly constructed buildings. It’s easy to find; the sign says ’The First Beef Soup Shop of West City’. If the auntie can help us make pancakes today, we won’t have to do it ourselves."

After thinking for a moment, Aunt Liu turned to her elder sister and asked, "Big sis, can you handle it today? You still need to order steamers and buy flour."

The big sister smiled and said, "I can manage. It will only take me two hours in the evening to make them, I just don’t know the way."

Aunt Liu said, "No worries. After we buy the steamers, we’ll make a trip there. I’ll show you the way."

Aunt Liu was not sparing any effort for her sister; in order to do this business, she had even spent a hundred yuan buying a run-down bicycle from a neighbor in the compound.

The money for renting the house and buying supplies came from how much the auntie had earned recently.

This bicycle money, the auntie promised to pay back to her younger sister as soon as she earned enough. freēwēbηovel.c૦m

She was so grateful for her and the children’s chance to be here, far from harm’s way.

Now, as long as she could earn money, she was willing to work, no matter how hard or tiring it might be.

Compared to the hardships back in her hometown, this was nothing.

Aunt Liu, seeing that her sister was settled and the matter was settled, did not linger any longer and hurriedly took her sister to run errands.