The Reborn Sidekick Rejected The Male Lead-Chapter 335 - 325: The Vegetables at Your Home Are Different

Chapter 335: Chapter 325: The Vegetables at Your Home Are Different

Xue Jianian spent over an hour cooking, while Lu Jingqiu and Luo Xinyue sat on small stools and filled four cloth bags for her.

When she came out and saw the bulging cloth bags, she said, "Well, this meal is basically about inviting you to come and help me."

Lu Jingqiu laughed, "That’s just perfect."

Luo Xinyue looked at the dishes Xue Jianian brought to the table, already walking over, she said, "Niannian, is your farm ready? If it is, plant more vegetables. I’m telling you, ever since I got pregnant, I’ve had no appetite for vegetables from other places, only yours smell fragrant. Even the leaves smell fragrant."

After washing her hands, Lu Jingqiu came over and chimed in, "It’s true, I had some reactions before, but after I ate the stuff from Niannian’s place, the reactions lessened. Whether it’s her vegetables or grains, they’re really good."

Xue Jianian laughed, "If you love my stuff so much, eat your fill today. Wait, I’ll go pour each of you a cup of water."

Luo Xinyue said, "No need, why drink water when there’s food."

Xue Jianian laughed without a word, still turned around and poured each of them a cup of warm water, "The water from my home is also very sweet, try it."

Lu Jingqiu, having worked for a while, was indeed thirsty. She took a sip and eagerly said, "Hmm, it really is sweet. Is it from the well in the yard? Well water does taste good."

Hearing Lu Jingqiu say this, Luo Xinyue also took a sip, and she couldn’t help but enjoy it more and more, "How did I never realize this water was so sweet."

Xue Jianian smiled, "The water before was all from the municipal supply; recently, when I wash fruits and vegetables, I use well water." Actually, the water she gave them to drink this time was from the space. Seeing that their pregnancies were progressing, she especially let them drink some space water. Winter was coming, and this water could strengthen the body. She’d heard that pregnant women were prone to getting sick, so she thought of letting them drink some. It might not be explicitly beneficial for the children, but at least it would prevent illness in the adults.

They were her best friends, and she couldn’t withhold such benefits from them. Whenever they had come to her house to eat and drink before, she always put a small spoonful in the pot from her own house, but now it was pure space water.

She didn’t know whether drinking it would affect them. It didn’t have any effects on her when she drank it, but her grandparents had made several trips to the bathroom after drinking it.

Lu Jingqiu took another sip and exclaimed, "This well water is great, Niannian, you should get a pressurized well. That way you can save water and it tastes better, too."

"Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. Come on, try the shrimp I made. I got these shrimp from a fish and shrimp farmer."

Luo Xinyue said, "These shrimp are large and very nice. Just a bit expensive."

Xue Jianian laughed, "Of course they’re expensive, but there are still plenty of people scrambling to buy them. However, you two don’t need to worry. With the money we make from the beef soup shop every day, you’ll have more than enough to spend."

"Ah, so the business is doing really well now?"

Xue Jianian said, "The business has always been good, especially since the weather got colder, it’s even better than before. You two just wait for a big payout at the end of the year and use that money to take good care of your pregnancies. Next year you’ll have your hands full."

Luo Xinyue said, "I’m just waiting for the payout. My family recently has been following you, opening stores, buying cars, buying land, and oh my goodness, we’re spent. Next year I’m worried. I mean, what if we have the baby, how are we going to manage school?" Then she asked Lu Jingqiu, "Jingqiu, what do you plan to do? It’s just you. You don’t have any elders."

Lu Jingqiu said, "I plan to find a reliable nanny to help take care of the child, preferably someone from around here who is patient and attentive. If you know someone like that, remember to let me know. If the child is well taken care of, I can pay her thirty a month."

"Thirty? Isn’t that too much? There are plenty of people who would fight to do it for twenty. It’s just taking care of a child," Xue Jianian said.

Luo Xinyue hadn’t thought of bringing someone into her home, after all, those were things that were not allowed before, but now it seemed possible. "Before, my mother-in-law said she’d retire early to help me with the child. But my mother-in-law will officially retire in a couple of years; retiring early would be a pity. Now that you mention it, we could also hire someone. Oh, that depends on whether the money from the beef soup shop is enough to hire someone."

Xue Jianian laughed, "You should stop pretending to be so poor, surely the elders from both sides of your family won’t let you pay out of your own pockets."

Luo Xinyue laughed, "That’s true. But when it comes to finding a nanny, you’ve got to look ahead of time."

Lu Jingqiu nodded, "Yes, Niannian, you come across a lot of people usually, so please keep an eye out for us. We need to find someone we know; we can’t dare to trust someone we don’t."

Luo Xinyue asked, "Why’s that?"

Lu Jingqiu shared her concerns, "I’m just afraid that someone we don’t know might harbor ill intentions, and take advantage of the empty house to abduct the child. We wouldn’t even know where to start looking for them. At least if we know them, they wouldn’t do it, knowing where they live—they can’t just run off."

Luo Xinyue exclaimed, "Oh my, I’ve never heard of such a thing before. We definitely need to be careful."

"Yes."

Xue Jianian said, "Okay, I’ll keep an eye out for you guys. Jingqiu, are you okay on your own? Do you need someone to stay with you?"

"No need, if it keeps raining, I’ll just stay at the school. It’s pretty convenient there."

Luo Xinyue said, "Don’t be like that, it’s nice for us to go to and from school together. When your husband was leaving, he made sure to ask Shang Ze for a huge favor, even gave him several bottles of the most expensive Maotai from the department store."

Lu Jingqiu was taken aback, "I really didn’t know that."

Luo Xinyue said, "Your husband has been very considerate of you."

"It’s embarrassing to keep having you guys pick me up; having you sit in the back in the cold wind—I feel bad about it."

"What’s there to feel bad about? It’s just a ten-minute ride from our house to the school, and it’s not that cold here in winter. I don’t even notice it, so you’re the one getting embarrassed."

Xue Jianian suggested, "Your brother-in-law goes to the same school as Shang Ze, let him stay at your place—that’s fine too. You’re all siblings, there’s nothing to fuss about."

Lu Jingqiu replied, "I don’t mind, I just worry about what others might say."

Luo Xinyue retorted, "Who cares what they say? We live our lives. Just look at Xia Lin next door; since that incident, neighbors have been whispering behind her back, yet doesn’t she live her life well? Niannian, you live closer, you know what’s going on, right?"

Xue Jianian laughed, glanced at the neighboring wall, and whispered, "Exactly. The neighbors all avoid her now. Xia Lin has been keeping a low profile lately; with her small workshop not around here, nobody knows. She’s quietly making a fortune. But I overheard them arguing yesterday."

Lu Jingqiu paused, curious, "Arguing?"

"They argue ever so often, I’ve been busy lately and haven’t paid much attention, but they bicker quite regularly."

Luo Xinyue commented expressively, "With all the money Xia Lin makes, they’re not short on cash and everyone’s in school. They shouldn’t have much to worry about. What’s there to fight about?"

Xue Jianian said, "What do you mean they don’t lack anything? They lack children."

If it comes to children, for the Xia Lin of this lifetime, it’s probably going to be very difficult for Gao Shu to have two more boys that he would be satisfied with.

The wife schemes to the utmost, calculating in every way—is this Gao Shu’s retribution?