Chapter 746: Chapter 746: Habits

“Why are you so fixated on this matter? I… I don’t even know why my mom insisted on me marrying you. It’s been so many years. Maybe she was afraid I’d be mistreated at the Qin Family. Your family’s situation wasn’t good, so my mom gave me more dowry so I’d feel secure marrying into your family and not be pushed around by your mother…”

As she spoke, she grew more confident, and eventually became quite self-righteous.

“My mom had thought it through back then. Think about it, what was your family’s situation back then? I didn’t look down on your family; I even brought more than 200 yuan as dowry. Without my dowry, you’d still be farming, unable to even do business selling vegetables. I thought we could live well together and improve our life. Who knew your two sisters were bottomless pits, and you listened to your mother in everything? If not for this, our life would have improved long ago. If your mom and sisters hadn’t been so excessive, would I have divorced you? Without the divorce, we wouldn’t have lost Genbao…”

Li Guangyuan looked at her tearful face and asked flatly, “Why did you want me to sell vegetables from a stall?”

He clearly remembered that they started selling vegetables from a stall in his dream too. Was it all just a coincidence, or had Lin Jiayi also had such a dream?

Lin Jiayi wiped her tears and accused, “Since you were farming, what else could you sell but vegetables? We thought about selling buns and cooked food, but what happened? Your sister played tricks, sold spoiled food, and people got sick. In the end, only the vegetable business didn’t lose money, and now you’re questioning me?”

What she said reminded Li Guangyuan.

After all, it was their own lack of capability, and the two sisters were indeed immature.

“Alright, stop crying. I haven’t eaten yet. Go get me something to eat.”

Li Guangyuan felt he might be overthinking it. Perhaps he had been hearing too much about Xiyang these days, which led to the dream.

Lin Jiayi was relieved to see Li Guangyuan stop pressing the issue.

She continued the half-finished story from before, “You didn’t come back last night. I closed the stall alone and went home but ran into a thief who stole the money pouch.”

“The money pouch was stolen? Was all the money taken too?” Li Guangyuan asked anxiously. “Didn’t you chase after him?”

“He pushed me down, and besides, how could I, a woman, chase him? And what could I do even if I caught up?”

“Useless,” Li Guangyuan cursed, turning to leave.

Lin Jiayi quickly followed, “Where are you going?”

“I’m going to report it to the police.”

It was several dozen yuan, how could it just be lost?

………

With Zhuang Jingshu back to look after the child, Lin Chuxia could focus more on the company’s affairs.

They also had an office location in Yan City, in a standalone two-story office building.

Zhuang Jingshu decided to develop domestically, so she had Zhuang Yang purchase this property.

It served as Walson’s temporary office location in the country, where Zhuang Yang usually worked.

The building was quite large, and one floor was allocated to Lin Chuxia.

As Lin Chuxia entered the building, a pretty receptionist greeted her, “Hello, Mr. Lin!”

She nodded and asked, “Has Assistant Gu arrived?”

“Not yet.”

“Alright, let him come to my office once he’s here.”

After giving these instructions, Lin Chuxia returned to her office.

She had been busy with the Xiyang Group’s listing ceremony lately, and hadn’t yet found time to review the financial reports from each branch for the last quarter. Google seaʀᴄh novel•fire.net

The main concern was the Xiyang Food Company, where the canned fruit production line had already started. Although she knew Su Wensong would handle things well on that end, she felt uneasy not personally understanding the situation.

While looking over the reports, the office door knocked a few times and Gu Peng walked in.

Lin Chuxia glanced at him indifferently, “Didn’t sleep well last night?” Huge dark circles.

Gu Peng stood there looking at her.

After a moment, Lin Chuxia didn’t hear a response and looked over again.

She then realized that her earlier remark might have sounded too familiar.

Seeing Gu Peng’s face always made her unconsciously adopt her past life’s attitude.

But at the moment, the two of them clearly still had a regular subordinate relationship.

Luckily, Gu Peng only hesitated for a moment before replying, “It’s too hot.”

Lin Chuxia nodded; it had indeed been stuffy the past couple of days, as if a heavy rain was brewing.

Her home had air conditioning, so she didn’t worry about the electricity bill and turned it on early for sleep.

Without an air conditioner or even a fan, summer nights like this were truly hard to endure.

She thought a bit and swallowed the suggestion for him to buy a fan before turning to work matters.

“When you have time, go to Daqing Mountain Village and discuss with Village Chief Sun. Xiyang will invest in building a road for the village. The rainy season is approaching, and if the transportation of our yellow peach crop is delayed because of the road, the loss would be unacceptable.”

The fruit canning line at the Xiyang Food Factory was already in use, producing a large number of cans daily for market distribution.

It was peak season for yellow peaches, and the supply of raw materials must be uninterrupted.

Whether the peach trees planted by Sun Bingnan or those planted by other villagers at Daqing Mountain Village, having managed them diligently for so many years, this year they must reap the benefits.

“Okay, is there a standard for the road construction?”

Gu Peng sat at a nearby desk, taking out his notebook accordingly.

Lin Chuxia looked at his movements and suddenly felt a little dazed.

“Where did you learn that habit? You only mentioned having studied before. What schooling did you attend?”

Gu Peng closed his notebook again and looked at her calmly with dark eyes.

“Is there anything about my work that Mr. Lin is dissatisfied with?”

“Not really.”

Lin Chuxia just remembered Gu Peng had only studied for a few years.

In her past life, he worked as an assistant by her side. Although he managed to handle tasks well after instructions, things weren’t as smooth as in this life.

She had gotten used to past life’s Gu Peng, accustomed to Wang Tianyu’s ability to learn. With Gu Peng getting a handle on things so quickly, she naturally assumed Gu Peng was a quick learner.

But some habits are hard to change.

In the past life, because he wasn’t in school for long, he hardly ever used a pen after dropping out. When working with her, he relied entirely on his memory, which was indeed quite sharp.

But even the best memory falls short of written notes. When tasks piled up, Lin Chuxia would remind him to use paper and pen.

It was only after frequent reminders and an increasing workload that Gu Peng developed the habit of taking notes.

In this life, there’s been no frequent reminders; she hadn’t even reminded him once.

Gu Peng noticed Lin Chuxia staring at him without speaking, thinking she was waiting for him to answer, so he replied, “I attended four or five years of school when I was young and learned to recognize some characters. In prison, aside from working, we also studied. The government taught us many things.”

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