Seventies Sweetheart: From Breakup to Billionaire-Chapter 152: Aunt Lin’s Scheming

"Sister Niu, you tell me, this child of yours, building a house is such a big deal, how come you didn’t tell your aunt?"

Seeing Aunt Lin rushing over, Lin Xiang frowned tightly.

She hadn’t seen Aunt Lin for a while, and upon seeing her, she felt an indescribable aversion.

Fifth Aunt saw this and quietly blocked Lin Xiang, "Her aunt, look at what you’re saying, we’re all in the same brigade, Sister Niu’s house has been in construction for four days now, it’s not like you don’t know. It’s just that you don’t care about Sister Niu’s family."

Aunt Lin was rebutted by Fifth Aunt, looking embarrassed. But Fifth Aunt was of the same generation as her and was well respected in the village, so she couldn’t start insulting right away, leaving her at a disadvantage.

"Sister Niu, building a house is indeed a big thing. We’re truly relatives, and you didn’t even let us know. If I had known earlier, I’d have let your uncle and cousin come to help. But now that I know, it’s not too late, I’ll have them help tomorrow."

Fifth Aunt sneered, "You say it’s to help, but you actually just want to earn some wages, right?"

"I say, Dang Guifen, what does this have to do with you? I’m talking to my own niece; is it your place to butt in?"

"She’s your niece, but she’s also my niece. You bully her, and I can’t protect her? That’s truly amusing."

"Who’s bullying her? You’d better clarify today."

"Who’s bullying whom is crystal clear inside; you really think everyone in the world is a fool except you?"

Aunt Lin wanted to hit someone, but thinking of her upcoming plan, she managed to hold back.

She cleared her throat and began to speak in a roundabout way using a tone so gentle she seldom used, saying to Lin Xiang, "Sister Niu, don’t listen to your Fifth Aunt stirring up trouble. How could your uncle and cousin demand wages for helping? Unlike them, we’re different."

"Them," specifically referring to Fifth Uncle and Fifth Aunt.

Lin Xiang looked at Fifth Uncle who was working hard on the roof, worried that he might lose his footing and slip.

She didn’t take Aunt Lin’s words to heart at all.

"Not caring about wages is scarier, it means you’re greedy for something else, like our house."

"Your eldest son is about to get married, right? Did the girl demand a new house, refusing to live with you? You can’t afford to build a new house, so you have your sights set on me?"

"Even if you don’t want wages, later when asked, can you comfortably say that it’s your house we built, just temporarily lent to us, making it easy for you to turn hostile and kick us mother and daughter out?"

Aunt Lin’s face turned blue and white, as Lin Xiang had correctly guessed her thoughts.

Unable to admit, she denied angrily, "Sister Niu, I really didn’t expect you to see your aunt this way! Since you don’t need us to help, just pretend I was never here! You tell your mother for me, from now on, our family ties are completely broken!"

With that, Aunt Lin stormed off.

By the way she was walking with big strides, it was clear she was furious.

Fifth Aunt worriedly asked, "Sister Niu, you’ve seriously angered your aunt. Who knows what she might do?"

Lin Xiang shrugged indifferently, "Look at the direction she’s leaving in, it’s not even the way to her own house."

Fifth Aunt took a closer look and realized the path was familiar, "She’s... heading to my place?"

"Seeing that things didn’t work with me, she’s directly going to find my mom, huh."

After all, in Aunt Lin’s conventional thinking, Mrs. Lin has always been the needy person seeking to mend ties with her maternal family.

She might sweet-talk Mrs. Lin into eagerly handing over the house!

Unable to avoid worrying, Fifth Aunt asked, "If your mom can’t hold it, what if she agrees to your aunt’s demands?"

"Don’t worry. My mom wants to live in the new house even more than I do. She won’t agree."

Meanwhile, at Fifth Uncle’s house.

Chunya was cooking, while Mrs. Lin and Dong Sheng were making potato starch in the yard.

With Fifth Uncle busy helping build the house, he couldn’t go to town, so the foursome turned into Lin Xiang, Mrs. Lin, Dong Sheng, and Chunya, the two girls.

The main force of cart pulling became Uncle Wang and his eldest son. Lin Xiang promised them a free bowl of spicy noodles or potato noodles every noon as a reward for helping with the cart.

Dong Sheng looked older but was clever, hollering more energetically than Mrs. Lin, helping bring quite a bit of business. Although recent days couldn’t reach the peak of selling 120 bowls a day, they could still sell about a hundred, leaving Mrs. Lin quite satisfied.

So, she was just fond of Dong Sheng now.

"I’ll tell Sister Niu later to give you and Chunya a bit of a raise."

"Please don’t." Dong Sheng responded, "Before, my dad and my sister could earn five cents a day. These days it’s switched to me and my sister, and Sister Niu still gives us five cents. But I don’t do as much work as my dad, and we have to feed Uncle Wang, adding two cents to the cost."

Sister Niu didn’t mind the extra cost of two bowls of spicy noodles, still paying them five cents a day, leaving Dong Sheng very satisfied.

"Who said you’re not doing much work? These past couple of days, if you hadn’t been standing at the stand hollering, pulling people over to us, our business certainly wouldn’t be this good." Mrs. Lin whispered, "Honestly, Sister Niu is a bit careless, knowing we have new competitors but not coming up with effective solutions."

Listening to Mrs. Lin’s complaint about Lin Xiang, Dong Sheng scratched his head without saying anything.

Because he knew Sister Niu wasn’t wrong.

With business, naturally there’s ups and downs, and you can’t keep others from earning money.

Moreover, Sister Niu has considered solutions, it’s just that hers are too gentle. Even though some customers can be retained, customers have their own rights to choose, you can’t force everyone over, after all.

But Mrs. Lin wasn’t wrong either, who wouldn’t want their business to be better?

Dong Sheng felt he couldn’t resolve this matter, so he chose to stay silent.

"Xiuli, Xiuli, are you home?"

Outside, Aunt Lin shouted Mrs. Lin’s name.

Mrs. Lin was talking to Dong Sheng, still in Fifth Aunt’s house, so even if the voice sounded familiar outside, she didn’t think it was for her.

It was Dong Sheng who saw Aunt Lin through the fence and quietly informed Mrs. Lin, "Aunt, it seems there’s someone outside looking for you."

"Looking for me?"

Mrs. Lin turned around, "Why is it her? Dong Sheng, go out and tell her I’m not at home."