Chapter 08
It was almost six o’clock when Wen Ning walked back from the wholesale market.
It was dawn.
Returning to Xiao Yang’s residence, which was also the modest attic above the store, the palpitating woman tiptoed around and pulled the corner of the quilt for Xiao Yang, but Xiao Yang suddenly woke up.
“Sis, when did you come back, I slept dead …… in the night.”
Fortunately, her lies will not be easily punctured, in the early years, she also often go to the seafood market in the middle of the night to batch goods, for this reason, she is not willing to toss back to disturb the rest of the chu-chu, from time to time, the same in the store overnight.
Wen Ning ambiguously said, “I can’t remember, you can sleep again, wait until quarter past six, I’ll come and shout at you to get up.”
“Sister Ning, you’re so good to me,” Xiao Yang, however, didn’t stay under the warm comforter and got up sharply, “But I have to get up, I’ll peel the abalone for you.”
Wen Ning don’t face, and called for another lie down, stammered to explain, “No …… no abalone, today I didn’t manage to snatch the group that opened the restaurant, the rest of the abalone is small in size, and the wholesale price isn’t cheap, so I didn’t buy it.”
Wen Ning snapped to realize that the loophole of a lie is the need for countless lies to make up for it.
Xiao Yang, however, believed it, “Then I’ll sleep for another half an hour, Sister Ning, don’t work alone when you get there, remember to shout at me.”
“Good.”
Wen Ning silently stole another glance at her red soles, even if it was concealed in the dim light of the attic, the dazzling color swept away.
Unconsciously, she opened the page of her cell phone.
Christian Louboutin, kate 100.
Official price 6800.
The shoes of a rich man’s handout were a month’s worth of household expenses for the average person. She took off the heels, which did not belong to her, wrapped them inside and out in layers of lacquered newspaper, and put them in the narrow storage room in the attic.
But then she couldn’t resist scanning the selling price on the second-hand platform and had another idea that she shouldn’t have had.
The idea was interrupted.
Her fingertips reacted much faster than her brain, and the image she took was soon uploaded to the second-hand website’s page. She didn’t have time to think about the angle at which the item was taken.
Only to see her mother snatch the chopsticks she was using to mix the meat mixture.
No matter how much she tried to persuade her mother, she insisted on coming to the store to help, saying the same thing: “I’m getting old, I can’t sleep at certain times of the day, and I’m upset when I’m tossing and turning in my bed, so why don’t I come over and take a look?”
He also talked about how smart Che Che is, and how he had been able to help out a few of his regular customers.
“Yesterday, I heard Che Che recite the verses only twice, and he memorized them.” She holds her only grandson as a precious treasure, and like many older elders, she always feels that her family can produce individual talents.
“You didn’t get much sleep yesterday when you went to approve the shipment, did you?”
Her mother was full of praise for Che Che, but she didn’t ignore her daughter, frequently looking at the color of her face.
Wen Ning’s face blushed and her heart beat chaotically, but she still held the oil dish that the guest had asked for without panicking, “Rested okay.”
Her mother intentionally arranged, “When you are busy after this bout, you can take a nap again, I’ll go and send Chuchu to the juvenile palace, the store has Xiao Yang to watch over it, don’t worry about it.”
“There’s nothing to worry about, it’s just that you don’t work too hard, mom.”
Mother’s mouth was stiff: “I’m doing this for exercise.”
Busy after this wave, the weekend business off and on, late up to eat wontons are not a few, some simply rest fire for a day, the family does not burn rice, directly packaged several copies of raw wontons, Wen Ning will be each soup head is individually packaged, outside the plastic box firmly add a layer of plastic cling film, handed over to the hands of the patron.
Her mother sent Chuchu off to the Go Club.
Wen Ning carefully counted her today’s bill, as low as five dollars a small wontons in this materialistic world is not common anymore, good thing that the price of pork is not too expensive, if you sell more at a small profit, you can still make a profit. Her family’s wontons sell for six dollars for a medium portion and seven dollars for a large portion, and the extra dollar gives a good portion.
After taking stock of this morning’s bill, unfortunately, the water flow from selling more than fifty bowls of wontons was exactly three hundred dollars.
This was still due to the fact that two regular customers had packed more than enough, and had ordered a portion of scallops for their young girlfriends.
According to the calculation of this minuscule profit, this family busy morning also earned more than a hundred dollars, those high heels suddenly overnight became too extravagant.
Hanging on the Internet is not unattended, after a discounted price tag of 3400 CL, both classic style, but also far below the second-hand price, immediately someone poked her.
Wen Ning has not been worried, in case Zhou Yinchu found how to do, but she understands for Zhou Yinchu for how valuable time, so a pair of shoes and how inconspicuous, and is not worth occupying his time.
If she chose to sell them at half price, at least, her life and the lives of those around her could be slightly more favorable in these recent days.
Such was the law of life for the poor, there was no need for her to waste the possibility of realizing a pair of shoes that didn’t have much significance, and life didn’t allow her to do so.
Zhou Yinchu’s last misty vision saw her putting on her own pair of shoes.
He had a few moments of excitement, and had to admit that his own aesthetics were always on the line, and those shoes were easily able to ignite all five of his senses and six of his senses, tantalizingly close between the late night and the alternating dawn.
What if …… she sells it.
Zhou Yinchu is not without the thought of the heartless woman left immediately after the shoes he gave out to hang on the Internet, after all, he has already given her the shoes as a gift. The ownership of the gift lies with herself.
But when he actually searched the internet and found the pair of CLs that had hit the shelves 30 minutes ago and were in the same city, his face changed abruptly.
He had thought about women’s ruthlessness, but still hadn’t thought that she would be ruthless to this extent.
Turning her hand and selling her gift.
This was the poor, helpless woman people saw her as?
Playing with her feelings so easily and taking them for granted? This was how it was fifteen years ago, and it never occurred to me that fifteen years later she would still hit herself in the face in the same way.
But Zhou Yinchu knew deep down that he had no qualifications to blame.
He informed his personal assistant, “Help me buy another thirty pairs. Same color, I’m not interested in white or nude.”
Big deal, when you meet her, you’ll be forced to give her a pair.
When she met her fellow buyer, Wen Ning was drinking free lemonade with her head down; it was a young girl who waved to herself with a flaming enthusiasm as she danced around.
She brought a national style square scarf that was popular for a while, and her skin was a healthy wheat color.
That would be the new owner of the shoes.
“I just dream every day to wear this pair of shoes to get married, fiancé said to buy me Jimmy choo, but in my mind, only red and black echo Christian Louboutin is counted as a real charismatic and compelling …… super feminine a pair of shoes, a very I was planted a long time ago!”
She described how excited she was to see those shoes.
The slow-witted Wen Ning couldn’t help but be touched, thinking to herself that this sale would undoubtedly result in a favorable outcome for both of them.
“Sister, may I ask you a personal question?”
She asked tentatively, “Why did you sell these shoes?”
Wen Ning’s expression was a little unnatural, she didn’t know how to state the origin of these shoes, as well as mention the hardships she faced in her life in a less deliberate manner.
The girl seemed to see her difficult words, and without the intention of getting to the bottom of it, she hurriedly rounded up the situation by saying, “Sister, I didn’t mean to ask that, I see that you have a very good credit on the fish, and of course I believe that it’s a real pair of shoes, I’m just a few moments of curiosity ……”
“It’s okay, I just think that instead of having a pair of shoes sitting around without much use, I’d rather sell them for cash.” She answered rationally enough.
The idea of getting rid of the shoes was also fairly clear.
“Hasn’t sister ever thought of wearing these shoes to someone she likes?”
The sudden question overwhelmed Wen Ning, she knew that the other party had no ill intent, it was just that there were some things that were difficult to explain from start to finish.
Wen Ning froze, “My husband passed away half a year ago.”
“Sorry!” The girl was afraid of touching her sadness, “I really didn’t mean to upset my sister.”
“It’s fine, if you are not assured, you can take a closer look at the workmanship details of this pair of shoes, although the invoice is not there, I don’t think it’s still a fake,” Wen Ning refocused her eyes on the pair of shoes that made a big impact on her vision, “You can perhaps take it to the counter to inspect the goods. ”
Zhou Yinchu’s trust in other aspects in Wen Ning’s mind was hard to mention, only in terms of possessions, Wen Ning did not think he would fudge.
This pair of shoes was nothing more than as much as a half-copper alms for a rich man like them.
At first, Wen Ning was still bent on getting out of that pair of shoes.
She naively thought that in the process of acquiring money, that kind of unclear relationship with Zhou Yinchu was about to cease to exist with the sale of the pair of shoes.
“I can tell this is 100% real with this glance, okay?”
The girl held up her chin, overflowing with enthusiasm, “Sister, you look so beautiful, I was thinking that if you wear this pair of shoes you must be stunningly beautiful ……”
Wen Ning, however, hesitated.
Before actually delivering the transfer, she shouldn’t have looked at the shoes more than once.
But she still followed the girl’s line of sight as it landed on the pair of CLs together, and she paused, “If you feel that these shoes are unlucky, after all, this was purchased from a widow’s hand, you can actually refuse.”
“Sister, I’m not superstitious,” the young girl downplayed, rushing at her with a sweet smile, “Happiness is in our own hands, I’ll manage my own happiness well.”
Instead, Wen Ning was at a loss for words for a few moments.
This pair of shoes that she didn’t want, but some people’s hearts are yearning for, perhaps, Zhou Yinchu for this pair of shoes, more or less, still took a little effort.
Waiting to actually carry the shoes to the other end of the dining table, she surprisingly grew a trace of contradictory emotions she had never felt before in her heart.
Anxious to get rid of them, yet unwilling to let them go.
The young girl was sensitive enough to catch the flash of hesitation on her face.
She said with a big grin, not caring, “Sister, if this pair of shoes means a lot to you, it’s actually fine if you don’t sell them to me, I can contact another seller, and if I really can’t find them, I’ll just pit Cheng Ming a fortune to buy a new pair.”
The color of the soles was particularly conspicuous against the sun. The splash of red was so colorful that it overpowered all the flowers, and it was a unique existence in this spring.
Everyone has a desire for beauty.
Within the scope of the conditions allow, who does not want to have a pair of big brand high heels, if not forced by life, she may not need so.
She bowed her head and clumsily retrieved the shoes.
Swinging between getting rid of them and not giving them up, the latter emotion gradually prevailed, and in the end, it was the shoes that held her back in the end.
“I can’t say it’s significant, it’s just that I suddenly feel that it’s not very good to sell this pair of shoes ……” in case I bump into him later and he asks about them.
Although this possibility is not very big, Jiangcheng is so crowded, not anyone can easily reunite.
If not he handed this room card, then they may not have crossed paths in the next lifetime.
Wen Ning felt apologetic, in the end, she was the one who put the shoes up on the internet, troubling someone else to make this trip from a long distance, “I know it’s not very nice.”
She tried to make it up to the other party, “What kind of coffee or cake do you want to drink, any order, I’ll treat you.”
“Sister, don’t be so nervous, originally the internet marriage is a thread, we can love you in private and sell you means it’s a good match, I’m just like getting to know one more friend in Jiangcheng,” the little girl didn’t feel chagrined because she didn’t purchase the high heels in her hand, instead she relieved her, “You never owe me anything. You never owe me anything.”
“Some buyers will pick and choose, offline aimless bargaining it, I’m thinking sister so beautiful and kind, really afraid that you run into that kind of people.”
Wen Ning: “Thank you.”
Spinning around, she downgraded her pair of goods that were a bit muddled from her capture in the attic room.
“Sister, let me buy you coffee instead, and do me a favor, okay?” The young girl’s voice was not timid, and invited greatly, “I’m from the north, and I’ve been studying in the local area, and this marriage over here, Jiangcheng doesn’t have any particularly sociable friends, and my family’s relatives are also more boys, and I’d like to ask you to participate in my wedding, and I don’t know if you’d like to do it.”
Wen Ning had a few anxious moments, “But I’ve had a dead husband.”
It was always bad to show up at someone else’s wedding, especially the bride’s side. Wen Ning was easily wrapped up in worldly prejudices to the point where she couldn’t take this step.
There should always be something to avoid between newlyweds.
“But I don’t believe in this,” the girl said with reason, “Besides, if my sister attends my wedding, it’s logical to share my happiness with you, so maybe my sister will meet someone very nice in the future.”
The words had been said to this point.
There was no way she could refuse such an enthusiastic new friend, “Then you discuss it with your family first, if you think you don’t need to avoid it, then I’ll wait for your wedding day to go over earlier to help, after all, I’ve been married before, and I’ve more or less gained a bit of experience.”
“That’s simply too good to be true.”
“One of my college roommates is on her monthly cycle, one is in an overseas research institute and won’t be returning for a while, and only one of my hairdressers is finally willing to come over after my hard work,” she threw in her innate trust between females, “I feel like I can feel at ease with my sister around. ”
The bottom of her eyes glowed, “And we can wear the same shoes!”
Wen Ning hadn’t actually met new people for a long time.
She always felt that she wasn’t young enough, that she had married early, and that there was a natural barrier between her and the girls here, but in the end, there were far more kind-hearted people in the world than she thought, and it wasn’t hard to see that the well-wishers also hoped that she would get out of her last widowed relationship as soon as possible as soon as possible.
But what trapped her, and not only this section it.
Wen Ning sometimes felt that she was simply a bad woman through and through, or at least, much worse than what the opposite side had envisioned.
The two of them exchanged contact information with each other this afternoon.
Wen Ning saw the girl’s avatar, which was a gerbera daisy under the sun, and it looked like it had exuberant vitality.
She fixedly withdrew that pair of CLs.
The line of sight was still complicated.
Carrying that pair of shoes again and walking a long way along the side of the main road of the old town Wen Ning realized that she was screwed up, thinking that in case if she encountered another seller, it was estimated that today’s self would more than likely be scolded.
How can someone clearly already intend to get out of this pair of shoes, things come to a head and do not want to give up?
Wen Ning blamed herself.
She has clearly analyzed rationally, this pair of shoelaces can not give her other value, the only only change into the form of money can let her and her side of the people live better.
But she just wanted to keep his shoes, even though the occasions when she used them were few and far between, and even though they were mostly sitting in the cupboard covered in a layer of dust.
The sharp-eyed Special Assistant Lin instantly spotted Wen Ning’s figure at the curb.
For the cold white skin of this General Zhou’s white moonlight, in fact, it is difficult not to discover, mainly because the other party’s complexion is too white and soft, so that even without showing his face, passers-by can not ignore its dusty temperament.
Being in the co-driver’s seat, he attentively urged the driver in the car to drive slower.
However, on second thought, General Manager Zhou insisted on taking this road that might encounter a traffic jam at any time, most likely because he also wanted to take his chances and see if he could see the woman’s silhouette.
“Mr. Zhou.”
The assistant in the car who was routinely reporting was waved to stop.
Understanding that his deduction was not wrong, Assistant Lin could not help but turn around and look at General Manager Zhou one more time, only to see his defeated look turn around greatly, as if he had glimpsed something unimaginable.
Zhou Yinchu muffled his voice for a long time and snapped, “She didn’t bother to sell.”
Assistant Lin suddenly remembered the thirty orders for high heels that President Zhou had asked him to arrange this morning, which were simply too many to be somewhat outrageous, and at this moment, the unanswerable question finally had a solution.
It turned out that it was the high-heeled shoes that the president had personally delivered that had been sold by Ms. Wen.
Mr. Zhou saw Miss Wen carrying his shoes out of the cafe, thought it was Miss Wen did not want to sell, chose to cherish his heart, so his mood is very different. But how should he politely remind himself of this boss, is there a possibility that Miss Wen did want to sell her high heels, and as a result, people buyers did not sell them because of various reasons, such as the lack of invoices and whatnot …… so they did not sell them.
The model of the Maybach, which is like flowing water, elegantly sped past.
His boss was certain like never before, “I knew it, she wouldn’t even take those shoes to sell.”