Reborn in the 1980s: Recapture My Devoted Husband-Chapter 687 - 665: Ye Weijun’s Recklessness

There’s definitely Lin Guozhi’s credit behind this.

She had competed with Lin Wan for over a decade, and in the end, couldn’t surpass her in anything.

Couldn’t surpass her in looks, couldn’t surpass her with men, or in wealth. Finally, she found a husband with family influence, who could overshadow their couple, only to be dealt a fatal blow. Competing with fathers is something she can’t win in this lifetime.

She resented, resented why Lin Guozhi didn’t die abroad, resented why she had such a father. Resented why she wasn’t Lin Wan.

Why wasn’t everything of Lin Wan’s hers, why!

"Ah Qing, Ah Qing, are you there, is there really such a thing?"

Ye Qing snapped back to reality, not wishing to discuss Lin Wan’s family affairs with Grandpa, wiped away tears that unknowingly streamed from her eyes, and countered, "Grandpa, how’s my brother doing recently?"

"What can I say, a stubborn person just like your father, unwilling to spend money to tidy up the chicken coop, the chickens and ducks are almost eaten by the weasels. I reckon he won’t even recover the cost of the feed, I said, if you aren’t capable, don’t fool around with things. He simply won’t listen, and frankly, I’m too lazy to care."

"Oh..." Ye Qing felt indifferent towards Ye Rong. Nowadays, the siblings aren’t as close as newfound friends. Ye Qing had long given up any hope for this brother. She asked casually.

Old Man Qiu inquired about Ye Qing’s situation, and Ye Qing used excuses to brush it past, finally finding a reason to hang up the phone.

Old Man Qiu sighed by the phone, feeling disheartened, knowing full well that Ye Qing’s evasive attitude hinted at the truth. It’s highly likely Ah Qing really served a labor reform sentence.

Sigh, none can be trusted to bring peace!

On this side, Ye Qing hung up the phone and sat inside the room for a long while. Feeling unwilling and jealous about Lin Wan’s father’s return, she was frenziedly obsessed with the thought of flying in front of Lin Wan and tearing this person apart.

The heavens are unfair, why should Lin Wan have such a happy family. Why can’t she have one, why.

Why does she have to endure so much disgrace, so many dark things? Why isn’t she Lin Wan. Why is it her?

No... She won’t let Lin Wan have it easy, she will make Lin Wan taste everything she tasted in the past. Let her taste it piece by piece, only then will it be fair.

Over a decade ago, her mom could make Lin Wan’s family think Lin Guozhi abandoned them, over a decade later, she can still...

Lin Wan, just you wait.

... 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

The store on South Street has been completely finished, and for the past few days, Lin Wan has placed the children in the bakery, running the market with Su Daimei to buy tables and chairs. Lin Wan went back to the same place for the tables, making them the same as before.

The back kitchen didn’t need much, they bought bowls and dishes in an afternoon.

After preparing everything, half a month had passed. After ventilation for half a month, they could open for business.

Lin Wan appointed Su Daimei as the manager of this store. Then transferred six people from the original store over. All were pre-recruited by Xiao Gu and trained for a month.

In the kitchen, there are still two for vegetable preparation, one for washing dishes. Upstairs and downstairs in the front hall require four people. The upstairs in the backyard has private rooms, named by Lin Wan as usual. The downstairs is the main hall, also needing two people, upstairs two people.

Ever since last year’s "storm," the country no longer restricts how many people private businesses can hire, as long as both parties agree and it’s reasonable.

Of course, they still lack manpower now, Lin Wan had Su Daimei recruit a few people these past days. She went to a printing factory to print hundreds of promotional leaflets. Over the days, she had Su Daimei and others distribute them around nearby. Conduct promotional activities.

The store’s name here is still "Shuxiang Pavilion," just with a small South Street store sign appended at the end. This store is much larger than the previous one.

If business booms as expected, the profit should double compared to the other one. Earning back the money for this building this year shouldn’t be a problem.

After everything was ready here, Lin Wan made a phone call to Mom, talking about the situation here. Over there with Mom, only two floors have been built. It’s expected to be three floors. They should finish framing the building before the New Year, after the spring, managing the interior and exterior walls can be quite difficult.

Mom mentioned that when Ying Han designed for them, the upper two floors were directly designed as hotel-style, with rooms upstairs and individual bathrooms inside.

She mentioned private hotels were scarce, in high demand. If they had funds, they could completely run a restaurant on one side and manage accommodation on the other.

Mom thought it was nice, so they went with her design directly during the planning.

Lin Wan listened and couldn’t help but sigh, this little girl has quite a head on her shoulders. A hotel! Sounds good, indeed.

A three-story rectangular building, Ying Han put the hotel entrance on the side. Ahead spreads a ground-floor restaurant. They don’t interfere with each other.

Lin Wan feels this design is somewhat modern, almost like the architecture 30 years later.

....

While Lin Wan was busy with shop matters, Ye Weijun had been searching for Qiu Hualan for over half a month. Qiu Hualan left without leaving him anything, not to mention cooking utensils, there wasn’t even a pot.

These days he’s been eating out all by himself, spent money briskly, and after half a month, the dozens of bucks he had were running out quickly.

Ye Weijun slept until noon, wearing clothes that hadn’t been washed for unknown how many days, unwashed face, messy hair, and went out to buy food like that.

Walking down the road, those unaware might think he was begging.

Met with city people’s strange glances, Ye Weijun felt quite upset.

"Darn it, without a wife by my side, life can’t move forward, Qiu Hualan you wretch, don’t let me find you" Ye Weijun spewed curses, kicking a small stone in frustration.

"Ouch" Unknown to him, the stone hit Du Guangjun’s leg, who happened to be passing by. Du Guangjun frowned, about to have a word, upon seeing the disheveled Ye Weijun.

Du Guangjun had been paying attention to Ye Weijun’s movements these days, knowing he roamed the vicinity searching for Qiu Hualan, undoubtedly exhausted these past days, barely leaving the house, only going out to buy food.

At this moment, Du Guangjun was on his way to see Qiu Hualan, unexpectedly running into Ye Weijun.

This wasn’t what Du Guangjun wanted. Truth be told, he didn’t want much contact with Ye Weijun. Whenever he saw him, he just wanted to beat him up.

"You... you are that Brother Du, right? What a coincidence, I’ve been living here for so long yet never ran into you, I thought you weren’t staying here. Today’s a great day, that I ran into you again" Du Guangjun hoped Ye Weijun wouldn’t recognize him, but evidently wasn’t as he wished.

"You are..." Du Guangjun acted clueless.

"I’m Ye Weijun!" Ye Weijun exclaimed, eagerly pointing towards the door, laughed, "Brother Du, do you remember? Last winter, you ran into me at the gate, saw that I hadn’t eaten for days, and gave me some steamed buns. You kindly took me to the station, even helped me buy my return ticket."

In Ye Weijun’s mind, coming to the city, the person who left the strongest impression was Du Guangjun, because upon arriving in S City, he always faced mocking glares and disdain, yet Brother Du neither cast any strange looks at him nor looked down on him, helped him buy a return ticket, even called him brother.

This good person, he couldn’t forget. These days, while seeking Qiu Hualan, he’d also been looking for traces of Du Guangjun.

"Remembered it now?"

"...Oh, so it’s Brother Ye. You... why are you here?" Du Guangjun "realized," laughed, and asked.

"Ah, long story, I came to find my wife. Meeting Brother Du today, is a great thing, just in time I bought wine and food, head over to my place for a meal"

Du Guangjun smiled and rejected, "No, no, I have something to take care of today, maybe another day."

"Lunch time, what could you have! Come on, let’s head to your place, so I can recognize the door, next time, I’ll come find you directly" Ye Weijun, not caring about it, without courtesy, pushed Du Guangjun further in.

"Brother, I really have errands, tomorrow, tomorrow then."

"Any errand can wait while we have a couple of drinks, come on, it’s just a meal, quick." Ye Weijun didn’t give Du Guangjun a chance to leave.

Making Du Guangjun feel bothered, but he had no choice. Pushed along, they first went to his place.

Ye Weijun wanted to visit his place, Du Guangjun didn’t, not wanting him to know where he lived. He said today’s for recognizing Ye Weijun’s door, today his own home was inconvenient.

Ye Weijun, grandly enthusiastic to catch up with Du Guangjun, wouldn’t pay heed to that.

Thus, Ye Weijun drank with Du Guangjun at his place.

Over half a month away, the place was turned by Ye Weijun into a pigsty, filled with smelly feet and sweaty odors.