1990s: Spring Water Family

Chapter 77 The Clingy Sisters
My cousin has a sweet tongue, and what she said was especially comforting: "If you hadn't come with us, Grandma wouldn't have agreed to let us go to the night market. It was also because you reacted quickly and shook off that drunkard."

"Uncle, you can have it."

Lin Xiyu also chimed in, "We'll need your help hauling goods in the future."

"That's right."

Without saying a word, my cousin stuffed the money into my uncle's pocket.

"Alright then, Uncle won't stand on ceremony."

The uncle chuckled good-naturedly and accepted his niece's kindness.

"Great, I made ten yuan on the first day."

Lin Xiyu was delighted to see this, and happily smoothed out the creases on the banknotes one by one, sorted them according to their denominations, folded them neatly, and put them into her pocket.

"We'll make even more money in the future."

My cousin happily painted a rosy picture for her: "One day is nothing. With so many people buying, it could be a hundred, or even a thousand a day."

"Yeah, I believe you."

Lin Xiyu truly lives up to her reputation as my younger sister, showing tremendous support.

"Hahaha."

My cousin was amused and laughed heartily.

The three—uncle, nephew, and uncle—returned home safely before 10:30 a.m., without any serious incident.

Grandma sat under the streetlight outside the gate to cool off, watching the electric tricycle turn the corner from the alleyway. Her heart, which had been hanging in suspense all night, finally calmed down at that moment.

"Grandma, we're back."

"Guess how much money we made?"

"Ten yuan per person."

"I knew it! Your niece is the best; she's a natural-born businesswoman."

When the two sisters saw their grandmother, they scrambled to jump off the tricycle, each grabbing an arm and frolicking around her.

"Good, good, it's good that you're back."

Grandma didn't care about making money; what she cared about was the safety of her family.

My cousin didn't hear Grandma's praise and kept chattering on and on. Lin Xiyu was also very excited, telling me about things she found interesting.

Grandma couldn't stop smiling as she looked at the two clingy sisters.

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The large bed in the main room was sold, and Lin Xiyu voluntarily gave up her small cubicle so that her grandmother could sleep on the small bed in the inner room. She and her cousin spread out a straw mat and slept on the floor.

The two sisters were used to sharing a bed since they were little, and this was the first time they had slept on the floor.

My cousin complained that the bamboo mat was too hard and uncomfortable, so she tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep.

Lin Xiyu also had something on her mind. Like a movie playing in her mind, she went through all the scenes of her three years of high school with Gu Bin. The image finally settled on Zhang Xiaoqian's sharp and mean face.

Neither of the sisters slept well, and unsurprisingly, the consequence of poor sleep was that they both woke up with panda eyes in the morning.

Their comical appearance is so funny that it makes people want to laugh.

"Let you do it yourself"

Grandma tapped my cousin's messy hair with a palm-leaf fan, laughing and scolding, "You have a perfectly good bed at home, why do you have to sleep on the floor?"

"Ahhh"

My cousin has a bad temper when she wakes up. She yelled irritably and then leaned straight back.

Lin Xiyu reacted quickly and caught her, preventing the tragedy of her hitting her head.

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My aunt prepared breakfast, and my cousin hurriedly ate a few bites before my grandmother chased her off to work at the soy sauce factory.

After washing the dishes, Lin Xiyu took some empty cigarette boxes from the phone booth and glued them onto discarded cardboard boxes to make cigarette billboards.

"Is anyone home?"

Director Zhang of the neighborhood committee walked in from outside the gate with a bandage on his forehead.

"exist."

Lin Xiyu glanced at him and was shocked, her face changing drastically: "Oh dear, Director Zhang, what's wrong with you?"

(End of this chapter)