My sisters drove me away, and now they are crying and begging for my forgiveness?

Su Xiuping walked out of the store holding her breath, and at a glance she saw three people standing not far away. She was startled and subconsciously wanted to scream.

Lin An immediately made a gesture to silence her and pointed outside.

"What's your name? What's wrong?" The next second, Jiang Qing's impatient voice came from behind Su Xiuping.

Su Xiuping calmed herself down and said, "Nothing, I just accidentally slipped." Then she followed Lin An to a secluded alley.

"Lin An, Ting Han, when did you come? Did you hear our conversation just now?" Su Xiuping thought she had said nothing wrong, but she still felt a little embarrassed as if she was trying to provoke someone.

She had met Lin An and Qin Tinghan, but had never met Tan Weiwei. However, she heard from Jiang Qing that Lin An had a girlfriend, so she must be his girlfriend.

"Hello, Aunt Su, I'm Tan Weiwei, Lin An's girlfriend." Tan Weiwei met Su Xiuping's puzzled gaze and nodded politely.

Su Xiuping also smiled and nodded: "Xiao An is so lucky to have such a beautiful girlfriend."

Su Xiuping's smile deepened, but the current situation was not suitable for casual chatting, so she looked at Lin An and Qin Tinghan.

Qin Tinghan kept his head down, not knowing what he was thinking about.

Lin An didn't expect that he would have to refresh his understanding of Jiang Qing again today.

"You two, think more about yourselves. It's not that Aunt Su is trying to sow discord between you and Jiang Qing, but your mother is not in a clear mind right now. Fortunately, you two are old enough to take care of yourselves and your sister. If you need any help, just let me know."

Lin An was very touched that Su Xiuping could say this and smiled slightly: "Thank you Aunt Su."

Su Xiuping wanted to say something, but turned around and said, "By the way, you came all the way here, is there something going on?"

Lin An hasn't been here for a long time, but he came specially to see all the people here. From Lin An's words, it can be seen that Jiang Qing's family changes are not far away.

It was Jiang Qing's own fault. She didn't know how to enjoy her good life and had to find a man to make her suffer.

"Aunt Su, it's too tiring to run the store with only the two of you. I plan to hire two more people to help. What do you think?" In terms of copyright ownership, the delicatessen also has a part of Su Xiuping. This is his promise to help the mayor's family find jobs. He originally came here to discuss it with Su Xiuping, but he didn't expect to run into such a big drama.

"Okay," Su Xiuping said quickly, "Since you've all heard it, I won't hide it anymore. Your mother promised not to go out and sell braised meat privately anymore. I don't think she can do it for long. It's better to find someone to help her as soon as possible to prepare. Otherwise, even if the business is not good now, I can't handle it alone."

Lin An nodded, his expression natural: "Okay, then Aunt Su will be responsible for recruiting workers? Find an assistant who can work well with you."

"Okay, leave it to me." Su Xiuping responded without hesitation, and added, "Your mother suddenly proposed a shift system a few days ago. If I come in the morning, she won't come, and if she comes, I won't come."

Having said this, Su Xiuping paused for a moment before telling Lin An some of her suspicions.

Lin An and the other two fell silent. The one who couldn't believe it the most was Qin Tinghan: "Aunt Su means that my mother brought Yang Hua to the store to steal the marinade recipe?"

The recipe for the marinade was originally created by Jiang Qing himself, but he was worried that the recipe would be coveted by bad people, so he gave it to Lin An for safekeeping and also applied for a patent. Now the recipe belongs to Lin An.

Because of this, Lin An only thought of the delicatessen as a gift for his mother's retirement, but he didn't expect that his enthusiasm would be met with betrayal from within.

"This, is impossible?" Qin Tinghan's face was full of disbelief. No matter how partial his mother was, she would not ruin her own store for an old man.

It's not just ruining the business, it's also stealing. Jiang Qing wants to change the name of the entire delicatessen to Yang's.

Qin Tinghan shuddered when he thought of this.

"Aunt Su, thank you for your advice. Please keep this matter confidential until I can come up with a solution. In case our colleagues find out, the delicatessen will be in real trouble."

"Don't worry, I have put a lot of effort into this store, and I will definitely not shoot myself in the foot."

Lin An and Su Xiuping were both brief and to the point. When they heard that Jiang Qing took the marinade packets from the store home to braise the meat and then sold it under the store's name, they knew that Jiang Qing had his eye on the marinade packets.

She is certainly not satisfied with the current situation of just getting a fixed salary.

This is because he has a "policy", and Jiang Qing has a "countermeasure" under the instigation of the Yang family. In addition, the two are mother and son, so even if the Yang family strangles them to death, even if it is exposed, Lin An cannot make a big deal out of it.

Su Xiuping sighed: "I don't want to sow discord between you and her, but the delicatessen is a collaboration between two companies. It's better to cut losses in time than to tear each other apart in the end." She sighed secretly in her heart.

"Aunt Su, I'll handle it as soon as possible, you go back first."

Lin An stood at the entrance of the alley. When he saw Su Xiuping return to the store, he took Qin Tinghan and Tan Weiwei back to the car behind the crowd of vendors.

"Ah'an," Qin Tinghan said in the car, his heart aching, "What are you going to do? I always feel that mom wouldn't be stupid enough to come and harm her own people, and she knows that this is a store you and the mayor have cooperated with. If she has any ulterior motives, she won't be able to escape if the mayor investigates."

"Do you think she still cares?" Lin An glanced at Qin Tinghan behind him in the rearview mirror and asked back unhappily.

Perhaps because he was not raised by Jiang Qing since childhood, his feelings for Jiang Qing are naturally not as deep as Qin Tinghan's. He can understand Qin Tinghan.

"She quietly uses the store's name and sells the marinated meat in the store's marinade bags. Do you think she cares about me?"

"Even if she openly asked me for the ownership of the marinade formula and said she wanted to work on her own, I still felt that she still cared about me being her son."

But Jiang Qing chose to take a different approach.

Qin Tinghan was speechless, as if she was the one who made the mistake: "Aan, I'm sorry."

"You're not wrong. You don't have to apologize to me on her behalf." Lin An's tone was very indifferent, so indifferent that to Jiang Qing, he was just a nominal title.

In the evening, Jiang Qing returned to his new home as if nothing had happened. Today, he brought back some seafood: "I'm back and bought some crayfish. You can eat them after I heat them up."

Jiang Qing was in a bad mood because of the quarrel with Su Xiuping, but he still had to force a smile in front of Lin An and Qin Tinghan.

Lin An was sitting on the sofa opposite the door, waiting for her. After she put down the plastic bag in her hand, he said, "Mom, I have something to talk to you about. Come and sit down."

Jiang Qing's heart skipped a beat and he thought to himself that this was not good.

"Is it urgent? If not, I'll cook first."

"Mom, why are you feeling guilty?" Lin An admired Jiang Qing's calm appearance when he saw her, but he didn't want to let her get to the point, so he pointed it out directly.

Jiang Qing was panicking, but she hid it on her face: "What, what do you mean by guilty conscience? Mom doesn't understand what you are saying."

"If you don't understand, come here and let me explain it to you."

There's no way to escape. Jiang Qing really seems to be asking for a beating.

He sat down nervously, not daring to look Lin An in the eye, and could only steal glances at him from time to time.

"I've handed the recruitment over to Aunt Su. I've asked her to recruit three people."

Jiang Qing was stunned: "Are three people too many? There are five people in the store, so this is not evenly distributed."

"Yeah," Lin An smiled, "So Mom doesn't have to go to the store anymore."

Jiang Qing was stunned. Her first reaction was that Su Xiuping had complained to Lin An about her selling braised meat.

Didn’t she promise not to tell Lin An?

Jiang Qing was confused and angry: "Did Su Xiuping say anything to you? I know she is a bitch. Don't listen to her nonsense. She just wants to sow discord between us mother and son."

"You know whether it's nonsense or not." Lin An looked at Jiang Qing's eyes again. The softness and warmth in the past had been lost. Instead, they were replaced by a cold silver-white. The lines at the corners of his eyes and on his face were also clear and hard, outlining a kind of majesty that could not be violated. "I went to the store this morning. Unfortunately, I heard your conversation with Aunt Su."

"What?" Jiang Qing was so scared that he almost fell down. He quickly grabbed Lin An's hand and asked for understanding. "Anzi, I, I just want to make more money. I don't have any other ideas. The money you pay me every month is not enough. I, I am sorry for you..."