Getting Rich is Hard? My Supermarket Connects Time! - Chapter 029

Getting Rich is Hard? My Supermarket Connects Time!
Chapter 029 – Urging Xiao Yingchun to cut ties with her relatives (1)

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Xiao Yingchun stood up. “Auntie, why are you here at this hour? Did you come alone?”

Ge Chunyu sneered. “I’ve heard all about it—you’ve been doing big business, moving goods all over the city. They say you transferred tens of thousands of boxes of compressed biscuits, and made hundreds of thousands from just one deal? With that much profit, why are you still unwilling to pay off that little bit of money you owe?

I wasn’t capable enough back then. I was duped into thinking that this shop would be profitable. After taking over your little convenience store, not only did I fail to make money, I lost money instead.

You said you wanted it back, so I returned it to you without asking for a single penny. Now that you’re successful, why should I have to keep pouring money into it?”

Xiao Yingchun was dumbfounded.

Things were perfectly clear, yet the way Ge Chunyu put it made it sound like everything was her fault?! What had she done to make the woman think she was so easy to push around?

Was it because back then, when her aunt wanted to take over the shop, she hadn’t taken her money—so now the woman thought she was a person who was easily bullied?

Ge Chunyu kept rambling on, “I don’t want you to give me any more money. I’ll just treat this past year as working for free. But you can’t keep making me lose money, can you…”

Xiao Yingchun cut her off. “Auntie, since you put it so reasonably, how about this: tomorrow, I’ll invite Grandma’s family, Uncle’s family, and your family. Let’s all sit down together for a meal.”

“We’ll sort everything out clearly and come up with a solution, alright?”

That finally satisfied Ge Chunyu—what she wanted was for Xiao Yingchun to give in.

“Fine then. Once you’ve booked a place, post it in the family group chat.” Ge Chunyu twisted her plump waist and left.

Xiao Yingchun sat behind the counter, holding in her anger as she stared blankly ahead. Her mother had three siblings: the aunt was the eldest, the uncle was second, and her mother was the youngest.

From childhood, her uncle, being the only boy, was showered with unconditional affection; her aunt, with her sharp tongue, was favored as well.

Only her mother, the youngest, quiet and clumsy with words, had been thoroughly overlooked.

So much so that later, when her grandparents’ house was demolished, and six new apartments were divided up, her uncle got three, her aunt got two, and her grandparents kept one for themselves—her mother alone was left with nothing.

All her mother got was that plot of land where no houses had been built yet.

Back then, her aunt had said: “That land might be demolished for redevelopment one day. If it is, you’ll get even more money. What a bargain for the little sister!”

But no one really knew if the land would ever be included in a demolition project.

Her mother said nothing, just asked her father to borrow money to build a two-story house on it.

The family settled there, and that very year Xiao Yingchun was born. They’d been living there ever since—for more than twenty years.

The place was on the outskirts of the city. After the initial wave of demolition projects had passed, most people simply assumed that whatever wasn’t torn down by then would never be touched again.

Yet her aunt had been able to make such empty promises with such self-assurance, as if she were absolutely right.

“Little Yingchun, why are you sitting here crying?” Ye Yubin’s voice rang out.

He was on his way to drink, locking his door behind him, when he spotted Xiao Yingchun wiping her tears behind the counter of the small shop.

Xiao Yingchun quickly brushed her tears away. “It’s nothing. Uncle Ye, where are you headed?”

“Don’t try to change the subject! Something’s wrong, isn’t it? Tell me what it is. I’ll help you think of a way.” Uncle Ye’s expression grew serious as he stared at her.

Knowing that he meant it, Xiao Yingchun decided to tell the truth.

After she explained what had just happened with her aunt, Ye Yubin frowned, hesitated a moment, then said, “If a small sum of money can make her leave, that’s for the best. In fact, the sooner you cut ties, the better.”

Xiao Yingchun was stunned. Who on earth tells someone to break off relations with their own relatives?

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