Rich in the 70s: I Made a Rugged Veteran a Millionaire novel Chapter 66

Chapter 66: Chapter 66: The Crisis of Competing for Favor

Jiang Cheng’s smile was so blatant, it left Lin Jiaojiao’s brain oxygen-deprived.

"Sorry for bothering you, Comrade Yu, to come all this way."

Jiang Cheng invited Comrade Yu inside, thinking it was better to discuss money matters indoors rather than in the yard.

Li Chunxiang, being naturally sociable, followed them inside with her bag in hand.

In the blink of an eye, only Lin Jiaojiao was left in the yard, fuming with anger!

"I’m so mad!"

Lin Jiaojiao gave a flying kick, breaking a piece of coal briquette.

A slight breeze blew the black coal dust right into her mouth.

"Ptui ptui—"

"You heartless one! Why don’t you kick your own stuff!"

The eldest daughter-in-law of the Zhou family from the other side placed her left hand on her hip, pointing at Lin Jiaojiao with her right hand, shouting loudly.

"Come out and see for yourselves, old Lin family is bullying again!" 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

With Sister Zhou’s shouting, several people from the Zhou family and Lin family came out. Jiang Cheng had just received payment and was escorting Comrade Yu out.

Comrade Yu left Jiang Cheng’s house carrying a bundle of fresh chives, looking upbeat.

No wonder the supervisor had his eye on Jiang Cheng, who was supposed to be a temporary worker.

The man really knew how to handle things.

At this moment, Sister Zhou was accusing Lin Jiaojiao of kicking their coal briquettes.

"I saw her kick one today, who knows how many she kicked when we weren’t looking before?"

"I was wondering why our coal briquettes kept missing, it must have been you kicking them!"

"I don’t care, your Lin family must compensate us with fifty coal briquettes to make up for all the ones from before too."

After Sister Zhou finished speaking, her sisters-in-law and mother-in-law immediately agreed, complaining about their perpetually missing coal briquettes.

Mother Lin, exasperated, shouted back, "You’re slandering us! Our family has two incomes, why would we need your lousy coal briquettes!"

"If you were really missing them, you would have hollered so loudly the whole courtyard would know, no need to wait until now to say something! You’re just trying to extort us!"

Sister Zhou felt a moment of guilt.

"Stop with the nonsense! Your Lin Jiaojiao kicked them, if she can kick one, she can kick two!"

One family didn’t want to pay, the other insisted on extorting, the argument only got more heated.

Uncle Sun, the head of the courtyard, appeared again to mediate these trivial disputes which arose frequently.

In the end, the Lin family compensated the Zhou family with ten coal briquettes.

Mother Lin was fuming, glared at Lin Jiaojiao and slapped her.

"Slap!"

"Get back inside, do I have to invite you in?!"

"You really think I owe you something every single day!"

Lin Jiaojiao held her face, tears streaming down, looking up to see Jiang Cheng smiling smugly.

On the steps, Jiang Cheng stood on the left with Li Chunxiang, and on the right was Shen Yue standing on a stool.

Li Chunxiang was earnestly peeling the white strings off an orange, making it completely clean, before feeding it to Jiang Cheng’s mouth.

On the right, Shen Yue was diligently shelling sunflower seeds, gently blowing on her palms to separate the shells from the kernels.

A thought flashed through Lin Jiaojiao’s mind: she might really be no match for Jiang Cheng.

Before she could grasp it, her mother tugged her away forcefully.

"Get in quickly!"

Reluctantly, Lin Jiaojiao cried out, "Mom—"

Having enjoyed the spectacle, Jiang Cheng turned to head back inside, followed swiftly by Li Chunxiang and Shen Yue.

"Jiang Cheng... when should I come over today?"

Li Chunxiang, quickening her pace, caught up with Jiang Cheng to ask.

Trailing behind, Shen Yue felt a growing sense of urgency.

Today she can peel oranges, maybe tomorrow she’ll be peeling sunflower seeds?

Will her spot peeling sunflower seeds be taken over??

No way, she needed to form an alliance!

Shen Yue ran to find Shen Xing, who was doing homework, closing the door to whisper something.

In the main room, Jiang Cheng told Li Chunxiang to come over an hour later.

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