The NO.1 Food Stall in the Wasteland novel Chapter 271

Chapter 271: Chapter 271: Dinner Party

Liu Qiang’s eyes went wide, choked speechless by her sharp retort.

’Liu Yaozu is the family’s only male heir, their only hope for continuing the family line. How could he possibly be a good-for-nothing? How could Shen Lu compare him to a shabby rental unit?!’

Seeing Liu Qiang and Shen Lu about to fight, Yang Jing weakly spoke up, "Little Deer, don’t say that about Yaozu. The money... if it’s gone, it’s gone. It wasn’t much anyway, just twenty or thirty Star Coins."

"You spendthrift!" Liu Qiang couldn’t win an argument with Shen Lu, but scolding his own wife was a different story—she’d never talk back. "Go on, earn twenty Star Coins for me right now! Don’t you know what’s going on? It’s the sandstorm season! It’s even hard to scavenge at the junkyard!"

Shen Lu said, "Is taking your anger out on her going to help? It wasn’t her who dirtied the house, nor was it her who brought over those shady characters to disturb the neighbors. You’re completely blind to what Liu Yaozu did and just pick on the honest one?"

His neck tight with anger, Liu Qiang seethed, "Shen Lu, you have the gall to talk? Whose fault do you think it is that I ended up like this?!"

He angrily pointed to his injured thigh. "Couldn’t you have found a decent place to work? You had to provoke enemies who came for revenge and even got us involved!"

Shen Lu crossed her arms. "That’s right. If you hadn’t jumped out to claim me as family, they probably wouldn’t have found you. But who was it that insisted on claiming me?"

’Just want the benefits without any of the responsibility?’

"You!" Liu Qiang was so angry he was speechless, wishing he could stand up and slap Shen Lu across the face.

"Mom, we’re having a staff dinner at the restaurant tonight. Do you want to come?" Shen Lu couldn’t be bothered to argue with Liu Qiang any longer. She hadn’t come here just to trade barbs.

"Ah, I..." If they hadn’t been fighting, Yang Jing would have agreed immediately. But with Shen Lu and Liu Qiang having argued so fiercely, and with the invitation extended only to her, going felt like betraying her husband. She was very hesitant.

"You’re not allowed to go!" Liu Qiang said menacingly.

"Go!" Liu Yaozu’s voice was even louder than Liu Qiang’s. "Mom, you should go!"

’The food at the dinner will definitely be lavish. She can pack up some leftovers and bring them back for me to eat.’

"Dinner’s at 6 PM. If you’re late, don’t bother coming." Shen Lu tossed out the sentence and made a cool exit.

When it came to Yang Jing, Shen Lu felt a certain pity for her misfortune mixed with anger at her lack of fight. Still, on some level, she could understand her.

After all, Yang Jing was a person with little worldly experience, an introverted and timid personality. She was desperate to rely on the men in the family, lacking her own opinions and courage.

But she was not the "real" Shen Lu. She lacked that instinctual, filial devotion a daughter might have for her mother. She would help her, but not endlessly.

Back in the front of the restaurant, quite a few people had already arrived. They had all come on foot and were covered in a fair bit of sand. After entering, they first took off their jackets to shake off the sand, then patted down each other’s hair and pants.

The cleaning robot, Kuku, got to work, cleaning up the sand on the floor with swift precision.

’System products really are a cut above the rest.’ The cleaning robot’s workload had increased significantly over the past two days, and Shen Lu had worried that it might break down from cleaning up so much sand every day.

It turned out her worries were for nothing. The cleaning robot was running normally, without any problems at all.

Wang Xiaohui and Wang Xiaoci, shedding the timidity of their first visit, happily went off to play with Xiao Lang.

Grandma Wang and Mrs. Wang greeted Shen Lu and thanked her for taking care of their family.

"Wang Daguo is a very earnest and hardworking employee." Shen Lu gave him her affirmation. "I’ll be entrusting him with more important work in the future."

Shen Lu was quick to make such promises. As for when Wang Daguo would actually get a taste of this "pie," that was another question entirely.

Deng Ying arrived, leading a little girl by the hand who shared a fair resemblance with her.

"Boss, this is my little sister, Deng Xuan." Deng Ying gently pushed her sister toward Shen Lu. "Xuanxuan, hurry and say hello."

"Boss Shen, hello." Deng Xuan was very well-behaved, doing exactly as Deng Ying instructed. Her eyes, like black grapes, looked at Shen Lu with curiosity.

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