Switched Marriage The Coddled Little Wife novel Chapter 117

Chapter 117: Chapter 117 A Lifetime of Experience

Lin Chuxia greeted him enthusiastically, "Brother Li, please come in. How come you’re passing by here today?"

She led him to a quiet corner off to the side, wiped the table and chairs again, and then waved for Chen Chunhua to bring over some food.

"Don’t fuss over me, I’ve already eaten. I saw that the store had just opened, so I came in to check it out."

Hearing this, Lin Chuxia asked Chen Chunhua to bring over a pot of tea.

The new store opened today, and she hadn’t revealed the news to anyone.

In life, there’s no need to overly connect with too many people. You can know a lot of people, but it’s best to keep the relationships "semi-acquainted."

The most comfortable relationships between people are those where you simply know each other, appreciate each other, and maintain a distance.

Brother Li was someone she had actively approached in the past, and he was an important person on her path forward. The more that was the case, the less she could afford to overuse their relationship.

Of course, it was another matter if he took the initiative to come.

Li Jian looked around the store and admired the woman from the bottom of his heart, "I really didn’t expect you to open another store like this so quickly. I see the store across from the food factory is losing business to you. You’ve got guts to compete with the food factory."

Lin Chuxia poured him a glass of water, "Brother Li, you’re making fun of me again. I don’t have that capability. It’s just that I happened to fancy this storefront, and it happened to be near the food factory’s store."

Li Jian accepted the water with a smile, but said nothing. He just listened to her words.

"I see the business in the store isn’t bad. To have so many people on the opening day, the customers won’t be few in the future."

"Then I’ll take that as Brother Li’s blessing," Lin Chuxia courteously replied, "How have you been lately, Brother Li? The vegetable station isn’t busy now, is it?"

Now that it was early winter, there wasn’t much left in the fields except cabbage and radishes.

"It’s been okay. This year, the vegetable station has stored a large batch of winter reserve cabbages, and now we’re waiting to ship these out before the Spring Festival. Previous sales were good, and I hope it won’t let me down this time. I really admire you, though; you act immediately without hesitation, unlike me who looks before leaping."

"My situation is different from Brother Li’s. My store has nothing; if it fails, I’ll just lose some money. But for Brother Li, it’s the hope of the whole vegetable station," and his own future.

Lin Chuxia didn’t explicitly state the latter part of the sentence; those who understood would understand.

"But Brother Li needn’t worry too much. The market is just transforming, and everyone is crossing the river by feeling the stones. Even if we fail, the sky won’t fall. We fear stagnation due to hesitation more than failure, right? Besides, even if we make a mistake, it’s still an experience. We eat our fill with the last bite, but it’s definitely not just because of that last bite."

Li Jian suddenly understood, and it seemed as if the heavy stones weighing on his heart these past days were instantly lifted.

Heaven knows how much psychological pressure the storage of hundreds of thousands of pounds of cabbage at the vegetable station had put on him.

Picking up his teacup, he clinked it with Lin Chuxia’s, "I still have to say, young lady, sitting down and chatting with you really clears my mind."

Lin Chuxia picked up her tea and drank it in one go, "That’s because Brother Li respects me."

Broad-mindedness and vision are but the experiences of her lifetime.

In anything, if you do it with the possibility of failure in mind, you may succeed. If you don’t do it out of fear, then you’re left with nothing.

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A busy day, and even with ample preparation for the opening, the Bun Shop sold out and closed early.

Lin Chuxia gathered the staff in the new shop; today the new shop officially opened, and their own store had officially divided the work.