Switched Marriage The Coddled Little Wife novel Chapter 68

Chapter 68: Chapter 68: She’s Not Afraid of People, She’s Afraid the Other Isn’t Human

She then addressed everyone else, "Brother Su, later on, distribute some of the cooked food from the pot. It has been a tough day, and it’s all thanks to everyone’s efforts that our cooked dishes sold so well on the very first day. This food is a reward for everyone."

When Lin Chuxia finished speaking, everyone was polite in their words, but they were genuinely delighted inside.

Especially Pang Yongli and Ma Yingzi, who had been jobless since returning to the city and had little savings. To save money, they had been eating cornmeal, with one pancake split into three meals, and only their child could eat wheat flour, meat had not been touched for a month.

Now they not only had salaries, but the shop provided lunch every day with white flour buns, and today they even got some meat to take home to satisfy their son’s cravings. They hadn’t dared to dream of such good days.

At that moment, both of them unanimously decided to work hard. The boss wasn’t stingy, and they knew they had to give a lot more to reciprocate the kindness of their employer.

After arranging the work at the Bun Shop in the afternoon, Lin Chuxia returned to the small courtyard.

Now in the courtyard, she had a separate office all to herself. She took out paper and started drawing plans from memory.

She had surveyed the market, and currently, the small meat grinders available were all manual. The electric ones were only the large types used in food factories, which were unaffordable and unfit for use in their Bun Shop.

She urgently needed a domestic electric meat grinder. Since it was unavailable in the market, she had to come up with a solution herself.

Busy with this task until a voice distracted her; it was Sun Lanlan’s voice in the courtyard. She then put down her pen.

It was already dark.

Sun Lanlan and Sun Bingnan had finished work and returned to the courtyard for rest, where their dormitory was located. Seeing the light in Lin Chuxia’s office, Sun Lanlan knocked and came in.

"Why haven’t you left? It’s already dark and you haven’t had dinner, have you? We were just about to cook some noodles, come eat with us."

Lin Chuxia hadn’t realized it was so late and, being alone for dinner if she went back, accepted their invitation and ate dinner with the Sun siblings.

Just after dinner, the room suddenly went dark—it was a power outage.

Electricity supply was still underdeveloped in the country, and even cities experienced outages. It was normal in rural areas, where power was stable only during holidays. frёeweɓηovel.coɱ

This was exactly why many small household appliances couldn’t become popular.

With high costs and restricted use, Lin Chuxia knew this situation would soon improve.

The street lights went out too, and everything outside was pitch black. Sun Bingnan quickly volunteered to walk Lin Chuxia back home.

Lin Chuxia didn’t refuse; in such darkness, she wasn’t afraid of people—she could defend herself against bad intentions, but was wary of something other than humans.

She wasn’t an atheist; after all, she herself was a reborn person.

Before they reached Qin Family Village, they encountered Qin Han who had come to meet her.

After saying goodbye to Sun Bingnan, Lin Chuxia thanked Qin Han, "Big brother, you’ve worked hard in the fields all day too. You needn’t have come specifically to pick me up. The people at the shop are very nice, and if it’s too late, they would have escorted me."

Qin Han shone his flashlight on the departing figure, confirming it was a man, his expression a bit somber.

Turning back to Lin Chuxia with a smile, he said, "I’d just be idly sitting at home anyway, it’s kind of refreshing to take a walk."

He thought to himself – exactly because people in the shop are too kind, it makes one anxious. As the saying goes, unsolicited favors mean ill-intentions or betrayal. A weasel paying respects to a chicken is up to no good.

With the shop staff being so earnest, he had to step up. If by the next time his brother got back, what if his wife had been lured away?

His brother had asked him to take care of the family before he left; he couldn’t just lose someone.

But as an uncle, he really couldn’t express these concerns directly to his sister-in-law, nor did he know what exactly his brother wrote back to her, or if he had stressed anything particularly.