Chuan Shu Qi Leng: I own a department store

"It's normal for pregnant women to have such emotions, and you don't need to blame yourself. After all, what you need most at this time is my brother's company. After this mission is over, you can't let him go out again, at least until you give birth to the baby safely."

The two of them slowly returned to where they had just sat, only to find that there was someone sitting there, Mao Qingqing, the daughter-in-law of the second uncle of the Yuan family.

Mao Qingqing kept staring at the pickled plums on the table, swallowing her saliva from time to time.

Seeing Xu Wanning and Tao Manman coming over, she quickly stood up and subconsciously covered her stomach with her hands.

She was wearing bulky clothes in winter, but Mao Qingqing herself was quite thin, so it was hard to tell whether she was pregnant or not.

"Um, sorry, I saw your pickled plums were delicious just now, so I took a second look."

Xu Wanning smiled and said, "There's nothing to be embarrassed about. If you want to eat it, just take it and eat it." Xu Wanning took a dried plum and handed it to Mao Qingqing, "I dried this myself using green plums. I didn't add anything else, so it tastes purely sour. Most people find it hard to accept this taste. Try it first. If you like it, I'll give you more."

"Thank you." After thanking him, Mao Qingqing quickly put the dried plums into her mouth and began to chew them happily.

"It's delicious! The best prunes I've ever tasted!"

"You... don't feel it's sour?" Tao Manman only felt a toothache. She had only taken a small bite and felt sore in her stomach that she retched for a long time. But Mao Qingqing didn't react at all. She kept praising the food for being delicious. It was really abnormal.

Mao Qingqing smiled a little embarrassedly: "To be honest, I'm pregnant. When I couldn't eat before, I wanted to eat something sour. My wife also found a lot of sour things, but I always felt that they were a little lacking in taste. Today's pickled plums are really to my liking."

"It's strange, before I got pregnant I hated sour food the most. I always felt it made my teeth ache. I didn't expect my appetite to change so much now."

These are all changes caused by hormones in the body and are actually normal.

Tao Manman couldn't eat sour food, but Mao Qingqing loved it, so Xu Wanning simply gave all the dried plums to Mao Qingqing, about half a pound.

"Eat first, and tell me when you're done. I'll find time to bring it to you."

The Yuan family split up after old Yuan passed away, but the yard was big enough, so the three brothers still lived together. Xu Wanning had met Mao Qingqing several times before, and they were not very familiar with each other, but she knew him.

"Then I won't be polite with you. By the way, Wan Ning, I want to tell you something. You'd better understand it, but you must not tell anyone that it was me who said it."

Seeing Mao Qingqing's mysterious look, Xu Wanning subconsciously tilted her ear over.

"Do you see that girl over there? She's my aunt's daughter, Yang Jiali."

Xu Wanning looked in the direction of Mao Qingqing's finger and saw a sweet-looking girl who was sitting and talking with Xu Huajing and other elders. She didn't know what she said, but it made the elders laugh.

"She looks harmless, but she's actually very cunning. When I came back from your house that day, my aunt and my third aunt were chatting together, discussing the gift and dowry for my eldest brother and Yuqing. It happened that Yang Jiali came to our house to look for my aunt. She heard that your aunt's family was well off, so she became interested."

"She is about the same age as Yuqing, and she has been competing with Yuqing since they were young. Two years ago, she started dating someone whose family is powerful. She often boasted about this in front of Yuqing, and even said that Yuqing would never be better than her in finding a marriage partner."

"But the result was good. The man didn't like her at all. After less than a month of dating, he broke up with her naturally. She was depressed for a long time afterwards. Anyway, Yuqing hadn't found a partner yet, so she was not in a hurry."

When Yang Jiali knew that Yuan Yuqing had found Lin Maoqing, she didn't care at first.

Although Lin Maoqing has a promising future, his father has retired from his high position and will never be in the center of power in his life. Although his mother has made some money doing business abroad, the family background is far inferior to that of the Yuan family.

So, although Yang Jiali was angry that Yuan Yuqing was going to get married before her, she didn't take it seriously.

It was not until she returned home that she heard from her mother that the man Yuan Yuqing was looking for to marry was actually one of the shareholders of No. 2 Store. He received several thousand yuan in dividends every quarter and had bought two houses with separate entrances and courtyards in Beijing.

In the past few years, housing was tight for most families, if not every household. In recent years, with the reform and opening up, houses have been allowed to be rented and sold, so more and more people are buying and selling houses, and the housing market has also improved.

The Yang family's conditions are not better than the Yuan family's. They cannot live in such a large courtyard house, and the family of four is still crowded in an apartment building.

Although a house with stairs sounds high-end, only those who live in it know how depressing it is.

Yang Jiali's salary is not low, and she has thought about buying a house before. It doesn't have to be too big, just big enough for her to live in.

But the rate at which housing prices are rising is several times faster than her salary, and she really doesn't have the ability to buy a house.

Now, when she heard that the person Yuan Yuqing was looking for not only had a good future, but also had two houses in Beijing, and most importantly, he would receive several thousand yuan in dividends every quarter, she became so jealous that her eyes were about to turn red.

Her monthly salary of just over a hundred yuan is considered high among the younger generation, but even so, it is still far from the dividends of several thousand yuan each quarter.

But Yang Jiali also knew that everyone in the Yuan family welcomed the marriage of Yuan Yuqing and Lin Maoqing.

Even though she is the niece of the Yuan family, if she dares to interfere between Yuan Yuqing and Lin Maoqing, not to mention the Yuan family, even her parents will not forgive her.

What's more, Lin Maoqing was obviously deeply in love with Yuan Yuqing. Even if she wanted to, he might not be interested in her.

After Yang Jiali made inquiries from many sources, she learned that Lin Maoqing had a younger brother from the same mother, so she set her sights on Lin Yaozong and tried to take him down.

"I know that as a member of the Yuan family, it's inappropriate for me to tell you this, but I really can't stand what Yang Jiali has done. I've been married for more than a year, and she has been comparing herself with Yuqing, but unfortunately, she can't compare with Yuqing in every aspect. So, even if she likes your cousin, she only likes his conditions, not him as a person."