Rebirth: My Mother is a Virgin Mary

"Of course you can use a credit card. It's very convenient if you use it properly. Don't your customers also use credit cards to buy clothes? It's just that they swipe it on my father's card." I picked up the QR code that fell on the ground, tore it up and threw it into the trash can. "But you have to use your own card!"

Ms. Lin was puzzled: "But..."

Cheng Xinyuan couldn't help it any longer: "Oh my god! You should go out more often! If not, ask your customers who have credit cards. You can't just believe everything my dad says!" He gasped and stroked his chest. "Now I know what our teacher meant when he said that being a good student doesn't mean having a high IQ! Sister, our mom is a living example! Ah~~~~!"

I smiled and flicked Cheng Xinyuan's head. "It's not that our mom has a low IQ. She's just been stuck in this store. For her husband and children, the farthest place she's ever been is the provincial capital. But when she goes to the provincial capital to buy goods, she only goes there. She only knows what's going on outside from what the customers tell her. It's not her fault. Don't say that about mom!"

I turned to Ms. Lin again. She looked at me in confusion. I felt sorry for her. It was not her fault that she was short-sighted. "Mom," I said briskly, "Do you know what kind of credit card customers banks like the most? Individual business owners like you, who have the ability to spend and pay back. Wouldn't it be better for you to apply for it yourself?"

"But your dad said that applying for a credit card depends on academic qualifications..."

"He was lying to you! He just doesn't want you to have it. If you have it, he won't have the chance to get money from you!" Cheng Xinyuan was so anxious that he was turning around in circles.

"It does look at your education, but it's not just your education! It also looks at your work and spending power. Do you think you're not qualified? Believe it or not, you applied for a credit card faster than my dad and got a higher credit limit than him? No, our store has been open for quite a few years, haven't you ever encountered door-to-door sales?" I stroked my forehead again...

"Of course I have, but your dad told me that they are all lies and told me not to believe them..."

"My dad said, my dad said, my dad said! Does what he said count as an imperial decree? That's why you listen to it like that!" Cheng Xinyuan was on the verge of collapse.

"You have been used to his pua..." I looked at Ms. Lin helplessly, "Mom, I ask you now, do you believe me or him? If you believe me, it's not too late; if you still believe him, then nothing I say will be of any use. I will pack up and go back to school tomorrow. I can't change my mom, I can only change myself. Out of sight, out of mind. It's better to go back to school and earn some living expenses as soon as possible..." I pretended to go upstairs, with a disheartened expression on my face.

Ms. Lin quickly stopped me and said, "My daughter, if I don't believe you, who else can you believe? Your father is like that. If I say I'm disappointed in him, I'm disappointed. You two are the only ones I have... By the way, you just said you were going to earn a living. How can you, a student, earn a living?"

"We'll talk about this later..." I pulled down Ms. Lin's hand, "I'm just saying, you don't have to rely on my dad at all. You have enough ability to manage everything on your own. You are willing to learn things. Credit cards are not difficult to understand. If you knew a little bit, you wouldn't be fooled by my dad's little tricks!"

Ms. Lin felt a little guilty. I continued, "Many of your clients should work in banks, from all walks of life. Don't you treat them like friends? Why don't you ask them a question? Of course you won't ask, because you never doubt it! You should use all these connections!"

I said I was tired, so I poured myself a glass of water and took a gulp. I choked and coughed a few times. Ms. Lin came over and patted my back, looking worried: "Drink slowly..."

"So are you going to take over this financial power or not?" I looked into her eyes and asked seriously.

"It's originally mine!" I saw determination in Ms. Lin's eyes, "The payment code was printed by your father, Yuanyuan, go to the printing shop later and change all the codes to mine! If your father dares to quarrel with me, I will scold him to death! Lin Lin, you are right, he is a bully, I have quarreled with him before, but never with me!"

“Is it true this time…?” Cheng Xinyuan narrowed his eyes and asked uncertainly.

"You little bastard!" Ms. Lin picked up a clothes hanger and threw it at Cheng Xinyuan. She didn't throw it hard enough and didn't even hit Cheng Xinyuan. "In your heart, your mother is useless?"

"No, no, no, you are still doing your job conscientiously, Mom. You are a strong woman, you have to follow through to the end. You have to do this in front of my dad, too. He deserves to be punished!" Cheng Xinyuan started to smile playfully again.

"The most important thing is to have money! There are so many things our mother wants to do, but she couldn't do them before~" The atmosphere became relaxed again, and I breathed a sigh of relief.

"That's right! From now on, I have control over my own money! I can do whatever I want!" Ms. Lin suddenly became very excited.

Ms. Lin looked at me and Cheng Xinyuan seriously and said, "For the sake of you two, I have to take the financial power into my own hands. I don't care how much your father earns, but what's mine is mine. As you two grow up, you will have more and more places to spend money in the future. I have wanted to take back the financial power more than once, but he always blocked me with the same reason. If you two hadn't said it today, I would still believe it! Lin Lin, mom is telling the truth. Today's conversation with you has made me feel enlightened. I am a little stupid, but mom is also reasonable. A lot of things have happened in the past few days, and I also think that I used to care too much about feelings. I know this is not good, and mom will work hard to change! I won't make any promises to you two. Anyway, you don't believe it, so let's start to change from today when I regain the financial power!"

Ms. Lin's words were sincere, and Cheng Xinyuan and I could not help being moved. I knew that I might not be able to wait for Cheng Xingmin to come back. When Cheng Xingmin found that his payment code no longer had payment information, he would understand what was going on. As for how Ms. Lin and her "negotiate" at that time, that was Ms. Lin's own business. If she didn't even have this much courage, then she deserved to be suppressed by Cheng Xingmin for the rest of her life!

Cheng Xinyuan suddenly realized something: "Mom, sister, it's almost three o'clock in the afternoon, aren't you hungry?"

After hearing what he said, Ms. Lin and I realized that we were already hungry. Ms. Lin immediately decided: "Let's go out to eat to celebrate your mother's return to control the economy!"

Cheng Xinyuan corrected: "Mom, in my memory, except for the first two years when you opened the store, the business was average and there was not that much money. Since my dad came back, you have never managed the money again. So, it's not that you are taking control again, but that this is the first time you have held the financial power!"

Naturally, he got a big scolding from my mom: “How old were you then?”

"Hey~ I have a good memory. My sister remembers it too, right, sister?" He started to talk nonsense again.

I don't care about him.

Ms. Lin looked at me seriously, as if she remembered something: "Lin Lin, you just said that you earn a living, what does this mean?"

I know that she will ask sooner or later. After all, I said that on purpose just now. In order to make Ms. Lin have enough determination to firmly grasp the economic power and no longer be influenced by Cheng Xingmin, I must give her another shot of confidence!

However, you still have to pull it to the limit to achieve the best effect!

"Ah, I was just saying that~" I avoided his gaze and deliberately avoided the topic.

"You are my daughter, the flesh and blood of my body. I have telepathy. Are you hiding something from me?" She obviously didn't believe it, but this was the effect I wanted.

"It's really nothing, don't take it seriously. I just wanted to find out whether you believed me or my father. I just said it to scare you." I continued to act well-behaved.

"Don't hide it from me. You just said that casually. Have you been wronged in school? I'm such a good girl, how can I let other teachers bully me?" Ms. Lin grabbed my hand and said anxiously.

I felt a little melancholy. Aren’t the people who bullied me the most my so-called relatives? How could she not know? Isn’t bullying by relatives also bullying?

I looked embarrassed. Ms. Lin thought I had really been wronged in school. She was so anxious that she almost cried: "I will never forget what happened to you in school during your freshman year of high school. How come you are still... just because you think I'm easy to bully, right? Why?"

I quickly comforted her: "No, no, it's not like that. Let's go eat first and I'll talk to you slowly, okay? I'm hungry now and I don't have the energy to talk, mom~"

No matter when, being coquettish is the best way to use it...