Oh my god, I became the vicious stepmother of four villains

"So you really are the general. I thought you were here to cut in line." As soon as he finished speaking, Li Haodong's face turned red instantly.

"Don't you think about it? This pastry shop is owned by their family. Is there any need for them to cut in line? He can just go to the kitchen and eat as much as he wants. Is there any need for him to come here and suffer?" When the people next to him saw Lu Ziren coming, they immediately said to Li Haodong sarcastically.

"I... I just don't know." Li Haodong touched his head embarrassedly.

And the people around him stopped criticizing Li Haodong.

Li Haodong and his wife waited in a long line, and after a long time it was finally their turn.

Li Haodong and his wife went into the pastry shop, picked out the pastries they wanted, and then went to the front desk to pay. Lu Ziren served them.

Lu Ziren placed the cakes on the plate one by one in wax paper, weighed them, and finally wrapped them up and handed them to Li Haodong.

"Fifty cents in total." Lu Ziren said neatly.

Li Haodong's face turned red. He originally thought that the cakes sold in the cake shop here were very expensive. He didn't expect that he bought so many and it only cost fifty cents.

He and his wife are illiterate, and this is their first time in the capital.

They did not find a suitable way out in their hometown. All the land in the family had been given to their eldest brother and his family by their parents. In addition, his wife Su Yan was weak, and they had been married for many years but had no children. They came here to seek medical treatment.

So he left his hometown and came to Beijing to try his luck.

Fortunately, this cake shop is so famous in the capital that his wife wants to eat it, but she is a bit delicate, so he queuing here with his wife.

In his impression, the products in this kind of famous shop are always quite expensive, but today is his first time, and he wanted to let his wife try it, so he came here to buy something.

Just now, his wife was afraid that the pastries here would be very expensive, so she kept holding him back when they were buying pastries, not allowing him to take those with particularly beautiful workmanship. She only took a few pastries that were relatively ordinary, but also new to her.

He came here with the intention of buying more to try, so he picked out a few pastries that looked more expensive and put them on the plate.

When he came to pay the bill, he was quite nervous, thinking that he would probably spend all the money he brought with him today.

"How much?" Li Haodong was dumbfounded and asked again stutteringly.

Lu Ziren showed no impatience at all and patiently told him the price again. Only then did Li Haodong confirm that the price was real.

Although there were clear prices under each cake, for the two illiterate people, they would try to buy whatever they saw, just like a mouse smearing in a black hole and trying to find a dead mouse, they would buy whatever they came across, even if they found an expensive one. He originally thought that the cake he packed would cost at least 100 coins, but he didn't expect it to cost only 50 coins.

Su Yan, who was standing next to Li Haodong, was also stunned. Seeing that her husband was still in a daze, she immediately pulled Li Haodong's sleeve, and Li Haodong came to his senses.

"Okay." Li Haodong took out fifty copper coins and put them on the counter. Lu Ziren counted them one by one and said to Li Haodong, "Come next time."

During the whole process, Li Haodong's eyes were fixed on Lu Ziren.

Xia Yingying naturally noticed it, but because there were many people in the store, she didn't want to tease Lu Ziren.

After Li Haodong and his wife took the cakes, they left the store. But when they saw a piece of paper posted in front of the store, they pointed at it and asked, "What's written on this paper?"

"Oh, it says on top that the cake shop is unfortunately closed for a few days due to something, and it says below that they are recruiting several employees. Anyone interested can come into the store and consult." A frail scholar nearby said to Li Haodong.

"Thank you, sir." Li Haodong knew the contents of the paper and was about to leave holding his wife's hand, but his wife pulled his hand and stopped where he was, not moving.

"Madam, what's wrong?" Li Haodong asked gently.

"The pastry shop is hiring. I want to go in and ask if there is a job suitable for me." Su Yan said in a low voice.

"My dear, you are weak, so you should just stay at home and rest. Don't worry about the money. I will find a job suitable for me."

Li Haodong knew that Su Yan was worried about their livelihood. They had already spent a lot of money on the way from their hometown to here, and that money was all the savings Li Haodong had earned from hunting in his hometown. But after coming to the capital, it costs money to rent a house, eat, and everything. All their savings are not enough to buy a house, and not even enough to pay for a year's rent. With no income at all, they are always living off their savings. How can she not be anxious?

Su Yan knew very well that Li Haodong loved her, but because Li Haodong married her, his relationship with his family broke up, and the two of them left their hometown. She was weak, and she had to take the money with her. Fortunately, she is much better now and can do something.

Besides, there are no mountains here, nor any suitable work for them. Now she finally found a job she can do in a pastry shop, so how could she let go of this opportunity?

"I'm better now, much better." With Li Haodong's careful care and the rest she has received during this period, she is now much better than before.

"Are you going to stop listening to me now that you have come to the capital? When you married me, you promised me that you would respect my opinion." Su Yan's eyes turned red as she spoke.

Seeing his wife's eyes suddenly turn red, Li Haodong became anxious for a moment and stopped being stubborn. He also knew that his wife's health was much better than before and she could do some work as long as she was not too tired. However, to be at ease, Li Haodong still wanted to ask a famous doctor in Beijing to check on his wife.

When he went to the pastry shop just now, he saw that working in the pastry shop was not particularly tiring and was also suitable for his wife's body. So Li Haodong no longer insisted and did not let Su Yan ask.

"Then let's wait a while before asking. They are still busy now." Su Yan felt a little embarrassed as she saw Xia Yingying and Lu Ziren were all busy.

When the two people were discussing, the people queuing nearby naturally heard some of it.

"Okay." Li Haodong also agreed, so the couple stood at the door, and Li Haodong took out a piece of cake and fed it to Su Yan's mouth.

A kind passerby heard the couple's plan and saw that the couple wanted to wait until they were not busy before going in to ask, so he spoke loudly beside them.

"You want to wait until the store is not busy before going in. By then, the people have already gone home. They are just here to help out and will not stay in the store for long. If you want to ask about the job, go in and ask while they are still here so you can confirm it early. Don't worry, we won't lie to you. If you wait here for a while, they will leave."

Li Haodong and Su Yan looked at each other in surprise, thanked the passerby, put away the cakes and walked towards the cake shop again.

"Hey, why are you two cutting in line? Just now you said that others were cutting in line, but now you are cutting in line with us. What do you mean?" The people in the queue started cursing when they saw Li Hao and Su Yan.

"They were asking about work, not buying pastries. Didn't you see you were holding the pastries you bought in their hands?"

When Li Hao and Su Yan heard someone scolding him, they immediately explained, "My wife and I went in to ask about work, not to jump the queue to buy cakes. I would not do that."

"People said they were asking about jobs."

……

When Lu Ziren saw Li Haodong and Su Yan, he frowned slightly. Lu Ziren was only concentrating on helping Xia Yingying with things and he didn't care about what was happening outside.

Xia Yingying saw the two people who had gone and returned and thought something had happened to them.