The Little Life of a Big Landlord

Chapter 207 Bonus

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"Okay, go ahead..." Xue Hua waved his hand and continued talking to Xiao Tiantian.

"Hey, watch your mouth..." Wei Jianguo reminded him, then quickly slipped away without waiting for Xue Hua to reply.

"Um, Auntie, I heard from Qingqing that you teach high school. Isn't the high school curriculum supposed to be quite demanding? You don't even get weekends off, you..." Little Sweetie said with a smile.

"Oh! We took leave specifically to come here. We teach second grade, so the curriculum isn't too demanding yet... Qingqing, that girl, is so carefree and doesn't know how to take care of herself. She eats whatever she wants, and doesn't eat anything she doesn't want. It's worrying. We bought her some nutritional supplements so she won't become a picky eater and harm her health..." Xue Hua said with a smile.

"Hehe..." Little Sweetie laughed, "I don't think Qingqing is like what you said at all??? She eats whatever is available..."

"That's because you don't know. She only makes what she likes to eat. How would she know about food pairings?" Xue Hua said.

"Qingqing and the others are soaking in the hot springs right now, why don't we go and take a look? It's so boring waiting here..." Little Sweetie said.

"Okay..." Xue Hua also really liked soaking in hot springs, and she agreed without hesitation when Xiao Tiantian suggested it.

"Hehe, let's go..." Little Sweetie stood up.

So, the two of them chatted and laughed as they went out the back door and headed straight for the hot spring valley in the back garden.

"Wei Qingqing, look who's here..." Little Sweetie shouted as soon as she entered the hot spring valley.

"Who is it??? You didn't call Zheng Dongfang in, did you??? Let me tell you, if he dares to come in, I'll have Boss Zhu beat him black and blue and send him straight to the palace..." Wei Qingqing said mischievously while soaking in the pool.

"Listen to how energetic Qingqing is!" Little Sweetie said with a smile to Xue Hua beside her.

"That brat is getting more and more naughty..." Xue Hua shook his head and scolded with a smile.

"Hehe, it's not easy for a pregnant woman to be in a good mood..." Little Sweetie said.

"What you said makes a lot of sense..." Xue Hua nodded.

"Hehe, Ms. Wei Qingqing, you'll soon find out who came in with me. I guarantee you'll scream..." Little Sweetie said mischievously.

"I'm warning you, sweet girl, if you dare bring Zheng Dongfang in, you can expect to live a life of widowhood..." Wei Qingqing glanced warily toward the entrance and said loudly.

The women in the pool couldn't help but watch the show with amusement. They weren't worried at all; Little Sweetie wouldn't be so clueless as to bring a grown man into a women's bathing area. Besides, Little Sweetie wouldn't be that stupid... If she really brought Zheng Dongfang in, she would be the one who suffers the most.

"Hehehehe..." Little Sweetie laughed mischievously, her footsteps already clearly audible. Little Sweetie, who was feeling smug, did not notice the strange look Xue Hua gave her after Wei Qingqing called her "Sweetie".

Little Sweetie and Xue Hua, carrying coats, emerged from behind the woods. When Wei Qingqing saw her mother, she was startled for a moment. Then, just as Little Sweetie had predicted, she screamed, "Ah... Mom, why are you here? I've missed you so much..." She ran out of the pool, barefoot, and ran towards Xue Hua.

"Alright, alright, if you don't want Mom to come, Mom will leave right now. I ran out naked, aren't you ashamed..." Xue Hua glared at her daughter's outburst, laughed and scolded, and lightly slapped her daughter's bare bottom.

"Hmph..." Wei Qingqing tugged at her mother's hand, pouting, "I missed you, Mom! You haven't come for so long... Oh, right, did Dad come???..."

"Here you are. Your dad went out to play..." Xue Hua's gaze swept over his daughter from top to bottom, finally settling on her lower abdomen, and he couldn't help but smile.

Wei Qingqing's once flat stomach is now slightly bulging.

"Mom, let's take a bath together. Aunt Zhang and Aunt Pang are here..." Wei Qingqing said sweetly, hugging her mother's arm.

"Old Xue, hurry up..." Zhang Yingning called out from the pool.

"Okay, okay, I'll be right there..." Xue Hua laughed, looked at her daughter, and instructed, "From now on, you can't be so impulsive. Not only are you carrying a lot of weight now, but you're going to be a mother. You need to be more composed."

"Mmm, I know..." Wei Qingqing nodded repeatedly, but anyone could tell that she hadn't listened to Xue Hua at all; it went in one ear and out the other.

"You..." Xue Hua shook her head and said no more. Once she gave birth to her child and became a mother, her mindset would naturally change.

"Hehehe..." Wei Qingqing chuckled, stripped her mother naked, and then took her hand and entered the hot spring pool.

"Aunt Xue..." Aunt Liu greeted Xue Hua with a smile.

"Hello, Aunt Xue..." Zhu Yun, the policewoman, greeted Xue Hua with the demeanor of a well-behaved girl.

"Hehe, you guys are here too?" Xue Hua said with a smile. In the hazy mist, she couldn't really see Zhu Jinghua's face clearly and thought she was one of Zhang Fenghuang and the other two.

"Grandma, I'm here too..." Little Bao said in his childish voice.

"Oh, my little darling..." Xue Hua immediately pulled the little darling into her arms, kissing her little face repeatedly. "Did you miss Grandma?"

"Yes, I miss Grandma and Grandpa so much! Did Grandma bring me a gift?" Little Bao asked, tilting her head up.

"Bao'er, you're so shameless! What don't we have at home? How can you ask your grandma for a gift?" Aunt Liu blushed and scolded her daughter for being so shameless.

"Oh dear, Grandma forgot about Xiaobao'er, she didn't bring a gift..." Xue Hua immediately put on an apologetic look.

"Mmm..." Little Bao'er pouted.

"Hehehe, you little rascal, you're not welcoming Grandma just because Grandma didn't bring a gift?" Xue Hua laughed and gently patted Xiao Bao'er's little bottom.

"Bao'er doesn't believe it. Grandma must have brought Bao'er a gift..." Little Bao'er pouted and said.

"Oh ho..." Xue Hua gently pinched Xiao Bao'er's nose. "You're quite clever, aren't you? A computer, do you like it?"

"Is it Aunt Phoenix's notebook?" Xiao Bao'er asked.

"You brat, I gave you a computer and you dare to be picky???" Aunt Liu said, and a slap landed on Xiao Bao'er's little bottom.

"Mmm...bad mommy..." Little Bao pouted, glaring angrily at her mother. With Grandma backing her up, she wasn't afraid of her mother at all...

"Huh???" Aunt Liu glared at him, and Xiao Bao immediately became obedient.

But Grandma will leave eventually. And what happens after she's gone? I'll still fall into Mom's clutches, and then all the old and new grievances will be settled together—I'll be in for a rough time...

"Aunt Xue, how can you spoil the child like this???" said Aunt Liu.

"These days, which kid doesn't know how to use a computer? My granddaughter certainly can't be worse than other kids..." Xue Hua hugged Xiao Bao'er tightly, glared at Liu Sao, and said, "I'm warning you, don't you dare hit our Xiao Bao'er..."

"Hehehehe..." Little Bao'er was overjoyed when she heard her grandmother's words and kept kissing Xue Hua on the face.

"Okay, okay, I won't hit her..." Aunt Liu rolled her eyes. "But I don't think you need to buy her a computer. Yang Ming has a laptop; this little thing usually just plays with it..."

"I've already bought them, and you want me to return them???" Xue Hua rolled her eyes at Liu Sao and said.

"You can use them yourselves, you all have important things to do..." Aunt Liu said.

"What important business is it??? Computers are just for playing around with, and besides, we have a computer at home..." Xue Hua rolled her eyes at Aunt Liu again.

"Then... let's send it to Uncle Yang and the others, so we can video chat and save on phone bills..." Aunt Liu said.

It's impossible for Aunt Liu not to feel guilty after taking half of Wei Qingqing's husband. Now that Wei Qingqing's parents are treating her precious daughter so well, she feels even more guilty and naturally refuses in every way. If it were Yang Zhengfang and Zhang Shufang who were giving her the computer, she would definitely have accepted it without hesitation.

"I just realized that I bought a computer for my granddaughter and she's complaining about it???" Aunt Liu kept making excuses, which made Xue Hua a little unhappy.

"Mom, I'm not complaining, but Bao'er is a student now, and a student's responsibility is to study. If playing on the computer distracts her, her studies will suffer..." Wei Qingqing quickly smoothed things over.

"Fine, fine, I hurt my granddaughter. I'll have your dad smash it later, okay???" Xue Hua was angry.

"Look, look, she got so worked up while we were talking..." Wei Qingqing glared at Aunt Liu, then quickly smiled and acted coquettishly towards her mother.

"Aunt Xue, that's not what I meant. You're deliberately twisting the truth and bullying me because of your seniority..." Aunt Liu said in a coquettish voice.

"Grandma, don't be angry, Bao'er will help Grandma slap Mommy's bottom..." Little Bao'er tilted his little face up and slapped his mother's bottom. Aunt Liu didn't feel anything from the slap, but Little Bao'er's little hand became red and swollen.

"Hmph..." Xue Hua hugged Xiao Bao'er tightly with a happy smile, "Our Bao'er is the most sensible..."

"Alright, alright, you old Xue Shao, are you trying to show off? Isn't this just taking advantage of your age and bullying people?" Zhang Yingning tried to smooth things over.

"Look at what you're saying. Being old is an advantage, why not take advantage of it? If you have an advantage, you should make full use of it..." Auntie Pang said.

"You two..." Xue Hua shook his head with a smile, "Where's Old Sun's family?"

"Old Sun and his wife can't take their eyes off their grandson, they're in Liu Family Village..." Aunt Pang said.

"Uncle Sun and the others are in Liu Family Village, and Fangfang and Zhang Yang are there too..." Wei Qingqing said.

"Oh..." Xue Hua nodded, not really paying attention.

"Well, you guys keep chatting, I'll go out for a bit..." Aunt Liu said, getting up and leaving the pond. She shook out the Confucian robes piled on the ground. Sure enough, the temperature in the back garden was high, and the robes were almost dry in a short while, though still a little damp, but they were fine to wear...

"Wow...it looks pretty good..." Xue Hua's eyes lit up when he saw Liu Sao dressed in Confucian robes, looking quite elegant.

"Hehe, these are school uniforms that Uncle Wang ordered for their school. What do you think? Pretty creative, right? Each set only costs a hundred yuan..." Wei Qingqing said with a smile.

"School uniform??? Isn't this Hanfu???" Xue Hua raised her delicate eyebrows slightly.

"This is Confucian robes, or you could call it Hanfu..." Wei Qingqing said.

"The Uncle Wang you're talking about, is it Wang Zhengzhi?" Xue Hua asked.

"Yes..." Wei Qingqing nodded.

"Their school is actually wearing Confucian robes??? That's something new..." Xue Hua's eyes darted around, and he reached into his coat pocket by the pool to pull out his phone. He dialed a number. "Hey??? Is this Principal Hu???... I have something interesting to tell you... It's like this, my daughter just got a new job, a high school is ordering uniforms from them... I mean, Old Hu, can you let me finish??? If it were just ordinary uniforms, would I be making such a fuss???..." …Alright, alright, I won't keep you in suspense any longer. The school uniforms they ordered are a kind of white Hanfu, which was worn by Confucian scholars in ancient times… Yes, yes, Confucian robes! I didn't expect you to actually know about Confucian robes… Yes, yes, you're the principal, you know everything. So, what do you think we should do about this? …Should we order some too? Have you talked to the students' parents? What if they don't agree? …What? Free? We can make up the difference with the price of fresh milk? I mean, aren't you being a bit too cunning…”

After making a series of phone calls, Xue Hua directly secured a large order for Yang Ming's clothing company...

"Mom, you..." Wei Qingqing felt like the world was unreal, especially her mother. When did she become so shrewd and capable?

"Hehe, it's alright. Didn't Yang Ming say that the price of fresh milk is going to go up? Then let's raise it a little more, and the Confucian robes can be given as a bonus to the students. I think basically no one will refuse, right?" Xue Hua said with a smile.

"Mom means we should raise the price of fresh milk and then give away the Confucian robes to the students for free as compensation?" Wei Qingqing said.

"That's right, what do you think?" Xue Hua said.

"Well, this isn't up to me; it depends on Yang Ming's decision..." Wei Qingqing said, looking troubled.

"A married daughter is like water spilled from a bowl, that saying is absolutely true. You've already learned to play tricks on your mother. I'm still your own mother..." Xue Hua glanced at her precious daughter and said.

"Anyway, I can't make decisions about family matters. You should go talk to Yang Ming..." Wei Qingqing tried to deflect the question, but seeing her mother's displeasure, she couldn't help but giggle and flatter her, "You know Yang Ming, when has he ever refused any request you or Dad made? He's much more effective than me..."

"Hmph..." Xue Hua knew this principle, and she knew that it was indeed more appropriate for her to speak than for her daughter to speak. However, she was still quite unhappy. Whether the matter would be resolved or not was secondary; the key was her daughter's attitude. "I haven't even said much yet, and you've already shirked all responsibility..."

"Isn't what you're doing a little inappropriate?" Officer Zhu, who considered herself righteous, couldn't help but interject at this moment.

"The money comes from the sheep, you can't really expect us to pay you, can you?" Wei Qingqing rolled her eyes at Officer Zhu and said.

"This???" Officer Zhu scratched her head. "Although I'm not an economics major, what you're doing is clearly unreasonable. I've done some research on the fresh milk, and the students' feedback is quite positive. You're raising the price of the fresh milk to promote the Confucian robes. Even though you know the cost is ultimately passed on to the consumer, when are you going to lower the price???"

"Mom, this man is a policeman. You have to be careful what you say. Don't let him mistake you for a crooked businessman and arrest you..." Wei Qingqing quickly introduced Officer Zhu to her mother.

"So he's a policeman???" Xue Hua was quite surprised.

"Auntie, I hope you can answer the question I just asked: after you've cut enough wool, will you continue cutting it...?" Officer Zhu's expression was quite serious, displaying the demeanor of a people's police officer.

"I don't think you understand what's going on..." Xue Hua shook his head slightly. "You've probably heard about the controversy at our school over the fresh milk, right?"

"Yes, I have indeed heard of it..." Officer Zhu nodded.

"We sell fresh milk to schools at cost price, but it's a thankless task. Every day, many parents call to harass us, even hurling insults. Our son-in-law is very angry about this unfair treatment and told us that this situation absolutely cannot continue. A price increase is inevitable. Since we can't get good reviews, let's at least get some profit..." Xue Hua said.

"You mean even if the Confucian robes aren't given away for free, the price will definitely go up..." said Officer Zhu.

"That's right, giving away the Confucian robes for free is just to give the students' parents some comfort and ease the conflict caused by the price increase..." Xue Hua said.

"This..." Officer Zhu hesitated for a long time, unsure of what to say next.

"What is this??? The fresh milk is ours, and we can sell it for whatever price we want. Moreover, due to the special effects of our fresh milk, there are no similar products on the market. Therefore, the government's strict regulations on pricing cannot restrict us..." Wei Qingqing said.

"But it's still milk after all..." Officer Zhu felt she was being a bit unreasonable, but as a police officer, she still stood on the side of the people.

"If that's what you're saying, how about we change the name? How about we add some Chinese medicine to it, make it sour and bitter, and sell it as medicine? Hmph, then we'll sell it at the price of medicine, less than a hundred yuan a box, and we won't even let you smell it..." Wei Qingqing said arrogantly.

"The aura of someone in a position of power??? But she's a bit unreasonable..." Wei Qingqing's assertiveness caught Zhang Yingning's eye, who watched her performance quietly.

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