"Half a month, what's wrong with that?"
"Your father and I didn't even spend a month from engagement to marriage!"
Jiang Cuihua argued righteously.
"Child, feelings are developed through getting along. And I think that girl is really good. Not only is she beautiful, but she's also considerate, and has a good figure..."
"I've carefully examined that backside, round and perky, she'll surely be very fertile..."
"Mom!!"
Qin Chuan couldn't take it anymore, his face darkened. How could his mother get more carried away the more she spoke, even talking about the girl's backside.
"Li Ya is at least five or six years older than me!"
Jiang Cuihua was finally surprised: "No way, she doesn't look like it! At most twenty-three or twenty-four!"
"Definitely not that old!"
Qin Shuhua also said with certainty.
Qin Chuan was completely exasperated: "Five or six years older is me being conservative. Many women nowadays know how to maintain themselves, and can look twenty even in their thirties."
"And you probably don't know this yet, Li Ya is the factory director of Butterfly Clothing Factory!"
"She's worth hundreds of thousands, even if I agree, would she even fancy a poor boy like us?"
Jiang Cuihua, who had been chattering incessantly, widened her eyes, then her voice suddenly rose several decibels: "What? Li Ya is the factory director of Butterfly Clothing Factory?"
Qin Shuren, lying in bed, was also shocked.
"If you don't believe me, you can ask second brother, he knows too!"
Jiang Cuihua and Qin Shuren 'swished' their gazes over, and Qin Gang, standing nearby, immediately nodded like a pecking chick: "Li Ya is indeed the factory director of Butterfly Clothing Factory!"
"It was by selling clothes to her last time that Xiao Chuan earned that money!"
The ward fell silent, the elderly couple clearly stunned by the news.
Qin Chuan finally felt liberated and let out a long sigh of relief.
"Mom, how much longer does Dad need to be hospitalized?"
He quickly changed the subject.
"I don't know, Dr. Wang hasn't said, but I feel like another ten days or so should be about right!" Jiang Cuihua said.
"Alright then, my second brother and I will leave first. We need to buy a lot of things this time we came to the city, and we also need to find an experienced painter."
"Go! You two go and be busy. Your mother can take care of me here!"
Qin Shuren waved his hand.
Qin Chuan and Qin Gang left the ward.
"Third brother, you go buy things and find the painter alone. I have something else to do, I'm leaving first!"
As soon as they walked out of the hospital gate, Qin Gang spoke.
"What are you going to do?"
Qin Chuan asked curiously.
"It's something very important, of course. Don't worry about it. Bye bye!"
"Let's meet at the big bridge at five o'clock this afternoon!"
With that, as if afraid of being stopped, Qin Gang hailed a taxi and quickly left, leaving Qin Chuan alone and isolated.
"Damn it!!"
Qin Chuan spat out a curse, and could only drive his three-wheeled motorcycle to the hardware market himself.
Upon arriving at the market, he first found an aluminum alloy shop and bought some items according to his requirements. Then, he found a glass shop and had several pieces of glass cut to size.
There were for windows, and for the dressing table.
Finally, he walked into a tile shop, but unexpectedly, no one was there.
"Boss! Is the boss in?"
"I want to buy some small tiles!"
Qin Chuan shouted loudly. After several shouts, there was no response, so he had to turn and leave, planning to buy from another shop.
Unexpectedly, as he stepped out of the shop door, he saw three middle-aged men walking over together.
"This young man, what do you need?"
One of the men saw Qin Chuan and immediately greeted him enthusiastically, clearly the boss.
"I just want some small tiles..."
"Brother Qin Chuan, is that you?"
Before Qin Chuan could finish speaking, a shout suddenly rang out.
Qin Chuan quickly turned his head, and as soon as he saw the person calling his name, his smile vanished.
The two men were Zhang Long and Wu Erma, whom he hadn't seen in days. They were also the ones who stood him up at the exhibition that day.
"Who are you? Do I know you?"
Seeing these two, Qin Chuan turned and left. He had absolutely no good feelings for such untrustworthy individuals!
"Different paths, no common ground!"
"Brother!"
"Brother, please wait!"
Zhang Long and Wu Erma quickly chased after him, reaching out to stop Qin Chuan, their faces full of smiles.
"It's finally good to meet you. Do you know how hard we've been looking for you?"
"Today, we came to apologize for what happened last time. Can we find a place to chat privately?"
Looking at Zhang Long and Wu Erma, who appeared sincere and not like they were trying to trick him, Qin Chuan hesitated for a long time before finally nodding. He wanted to see what these two guys were up to.
"That's great! Brother, please come in!"
Wu Erma, seeing Qin Chuan agree, was immediately excited.
After Qin Chuan entered the tile shop, Wu Erma called out to the boss: "Old Feng, bring out your best tea and make a pot for my brother!"
The boss, called Old Feng, looked at Qin Chuan with surprise but said nothing more, turning and walking into the back of the shop.
"Brother, sit down!"
Zhang Long solicitously wiped a dusty chair with his sleeve and gestured for Qin Chuan to sit.
"Just say what you need to say quickly. I'm busy and don't have time to mess around with you!"
Qin Chuan frowned.
"Don't say that, brother. Old brother knows that what we did last time was very improper, but we had no choice, really! We swear on our ancestors' spirit tablets!"
Wu Erma raised two fingers, his expression very emotional.
"Brother, you're so smart, you must know that cooperating with a beautiful boss like Li Ya is definitely a win-win situation!"
"We're not stupid, why would we let the money we had in hand just fly away like that?"
"The root of all this lies with that scoundrel Guo Guang. He threatened us and told us not to sell grain and oil to Li Ya!"
Speaking of the root of the matter, Zhang Long's expression was very agitated, and he gesticulated wildly.
Qin Chuan remained unmoved, his expression as calm as still water, making it impossible to discern his true thoughts.
"The Guo family is too powerful. How could we common folk dare to offend them? In the end, we had no choice but to obey him..."
"If what you say is true, then you couldn't afford to offend the Guo family, so you joined forces with them to target Li Ya. Aren't you afraid of Li Ya's revenge?"
Qin Chuan sneered, revealing undisguised mockery. This was a typical case of bullying the weak and fearing the strong!
He despised this kind of person the most.
Li Ya's strength might not be comparable to that so-called Guo family, but dealing with these two small bosses, Zhang Long and Wu Erma, would be more than enough. It was a matter of one word.
As Qin Chuan's words fell, Zhang Long and Wu Erma, who had been standing in front of him, exchanged glances, and each saw a flicker of struggle in the other's eyes.
However, soon, both of them fell to their knees in front of Qin Chuan with two 'thump' sounds.
"Brother Qin Chuan, save us!!"
"Boss Li Ya has announced that she will ban us from the entire market!"