Chapter 191: Broken apple, who will eat it?
"Brother Rong, it was just a small favor for me at that time," Cui Changjia smiled bitterly, "but it took a lot of effort for you to help us."

"It's all the same, Changjia, don't be so polite. If you give it to me today, I will bring the children to your factory tomorrow to thank you."

Having said that, Cui Changjia no longer insisted and said, "Brother Rong, we have a long way to go."

"That's right. If you have anything to say, call me next time. You're welcome."

"Okay, thank you, Brother Rong."

In fact, Cui Changjia has always been very emotional about Liang Xiangrong. After all, she only gave him a glass of water at that time, but he helped her with a crucial favor.

After hanging up the phone, Cui Changjia left the Bank of China's head office and rushed to the next destination, Chang Yuanliang's home.

In previous years, the Cui family and the Chang family had close contacts, and during festivals, cartloads of gifts were sent back and forth almost everywhere. But times are different now, so this year there won't be cartloads of gifts sent back and forth.

Cui Changjia knew that Chang Yuanliang would not be at home, but it would be fine as long as Zheng Yuehong was at home.

When they arrived at the door of Chang Yuanliang's villa, Cui Changjia took down the things, including a box of prawns, a box of yellow croaker, a box of apples, and a box of oranges.

After ringing the doorbell, the Chang family's aunt came to open the door. She knew Cui Changjia. When she saw Cui Changjia carrying something to the door, she opened the side door and turned her head to shout into the courtyard, "Madam, Miss Cui is here."

Zheng Yuehong built a greenhouse in the open space of the villa, inside which were her precious roses. In previous years, she would control a batch of these roses to bloom before the Chinese New Year, and then she would personally cut them and send them to the ladies of each family she was friends with. At that time, the Cui family was of course the first choice.

Cui Changjia looked at the greenhouse and thought, probably this year the Cui family will not receive any roses from Zheng Yuehong.

At this moment, Zheng Yuehong was checking her flowers.

When she heard her aunt calling her, she brushed the dirt off her hands, stood up and walked outside to greet them.

Cui Changjia smiled as she walked, "Aunt Zheng, have your roses bloomed?"

"It's almost time, Jiajia, how come you have time to come over?"

There seemed to be a smile in Zheng Yuehong's tone, but the expression on her face was indifferent.

She only recently found out that Chang Ying had not worked in the cake shop for a long time, but had opened her own cake shop. After asking around, she found out that even Chang Yuanliang was unaware of Chang Ying opening the cake shop.

Oh, if it wasn’t opened by the father, then it’s obvious who helped Chang Ying to open it.

However, it would be better for Chang Ying to go out so that she wouldn't be an eyesore at home and we would have to prepare a dowry for her in the future.

It's not easy to be a stepmother. No matter how much you give, no one will praise you.

Cui Changjia looked at Zheng Yuehong's indifferent expression, stopped, put the box in his hand on the open space in the courtyard and said, "It's almost the New Year, I bought some things to send to you."

"I bought a lot, but there are not many people in my family, so we can't eat that much."

Cui Changjia's smile faded, and he said, "It's inevitable to visit relatives during the Chinese New Year. If you can't finish it, please share it. Aunt Zheng, you go ahead and do your work. I'm leaving first."

"Hey, aren't you going to sit for a while?"

"No, you go ahead."

"Then I won't send you off."

"No need to send it."

As soon as Cui Changjia left Chang's house, he heard Zheng Yuehong saying in the yard, "Can't you give me something else? How can I eat this during the New Year? A broken apple, who would eat it?"

Cui Changjia turned his head, looked coldly at the gate, then turned and left. In previous years, no matter what the Cui family gave her, Zheng Yuehong would praise it, saying either her son or her daughter liked it. But now, even the best big apples have become rubbish.

If it weren't for Chang Yuanliang's sake, Cui Changjia really wanted to turn around and move his things to the yard and leave. Cui Changjia couldn't tell anyone about this, so he could only complain to Cui Xiuyuan over the phone.

"Brother, why is Zheng Yuehong so rude? I don't know how Chang Ying managed to survive under her control these years. I really want to slap her in the face."

"Jia Jia," Cui Xiuyuan interrupted her, "Uncle Chang is right here, I can just tell him, you don't have to tell him specifically."

Cui Changjia hung up the phone silently. In the past, she wanted Chang Yuanliang to know Zheng Yuehong's true face because she wanted Chang Ying to come out. Now, she really didn't want to sow discord between Chang Yuanliang and his wife.

Chang Yuanliang is already old, but Zheng Yuehong is still around and can take care of him. If he and Zheng Yuehong have a bad relationship, Chang Ying will still have to take care of him when he is old, and it will become Chang Ying's responsibility again.

Why does Zheng Yuehong enjoy all the good things while Aunt Tao Qing and Chang Ying have to bear all the hardships?

It's not appropriate, no matter how you look at it, it's not appropriate. After all, Chang Ying is already independent. From now on, she has to make Chang Ying more careful.

Cui Changjia secretly sent a message to Cui Xiuyuan: Brother, Uncle Chang didn’t hear it.

Cui Xiuyuan immediately replied: No.

Cui Changjia felt relieved.

The next stop is my second uncle’s place.

My second uncle’s supermarket is not too big, but it has a good location and the things he sells are cheap, so his business is usually pretty good.

It's Chinese New Year now, and his shop is very busy. There is a large circle of gift boxes outside, including white wine, milk, honey, etc.

Cui Changjia looked around and found that his second uncle was not outside the store. When he went into the store, he was not there either. It seemed that he had gone out.

Second aunt Kong Xiu was working the cash register. Cui Changjia put the items on the cash register and said to her, "Aunt, remember to freeze the shrimp and yellow croaker when you are not busy."

Kong Xiu responded with "OK, OK", and after Cui Changjia left, she realized that it was Cui Changjia who delivered the gift to her. She rushed out as soon as she had the chance. Cui Changjia was about to drive away, so Kong Xiu picked up a few boxes of milk from the side, opened the car door and stuffed them into Cui Changjia's car.

"Aunt, we don't want milk."

"Take it back for your mother and Xiaobao to drink," Kong Xiu said loudly, "Jia Jia, your aunt was busy just now. Your uncle and I bought tickets to go back on the 26th of the twelfth lunar month. We will take the evening time these two days to visit you."

Going back to their hometown to celebrate the New Year is their family’s tradition. When Cui Changjia’s grandparents were still around, no matter how big the Cui family’s business was, the family would still go back to celebrate the New Year.

"Don't go, aunt. Just call my mom and tell her. I'm leaving now. Go get busy."

Cui Changjia saw that everyone in the store was waiting to pay, so he didn't dare to say anything and left quickly.

My second uncle Jiang Jianhua's family was raised by Cui Wenquan and Jiang Hongying. When the Cui family got into trouble, Jiang Jianhua emptied out his family assets to help them pay off their debts. He even wanted to transfer the supermarket at that time, but was stopped by Cui Wenquan. He didn't want to drag Jiang Jianhua's family into the dire straits.

Jiang Jianhua felt very guilty about this, and it was also thanks to him that the Cui family did not have to go hungry during that period of time.

The last one is Tong Wei.

Cui Changjia didn't call Tong Wei, but went directly to his glass factory. If Tong Wei was there, she would chat with him for a while. If not, she would put down her things and leave.

The Chinese New Year is approaching and the Tongwei Glass Factory is no longer busy, but the workers have not yet taken a holiday and are still producing regular glass.

When she arrived at the door, she asked the guard, and the guard said that Tong Wei was there. Cui Changjia then drove the car in and parked it in the open space in front of their office.

There were two black cars parked in the open space over there. Cui Changjia didn't notice them and thought they belonged to Tong Wei. When he opened the door and entered Tong Wei's office, he found that Cao Kun was also there.

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