Chapter 107: As long as it’s a sister, it’s okay, right?

“Brother, you look terrible, did you fail the exam?”

“Is it that obvious?”

Cheng Ming knew that his face was a bit stony, but he couldn’t pretend to be relaxed in front of his sister even if he wanted to.

The trajectory of history was moving in the direction Cheng Ming knew, and his clairvoyance could play more of a role and reduce uncertainty.

These were Cheng Ming’s comforting words, and they had some truth to them.

Still, not being able to stop his parents from getting divorced gave him a sense of frustration for the first time since he was born again.

“It’s okay, brother can repeat, wait three years for me and we can go to high school together.”

“Instead of me repeating a grade, it would be more realistic for you to skip a grade.”

“No way, it’s just skipping a grade, it’s not like your body is going to grow up with you, and it’s a fool’s errand to compress a good academic career.”

At night, my sister must cry a lot. Can I coax her with candy?

The gift of Children’s Day – a complete family – was not guarded.

Will my sister use the wish coupon?

Saying that you don’t want Mom and Dad to get divorced or something like that is another wish that won’t come true.

Cheng Ming dropped his sister off at school and then turned his head to Hao Jia Ji.

Since Shen Xiao hired two familiar employees who used to work together part-time, the daily operation of the store basically didn’t need to be worried about anymore.

Cheng Ming rummaged through the store’s cabinets to find the cigarettes and lighters he used to dispatch the punks last time.

Finding an unoccupied corner to sit down, Cheng Ming habitually picked up a cigarette and lit it.

Watching the smoke rise in front of him, he couldn’t help but let out a long breath.

Since the moment Cheng Ming entered the store, Shen Xiao had noticed his abnormality, his face completely lacking the confidence and intent distributed in the past.

Frowning, leaning back in his chair and looking up at the ceiling, he looked like a troubled teenager or a disheveled uncle.

“Cheng Ming, what are you doing?”

“Oh, can’t smoke in the store can you? Sorry, I’ll smoke outside.”

Naturally, a small store like Haojiaji does not have any smoking or non-smoking area, not even the McDonald’s across the street.

Instead, Process Ming put a few ashtrays in the corners and by the window, so that guests with smoking addiction consciously choose these places to be seated, and minimize the impact on other guests.

“It’s not a question of if you can smoke, it’s what are you smoking at your young age? Lost your love?”

Shen Shin snatched the cigarette and snuffed it out on the ashtray.

“It’s not a breakup, it’s my parents getting a divorce.”

“Eh, divorce? I’m sorry, I’m sorry, it’s all my fault, if only I borrowed money from Ye Bin Song and didn’t take those photos that make people misunderstand.”

“It’s not all your fault, my parents were thinking about divorce for a long time, and even if you weren’t there, someone else would be in the picture in your place. Not to mention the fact that you didn’t have a misunderstanding with my mom’s contact.”

“Even if the misunderstanding is really cleared up, it will still leave a lump in your heart, right?”

“This one does.”

It couldn’t be denied that it was because of making this scandal that caused mom to be even more convinced of Auntie Lian Ying’s existence.

Auntie Lian Ying must have kept in touch with Dad in some way or she wouldn’t have been able to come to the city to find him.

Mom pressed Dad about Auntie Lian Ying, Dad didn’t want to talk about it, and then the two of them ……

The possibility of such a thing is not unknown.

“That’s right, what to do? What to do? Obviously your dad saved my sister, and your mom isn’t mad at me, and I got them divorced.”

Guilt and self-blame Shen Xiao picked up a cigarette in his mouth, trembling little hand picked up the lighter, lit the fire several times but did not light.

“Sister Shen Xiao, what are you smoking!”

This time it was Cheng Ming’s turn to grab the cigarettes from Shen Xiao.

“Isn’t smoking an escape from reality? I just wanted to try the effect.”

“Don’t run away from reality!”

This saying also applies to Cheng Ming.

“Anyway, don’t take my parents’ divorce to heart, and if you really feel sorry for us, work hard and make money. We’re going to open at least one more branch this summer.”

“That fast?”

“Doing business, it’s not an exaggeration to say that it’s attacking the city, seeing as we mimic McDonald’s and KFC to do it up, others will follow suit. But Nanming City isn’t big enough, I estimate that three stores will be about right. Otherwise it will create a situation where our own people are fighting their own people.”

It’s a bit too early to start comps before you’ve even opened up the franchise model, and it doesn’t make much sense to have comps in smaller cities.

“Nanming City has nine counties under its jurisdiction, so when other McDonald’s and KFCs don’t have the energy to open their stores to the counties, we’ll put our hands in there first to get a head start.”

“Try to establish ourselves as a local industry in Nanming City, and tie ourselves to the interests of Nanming City. Whether it’s regulation, or policies are more favorable to us. Of course, our ingredients still need to be fresh, this is our principle and bottom line, and having a good relationship with the officials can save a lot of tedious procedures and difficult troubles.”

“And then there are the new dishes ……”

“Wait, don’t say too much in one breath, I can’t remember, I’ll get my notebook.”

“Please say it again.” Shen Xiao, who was holding a pen and paper in her hand, stood beside Cheng Ming and leaned down.

Cheng Ming’s eyes slid down Shen Xiao’s white jade-like neck, summer is a bit stuffy, the store’s small air conditioner is actually not too powerful, the first button on the collar was not fastened, Shen Xiao bent down, the collar swung open, a glance can see the snow-white gully and the plump fullness of the breasts that hold up the garment.

“Sister Shen Shin, slightly more like a secretary, then won’t I be able to have something to do as a secretary and nothing to do in the future ……”

Shen Xiao crossed her eyes at Cheng Ming, grabbed the collar, fastened the buttons, picked up the notebook and knocked him on the head, saying, “It wasn’t always me doing the work, you oppressive little boss.”

“Speaking of which, it’s summer vacation, why haven’t we seen Sister Shen Xi come home? She’s already been discharged from the hospital, right?”

Cheng Ming asked with his hands holding his head, although he had only met her a few times and only talked once, Cheng Ming had quite a deep impression of her.

Although some things have remained the same, Cheng Ming has certainly changed the fate of many people.

This is most obvious in the case of Shen Shin and Huang Yong’s family, especially Shen Shin’s family.

“She went to college after she was discharged from the hospital, negotiating with her teachers about whether she could live on campus and work part-time while she waited for the new semester to start.”

“Didn’t she just get out of the hospital? Her body is still recovering, is it okay to work part-time? Will she have a relapse?”

“My family and I have advised her, but she already knows that her family owes a lot of money in order to have that surgery, and wants to fill that hole, or at least the living expenses and tuition for college don’t want to take it from her family, and I’ve been too busy to go to her, and I guess she doesn’t want to see me either.”

“How come, you sisters should have a good relationship, right, where is Sister Shen Xi’s university?”

“At the Provincial University.”

“Then let’s go to the province and set up store.”

“Opening a store here, opening a store there, where did we get so much money, this month’s business looks good, but after deducting the costs, it’s actually not that profitable.” Shen Xiao said with a bitter smile.

“It’ll come, it’ll come, don’t worry about the money, I, ah no, my dad will figure it out.”

In fact, Shen Xiao heart has already guessed, this store and even the medical expenses is not with Cheng Ming his father has nothing to do with, all is just graduated from junior high school brat drummed out.

Obviously it sounds unbelievable, but the speculation has the magic of convincing people.

After leaving Haojiaji, Cheng Ming went to look for Huang Yong’s egg cake cart in the old street.

Looking at him from a distance, he was hawking very hard, and only occasionally did someone buy a piece of pie.

I wonder where he’ll go when the ingredients for the omelet run out, whether he’ll fall again or truly reform.

But none of this had anything to do with Cheng Ming anymore.

Cheng Ming glanced at the time on his watch, his sister should be almost done with the last subject.

Time to pick her up and face the shock of her parents’ divorce head-on.

The atmosphere of the dinner was more relaxed than Cheng Ming had imagined, not dead.

After talking to Cheng Ming about the divorce, Dad and Mom instead talked and laughed as if they were relieved, what’s going on here.

But Dad also took it upon himself to clean up his own dishes, understandably treating him like an outsider.

“Little Li, mom has something she wants to tell you.” Li Ying said as she folded her arms.

It’s finally coming.

Paper towels, ready.

Embrace and get ready.

Lollipops, too, are ready.

“What is it?” Cheng Li asked, cocking his head.

“It’s just that your father and I are planning to get separated, or divorced for a while, and it’s annoying for the two of us to listen to it all the time when we’re arguing at home, isn’t it? One of you is going to be in middle school, and one of you is going to be in high school, and it’s affecting your studies when we’re parents like this, isn’t it?”

“Then will brother and I be separated?” Cheng Li asked, pulling on Cheng Ming’s coat.

“It’s okay if you don’t want to be separated, you can spend time with me or with dad, it’s just that mom will be a little lonely if you spend time with dad, and dad is so inconsiderate of the family, it must be hard to spend time with him.”

“You’ll starve to death if you follow dad around.” Cheng Li said childishly, causing his mom to laugh.

Cheng Hongyuan could only smile awkwardly, not being a good father was something he was still self-aware of.

“Anyway, you guys don’t need to agonize over who you’re going to live with, no matter who’s home it is, there will definitely be two rooms left for you to sleep in, so please forgive mom and dad’s capriciousness, okay?” Li Ying said as she hugged Cheng Ming and Cheng Li’s shoulders.

“The new house over there has been renovated, it’s just going to take another ten days and half a month before you can live in it, you guys go live in the new house, it’s got a new water heater installed and a big bathroom.”

“Go live in the new house yourself, I’m going to live in this old house, I don’t care about the new house.”

“Li Ying, the new house over there is closer to your bank, living over there makes it easier to commute to and from work, and when you’re not busy, you can go home for lunch.”

“I go home for lunch at noon and wait for my leader to wear shoes?”

“You’re long gone from being a front desk employee, well a little leader, you don’t have to be so serious.”

“What good is a junior leader? Performance is not up to par and you’ll be transferred back to the receptionist in minutes.”

Ah, it’s back to arguing. It really is about everything.

What I just had was an illusion. It’s like the divorce doesn’t stop.

Cheng Ming then pulled Cheng Li to hide back in the bedroom, maybe divorce is not a bad thing.

Sister actually did not cry, but let Cheng Ming quite surprised, perhaps because he did not decide to go with Dad’s sake?

“Brother, Mom and Dad got divorced, so we’re not brother and sister anymore? Right? If we’re not brother and sister, we can get married, right? Right?” Cheng Li put his palms together and said.

Is that a reason for not crying.

Cheng Ming flicked Cheng Li’s forehead and laughed softly, “Silly girl, no matter if mom and dad are divorced or not, our blood relationship will not change.”

“Why is that, then I want to divorce my brother.” Cheng Li kicked her legs and said in a foul manner.

“How can we get divorced, we can’t get married, it would be fine if we were going through the motions.”

Being tossed around by his sister like this, Cheng Ming’s mood was quite a bit lighter.

Since my sister doesn’t care if her family is intact, it’s not all bad that her parents divorced.

If Auntie Lian Ying and Xu Juan would really come to them.

Cheng Ming is also indebted to Xu Juan, treating her as a replacement for her sister, and the result is that he hurts both ‘sisters’.

“Then let’s just break off our brother-sister relationship!”

“Are you serious?”

Cheng Li wimped out for a second and burrowed into Cheng Ming’s arms and said, “It’s better to forget about it, lest my brother enter into a brother-sister relationship with another sister, and I’ll become the sister no one wants.”

“Can a brother and sister relationship still be concluded?”

“Like the righteous sister of the Peach Garden or something.” Cheng Li said, citing an example, “After all, brother is a hopeless sister-controller, so it doesn’t matter if it’s a friend’s sister or a righteous sister, as long as it’s a sister it’s fine, right?”

“Where did you learn the word sisterhood.”

I don’t think my sister has access to the word, and there’s no cartoon of that type on TV, even though the beautiful bgm is often used.

But anime with a younger sister do exist, Grave of the Fireflies ah, Lina Yashita from Gundam zz, and Ka-er from Digital Baby, and in a few years, Nangong Ask Ya from Oriental Goddess of Mercy and God’s Soldier.

Of course, none are inclined that way, and all are affectionate at best.

But it’s enough of a brain fart for the early girl-controllers too.

“Sister Chen told me ah, also said that brother himself admitted it, brother so want to marry me? Really take brother can not help ah.”

“That woman don’t give me nonsense and mislead the children ah, sister control does not mean that you want to marry your sister.”

“What does that mean?”

“Uh, it means wanting to protect and pamper your sister growing up, I guess.”

“It’s fake sisterhood, isn’t it.”

“How’s that for fake sisterhood.”

It’s not just uptight girlies either.

“Because marriage can only be with one person, and sister controllers who don’t want to marry their sister are unfocused.”

What kind of sophistry is that, but it seems to make so much sense.

“In short, there are many kinds of sister control, ah, brother I, ah, belong to the type that wants you to grow up to be a healthy adult.”

“What about to Cho Rei? What type of sister-controller is brother?”

“And of course I hope she grows up healthy.”

“No one is allowed to be like me, I’m unique.”

Cheng Li raised his head, and his head directly hit Cheng Ming’s chin.

“Let’s hope she grows fat, then.”

“Brother do you want to fatten her up and eat her in one bite?” Cheng Li asked fearfully.

“Why would you think that, I’m not an ogre, she’s as skinny as bamboo now, she’s going to fall over when the wind blows, it’s better to be fat.”

“I’ve been raised white and fat by my brother too, won’t he eat me?”

Cheng Li crossed his somewhat fleshy arm over Cheng Ming’s mouth.

“Then I’ll take a bite.”

The real “meat in his mouth”, Cheng Ming just gently held it and did not use his tongue to lick it.

But Cheng Li wasn’t satisfied with this and desperately shoved his arm into Cheng Ming’s mouth.

“A little more would be fine, oh, I won’t want to eat my friend’s sister when I’m full.”

The mouth shouldn’t be stretched out, Cheng Ming thought worriedly.