Switched Marriage: The Coddled Little Wife

Chapter 730: Chapter 730: A New Car?

Zhuang Jingshu had inquired about Qi Qi countless times over the phone in the past two months. Now, seeing the little one rushing over, how could she resist? She gladly took her darling granddaughter into her arms.

Qi Qi finally landed in her grandmother’s embrace, her tiny hand grabbing onto the pearl necklace around Zhuang Jingshu’s neck, babbling excitedly.

Zhuang Jingshu was both amused and exasperated, "You little rascal, you’re not really missing Grandma, are you? You’ve got your eyes on Grandma’s pearl necklace, haven’t you?"

She asked Lin Chuxia to help her take off the pearl necklace and gave it to her granddaughter to play with.

Luo Sen, standing nearby, twitched his lips. This pearl necklace of the chairwoman was worth a building in Hua Country, and yet she let the little miss play with it?

He reevaluated the places Lin Chuxia and Qi Qi held in Zhuang Jingshu’s heart.

Outside the airport, Zhuang Jingshu raised her eyebrows seeing the car, "A new car?"

Lin Chuxia chuckled, "The jeep didn’t have air conditioning, and with the weather getting hot soon, driving that car can be a bit of a pain."

This was something she would only say to Zhuang Jingshu, knowing Zhuang Jingshu had seen a lot in foreign countries.

If she told anyone around her, she would be ridiculed for being ungrateful.

With the current economic conditions, so many people were still struggling at the subsistence level, and even buying a bicycle was a struggle.

She had a car to drive and still complained about its lack of air conditioning.

How many people hadn’t even heard of the word "air conditioning"?

Zhuang Jingshu indeed smiled slightly and spoke as a matter of course, "You should have replaced it long ago. Your jeep’s performance is certainly not as good as the Santana. But you should have told me in advance, and I would have found a way to get you a good imported car."

"This is great enough. With a Santana, I fear nothing under the sun."

She chuckled, but in her heart, she thought, no matter how good an imported car Zhuang Jingshu could get her, she wouldn’t dare drive it.

Speaking of which, when the Santana first entered our country in 1983, almost all parts were imported and assembled domestically.

By 1988, the policies allowed the localization rate of the Santana to continue to increase, with production scaling up.

As a result, many companies now liked buying the Santana.

If she drove a better imported car, she would outshine the leadership.

.........

Zhuang Jingshu came back at this time because she knew the building she gifted to Lin Chuxia was completed.

Soon after she returned to the family compound, Zhuang Yang came over.

He reported his work in the country to Zhuang Jingshu and also told Lin Chuxia about the situation with Xiyang Building.

"I heard from Wang Tianyu that you want to schedule the listing ceremony for June 18th. The timing is perfect; it’s just that the arrangements for the mall and the personnel for the ceremony need your attention."

Lin Chuxia was prepared for this. She had already spoken with the Wang siblings and Qin Jianjun, waiting for Zhuang Yang to say this.

On the day Zhuang Jingshu returned, everyone wisely chose not to discuss work.

Lin Chuxia and Qin Yang cooked a table full of dishes themselves.

Holding Qi Qi, Zhuang Jingshu wouldn’t let go; during her time abroad, it was her little granddaughter she missed the most.

After all, she had been taking care of her since the full moon.

The family was lively, and even Yuan Bao sensed the joy at home, darting from one place to another in excitement.

When the food was ready, the family gathered around the table, and Qin Yang even opened a bottle of red wine to pour for everyone.

Qi Qi could now eat simple dishes; the moment she sat at the table, her little fingers eagerly pointed at the food, babbling continuously.

This was the first time Zhuang Jingshu saw Qi Qi like this, laughing heartily, "Look at the little girl so anxious. What does our Qi Qi want to eat? Grandma will help you pick out the fish bones. We’ll eat fish; it makes you smart."

Qi Qi moved her little mouth, opening it wide with a soft "ah ah ah."

Zhuang Jingshu laughed as she picked out a piece of fish, carefully removing the bones, and fed it to Qi Qi.

The little one ate with relish, her cheeks puffing adorably.

.........

All the procedures for the Xiyang Group were completed, and the building was also ready.

After setting the date for the listing ceremony, everything began to move forward.

Zhuang Jingshu even lent Luo Sen to Lin Chuxia, having no objections to Gu Peng being by Lin Chuxia’s side.

In fact, she thought just having two competent assistants was too few for her.

With so much work, it was tiring enough for her to oversee everything; how could she have the energy to run around?

These tasks should be delegated to subordinates.

When Lin Chuxia met Wang Tianxue that day, she learned that Wang Tianxue had handled another issue these past days.

After Yang Rui was released from the police station that day, he never reappeared, and the child was taken to the police station by neighbors.

Since contact with Yang Rui couldn’t be established for a long time, the police turned to Wang Tianxue for leads.

After divorcing Yang Rui, Wang Tianxue didn’t care to even glance at him, let alone know where he had gone.

If it weren’t for him threatening suicide at the clothing mall that day, Wang Tianxue wouldn’t have spoken a word to him.

But when the police approached her, she naturally wouldn’t vent these emotions on unrelated people.

It was then she saw Yang Rui’s child.

Honestly, as a mother, seeing the child, Wang Tianxue felt a twinge of discomfort.

The child was thin and weak, noticeably smaller than peers.

His skin was pale, with a sickly pallor.

His hair was sparse, lying softly against his head.

Precisely because of this, Wang Tianxue couldn’t bring herself to despise the child.

A child under one year old, obedient to an unusual degree, sat quietly without crying or fussing, observing everyone with big eyes.

As if being so well-behaved, his parents wouldn’t abandon him.

Wang Tianxue knew where Yang Rui’s hometown was, and that Yang Rui had a sister who married far away.

She shared what she knew with the police.

Unexpectedly, two days later, the police sought her out again.

It turned out Yang Rui’s parents in his hometown had passed, his sister who married far away had long lost contact with him, and refused to take in the child.

The police contacted Wang Tianxue, hoping she might have other leads.

Or some solution.

Wang Tianxue was truly at her wit’s end this time, prompting the police to proceed with official procedures to resolve the child’s placement.

Wang Tianxue sympathized with the child, but raising Yang Rui and Tang Lili’s child was out of the question.

In the end, she assisted the police in taking the child to the city’s welfare home.

Lin Chuxia sighed when she heard the outcome.

Yang Rui and Tang Lili’s moral degradation and misconduct not only cost them their jobs but left behind a pitiful child.