Chen Long was not an unfamiliar face in the frozen goods wholesale market; after all, he was the sales manager for the Southwest region of Meili Brand hams. He had helped Liu Jie’s family unload goods several times before and even helped carry items.
However, back then, he was accompanied by his sales representatives, so his presence wasn't as conspicuous. Now, on the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, he was at "Liu Jie Frozen Goods" early in the morning, helping to move merchandise.
The small business owners in the alley cast extra glances.
They didn't suspect anything improper between the two, as Liu Fang’s attitude towards Chen Long was anything but flirtatious.
They simply thought that Chen Long was indeed qualified to be a sales manager; he was helping a distributor move goods on the twenty-eighth of the twelfth lunar month!
Meanwhile, Liu Chen was on her phone, calling the restaurant she had ordered from yesterday. She tried several times, and the line was busy. Finally, she got through, and when she mentioned delivery, the response was:
"Oh dear, pretty lady, could you possibly come to our shop to pick up the order today? It's the twenty-eighth of the twelfth lunar month. We still have chefs making food, but all the servers have left. We only have relatives helping out, and they can't figure out the directions."
Most of the nearby restaurants were either closed or had subpar food. Liu Chen hesitated but eventually agreed.
She informed her mother that she would pick up the food at half past eleven. An hour later, when busy, time seemed to fly by.
Fortunately, most of the customers were buying hand-grabbed pancakes. Later, Chen Long conveniently loaded the hand-grabbed pancakes onto a cart and brought them from the large warehouse, placing them outside. This way, they only needed to retrieve items like chicken strips and tenderloin from the small cold storage.
Seeing that it was time, and having just finished with a batch of customers, Chen Long asked Liu Chen to sit in the shop. With the New Year approaching, the wholesale market was less crowded, and it wouldn't be safe for a young girl to go out alone.
With that, he grabbed the keys and rushed out, driving to pick up the food.
Not long after Chen Long left, a woman wearing a mink coat and a gold bracelet stood outside the shop.
Li Miao appraised the wholesale store.
It was vastly different from her family’s four interconnected large-scale stores, even smaller than one of their individual outlets.
Inside, a woman and a young girl were present. Li Miao had to admit that neither of them was unattractive.
She didn't truly believe what Xu Lu had said, that her husband, Old Ge, was infatuated with this "Sister Liu." She knew Old Ge's little schemes; it was probably because he thought their son couldn't manage the family business and he wanted to find a daughter-in-law to groom.
But…
She had never agreed to such an idea!
Liu Chen felt she was being scrutinized for a prolonged period. She looked up and saw a woman dressed somewhat ostentatiously standing outside the door. She didn't recognize her and she didn't look like a customer buying goods.
However, Liu Fang found the way the woman was looking at her daughter very uncomfortable. She walked directly outside the shop and asked Li Miao,
"Hello, what would you like to see?"
Li Miao blinked and leaned over to look at the products in the freezer. They were all common goods, nothing particularly profitable. As she looked, Li Miao tucked a stray strand of hair behind her ear and said,
"I'm from 'Meiwei Frozen Goods' up ahead."
Upon hearing this, Liu Fang became even more bewildered. It was the New Year, why was someone from Meiwei Frozen Goods here?
If it was about buying things, her shop had all the products that their shop had, and they also had products that her shop didn't.
Unable to figure it out, Liu Fang stopped trying to guess and directly asked,
"Ah... so you're here to?"
Li Miao straightened up, her lips, painted with bright red lipstick, parted slightly as she spoke, "Xu Lu said you seduced my Old Ge."
The words weren't spoken loudly, but they weren't quiet either. Coupled with the fact that there were already few people in the wholesale market alley today, the owners of the nearby shops all heard it clearly.
When Liu Fang first heard this, her mind went blank, and then her face rapidly flushed. Facing Li Miao, she raised three fingers towards the sky and swore, "That's bullshit! I, Liu Fang, have never even met your Old Ge, let alone seduced him. If I seduced him, I'd get hit by a car the moment I walked out today!"
At this moment, Liu Chen walked out of the shop and stood beside Liu Fang. She reached out and held Liu Fang's hand, which was trembling slightly with anger. Standing at 165 cm, she met Li Miao's gaze, who was wearing a pair of tall boots:
"Auntie, you don't believe that Xu Lu’s words at all, so why come to our house to question my mother?"
Liu Chen had no impression of Li Miao as a person, but as soon as she heard "Meiwei Frozen Goods," she remembered. In her previous life, the owner of Meiwei Frozen Goods was almost a negative example for parents in the entire frozen goods industry.
He was almost thirty years old and spent his days playing around with his father's credit card. He accidentally had a child and left it with his family, not taking care of it. After Ge Meiwei painstakingly raised the child for five years, he realized he had raised someone else's child in vain.
Ge Meiwei was so enraged that half of his hair turned white overnight. However, during that time, there was no news about Ge Meiwei's wife.
Knowing what would happen in their future, although she felt some sympathy for Ge Meiwei, it didn't mean Liu Chen would let go of the person provoking her mother.
Li Miao narrowed her eyes and looked at the seemingly well-behaved, yet disrespectful girl in front of her.
"I naturally have to get to the bottom of this. If your mother didn't do anything, she wouldn't be afraid of my questioning."
Just as Liu Chen was about to reply, she saw Chen Long approaching quickly behind Li Miao.
Liu Chen closed her mouth. Since Chen Long was pursuing her mother, this was the time for him to show his sincerity. Otherwise, how could she gauge his intentions?
"Sister Liu! Are you alright?"
Chen Long first stood in front of Liu Fang, his face full of anxious concern. Seeing Liu Fang's slightly reddened eyes, he turned to Li Miao, who was wearing a furry outfit, and said,
"Heh heh, Li Miao, with your Old Ge's looks, besides you who was willing to be his mistress and get pregnant to get ahead for money, you can rest assured that women with aspirations won't look at him! Let alone women like Sister Liu who have their own careers!"
"If you cause more trouble, I don't mind telling everyone the story from back then again!"
In one sentence, he dragged down "Meiwei Frozen Goods'" Old Ge to the lowest point and directly exposed the truth of Li Miao's marriage.
It should be known that "Meiwei Frozen Goods" had been operating in the C City frozen goods market for decades. Old Ge had obtained the first batch of shops through the connections of his wife's family, who owned a frozen goods factory.
However, later, his "Meiwei Frozen Goods" business became increasingly prosperous, with income far exceeding that of his wife's family. Coupled with the fact that they had not conceived a child after many years of marriage, Ge Meiwei began to have other ideas.
He became entangled with female employees in the store, and only Li Miao became pregnant. Relying on her pregnancy, she directly confronted Ge Meiwei's original wife and demanded she step aside!
All the old timers in the frozen goods industry knew about this incident back then. However, more than twenty years had passed, and the people in the frozen goods industry had changed batch after batch. Over time, most people now were unaware of this past event.
Instead, they truly believed Li Miao's fabricated story that Old Ge had fallen in love with her at first sight, and that she had gotten together with him because she pitied him after his recent divorce and failed relationship.
Li Miao, whose past had been completely exposed by one sentence, looked at Chen Long. Her eyes widened, but she dared not retort fiercely.
After a long pause, she could only utter one sentence:
"It was all a misunderstanding."
Then she fled in disarray.