35 A Bitter Experience (2/2)

At that time, he had taken over as the head chef of the state-owned restaurant for six years.

Jiang Jiankang had been helping Jiang Weiguo ever since he was a little boy. He took over his father's position when he was 14. He then married Wang Xiulian, who worked in a textile factory at that time, when he was 19. Before the age of 20, Jiang Jiankang always thought that he would keep on working in the state-owned restaurant and that his son would take over the head chef position someday.

But then, the restaurant closed down, and Jiang Jiankang only got a mere 600 dollars compensation.

Six months after the restaurant closed down, the factory that Wang Xiulian worked at suffered the same fate.

The married couple managed to borrow 10 thousand dollars from their relatives and friends to open the Healthy Snack Bar.

Jiang Jiankang remembered the toughest time of his life. The business wasn't going that well back then, and he couldn't sleep as he was worried about his future. To save money even further, Wang Xiulian had to go to the market and pick vegetables that were on the floor. They even had dinner that was made with carrot skin.

They couldn't even pay back the money they borrowed from Wang Xiulian's family for a few years. Because of that, Wang Xiulian was scared to go back to her parents when it was the Lunar New Year.

The memory made Jiang Jiankang cry loudly.

When Wang Xiulian heard the wail, she put her calculator down and ran into the kitchen with Ji Yue following behind her.

”What? What happened? Xiao Feng, what's wrong with your dad?” Wang Xiulian asked.

”Xiulian! My dear Xiulian! I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry that you had to suffer with me when we were younger!” Jiang Jiankang cried as he hugged Wang Xiulian.

Wang Xiulian could only stare at her husband with a dumbfounded expression.

”What's wrong with him?”

Wang Xiulian thought that she'd pressured Jiang Jiankang about the debt too much recently, and he finally collapsed.

”He ate some dumplings…” Jiang Feng said.

”Dumplings?” Wang Xiulian looked at the dumplings, unable to understand how a bowl of dumplings could make Jiang Jiankang cry.

”All right… Don't worry about it, okay? Oh… Everything is okay…” Wang Xiulian started to calm Jiang Jiankang down like he was a child.

As Wang Xiulian kept on calming Jiang Jiankang down, she could feel her throat getting dry.

Wang Xiulian took the bowl of dumplings and drank the broth that was in it. Since the wrappings of the dumpling were cooked until they were too soft, some of them went down Wang Xiulian's throat without her noticing it.

What the heck? Who made this disgusting thing?

The next second, tears started to roll down Wang Xiulian's face too.

The married couple hugged each other and cried.

Jiang Feng and Ji Yue were staring at them in awe.

Jiang Feng quietly took the bowl of dumplings and threw them away.

These things are evil!

”Ji Yue… You head home… I'll have to… talk some sense into my parents…”

”What? Oh… Okay.”

Ji Yue was stunned for a moment and realized she could go home earlier.

After Ji Yue had left, Jiang Feng used up all his energy to calm his parents down.

The married couple came to a conclusion the next day.

They blamed it all on the disgusting bowl of dumplings.