Chapter 132 - The Tax Official Came Again (1/2)
Chapter 132: The Tax Official Came Again
Translator: Fan Translation Studio
Xiao Tieshu said to the subordinate of the tax official. “We only know that Baoshan is working in the dock now and my sister-in-law and others were running a restaurant in town. Haven’t you investigated their restaurant before? That’s how it goes roughly. Just like what you have investigated last time.”
Xiao Tongshu also said, “Yea, that’s how it goes. By the way, I heard that they bought a house in town but they haven’t thrown a housewarming banquet. We also haven’t been invited to their new house.”
“…”
After the tax official went away Xiao Tieshu started cursing.
“The second household is going way too far. They don’t even invite us to have a look at their new house.”
Xiao Tongshu said, “Isn’t their new house on the route of our patrolling? We pa.s.s that area everyday and we know what it roughly looks like. It doesn’t matter if we go there or not.”
“That’s not the case. If they invite us, it means that they still treat us as their relatives, but if they don’t invite us, they must have totally exclude us from their household.”
Xiao Tongshu said, “That’s right. We don’t have some deep-seated hatred against them. We just made them do more work in the past, didn’t we? But they couldn’t earn any money back then, shouldn’t they need to do more work?”
“Ah, you wish you know people’s hearts.” Xiao Tieshu sighed.
The two brothers did not expect that they would see Ye Xiaoxian the next day.
Ye Xiaoxian went back home from the restaurant at noon when she encountered the two brothers who were patrolling on the street.
Ye Xiaoxian went over and greeted them. “Elder Uncle, Third Uncle.”
Xiao Tieshu saw Ye Xiaoxian and was not very cheerful. He snorted. “Mhmm.”
Xiao Tongshu then said sneeringly, “Hah, Little Ye, why aren’t you in the restaurant? Don’t they need you to work there?”
Ye Xiaoxian smiled. “No, not really. We have a cook to do the job there.”
“No wonder you look rather energetic. It turns out that you’ve hired someone,” said Xiao Tieshu.
Ye Xiaoxian smiled. “Elder uncle, did you praise me? Thank you.”
Xiao Tongshu said as if he ate sour grapes. “People become energetic and refreshed when they have something good going on. Your restaurant is running well and you have bought a new house and you also won some big prize in the provincial capital. You have become much better-off day by day.”
Ye Xiaoxian said, “It’s not that good. By the way, Uncles, why don’t you come to our new house and have a meal with us when you’re free?”
Once Ye asked, Xiao Tieshu and Xiao Tongshu felt shocked.
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Ye Xiaoxian actually invited them to have a meal there. Was the sun rising from the west?
Ye Xiaoxian smiled again. “I was busy about the issue of Baozhu and then went to the provincial capital to take part in the contest and now have something tricky to mind, so I didn’t even have time to invite you to our new house. I heard that you went to visit Baozhu before, so I tell myself that you’re really the family. Only our own family is willing to visit Baozhu.”
Xiao Tieshu and Xiao Tongshu were surprised again.
Xiao Tieshu then said, “Never mind, I remember that I still owe you several hundreds of coins. I wrote an IOU last time, didn’t I?”
Ye Xiaoxian explained with a smile. “Elder Uncle, although our restaurant looked rather grand, we actually don’t make that much of money and we’ve already explained the reason to you. We need to pay the employees, the rent, the tax and the food ingredients like vegetables and rice, so we really don’t have much money left. Therefore, even though our family members come to eat, we have to charge you.
However, Uncles, after all you went to eat for the first time, so let’s just call the debt off, but there’s one condition. You can’t take anyone else to eat again, especially that Xun Wenda. That guy doesn’t look decent.”
Ye Xiaoxian had given them an out to that extent, so if the two brothers still could not understand, they must have some mind problems.