The Comeback of the Cannon-Fodder Supporting Actress

The northern weather in the ninth month of the lunar calendar, close to October, had already begun to get cold, especially in the mornings and evenings, it felt particularly chilly.

Zhao Chuan rode his bike back wearing thick clothes, cold wind kept blowing into his collar, making him shrink his neck.

On the way back, he was thinking of what he could have for dinner and also thought about asking An Xian to dig out his scarf for him to wear to work tomorrow.

As soon as he entered the home, he smelled a delicious aroma.

Once inside, a wave of warmth greeted him.

Zhao Chuan shrunk his neck again and saw the round table in the living room covered with tasty dishes.

Fried meatballs, sausages, braised fish, stewed meat, and a whole roast chicken.

Zhao Chuan thought he was hallucinating.

He rubbed his eyes: ”Xian, Xian...”

An Xian came out of the kitchen, still chewing on a piece of meat: ”What is it?”

Zhao Chuan excitedly pointed at the table of food: ”Is this real life?”

An Xian just laughed.

Anning also came out from the kitchen: ”Brother-in-law, it’s us who returned.”

Seeing Anning, Zhao Chuan smiled: ”Lao Si is back, I thought so.”

During dinner, dumplings were brought to the table, and Zhao Chuan dug in heartily.

An Xian and Zhao Chuan kept picking hard dishes for each other, both wholeheartedly focused on eating, not minding anything else.

When the meal was almost finished, An Xian finally brought up the topic of resigning with Zhao Chuan.

Zhao Chuan was tall and sturdy, not particularly clever, just honest and diligent, ready to follow orders. Upon hearing about resigning, he agreed immediately without much thought: ”Sure, I’ll go resign tomorrow.”

The next day, upon hearing the news, Anjing and Chen Qiang also came over. Anjing came to complain, while Chen Qiang wanted to find something to do at home.

Anjing barely got to air her grievances when Anning immediately retorted.

”With your mother-in-law like that, can she really take advantage of you? With your sharp tongue, can your mother-in-law outtalk you? If you’re saying she hits you, does she even have the guts? You’re pregnant now, aren’t you?”

No matter where, if a mother-in-law dares to hit a pregnant daughter-in-law, she’d be criticized.

Anning’s retort left Anjing speechless, her face flushed red with anger.

Anyway, Anjing planned to stay at her parent’s house to properly recuperate, for now, she wasn’t planning on returning to the Chen Family.

There were plenty of rooms at home, Anjing had her own room, besides, they weren’t short of food for her. If she wanted to stay, she could stay, Anning wouldn’t chase her away.

After breakfast, Anning, Xiao Yuan, and Zhao Chuan went to the city to buy materials for building a greenhouse.

Anning wasn’t new to growing greenhouse vegetables; she had done it before both in modern times and in ancient times. The whole process was already well-known to her.

She could estimate the material needed for twelve acres of land with her eyes closed.

Once in the city, she and Xiao Yuan and Zhao Chuan headed straight to the wholesale market, bought the materials there, and hired a big truck to transport them back.

Even with all that, it was already dusk by the time they returned.

The items were unloaded into the yard, they settled the driver’s wages and sent him off, by then the sky had turned dark.

Evening was the time for dinner, and when the big truck stopped at the Pei Family’s door, people from Xiaxi Village came over to watch the commotion.

Seeing a lot of materials unloaded in the Pei Family’s yard, someone with decent relations with Pei Laoshi asked.

”Old brother, what’s your family planning to do?”

Pei Laoshi felt rather proud, standing in the yard with a cigarette and distributing them: ”Not much, Anning and her partner went out and made some money, they came back and wanted to do something. She thought about growing greenhouse vegetables. As a father, although I don’t have much ability nor money to give her, if the child wants to use her own money, can I not support it?”

”Greenhouse vegetables?”

To be honest, most people in Xiaxi Village didn’t really know what greenhouse vegetables were.

”Yes, yes, greenhouse vegetables, it’s building a greenhouse on the land and growing vegetables inside. You can grow greens even in the winter, Lao Si said you could grow cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplants, all sorts.”

With this explanation, people understood.

After all, the conditions were far better than before, during the New Year, who didn’t buy some vegetables or whatnot? During that time, various greens were very expensive, but no matter how expensive, it’s still bought for the New Year.

”If they really manage to grow them, it could make money.”

”It’s uncertain whether it’ll make money, but if the child wants to try something, let her do it.”

Pei Laoshi smiled as he continued distributing cigarettes.

At this point, someone who was jealous said: ”What about your Third and your sister? Could it be Anning sold them for the money?”

”What are you saying?” Pei Laoshi didn’t like this comment: ”My Third and Pei Yu stayed in Dream City. Their luck was good, rescuing a big boss over there. Knowing that Pei Yu and my Third wanted to stay, the boss bought them a house. Anning wanted to come back, the boss even gave some money...”

At this moment, Liu Dalian came over with a plate of seeds, smiling: ”Pei Yu got some sort of pager, I went to town today and called Pei Yu. She told me she’s doing well now, she has a house and money over there. She’s learning to sing, and following people to perform at events, earning dozens of dollars for a single song, sometimes even over a hundred. She told us not to worry, saying if there’s time around the New Year, she’ll come back. But if there’s much work over there, she won’t.”

Hearing this, the crowd broke out in gasps and exclamations.

Earning over a hundred dollars for a song? That’s unbelievable.

Especially when the wages for workers at this time were so low; many workers could only earn about 200 yuan a month. If a rural family could save a few hundred yuan over a year, it would be considered good. Some families couldn’t even save much over a year.

In fact, Liu Dalian exaggerated; Pei Yu didn’t say that much to her, just that after singing for quite some time, she occasionally received over a hundred. But Liu Dalian just wanted to boast, so she exaggerated.

While Liu Dalian boasted, Sun Jinhua from across the way came out to call her second son for dinner, hearing this made her feel quite envious.

Anning sent the driver off and chuckled at Liu Dalian’s words.

She went inside, grabbed some candies, and gave them to the children watching the excitement. Then she smiled and said: ”These days we need to hurry and prepare the land and build the greenhouse. There are many things that need everyone’s help. If anyone has time, come give a hand. Don’t worry, wages will be according to construction worker pay.”

It was indeed the farming downtime, and people were eager to make some money. Once Anning mentioned working for wages, and quite a decent pay, many naturally planned to come over to help.

That night, the Pei Family was particularly lively.

Liu Dalian didn’t even know how many pots of water she boiled; the tea leaves at home were practically finished, but people were gathered.

The Pei Family was lively, making the Yang Family seem bleak.

Sun Jinhua sulked at home, not even having a proper meal.

Yang Baozhu wasn’t happy either.

She thought Anning had actually eloped and said Anning wouldn’t end well, but Anning unexpectedly turned her luck around, went to Dream City, and encountered such good fortune, saving a rich person and even receiving so much money.

Moreover, Anning actually wanted to grow greenhouse vegetables; this was terribly annoying.

Yang Baozhu wondered why Anning was so lucky, in the previous life saving Lady Wang, and now making her so defeated, yet she could save the Huang family person.

In the past life she earned money in construction, this life she wanted to grow greenhouse vegetables, it was clear that at this time, growing greenhouse vegetables would earn money, not just earn, but a good sum.

The more Yang Baozhu thought, the more irritated she became and said to Sun Jinhua: ”Mom, why don’t we also grow greenhouse vegetables?”