Rebirth of the Millennial: Getting Rich After Parents Get Laid Off

Chapter 203 It's all fate
Li Xunli came back from her vacation and personally drove to pick up Shen Qingqing.

After all, when Shen Qingqing started school, both she and her husband were away on business trips and couldn't send their child to high school.

Now that she's back, of course we have to come pick her up right away, otherwise Shen Qingqing will definitely cause a scene.

"Mom!" Shen Qingqing opened the passenger door and was overjoyed to see Li Xunli sitting in the driver's seat.

"Aunt Li." Wu Fangyi has become quite familiar with the Shen and Li families over the past few years.

Li Xunli replied with a smile, "How has this past month been? Are you adjusting well to your studies and life?"

Shen Qingqing sat in the passenger seat and fastened her seatbelt: "It's alright. Fangyi and I haven't encountered any difficulties. We have a washing machine to wash our clothes, and we take turns cleaning the dormitory in pairs. We haven't encountered any problems with our studies yet."

Li Xunli laughed when she heard this, "That's good. You've never lived in a dormitory before, and Mom was worried that you wouldn't be able to adapt to living and eating with other people."

Hearing Li Xunli say this, Shen Qingqing vaguely remembered that she didn't seem to have this kind of adaptation problem in her previous life, but at that time neither Shen Rongzhou nor Li Xunli cared about whether she was adapting or not.

At that time, the two of them were still struggling to make ends meet.

Shen Qingqing snapped out of her reverie, smugly replying, "Well, you should know who my parents are! They've all lived in dorms before, how could I not adapt!"

Li Xunli was amused by her behavior, pretended to be fed up with her, started the car, and drove away.

Wu Fangyi watched from the back seat of the car as Shen Qingqing automatically transformed into a carefree little child in front of her parents, and felt a pang of envy as she swayed slightly.

She was lost in thought, thinking that if she had children in the future, she would definitely make sure her children were loved as much as Shen Qingqing.

Li Xunli drove steadily all the way to the entrance of the residential area.

"Hey? Why didn't Mom drive to the garage?" Shen Qingqing was about to get out of the car when she saw the entrance to the residential area outside the car and turned to look at Li Xunli.

Li Xunli dialed the phone, "Yangyang, bring Xiaohong to the gate of the community. Mom will be waiting for you here!"

After finishing the call, Li Xunli answered Shen Qingqing's question: "We're not eating at home today, we're taking you out to eat."

Shen Qingqing's eyes lit up: "Where are we going to eat? What are we eating?"

“Didn’t you always say you wanted to eat barbecue? A new place opened on Chaocheng Avenue. I saw it when I came back a couple of days ago. I’ll take you guys there today.” Li Xunli looked at Shen Qingqing with great affection.

"Great! Great!" Shen Qingqing immediately perked up.

Shen Yangyang and Shen Hong had already been picked up by Li Xunli, but since it took a long time to wait for Shen Qingqing, Li Xunli didn't bring the two little ones with her. She also told them in advance that they were going to have barbecue that night and told them not to take a shower beforehand.

To avoid having to shower again after eating barbecue and then smelling like barbecue.

Because Shen Yangyang and Shen Hong were still young, eating barbecue was too likely to cause them to get a sore throat. In order to be fair to both of them, they couldn't take Shen Qingqing to eat alone, since the smell was too strong and they really couldn't resist.

So it wasn't until now that Li Xunli took her three children out for barbecue for the first time.

However, Shen Qingqing had already eaten with Chen Man and Wu Fangyi when they went out alone before.

The first people to actually eat barbecue were Shen Yangyang and Shen Hong, who excitedly ran hand in hand to the car.

"Mom, older sister, Sister Fangyi!" Shen Yangyang and Shen Hong greeted each person obediently.

"Okay." Li Xunli responded, "Are the car doors closed properly? If they are, we'll head out for barbecue!"

Shen Yangyang looked at it, and still not entirely sure, she turned it on and off again. "It's done!"

It's rush hour right now. People are getting off work or going home from school around this time, so the traffic is quite heavy.

Li Xunli, mindful of the four children in the car, didn't dare drive too fast. She slowly moved forward following the flow of traffic, only overtaking when she saw a relatively certain opportunity.

The roads were jammed, and it was an hour later when we finally arrived at the barbecue restaurant.

This barbecue restaurant is quite popular. If Li Xunli hadn't called ahead to reserve a table, they probably would have had to wait an hour or two to get a table after they arrived.

Then, as Shen Qingqing followed the waiter to their reserved table, Wu Fangyi suddenly tugged at her arm.

Shen Qingqing turned her head to look at Wu Fangyi in confusion.

"Over there." Wu Fangyi raised her chin and pointed in a direction.

"Hmm?" Shen Qingqing looked over and saw a familiar figure. "Lin Ziyang?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Ziyang looked up and met their gaze. The next second, the man waved his hand and rushed over.

"Hey! Long time no see!" Lin Ziyang still had that same smug look on his face, and his tone was still nonchalant.

"Long time no see~ What are you doing here?" Shen Qingqing raised her hand and waved as she asked.

Lin Ziyang smiled and pointed to the group of people at their table: "Isn't it the holidays? We saw this restaurant on our way back from school and thought we'd have a meal here before the holidays."

After saying that, he added with some emotion, "You two are quite something, one the top scorer in the city and the other the second best. You've stolen the limelight from the two top classes at Hongxing Middle School."

"How did you know?" Shen Qingqing asked, puzzled.

"Our teacher said that after we finished the high school entrance exam and received our admission notices, we went back to school. Our teacher said that this year's top scorer in the city didn't come from our school, so we asked out of curiosity. Unexpectedly, we heard two names that left a deep impression on me—" Lin Ziyang snorted.

Shen Qingqing and he were deskmates for several years. Even though they went to different junior high schools, they still chatted on QQ. She even contacted him to help Wu Fangyi when junior high school started.

So I wasn't being polite at all when I spoke to him: "Whose fault is it? If you had been our classmate, you might have been third in the city!"

"Wow! Shen Qingqing, you little brat, it's only been a few years, and you've already started to talk big?" In Lin Ziyang's memory, Shen Qingqing was still a well-behaved little sister.

Then he turned his attention to Wu Fangyi: "Wu Fangyi, did you lead her astray?"

Wu Fangyi, who hadn't said a word from beginning to end: "..."

"Why aren't you saying anything? You don't have to say hello when you see your mortal enemy, do you?" Lin Ziyang no longer felt the same hatred towards Wu Fangyi that he considered her a mortal enemy, and he was just joking when he said this.

"I saw you first, then I told Qingqing you were here too. If I had known you were still this annoying, I wouldn't have told Qingqing," Wu Fangyi replied with a forced smile. "Hey, you!" Lin Ziyang immediately exploded like a lit firecracker.

"What's wrong with me?" Wu Fangyi smiled slightly, but that smile looked more like a provocation than anything else.

"Tsk, what's wrong with you? Don't you have any conscience?! Who was it that went to great lengths to help you find your family when you were sick and needed to find someone? Wasn't it—" Lin Ziyang didn't even finish his sentence.

Wu Fangyi reached out her hand and said, "Stop, turn around. Your friends are waiting for you over there. You can talk to them online. Qingqing is still hungry."

Shen Qingqing was watching the two of them go back and forth with great interest when Wu Fangyi suddenly pulled her out of the room. When she met Lin Ziyang's gaze, she showed that innocent expression she had when she was a child: "Yes, I'm still hungry."

Lin Ziyang chuckled speechlessly, "You little brat, now is not the time to call me 'Brother Ziyang' every time you need my help?"

"He's always been like this since he was little, always knowing how to side with this woman!"

Shen Qingqing blinked and grabbed Wu Fangyi's arm: "Well, it's because Sister Fangyi has been taking care of me for the past three years. I'm not the kind of ungrateful person who doesn't appreciate kindness!"

Lin Ziyang chuckled. Someone called him from behind. He turned around and answered, then looked at the two of them again: "What are your plans for National Day?"

Shen Qingqing felt like a radar was beeping in her mind.

"We went to Sichuan Province for fun, with Qingqing's family," Wu Fangyi replied mercifully.

"And what about you?" Lin Ziyang assumed this was Shen Qingqing's own arrangement, so he asked Wu Fangyi another question.

“I’ll go too,” Wu Fangyi said, looking puzzled.

Lin Ziyang was taken aback for a moment, then said, "Oh, okay, that's all. You guys go eat, we can chat sometime!"

As Wu Fangyi and Shen Qingqing continued walking forward, watching Lin Ziyang return to his roommates, Wu Fangyi muttered, "Why did you ask such strange questions just now?"

Shen Qingqing smiled and said, "He probably didn't expect that you and I are so close that you can go on long trips with my family~"

Although Shen Qingqing has radar, she doesn't dare to say that her radar sensing is accurate. She can't meddle in such matters.

Wu Fangyi raised her eyebrows but said nothing.

It was Shen Yangyang and Shen Hong's first time eating barbecue, and they were very interested in the whole process, from getting the meat and preparing the dipping sauce to grilling it. They both showed great eagerness to try it.

At first, she had the leisure to wait for the two little ones to play and grill some meat for them to eat. But after eating something that whetted their appetites, the feeling of hunger came over them, and Shen Qingqing couldn't wait any longer.

They directly stripped the youngest member, Shen Hong, of his right to grill the meat and made him do it himself.

The family finished eating, laughing and joking, an hour and a half later.

When they called the waiter to settle the bill and were about to leave, Shen Qingqing and Wu Fangyi glanced back at Lin Ziyang's table, which was no longer occupied by them.

When they got back to the car and took their phones out of their backpacks, they saw that Lin Ziyang had sent them a message saying he was leaving after eating.

However, the car swayed slightly as it moved forward, and Shen Qingqing accidentally caught a glimpse of Wu Fangyi's QQ screen. The message Lin Ziyang sent seemed to be a little longer than the one he sent to her.

Of course, Wu Fangyi's reply was still as short as ever.

As soon as they got home, Li Xunli urged the four children to take a shower, since they had to go to the airport early the next morning to catch a flight.

Shen Qingqing was still thinking about coming back to clear the dungeon cooldown, so she went to take a shower first.

After clearing out the CDs, he helped Li Xunli pack her suitcase a little, and then went to bed comfortably.

At 5:30 the next morning, all four children were groggily woken up by Li Xunli.

They booked their flights for a little after 8 a.m. The journey from home to the airport would take more than an hour, and they also needed to allow time for the children to wash up, eat breakfast, and then go through security and wait at the airport.

Last night, Shen Qingqing was dragged by a guild leader who used to frequently join her guild to take a ride on a Hero tutorial vehicle. She was so exhausted that she only slept for about four hours until almost 1 a.m., and her brain was about to explode.

So during the journey, everyone dozed off, and once on the plane, they put on eye masks and slept soundly, ignoring everyone else.

The adults were fine, and Chen Man was fine too, as they all had experience flying. Shen Qingqing was even more familiar with it; in her previous life, she had enrolled in a university nearly a thousand kilometers away from home and traveled there and back by plane every time. She was so used to it that she yawned skillfully when the plane took off to balance the internal and external pressure, and then she completely passed out.

However, Wu Fangyi, Shen Yangyang, Shen Hong, Li Chunchun, Zhang Mingfang, and Li Yuxing had absolutely no experience.

After frantically following the instructions several times, I finally felt that my ears were back to normal.

Fortunately, no one got airsick. We got up early in the morning, and it would take some time to fly to Sichuan Province. After the plane stabilized, the cabin lights automatically dimmed, and the dim environment immediately enveloped everyone in a strong sense of sleepiness, lulling them into a dream.

When Shen Qingqing arrived at the airport, she was wide awake.

I stared in disbelief at the airport packed with people.

No, she didn't see that many people during her layover.

She only knew that in later generations, holidays would be packed with people, but she was never told that this was exactly what it was like more than ten years ago!
She thought there weren't such large crowds more than a decade ago!
But no matter what, she finally got out of the airport safely. However, her shoes had been stepped on countless times, mostly on her heels. Shen Qingqing had almost fallen over countless times in this airport.

The car rental company they had contacted in advance brought three cars, which would be their transportation in Sichuan Province for the next few days.

It was already noon when we landed, but luckily the hotel we booked included free breakfast, lunch and dinner, though it was a buffet restaurant.

But the hungry children didn't care what it was or how it tasted; they went straight to the restaurant after arriving at the hotel.

Although the main meal wasn't particularly delicious, there was a small ice cream cake that the children really liked. Shen Qingqing ate two of them by herself, and if Li Xunli hadn't stopped her, she probably would have eaten two more.

Although each piece is only four centimeters square.

Shen Yangyang and Shen Hong stayed in a triple room with Li Xunli, Shen Qingqing stayed in a double room with Wu Fangyi, Li Xunjin and his wife with Li Chunchun, Chen Man's family also stayed in a triple room, and Zhang Mingfang and his wife stayed in a double room like Shen Qingqing.

After a short one-hour lunch break, Shen Qingqing couldn't stay in her room any longer. After discussing it with Wu Fangyi, the two of them took their room keys and went out for a stroll.

I met some unexpected people in the hotel's recreation area.

See you tomorrow night~