READ NOVEL ONLINE Her tone was completely different from that of the ugly women even though she was also complaining. Her voice was obviously more pleasant, and also with a touch of lazy, soft and coquettish feeling.
Ji Wujin quickly turned back and smelt a burst of jasmine fragrance. Before she had a clear look at the woman, that woman already passed by swiftly.
She was wearing a long rosy-dyed silk dress. When she passed by, Ji Wujin wowed in her heart.
A beauty! Years of experience told her that she must be a,n extreme beauty!
The woman leaned over to look into the pot, then sighed, “Alas…… ”
Her sigh, more of a flirt, blushed the fat cook’s face. He even started to stagger, “We…urgh…well…no enough steamed buns….Mama, Mama Jiao says we need to save…save money…”
On hearing him, the beauty turned around suddenly.
Ji Wujin saw her face finally. She had a gorgeous face of 30% arrogance and 70% coquettishness.
What an aggressive beauty!
If Hua Wujiao was an enchanting peony, that woman was a smoking hot rose. She was dazzling, condescending and imposing.
Just with one single look at her, Ji Wujin found the answer to her puzzle. This woman should be the reason why Sweet Smile Chamber still existed. She was the prostitute queen, the daughter who outstood all girls in a brothel.
That woman also said with a prostitute queen tone. “So Sweet Smile Chamber is about to go down. If we can’t sustain it, then shut it. Mama Jiao, this is hopeless. Aren’t you afraid to starve them to death eventually? The steamed buns are as hard as bricks. I won’t eat it!”
So domineering!
Those ugly women threw sharp eyes at Ji Wujin as if they had got their back. Therefore, they said without any fear or what, “It’s true. Only steamed buns for lunch…”
“We still had vegetables last month. This month, we couldn’t even see rice in our rice porridge, let alone vegetables.”
“Wow, you can see rice grains? I thought we drank rice soup every day.”
“Huh? Rice soup? You call it soup? Even the river water would be thick than that.”
Poof!
Ji Wujin could barely held the mouthful of porridge. She picked one ricegrain at the corner of her mouth and put it into her mouth, making a loud chewing sound, “Is this rice or what?”
Those ugly women dissed her even louder for another round. Ji Wujin waved her hand and asked a question that had been bothering her for theentire morning,
“You don’t like steamed buns?”
They complained even much more loudly,
“Come on…It is big and stupid, and dry, not tasty at all.”
“We eat it every day. It tastes like shit.”
The beauty was mad too because she hadn’t had anything for breakfast yet. But those women did.
“Hey, listen to me. Stop being angry. Have a bowl of porridge first….”
Ji Wujin calmed herself down and handed over a bowl of porridge to her. After all, she was the hope of this place.
The beauty snorted and just ignored her.
Ji Wujin took the porridge back in embarrassment. Of course she had a temper of prostitute queen. She had to put up with her! Willingly!
The fat cook walked to the beauty and had a steamed bun in his hand and said with his head hanging down shyly, “This is mine. I am not hungry. You can take it…”
The beauty gave her a hard stare and folded her arms across her chest, tilted her chin up like a proud peacock. “Didn’t you hear what I said just now? I am not eating it! You can give it to anyone you like. I am not eating it anyway!”
“Really?”
A big smile crawled upon Ji Wujin’s face and she immediately grabbed it from the cook’s hand and stuffed it into her own mouth without hesitation, “I can eat it for her. Thank you!”
“…”
The fat guy’s eyes were filled with all tears.
After a short silence, those ugly women burst into a new round of sarcasm.
“You are impressive, huh! You are getting the hang of robbing other’s things, Mama Jiao.”
“She is an expert now…”
Ji Wujin was chewing hard with her cheek popped out, she totally turned a deaf ear to their denouncing.
The beauty was even angrier and said with a long face,
“Did you die of hunger in your last life or what?”
Coughing.
Ji Wujin looked up in horror. How did she know?
Her cheek was fully stuffed by the steamed bun so that her eyes were barely seen. The beauty then went on being sarcastic,
“You do put so much effort on eating a steamed bun. Good for you, Mama Jiao! I wish you a good luck. I deserve to die of hunger…”
“…” Ji Wujin swallowed the bun with great effort and tried to comfort her, “Ahem! Don’t! You are so beautiful. It would be a shame if you die…”
Those ugly women argued, “What do you mean? It’s a shame if she dies. Do you mean we deserve to die?”
Do you even need to ask…
“Of course. Mama Jiao is so worried that she would have apastia. If you really care about Qingqing, you should improve her purveyance.”
Scanning those resentful ugly women, Ji Wujin then turned to the cook,
“Why can’t you cook something else since they are all complaining about the food? Like steamed twisted rolls or stuffed buns…”
The cook scratched his head and answered embarrassedly, “Mama Jiao, with one tael of silver budget for an entire month, this is the best I can do…”
“Then increase the budget.”
The beauty snorted, “Increase the budget? Depending on what? Do you have any idea that our business is sinking every day and we are already live beyond the income long time ago.”
“What? Already so pathetic?”
“What do you think?”
Without any intention to talk to Ji Wujin, the beauty carried a bowl of riceless rice porridge and joined those ugly women.
Those women were still continuing, “She is right. We are already in the red. We are closing soon…for sure…”
“It is only a matter of time, for sure. We will see.”
Ji Wujin twitched her mouth hard and then said their true thoughts in her heart, “You are all expecting it to be closed, aren’t you?”
Those women were still whining. The beauty said honestly, “Come on. It is hard to not go bankrupt with all of you in the business. How am I supposed to be so miserable to end up here? If I were in Chunjiao Chamber, hmm…”
Those ugly women disapproved,
“Hehe, Qingqing, it is true you are beautiful, you are the queen in here? Yes, you are like a phoenix among us chicken. But you are only the worst if you were at Chunjiao Chamber.”
“Yes, you’d the tailender there….”
Ji Wujin was amazed by their using of words. They just compared themselves with chicken (chicken means prostitute in China both in Ancient times and modern times) so casually…
But giving it a second thought, they were kind of right.
Those women kept saying mean things to the beauty and she finally could not bear with them. She slammed the bowl on the table.
“Hum! Gibber-gabber. Even the steams buns cannot shut your mouths!”
As Gu Qingqing was furious, those women let go of her and kept complaining their worries of the business going bankrupt.
At that loud breakfast, Ji Wujin felt sad.
Concluding what those women said, she could tell the situation of Chunjiao Chamber was: Those ugly women who couldn’t even stuff their belly were going to rebel and the pretty one wanted job-hopping. Everything indicated that Sweet Smile Chamber was about to come to an end.