The Bad Man System Collapse Chapter 19

Wang Jing looked pale. Lu Yang is young and doesn’t know the family expenses, but she is in charge of Lu Ze’s money, and she knows exactly how much the family expenses are.

Her legs trembled at the thought of Lu Ze losing his income and having to use her meagre salary to support her family.

“Old Lu, are you crazy?”

Wang Jing rushed into the kitchen and looked Lu Ze, with red eyes and tears. “If you don’t work, what would we eat and drink at home? What about Xiao Yang’s tuition?”

While peeling potatoes, Lu Ze said, “Men and women have different division of labor. You can work to make money. It’s easy to make money. The only work that’s hard is at home. You’ve worked so hard for so long. Our son loves you, and so do I. Can’t I lighten your burden now?”

“Go out, don’t disturb me cooking. Why are you disturbing me while I cook?”

As Lu Ze said that, he pushed Wang Jing out of the kitchen and closed the door.

“Oh, so you think I don’t work hard at home? And you dislike me for just eating and not working?!” Wang Jing was also angry at this moment. “Okay, I’d like to see how well you can do it!”

Wang Jing snorted and sat on the sofa sulking.

Lu Yang quickly tried to comfort her, but Wang Jing’s dislike of Lu Ze had deepened a little bit. The man was uneducated, could not make money, did not understand his family, and did not care about her. Now he resigned because he was angry and thought the housework was easy to do. What part of this was being considerate to Mom?! He just turned back what they said to him.

Lu Yang also agreed with Wang Jing’s thoughts. Lu Ze seldom does housework and has no idea how tiresome it is. He will know how good or bad it was after doing it for a few days.

After clanking and clinking in the kitchen for over ten or twenty minutes, Lu Ze came out with the food.

Seaweed and Egg Soup, fried shredded potatoes, fried meat with chili, and a braised carp.

Simple three dishes and one soup, but it was also very rich for the Lu family.

(TNote: You call that simple?! I can’t even cook something that’s not any kind of ‘stir-fry vegetables’. Feel like I failed being a homemaker ToT )

In order to save the trouble, Wang Jing likes to cook one dish for each meal, and then make a large pot of something, such as braised ribs with potatoes, which was actually only a pot full of spareribs and big roots.

Lu Yang snorted slightly. What good is a dish an old man made?

He picked up a chopstick of shredded potatoes. His eyes lit up in an instant, crisp, hot and sour, which was much better than what Wang Jing usually made.

He tried the carp next. It was tender and smooth, melts in the mouth with one sip, and its aftertaste was sweet. It was amazing.

Lu Yang has never eaten such delicious food. He ate it enthusiastically without saying a word.

When he first started high school, he always ate in the school canteen at noon. Wang Jing pulled him back and said that the school canteen tastes somewhat bad. ‘Bear with it and mom will cook delicious food for you when you get home.’

But when Lu Yang ate the food in the cafeteria, he found that Wang Jing’s cooking was rubbish. No wonder he didn’t like to eat and looked yellow and skinny.

But now he tasted the dishes made by Lu Ze, and instantly the dishes in the canteen turned into rubbish. No comparison ah!

Lu Yang eats happily, but Wang Jing wasn’t in the mood to eat. Money was always a knot in her heart, which made her depressed and uncomfortable, but Lu Ze and Lu Yang both ate happily at the dinner table and didn’t seem to notice her at all. Wang Jing was even more uncomfortable. If she wasn’t comfortable, she would make others uncomfortable too!

So, Wang Jing sighed louder and louder every time, and finally picked up the chopsticks and put them down, again and again, just so that Lu Ze and Lu Yang could hear them.

Lu Ze: “Don’t eat if you don’t want to eat.”

“What are you talking about?” Wang Jing burst into tears. “You don’t go out to work, not working won’t earn any money! What would we eat later? You don’t think about this family at all!”

When Wang Jing cried, Lu Yang was heartbroken and immediately said, “Dad, you coax Mom, she is also saying this for your own good.”

Lu Ze was already full anyway. He suppressed the anger in his body and said, “well, I understand. You said there was no money in the family. Now, I can cover all the housework. You will be free after work. Go and find a job to support your family.”

“Are you still a man!?” Wang Jing said angrily. “I’m very tired coming home from my job, but you’re asking me to do two?! You see other people’s wives are playing at home, none of them are like me— being a slave labor at home!”

Wang Jing was furious, but Lu Ze was very calm, saying slowly, “in fact, it’s not only two jobs, in the afternoon, you can find a part-time job to do. No different from what you used to do at home. You see, you don’t get any money for cleaning and cooking at home. Now, you can go to other people’s houses to wash, cook and clean when you are not doing chores for half a day. You won’t only be appreciated, but also be paid. I heard that there pay 300-yuan hourly for housekeeping workers now, which is no less than your current job.”

Lu Ze’s words were so reasonable that he instantly convinced Lu Yang and Wang Jing, but Wang Jing still had concerns in her heart.

Lu Yang immediately advised, “Mom, Dad is right. Since he likes to stay at home and do hard work, let him stay at home. You can go out and exercise.”

“Okay, Mom will make your father open his eyes and see things clearly!”

“Then I’ll wait and see.” Lu Ze echoed, drooping his eyes and covering up the mockery in them.

In the afternoon, Wang Jing went to the domestic market service center to register her own information, and learned that now there was a shortage of domestic service staff. After three days of simple training, Wang Jing soon had her first customer.

This customer, surnamed Feng, is a divorced single mother with two children. She is a senior trader with a low basic salary with high commission, which all depended on performance. With the time differences in Europe, the United States and China, she often works overtime and spends too much energy on her work. Naturally, someone needed to do the housework.

The next day, Wang Jing arrived at the Feng family after work. The two children went to school, one primary school and one junior high school. They all had lunch at school. Wang Jing only needed to prepare dinner.

Wang Jing first started cleaning, first cleaning the glass getting a tiring backache, then sweeping the floor and washing clothes.

Then there was shopping for food and cooking. The grocery money was a credit card without a password, which was placed on the table and only used for supermarket shopping. After using it, it should be returned it to its original place.

Feng Cheng is a strong woman with strong ability and high income, and she bought a large house, which was over 150 square meters. With four bedrooms and two living rooms, and it was still a duplex with an upper and lower floor.

Wang Jing cleaned up all afternoon.

It took another hour to wash and cook.

At 05:30 in the afternoon, the children came back from school. The elder sister and younger brother sat at the dinner table waiting for dinner.

Wang Jing looked at the two children in disgust, and couldn’t help feeling resentful. At a young age, they didn’t know how to be considerate of others. They only know how to sit there and wait for food, they don’t even know how to lend a hand.

Wang Jing brought up the food with a straight face, four dishes and one soup.

Green vegetable soup, stewed chicken with mushrooms, stir-fried meat, steamed fish, Sweet and Sour Spare Ribs.

Sweet and Sour Spare Ribs was this pair of brother and sister’s favorite food. They chose to eat this first, with one bite, the two small faces wrinkled into steamed buns.

The younger brother shouted, “it’s so salty!”

The elder sister also nodded, “Yes, it’s so salty. Is it okay to put too much salt in this dish? Let’s eat something else.”

“Ah, it’s still salty.” The brother and sister sighed again.

Wang Jing turned blue, picked up the food in front of the two people and poured it into the trash can. “I work hard to cook and wash your clothes, but you still hate it?! Don’t eat it if you don’t want to eat!”

Wang Jing’s actions were very rude. The two children were young and the elder sister was only in the first grade of junior high school, so she was frightened.

The elder sister protected her brother behind her. “Auntie, what are you doing? We hired you to cook. We didn’t blame you. We just said the food was salty.”

Wang Jing then realized that this is not her own house and she isn’t allowed to lose her temper.

But she has lost her temper. Should she apologize to the two brats?

Wang Jing glared at the two, took her bag and left.

The brother and sister secretly confirmed from the windowsill that Wang Jing had gone, so they called Feng Cheng, and cried about what had just happened.

Feng Cheng was angry when she heard this. Where did this big shot come from? She unexpectedly frightened the two babies of her family.

Feng Cheng was just about to call to complain, but she calmed down and thought about it. Maybe, there was some misunderstanding, it’s better to look into it first.

Feng Cheng especially asked for leave to go home. At home, heh!

The watermarks were clearly visible on the window, the rugs were not washed, and the dry cleaning were directly thrown into the washing machine.

The floor was swept, but there was still some dust in the corners.

Let’s look at those dishes again. they don’t even look good, let alone taste good.

Feng Cheng calmly called the domestic service center and severely criticized them.

This was only because her former nanny’s father had an accident and she had to ask for leave for a few days, going back for the funeral. She wanted to find a part-time worker to hold on for the time being.

Unexpectedly, she paid for an idle and wayward woman.

Feng Cheng’s home is at the city center, and it takes more than an hour to get back by bus from here. By the time Wang Jing came home exhausted, the food was hot in the pot, and Lu Ze and Lu Yang had already finished eating.

Lu Ze sat on the sofa watching a variety show with Lu Yang, and the two laughed happily.

She smashed her bag heavily on Lu Ze and lost her temper. “I’ve been working outside all day. I’m so tired that my waist is almost broken. What have you done?”

Lu Ze put down the remote control and pointed to the surroundings, clean and spotless.

Then he pointed to the hot food in the pot.

Wang Jing was speechless, but she still felt aggrieved and her eyes turned red again. Although Lu Ze used to work until the middle of the night, he sat while driving. How relaxed it was, and how tired she was now.

Lu Ze saw what Wang Jing was thinking at a glance and turned away from her.

Anyway, in Wang Jing’s mind, other people’s work was easy, her work was very hard.

Wang Jing silently went to the kitchen to bring out the food and cried. Lu Ze had nothing to do with it. The house was only over 50 square meters in total. It was very humble, so it was cleaned in a short time. How big is Feng Cheng’s house? She worked hard all afternoon. As a result, she was scolded by the housekeeping service center on the way back. Not only did she not get the money, she almost lost money!

But this Lu Ze didn’t understand, and Lu Yang didn’t comfort her.

Wang Jing opened the lid on the pot and said, “Why is there only one dish?”

Lu Ze said carelessly, “didn’t you only cook one dish before?”

Wang Jing opened that large pot of kelp stew, the meat was cut into large pieces, the lean meat was very little, the fat was too much. It was so greasy that it couldn’t be eaten.

“Why didn’t you cut it smaller?”

“If I cut it like that, you won’t bite yourself when you eat it.” Lu Ze gave back everything Wang Jing had said to him before.