I used rebirth to bury his captivating gaze.

Chapter 121 Yu Mei Goes to Study Fine Arts and Decoration (She Doesn't Study Seal Carving, She

When Chen Lixin heard Yu Mei say that she had been kicked out of the Liang family's art and decoration company, he was a little annoyed. He was not usually a calculative person and had a gentle personality. Now he was going to demand an explanation for Yu Han. Yu Mei was able to get into the Liang family's art company because of a male boss surnamed Wang, who was from his hometown and owned an appliance store on the same street. The younger brother of the male boss surnamed Wang's wife was no ordinary person.

Wang Chen's brother-in-law, Wu Dayong, was a petty thug. He spent his days with nothing to do but carry a half-meter-long, brandished knife and a dozen or so henchmen, going out to find enemies and fight.

Chen Lixin didn't care about anything else and headed straight for the Liang family's art and decoration company. Many people on the way saw his angry appearance and made way for him.

When he arrived at the decoration shop, he shouted for Boss Liang to come out. When Boss Liang came out and saw that it was Chen Lixin, he felt a little uneasy, but he still tried to appear calm.

Chen Lixin questioned why Yu Mei had been driven away without cause. Boss Liang stammered that it was because business had been bad lately and they no longer needed apprentices.

Chen Lixin refused to believe it; he knew there must be other hidden motives. Just then, Wang Chen passed by and saw the scene. Thinking Chen Lixin was causing trouble, he came over and reprimanded him.

After Chen Lixin explained the situation, Wang Chen also felt that Boss Liang's actions were unethical. However, he worried that if the matter escalated, it might implicate his brother-in-law, Wu Dayong, which would be troublesome.

So Wang Chen suggested that Boss Liang give Yu Mei another chance and compensate her with some wages as an apology. Although Boss Liang was reluctant, considering the power behind Wang Chen, he had no choice but to agree.

Seeing that he had achieved his goal, Chen Lixin stopped pursuing the matter and turned to leave, while Boss Liang stood there looking annoyed.

In the early stages of opening his art decoration shop, Mr. Liang lacked funds. It was his fellow villager and friend Wang Chen, who ran a home appliance business, who helped him with the funding so that he could get the art decoration shop up and running.

Liang Zi didn't care that Wang Chen was from the same hometown; he also considered that Wang Chen's annual sales of large home appliances were several times the annual income of his small art studio.

He reluctantly allowed Yu Mei to stay and learn art with him temporarily. Wang Chen had told him beforehand that Chen Lixin was Wang Chen's fellow villager and close elementary school classmate. His family was a little short of money, so he had his wife, Yang Yu Mei, learn art at his art shop. While learning, she could also help out at the shop like the other boys and girls.

In fact, in Liangzi's art shop, not only does Yu Mei not have to pay tuition, but no one else does either.

Liangzi's art studio mainly makes various styles of plaques or plaque light boxes for customers to order for store openings.

A signboard lightbox is a signboard with several long light tubes installed inside, used for lighting in front of shops that are still open at night.

There are ten young men and women training at Liangzi's shop. The girls include Yu Mei, who just arrived, and others who practice calligraphy.

Yu Mei was one of the older trainees here. Every day, besides watching, she would help the other boys with the manual labor, passing tools back and forth, and helping the boss with the backing of scrap paper for the computer-cut lettering.

All the students inside were busy working, except for the little girl who was still practicing calligraphy.

Every now and then, Xiao Liangzi would walk up to her and patiently explain, or he would place one of his large hands on the small hand holding the brush that the girl was writing well, and point out the correct way to hold the brush!

Yu Mei, however, would quietly peek at the girls' handwriting when she was free.

Despite this, although each student helped with some tasks for the art club, Boss Liang would prepare a simple lunch for them every day for free. However, it wasn't Boss Liang who did the cooking; it was the girls who practiced calligraphy who prepared the meals. Then Boss Liang and the girls would always be busy cooking in the kitchen, their laughter occasionally drifting out!

At lunchtime, whenever Yu Mei picked up her bowl to eat, Boss Liang's eyes would practically pop out of his head, as if he was afraid she would go and get a second bowl of white rice.

That day, while everyone in the art club was having lunch, a cold-faced man and a dozen or so young men suddenly barged in. This man was none other than Wu Dayong, a street thug and the brother-in-law of Wang Chen, the owner of a home appliance store.

With a "whoosh," Wu Dayong pressed his long steel knife against the back of Wu Dayong's neck.

The white porcelain rice bowl in Wu Dayong's hand fell to the ground with a "clatter".

The others were so frightened that they immediately moved away from the table and hid to the side. Two customers, a man and a woman, who had just opened the door to discuss business, turned around and ran outside as soon as they saw the situation.

Yang Yumei also hid to the side.

Wu Dayong glared at him and scolded, "Do you even know what you did wrong? A few days ago, I brought my girlfriend here with me, and then she told me that you were touching her inappropriately. When she was learning calligraphy, she was writing quite well, but you deliberately held her hand. Is that true?"

Xiao Liangzi was so scared he almost wet his pants, his whole body trembling uncontrollably. Then he raised his hands in apology, stammering, "I'm sorry, I didn't lay a hand on her."

At this moment, Zhang Xiaofei, who was writing calligraphy, came over to smooth things over, smiling and defusing the conflict, "Brother Wu, you've misunderstood. Quickly put down the knife so you don't hurt anyone. What I told you yesterday wasn't what you think. Hehe!"

"Didn't you say yesterday that when you were writing calligraphy, the guy surnamed Liang held your hand holding the brush very tightly? When you got back, you asked me to show you that your hand was still sore and swollen from his grip?"

"Hehe! Brother Yong, you misheard me yesterday. I accidentally bumped the hand that holds the calligraphy brush against the door frame, and that's why it's swollen and red! Put down the knife and calm down first. Or you can stay and have dinner with us."

"Yes! Yes! It's all my fault, I'll be more careful next time. Uncle Wu, please stay for dinner!"

"You're kidding me! I'm telling you, if you dare to do anything outrageous again, I'll teach you a lesson." After saying that, Wu Dayong pulled out his long knife and tucked it into his lower back.

Then Wu Dayong, who would eat a damn meal? He wasn't going to eat this pig swill. He turned and left with his dozen or so henchmen dressed in black. When Wu Dayong reached the door, he glanced back at Yang Yumei, who was hiding behind the door, and said coldly, "I'll let you off for now since you're a girl. I heard that my brother-in-law, who owns an appliance store, brought you here. My sister and brother-in-law have been fighting for days because of this."

Then, after today, the number of customers at Xiao Liangzi's art and decoration shop decreased significantly. It was all because that day, a notorious thug named Wu Dayong barged in with over a dozen of his men, all carrying long knives, which scared away the customers.

After this incident spread, Liangzi's art and decoration shop business gradually declined until it disappeared completely!

After that, all the students left, and Yang Yuhan was the first to leave.

Zhang Xiaofei was taken away by Wu Dayong. Before leaving, he left Xiao Liangzi with a message, telling him to move out of the place within three days. He then bought the house there.

Xiao Liangzi had to move. There were hardly any art businesses in his new place. After a few months, he couldn't even earn enough to cover the rent. So he left the art studio, sold it off, and then found another way to make a living by doing manual labor.

Six months later, in the dead of night, flames erupted on the street where the appliance store was located. More than a dozen fire trucks rushed out to rescue a shop from burning televisions, washing machines, stereos, and many other items, as well as the warehouse!

Despite the fire trucks spraying water to try and save Wang Chen's shop, it was all in vain!

Then Wang Chen's home appliance store went out of business and failed. After that, Wang Chen and his wife went to the vegetable wholesale market to sell vegetables.

Yang Yumei then went to another art decoration shop on Shizheng Street to learn art decoration.

Then the new male owner of the art studio asked her to learn how to carve stamps, but she refused. She paid 200 yuan in tuition, maintained her attitude, and continued to study art and decoration. After completing her studies, she planned to open her own art studio.