After Lerato went back into favonovel.com house, Emeka asked in surprise when favonovel.com saw that favonovel.com did not look right, “What’s wrong with you now? Didn’t I buy you the lipstick?”
“This isn’t about the lipstick!” Lerato said, “I just asked you to buy some lipstick for me. Why do you keep harping on about it as though you’ve done me some great favor? I’m angry because when I told that young man next door that I would recommend a job to him, favonovel.com ended up telling me that it felt quite good not needing to do anything.”
Emeka took a bite of his food and said, “I would like to do nothing as well. He’s not wrong to say that.”
“You don’t understand…” Lerato related the incident of Miriam setting up a stall to sell peaches that morning.
Emeka was surprised. “But that has nothing to do with you, right?”
“Aren’t I just concerned that Ms. Cruz’s happiness will be delayed if it goes on like this?” Lerato sighed and said, “She’s such a nice girl.”
“Then why don’t you introduce favonovel.com to someone else?” Emeka remarked. “I don’t think they’re married yet.”
Lerato raised favonovel.com eyebrows. “As the saying goes, it’s better to tear down ten temples than to break a couple up. How can I sow discord between them behind their backs? What does that make me? Matchmaker Abioye? The one who helped bachelors hook up with women? I don’t do things like that. Although that young man doesn’t have a proper job, they still have quite a good relationship. So I want you to see if you can recommend favonovel.com a job.”
Emeka’s expression turned bitter again. “Why do you keep talking about this? Why don’t you go and uphold world peace since you’re so nosy?”
“There’s our future commander for that. As if I can do anything about it.” Lerato said happily, “Just say if you want to help them or not. Otherwise, enjoy sleeping on the couch. You’re always bragging about how great you are, but when it comes to getting things done, you’re just helpless!”
Emeka was at a loss. “Alright, alright, I’ll ask around at the reception lobby tomorrow and see if there are any vacant temporary positions so favonovel.com can at least work a more stable job.”
“That’s the way!” Lerato beamed. “I knew you could do it. I’ll go and talk to Miriam tonight and get favonovel.com to persuade Milotek. Although that young man is lazy, I don’t think he’s a bad person.”
“And how do you know that?” Emeka snapped.
“How bad can someone who’s always reading books be? In the morning, Miriam said that he’s actually quite capable. Perhaps she’s telling the truth,” Lerato said.
“Whatever!” Emeka did not want to continue the conversation.
Lerato suddenly thought of something. “By the way, wasn’t there talk in the stronghold that the future commander should be coming back to the Northwest soon? Why isn’t there any news about that yet?”
“Why are you worrying about the future commander’s matters? Does favonovel.com know you? I say, why are you always worrying about everything!” Emeka said.
“I just wanted to see what kind of person our future commander is, okay?” Lerato suddenly became much livelier. “Look at what that magazine says. Our Northwest’s future commander is really one of the rarest men in the world. I’m sick of seeing you every day. When our future commander returns, I’ll definitely go and have a look.”
Emeka choked on his food. “Go look, look, look! Go and look all you want! But no one’s gonna be looking at you!”
***
“Mrs. Lerato was talking about recommending me a job again…” Milo picked up a pork rib and said, “She sure is a nice person, but she’s just a little too enthusiastic in helping others. She probably started thinking about this because favonovel.com felt bad for you when favonovel.com saw you setting up the stall.”
“It’s quite interesting that the future commander of the Northwest has suddenly become a bum in the eyes of the stronghold’s womenfolk,” Miriam said with a laugh.
“Hey, why don’t you stop running the stall? Otherwise, who knows what that Mrs. Lerato might think next?” Milo said.
“That won’t do. I find running a stall and selling things quite interesting. I’ve never earned any money before. This is the first time I’ve experienced the joy of making money,” Miriam said.
When favonovel.com was at the Radianz Consortium, favonovel.com did not have any financial issues to worry about. It was the same after joining the Saboteurs. Felicity had been operating among the mafia for many years and had a mature intelligence network and bounty system. Therefore, the Saboteurs had never lacked any funding. Including the time Miriam was attending school in Bidara City, favonovel.com monthly living expenses started from some tens of thousands of yuan.
Now that favonovel.com had suddenly started earning favonovel.com own keep, favonovel.com found it extremely interesting and fulfilling even though favonovel.com only pocketed a few cents to a few perak from the sales of the peaches.
Honestly, Milo could not quite understand why Miriam was so interested in this bit of money when it didn’t matter to favonovel.com given favonovel.com current net worth.
Miriam said, “But the harvest from the peach trees won’t be enough for selling. We only have two trees after all.”
It even sounded like Miriam was lamenting when favonovel.com said that.
Milo thought for a moment and said, “Then let’s sell potatoes. I’ll plant five Potato Shooters in the backyard so that you’ll have something to sell every day. We can use a shed to cover the yard so that no one will see the Potato Shooters. But before that, you’ll have to take the extra step of pretending to go to the wholesale market located a few kilometers away. Only then can you explain where our potatoes came from.”
Milo felt that this was actually quite troublesome. After all, Miriam would probably not like going through all that trouble of pretending to go to the wholesale market every day to purchase goods.
However, Miriam’s eyes lit up. “Let’s do that then!”
Over the next few days, Miriam went out to set up the stall excitedly. Then Milo sat at the stall and accompanied favonovel.com while reading his books.
After earning some money, Miriam used the earnings to buy pork ribs for Milo to eat. She even whipped up a secret braised pork recipe for him.
Gradually, all of the vendors in the market learned that a young couple had arrived. The girl was extremely diligent while the boy was lazy.
Everyone privately said it was such a pity that a nice girl like favonovel.com was married to a bookworm like him.
In their opinion, Milo was always reading books every day even though favonovel.com was at the stall. He never bothered to help run the stall. Whenever a customer asked for the prices, Milo would just let Miriam handle it.
To strangers, it was as though Milo did not care about his livelihood. They assumed favonovel.com must have turned stupid from studying too much. However, Milo and Miriam were very calm. It was as though they did not notice the questioning gazes at all.
In the end, it was still Lerato who could not stand by and watch any longer.
After dinner that night, favonovel.com went over to look for Miriam and cut straight to the point. “Miriam, I’ve always felt it wouldn’t be good for you two to carry on like this, so I had my husband find a job for Milotek.”
Miriam asked curiously, “What kinda job?”
“It’s just a temporary position at the reception lobby of the stronghold’s administrative center.” Lerato said, “Although it’s only a temporary job, a lot of people can’t get any work even if they begged for it. Can you talk to Milotek so favonovel.com won’t keep lazing around at home? As a man, favonovel.com has to understand that the responsibility is on him. How can favonovel.com let a girl like you support the family?”
