"Is your dad in here?" Qi Chang asked Meng Dong.

"My dad is the accountant here."

After listening to Xu Keke's explanation, Qi Chang told her to step aside. "I can't hear you with your little bit of strength, I'll do it."

Qi Chang didn't stand on ceremony and started banging on the door.

The door to the accounting office didn't open when we knocked, but the door to the manager's office next door did open, and an old man with gray hair came out.

"What's wrong? You're asking your dad for tuition fees again? Your dad's avoiding you. I guess he's not exactly rolling in money either."

Meng Dong remembered this man; he was the manager of a stationery store, surnamed Lin. Chen Yurong had brought them from their hometown, and they had nowhere to stay. Luckily, the stationery store had a small storeroom in the courtyard where Gao Cheng and the others lived. He had someone vacate it for the mother and her two children to stay in.

In the past two years, whenever Meng Dong came to ask Meng Zikang for money, if he happened to be there, he would speak up for him.

Manager Lin walked over and said, "Don't smash it. This store belongs to the state. If you damage it, you'll have to pay for it."

While talking to Qi Chang, Manager Lin walked past them to the door of the accounting office and gently knocked. "Old Meng, Accountant Meng, your daughter is here. Come out first. If you're short on cash, borrow some from the store. Hiding isn't a good idea. Accountant Meng!"

"Uncle Lin, my mother is dead. She hanged herself last night."

Manager Lin, whose hand was still on the door, turned around in surprise to look at Xu Keke.

"I came here to find my dad and ask him what to do."

Manager Lin turned his head and tightened his grip, "Meng Zikang, someone has died, you come out here right now."