Chapter 22 [22] It is I, Tang Yuanyuan, who does not want you! ...

Tang Yuanyuan went to carry the two sacks back and stacked them together again. She saw that Li Mu still had his hands folded and clenched tightly together. The flesh on his palms was sunken into the back of the knife, and he could feel the pain. However, he did not notice it. His eyes fell straight on the floor, staring at a point, as if he was in a mad state.

"Li Mu, are you afraid? Your knife is short, he shouldn't die and can even run away."

Li Mu raised his head after a long while, his eyes blank.

After two minutes, he seemed to come to his senses and stood up, knife in hand. "Who's scared? I regret not stabbing him to death."

Tang Yuanyuan saw that his arms were trembling slightly.

Li Mu seemed to be aware of her gaze. He pinched his wrist with one hand and moved it. His expression had returned to normal. "I stabbed it too hard just now. My tendons are a little numb."

"I'm going to wash the knife."

She sat on the sack and waited for a while. First, Li Mu came back after washing the knife, and then the police came.

The police confiscated the dagger. Since the thief had not been found yet and the extent of the injury was uncertain, Li Mu could not leave for the time being.

Even a cheap hotel costs 5 yuan per room.

Tang Yuanyuan put the sack in the room, and everyone lay down on the big bed with peace of mind, taking up all the space.

Li Mu: "This is the room I booked."

Tang Yuanyuan: "I don't have any money."

Li Mu: "It's none of my business if you don't have money."

Tang Yuanyuan: "Because you stabbed someone, I didn't need to stay."

Li Mu: "You are also a woman!"

Tang Yuanyuan: "You don't look like a man either."

Li Mu was determined not to sleep with Tang Yuanyuan, and Tang Yuanyuan thought the same, so she threw the quilt to him.

Tang Yuanyuan was already extremely sleepy and fell asleep as soon as she closed her eyes.

When Tang Yuanyuan woke up, it was already afternoon. Li Mu was not in the room. She was so hungry that her stomach was sticking to her back. She couldn't find the key and guessed that Li Mu had taken it away, so she locked the door and went out.

I found a noodle shop in a small alley. The prices in the border town are obviously higher than those in Yucheng. A cheap vegetarian bowl here costs one yuan, and a meat bowl costs 1.5 yuan.

Tang Yuanyuan ordered a bowl of vegetarian noodles, but she didn't feel full even after drinking the soup, so she went to the roadside and bought two sesame cakes before she was full.

She remembered that yesterday, the driver asked her which market she was going to and said there was a clothing market here. She stopped a fashionable beautiful woman on the way, asked for the address, and took the bus there.

Yucheng is still mainly engaged in clothing making. There are tailor shops of all sizes, and there are also department stores selling ready-made clothes. However, the variety of styles is far less than here. The market here is very large, and when you ask about the prices, they are ridiculously high. An ordinary skirt costs 80 yuan.

"Your styles are all from last year, and the material isn't good. They're worth twenty yuan at best. If they can be sold, I'll take one. If they can't, I'll go to the next store."

A beautiful woman with big earrings and permed hair crossed her arms and looked like she was about to leave, but the female boss stopped her and said that she was not making any money and wanted to wait for her next time.

Tang Yuanyuan opened the door to a new world. It turns out that bargaining is possible.

Tang Yuanyuan had also seen this kind of skirt in Yucheng, and it cost fifty yuan each.

Clothes can earn you more money.

Tang Yuanyuan turned around and caught up with the woman. She learned from her that the prices in this market were similar and could be bought for 20 to 30 yuan. The prices in boutiques with better quality were around 50 or 60 yuan.

If you want it to be cheaper, go further south to Ningcheng. The clothing factories there are well-developed and there is a clothing wholesale market. The clothes here are all wholesaled from there.

Tang Yuanyuan felt that clothes were more profitable, so she planned to go to Jiangcheng to buy clothes to sell next time after selling the current batch of goods.

Tang Yuanyuan walked around the market and saw a royal blue short-sleeved suit made of a kind of gauze material she had never seen before. Her mother had quite fair skin, so it would definitely look good on her.

Tang Yuanyuan paid twenty yuan and the other party sold it to her.

Tang Yuanyuan happily returned to the hotel carrying her clothes, and Li Mu was already in the room.

He did have some good news. The police didn't catch the thief, and no one came to report the case. The thief was probably afraid of going to jail, so Li Mu could take the train away at night.

Tang Yuanyuan pointed to the floor and said, "Go down. I want to sleep."

Li Mu: "This is the room I booked. You can sleep on the floor tonight. One night per person. It's fair."

Tang Yuanyuan didn't sleep on the floor, she just lay on the other side.

She didn't take a shower anyway.

Li Mu jumped out of bed in shock: "Tang Yuanyuan, are you a woman?"

Li Mu: "I'm a woman, you're not a man, there's nothing to worry about."

Li Mu had never seen a woman more aggressive than Tang Yuanyuan.

"You're a woman, but you stink. You should at least take a shower. You've made the bed stink."

"I've never seen a woman dirtier than you."

Tang Yuanyuan was unmoved. She was not stupid. After all, she was a woman, so it was safer to be a little smelly.

Li Mu held the quilt in his arms and lay down farther away with a look of disgust.

Tang Yuanyuan was very satisfied.

This time, the two of them had a good sleep before catching the train, and they felt much better. They each carried three large sacks on the train and sat next to each other. They took turns resting and watching the goods. After sitting in a hard sleeper for 19 hours, they finally returned to Yucheng safely.

After watching the sack and taking two more buses, I finally arrived at the entrance of the alley.

Tang Yuanyuan carried three large sacks and quickened her pace towards home. Her mother must have been so happy.

Tang An stood against the door with a depressed look on his face.

Tang Aiguo didn't go to work. He sat in the yard, smoking a welding cigarette in silence.

"Why are you all home?"

"Where's Mom?"

"mom!"

"I'm back!"

Tang Yuanyuan put down the sack and subconsciously looked for the bicycle in the yard. Both were at home.

"Where's Mom? Didn't I tell her to have a good rest these few days?"

No one answered her.

When Tang Yuanyuan walked into the main room, she saw a black and white portrait on a long table.

The man fell to the ground.

"Tang An."

"Are you mentally ill?"

Tang Yuanyuan stood up and went to the table to throw the unlucky photo away: "Who told you to put such a thing? I don't allow you to put such a thing."

Tang An grabbed the portrait and held it in his arms: "Mom is gone."

Tang Yuanyuan: "What nonsense are you talking about? Mom is fine, it's just a scratch on her head, what's the big deal?"

"mom."

"mom."

"Mom, where are you? I'm back, and I brought back a lot of goods."

"If I sell this, I can open a noodle restaurant for you, or a stationery store."

She went to the inner room to look for it, but couldn't find it.

Then he went to the west room, the kitchen, and the side room.

None of them.

"Where's Mom?"

"Tang An, where the hell is my mom?"

She angrily grabbed Tang An's collar and demanded that she hand over her mother.

“That’s enough!”

Tang Aiguo pulled her over and said, "Your mother is dead. It was all your fault. You pissed your grandfather off to death, and now you've killed your mother too. Are you satisfied?"

Tang Yuanyuan pulled Tang Aiguo and wrestled with him like crazy: "It's you, it's you who killed my mom. If you hadn't locked us up, she wouldn't have banged her head against the door. It's you who killed her."

Tang An pulled Tang Yuanyuan away: "It's not a head injury."

"It's just a slight concussion on the head. The doctor said it's nothing serious."

"She started making jelly right after she came back from the hospital. I advised her to have a good rest, but she wouldn't listen. She said she had to make money so you could study without worrying about money. She sold jelly in the afternoon and steamed buns in the morning, not wanting to waste a single day. The day after you left, she came back late from selling jelly and was hit by a car. The car ran away, and it wasn't a fatal injury, but no one took her to the hospital, so it was delayed..."

Tang Yuanyuan sat down with her legs limp, like a puppet.

Tang Aiguo: "If you hadn't wanted to study and encouraged her to do business, she would still be sweeping the streets. How could this happen? It's all your fault."

"You are a jinx, you don't act like a child at all, you are here to collect debts, you collect debts from me, you collect debts from your mother, and now you have killed your mother, are you satisfied?"

"Do you still want to study?"

Tang Yuanyuan stared at the ground with unfocused eyes and said in a cold voice, "Damn it, where's your body? Why didn't you do anything about the afternoon before yesterday?"

Tang An: "Mom passed away young and couldn't have a funeral. Dad made the decision and buried her directly."

Tang Yuanyuan: "Why didn't you wait for me to come back? Why didn't you wait for me to see Mom for the last time?"

Tang An: "Dad said that this is the rule for violent deaths. You can't stay overnight at home."

Tang Yuanyuan pulled Tang An and shook him madly: "Dad, Dad, Tang An, don't you have any ideas of your own?"

Tang Aiguo pulled Tang Yuanyuan: "This is the rule, what's wrong with it?"

"I've already told you that your mom can't read a single word. She should just sweep the streets and cook at home!"

"If you hadn't insisted on studying, your mother wouldn't have died. She's still at home now. It was you, an unfilial daughter, who killed her. Get out of here! I, Tang Aiguo, will no longer have a daughter like you!"

Tang Yuanyuan picked up whatever she saw on the table and threw it at the father and son: "What you call good is that she serves you three meals a day, washes your clothes, and asks you to just stretch out your hand and turn over a building. In the end, is she good or are you good?"

"It would have been better if you hadn't locked the door and Mom had gone to the border town with me."

"Tang Aiguo, Tang An."

"You guys killed my mom!"

"Tang Aiguo, Tang An, it's not that you don't want me, it's me, Tang Yuanyuan, who doesn't want you. I want you to live in poverty for the rest of your lives and atone for your mother's sins."