Chapter 29 We have someone in Xiaonan
After Lin Xiangnan had done his evil deeds, he slipped away immediately without caring about Liu Honghe's reaction.
When he was going back, Lin Xiangxi felt a little sorry, "Liu Honghe, this coward, it would be better if he really used rat poison. I get annoyed when I see Liu Hongying. She actually dared to steal your girlfriend."
"Don't talk nonsense. I don't even like that Zhao guy. I think Liu Hongying is the most popular one. But with Liu Honghe's condition, I'm afraid there will be trouble in their family."
Since both families are divorced, it is better for them to separate completely. She can just fan the flames, but she doesn't want to get involved.
Lin Xiangxi sighed, "I just feel sorry for you and mom. Big brother is not at home, so I have to protect you."
"Don't make a fuss. Mom didn't suffer any harm."
In Lin Xiangnan's opinion, Hu Meili and Liu Laohei's marriage has nothing to do with love, it is purely a cooperation in raising a child.
Now their children have grown up. If there is no conflict of interest, the two can still stay together until old age. Once the interests of their children are involved, the two will break up.
After the divorce, Hu Meili had no debts and even got 80 yuan. And according to Lin Xiangnan's guess, Hu Meili should have 100 or 200 yuan of private money.
If she didn't have a penny, how could she dare to think of buying a job for Lin Xiangnan? She couldn't borrow all her money.
People of Hu Meili's generation are used to being frugal. They don't dare to spend money recklessly even if they have it, and they don't have any requirements for food and accommodation.
The private space that Lin Xiangnan wanted was not a necessity in Hu Meili's eyes. Even if she had extra money, as long as her family was still big enough to live in, she would not consider building a house.
If they wanted to build a house, the family would have to contribute 400 or 500 yuan at most, but Lin Xiangnan still took out 1,000 yuan. 500 yuan was enough to build a house, but it didn't persuade Hu Meili. With 1,000 yuan, Hu Meili ran away without much persuasion.
When Lin Xiangnan and his friend returned home, Hu Meili was no longer at home.
When I went to the room again, I found that my things had been searched again.
Hu Meili, as a mother, has no sense of privacy at all. The two of them live in the same room, and Hu Meili can look at whatever she wants and look through whatever she wants.
However, Lin Xiangnan had expected this to happen. There was nothing placed in the room, and Hu Meili couldn't find a penny.
Thinking of how Hu Meili searched the entire house but found nothing, and then cursed in the end, Lin Xiangnan burst out laughing.
"You are competing with me in hiding things, don't you see who I am?"
Lin Xiangnan's room was searched, and Lin Xiangxi did not escape. When he saw the newly changed sheets on his bed, he said foolishly, "Didn't this sheet just get changed? It's not dirty, why did mom change it for me again?"
"I don't know. Maybe mom wants to wash something." Lin Xiangnan lowered his head and laughed.
"But mom isn't home."
Lin Xiangnan said: "The meat in the cupboard is gone. Mom must have gone to my uncle's house."
"Why didn't mom invite us when she went to my uncle's house?" Lin Xiangxi was anxious and quickly pulled Lin Xiangnan to Hu's house. As they walked, he said to Lin Xiangnan, "Grandma's fried meatballs are the most delicious. I don't know if we can have dinner at my uncle's house tonight."
The family also had meat for lunch, but Lin Xiangxi was still greedy.
Even for working class families, they could only eat meat once a month, and sometimes not even that. Because there was another person in the family working as an educated youth in the countryside, Hu Meili would save some bills and money to send to her eldest son, so that he wouldn't be hungry or cold in the countryside, and eventually get into trouble.
Lin Xiangnan and Lin Xiangxi jogged all the way and soon caught up with Hu Meili on the road.
"Mom, why didn't you call us?" Lin Xiangxi complained.
"I wanted to call you guys." Hu Meili glanced at the two of them with disdain. "You ran away right after dinner. You ran faster than a dog. Who knows where you went to fool around."
Speaking of the word "fooling around", Hu Meili looked at Lin Xiangnan with dissatisfaction, obviously angry. She had just searched the house and found nothing, and she was exhausted.
There was no one here, so Hu Meili asked directly, "Where did you hide the things? It's not safe outside!"
“I always carry it with me.”
"I don't believe you can keep one eye on guard while you sleep."
"Yeah. When I sleep, I always close one eye and open the other."
"You kid..." Hu Meili couldn't argue and wanted to take action.
Lin Xiangnan shook his head at her proudly and ran in front. Hu Meili chased after him tenaciously.
The other two in the family started running. Although Lin Xiangxi was confused, he quickly jogged to catch up.
The journey would have taken them more than half an hour, but they arrived in just 20 minutes.
When Hu Meili finally ran to the Hu family, she saw Lin Xiangnan had already sat down and was drinking water leisurely.
Hu Meili kicked the metal cabinet, making a clanging sound. "There's a person running very fast in front of me. He didn't even bother to help me carry my things."
This is Hu Meili's old trick. When she gets angry, she makes a lot of noise in the house so that everyone can hear it.
Grandma glared at her and scolded, "How dare you take your anger out on me?"
No matter how overbearing Hu Meili was, she didn't dare to be mean to her own mother. She stood there aggrieved and handed over the basket of meat and peaches in her hand, "Mom, I brought these for you."
"You just come, why bring anything with you? It's not easy for you to raise three children by yourself."
Hu Meili was not polite and said directly: "I dare not come empty-handed. Otherwise, my sister-in-law will nag me behind my back. Where are Dad and Big Brother? I want to discuss something with them."
"Your eldest brother went to your sister-in-law's wedding, your second brother and his wife went to the supply and marketing cooperative to line up to buy things, and your father is playing chess with someone at the factory gate. Go find him yourself."
Many factories only have one day off a week, Sunday, so visiting relatives and shopping are all done on this day, and everyone is busy. Hu Meili doesn't need to queue up at the grain, oil and non-staple food store, thanks to Lin Xiangnan, an idle worker.
Old Man Hu has the final say on the Hu family's affairs. Hu Meili put her things down and went to look for someone.
Lin Xiangnan was worried, so he quickly followed and reminded him, "Don't let anything slip."
Hu Meili raised her chin slightly, "Do I need you to teach me how to do things?"
What Lin Xiangnan did was risky. Although Hu Meili was greedy for money, she was also afraid. So when she talked to Hu Laodi about where the money came from, she blamed it on her dead ex-husband.
"It's too inconvenient to live in the same yard with the Liu family. Now that the children are grown up, the house for marriage has to be prepared in advance, so I thought about building my own house."
"That's the truth." Old Man Hu nodded in agreement. He was also anxious for his grandson's wedding house.
"I want to ask my eldest brother and my second and third brothers if they want to come together, so that we can work out a solution together."
Old Man Hu sighed. He did want to build it, but he didn't have enough money, so he was a little hesitant.
"If they don't want to do this, forget it."
Hu Meili pulled Lin Xiangnan, who was listening, over and winked at her while saying shamelessly, "Our Xiaonan has someone in the housing management office. When the time comes, we can find out who wants to build a house and go up to join them."
Her classmate hasn't started working at the Housing Management Office yet. From the way Hu Meili spoke, one might have thought her classmate was the director of the Housing Management Office.
But Lin Xiangnan knew that Hu Meili wanted to put pressure on her family, so she didn't try to stop her.