Chapter 222 Fight

She inserted the calling card and dialed back.

After waiting for a few seconds, the other end answered: "Hello, Zhile?"

Wen Zhile recognized the other person's voice and a look of surprise flashed across his face.

"Xinxin? Good evening."

"Good evening!" Ma Xinxin responded quickly, "Happy birthday to you."

"I heard that Professor Wen had asked for leave, and then I realized that today was your birthday. I rushed back after the evening study session to call you."

"Thank you. I just finished my evening study session as well."

Ma Xinxin comes from an average family.

She rarely calls home.

Why did you call me tonight just for your birthday?

Wen Zhile didn't rush to ask, and simply chatted about daily life. After a few minutes, Ma Xinxin couldn't help but said, "Zhile, actually I called you not only to congratulate you, but also to ask you for help with something."

"Well, you tell me, I'll try my best to help."

Ma Xinxin hesitated for a few seconds.

"My brother and sister-in-law came to Jingzhou at the beginning of the month and sold pancakes on the street."

"They heard that they could make money by selling food in the disco at night."

"I also heard that the boss of the disco is my roommate, so he asked me to ask you if we can let them sell pancakes in the disco at night?"

"When they went to the disco to ask, the manager refused and said they would only agree if they were paid."

Wen Zhile thought about it.

"It's like this, Xinxin, the disco has a rule that vendors who want to sell goods need to pay a booth fee of one yuan each, and they also have to give 30% of the night's revenue to the disco."

"Everyone is the same in this regard. The manager's statement that you have to pay to enter is not directed at you. Are your brother and sister-in-law concerned about the booth fee? If so, I can lend you the money first, and you can help them pay the booth fee."

"Reassure them that the disco has a large flow of people. As long as they go in and serve the customers diligently, they will definitely earn back the booth fee."

One dollar for a booth is very little.

Wen Zhile felt that Ma Xinxin's brother and sister-in-law would not ask their sister for help just for this money, but apart from the booth fee, there was also profit sharing, and she could not help with the profit sharing, so she avoided the important issue.

Ma Xinxin quickly replied: "No, no, it's not because of the booth fee."

"They use the disco's space to sell things, so they should be paid booth fees and share of the profits."

"That is..."

"It was the manager. He said they had to pay a fifty-dollar commission before he would let them in. My brother and sister-in-law have only been here for a month and they only have forty dollars left in total."

"I have no choice but to bother you."

"Fifty?" Wen Zhile thought he had heard wrongly.

On second thought she had a guess.

The disco manager was hired by Tang Lin, so she didn't know him.

But from Ma Xinxin's description, the manager had embezzled money and was sure to escape.

"I'll ask for you and give you an answer tomorrow."

"Go to bed early and don't worry."

Ma Xinxin thanked him repeatedly.

It was too late now, Wen Zhile did not disturb Tang Lin.

I waited until the next day after class to run to the campus curb to make the call.

When Tang Lin heard what she said about the situation, he immediately said he would handle it.

That day, Ma Xinxin learned that her brother and sister-in-law had been arranged to sell food in a disco.

"You don't have enough face. After all, you are a friend of their boss. This new manager actually asked me for booth fees and profit sharing. How tactless!"

Ma Xinxin frowned: "Brother, don't say that. It's good enough that we can get in."

"Xinxin is right. It's good enough that we let you in. You still want it for free? Is this disco owned by your family?"

Niu Chunmei took out a handkerchief from her pocket and opened it to reveal dozens of yuan in it.

She took out ten yuan and gave it to Ma Xinxin: "Sister-in-law and your brother don't know how to communicate. Please thank your classmate for us later. Take this money and treat her to a meal when she is free."

"She has done so much for our family, we can't let her work in vain."

Ma Donghe looked reluctant: "Why don't you say that we helped her disco clear a borer? Ten yuan is too much, five yuan will be enough."

"Besides, doesn't Xinxin's school receive subsidies? It's only twenty bucks. Is there any need for you to give her money?"

Ma Xinxin pursed her lips and said, "Sister-in-law, you don't have to give it to me. I have money."

"I still have to go to class. I'm leaving now."

"Hey wait!" Niu Chunmei grabbed the pancake she was making and packed it up, "Take it home and eat it."

Then he stuffed ten yuan into her pocket and said, "You don't have to listen to your brother."

"Let's go, don't delay your studies."

After urging her to leave, Niu Chunmei looked at Ma Donghe unhappily.

"Can you shut up? Didn't you see Xinxin isn't even smiling? Even relatives have to settle accounts, not to mention classmates."

"Her classmate helped us, so what if you paid for her dinner? Can it cost you your life?"

Ma Donghe frowned: "It's none of my business if she doesn't smile! What kind of help is her classmate? If she has any sense, she shouldn't ask me for a share. If she asks us for a share, she has made money herself, and you are still rushing to treat her to a meal, you spendthrift woman!"

"If you keep pushing me, I'll beat you up!"

Niu Chunmei was so angry that she was gasping for breath: "Hit me, hit me here!"

"I was really blind to marry into your family! A man is spoiled and becomes nothing. You keep complaining when I say something. Sooner or later, I will divorce you! I tell you, the reason why I, Niu Chunmei, can't make money now is because of you!"

"My sister-in-law is the only one in the family who can tell the difference. I even doubt whether she is your biological daughter!"

People were coming and going on the street, and men and women were looking at them from a distance.

Ma Donghe was so angry that he slapped Niu Chunmei.

Niu Chunmei screamed and hit him on the head with a shovel.

"Okay, you really dare to hit me!"

"Divorce, I want to divorce you!"

Ma Xinxin could faintly hear noises when she reached the school gate. She wanted to go back and try to persuade the students, but when she thought of her own experience at home before she failed to get into college, she did not dare to join in.

In the past, whenever her brother and sister-in-law quarreled, she would get hurt if she tried to persuade them. After being hurt, they would quarrel even more fiercely, so it was better not to persuade them.

Thinking of this, Ma Xinxin returned to the dormitory building.

She just lied. Actually there is no class now.

When I entered the building, I saw Zhang Nian on the phone.

Seeing her surprised expression, Ma Xinxin went upstairs quietly without saying hello.

The moment I turned into the stairs, I heard Zhang Nian's out-of-control voice behind me.

"Would you please stop talking! Are you my mother or a brothel owner?!"

She pretended she heard nothing and went back to the dormitory.

After a while, Zhang Nian came back with a bunch of grapes in his hand.

Seeing that she was there too, he didn't say anything and went back to his desk to eat grapes.

"My mother really loves me. She is worried that I won't get used to the living and eating conditions in Jingzhou, so she calls me every day to check on me."

"Ma Xinxin, didn't you go to see your brother and sister-in-law?"

"Have they settled their plan to sell things in the disco?"

"It's done."

Zhang Nian snorted and laughed: "Wen Zhile is quite good to you, no wonder you cling to her thighs every day."

"If I had known there were benefits, I would have clung to her every day."

"I'd be willing to be a dog, as I can get dog food if I'm a dog."

Ma Xinxin frowned: "Zhang Nian, you're taking it out on me because you're unhappy? Am I a despicable person?"

Zhang Nian looked puzzled: "What are you talking about? I didn't say anything. Why are you so anxious?"

Ma Xinxin closed the book and took a deep breath.

"Isn't your mother urging you to find a rich husband again? Why is she concerned about you? She is afraid that the good daughter she raised will become ugly and won't be able to find a good husband. Why do you pretend every day?"

Zhang Nian's face changed: "Say it again!"

Ma Xinxin stood up and said, "How can you compare with Wen Zhile? Don't you have any sense of self? You look down on others every day, do you think you are respected by others?"

"It's not your fault that your mother treats you badly, but I'm the first one to look down on you!"

Zhang Nian was so angry that his breathing rose and fell, and he strode over.

Ma Xinxin raised her hand to meet her angry gaze.

The two of them immediately started fighting!