"Is this a problem that is causing me trouble?"
Lu Baiwei asked her back: "Yu Jing and Guan Tiantian may be harsh in their words, but there is one thing Yu Jing said that is right. You need to improve your nutrition. What do you want to achieve by saving money?"
"Haven't I advised you before not to spoil your family's appetite? They don't care about your life or death. You have to think about yourself."
"No, no."
Song Zhou blushed: "Actually, my sister escaped from her hometown."
"I rented a small house for her in Bingjiao Hutong for two yuan a month. She hasn't found a job yet, so I have to save money for her food."
Song Zhou explained: "She can't go back. If she goes back, she will have to marry the lame old man."
"My brother didn't have money to marry a wife, so my mother exchanged her for someone else's. The man's brother was a lame old man who had beaten his previous wife to death."
Lame, disabled and domestic violence?
You are really great.
Fortunately, Song Zhou's sister escaped.
No wonder Song Zhou had been missing these days. It turned out that her sister had fled to the capital to seek refuge with her.
The subsidy given by the university every month is more than enough for one person, but it is indeed enough to support two people.
When Shiwei Ji was in trial operation, Lu Baiwei invited Song Zhou to have dinner at Shiwei Ji. Song Zhou always wanted to repay the favor and would pester her to go to Shiwei Ji to help whenever he was free.
Of course, Lu Baiwei also provides meals.
Later she didn't go, and Lu Baiwei thought she didn't want to owe anyone a favor, but it turned out that her sister from her hometown came to live with her.
Originally, Shiweiji was too busy, and Lu Baiwei was planning to discuss with Song Zhou to let her do part-time odd jobs at Shiweiji.
Now that her sister has nothing to do, she might as well do her a favor.
"Well, my sister-in-law said that Shiweiji needs to recruit someone. You can ask your sister to go to the store to meet my sister-in-law."
Lu Baiwei left room for maneuver: "Although I have a say in the shop, the person who manages the shop is my sister-in-law. Whether she is willing to employ your sister in the end is up to her."
"I'm just offering your sister a chance to meet my sister-in-law."
Song Zhou knew that the person in charge of food taste was Gu Min, so in order not to cause trouble to Lu Baiwei, he never told her that his sister had come to seek refuge with him.
Lu Baiwei pulled her: "Let's go, take advantage of the last self-study class to go back and ask someone to meet my sister-in-law in the store."
Because she wanted to introduce Song Zhou's sister to Gu Min, Lu Baiwei missed her last self-study class and waited in the store.
There were more and more customers coming to buy braised dishes in the afternoon. When Lu Baiwei arrived, Gu Min and her two aunts were busy, and a long line formed in front of the braised food shop.
"Sister-in-law, where is Master Su?"
"Don't mention it!"
With Lu Baiwei helping to weigh the braised dishes, Gu Min was finally able to take a break from her busy schedule.
"I don't know what happened to this Master Su. He said his friend was sick and he went back to deliver some braised dishes. The store was not busy at that time, so I asked him to go early and come back early. He said he would be back soon."
"He spoke very quickly. Nearly two hours had passed."
Gu Min was very annoyed: "If he does this again, I will deduct his salary."
"But then again, maybe his friend is too ill. Since he started working in our braised food shop a month ago, Master Su has been very dedicated to his job. Sometimes he leaves work late without complaining. He shouldn't be the kind of person who is lazy."
Compared to the one or two hours that Su Changyao delayed, he paid too much for the Shiweiji shop.
Although Shiweiji paid him a salary, it could be said that the value embodied in Su Changyao was higher than the salary that Lu Baiwei and Gu Min had agreed to give.
In fact, Gu Min was just saying a few words with a hard mouth but a soft heart. She said that she would deduct Su Changyao's salary, but in fact she was more worried that something might happen to him.
In fact, Su Changyao did not go far. He was just across the street from Shiwei Ji.
He squatted at the place where Su Guifen got on the jeep more than an hour ago, with pain in his eyes, as if he had fallen into a world of internal friction because he had discovered some truth.
Until a neighbor passing by called out, "Master Su, why are you here?"
Su Changyao seemed to come alive and stood up.
"I just came to deliver the stewed food. I feel a little dizzy, so I squatted on the ground for a while."
"Oh, your Shiweiji shop is doing so well, you must be so tired from working so hard these days."
The old lady smiled at him while holding the basket and said, "I'll ask Manager Gu to give you a raise later. I just came to your stewed food shop to buy stewed food for you."
"Thank you, Auntie!"
Su Changyao seemed to be soulless. He exchanged a few words with the old lady and then walked towards the Shiweiji shop with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
"Master Su, why is he acting so strange today?"
The old lady shook her head and walked away with her basket.
When Su Changyao put the medicine bag in his pocket and walked into the Shiweiji shop in a daze, Lu Baiwei and Gu Min both noticed that something was wrong with his expression.
Su Changyao wanted to help out. Lu Baiwei and Gu Min had just seen off a group of customers, so not many people were buying braised dishes now.
Lu Baiwei asked him to rest for a while and poured a glass of water for Su Changyao.
"Master Su, drink some water first!"
"Is your friend seriously ill?"
Lu Baiwei's concerned look didn't seem fake.
Su Changyao couldn't imagine how a vicious person could look at others with such sincere eyes.
He took a sip of water and sighed, "Very sick."
"Heart disease needs to be treated with heart medicine. His heart disease is not here, so medicine is useless."
Lu Baiwei asked Su Changyao: "What do you mean?"
"His daughter died in the countryside. It was said that she was forced to jump into the river because she was wrongly accused."
"She will be able to return to the city soon, why is she so unlucky?"
"Hold on a little longer, and she'll be able to return to the city!"
Su Changyao looked towards Kyoto University across the street: "She should have a bright future. She should go to college across the street."
Lu Baiwei was speechless.
She thought of Feng Shishi.
If that silly girl hadn't fought back, would she have ended up being wrongly accused and forced into a desperate situation?
No, it won’t!
She still has herself, He Ting, Zhou Yanfeng, and her cousin. If anyone dares to attack her using the victim-blaming theory, everyone in Professor Chen Wen and Zhou Yueying's class will help her curse back.
But that silly girl was strangled to death.
A fresh and delicate flower, buried forever in the countryside.
Lu Baiwei couldn't help but be touched by the plight of Su Changyao's friend's child. Feng Shishi's vivid face suddenly appeared in her mind. Perhaps infected by Su Changyao's emotions, Lu Baiwei couldn't help but wet her eyes with tears.
Su Changyao was puzzled: "Comrade Lu, what's wrong with you?"
"No, your friend's daughter's experience reminded me of a friend of mine. Things are unpredictable. She should have come to Kyoto University."
Tears welled up in Lu Baiwei's eyes: "That silly girl, she loves to eat my spicy rabbit. She didn't get along with me at first, but she's so delicious."
"She always says she doesn't want to come to my house for dinner, and she swallows her saliva and wants someone to coax her to eat."
"My cousin doesn't spoil her. She always scolds her and she eats obediently..."
Thinking of Feng Shishi, who had quarreled with Tang Yunling and said she wanted to confront her, Lu Baiwei tried hard to restrain herself but ended up choking up and losing her voice.
When Gu Min asked her to weigh the braised dishes, Lu Baiwei realized that she had not controlled her emotions and lost her composure in front of Su Changyao.