Her quiet expression startled a few people. Her bright eyes were full of ferocity and hatred. She frowned, clenched her teeth, and tried to think for a long time but couldn't utter a word.
Old Li next to him sighed and said in a deep voice, "Don't be fooled by Xiaojing's fierce appearance. She is still a girl after all. It hasn't been easy for her to come this far..."
Old Li wanted to tell the story, but before he could continue, he was stopped by An Jing. Her anger had subsided a little, and she cleared her throat and told him the whole story.
As Lao Li said, An Jing's life story is not peaceful, on the contrary, it has been full of ups and downs. Her hometown is in Yunnan, and she is actually a native southerner. In addition to her parents, she also has a younger sister.
Originally this was a happy family of four, but An Jing's mother fell ill overnight and was bedridden in the hospital and never came out.
In order to treat the disease, the family sold everything they had, even their old house that they had lived in for many years. After scraping together money for a few days, they were still two thousand yuan short of the surgery fee!
At this time, they had tried every possible way and borrowed from everyone, but in the end they just couldn't raise the two thousand yuan.
An Jing's father went to beg the doctor, hoping that he could perform the surgery first and then pay the hospital the full amount when he had money.
The doctor was also in a difficult situation. He knew the family situation of this family of four, so he helped apply for poverty relief while her mother was hospitalized for examination and successfully obtained a batch of relief funds for them. But even so, they still owed tens of thousands of yuan on the hospital bill.
Now they have to pay another two thousand on credit, which is really difficult. The doctor can only ask them to wait for another day and report the situation to the dean to see if there is any room for further leniency.
But because of this wait, An Jing's mother's condition worsened at night, and she closed her eyes forever before dawn.
The death of his wife drove An Jing's father crazy in an instant. He thought that all this was caused by the doctor. If he had not waited a little longer and had performed the surgery earlier, perhaps there would still be hope.
Filled with anger, his father bought a sharp knife from the hardware store, rushed into the hospital office, and without saying a word, stabbed the doctor in the neck twice.
Blood gushed out at once, and the doctor fell to the ground unresponsive. An Jing's father's face was also splashed with blood.
When the hot blood was dripping down his face, her father finally came to his senses. He looked at the messy scene and the bloody knife in his hand, and realized that he had caused a big disaster. He struggled to get up and stumbled out.
The doctor had sustained fatal injuries and was likely dead. An Jing's father knew the consequences of his impulsive actions. He wasn't afraid of jail time and was willing to pay the price for his impulsive behavior, but when he thought of his two daughters at home, he hesitated.
Once they go in, they will become completely helpless and will also be burdened with the debts of their relatives and friends.
He couldn't bear to let the two children bear all this, so after much deliberation he decided to run away, to a place where no one knew them. No matter how hard or tiring it was, he had to at least raise the girls!
While I was thinking about this, I heard the news about Chinatown.
At that time, going abroad was still a rare thing, and only children from wealthy families with excellent academic performance could study abroad.
Many people believe that there is gold everywhere in foreign countries and it is easy to make money, so a wave of "gold rush" has been set off. Many young people choose to smuggle abroad, hoping to change their destiny and realize their dream of getting rich!
An Jing, his daughter and his two children were also among them. His father bought three smuggling boat tickets, crossed the ocean to Chinatown, and settled down here.
An Jing's father's idea was very simple. He didn't have any big extravagant demands. He just wanted a stable income so that his two girls could grow up smoothly. So he used his remaining funds to buy the current Anjia Restaurant.
At that time, this was not a restaurant, but an empty house. Because of its remote location and dilapidated condition, the price was low. An Jing's father made some simple renovations and turned it into a small restaurant.
Chinatown is not a stable city, and the people in it are not stable people, so their restaurants are destined to be unstable.
After the restaurant opened, all kinds of gangsters, big and small, often came to eat and dine for free. What's worse, two groups of people started fighting while eating, smashing tables, chairs, benches, pots and pans everywhere in the store, and then turned around and left.
For An Jing's father, these minor quarrels were barely acceptable, so most of the time he chose to keep quiet. He thought things would get better if he persisted, but he didn't expect that something unexpected would happen again after just a few years.
At that time, there was a gangster living near the restaurant. He recruited a few followers and called himself the street bully. He smashed, looted and robbed ordinary shops all day long. Finally, he took a fancy to the Anjia Restaurant. He brought a group of followers to the door, threw a thousand yuan in cash on the table, and tried to forcibly buy it.
This restaurant is all the property of the An family. An Jing's father would not agree to sell it at the current market price, let alone a mere one thousand US dollars. It would be no different from robbery.
At this time, he could no longer endure it, so he decisively refused. The final result can be imagined. Not only was he beaten up, but the restaurant was also smashed to pieces again.
Over the next few days, the thug would come to our house every few days, using the same words and the same routine, threatening: "I won't give up until I get the restaurant. Let's see who can afford it, me or you!"
After doing this several times and being beaten up, the gangster threatened to come again the next day.
An Jing's father finally couldn't bear it anymore, so he took out the long and sharp boning knife from the restaurant that night, found a stool and sat in the kitchen, sharpening the knife again and again with a rustling sound.
After sharpening for several hours, the blade became shiny and the tip gleamed, and the edge was so sharp that it could cut a hair.
After sharpening the knife, he didn't even sleep. He moved a chair to the main entrance of the restaurant and sat on it with his back straight.
An Jing's father was ready for a fight to the bitter end. After a few years in the city, he had seen the situation clearly. He knew that there were no laws or constraints in Chinatown. If someone died, they were dead. As long as it didn't involve a larger interest group, no one would care.
This restaurant is the An family's only property, and they must keep it if they want to survive.
The quiet father was willing to fight for his two daughters. He was like a soldier going to die on the battlefield. Although he was covered with wounds, his expression and eyes became more and more determined. He held the sharp knife tightly in his hand and waited quietly for the gangster to come!
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