Chapter 105
Chuxia returned to the restaurant and cleaned the place with Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei.
After cleaning the inside and outside, Wu Xuemei went to the counter to get the cloth bag full of money and the abacus on the counter, and went back to the inner courtyard with Tang Haikuan Chuxia.
The restaurant has been open for a week and everything related has gone smoothly.
After returning to the inner courtyard and opening the door to the north room, Wu Xuemei and Tang Haikuan went back to their room first, drew the curtains, sat down to count money and do the accounts, while Chuxia went to wash up first.
After washing up, Chuxia came over to help dry her hair.
Also because they had been counting money for a week, they earned more money every day and had more contact, so when they calculated the money they earned in a day, Chuxia, Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei were still very happy, but they were no longer as excited as in the first two days.
After counting the money and making the accounts, Wu Xuemei still divided the money into two parts.
She put the money for tomorrow's shopping back into her bag. She didn't immediately lock up the remaining money in the closet. Instead, she asked Chuxia, "Have you discussed it? What did Xiaolin say?"
Lin Xiaohan helped them for so many days.
Their family earns so much money, but it is definitely not possible to only provide Lin Xiaohan with two meals a day.
It was not possible to ask for the wages directly in public, so they kept thinking about giving him the money secretly.
Before Chuxia, she just wanted to see what Lin Xiaohan asked for and then satisfy him.
But what Lin Xiaohan said to her tonight was not specific, but she herself had a specific idea.
Chu Xia thought for a while and looked at Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei and said, "Actually, I haven't told you clearly about Xiao Lin's family. Although his family conditions are very good, but..."
When Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei suddenly heard Chu Xia say this, they became curious.
Chu Xia paused for a moment, then continued, "He lost his mother when he was very young, and his father found him a stepmother. His father disliked him very much since he was a child, and his stepmother was also hypocritical to him..."
As Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei listened attentively, Chu Xia roughly explained the slightly complicated situation in Lin Xiaohan's family and Lin Xiaohan's situation in his home.
Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei's expressions were relatively calm when they first heard it.
After hearing this, both of them frowned, with anger and heartache in their eyes.
After hearing this, the two felt so depressed that they couldn't even speak.
After a long while, Wu Xuemei looked at Tang Haikuan and said, "How can there be such a father? Isn't he his own son?"
Tang Haikuan also found it difficult to understand. He tried to understand for a while and said, "This is not partiality. Xiao Lin has suffered so much injustice since he was a child. We can't stand it just by listening to it."
Chu Xia hurriedly said, "Mom and Dad, I'm not telling you this to make you sympathize with him. He doesn't like being looked at with pity and sympathy by others. You should treat him the same way as usual. I think he should not lack this hard-earned money, so I think... why don't we give him more warmth, what do you think?"
Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei had no objection.
Wu Xuemei said: "You know him better than us and know what to do best. We will listen to you."
***
After talking about Lin Xiaohan, Chuxia went back to her room to sleep.
After a tiring day, I lay down on the bed without much preparation and fell asleep quickly.
Wake up and continue the busy day.
When Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei went to the market to buy vegetables, Chuxia stayed at home to do other things. When they came back from buying vegetables, she would help them pick and wash the vegetables.
Just as agreed last night, Lin Xiaohan still came that day.
No matter how busy they are now, they are not as tense as before. They pick and wash vegetables in the yard and talk about the interesting things they have encountered these days.
Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei remembered what Chu Xia said last night and did not show any sympathy for Lin Xiaohan. They pretended they knew nothing and treated him the same as before.
As the four people were talking and laughing, Wang Cuiying suddenly came out from the east room.
She walked up to Wu Xuemei, and while reaching into her pocket, she said, "Stop for a moment."
Wu Xuemei stopped, looked up at her and said nothing.
Wang Cuiying took out the rolled-up handkerchief from her pocket, unfolded it layer by layer in her palm, counted out the money inside, handed it to Wu Xuemei and said, "Here you go, this month's rent."
Wu Xuemei raised her hand, pinched the money with her fingers, rolled it up and stuffed it into her pocket.
Ever since the ownership of the house returned to her family, the rent for the east and west rooms was paid to her family instead of the state. The Jiang family didn't want to have the hassle every month, so they gave her half a year's rent in one go. The Han family couldn't afford so much rent at once, so they paid it to her at the beginning of every month.
After paying the rent, Wang Cuiying stood in front of Wu Xuemei and rolled up her handkerchief.
After rolling up the handkerchief and putting it back into her pocket, she seemed to want to say a few more words to Wu Xuemei, but after hesitating for a moment, she couldn't say what she wanted to say, and turned back to the east room.
Naturally, Wu Xuemei had no interest in what she wanted to say.
She turned around and continued talking to Tang Haikuan, Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan with a smile.
The food is prepared and the restaurant opens on time.
The customers walked in and sat down. There was a blazing fire in the kitchen. The fish fillets coated with starch fell into the hot oil. With a sizzling sound, the aroma soon filled the alley.
Chuxia was busy in the kitchen chopping vegetables and preparing side dishes.
Suddenly she heard the window open and thought another reporter was coming, so she opened the window.
When the window was opened, it turned out that the people standing outside were not reporters, but a table of customers who had just had dinner.
The leading customer smiled at her and suddenly called inside: "Old Tang."
Tang Haikuan turned around when he heard the voice and saw that it was his former colleague from the pickle factory. He smiled and responded, "Hey, Xiao Sun, are you guys coming to eat?"
The leader, Xiao Sun, smiled and said, "I've already eaten. I just came out after eating. It's really not easy to have a meal at your house. There are so many people every day."
Tang Haikuan said while busy cooking: "Tell me something."
Xiao Sun said, "Did I tell you to cut in line for us? There are so many people waiting eagerly, wouldn't that make them unhappy?"
These colleagues came over and knocked on the window not just to say hello to Tang Haikuan.
Xiao Sun exchanged a few pleasantries with Tang Haikuan, and then continued, "The reporter wrote about your dismissal from the factory in the news before. Guess what? The factory director and the head of the security department are now under investigation!"
Hearing this, Tang Haikuan immediately responded: "Oh, you deserve it!"
Xiao Sun laughed again and said, "Logically, you should be able to come back to the factory, but your restaurant business is doing so well now, I guess you don't want to come back."
Tang Haikuan said: "I opened this restaurant because I had no other choice."
Xiao Sun said, "This is called a blessing in disguise. You just keep busy. We won't bother you anymore. We're leaving now."
Tang Haikuan didn't stop what he was doing, he just looked out the window and responded simply.
Xiao Sun and his friends left. As he was packing the plates, he said, "This is called karma. Retribution is inevitable!"
Chuxia couldn't help but laugh beside her.
Lin Xiaohan came in. She turned around, took the menu handed over by Lin Xiaohan, and went to cook noodles.
***
After the busy period at noon, Wu Xuemei no longer asked Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan to continue working with her.
She asked them to eat a bowl of noodles with soybean paste, and then said to them, "You are not needed here anymore, pack up and go to school. We have prepared school supplies for you two, which are placed on the table in the main room. The red bag is for Xia Xia, and the blue bag is for Xiao Lin."
It is indeed time for Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan to go to school.
So the two of them did not stay in the restaurant any longer, but went directly out the back door to the front yard, and then entered the second door.
When passing the courtyard, Lin Xiaohan asked Chuxia: "What are you going to use for school?"
Chu Xia replied, "Oh, my parents always buy something for me to take with me when I go to school. This time, they probably bought one for you as well."
This kind of thing was unfamiliar to Lin Xiaohan.
She followed Chuxia into the north room, and as soon as she entered, she saw two bags, one red and one blue, on the table.
Chu Xia went into her room and took out her travel bag. She stuffed the red bag directly into the travel bag, then handed the blue bag to Lin Xiaohan and said to him, "Let's go."
Lin Xiaohan caught the bag but stood there without moving.
He lowered his eyebrows to look at the bag in his hand, then looked at Chuxia, then he put the bag back on the table, unzipped it and took a look.
The bag was filled with newly bought things, and it looked like there was a whole lot of stuff, including toothbrushes, toothpaste, towels, soap, vanishing cream, toilet paper, as well as notebooks, pencils, erasers and pens.
In addition to the things needed for life and study, there are also snacks.
Seeing the snacks, Chu Xia hurriedly said, "Oh, I told my parents that you don't eat sweet things, so they didn't buy you anything sweet, only salty, sour or spicy ones."
Lin Xiaohan held the pen in his hand for a long time without moving.
It took him a long time to look up at Chuxia, with a bottomless fog in his eyes.
Seeing him like this, Chuxia couldn't figure out his emotions.
So he hurriedly said, "Who made you behave so well? They like you so much that they want to adopt you as their son. That's why when they buy something for me, they also buy something for you..."
Lin Xiaohan stared at Chu Xia like this for a while.
Then he lowered his eyebrows, smiled suddenly, and lowered his head even deeper.
After taking a few deep breaths, he raised his head again, looked at Chu Xia and said, "Let's go to school."
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