Chapter 205

Not enough money

Nie Weimin had been running around outside for a few days, and when it got dark, he was waiting for Nie Gong outside the laboratory.

"Why aren't you at home? When we come back, there's dust everywhere. Where have you been?" the laborer asked his son.

Nie Weimin said, "I'm at the farm. Uncle Yu and Uncle Leng asked me to stay at the farm to prevent Song Jianwan from escaping again and doing bad things."

Nie Gong didn't know his son was in love yet, and always wanted to have a little relationship with the girl. He was very pleased that "Wei Min has grown up and become sensible."

It feels so good to have a son of the same age walking side by side with me. No wonder Leng Qi is so jealous.

In a blink of an eye, Chen Lina came back driving.

Of course, the first thing he had to do was to tell Nie Gong how he felt about meeting Su Xiangdong.

Nie Gong had not met Su Xiangdong in person yet, but he was not interested in that person's appearance. He was only interested in Su Xiangdong's style of doing things.

I heard that he was going to give Chen Lina a car as soon as he arrived, and it was a Mercedes-Benz, so I became interested. "So did you accept it? Or do you want to accept it?"

Chen Lina got off her jeep carrying the cooking oil and the newly distributed rice from the mining area and sneered, "It's not like I don't understand economics. Their automobile factory purchased a car with the approval of the state, but it cost no less than a million. Our clothing factory only invested 400,000. Nie Bozhao, you gave me a car worth millions. That's misappropriation of public property. I'm going to report you. The sentence should be enough to wait until Sandan has a grandchild."

Therefore, Chen Lina not only rejected Su Xiangdong at that time, but also patted the hood of the car and said, "Engineer Su, I know much more about cars than you do. No, I should say that at present, even those who make Mercedes-Benz may not know as much as I do. I heard that you also have a mission to build a car that can be compared with capitalist cars. Maybe you don't know that at present, you can only ask me for help. Come on, admire me."

Su Xiangdong looked at Chen Lina like a frog in a well, and specifically mentioned, "My ex-wife, an actress at Shanghai Film Studio, was named Xia Ying. She didn't play a very famous role, but she was really beautiful. People say that there is Xia Meng in Hong Kong and Xia Ying in Shanghai. She is more attractive than Xia Meng, but I never admired her.

As for cars, are you sure you can call yourself an expert on cars just because you can turn the steering wheel twice? "

After the two masters fought, they just smiled at each other. Chen Lina patted the hood of the car and came back.

Go to work early the next morning.

He Min was waiting in the office. "Lina, the car factory wants to transfer me, will you let me go?"

Chen Lina looked at He Min and asked, "Are you good at civil engineering or R&D? Does the automobile factory want you to work there?"

He Min said, "They at Sugong were attracted by my talent and wanted me to be a manager."

"If you want to leave, just leave. At least be a decent person and don't do anything crooked before you graduate from Military University. What do you think?" Bad guys always like to hang out together. If you can't keep them, just leave. Chen Lina is very casual in this regard.

"Don't worry, I won't mess anything up." He Min was very happy. She quickly completed the formalities and went to the car factory to report.

Erdan spent half a day moving the gauze bags, and today's goods have already been unloaded.

However, a large batch of goods will be shipped today, so he has to help load the goods. Although it is all physical work, such as moving packages, loading the goods requires a lot of energy, so they are paid by the piece. It costs one cent to load a large box from the factory to the truck.

Although Erdan is young, he is in good health and can carry as much as the adults can.

However, there are only ten bags in total, so we can move them all.

He had been doing it for three days straight, and had just saved up two yuan, which he put in his pocket.

At noon, Chen Lina assigned him to buy vegetables, and then asked Sandan to wash and cut the vegetables while she cooked.

Erdan had just come out of the clothing factory and hadn't even reached the big market when he heard someone behind him calling "Hey, hey, hey."

Erdan looked back and immediately ran over and punched the guy. "Why are you here?"

Xiao Lu, who stole Chen Lina's wallet in Hami, was hiding not far from the clothing factory.

Xiao Lu waved his hand, and two more people appeared. They were Xiao Lu's eldest brother and third brother. Nie Weiguo subconsciously reached into his pocket and said, "My mother's salary is not high, and I don't have much money. I will treat each of you to a popsicle today, and you can go back to Hami, okay?"

Seven or eight people came out from behind the wall. Xiao Lu said, "Don't worry, brother. We all know that your mother is the factory manager. Can you find a job for us?"

Garment factories need people to move yarn bags, and wool textile factories need people to move and unload cloth. These are all jobs, and they look easy.

Erdan said, "In the factory, people who work on the machines need to have a degree, they need to be educated, they can't operate without knowledge. I'm the only one who doesn't work on the machines. Look, I only earned two yuan in the past three days. It's just one popsicle for each person. Brothers, it's not that I don't want to help you, it's just that I can't."

You hooligans look at me and I look at you.

Erdan has a pair of magical eyes. He only sees the pity of these children and fails to see that they are bastards.

Besides, he was very generous and said, "Don't think about it for now. I'll buy each of you a popsicle. After you finish eating, you can go back. Okay? Our mining area is safe. If you don't believe me, just wait and see. If you touch your wallet, the police will come to your door within half an hour."

"Do the police still take care of wallets?"

"The chief of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Public Security Bureau is a friend of my father. He is very powerful and has a nose sharper than a dog. He can smell everything." Erdan said. However, his blind worship of Yu Donghai came from Chen Lina's brainwashing.

Originally, Yu Donghai was only 70% good, but she praised him to 100%.

The hooligans ate a popsicle each and squatted on the curb to wave to Erdan. Erdan then carried the noodles and vegetables and went back to the woolen textile factory.

At noon, Sandan had washed the vegetables and was changing the coal in the beehive coal stove.

Leng Qi always came to pick up Anna at noon. Today, when he passed by, he saw his sister was there too. He took out a small doll from behind and shook it on the windowsill. His sister had already jumped out and said, "Dad."

"Come on, Dad will make you a steamed egg cake today."

"I want noodles, not egg cake." After eating it for more than a year, my sister is tired of it.

"Let's go. Xiao Feng needs to take a nap at noon. It would be great if you two could sleep together. Your mother's noodles are not tasty." In order to win the heart of the little satellite, Leng Qi forgot his bottom line and started to harm Chen Lina.

The younger sister suddenly got angry and said, "Let's bury Leng's father too." She turned around and went in.

Leng Qi asked Sandan, "Nie Weijiang, what happened to your sister? Why did you bury me?"

Sandan said, "She is angry with Deng Chun. Deng Chun's father is here, and he is enjoying life in the hotel. And people say that he will never come back to our home at the base again."

When Leng Qi heard that Deng Chun had left, he was secretly happy. He went in to comfort his sister. After a long time, he praised Chen Lina a lot. Only then was his sister happy. She went back to the armed forces department with him and Xiao Fengfeng in her arms.

Chen Lina got off work at noon and before she could go home to cook, a few comrades wearing blue brick clothes and red five-pointed stars on their heads came to the door.

One of them stepped forward and saluted, "Director Chen, we are here to ask you something. There is a group of social elements along the railway line. They have flowed from Hami to your mining area. We chased them and found that they seemed to have stopped in your area. Have you seen them?"

"How big of a social figure are you? Did you get here by riding on a train?"

"Well, there are about twenty of them. The oldest is probably sixteen and the youngest is probably twelve." These are railway police, and they were probably chasing us all the way here.

It had only been four or five days and the gang of kids had already caught up with us.

She said, "I haven't seen it, but if I did, I would definitely report it to the police station as soon as possible, so don't worry."

The railway police saluted Chen Lina and left.

When she returned to the dormitory to cook, her sister had already left with her clothes on her back. Chen Lina was not surprised. She saw chopped tomatoes and beaten eggs, poured oil into the pan, and started frying them.

Several children like to eat fried tomato and eggs and they never get tired of it. Even the girls in the woolen textile factory like the fried tomato and eggs made by Chen Lina very much and always feel that her fried tomato and eggs are different from others.

In fact, it is not really a secret recipe. Chen Lina will put tomatoes into the pan when scrambling eggs and add two spoons of tomato sauce.

This tomato sauce was made by Chen Lili using the best large tomatoes ripened on the farm, and it has a particularly strong flavor.

Even though she was angry with Chen Lina, she would give Chen Lina two jars every time she made sauce.

Erdan and Sandan will have classes tomorrow.

Sandan was doing his homework, Erdan was playing the guitar, occasionally glancing at Li Mingcheng not far away, and then playing the guitar absentmindedly. In short, his heart had been seduced by those gangsters, but he didn't know it.

"Erdan, don't you have two dollars? Mom is a little short of money today. Can you lend it to me so I can spend some first?" Chen Lina said.

Erdan subconsciously touched his pocket and realized that he had given the money to the gangsters to buy popsicles, so he said, "Mom, it seems that the money is lost, what should I do?"

"It's time for Sandan to change his shoes. Look at his pair of canvas shoes. I don't know how many times he has patched them. His thumb is showing again. It's time to give him milk powder today. We have to buy milk powder for the satellites. Mom is short of money. What do you think we should do?"

"Don't we still have the passbook?" Erdan said.

Before Deng Chun came, Erdan was like a blank slate. He believed whatever Chen Lina said. Even if she said she had no money, he would believe her. But now he doesn't believe that anymore, because Deng Chun told Erdan that his mother had at least 100,000 yuan.

If you really have no money, you can’t coax Erdan anymore.

Chen Lina fried the vegetables, added water and waited for the pot to boil, ready to start cooking. She frowned and said, "Erdan, you know, although you said that we only need to serve in the army, Weimin and Sandan have to go to school. Sandan wants to study abroad in the future. The tuition fee for studying abroad for a year is at least 200,000 yuan. The money we have is not enough for Sandan to spend half a year abroad."

Erdan originally thought that his family was well-off, but when he heard this, his mouth widened. "Ah, really, Mom?"

"It's okay. My sister costs too much money. Let Leng Qi raise her. Mom will save the money and raise you two."

Sandan sat up from the bed and looked at Chen Lina blankly. Erdan jumped up and said, "Mom, please sell me. You can't give your sister away."

"Sell you?" The pot was open, and Chen Lina was sitting in the kitchen. She looked up and said, "You can eat three bowls of rice in one meal. You were admitted to the Oilfield Middle School but you didn't want to go. Your guitar cost me more than 300 yuan. You said you are so expensive, who would be willing to buy you?"

Erdan plopped down and sat back down.

The child lowered his head and wiped his eyes with his sleeve.

"Tell me the truth, the money was spent on those thugs from Hami, right?" Chen Lina asked after serving the noodles to Erdan.

Erdan's tears fell into the bowl and he nodded, "Yeah."

"You can only help us in times of emergency, not in times of poverty. It's already hard enough for your parents to raise you. If those kids really eat to their heart's content, they'll bankrupt our family in three days. So, you are not allowed to help them anymore, okay?"

Erdan nodded, picked up the bowl of noodles, and started to scrape at them.

As Sandan was shaving noodles, he quietly asked Chen Lina, "Mom, you won't really give your sister to Uncle Leng, will you?"

Leng Qi kept saying that it would be great to have a son and a daughter together, and his sister liked to go to Leng Qi's house. Both the father and son had a strong sense of crisis, fearing that Chen Lina would really give her sister away.

"No, how could that be? But those little hooligans from Hami always flirt with your brother. This is a problem. He has a restless personality. I'm afraid he won't be able to finish high school."

"So what are you going to do?" Sandan said.

"Eat quickly, Mom, there will definitely be a way." Chen Lina said.

In the evening, Nie Weixing, who had played enough with his brother, prepared to go back to his own home despite being strongly invited by Leng Qi and Anna.

Moreover, this time she really did not look back, showing her determination to go back to her home. She stood in front of the car door, holding it open and refusing to leave.

Leng Qi was a man who would just want what he couldn't get. After using threats and inducements for a long time, he finally left with his little Fengfeng and Anna.

"Nie Weixing, why don't you want to go to Uncle Leng's house?" Chen Lina asked her daughter.

Nie Weixing kept fanning his nose with his little hands, "Xiao Fengfeng has pooped, it stinks."

"Just because it stinks, you won't go?"

"After Dad Leng cleaned up his shit, he steamed some egg cake for him." The satellite said again.

"Did he wash his hands before steaming the egg cake?" Chen Lina also frowned.

The satellite said, "Of course I washed it. I washed it many times, but I still think it stinks."

Well, this is her own daughter, Chen Lina said, "You must not have eaten it."

The satellite nodded vigorously, "I didn't eat a single bite."

Chen Lina pointed at Sandan and said, "When you were little, he often wiped your butt. After wiping, he had to cook for mom, and mom ate the same food. Moreover, he never said your poop was smelly. Nie Weixing, thank your third brother."

The younger sister looked at Sandan for a long time, and Sandan also looked at her.

"Brother, does the poop smell bad?" the satellite asked quietly.

Sandan rubbed her head and said, "Of course other people's smells bad, but you're my sister."

The satellite still felt embarrassed. "I already know how to wipe my own butt. I won't bother you anymore."

Between brothers and sisters, as long as the mother often reminds them of the good things they have done to each other, the children will love and be grateful to each other.

The most taboo thing is for a mother to speak ill of one child in front of another, because even though the child is young, it is human nature and instinct to hold grudges.

Whenever Chen Lina gets the chance, she will praise each other so that the children can love each other.

She got in the car and looked at it carefully.

Now, between the Woolen Textile Factory No. 2 and the base, the foundation of a large square and a new district government office building are being built.

She heard Erdan suddenly stop playing the guitar and looked out the window. She saw many small figures standing in groups of three or four between the newly erected steel frames of the office building.

No wonder the railway police said there were at least twenty children, a really large group, just standing there watching her car.

Back at the base, the worker was actually cooking for himself.

There was a large piece of pork belly on the table, which had been marinated with salt and smelled like farm meat.

Although there are many people raising pigs on the farm, most of them are grass-eating pigs. Not many people feed pigs with grain nowadays. These pigs can tell by the smell that they have eaten grain, especially corn.

The work of the skilled worker who made the cut was so much work that Chen Lina wanted to kiss him. "Our satellite's father gets better with age. If you use a ruler to measure this meat, the thinness of each slice should be the same."

The worker brought the potato shreds over. "Look, they're even more evenly cut than yours, aren't they?"

He looked around. Although Erdan was still playing the piano outside, making his ears deaf, he inexplicably felt that the day was a little quieter today.

"Deng Chun hasn't come back yet?"

"I guess he's very happy. I heard from the hotel staff yesterday that he ordered eight dishes for himself at noon and ate them all by himself," said Chen Lina.

Sandan said, "He is a traitor."

However, Erdan stopped playing the piano and said, "Dad, Deng Chun said that from now on, he will only live with his godfather and will never come back."

The laborer was lighting the fire for Chen Lina. "That's good. There's one less person to eat at home, and you can eat more."

Erdan didn't say anything, and Sandan looked at him and didn't say anything either.

Erdan thought about the stir-fried pork, Deng Chun likes to eat this, and there are shredded potatoes, which are also Deng Chun’s favorites, and small green vegetables, which are crispy. Deng Chun will occupy the plate and push it to others after eating enough.

After taking a shower, I lay down on the bed.

Only then did Chen Lina talk about the gang of hooligans.

Nie Gong was coaxing his sister to feed her, and after a while, she let go of the bottle and fell asleep.

"Those little hooligans followed the railway and hitchhiked on trains to the mining area. Now they live in a shed built in the office building," said Chen Lina.

As soon as Nie Gong put his sister on the kang, she pursed her lips and wanted to drink milk, so Nie Gong had to feed her again.

"Didn't you say they would chase us? But now that they are here, give them something to eat and drink. It's October and it's going to rain outside tonight. Why did you let them hide in the shed? What if they freeze to death?"

"Don't worry, they have been in society for so long, they won't die even if they are frozen. I just want to wait until they get sick a few times and their stomachs growl with hunger before I lend them a hand. You see, that's when I'll be doing them a favor. Otherwise, if a job is too easy to get, they won't cherish it because they are used to slacking off and cheating."

When Chen Lina was young, she was more independent and self-centered, and of course she acted impulsively. Now that she is older, she gradually likes the feeling of lying side by side on the kang with her husband and wife, discussing things together. It is such a happy time.

"Deng Chun must be very happy to be following that big gangster Su Xiangdong. I don't think he will come back." Chen Lina thought for a moment and then said.

The worker was unhappy when he heard this, and he climbed up with his arms propped up. "Do you think he can be better than me in terms of gangsters?"

"How can you compare them? You are only being naughty to me, while he is being naughty everywhere," said Miss Chen.

Nie Gong understood. "You mean, I have to find a few more women to act like a gangster so that I can have the charm of an apricot tree fork in front of you?"

"If you're not afraid of me breaking your legs, I'll try it," said Miss Chen.

After Nie Gong finished playing the hooligan, he advised Chen Lina to "write a letter to Deng Dongya, explain the situation, and ask him to take the child away. Following Su Xiangdong, he will really become a gangster."

Yes, everyone thinks so.

Everyone thinks that Deng Chun is very happy now, and it seems like he is living in heaven.

However, when Nie Gong and his family were sleeping until dawn, Deng Chun was sent back.

He begged the hospital staff to send him back.

The misery and purgatory that Deng Chun experienced in those two days were probably something that only his father had experienced in the mining area.