Chapter 8: A Bad Day. I'll go to the appointment for you tomorrow...
Ever since she blocked Ji Wenjun and rejected Li Jinmiao, Su Yinuo's world has become quiet again, as if everything she experienced last Sunday was just a dream.
Li Jinmiao, who was so busy that he was dizzy, ran to Su Yinuo who was about to close his stall when he was free on Friday night.
Seeing Li Jinmiao's anxious look, Su Yinuo was slightly startled. She narrowed her eyes, which were hidden by her bangs, and shouted with a smile: "Sister Miaomiao, why are you here? What's the matter?"
"Fortunately, you're still here, Nuonuo. What's wrong with you recently?" Li Jinmiao walked over to tidy up the leftovers and small basin for Su Yinuo, and asked with a worried look on his face.
"Ah? It's nothing." Su Yinuo quickly took the small basin from Li Jinmiao's hand and said, "Sister Miaomiao, I'll do it myself. Don't get your clothes dirty."
"Nuo Nuo, you blocked Ji Wenjun. That guy howled in front of me every day. And you also said that you didn't want to go to dinner with Qin Cangye on Sunday. I thought something happened to you."
"No, nothing happened," Su Yinuo wiped her hands, untied her greasy apron, closed the snack cart window, and walked up to Li Jinmiao. With an expression that seemed to want to say something but hesitated, she said embarrassedly, "Nothing happened to me. I'm fine now. I just feel that we are from a different world. It's better to have less contact with them, so that they won't be disappointed if they find out about my job in the future."
Li Jinmiao opened her mouth slightly, a little surprised. She had thought Su Yinuo was a carefree optimist, but she hadn't expected him to be so sensitive. At this moment, she was very glad that she hadn't told Ji Wenjun about Su Yinuo's identity. Otherwise, with Su Yinuo's personality, she would probably be even more uncomfortable.
"Not necessarily," Li Jinmiao said with a smile, "I don't think it's a big deal. People nowadays are different from before. There's not so much occupational discrimination when making friends..."
At this point, Li Jinmiao paused, as if suddenly enlightened. She immediately understood why Su Yinuo had blocked Ji Wenjun: it wasn't because she was afraid of being looked down upon by men, but because she didn't want to keep Ji Wenjun hanging and wanted to end this relationship, which she believed was impossible, as soon as possible. Otherwise, if she really had low self-esteem, she would have blocked me too.
"Nuruo, you are such a kind little angel!" Li Jinmiao was touched and looked at Su Yinuo with tears in his eyes.
"Ah? Sister Miaomiao, what's wrong with you all of a sudden?" Su Yinuo was a little overwhelmed. She hugged Li Jinmiao, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, and patted her back to comfort her, "Sister Miaomiao is also a little angel. Sister Miaomiao is the best..."
The two girls hugged each other in the dim and cold street. After a while, they suddenly separated and looked at each other and laughed for no reason.
Li Jinmiao was both crying and laughing because the pressure she'd endured during the past two years of her entrepreneurial career was immense. Especially recently, while she saw hope for success, she also faced the risk of failure. Li Jinmiao's nerves were strained to the bone. But every time she was in the presence of someone as innocent and kind as Su Yinuo, she felt a sense of relief. After releasing all that crying and laughing just now, it was as if she had expelled all the turbid air in her chest, a feeling of relief so profound she felt like she was floating.
She hugged Su Yinuo's arm and said affectionately: "Nunuo, I really have a lot to say to you, but I'm too busy recently. After this period of busyness, we must find time to go out and play together. Nuonuo, let me tell you, in fact, you don't have to rush to block Ji Wenjun. Men, just keep hanging on. What's more, Ji Wenjun is energetic... You don't have to worry about Qin Cangye. If you don't want to go, don't go. I can handle it myself..."
After chatting for a long time and helping Su Yinuo push the snack cart to the main intersection, Li Jinmiao waved goodbye reluctantly and left.
On Saturday, Su Yinuo woke up early as usual. Although there were fewer customers on Saturday than usual, as a gathering place for programmers who work overtime, it wouldn't be much less.
Su Yinuo arrived at the back door of the software park on time. Her left eyelid had been twitching all morning, and she felt inexplicably anxious, as if something was going to happen today.
Just after she set up the snack stall, the image of her mother accidentally falling at home suddenly flashed through her mind. This kind of thing had happened before. She was shocked and immediately took out her mobile phone and called her mother. Fortunately, the voice on the other end of the line showed that her mother was safe and sound.
Su Yinuo was reminding her mother on the phone to be careful. Out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of panic on the faces of the aunts at the stalls next door. Before she could hang up the phone, she saw the aunts and uncles hurriedly packing up their stalls, getting on their cars and preparing to run away.
Su Yinuo hung up the phone in surprise, and then she heard an auntie passing by whispering, "Run, Xiao Zhang, the urban management is coming!"
Urban management?? Why are the urban management here?!
Su Yinuo was shocked. She had been in the software park for more than half a year, but she had never seen the urban management officers come to visit!
Without giving it much thought, she quickly turned off the fire and stacked the dishes back one by one. But just as she finished packing up the carriage, she heard chaotic shouting behind her: "Don't run! I said don't run!"
"Why are you running? Stop running!"
"Don't you know you can't set up stalls here?"
"Don't run! No one can escape!"
"Don't hit anyone, hey hey hey, run slower, there are so many people here, what if something happens?"
There were about four or five urban management officers coming over. Some of them chased the stall owner with a ferocious look, some followed behind slowly to maintain order, and some held up law enforcement recorders to film their colleagues' law enforcement.
In fact, they were not chasing very fast. Most of the twenty or so vendors on the street ran away, and they only caught three. Su Yinuo was unfortunately one of them.
When the body camera was pointed at her, she almost cried.
"Yes, I'm sorry. I, I won't come here again next time. How much is the fine?" Su Yinuo was terrified. This was the first time she was caught by the urban management. Thinking of the news she had read online that some places imposed fines of tens of thousands of yuan, she was so anxious that she shed tears.
An older urban management officer came over and saw Su Yinuo huddled up and crying. He frowned and said impatiently, "How old are you? Why are you crying? What's your name? Take out your ID card!"
"Su, Su Yinuo, wuwu..." Su Yinuo took out his ID card with shaking shoulders and took off his mask.
"Oh, such a little girl?" The urban management uncle was surprised. He took the ID card and looked at it, and said in surprise: "She just turned 18? Why don't you go to school, little girl?"
"My father passed away a long time ago, and my mother is disabled. I have to take care of her and can't go to school..." Su Yinuo cried even harder.
The urban management officer's hand, holding the ID card, trembled slightly. He wanted to step forward to comfort the girl, who was about his daughter's age, but a colleague grabbed his arm. The colleague pulled him aside and whispered, "Captain Li, our new director said we need to identify role models and set them up. I think this little girl is a role model. She's crying so miserably. Go up and take a photo with us so we can write the materials."
Li Jian, the squadron leader of the Urban Management Bureau's Law Enforcement Department, glared at the young assistant and scolded him with a smile, "That's a pretty bad idea! Alas, I'll have to put the little girl in a difficult position."
"How much is the fine, uncle? Can it be less? My family still owes a lot of money..." Su Yinuo saw that Li Jian was the leader of these people, so she went over to beg him crying.
Li Jian pretended to be serious and frowned, saying, "No fine!"
Su Yinuo was stunned and stopped crying. She looked at Li Jian eagerly, with tears hanging on her long eyelashes.
Oh my god, it’s too pitiful!!
Li Jian was so shocked by the pitiful appearance of such great lethality that he took a step back. He couldn't pretend anymore and shouted, "But your car will be confiscated!"
"What?" Su Yinuo was startled again, tears streaming down her face like a flood. "No, please don't take my car, okay? Wuuwuwu..."
Su Yinuo cried her heart out, and in the end she didn't know how she took a photo with the uncle, how the uncle left her contact information and home address on his phone, how she put on her backpack, and how she walked home alone.
The cool autumn breeze messed up her bangs and hurt her red and swollen eyes. This was the first time she cried so hard since her mother's accident.
She resisted crying in the face of vitriol from the perpetrator's family; she held back tears in the face of her mother's serious illness. After her mother was released from the hospital, she forgot to cry in her busy life, determined to keep going. Slowly, as she worked her way through the stall, watching the daily increase in her phone balance, she endured the hardships of life and, amidst them, found the passion and hope to live.
But now, the sudden change has completely cut off her source of income. She is like standing on a single-plank bridge that she built with great difficulty, and the road ahead suddenly collapses, and a bottomless dark cliff appears in front of her.
Despair hit her, and she couldn't hold it back any longer, so she let out all the emotions that she had suppressed for over a year.
She lowered her head and walked along the road that she had walked back and forth countless times with her snack cart, silently washing away the road that had brought her hope countless times with her tears.
Finally, she returned home, threw herself into her mother's arms, and cried again without hiding anything.
After learning what happened, Zhang Lihua hugged her distressedly and comforted her, "We still have some savings at home, Noruo. We can just buy another car and find a new place to live. It's not a big problem. Noruo, don't cry. At worst, Mom can do more handicrafts or sell the house. We always have a way out..."
Zhang Lihua felt no less guilty and sad than Su Yinuo. She always felt that she was a burden to this sensible child. After just a few words of comfort, she couldn't help but feel red in the eyes and rolled down two lines of tears.
The mother and daughter hugged each other miserably, and after venting her emotions, Su Yinuo's heart gradually calmed down.
Life has to go on. Crying won’t solve the problem. The most important thing now is to make money!
Su Yinuo thought about it for a long time. She knew it would be difficult for her to find a high-paying job with only a high school diploma. If she wanted to earn money, she had to go back to her old job. She needed to buy a food truck, and she would need to buy new lights, refrigerators, shelves, pots and pans. All of this would cost tens of thousands of yuan.
Therefore, Su Yinuo cannot give up any opportunity to make money now.
She took out her cell phone, opened Li Jinmiao’s WeChat, and typed a long string of messages in the input box: Sister Miaomiao, if you still need me, I can go to the appointment for you tomorrow. My snack cart was confiscated by the urban management, so I’m short of money recently [bitter][bitter].
Her thumb hovered above the send button, and after hesitating for a few seconds, she added: But don't worry, I will go to see new cars next week. The snack trucks nowadays are well-equipped and sell for much more expensive than before, so I want to take a job from you and make some money, hehe [grin][grin].
Lying on his back on the bed, Su Yinuo sighed miserably and clicked send.
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