Chapter 42 [42] Need to get rich quick again.
Tang Yuanyuan: "I'm going to Aunt Huang's house to borrow a ladder."
Li Mu: "Why would you need a ladder at this height?"
He stared at the courtyard wall, took a few steps back, and then ran and jumped quickly.
…My fingertips just touched the top of the wall, but I couldn’t climb up.
Li Mu: "I just ran too short."
This time he retreated ten meters.
I managed to grab the edge of the wall, but couldn't climb up.
Tang Yuanyuan held her forehead with her hand and said, "I'm going to Aunt Huang's house to borrow a ladder."
Li Mu had a stern face and waited for the others to enter Aunt Huang's house, blowing on his folded palm.
grass.
This broken brick is too hard!
Aunt Huang followed Tang Yuanyuan to watch the fun. Li Mu climbed up the wall with a ladder, lifted the ladder up and put it inside. There was no one in the yard. The door of the main room and the windows of the east and west rooms were closed. Only the cat that Zhao Dong had raised during his lifetime was lying on the corridor, sleeping with its eyes closed.
When he saw him climbing up the ladder, he immediately stood up, his fur standing on end and his teeth bared.
"Stupid cat!"
The master is a piece of shit, even the animals he raises are disgusting.
Li Mu threw a stone in disgust, and the scared kitten suddenly jumped into the kitchen. He walked across the yard and pushed open the door. There was an empty bowl and a thermos on the table. He lifted the curtain of the east room. The bed was made flat, the quilt was neatly folded, and a pair of slippers were facing outside.
It doesn't look like there is anyone here.
I went to the west room and it was the same.
Did I guess wrong?
He went back to the main room and opened the stopper of the thermos. The water inside was still steaming.
Li Mu lifted the curtain of the east room again and opened the cabinet first, which was full of clothes.
I squatted down beside the bed and met a pair of dark, hateful eyes.
Aunt Zhao was lying on her side against the wall. The light was already dim and the shadows under the bed were deep.
Aunt Zhao's clothes were dark in color, almost blending into the darkness. If you didn't look carefully, you couldn't tell that there was a person hiding under the bed, against the wall.
I have to say that Aunt Zhao is very scheming.
In the rush, she remembered to make the bed and put the slippers outward.
Li Mu sat down on the ground with a funny look on his face, causing his legs to be bent and his elbows to rest on his knees.
"Of course, Aunt Huang, I almost got fooled by you."
Aunt Zhao didn't say anything, but just stared at him with her eyes, as if she was trying to kill him with her eyes.
Li Mu: "Do you want to come out on your own, or do you want the police to ask you to come out?"
He forced out an infuriating laugh: "Oh, I forgot, Aunt Zhao injured her foot and it's hard to move."
"Okay, I'll ask the police to help you."
"I'm coming out, you give me a hand."
As she spoke, Aunt Zhao stretched out one hand with her palm facing up.
Li Mu took her hand but stopped just an inch from her palm: "Aunt Zhao, you're not playing any tricks, are you?"
"I'm a woman with an injured foot. What tricks can I play?"
Li Mu seemed to reach out his hand without thinking too much. The moment Aunt Zhao grabbed his hand, darkness flashed in her eyes and a vicious smile appeared at the corner of her mouth. The hand that had been hidden behind her back clenched the dagger and stabbed forward.
At the critical moment, Li Mu opened his hand, and Aunt Zhao's hand pierced his palm.
"ah!"
Li Mu forced a smile, admiring Aunt Zhao's excruciating pain. His eyes were filled with pleasure, and he clapped his hands softly: "You stabbed yourself, Aunt Zhao. What's wrong with you?"
Aunt Zhao's hands were sweaty from the pain, and her heart was even more painful than her hands. She hated him even more, wondering why he hadn't stabbed the little bastard to death. She cursed him bitterly, "Little bastard, you will not die well."
Li Mu saw through Aunt Zhao's thoughts and spoke more cheerfully: "Isn't that right? I still prefer to hear you call me a little beast."
"You can't use words like that with a dirty mouth like yours."
Aunt Zhao was not only in pain, she was going crazy: "You knew I was going to stab you a long time ago, did you do it on purpose?"
"What else?" Li Mu glanced at her as if she were an ant. "If I didn't reach out my hand, would you have pricked yourself?"
"Then how can I enjoy such a good show?"
"Hahaha."
"Little bastard, I'll kill you!"
Aunt Zhao wanted to move, but there were wounds on her hands and feet, and the pain became worse when she twisted her body.
Li Mu sighed with regret: "What a pity, your son is not here."
"If he could see this scene with his own eyes, it would definitely be more exciting."
"But it doesn't matter. The police should notify him soon. After all, someone still has to pay for the medical bills."
Aunt Zhao cursed madly, mixed with weak cries.
Outside, Tang Yuanyuan heard Aunt Zhao crying and knew that Li Mu had guessed right. She rode her bicycle to the police station, and the police went out together to break the lock.
By this time, the neighbors had already heard the news and saw Aunt Zhao being carried out of the alley by several policemen. Her palms were half-broken and both feet had bone wounds.
Li Mu's expression changed again at this moment, wiping away tears: "Aunt Zhao, I didn't expect Uncle Zhao to die. You can't blame me for your vengeance. Not only did you steal money from my house, you even tried to stab me to death with a knife. Luckily I dodged quickly."
Aunt Zhao lost all her rationality and gnashed her teeth in a frenzy: "You little bastard, why didn't I stab you to death!"
"You are a jinx. You killed your parents, and you are also unlucky for my husband. You are a jinx!"
Your own husband killed the father of someone else's child. Isn't it right that he should compensate him with his life?
He even has the nerve to steal things from others and even wants to stab them to death.
Serves you right!
It is God's will that such a person will prick himself.
Everyone cursed angrily, saying that Zhao Dong's family were ungrateful and comforted Li Mu not to cry.
Tang Yuanyuan took it all in, her eyelashes trembled, and she turned around and went back to the Li family.
Surrounded by concerned neighbors, Li Mu curled his lips in displeasure.
I even had to go to the police station to give a statement, but she didn't even care.
Last time, I was waiting outside.
Li Mu came back from the Public Security Bureau and kicked open the gate unhappily. He sat down with a dagger in his mouth. "Alas, Tang Yuanyuan, do you have any heart? You're not worried about me when I go to take a statement?"
"Your brother cares about me more than you do. He even waited for me outside the police station."
Tang Yuanyuan explained the problem: "You didn't prick anyone, nothing will happen to you, you're back safe and sound."
Li Mu: "Ah, you have no heart, last time I waited for you to come out, it was so dark outside, I am a young man in his prime, and you didn't worry at all."
Tang Yuanyuan's voice unconsciously turned a bit colder: "Aren't you with a friend? Didn't Tang An go to the Public Security Bureau with you?"
Li Mu: "Your brother and I don't play together anymore."
"Just now I scolded him for being nosy. I came back alone."
Tang Yuanyuan: "Who you make friends with is your business. It has nothing to do with me. You don't need to explain it to me."
Li Mu was furious: "Who needs to explain to you? We are partners. I am just telling you something."
Tang Yuanyuan asked, trying to think twice: "What's the situation with Zhao Shun now? Is he the second man in black?"
Li Mu then explained, "It's not clear yet. Aunt Zhao refused to admit that Zhao Shunye was involved in this matter. It was her own idea."
"I suspect she's lying, but the police said they need evidence. I don't think Zhao Shun can be imprisoned."
Aunt Zhao completely shifted the blame to Zhao Shun, saying that Zhao Shun had no idea she had stolen. As for hiding at home, it was because she was guilty and afraid of going to jail, so she pretended to let her son take her back to her parents' home, and then sneaked back in the middle of the night. She asked her son to bring her food in the middle of the night every day, and then locked the door from the outside so that no one would know. In fact, she was recuperating at home, and once her foot healed, no one would know that she had stolen.
"The most important point is that our family suffered no losses, and Zhao Shun was not yet 18 years old."
"Tsk, I knew it was useless to rely on the police."
Seeing the disdainful sneer on Li Mu's face, Tang Yuanyuan said, "I'll ask Lawyer Wang tomorrow to see if he has any solutions."
Given Aunt Zhao's mental state and the close proximity of the two families, I wonder what kind of trouble she'll cause when she comes out.
"Li Mu, do you want to sell your house and move to another place?"
"Tsk, am I afraid of her? If they, mother and son, dare to cause trouble for me, I will make them suffer." However, Li Mu changed the subject and said, "This is the house my father left me. I will not move out."
"If anyone is going to leave, it should be the Zhao family."
Aunt Zhao needed surgery on her hand. In the past five years, Zhao Dong had not spent a penny of the family's savings in order to raise Li Mu.
The Zhao family sold the house earlier than Li Mu expected.
It was Zhao Shun's grandmother who handled it. Aunt Zhao's brothers from her mother's side all thought it was shameful and no one wanted to get involved, leaving only the gray-haired mother to handle it.
The hospital is in urgent need of money, Zhao Dong was hanged in this house, and Aunt Zhao is a thief. Even though many families can't afford to live here, they still avoid living here, thinking that the house has bad feng shui and may be haunted in the future.
Zhao Shun's grandmother asked for a very low price, only one thousand yuan, but did not accept credit. In the end, the house was bought by the bold Qian family.
Rumors can kill people at any time.
Even if Aunt Zhao hadn't been stabbed by the knife, it would have been uncomfortable for her to live here. What's more, she now had a reputation as a thief. No one, whether she or her son, wanted to associate with them anymore.
Li Mu gave another push, and the house selling process sped up.
The house was sold in less than a day. In the afternoon, Zhao Shun, probably from the Public Security Bureau, came to help his grandmother pack up.
He was in a bad mood and had a tense face. Since he was selling the furniture as well, he was only carrying two large sacks on his back.
Zhao Dong didn't even bring the cat he had raised during his lifetime, so the kitten followed Zhao Shun for a long distance.
Li Mu leaned against the door while drinking soda, his eyes showing no sign of hiding the malice and disgust: "Do you look like a stray dog?"
Tang Yuanyuan turned her head and saw the malice in Li Mu's eyes, and unconsciously took a step back.
Even though the Zhao family had reached this point, his disgust and hatred for the Zhao family had not dissipated.
Tang Yuanyuan didn't have a deep impression of what Zhao Shun was like before, only one impression of him.
The ball hit their legs, and several boys were laughing fiercely.
Zhao Shun ran up to him and said, "Are you okay? I'm sorry, we didn't mean it."
Tang Yuanyuan also lost her temper at the time: "The alley is so small, why do you have to play here? Can't you change places?"
In fact, the alleys in this area are narrow. If they were wider, there would only be roads.
Another child said unhappily, "Which place is spacious? We didn't do it on purpose, why don't you just take a detour?"
Tang Yuanyuan was about to argue when Zhao Shun persuaded his partner, "Zhang Tao, don't talk to girls like that. We kicked her first."
"That's all for today. Come to my house and watch TV."
Tang Yuanyuan didn't know whether Zhao Shun's mouth was always so dirty or whether it became distorted due to conflicts later on.
"Uncle Zhao, I don't want your money. I want to earn money to support myself."
"Uncle Zhao, Shunzi didn't tell me anything."
"I want his family to be destroyed."
Memories flashed through my mind. Now when I think about these words again, it is not humility at all, it is clearly a threat.
Tang Yuanyuan subconsciously took two steps back.
Eleven-year-old Li Mu, does he want to take Zhao Dong's life alone, or destroy his wife and children as well?
Tang Yuanyuan had no way of knowing, nor could she judge whether this was right or wrong. She only knew that a chill ran down her tailbone.
I want to speed up the process of buying a house.
Li Mu didn't know what she was thinking. He looked at her pushing her bicycle and asked, "Where are you going at this hour?"
Tang Yuanyuan: "I made an appointment with Zhou Wei to go to night school."
Li Mu: "Are you going home for dinner?"
Tang Yuanyuan: "If you don't come back, eat it yourself."
Tang Yuanyuan stood at the door and called out, "Zhou Wei, are you up?"
Zhou Wei's voice came from the west room: "Coming soon."
Zhou Wei's mother came out of the house and took Tang Yuanyuan's hand: "Come in, I've poured you some warm sugar water, just right, drink it before you leave."
Tang Yuanyuan: "Auntie, I came out after drinking water, there's no rush."
Zhou Wei just came out of the house and said, "Let's go."
Zhou Wei's mother patted her daughter and said, "How could I have given birth to a girl as clueless as you? Ren Yuanyuan is your boss now. Where else can you find such a good boss who cares about your work and your studies? You should act like you're treating your boss well."
Tang Yuanyuan blushed with embarrassment: "Auntie, that's an exaggeration. I just run a small shop."
Zhou Wei's mother dragged Tang Yuanyuan into the house to drink some sugar water: "No matter how big the store is, you are Xiaowei's boss, Xiaowei should act like a professional."
"Xiao Wei, you have to work hard and not be lazy. You have to sell the goods to Yuan Yuan well."
The more Tang Yuanyuan tasted it, the more she realized why she hadn't noticed before that Aunt Zhou was so capable.
If Aunt Zhou were a few years younger, Tang Yuanyuan would have wanted to hire her as a clerk as well.
This was her first fortune from selling things, and she increasingly discovered that in the job of selling clothes, it was important to be eloquent and have good connections.
Zhou Wei's mother sent Tang Yuanyuan out the door as if she was receiving a leader. If you didn't know, you would think Tang Yuanyuan was her real daughter.
I also asked them what time they would be back and whether they wanted to go home for dinner.
Tang Yuanyuan had never been to night school, so she didn't know what time she would be back, but it was accurate that she would not be going home for dinner tonight. She just said that the two of them were eating out.
It only takes half an hour to ride a bike to the night university. They are happy to enroll students like Zhou Wei, and there are a variety of majors to choose from.
Maternal and child health, arts and crafts design, accounting, fashion design, international economics and trade, etc.
Tang Yuanyuan and Zhou Wei don’t understand many majors and can only feel the majors based on their names.
There are some in the accounting firm, they work as offices and pay their salaries.
You can actually learn here!
Zhou Wei asked the teacher what fashion design was. When she learned that it was about designing clothing designs, she became very interested.
Unexpectedly, tailoring could be a diploma. She hesitated for a moment between the two majors of accounting and fashion designer.
Tang Yuanyuan decided for her to learn fashion design first and then accounting, both of which could be used in her store.
Zhou Wei stopped worrying about it and paid the money to get the book. The next round of classes would start in half a month, and her work at the textile factory would be over by then.
Zhou Wei held a book in her arms, her eyes curved with a smile.
At this moment, she especially understood Tang Yuanyuan's feeling of insisting on going to high school.
Now when she looks back at herself at that time, she understands the conflicted emotions she felt at that time.
Children of workers are all like this. If they don’t study, they will buy a job and go to work. It is impossible for them to sit idle at home.
Since she was not good at studying, she naturally went to work and had nothing to complain about. Compared to being scolded by teachers at school, working in a textile factory did not require any brainpower, all she had to do was keep up with her hand speed, and no one would laugh at her for being stupid.
She held the salary in her hand and said to herself, look, this is the money you earned yourself.
Since you can't complete your studies, it's better to keep your feet on the ground.
Why did she feel sorry and sad when she saw Tang Yuanyuan couldn't study and had to work as a factory girl?
Why does she think Tang An is so dazzling?
It's because she subconsciously understands that as a factory girl, her life will be over.
She also doesn't like being a factory girl.
Now, holding the book, she seemed to see another life, and her steps were light and brisk.
"Tang Yuanyuan, it turns out that a fool like me can get into a technical secondary school and become an accountant and a designer! Thank you, thank you so much!"
"Tang Yuanyuan, I want to treat you to soda and rice noodles."
"Today is your lucky day, I'll treat you to a meal."
"Yes, you are the boss now, Boss, I will obey your orders respectfully!"
"...If you dare to laugh at me, I'll dock your salary in the future."
"No, actually I think my mom is right, Tang Yuanyuan, you are different from before. You are a legitimate boss now!"
The two of them found a roadside stall while talking, chattering and laughing.
However, Zhou Wei still had to work the night shift, so the two of them had to go back early.
At the entrance of the alley, Zhou Wei's mother was waiting at the intersection, holding a flashlight in her hand: "I told you, you two should come back soon, I was right."
Tang Yuanyuan felt a pang of sadness. In the past, when she got off her night shift, her mother would also wait for her at the entrance of the alley like this.
She once, perhaps this happiness.
"Zhou Wei, your mother is also very good, second only to my mother."
Zhou Wei didn't know what to say. She knew that her mother was watching her.
Her mother started doing this yesterday. She would send her out of the alley when she went to work and wait for her at the alley when she got off work.
Afraid that she would go to Tang An again.
Zhou Wei swore to heaven that she had never thought of dedicating her life to Tang An. She just felt that Tang An was too pitiful and, as if possessed by some unknown force, wanted to do her best to help him.
And that unexpected beam of light made her heart beat uncontrollably.
Zhou Wei handed the book to her mother and rode her bike to work the night shift.
Unexpectedly, when she was almost at the textile factory, a bicycle suddenly came out from the side road and hit her head-on, and Zhou Wei fell to the ground.
"Fuck, how did you walk? You bumped into my bike? Pay me!"
Zhou Wei's calves were bruised. She stared at the man angrily, puffing her cheeks. "I was driving normally, and you suddenly jumped out and hit me. How can you blame me? You should pay me the compensation."
"You dare to talk back without paying me! I'm going to teach you a lesson today, little girl."
Zhou Wei turned her neck in fear and closed her eyes. She didn't hear the slap, but she heard a man's voice.
Opening his eyes, the streetlights in the midsummer emitted a faint yellow light. Tang An grabbed the man's arm, his scholarly profile meeting his fierce gaze. "Just try and touch her."
The man grinned and said, "You little bastard, if you dare to meddle in other people's business, I'll beat you up too."
Tang An: "You can hit me, but you can't hit her."
The man raised his fist and said, "You asked for this."
The man was strong and the thin Tang An was no match for him, but he held Zhou Wei tightly in his arms, gritted his teeth and said nothing.
Zhou Wei took out the only ten yuan she had on her: "Stop fighting, I'll give you the money."
The man took the ten dollars and rode away quickly with satisfaction.
Tang An had a fist mark on his left cheek. Once he was free, he immediately checked Zhou Wei up and down: "Zhou Wei, are you okay?"
Zhou Wei was so moved that she started crying: "He didn't even touch me, how could I be in trouble?"
"You should take care of yourself. Are you okay?"
Tang An heaved a sigh of relief and smiled at Zhou Wei: "I'm glad you're okay."
Zhou Wei: "Do you want to go to the clinic to get it treated?"
Tang An let go of Zhou Wei and shook his head: "I'm fine."
"It's almost time for you to go to work, go to work."
Tang An got up from the ground and turned around. There were several huge footprints on his clothes that were washed white.
Zhou Wei felt a knot in her heart for a moment.
"Tang An, why are you here?"
Tang An: "I was just strolling around, I didn't expect to see you encounter something like this, luckily I met you."
Her mother deliberately said something to tease her, and she was like a coward, easily willing to try dating someone else, but he was still willing to protect her regardless of the danger.
Zhou Wei felt extremely guilty and thought she was a bad girl.
I don't deserve such beautiful words to describe myself at all.
"Tang An, I'm sorry."
"I'm not a good girl."
Tang An gave her a gentle smile: "Zhou Wei, if you mean that you accept your mother's arrangement for the blind date, don't blame yourself, and don't blame your mother."
"She's doing this for your own good."
"I can't give you anything right now. I'm just a pit of fire. Even my sister has left this family. There's no point in dragging you into this."
Tang An bent down and picked up her bicycle, "Hurry up and go to work."
"Someone's coming. I'm leaving first."
Seeing that Zhou Wei didn't say anything, Tang An picked up his car and left.
Zhou Wei wiped her tears, pushed up her cloth shoes and opened her legs, and suddenly saw a palm-sized booklet on the ground.
She picked it up, opened it, and saw herself.
A pencil drawing of her portrait.
There are more than ten of them.
She cried even more painfully. She was afraid of suffering and sacrifice, but Tang An didn't care at all.
He drew her so beautifully and even carried her with him.
How much I love this.
However, he said he was just strolling around and that he couldn't give anything.
Zhou Wei felt so conflicted, as if something had torn her in two.
Half of it is because I am afraid of giving, and half of it is because of self-blame and guilt. How can you be such a snobbish person and let down other people's sincerity?
Zhou Wei didn't know what to choose, so she could only push her bike to work.
After working a night shift, she pushed her bicycle home, but Fang Shi was standing in her yard, looking at her with a simple smile.
Zhou Wei's mother spoke up for her future son-in-law, saying, "Xiao Shi got a letter from the matchmaker yesterday, so he came to see you today so you can take a good look at him."
"He swept the yard and brought you some egg cake."
Zhou Wei remembered Tang Yuanyuan's words: "Since you are willing to try to get along with him, you should be open and honest. It's a good thing that he is interested in you. Even if you don't like him as a person, you should respect him and treat him as an ordinary colleague."
Zhou Wei acted like she was getting along with her colleagues: "Thank you for coming to see me."
Fang Shi touched his hair honestly and said, "Comrade Zhou Wei, can I invite you to see a movie tomorrow?"
Zhou Wei thought for a moment: "Can I go with a friend of mine?"
The person she wanted to take with her was naturally Tang Yuanyuan. Her brain was more flexible than hers, so maybe she had some ideas.
Of course Fang Shi had no objection. They agreed on a time and he would be responsible for buying the tickets. They would meet at the cinema entrance tomorrow.
At the Li family, Tang Yuanyuan sold three pieces of clothing today, one high-end one and two cheap ones, earning a total of 92 yuan. She just felt that the speed at which she was making money was still too slow.
In this way, when can I earn 30,000 yuan?
She had to find a way to get rich again so that she could have her own house.
She was so engrossed in her thoughts that she didn't even notice there were grains of rice on the corners of her mouth.
Li Mu tapped the plate with his chopsticks: "Ah, ah, ah, the food is getting cold while we're eating. What are you thinking about?"
Tang Yuanyuan came back to her senses: "Nothing."
Li Mu said, "Do you like that cat? If you want to keep it, you can bring it home. That way, we will have both a cat and a dog at home."
Tang Yuanyuan was stunned for a moment before she realized that on her way home just now, she saw the Zhao family's cat meowing. She wondered if anyone had fed it. She came back, parked her bicycle, and took some dog bones out to feed the cat. Li Mu was talking about the cat.
"I'm not interested in having a cat."
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