Chapter 62 [62] Has her mother thought about divorce?
The girl ran vigorously with her slender legs. Even though she was carrying a heavy object, her footsteps were faster than those of ordinary pedestrians. A ray of sunlight slanted down on her face, and her eyes were bright and clear.
Although he has a thin body, he seems to have a thousand pounds of strength and can bear all the difficulties and hardships in life.
She was like a fish struggling to swim upstream, passing through layer after layer of her peers and was already ahead of many people.
She was wearing tattered clothes and carrying a sack on her back, and she looked quite miserable. But what made her so touching was her unyielding spirit.
In 1993, this country was actually very poor, with most people being poor, yet there were still people sitting in cafes killing time or sitting in expensive cars without getting dusty.
The world is unfair in any era, but Tang Yuanyuan is definitely the one who can climb to the top of the pyramid.
The window slowly rose, and the huge sack, along with the pedestrians and the huge train station sign, disappeared outside the window and into the traffic.
The roar of the motorcycle was piercing.
In just a moment, the man who was wearing a gold chain and holding a black leather bag and looked like a big boss fell to the ground with blood flowing from his neck.
The biker gang pulled at his bag and gold chain, but the man held on tightly and stopped them with a knife.
The man fell to the ground, his eyes wide open, blood gushing out of his protruding flesh, and he was twitching.
Qian Tingting staggered back a step, and the man fell in front of her, just twenty centimeters away.
In an instant, fear and blood rushed to his forehead, his limbs seemed to be broken and out of control, and he was gasping for breath.
The biker gang was already carrying bags, and they would make way for the motorcycles wherever they passed and speed away.
"It's okay."
"It's okay."
Tang Yuanyuan strode back, hugged Qian Tingting into her arms, and pressed her head against her neck: "Don't look, don't look."
Qian Tingting closed her eyes, but the man's death seemed to be engraved in her mind: "Why? Why did you kill someone?"
"You can just rob things, why kill people?"
Whose son, whose husband, whose father is this? I guess his family doesn’t know that he died here. They are probably cooking delicious food at home and waiting for the train to arrive.
Why are some people like demons?
Tang Yuanyuan: "The biker gang is inhumane. Don't worry, our sacks are stuffed with rags and we're poorly dressed. No one will rob us."
Tang Yuanyuan took Qian Tingting and walked around the corpse to the waiting room.
In fact, it was only about eight meters away. Just eight meters and the man could take the bus and go home.
After entering the waiting room, Tang Yuanyuan peeled a piece of White Rabbit candy and stuffed it into Qian Tingting's mouth. The sweetness of the candy diluted her emotions a little and restored her sense of reality a little.
Tang Yuanyuan went to the store again and bought a lot of food. Qian Tingting ate it mechanically, not at all like she usually did when eating happily.
But there is no better way, only time can dilute this impact.
After waiting for half an hour, I got on the train.
Even though it was New Year's Eve, the trains were still more crowded than ever.
However, everyone was poor at that time, and standing tickets were more scarce than sleeper tickets. Fortunately, the three tickets Li Mu bought were all sleeper tickets, so the three of them could take turns sleeping.
However, Qian Tingting was in a bad mood, and Tang Yuanyuan was worried, so she just let her look at two sacks filled with cheap goods: "Can you do it?"
Qian Tingting nodded: "I can, I will definitely check the goods."
Tang Yuanyuan patted her helplessly: "Think about happy things more and see if you can stop thinking about this."
Qian Tingting nodded vigorously.
Tang Yuanyuan was a little worried, but there was nothing else she could do. She decided to let Qian Tingting sleep on the upper bunk, which would be better.
Just as he was about to stack the sacks on top of his own, Li Mu reached out and took it, putting it on his bed. Tang Yuanyuan didn't bother to be polite with him because he thought the sacks were safer with him than with himself.
Tang Yuanyuan bought a box lunch on the train. She pushed Qian Tingting on the upper bunk and found that she was burning hot. She squeezed to the infirmary with difficulty and bought her some antipyretics. Her fever went down immediately. Tang Yuanyuan didn't dare to sleep at night. She touched her head for the third time and found that she had a fever again. Her whole body was burning hot. Tang Yuanyuan pushed her to get up and take medicine. Maybe she was confused due to the fever and didn't respond. Tang Yuanyuan had to climb up by stepping on the footrest.
The train bed was already narrow, and there were two sacks in it. Fortunately, Qian Tingting was also thin, so Tang Yuanyuan could barely put down one of her knees.
Qian Tingting's face was flushed, her hair was wet and stuck to her forehead. She was lying on her side, holding two large sacks.
Tang Yuanyuan took her hand down from the sack: "Qian Tingting, get up and take your medicine."
The hand holding the sack swung away, and the person suddenly sat up. Tang Yuanyuan lost her balance and fell backwards. In panic, she grabbed the armrest of the upper bunk. Li Mu got up from the bed in time and caught her from behind, but his forearm hit the iron bed because of holding the armrest.
He closed his eyes and groaned, enduring the pain.
Li Mu glared at Qian Tingting with his eyes wide open, as if he wanted to skin her alive.
Qian Tingting's heart trembled when she was stared at: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it."
Li Mu became even more angry: "What else can you say besides this!"
Tang Yuanyuan recovered a little from the severe pain in her arm and opened her eyes: "You have a fever again, come down and take some medicine."
Li Mu let go of Tang Yuanyuan, puffing up his cheeks in displeasure, "Troublemaker."
Tang Yuanyuan kicked Li Mu and handed Qian Tingting a glass of warm water: "Drink it, ignore him."
Qian Tingting felt very guilty: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it."
Tang Yuanyuan: "I saw you holding on to the sack even while it was burning."
Qian Tingting: "I'm too timid and stupid, so I can only do this for you."
Tang Yuanyuan: "This is a huge advantage. It's already better than many people."
Qian Tingting felt that Tang Yuanyuan must be comforting her, but she was still very happy.
Tang Yuanyuan held on until dawn, and only closed her eyes to take a nap after seeing that Qian Tingting was fine.
When the train returned to Yucheng, it was already late at night on the first day of the New Year. There were no buses or motorcycles. When I walked to the store with a sack on my back, there was already a hint of light in the sky.
Tang Yuanyuan locked the goods in the warehouse, and the rest would be sorted out when Zhou Wei and Zhou Li came to work.
Tang Yuanyuan asked Zhou Wei's father to continue sleeping, fearing that Qian Tingting would have a fever again, so she took her home with her.
I was so tired that I didn't want to move at all. I simply washed my face and feet, wrapped myself in the quilt and fell asleep.
When I woke up, it was already the afternoon of the second day of the New Year, and a fragrance came from the kitchen.
Qian Tingting made dumplings stuffed with leeks and eggs, fried a plate of shredded potatoes, and a plate of pork stewed with vermicelli.
Tang Yuanyuan was so hungry that she brushed her teeth and started eating without even bothering to wash her face.
"Are you okay? Are you still having nightmares?"
"I'm fine now. I'm as strong as a bull."
"Although I don't eat meat, you can cook meat for yourself next time."
Tang Yuanyuan was thinking about the store and ate her meal in big mouthfuls. She finished a bowl of rice in 7 minutes and rode her bike to the store in the cold wind. Zhou Wei and Zhou Li had already sold a lot of goods and were dealing with the leftovers from big customers. Even Yu Fangfang came to the store and took the walkie-talkie and left.
Tang Yuanyuan felt much more at ease. Zhou Wei and Zhou Li were now fully capable of handling the situation on their own, and she only needed to purchase the goods.
He rode his bike to Xu Xiaofeng's store and gave her a bottle of perfume, then rode his bike to the department store to make up for the employee benefits that were not bought during the New Year, and gave each person another 300 yuan in holiday money.
Everyone has to visit relatives during the Chinese New Year, so Tang Yuanyuan asked Zhou Li and Zhou Wei to take turns to have a day off, which was just right for her to take over.
The best business during the Chinese New Year are food and entertainment, but in Yucheng, a small county, there are very few things to do. Four or five women's clothing stores have opened on one street here in just half a year. There are still many people coming to shop, and they spend more generously than usual. Business is quite busy, and the stores are completely empty until it gets dark.
Zhou Wei's father and mother also came over on bicycles. In the aluminum lunch boxes were two boxes of dumplings and one box of glutinous rice balls, all of which were made by Zhou Wei's mother.
There was also a large bag of vegetables and meat, fried meatballs, and another bag of buns to warm her house tonight.
Zhou Wei's mother said, "Buying a house is a great thing. Warming up the house will bring popularity to the house and bring good luck this year."
Tang Yuanyuan naturally had no objection, and she called Aunt Huang, Li Mu, and Qian Tingting, and the group went to the bridal chamber in a mighty procession.
Zhou Wei's mother also didn't let Tang Yuanyuan get involved, and she and Aunt Huang were busy in the kitchen.
Zhou Wei and Zhou Li obviously knew their mother's plan from the beginning, and both spent a lot of money to buy popular luminous ornaments.
Tang Yuanyuan realized belatedly that she hadn't even bought any melon seeds or peanuts, otherwise, everyone would at least be able to eat the melon seeds.
Unfortunately, at this time, all the stalls selling New Year goods in the wholesale market have closed, so it is too late to buy.
Just at this moment, there was another knock on the door. It turned out that Xu Xiaofeng also thought of coming to the greenhouse and brought a gift.
When she learned that Tang Yuanyuan had nothing at home, she used Tang Yuanyuan's home phone to call her own home and asked her husband to send some soda, melon seeds, fireworks, firecrackers, etc.
There were about ten people in the room, and it was very lively. When it was time to eat, everyone found that Tang Yuanyuan's family only had one set of tableware with four bowls, and there were not even enough chopsticks.
Tang Yuanyuan knew that someone lived upstairs in her house, so she knocked on the door to borrow some dishes and chopsticks.
The person who opened the door was a middle-aged woman, very intellectual.
Tang Yuanyuan: "I'm so sorry, it's so late and there's no place to buy it. I can buy it with my own money."
The other party smiled gently and took out a brand new set of dishes and chopsticks from the bottom shelf of the cabinet. "Housewarming is a happy occasion. A distant relative is not as good as a close neighbor. This set of dishes and chopsticks is new and has never been used. It is my gift to you for the housewarming."
Seeing that she was sincere, Tang Yuanyuan had no choice but to accept it.
After everyone finished eating, they went outside to set off firecrackers.
They were all hardworking women. Zhou Wei's mother and Aunt Huang even cleaned up the dishes, but Tang Yuanyuan didn't even lift a finger.
"Mom, even though I'm unlucky and was born into a family like the Tang family, where all my relatives are hateful, I've also met so many good people."
“I’m living a great life.”
"It's a bit regrettable that you're not around."
Early the next morning, Tang Yuanyuan went downstairs and saw the intellectual Aunt Ji upstairs taking out three bottles from a small iron box in the apartment building.
"Auntie, is this milk?"
“Yeah, it’s freshly delivered this morning by the milkman.
Tang Yuanyuan wanted to drink milk every day: "How do I buy this?"
"You can go to the milk station and order it yourself, or you can ask the milkman to deliver it. She'll deliver it on time at 6:30 in the morning."
Tang Yuanyuan didn't want to run around any more, so she got up early the next morning. Sure enough, she waited for the milkman and gave him the money. The next morning, she went downstairs and found a bottle of pure white milk in the milk box in 201.
She also had milk.
Tang Yuanyuan happily played with the milk bottle for a while before going to the store.
The store had just been busy with two groups of customers when an uninvited guest arrived. It was Uncle Tang, carrying malted milk and wafer biscuits.
"Yuanyuan, your shop is great!"
"I heard you bought your own house? And decorated it beautifully? A little girl started her own business and bought a big house. That's amazing."
"If you don't go back to Chengchun Lane now, you won't know that everyone is praising you. The girls of our Tang family are really promising."
Tang Yuanyuan: "Second Uncle, I'm curious, what are you made of?"
"Do you still remember? Just half a year ago, you said I was a traitor. You were a little girl. You pushed Tang Aiguo to give my house to your son and to marry me off. As a result, my mother didn't go to the border town with me and got into a car accident. You're a murderer. You haven't forgotten it, have you?"
Uncle Tang slapped his thigh and said, "Yuanyuan, I was confused. It's true that I wanted that house, but I really didn't kill your mother. I didn't ask your father to lock your mother up, and I didn't even know you were going out."
Tang Yuanyuan didn't believe any of the Tang family's nonsense.
"Get your things and get out of here."
Uncle Tang said, "Yuanyuan, I don't expect you to believe me. Anyway, this is just a token of my appreciation. I'm leaving now."
Tang Yuanyuan didn't want Uncle Tang's things at all, so she threw them on the side of the road, and they were soon picked up by a cleaner.
Tang Yuanyuan didn't know what Uncle Tang Er was planning. A day later, Uncle Tang San also came and brought gifts and said the same thing.
As usual, Tang Yuanyuan threw her things on the roadside, and they were picked up by a cleaner. But after a while, a fat man came into the store and wanted to buy women's clothes, saying that they were for himself. Tang Yuanyuan became suspicious.
Because the man happened to be driving a truck and parked at the door.
The nephew from her natal family who had once set his sights on Aunt Tang San was a truck driver.
This man said he came to buy clothes, but his eyes kept looking at her. Today, Zhou Li was working with her. Zhou Li was clearly recommending clothes to him, but he always found opportunities to talk to her.
Finally, he even invited her face to face: "That's my truck parked outside. I make a thousand yuan a month. I want to date you and go to the movies with you."
When he said this, Li Mu happened to come over to visit.
He was so angry that he kicked her: "Who do you think you are? You think you can eat swan meat!"
The fat man was caught off guard and squatted on the ground. He reacted and was about to stand up and fight back.
Tang Yuanyuan: "Li Mu, go out and fight."
Li Mu turned around and ran out.
The man got up from the ground and chased after him. He originally saw that Li Mu was much thinner than himself, and thought that he could crush Li Mu to death with his fat body. However, he was fat to begin with, and after becoming a driver, he sat in front of the steering wheel every day, which made him even fatter. Li Mu kicked him several times flexibly.
The man was beaten to tears!
Didn't he just ask? Why did he hit people?
Isn't it okay if he doesn't date this person anymore?
Tang Yuanyuan pressed the door of his truck with her foot: "What's your name?"
Man: “Huh?”
He thought he had no chance, but unexpectedly Tang Yuanyuan really fell in love with him. He said that he had such excellent conditions and a salary of 1,000 yuan a month.
"My name is Lu Hua."
Tang Yuanyuan: "Is Lü Jinhua your aunt?"
"How do you know?"
The man grabbed his hair, his face full of confusion. Didn't he say that he would not let Tang Yuanyuan know about this relationship first, and would date her first and let her fall in love with him first?
Tang Yuanyuan was so angry that she almost laughed, "Second Aunt also arranged for her nephew to date me?"
Lu Hua: "It seems so."
However, Lu Hua and Aunt Tang's nephew lived too far apart, so Lu Hua just heard what Aunt Tang said, asking him to behave well and not miss out on Tang Yuanyuan, a good daughter-in-law.
It’s such a big store, and he also bought a big house in the city!
How much money does this cost?
Tang Yuanyuan probably guessed who it was, because not long after Uncle Tang left yesterday, a man came to the store and also said he wanted to buy clothes for his mother. His face turned red when he talked to her.
Zhou Wei joked yesterday that the man seemed to have taken a fancy to her and had been secretly flirting with her.
Tang Yuanyuan guessed that the other party would come again today. Sure enough, just after Lu Hua left for a while, the man came again, and this time he said he wanted to buy clothes for his sister.
Then, blushing, he also took out a movie ticket for Tang Yuanyuan: "Can you please take us to the movies?"
Tang Yuanyuan doesn't care about shit.
A glass of water was poured on his face and the man was pushed out.
I rode my bike towards Chengchun Alley.
The second room was having lunch when Tang Yuanyuan overturned their table.
"You guys really disgust me. This is what you get for disgusting me."
Tang Yuanyuan smashed the color TV with a stick again, and Uncle Tang and Aunt Tang cried out in pain.
"Yuanyuan, what are you doing? Second uncle has good intentions."
"It's not easy for a woman like you to run a store. You'll have to get married sooner or later. I thought my mother-in-law's nephew is well-educated and has a technical secondary school degree. He can help you run the store. It's too hard for you to study and run the business on your own. I want to find a backer for you so that no one dares to bully you in the future."
He was clearly after her money and her shop, yet he had to make up these high-sounding excuses, and he wasn't even disgusted.
Tang Yuanyuan was so disgusting that I smashed his pot again.
Go to the third room and do the same thing.
When Tang Yuanyuan walked out of Chuncheng Lane, she collided head-on with a bicycle.
"You are that Tang Yuanyuan, right?"
"Director Wang, do you still remember me?"
"It's hard for me not to remember," Director Wang said as he got off his bicycle. "Did you come to me with your mother to ask about setting up a stall to earn tuition?"
"Yes, you have a very good memory. You remember everything."
"I've heard your name a lot recently. I heard you're making good money, opened your own store, and bought a house. You're already a well-known millionaire in this area."
"You're too kind. It's not that exaggerated."
"Alas, what a pity," Director Wang sighed, "Your mother was almost able to enjoy happiness with you. At that time, she even consulted me about divorce."
"My mom asked you about divorce? Who wants a divorce?"
"Of course it's your mother who wants a divorce."
Tang Yuanyuan's heart sank. "When did my mother ask you about divorce? What did she say?"
"I don't remember the exact day, but she had a bandage wrapped around her head and a steamer tied to the back of her bicycle. There were also plastic buckets on either side. There was some mung bean soup left in them, and she gave it to me."
"She asked me how to get a divorce. If I get divorced, will my father no longer be able to control my marriage?"
Her mother is about to divorce Tang Aiguo, so why would she go back home to cook every day?
The father and son never told her that her mother wanted to divorce.
There must be something going on. Tang Aiguo was unable to persuade her mother to give up the idea, so it must be Tang An.
Tang Yuanyuan turned the car around and headed towards the Tang family's old house.
But the gate of the Tang family's courtyard was locked, and Tang Aiguo didn't know where he had gone.
Tang Yuanyuan knew that the father and son had nowhere else to go and would definitely come back, so she found a brick, smashed the lock, and waited in the house.
Tang Aiguo was not at home. Tang An arranged for him to set up a stall in the wholesale market to sell fireworks.
Tang An also set up a stall near the department store to sell fireworks.
Tang Aiguo now only earns 150 yuan a month, and it is often not paid on time. He is so poor that he can only support himself.
He just didn't believe that Tang Yuanyuan could make enough money to open a store by selling jelly, so he believed that he could do it too. Before the New Year, he went to his second and third uncles' houses and borrowed a hundred yuan with his eloquence. He bought some fireworks and hadn't sold them all yet, so he had to continue selling them for the next few days.
Chu Bing tugged at Yu Fangfang's sleeve: "Fangfang, um, is this the classmate who's pursuing you?"
Tang An left such a deep impression on her that she recognized him at first sight.
Yu Fangfang is playing with her pigtails, it's true.
Her playful mood was instantly aroused.
"Hey, Tang An, you didn't come to play with me during the winter vacation. Did you forget about me?"
Tang An got up from his chair and gave the only small stool to Yu Fangfang, smiling mysteriously: "You sit down first and wait for me."
As he said that, he went to the snack stand next to him and bought two pieces of plum cakes.
He gave it to Yu Fangfang like a treasure: "I made a lot of money selling fireworks during the New Year, more than ten yuan. Fangfang, what else do you want to eat? I'll buy it for you."
To prove that he had earned money, he took out a handful of money from his pocket, a few cents or two, and a few cents scattered around.
Because of the wind and sun, his originally fair face became hard and rough, his mouth was cracked by the cold wind, and there were several obvious chilblains on his hands.
Yu Fangfang was stunned for a moment, then took the plum cake with a strange expression, licked it casually, and threw it away unhappily: "It's awful, not tasty at all."
Tang An picked up the plum cake from the ground, peeled off the dusty part, and ate it himself: "Such a good thing cannot be wasted."
Then, he handed another clean plum cake to Chu Bing: "Student Chu Bing, you eat it."
Chu Bing thought he had forgotten her, but she didn't expect that he even remembered her name.
He gave himself a clean one.
My heart trembled uncontrollably.
"No, eat it yourself."
Tang An stuffed the plum blossom cake into her palm and said, "Eat it. It's sweet and delicious."
Tang An turned his gaze and looked at Yu Fangfang: "Fangfang, what else do you want to eat? I'll go buy it for you."
Yu Fangfang: "Aren't you disgusting? You eat everything that falls on the ground."
Tang An said lovingly, "You are the eldest daughter. I am different from you. My mother hates people wasting food the most. She taught me to save food and not waste it since I was a child."
“It’s really delicious.”
"You like soda, I'll go buy you some."
The plum blossom cakes in Yucheng are considered a local specialty. The iron plate mold is shaped into the shape of petals, and the rice paste is sprinkled with red and green icing sugar for decoration. The cakes look like plum blossoms and cost 50 cents each. Two cakes make up a cake.
Soda cost 50 cents a bottle, and he bought two bottles without blinking an eye. He also bought a rice soaking bucket, popcorn, and fried food, spending more than six yuan in total.
Half of the hard-earned money from selling fireworks is gone.
"Fangfang, I bought them all. Which one do you want to eat?"
A pile of snacks, held in his arms, the chilblains caused by the cold wind were revealing a bit of dry and cracked flesh.
Yu Fangfang swallowed her saliva and said, "Your hands are dirty and ugly. I have no appetite at all. I don't want to eat your broken things. I want to go home and eat cake."
"Xiaobing, let's go home. I want to go home and watch TV."
Chu Bing was pinching the plum blossom cake, looking back every few steps, and saw Tang An holding those snacks, he looked more lonely than the cold wind.
How could Fangfang bear to let down such a devoted boy?
The two sisters got into the car. Tang An stuffed the rice soaking bucket into his mouth, his eyes slightly narrowed, with a firm belief that he would win.
Fight him!
Too tender.
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