Si Yang apologized to the restaurant on behalf of Yang Xiaomai and charged the food she ate to his own bill, and the restaurant gave up.
Si Yang led Yang Xiaomai into her private room and asked her to fill her stomach first.
"Can I...can I really eat this?" Yang Xiaomai looked at the dishes on the table that had hardly been touched, and began to swallow uncontrollably.
Si Yang smiled and pushed her down on the chair. "Xiaomi, we are friends, and they are not outsiders. You don't have to be so reserved. Come and eat!"
Aunt Wu and Qiu Xia both looked at the poor woman, nodded sympathetically, and signaled her not to be polite.
Yang Xiaomai then picked up the chopsticks and started to eat like a whirlwind, which shocked the adults and children at the table.
Yang Xiaomai knew that this was very embarrassing, but she hadn't eaten for almost three days. Compared with life and death, what was face?
"Eat slowly. If it's not enough, I'll order more for you..." Seeing how she was wolfing down her food, Si Yang handed her another glass of water.
Yang Xiaomai looked at Si Yang's concerned eyes, suddenly put down her chopsticks, and lay on the table, crying loudly.
Si Yang patted her back and asked softly, "Xiaomi, what happened? How did you end up like this?"
After swallowing the food in her mouth, Yang Xiaomai wiped her tears with the back of her hand. Then she looked at Si Yang and pleaded anxiously, "Huanhuan, I'm actually here to find you. Please, for the sake of our childhood friendship, save my brother, okay?"
A young boy's youthful and handsome face suddenly appeared in Si Yang's mind. He stood in the backlight and handed a piece of rock candy to the twelve-year-old girl with his coal-dust hands.
That was the first time she had eaten candy since she could remember.
"After eating sugar, life becomes sweeter and sweeter."
For a moment, Si Yang couldn't tell whether the girl was the original owner or herself.
But the smile that bloomed from his gray face was so clean and pure that it dispelled the haze of her entire childhood.
Si Yang's heart tightened, "What happened to Yang Feng?"
Yang Xiaomai couldn't wipe away her tears, but she still choked up and told Si Yang about what they had experienced over the years.
They will be taken away by their remarried father, not because his father has a change of heart, but because of external pressure.
After his father remarried, he had another pair of children with his stepmother very early on, so naturally he didn't care about the brother and sister.
The stepmother disliked them in every way and beat and scolded them all day long. All the housework in the house was done by the brother and sister, but they were not even qualified to sit at the table for meals.
In order to save money, they did not send the brother and sister to school and forced Yang Feng, who was less than 18 years old, to work as a coal miner in a coal mine.
When Yang Xiaomai was less than seventeen years old, her stepmother persuaded her father to marry her to a lame carpenter.
Yang Feng couldn't stand it any longer, so he decisively took Yang Xiaomai away from that house.
It has to be said that Yang Feng is a capable person. He has a strong learning ability, is hardworking and has a great talent for mechanical and electrical maintenance in mines.
Not only did he quickly become a regular employee of the coal mine, but after participating in several training sessions, he passed the examination to become an electromechanical technician within two years.
The factory allocated him a house and his monthly salary subsidy was also very generous.
He thought his life would get better and better, but a mining accident broke one of his legs.
When Yang Xiaomai was taking care of Yang Feng who had just finished his first surgery in the hospital, his father, who had not appeared for two years, showed up in the hospital with his stepmother.
It turned out that my father, who worked in a machinery factory, had caused huge losses to the factory due to serious mistakes at work. He was fired on the spot by the factory director and his housing in the factory was also confiscated.
When they were at their wit's end, they heard that Yang Feng was working as a technician in a mine and could earn eighty or ninety yuan a month, so they came looking for him.
Father Yang Dagang acted like an elder and asked Yang Feng to give up the job in the mine to his half-brother. He also said that he was the one who found this job for Yang Feng. He asked Yang Feng to pay money so that his half-brother could take the exam immediately.
The positions in the factory are all filled to the required positions, and one person has to quit before another can take over.
At first, Yang Dagang only wanted to have one less person eating for free at home, so he asked someone to use his connections to send Yang Feng to the coal mine as a temporary laborer. However, he didn't expect that Yang Feng would be so promising and become a regular worker and a technician in such a short time.
The stepmother took the opportunity to instigate, saying that Yang Feng's broken leg would not heal even if it was reconnected, and it would be a waste of money to stay in the hospital. It would be better for the factory to convert the money paid to the hospital into cash for them.
Yang Dagang thought it made sense, and while Yang Feng was unable to move and Yang Xiaomai could not do anything to them, he forcibly took Yang Feng out of the hospital.
Their family took over Yang Feng's house and savings, and drove out Yang Feng and Yang Xiaomai, who still needed a second operation.
Yang Xiaomai wanted to go to the factory to report to the leader, but he couldn't even get through the gate. It turned out that Yang Dagang and others had paid money to make a greeting in advance.
In order to prevent Yang Xiaomai from filing a complaint, they planned to kidnap her and marry her off. After Yang Xiaomai escaped halfway, she remembered to come to Yangcheng to find Si Yang.
A few years ago, after they read the Qin family and Si Yang's announcement of severing their relationship in the newspaper, the brother and sister had planned to come find her, but after asking around, they found out that Si Yang was living a good life, at least much better than them.
So they just kept an eye on Si Yang secretly and had no intention of disturbing him.
This time Yang Xiaomai was really at her wit's end. If Yang Feng's leg didn't get timely treatment, he would be a cripple for the rest of his life.
She knelt down and was about to kowtow to Si Yang, "Huanhuan, just because my brother once protected you, can you help him, save him? He's such a proud man, if he becomes a cripple, he won't be able to survive."
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