"Table number ten, serve the food."
Chu Jingqiu and Qian Yunyun hurriedly got up and brought their meals over, and they ate while chatting.
"Yunyun, when do you think your mother became so strong? Maybe something stimulated her to become like this." Chu Jingqiu picked up a chicken nugget for Qian Yunyun and asked tentatively.
"It seems to have started since I became pregnant with Qian Xiaobao! I was still young at that time and don't remember it clearly. My mother can get whatever she wants at home. She can't stand any stimulation." Qian Yunyun said dissatisfiedly.
He picked up a piece of meat and bit it hard, as if venting his dissatisfaction.
"Your mother often goes out to purchase goods, and you don't see her very often. If you ask her to change her job, maybe you will have more time to communicate."
"When we were young, my mother was a cashier at the supply and marketing cooperative and didn't have to go out to buy goods. Later, when I started primary school, she asked to be a buyer herself. She said she liked traveling all over the country to see different scenery.
She only rested for a few months when she was about to give birth to Qian Xiaobao, and a few months after giving birth to Qian Xiaobao, she went out to purchase things again.
In her eyes, there is only Qian Xiaobao and her work. Last time I was kidnapped by human traffickers, she was still out shopping, and my dad couldn't find her.
"Then when did your mother come back? She must have been very anxious when she knew you were kidnapped." Chu Jingqiu's eyes lit up and he asked a key question directly.
"She hadn't come back on the day I was rescued. She came back in the middle of the night and said that she heard from others that something happened to me, so she came back overnight. Even after she came back, she didn't seem to be worried about me at all. Humph!" Qian Yunyun pouted, very dissatisfied.
After Chu Jingqiu got the answer she wanted, she comforted Qian Yunyun with a few words and then changed the subject. The two girls chatted happily, and from time to time there were a few silver bell-like laughter.
Lin Zishan, who was at the educated youth point, couldn't smile at all at this time. Her mother refused to leave and used both soft and hard methods to force her to marry the butcher.
She had been thinking about how to solve this problem when she went to work in the morning. She didn't know how to get rid of her mother. She went to find Hu Mingyue, but Hu Mingyue didn't know how to help her out of the predicament.
She thought of someone, Chu Jingqiu. This girl looked smart and capable.
That day in the kitchen, I didn't even make a move before I was knocked down. And these days, I saw her kicking the sandbag, and her movements were as smooth as flowing water, done in one go.
I heard that she was also the child of a high-ranking official. Since she had the ability to help out in the commune, she must have someone backing her up, so she wanted to ask Chu Jingqiu for help.
After she figured out what to do, there was a gleam in her eyes. Mother Lin thought she had figured it out and felt secretly happy.
When Chu Jingqiu was having dinner in the evening, she found that Lin Zishan was staring at her from time to time, which made her feel creepy.
After dinner, she took Shi Aihong and walked out, and Qin Yilan quickly followed.
"Chu Zhiqing, can I talk to you alone?" Lin Zishan asked as she chased after him.
Chu Jingqiu glanced at her and found that her eyes were sincere, full of eagerness and hope.
"You two go sit under the tree over there for a while, and then you come with me!" She gestured for Lin Zishan to follow her to her room.
As soon as she entered the house, Lin Zishan knelt down and said, "Chu Zhiqing, I know you can definitely find a way to help me. I'm really desperate. I hope you can help me."
Chu Jingqiu sighed. To be honest, she felt sorry for the girl, but she had to see if she was worthy of sympathy. People's kindness was not without limits.
"Why do you think I can help you? Why should I help you when you speak ill of me and slander me maliciously?" Chu Jingqiu pulled her up and said sarcastically.
"I did something wrong before. At that time, Qin Yilan and I were in the same cooking group. Qin Yilan always said, intentionally or unintentionally, that her family was not well off.
She said that you and Shi Zhiqing both come from wealthy families, and you both act like young ladies at home. You look down on her, and I am the only one who truly helps her.
I felt that she was as pitiful as I was, so I believed her and stood up for her, spoke up for her, and did more work for her.
Later I realized that you were not what she said, and I regret it. I shouldn't have ridiculed you like that before. I apologize to you."
Lin Zishan bowed deeply to her.
"There is a condition for me to help you. If you agree, I will find a way to help you. If you don't agree, then there is nothing to talk about." Chu Jingqiu stared into Lin Zishan's eyes.
"Tell me, I'll agree to any condition you give me." Lin Zishan didn't hesitate at all, as if she had made up her mind long ago.
"You have to tell me what your mother is threatening you with. I can actually guess what it is."
Lin Zishan nodded and said, "Since I came to see you, I have already made preparations. It's a dead end anyway, so I don't care about anything else.
My father is a coal miner. Our family’s household registration was changed from rural to urban after my father became a regular employee.
My mother doesn't have a formal job. She usually finds a temporary job nearby, and her family can get by.
My life was a bit better back then. Although I did all the housework, I still had enough to eat, enough clothes to wear, and I could go to school like my younger brother. My father would occasionally buy me some food and new clothes.
Later, my father had an accident in the coal mine and was buried underground. After he died, my eldest brother took over my father's job.
At that time, I was in my second year of high school, and my mother asked me to drop out of school and work as a temporary worker in a coal mine. I did the heaviest work, but also ate the worst.
My mother spent all her money on my two younger brothers, and every month I gave her all my salary without a cent.
Later, when she had to go to the countryside, she didn't want her younger brother to suffer, so she asked me to go to the countryside in his place.
You also saw how miserable I was when I went to the countryside. It was no different from being kicked out of the house with nothing.
During my first year in the countryside, I received a monthly allowance for educated youth, so I lived frugally and sent the food and money I saved back home. Sometimes, my mother would ask for extra money, and I had to borrow it.
There is no subsidy this year, and I can only eat half full, so I didn’t send her anything.
Last month, she said she was in the hospital and needed money urgently. After hearing Qin Yilan say that your family is well-off, I had no other choice but to ask you newcomer to borrow money."
"So, you sold our information in exchange for money." Chu Jingqiu asked back.
"That's not the case, that's not the case..." Lin Zishan's face turned pale and she waved her hands repeatedly, "I was also deceived. I didn't mean to harm you."
A few months ago, Yu Huanxiang found me on the way home from work. She said she wanted to be friends with me and felt sorry for my situation. She also gave me ten yuan and ten kilograms of coarse grains.
I didn't want her things, so she said it was mutual help among revolutionary comrades. If I could have Hu Mingyue's bedding, I could have her food.
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