"Why are you so straightforward?" Zhou Qiaoqiao looked at her with a smile.
"Sister Zhou, my mother taught me since I was a child to be a person who repays kindness."
When Zhou Qiaoqiao heard Tian Xiaolan say that she would repay kindness, she felt a strange feeling in her heart.
She couldn't help but think of those people who sent bundles of vegetables to express their gratitude after being cured when they worked in the hospital. When she met Tian Xiaolan who expressed her gratitude at home, she inexplicably thought of the Snail Girl.
Zhou Qiaoqiao smiled and asked Tian Xiaolan to sit down, then asked softly, "Do you also know which store will sell it tomorrow?"
Tian Xiaolan nodded vigorously and said, "Yes, Wei Wenjie told me. I wanted to come and see it today."
After hearing this, Zhou Qiaoqiao roughly understood her purpose. Tian Xiaolan had said before that she wanted to borrow money. After she left, Zhou Qiaoqiao went to get the money and kept it in the closet waiting for her to come.
At this moment, Tian Xiaolan came. Zhou Qiaoqiao asked her if she had eaten, and then stood up and walked towards the room to get money.
Tian Xiaolan quickly said that she had already eaten and there was no need to bother.
After a while, Zhou Qiaoqiao came out with the money. She handed it to Tian Xiaolan, held her hand, and said gently, "You can pay it back slowly. We are not in a hurry."
Tian Xiaolan looked at her and said firmly, "I will definitely pay it back." She counted and found that there was a full eight hundred yuan, two hundred more than she said. She knew in her heart that Zhou Qiaoqiao really believed in her, otherwise why would she lend her so much.
"Sister Zhou, you gave me everything, what are your family going to spend it on?"
Zhou Qiaoqiao said, "Don't worry, we'll be getting paid soon, and your brother Shi and I both eat at work, so we don't spend much money normally."
Zhou Qiaoqiao sat on a stool at home, slightly tilting her head to glance at the dark night outside the window.
She turned her head, her eyes fell on Tian Xiaolan opposite, and asked with concern: "Where are you sleeping tonight? It's so late now, why don't you sleep at my house?"
After hearing this, Tian Xiaolan showed a hint of hesitation on her face. She felt that living at Zhou Qiaoqiao's house was indeed a good choice. Now was a special period, and if someone saw her, it would give people something to talk about, which would also be disadvantageous to Zhou Qiaoqiao. After thinking for a moment, she shook her head gently and said, "Let's live at Wei Wenjie's house."
Seeing that she had made up her mind, Zhou Qiaoqiao stopped trying to persuade her.
The living room fell into a brief silence, with only the clock on the wall ticking.
Zhou Qiaoqiao pursed her lips slightly, then stood up, walked to the window, and looked at the darkness outside. She thought of Tian Xiaolan's persistence and understood her concerns. In this small town, their discussions would never stop.
Those people before wanted to ruin their family's Lao Shi just because of a job. They didn't care about the friendship between coworkers for so many years when it came to interests. If it weren't for Tian Xiaolan, their family might have really been ruined.
So she didn't hesitate to take out the money to help Tian Xiaolan. After all, she saved their family.
Tian Xiaolan sat on the sofa with her hands clasped together. She could hear her concern in her words and felt a little touched.
She raised her head and looked at Zhou Qiaoqiao's back as she stood by the window. Her slender figure seemed to be coated with a faint halo in the afterglow of the sunset.
After a while, Zhou Qiaoqiao turned around with a faint smile on her face. She walked to Tian Xiaolan and said softly, "Then be careful. If anything happens, call me at any time."
Tian Xiaolan nodded and said, "Thank you, Sister Zhou, I will definitely pay you back."
Zhou Qiaoqiao patted her shoulder and said, "Don't worry, we are friends, and it's only natural for us to help each other."
As time went by, Zhou Qiaoqiao reminded her to be careful of those people, as they might use some shady tricks.
She immediately thought of the few people who came to surround her and Wei Wenjie, as if she had known in advance which path they were going to take.
While chatting on the way here, Wei Wenjie also said that it was usually popular for them to hit people with clubs at this late hour, but no one usually walked on this road, so those gangsters seldom came here, and they happened to run into them. After Sister Zhou reminded her, she felt that this was not arranged and she didn't believe it.
"I'll pay attention."
After saying that, he stood up and prepared to leave, pulling Wei Wenjie who wanted to talk away. Even if he said something now, it would not change anything. Those hooligans must have been doing that for a long time. They were probably underage and difficult to discipline, so they were fearless.
Zhou Qiaoqiao walked her to the door, watched her back gradually disappearing, and silently wished that she could take over the store in one fell swoop tomorrow.
Wei Wenjie stopped walking after they were far away, and asked Tian Xiaolan in a depressed tone, "Why didn't you tell her?"
"We are not hurt. We told them that they might just be being taught a lesson. Don't worry, they will definitely be taught a lesson." Tian Xiaolan comforted him and decided to meet them again while asking about the places where they often went.
Since those thugs were hired by the people who wanted to buy the hotel, they will definitely cause trouble again. It would be better to have a good talk with them later.
Wei Wenjie was a little worried but still answered her question, "They're operating on the edge of the city. Don't go looking for them alone. There are a lot of them. Forget it."
Tian Xiaolan knew that he meant well, so she didn't say anything that would keep him awake. She just said "hmm".
I continued to go back to his home with him, washed up and went to bed.
When he went to sleep, he saw that there was only one bed in the attic of his house. Wei Wenjie said modestly: "You sleep on it. It's softer."
Tian Xiaolan didn't want to sleep upstairs, she had to go out in the middle of the night. She found that she always went out in the middle of the night after coming here, and she was almost becoming a night owl.
Tian Xiaolan said as she pushed Wei Wenjie to the stairs: "No, you go to sleep. Your dad finally went out. He ran around with me all day today. You've worked hard. Go!"
Unable to persuade Tian Xiaolan to insist on sleeping on the bottom, Wei Wenjie had to compromise: "It's okay for me to sleep on the top. Let me help you make the bed. And be careful when you go to the toilet at night. We have a spittoon here. If you don't like it, there is a toilet outside. Just be sure to call me when you go to the toilet. Don't go alone!"
When Tian Xiaolan heard his instructions, she felt that he was like an old woman who was worried about her, "You lay the bed!"
Wei Wenjie moved out a few benches that were originally used to store things, wiped the dust off them with a towel, and then put several of them together to form a 30-centimeter small bed. It was suitable for sleeping, but you couldn't turn over. He was a little worried that Tian Xiaolan would fall down while sleeping at night.
Tian Xiaolan didn't know what Wei Wenjie was thinking, so she tried to sit down, but it was still a bit hard. Lying down was fine, but the back of her head hurt a little after sleeping for a long time.
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