Chapter 12 Ask My Dad for Money
Jiang Hanyan didn't look at the clothes in her hands, picked out a few eye-catching ones, and asked, "How much?"
Xu Dongmei threw the clothes in her hand down in dismay and deliberately raised the price, "Zhao Di, you have a good eye. These clothes are all made of cotton, the material is good, and the price is high. How about this, I will give them all to you at the purchase price, a total of 108 yuan, I will minus the decimal point, you just give me 100 yuan, I didn't make a penny, and I even paid for the transportation fare."
She muttered a few numbers and raised the price of each item by ten dollars.
"I want both."
Jiang Hanyan remained calm as she put away several pieces of clothing. She also took out two pairs of shoes and asked Doudou to try them on. She found the size was a good fit.
"It's one hundred and fifty in total. Zhaodi, your husband has become rich, but you are lucky. If you live a good life, don't forget to help Tianbao. You are brother and sister." Sisters Xu Dongmei and Xu Donghua said the same thing.
Jiang Hanyan put away her clothes and shoes and said coldly, "Ask my father for the money!"
After saying that, she turned around and left. Lu Chen picked up Dou Dou and followed closely behind. Xu Dongmei reacted quickly and chased after him to scold him, but when she met Lu Chen's cold eyes, she was so scared that she didn't dare to say a word. She just watched the family of three walk away in a swagger.
"Shameless, ugh!"
Xu Dongmei spat, went back to record the account, and found that the one hundred and fifty had become one hundred and eighty. She then went back to ask Jiang's father for the money.
Jiang Hanyan got some dried fish for free again. The shop was owned by her uncle, Jiang Tianbao's biological father.
"Ask my father for money."
After Jiang Hanyan finished speaking, she hid behind Lu Chen and pushed him forward. Lu Chen and Uncle Jiang faced each other. Uncle Jiang was a head shorter than Lu Chen, so he had to raise his head when he spoke. Uncle Jiang, who was originally furious, felt a chill on the back of his neck immediately when he saw Lu Chen's cold face.
"I...I asked my brother for money."
Uncle Jiang was scared. There was a rumor that Lu Chen had beaten someone to death, but he didn’t know whether it was true or not. However, he believed it was true, otherwise why would he be sent to prison for the second time?
"Uncle, these dried bamboo shoots are good. I'll buy some."
Jiang Hanyan found something good. Dried bamboo shoots stewed with meat were delicious. She took a few pounds of dried bamboo shoots without hesitation. Together with the dried fish, it cost dozens of dollars. Uncle Jiang was heartbroken, but he didn't dare to say anything. His smile was uglier than crying.
The family of three went home carrying big and small bags. Lu Chen was very satisfied with this trip to the vegetable market. Except for the three yuan and eighty cents for buying vegetables, he didn't spend a penny on anything else. Jiang Hanyan, this woman, was getting more and more in tune with him.
"I can't carry so many things. Please take me and Doudou home first."
Jiang Hanyan asked as a matter of course, and stretched out her hand to let Lu Chen see the red marks on her hand, which were caused by the plastic bag.
"Um."
Lu Chen tied up his things and waited for them to sit down before starting the car. On the way back, Jiang Hanyan's claws were still the same, but Lu Chen found that the throbbing in his heart had mysteriously disappeared.
It was as if these claws should be inserted into his clothes instead of anywhere else.
He shook his head and stopped thinking about all this mess. Based on Jiang Hanyan's excellent performance, he didn't touch a penny of his five thousand yuan. After arriving home, Lu Chen mercifully helped Jiang Hanyan out of the car with both hands.
Lu Chen carried the things into the house and then rode away on his bike.
"Do you want to go home for lunch?" Jiang Hanyan's voice floated out.
"Return!"
Lu Chen turned around and responded. The cold wind blew on his face, but his heart felt warmer.
After grandpa died, no one asked him whether he would come home for dinner anymore.
Lu Chen smiled, quickened his pace, quickly paid the money and went home to eat, as there was so much meat today.
The five thousand yuan was all owed by the village where Jiang Hanyan's mother came from. Lu Chen went door to door to pay back the money. He crossed out the names on the notebook after paying off a sum. The dark yellow paper was filled with names and amounts. The names on the first few pages had been crossed out with a red pen, and there were still several pages left.
Some creditors have passed away, but their children are still alive, and the debts must be repaid. This is what my grandfather instructed.
"Kid, I told you not to return it, come inside and sit down."
The last family was an elderly couple whose children all worked in big cities. The old lady enthusiastically cooked sweet wine glutinous rice cakes for Lu Chen. After Grandpa Lu passed away, she and the old man told Lu Chen that the debt was written off, but they were still happy that Lu Chen could come to pay back the money, and they thought Lu Chen was a good child.
"Eat sweet wine and rice cakes. I heard that you married Jiang Hanyan, a girl from the Jiang family? And you have a baby?" the old lady asked with concern.
"It's a misunderstanding. There is no child."
Lu Chen told the truth, that the old couple were good friends of his grandfather and had helped him a lot over the years, so he couldn't lie.
"Then Jiang Hanyan still lives in your house?"
"Well, she has nowhere to go, so she's staying here for the time being."
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Lu Chen nodded and drank a sip of sweet wine. The old lady put a lot of sugar in it, so it was very sweet and the glutinous rice cake was very soft. Actually, he didn't like sweet and soft things, but this was the old lady's intention, so he ate it all.
"Then you can't bully the girl. Have lunch at home. Old man, go kill the chicken." The old lady said with a smile.
"No, I said I would go home for dinner before I left."
Lu Chen refused, but the old lady smiled and said with relief: "Go home for dinner, take this chicken home to eat."
The old man caught a big, proud rooster and brought it back. The rooster seemed to know that its end was approaching, and it struggled desperately and wanted to peck the old man's hand, but its fate strangled its wings and its efforts were in vain.
"This chicken is very ferocious. The hens are bullied by it and are afraid to lay eggs. Achen, take it home and kill it for food." The old man said with a smile.
"Thank you, Grandpa Zhou and Grandma Zhou."
Lu Chen accepted the kindness of the old couple. The big rooster seemed to have accepted its fate. It drooped its head listlessly and stopped struggling.
"Wait a minute, I'll get you some green vegetable cores. After the first month of the lunar year, green vegetables will core every day. If you don't eat them, they will go bad. You have to buy everything in the city. You have a wife and children now, so you have to save money."
Grandma Zhou carried a basket and went to the vegetable garden, which was right in front of her house, mumbling something. Lu Chen wanted to explain that Jiang Hanyan was not his wife, but the old lady had already walked far away and he couldn't hear what she said.
The old couple picked a full basket of vegetable cores and let Lu Chen take them all away.
"Come and get more after you finish eating. There are plenty of vegetables at home. Don't spend money to buy them." Grandma Zhou looked at Lu Chen kindly. Others said that this child was a bully, which was all bullshit. He was obviously a good child, and those who spread rumors were not afraid of being struck by lightning.
Lu Chen said goodbye to the two elders and rode away on his bike. There were many people in the village, so he couldn't ride fast. After a while, he was stopped by someone. It was Jiang Tianbao.
After losing his beloved dog, Jiang Tianbao lost his appetite and lost three pounds in just a few days. His father was so distressed that he doubled his pocket money. Jiang Tianbao, who had enough money, was in a better mood immediately. He bought a lot of loud firecrackers and set them off on the roadside. When he saw women and children coming, he threw the lit firecrackers at them, scaring the women to scream and the children to cry loudly, but Jiang Tianbao laughed so hard that he fell over.
Seeing someone coming on a motorcycle from afar, Jiang Tianbao came up with a vicious plan. He twisted the fuses of three firecrackers together, lit them, and threw them at Lu Chen, hoping to see the motorcycle flip into the farmland next to it.
(End of this chapter)