Wang Li returned to the hotel entrance.
"Auntie, Auntie is back, come and have dinner." Han Ya pulled Wang Li into the restaurant.
Wang Li rushed back to the room with a large bag of cotton coats and trousers, ready to help a few people.
I bought blue cotton jackets and black cotton trousers for the Liu family and Sanniu's family. I bought yellow cotton jackets with red background and pink flowers for Han Ya and Sanniu's daughter. I bought grey cotton jackets and black cotton trousers for Sanniu and his son. I bought a long cotton coat and a blue robe for Liu's son. He kept muttering on the way that he wanted to wear a robe so he could look more stylish.
Wang Li was very confused. Why were they not happy after buying clothes? She was tired after a day and didn't take care of them.
Eat quickly after breakfast. In restaurants, you can order food and have it delivered to your room. Wang Li didn't bring breakfast with her, so she ordered a bowl of stew and a steamed bun for each person, and asked them to eat them while breakfast was served. She had her own food delivered to her room.
Wang Li thought, her mother should think about how to bring these people to Shanghai so that they can be taken care of on the way. She should sell the house tomorrow, buy some food for the journey, and find the hotel manager to see if he can help buy tickets.
After dinner, everyone went to Wang Li's room, and Liu's family and Wang Li were crying.
"Master, young master, my old man is dead, how can I live?"
"I heard from the clerk at the grocery store that on the day when the eldest young master's son was one month old, someone betrayed and informed on him, saying that the young master was a member of the Party."
"The puppet army wanted to capture the young master, but the young master was not at home, so they took away the eldest young master and the old master. My old man tried to stop them and argued with them, but was beaten to death on the spot by the puppet army.
"The puppet army leader occupied the eldest young master's house and bullied the eldest young mistress. The eldest young mistress was so angry that she committed suicide afterwards."
The two women cried bitterly, and Liu's wife said that she didn't know where her husband was thrown by the puppet army.
Wang Li looked at the two of them and said, "Stop crying. No one recognizes us now. If others hear your crying and someone puts a hat on us, we will die."
Wang Li took a sip of water and continued, “There’s nothing we can do. We are just ordinary people and we can’t defeat those people.”
"Let's go, walk farther away, so that others won't recognize us. Think about it tonight. Tomorrow I'll talk to the hotel kitchen and see if we can rent their kitchen to steam the rice and fry the cornmeal with oil, or make steamed pancakes. I'll have work tomorrow morning. When you're done, buy some things you need for the trip. Prepare them whether you're leaving or not. Don't bring anything you don't need. See if you can sell any things you don't need. If you bring too many things on the train, you'll have nowhere to put them."
After the discussion, they went back to their homes to sleep.
The next day, Wang Li gave the kitchen a silver dollar and asked the women to stay at home to cook. She also left a white bucket in the room for them to boil water and drink on the way.
Wang Li walked out of the hotel, hailed a rickshaw, and went to Qiaotou Street. There were people nearby who specialized in selling houses. They would sell houses at a price much lower than the market price. As long as you had a title deed, you could sell it. Those house dealers would buy it for you.
After returning to the hotel, Wang Li found Sanniu and said, "Are you going to come with me, or stay here, or go back to the village? I heard your wife keep saying that she wants to go back to the village. You should think about it yourself. Don't blame me when you decide. I am also considering our fellow villagers.
Sanniu thought about it and decided to leave: "Let's go. I don't know anyone here. I can still make a living by following my wife."
"Well, check out the tickets with me first. You won't feel at ease if you don't buy them yourself."
"Let's go," the two of them walked out together. Wang Li went to find the hotel manager, Young Master Wang. Wang Li was a woman, so she wanted Sanniu to follow her to give her courage.
Here, Liu's family didn't want to leave, they wanted to find their old man and bury him. Yiyi was sad there, her son wanted to go to a big city with her, and the children of Sanniu's family also wanted to go out with her.
Someone from Sanniu's family murmured, "We might as well go back to the village. We don't know anyone here." Several people talked while working.
When Wang Li came back, they had cooked the food and boiled water, and put them all in a big bucket. Everyone was very careful, and no one noticed where the white bucket came from.
After dinner, everyone sat in Wang Li's room. In the end, they decided to follow Wang Li. Sanniu's wife was a little unhappy.
Wang Li looked at her and said, "Don't be unhappy. It costs me more money to bring you with me. The money we spent on the way, the hotel stay, and the clothes and tickets I bought for you all cost money. Which landlord would spend money on his tenants like this? Don't be ungrateful. I just feel that we are the only few of us in the village, so I cherish the friendship we have spent together." So she decided to leave tomorrow morning.
The next day, Wang Li got up at dawn. The two children of Sanniu's family said excitedly that they were going to take the train. Sanniu's wife grumbled and kept saying that she didn't want to go out of town for fear of not seeing her father and mother. The Liu family was also dragging their feet and didn't want to leave.
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