After sending Gou Chengxuan away, Hao Yuanchen was packing up the things on the table. When the straw curtain was raised, the girl from next door came in again - giving away today's dinner. 【Read the latest chapter】
Hao Yuan lives alone, so he naturally doesn't cook. Fortunately, the girl next door sells snacks and has convenient water and fire, so he provides them with three meals a day, which is a small luxury.
The girl smiled and said: "Uncle Hao is doing something big again. Let's eat first."
As he spoke, he placed the tray on the table, which contained two bowls of food and a small rice pail. Steaming hot.
The dish was a bowl of vegetables and a saltwater shrimp - probably fished from the Qiantang River.
Although Hao Yuan is diligent and frugal, he is by no means too mean when it comes to eating. He has one meal and one dish for every meal, and he also supplements with aquatic products every now and then. It’s a pretty good meal in Nanxiawa.
"I don't have any big career," Hao Yuan said with a smile.
"Don't lie to me. Do you really think I'm a child?" The girl's shaved scalp to treat tinea capitis already has short stubble, but the stubble is short and sparse in a few places.
"I never regarded you as a child." Hao Yuan smiled and sat down. The girl opened the rice pail and helped him fill a bowl of rice.
"Uncle Hao, my mother said, why don't you order a small amount of rice every day from now on, and there will be half of it left for every meal." The girl said.
"It's not wasted."
"That's why my mother asked you to ask for a small amount of rice because you don't want to waste it. You've already paid for being a waiter at my house, so how can you justify taking advantage of the leftover rice?"
"Isn't it natural for the boss to take advantage of this?" Hao Yuan was minding his own meal.
"Taking advantage of you makes my whole family feel uneasy." The girl said. "Everyone in Nanxiawa is taking advantage of you. If our family takes advantage of you again, we will be struck by lightning."
"Such serious words." Hao Yuan smiled, picked up a shrimp and put it in his mouth, "Your mother is really good at making fish and shrimp!"
"Homely cooking." The little girl held her chin and watched Hao Yuan wolfing down his meal. "Uncle Hao, you really don't look like a rich man..."
"When did Uncle Hao say he was a rich man?"
"Never mind this, you said you were going to get me a new name."
The little girl was like all girls from poor families at that time. She doesn't have a name. Her family name is Jia. She is the third eldest child, so she is usually called Sanniang. Hao Yuan recently gave scientific names to the children studying here one by one.
"Just call your name Jia Le." Hao Yuan said. "Changle is the county commander of your Jia family. If you choose the word Le, you will be happy and happy." He said, dipping in the water in the teacup. Write the word "Jia Le" on the table.
"Great. Thank you, Uncle Hao!" Jia Le clapped her hands happily. She tilted her head and looked at the two words on the table: "These two words are so unfamiliar..."
"You practice it ten times a day, and you won't be unfamiliar with it after practicing for a month."
"Okay! I will definitely practice my name!"
"Do your parents agree to what Uncle Hao told you last time?"
"I originally wanted to tell you: Mom and dad are nothing. Uncle Hao saved our whole family. Now that I am sent to do such a small thing, I will definitely do my best. Besides, eating for free after I go in doesn't count. Here's the money. I heard there's a lot of money and food in the villa."
"Haha, that's what I said." Hao Yuan stopped his bowl and chopsticks. "But the Villa is not a kind place. Once you enter, you will take risks. It is just like being in prison. You will get blamed easily, and you will inevitably be beaten and punished frequently."
"I'm not afraid of this - it's not that expensive, and I don't care if I get beaten or angry. We are not enjoying happiness outside. Besides, this is for you, Uncle Hao."
Hao Yuan laughed. Jia Le probably felt that what he said was inappropriate. His face suddenly turned red and he said coyly, "I know, Uncle Hao, you told me that this is not for anyone, but for everyone."
"That's right." Hao Yuan said, "I know that you and your parents are willing to go because of my benefits. But do you still remember what I told you?"
"Remember." Jia Le thought for a while, "Don't talk about personal grudges, do things for the poor, and vent your anger for the poor."
"Since you are going to the villa, I might as well tell you clearly that when you go to work for Uncle Hao this time, you are venting your anger on the people of Hangzhou and the people in Nanxiawa - do you still remember what Uncle Hao told you? :Why did Zeng Aqing’s family who lived behind them commit suicide?”
"Remember." Jia Le's face was solemn, and her eye circles were slightly red. After the accident, she also ran to see the excitement. When the Zeng family's little boy who had been chasing her and calling his sister to play was carried out, she ran home. Go cry loudly, "Because the price of silk has dropped - Mr. Zhao is the one causing trouble."
"Mr. Zhao did not hesitate to harm tens of millions of people for his own benefit. There is only one Zeng Aqing in Nanxiawa, but after leaving Nanxiawa, I don't know how many people have lost their lives." Hao Yuan said seriously, "We want to give them Seek justice."
"Uncle Hao, I understand!" Jia Le nodded solemnly, "I will do whatever you want me to do. Even though I am a girl, I will never be weak in a critical moment."
"I don't want you to do anything now. All you have to do is sneak into Phoenix Villa first. I will send someone to tell you what will happen next." He stood up as he said this, walked to the door and listened outside, then returned At the table, he lowered his voice and said, "Listen carefully..."
Since Xihua was beaten, he has been unable to move for a while and can only rest in bed. The next day, several people came to visit one after another, some of whom had a good relationship with her on weekdays, and some of whom were Yanhe and others because of their friendship as classmates. Xihua followed Zhao Yingong's instructions, keeping a straight face and saying little, looking heartbroken. People who came to see her knew that she was always proud and did not care about anything.
Huang Xiang came to see her only in the evening of the next day - she was in a humble position and did not dare to take the lead. Seeing Xihua lying on the bed, he shed tears unconsciously and put the basket he brought with him on the table.
"Miss Xihua, you have suffered." She said something, which probably touched her own feelings. Tears couldn't stop pouring out, and she couldn't say a word of the following words.
"It's Sister-in-law Huang, please sit down." Xihua saw that all the acquaintances had come all day long, but not a single one of them had spoken, and he was secretly anxious. Seeing that someone with whom he usually had a normal relationship finally came, Xihua couldn't help but feel refreshed. Vibrate. She was very conscientious in her work. She took medicine yesterday and her body was no longer in pain. Now she looked like she was in pain again.
"I was the one who got you into trouble yesterday, causing you to be punished by Qian Mi for a month..."
"You must never be said like that." Huang Xiang said, wiping her tears, "We suffered in the silk reeling factory, and this is the first time we have suffered in the villa. Except for you, Miss Xihua, there is no other person who has suffered The boss is speaking for us, just for this reason. Not to mention being deprived of a month’s money, I am willing to get sixty bucks for you."
She wiped the corners of her eyes with her sleeves and took out a few items from the basket: "These were bought jointly by the female workers in our factory. They are not good items - nothing good can come out of them."
"I know that you all came from a poor family and the silk reeling factory paid you a lot of money. How can I accept your things? Absolutely not."
"If you don't accept it, we will feel even more sorry." Huang Xiang said, "Yesterday, Butler Cai already said that the factory will be changed to three shifts, and each shift will work two hours less. Everyone said it was Miss Xihua who worked hard. You are our benefactor..."
She rambled on and said many words of gratitude, but Xihua's mood was very complicated: she spoke for the female workers in the silk reeling factory out of righteous indignation, and she did not expect that they would be so grateful for it.
Although she declined repeatedly, she still couldn't resist Huang Xiang's persistence and had to accept the things.
Seeing that she had accepted the things, Huang Xiang suggested that she had a local distant relative who was living a difficult life and planned to let her daughter work as an errand in the villa. Because the children are young and unwilling to sell themselves, according to the rules of the villa, those who don't sell themselves are considered hired workers, and they can only work as handymen or something like that in Cihui Hall, running errands. So I want to ask Xihua for help and find a place where I can learn something.
Xihua was shocked and wondered, could this Huang Xiang be a traitor? !
Her expression changed slightly, and Huang Xiang had already noticed it. She forced a smile and said: "I also know that this matter is difficult to handle..."
"It's not difficult to handle." Xihua had already figured out that anyone could be a traitor at the moment, and only by letting nature take its course could he pull out the fox's tail. At that moment, she smiled bitterly and said, "Sister-in-law Huang, I am still waiting for punishment. I don't know how the master will feel after I can get up. If you still stay as the original errand, then the girl will be transferred to me as a handyman in the school. Follow me. I can at least learn to recognize a few words, and learn some skills as a prostitute."
Huang Xiang was overjoyed to be blessed: "I can't tell you what I'm doing to you! You'll definitely be the same after you get better."
Xihua asked: "What's that girl's name?"
"To the girl: Her surname is Jia, Xingsan. Just call her Xiaosanniang."
Huang Xiang returned to the lower part of the dormitory. She had a man, so she was assigned a separate room in the villa. In the room, a woman was waiting for her. The woman waiting for her is Wang Ronger, a servant girl in the villa.
"Sister-in-law Huang, how are you?" Seeing Huang Xianglai, she asked eagerly.
"It's all ready." Huang Xiang picked up the sand teapot on the table, poured a full bowl of coarse tea, and drank it. "Miss Xihua promised to transfer your niece to her academy. .”
"Thank you so much!" Wang Ronger beamed with joy. He took out a few circulation coupons from his waist and stuffed them into Tai's hand. "Sister-in-law Huang is very capable."
"It's thanks to Miss Xihua!" Huang Xiang "smiledly accepted" a few circulation coupons, thinking that although she was deducted a month of money this time, in the end the master reduced the working hours of the silk factory, and Miss Xihua also Looking at yourself in a different light can be called a blessing in disguise. (To be continued...)
