Chapter 4: Helping Brothers?
While Li Amei went to the toilet, Lin Zhifeng went back to the bedroom to bolt the door, got under the bed and opened the floor tiles that had long been loose.
There were 1,460 yuan of banknotes in it, and in the hot summer, Xie Zhaodi was only willing to spend forty yuan in salary.
Among them, twenty yuan was to buy heat stroke medicine, and the other twenty yuan was to quietly eat popsicles four times with Xie Laidi.
In the memory of the original owner, the picture of summer and popsicles is hazy and beautiful.
The sisters sat in the newly built park, their hands covered in slimy sugar water, and several bees, and they looked at each other and laughed as they ran away with popsicles.
"Are popsicles so delicious?" Lin Zhifeng was very curious and planned to try them himself.
For the sake of safety, she took out all the money and put it into the system, and the things of the two sisters of the Xie family were remembered, and sooner or later they would be picked up without asking, and it was not safe to hide anywhere.
When she got out from under the bed, there was the sound of flushing water in the toilet, and she quickly opened the door and walked out casually.
"Dead Nizi is lazy again!" Li Amei glanced at her fiercely, and urged in a deep voice, "Hurry up and send the food to your father, don't delay on the way, come back early and brush the pots and pans." ”
Lin Zhifeng didn't even bother to give her extra looks, and when she returned to the kitchen, Xie Laidi had already covered the thermos bucket, and the porridge and dishes left for Li Amei and Xie Guibao were also properly prepared.
The two sisters took their hands downstairs and walked out of the unit door, Lin Zhifeng muttered a little strangely: "Why doesn't she go to see her baby son......"
Xie Laidi was surprised by the boldness of her sister's tone, but she felt funny in her heart, and there was a kind of pleasure in whispering bad things about her grandmother behind her back.
She pulled her hand out of Lin Zhifeng's hand and said in sign language: "You forgot, the community sent warmth today." ”
Lin Zhifeng was stunned, she really forgot about this stubble.
At the end of each odd-numbered month, the community sends red envelopes and daily necessities, sometimes cooking oil, sometimes rice, to families in need. The red envelopes are distributed according to the number of the old, weak, sick and disabled, two hundred per person.
Li Amei, the oldest member of the Xie family, is only 55 years old, and she is strong and strong, and cannot receive benefits. The conditions of weakness and illness are very harsh, and families except for terminally ill patients cannot receive it.
The only eligible person in the Xie family is Xie Laidi, but every time she distributes benefits, she herself will be spent under various excuses.
This new benefit has just been implemented for two years, and counting this month, Xie Laidi should receive 2,600 yuan. Obviously, she can't even see two yuan and six cents, and she has to work part-time to subsidize the family from time to time.
"Sooner or later let them spit out. Lin Zhifeng muttered in a low voice, pulling Xie Laidi to walk towards the Hekang Pharmacy at the corner of the street.
Xie Laidi saw it, and hurriedly used sign language to let her go to a cheap clinic, chain pharmacies are always more expensive than clinics, no matter how small the mosquito legs are, they are meat, she has always felt sorry for her sister's money.
Lin Zhifeng touched her head with a smile, that smile, no matter how you look at it, it seems to have bad intentions. "Hehe, sometimes spending a little more money can have unexpected benefits. ”
Xie Laidi's eyes widened wide, and her little head was full of confusion, but she was used to being obedient and let her sister lead her forward.
The window of Hekangda Pharmacy was bright, and there were two middle-aged women chatting at the counter of Chinese medicine, one of whom was a curly-haired woman with a red face, gossiping about a quarrel with a colleague and a neighbor.
"Aunt Bao!" Lin Zhifeng went straight to the curly-haired woman as soon as he entered the store, and his eyes flashed with the same light as seeing his relatives.
Aunt Bao turned her head and saw that it was the two girls of the Xie family, and her eyes immediately released a light that was more enthusiastic than Lin Zhifeng.
"Zhao Di Laidi, don't drink water, my aunt will pour you some. ”
Aunt Bao'er's enthusiasm is not directed at people, but at the gossip behind people.
The Xie family is not close to the neighbors, and she usually does not come to the pharmacy, she has long been curious about the family, but unfortunately she has not been able to inquire about any news.
The sisters of the Xie family sent her to the door as a source of gossip, how can she do it if she is not enthusiastic?
Aunt Bao poured two cups of hot water, took Lin Zhifeng's hand across the counter, frowned and pretended to reprimand with a serious face: "You kid eat more meat, don't learn from others to lose weight, you know?"
She looked at it again, ouch, Laidi, this girl has a big red handprint on her face, look at the shape of this palm, the strength of this fight, yes, it must be Li Amei's hand!
"Come on, what's going on? Why is this little face like this!"
Aunt Bao'er's screams attracted the attention of her colleagues and several guests.
"This man is really ruthless!" she shouted, and took out an open ointment from the drawer, and dipped a cotton swab in a thin layer on Xie Laidi.
"Come over again after dinner, and my aunt will give you another time, don't buy the ointment, and you won't be able to use it up when you buy it back." ”
Aunt Bao is a person like her, say she hates it, but she is warm and kind. But if you want to say that she is good, her powerful mouth and gossip behind her back are really unlikeable.
But now, Lin Zhifeng just needs her.
"Thank you, Aunt Bao, then I'll take my sister to the hospital to deliver food to my father first, and if I come back late, I will be beaten. She reached out and touched her ponytail, revealing a large bruise on the inside of her arm.
In fact, when I entered this body, the injury was completely recovered, but the traces of the skin were still there, and Aunt Bao and her colleagues frowned. I didn't expect that in these years, there are still people who are so cruel to children.
"I said I saw Wang Tingmei running fast early in the morning, what's wrong with your father?"
Wang Tingmei is Zhao Di Laidi's mother, she only found out that Xie Yaozu was hospitalized in the morning, otherwise she would have gone to the vigil last night.
"I heard from my grandmother that she was beaten and fractured, and she had a concussion. ”
"It's so bad, did you call the police?"
They spoke in a loud voice, everyone in the pharmacy pricked up their ears, and people in small places knew each other when they went around, and they inevitably wanted to listen to a few more words.
"I didn't call the police, I don't know who called. Aunt Bao, let's go first, don't dare to delay any longer. Lin Zhifeng smiled honestly and pulled his sister and Aunt Bao to say goodbye.
There are two reasons why the Xie family does not interact with their neighbors, one is that Li Amei and Wang Tingmei are not good at socializing, and the other is that they don't want to spread the scandal at home.
You must know that there are patriarchal people, and it is rare to bully their daughters to death like them.
People who know them only know that the two girls of the Xie family are obedient and sensible, and often work part-time to make money.
But outsiders don't know that they can't keep any of this money, let alone that they are hungry, punched and kicked at every turn, and are now in danger of being sold.
Xie Yaozu wanted to sell people quietly, how could Lin Zhifeng let him get his wish?
Today, I will give Aunt Bao a little wind, and she will not call the police if she is beaten, which will definitely lead to reverie, and when things ferment for a while, she will slowly explode the fierce material through Aunt Bao.
Calculate the time, August 25th is Xie Zhaodi's eighteenth birthday, and Xie Yaozu will definitely send people away at that time.
She had less than a month left to settle the matter.