The three of them turned around and walked into a small alley. I didn't think that there was a hole here, there were all kinds of small restaurants on both sides of the alley, crayfish, barbecue, spicy hot, claypot rice, and the smell of fireworks wafting in the air made people appetite great.

Ivy took Meng Qing and walked straight into a small shop. Owen looked up at the sign, which read "Cuicui Pork Belly Chicken".

He couldn't help frowning, and said secretly in his heart: How can a girl's family love to eat this kind of thing.

As soon as I entered the store, the proprietress greeted me warmly, "Reporter Ai, I haven't been here for a long time, and I look good." ”

Ivy took a long breath, "It's so fragrant, I've wanted to be here for a long time, but it's been ...... lately" She looked back at Owen and smiled, "a little busy." ”

The store is small, with only five tables. The three of them sat at a small round table, Ai Wei didn't even look at the menu, and ordered directly: "Sister Cuicui, a pot of pork belly chicken, add pork powder sausage, pork kidney flower, and put more pepper." ”

Owen reflexively felt sick to his stomach when he heard what she had ordered.

"Okay, do you still have beer?" asked the proprietress as she remembered.

Ivy glanced at Owen, "Uh, we're a bit of a big guy today, what's the most expensive liquor in your shop?"

The proprietress recommended: "Do you want to try my husband's turtle and snake wine, it nourishes yin and aphrodisiac, and it can be seen." ”

"That'...... Give this gentleman a pot?" Ivy looked at Owen with an inquiring look.

Owen raised his hand and waved, refusing: "Excuse me, there are children here, it is not appropriate to drink." ”

Ten minutes later, a pot of steaming pork belly chicken was served in front of the three of them. Ai Wei filled each of them a bowl of soup and beckoned, "Come on, come on, drink some soup first, Meng Qing, you eat more, you're welcome." ”

Owen scooped up a spoonful and sniffed it, wrinkling his nose in disgust, and complained to Ivy, "This soup smells stinky." ”

"Don't talk nonsense, this is the best food, and it tastes delicious. Ivy took a big sip of soup as she spoke, rolling her eyes hotly, but still showing a satisfied expression.

Meng Qing was still a little restrained, lowered her head and took a sip of the soup in the bowl.

Seeing that Owen didn't move her chopsticks for a long time, Ivy picked up a piece of pork belly, dipped it in the sauce, and raised it to his mouth, "Miss O, you can take a bite, it's really delicious." ”

Seeing her looking at herself with a sincere face, Owen opened his mouth helplessly and swallowed it without chewing.

"How's it going?" Ivy stared at him intently.

"Not very good. He glanced at her and took a sip of water from his glass.

"Hypocrisy, foreigners are really not happy. She turned her head and whispered to Meng Qing.

"Ahem-" Meng Qing just wanted to answer, but she didn't want to, but she was choked, hunched her back and coughed a few times, and the two butterfly bones were abruptly branched.

"Eat slowly, don't rush. Ivy patted her on the back in distress and found that she was so thin that she was only bone.

Meng Qing shook her head and looked at Ai Wei with a bitter face, "Sister, I can't eat anything now, I may be expelled from school." ”

"Why? because of your father's loan shark?" asked Ivy indignantly.

Meng Qing nodded and began to tell about the painful experience during this time.

"Dad borrowed a million loan sharks to make up for the shortfall in stocks, thinking that the stock market rebounded in a short period of time, and he would be able to pay back the money.

Before my father went to prison, the money left in the family's house and account was confiscated by the court to fill the embezzled public funds, and the excess money was used to repay usury.

Grandpa pulled his old face and asked his relatives to borrow it, plus his own pension money, he barely repaid more than 500,000 yuan, but the debt collector said that this money was not even enough for interest. My grandfather was going to sell his house, but if we sold the house we live in, my grandfather and I would end up on the streets.

Debt collectors send countless harassing text messages to relatives and friends at home every day, write large characters in front of their homes, and even go to schools to make trouble, call and text the principal and teachers. The teacher has already talked to me today, and if this matter is not resolved, the school will expel me. ”

Meng Qing cried as she spoke, and the proprietress in the store sighed again and again.

Ivy slammed her fist on the table and asked, "Why didn't you call the police?"

"Grandpa called the police, and the police came twice, but they said that if there was no personal injury, it was a civil dispute, and they couldn't manage it, so they had to go to the court to solve it. Meng Qing said.

"Then go to court and sue them. Ivy said.

"Court ......" Meng Qing bit her lip with a hopeless expression.

"It's not that Meng Qing went to sue the loan sharks, but the other way around, waiting for them to file a lawsuit first. Seeing that Ivy didn't understand anything, Owen explained, "This kind of case is where the lender sues the borrower, but the loan sharks are a bunch of ruffians and hooligans, and the contract interest rate is extremely high, which has no legal effect, so they will not sue, and they can use obscene means to force the borrower to repay the money." ”

Ivy rolled her eyelids and pondered for a long time before she nodded in understanding.