Since coming out of prison, Huang Mian has been silent. Qu Pei's family was immersed in sadness, and naturally they didn't talk much, so the atmosphere along the way was very depressing.

Even after Qu Pei's family got out of the car, Huang Mian followed Chen Jin back to the store, and he didn't say anything, just squatted outside the door and watched the ants on the side of the road move, stunned.

Chen Jin knew that Huang Mian's previous life was too smooth sailing, and he didn't really endure hardships like him, and he was used to seeing people's warmth and coldness. Now he is always looking at these bloody realities with his own eyes, which is bound to have some impact on his mentality.

But this kind of thing can only be figured out by himself, after all, he has already said what should be said, so he didn't care about him.

Until lunchtime, everyone in the store went to eat, and Huang Mian also stayed in the store alone, listlessly paddling the system at random, his eyes blank.

Tao Xiaochu came out of the back area to meet him, so he asked, "Why don't you go to dinner?" I thought everyone had gone and were going to come to the front hall. ”

When Huang Mian saw her, he finally squeezed out a smile and said, "Didn't you go too? Weight loss is not such a subtraction." ”

"Who said I was going to lose weight?" "Any girl is very sensitive to body weight, not to mention that Tao Xiaochu has some baby fat, especially ...... Well, somewhere, the baby is not fat!

"Then why don't you go to dinner?" asked Huang Mian.

Tao Xiaochu shook his head: "Fast food restaurants are too expensive, and a meal will cost more than a dozen yuan." I cooked the rice in a small rice cooker at home by myself, and I could deal with it with pickled vegetables and pickles, and I could save these twenty or thirty yuan a day. ”

As she spoke, she placed her plastic lunch box on the table, unbuckled it, and took one of them and lifted it. It was one or two meals, plus some radish heads, mustard and pickles.

Huang Mian frowned, and suddenly found that his good impression of Tao Xiaochu only stayed on her innocent smile and blood-pumping figure.

In addition, I only heard everyone say that she came out to work for her sister to study, and no matter how much I know, there will be no more.

In other words, Huang Mian didn't know anything about Tao Xiaochu.

What does she like, and what does she hate?

What did she rejoice about, and what did she cry about?

Questions like these poured into Huang Mian's mind in an instant.

Even if you pay 30 yuan a day for food, it's only 900 yuan a month. The salary of your store assistant must be three or four thousand, right?" Huang Mian couldn't help but ask: "If you rent a house for five or six hundred yuan a month, it's only one thousand or four or five." So you can still save more than 2,000 yuan a month, is it necessary to save so much?"

Tao Xiaochu immediately retorted: "But if I have these 900 yuan left, the family will be able to eat a few more meals of meat every month." My sister is growing up, so she needs to eat better!"

"You're eighteen or nineteen years old, aren't you?" said Huang Mian again.

Even if he experienced the "tragedy" of his father's bankruptcy before, eating mustard and pickles at every meal is not something that Huang Mian can imagine.

In his impression, when he used to go to work, he went home to eat every day, at least he still had meat for a meal. Just thinking of this, he suddenly felt so stupid.

If the family is really bankrupt, the food will not be of this standard. It seems that he is really the eldest young master's life is too comfortable, three dishes and one soup per meal, two meat and two vegetarian dishes, which is already the standard of "poverty" in his cognition.

In fact, there were a lot of flaws in his parents' acting before, but he really couldn't find it at that time.

"Details determine success or failure", Huang Mian suddenly felt that Chen Jin was really high!

When Tao Xiaochu heard this, he was a little unconvinced and said: "What's wrong with Eighteen or Nineteen? Eighteen or Nineteen, I also support my family with my own hands, how can I be like you? I heard them say that you were a super rich second generation before! I came to work in an intermediary company because my family was bankrupt." ”

"Eh~" Huang Mian was stunned by her, and was a little speechless.

Also at the age of eighteen or nineteen, it seems that he has been driving sports cars all over the world to have fun. In this comparison, Tao Xiaochu did throw himself 10,000 streets.

It's just that seeing that he was silent, Tao Xiaochu suddenly became a little nervous.

"I'm sorry!" she said embarrassedly, "I didn't mean to mention your sadness. ”

"It's okay, you're right. The limbs are not diligent and the grains are not divided, and I used to be like this. Huang Mian smiled: "It's you, you eat these things every day, and you can grow so big." ”

He said this unintentionally, meaning to grow up from a young age. But Tao Xiaochu has been a little "prominent" among his peers because of his figure since he was a child, but he is a little sensitive, and he understands it as "growing up from a young age".

She immediately looked down at her chest, frowned at Huang Mian again, blushed her cheeks and said, "What are you talking about!

After speaking, she picked up the lunch box and left angrily. Anyway, Huang Mian is in the front hall, and there is no need for her to guard it.

Huang Mian was in a hurry, and hurriedly dragged her, but she accidentally pushed too hard, causing Tao Xiaochu's hand to be unstable, and the lunch box fell directly to the ground.

Seeing that Tao Xiaochu's lunch was spilled on the ground, Huang Mian instantly killed his heart!

He was at a loss, only to see Tao Xiaochu squatting down with an aggrieved face, picking up the lunch box, and picking up the rice pickles that had been spilled on the ground and putting them back.

"Peach, I'm sorry...... I didn't mean to, I really didn't!" Huang Mian said urgently.

But Tao Xiaochu didn't speak, silently walked to the water dispenser and went to the lunch box to pick up most of the boxes of hot water, then closed the lid and shook it vigorously, and then filtered out the hot water.

In this way, the originally dirty rice was washed, and her lunch was turned into white rice soaked in water, plus some pickles that had been washed white.

"Little Peach......" Huang Mian looked embarrassed, and he didn't know what to say all of a sudden.

Tao Xiaochu looked at him, sighed, and then smiled and said, "It's okay, you can eat it this way." ”

"Why don't I go buy you a quick snack?" said Huang Mian, and got up to go.

Tao Xiaochu stopped him in turn and said seriously: "I really don't need it." I know you don't have much money now, and they said that you borrowed the money for your current meal. Blame me, I shouldn't have said those things. ”

"This ......" Huang Mian was even more embarrassed.

At this moment, he really wanted to explain the truth to Tao Xiaochu and tell her that he was actually very rich, really very rich!

But looking at Tao Xiaochu, who sat down again and ate silently, Huang Mian's words were choked in his throat, and he couldn't say anything.

I only heard Tao Xiaochu say while eating: "What about the white rice that has been made! My dad was a farmer, so I grew up knowing that everything is hard. It's just that he later had a problem with his lumbar spine, so he couldn't work in the field. My mother can only do some needlework to earn some change, and the rest is counting on my salary. ”

She didn't know why she was telling Huang Mian this.

Maybe it's because he knows that he used to be a rich boy and thinks he can't understand the indignation of the public's suffering?

Or maybe it's because of the helplessness of being unwilling to his fate, but having to face the destruction of fate?

Or, maybe you've never told anyone about it, so it's a little easier to vent when you say it?

Huang Mian felt very ashamed at this moment.

He originally thought that he had understood the true meaning of life and could face all suffering well.

But far from it, just a little peach is enough to make him embarrassed.

It was only now that he realized that real poverty may not necessarily be painful. But that kind of sourness and helplessness, he still can't experience even the slightest bit at all!