Chapter 81: What Happened to the Neighbors
Lin Mo told him about the situation in his small courtyard, and looked at the woman looking down and calculating how much money she could get.
"Do you think four bucks?" After the price was quoted, the woman looked at Lin Mo with some apprehension, for fear that he would find someone else because it was too expensive.
"How can four pieces be enough, young man, you still have to pull weeds in your yard! This weed-pulling person has been bending over, and the whole person can't straighten up after drying, at least five yuan, you see that Xiao Song will go with you. She didn't see it when Brother Song on the side started to give the woman a look, and saw that her offer was a little low, so he helped her ask for the price.
"Brother Song, isn't these five pieces a lot..."The woman was a little frightened, she felt that four pieces was enough, and five pieces of lions opened their mouths for fear of scaring Lin Mo away.
"Okay, five is five, let's go." The current five yuan is very valuable, and the registration fee for primary school students in the past few years is only this money, which shows the strength of the currency now, but Lin Mo looked at the woman's stubborn appearance, and agreed with a soft heart.
"Knowing the goods, the young man knows the goods." Brother Song looked at the woman proudly and said, It means that you see how capable I am, doesn't this help you earn an extra dollar, right? His excited rosacea nose was a little funny.
"Get in the car." Lin Mo was not willing to wait for a long time, and these people had long been accustomed to climbing trucks and tractors, not to mention motorcycles, but the woman sat in the back seat a little nervously, holding the bar behind her tightly with both hands, it seemed that she had never ridden a motorcycle.
The motorcycle came to Lin Mo's residence again, and the woman did not express surprise when she saw the expensive decoration in the room, she just asked where the tap water and tools were and began to work, and her movements were very quick.
Seeing that she was busy, Lin Mo was a little embarrassed to stay here, so he took out two pairs of labor protection gloves from the house and handed them to her.
"This can't work, how can I take the master's things when I come to work, you don't have to care, I'm used to doing these jobs." The woman put her hands behind her back, unwilling to accept Lin Mo's kindness.
"This..."Facing a woman who can be his mother at this age, Lin Mo was a little unspeakably soft-hearted, he forcibly stuffed the gloves into her hands, saying that if she didn't want gloves, she would go back, and she wouldn't have to do the work, so she would give in.
"Hey! Pity the hearts of parents all over the world! Lin Mo saw a small half of the red insoles exposed in her pockets, with fine stitches and vivid embroidery patterns, obviously made for her children when Xiao Cross was waiting for work, otherwise she would not have embroidered so finely.
"I heard them call you Xiao Song, then I'll call you Aunt Song!" Lin Mo took the plans and reports on his bedside and put them in the drawer, and then said to the woman.
"Whatever you want to call it, my name is Song Huijuan, you can call me Old Song." Song Huijuan looked at Lin Mo and spoke softly, and did not discriminate against a woman like her who did rough work, so she was also more cheerful.
So Lin Mo took a hand on the side from time to time, chatted with her, and quickly figured out her family situation.
Song Huijuan is 39 years old this year, and when she was young, she was a worker in a match factory on the street, but the match factory closed down five years ago, and her own husband had already died of a serious illness, leaving only her and a daughter, so she had no choice but to go to Xiaocross to beg for a living with the men who carried the work.
"My daughter is very competitive, and now she is studying at Yenching University, she is already a sophomore, and she is learning what kind of calculator she is studying, anyway, I don't know very well." Speaking of her daughter, Song Huijuan's face showed a proud look, and there was a maternal glow on her face.
"Aunt Song, it's a computer, not a calculator." Lin Mo corrected Song Huijuan's mistake, but he was also a little shocked to see that Song Huijuan, who had a low level of education, actually cultivated a college student under such difficult conditions, and was admitted to Yenching University, what a respectable mother!
"Oh! Yes, it's a computer, not a calculator, my daughter has told me many times, but I just can't remember, this person's memory is not good when he looks old. Song Huijuan said in her mouth, and she didn't stop in her hands, and quickly cleaned Lin Mo's bedroom.
Lin Mo picked up the phone and dialed the neighbor's food ordering hotline, he first ordered two fast foods, but in a blink of an eye, he saw that the neighbor's house was also open today, so he added a lot of food, and some children liked to eat.
"Aunt Song, you are busy here, I have already ordered fast food at noon, we will eat together later, and then work after eating, don't go out to eat quietly! I've ordered a lot of stuff, and if I can't eat it, I'll have to throw it away, what a waste! Lin Mo knew that Song Huijuan and the others would inevitably go out quietly to eat some steamed buns and the like, and then come back to work, so he took advantage of her age to keep her.
Song Huijuan stopped the rag in her hand, she straightened up and looked back at Lin Mo going out of the door, knowing in her heart that this was Lin Mo's kindness, so she would use this way not to embarrass herself to keep food, hey! There are still a lot of good people! The frequency of Song Huijuan's hands is getting faster and faster.
"Knock knock!"
"Is Sister Ran at home?" Lin Mo knocked on the door first, and shouted Ran Ping's name when no one answered.
The sound of knocking footsteps sounded, sounding a little unsteady, and then a little girl with particularly big eyes opened the door, she looked at Lin Mo curiously, tilted her little head and asked, "Who are you?" ”
Lin Mo was instantly overturned by her, he squatted down and looked at her at eye level and said, "I'm Uncle Lin who lives next door to you, little friend, is your mother at home?" ”
"Hmm!" The little girl scratched her head in distress, and her little brows were tightly wrinkled, it seems that she has some difficulty with this problem, because there are a few very bad uncles who often knock on the door and harass her mother, they don't look like good people, but this Uncle Lin looks very kind, should I tell him?
"Jiajia, why do you open the door for a long time! Who's coming? Ran Ping's voice came into Lin Mo's ears, and it seemed that Jiajia was the daughter she said last time.
"Poof!" Looking at Jiajia's relieved appearance, Lin Mo couldn't help laughing, it seems that his image of this weird Shu Huang is still unsuccessful, otherwise Jiajia's expression would not be so entangled.
"Huh! It's Kobayashi! Why, today I am finally willing to stay in my own hotel? Ran Ping is still so straightforward, she wore a set of cotton pants similar to pajamas when she was resting at home today, and the red underwear and white skin inside could be faintly seen through the sunlight, Lin Mo hurriedly shifted his gaze and looked down at Jiajia in front of him.
When Ran Ping walked in front of him, Lin Mo got up and said with a smile: "Sister Ran, I'm not a hotel, I'm just too busy, so I've been living in other places." ”
At this time, Lin Mo saw the side of Ran Ping's home, his face was white and plain, his head was full of black hair in a bun at the back of his head, and a bright young woman's breath came straight to him, which made people feel relaxed and happy.
"What, my brother-in-law isn't home?" When he walked to the living room, Lin Mo looked cold and asked Ran Ping curiously.
Ran Ping's face sank suddenly, and even Jiajia, who was sitting on her lap, had a small face, looking sad.
"Sister Ran, I'm sorry! I'm not a man of speech, if there is..."
Before Lin Mo could finish apologizing, Ran Ping interrupted him, "There's nothing to be embarrassed about, anyway, everyone in the alley knows about it, and it's not bad for you Xiaolin." ”
"Jiajia, you go to Uncle Lin's house next door to play for a while." Ran Ping's words made Lin Mo a little restless, what kind of rhythm is this?
The security of Lijia Lane is good, mainly because there are many old people who like to sit outside their yards and chat with the neighbors, they know the situation of every family in this alley well, if there is any stranger who comes in, they will be firmly stared at, and then ask who to come in, if you can't answer or sneaky, then a shout will spring out of the alley of each family's strong, they are holding all kinds of weapons and looking at the suspect, if you can't say a single two or three, then congratulations, The police station is your final destination.
After Jiajia went out, Ran Ping said, "Xiaolin, your sister Ran has encountered a bump!" ”
It turned out that Ran Ping's husband Sun Kemiao was outsourcing carpentry all the year round, and as a result, when he was making furniture for a family, he met the hostess of the house, a coquettish young woman, speaking of which Sun Kemiao can be regarded as handsome, otherwise he would not have found Ran Ping's wife with such good conditions, plus she can speak well, so the young woman was a little moved in her heart, and as a result, on the evening when Sun Kemiao was invited to dinner after completion, the two had some super friendship under the urging of alcohol.
"This woman has a husband, but I don't know what is good about Sun Kemiao, who can make her fool around with him behind her husband's back, and it's every once in a while..."
This Sun Kemiao was still a little guilty at the beginning, but she couldn't stand the kung fu of this young woman, so she fell into the gentle township, and it was rare to return home once a month......
"The woman's husband stumbled upon both of them's **, so... Hum! Ran Ping gloated unabashedly, she sat cross-legged on the chair, and her buttocks were suddenly stretched out in a perfect arc.
"Is your husband back?" Lin Mo felt that Sun Kemiao was a strange person, he actually did the hostess's bed as a carpenter, but the wife and young daughter of the family were left behind by him.
"Come back?" Ran Ping rolled her eyes ahead, "He doesn't want to come back!" It was revealed that they thought it was a good thing, the woman had divorced her husband, and my husband... I came back the other day and made a fuss, asking me to fulfill them. ”
"Haha! The house was originally handed down by my family, and the child will belong to me in the future, and he is embarrassed to say that he is out of the house! In the past few years, they haven't even returned home, and the money they earned is estimated to have already become their private house, shameless! ”
Lin Mo looked at Ran Ping sympathetically, he felt that Sun Kemiao was a fool, Ran Ping was beautiful and diligent at the same time, such a woman was hard to find in the future life, he actually abandoned it, and it can only be said that true love is invincible!