16-year-old Jiang Chen is not tall, thin as a bamboo pole, and his thin legs like two chopsticks are fast, and Ruan gently stroked it for a while before catching up.

"Jiang Chen, I haven't told anyone about you, not even my father."

But Jiang Chen turned a deaf ear to her explanation, sped up his pace and walked away after a while.

Ruan couldn't chase anymore, standing in place panting and staring at the young man's indifferent and arrogant back, feeling depressed and annoyed, and a little aggrieved.

I wouldn't have gone to join in the fun if I had known.

In the two lives combined, it was the first time she was scolded like this.

"Gently, the bowl is going to be poked by you, hurry up and eat, the dish is cold."

At dinner, seeing that her daughter's chopsticks kept poking the rice in the bowl with chopsticks, Ruan Dahai couldn't help but say something.

Ruan raised his head slightly, "Dad, do you know what Jiang Chen has been doing recently?" ”

"I don't know, what's wrong with him?"

Ruan gently told Ruan Dahai about the afternoon.

Knowing that Jiang Chen was working part-time in the crematorium, Ruan Dahai didn't care too much.

"That is, now that the living conditions are better, when there was a famine before, there was a lot of food in the dead man's pile, how can he care so much."

Ruan Qingqing had no appetite, and when Ruan Dahai said it, he had no appetite even more.

At night, she couldn't sleep after tossing and turning in bed, although Jiang Chen's scolding of her in the afternoon made her a little angry, but she wasn't really angry, she was just worried about how to help Jiang Chen.

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Seeing Jiang Chen walking towards the unit door from a distance, Ruan gently and hurriedly ran upstairs, running to the entrance of the corridor between the second and third floors, she put the ten large unity sheets prepared in advance on the ground, and then continued to run upstairs, but she did not go back to her home, but hid in the entrance of the corridor between the third and fourth floors, waiting with bated breath.

"Click, click."

As the footsteps got closer and closer, Ruan's heart tensed, and she seemed to be about to jump out of her chest.

Finally, Jiang Chen's thin but unruly figure came into view.

Jiang Chen's twelve-hour all-night work made Jiang Chen exhausted, and he just wanted to go home and lie down, and when he saw a brand-new pile of Great Unity banknotes on the stairs, his first reaction was to be dazzled.

But when you look closely, yes, there is indeed a wad of money on the ground!

He instinctively bent down to pick up the money, and at the moment when he picked up the money, the door of the 201 resident on the second floor opened, just in front of his action of picking up the money.

Aunt Huang was stunned at first, and then reacted very quickly and shouted, "It's the money I dropped!" ”

After finishing speaking, he was fat and fat, rushed to the stairs in a few arrow steps, and came to Jiang Chen to grab money.

The body is so athletic that it is like two people who usually walk three steps and gasp two steps!

Although Jiang Chen and Huang Damiang are more than one tonnage apart in size, their movements are more flexible, and they can easily avoid Huang Damiang's movements.

Aunt Huang jumped into the air and immediately shouted at the top of her voice, "What are you doing?" This is the money I dropped, and I'm looking for it! ”

Jiang Chen pulled the corners of his mouth, his voice was cold and hoarse, "The money you dropped?" Dropped a lot? It's been a long time? ”

Of course, Aunt Huang couldn't answer, she wanted to see how thick the banknote in Jiang Chen's hand was, and roughly estimated the amount, but Jiang Chen put the money in her trouser pocket.

Aunt Huang is anxious, the pie that fell from the sky, everyone who sees it has a share, and she must not let this poor boy pick up a big bargain alone.

"You hand over the money, it's my money! If you don't hand over the money today, you want to get away with it! Take it out! ”

Ruan, who was hiding upstairs, was dumbfounded, she didn't expect this to be the case.

The staircase passage of the unit building is narrow, and the echo of speech is loud, and Mrs. Huang has a loud voice, which quickly alarms the residents of the entire unit, and they open the door to see the excitement.

"What's going on? Why did Aunt Huang have a quarrel with the plague surnamed Jiang? ”

"I don't know, let's take a look."

The whole unit building has a total of five floors, and there are two residents on each floor, basically all of whom are at home, and all of them are gathered around the stairs on the third and second floors to watch the excitement, and some of them are still holding porridge in their hands, watching the excitement while eating.

The door of Jiang Chen's house also opened, and a thin little "little boy" of eleven or twelve years old ran out and ran to Jiang Chen's side.

"Brother, what's the matter?"

Jiang Chen glanced at the "little boy" and said nothing.

Aunt Huang seized the opportunity to accuse Jiang Chen in public, "Everyone comes to judge the reason, I accidentally dropped the money when I went out to buy vegetables this morning, and when I came out to look for it, I happened to see him pick up my money, I called him back, but he didn't pay it back, it's so shameless!" ”

Living in the same building, looking down and not looking up, they have some friendship with each other.

What's more, the economic conditions of Mrs. Huang's family are really good, and her two sons are both employees of the Railway Bureau.

And Jiang Chen is just a tenant from outside, so poor that he doesn't even have a formal job, and his personality is even more unpleasant, so everyone is more inclined to believe in Aunt Huang and accuse Jiang Chen.

"Xiao Jiang, how can you be like this, how can you pick up other people's money and not pay it back? You can't be like that. ”

Seeing that everyone supported her, Aunt Huang secretly rejoiced and took the opportunity to threaten Jiang Chen.

"Everyone is a neighbor, and I don't want to make a big fuss, you give me back the money, forget about it today, otherwise I'll call the police to arrest you!"

Jiang Chen coldly swept around the onlookers, and when he saw Ruan Qingqing in the corner, his face was obviously gloomy.

Ruan Qingqing always felt that Jiang Chen seemed to have seen through her tricks, and her heart was full of emotions.

"Okay, call the police, if the labor and management are afraid that you will follow your surname!"

Seeing that Jiang Chen was not afraid at all but had a rigid attitude, Aunt Huang was a little weak-hearted.

After all, the money is indeed not hers.

Other people who didn't know what to do were angry with Jiang Chen's arrogant attitude, and shouted to the police while loudly condemning them.

"This baby of dog R is so shameless, call the police, arrest his turtle son and lock him up!"

"That's it, if you don't pay back the money when you pick it up, what's the difference between this and a thief?"

The "little boy" angrily defended his brother, "My brother is not a thief!" ”

Seeing that things were getting bigger and bigger, Ruan gently and hurriedly squeezed out of the crowd and shouted loudly: "Don't argue, everyone, this money is not Huang Damiang's!" ”

The noisy crowd fell silent.

Ruan Qingqing's family is one of the best in the economic conditions of the entire unit building, and she is a well-known good girl, and everyone has a very good impression of her.

Lady Huang, who was weak-hearted, was annoyed and angry, jumping to her feet and lightly angry at Ruan.

"Ruan Mei'er, how can you open your eyes and talk nonsense? When you help him get my money, are you looking for him to share half of your money? If you do such a conscience-defying thing at a young age, be careful of retribution! ”

On weekdays, this Huang lady greeted her and Ruan Dahai with a smile, looking like a very kind old lady, but she didn't expect to be so shameless behind her back.

Ruan was so angry that he didn't want to save face for the other party immediately.

"Aunt Huang, let me ask you one thing, Jiang Chen picked up the money on this staircase, right?"

Aunt Huang turned her face away and didn't open her mouth.

"You live on the second floor, and when you go out to buy groceries, you go downstairs, why did you drop your money and fall up the stairs on the third floor? Maybe this money can still grow wings and fly to the third floor by itself? ”

That's right, you live on the second floor, why did you drop your money upstairs?

Everyone's eyes suddenly turned to Aunt Huang.

Aunt Huang said stiffly, "I went upstairs to dry my clothes before I went out to buy vegetables, and they must have fallen off at that time!" ”

Ruan was speechless, "Since you lost your money, there must be a number of how much you lost, right?" What are the denominations? ”