"Mom is a little uncomfortable, so I'm resting at home." Ye Tong hugged Chen Mo and said with a smile.

Because Chen Mo was squatting on the ground, Ye Tong was on his side with his arms around his neck, and Chen Mo didn't pay much attention to Ye Tong's expression when he spoke.

But Lin Xinru on the side found out that when Ye Tong said that her mother was a little uncomfortable just now, she smiled a little reluctantly.

Lin Xinru, who often paints the expressions of characters, still has some experience in interpreting these facial changes.

Especially for this kind of child who is not deeply involved in the world and is not very good at disguise.

She didn't know what kind of experience it would take for a child at such a young age to learn to respond to others with such a reluctant smile.

Hearing that Sister Qing was just resting at home, Chen Mo didn't ask much, but looked at the roses in Ye Tong's hand and smiled: "Tongtong is so good, she has learned to sell flowers to fill the family."

How many flowers do you have in this flower basket, my brother bought them all for you, you should go home early to accompany your mother. ”

"Huh? Brother Mo wants to buy all the flowers here? If you buy all these roses, it will cost a lot of money, so if my brother needs so many roses, he can buy them at the store over there.

My flowers were given to me by the owner of that shop, and if you buy them directly from the boss, it will be much cheaper. ”

It is rare to be lucky enough to meet the big brother he likes so much, Ye Tong has no idea of taking the opportunity to make a lot of money from him, but honestly pointed out the most money-saving way to Chen Mo.

And it was also very cute to whisper in his ear: "The purchase price over there is only two yuan a flower, Brother Mo, I only tell you, don't tell others, otherwise the boss will be angry." ”

Seeing this cute little girl with an innocent face, a round face, pure and flawless big eyes, red lips and white teeth, Chen Mo was inexplicably moved by her innocence.

This kid is cute and honest, which makes Chen Mo very fond of him, he said with a smile: "It's okay, money is not important, my brother likes to buy Tongtong's flowers." ”

"That'...... Then I'll only sell you one, the boss stipulates that I must sell it for 10 yuan a flower, otherwise it will ruin her market price or something. Ye Tong took out a rose and said as if he didn't understand.

Seeing that Ye Tong was also saving money for himself, Chen Mo immediately smiled and said: "I took a look at your basket of flowers, there are about twenty of them, I want them all, this is 200 yuan." ”

Chen Mo smiled and took out 200 yuan and handed it to Ye Tong.

Seeing that Chen Mo spent so much money to buy useless roses, Ye Tong hurriedly looked at Lin Xinru on the side and said, "Sister, just buy one of these flowers and wear them on your hair, if you buy too much, they will soon wither, and they will be useless, you quickly persuade Brother Mo to let him stop spending money indiscriminately." ”

She thought that Chen Mo bought so many flowers in order to please this beautiful sister, so she wanted to ask Lin Xinru to help her persuade her.

She has lived with her mother since she was a child and has seen how hard her mother works to make money.

In the past, she stayed with Chen Mo in the place where her mother and Chen Mo worked, and she knew that Chen Mo was also a work-study person who worked hard to make money.

100 yuan is money that can be earned by hard work, let alone 200 yuan.

She didn't want Chen Mo to spend money in meaningless places.

Hearing this well-behaved and sensible little girl say this, Lin Xinru's eyes couldn't help but moisten slightly, what a well-behaved and sensible child, this cute little sister is sensible and makes her want to cry a little.

Lin Xinru immediately turned her head and glanced at Chen Mo.

Chen Mo immediately smiled and said: "Tongtong, my brother is different from before, my brother is rich now, he has a lot of money, you can sell your flowers to my brother with confidence." ”

"Huh? Could it be that Brother Mo, did you buy a lottery ticket and win the jackpot? In Ye Tong's worldview, the only people who can become rich and rich in an instant are basically the only ones who have won the jackpot by buying a lottery ticket.

Chen Mo touched Ye Tong's little head with a smile and said, "Yes, so you don't have to worry about your brother's money." ”

Although Chen Mo said this, Ye Tong was unexpectedly sensible, she stretched out her little hand and held Chen Mo's cheek tightly, let him look at herself, and then said with a warning like a little adult: "Brother Mo, I heard that many people won the lottery and spent money indiscriminately, and finally became poor again."

Even if you win the lottery, you can't spend money casually, otherwise it will be easy to spend all the money. ”

After speaking, Ye Tong also touched Chen Mo's forehead with his forehead and turned around, as if he was instilling his belief into Chen Mo and asking him not to spend money indiscriminately.

caused Chen Mo and Lin Xinru to cry and laugh for a while.

"I know, but this time is an exception, Tongtong promised to sell the flowers to his brother, so that my brother could promise Tongtong not to spend money indiscriminately in the future." Chen Mo directly traded with Tongtong not spending money the most, which made Tongtong have nothing to say for a while.

"That's... Well, only this time, my brother can't spend money indiscriminately in the future, but the boss said to earn me 5 yuan a flower, and I will sell it to Brother Mo for 5 yuan a flower, so I don't want the boss's remuneration, and the boss shouldn't blame me for selling it low. Although Tongtong compromised, she still wanted to help Chen Mo save a hundred yuan.

"This stupid boy." Chen Mo was really helpless and pitiful to this sensible and well-behaved child in his heart, "If you sell it like this, you don't make a penny, my brother bought Tongtong's flowers because he wanted Tongtong to make money, not to make money for the boss, come and take 200 yuan obediently, and I will take the flowers." ”

Chen Mo forcibly gave Ye Tong 300 yuan and took all her flowers.

"Brother, 100 more yuan." Ye Tong immediately discovered that the number was wrong.

"The extra 100 yuan was bought with your little flower basket." Chen Mo said with a smile.

After speaking, Chen Mo immediately gave the roses he bought to Lin Xinru, "I haven't sent you flowers yet, I'll give you twenty at a time this time." ”

Lin Xinru smiled and kissed Chen Mo and said, "Thank you, Brother Mo." ”

"Eh, why does my sister call Brother Mo Brother Mo?" Tongtong is very sensible in some things, and some things are dull.

Looking at her cute appearance, Lin Xinru smiled: "Because my sister wants to be a little girl and be loved by Brother Mo." ”

When Lin Xinru said this, Ye Tong nodded a little incomprehensibly.

"By the way, Tongtong, have you had dinner?" Chen Mo touched her little head and asked.

"Not yet, I'm going to go home for dinner after selling the flowers." Ye Tong said obediently.

"Then you don't have to go home yet, what is your mother's phone number? I'll tell your mother, come with me for dinner, and then go home after eating. ”

"How's that going to work?" Ye Tong hurriedly shook his head and refused.

Hearing her say this, Chen Mo's face sank deliberately and said, "Brother Mo treats Tongtong as his own sister, is there anything wrong with his brother taking his sister to dinner?" Do you think it's not okay, do you think that Brother Mo is an outsider and doesn't like Brother Mo, then Brother Mo will be very sad! ”

As soon as Chen Mo's words came out, Ye Tong was in a hurry and hurriedly shook his little head like a rattle.

She still likes Chen Mo very much, and she also treats Chen Mo as her own brother, she just said no, naturally it can't be because she thinks Chen Mo is an outsider or doesn't trust him, she is just afraid that Chen Mo and Lin Xinru are dating now, and she will be a light bulb in the past.

Don't look at her age, but she still knows this thing.

However, in order to prevent Brother Mo from misunderstanding that he didn't like him and treating him as an outsider, Ye Tong didn't know what to say for a while, so he could only nod and agree.

"That's good!" Chen Mo touched her little head with a smile and said, "What is your mother's phone number?" ”

With Ye Tong reporting a number to Chen Mo.

Chen Mo immediately called.

The first phone was not answered, and the second phone rang for more than ten seconds before it was finally answered.

"Hey ......"

As soon as he heard the voice on the other side of the phone, Chen Mo felt that something was not right, and the voice on the other side of the phone was weak.

However, remembering what Ye Tong said just now, her mother was not feeling well at home, maybe she had a cold, but Chen Mo didn't care too much.

"Hey, is it Sister Qing? I'm silent, remember me? ”

Originally, the other party hadn't heard who was calling, but as a familiar voice and a familiar name came at the same time, Yue Yuqing immediately smiled and said, "Ahem, cough, cough...... It turned out to be silent, of course Sister Qing remembers you, how can you have my phone. ”

"It was given to me by Tongtong, I was preparing to have dinner outside, and I happened to meet Tongtong selling flowers, I want to take her to dinner, so I will tell you in advance, and there is no need to prepare her dinner at home."

"Then what's embarrassing, this kid is really, I said she shouldn't go out, she has to go out and say she wants to make money, cough cough ......"

Yue Yuqing was about to cough a few times when he said a word, thinking that he was indeed sick.

"There's nothing to be embarrassed about, I used to play with Tongtong as my sister, and I'm very happy that she can like me and treat me as my own brother, after all, I'm an only child."

"That's too much trouble for you, silently." Yue Yuqing still trusted Chen Mo, so he didn't worry about what would happen to his daughter if she followed Chen Mo.

"What did Sister Qing say, then I said so, by the way, I see that you seem to be a little unwell, do you have some kind of disease?"

"It's just a little cold, it's okay, it'll be fine soon."

"Where do you live now?" I'll drop by to see you when I'm sending Tongtong home later. ”

"No. 158 Minsheng Road."

"Okay, I'll make a note of that, I'll see you later."

Chen Mo hung up the phone here, and Ye Tong immediately said: "Brother Mo, I have to hand over the money from the sale to the boss first, you wait for me." ”

"Well, go ahead." Chen Mo smiled and touched her little head.

"What a well-behaved and sensible little doll, I really don't know if it's a good thing to be so sensible at this age." Lin Xinru looked at Ye Tong's little adult-like maturity that she sometimes showed, and sighed.

"Sister Qing's husband is not a good thing, even if he doesn't make money, he often owes a lot of gambling debts and goes home, which leads to their family being like this, forcing Tongtong to be so precocious."

"Huh? Isn't this a divorce? ”

"Don't dare to leave, her husband said that if he dares to divorce, he will want the lives of their mothers, for the sake of Tongtong, Sister Qing can only swallow her anger." Speaking of this, Chen Mo had already thought of what to do in his heart, even if he knew these things, he was not able to help Yue Yuqing solve her husband.

Not to mention Chen Mo in the past, even if he took the official route, once this kind of dog skin plaster sticks to Yue Yuqing's body, it is not easy to take off.

To deal with this kind of person, it is necessary to adopt more unbounded means than the other party.

"That's really miserable, it's a lifetime nightmare to be a person like this." Lin Xinru listened terrible, and even tightened her arms around Chen Mo.

At this time, in the flower shop, the shopkeeper saw Ye Tong coming back early, and immediately asked with a smile: "Hey, Tongtong, why did you come back so quickly today?" ”

The owner of this flower shop is actually a very good person, and ordinary people have to pay a deposit first when they come to her to sell flowers, but when Ye Tong came over, she didn't take her deposit every time.

And every time Ye Tong took the flowers out, she sold them for a long time, and she didn't pay attention to the sprinkling, so that the flowers wilted, and she never cared.

Seeing that Ye Tong came back so soon today, and even the flower basket was gone, she was naturally a little curious.

"I have an older brother who has always been very good to me, and when he happened to meet me, he bought all my flowers and all the flower baskets."

As he spoke, Ye Tong handed the three hundred yuan to the proprietress .

"I don't know how much your flower basket is, boss, let's see if three hundred yuan is enough." Ye Tong said cutely.

After hearing this, the proprietress only took back a hundred yuan and gave the remaining two hundred to Ye Tong.

"That flower basket is worthless, since he bought it, then this money is good for you." The proprietress touched Ye Tong's head and said with a smile.

With two red tickets, it was the first time that Ye Tong had earned so much money in one day, and she couldn't help but breathe quickly with excitement.

She doesn't come here every day, but every once in a while.

The rest of the time, she has to take care of her mother at home.

Her father likes to drink and gamble, once he finishes drinking, he is like a different person, he will beat and scold them if he is unhappy, and he is idle all day long and hardly goes out to make money, and the whole family is basically supported by Ye Tong's mother.

This put Ye Tong's mother under tremendous pressure.

On the one hand, it is hard work, and on the other hand, it has to endure the unprovoked beating and scolding of her husband.

Originally, in order to earn a lot of money to pay off her debts every day, so as not to bully her children by debt collectors, she worked hard and worked hard to overdraw her body, and as a result, she had to endure her husband's beating and scolding from time to time for no reason.

Living under the intense pressure of work, life, and physical and mental exhaustion, she naturally fell ill.

But the more she was like this, the more angry and cold Ye Tong's father was at her, she wanted money when she went home, regardless of Yue Yuqing's physical condition, once she couldn't get the money, he would beat someone.

Originally, Yue Yuqing was already sick, and he had to be beaten, and his health was even slower.

The slower you are in good health, the harder it is to go out to make money, and the harder you are to go out to make money, the more you will be beaten.

Straight into a vicious circle.

But in the face of this kind of devil who will kill himself and his daughter madly once he is cornered, Yue Yuqing can't resist.

She is not afraid of her own accident, she is only afraid of her daughter's accident.

No matter how much pain it was, she endured it for the sake of this well-behaved and sensible daughter, but now it is not a matter of whether she can bear it or not, and if such a vicious circle continues, she has no doubt that she may be beaten to death by this demon husband of her own first.

Ye Tong also saw such a scene, afraid that her mother would beat her crazy if she couldn't give her money, so she could only be forced to go out to make money for her mother and reduce the possibility of her mother being beaten.

Today is Ye Tong's biggest harvest when she goes out to make money, but she also knows that this kind of harvest is usually impossible, and it is Brother Mo who takes care of himself to have such a big harvest.

But she was still ready to return the 100 yuan proceeds from the sale of flower baskets to Chen Mo.

(End of chapter)