When Chen Zitong turned off the lamp on his desk and stood up to stretch, he realized that it was already dawn.
There was a glow at the end of the sky, and the clouds on the horizon looked particularly colorful against the early glow. The dewdrops on the windowsill slipped quietly from the branches and leaves of the jasper hanging basket.
Sanitation workers who got up early are already busy on the streets.
There are two or three small vendors on the street, some riding tricycles, some carrying bamboo baskets on poles, all working hard for a few taels of broken silver.
Through the window sill, Chen Zitong saw Chen's father running downstairs in the community.
Since the Chen family and the Su family broke off their engagement, all the Chen family's businesses have been suppressed.
The former close partners, good neighborly relatives and friends also fell into trouble one after another.
Not only did they carve up the Chen family's original property, they even fabricated a series of lies to please the Su family, directly pushing the already desperate Chen family to the forefront of public opinion.
Soon after, the Chen family officially declared bankruptcy.
Desperate, Chen's father left the city he had worked for most of his life with regret and helplessness.
In Jiangning, the family lives in a small house with two bedrooms and one living room. Although their life is tight, they are still happy.
The Chen family lost its source of income, and the burden of life suddenly fell on the eldest daughter Chen Zitong.
In addition to going to school on time to teach students every day, she spends her free time doing some video editing work online.
Busy just to make a little more money so that my family can live a better life.
This also caused her to be busy late every day. Sometimes she would just casually attend to dinner, and then devote herself wholeheartedly to work.
Seeing Chen Zitong losing weight every day to support his family, Chen's father felt pain in his eyes and in his heart.
It was because of his incompetence as a father that he allowed his family to suffer along with him.
Chen's father had also looked for a job since he arrived in Jiangning, but unfortunately he was old and in poor health, so no company dared to hire him.
But how could Father Chen, who had always been strong, be willing to be an idler at home?
In order to relieve Chen Zitong's burden, Chen's father, regardless of the family's objections, resolutely went to the vegetable wholesale market every morning to buy a batch of vegetables, and then went to the gate of the community to sell them.
Although he was a little tired, it made him feel better.
In front of the window, watching his silver-haired father running for life, Chen Zitong's eyes suddenly became moist.
She covered her mouth and tried to prevent her crying from being heard by her mother and little brother outside.
The reason why the Chen family has fallen to what it is today is largely because of her.
If she had not insisted on breaking off the engagement with the Su family, the Chen family would not have declined to this point, and her father would not have turned gray all of a sudden.
Inexplicable feelings of grievance and self-blame welled up in his heart. Chen Zitong couldn't bear it all of a sudden. He squatted in the corner and hugged his knees, hiding his face and crying.
During this time, she had lost count of how many nights her pillows had been soaked with tears.
Helplessness, confusion, and self-blame are the emotions she experiences repeatedly every day. Sometimes she really wishes someone could comfort her.
She didn't know how long it had passed, but a sudden noise from the window suddenly made her lose her mind.
The voice sounds familiar!
"I said, can't you just go through the front door? We're not thieves, so why do we have to climb through the window?"
"Su Xiaoniu, take a good look at me! I, Cao Ning, am the soul ferryman, and you actually let me go through the front door. Have you ever seen any serious person enter through the front door?"
Cao Ning pointed her finger confidently, but she was secretly looking at the corners of the room from the corner of her eyes.
He could feel the faint, gentle breathing in the corner by the window.
What surprised Cao Ning was that when he found them climbing through the window, the breathing rhythm of the man in the corner was not disturbed at all.
You know, if such a big noise came, it stands to reason that the person in the corner should have noticed it long ago.
But she didn't stand up, which is really suspicious. Junquge
Su Wan, who was sitting on Cao Ning's back, didn't notice this and was still talking carelessly.
"Okay, okay, as long as you can, as long as you can do it, but do you have to call to inform me before you climb through the window? What if my cousin is changing clothes?" Su Wan questioned.
"How is that possible!"
Cao Ning disagreed, and shouted at the top of his lungs: "It's only half past five in the morning. She's sleeping all the time. How can she... Hey, you remembered the address correctly, it's this small and shabby old community. , can your cousin live here?"
"That's right, that's what it says on the address...Hey, it seems a bit shabby!"
"Hey, those black stockings on the bed... Hey, hey, don't move around, Su Xiaoniu, don't you know you are very heavy..."
Cao Ning spent a long time and finally climbed into the bedroom with Su Wan on his back, but saw no one inside.
Su Wan got angry and knocked Cao Ning on the head!
"Who are you calling fat? Who are you calling fat? Don't you know you can't call a girl fat? You don't know how you became a scumbag. You don't even know this bit of professional common sense."
"Yes, yes, how can I compare with you? You know a lot more than me. Fortunately, your mountains are full of wooden fish lumps. Otherwise, how many people would have been brought to disaster by you."
"You also said that this heroic lady is not who you said she is... Hey, where is my cousin?"
After pinching each other for a long time, the two people finally noticed that Chen Zitong was not there at all.
"Yeah, is this girl going to pick up someone's ancestral grave again?" Cao Ning teased with a smile.
"What are you talking about!"
Su Wan patted Cao Ning on the back angrily: "My cousin is not that kind of person. She, she, she must have gone out for something."
"Yes, yes, she is not, you can do it, right?"
"you..."
"You...looking for me?"
Just as the two of them were arguing, Chen Zitong, who had been sitting in a corner in a daze, spoke weakly.
This shocked Cao Ning!
"Oh my god, why is there someone here!"
Cao Ning jumped up in fright, turned around and realized it was Chen Zitong.
"Hahaha... Scumbag, you have been scared sometimes. I thought you were fearless."
When Su Wan saw Cao Ning's frightened look, she immediately covered her mouth and snickered.
Chen Zitong looked confused!
She didn't understand how Cao Ning, who had been missing for almost half a year, got together with her cousin Su Wan, and the two of them appeared by climbing through the window.
She pointed at the two of them curiously and asked: "Xiao Wan, Cao Ning, how come you two are together? Are you... getting along?"
"Bah, bah, no, no, how could I fall in love with this scumbag?"
When Su Wan heard that she had been misunderstood, she immediately slipped off Cao Ning's back, holding her little head up in disgust.
"I just needed a human porter and happened to meet him."
