After Arthur left, Linn felt sleepy and simply closed the door to catch up on her sleep.
At first, he really thought about returning to his normal schedule as Matt wanted, but now he saw that leaving all his energy in the evening was the right choice.
Late at night, Matt came back and went to prepare dinner as usual.
After waking up, Lynn hesitated for a moment and called Matt: "Matt."
"Huh?" Matt was placing the dinner plates.
"My legs seem to be getting better," Linn said.
"Wha, what?!" Matt was stunned for a moment, then reacted suddenly. He didn't care about placing the plates, squatted in front of Linn, and gently squeezed his legs, "Brother, can you feel it?
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"Okay." Lin En sat on the edge of the bed and smiled, "It's more than that."
As he spoke, he supported the wheelchair on one side with both hands and stood up slowly.
Matt was dumbfounded.
It took him more than ten seconds before he supported Lin En ecstatically: "Brother, you, you, this..."
"I don't know what happened, but I suddenly found that my legs seemed to have feeling during the day, so I tried it, but I didn't expect that I could actually stand up." Lin En's reason was very lame.
But Matt believed it, his tears couldn't stop flowing, and his smile became thicker: "Brother, you, try it, see if you can, can you go..."
Matt backed away a little.
Lin En endured the pain, gritted her teeth and walked slowly for a few steps: "I haven't fully recovered yet, and my legs don't have much strength."
"Sit down quickly, sit down quickly." Matt helped Lynn back to the bed, then wiped his tears and smiled like a child.
"Why are you crying?" Lin En reached out and wiped it.
"I'm not crying, I'm happy." The more Matt said, the more tears he shed, and finally he covered his face and cried.
He had imagined Lin En standing up again, but he had no idea whether it would be possible.
Lin En went to work in a cannery to earn money for his tuition.
If Linn hadn't gone to the cannery, he wouldn't have encountered a rich kid bullying a mother and daughter, and wouldn't have had his legs crushed in order to help them.
Matt felt very guilty. Every day he saw Lynn sitting in a wheelchair, unable to get out of the house, and becoming a disabled person who needed care everywhere. He felt extremely tormented in his heart.
Therefore, he made up his mind to take Lin En to the best hospital in the imperial capital to treat his leg.
No matter whether you can save enough money or not, you have to do this.
Lynn's hopes have been dashed.
His can't.
Just like Lin En, who was still a teenager, took up this broken family, gave him food, shelter, clothing, and the opportunity to study.
"Stop crying, this is a good thing. It won't take long to recover from the looks like this." Linn was touched by Matt's performance and felt a sore nose for no reason, "You don't have to save money, and you don't need a piece of black bread every day.
I'm only willing to eat half a piece. When I fully recover, you can continue to study and leave the money-making to me."
After a long time, after completely releasing the accumulated emotions in the past few years, Matt's mood gradually stabilized: "Brother, why did your leg suddenly heal?"
Lin En shook his head: "I don't know. Whatever, it's fine."
"Yeah, that's fine." Matt laughed along with Lynn.
The company contracted to clean the chimney owed Matt his wages and beat him.
Lynn will not turn over this matter easily.
It's just that we have to wait a little longer, wait for his legs to be the same as those of a normal person, wait for him to be stronger.
The most important thing now is to tell Matt the news that his leg is getting better, so that he can stop shouldering such a big responsibility and stop fighting against the forces in the rich area alone for more than a thousand copper coins.
"One more thing. Do you remember that Arthur? He came to see me today and said he wanted to thank me for helping the Sheriff's Bureau solve the case. I also asked him by the way if he could help me find someone nearby who would not be so tired.
He said it's okay to find a job. When you find a job, you can stay nearby. This way, you'll be close and you won't have to work so hard." Lynn went around the way to find a new job for Matt.
But when he heard that Lynn suddenly wanted to find a job for himself, Matt was still wary: "I'm doing a good job as a chimney sweep, why do you suddenly think of finding a job for me?"
Lin En explained without changing his expression: "What's the point of being a chimney sweep? It's so far away. You have to go there every day before dawn and don't come back until midnight. Moreover, when it snows, the roof becomes slippery. If you fall,
What should I do?”
"That Arthur doesn't look like a good person to me, brother, you'd better stay away from him." Matt was a little shaken, but he still didn't agree out of fear of Arthur.
"He is quite nice. I can chat with him quite well. Besides, there is nothing to be lost by being friends with a sheriff," Lin En said.
"But I always feel that he is not so kind."
"We are so poor, how can he pay any attention to it?" Linn patted Matt and jokingly said in a serious tone, "Anyway, I introduced it to you, so you have to go even if you don't want to."
Matt was silent for a while: "Brother, do you know?"
Lin En didn't pretend anymore: "Well. There is no need to fight with them now. I will find a way to solve it in the future."
"Their backgrounds are very deep and cannot be solved by you."
"Then you can solve it?" Linn asked back.
Matt was speechless.
Lin En took a deep breath: "You listen to me on this matter. I don't want my misfortune to happen to you again. Once my novel is successfully published, you can go to study. This is your way out."
"That's my four months' salary." Matt was unwilling to give in.
"Do you think if you keep fighting with them like this, they will give you money?" Lynn asked Matt to face the reality. "Now I just beat you up, but what about in the future? You are the only one, they can do anything."
Come out. For them, if they kill you, your end will be an example to others."
"Is that all? Do we deserve to be bullied by them?" Matt was angry.
His brother just said a few words to a mother and daughter before his legs were crushed.
He did nothing, worked hard at a part-time job, and had his pay withheld for several months.
Why?
People in the slums are born lower than those in the rich areas, and they trample on them like ants?
Lynn looked at Matt's eyes and said seriously: "I won't let it go like this. No one deserves to be treated like this. I'm not asking you to give up resisting or giving up defending what you deserve. I want you to know that we
The reason why we are not treated as human beings by them is because we are not strong enough."
"The question is how do we become stronger?"
"It will take time to tell us the answer, and the most important thing you should do now is wait until I earn money to study hard, and stop living in such confusion." Lin En knew that this was a fallen era, and many truths did not make sense.
Therefore, it is meaningless. They want to overturn these rules. It is useless to just cry and get angry.
To become stronger.
You must do whatever it takes to become stronger at all costs.
Only when you are strong can you be taken seriously and have the ability to change everything.
"...I know." Arthur responded weakly.
The corruption value has not increased or decreased.
"Okay, let's eat. Be happy. Aren't my legs healed?" Linn helped cut the black bread.
"Brother, how did you know about me?" Matt asked doubtfully after taking a bite of black bread.
"I noticed something was wrong with you a few days ago. You didn't tell me when I asked you, so I asked Arthur to help me check it out." The days are getting better, and the portions of brown bread that Linn cuts out are larger than before.
"The Sheriff is not a good person." Matt pinched the bread, "I also approached the Sheriff's Department and wanted them to help us solve the problem. Unexpectedly, they actually helped the damn boss beat us and warned us.
Don’t make trouble in the rich areas and go back to the slums as soon as possible.”
Lin En emphasized: "This is why we need to become stronger. When you become stronger, these lackeys of the Public Security Bureau will also obey your orders."
"Ha, it's impossible." Matt laughed to himself.
He has a clear understanding of himself and the ghetto.
In his impression, there had never been any common people around him who could become powerful people. Being treated like ants seemed to be their fate.
"But, brother, don't worry, if I can really go to school, I will work a hundred times harder to live a decent life." But in the end, Matt did not accept his fate.
"With your words, I feel relieved. Leave the rest to me." Lin En took a big bite of bread and said, "Eat and go to bed after eating."