The next day, Bai Lu took Bai Mei to Bai's house. The courtyard door was locked tightly.
She rang the doorbell several times but no one opened the door.
"Xu Fengjiao, I know you are inside, please open the door!"
Bai Lu shouted several times and scolded Xu Fengjiao in a deliberately aggressive manner, but there was still no movement at all.
"Auntie, my mother may be gone..." Bai Mei said, "She doesn't want me anymore."
"Gone?" Bai Lu wondered, "Where did she go?"
"I don't know, maybe it's her hometown? Jinghai City is expensive, and my family doesn't have food stamps. I usually go to the black market to exchange for food stamps. In the past, my family had a lot of money, and the food stamps we exchanged were enough, but now we have no money.
Already..."
Bai Lu reminisced about it, remembering that Xu Fengjiao was sold by her parents when she was a child, and she sang in a teahouse before marrying her brother.
Unable to remember where Xu Fengjiao's hometown was, Bai Lu asked, "Do you know where your mother's hometown is?"
Bai Mei heard her mother mention the name of her hometown. If she remembered correctly, it was Huyang, Henan...
If she told her aunt, her aunt wouldn't send her to Henan, right?
She doesn't want to go, she wants to stay in Jinghai City.
Her uncle will soon be the deputy director of the factory, and the salary will definitely be higher by then, and maybe he can get a bigger house. She will stay at her aunt's house.
"I don't know," Bai Mei shook her head, "My mother never mentioned it."
At this point, her eyes were red and she said pitifully: "Auntie, will you take me in? Please, I can do any job you want me to do. I just need to eat a little rice and no vegetables. I am a junior high school student.
I’ll go work after this and make some money back to you, okay?”
"Hey, but my family is too small... As you can see, I have six children..."
Before Bai Lu could finish speaking, Bai Mei suddenly knelt on the ground.
"I don't sleep in the room, I sleep on the balcony, I sleep on the floor, aunt, don't drive me away, I don't want to become a beggar begging on the street, wuwuwu..."
"Oh, what are you doing?"
Bai Lu hurriedly tried to help Bai Mei up, "Hurry up."
"If aunt doesn't take me in, I will die. Please save my life, aunt."
After saying that, she hit her forehead on the floor, "I kowtowed to my aunt."
Pedestrians passing by looked at them.
Seeing that Bai Mei's head was broken, Bai Lu couldn't bear it, "Okay, until you find your mother, you will live in my house temporarily, but after you find your mother, you will go back to live in your own house, okay?"
Bai Mei did not continue to kowtow. She wiped her tears and choked up her thanks, saying, "Thank you, aunt."
Bai Lu helped her up and sighed helplessly, thinking that Nan Bing and the other children would be furious.
Sure enough, when Su Nanbing saw Bai Mei in the evening and learned that she might have to live in his home for a long time, he was so angry that he overturned the table on the spot, "I object! I don't want to live with this person!"
"I object too!" After Su Xiaosi finished speaking, Su Xiaowu also raised his hands to express his disagreement.
Bai Lu looked at the excitement of her sons and pinned her last hope on the third child, "Wennian, do you agree?"
"I..." Su Wenian looked a little embarrassed, "I don't know."
"Third brother, you must also object!"
"Yes, Third Brother, how could you not know?"
Su Wenian said: "When I lived at my uncle's house before, this cousin was kind to me..."
As soon as he said this, his brothers were silent for a while, feeling that it was a bit unkind to drive Bai Mei away like this.
Su Nanbing gritted his teeth and thought for a while, then asked: "Third brother, how many months did you live in the Bai family that time?"
"About four months," Su Wennian said, "I remember it was a few days after Jinbao was born and a few days before New Year's Eve."
Su Xiaosi nodded, "It's been more than four months. At that time, I thought that the third brother would never come home."
"Okay, even if our family owes this matter to the Bai family, third child, you have lived in the Bai family for four months, and I also agree that Bai Mei can live in our family for four months." Su Nanbing acted like a grown-up man,
explain.
His younger brothers all listened to him.
Bai Lu thought that she should be able to find Xu Fengjiao in these four months.
"Meimei, you can live in my house with peace of mind these four months. Don't worry, Nan Bing and the others won't bully you."
"Yes." Bai Mei nodded, looking at Su Wennian intentionally or unintentionally, thinking that brother Wennian was the best to her.
In the next few days, she often talked to Su Wennian, and even deliberately took out her homework and asked him to teach her.
One day during the weekend at noon, Su Xiaosi was just about to chat with his third brother when Bai Mei ran into the boys' room with her homework book in her arms and said, "Brother Wennian, I was doing a question just now. This question doesn't work...
…”
Su Xiaosi looked at Bai Mei angrily and cursed at her, "Why are you so stupid?"
After saying that, his eyes were round and he said angrily: "When it comes to homework, either you can't do this or that. You keep pestering my third brother. If you ask questions in the future, you will be charged 10 cents for each question."
money."
Bai Mei cried immediately after being scolded by him.
In another room, Bai Lu was changing Jin Bao's clothes into new clothes.
The new clothes were made by Lin Yulan. She said that her beautiful family now wears clothes from the factory. In the fall, a total of three sets were issued, all of which were made of good wear-resistant materials. She was bored at home alone, so she bought a piece of fabric for her.
Jinbao makes clothes.
"When did you measure Jin Bao? And you secretly hid it from me."
"If you knew about it, you definitely wouldn't let me do it," Lin Yulan said with a smile, "So I have to finish it before telling you. This is called killing first and showing off later. It doesn't matter if you don't agree."
After Bai Lu helped Jin Bao put on the new clothes, she took out her wallet from the drawer and said, "No matter what, I have to pay you the cost of fabric and labor for this dress. I can't keep using your clothes for free."
"Look what you said? I love Jin Bao, why don't you make her some clothes? Don't give me any money, just to show off!"
"If you don't accept the money, I can't accept these clothes. It's not just once. You always make new clothes for Jinbao every year. I don't agree that you still make them secretly behind my back. How can you be like this? I don't agree.
I’ve never made clothes for Damei, I’m so embarrassed..."
Before Bai Lu could finish speaking, Lin Yulan snatched the wallet from her hand and stuffed it back into the drawer.
"Can we be the same? My family only has one child, Mei. Now she has grown up and can make money on her own. She can also bring the money back to me every month. What about your family?
Master Su is very capable, and his salary is dozens of yuan higher than that of my Qiangzi, but there are so many children who need food, clothing, and supplies. Boys are naughty, and the school always invites parents, so you have to worry about everything...
…”
Speaking of this, Lin Yulan lowered her voice and said, "Speaking of which, you have a new niece in your family recently. Why do you let her live in your house like this? Why? Eat what you have and use what you have. I heard that she has enough money to go to school every day.
You paid for it, right?"
Bai Lu said in a casual tone: "The food at school is not expensive, only five cents per meal."
"A meal costs five cents, which is more than one yuan a month, and the money for her breakfast and dinner is four or five yuan. If my shoes are worn out in the future, I won't have to buy them from you? Pencils cost two cents a piece, and a pencil costs two cents a piece.
I need to use several of them every month, and every transaction is worth money."
No matter how much she thought about it, Lin Yulan felt that this white plum was a burden. If it were her, she would not raise it.
While they were talking, Baimei's crying outside became louder and louder.