Bai Lu was anxious, "I know it's not good for me to suddenly come to you to borrow a bicycle, but I'm really anxious. You must have heard about Xiao Wu's disappearance, right? That child has such a stubborn temper, I'm worried about him..."
Many neighbors walked out and said in surprised voices, "Who did I think it was? It's Master Su's wife who is back?"
"Sister-in-law of the Su family, when did you come back? What's going on?" Someone came up and asked, "Didn't Secretary Zhao understand that he would not pursue the matter regarding your Xiao Wu and Secretary Zhao's son?"
"Yeah, why are you arguing again?"
Bai Lu hurriedly explained, "It's not a quarrel, I'm here to borrow a bicycle."
While she was talking, Zhao Wenguo and his son had just put away the sheets from the top floor and saw a group of people gathered in front of their home.
"What's going on?" Zhao Wenguo squeezed into the crowd, saw Bai Lu at a glance, and said in surprise, "Comrade Xiaobai, why are you back? I heard from the superiors that Master Su will not be transferred back to be the factory director until next year, which is ahead of schedule.
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"Jinbao's father didn't come back. Jinbao and I came back first."
After Bai Lu explained, she wanted to mention borrowing a bicycle again. Zhao Qiujie suddenly ran to her father excitedly, "Dad, Aunt Bai wants to borrow our bicycle to find Su Xiaowu."
"Ah? Borrow a bicycle?"
Before Zhao Wenguo could ask again, Bai Lu said, "Yes, my Xiaowu has been walking for two days. I suspect that silly kid is looking for us along the railway track, so I want to borrow a bicycle with you to chase him."
"This..." Zhao Wenguo looked at his wife, his eyes asking for advice.
Xu Huihong frowned tightly. Although she didn't say anything, her attitude was very clear. If she wanted to borrow a bicycle, there was no way.
"Sister-in-law Bai, it's not that I don't want to borrow it, it's just that the bicycle is flat. If the tire is punctured by then, it will cost a lot of money to repair the tire. Besides, the repaired tire will definitely not be as good as before. I usually
I don’t want to ride it.”
After Xu Huihong finished speaking, she quickly winked at her husband.
Zhao Wenguo laughed awkwardly and echoed: "Yes, this bicycle is a valuable item after all. Most people treasure it very much, how can you borrow it from anyone casually?"
The neighbors heard this and thought it made sense, "Yeah, if it were me, I wouldn't be willing to borrow it."
An older woman said: "Secretary Zhao is a nice person. Your Xiaowu almost drowned his son. He didn't even ask for nutrition. My daughter-in-law of the old Su family, I'm not telling you that you are a human being."
You can't be so pushy, it's too much."
"Indeed, I don't have a particularly good relationship with you. How can I be so embarrassed to borrow a bicycle from someone?"
The neighbors on the same floor had a good relationship with the Zhao family and felt that Secretary Zhao was very enthusiastic. They couldn't help but speak up for Secretary Zhao, thinking that Bai Lu was wrong in this matter and that she should not come to the Zhao family to borrow a bicycle.
Bai Lu's cheeks turned red and she felt that she would definitely not be able to borrow the bicycle. When she was hesitating whether to beg Zhao Wenguo again or pull Jin Bao away to chase Xiao Wu on foot, Lin Yulan suddenly heard a sarcastic voice from behind, "Yo!"
She took her daughter Xu Damei to the front of the crowd and said loudly: "The relationship between Xu Huihong and my daughter is not very good. She had the nerve to borrow ten yuan from my daughter to buy a bicycle. Lulu and her borrowed the bicycle to find a small girl."
What's wrong with Wu?"
Jinbao had already guessed the character of Xu Huihong after listening to what Sister Damei said before. He was shrewd and stingy, and had the will to deal with the government. He deliberately established a relationship with Sister Damei first and pretended to be good to her, so that she would be embarrassed not to borrow her money.
money.
This kind of pretending person will agree to borrow his mother's bicycle and become a ghost.
Jin Bao guessed that the reason why the Zhao family did not hold the fifth brother accountable was not because they were generous or kind-hearted. It must have been because they knew that their father would directly serve as the factory director when he returned to the factory next year, and they wanted to take the opportunity to make his father owe him a favor to the Zhao family.
Now after seeing the performance of Zhao Wenguo and Xu Huihong, Jinbao can be sure that the person responsible for coming up with ideas is Xu Huihong.
When the little girl was thinking this secretly, Xu Huihong, who was questioned by Lin Yulan in public, turned red in the face, pointed her finger at Lin Yulan and said angrily: "What are you talking about? Damei and I are pickers in the same workshop, and we have a good relationship.
very!
She saw that I was having difficulty buying a bicycle, so she took the initiative to lend me money..."
Before she could finish speaking, Xu Damei immediately interrupted, "Who took the initiative to lend you money? It was obviously you who asked me to borrow money. I originally only wanted to lend you a dollar, but you talk miserably in my ears every day, saying that I at least
I need to lend you ten yuan to get enough money to buy a bicycle."
"Listen! Listen!" Lin Yulan said excitedly, "My daughter is young, naive and ignorant. This Xu Huihong is more than ten years older than my daughter, and she actually asked my daughter to borrow ten yuan. How could she have the nerve to say this?
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The most disgusting thing is that it’s been two full years and she hasn’t paid back a dime.”
Ten yuan is not a small amount, it is more than half a month's salary for many people.
I heard that Xu Huihong borrowed ten yuan from Xu Damei, and the neighbors of Zhao's house who had been standing there were talking about it.
"Speaking of which, Secretary Zhao's wife also asked me to borrow money to buy a bicycle. I lent her fifty cents. Later, every time I mentioned this matter and wanted her to pay back the money, she would change the subject and slowly
I just thought, forget it, just treat the fifty cents as lost."
"I borrowed it too, and I borrowed more than you. I borrowed one yuan and eighty cents, which I saved through frugality, and she didn't pay me back."
When everyone mentioned borrowing money, they were surprised for a moment. Unexpectedly, Xu Huihong actually borrowed money from almost everyone in the building.
Among them, the smallest loan was two cents and the largest loan was two yuan.
Because every time she asked for money, she would hear Xu Huihong complaining, saying that her husband had to send money to her parents-in-law in the countryside every month for medical treatment. She had to work while raising two children, and her life was very difficult, so everyone understood out of sympathy.
Because of my mentality, I finally thought about forgetting it and not getting my money back.
"You guys are one and two dollars, and my daughter-in-law lent her a full ten yuan. This evil person identified my daughter-in-law and bullied her, and asked her to hide this from us. I didn't know about it until today.
If I had known about this earlier, I would have gone to Zhao's house a long time ago and wouldn't have even thought of defrauding my family of a penny!"
When Lin Yulan was furious, Xiao Jinbao suddenly let out a cute, "Yeah!"
When everyone looked in her direction, she clapped her hands and suddenly realized: "So, Uncle Zhao's bicycle was not bought with his own money, but with everyone's money."
When everyone heard this, they quickly counted the number of people in the building.
The family borrowed one or two yuan, and Xu Damei lent another ten yuan. Plus the dozens of female workers who worked in the same workshop as Xu Huihong, wouldn't it be possible to buy a bicycle if we added it all up?
"I bet we paid for that bicycle?" Many neighbors suddenly became angry.
They shouted at Xu Huihong: "Why are you using our money to buy bicycles?"
"That's right! You, who don't have a dime to pay, ride your bike every day to buy groceries, but we who pay the money can only walk. What's the point?"
Everyone became more and more angry as they talked, and kept squeezing towards Zhao's house. Lin Yulan squeezed in at the front, "Hurry up and hand over the car keys, and hurry up! Otherwise, I will sell your bicycle and see if we can get it back."