49

Yashiro counted the amount of cash remaining on hand once more, and after making sure the amount was correct, he let out a long sigh.

“How much is left?”

Without looking back, she replied, “Less than four hundred dollars.” In the two weeks since she came to this small city she had only bought ingredients such as rice, oil, and flour in addition to the necessary necessities and the medicines he used, and even though she had already picked the cheaper ones to buy, she had still spent quite a bit. Watching the TV, not only had prices risen in the big cities lately, but even the cost of living in the smaller cities had quietly risen. Although it wasn’t the first time that the pressure of survival had pressed her so directly and powerfully, she had to take into account that she wasn’t in a state where one person could feed the whole family right now – there was also a big man tied up beside her who was quite capable of eating veggies.

“I say, Shan Yanxiu, are you absolutely unable to eat meat?” She rubbed her bill, “Can’t eat any meat at all?”

He hesitated, “Why do you ask?”

“Because now the price of vegetables is more expensive than the price of meat, yesterday I just bought a small handful of green vegetables and spent more than six dollars, half a catty of meat may not be so expensive.” She pointed her finger, “There’s nothing left if you stir-fry the greens, but I can toss some meat into the mix. If you still eat only vegetables like this, I really can’t afford to feed you.”

“What about apples?”

“Shit, you still want to eat apples, it’s too extravagant!”

“…… Pork and chicken.”

“What?”

“Pork and chicken I can eat.” He responded sullenly, then added, “Can’t I have an apple a day too?”

“Fine, half for you and half for me.”

“I’ll take a whole one.”

“No way!”

“Then pay back, twenty million dollars.”

“…… I’ll take one third, you take two thirds, that’s always okay.” When she saw him silent, she decided, “Then it’s a deal, you can’t back out oh. Ah, right, I won’t be home tomorrow, so you can just cook a noodle and eat it yourself. But don’t make a mess in the kitchen like last time, remember to cook the noodles in half a pot of water, and half a pot of soup with the noodles is good. Don’t get mixed noodles to eat, but also consume oil and seasoning, eat after washing the dishes also consume water and detergent ……”

“Where are you going tomorrow.” He interrupted her.

“Yesterday passed by the supermarket to see inside there are recruiting promoters, treatment is not bad, so turn in and leave a phone number, today notified the interview to come.” She answered very succinctly, “Look at me why, not work do not stay sitting on the mountain ah. Besides, promoters do not need any technical content, with my experience casually can pass.”

He gave her a look that had a lot of content in it, like he was scolding, but also like he was dissatisfied.

Disgruntled about what? What could he be dissatisfied with, now she was going out to work, he was at home enjoying his happiness, oh, what else was he unhappy about, didn’t he want to go to work with her?

“Must we go?”

“Nonsense, do not go to make money to wait for money to fall from the sky ah.” She fussed and deliberately poked him again, “Too bad you don’t have an ID card, or I’d have to drag you to apply for a job as a security guard. Well, or a loss prevention officer. Ah, yes, the warehouseman seems to earn more. Puhahaha ……” She wanted to laugh just thinking about how fucked up he looked in his toilet seat style security uniform.

“Do you want me to go?” He asked suddenly, “Do you want me to go?”

Her laughter came to a screeching halt, “I told you you don’t have an ID.”

“Find a fake ID, it won’t cost much.” He surprisingly suggested with a straight face, “Low input, high output.”

Ya Xiao red fruit shocked, this man actually know do fake ID, he even suggested that she help him do a fake ID to apply for a job as a security guard and loss prevention and warehouse management?

“It’s against the law to do …… a fake ID,” she stammered, “Besides, your injuries aren’t all healed yet, you won’t be able to pass the physical exam.”

He ate and laughed, his palm against her head and swirled, “Idiot, you still take it seriously.” He softly chimed in a string of numbers, “Silent Night’s private number, no one knows it but me. Call her and ask her for money, as much as she wants.”

“No,” she refused him dryly, “who am I to ask for money from someone, they don’t owe me.”

“But she owes me.”

She was still stubborn, “I don’t want it.”

“Then give me the phone and I’ll ask her for it.”

She clapped her hands together and looked fierce, “Why are you so nagging, I said I don’t want it! Manage a woman to ask for money and so justified, even if it is owed to you, you a man can not be generous as a gift of favors can not? Money money money, talk about money how hurt feelings ah! You just this one friend, also not afraid of people run away.” Without looking at his surprised face, she quickly got up and pushed him out of the room. The door of the room closed heavily to isolate his surprised gaze, while her heart was still beating fiercely. She moved to the side of the bed, pulled open the drawer and took out her cell phone.

She didn’t say that in addition to texting Monsoon to report her safety that time, she had also instructed Inuyasha to ask him to help her contact Silent Night. Although she didn’t know much about Jing Yan, she felt that he could be trusted based on his help at that time. Sure enough, Well Yan quickly contacted Jing Night, and the other party only entrusted him to reply to her with an extremely concise text message.

The great power has gone.

Four short words, but they aptly encapsulated the entirety of his end and fate.

She could not tell what she felt in her heart when she saw this text message, shocked? Unexpected? Or disbelief. She had heard too many examples of people falling from heaven to earth, but this was the first time it had happened to her. He was a proud man, who once held power and wealth, who could easily decide the fate of others and even their lives. Such a person should always be high above, let people look up to. But one day, he suddenly fell down and lost everything, even living a life worse than ordinary people. Although he would have been mentally prepared for this, and even prepared for a life of falling. But the strange thing is that the feeling of being a bystander is surprisingly stronger and more …… sad than the person concerned.

She is really some regret, regret their own in front of the ATM that moment to produce the evil idea. Twenty million na, even in the big city can be stable and comfortable clothing and food without worrying about the end of the rest of his life, so by her a few fingers to poke out. She caused him to become a penniless pauper, not to mention, more likely is to send off the opportunity that he may be able to rise again.

If Shan Yanxiu knew that she had deliberately pressed the wrong password the first time she pressed the password at that time, would he …… have killed her?

When she passed by the fruit stall she bargained to buy back the last few pounds of apples, not large but beautiful color red Fuji, the strong smell of apples through the plastic bag a hard to drill into the nose. As she walked through the door with a handful of apples in one hand, she said, as if in a hurry to explain, “To celebrate my getting a job, one for each of us today – Huh?” The last word got stuck in her throat and turned raw into a question mark.

Shan Yanzhu was sitting on the sofa in the small living room, holding the remote control in one hand and a fat apple in the other, with a few teeth marks crisscrossed on it, seemingly biting into it with gusto.

But, where did this apple come from?

“Such a coincidence, you bought apples too.” Shan Yanxiu skimmed the bag in her hand, his tone light.

She saw a bunch of big red apples in the empty fruit basket on the dining table, each one a circle bigger than the ones she bought, “Where did these apples come from?” He shouldn’t have any money to buy apples, did they fall from the sky? Or did she not notice the apple tree growing right in front of her house?

“A neighbor gave it to me,” his eyes never left the screen, crunchy apples nibbled one bite after another in a very frank manner, “It’s the one downstairs.”

Ah, right, how could she forget that living on the first floor of the fragrant neighbor, since the last small within the incident can always see her from time to time, either come up to collect the public utility bills, or that is to say climbing stairs exercise, it is obvious that drunkenness is not wine. It seems that although the demon has a hole in her stomach, she can still make a living by her skin. Look at it, she said yesterday that she would only give him half an apple a day, but in the blink of an eye, someone immediately sent him an apple, and a huge bag. She hated to remember that he also said to himself earlier don’t just open the door to people, in turn he himself, see to have apples to eat on the gateway to open with a smile to accept, simply too unprincipled! A dead demon, before also did not see him so like to eat apples ah, now how to crave apples crave into this virtue.

“Want?” The man with no sense of decency continued to gnaw on the apple, and handed over one in his hand, “I accidentally washed an extra one.”

She was furious, clattered the bag of apples all piled into the sink to wash away, “To eat I also eat my own buy.”

He retracted his hand, a hidden smile in the bottom of his eyes, “Aren’t they all the same apples.”

She didn’t even bother to answer him, so she didn’t even cook. Anyway, after finding a job, the luxury of having apples for dinner was nothing to be trifled with once in a while. She washed her own apples and sat down on the single sofa to the side with them in her hands, crossed her feet and began to nibble on them one by one.

Single Yan Xiu looked at her that almost is a gulp of eating can not help but frown, “How do you wash so much, beware of ……” she did not wait for him to finish to interrupt, “I bought, I love to eat as much as eat as much. Of course, others send you, you love to eat as much as you want to eat.”

His eyes swept over her distended mouth, the corners of his eyebrows rose slightly, a very faint smile swept across the corners of his mouth, and soon disappeared.