Chapter 167

Before dawn, Ma Tianbao got up and prepared to go out to buy food.

In the morning, the gendarmes were not up yet, so it was the safest time to go out to buy food.

When Ma Tianbao went to school, he was never afraid of being stopped by the gendarmes, but now that his leg is not working well, even if he dresses well, the hooligans and the gendarmes will come to look for trouble unless he rides in a car.

The weasel always bites the sick duck.

If a person is unlucky, everyone will fall into the well.

Ma Tianbao woke up early and left the house, fully dressed. Auntie Ma sent him out: “Buy more radish, corn can also be, onion is also gone, ginger still have, but this can be put, come across also buy more it.”

Nowadays, if you go out with money, you have to buy more of everything, because you don’t know when it will be cut off and you won’t be able to buy it.

Ma Tianbao promised, said: “Mr. Su at home to eat two meals, yesterday’s package of vegetable wontons for Mr. Su under it.” Half of the wrapped vegetable wontons were filled with fresh vegetables, and the remaining half were filled with pickled vegetables. It can’t be helped, fresh vegetables can’t be bought. There wasn’t enough meat either, and putting in pickled meat tasted too heavy.

Auntie Ma was worried that Mr. Su wouldn’t be able to eat it. Mr. Su is not an ordinary person now, and she is afraid of offending him.

Hearing her son say this, she said, “Then I’ll cook another pot of congee for Mr. Su and fry a few eggs.”

The two of them spoke in a low voice, afraid of disturbing Mr. Su sleeping upstairs.

Inside the house, Mr. Ma coughed, breathless.

Auntie Ma hurriedly went in and helped Mr. Ma to turn over and lie on his side, so that he would not be unable to breathe with the phlegm stuffed in his throat.

The first thing I’ve noticed is that the man’s body is not as sick as it used to be, but he’s got all sorts of little problems. He can’t eat, he can’t urinate, he can’t breathe, he can’t speak.

Ma Tianbao and Ma Da Ma can only try to take care of, now this time of the doctor are not easy to find, back to the pharmacy to take a look, but also can only prescribe some fire-clearing medicine for him to eat, the doctor sighed and said, “Prepare for the aftermath of the bar, it’s almost time.”

Ma Tianbao with money, the money to the doctor: “You think about it.”

The doctor pushed the money back: “Alas, I treat the disease, not life. This money to stay to do it, will not be able to pass the year, I say a word of offense, can survive ninety months are God’s blessing, after the summer will not be able to pass the winter. Go back and get ready.”

This was a good doctor, and was praised by the neighbors. He prescribed some ma zeosan, said with a little less medicine boiled for the old man to drink, let him sleep, he is now like this, waking up instead of torturing people, sleep will be more comfortable.

Ma Tianbao carried the man back and told Auntie Ma what happened.

Auntie Ma cried immediately, and then worried that if Mr. Su knew about it, he would kick them out.

Ma Tianbao didn’t understand, and Auntie Ma said, “Oh, it’s bad luck for people to die in the house! That’s what people say. Otherwise, I’ll take your father to live in the countryside first, and I’ll come back after I send him away, and you’ll stay here alone to take good care of Mr. Su.”

Unconsciously, Big Mother Ma also accepted this matter of Ma Tianbao being a subordinate. Although she still occasionally chanted that he should find a good job after college to make a name for himself, it seemed to have become a dream, and dreams are just dreaming words, and when you get up, you know that they won’t come true. When the present at least have the master to send money, do not worry about life.

Ma Tianbao stopped Ma Dame from moving, but first told Su Chunjun. He thought, Mr. Su usually doesn’t seem so cold, if Mr. Su doesn’t mind, Dame Ma will suffer one less time and have to be uprooted until she dies. If Mr. Su didn’t mind, they could think of another way.

The first time I heard of this, I said that I would find a foreign doctor to take a look at it, and then I brought back a kind of medicine for Mr. Ma to take, and after I took it, I was able to urinate, and the phlegm was not so much. The doctor said that in the future, don’t let Mr. Ma eat so much, eat a little less, don’t put too much salt.

The first time I saw this was when I was a student at the University of California at Berkeley, where I was a student at the University of California at Berkeley, and the second time I was a student at the University of California at Berkeley. Now that the foreigner doctor does not allow to eat, Master Ma can only drink thin soup, and even the noodles can not swallow.

If you can buy more fresh vegetables and meat, you will be able to eat more, and you will be able to survive for a few more days.

The first thing I’d like to do is to get out of the house, and then I’d like to get out of the house.

The first thing I noticed was that there were a lot of people on the road, all of whom were in a hurry, just like Ma Tianbao. They don’t talk to anyone, they don’t look up at anyone, they just walk their own way with their heads down, and if there are a few people coming from the other side, they’ll just go around them from a distance.

Ma Tianbao is also slipping the wall to go, like a thief to the alleys, looking for that sell vegetables wrench car or carry vegetables into the city farmers.

Even if the world is bad now, everyone needs to eat. Farmers collect vegetables, sent to the city to sell, more or less can earn a little, the more the center of the city, the more money, people here are not much bargaining, than in the city outside to sell better.

Ma Tianbao wearing a half coat and pants, although dressed in ordinary, but his clothes have no patches, people look good, unlike the appearance of no food.

He saw a person carrying a sack without shoes, guessing that it is a farmer, quickly and carefully walked over, a few steps away and asked in a low voice: “Do you have vegetables?”

The farmer also stopped when he saw him and looked up and down before whispering, “There are radishes and green onions!”

Ma Tianbao hurriedly said, “I want I want!” While pulling money out of his pocket.

The farmer said, “No money, silver dollars! Give me one silver dollar, and you can have the whole bag!”

Ma Tianbao of course, also with silver yuan, he is now learning smart, let the farmer in the sack of turnips and onions are poured out, and then pick back – because he previously bought back a bag containing three pieces of wet wood blocks.

It is because he did not open on the spot to see, only to go home to realize, ate a dumb loss.

This farmer is not cheating, but he is also afraid of being robbed, carrying the sack around for half a day, before finding a place that feels safe, will be in the sack of radish are poured out, and a large handful of green onions.

Farmer: “It’s all true, I didn’t lie to you!”

Ma Tianbao: “You load it up.” Then took out a silver dollar for the farmer to see.

The farmer put the radish and green onion back, and tied a knot before handing it to Ma Tianbao, took the silver dollar and put it in his teeth and bit it before hiding it in his bosom, and asked, “Do you want anything else? If you want, I’ll send it to you.”

Ma Tianbao asked, “What else do you have?”

Farmer: “There are still two dozen eggs, we don’t eat that at home. There are also some green vegetables, I’ll fill another sack for you, and you can give me another silver dollar!”

Ma Tianbao: “I want it! You come tomorrow, a little earlier than today, and we’ll meet at the entrance of the alley in front of us, okay?”

Farmer: “Yes! It’s a deal, you can’t not come!”

Ma Tianbao: “It’s a deal.”

Ma Tianbao carrying a sack of heavy radish back, the road rested four or five times, tired waist is almost broken.

He walked to the Zhu family building door, but saw a familiar car.

The person in the car saw him and rushed down, calling out to him affectionately, “Tianbao!”

Ma Tianbao, however, had a dry mouth and his tongue felt like it was frozen as he dryly shouted, “Da Shao Wang.”

Wang Wanchuan head bandage has been removed, he in order to look good, even gauze do not want, then beaten fortunately protect the head and face, although the forehead corner of the lips have some scars, after a few days is not too see out.

He did not see any foreigners, also do not put on airs, see Ma Tianbao back sacks on the front to help, hard to help him to the sack of radish lifted into the Zhu family building.

Auntie Ma was stunned when she opened the door and couldn’t speak.

Wang Wanchuan quickly said, “Sister Ma, I came to see Tianbao and you.” Saying this, he took out a paper bag from his chest pocket and put it in Big Mother Ma’s hand, thickly.

Ma Tianbao quickly said, “Mom, we can’t take it.”

In the past, he was willing to accept Wang Wanchuan’s money because at that time, Master Ma and Auntie Ma didn’t know whether they were alive or dead, and he needed medical expenses. Later, when Big Mother Ma woke up, she thought that it might be possible for her to return to the Golden Mansion as a servant again – they were unwilling to be kicked out.

Even if Ma Tianbao was against it, he didn’t dare to say it in front of the then Auntie Ma and Master Ma, who by then had already realized that money is life, and without money there is no life.

In order to survive, it seemed that ambition and self-respect were unimportant.

Now that he dared to refuse, it was because they were now holding the Zhu family’s rice bowl.

To put it shamelessly, if they were to be subordinates, they would be the Zhu family’s subordinates, not the Jin family’s.

Auntie Ma didn’t hesitate much before handing the money back to Wang Wanchuan with both hands, her voice was like a mosquito: “Young Wang, we are now underlings of someone else’s family, it’s not good to accept your money anymore, sorry.”

Wang Wanchuan today is to send money, today sent money, tomorrow is good to come to ask Ma Tianbao introduction, the day after tomorrow is good to come to send people ah!

Wang Wanchuan said to Ma Tianbao in a serious manner, “Tianbao, you are not an old thinker, and I am not either! I came, not the meaning of the Jin family, it is for the sake of our former friends. Alas, perhaps you are blaming me for not taking care of you during this period of time, but it’s not that I don’t want to come, but I can’t spare the time, you don’t know yet, do you? Something happened to the Jin family, alas!”

Hearing that something had happened to the Jin family, the Ma family naturally had mixed feelings.

To say that they were worried for the old master would be too psychotic.

But to say to gloat, it seems a bit unethical.

But Ma Tianbao and Ma Da Ma were willing to listen to Wang Wanchuan’s next words.

Wang Wanchuan also didn’t mind the Jin family’s family scandal being exposed.

The first is that after the Ma family left, Master Jin wanted to give Miss Jin to the Japanese, Miss Jin was reluctant and broke her leg, but Master Jin still refused to change his mind, and in the end gave Miss Jin to the Japanese as a concubine.

Ma Auntie sighed heavily, Ma Tianbao’s feelings are even more unusual, to say that he does not hate Miss Jin is impossible, to see her fall into such a situation, and can not stop sympathizing.

Wang Wanchuan, this cousin also showed sympathy for Miss Jin: “Alas, aunt is really cruel, I didn’t even know when Julie was sent away! I didn’t even know when Julie was sent away! It was only when I came back that I heard the person had been sent there. Later aunt went to see julie, said julie is learning Japanese, living okay, that Japanese still quite respect julie.”

Aunt Ma put her hands together: “God bless!”

Wang Wanchuan smiled bitterly: “But Julie now single-mindedly hate aunt and uncle. Auntie not to mention, auntie went to see her several times, she did not see. Auntie cries at home every day.”

Mrs. Kim was a watery person, and she wept from time to time. This was true when she was in front of her close friends, when she was in front of her daughter, when she was in front of her subordinates, and when she was in front of Master Jin, she would cry even more.

Ma Da Ma has seen Mrs. Jin cry miserably, and used to sympathize with her for being bullied by her aunt and by Master Jin. But that day, it was also Mrs. Jin crying while letting people press her on the steps, ordered her to kneel, kneeling is not good to fall down, how she begged for forgiveness, Mrs. Jin is able to cry more miserable than her more pitiful.

Now Ma Da-ma heard Mrs. Jin crying at home again, can not help but a few points less sympathetic.

Wang Wanchuan said: “Half a month ago, my aunt went out in a car and never came back, the car was not found, the driver and bodyguard are gone. Alas, now the family is really a mess.”

Wang Wanchuan really looks like he came to find a friend to narrate his suffering, talking about the messy situation of the Jin family, and then saying that he now has to go to the company to watch over it, and also to find Master Jin, and also to appease Mrs. Jin, busy and hard and scenic, and even hinted that he wants to ask Ma Tianbao to go and help out.

“I am the less trustworthy man now. Tianbao it would be great if you could help me, when I’m running outside, you answer the phone for me in the office, that’s fine!” Wang Wanchuan spoke with such sincerity that even Auntie Ma was moved and looked at him eagerly.

Ma Tianbao, on the contrary, had an extra heart and said, “I’m working for Mr. Su now, so I can only say sorry.”

He thought to himself that the Zhu family’s mother and three daughters were all women, with no money or power on them, and were irrelevant to any major events. But Mr. Su is now in the limelight, whether Wang Wanchuan came to the door really for the sake of an old friend or for the sake of Mr. Su, one will know once he tries.

Sure enough, as soon as he mentioned Mr. Su, Wang Wanchuan immediately changed his tone, and did not see the disappointment, he said: “Ah ah, so it is! Then I am not good to force people! Alas, you are a handsome talent, now you can devote yourself to Liangzhi is also considered to have learned something.”

Ma Tianbao then understood.

Wang Wanchuan came in order to find Mr. Su.

In the end, Wang Wanchuan left the stack of dollars and left.

Ma Tianbao collected the dollars and when Su Chunjun came back in the evening, he followed him upstairs, knocked on the door, put the dollars on the table, and said, “Mr. Su, Wang Wanchuan from the Golden Mansion came to see me today and delivered this money.”

Su Chunjun turned around, frowned and said, “…… Is that right?”