Chapter 71

Carrying a bag, Zhang Ma got on a yellow cart and headed straight to the south of the city. When the driver saw that she was wearing cloth clothes that were old but not patched, he politely talked to her, “Are you going to see your relatives, Grandma?”

Zhang Ma spat: “Foreign eight relatives, door to door debt collection, and not good no matter, do not care about his conscience can not get over it, control and afraid of him sticking up, it is really annoying ah.”

The driver sighed: “Is not it? The village people see me in the city to make a living, think I am rich, from time to time on the drag small support the old door rushed to me to borrow money, I have to care about their food, my own mother-in-law and children are still not enough to eat, which have the money to go to help them? But when people come to my door, I can’t just close the door and ignore them, then my reputation in the village will be ruined.”

At that moment, the driver saw a few yellow-clad gendarmes puffing on cigarettes by the side of the road, and immediately avoided them and turned to the opposite side of the street.

When he couldn’t see them anymore, the driver cursed, “These yellow-skinned dogs are scurrying on the street every day, and they won’t let us go without paying for it, and they only stop us who are incapable of doing anything.”

Zhang Ma held her bag and frowned, “You run faster, so as not to miss my business, I still have to rush home to cook.”

The car driver pedaled a little faster, the car passed through the gap of people and traffic and disappeared at the end of the road.

In the Zhu family building, Yang Yuyan sat beside Zhu Yanshu, boredly flipping through an old pictorial, but her mind was not on it.

Zhu Yanshu looked at the clock and sighed: “I haven’t gone to play cards for the past few days, my hands are itching.”

As soon as she opened her mouth, Yang Yuyan hurriedly interjected, “Mom, what are we going to do about the Ma family?”

Last time at the dinner table, Teacher Su told them that the Ma family’s current situation was really bad. After leaving the hospital, it was unknown how long Ma’s father would live now, and Ma’s mother didn’t know how her health was either. There is only one Ma Tianbao, copying letters every day, to earn a little money for the family to eat, he has only fifty dollars in his hand, all rely on this money to buy medicine for Ma’s father and mother to eat, and when this fifty dollars spent, Ma’s father and mother can only wait for death.

Zhu Yanshu closed the pictorial and sighed: “I’ve been thinking about it all night. Your sister’s side has already figured it out, and Ma Tianbao doesn’t seem to be a person with a malicious mind, so I think …… that after your sister starts school and goes back to school, I will lend the small house on the first floor of our house that puts miscellaneous things to the Ma family to live in.”

Yang Yuyan froze on hearing this, she stared at a pair of eyes, half a day before saying, “Really? Will it, will it ……”

Zhu Yan Shu laughed, “Are you wondering if it will cause trouble for the family? We used to be afraid that your sister would lose her head, eat out of the house, and in turn cause trouble for our family. Now that your sister has figured it out, she has no more worries about helping the Ma family. Without your sister, the Ma family is just an ordinary poor family, but also with your sister is a classmate, Ma Tianbao is also considered a talent, now pull him a hand, he slowed down after the future will also repay us. If he doesn’t repay us, we’ll have peace of mind. Otherwise see, do not reach out to help a hand, and then think about it later, this heart will be one more thing to torment us day and night.”

Moreover, in this world, it’s not safe to have a small family after all. This family of women, they usually borrowed the tenants of this building to strengthen their courage.

The Ma family now seemed to still have a good heart and conscience. Her lending them that hut for a while was the same as helping them save on housing costs, and Ma Tianbao was bound to be willing. Ma father can still survive for how long is not good to say, Ma mother is now a situation is also very difficult to say, to say an ominous word, Ma father and mother can not pass the next year do not know, at that time, Ma Tianbao body is not a drag, is a dragon is a worm to see it then.

Zhu Yanshu thought about it and felt that this kindness can be sent.

She asked Mrs. Zhang to go there today to find out how Ma’s mother is doing, to ask if Ma Tianbao is willing to borrow the Zhu family’s house, and to make it clear that he can’t use this opportunity to continue to pester Yang Yucan.

Only Zhang Ma can say this.

As for Yang Yucan’s side, Zhu Yanshu also wanted to take this opportunity to let her grow up completely. Otherwise, after Ma Tianbao left, she would recognize another Niu Tianbao and Zhou Tianbao, so what should she do? Does she still need to persuade her again and again?

Which have that free time!

Just this once, let her completely change the bad look at men!

Kindness and love are two different things.

Yang Yuyan saw Zhu Yanshu has made up her mind, even if she disapproves of it, she can’t do anything, she didn’t expect Zhu Yanshu’s courage is so big, and she can’t understand why she made this decision.

At seven o’clock in the evening, Su Chunjun returned to the Zhu family building in the night color. He knocked on the door familiarly and walked in, unclasping his scarf and coat on his arm.

Zhang Ma already greeted him and told him to go sit in the dining room, “I’ll go serve you dinner.”

Su Chunjun hurriedly thanked him and followed him into the kitchen, saying, “How dare I labor Zhang Ma? I’ll just serve it myself, what’s for dinner tonight?” He saw four or five purple eggplants on the floor and laughed, “This eggplant stir-fry is delicious.”

Zhang Ma lifted the lid of the pot, took chopsticks and brought out four large vegetable buns, served them on a plate and handed them to him, saying, “That eggplant is not yet cooked, it’s not good now, so let it sit for a couple of days before you eat it.”

Su Chunjun understood and whispered, “Missy went to buy it?”

Mrs. Zhang said in a low voice, “No, I don’t think so. Our family is now getting more and more of these dishes, and each one of them is inedible!” There’s a big pumpkin in the corner, I don’t even dare to cut it now, after cutting it, I can eat it for four or five days in a row.

“Look at the three people in this family, which one of them is willing to eat a pumpkin for four or five days?” Zhang Ma shook her head, “All of them are so picky, I dare to let them eat pumpkin every day?”

Su Chunjun held back his laughter. Zhang Ma gave him another bowl of soup, he carried the soup in one hand and the buns in the other, Zhang Ma carried the chopsticks and plates of ingredients for him, and the two of them headed to the dining room.

Yang Yuyan laughed at the sight of Su Chunjun and stood up to pick up the things in his hand, but he didn’t dare to give any of them to her, and even Zhang Ma shouted, “Little Ancestor, that bowl is very hot, don’t touch it! Don’t touch it! What if you drop it again?”

Yang Yuyan shrunk her hand, Su Chunjun let her go, put down the porridge and buns, and then sat down peacefully, and looked at the table, two of the four dishes are ready-made, so it can be seen that today Zhang Ma is very busy, no effort to do the dishes, so they have to be so fooled.

Yang Yuyan in front of the still bought buns, she does not hate to eat buns at night, on the contrary, feel novelty.

Zhu Yanshu ate or Zhang Ma’s hand-made yellow fish noodles, Ms. Zhu a day, three times a day, necessary to eat fresh noodles. He heard Zhang Ma said, seems to be because Zhu Yan Shu when pregnant with a child got a bad stomach, can not eat rice, can only eat noodles, but steamed buns she did not like, only noodles can swallow.

In front of Yang Yucan are also buns, the same as Yang Yuyan.

Su Chunjun now knew where the vegetable buns in front of her came from, it must be from the same store.

The Zhu family didn’t have the rule of not talking about food, but they wouldn’t talk about business at the table either, it was all small talk. Zhu Yanshu picked out all the fish thorns, slurped the milky fresh soup and sighed: “Why is this fish getting smaller and smaller?”

Zhang Ma busy said, “He sent all small fish today, not many big ones, I even scolded him, it’s not like I don’t pay, if it’s like this again, I won’t buy his fish, he said a lot of good words, said he will definitely send good fish tomorrow, and if the fish is no good again, he won’t take my money.”

Yang Yuchan said, “I went to buy vegetables today, and I heard the food buyer say that recently the gendarmes on the street have become more numerous, and they are selling vegetables badly.”

Yang Yuyan was concentrating on watching Mr. Su eat the buns, sniffing, she turned her head and said, “I also went to the park with mom today and saw that there were gendarmes at the park entrance, and inside the park as well.”

Zhang Ma: “There are also on the street, a lot of them.”

Mr. Su was busy eating his third bun at the moment and had no time for him.

The four people at the table looked at him and had to ask him to speak again later.

Zhu Yan Shu frowned and said, “The newspaper didn’t mention anything about what’s going on lately, I’ve been reading the newspaper for days, and there’s nothing written on it.”

Teacher Su only had one bun left and finally had the effort to empty his mouth to speak, he drank a few mouthfuls of soup and swallowed it, smoothing his throat before saying, “What’s in the newspaper will be a few days late, I’ve heard that it’s about a couple of big inspections.”

Yang Yuyan hurriedly asked, “Inspections of what?”

Teacher Su held a grain of soy sauce melon, “Checking everything, focusing on checking the □□□ door and the school.” He said to Yang Yuyan, “When you see Prof. Dai tomorrow you have to remind him about this.”

Yang Yuyan worried, “Is it because of the student movement? Are they going to arrest students again?”

Su Chunjun laughed, “Students exercise every day, as long as they don’t take to the streets, they’re fine. Don’t worry, the school has experience in dealing with this, but I’m just afraid that some people will get mixed up in it and agitate, and act on the students’ behalf.”

Yang Yuchan does not think that all students are dedicated to public service, there must be people with ulterior motives, but the government’s actions are indiscriminate arrests.

He looked at Yang Yucan for a few moments and didn’t say anything.

Yang Yuyan noticed, and after dinner openly dragged Su Chunjun to the room to help her “cramming Russian”.

Zhu Yanshu said that she was tired these days and didn’t care about this pair of young men and women, she ate dinner and went back to her bedroom.

After dinner, she went back to her bedroom. Yang Yucan, the older sister, was uneasy and chased her to the house to invite Yang Yuyan and Su Chunjun to study in the living room.

Yang Yuchan: “I want to go back to my room to write, there is no one in the living room, it is spacious and bright, you go to the living room to learn.”

She first took all of Yang Yuyan’s books, paper and pens to the living room, so Yang Yuyan and Su Chunjun had to switch to the living room.

In the living room, with Zhang Ma from the kitchen poking her head in from time to time, and Yang Yuchan purposely leaving the door open to “monitor”, Su Chunjun, even though he was full of thieves, did not have the guts to do so, and really tutored Yang Yuyan in Russian.

He asked her to open her notebook and copy the letters one by one with him, once in handwriting and then again in writing, comparing the two to deepen her memory.

Yang Yuyan began to lose focus after ten minutes of copying, and openly wanted to chat with the teacher in class.

Teacher Su has long been used to this.

She quietly told him about Zhu Yanshu’s intention to invite the Ma family to stay at her home, saying, “I don’t understand, does it have to come to this?” Can’t you send money and things?

Su Chunjun understood what Zhu Yanshu was thinking as soon as he heard it, something that maybe Yang Yuyan and Yang Yucan didn’t understand, but he could. If he was in Zhu Yanshu’s position, he would probably also take this opportunity to show favor to Ma Tianbao.

Zhu Yanshu treated Ma Tianbao just as he had treated him back then.

Strange goods.

Even though he and Ma Tianbao were not yet on the level of the Beginning Emperor, Zhu Yanshu still decided to subsidize them, and hurry up and place his bets while they were still up.

If he didn’t fall in love with Miss Yang, now only still just a tenant in the Zhu family building, then Zhu Yanshu’s love of funding him for several years back then, when he became a small section officer in the Finance Bureau, Zhu Yanshu had already won the bet.

Because he could already repay Zhu Yanshu after entering the government.

Zhu Yanshu also had another path. Just like her relationship with Mrs. Liao and Lord Liao. He could give Zhu Yanshu some convenience in the Finance Bureau whether he did well or not.

But after he fell in love with Second Miss Yang, it was hard to say whether Zhu Yanshu would win or lose.

The same was true for Ma Tianbao. If he hadn’t fallen in love with Miss Yang, then he would have been a worthy investment. The fact that he came from a humble background was nothing, he was a university student and that was enough.

Ms. Zhu’s financial support might go down the drain, or there might be a white wolf, but every bet she made meant that the future of the Zhu family’s mother and daughter might have an extra insurance policy, an extra path to follow.

However, the Zhu Family’s family was not thick right now, so Ms. Zhu was very careful and cautious with every bet she placed. And she wouldn’t give unlimited money and energy.

She seemed to be receiving the Ma family at her doorstep now, but in fact, all she was paying for was a room that she didn’t use. For the Ma family however, it meant that they could save two or three dollars a month in regular expenses.

Compared to the current situation of having Zhang Ma deliver food every day, when they really picked up the people, the expenses might not be greater than now. Because now is not to see the bottom, pick up the back after the contrary will have the bottom. After all, under the premise of lending out the house as a great favor, the Zhu family doesn’t have to pay more to get the Ma family’s gratitude.

And to Ms. Zhu’s character, will certainly still help the Ma family some food and drink, some daily small things will also give their family more convenience.

In this way, as long as the Ma family is not too heartless, will not forget the Zhu family to treat their family’s benefits.

If Ma Tianbao doesn’t make a good living, the higher he goes and the better he lives, the more he will repay the Zhu family.

Su Chunjun thought for a while and said to Yang Yuyan, “The Jin family will definitely continue to send money to the Ma family after this period of time. If the Jin family doesn’t send it, that Wang Gongzi will definitely come back to Ma Tianbao again.”

Yang Yuyan reacted, “Are you saying …… that cousin of Miss Jin will continue to invest in Ma Tianbao? The Jin family has harmed the Ma family to such an extent that he still has the face to come?”

Su Chunjun laughed, “His surname is not Jin. The Jin family’s vendetta against the Ma family can’t be counted against him.”

College students aren’t that easy to find. One also has to be able to get involved with the Jin family, and one also has to be able to owe a favor to the Jin family or his Wang Gongzi. Even looking at the previous effort put into Ma Tianbao, the Jin family and Duke Wang wouldn’t give up on Ma Tianbao that simply. The only reason they didn’t come over now was because the Jin family and Wang Gongzi couldn’t care less right now.

It’s not like the Ma family will suddenly skyrocket, the longer the time passes, the more miserable the Ma family is, the more useful the Jin family and Wang Gongzi will be when they extend a helping hand.

Right now, it’s like Ms. Zhu also sees Ma Tianbao’s future and intends to intercept him.