Chapter 74

Yang Yucan in the vegetable market hard work to buy a good dish, carrying a heavy dish pocket to the street, but four sides can not look at a pull a yellow car, she waited for a long time, fingers are strangled acid.

Seeing that the sun is already high in the sky, she has to put the vegetables home first, and then go to school to pick up Yang Yuyan, really can not wait any longer, can only carry the heavy vegetables to walk back.

She panting, two arms are too sore to lift, fingers are strangled to lose feeling, which finally returned home. When she walked through the front door, she saw two or three tenants standing in the foyer with their arms wrapped around each other, all with their heads hooked in one direction.

Seeing her return, the tenants came to her and asked: “Missy, this small room is also rented out? How much is it a month?”

“Aigoo, didn’t you say you wouldn’t rent it? If I had known, we would have rented this one!”

“It’s less than ten dollars, right? That’s a bargain!”

Yang Yuchan didn’t dare to say a word more, saying “let’s go, let’s go” and squeezed in, then saw Ma Tianbao dressed like a laborer, sweating like a pig. Zhang Ma stood next to the door of the small warehouse on the first floor, directing him: “You don’t use so much water, ah, wring the mop a little, or the floor won’t be dry by tomorrow!”

Zhang Ma saw her and bluffed, hurriedly making eyes for her to go upstairs, also blocking Ma Tianbao’s line of sight from him.

Yang Yucan was hesitant, her feet slowed down a step, and she was pushed and shoved up the stairs by Zhang Ma, all the way to her home.

Into the house, Zhang Ma closed the door, before going to pick up the dishes in her hand, took over and hurriedly opened to see: “Big sister, why are you coming back now? What did you buy?”

Luckily, the dishes were not bought wrongly, and they were also bought fairly clean and fresh, Zhang Ma sighed in relief, mentioning the dishes to the kitchen and coming out to say, “Elder sister, you hurry to pick up Yanyan, I’ll clean these up.” She said, “Oh, by the way, don’t talk to your classmate when you go downstairs! I’ve also told him not to talk to you!”

Yang Yucchan said, “Zhang Ma, we are classmates, it’s nothing to say hello, no need to be so ……”

Zhang Ma called out, “Big sister! He didn’t pay a penny for the room! Don’t you see how many people are gathered there today? Your mom did a good deed and gave the house to them for free. If people know about it, what if everyone comes to the door and wants to live in the house for free? There are a lot of poor people in the world, not just the Ma family!”

Yang Yucchan: “Who would come to the door and ask for a free house?”

Zhang Ma rolled her eyes, “If you don’t want to live here for free, what if your mom is forced to reduce the rent? Nowadays, everyone is raising their rents, but your mom hasn’t raised her rent in ten years, so she’s already a Bodhisattva! Unfortunately, people don’t appreciate it and only want to take advantage of her. If people knew that the Ma family lived in that house for free without paying a penny, look how many people would gossip behind her back.”

Yang Yu Cicada was lectured by Zhang Ma, and had to admit that Zhang Ma had thought it through, and it was she who had thought it through simplistically.

“I know I’m wrong, I’ll be careful not to say anything.” Yang Yucchan said.

Zhang Ma didn’t believe her, and urged again and again, “I’ve talked to Ma Tianbao, and told him that the Zhu family’s house was given to him for free because you are classmates, and their family is pitiful, but there are a lot of people renting in the Zhu family’s building, and your mother and daughter depend on this for their meals, so that their family mustn’t say anything about this, or else pissing off the tenants would be to cut off your family’s financial path! That would be revenge, and by then, their family won’t be able to live in the house for nothing!”

Zhang Ma made it sound so serious, of course Ma Tianbao didn’t dare to make a single mistake. He promised Mrs. Zhang that after he moved in, he would not reveal to anyone that he and Yang Yucan were classmates, and that the two of them had once been in love. Fortunately, the last time he came to the door was at night, no one saw him, and he was able to hide it. His parents will not say anything.

It’s just not enough for the Ma family to promise not to tell, but Yang Yucan and Yang Yuyan also need to give a good account of themselves. Zhang Ma thought that Yang Yuyan was fine, but Yang Yucan was most likely to spill the beans.

She grabbed Yang Yucicang and finished her confession twice, saying that Yang Yucicang’s ears were getting calloused, and on the pretext that she was going to pick up Yang Yoyan and come back for lunch, Zhang Ma let her off the hook.

Zhang Ma glanced at the clock and panicked, ”Yo, I need to hurry up and cook! It’s all this time! You go quickly too.”

Yang Yucchan grabbed her purse, remembered that there was no yellow cab on the way back, and worried, “I can’t even get a yellow cab from the vegetable market, I don’t know what’s wrong.”

Zhang Ma: “There are cars on our side of the house, just go out and call for one. Who cares what’s wrong, just ask Mr. Su when he comes back at night.”

Yang Yucan descended the stairs, and when she reached the first floor, she saw more people gathered around, her footsteps slowed down, and she slowly walked over, and saw Ma Tianbao in the crowd, he was bored with his work, and he didn’t talk to anyone.

His hair was full of gray, as if it had not been washed for many days. He was wearing an old yellow and gray shirt, like one of the school uniforms, but it was already dirty. Underneath was a pair of pants with holes, all dust and dirt, with the legs pulled up, shoes were cloth shoes, not the leather shoes he used to wear, I don’t know if they didn’t fit or not, the toes of the shoes were torn and tattered and shuffled in the back.

When he saw her, he stiffened, immediately avoided the line of sight, looked down and did not look at her.

The people at the stairway made way.

The people surrounding him were all women from the tenants’ homes, and it was time to cook the midday meal, so they all gathered around to see what was going on.

The small warehouse is about the width of the corridor, no windows, no lights before, now a dim yellow light like a firefly hanging inside.

The small warehouse has not been vacated, there are still several large boxes inside, these boxes Zhang Ma can not move, are called Ma Tianbao moved upstairs, Ma Tianbao is moving a large nanmu box, bending down to work without talking, like a mute.

Probably because he looked at Yang Yucan, a woman pointed at Yang Yucan and said with a smile, “This is our first lady, there is also a second lady, recognize, don’t be offended if you don’t recognize her later.”

Yang Yucan’s face was stiff, her mouth was stiff, her hands and feet were stiff, she didn’t say anything, she just sped up her steps to pass through the crowd.

As she walked by, Ma Tianbao called out to her with a voice like a mosquito, “Big Miss”.

Yang Yu Cicada’s heart was like a stone that sank, hitting the ground with a muffled sound. Her ears ringing like a drum, walked to the street to hear the sounds of the world, the sound of people in the traffic, the sound of car whistles, and a yellow car to see her standing there to come over to solicit business: “Miss, take a car?”

Yang Yucchan hurriedly got into the car, “Going to the university.”

The driver of the yellow car immediately ran up cheerfully, “Okay! You sit tight!”

Her eyes were dry, no tears, but her heart felt an unspeakable pain.

Her love with Ma Tianbao, ended.

When Yang Yuyan saw Yang Yucan, she wanted to introduce her to Shi Wuwei, who has been taking care of her today, and also wanted to talk about the two books of French poetry lent to her by Prof. Dai, but she measured Yang Yucan’s face as a bit stiff, and she was also a bit silent, so she swallowed all these small talk back, and kept quiet until she went back to her home.

When she saw Ma Tianbao on the first floor, she knew why Yang Yucan’s face was so ugly.

On the first floor, there were many people watching, not only the tenants, but also the neighbors next to them, all of them had nothing to do and came around.

Seeing Yang Yuchan picking up Yang Yuyan back, they all took the initiative to greet her. Although the Zhu family’s mother and daughter didn’t have anything special to offer in terms of food and clothing, their family was still considered one of the few people in the area who could be called “Mrs.” and “Miss”.

Although there is only one maid, the family does not have a car, wear are cloth, a year to do a new clothes, Zhu Yan Shu body jewelry ten years has not been changed, Yang Yu Yan and Yang Yucicang sisters are nothing, head and hands are bare, last year New Year’s Eve to see the two sisters ear on the silver nails, silver it.

The boss’s wife who owns a store and sells cloth will also wear a big gold bracelet on her hand.

So “Mrs.”, “Miss” and so on, but also with a few mocking meaning.

Neighbors and neighbors, see the Zhu family will also pack out the small warehouse rented out, have speculated whether the Zhu family lack of money.

So the tenants began to worry about whether to raise the rent, after all, they are now the rent has not risen for ten years. Of course, ten years ago, the Zhu family’s rent was not cheap at all! Back then, it was the most expensive in this area!

It just didn’t go up for ten years, and now it’s become the cheapest instead.

When a tenant saw Yang Yucan and Yang Yuyan, he immediately said in a loud voice, “This house, it hasn’t been repaired in ten years! The floor in my house is buckling in several places!”

“The walls are peeling off!”

“The walls are moldy!”

“The closet has termites!”

Each one of them complained, implying that although the Zhu family’s house hadn’t increased in price, it was already very old, and they were living uncomfortably, so the current price was worthy of the house, and it wouldn’t be appropriate to increase the price any further.

There are also people who think that Yang Yuyan is young and not strict with her mouth, pulling her down and asking: “How much is this small room that your family has rented out?”

Yang Yuyan blurted out, “Ten dollars.”

Yang Yuchan did not even pull, stared too late.

She didn’t want the tenant who asked to oh out, “Ten dollars oh?” She exchanged unexplained glances with the people behind and around her, as if there was some kind of high-end meeting going on in their eye contact.

Another person also realized that Yang Yuyan was very coaxing, and hurriedly followed suit, “Does it count the fire-fighting fee, water fee, electricity fee and sanitation fee?”

Yang Yuyan rolled her eyes, “Of course it doesn’t count! Ten dollars is the room charge, that’s all to be counted separately!”

Yang Yuchan was surprised to find that many of those who had been gabbing around Ma Tianbao had happy faces and were not so noisy.

Yang Yuyan carried her school bag and opened the way with it, saying, “Uncles and aunts, let us go up, I’m starving, don’t ask our sisters about this kind of thing, we can’t make the decision, ask my mom.”

The people at the stairway hurriedly got out of the way, and a woman lovingly touched Yang Yuyan’s hair: “Look at this little thing of yours, it’s really cute! Quickly go up and let your family’s mom make you some delicious food.”

The two sisters went upstairs through the crowd, and the people downstairs dispersed.

When Ma Tianbao’s ears were finally cleared, he was about to breathe a sigh of relief when a middle-aged man with a dry, thin face approached him and whispered to him, “You’ve been cheated! You can rent this room for as little as six dollars. For ten dollars, it’s a big room, where you can at least put a bed, a closet, and a table. He winked at the backs of the dispersing tenants, “They thought you were cheaper than they were, but when they heard you were more expensive than they were, that’s why they left.” He said, “I have a store outside, my house is cheaper, if you go to my house, I’ll only charge you five dollars a month, how’s that?”

Ma Tianbao pushed the last big box and said dryly, “Make way.”

He refused to pay any attention to the man, and the middle-aged man was so angry that he cursed him as “crazy” and left.