Chapter 87

Zhang Ma buys vegetables much faster than Yang Yucan, she went to the market before she thought about what to do for the family at noon today, which one of the vegetables is good and cheap, she knows clearly, so she went to buy and leave, and still have a quarter of an hour to go to Huang Daxian to do a bow to Huang Daxian to bless her with a smooth day.

When she came back with a basket of vegetables, she met Auntie Ma at the door.

Auntie Ma sat in front of the door to move a small bench in the selection of vegetables, a look at the vegetables from the market to pick back the roots and leaves, although it does not look good, cleaned up the pot to cook, eat up the same.

Ms. Zhang politely greeted: “Busy?”

Her impression of Auntie Ma is not bad, from the fact that she goes to the market every day at dawn to pick up vegetables and garbage, and heard that she went to the persuasion to find a job, etc., all these things show that the Ma family is not a bad character, and does not intend to rely on the Zhu family to eat for life. As long as people are willing to stand on their own two feet, they are not bad.

Zhang Ma will no longer look askance at people’s families, meet also willing to give a smile. She can’t look down on people, at least they have a family of three, she is alone, but also under the eaves of others to eat, not as good as others.

Ma Da-ma hurriedly stood up: “You’re back.”

Zhang Ma hurriedly said, “You are busy with your own business, no need to be so polite, I’m just a servant. Did your son go out to look for work? How’s it going?”

Big Ma: “Pretty good, pretty good!”

She reaches out to help Zhang Ma bring her things upstairs, and Zhang Ma can tell she has something to say, so she opens the door and shouts for her to go in.

Yang Yuyan was in the middle of her study when she ran to the balcony with her novel in her arms to read it, and only came out when she heard the door slam, and Zhang Ma called out to her to say hello to Auntie Ma.

Yang Yuyan not only said hello, but also poured a cup of tea and brought it over.

“I don’t dare, I don’t dare.” Auntie Ma dared not sit on the sofa with the tea in her hand, and looked at Yang Yuyan, wanting to talk about the woman who came today but not knowing whether she should tell Zhang Ma or not.

What if this was a private matter of the Zhu family and Zhang Ma, a subordinate, couldn’t control it? It wouldn’t be very nice for her to say it in front of Mrs. Zhang. But Ms. Zhu might not be back at noon, and if she played cards until midnight, she would have to come back tomorrow to talk about it.

Fortunately, Yang Yuyan reacted, not letting Auntie Ma have a hard time, and said to Zhang Ma: “There was a person who came in today, holding a child and saying that he was looking for someone, but I didn’t let him in, and it was Auntie Ma who helped me to drive him away. Zhang Ma, ask Auntie Ma what’s going on.”

“Holding a child?” Zhang Ma didn’t think of it for a moment and asked Auntie Ma, “It’s the wrong person, isn’t it? Did he say who he was looking for?”

Auntie Ma hurriedly said, “It said he was looking for Missy and Missy Two, so I stopped him downstairs.”

Yang Yuyan sat on the sofa and listened again from the beginning.

That young woman holding a child wandered in front of the Zhu family building for half an hour before walking in, and as soon as she came in, she wanted to go straight upstairs.

Ma Auntie sitting at the front door every day, the neighbors are recognized familiar, immediately called her to stop, asked her to find who?

The street what scams are there, holding a child scam is not a few.

The most important thing is that she does not look like this woman has given birth to a child.

Zhang Ma moved a stool and made Ma sit in the kitchen, so Ma could sit down and chat with Zhang Ma while choosing vegetables.

“That little waist, it’s narrow.” Auntie Ma took the green onion and compared it with her two fingers: “The ass is small and tight, and it looks like she has never given birth.”

Zhang Ma: “Yo, did you find another one? That former aunt of ours is really good at what she does.”

Aunt Ma shook her head, “Once a woman goes downstream, it’s harder to climb up.” She had seen too many poor people in Persuasion.

Mrs. Zhang grunted coldly, “Who’s to blame? Some people can blame their own parents, their unruly brothers, and their cruel relatives. Some people can only blame themselves. I’m telling you, that restless schoolgirl on the street outside, if you’re not honest, this is what will happen to you in the future!”

Auntie Ma sighed long and hard, remembering Miss Jin, and said in disbelief, “What are these children thinking? After learning so much and having much better days than the next person, why do they always take the bull by the horns?”

She is unable to figure it out.

Zhang Ma: “They are all confused! Each one of them is tired of living a good life before they make a fuss. Starve them for three years, and they’ll have no more problems.”

Auntie Ma nods: “That’s true.”

Yang Yuyan held up her textbook and came over, “Zhang Ma, I want to eat persimmon cakes.” She stretched her head out and stood at the edge of the kitchen, bent on hearing what they were talking about.

Zhang Ma stood up and went to the cabinet to get a plate to get her persimmon cakes, saying as she did so, “It’s almost time to eat, and you want a snack. This can’t be eaten on an empty stomach.”

Yang Yuyan: “I’ve just eaten the cookies.”

She carries a plate with a piece of persimmon biscuit right on top and stands not far away while eating and eavesdropping.

Dame Ma, however, stopped talking because she saw Second Miss Yang, she helped Zhang Ma finish choosing the vegetables and then stood up and patted her clothes and said, “I’ll leave first, it’s time to go back to cooking.”

Zhang Ma hurriedly said, “Right, I’ve wanted to give you this for a long time. You can take it back and steam it, boil it, you can eat it all.” She picked up the pumpkin on the ground, cut half of it, and took the rest to Auntie Ma, “We can’t eat it all at home.”

When Auntie Ma saw such a good pumpkin, she wanted to decline, but the Ma family had already received too much kindness from the Zhu family, so there was no point in declining now, and their family also really needed food.

She took it and hugged it saying, “Many thanks, many thanks. Stay, stay.”

Zhang Ma still sent the person to the door before returning.

Yang Yuyan immediately followed her to the kitchen, stood at the door and asked, “Zhang Ma, that boy is Yang Xuhe’s son, right?”

Zhang Ma was cooking while talking to her with two minds.

“It should be. Coming specifically to look for your sisters, hmmm, thinking beautifully! This is a measure to find that your mom can’t do it, turning a corner to find your sisters to raise your brother, your mom had to step in for the sake of your sisters.” Zhang Ma sneered.

At lunchtime, this piece of news was considered to add a lot of color to the Zhu family’s table.

Zhang Ma also sat down at the table, Zhu Yanshu called out to her as she was about to leave, “You sit down too, and give me some advice on what to do.”

On the table was a plate of pumpkin cakes, fried to a golden color.

Yang Yuyan took a bite from a piece, the oil and sweet aroma was delicious. She gave Su Chunjun a wink, this is delicious!

Su Chunjun smiled and reached out his chopsticks to take a bite.

She said, “If people come and leave their children behind, can we send them to the orphanage?” This was her idea.

Zhu Yanshu glared at her, “Don’t you want a reputation? You’re just coming up with bad ideas!”

Yang Yuyan: “We can’t stay, can we? I’m not keeping one, and I’m not allowed to keep one at home!”

Yang Yucchan frowned: “I agree with Yan Yan. I don’t want to care about this child even if he is related to us. Does he have no father or no mother? How come it’s our sisters’ turn to be in charge?”

Zhu Yan Shu sighed, “The world is like this, who can do anything about it?” She turned to Zhang Ma and said, “There has to be a good place for this child.”

Zhang Ma nodded, “I know. Then I’ll go ask around tomorrow and see which family is willing to adopt a boy.”

Yang Yuyan and Yang Yucan were both stunned.

Giving a boy away?

When Yang Xuhe was still alive, all they thought about was pushing this child back, but they never thought of giving a child with both parents away.

Yang Yuyan hesitated for a moment and asked, ”Is this okay? Yang Xuhe aside, what if this child’s real mom comes looking for him later?”

Zhu Yanshu: “That woman doesn’t know where she is now? If she could raise it herself, this child wouldn’t have been pushed to us.”

Yang Yuchan asked, “Who was the person who carried the child here today?”

Yang Yuyan shook her head, “I don’t recognize her. It’s not that new wife surnamed Yang, nor is it that female student at that time.” She saw half a face, it was another person.

She asked Zhu Yanshu: “You know about that woman?”

Zhu Yanshu: “How do you not know? I knew all the students surnamed Yang at that time. Later, after the accident, I even asked Zhang Ma to inquire about it. You guys ask Zhang Ma.”

Yang Yuyan immediately turned her head, “Zhang Ma, tell me.”

Zhang Ma sighed: “You sisters don’t know, that female student surnamed Du, alas …… when the accident happened, her father was about to hang her.”

The Du family is a family of books. Du Chunxue’s father is an old reader, the family is not poor, but also with the rich can not be involved. Du Chunxue was able to study thanks to this world, and when her father saw that everyone let girls go to school and study, he let her do so as well. However, when Du Chunxue is studying outside, she still has to learn women’s honor and the three virtues from her mother at home.

Zhang Ma: “I went to her house and saw that she didn’t even have electric lights. Her father even said at the time that he was going to sue Surname Yang for abduction.”

The reason he didn’t sue was of course because he was afraid that his own daughter would retract her confession at the police station and say that she was in free love or something like that, then the Du family would lose even more face.

Mr. Du wanted to force his daughter to kill herself, but Du Chunxue refused to do so and eloped with Yang Xuhe. Mr. Du also wanted to sue, but the door of the police station is not easy to enter, he was also afraid of losing face, and finally had to threaten that there is no such daughter.

Zhang Ma went to the Du family to inquire, and also talked to the neighbors, that’s why she sympathized with Du Chunxue so much, and cursed Yang Xuhe even more, even abducting other people’s daughters.

Zhu Yan Shu said: ”Even if Ms. Du went back home, her father wouldn’t agree to her going back with the child. It’s unknown where she is now, and I’m only afraid that she’s also in a bad way.” She sighed.

Su Chunjun ate half of the plate of pumpkin pancakes and put down his chopsticks to join the conversation, “I can go tomorrow to inquire about where Mr. Yang is being held and how he is doing now.”

Zhu Yanshu: “Good, inquire to see what’s going on.”

The next day, the woman came as promised, still holding the child.

Zhang Ma didn’t go grocery shopping and purposely stayed behind to wait for her. When Auntie Ma saw her coming, she hurriedly said to her, “The people in this house are waiting for you today, so if you have something to do, you must hurry and say it.”

The woman was so grateful that she hugged her child with tears in her eyes, “Thank you so much, you are a good person.”

Dame Ma personally handed her over to Zhang Ma, and the two of them borrowed the Ma family’s small room to talk about their business, and Dame Ma was carried outside by Dame Ma, saying that she was letting him soak up the sun.

Ma Da Daimao then sat on a chair and sat in the doorway to bask in the sun, with Ma Daimao beside him to keep him company.

In the small room, Zhang Ma said, “Tell me anything beforehand, don’t hide it. Otherwise there will be no good consequences for you!”

The woman put the child on the bed and knelt down and kowtowed, “I am a lowly life, I only beg you to supersede me under you and save this child’s life!”

Mrs. Zhang: “What does this child have to do with you? What’s your relationship with that Yang? Where is the child’s real mother?”

The woman knelt down and said, “Mr. Yang and I are just friends, and I just happened to run into him that day. I was only going to ask Mr. Yang to write a few small lyrics, but then someone came to my door and said they wanted to ask Mr. Yang to talk. But not long after Mr. Yang left, someone came to the door! They turned the house into a mess, that nanny of the Yang family ran away in fear, and Mrs. Yang ……” she glanced at Zhang Ma and carefully changed her name: “Aunt Yang went up to stop them but didn’t, and was also taken by them, so I had to carry the child and leave. But how can I raise a child in the place where I live? It’s only been a few days, the building is all complaining, I take him also can’t do business, remembered that he also has two sisters, which had no choice but to come to the door. It’s really not that I’m insensitive and deliberately came to trouble your house!”

Zhang Ma was dumbfounded, “Even Miss Du was arrested? What did they arrest her for? Didn’t you go to the Du family to look for someone?”

The woman sighed: “I went to the Du family, but the Du family said they didn’t know Auntie Yang, and directly drove me away.”

Zhang Ma: “This is really …… alas!”

The woman said, “Do me a favor and give this child a way out!”

Zhang Ma looked at the child on the bed and said, “Since you say so, then I will take the child. But you can’t look for it again in the future! Whatever happens, it has nothing to do with you!”

The woman was shocked and cowed: “You, what are you going to do with this child?”

Mrs. Zhang: “You sent him here, so I can’t throw him away! I can only find him a good family, alas.” She leaned over to look at the child, patted him, and saw that the child was sleeping quite soundly, and between his eyebrows he really did look a bit like Yang Xuhe.

The woman cried out, but she also had no way to keep him, just these days to raise down, more or less born some feelings.

She hesitated for half a day, but still agreed: “You can find him a good family, that’s his good fortune.”

Zhang Ma nodded, “Having both parents is certainly a blessing. Alright, go away and don’t come back again.”

The woman picked up the child again and kissed him, put him down reluctantly, and turned to go out.