Chapter 97: Hawthorn (1/2)
For the next few days, Tang Jinyu helped Ji Yuanjie settle down for a part-time job in the Su Zhai restaurant. Although Xia Ye was strict, he still let go and helped them in private.
Tang Jinyu taught Ji Yuanjie for a few days at Su Zhai. The job was much better compared to the odd jobs that Ji Yuanjie had looked for before. Although he concentrates on working for a few hours, he can free up a lot of time to do other things and receive a lot of money.
Ji Yuanjie learned very quickly. He has a better understanding than Guo Xiaohu, and he was serious in doing things. He learned decently with Tang Jinyu in the afternoon. The next day, he gradually eliminates the need for others, and is able to do it independently.
Tang Jinyu didn't worry about him. He came to accompany him for a few days. He was already familiar with the chef here, and everyone knew that these children were good and hardworking students, and treated them very well.
Tang Jinyu talked to Xiao Ji about the lawyer. Ji Yuanjie felt grateful, but he was a little tired and said, ”Last time I also found a lawyer for my family and did everything I could. The truck driver also has it very difficult at home. He brought something for my dad when no one was around, and My mom wanted to sue the driver and his family for coming…”
Xiao Ji said very tactfully.
The truth was much more than what he said. The truck driver originally thought Ji Yuanjie’s father was slightly injured, so he came to see him and bought some fruits and gifts, but when he saw that he was hurt so badly, plus the Ji’s family, hundreds of boxes of valuable drinks in that van were all smashed. The payment alone was a lot of money, and it made him so scared that he couldn’t be found.
The business of Ji Yuanjie's family has not been very good for the past two years. Ji's mother wants to buy a batch of goods and switch to selling wine, but who would have thought that something like this would happen suddenly.
Ji Yuanjie’s father was still in the unit, and the unit has organized donations, but many people make irresponsible remarks about this. After all, his family moved out of the apartment building a few years ago. At that time, they said that their family had made a fortune, and didn't give them a dime, and now they needed to ask for donations when something went wrong. After receiving those thousands of donations, Ji's mother was not less talked about, but either way, it did help the mother and son duo during their most difficult times, and when the medical expenses ran out and it was difficult to borrow from their relatives, and Ji's mother never let Ji Yuanjie follow, but Xiaoji knew it in his heart.
Ji’s mother was a very strong person, otherwise she would not be the first batch to come out to make money in her own small business. She gave all the people an IOU who she had borrowed money from, and planned to pay them back slowly. But even so, she was still scolded for this, and she gradually didn’t say anything to them.
The house happened to be leaking during a rainy night, and now the Ji family has not only tasted the warmth and coldness of human feelings, but also has been quarreling with the truck driver's family.
The wife of the other party came over and cried for a while holding a three or four-year-old child, and smashed a kettle in his house. She pointedly said that their family had caused her to lose her husband, and that she was a widow struggling with raising a child by herself, and that they had to pay for their living expenses.
This was simply unreasonable. Ji Yuanjie, a good man, was angry for the first time. He wanted to push them out, but he was held by his mother and stopped, crying and begging him not to be impulsive.
”Don't go, you let her make trouble, what else can't be smashed in our house now, it's all tattered things, you let her go…you can't have an accident, there can be no more people in our family. .”
Ji's mother had a small business, and she has seen people like this in her daily life, and knew that they came to do this on purpose.
They can only bear it. If Xiaoji makes a mistake impulsively, she would really be helpless if she couldn’t protect this family.
Ji Yuanjie was obedient, and he endured it.
By biting on the lips, until it bleed.
He tasted the hardships of life for the first time. He thought that hardship was nothing more than physical fatigue. He went to the construction site to move bricks, carry cement, or save some meals and drink more water… He never knew that this kind of suffering made him feel so unspeakable in his heart.
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The truck driver’s family was also in a poor state, so poor that the man left his wife and children and ran away. It is said that there was a pair of elderly and seriously ill parents in the family, and even if the guy was arrested and sentenced, the other party would not be able to pay a penny.
There were still traces of the wound on Ji Yuanjie's lips. He whispered to Tang Jinyu, the sentence was plain, and he had survived.
Tang Jinyu squeezed the dough in his hand, and then let go of his clenched hand for a long time, and said angrily: ”Then catch him back and let him go to jail!”
Ji Yuanjie nodded and chuckled: ”Yes, I thought about it before. It's okay to be caught and sentenced. After all, he smashed my dad that way. Xiaoyu, regardless of whether it is successful or not, I am very grateful to you.”
Tang Jinyu had flour in his hand, so he slapped him lightly with his shoulder, ”What are saying, we are all good brothers, have you forgotten? Everyone in the class used to draw the ‘three eight lines’, but we didn't.”
Ji Yuanjie was still laughing, ”That was done at the same table as the girls. We are both boys, so why do we have to paint that”
Tang Jinyu also laughed, ”You are different from them. You didn’t paint when you would be grouped with other girls, and you just let them. But when you were in a group with stars, you wouldn’t draw outside the lines…”
Ji Yuanjie bowed his head and wrapped a beautiful dumpling, set it aside, and put it aside for star, which he certainly wouldn't give it to.
He would only give her the best.
Guo Xiaohu brought two boxes of vegetables back from the outside, he was still full of energy. He used to play basketball for half a day every summer during summer vacation. Now this amount of work was simply trivial. He doesn't want money, he just comes to help, and on the way, he turns his head around towards Tang Jinyu.
The master made vegetarian fried meatballs today. Tang Jinyu was curious, and tried to steal one, and he also left as much of the work as possible for Xiao Ji, who generally refused to be paid more for their part-time work.
Guo Xiaohu also hurried over, guarding him carefully. Tang Jinyu had to step through him to see. In the end, he didn't see anything, so he could only go back to help mix the stuffing.