"good."
Wu Haishan agreed with a smile, unwrapped the paper bag in his hand and stuffed it into her hand: "Eat it quickly, it won't taste good if it gets cold."
"Um."
Su Yani was really hungry. She stuffed the roujiamo into her stomach in just a few bites, and she seemed a little reluctant to eat more.
*
The next day, Su Qiao went to the bus station and bought a ticket for a long-distance bus the next day. Then he went home to pack his luggage and prepared to take the bus back to his hometown early the next morning.
Originally she wanted to take the train back, but at that time there were so many people going south to work that not only was the train station packed with people, but even the aisles and toilets on the train were full of people.
Instead of squeezing into the noisy and smelly train, she might as well take a bus back.
Besides, if she takes the train, she has to change three buses to get back to her hometown, but if she takes the bus, she can go directly there.
However, when she packed her things and was about to go out to buy some food for lunch, she received a call from an unfamiliar number.
There was a strange male voice on the other end of the phone.
"Rent a house?"
"I'm sorry, that house is not available for rent at the moment."
It turned out that this person heard from others that her house in the city center was vacant and the tenant had moved out, so she wanted to rent the house.
The man seemed to be afraid that she would hang up the phone, and begged hurriedly: "Please, just rent it to me, we are really in a hurry, my wife is pregnant and is about to give birth, if you don't rent it to us, we can only live in a small hotel."
"You know, there's no such thing as a safe hotel out here. If anything happens to my wife, I won't be able to forgive myself."
"Besides, it's common to have your pockets picked in the middle of the night in that small hotel. It's not easy for workers like us to earn a little money. How sad would it be if the money we worked hard for half a year was stolen by someone?"
"There are a lot of elderly and children at home who are waiting for us to bring money back for the New Year. If we lose this money, we won't even be able to go back for the New Year. We can't even pay for the tuition for our children, so they will have to drop out of school."
Su Qiao originally didn't want to rent out the house anymore, even though there were still two months before the burglary and murder.
But just when she was about to refuse, a memory of her original self suddenly flooded into her mind.
At that time, she was living in a small hotel where more than a dozen people slept in one room. She was robbed in the middle of the night and all the money she had worked so hard to earn was gone.
After crying for a while, she went to various factories on an empty stomach and with gritted teeth to look at the recruitment boards at the gates. As long as they wanted her and provided her with food and accommodation, she would be willing to work no matter how much the salary was.
What's more, she dropped out of junior high school because she had no money, so her heart was suddenly touched.
"Okay then, I'll rent it to you for a while."
"Okay, thank you, sister. Thank you, sister. You are such a good person."
It can be seen from the voice that the man must be ecstatic at this moment, and Su Qiao couldn't help but smile.
But...can you please stop calling me Big Sister
She always felt constipated when being called "big sister" by a man whose age she didn't know.
After making an appointment with the man, Su Qiao went to the printing shop outside to copy a document and then went to the rental house.
After seeing the skinny man who was about thirty years old, her ears seemed to ring with his two calls of "big sister" again. That feeling was particularly... depressing.
The man didn't feel awkward at all. He greeted him with a smile, called him "boss", rubbed his hands on his clothes, and took the rental contract handed over by Su Qiao.