"Okay."
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 after it gets cold."
"Yeah."
Su Ya Ni was really hungry, so he stuffed Roujiamo into his stomach in three mouthfuls, and he still seemed to be a little unfinished.
*
The next day, Su Qiao went to the bus station and bought a long-distance bus ticket for the next day. Then he went home and packed his luggage, preparing to take the bus back to his hometown early the next morning.
Originally, she wanted to take the train back, but there were too many people going south to work at this time. Not only was the train station crowded with people, but even the aisles and toilets on the train were full of people.
Instead of going on the noisy and smelly train, she might as well just take the bus back.
Besides, she would have to transfer three times to get back to her hometown town by train, but she could go directly by bus.
However, when she packed her things and was about to go out to buy some food for lunch, she received a strange call.
There was a strange man's voice on the other end of the phone.
"Rent a house?"
"Sorry, that house is not available for rent at the moment."
It turned out that this person had heard from someone else that her apartment in the city center was vacant and the tenants had moved out, so she wanted to rent it.
The man seemed to be afraid that she would hang up the phone and hurriedly begged, "Please, rent it to me. We are really in a hurry. My wife is pregnant and about to give birth. If you don't rent it to us, we will have to stay in a small hotel."
"You also know, how can a small hotel outside be safe? If something happens to my wife, I can't forgive myself."
"And in that small hotel, it's common for someone to touch your pockets in the middle of the night. For those of us who work part-time, it's not easy to make some money. How sad would it be if someone took away the money we've worked so hard for for more than half a year?"
"There is a large family of elderly and children at home waiting for us to get money to go back during the Chinese New Year. If the money disappears, we will not even be able to go back during the Chinese New Year. We will not be able to afford the school fees for our children and will have to drop out of school."
Su Qiao originally didn't want to rent it out anymore, even though there were still more than two months before the burglary and murder.
But just when she was about to refuse, a memory of the original person suddenly came to her mind.
At that time, she was also staying in a small hotel where a dozen people slept in a room. Her head was touched in the middle of the night, and all the money she finally earned was gone.
After crying a lot, she was hungry and gritted her teeth and went to look at the recruitment boards at the entrances of various factories. She was willing to work no matter how much the salary was, as long as she was willing to take her and it would include food and accommodation.
In addition, the original person had not gone to school since junior high school because he had no money, and this suddenly touched his heart.
"Okay, let's rent it to you for a while first."
"Okay, thank you Big Sister, thank you Big Sister, you are such a good person."
It could be heard from the voice that the man must be ecstatic at this time, and Su Qiao smiled involuntarily.
But... can you please stop calling me Big Sister?
She always felt constipated after being called Big Sister by a man who didn't know how old she was.
After making an appointment with the man, Su Qiao went to a print shop outside to copy two copies of the contract, and then went to the rental house.
After meeting a thin man about thirty years old, his two words of 'Big Sister' seemed to echo in her ears again. The feeling was particularly... depressing.
The man didn't feel any embarrassment at all. He smiled and said hello, called 'Boss', rubbed his hands on his clothes, and took the rental contract handed over by Su Qiao.