Non-sister-in-law Raiders

The Lin family was indeed looking forward to Lin Jinyun's return as Jiang Lan said.

No matter how many unsatisfactory things you encounter in this whole year, as long as the whole family is tidy, you can still have fun.

After all, man will conquer nature, and everything depends on man's efforts.

That's exactly what Guo Chunlan thought, so as soon as Lin Jinyun came home, she took her daughter to various tasks, and only when she was busy could she stop thinking about those bad things.

On the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, we went out for big purchases, on the 28th, we cleaned up, and on the 29th, we celebrated the new year. The Lin family ushered in a new year in a happy atmosphere.

But the atmosphere in the Jiang family was quite different.

Jiang's father and Jiang Wei were relieved to see Jiang Lan come home.

Especially Father Jiang.Although he has given up gambling, his reputation for bad gambling has spread all over the country.The old customers were fine, but some new customers began to take the opportunity to undercut his prices.Jiang's father earns only enough to subsidize part of the family, and the other half of the income is provided by Jiang Lan.

After Jiang Lan left for a month, Jiang's father had already run out of money.

However, Jiang Wei's situation is very different. He is studying at Yucai Middle School in the county, but because his family is far away, he has to choose to board at the school.So after Jiang Lan got the money from the Lin family, she paid her brother's boarding expenses for a whole year, not afraid that he would go hungry.

As soon as Jiang Lan came home, Jiang's father told his daughter about Guo Chunlan's visit to find someone, and described Guo Chunlan's brutality and viciousness as well as her grievances in an attempt to win sympathy for her daughter. .

Jiang Lan was unmoved after listening to it, and the living expenses that should be given are not much, not much.She knew her father too well, and with his personality, she definitely would not stand in vain and let Guo Chunlan abuse and humiliate her.

After Jiang's father finished speaking, he asked about Jiang Lan's relationship with the Lin family, trying to figure out what was right and what was wrong.Jiang Lan kept his mouth shut all the time, no matter how he asked, he would not reveal a single word.

Jiang's father had no choice but to put away his curiosity and stop asking.

Jiang Lan was indifferent to Jiang's father, but she felt deeply guilty about Guo Chunlan and Lin's family.

The words that Guo Chunlan's father relayed to her were like knives on her fragile self-esteem.

She felt extremely embarrassed and ashamed, and felt that even if the debt owed to the Lin family was fully paid off, she would not be able to face Guo Chunlan's mother and son again, not to mention that the debt was still unpaid.

Half of the money in her hand is deducted from the part that paid off her father's gambling debt, but she absolutely cannot move it.

Jiang Wei will graduate from junior high school next year. With his grades, it is basically no problem to be promoted to Pugao.Jiang Lan felt that she had already sacrificed her studies for the sake of the family, and she didn't want her younger brother to go to school, so she left the money for Jiang Wei's education.

Jiang Lan is now desperate to make money to pay off the debts owed to the Lin family.

She quickly realized that the Spring Festival is the peak time for banquets and wedding banquets, so she rode the old 28-inch Phoenix crossbar at home every day through the towns and towns, and went in when she saw some ancestral halls and temples and asked if they needed to hold banquets cook.

Afraid of meeting the Lin family, Jiang Lan deliberately avoided Gaohu Town and went to further towns to inquire. Sometimes it took half a day to go back and forth.But she didn't feel hard work at all, she just wanted to make money as soon as possible.

She has been out looking for customers since the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, and she has not been idle even on the first day of the Lunar New Year. After running for a few days, a long series of blisters developed on the soles of her feet, and her face was dry and painful due to the cold wind, but she gained a lot. micro.

Those who will hold a banquet in the near future have basically contacted the village banquet chef at the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, and she was already one step behind others when she asked again.

But Jiang Lan didn't give up, and went to ask people one by one for the contact information of these chefs.She felt that since she couldn't earn the chef's money, it was better than nothing if she could earn money as a handyman. It was nothing more than dirty and tiring.And according to her past experience, the market for short-term and temporary workers during the Spring Festival should be in short supply, so it must not be difficult to find a job as a kitchen assistant with reasonable pay.

So she contacted the chefs again to ask if they needed handymen or dishwashing hands.

After asking around, I really got something.

Just as Jiang Lan guessed, during the Spring Festival, the handyman in the chef's team is the most in short supply, among which the vacancies of water table masters and dishwashing workers are the largest.Naturally, she accepted all the orders, and took over the work of washing dishes for four wedding banquets and helping the kitchen for two family banquets in one go. She was busy from the second day of the first lunar month to the eleventh day of the first lunar month.

Jiang Lan is a hard-working and down-to-earth person. No matter which banquet she goes to help out, she doesn't talk much and works hard. She is always the first to arrive and the last to leave, and the one who does the most work.

She used her hard work to earn around [-] yuan during the Spring Festival, and at the same time gained the trust and favor of others.

The chef of the second clan banquet held by Jiang Lan is surnamed Zhang, and he is also a veteran village banquet cook who travels from village to village like Jiang's father. Much more than Father Jiang.

After Chef Zhang cooperated with Jiang Lan for a banquet, he was very satisfied with her job and personality, and hoped to cooperate with her again.He happened to have just undertaken a big banquet on the 88th day of the first lunar month, with [-] tables, and there was a shortage of a sous chef.He had seen Jiang Lan's ability and felt that she was fully competent, so he explained to her in detail the division of labor and income for this banquet, and asked her if she would like to join his team.

Jiang Lan carefully calculated the salary of the sous chef and the extra red envelopes given by the proprietor, and found that she could earn nearly 200 yuan after the banquet.

She was very moved by this, but she was also very embarrassed, because she promised Lin Jinyun before the holiday that she would go back to school on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month.But the banquet happened to be held on the [-]th day of the first lunar month. If she agreed to Chef Zhang, she would have to miss the appointment with Lin Jinyun.

Jiang Lan weighed and struggled in her heart for a while, and finally hung up the phone to Chef Zhang and accepted the job. After all, the income of 200 yuan was an irresistible temptation for her who was eager to pay off her debts.

She hung up the phone and immediately dialed another number.

The call was quickly connected.

"Hello."

"Hello, is this the Zhou family?"

"Yes, who are you looking for?"

"I want to find Mei next week."

"I am."

"Hello, Zhou Mei. I'm Lin Jinyun's...colleague, can I trouble you to ask Jinyun to call me?"

"Oh, good. Tell me your phone number, and I'll go to her house and tell her."

Jiang Lan reported the number of the small shop to Zhou Mei, hung up the phone, and waited by the phone with anticipation and anxiety.

Before the festival, Lin Jinyun had told Jiang Lan that she could call the Zhou family to find her if she needed something urgent, so when she heard Zhou Mei say that a woman called her, she immediately guessed that it was Jiang Lan.She was afraid that Jiang Lan would be in a hurry and didn't even finish her meal, so she hurriedly put down the bowls and chopsticks and ran outside.

She hurried to a phone booth near her home and dialed the number Zhou Mei had given her.

"Hey?"

"Hey...cough, it's me, it's me."

"Why are you panting so badly? Did you run over?"

"Well, I'm afraid you've been waiting for a long time. What's the matter? Is there something wrong at home?"

"It's okay. I just want to... hear your voice."

Lin Jinyun smiled instantly and said, "Then let me sing you a song? I just learned it yesterday."

"The phone bill is very expensive."

"Oh."

"Say something."

"I miss you."

"Ah."

"Do you miss me a little?"

"Yes, more than a little."

"That's good, haha, happy new year."

"Happy New Year."

"By the way, I went to your house to find you on the second day of junior high school, but you don't seem to be here?"

Jiang Lan heard the panic, and asked anxiously: "Why did you come to my house? Does your mother know?"

"Don't worry, she was the one who asked me to go. She said that going to collect debts on the first day of the Chinese New Year was bad luck. She wanted to save face and was afraid that people would say something bad, so she asked me to go to your house on the second day of the new year to 'spy on the enemy' haha .She visited your father once before, and there must have been some unpleasantness, so let me go for a walk. "

Lin Jinyun thought of another thing, and hurriedly added: "My mother is straightforward, and she may have said a lot of bad things to your father. I apologize to you on her behalf. Your father should have mentioned it to you, but you must not take it Take those words to heart."

She was obviously the one who owed the debt and lost the reason, but she was afraid that she would think too much, so she apologized and comforted her again and again, why is this person so stupid?

Thinking of this, Jiang Lan suddenly felt sour, but suppressed her tears and said softly: "Well, I won't worry about it."

"Don't worry about anything else, just put me at ease."

"it is good."

The topic was too heavy, so Lin Jinyun hurriedly asked about other matters.

"Are you coming out for the Lantern Festival? There is a dragon lantern dance in the town, which is very lively every year. Maybe we can meet up quietly or something."

Jiang Lan thought that on the day of the Lantern Festival, she would go shopping with Chef Zhang to buy ingredients for the banquet, and at night they had to go together to say hello to the proprietor of the banquet.The proprietor's house was in a neighboring town, so it would be too late to meet Lin Jinyun again.

"Maybe not, something happened that day."

Lin Jinyun felt a little regretful, but when he thought of seeing each other after the Lantern Festival, he comforted himself and said to Jiang Lan, "It's okay. Anyway, we can see each other when we go back to school the next day. I just want to go to see the lanterns with you. "

"Jin Yun, I will go back to school later on the [-]th day."

"How late?"

"It's getting late, I'll try to go back before ten o'clock."

"It's so late! Where are you going that day?"

Jiang Lan thought about it, and decided not to hide it from her, but said as lightly as possible: "I'm going to help a banquet that day, and I'll be back later."

"Why did you pick up the banquet again?"

"Introduced by relatives, it's not easy to recommend."

"Where is the banquet held? What are you in charge of?"

"In Nangang Town, I work as the sous chef."

"Don't you need to wash the dishes?"

"No, there are special dishwashers for washing dishes."

There was a pause on the other end of the phone, and Lin Jinyun's voice rang again: "Then you should not go back to school after the banquet. Go home and sleep for a night, and then go back to school the next day."

Jiang Lan knew that she had made a lot of determination to say this, so she teased her: "Didn't you say you missed me?"

"I miss you very much, but there's nothing I can do. It's cold and unsafe to rush back to school at night."

This reason is exactly the same as what Jiang Lan guessed, but now hearing Lin Jinyun say this with his own ears, he naturally felt warm and considerate in his heart, and the corners of his mouth raised unconsciously, and he responded softly: "Okay, then I will rest for a night Go back."

"Then let's talk about it. I'll go back to school first, and you must go back the next day."

"it is good."

After Lin Jinyun hung up the phone, as soon as he turned around, he saw Zhou Mei staring at him suspiciously.

She was running in a hurry just now, she was only thinking about making a phone call, and she didn't notice that there was a big living person following her at the side.Suddenly seeing Zhou Mei standing in front of him, he was startled, and subconsciously asked, "Why are you still here?"

Zhou Mei didn't answer her, but just continued to stare at her.

"Why are you staring at me stupidly?"

"Who are you talking to on the phone?"

"Talk to a colleague on the phone, who else can I talk to?"

"Then how can you be happy at once and disappointed at the same time?"

"..."

"Are you in a relationship?" Zhou Mei just finished speaking, and suddenly felt something was wrong, she shook her head and muttered, "No, the person who called just now was a woman. Could it be that someone else answered the call?"

Lin Jinyun hurriedly interrupted her: "You think too much, you just have something to say to your colleagues."

Believe it or not!How can anyone call a colleague in a hurry as if rushing to put out a fire?

Zhou Mei thought so in her heart, but she didn't intend to expose Lin Jinyun on the surface.She thought that since she was working in the county anyway, she would always have a chance to catch Lin Jinyun's tricks.