MTL - Rebirth 1983: Starting From Taking Back the Family Property-Chapter 34 trap

Chapter 34 Trap

 From Guangming Road to the cemetery, you have to transfer two trains. While taking the second train, Lu Jiaxin smelled a domineering fragrance. Following the scent, I found out that it was an old man selling roast chicken.

I was already hungry, and my stomach growled when I smelled this smell. Lu Jiaxin asked: "Uncle, how much does your roast chicken cost?"

This roast chicken is much more delicious than the one Lu Hongjun bought last time.

 “Eight yuan.”

Lu Jiajie almost jumped up when he heard this: "A fat old hen in the wet market only costs about three or four yuan. How dare you charge eight yuan for a chicken that looks like it weighs two pounds at most?"

The uncle was not upset. He fanned the stove with a cattail leaf fan and said: "This method of roasting chicken has been passed down from generation to generation in my family. There are eight steps in a single process, and you have to control the heat. Young man, each one costs eight yuan." Not expensive.”

 In the past, when their roast chicken was the most expensive, it sold for five yuan a piece, but later they were not allowed to do business and had to close the stall. Now that he sees many people starting to do business, his family is almost unable to survive, so he picked up this craft.

Lu Jiaxin asked: "Uncle, can you have a taste? If it's delicious, I'll buy one."

The uncle said he couldn't taste it. He said with a smile: "Little girl, you can take a bite after buying it. If you don't think it tastes good, you don't have to pay."

 When the roasted chicken is taken out of the iron pot and brought to your eyes, the aroma becomes even stronger. Lu Jiaxin didn't taste it. She was a bit mysophobic and wouldn't touch food without washing her hands.

Counting eight dollars to the uncle, Lu Jiaxin said: "Just because of the smell, it must be delicious. Uncle, do you sell it here every day? If I want to eat in the future, I can just come here."

The uncle said cheerfully: "My home is near here. If you want to buy it, just ask passersby about Zhang's roast chicken. Everyone knows it."

I carried the roast chicken on the bus. Even though the chicken was wrapped in oil paper and rolled up in thick newspapers, the smell could not be concealed.

 Passengers in the car gulped when they smelled the fragrance, including Lu Jie's family and Xue Mao. As soon as they got home, they went into the kitchen and got busy. One started boiling water and the other washed vegetables. With the joint efforts of the two people, a pot of green vegetable noodles was ready in no time.

Lu Jiajie looked at the roast chicken torn into pieces on the table and said, "Jiaxin, you divide it into three parts, and each of us will have one."

Lu Jiaxin smiled and agreed. She kept two chicken wings and chicken necks in her bowl, and divided the rest equally between the two of them.

Lu Jiajie couldn't wait to tear off a chicken leg, took a bite and exclaimed: "It's delicious, it's delicious, it's so delicious. Jiaxin, these eight yuan are well spent."

Lu Jiaxin also picked up the chicken wings and took a bite, and the aroma instantly filled her mouth. This chicken is indeed delicious, the meat is plump and chewy, and the more you chew it, the more flavorful it becomes.

 A roast chicken and a pot of vegetable noodles, the three of them ate nothing. Lu Jiajie touched his belly and said, "I originally wanted to stop you from buying it, but luckily I didn't, otherwise I wouldn't be able to eat such delicious roast chicken."

His monthly salary is only more than 80 yuan, and one roast chicken takes away one-tenth of his salary. However, he thought of the three hundred yuan that Lu Jiaxin refused to accept yesterday, and persuaded Lu Jiaxin to accept the money.

Lu Jiaxin didn't like the same question being asked repeatedly, so she chased him away directly: "Fifth brother, it's already half past one. Go to work quickly so you won't be late."

 Looking at his watch, Lu Jiajie hurried to the shoe factory. During his break at work, he boasted to the people in the workshop about the roast chicken he had eaten today.

Xue Mao waited for him to leave and closed the door before saying, "Sister, Brother Jiajie comes over here to sleep at night. Wouldn't it be better if he doesn't go home?"

Lu Jiaxin didn't want to talk about the Ma family, so she casually found an excuse: "The house is too crowded. If my fifth brother comes over here, my sister-in-law and the two children can sleep more spaciously."

Ma's family originally had three separate rooms, one for the two elderly people, one for Lu Jiajie and Ma Lili, and one for the two children. Since Yan Jixiang moved there, the two children have slept with their parents. The room is very small. The bed is only 1.5 meters. It can be squeezed in during the winter. In summer, it is difficult for four people to sleep together, so Lu Jiajie has no choice but to make a bed on the floor.

The conditions are more difficult and can be tolerated, but the attitude of Ma's father and Ma's mother has changed now, and Sister Ma is always in a bad mood every time she comes, and no one would be willing to go back. Fortunately, the fifth sister-in-law has already given up on buying a house, and she will be successful in a few more days.

After taking a rest, Lu Jiaxin was about to go back to her room. She didn’t expect someone to knock on the door at this time: “Sister Jiaxin, it’s me, Su Heming!”

Xue Mao immediately went over to open the door.

As soon as he walked into the yard, Lu Jiaxin noticed the gold watch in his hand. With just one glance, she knew it was not the same one as the last time.

Su Heming said gratefully: "Sister Jiaxin, thank you, you saved my life. I found someone to identify it, and it is indeed true."

Xue Mao had a question mark on his head: "If someone gives you a real watch, how can it cost you your life?"

Seeing that he didn't understand, Su Heming explained: "The gold watch was sold on the black market for 150,000 yuan. If you are wandering around outside wearing such a valuable thing, you may be killed by someone trying to make money."

Xue Mao’s eyes were straight, and his mind was filled with 150,000. 150,000, 150,000, how much does it cost and can it fit in one house?

 Lu Jiaxin's eyes flashed with a glint, there must be something wrong with this watch. And if she guessed correctly, the other party should be heading for Su Ya. Su Heming alone is not worth such a big deal.

“I’ll give you a gold watch worth 150,000 yuan just to make the thieves think about killing you. It shouldn’t be that simple, right?”

Su Heming said: "I don't know exactly what happened, but there must be something wrong with this watch. My sister-in-law asked me to replace the watch with a fake one, and then stop all the business at hand, and wait until my dad and elder brother come back from Hong Kong City. "

Lu Jiaxin asked Lu Jiajie, but unfortunately he didn’t know much about the Xie family and the Su family.

Xue Mao was surprised and uncertain: "Can your family still go to Hong Kong City?"

Su Heming said that his father went to visit relatives: "My grandfather and uncle went to Hong Kong City many years ago to do business. Due to some reasons, we broke off contact and got in touch not long ago. My father missed my grandfather very much, so he took my eldest brother to visit him. .”

Lu Jiaxin understood immediately upon hearing this. The Su family must have been very rich before, and they might even have been big capitalists.

 “Why didn’t you go?”

 Hong Kong City? Things there are now very popular, and I don’t know how envious it would be to be able to go to Hong Kong City.

The smile on Su Heming's face disappeared: "I won't go. At that time, my father left my grandma with my father and two sisters-in-law, and took my uncle's family to Hong Kong City. My grandma died before she was forty because she worked too hard. Let’s go, my aunt was bullied and disappeared. Since she didn’t want us in the first place, why should we recognize her now!”

 “What do you mean by your sister-in-law?” Lu Jiaxin asked. Mrs. Xie's attitude is the key. After all, the Xie family is now prosperous. If the Su family's eldest family wants to return to the mainland to do business, they have to find her as a backer.

Su Heming hesitated for a moment and said, "My sister-in-law said she respects my dad's decision, but as for herself, she didn't say anything."

 The fact that he didn’t express his position was because he didn’t want to admit it. It's just that Chinese people have advocated filial piety for thousands of years. There are some things that are inconvenient to say, so we can only use this method.

 (End of this chapter)