Chapter 289: The Blood Enemy of the Downtrodden Boy (13)
After the two people counted the money, they carefully collected the cash.
Zhao Taoyao thought for a while, took out two hundred yuan worth of banknotes from the cash and gave it to him.
"These two hundred yuan are my salary for you. Without the customers you attracted today and your busy schedule, I wouldn't have been able to earn so much."
Jiang Qing didn't want to accept it: "Just think of it as my money to pay off the debt. I'm not eating and drinking from you for free. Do I still owe you two thousand yuan?"
Zhao Taoyao directly put the money into his hand: "Take it, why are you being polite to me? This is what you should take. If you don't want it, I won't need your help tomorrow.
And it’s not okay for you to have no cash or money on you. You said it’s been more than a month since you came out, and you haven’t gone out for shopping yet, right?
When there are no stalls during the day tomorrow, you can go out and have fun by yourself."
When Zhao Taoyao spoke to him, she always smiled with crescent eyes. Her appearance could not be said to be very beautiful, but when she smiled, her eyes looked like a beautiful crescent moon.
Jiang Qing felt indescribable warmth in his heart. He had not felt such sincere care and warmth for a long time since his parents passed away.
Especially after encountering those bad things outside, he cherished the warmth in front of him even more.
The slag elimination system prompts: "The mission target Jiang Qing's favorability towards you has been increased to fifty points. Please keep up your efforts and keep working hard!"
Zhao Taoyao almost laughed out loud in her heart: "Saving him twice only increased his favorability by a small amount. I gave both parties a dollar, and the favorability increased to fifty for this little money man."
She was complaining in her heart, but of course she didn't show it on her face at all.
She stood up from the only small table in the house, stretched and said, "Okay, I'll take a bath first, and then you can take a bath after the hot water boils for a while.
I am getting old and I don’t have that much energy anymore, so I need to rest.”
Jiang Qing said helplessly: "Sister Taoyao, you are only two years older than me. How old are you? Don't always make yourself look so old-fashioned."
Zhao Taoyao shook her head and walked to the bathroom: "You don't understand, a person's experience has nothing to do with age. I have experienced too many things. I have been beaten by society until my edges have been smoothed."
Jiang Qing only knew that her mother died of illness last year and still owed a lot of money. She was under great financial pressure every day.
Now it sounds like she should have experienced some other things besides this incident.
But if she doesn't take the initiative to say it, it's hard for him to ask.
Jiang Qing didn't have a mobile phone. When Zhao Taoyao went in to take a shower, he was a little bored and happened to see Zhao Taoyao's old high school textbook in the corner of the room.
He was in the third year of junior high school when he was sent to a mental hospital by his two uncles, and he had no exposure to the content of high school.
He said he had no plans or plans for studying, but when he saw the high school textbooks, he couldn't help but open them and read them.
He took a high school mathematics book, lay down on the small table where he had just counted the money, and began to read it carefully.
Time always passed quickly when he was looking at math problems. He didn't know how long he had been looking at it, but a voice suddenly came from behind him: "What are you looking at? Do you understand the mathematics for the second year of high school?"
Accompanying the voice behind me was a warm fragrance, the scent of freshly washed flowers from the shower gel, which smelled better than any deliberate perfume.
As soon as Jiang Qing turned his head, before he saw anyone, he bumped into a head of long black hair, which tickled his face and made his face feel inexplicably hot.
Zhao Taoyao didn't notice anything strange about him, so she leaned down and took a closer look at the book on the table: "Geometry, this is the most difficult. I didn't understand it when I was learning it. I didn't expect you to be interested in this."
Jiang Qing suppressed the strange heat in his face, pretended to be calm, closed the book and said, "I'm not interested, and I don't think there's anything difficult about it. I just feel bored and browse through it casually."
"Oh~" Zhao Taoyao prolonged the syllables, as if he had seen through it but refused to reveal it.
She opened the curtain surrounding her crib: "Okay, hot water will probably be available in half an hour. If you're bored, why don't you just watch it for a while longer? There's nothing shameful about loving to learn.
You are only eighteen years old next year, and your peers will only take the college entrance examination next year. If you can really learn well, maybe you can take the college entrance examination and get into a good university."
Jiang Qing wanted to say that there was no need, he really just wanted to make money, but Zhao Taoyao had already closed the curtain on her.
He shook his head silently, forget it, fate had pushed him to this point. He was lucky to have caught Zhao Taoyao as a straw and not fall into the abyss. How could he expect so many things again?
The next morning, Zhao Taoyao went out to buy ingredients for setting up a stall in the afternoon and evening.
She asked Jiang Qing to go out for a walk by herself, but Jiang Qing was unwilling and insisted on going with her no matter what.
Jiang Qing is really a very considerate person. He can basically help with the whole day's shopping and food preparation without Zhao Taoyao having to do anything.
He was too aggressive in grabbing lives, and accidentally pricked his hand while skewering ham sausages.
When his finger was pricked, he took a small breath of air.
"What's wrong?" Zhao Taoyao, who was busy opposite him, immediately put down what he was doing and came over to ask.
Jiang Qing wanted to hide his injured finger behind his back: "It's okay, just a small puncture."
Zhao Taoyao didn't listen to him and forcefully took out his hand that was pinned behind his back. He saw blood dripping from the fingertips.
"These bamboo skewers have not been sterilized, and the meat on the raw ham sausage may contain bacteria. How can you not sterilize it if you have a tear?"
As she said that, she went outside to find a simple medicine box, disinfected it carefully with alcohol cotton, and put a waterproof band-aid on it.
Jiang Qing is more than a head taller than Zhao Taoyao. From his perspective, he can see the soft hair on the top of her head. Looking further down, the fine hair on her smooth forehead can be clearly seen.
He inexplicably thought of the feeling of Zhao Taoyao's hair, which had not yet been completely dried, gently brushing against his face after taking a shower last night...
He suddenly felt that his throat was a little tight, and he swallowed uncomfortably, his Adam's apple sliding up and down.
Fortunately, Zhao Taoyao just finished applying the band-aid on him, so he quickly withdrew his hand and took a step back slightly.
Zhao Taoyao took the opportunity to push him out of the small kitchen: "Okay, okay, I have seen your determination to pay off your debt diligently. You can go outside and rest for a while. There is not much left. I can do it by myself."
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Jiang Qing stood outside the small kitchen, with his bandaged fingers still raised in the air, his eyes unconsciously narrowed on Zhao Taoyao's busy back, as if there was light flickering in and out of his eyes, and it was dark...