Before you know it, night falls and the streets are lit up with lights.
Lin Bei, who hadn't gotten a bite of food all day long, was still dragging his heavy steps around the street like a wild dog, hoping that a kind person would give her a bite of food without giving up.
However, no kind-hearted person extended a helping hand to her.
She finally couldn't walk anymore and was exhausted, so she sat down near a construction site, leaning against a tree with a tired look on her face, looking unblinkingly at the migrant workers squatting on the ground eating not far away.
Her hungry look finally caught the attention of an uncle, a migrant worker.
The kind-hearted uncle walked over and asked with concern: "Daughter, it's already dark, why don't you go back?"
Lin Bei tells lies as soon as he opens his mouth.
She burst into tears: "I don't dare to go back. As soon as I go back, my stepmother and my brothers and sisters will beat me."
The uncle asked sympathetically: "Your stepmother bullies you so much, does your father not care?"
Lin Bei cried more and more sadly, but said nothing. The more like this, the more lovable she is. Lin Bei knew this very well.
The uncle asked: "Have you eaten? If not, will you have a meal at our place?"
The uncle’s wife is responsible for cooking at the construction site.
Lin Bei followed her uncle to the temporary canteen at the construction site: a shack.
A middle-aged rural woman with a fat body and ordinary appearance was washing herself under the tap.
The uncle said to the middle-aged woman: "Mom, do you have more food? If so, give this girl a big bowl."
The middle-aged woman raised her head and looked at Lin Bei, frowning and saying, "Who is this girl?"
"I don't know her. I met her outside the construction site. I heard she said she was forced out by her stepmother. She's so pitiful."
"Forced by the stepmother?" The middle-aged woman's tone was full of suspicion, which made Lin Bei feel very uncomfortable.
The uncle got a little impatient and raised his voice: "I told you to serve her a bowl of rice. Just do it and it's over. Why is it squeaking all the time!"
The middle-aged woman was also annoyed: "The food is gone, why don't you kill the meat and stew it for her to eat?"
The uncle's face turned black with anger. He searched around the shack and found that there were no leftovers.
So I took matters into my own hands and cooked a large pot of noodles for Lin Bei. I added seven or eight poached eggs to the noodles and put them in a large soup basin.
The middle-aged woman rolled her eyes and said sarcastically: "When I was sick, why didn't I see you cooking me a bowl of noodles with poached eggs?"
The uncle said with a cold face: "How can you, an old woman, compare with this little girl?"
The middle-aged woman looked at Lin Bei: "She is a little girl? Why doesn't she look like her to me?"
The uncle was too lazy to pay attention to his wife, thinking that she was just making trouble, so he said to Lin Bei gently: "Eat it while it's hot."
Lin Bei was very hungry for a long time. She ate all the big bowl of noodles while snoring like a whirlwind.
The uncle looked distressed, and the aunt looked disgusted. I have never seen any girl eating so unappetizingly, like a pig eating.
While Lin Bei was eating noodles, the aunt tidied up the shack and went into the shack where she and her husband lived to change clothes.
She said to the uncle in a bad tone: "This woman has eaten and drank, let her go!" After that, she went to the night market with a few female workers on the construction site.
When migrant workers go to work in cities, they give up their energy but are reluctant to spend money.
These female workers were visiting the night market, that is to say, they were just shopping but not buying anything.
Although the uncle was dissatisfied with his wife's attitude towards Lin Bei, he had no intention of keeping her at the construction site.
Most of the people on the construction site are men. A few women live in a shack, and there are a few shacks where couples live.
Even if he wanted to keep Lin Bei, would the female workers be willing to add another person to their already crowded shack?
So I had to let her go.
Lin Bei didn't go far and hid near the shack.
On a hot day, if you stay at the construction site after dinner, the heat will feed the mosquitoes.
Many older people choose to go for a walk on the streets, while young people go to the video hall to watch Hong Kong and Taiwan movies.
Lin Bei saw that there was no one at the construction site, so she sneaked in secretly.
It was just bad luck that as soon as I slipped in, I met a migrant worker.
The migrant worker looked at her warily: "Who are you looking for?"
Lin Bei tried to calm down and said, "I'm looking for the uncle who brought me in for dinner just now."
Just now the uncle brought Lin Bei into the construction site, and the migrant worker also saw it.
Hearing what Lin Bei said, his doubts were dispelled.
Lin Bei let out a long sigh and took advantage of others' unpreparedness to get into a shack to steal money.
On hot days, it is impossible for migrant workers to carry money with them every day. They should hide it in shacks.
The shack was only that big, and Lin Bei didn't believe she couldn't find it.
She plans to steal a vote here and run away.
She doesn't plan to go back to the countryside, so she must have money to stay in Jiangcheng.
But Lin Bei looked around and found only one or two hundred yuan.
She had no choice but to sneak into the next shack in despair.
I robbed several shacks in a row and finally stole 700 to 800 yuan. I also stole a radio and a flashlight.
Lin Bei felt happy and was about to leave, but she saw that next to her was the shack where the uncle and his wife lived.
——Just now she saw the uncle's wife, a middle-aged woman, coming in and out of the shack.
Doesn’t that woman have a very bad attitude towards me?
Then I would steal the two of them, which would be considered revenge!
Lin Bei dodged and entered the shack.
Just when she was rummaging through boxes and cabinets to steal something, she heard a stern voice coming from behind: "What are you doing?"
Lin Wan was almost scared out of her mind. She stiffened and slowly turned around to see the aunt glaring at her angrily.
There is a fat and strong woman beside her, who looks like she is her coworker.
The fat woman snorted disdainfully: "Do you even need to ask? Doesn't it mean she is stealing?"
After saying this, the fat and muscular girl walked out of the shack and shouted at the top of her voice: "Catch the thief, there is a thief here!"
Soon some co-workers who had not gone out shopping or watching videos came over.
The workers were chirping and asking what was going on.
The fat and muscular girl said vividly: "Sister Cao and I came back from shopping and saw this woman rummaging through boxes and cabinets in Sister Cao's shack.
I asked her what she was doing, but she couldn’t answer. What else was she doing if she wasn’t stealing?”
Lin Bei argued with tears in her eyes: "It's obvious that I haven't answered yet, so you just call me a thief. I'm not a thief."
She bit her lip and said hesitantly: "Yes... uncle asked me to come in."
The aunt, Sister Cao, looked at her suspiciously: "My man let you in, why did he let you in?"
Lin Mai looked innocent and shook his head: "I don't know either~"
She pretended to be innocent, but her words caused others to speculate.
Someone whispered: "Did Sister Cao's man trick this woman into his shack just to do that?"
"It's possible, otherwise why would he help this woman like this?"
When Sister Cao heard the co-workers talking, she suddenly burst into tears and wanted to settle the score with her man.
By coincidence, Sister Cao's man saw the door of the shack where the couple lived surrounded by workers. He walked over curiously and asked, "What are you doing here?"
Sister Cao rushed up to him and scratched him: "You still have the nerve to ask!
You shameless beast, your son is seventeen or eighteen years old, and you still want to seduce a woman, I will fight you!"
The man resisted vigorously: "What are you talking about? When did I have sex with a woman?"
The workers rushed forward to break up the fight and separated the couple.
Lin Bei saw the opportunity coming and wanted to run away.
Before he could get far, he was discovered by a fat and muscular woman.
The fat and muscular woman hurriedly shouted: "Everyone, stop fighting, that bitch is going to run away!"
At the same time, someone shouted: "Our shack has been stolen by thieves!"