Lin Mai looked at the scene in front of him, his face darkened, and he asked seriously: "What are you doing?"
Wan Hui felt guilty when she saw her. She quickly stood up and whispered: "No...it's nothing. I just came to see Brother Mingcheng. I haven't come to visit him since he moved to his new residence."
Then he said to Li Mingcheng: "Brother Mingcheng, I'm leaving."
When she said this, she kept winking at Li Mingcheng, meaning to tell him not to tell Lin Mai about her borrowing money from him to study.
She had a hunch that if Lin Mai knew about this, he would definitely destroy it.
Li Mingcheng sent her to the stairs and came back. Looking at the things on the table, he asked, "Why did you bring me so many things?"
"What a beautiful idea!" Lin Mai divided the things on the table, "Zhuoran bought most of these for Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang. You can help bring them to Grandpa and Grandma Fang tomorrow.
Then he pointed to the smallest one and said, "This is yours."
Pointing to the one that was slightly larger than his, "This one belongs to Sister Tao. I will send it to her later."
Tao Zhiyun has Qiqi, so Lin Mai naturally shares more snacks with her.
Li Mingcheng was a big-hearted person. Not to mention that Tao Zhiyun had a child, even if he didn't have a child, Lin Mai would not care if he gave her more snacks than he did.
He put away the snacks belonging to Grandpa Fang and his wife.
Lin Mai asked behind him: "Why did Wan Hui come to you and kneel on the ground?"
Li Mingcheng didn't even receive the look Wan Hui gave him just now.
Even if he received it, if Lin Mai asked him, he would tell the truth.
His friendship with Lin Mai was not comparable to Wan Hui's.
Li Mingcheng told her the whole story.
Lin Mai's face darkened as he listened: "You told her that you borrowed a lot of debt to buy a house, and she still knelt down to beg you. Don't you think she is forcing things on others and forcing you?"
Li Mingcheng actually feels this way too.
But thinking about the tuition fee of only twenty yuan per semester, this amount of money is not a heavy burden for him now.
He waved his hand: "It's only twenty yuan per semester. If you help her, you will help her for a lifetime. She is quite pitiful."
Lin Mai sneered a few times: "Didn't we agree that all your salary will be used to repay the money you borrowed from me? If you want to be a good person and lend money to Wan Hui to study, I will ask you where you got the money?
"
Li Mingcheng stared at her.
He planned to borrow money from her for Wan Hui to study, but seeing Lin Mai's behavior, he clearly didn't want to borrow it.
He scratched his head irritably and said bravely: "I want to borrow money from you, is that okay?"
Lin Mai's face suddenly darkened: "Wan Hui slandered me, do you still want to borrow money from me to help her?"
Li Mingcheng's eyes widened in surprise: "She slandered you? It's impossible. Do you have some misunderstanding about her?"
Lin Mai said angrily: "Misunderstanding? A classmate who knew about it told me. She also admitted it and apologized to me. Do you still want to say it was a misunderstanding?"
Li Mingcheng was stunned: "What did she slander you for?"
"She accused me of seducing Zhuo Ran with scheming means! She also said that you told her!"
Li Mingcheng said angrily: "Why is she such a person!"
Lin Mai kicked him, knocked him to the ground, and threw him on his back: "You are the only fool who feels sorry for her and wants to help her!"
The more she talked, the angrier she became. She picked up the two snacks for Tao Zhiyun and Li Mingcheng and left: "You are such a confused person, you are not worthy of eating my snacks.
Hurry up and sell the iron to help Wan Hui, she is so pitiful, you must envelope her with the light of the holy Father!"
Li Mingcheng was kicked a little bit by Lin Mai, and when he fell, his head hit the corner of the cabinet, which hurt him to death.
He got up from the ground and chased him out of the house, shouting at the top of his lungs: "Mai Zi, I won't help Wan Hui anymore."
No matter how pitiful Wan Hui is, he will not help her if she has hurt Lin Mai.
He would help her because her experience was somewhat similar to Lin Mai's, otherwise he wouldn't have paid more attention to her.
He is not clever, even a little stupid, and is very easy to deceive, but he still knows who is good to him.
Lin Mai did not respond to Li Mingcheng. When he arrived at Tao Zhiyun's house with two bags of snacks, it was almost two o'clock.
Tao Zhiyun poked his head out of his house to observe Wan Ma's family.
Seeing that there was no movement from them, he was about to tiptoe away so that he could go to work.
Seeing Lin Mai come in, she quickly made a gesture of silence and warned her to be gentle.
Lin Mai was confused, but he still did as she asked and sneaked into her house like a thief.
Tao Zhiyun closed the door, then returned to normal, and asked: "You're not at home for a nap at noon, why are you here?"
Lin Mai put two packs of snacks on the table, took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat from his face: "I haven't asked you yet, why do you act like a thief?"
? Zhiyun poured her a glass of cold water: "Oh! Forget it, I am entangled by Wan Ma next door. In order to avoid her, I can only go in and out like a thief."
Lin Mai asked in surprise: "What's going on?"
Tao Zhiyun told her that since she moved here, Wan Ma always came to inquire about her personal situation whenever she was fine.
She just gave a few perfunctory words, saying that she was divorced, had no job, and no house.
Unexpectedly, Wan Ma had the idea to introduce her brother to her, which annoyed her so much that she had to avoid her.
Lin Mai asked gossiping: "What does Wan Ma's brother look like? Where does he work?
If the conditions are good, you can still consider it after you and Ma Tao divorce.
Of course, if you don’t plan to get married again, just pretend I didn’t tell you.”
She comes from a later generation with an open mind, and it is completely acceptable for women to be single, as long as they live happily.
Tao Zhiyun had never thought about not getting married in the future. After all, she was from this generation and her thoughts were not so avant-garde.
She said disgustedly: "No matter what Wan Ma's brother looks like, I can't consider him based on Wan Ma's character."
Lin Mai also looked down on Wan Ma, who was gossipy and took advantage, which made people feel very uncomfortable.
"If you don't think about it, don't think about it. If Wan Ma harasses you again, you can go to your mother's family to come forward.
If you don’t want your parents to worry, then go find the street aunt.”
Tao Zhiyun nodded, took a piece of snack from a net bag containing snacks and ate it.
I saw that the varieties of snacks in the two net bags were exactly the same, except that one contained more and the other contained less.
She asked inexplicably: "Why did you give me two copies of the same snack?"
Lin Mai said: "One share is from Mingcheng."
Tao Zhiyun was startled: "Then why did you bring me here?"
Lin Mai then told her everything that had just happened at Li Mingcheng's place.
He said cautiously: "Since he feels pity for Wan Hui and wants to help her, then don't eat my snacks."
Tao Zhiyun snorted coldly and said disdainfully: "Wan Hui is not pitiful at all, he just pretends to be pitiful.
Her parents are indeed partial, but she is not a good person either. Whenever she is treated unfairly, she will quarrel with her mother.
Her sister, on the other hand, is pretty and sensible than her. She especially listens to her mother's words, so it's no wonder her mother likes her sister."
Seeing Tao Zhiyun eating snacks while talking, Lin Mai asked, "You didn't eat lunch?"
Qiqi is sent to Aunt Ding's house every day to help take care of her, has lunch at Lin Mai's house at noon, and is picked up by Tao Zhiyun after get off work in the afternoon.
Lin Mai was really worried that Tao Zhiyun would not want to cook alone at noon and would be hungry.
She said earnestly: "Even if you don't want to cook at noon, you must at least buy food to eat. Don't be hungry. What if something goes wrong due to hunger? Qiqi is still so young."
Tao Zhiyun said with a smile: "I bought some meat buns for lunch, but why do I feel like I haven't eaten them?"
Lin Mai smiled: "Southerners eat steamed buns and steamed buns as their main meal. Many people feel this way. This is a matter of eating habits.
You have to eat rice to make your brain feel that you have eaten. If you eat steamed buns and steamed buns, your brain will not be able to react and you will feel that you have not eaten."
Tao Zhiyun sounded quite new: "There is still such a saying."
While talking, he ate another piece of dim sum: "This dim sum of yours doesn't look like our local dim sum. Did Professor Fang bring it back from Hong Kong?"
Lin Mai nodded.
Tao Zhiyun said sincerely: "Professor Fang is so kind to you, you must cherish him."
Lin Mai was a little shy: "You don't have to say it~"
Then asked: "Hasn't Ma Tao contacted you about divorce yet?"
Although Ma Tao doesn't know where Tao Zhiyun, his mother and son live now.
But he can convey his wish to divorce her through Tao Zhiyun's work unit or Tao Zhiyun's natal family.
But so many days have passed, and there is no movement from Ma Tao. Could it be that he and his biological mother have changed their minds and don't want to divorce?
Tao Zhiyun poured himself a glass of cold water and drank: "No, maybe the last time I took notes at the police station, the bastard mother and son knew that I was not violated and changed their minds."
Lin Mai said helplessly: "Then we can only file for divorce in court."
Tao Zhiyun shook his head: "There is little use in filing a lawsuit in court.
There used to be a eldest sister in my work unit who wanted a divorce and filed several lawsuits with the court, but the court only offered mediation.
Otherwise, I would have divorced that beast through legal means."
Seeing Lin Mai's frown, she smiled and said, "Don't worry too much, I've already applied for a leave of absence without pay.
Our company pays wages on the 10th of every month.
Tomorrow is the 10th. If Ma Tao can't receive my salary tomorrow, he will know that I have been furloughed.
The Ma family will not get any benefit from me from now on, and they will probably divorce me quickly, so we can wait."
Lin Mai was dumbfounded when he heard this: "You mean, your previous salary will also subsidize the Ma family?"
Tao Zhiyun nodded: "Ma Tao's family is very poor. The reason why Ma Tao was willing to marry me was largely because I had a good salary and a house."
She raised her head and smiled bitterly at Lin Mai: "Am I stupid? I am still responsible for helping the poor when I get married."
Lin Mai felt that Tao Zhiyun's experience was similar to her previous life.
If it weren't for love, a woman wouldn't be so stupid and willing to give everything she has.
Lin Mai smiled and said, "It's indeed silly."
Tao Zhiyun smiled and raised his hand to look at his watch. It was getting late and he had to go to work.
Lin Mai went out with her and said to her: "It's not like there isn't a boiler room in the factory.
There is a rice steaming box in the boiler room, which can steam rice and vegetables.
If you are not used to eating steamed buns and steamed buns as your main meal, then steam rice and vegetables in the boiler room."
Tao Zhiyun nodded and said hello.
Lin Mai actually thought about setting up a staff canteen in the factory.
However, there are only over 100 employees in the factory, and 60% of them live nearby.
People who live far away may not be willing to eat in a canteen. They would rather steam rice and vegetables in the boiler room to save money, so there is no canteen.
She plans to wait until the factory gets bigger before she considers opening a free canteen for employees.
She had to think carefully about how to open this free canteen so that it would not cause food waste and satisfy the employees.
Just as the two of them were about to walk out of the main gate shared by several houses, Wan Ma quickly walked out of her house and couldn't wait to stop Tao Zhiyun.