Chapter 183 Strange Dream

Chapter 183 Strange Dream

"Stop rolling your eyes, or you'll look like a dead fish!" Yao Shula glared at Gu Changqin without any politeness.

Gu Changqin...

How come you didn't see Lei Jingwu roll his eyes at you so hard? He only rolled his eyes a little and you think he has dead fish eyes?

“Yao Shula, there’s no need to be so calculating! You’re genuinely good to Xiaotian, and these things are what he wanted to give him…”

"You have to pay! Otherwise, take everything back!" Yao Shula insisted.

Upon hearing this, Lei Jingwu thought for a moment and could only nod.

"Okay! I'll call you when I get back, is that alright? It really isn't much money!"

Let them calculate it then. Anyway, Yao Shula doesn't know how much money I earned. I'll just give the money to Yao Shula later, and then I'll say that the money has already been deducted...

Yao Shula breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Lei Jingwu had agreed.

They always bring so much stuff every time they come; after a while, she started to get a little afraid of them coming.

Maybe I'm seen as a freeloader by Tian Tian's relatives...

"Alright, it's getting late, you two should go back now!" Yao Shula said, about to close the gate to Old Cao's courtyard.

As if remembering something, Lei Jingwu quickly took out a brown paper envelope from his pocket and stuffed it into Yao Shula's hand.

Touching the thick envelope, Yao Shula was a little surprised.

"What's this?"

"Tian Tian's living expenses! I almost forgot to tell you, our old man said you work hard taking care of Tian Tian, ​​and you take such good care of her."

He is sensible, clever, and has grown much stronger. From now on, he will be given 150 yuan a month for living expenses.

This contains 450 yuan, which is my living expenses for three months, from September to November.

I will give it to you every three months from now on.

"My grandfather said that if you ever need anything from the Lei family in the future, just ask. We'll treat you like family!" Lei Jingwu said with a smile.

“Yes, that’s what my father said too. He said that if we need anything, we should just ask!” Gu Changqin chimed in.

Yao Shula...

Wages are rising incredibly fast! From fifty yuan at the end of last year, it jumped to one hundred and fifty yuan in less than half a year...

She's met a capitalist with a conscience.

"This...this is terrible! I like it when Tiantian takes care of Tiantian!"

Now that you've said that, it sounds like it's all about the money...

"No, we can't take that much. One hundred yuan was already a lot before." Yao Shula was genuinely surprised.

"Kindness sometimes needs money to sustain it."

"Just because you took Tiantian home and treated her well without her knowing anything, no amount of money is too much for you," Lei Jingwu said to Yao Shula.

Yao Shula smiled smugly. It seemed that picking up Xiao Tiantian back then was really just a subconscious act.

Now she believes that good people should be rewarded...

“Yao Shula, there seems to be a light in your eyes!” Gu Changqin suddenly said from the side.

"There's light? What kind of light? Astigmatism?" Yao Shula retorted instinctively.

Gu Changqin...

This is really impossible to talk about today...

...

After seeing Lei Jingwu and Gu Changqin off, Yao Shula closed the gate to the Cao family's courtyard. After plugging in the latch behind the gate, she used two sticks to prop the gate shut before returning to her own courtyard.

Little Tiantian had already taken a bath and changed into her pajamas, and was bouncing around on the bed.

Although the bed at Grandpa's house in Shanghai is very big and comfortable, and the room is not hot at all at night, Xiao Tiantian still misses his current bed very much.

Yao Shuxin had already taken a basin and wiped the bamboo mat on the bed with warm water.

The fan was blowing towards the bed, and Xiao Tiantian was smelling the familiar scent on the pillow while waiting for Yao Shula to come and apply prickly heat powder to her.

Yao Shuli was also swatting away mosquitoes inside the mosquito net.

"Tomorrow is the last day to sell popsicles. The older sister said that the weather will get a bit cold in a couple of days, and it will rain, so fewer people will eat popsicles."

I also told Wang Changsheng and Wang Biying that they would be reducing their popsicle sales in the next couple of days.

"However, their brown sugar candies and sponge cakes have been selling quite well these past two days," Yao Shuli said while swatting away mosquitoes.

After saying "oh," Xiao Tian turned over in bed. He was about to ask his two apprentices if they had been bullied at the train station...

Yao Shula had already come in with the prickly heat powder.

He stood obediently in front of Yao Shula with his arms outstretched and head tilted back, making it easier for Yao Shula to apply the prickly heat powder.

After applying the prickly heat powder, Yao Shula patted Xiao Tiantian's bottom.

"Alright! Go to sleep! You must be exhausted after a long day of driving. We can talk about it tomorrow."

Xiao Tiantian chuckled, still clinging to Yao Shula's arm.

"Big sister, I really dreamed about you that night, but I didn't dare tell my brother and the others!" Xiao Tiantian lowered her voice.

Upon hearing this, Yao Shula and Yao Shuli immediately felt a little strange.

"Why don't you dare to say it? Did your older sister find out you ate candy without brushing your teeth?" Yao Shuli immediately thought of this.

Yao Shula also smiled as she looked at Xiao Tiantian.

Xiao Tiantian quickly shook his head, and then opened his mouth to show Yao Shula.

"Hey lady, I brushed my teeth, you can smell it if you don't believe me!"

Yao Shula leaned closer to smell it, and said, "Hmm, it smells like Zanthoxylum bungeanum!"

"What did you dream about? Something scary? It wasn't about your older sister hitting you, was it?" Yao Shula asked casually.

Children are very perceptive; maybe Xiaotian just remembers the time I hit him with a feather duster!

Then, what you think about during the day, you dream about at night...

"It wasn't my older sister who hit me! Someone else hit me!" Xiao Tiantian said earnestly.

Yao Shula, Yao Shuli...

Someone hit Xiaotian? How could that be? How could such a clever little kid like Xiaotian be hit by someone else?

"Who hit you?" Yao Shula asked softly.

"I couldn't see their faces! But someone was hitting me, with a leather whip and a stick."

Oh, and there's more, they also tied me up with ropes and put ankle chains on my feet so I couldn't run away.

I didn't know anyone in that place; it was all very dilapidated houses.

I remember that it was two very old people who beat me every day. I kept crying and tried to run away, but I couldn't.

"They wouldn't even give me any food. I hadn't eaten for days, and they only gave me a single black steamed bun," Xiao Tiantian continued.

Yao Shula could sense that Xiao Tiantian's little body seemed to be trembling as he spoke.

She quickly hugged Xiaotian.

"And then what?"

"Then my older sister appeared! She secretly gave me her cornbread to eat, and then she untied the ropes binding me."

Then they secretly carried me out in a basket on their backs.

My older sister even went to the post office to make a phone call, and then... I was able to go home!

But my older sister disappeared in an instant! "Little Tian said softly.