Reborn Petty Citizen

It was the first time for Zhang's mother to sit in this office, which has a special status for the villagers, but she was not as full of anxiety as she thought before. Since Zhang Ze's accident, her psychological endurance has been greatly affected. The oppression has taken a considerable amount, unless the sky is falling at this moment, otherwise she should have nothing to fear.

This is the first time she feels that she can have such surging courage, and she should be grateful for the strength brought to her by the belated motherhood.

Li Changming held the teacup but didn't drink it. He listened to Zhang's mother's decision to take the children to the city together, and then nodded: "It takes courage, but it's a very good idea." He praised I cast my eyes on this woman who was timid not long ago, and I don’t know why an impulse to help her arises from the bottom of my heart, “But the cost of living in the city will definitely be much higher than that in the village. Think about what you want to do in the future. Yet?"

Zhang's mother had thought about these questions a long time ago, and she replied after hearing the words: "My son will go to No. [-] Middle School at that time, and I will try my best to see which school I can provide her with my daughter's place. Keep up. Lao Zhang and I are two laborers, we can eat enough to do anything, the worst is to move bricks artificially, I heard people say that moving bricks can make a lot of money."

Li Changming smiled and shook his head: "This is too impulsive. Now the market prospect is good, and the country is also promoting the economic development of the people. Instead of working for others, you should carefully choose a small business and do it yourself."

Zhang's mother was in a daze when she heard this: "Doing business...does it cost a lot of money?"

Li Changming was noncommittal: "Look at what you have done, you can probably afford the cost of a small business, I'm just giving you a suggestion."

Zhang's mother is not ignorant of good and evil. After Zhang Ze's accident, Li Changming gave them a lot of help. If it weren't for kindness, no one would be able to maintain such a long patience with strangers.People who are officials must be more knowledgeable than themselves. Zhang's mother was a little tempted because of this, she nodded after thinking for a while and said: "When I leave, I will sell the house I live in now, and then sell the land. Collect some."

Li Changming was taken aback, took a sip of tea slowly, and suddenly said: "Don't be so anxious about selling the house. The house you live in has been around for a long time, and now it's a bit sudden to sell it suddenly. It's better to think about it in the long run." He remembered the recent report received by the village government The renovation documents of century-old houses around the county were not easy to reveal too much confidential content to Zhang's mother clearly.

Zhang's mother didn't know the inside story, but before she could ask, Li Changming changed the subject: "Then you came to me today because you want to discuss with me Comrade Luo Hui's opinion on how to deal with it?"

Mother Zhang was silent for a moment, overwhelmed by the unwillingness in her heart, she nodded: "I wish she could go to jail. But now is not the time to argue."

Li Changming sympathizes with her, but even a person born in a family like him always encounters unsatisfactory things in his life. It is a good sign that he has learned to be rational if he can not be blinded by hatred and temporarily endure for the long-term benefit. .

Nodding his head, Li Changming took the initiative to take on completely unnecessary responsibilities: "Don't worry, I will help you follow up on the compensation issue, at least the child's medical expenses, they can't escape it."

Zhang's mother thanked her again and again, she couldn't be more grateful to this secretary who always sees the beginning and the end. Before leaving, she thought about it, and went to her home to pick up the basket of eggs that the hen had recently laid, and put it quietly on the bed. At the door of the village party secretary's office, he breathed a sigh of relief.

After Luo Hui heard that Zhang Ze's family would not appeal, it was as if she had received an amnesty, so she would certainly not be reluctant to give the money.It's just the difference between giving more and giving less.

The village government came forward to demand compensation for Zhang Ze, and the amount demanded was even more than what Zhang's mother had planned before, but Uncle Zhang Ze's family paid quite happily.

If Zhang's father and Zhang's mother asked for this money, they would be bargained for a long time, but as soon as the official hat came out, Zhang's grandmother, who was used to being rude, was immediately discouraged, and she didn't even dare to ask.

Zhang's father sold four acres of paddy fields in the village for 4000 yuan. The house has not found a buyer for the time being, and because Zhang Ze and Zhang's mother disagreed with the sale of the house, it was put on hold.

The day they left the village happened to be the day Luo Hui came out of the detention center.The two families met face to face at the gate of the station leading to the outside of the village.

Zhang Ze's wound had healed enough that he could walk around, so he was discharged from the hospital and accompanied his mother to the village to pack things. He was dragging large and small bags, and was stunned when he saw Luo Hui, whom he hadn't seen for a long time.

The prison during this period seems to have changed a lot for her. People who used to be confident and their eyes were higher than the top also learned to look at their feet and walk. The moment Zhang Ze met her gaze, she obviously stiffened.

Luo Hui couldn't express the fear in her heart. Zhang Ze had just recovered from a serious illness. He was as thin as a skeleton, and his face was pale and pale, which coincided with the shadow in her heart. He looked like a ghost.She couldn't help being afraid that this person would rush up and do something unexpected to blame her, so she shrank her neck and wanted to run away.

Her son Zhang Baolin didn't know how to read his face. This time his family suffered a big loss, and his playmates in the village laughed at him as the son of a labor camp prisoner. Now seeing Zhang Ze as the culprit, why are they jealous?Immediately twisting his face and making a vomiting expression, he spit on the ground.

When Zhang's father saw them, he dragged his things and ran away first. Zhang's mother didn't want to cause trouble, so she ignored them. Zhang Ze squinted and suddenly showed a sinister smile to their family.

"Brother Baolin," he lowered his voice, and as he walked closer and closer, his voice was as heavy as if it came from his stomach. "Be careful these days, don't run into a bloody disaster..."

Zhang Baolin looked back at the back of their family in the same place and thought about this sentence, but Luo Hui at the side was frightened like crazy, hugging Zhang Baolin and fumbling up and down to check. In a short time, she will probably maintain this state of being a bow and a snake. .

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Huaixing City is far away. Starting from Liyu Village, Zhang Ze’s family had to take a three-hour bus ride to Deqing County, and then transfer from Deqing County. It took more than six hours to get there.Before that, Zhang's mother had to pick up her eldest daughter, Zhang Ti, who was sent to live in someone else's house.

Except for Zhang Ze, the rest of the family knew nothing about the outside world, and Zhang Ze took the decision on things like taking a car along the way, because they were worried that it would be night when they arrived in the city, so they found a police officer in the county seat. Stayed in the guest house for one night, and left early the next morning to catch the first bus in the morning.

Zhang Ti didn’t know how to ride a car, so he vomited a lot of bad food on the way. After being fed a tube of glucose by Zhang Ze, he fell asleep until he got off the bus. As soon as he got to the station, Zhang Ze asked his parents to wait at the station and ran away by himself. Signs outside the station look for advertisements for rental properties.

Because he didn't have a mobile phone, he carefully sifted through the information, recorded the final calls together, found a small shop and called them one by one, and finally found a residential house in an old tube building with a monthly rent of 300 yuan.

In Zhang Ze's opinion, this price is quite a bargain. After all, Huaixing is a provincial capital city, not to mention that there are few houses for rent, so the price is inevitable.But in the eyes of Zhang's parents, 300 yuan is like a sky-high price, and the four acres of land in the village are only sold for a few thousand yuan. Put it here, and it's only been a few months since the co-authorship?What about food and clothing?

Zhang's father regretted it too much, he just felt that he knew it earlier and would not have agreed to come out in a flash. Now that he sold the land and paid for the travel expenses, even the back road was cut off, and he could not turn back.

Zhang's mother was worried at first, and then looked at Zhang Ze's busy figure, and felt an unprecedented sense of crisis in her heart.

Zhang Ze stood at the gate of the crowded station, the wound on his shoulder that was healing was still aching, but the situation that was completely different from what happened in his previous life filled him with an indescribable sense of relief—— Destiny is indeed a man-made thing!

Huaixing is a fairly large city, with Zhongshan Road in the city center as the center, and radially spread outwards into a circle. The house Zhang Ze is looking for is on Jiefang Road not far from Zhongshan Road. There is a house here that is quite famous in later generations. The prosperity of the leather goods factory has brought about astonishing benefits, a staff building where nearly a thousand workers live, a sizable vegetable market, and a very prosperous commercial street.

Renting a house is already expensive these days, and a house of 300 yuan is of course not much better. There is a tube building, two rooms, no kitchen, public toilets, poor lighting, no lights in the corridors, and darkness everywhere.If there is no landlord to lead, the family will probably have to fall hard when going upstairs.

After paying two months' rent and utility bills, the landlord left without hesitation. The moment he closed the door, Zhang's father squatted at the door with a long sigh and began to fumble for cigarettes from his pocket.

The pungent tobacco smell quickly spread from his position, making Zhang Ze frowned and opened the window to ventilate.

Zhang Ti fearfully tugs at the hem of Zhang's mother's clothes. She is 16 years old and is in her prime, but she still looks quite timid when she comes to a big city for the first time. She didn't even dare to look up at the surrounding environment on the way here .In fact, she had such a personality in her previous life. She was born in a mountain village, grew up in a mountain village, and was squeezed out by a group of village children headed by Zhang Baolin. It is strange to be brave.But at that time, Zhang Ze couldn't protect himself, and he was only thinking about leaving the dilapidated place in Liyu Village as soon as possible, so how could he have the time to care about her?

The last news Zhang Ze heard about her before she died was that her husband ran away with a large debt when she was pregnant. Fortunately, Du Xingzhi's close relative is not completely heartless, the aunt clearly said Gu Du's family will help make up the debt and pay Zhang's father and Zhang's mother a sum of compensation, otherwise even if Zhang Ze dies, he will have to turn into a ghost and bite Du Xingzhi to death before he can rest in peace.

Inadvertently recalling those bad things in the past, Zhang Ze scratched the center of his brows, sighed silently in his heart, and turned his head, Zhang's mother had already started to pack her things with her sleeves up.

The pots and pans are all ready-made. She put the two dry steamed buns she brought on the road into the pot and steamed them with water. The nature of a woman made her quickly understand how to use the gas stove. Then she put the sea bowl in the luggage , Wipe the dishes and put them on the table, and said solemnly: "The rent of 300 yuan a month can't be dragged on, we will find something to do tomorrow."