Luo Xiao Qing: “Yes, once my brother becomes a police officer, he can protect Duo Duo and Guo Guo.”
Luo Hui Zhen wiped away her tears in excitement. The Luo family had suffered for too long, and finally, good times had arrived.
“Xiao Qing, you can’t spend this money carelessly. You still need to get married.”
Luo Xiao Qing: “Mom, I’ll have a salary once I go to the police station. I’ll take care of this money.
You keep this one hundred yuan for household expenses.
This ten yuan, Duo Duo and Guo Guo get five yuan each, as pocket money!”
“No!”
Luo Hui Zhen only took fifty yuan and stuffed the rest back to Luo Xiao Qing: “I’ll just take fifty yuan.
Duo Duo and Guo Guo are still young. They can’t have big bills!”
Luo Xiao Qing thought for a moment. Anyway, it was almost the New Year, and he would give Duo Duo and Guo Guo New Year's money then.
Luo Xiao Qing, with Luo Hui Zhen, Duo Duo, and Guo Guo, went to the department store again.
This time, Luo Xiao Qing bought Luo Hui Zhen a Phoenix brand women’s bicycle.
He also bought a half-steel watch, a sewing machine, and a radio.
He purchased a lot of New Year’s goods, buying pork, vegetables, and snacks.
He then carried his bags, big and small, and walked back to the courtyard.
At this moment, Qin Huairu, Yi Da Ma, Er Da Ma, and Jia Zhang Shi were at the water basin in the courtyard.
Er Da Ma: “I went out earlier, and I heard it all over the alley. Luo Xiao Qing committed some crime and was surrounded by police.
There were also people from the neighborhood committee!”
Jia Zhang Shi, who was making shoe soles, had bright eyes: “Really? I told you, that little rascal was no good.
Now he’s reaping what he sowed! Serves him right!”
Qin Huairu’s heart jumped with joy upon hearing this. When Luo Xiao Qing was doing well, she felt miserable. The best thing was to have him in the same situation as before, sick and impoverished.
That would prove that she had chosen Jia Dongxu correctly.
Yi Da Ma: “I don’t think so. I think Xiao Qing is a pretty decent kid!”
Er Da Ma: “You don’t understand. You can’t judge a person by their appearance. That day, my Guangfu was walking past his house in broad daylight.
He was beaten up by Luo Xiao Qing! It made me so angry, I couldn’t sleep for a whole night.
This time, Luo Xiao Qing is definitely finished!”
San Da Ma just walked into the courtyard and heard this explosive news. She quickly went back home and saw Yan Bu Gui returning.
“Old Yan, I just heard Er Da Ma say that Luo Xiao Qing committed a crime and was arrested by the police. It’s all over the alley?”
Yan Bu Gui: “Nonsense. Old Liu’s wife must have heard half the story.
Luo Xiao Qing went hunting today and shot three big wild boars, huge ones!
There were also a whole bunch of wild chickens and rabbits. Altogether, he sold them for over nine hundred yuan.
The Public Security Bureau bought them. Those policemen seemed to really like Luo Xiao Qing.
They even sparred with him!”
“Over nine hundred? Doesn’t that mean the Luo family is going to be rich?”
“Who says it’s not? I was even regretting earlier that we didn’t help the Luo family back then.
If we had spoken up for Luo Xiao Qing about the marriage between Qin Huairu and Bai Ling, we could have taken advantage of the situation! Yu Shui helped Duo Duo and Guo Guo twice.
Look at them now, eating meat and rice every day at the Luo family!”
San Da Ma also felt regret: “I was just listening to Jia Po Po grumbling.
If Qin Huairu finds out about this, she’ll be so regretful.
Jia Dongxu only earns twenty-something yuan a month. Luo Xiao Qing made four or five years’ worth of Jia Dongxu’s salary in a single day.”
Yan Bu Gui: “Just wait and see. I just heard Luo Xiao Qing took his family to the department store.
It’s going to be lively in the courtyard tonight when they get back.”
As they were talking, Luo Xiao Qing and Luo Hui Zhen pushed their bicycles and walked in from outside, carrying big bags and small bags, chatting and laughing.
Yan Bu Gui and San Da Ma ran out of their house and saw Luo Hui Zhen wearing the latest Lenin suit, cotton shoes, and pushing a Phoenix brand bicycle.
Duo Duo and Guo Guo, sitting on Luo Xiao Qing’s bicycle, were also wearing wool skirts and small leather shoes, and they were holding candied haws.
The sewing machine and all sorts of good things were piled on the bicycle.
“Wow, Xiao Qing, you struck it rich? Come on, I’ll help you push the bike!”
Yan Bu Gui helped Luo Xiao Qing lift the bike over the threshold.
You don’t hit a smiling face. Luo Xiao Qing thanked Yan Bu Gui and walked towards the courtyard.
Qin Huairu, who was washing clothes with her bulging belly, looked up at the sound, and her face instantly turned pale.
Wasn’t Luo Xiao Qing supposed to be arrested?
How come he bought a bicycle and all these good things?
Jia Zhang Shi was also stunned. The Luo family had two bicycles? And a sewing machine?
Previously, only their family had a sewing machine in the entire courtyard, and people had to pay to use it.
Now, not only did the Luo family have a bicycle, but they also had a sewing machine. Wasn’t this putting Jia Dongxu to shame?
San Da Ma stood at the entrance of the courtyard, watching the expressions on the faces of the Jia family and Er Da Ma, and she chuckled to herself.
This courtyard was going to be exciting.
Yi Da Ma: “Hui Zhen, you bought a bicycle?”
Luo Hui Zhen smiled: “Yes, Xiao Qing earned some money from hunting and wanted to give it to me. He insisted on buying me one.”
Qin Huairu’s heart ached as she looked at the brand-new Phoenix brand bicycle. Luo Xiao Qing was not arrested.
He even made money from hunting, and he bought a Phoenix brand bicycle.
If she hadn’t broken off the engagement with Luo Xiao Qing back then, would she have had this bicycle too?
And Luo Hui Zhen’s new clothes and leather shoes. She had never worn leather shoes in her entire life.
For the first time, Qin Huairu felt a strong sense of regret.
Even if Jia Dongxu worked hard with his twenty-something yuan salary every month, it would be impossible for him to buy her a bicycle.
But Luo Xiao Qing bought Luo Hui Zhen a bicycle so quickly!
The prosperity of the Luo family made the entire courtyard boil.
Not long ago, the Luo family was struggling, with Luo Xiao Qing critically ill and the family unable to make ends meet.
How quickly they had turned their fortunes around.
Two bicycles in one family. That was a rare sight, not only in the courtyard but probably the entire city.
Back home, Luo Hui Zhen’s face was flushed and she looked several years younger.
“Xiao Qing, I never told you back then when we were having a hard time.
But now, I need to tell you about what’s going on in the courtyard.”