Chapter 1050: The Lost Zhou Anlei

Gao Zhen and his wife were in deep affection, but Zhou Anlei was tossing and turning, unable to sleep.

Ever since the contract was signed, his woman hadn't come again, which made him very upset.

Then he thought about what he was going to do with the 100,000 reward. Was he going to continue living like before, waiting for death, and when the money was spent, go begging?

Before meeting Zhou Andong, if he had suddenly received 100,000 yuan, he would definitely have enjoyed it however he could.

Eat what he wanted, drink what he wanted, play what he wanted. As for what to do when the money was spent, he wouldn't even think about it.

But it's different now. In the few days following Zhou Andong, he had seen too many scenes he could only see in movies before.

And he had personally experienced the feeling of having status and position. Although it was fake, there were beauties scrambling to crawl into his bed.

Especially that feeling of being respected and flattered, which made him very reluctant to leave.

But Li Ling came, took over the negotiations, and everything he had returned to before. The extreme drop from heaven to hell made him very lost.

Unknowingly, it was dawn. Zhou Anlei, who hadn't slept well all night, got up, didn't brush his teeth or wash his face, and wandered out of the hotel.

He didn't know where to go. He wandered around the neighborhood until after nine o'clock, feeling a bit hungry, and wanted to find a place to eat.

Only then did he suddenly discover that not far ahead was the shopping mall where he often begged, and then he thought of the slightly fat, not-so-pretty, but very kind shoe-shining sister.

His legs couldn't help but walk over, watching from afar as the fat sister lowered her head, shining shoes for a customer.

When she finished shining the leather shoes and took the one-yuan note handed over by the customer, the smile on her face was so bright that even the sunlight in the sky seemed a bit dim.

Zhou Anlei stood in the distance and watched for a while, then walked over.

"Fat Sister!" Zhou Anlei squatted beside Fat Sister.

"Ah!" Seeing Zhou Anlei, Fat Sister smiled and said happily: "It's you. Looking at your glowing face, you've been living a good life these past few days."

"Heh!"

Zhou Anlei laughed: "Clean up, I'll treat you to a meal."

Fat Sister asked curiously: "Got rich?"

"Didn't get rich." Zhou Anlei shook his head: "But I can still afford to treat you to a meal."

He didn't have a cent on him, but he didn't dare ask Zhou Andong, so he could only borrow from Li Ling.

For this kind of shameless person, Li Ling also had no way.

No matter if you hit or scold, he didn't care at all.

Li Ling was annoyed by his pestering and gave him fifty yuan.

"Don't go eat outside, what a waste of money." Fat Sister looked at the sky: "Eat at home, my daughter wants to eat small steamed buns, I have to go back and make them for her to eat when she comes back from school at noon."

"Fine!" Zhou Anlei was thick-skinned, didn't even bother to be polite, and agreed very readily.

Fat Sister's home wasn't close to the mall. She couldn't bear to spend money on the bus and walked for almost an hour before arriving.

It was a four-story tube-shaped building. Fat Sister's home was on the third floor, and there wasn't even a unit door.

As soon as you went in, you saw it was piled with debris, and the stairs could only accommodate one person going up and down.

If you met someone going up or down, you had to turn sideways to pass, really having a feeling of climbing mountains and crossing ridges.

Finally reaching the third floor, Fat Sister took out a key and opened the slightly deformed, heavily paint-peeling wooden door.

With a creak, Fat Sister pushed the door open and said a bit embarrassedly: "The house is a bit messy, don't mind."

Zhou Anlei entered the door. The house area wasn't big, and because there was quite a bit of debris, it looked very crowded.

"Sit for a while, I'll wrap them now."

Zhou Anlei asked: "Is there anything I can help with?"

"No need!" Fat Sister washed her hands: "I prepared the dough in the morning, and the meat filling is also seasoned and in the refrigerator, it will be wrapped very quickly."

"Good, then I'll wait to eat."

Zhou Anlei looked around the room. There was only one bedroom, opposite was the bathroom, and next to the bathroom was the kitchen.

The kitchen was very small, only able to accommodate one person; two people couldn't pass each other.

A folding round table and two stools were placed by the window.

Zhou Anlei turned around and saw a photo hanging on the east wall, which should be a family portrait.

In front were two old people, holding a baby and sitting on stools.

Behind stood a man and a woman. Zhou Anlei recognized at a glance that the woman in the photo was Fat Sister.

It's just that Fat Sister at that time was very thin, very young, and also very pretty.

Fat Sister took out the awakened dough and started kneading it, seeing Zhou Anlei looking at the photo, and said with a smile.

"The photo was taken when my daughter was just a month old, eleven years ago."

Zhou Anlei asked: "What did Brother-in-law do?"

Fat Sister was silent for a while: "Fishing with a boat, seven years ago he went out to sea and never came back. Four years ago, my father-in-law and mother-in-law also passed away one after another."

"Sorry." Zhou Anlei said apologetically: "I didn't know."

"Hey!" Fat Sister smiled: "It's been so many years, I've almost forgotten what they looked like."

Fat Sister's voice became smaller and smaller, and finally fell silent, only the sound of the dough board and the countertop bumping when kneading the dough.

After two or three minutes, Zhou Anlei broke the somewhat dull atmosphere.

"Fat Sister, I still don't know what your name is."

Fat Sister wiped her eyes very covertly with her sleeve: "Xu Yinxia."

"Xu Yinxia?" Zhou Anlei muttered.

"Not Xu, it's the 'Xu' of beard." Xu Yinxia corrected.

"Xu?" Zhou Anlei looked curious: "Is there a surname Xu?"

Xu Yinxia smiled and said: "The surname Xu is very rare, and even rarer in Guangdong. I heard my father say that our surname Xu is mainly distributed in the southeastern part of Shandong. There are also some in Shanghai, but I don't know about other places."

"My name is Zhou Anlei." Zhou Anlei also said his name, "I'm from Jiangzhou."

"I know Jiangzhou." Xu Yinxia raised her hand and tucked a strand of hair at her temple, "There is this place in the movie Liaoshen Campaign."

The two chatted, Xu Yinxia wrapped the skins and fillings very deftly, and soon a steamer was full, then she opened the valve of the gas tank and shook it.

"It's almost out of gas again. Last month, a tank of gas went up by two yuan, really not letting the common people live."

Xu Yinxia muttered, lit the stove with a match, and then put the steamer on the stove.

"Steam for fifteen minutes, and then we'll eat first."

Zhou Anlei said: "Better wait for the child to come back from school and eat together."

"No need!" Xu Yinxia started wrapping again: "I'll wrap the rest, steam them for her, and she can eat them herself when she comes back."

Zhou Anlei looked at the busy Xu Yinxia, a drop of sweat slowly rolling down her face.

As if by a ghost, he raised his hand and wiped Xu Yinxia's face with his sleeve.

Xu Yinxia's body stiffened, and her hands wrapping the buns paused fiercely.

Then her lowered head lowered even more, and her movements wrapping the buns no longer had the flowing water of just now, looking a bit flustered. ===== CHAPTER 1051 =====