You deserve to be stronger

Chapter 21
"who is it?"

Ye Luo hid at the door and asked in a low voice.

"It's me, your fourth uncle!"

The people outside reported their names.

Ye Luo breathed a sigh of relief, put down the long sword in his hand, and opened the door: "Fourth Uncle, it's so late, why are you here?"

His fourth uncle is called Zhang Sihai, the head of the village, and the villagers are used to calling him the fourth brother, the fourth child.

"It's a bit lively in the village tonight, I don't worry about your side, come and have a look."

Zhang Sihai was wearing a green overcoat. Before entering the door, he first threw the cigarette butt in his hand on the ground and stepped on it, then rubbed the soles of his feet before entering the room.

"Why don't you worry about it!" Ye Luo smiled and let Zhang Sihai into the room.

"Did you just eat?"

After entering the room, Zhang Sihai sniffed, probably smelling the aroma of rice in the room.

"Yeah." Ye Luo said casually, "I was hungry when I fell asleep, and I got up to get something to eat, but the power went out just after eating."

"Yeah, there's a power outage." Zhang Sihai sighed, pulled off his coat, handed it to Ye Luo, and said with a gloomy expression, "Many people in suits entered the village tonight, and they knocked on doors You said that you wanted to catch some female fugitives. Your Aunt Zhao has sharp eyes and saw that they were fake plainclothes. I suspect that they are with the construction team and deliberately came to the village to make trouble. The power outage should be their fault, Ye Luo, is there no one from your house?"

"No." Ye Luo secretly glanced at Lin Qingying's door and shook her head.

"It's fine if you don't have one, I'm really afraid that you will fight with others!" Zhang Sihai patted Ye Luo on the shoulder, "Your jealousy is really worrying. I remember a person came into the village to steal things last year. You almost killed someone."

"That's what he deserves, he dared to steal into my house!" Ye Luo was wearing Zhang Sihai's coat, and said with a smile, "It's no wonder if you don't fight!"

Zhang Sihai also laughed, then pointed outside and said, "You said that no one came to your house, so what's the matter with the gate of your house?"

"Hey, this is a bit embarrassing!" Ye Luo pretended to be distressed, "A friend from the martial arts world drank too much tonight and came to play with me. Before I opened the door, he kicked the door to the door. I kicked it away, are you angry?"

"Really?" Zhang Sihai couldn't believe it.

"Why am I lying to you?" Ye Luo spread her hands, and then changed the subject, "Fourth Uncle, I heard a police car enter the village a while ago, did you call it?"

"Yeah." Zhang Sihai nodded, took out a cigarette from his breast pocket, put it under his nose and smelled it, looking like he really wanted to smoke, "The people in the construction team are getting more and more shameless. It's time to catch some chickens and scare the monkeys, otherwise, ahem, they might make something wrong, ahem, ahem..."

"Fourth Uncle, don't smoke in the future, take care of your health." Hearing Fourth Uncle cough, Ye Luo couldn't help but persuade him.

A few months ago, there was a heavy rain in the village. Zhang Sihai braved the rain to help a lonely elderly family seal the leaking roof. Unfortunately, he caught wind and cold. It's getting better, the weather has turned cold recently, and the condition has worsened. Not only do I often cough, but I have to put on a coat when I go out, or I'm shivering all over.

"No problem."

Zhang Sihai waved his hand, looking indifferent, but still put away the cigarette.

Then he set his sights on the wall covered with photos and walked straight over.

Standing in front of that wall, he turned on the screen of his mobile phone, looked at the photos of Ye Luo's parents, and murmured: "Ye Luo, your parents once advised me not to smoke, but I never listened to them, but if... …If they can persuade me one more time, I will quit smoking immediately.”

Ye Luo lowered her head and said softly, "Fourth Uncle, they will come back to persuade you."

Zhang Sihai walked up to Ye Luo, and patted Ye Luo's shoulder again: "I think so too!"

Then he took the coat from Ye Luo, put it on again, cleared his throat, and asked Ye Luo, "I heard from your Aunt Zhao two days ago that the rent of your martial arts gym has increased again? It costs 5000 yuan a month." gone?"

"Why is Aunt Zhao talking about everything? I was just joking with her!" Ye Luo gestured in the air with his hands, "My martial arts gym only has a small space, how can I need 5000 yuan rent?"

"Hold it!" Zhang Sihai took out a bulging envelope from his coat, which was obviously prepared long ago, "Uncle has no money, you take it for emergency."

"There's no need for emergency!" Ye Luo stretched out his hand and pushed the envelope, "I teach several children, and every child will give me—"

"What for you?" Zhang Sihai interrupted Ye Luo, "You don't know anything when you are the fourth uncle? You only teach a dozen children, and each child only gives you more than 4000 yuan in tuition fees a year. Your utility bills, property fees, how can you still have the money to pay the rent? Waiting to pay for the demolition of the house? Fourth Uncle will not hide it from you, the money won’t come for a while!”

Ye Luo fell silent after hearing this.

Zhang Sihai stuffed the envelope into Ye Luo's hand, patted the back of his hand lightly, and said comfortingly, "Ye Luo, work hard and show yourself, in case your parents really come back one day, when they see You have done a bigger business than them, how happy do you think they should be, right?"

Ye Luo grabbed the warm envelope and nodded.

"One more thing." Zhang Sihai's voice suddenly became serious, and he said in a deep voice, "I heard that you would go to Laosong Square in the urban area every now and then, are you still thinking about your parents being cheated away? Ye Luo, don't do stupid things, it's been ten years, and that thing's surname is no longer Ye, and now those people are not something you can afford."

Ye Luo remained silent, but gritted her teeth quietly.

"Hey, don't talk about unhappy things!" Zhang Sihai naturally knew that Ye Luo was unhappy, so he changed a relaxed expression on his face and said with a smile, "Ye Luo, my money is not for nothing. , when you get rich, you have to remember to pay it back to Fourth Uncle, and the interest will also be paid, you know?"

Ye Luo couldn't laugh, but said in a muffled voice: "Fourth Uncle, you watched me grow up, and I have always regarded you as my uncle, so why don't you ask for interest?"

Zhang Sihai was stunned for a moment, and suddenly beat his heart: "Haha, cough cough, you boy, haha..."

Ye Luo hurriedly went to get the water bottle: "Fourth Uncle, I'll pour you a glass of water."

"Don't worry about it, cough cough, I have to go." Zhang Sihai waved his hands, rubbed his throat, and walked towards the door, "The police are still in the village, I have to go and have a look, you should go to bed early !"

Ye Luo stood at the door, watched Zhang Sihai leave, closed the door gently, leaned against the door panel, and rubbed his face vigorously.

A figure quietly walked up to him, and as soon as he spoke, the aroma of egg fried rice came out of his mouth: "Ye Luo, I know why you are in such a hurry to ask for the 20 yuan. It turns out that you are going to be as miserable as me."

This sentence sounds very strange, it seems that some sympathize with Ye Luo, and some seem to gloat over others' misfortune.

Ye Luo glanced at the figure: "Eavesdropping on people, shameless!"

The figure didn't take it seriously, and said again: "Your parents have been cheated of something? Is it very valuable? Now that you have awakened your ability, why don't you grab it back and let it continue to be named Ye with you?"

(End of this chapter)