Han Xiaowu had known that Xu Xielin and her fellow villagers rented private houses. He thought Anhai was not as slums as India, and no matter how difficult the conditions were, they would not be much harder.

Unexpectedly, carrying three large bags of leftover vegetables packed from the royal palace, he followed Han Sumi to the urban village west of the long-distance bus station. When he walked into the place where they lived, he found that their living environment was more difficult than he thought.

This is a row of low-rise houses similar to the shed. It is divided into five rooms from east to west. The rooms are very small, and a double bed occupies half of the space. If the electric vehicle is pushed in, it will become very crowded. And the back wall of all rooms is actually the courtyard wall of the small yard. The one on the west side is not next to the toilet, but is separated from the toilet by a wall.

In front is a three-story western-style building where the landlord lives, with a distance of less than three meters. Because it is blocked by the building, it cannot be sunny from morning to night. The landlord may not want to be disturbed by them, tenants from other places, so he built the alley leading to the front with bricks, and opened a small door on the courtyard wall to the west, allowing them to have a long small yard that belongs to them temporarily.

There are no other tenants in the yard, they are all Xu Xielin's brothers and sisters.

Seeing her best friend visiting her "little uncle intrigued" late at night, Xu Xielin was embarrassed and wanted to find a crack in the floor. But when she came, her cousin and a few distant cousins ​​were so happy that she couldn't keep the two uninvited guests out, so she could only bite the bullet and welcome them into her room.

"Brother Han, I'm sorry, I only have a stool here, why don't you sit on the bed?"

"Uncle, sit down. Linlin's bed is the most comfortable. I've slept several times!"

"Xiao Mi, what are you talking about?" Xu Xielin blushed with shame, and hurriedly took off the underwear hanging on the steel wire at the head of the bed and stuffed it into the quilt.

"Your bed is comfortable. What can I say about this? My uncle is not an outsider." Han Sumi followed her home and moved the folding small dining table from the corner of the wall to support it. Then she took the leftovers from Han Xiaowu and greeted happily: "Sister Amu, hurry up and take the bowl and chopsticks. It's delicious. My uncle has brought you a lot of dishes!"

"I'm so embarrassed to bring food again?" The woman standing by the door laughed in a mouthful of stiff Mandarin.

"What's so sorry about this? I came to eat for a few days before, and I've never been polite to you," Han Sumi untied a convenient bag, took out a box of vegetables, and shouted: "Shiliu, Ajia, Mujia, all of them are here. My uncle doesn't eat anyone!"

In order to show politeness, Han Xiaowu was about to say hello to them. The woman standing by the door suddenly turned around and said in a dialect. The Yi compatriots who were huddling outside to watch the fun suddenly burst into laughter.

Xu Xielin seemed unhappy when she heard this. She said a few words in dialect with a stern face. Not only did they not dare to laugh anymore, but they even dared not watch the fun again, and went back to their respective rooms dejectedly.

"Linlin, what are you doing? I was very happy..."

"Nothing said."

"I didn't say anything, why did Sister Shi Liu and the others leave?" Han Sumi asked unhappily.

Xu Xielin said as if nothing had happened: "They are going to work tomorrow, and they have all had supper."

"You must have said something to them. You are bullying me and I don't understand your Yi people's words. You don't let them eat, right? I'll send it to them!"

"Xiao Mi, what are you talking about? Is there anyone who visits like this?" Han Xiaowu realized that Xu Xielin was angry and quickly turned around and said, "Linlin, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have run over without your permission. There is something else, I'll leave first."

Xu Xielin didn't want to be misunderstood and said bitterly: "Brother Han, it has nothing to do with you. Although my conditions here are not good, I don't feel too embarrassing. I just said that they were because... it was because..."

"Is it because they're not supposed to joke?"

"That's right."

"No matter what, it's because of me. I'll go back first and have time to go to my place with Xiaomi."

"You are leaving, what should I do if Xiao Mi?"

"Leave the electric car to her, you know what she is. She will definitely not leave until she finishes crazy."

"Then I'll send you."

Thinking of the real purpose of coming tonight, Han Xiaowu smiled happily and said, "Okay, there is something I want to tell you, I want to ask you for help."

Xu Xielin suddenly became nervous and even regretted what she gave her, but she said it but couldn't take it back. She could only take a deep breath and accompany Han Xiaowu out of the yard with a stamina.

Han Xiaowu stopped and turned around and looked at her with a smile: "Linlin, you can see that you have great prestige among your fellow villagers."

"Brother Han, you are really good at joking. What kind of prestige can I have?"

"Brothers and sisters all listen to you, this is prestige."

"I called them, and I helped find their jobs. Their parents also called me every few days to ask me to keep an eye on them. If something happens to me in the factory, I have to help find their boss. Of course they have to listen to me." Xu Xielin didn't dare to look at him, looking at the brightly lit high-rise buildings in the distance.

Han Xiaowu sighed: "It seems that you have been worried about these brothers and sisters."

"Not that exaggerated," Xu Xielin was embarrassed to be said, but she didn't say anything clearly and was worried that she would be looked down upon by the person in front of her. She simply looked back at him and said, "They were all grown up in the mountains, without much education, and they couldn't even speak Mandarin. There was no factory in our hometown. If we didn't take them out to work, the girls would be a little better, and the boys would do nothing all day, have no jobs, and have no money to spend. Maybe they would go astray."

"go astray?"

"It's just an illegal crime. People can do anything when they are poor. My dad said that a few years ago, we caught more than a dozen drug traffickers, and some people were infected with AIDS. They were all young people." Xu Xielin bit her lip and then said, "I took them out to work. Although the salary is not high, it is better than doing nothing in my hometown. But if I take them out, I have to be responsible for them, so... so I can't ignore anything."

"It is because you have to take care of these brothers and sisters that you go to work in the mall?"

"That's right. I want to find a slightly better job. I can find it even if I look for it carefully, but I am definitely not as free as I am now when I work."

Listening to the ears is false, and seeing to the eyes is true.

Han Xiaowu realized that the person in front of him seemed weak on the outside, but in fact he was not only kind but also strong on the inside. When he thought of his niece who made his family worry-free, he stared at her and said seriously and sincerely: "Linlin, thank you!"

"Brother Han, what do I have to thank for? What do you thank me for?" Xie Lin was embarrassed to see and quickly lowered her head.

"Thank you for treating Xiaomi as your best friend, and thank you for your care for my Xiaomi. If you were your best friend, I wouldn't even dare to imagine what she would become now."

"Brother Han, you must be prejudiced against Xiao Mi. Sometimes Xiao Mi is a little... a little crazy. In fact, she is not bad, she has no bad intentions!"

"What kind of person is my own niece? How can I not know, my uncle? Let's not talk about her, and talk about the serious business..." Han Xiaowu briefly said the purpose of the night, and said apologetically: "If you are not interested, if you really don't have time, it doesn't matter. I was entrusted by the leaders of the United Front Work Department to ask."
Chapter completed!