usatvline Chapter 15 Administrator Visits
Chapter 15 Administrator Visits
But Anjiu felt at ease, and when he carefully tasted his body, he could feel a little bit of excitement and urgency...
Walking quickly on the open space in the middle, Anjiu entered the "alley" very familiarly, circling east and west, from brightness to darkness and then back to brightness.
On both sides of the sunny path, several elderly people were sitting in front of the open doors. They were like a ball of dirty wool, curled up with half-closed eyes to bask in the sun.
Hearing her footsteps, he turned his head slowly, looked at her for a long time, and suddenly laughed with his dry mouth.
“…The child is back.”
"Don't think he's silent, he actually knows what's going on."
"Daiguyang is so lucky to have such a good granddaughter."
As they talked, they turned to look at the old lady at the end of the path.
She was an old woman leaning against the door frame, her eyelids drooping and curled up into a small ball.
Anjiu couldn't help but feel a lump in his throat, and endless grievances gushed out from the bottom of his heart.
"grandmother……"
She knew that this was Xiaojiu's body's reaction.
This is Xiaojiu's only relative on this floor.
"Dianguoyang, your granddaughter is back!"
Several elderly men turned up the volume with great concern, and seemed even happier than the old lady.
The curled up person finally heard the sound and raised his head with great effort. His cloudy eyes lit up the moment he saw Anjiu.
"... A little wine."
She grabbed the door frame to gain leverage and stood up, her back hunched and her legs trembling.
Anjiu rushed over and supported the old lady's arm, but was frightened by how thin her arm was.
When I saw this very familiar face up close, all the fear and trepidation I had felt along the way, along with the grievance, longing and fear that I had drunk, broke out to the extreme.
Anjiu couldn't tell whether it was Xiaojiu's residual emotions that were causing trouble or she was just expressing her feelings. In the end, she still envied Xiaojiu a little bit, because at least she had family members waiting for her to come home...
"Go back to the house first, go back to the house first."
Grandma An wiped her eyes and pulled her into the house.
The scene in front of Anjiu gradually overlapped with the environment in his memory.
The room was very small and one could see the whole thing at a glance. Apart from the mother-and-child bed near the door, there were only two smoothly polished wooden stools. There was no wardrobe and no dining table.
There was a printed iron basin on the cement floor, and next to it was a red plastic bucket with a lid.
That's all the equity this home has.
Grandma An closed the door mysteriously and pulled the curtain behind the door tightly.
She put her finger on her lips, signaling Anjiu not to speak, and hunched over, she took out a small rag bag from her arms, and carefully opened it bit by bit until a small piece of peach biscuit was revealed inside.
"Are you hungry? Eat quickly and don't let anyone see you."
When Grandma An smiled, her face was wrinkled like a dehydrated tangerine.
An Jiu's heart seemed to be hit by something, she shook her head and said softly: "I'm not hungry, you eat it."
After accepting Xiaojiu's memories, she naturally knew that there was an urgent shortage of food and water here.
"I've already eaten it. This is for you." Grandma An was a little angry, her eyes widened, and she passed the biscuits to her again. "This was given to you by the leader Wan next door. He said it was your wages."
There is no idleness in a beehive. Eating, drinking, defecating, urinating and living all require contribution points. Grandma An is too old to go out, so her contribution task falls on 15-year-old Xiaojiu.
The day before being chosen to go to the disaster world to snatch resources, Xiaojiu was still digging and doing hard labor underground to earn a day's expenses for two people.
The 48th floor is the top floor and is closest to the exit. There are many team leaders living here, but not every team leader wants a thin and small girl like Xiaojiu. Therefore, Xiaojiu is not picky about jobs. As long as a team leader needs her, she will grit her teeth and do any job.
It was not until the leader Wan moved in from next door that Xiaojiu no longer had to go to the platform to find work every day. Although mining was hard work, it allowed Xiaojiu and his grandmother to live a good life.
Until the selection day comes...
An Jiu stared at the small piece of peach cake in the rag for a long time and was speechless.
"Put it away and eat it later when I'm hungry."
Grandma An was stunned for a moment, then silently covered the thing with the cloth again and stuffed it into her arms and put it away properly.
Just as she was about to speak, a chaotic and heavy sound of footsteps was heard in the corridor, coming towards here.
Grandma An tilted her head and listened, and suddenly became nervous.
The voice quickly walked outside the door, and a heavy male voice sounded: "Why are you pulling the curtain in broad daylight? The door is locked?!"
The curtain swayed, and a large hand reached in.
He touched the door bolt, pulled it open with a click, pushed the door open and came in with his back bent.
He was nearly 1.9 meters tall, but skinny and skinny, looking like a telephone pole. As soon as he came in, he looked around the two of them suspiciously, trying to find any clues.
"Why are you pulling the curtain? What a bad thing you have done."
Upon hearing this, Grandma An's back became even more hunched, and she kept beating her chest and coughing.
The man's eyes became more suspicious, and his expression became restless.
At this time, An Jiu said, "I'm injured, and grandma wants to help me."
This man is the administrator here, responsible for security and collecting fees, but judging from his past actions, he does not do the former.
Generally speaking, he would only appear on certain days and rarely talk much to these sixth-class citizens.
So this time he came...
The administrator retracted his gaze, took out a notebook from his waist, flipped through the last few pages, and said, "Anjiu, right? You have already owed rent for half a year. You can't delay it any longer. Find a way to pay the rent."
He closed it with a snap and turned on his virtual watch, with a half-smile on his face.
"You've earned a lot of contribution points by going out. If you keep making excuses, you won't be able to live in this house anymore."
I do remember this happening. Xiaojiu had already done everything she could to support her grandmother and herself, and she no longer had any extra money to pay the rent.
Anjiu also lit up his virtual watch, found the contribution value, and stretched out his arm.
There was no sound, and the 1280 points were instantly reduced to zero.
After the administrator finished registering the information in the notebook, he dropped another bombshell: "You still owe 3720 in rent, plus this month's rent, a total of 4720. When do you plan to pay it off?"
Does it mean we are back to square one?
Anjiu's expression was wonderful, but he couldn't utter a single word.
The administrator admired it silently for a while, as if his evil taste was finally satisfied. He finally didn't bother to entangle it anymore, and said, "According to the rules of the beehive, if the rent is owed for more than half a year, the administrator has the right to evict them. You can decide for yourself." He turned and left.
After being hit by two pieces of bad news in a row, An Jiu remained silent for a long time until Grandma An tugged at her sleeve.
She glanced at Grandma An who was trembling with fear, took a deep breath, and walked over to close the door.
However, his hand went straight through the curtain without touching the hard door panel at all. Anjiu looked carefully and found that it was actually an iron fence door.