Network New Liao Zhai

Chapter 730

Sarah Hurt lay in the bathtub, soaking in hot water, thinking about how much savings she had, and when she would be able to rent a house in one of the more upscale apartments in the city.

The kind of high-end apartment with running hot water in the bathroom bathtub.

Unlike living in a slum like now, it is not convenient to even take a shower.

And there is a stinking ditch behind.

In summer, the taste is just enough to bear.

Although it is possible to rent such an apartment now, it can only be lived for a year or so at most.

I want to live in that apartment forever for the rest of my life.

Still have to work hard.

Children are not as easy to pick up now as they used to be.

Unlike when the war just ended, there were stray children everywhere, stray dogs stray cats.

When will I earn enough pension money?

Should I consider doing something else?

Well, I will go to the city tomorrow to see if there is any other good way.

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Hot water was delivered to the wife, and the two children returned to the backyard.

Watt asked Lucy, "Lucy, take a bath first. I'll fetch you some water."

A shed was built against the low wall in the backyard, where the children usually take a bath.

Lucy: "I didn't go out today, so I won't wash it, or my wife will say that I used too much water. Watt, wash it."

"I don't want to move anymore. I'd better go and lie on the bed. My hands are peeled off, and it hurts even more after getting wet. And I'm even more hungry after taking a bath..."

He still ate two slices of bread at home in the morning, then went out, and has not eaten anything until now.

Watt said, picking up a large glass of water and pouring it into his stomach, so that he can feel a little full.

Then Lucy heard Watt's stomach growling.

Couldn't stop laughing.

"Oh, I'm even more hungry."

"Watt, you come."

Lucy waved to him.

"what?"

Lucy opened the back door and walked out.

Watt followed suit.

I saw Lucy walk a few meters along the low wall, then squatted down, pushed aside a brick on the wall, and took out a thing wrapped in a cloth towel from the hole in the wall and handed it to Watt.

Watt: "What is it?"

"Open it and see."

Lucy said with some pride.

"I didn't expect it to come in handy today."

Watt opened the cloth towel.

Inside are two pies.

Although it is only as big as a child's fist, it looks very attractive when it is baked golden.

Lucy said: "You squat by the ditch over there to eat slowly, and put the cloth towel back where it was before. I'll watch over my wife. If my wife asks me, I'll say you're shitting here."

Watt didn't care about whether Lucy said shit or not, so he nodded quickly, went to the gutter and squatted down.

Even if someone saw him in the dark.I'll just think it's a child shitting here.

The two children thought that no one saw this scene, but unexpectedly, there was a pair of eyes in the bushes on the other side of the gutter that could see everything clearly.

Watt squatted by the gutter and devoured the pie a few times. He carefully folded the cloth towel and put it in the hole in the wall.Put the bricks back in place, check that there are no flaws, and enter the yard.

Another full stomach of water.

I endured the pain and washed my hands several times.

After making sure that there was no smell of pie in his hands, he felt relieved and sat in the yard waiting for Lucy.

After a while, Lucy came out, holding the clothes that Madam had changed, which needed to be washed.

Lucy told him that Madam had gone to bed after taking a bath.

Lucy does the laundry in the yard.

Watt was by her side.

"Where did you come from, Lucy?"

Lucy: "When I was baking bread today, I secretly grabbed a piece of dough, made it into a pie and baked it together with the bread and hid it here. Although it looks like a pie, there is no filling inside."

Stuffed or not, it's good food for a hungry Watt.

"Thank you so much, Lucy. How did you come up with that."

Lucy: "My sister who was in charge of cooking told me that they use this method to save food, just in case, if someone is punished and has nothing to eat, it can be used as an emergency. Follow my sister to learn When cooking, she taught me how much dough to save at a time, baked into two separate pies, and kept hidden outside so that the lady would not find out."

"Yes, if you hide in the house, you will definitely be discovered by Madam, she has a very sharp nose."

"Well, madam wouldn't think that we were hiding in the hole in the wall outside, hehe."

Lucy couldn't help laughing.

Watt: "Thank you so much, Lucy. I think I'll have to rely on this for a few days. I really don't steal things."

Lucy: "It's okay, Watt, I'll keep it for you. It's just that if you don't get anything, Ma'am will have a hard time..."

Watt: "I'd rather come back hungry and be beaten and scolded by my wife than be caught by people outside."

In the past, Watt just went with his brothers and sisters a few times, acting as a lookout. Now that his brothers and sisters have left, the wife said that he should steal it by himself. He dared not do it on the street today, and he was afraid of being caught. .

He had seen a child caught and beaten half to death before.

Watt: "They beat thieves when they catch them. I've seen people chop off their hands. Oh, Lucy, that's horrible."

Lucy: "Watt, why don't you run?"

Watt: "Run? Where are we going? Who can take in children like us. If we fall into the hands of those worse people, we will be even worse."

Lucy: "Yes, I heard that many children were beaten into disabilities and begged on the street. At least we are still healthy and have a place to shelter from the wind and rain."

Watt: "We just have to be patient now, and it will be fine when we grow up."

"Well, my sister said the same thing, be patient, and when you grow up, you will be able to get rid of your wife. It's getting late, Watt should go to bed early, there is still a lot of work to do tomorrow."

Although Lucy doesn't need to go out to steal things, it's because there is no one to do the work at home. She has to be responsible for cooking, washing clothes, and cleaning. If there are younger children at home, she is also responsible for taking care of them.

All my older sisters did this.

So she is not very easy at home.

"Okay. Good night, Lucy."

"Good night, Watt."

The two said goodnight to each other.

They carried the stools back to their respective rooms.

They didn't know that there was a tall figure standing outside the door, listening to all their conversations.

After the lights in the hut were completely extinguished, everything was plunged into darkness.

The tall figure easily jumped into the fence and stood in the yard.

He is Sheldon.

Climbing over the fence is a familiarity for him. He has climbed over the fence countless times in the reformatory.

Sheldon went to the door of the two children and listened to the movement inside.

The two little ones slept soundly and breathed evenly.

He had been hiding in the bushes across the gutter before, and when he saw the two children opening the cloth bag and taking out the pie, it reminded him of himself and Margaret.

For some reason, when he thought of Margarita, he felt a very painful feeling in his heart.

If Margaret was still alive, she would be a very beautiful girl by now.

Can't he imagine what Margarita would look like growing up?He only remembered the sweet little girl in the concentration camp.

(End of this chapter)