Entangling With You for the Rest of My Life

14. Out of Money, Right？

Translator: Flying Lines

It didn’t even dawn yet, and along with the miserable rain, making the world even more deserted.

There was a noodle restaurant glowing faintly in the rain, looking even more solitary.

There weren’t many people in the restaurant. It wasn’t busy at all.

Tang Miaoyu quickly walked to the noodle restaurant in the rain. Looking through the window, she saw an about 50-year-old woman wearing a faded gray short-sleeved shirt and black trousers. Sitting by the window, the woman held her hands interlaced together, looking at the rain out the window a little frightened, distracted, and even a little sad. The wrinkles on her face intensified her vicissitudes and her weakness, making her look even more pitiful.

Feeling a bit of sore in the heart, Tang Miaoyu stopped at the window and not willing to enter the restaurant. She lightly swept the glass in front of her, as if she were touching her mother’s face.

The hostess of the restaurant came to the woman and asked, “What do you want to eat today? Still vegetarian noodles?”

Looking up at the hostess’s disgusted face in a bit of panic, the woman smiled a bit embarrassed and said, “I…I’m waiting for my daughter to have meals together…”

After hearing what she said, the hostess gave her an indifferent glance before turning to leave.

Tang Miaoyu’s eyes were flushed as she looked at her mother’s rickety figure. Her tears couldn’t help but roll down her face, but she quickly wiped away the tears and hurriedly walked into the restaurant, saying to the hostess standing at the other side, ” Boss lady! I want a bowl of beef noodles! Add five yuan of beef!”

Li Xiulan raised her head at once and looked at her daughter, with both her eyes becoming red.

Tang Miaoyu glanced at her mother before slowly walking over and sitting in front of her mother, saying a bit sadly, “How much would a bowl of noodles cost? It’s only a few dollars, so if you’re hungry, just eat first…”

“No…” said Li Xiulan, smiling bitterly at her daughter, “I want to eat with you together.”

But Tang Miaoyu understood what her mother meant, ” You have run out of money, right?”

Li Xiulan didn’t dare to speak anything, just lowering her head a little guiltily and rubbing her fingers nervously. She felt extremely sorry for her daughter every time this happens.

Tang Miaoyu looked at her mother in desperation and tried to say something, but still kept silent for a moment. She put the bottle of red wine on the table, then took her salary for this month from her uniform, gently placed it on the countertop, pushed it to her mother, finally saying, “Was that man… treating you well?”

“Well…” Tears were burst in her mother’s eyes but didn’t fall. She just said, “Except sometimes the money was used up and I… I lost my job again. So he’s kind of mad that I can’t earn enough money…”

Tang Miaoyu nodded in comprehension and said, “I know about this…You could take the money on this table home. Even not too much, it’s enough for you to sustain your life for a while. I’ll give you more when I find a new job. Does he… still beat you?”

After Tang’s father was sent to prison, her mother remarried to a gambler, who would beat her from time to time.

“…” A pitiful smile was forced onto her mother’s pale face.

When Tang Miaoyu saw her mother acting like this, her eyes immediately overflowed with tears of reluctance, so she choked and said, “Mom…  If you really can’t stand it, let’s live together, instead of being with him, okay? I’ll take care of you! That bastard…”