CHAPTER 15

Voice of a dog barking loudly as it owner was opening his shop and wanted to start new activities. It was early in the morning and people were just arriving to their shops and other activities just started to be taking place.

It was the voice of the dog barking loudly at the front of a building that woke Xiu ying up. She rubbed her face and stood up from the floor, she slept at the restaurant of the man that just employed her. She didn't go home because the place was better than the room she was sleeping.

She went to the kitchen, took a cup of water and went out. Standing at the front of the shop and washing her face, people that were passing going to their working place were looking at her including those beside them. She entered back after she had done, she returned the cup to where she took it from and started arranging the kitchen properly.

She came out from the kitchen with matches, she light the candles in the shop round and took the broom at a corner. She started sweeping the shop and arranging the place. She placed everything on the tables properly and cleaning them.

After she had done with the cleaning. She went to the kitchen, took all the small cups and placing it on the tables and small towels. It was her rag cloth that she was wearing and the one that she wore yesterday.

The man that own the shop arrived to the shop and met his neighbour whom was selling foodstuffs just arrived and just arranging goods on a table at the corner that he was using as his shop, the old man walked closed to him.

"Well done! Good morning, please the key!" Asked the key of his shop from the foodstuffs seller. He was the one that he told Xiu ying to drop the key for.

"The lady you told to drop the key for me didn't and I just arrived so I haven't see her, who is she to you? To know if she is a kind of person that can steal from you!" The man was so surprised and many thinkings had been coming to his mind and looking at the foodstuffs seller.

"The lady didn't drop the key for you?" Asked again and going to his shop and the foodstuffs seller continued with his work. He met his door opened as he wanted to enter and saw 'Open' at the front of the door and he entered.

Mother commander was sitting on a chair and weaving Nylon Rope that she saw in the kitchen and using it to formed different style of wall design and in mixed colours, she had hanged some on the wall there when the man entered, looking for her.

"Good morning Sir! Welcome!" She greeted him.

"You come very early! I have worried and thinking different things when the man said that you don't drop the key for him!" The man said with low voice.

"I am the kind of person, you don't suppose to be thinking twice Sir. I slept here because I saw that the weather was not good yesterday without out know that the rain wouldn't fall!" Standing on her foot and weaving the rope.

"Why are you worried about rain? You don't have a house that you are living? Even tell me about yourself, what is your name and do you have any family!" Asked and going into the kitchen, Xiu ying too followed him.

"I am living with my Uncle's wife but it's our dog's house that she sent me to after the death of my uncle and uses to treat me like an outcast, the house is not good at all and also my name is Xiu ying!" Passed a bowl to the man.

The man started cooking, put fry pan and pot on different stoves for it to be fast and before customer would started arriving. Xiu ying was looking at how he was doing it.

"Where are your parents? And your uncle which of them did he belong to? If I may ask?" Mixing flowers together.

"He is my mother's younger brother and he was the one that brought me up, I don't know my mother because she had dead before I will grow up and able to be recognizing people according to what my uncle told me!"

"So where is your father?" Mother commander kept silent and looking at the man.

"I don't know him!" She lied. She didn't uses to tell people that she was Liu Wei's daughter, same to Zhang Min too.

"Okay! For not going home yesterday, you don't think that your uncle's wife will be worried about you!" The old man said as a good father.

"She didn't care! Because I am not her child, it was only my uncle that care about me and which could be worried about me but he had dead. Even that is why I am like this!"

"That is wicked heart! Don't worry okay, I am here for. I am now your new father!" Smiled at her and continued cooking.

"Thank you very much Sir!" Xiu ying was so happy. Carried two serving plates and left the kitchen.

Got to the small room at the restaurant and place the food on the table their. Left the room, took the ropes that she made and went out. Hanged it at the entrance of the restaurant and made the front of the restaurant to be more beautiful.

"It make it more beautiful! I don't know you are inside!" The foodstuffs seller said.

"Thank you!" Said with low voice and calling customers to enter as people were passing.

"Come and patronize us! Come!!" The command tone came to her mouth and the two boys that she was calling, looking at each and going to her.

"Thank you!" Going inside and they too following her like robots. She didn't know that it was command tone at all.

She offered them seats, poured wine for them and went to the kitchen to meet the old man.

"I have called two customers and they are asking for food, I have poured wine for them as well!" The man looked at her with surprised and spoke out.

"Customers by this time! I don't uses to have customers by this time, it's after sun has raised that people have work hard and what to eat something. Are you sure they are here to eat?" The man asked with surprised.

"Yes! I called them and they replied, ask them what they want and they replied me!"

"Okay! Go and give them!" Xiu ying left the place, entered the small room and served the food inside a small serving plates and went to meet the boys.

"We won't be able to eat it here because we are rushing to work!" One of them said and poured the food inside the bags on their shoulders and paid Xiu ying.

Two of them stood up and left the restaurant and Xiu ying went back to the kitchen.

"They said that they can't eat it here so they poured it and they paid me!" Gave the money to the man.

"I am so surprised of this!" The man said as he collected it and Xiu ying left, went out to continue calling people.

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Li Qiang and Wang Wei came out from the small house that they were living and going into the market, gum a paper on the front and back of their clothes that 'called us for any work' they decided to put that for people to know that they were doing any job.

Two of them entered into the market passed beside the man that was selling festival things and going to the man that they uses to sit with when a woman called them.

"Good morning! First help me to carry this loads to my house and when we get home, I want you to help me to clean it and I will pay you together!"

"Okay no problem! But the money for the load is fifty yen, it's when we get home that we will be able to say the amount for the household!" Li Qiang said.

"I agreed! Just come with me!" Two of them carried the loads and walking behind the woman.

They entered into a old house, looking at everywhere and put the load down. A fat man came out from the room, the woman greeted hin and talk to each other secretly. Two of them were looking at them.

"Help me to clean the entire place and mop it. My husband will be with you, I want to go and get something!"

"Okay! All together is three hundred yen!" Wang Wei said.

"No problem, my husband will settle you if I am not back but wait still I come back! Let me get you want you will need!" The woman went out and entered back, gave them broom bowl, rag and water.

The woman left the house and the fat man sat down on a chair looking at them. Two of them divided the job for each other and started with the cleaning and charting.

The fat was watching their movement incase if they could steal anything, but Li Qiang and Wang Wei were not the kind of person that uses to steal. After few minutes two of them left the room and entered back.

"We are done!" Dropped everything given to them on the floor and the fat man stood up.

"You really tried! Take and wait for my wife as she said!" He gave them money and went inside. Wang Wei kept the money inside his pocket and waiting for the woman.

A butterfly flew inside as they were standing. It was two of them that were scared of butterflies from their childhood so they always wanted to kill it. Two of them brought out their swords and fighting the butterfly, wanted to kill it.

Two of them were running to the direction that the butterfly flew to, using their swords to cut different things and the wall. Scattering the house and dirty the house.

The man came out as he was hearing the sound of things broken and met two of them fighting the butterfly, chasing it to everywhere it flew to.

"What are you doing?" Wang Wei cut the man's hand as he wanted to stop them but not really deep, two of them didn't notice anything just continued fighting the butterfly.

The man sat down on the floor holding his hand that was bleeding when his wife entered, with hibiscus flowers inside a big tray and looking at everywhere scattered.

"What exactly is going on here?" Li Qiang used the sword to hit the tray and all of the hibiscus flowers fell on the floor and the woman too fell on the floor.

Two of them haven't aware of the atrocities that they had committed, still continued chasing the butterfly around. The man was looking at them like he should beat them up but his hand couldn't allow him.

"Finally Li Qiang! We killed it!" Wang Wei said as he was holding the butterfly on his sword.

Two of them looked at each other as they saw the floor and all what they had destroyed.

"Get out! Get out!!!" The man shouted as he stood up and two of them ran out with high speed.

Two of them ran very far from the house and stopped breathe heavily and looking at each other. The sellers were looking at them.

"It's the butterfly that cause all that, I hate it!" Li Qiang said.

"Take God! We collected money!" Put his hand inside his pocket and brought out only one hundred yen, other money had fell inside the house as they were jumping around.

"What! The money as fell!" Wang Wei said with loud voice and two of them felt bed.

Suddenly! As they were looking at the money, a hand of a guy collected it with forced and running away.