Ma Lan nodded, and said casually, “Almost, before my old men left, they made one and a half packs a day, but the people in their early thirties disappeared.”
After finishing speaking, she looked at the driver and asked curiously, “Master, I think you are forty or fifty years old, right?”
The master laughed and said, “I…I’m fifty-two…”
“Excellent.” Ma Lan gave a thumbs up and said seriously: “You’re good enough, you’re good enough, if you grit your teeth and persist for more than ten years, you’ll live twice as long as my husband.”
The master’s expression at this time was much uglier than crying.
At this time, Ma Lan couldn’t help but sighed: “Actually, what’s the point of living so long? My gentlemen left early and didn’t have to worry about anything. Unlike me, who is both a father and a mother, sometimes I just Think about it, in fact, it would be better if the person who left was me, then I would die sooner and be reborn sooner, and leave sooner and be liberated.”
The master glanced at the shelf under the car’s center console, and saw a pack of Jinling cigarettes inside, feeling mixed emotions.
Xiao Churan couldn’t bear it anymore, so he patted the back of Ma Lan’s seat and said angrily, “Mom! Why aren’t you done yet!”
Ma Lan turned around and said with a sense of justice: “Churan, I am suppressing my longing and grief for your father and using your father’s personal case to kindly remind this master to pay attention to his health. If he listens With these words, if you can quit smoking, even if you just smoke less in the future and live a few more years, do you think I have saved his life?”
As he said that, Ma Lan waved his hand: “Forget it, we didn’t save his life, saving half or a quarter of his life, isn’t it an exaggeration? People say that saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda , your mother, I am accumulating some virtue for myself, right?”
Xiao Churan asked her angrily: “Then what about my dad? Are you not afraid of harming your virtue when you say that about my dad?”
Ma Lan said seriously: “He’s dead, what can I say?”
Xiao Churan said angrily: “Mom! It would be too much to say that!”
Seeing that Xiao Churan was really angry, Ma Lan said quickly: “Okay, okay, I won’t say anything, can’t I just stop talking?”
After finishing speaking, he said to the driver: “Master, you, I should slap you in the future, don’t take what I just said seriously, just think that I am teasing you.”
The corner of the master’s mouth twitched a few times, and he said awkwardly, “Uh…that…okay…”
During the following journey, Ma Lan seemed to have almost vented, and didn’t say a word.
Ye Chen and Xiao Churan also stopped talking because of this awkward atmosphere, and they were speechless all the way.
More than half an hour later, the taxi stopped in front of Tomson’s Yipin villa area.
Ye Chen paid, and the three got out of the car.
Seeing that the three of them had gone far away, the driver grabbed the half pack of Jinling cigarettes and threw them out of the window, cursing, “Fuck you, I won’t smoke anymore!”
Before Ye Chen entered the door, he caught a glimpse of a box of things thrown out of the driver’s window from the corner of his eye. He was slightly taken aback, and seemed to hear a voice in the dark: “Ma Lan, merit +100, the current balance of merit: minus one hundred and eight thousand… ”