Upon hearing this, everyone looked in the direction Yiming was pointing. They saw Zhiruo walking towards them with her head down, wiping away tears with her sleeve as she did so.

This scene made Zhiwan's heart jump into her throat.

She hurried over to greet him and asked:

'Zhiruo, where did you go?'

Zhi Ruo looked up at her, then suddenly knelt down, tears streaming down her face.

"Big sister, I was wrong, I can't find him."

Zhiwan rushed forward to help her up, but she remained kneeling there, saying, "Big sister, I'm sorry to you, sorry to our parents, sorry to the whole family. I deserve to die, I really deserve to die."

Zhiwan grabbed her hand and eagerly pressed for more information.

"Tell me quickly, what exactly happened? What exactly happened?"

At this moment, Luo Tianhe and Jiawang's mother also came over. Seeing Zhiruo crying incessantly, they couldn't wait to ask her what was wrong.

"Zhiwan, what happened? What's wrong with Zhiruo?"

Zhiwan stood up and said to Luo Tianhe and her mother:

"Father, Mother, wait for me a moment. I have a few words to say to Zhiruo."

Luo Tianhe, however, did not leave, but anxiously pressed for answers.

"What's wrong? Why are you crying in the street? Let's get out of here quickly, don't embarrass ourselves."

Jiawang's mother also chimed in with her complaints:

"That's right. No matter what happens, we need to find a place to stay first. What's the point of crying and wailing in the street? Aren't we just making ourselves a laughingstock?"

Zhi Ruo pursed her lips and sobbed incessantly. Zhi Wan had already realized that the silver she had asked Zhi Ruo to save was probably all gone.

She pulled Zhiruo up and checked again.

"Tell me, what exactly happened? All the money is gone?"

Zhiruo could only shake her head and cry, unable to utter a complete sentence.

She shook her body in a fit of anger.

"Say something! If you don't say anything, how am I supposed to solve this? Are we all supposed to sleep on the streets?"

Upon hearing this, Zhiruo cried even harder.

She recounted her story while crying...

It turned out that she had met a young man named Mo Kai who came to the shop to buy medicine half a year ago. He claimed that his family owned a rouge and fragrance shop in Phoenix City. Because he was good-looking, Zhi Ruo, who was just beginning to experience love, couldn't help but take a few more glances at him.

Mo Kai saw through Zhi Ruo's thoughts and took the opportunity to strike up a conversation with her. Seeing that she also had feelings for him, he often brought her some rouge and perfume. Over time, the two gradually became acquainted.

Later, he told Zhiruo that he had liked her from the first moment he saw her. These words completely captivated the naive Zhiruo, and she began to secretly meet with him...

During the month that Zhiruo was treating the Empress Dowager, Mo Kai claimed that his shop needed to purchase a batch of high-end spices and cosmetics from the Western Regions. He said that if he could buy them, they would sell well and he would make a fortune. However, his shop did not have enough cash. As a result, he was worried all day long and was absent-minded when he was with Zhiruo.

Zhiruo was kind-hearted. She thought that her family had some savings and that there was no need to use the money recently, so she offered to lend him the money in her family, and he could pay it back when he made money.

After declining for a while, Mo Kai told Zhi Ruo that he could lend her the money and he would pay the interest. This made Zhi Ruo feel even more that he was a good man she could entrust her life to.

Therefore, Zhiruo lent all of the more than 5,000 taels of silver notes that she had saved at home to Mo Kai in several installments.

Until the day before her family's tragedy, Mo Kai was still telling her that the batch of spices from the Western Regions was about to arrive in Phoenix City, and that she would be given the opportunity to try them out first...

But when Zhiruo went to the city to look for him, she found that the rouge shop was already deserted.

She made some inquiries and learned that the young man named Mo Kai was from out of town and had only been running the shop here for half a year. Just a month ago, the shop suddenly disappeared overnight, and no one knew where he came from or where he went.

Only then did Zhiruo realize that she had been deceived. She had given all the silver notes in her house to the swindler, and not only that, she had also lost her virginity.

Upon hearing this, Luo Tianhe angrily raised his hand and slapped Zhi Ruo across the face, causing her to stagger and nearly fall.

Jiawang's mother also cried and complained:

"That's the culmination of our family's hard work over the years! How could you just give it away to someone else like that? What are we supposed to do now? Where are we supposed to go?"

The complaints from her parents made Zhiruo cry even harder, while Zhiwan stood there, stunned and unsure of what to do.

Even if she has the ability to make money, her whole family doesn't even have a place to live right now. She has a lot of skills, but nowhere to use them!

She stood there, her brows furrowed, unable to figure out what to do next.

At this moment, Jiawang's mother muttered to herself:

"Tianhe, why don't we go back? At least we can listen to Mother's whispers, and we won't have to sleep on the streets."

Luo Tianhe immediately rolled his eyes at her.

“Go back if you want. I can’t afford to lose face. I, Luo Tianhe, would rather beg for food than ever step into that house again.”

Jiawang also lowered his head and said softly:

"That's right, everyone's waiting to see our family make a fool of themselves. We've come out in such a big way, and now we're slinking back home. How embarrassing would that be?"

If even Jiawang understands this principle, how could Jiawang's mother not understand it?

She just felt that the whole family had nowhere to go, and standing on the street like this wasn't a solution.

Just then, Yiming came running over with his short legs.

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