Several girls burst into laughter.

"You just wait!" Little Fish said fiercely, tears welling up in her eyes, and ran back to the classroom in a huff.

The homeroom teacher saw her and called her to the office.

"Li Bingyu, your tuition is already two months overdue. The semester is already halfway over, and I really can't delay any longer. Go home and discuss it with your parents, and pay the tuition as soon as possible." The teacher was very kind and spoke very politely.

"Okay, teacher, I'll go back now and pay the tuition tomorrow." Xiaoyuer bit her lip tightly.

"Okay, then you can go home first. The teacher will make up for the lessons you missed tomorrow."

Xiaoyuer felt strange looks from everyone around her, so she ran out of school without even packing her schoolbag and took a taxi home.

Li Xingguo, looking at the phone that had just been hung up, scratched his head vigorously. He didn't want to wrong his daughter either. The stocks had hit rock bottom, and he was stuck with them, with no money at all.

After thinking it over, he decided that he had to make sure his daughter finished junior high school, so he dialed his second son's number.

The second son frowned as he looked at Li Xingguo's phone. He didn't answer the first time, so Li Xingguo called again, and the second son answered.

"Second brother, it's eldest brother. I need to talk to you about something."

The second son raised an eyebrow. "What's up?"

"I'd like to borrow some money from you," Li Xingguo said with difficulty.

"Borrow money from me?" The second son wondered if he had misheard or if he was imagining things.

Li Xingguo: "Our little Yu'er's tuition is still a bit short, I'll lend you some first, and you can pay me back in a while."

"How much do you want to borrow?" the second brother asked casually.

Li Xingguo thought that besides tuition fees, he also had to pay off some of the mortgage, otherwise he would lose the house.

"If you have some spare cash, lend me 300,000."

The second son picked his ear. "Three hundred thousand? Your child's tuition is over ten thousand, right? You expect me to support your child until junior high school?"

"No, I've run into some difficulties and have other things to take care of. I'll borrow it for a month and pay you back after that."

"Heh," the second brother chuckled. "Li Xingguo, are you giving me a blank check? How much is your monthly salary? You want to borrow 300,000? As for the stock market, although I don't play it, I know that everyone is stuck with losses right now. You're stuck, and you're using me to bail you out?"

"If you're not going to lend it to me, fine. Don't say anything useless," Li Xingguo said angrily as he hung up the phone.

The second son... swung his fist at the phone. Serves him right. I tried to persuade him, but he wouldn't listen. He thinks no one is as good as him.

The second son glanced at the sun overhead and recited a poem: "The setting sun sinks in the west, a heartbroken traveler is at the ends of the earth."

Then he called Li Mancang, but Li Xingguo couldn't borrow money from him, so he had to turn to his family for help.

Li Mancang hung up the phone, shook his head helplessly, and then remembered that he had family.

After hanging up, the second brother called the third brother, but the line was busy. The second brother guessed that Li Xingguo was calling the third brother.

The second brother smiled. He knew the third brother would never lend him money, and Li Xingguo would get a good scolding.

Li Xingguo then repeated what he had just said to the second brother to the third brother.

"Big brother, you've been so busy this year. I didn't even see you during the New Year. You didn't make any money, but you didn't work for nothing. At least you were exhausted," the third brother mocked.