Today is another day I'm forced to pay medical bills.
Lin Xiazhu had already lost her temper. After the doctor finished his rounds, she went to the police station herself to ask about the situation.
“We checked all the population records in the county overnight, but we couldn’t find any information about that child. Is he really not your brother?”
Lin Xiazhu resisted the urge to roll her eyes and said good-naturedly, "Really, no, um, police officer, if we can't find it in the county, could you check the whole provincial capital?"
Logically speaking, the child is quite young, and the car accident happened in the county town. There should be no information about him, unless he was visiting relatives in the county town, in which case there should have been an adult with him.
"We'll try to get the provincial capital to help with the investigation, but could you please take care of the child for now?" The police officer said, then felt embarrassed.
The other child was also just a kid, about the same age as the child who was in the car accident. Everyone must have been out of their minds yesterday to let her stay and take care of that child.
"Uncle misspoke. Since you have nothing to do with that child, you should go back first. Your home is in Linjia Village, Shanhe Town, which is so far away. Why did you come to the county town alone?" The police officer's forehead twitched. Kids these days are really a handful.
"...Uh, I go to the city often and know the county very well. I can take care of myself." Lin Xiazhu was a little guilty.
The police officer thought that the child's father had only been in an accident for a few months, and the mother seemed to have lost her mind. Alas, poor children learn to be independent early.
Thinking back to how they insisted on keeping that young girl to take care of the child at the hospital yesterday, and even made her pay for the medical expenses, the police officer felt distressed.
"Come on, Uncle will take you to the station to catch your train. As for the medical expenses you paid, we'll find the child's parents and make them pay you back."
"What if we can't find him in our lifetime?" Lin Xiazhu blurted out, because she thought the child might have been abducted and then unfortunately got into a car accident.
Even if there was a car accident, the parents would not be able to hide. There are many human traffickers in this day and age, and the fact that no information about the child could be found in the entire county is really suspicious.
The police officer's face stiffened, then he said seriously, "We have already placed a missing person notice in the newspaper, and we should be able to find his family soon."
"What if he was abducted from a very far place?" Lin Xiazhu scratched her head somewhat embarrassedly after saying that. Why did she suddenly become so argumentative?
"The child has already woken up. Once he's feeling a bit better, we'll ask him for details, and then we'll be able to figure out what happened," the police officer said, grabbing his keys and getting up.
"Come on, Uncle will take you to the station."
Then Lin Xiazhu had the honor of riding in a police officer's three-wheeled motorcycle to the station to catch a bus back to town. As soon as she entered her home, Yan Xin came out to greet her.
"Where did you go last night? Why didn't you come home all night?" Yan Xin wasn't worried about her safety; she was afraid that she would run away and leave her three younger sisters behind.
Yan Xin was uneasy for most of last night thinking about this.
"Something went wrong, sigh, don't even mention it." Lin Xiazhu felt conflicted thinking about the poor child.
Seeing that she didn't want to go into details, Yan Xin didn't want to ask either. She couldn't even sort out her own affairs, so how could she have the mood to care about other people's affairs?
Lin Xiazhu distributed the candy and bread she had bought to her three younger sisters who were surrounding her. She then searched around the room and found Zhao Xiaolian's only savings book, which contained only one hundred yuan.
Yan Xin was unaware of this, and Lin Xiazhu could not possibly tell her. Zhao Xiaolian was determined to leave Linjia Village and had long been hiding money from her family. However, her family was so poor that it took her so many years to save up to one hundred yuan.
Speaking of which, Zhao Xiaolian's idea of opening a savings account was also spurred on by Zhao Yinxiu. Lin Shanfu is very hardworking and also runs a small business, with several thousand yuan in savings at home.
In front of outsiders, Zhao Yinxiu knew the principle of not flaunting her wealth, but in front of Zhao Xiaolian, she had fewer such concerns and often sought to feel superior to Zhao Xiaolian.
That day, she proudly showed off her savings book, saying, "Shanfu went to the bank to open a savings account. The bank teller said the interest rate is very high. If I put in a thousand yuan, it will become two thousand next year."
In short, Zhao Xiaolian became envious after hearing Zhao Yinxiu talk about all the benefits of opening a savings account, and she kept thinking about it.
Not long after, she took her own savings of one hundred yuan to town and opened a savings account. Lin Xiazhu knew about this in her previous life.
With the passbook, Lin Xiazhu took her household registration book and money to the bank in town to deposit 45,000 yuan, keeping 5,000 yuan on her person for emergencies.
Yan Xin had been watching her closely, and when she returned, she tentatively asked, "How much money did you make selling ginseng? You didn't come back all night yesterday. Did you squander it all?"
"What's it to you? I can spend the money I earn however I want. Behave yourself and don't get any funny ideas." Lin Xiazhu's eyes were filled with warning.
"I don't care about your little bit of money. I just want to know when the clothing store you mentioned will open," Yan Xin said angrily, her face sour.
"There's no rush to open a shop. The shop has already been rented, and I'll take care of the arrangements. I don't expect you to make much money; just enough to cover the rent and your own food expenses." Lin Xiazhu didn't have a high opinion of Yan Xin.
She planned to give Yan Xin three months as a trial period. If the clothing store was still losing money after three months, she would just close it down.
That's right, Lin Xiazhu was certain that the clothing store would go bankrupt sooner or later if it was handed over to Yan Xin, so let her squander the money from selling wild boars, she had to give her some hope.
Lin Xiazhu felt that she was too kind, even a bit of a saint. She had done too much for Yan Xin and Zhao Xiaolian, and worried herself sick.
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