Old Zhang was just about to attack Aunt Zhang again, but the next second, Xiao Jinchu grabbed his wrist.
Old Zhang turned his head and looked at the pretty boy Xiao Jinchu in front of him and couldn't help but sneer: "Where are you from? Get out of here quickly, or I'll beat you up too!"
"Fight together?" Xiao Jinchu gently twisted him, and he knelt on the floor in pain, "No, no..."
"Didn't you say you were so powerful? You want to hit me?" Xiao Jinchu couldn't stand this kind of person the most. He had absolutely no self-awareness at all and yet he still wanted to hit him?
"I was wrong, I was wrong, spare my life, spare my life!" Old Zhang begged desperately, but how could Xiao Jinchu let this bastard go! "Don't hit him, don't hit him... If he is injured, we will have to see a doctor, and he won't be able to work..." Aunt Zhang kept begging.
After Xiao Jinchu let go, Lao Zhang disappeared without a trace.
Yan Shuhua had roughly guessed something: "What's going on? Did your husband take the money to play?"
Aunt Zhang finally told the truth.
"I never expected that there would be kind people who could save my daughter. My husband beat me again that day, and I was very scared, so I hid on the train. Then I lied to you and said I was taking my child to Beijing for medical treatment. I didn't expect to meet you, and I didn't expect to hear that there really was such a thing as charity money. My husband was also on the train at the time, and he made up his mind and asked me to take the charity money."
"I didn't expect that I would actually get it. He was so happy. At that time, I thought, why not use it to treat the child? But the doctor also told me that the child's condition was very serious and that he might not survive even if he received treatment. I thought about the children at home and Lao Zhang who kept asking me to come back, so I came back... I am such a selfish mother. I don't deserve to be Alan's mother!"
Aunt Zhang cried so hard that she couldn't speak. Alan was a very sensible person. She was dying due to illness, but she never blamed her mother at all.
"Big brother, big sister, it was me who asked my mother not to treat my illness... because my mother..." Alan lowered his head, "It's very hard, and there are also my younger brothers and sisters..."
"But do you know that this is considered fraud? You should speak up about your difficulties. Do you think you are letting down those who helped you?"
Aunt Zhang actually struggles and suffers every day. She knows that this money is given to them by kind-hearted people as charity because they feel sorry for Alan who has no money for treatment. In addition, they have also made great efforts to get this charity money. So when she got the money, she did not use it to treat Alan. Instead, she took it home and gave it to her husband. However, her husband did not fulfill his promise at all. Instead, he cheated on her again and again and used the money to play...
The more she thinks about it now, the more she regrets it.
"The rain outside is getting heavier. Your house is too unstable. I'm afraid it will collapse soon." Yan Shuhua was really worried about the safety of these children. It was already very cold, they had no clothes to wear, and now it was a typhoon. Let's not talk about the money issue for now. The most important thing was how to let the children live safely.
“Isn’t there any relief funds for poor households in your village?”
"Because Lao Zhang likes to play a lot, everyone says our family cannot be rated as a poor household."
Aunt Zhang doesn't have a job and has to take care of the children. Mr. Zhang works in construction and should get a lot of money every day, but every now and then he doesn't bring any home and instead goes out to play games. The children all wait with their mouths open for him to bring money home for dinner.
Yan Shuhua felt so sorry for the children as they had nothing, so he asked Xiao Jinchu to buy some rice, and then he cooked a pot of porridge when he got home. The children were already starving, so they ate the porridge with relish even without any vegetables.
Yan Shuhua also took two meat tickets to exchange for two pieces of meat. The children didn't know how long they had not eaten meat. When Yan Shuhua was cooking the meat in the pot, all the children stood beside the pot, looking at the meat in the pot with their eyes wide open. Even if they only smelled the meat, they felt very satisfied.
Finally, when the meat was served, the children all ate it with great relish.
When Aunt Zhang saw that the children finally had food to eat, she was so moved.
The pound of meat was soon gone, and the children were still fighting over who would lick the plate.
Aunt Zhang felt very embarrassed, but there was nothing she could do.
"Let the child continue with treatment, maybe he can get better." Yan Shuhua said, "Have you given all the money to your husband?"
"I didn't dare to give him all the money. I only gave him 5,000 yuan. You know he is like that. In fact, I have always wanted to get Alan treated, but I don't know what to do in this situation, so I am very worried. In addition, Lao Zhang doesn't agree with me taking Alan to see a doctor. If I take her there, what will happen to the children?"
"I asked the doctor about your daughter's condition. If she is treated well, she will definitely be able to recover."
"But many children in my village have this disease, and they say it can't be cured. All the money spent is wasted."
"Mr. Zhang has lost all his money. I don't know what to do now, and I'm really afraid he will beat me."
"Tomorrow I will take you to Beijing to continue her treatment. As for these children, I will find a way to have them stay in an orphanage for a while. When the children's information comes back, I will take them back."
"But I think my Alan can't be cured. I don't know what to do. Can you help me?" Aunt Zhang didn't want anything to happen to her child, but there was nothing she could do.
"As a mother, you don't have self-confidence yourself. Who else can you expect to have self-confidence? So the most important thing for you now is not to say these words, but to find a way quickly." Yan Shuhua asked her, "If you really want your daughter to get treatment, then you must make up your mind. If you don't want to treat your daughter, then you must return the money to the charity, otherwise you will be suspected of fraud."
Aunt Zhang was very scared when she heard that if the money was not used to treat her daughter, it would be returned. In fact, she should have thought about it, because the money was originally intended for her daughter's treatment, but she used it for these improper purposes. So the only thing she could think of now was to continue to treat her daughter, but she really had no choice now that her husband was in this state.