"A Ling, don't feel like you're having a hard time or anything. Although the pharmacy is closed now, it will be reopened soon. Then we can work together to run the pharmacy well. When the business is more and more prosperous, and we make a lot of money, we can go to the town and buy a house for your mother and your brothers and sisters."
Fan Zhiqiang had never thought about buying a house, but now he suddenly said this to Li Jialing. In fact, Li Jialing was quite touched when she heard it, because she knew that the financial pressure in Fan Zhiqiang's family was already so great, but he was still thinking about her. How could she not be touched?
Li Jialing didn't know what was going on today. Fan Zhiqiang noticed that she was acting weird. She would never be like this in the past. She would cry or feel upset at every turn. She would definitely be very casual with him, Yan Shuhua. But today she didn't do that. She seemed very moved and looked very abnormal.
"What's wrong with you? Why do I feel like you're a little weird?" Fan Zhiqiang asked casually, but Li Jialing felt as if someone had stabbed her in the heart and quickly shifted her gaze away.
"No..." How could Li Jialing possibly tell him that she was feeling guilty?
Fan Zhiqiang thought that she was probably under too much pressure. After all, she was the only one who was supporting everyone, which was really hard. So Fan Zhiqiang thought to himself that he must treat her well.
At this time, Li Jialing's younger brothers and sisters suddenly came back. Fan Zhiqiang wanted to give them the candies he brought, but he found that they were holding either candies or various drinks and fruits, which were rare things that were rarely seen.
Fan Zhiqiang really found it very strange. Their family situation was already like this, and they could barely afford medicine, so how could they still have money to buy these snacks? Under Fan Zhiqiang's suspicious gaze, Li Jialing wanted to find a hole to crawl into.
"Sister, these candies are so delicious!" The younger brothers and sisters each held snacks in their hands and were extremely happy.
Li Jialing urged her younger brother and sister to go back to their room.
"How do you have the money to buy so many delicious foods?" The first thing Fan Zhiqiang thought of was that they might have picked up money outside.
"The money was given to us by our sister." The younger brother and sister excitedly took out the few dollars in their hands to show off.
Fan Zhiqiang had long felt that Li Jialing was acting strangely all day, and he felt even more strange that her brother and sister actually had money to buy so many things. But then he changed his mind and thought that Li Jialing had taken on several more jobs recently, so maybe that was how she earned the money.
Li Jialing was indeed a little embarrassed, so she casually changed the subject: "Zhiqiang, otherwise you have to eat at my place for lunch today."
"No, I'm very busy lately."
"The pharmacy is no longer open, what are you still busy with?"
"Didn't I tell you recently..." Fan Zhiqiang originally planned to tell Li Jialing that he was going to monitor those people, but after thinking about it, he didn't say it out loud, but changed the subject.
"Master's Wife is innocent. I can't stand watching her being wrongly accused by others. That's why I have to find a way to rescue her."
When Li Jialing first saw Fan Zhiqiang's expression, she thought he had guessed something, but when she heard his answer, she was really relieved.
"I also think that Master's wife was framed by someone."
"Just don't worry about anything these days and stay at home. If you don't have any money, come find me."
"good."
"Zhiqiang..." Li Jialing suddenly called him, "If I accidentally do something bad one day, can you forgive me?"
Fan Zhiqiang found what he said today very strange.
"If there is something unavoidable, then I will definitely forgive you."
"Zhiqiang, you are so nice to me."
"Of course."
After seeing Fan Zhiqiang leave, Li Jialing quickly blocked the door and called her brothers and sisters aside.
"Didn't I tell you that you can only buy fewer things with this money? Why did you still buy so many things?" Li Jialing scolded them. Looking at their expressions, it seemed that they wanted others to know that their family was rich.
"Sister, you have made a lot of money now, right? Then you can let those who look down on us know what the consequences will be if they offend us."
"Don't say anything like I make a lot of money anymore. Look, we're almost out of money to eat." Li Jialing blocked their mouths, "Did you hear me?"
"But I clearly saw you taking a lot of money home." What the younger brother and sister saw was the truth, so how could they know what they could say and what they could not say.
How could these kids understand what money is? Besides, they are still young and have never thought about where the money comes from. As long as they have money to eat and buy snacks, it’s good enough.
"Sister, now that you have so much money, can I go to school?"
Seeing that her younger brothers and sisters were very upset, Li Jialing asked them to stop talking and go do their chores.
Suddenly, there was a violent cough in the room. Li Jialing hurried over to see that Li's mother was lying on the bed, coughing all the time: "Mom, what's wrong with you?"
Because of her illness, Li's mother's face was very sallow and her eyeballs were sunken. Her mental state was really worrying.
"A Ling, where did you get the money?" Mother Li is not a fool. She knows the family situation better than anyone else. Now they can hardly even afford to eat. Where does she get the money to buy snacks for the children?
These snacks are more expensive than meals.
Li Jialing saw that her younger brothers and sisters had suffered so much injustice, and had come from such poverty, so when she got the money, she gave each of them some money so that they could buy food. Who knew that it would turn out like this.
"Mom, I earned all that money myself." Li Jialing said this with no confidence at all.
"Just now I heard Zhiqiang say that the pharmacy has closed down. So where did you get the money?" After all, Li's mother is her mother. She knows everything very well. "We are poor but not poor in spirit. We must not do anything that is bad for others. Do you understand?"
Li Jialing gradually felt that what she had done was really wrong, and that money was like a hot potato to her!
She really wanted to say these words to her mother, but when she thought about it, the words were already on the tip of her tongue and she couldn't say them anymore.