The woman's father roared, "Look at you, who would dare rent a shop to you!"
The woman stared coldly at her father. "What do I look like? Isn't this the way you wanted me to be? And now you're questioning me?"
Nini was so frightened that she hid behind her grandfather.
The woman clearly didn't want to see the child either, saying, "Just like your dead father!"
Fu Linchuan had no intention of getting involved in their family affairs. He cleared his throat and said, "Sorry, I don't think this shop is suitable. I'll be leaving now."
The woman stopped him. "Comrade, what's wrong with my shop? If you don't want to rent it, you can buy it. The location of my shop, one price, ten thousand yuan, how about it?"
Ten thousand yuan?
For a storefront like this, 10,000 yuan is indeed not much, and it's a very good deal.
However, Fu Linchuan doesn't have the money to buy this shop right now.
Ten thousand yuan is a considerable sum of money.
"If you don't have 10,000 yuan, that's fine too. You can write me an IOU and pay me 1,000 yuan first, how about that?" The woman seemed to be in a hurry for money.
Her father could no longer contain himself, "You spendthrift son! You took the money and used it all to help other people. You don't care about me or Nini. Why don't you just die out there!"
"How dare you say that? If it weren't for that person saving my life, I would have died out there long ago, at the hands of the good man you picked for me!" The woman ignored her father and instead looked intently at Fu Linchuan.
She threw the cigarette butt on the ground and casually swiped it a few times, her movements extremely practiced.
She reached out and brushed her hair aside. "Don't be afraid, I'm not a bad person. I'm just short of money. Don't worry, if you buy this shop, we won't come back."
Fu Linchuan pondered carefully, wondering how credible the woman's words were.
But if what this woman said is true, paying a deposit of one thousand yuan to buy this shop is indeed a good deal.
Fu Linchuan was indeed tempted, but a thousand yuan was not a small amount.
"Do you trust me?" Fu Linchuan asked.
The woman shrugged indifferently, "Give me a thousand yuan first, I don't care about the rest."
Fu Linchuan suddenly laughed, "But a thousand yuan is not a small amount. You may not care, but I do. You have to convince me that you definitely won't use the money to cause trouble."
“If I want to do business, and you keep interfering, I can’t do business.”
The woman thought for a moment, then said, "Come with me to a place, and I'll show you around."
Fu Linchuan nodded. "Okay."
Then, Fu Linchuan and the woman went out.
"My name is Zhou Shuang."
Fu Linchuan nodded.
Zhou Shuang smiled and said, "You're quite guarded."
“Let me tell you, you don’t need to be so wary of me. I’m not going to sell you. Besides, are you even worth anything?” Zhou Shuang said. “My old man, the one you just met, forced me to marry a man six years ago. He was supposed to be his carefully chosen son-in-law, but what happened? That man was just an alcoholic.”
“When I was pregnant with Nini, Nini was the little girl you just saw. She is five years old now. I don’t like her because she has the blood of her dead father in her veins.”
As they walked, Fu Linchuan listened to what Zhou Shuang was saying.
“When I was about to give birth to Nini, that drunkard went out drinking again and didn’t care about me at all. He secretly took everything in the house to exchange for alcohol, and I had nothing left. I couldn’t give birth by myself and tried to go to the hospital, but I fell outside. I had a difficult labor and heavy bleeding. It was Wang Chengli who saved me and even paid for my C-section, so that Nini and I were able to be safe.”
Listening to this, Fu Linchuan realized that if what Zhou Shuang said was true, then her father was indeed not a very good person.
For a woman, childbirth is truly a brush with death.
For example, Xu Chunmai died in her previous life due to complications during childbirth.
"Where's your alcoholic husband?" Fu Linchuan asked.
“He’s dead.” Zhou Shuang said nonchalantly, “That winter, he drank too much and froze to death outside.”
“Nini has always been raised by my father. Whenever I see her, it’s like seeing that drunkard. It’s so annoying.”
Fu Linchuan didn't say anything. He followed Zhou Shuang across the crosswalk and headed straight for the hospital on the other side.
Zhou Shuang led him to the inpatient department at the back.
She stood outside a hospital room door and, through the small glass pane, could see a thin girl who looked about seven or eight years old on the bed near the window.
The girl was too thin, and her face was sickly pale.
A short while later, the girl suddenly coughed, and her mother kept patting her back, but it didn't help.
Zhou Shuang pointed to the girl who was still coughing, "That girl is eight years old, her name is Wang Anran. She is the daughter of Wang Chengli that I just told you about."
"Wang Chengli is Wang Anran's father."
Fu Linchuan probably guessed, "You want to repay a debt of gratitude and raise money for Wang Anran?"
Zhou Shuang nodded. "Yes, An Ran has a growth on her lung. The doctors at Xuancheng Hospital said she needs surgery, but they don't dare to remove it because they don't have the technology. Wang Chengli asked around in Beijing, and the surgery costs about ten thousand yuan. They said the location is bad, and if it's not done properly, she might not survive the operation. They also said that we need to find a certain kind of doctor and use certain equipment."
With surgery costs exceeding ten thousand yuan, the vast majority of families simply give up on treatment.
Who can afford such a large sum of money for surgery?
"So, you want to sell the shop to pay for Wang Anran's medical treatment?"
“Shops aren’t so easy to sell. I didn’t ask for much. Ten thousand yuan—how many people can afford that?” Zhou Shuang said.
Fu Linchuan asked, "Is that shop yours or your father's?"
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