Chapter 12: Borrowing money for emergency. This reverse operation was unexpected...
The interview and pulse diagnosis delayed Shen Jiang's departure for more than an hour. By the time she took the bus to the hospital, it was almost ten o'clock.
She was not idle during the time on the road. She carefully recalled all the details related to herself in the dream, trying not to miss any clues.
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Shen Jiang felt uncomfortable the moment he woke up from his dream. He felt stuffy and short of breath. Shen Jiang knew exactly where the resentment in his chest came from.
It was because of Shan Guosheng that her grandmother fell into a coma, her lifelong reputation was ruined and her integrity was lost. She not only wanted to seek justice for her grandmother, but also to save her and live a good life with her again.
It is easy to have ambitions, but it is difficult to put them into practice.
As a typical cannon fodder in the novel world, she has no money and no power. Not only can she clarify the truth for her grandmother, but even raising medical expenses would require her to go bankrupt. Although she plans to make a fortune by cashing in the medicinal herbs at the dragon's door, she has no say in the matter. Not to mention whether the strange door will open again, she can't bring back all the herbs in one go.
Zi Ning's interview video might be able to change some people's minds, but Shen Jiang has a bad feeling and feels that this video will not make much waves.
If she wants to clear her grandmother's reputation, she has to rely on herself.
But if you want to manipulate public opinion, you have to get money first. If you want to continue paying for grandma's medical expenses, you have to get money even more.
Shen Jiang started to have a headache. Today was originally the day to pay the bill, and now that she had decided not to sell Mingxin Hall, she had to find other ways to get the money.
As expected, as soon as they arrived at the ICU door, the nurse spotted Shen Jiang in the crowd and hurried over to her. "This is Shen Anlian's family member in ICU bed 17, right? Your grandmother's hospital bill hasn't been paid yet. Our doctors can't even prescribe her any medicine. Please hurry up and pay."
After saying that, the nurse left in a hurry.
Shen Jiang walked to the cashier's counter and gave out all the 30,000 yuan he had, but the cashier frowned and said, "That's not enough. You still need 17,000 yuan."
Shen Jiang remained calm: "Tomorrow, I will definitely pay the remaining money tomorrow."
The cashier seemed accustomed to her actions and grumbled a few words of dissatisfaction, but didn't say no. After all, if the medicine really ran out, the family members would be more anxious than them.
Shen Jiang was worried as she held the bill for unpaid bills: How could she get 17,000 yuan in such a short time?
The medicinal herbs brought back from the dragon's doorstep were of many types, but the quantities were limited, and each one was not much. Although they were of excellent quality, it was obviously impossible to cash in on these few pounds of medicinal herbs.
Shen Jiang cheered up and decided to ask for help from his grandmother's only two relatives to get through the difficult days.
My elder and younger cousins are both the sons of my grandmother's younger sister. They are in their forties, which is an awkward age for them. No one wants them to work outside, and they want to start a business but have no capital. A few years ago, they both chose to return to their hometown to farm.
Mingxintang was already short of medicinal herbs. Grandma didn't like most of the herbs on the market, and it was time-consuming to go out and find good ones. So she simply called her two nephews over and asked them to grow the herbs for her.
Growing herbs from dawn to dusk is hard work, and my grandmother's standards for herbs are extremely strict, rejecting any that don't meet them. Fortunately, my two cousins are reliable and down-to-earth people. Except for the first year when the herbs were slightly inferior, the quality of the herbs grown every year since then has been quite good.
Grandma paid a significantly higher price than the drug dealers on the market. Firstly, she wanted to help her younger generation, and secondly, she was pleased with the herbs they had grown. As a result, these two cousins have lived a comfortable life in their hometown in the countryside over the years.
I heard that later many villagers followed the two brothers to grow medicinal herbs, and a small industrial chain was formed. Now almost everyone in the village is growing medicinal herbs. Mingxintang will buy as long as the medicinal herbs meet the requirements.
Now she was too busy staying at the hospital to do anything else, and she had no intention of returning to run the clinic. Speaking of which, she still had to tell them to find another way to sell this year's batch of herbs.
Originally, Shen Jiang was not planning to borrow money from them. Given their conditions, the money he could borrow would be a drop in the bucket. According to the rate at which his grandmother was burning through the hospital's burns, it would only be enough for a few days at most.
But now, what she lacks is a day or two of buffer time!
On the day my grandmother had the accident, my eldest and second cousins came to the hospital. Since it was the rainy season and the time to harvest herbs, the fields needed help, so they stayed overnight in the hospital and hurried back to the countryside the next morning to collect and harvest herbs.
Before leaving, the cousin gave Shen Jiang two thousand yuan and told her to call him if she had any problems.
Shen Jiang was hesitating about how to ask his cousin for a loan when his cousin called.
Shen Jiang adjusted his mood and prepared to talk to his eldest cousin about his grandmother's current situation and then ask him to borrow money.
"Shen Jiang, how is your aunt? Is she okay?" My cousin's voice came as usual.
Shen Jiang: "The doctor said the situation is getting better day by day."
After laying the groundwork, the next sentence was that money was needed to maintain treatment. Given the closeness between my great cousin and my grandmother in the past, I'm sure he would agree. Shen Jiang let out a sigh of relief.
On the other end of the phone, my uncle smiled with relief: "That's good, that's good. I knew that my aunt would be blessed by heaven.
By the way, my uncle wants to tell you something. We have collected all the medicine here. You know that the villagers are not very educated. They are always thinking about selling the herbs for money. They will not feel at ease until they have the money in their own hands.
Shen Jiang frowned. Good news doesn't travel far, but bad news travels far and wide. With the development of the Internet now, it is estimated that all the villagers in the countryside know what happened in Mingxin Hall.
"Uncle, listen to me. The incident at Mingxin Hall was just an accident. It's not what the netizens said."
"What are you talking about? How can I not trust our aunt? But everyone relies on this income all year round, it's all hard-earned money, I can understand. I know you've been busy lately and don't have time to take care of these things, so I'll take the initiative and advance the money. Don't worry, I've examined them all, and they're all good medicines. When you need it, tell your uncle and I'll get it for you at Mingxin Hall."
As usual, last weekend was the day to inspect and settle accounts with these herbal farmers. Shen Jiang hadn't expected her uncle to actually advance the money for the herbs. He must have really trusted them. Shen Jiang didn't know how to respond to his kind gesture.
She doesn't need any medicinal herbs at all now. She needs money to maintain her grandmother's treatment... All the money from her great cousin was used to buy medicine. Not to mention that there is not much left to lend to her, he may have to ask her for repayment in the future.
Shen Jiang suddenly felt a little overwhelmed.
"Shen Jiang, are you still listening?"
"Um."
"Okay, I'll come to the city to see my aunt when I'm done with this. You go ahead and do your work. I'm hanging up now."
"Wait, wait a minute." Shen Jiang's eyelids twitched, and he said with some difficulty: "Uncle, grandma hasn't woken up yet. I can't get away from the hospital. Mingxin Hall is temporarily closed."
"Oh," the honest voice on the other end of the phone was as slow as ever to react, as if it couldn't believe what it heard.
"What did you say? I don't think I heard clearly."
Shen Jiang's voice was hoarse and dark: "If someone comes to the village to collect the medicine, don't keep it for Mingxintang."
The cousin on the other end of the phone seemed to take a long time to understand what he meant, and after a long while he finally spoke: "Is that so?"
Shen Jiang felt a little regretful. If she had made the call earlier, perhaps such a mistake would not have happened.
The eldest cousin turned around and comforted her: "It's okay, our village is now a big medicinal village, very famous, and drug dealers come to ask me to buy drugs every now and then. You don't have to worry about it."
Looking at the hung-up phone, Shen Jiang always felt uncomfortable.
But so many things happened at once that she couldn't really tell what was wrong.
Shen Jiang shifted his gaze to his cousin's phone and sighed for no reason.
In reality, she wasn't very familiar with either of these cousins. Before Shen Jiang started high school, they were both working away from home, rarely returning to Nanze City. Later, they returned to work as herbal farmers for Mingxintang, and Shen Jiang went off to study, so she rarely had the chance to see them.
The eldest cousin had often come to Mingxintang over the years to deliver medicinal herbs, along with some local eggs and agricultural products, so Shen Jiang was relatively familiar with him. As for the younger cousin, he was a quiet man with a face that looked distant, so Shen Jiang was completely unfamiliar with him.
Thinking of her cousin's perennially ferocious face, Shen Jiang felt that it wasn't necessary to open the mouth. Grandma's medical expenses couldn't be covered by just 17,000 yuan. Why not try to get a bank loan?
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