Chapter 24. Twenty thousand yuan is no small sum. ...
Jane's father couldn't do heavy work, but he was an excellent cook.
He couldn't help much with those chores, but he did cook all the meals at home.
To make it easier for him to cook while in a wheelchair, the stoves in his home are all made to be very low.
Since her father's death, Shen Jiawan has barely eaten anything these days. After washing up, she only drank a glass of water and ate a bowl of plain porridge.
With these dishes, she ate three large bowls of rice.
"Eat more vegetables."
Wang Saifeng was also shocked by her, and put a chicken leg into her bowl.
Shen Jiawan gnawed the chicken leg clean.
"Uncle's cooking is really delicious."
"Eat more if you like it." Jian's parents didn't eat much, but they kept putting food on Shen Jiawan's plate.
It was clear that she was really starving.
During this time, they would ask her some questions and, knowing that Shen Jiayuan had only drunk a bowl of plain porridge these past few days, they would feel sorry for her.
"The white porridge was given to me by my mother," Shen Jiawan said, but she didn't think so.
She lost her father, but her mother is still by her side. Although she can't see her mother and no one else can see her, she feels very lucky.
But the Jian family didn't think so.
They already knew about Shen Jiawan's family situation: her mother had passed away a long time ago, the family had recently gone bankrupt, and her father...
She said her mother gave it to her; she was probably so hungry that she mistook the kind person who gave her the porridge for her mother.
"Where do you live now?" Wang Saifeng asked.
“I have nowhere to live. My house was taken away to pay off debts, and my belongings were also taken away.”
Shen Jiawan had helped their family. If it weren't for her lending money for Lao Jian's surgery, Lao Jian would have lost his life.
Therefore, Wang Saifeng suggested that Shen Jiawan stay at her home.
"You can stay here for now, but you have to pay; you can't stay for free."
Xiang Bei couldn't think of anywhere Shen Jiayuan could go.
However, Jian Jingqiu still owed her money, and she had to get it back; she couldn't just give the money to someone else without knowing why.
"Thank you, Auntie."
Shen Jiawan got up to get the money, and put a thousand yuan in front of Wang Saifeng. "Auntie, this is my rent. I can't cook right now, so I might have to eat at your house."
After thinking for a moment, Shen Jiawan took out another five hundred yuan. "Auntie, I don't know if this is enough."
My mother said she wanted to keep some money on her person.
With only four hundred yuan left, she had to think about what she could do.
Wang Saifeng naturally refused to accept it.
"You helped us before, so please stay here in peace."
Shen Jiawan kept her mother's words firmly in mind and was determined not to stay for nothing.
Jian Jingqiu stood up and said, "The rent here isn't expensive. There are other places to rent around here, about 500 yuan a month. We don't have any extra rooms, so you'll have to sleep with me. That's why I'll charge you 300 yuan in rent."
Shen Jiawan thought Jian Jingqiu's words made a lot of sense, and she couldn't find a reason to refute them. "What about food and drink?"
Jian Jingqiu did the math, “Two hundred a month for food expenses, since our whole family needs to eat, so I’ll include yours in the calculation.”
Shen Jiawan looked up at the comments section and added, "And water and electricity too."
"I'll charge you thirty yuan for water and electricity combined, since our whole family needs it anyway."
That means it costs 530 yuan per month.
Shen Jiawan gave the money to Wang Saifeng and told her that she must accept it.
After dinner, Wang Saifeng told her two children to go back to their room. Having just finished the college entrance examination, she wanted her daughter to relax.
Shen Jiawan followed Jian Jingqiu into the room. "Jingqiu, what did your mother mean when she said I helped you?"
Don't you remember?
“More than a year ago, my father was sick and my family really couldn’t afford the surgery. You lent me money so that my family could raise enough money for the surgery. You saved my father’s life.”
Shen Jiawan vaguely remembered that the person she had helped back then was Jingqiu. However, she felt it was a small matter; she would have helped anyone in need.
But I listened to my mother and pressed her for an answer.
She still remembered that Jian Jingqiu had returned the money, but she clearly remembered that she hadn't accepted it.
Hearing that Jian Jingqiu had stuffed money into her desk, she was even more bewildered.
"Impossible, I've never seen your money." Shen Jiawan had absolutely no recollection of the money on the table.
“I really did put the money in your desk.” Jian Jingqiu also felt something was wrong; Shen Jiawan wasn’t the type to take money and then deny it.
"Did you really not see it, or did you forget?" Jian Jingqiu asked again to confirm.
No, definitely not.
Jian Jingqiu fell silent. Shen Jiawan was willing to share half of her winnings from scratch-off lottery tickets with her, so there was no need for her to renege on this debt.
So the money she gave Shen Jiawan disappeared.
【Call the police! 】
Shen Jiawan grabbed Jian Jingqiu's hand and said, "Let's go call the police."
"But so much time has passed, is it still possible to find it?"
【able. 】
Shen Jiawan saw the comments and nodded vigorously, "Yes."
If Mom says it's possible, then it definitely is.
The classrooms in the elite school are all equipped with surveillance cameras. Xiang Bei had the system retrieve the surveillance video of that particular incident.
Even if surveillance has been covered up, for the system, finding such things on a planet full of high technology, as long as it has ever existed, is a piece of cake.
On their way to the police station, Xiang Bei sent the video to Shen Jiawan's phone.
Although she's portrayed as a silly beauty, thankfully she's very obedient.
She especially trusted her as her "mother".
When Shen Jiawan saw the video, she was shocked. "So they stole the money."
The video not only clearly showed Zhao Qing and the others taking the money, but also clearly recorded their conversation.
Twenty thousand yuan is not a small amount.
Moreover, Zhao Qing and the others are already adults, and they are currently being detained at the police station.
The police officers saw that Shen Jiawan, who had just left in the morning, came back to report theft in the afternoon, this time accusing Zhao Qing and her friends of theft.
The video is the evidence.
Where did you get this video?
"It was sent to me by a kind person who couldn't stand them stealing," Shen Jiawan said.
She wouldn't be foolish enough to tell the police that her mother gave it to her.
After all, in other people's eyes, her mother is gone, and she can't explain her mother's existence.
So it can only be said that it was given to her by a kind person.
Police confirmed that the video was authentic.
Zhao Qing and the others were originally supposed to be released after fifteen days of detention, but now they have to stay in there again because of theft.
Zhao Qing only remembered the 20,000 yuan after hearing that Shen Jiawan had brought up old grievances.
Zhao Qing retorted, "That was money Shen Jiawan told us to spend, why are you arresting us?"
However, Zhao Qing can be clearly heard saying in the video, "Anyway, Shen Jiawan doesn't know, so let's take it and use it," which confirms that they stole it.
The amount stolen was substantial, so they no longer need to worry about having a criminal record for going to university, since they wouldn't be able to attend university and would face criminal charges.
Zhao Qing's family wasn't extremely wealthy, but they did own a small company.
She used to fawn over Shen Jiawan because Shen Jiawan's family was wealthy; Shen's father's family was exceptionally rich.
Shen Jiawan is a fool; she can easily be fooled into spending money on them.
Unexpectedly, after going bankrupt, Shen Jiawan directly sent her to the police station.
If only I hadn't listened to Xu Miaoyan and locked Shen Jiawan in the dark to scare her. Now Xu Miaoyan is perfectly fine, staying outside and waiting for her university acceptance letter.
It's unfair that they, a group of people, are going to jail.
I heard that their daughter has been convicted of theft again due to conclusive evidence. Now, these parents have to pool their money to pay back Shen Jiawan.
Faced with their request, Shen Jiawan resolutely refused to understand. Following her mother's words, she read out the legal articles, and even Jingqiu looked at her differently.
The people involved in the case all received a share of the money. The parents had no choice but to pool together 20,000 yuan to return to Shen Jiawan before discussing other matters.
Shen Jiawan had no intention of taking back the things she had given away before. After all, although Zhao Qing and the others had coaxed her into giving those things, she had given them voluntarily.
But we must get those 20,000 yuan back, because it's Jingqiu's money.
After leaving the police station, Shen Jiawan gave the money to Jian Jingqiu. "Jingqiu, I'm so sorry that I only found out about this now. Otherwise, I could have helped you get your money back sooner."
Jian Jingqiu looked at Shen Jiawan, her mouth moved, but she didn't know what to say.
Compared to her, Shen Jiawan was clearly more in need of the money now, but after counting the money, she still gave it to her without hesitation.
“This isn’t my money, it’s yours.” Jian Jingqiu naturally refused to accept it.
The two of them refused for a while.
Keep the money safe and don't flaunt it outside. We'll talk about it when we get back.
Shen Jiawan, who always listens to her mother, immediately put the money away and pulled Jian Jingqiu back home.
Only then did Jian's parents realize that the money Jian Jingqiu had given back to Shen Jiawan had been stolen, and they had just found out today and gotten it back.
The money was originally lent to them by Shen Jiawan, and Jian's parents, like Jian Jingqiu, refused to accept it no matter what.
However, Shen Jiawan still gave them five thousand yuan, saying, "I will be staying here for the time being, so please take good care of me, Uncle and Aunt."
Jian Jingqiu took Shen Jiawan to the bank to deposit the remaining money.
"You'd better keep some money on hand," Jian Jingqiu advised.
"That's what my mother said too."
Jian Jingqiu didn't ask any further questions about Shen Jiayuan's mother, whom she always mentioned.
They didn't go home for dinner. Jian Jingqiu took Shen Jiawan for a walk outside and they ate some street food.
After all, I promised to take Shen Jiayuan shopping for clothes. The clothes at the night market are very cheap, and you can even bargain.
Shen Jiawan hesitated, "Can't we buy it at the mall?"
"The clothes in the mall are very expensive. Do you have enough money to buy your old clothes?"
Shen Jiawan shook her head.
not enough.
But she didn't know what clothes to choose, while her classmate Jingqiu helped her pick out quite a few.
After buying a lot, Jingqiu even managed to bargain with people, leaving Shen Jiayuan completely stunned.
She tried to bargain herself, but when she heard the shop owner say that small businesses are not easy and that they don't make any money, she couldn't bring herself to bargain.
Shen Jiawan genuinely felt that it wasn't easy for the boss to make money.
It was Jingqiu who stopped her and managed to lower the price.
Shen Jiawan watched the comments scrolling by and didn't say anything more. She silently followed behind Jingqiu and listened to her bargaining.
They bought so many things that they could hardly carry them all, but they didn't actually spend much money.
Shen Jiawan slept with Jian Jingqiu that night.
"What are your plans for the future?" Jian Jingqiu asked.
Jian Jingqiu is confident that she can get into her desired university. In just over two months, she will be going to university. What will Shen Jiayuan do then?
“I’m repeating a year of high school, my mom wants me to.”
“That’s fine, you have money now anyway.” Jian Jingqiu felt that Shen Jiawan repeating a year was indeed the best option at present.
"My mom wants me to switch schools and repeat a year."
Jian Jingqiu finally realized that something was wrong.
She felt as if Shen Jiawan's mother was right beside her, even though Shen Jiawan's mother had clearly passed away long ago.
Everyone in her class knew about this. Because she had no mother since she was little, her father spoiled her so much that even if she didn't do well in school, he would say that as long as she was happy, that was all that mattered.
It seems like the mother Shen Jiawan is talking about knows about her current situation.
When Jian Jingqiu turned her head to look, she found that Shen Jiawan had already fallen asleep and was laughing, seemingly having a dream.
She also talked in her sleep.
She said, "Mom."
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