Chapter 182: Little Cotton Jacket is so fierce! (6)
The staff present had no choice but to lend their mobile phones to help Shisui make the call.
Tokiho held the phone with her small hands and placed it next to her ear.
The first time I called, no one answered.
The second time I called, it rang for nearly a minute before the call was connected.
There was a very loud noise on the other end of the phone, as if it was at a construction site.
Xuanxuan's father almost howled as he spoke: "Hello—who is this?"
"Dad!" Tokiho called out in a clear voice.
"Xuanxuan?! Is it Xuanxuan?!" Dad asked anxiously.
"Well!" Shisui briefly explained her situation. "My aunt doesn't want me anymore. Can you take me back?"
Without any hesitation, Dad said, "Okay! Okay! Stay right where you are, I'll be right over!"
After hanging up the phone, Shisui turned back into a little white rabbit, and moved a small stool to sit down obediently.
Shi Sui will know what kind of person Xuanxuan's father is when she meets him.
Seeing that the situation had calmed down, the staff continued filming.
But after the commotion just now, passersby started to talk about it, saying that it was not good to change a child's clothes in broad daylight...
Under pressure, the business could only arrange a few people to wrap up the children with large towels, making it a temporary changing room to shut everyone up.
During the breaks in filming, Arei turned back several times and gave Shisui a meaningful look...
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Half an hour later, Xuanxuan's father arrived in a hurry.
He is in his early 30s and about 1.75 meters tall.
From the outline, you can tell that he has a good appearance and is quite handsome.
Especially the pair of dimples on her face, which are exactly the same as Xuanxuan's.
But now he was covered in dust, his clothes and canvas shoes were dirty, and there was some paint on his arms. He looked like a decorator.
You know, he used to be a small boss specializing in selling tiles.
At least the difference in dressing is a bit big.
Xuanxuan's father spoke politely. After exchanging a few words with the merchant, he wanted to take his daughter away.
The merchant was also cautious and confirmed with Shi Sui many times whether the visitor was really her father. He looked at his ID card and took a photo for Zhao Ziyin to confirm.
Zhao Ziyin angrily replied to the voice message: "Yes! It's her father! Damn it! Get this bastard and her daughter out of here as soon as possible!!"
After all this trouble, Xuanxuan's father took his daughter's hand and left the filming site.
"It's almost noon now. Shall I take you back to my rental house?"
Dad's voice was a little hoarse, but he spoke very gently.
The father and daughter got on the bus and drove slowly to the other end of the city.
It took them almost an hour's drive to reach their destination.
Along the way, the father was very patient and made his daughter laugh and joke.
After getting off the car and turning a few corners, the father took his daughter into a handshake building in the urban village, opened the door and returned to his temporary "home" in this big city.
The rental house is dark and small, less than 15 square meters, with only one bedroom and one bathroom, and not even a kitchen with a gas stove.
Although it is very simple, the house is clean and tidy.
"Dad, this is not our home..." Shi Sui imitated Xuanxuan's tone and asked with innocent eyes blinking.
They used to live in a bright commercial house.
"Ah... someone else lives in the house..." Dad replied vaguely, "Are you hungry? I'll cook some noodles for you first."
He changed his dirty clothes and cooked a pot of noodles using an induction cooker. Although the taste was light, it contained vegetables, meat and eggs, so it was nutritious.
There wasn't much meat in the pot, so the father put almost all of it into his daughter's bowl.
It tastes pretty good!
Shi Sui slurped up the noodles, and her father carefully wiped his daughter's pink little mouth with a tissue.
He hadn't seen his daughter in over a month, let alone been alone with her like this.
Today, a terrible thing happened: my daughter was abandoned on the set. Although my father was very emotional, he put his daughter's emotions first.
It was not until now that he took the initiative to ask his daughter how she was doing at her grandmother's house and what injustice she had suffered today... He spoke very carefully, fearing that the child would be sad and cry.
From the questioning, Shi Sui could feel that Xuanxuan's grandmother had concealed most of the facts from him.
Her father was unaware of his daughter's intense child modeling shoots and assumed her life was no different from that of an ordinary child. Whenever Xuanxuan went out, her father lied and said he was taking her to an art event.
Xuanxuan was naturally docile, and later on, she was trained by her grandmother and aunt to be obedient. Whenever they met, Xuanxuan never complained to him, instead saying that her grandmother loved her very much.
It wasn't until today that he found out that Xuan Xuan's grandmother's family actually made her a child model to make money!
Shi Sui only confirmed today's filming, and hadn't yet told Xuan Xuan's father all the filmings she had participated in before, but Xuan Xuan's father's face turned pale.
His fists clenched involuntarily.
You can see that he is very angry.
But even so, he did not lose his temper in front of his daughter, nor did he scold her grandmother and aunt just to vent his emotions.
When adults attack each other in front of children, it will not solve the problem. Instead, it will destroy the daughter's sense of happiness and make her timid, sensitive and withdrawn.
Xuanxuan's father's rational approach is immediately superior to that of her grandmother's family.
"Daddy is going to wash the dishes now. You can play on the bed for a while, okay?"
Xuanxuan's father rubbed his daughter's head and gently picked her up from the chair.
Tokiho could feel that he loved his daughter very much.
If that’s the case, then why did he still send Xuanxuan to live with her grandmother?
Soon, Tokiho found the answer in a small notebook on the bedside table.
He owes people a lot of money.
"I owe... Li Ming... 83,000 yuan. I've paid back 13,000 yuan, and I still have 70,000 yuan to pay.
I owe...Zhang San...90,000 yuan, 10,000 yuan has been repaid, and 80,000 yuan remains to be repaid.
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Shi Sui carefully calculated that Xuanxuan's father owed a total of 668,000 yuan in debt. He had already paid back 120,000 yuan, and there was still 548,000 yuan to be paid back.
Based on the information previously revealed by my aunt, it can be inferred that this money was all medical expenses owed to help Xuanxuan's mother.
His previous wedding house and the tile business in the home improvement city must have been lost.
How did Xuanxuan’s father pay off his debts?
Turning to the next page of the notebook, Shisui found the answer again.
"Room 1102, Building A, Dongya Garden... Floor tiles cost 12,000 yuan, 5,000 yuan collected, 7,000 yuan to be collected.
Villa No. 73, Zone E, Juxin Haoge... The cost of tiling the whole house and painting was 5.8 yuan, and the payment has been made in full.
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Xuanxuan's father has been working as a decorator.
According to regulations, construction that disturbs residents is not allowed after 6:00 p.m., so after finishing the renovation every day, he rushes to do other part-time jobs.
Takeout, designated driver, parading in doll costumes...these meager incomes are also recorded in the bar's account book.
There is no such thing as easy in the adult world.
It is filled with helplessness and compulsion.
If he kept Xuanxuan with him, he would have no way of going out to earn money to pay off his debts.
The poor environment of a rental house is not suitable for raising children.
Xuanxuan's father understood that his mother-in-law had deep hostility towards him, but as a compromise, he could only entrust his daughter to his mother-in-law, who had a better family background, to help take care of her.
After he works hard to pay off all his debts, he will take her back.
Just like Xuanxuan's mother, although she was treated unfairly in her original family, she was also truly loved and educated. It's very contradictory... The blood relationship between relatives is difficult to break.
There is no 100% good and love, and no 100% bad and hate.
Otherwise, there wouldn’t be the old saying “Even a fair judge cannot judge family disputes”.
But now that he knows his daughter's true situation, Xuanxuan's father definitely doesn't want her to go back to being a tool.
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