Aunt He chimed in, "Yesterday, several of Daming's cousins mentioned to me that they wanted to borrow money to build a house. With so many relatives, how can they borrow it?"
“You know she’s your cousin’s wife. Can cousins be treated the same as blood relatives?” Xu Aiping said. “You could just say you don’t have money.”
He Wenlin smiled and said, "Although we are separated by a generation, we are from the same village and visit each other often. Sometimes we are even more reliable than blood relatives."
Xu Aihua choked on her words.
He Wenlin continued, "I don't care if my mother has a secret stash of money, but if she takes money from my account, I'll give each relative two thousand, no more. You can call me an ingrate or say I'm stingy, I don't care. I still owe hundreds of thousands of yuan in debt, and the interest is tens of thousands of yuan every year."
"Tens of thousands of yuan in interest?" Upon hearing this, Grandma's legs went weak.
This number is astronomical to her.
The uncle and aunt looked horrified: "Tens of thousands in interest? Daming, how much did you borrow?"
"The car loan, mortgage, and the money borrowed from the credit union and the bank totaled five or six hundred thousand yuan."
"Five...five or six hundred thousand!" the crowd exclaimed.
Mr. He: "So it's not that we're stingy or don't want to help our siblings, it's just that we really don't have the money. Jian Guo and Kai Kai are helping out at the food factory, and they know that. We cooperate with supermarkets, and all payments are settled monthly, which means we have to pay a month's worth of costs upfront. If the payments are on time, it's fine, but if they're delayed, the pressure on us is even greater."
Aunt He: "We don't have any money at all. After the New Year, we'll have to pay wages again. It's not as easy as everyone imagines. Yesterday, we were still trying to find a way to get a loan from the credit union to finish building the factory and houses."
"You owe so much money, you..." Grandma was terrified. "How can we sleep tonight?"
"I can't sleep, but I've already borrowed the money, so now I can only endure it and hope that business will improve so I can pay off the debt soon."
Grandma looked at Xu Aihua: "Aihua, you heard it too. Aizhen and the others are having a hard time outside. Your attitude and words just now hurt the feelings between the sisters. If you don't have enough money to build a house, just build a shell first, build one floor to live in first, and we'll talk about other things when we have more money later."
Xu Aihua remained silent, her face full of resentment.
Xu Aihua and Zou Lizhu, the two sisters-in-law, carried the person to the kitchen to do chores, one on each side.
The matter of borrowing money has temporarily come to an end.
“Grandma, this is what Xiaojun, Xiaokai, and I bought for you as a gift.” He Wenlin took out a red jewelry box and took out a pair of gold earrings. “Grandma, let me put these on you.”
"Gold earrings!" Grandma's eyes widened. "These are too expensive. You should be more careful with your money. You owe so much money, and you still spend money on these? I'm an old man, one foot in the grave, how can I be worthy of wearing these?"
He Wenlin: "Grandma wouldn't say that during the Lunar New Year. My two siblings and I bought it together; it didn't cost much."
As He Wenlin spoke, she tried to put the hair on her grandmother's head.
Tang Kai also gave his grandmother a red envelope: "Grandma, I didn't buy you anything else, please take this red envelope."
Grandma refused, saying, "You've already bought me gold, you can keep the money for yourself."
Tang Kai smiled sheepishly: "Xiao Jun and I only contributed a small portion of the gold earrings; it was all paid for by Sister Lin. Grandma, please take this red envelope."
The gold earrings cost 680 yuan. He Wenlin paid 580 yuan, and Xiao Jun and Tang Kai each paid 50 yuan.
The old lady was so moved that tears streamed down her face.
"I never thought I would enjoy the blessings of my grandchildren so soon."
"Grandma, I'll buy you some later too!" Uncle's youngest son, Xu Haitao, quickly said.
"Okay, okay, Grandma will wait."
He Wenlin: "You've worked hard all your life. Once our house in Shaocheng is built and decorated, we'll invite you to stay with us for a while. My grandma lives there too, so you'll have company."
Both elderly women are sensible and hardworking people, not the kind of perfect characters you see in novels and TV shows, so there won't be any melodramatic plot twists.
Aunt He also got up and went to the kitchen to help.
We had only heard about He Wenlin's family business before, but no one knew the specifics.
Now they're proactively asking about the situation.
Mr. He has started another round of showing off his daughter to the adults...
Everyone who heard it was shocked!
Everyone looked at He Wenlin as if she were a monster!
Who would have thought that a fourteen-year-old could do so much?
Xu Aiping immediately thought of a phrase—"so intelligent it's almost demonic!"
He Wenye Lin instantly became the idol of her brothers and sisters!
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