Yu Hai felt a glimmer of hope, relieved that he hadn't been rejected outright: "Uncle, my father has been in the hospital for seven days, and I've spent almost all my savings."
Could you help me think of a way to scrape together 150,000 yuan? If that doesn't work, could you ask around in the village if anyone wants my old house?
If anyone wants it, please sell it for me! Let's see how many tens of thousands of yuan it's worth now.
The village chief thought for a moment before saying, "Alright, I'll go to the village tomorrow and ask around to see if anyone wants the old house. However, your old house is a tiled roof and the foundation isn't very big, so even if you sell it, it won't be worth more than 30,000 to 50,000 yuan."
Have you thought this through? If you sell the old house, where will your father go for his funeral when he gets old? Your family will have no roots in the village!
“Uncle, that’s my father’s house. I’ll keep the house. Even after my father is gone, I won’t go back to live in the village.”
Selling the house to save my dad might allow him to live a few more years. As long as my dad is alive, I don't think about what will happen after his death.
When you get old, where you hold your funeral is just a formality. I urgently need money for surgery now, so I've decided to sell it if someone wants it!
Hearing these words, the village chief felt very sad: "That's true! You young people don't want to go back to the countryside. You've all settled down in the city. The houses are empty and no one lives in them. The longer they're left, the more dilapidated they become, and the less valuable they are."
Sell it! Selling it to save a life would be great!
By the way, when do I need to pay for the surgery? Give me a few days; I need to figure out how to raise the money.
Yu Hai burst into tears of joy: "Uncle, of course the sooner the better. Get the money ready, and the hospital here can arrange the surgery!"
The village chief nodded on the other end of the phone: "You should try to borrow from others, and I'll think of a way too. You know the income situation back home; it's not easy to raise this money!"
The village chief agreed to raise money for Yu's father, and Yu Hai felt much relieved. He secretly sighed, "The people back home are so kind!"
They are much better than the friends and colleagues he made in Jinan. In the city, it's easy to borrow a thousand or eight hundred from each other, but it's not possible to borrow more than that. Unless you are a very close friend, you can't borrow two or three thousand.
The village chief hung up the phone, but then looked troubled. The old man started counting on his fingers:
The small hotel made a lot of money before the New Year. Chen Hong gave them a dividend of 284,000 yuan. The couple's combined salary was 72,000 yuan. They earned more than 30,000 yuan from selling their produce to the hotel. On New Year's Eve, they received another 17,000 yuan for vegetables.
That means they brought in a total of 403,000 yuan before the new year. The old couple really earned a lot of money last year!
But when the accounts were recalculated, the village chief was dumbfounded!
The investment of 200,000 yuan in marine aquaculture was used to repay the 200,000 yuan loan Chen Hong borrowed to buy a house in Jinan during the National Day holiday, and now there is no money left!
They pooled their money to buy a boat again during the Chinese New Year. They used their savings of 50,000 yuan from before, plus the couple's three months' salary after the New Year and the money from selling chickens, ducks and vegetables, to make up a down payment of 75,000 yuan.
And this was after Chen Hong increased their salary from six thousand to eight thousand!
"Alas! His personal assets are now in the negative!" The village chief sighed deeply, feeling immense pressure.
"What's wrong? Life is getting better and better, and the store is getting more and more customers. What's wrong with you? Why are you sighing like that?"
You old man, you're becoming more and more reckless in your actions. Have you forgotten what the old folks say: sighing will make you lose your good fortune!
"Tell me, what trouble have you run into this time?" Aunt Guo finished washing up and was about to get into bed when she heard her husband sigh, so she quickly asked him.
"Sigh! My brain is completely fried, I just finished my errand!" The village chief was worried and reached for a cigarette on the bedside table, but Aunt Guo noticed his little trick and slapped the back of his hand.
"What's wrong? You're about to go to sleep, and you still want to smoke another pack? Have you forgotten what Chen Hong said? Smoking is harmful to your health, and even more harmful to those around you who are forced to inhale secondhand smoke."
If you don't want to live a good life, I've only had two years of good life, and I haven't lived enough yet. Don't try to drag me down with you!
"Can't you speak if you don't smoke? Tell me, what errand have you been on this time? Tell me and we'll figure out a way to fix it!"
Village Chief: "How many times have you told me not to involve Chen Hong in anything that happens in the village? But I've fallen into my old habits again!"
"My dear wife, you're absolutely right. I'm really getting senile! It seems I'll have to hand over all of Chen Hong's family affairs from now on. Managing the money too much has unknowingly made me arrogant, always wanting to be in charge of Chen Hong's household affairs. This is really not good!"
"Just tell me already, stop with the nonsense. What did you do wrong this time? Are you trying to drive me crazy?"
The village chief had no choice but to honestly explain to his wife about Yu Hai's phone call to borrow money.
"I was too presumptuous! I did have more than 300,000 yuan in my hands, but I forgot that this money was not ours. It was the business revenue from the past three months after the New Year. It belonged to Chen Hong and everyone else."
Even if we were to ask for an advance on the dividends now, the maximum amount that would be in our family's pocket would be no more than 60,000 to 70,000 yuan.
I just heard that Yu Zhaohua is waiting for money for surgery, which will cost over 100,000 yuan. I was so anxious that I agreed to Yu Hai's offer without thinking.
After hanging up the phone and carefully calculating the accounts, I realized something was wrong. Not only was it not yet time to distribute dividends, but even if we did, the shipyard needed to pay the final installment, and the fish farm required investment at any time. Our little bit of money wasn't enough for anything.
If we urgently need money, let alone an advance, even if we just ask Chen Hong to lend us a few hundred thousand, she would probably agree.
But given Yu Hai's relationship with Chen Hong, it's really not appropriate for us to bring this up with her. Using her money to help Yu Hai just doesn't feel right to me; I can't do it!
After hearing what he said, Aunt Guo slapped him hard on the back without thinking. "You old fool, how many times have I told you? You just won't listen."
The relationship between our family and Chen Hong will be ruined by you sooner or later!
Why don't you put your head on your pillow and think about how good we've been to Chen Hong, and whether she's willing to keep helping us?
Why do you always talk nonsense like a donkey? Don't you know what's good and bad? Do you really think you're Chen Hong's biological father?
Are you blind? Even her own father doesn't meddle in Chen Hong's affairs so much; he doesn't treat Chen Hong like a family at all!
I said before, you do good deeds for others and the village, be a good person, take the lead yourself, don't involve Chen Hong, don't involve Chen Hong, how can you be like a rat - forgetting as soon as you raise your paw?
If you have feelings for those people, go and give back yourself. What, does Chen Hong owe them something? She's already helped you enough, and you want her to help the whole village too?
Which of these people has ever helped Chen Hong in the slightest? Or even given her a single penny?
Chen Hong is someone who always repays kindness, but she's not stupid or foolish; she knows exactly what she's doing!
I've watched Chen Hong help our families get to this point, and it's come to an end!
If you keep causing trouble, and Chen Hong goes to Beijing and doesn't come back, without Chen Hong providing financial support for you, this hotel, this fish farm, and that big fishing boat, the collapse of your businesses would be a matter of moments!
You old bear, you damned old man, all you ever do is show off!
You're really something! Without Chen Hong, could the village's dock have been built? Would anyone have come to the village for tourism? Could the Taobao store have been established?
"Can we afford a house during the National Day holiday? Can we charter a fish farm? Do you dare to buy a fishing boat?"
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