Lu Jiaxin walked with Gu Xiuxiu for more than half an hour, then helped her to the second floor. She watched her finish her call to He Bin, and then chatted with her for a while before going upstairs.

She made an appointment with Lu Jiazong to talk on the phone at six o'clock.

As soon as the call was connected, Lu Jiaguang heard her voice and asked, "Jiaxin, your second brother said you passed the exam. When will school start? Are you ready?"

Lu Jiaxin patiently replied one by one; "Don't worry, big brother, I'm doing well here. My aunt loves Haifan and me very much, and just now she said she would buy me a house near the school."

"Buy you a house? Houses in Hong Kong are very expensive, right?"

Lu Jiaxin hummed and said, "A place with a slightly better location would cost four or five thousand per square meter, and a place of one hundred square meters would cost four or five hundred thousand. But this is her sincere gift, so I can't refuse."

Lu Jiaguang smacked his lips. His sister had already thought that the 700,000 yuan she earned was an astronomical figure, but he had never expected that a house in Hong Kong would cost 400,000 or 500,000 yuan. He forgot to convert it into Chinese currency, but even Chinese currency was an astronomical figure for many people in the mainland.

Lu Jiaxin asked about the family situation and heard that everything was fine, especially that Xiaoqiu was learning to cut clothes from an old tailor. Although this little girl was not good at studying, she was still willing to work hard for the things she liked.

After talking about family matters, Lu Jiaguang told her one more thing: "Your fifth brother wants to open a shoe factory. Everyone in the family is against it, but he said it was you who suggested it and said that opening a shoe factory has great prospects."

Lu Jiaxin did say something like this: "Brother, anything related to food, clothing, housing and transportation has a future, but whether you can make money depends on the person."

"Brother, Fifth Brother is already 26 years old. He is no longer a child. Let him do whatever he wants to do. Don't interfere."

Lu Jiaguang said: "I am not against him opening a shoe factory, but I am against him opening a shoe factory with others. I have met those two friends and they are both very smart people. If he cooperates with those two people, if he makes money, they will probably kick him out; if he loses money, they will run away and he will be held responsible."

Lu Jiaxin felt that if Lu Jiaguang said that, Lu Jiajie would think that he looked down on his friends and would not listen to her advice. However, she did not try to persuade Lu Jiajie. As she said, he was not a three-year-old child and he would bear the consequences of his own decisions. "Tell him not to form a partnership with others. If he does not have enough money, he can open a small workshop first, and then slowly expand the scale after making money. If he does not listen, then leave him alone."

She was confident and had no intention of partnering with Su Heyuan for too long. She would open her own clothing company when she had time.

Lu Jiaguang originally wanted her to persuade Lu Jiajie, but gave up after hearing that: "You don't need to worry about us, everything is fine. You should be more careful over there alone."

"I know. Big brother, you too, please take care of yourself."

After the call was hung up, Xiao Qiu was a little anxious: "Uncle, I haven't talked to my aunt yet, why did you hang up the phone?"

Mrs. Lu scolded, "The phone bill is so expensive, what do you have to say? Didn't your aunt say that everything is fine over there?"

Xiaoqiu pouted unhappily.

After the group left the main hall, Lu Jiazong said with a smile, "Brother, Third Uncle has been talking about Jiaxin these days. Now that he knows that she has passed the entrance exam, he will definitely be very happy. When she is in a good mood, her illness will heal faster."

Lu Hongjun lived alone and had trouble eating. His stomach was not good to begin with. As a result of this, he suffered from gastric bleeding and was hospitalized. The three families took turns to take care of him.

Lu Jiaguang was silent for a moment and said, "Don't tell him that Jiaxin called back."

"Why?"

Lu Jiazong thought about it and felt that if he was sick and his children ignored him, his condition would probably get worse. But after sending him back to the house, he couldn't help but sigh.

Mrs. Lu was very unhappy to see him like this: "We are making a lot of money from the stall every day, and our daughter's clothing store is also making money. What else are you dissatisfied with?"

Nowadays, she can really wake up with a smile even when she is asleep.

Lu Jiazong said, "My eldest brother told me not to tell Uncle San about Jiaxin's phone call, saying that Uncle San would be sad if he knew."

Mrs. Lu snorted coldly and said, "Tell him when you deliver the meal tomorrow and see if he will be so sad that he can't eat."

"It's better not to do that. Uncle San is already pitiful enough."

When Mrs. Lu heard this, she started to scold: "Is he pitiful? What's pitiful about him? When he was sick, his three nephews took turns to take care of him. If you want to say pitiful, Jiaxin is the real pitiful one. She went to Hong Kong alone, she didn't know anyone there, and she didn't know who to turn to when she was bullied."

"Lu Jiazong, you can't be a man without conscience. Without Jiaxin's help, my husband and I would still be farming in the countryside, how could we earn twenty or thirty yuan a day? I tell you, if Jiaxin calls you and you dare to bring up these bad things to upset her, then go home and let Ashan come instead."

Lu Jiazong said hurriedly: "I didn't tell Jiaxin about Third Uncle's hospitalization."

Mrs. Lu snorted coldly, "Big brother and Jiajie are both under his care, so it's only right that we take turns to take care of him. We don't benefit from him in any way. I'm doing this for Jiaxin's sake, otherwise I wouldn't allow you to go."

At this point, she started to curse Lu Hongjun again: "He only cared about his own romantic pleasure and allowed that vicious woman to torture Jia Xin. He deserves it if no one collects his body when he dies."

"By the way, why don't you take care of that little goblin? Uncle San has raised her for so many years, and now she's sick, she's hiding away. That doesn't make sense."

Speaking of this, Lu Jiazong said depressedly: "Jiajie went to find her, but she said that she was not her biological daughter and it was inconvenient to take care of her."

Mrs. Lu cursed again: "Bullshit. It's not like she can't move and wash herself in bed. She just has gastric bleeding and she only needs to serve tea and water and watch over the injections. We can't let her go. I'll go find her tomorrow and ask her to take care of it."

"She won't go."

Second Sister-in-law Lu was so angry that she wanted to marry such a blockhead. "It doesn't matter if she doesn't go, but Third Uncle and others must know what kind of person she is."

Back then, he was blinded by greed and treated his stepdaughter better than his biological child. His biological child was heartbroken and went to Hong Kong to seek refuge with his relatives, but his stepdaughter didn't even go to the hospital to see him. Now he is getting his comeuppance, and he deserves it.

Lu Jiazong whispered, "Uncle San regretted it. He kept talking to us about Jiaxin and wanted to call her."

"Bah! Now that the vicious woman is in jail and the little witch has ignored him, he finally remembered Jia Xin's kindness. But it's too late. Jia Xin will never come back. Let him regret it for the rest of his life!"

Lu Jiazong sighed heavily again. He didn't know what his uncle was thinking. How could other people's children be as good as his own? He didn't distinguish between relatives and strangers. Now he couldn't see his children even if he wanted to.

(End of this chapter)