Chapter 12 Chapter 12 Eighty-eight thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight...
Gao's mother gasped, "Three hundred thousand! She really dares to ask for so much! Are you really going to give it to her? Without bargaining?"
Father Gao was choked by her bargaining talk and said unhappily, "Bargaining? Look at how stingy you are! You can bargain when buying things, but you can also bargain when buying your son's life?"
He snorted in disdain: "Three hundred thousand is more important or is my son more important? Don't you understand the difference? You are really short-sighted. It's fine if you fuss over small matters, but you still can't figure out the big things!"
"Of course my son is more important, but it shouldn't cost three hundred thousand..." The old man did what she couldn't do, which made her temporarily unable to stand up to him. Her voice was a little weaker, "It's better to find someone to deal with the vixen and find a good lawyer for my son than to give so much money to her. The money spent on finding someone, fighting the lawsuit, and the little money I'll give her as compensation after the lawsuit is over may not even reach one hundred and fifty thousand."
"Stupid! Stupid idea!" Gao's father relied on his status as the most important contributor to the family and was very arrogant. He pointed at Gao's mother's nose and scolded her without any hesitation.
"Why should we let our son suffer the consequences if we can avoid going to court? Settlement outside the court is the best way for our son. We can spend some money to find some connections and he won't have a criminal record. Otherwise, if he has a criminal record, it will affect three generations. What will happen to our descendants?"
Gao's mother thought about what he said and said, "It's true..." Even though she didn't want to admit it, she knew in her heart that it was a fact that her son was not very ambitious.
Now she is looking forward to her son getting married soon and giving her a big fat grandson. She will raise the grandson well in the future and maybe she can enjoy the blessing of the grandson.
"What you said makes sense. What should we do now? Should we take the letter of apology and go find someone for help?" asked Gao's mother.
Gao's father said, "Don't worry. Go get me a passbook with about 300,000 yuan in it. You know I don't have much money. I borrowed the 300,000 yuan from a friend to sign the letter of apology. I promised to pay it back today. You can't go back on your word and let people look down on me."
"Are you in such a hurry?" Gao's mother muttered hesitantly, looking unwilling. "They say that the debtor is the boss. It's not easy to pay back the borrowed money. We have urgent matters to deal with. It's not like we can't pay it back... Why don't we wait a little longer? I'll go talk to my daughter..."
Gao's father was furious because he couldn't get the money right away. He slammed the table and said, "Just take the money when I tell you to. What nonsense are you talking about! If you don't pay me back, my reputation will be ruined. Who will want to talk to me outside? And you told your daughter about this! Tell her about this and see if she will scold you or not!"
Gao's mother was frightened by his sudden anger. Usually, she relied on her daughter's good marriage and her favor, so she could be arrogant and it was okay, as long as she didn't really get angry.
After thinking about it, three hundred thousand is nothing to my daughter, and it is possible that my daughter will stand on the old man's side this time.
Gao's mother could only say weakly: "Why are you so angry? Just take the money if you save it. It's not like I'm not willing to give it to you. You're so old, and getting too angry will harm your health." Then she quickly stood up and walked to the room to get him the passbook.
After receiving the passbook and password, Gao's father felt relieved and instructed Gao's mother to contact her daughter: "Our relationship is not as strong as yours. Go call your daughter now and ask her to come over. By the way, ask her to bring a lawyer."
The couple calculated carefully and asked their daughter to find a lawyer, and naturally it was their daughter who helped to pay the lawyer's fees. After all, it was her brother's business, and as an elder sister, she should help him more so that he could return to her parents' home in the future.
When Gao Guangqiang's sister heard that there was progress in her brother's case, she immediately dropped what she was doing and rushed to a familiar law firm. She brought along a lawyer who had been working with her husband's factory and rushed back to her parents' home.
As soon as she arrived, Gao's father immediately grabbed the letter of apology that Gao's mother was reluctant to let go of once she got it, and with a flattering smile on his face that a father shouldn't have towards his daughter, he went to greet her and take credit: "Shuyi is back, look what this is!"
He handed over the letter of apology and said, "I got it with great difficulty!"
"Yes," Gao Mugang lost three hundred thousand and hurriedly went up to complain to his daughter, "You don't know how greedy and hateful that vixen who caused your eldest brother to be arrested is! She actually wanted to..."
"Six hundred and sixty thousand!" Father Gao gave Mother Gao a subtle look.
Gao's mother was stunned, but after all, they have been married for many years, and they can't sleep with two different people in the same bed. She quickly understood what her husband meant: "Yes, yes, when we went to talk to the vixen who caused your eldest brother to be arrested, she said that your eldest brother caused her to lose a child, which was a loss of virtue, and we must give him an auspicious number to drive away the bad luck.
Originally, she asked for a very high price, eight hundred and eighty-eight thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight! 880,000, why doesn’t she just go and rob it! Even if she sold her whole family, they are not worth 880,000!
Later, I bargained with her and managed to get the price down to 660,000. They were unwilling to accept a lower price and said they would reluctantly accept 66,000. ”
"Alas," Gao's father followed up on his wife's words with a sigh, "We have been spending money and owing favors to your brother these past two days. We only have about 100,000 yuan in cash left at home. When we went to negotiate the letter of apology with that woman, we took it all with us.
I thought that the couple were from the countryside and had never seen the world, and that a hundred thousand would be enough for them. Who knew they had such a big appetite? I don't know if someone was teaching them behind the scenes, but they asked for 880,000 yuan.
The money I brought was not enough, and I was afraid that your mother-in-law would object if I called your home to borrow money, and she would make things difficult for you. Your mother and I could only ask other people for the remaining money. Fortunately, it didn't delay anything. ”
Gao Shuyi looked at her parents' haggard faces and felt distressed when she thought about how many people would look down on them for borrowing money everywhere. "Mom and Dad, thank you for your hard work. You should be enjoying your life at home, but you still have to worry about me. Don't be afraid of what my mother-in-law will say. If there is anything, you must contact me in time. Don't try to deal with it yourself, otherwise I will worry even more."
Father Gao shook his head and sighed, "No, that won't be good for you. Now that our family is in debt, you will definitely be looked down upon by your in-laws. If we trouble you again, it will only make you look even worse in your in-laws' house."
Gao Shuyi waved her hand nonchalantly: "That little bit of money is nothing. I will help you pay back the money you borrowed from others first. When my brother comes out, you can ask him to pay me back slowly. My family won't rush him. He can pay me back when he has more money."
Gao's father and mother were delighted, and they looked at each other. Then they turned around and immediately held their daughter's hand with tears in their eyes, choking with sobs, saying, "It's either that the old saying goes that daughters are like their parents' little cotton-padded jackets, or that daughters are caring. If it weren't for you, we wouldn't know what to do. I wish your brother could be half as sensible as you."
Being able to help her parents and receiving their praise, Gao Shuyi felt as if she was floating in the clouds. She felt dizzy and extremely comfortable.
Gao Shuyi took the letter of apology and took a look at it. She didn't see anything wrong with it, so she turned around and handed it to the lawyer following behind her: "Counselor Wu, please help me take a look."
Turning to comfort his father who was a little unhappy about this, he said, "Dad, I don't doubt that the letter of apology you brought back is fake, but it's such an important document, it's better to let a lawyer take a look first. After all, they are professionals, and we don't know anything. Being cheated of some money is nothing, but it would be bad if it delayed the rescue of Guangqiang."
Father Gao said embarrassedly, "Yes, yes, you are right. We should let a professional check it out. Ask him to take a serious look."
The lawyer saw something wrong with the letter of understanding: "There is nothing wrong with the content of the letter of understanding, but the signature..."
Gao's father came closer nervously and said, "What's wrong with this signature? I saw her sign it with my own eyes. There is absolutely no problem. She didn't pay someone to forge it!"
He has not yet received the money he earned from his daughter thanks to this achievement, so nothing can go wrong!
"It's not a big problem," the lawyer said with a smile, "We just need to find the signatory to put his fingerprints on it."
Father Gao breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good, that's good. I'll go find her to get my fingerprints done right away. She took so much money from us, she can't fail to do the job for me!"
Father Gao picked up the letter of apology, stuffed it back into the file bag, and walked out quickly.
When I walked to the door, I found a police car outside my house and a policeman was getting out of the car.
“What are you doing…”
The police looked at the house number, compared it with his appearance, showed his ID and asked, "Are you Gao Dahai?"
"I'm Gao Dahai. What do you want from me? Did my son have another accident?" Just as Gao's father finished speaking, he saw the policeman take out a handful of 'silver bracelets'.
With a click, the 'silver bracelets' were put on his hands, shocking him so much that he was speechless for a long time.
*
In the hospital ward.
After Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming had lunch and discussed something, Ning Shaoming asked Zhao Ruyue to rest while he hurried to the bus terminal, where there were long-distance buses to Zhejiang.
Although Gao's mother might not necessarily hire someone to harm them after the family received the letter of forgiveness, what if?
What's more, Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming didn't dare to bet whether Gao's father would use the same method as Gao's mother in order to force Zhao Ruyue to submit.
The bus terminal is located close to the suburbs, a bit far from the hospital where Zhao Ruyue is hospitalized. It takes about an hour and a half to get there by bus. The round trip, plus the time spent queuing for tickets, takes three hours.
After buying the ticket, he also had to buy some things he would need on the road. A fellow villager rented a house near the bus station. In order to avoid bringing those things to the hospital that would be too conspicuous, Ning Shaoming put the things he was going to use on the road at the fellow villager's house first.
It was already six o'clock in the afternoon when he returned to the hospital.
There was definitely no time to go back to the rental house to cook dinner today, so he originally wanted to go to the hospital cafeteria to buy food, but he ran into Lu Fa and his wife at the hospital gate.
The couple had previously sent a pot of pork trotters with ginger and visited Zhao Ruyue in the hospital once. Later, they stopped coming because they were worried that visiting too frequently would affect her recovery.
When Lu Fa saw Ning Shaoming, he raised his arm and waved vigorously: "Xiao Ning, come here, I saw that you didn't go home to cook tonight, so I came to see you. By the way, I brought you some food, and I also prepared some old hen soup for Xiao Zhao to nourish his body."
Ning Shaoming felt a little embarrassed: "I'm really sorry to bother you. I had something to do today so I couldn't go back."
Lu Fa's wife was a very gentle and kind old lady. She smiled and said, "What trouble? We have to eat dinner at home too. Cooking two more dishes is just a matter of convenience."
The three of them returned to the ward together. After exchanging greetings, Lu Fa's wife chatted with Zhao Ruyue.
Lu Fa dragged Ning Shaoming out, found a deserted place, and announced: "I'm telling you, Gao Guangqiang's father has also been arrested!"
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