In the evening, Sangzi's secretary escorted Sangzhen and Buling to the gate of the compound, helped them unload their belongings from the car, said goodbye to Sangzhen, and drove away.
The neighbors in the compound greeted the two as they returned.
Aunt Tian: "Xiao Bu and Xiao Sang, you're back?"
"Hmm, Aunt Tian, nothing much has happened in the yard these past few days, has it?" Bu Ling asked casually, but when she saw Aunt Tian's expression turn complicated, her eyes immediately lit up: "Really?"
Aunt Tian nodded.
Bu Ling perked up and pulled Aunt Tian into the house, saying, "Come, Aunt Tian, come sit in my house for a while."
Aunt Tian obediently followed Bu Ling into the house, and Bu Ling diligently made Aunt Tian a cup of brown sugar water. "Aunt Tian, please have some water!"
Aunt Tian took the cup and took a sip. "Xiao Bu, let me tell you, something big has happened in our courtyard these past two days since you left."
Aunt Tian struck a storyteller's pose, pleased to see Bu Ling's excited face.
"Aunt Tian, tell me quickly!"
Aunt Tian leaned closer to Bu Ling and whispered, "Let me tell you, the Qi family's daughter in the backyard is pregnant."
"What?" Bling exclaimed in surprise, "How old is that girl?"
Aunt Tian pursed her lips: "Fifteen."
"This...this is still just a child, isn't it?" Buling felt that she had really learned something new.
"That's absolutely right!" Aunt Tian slapped her thigh.
Even Sangs, who was tidying up her things, quietly perked up her ears.
"Does Engineer Qi know about this?" Bu Ling asked again.
"I doubt they know yet. Engineer Qi hasn't been home for almost a month, and he's nowhere to be seen at the factory. His family doesn't know where he is either. How can they tell him?" said Aunt Tian.
"How did this get out?" Bu Ling asked curiously.
Speaking of this, Aunt Tian got excited: "To tell you about this, we have to start with the family of four who moved in recently."
"How so?" Bu Ling asked curiously, wondering how this had gotten involved with the male and female leads.
"You know that the new couple has two sons, right?"
"I know!" Bling nodded.
"The eldest son of that family is a thief. He was caught stealing by Qi Yuhuai, and in a moment of panic, he pushed her."
"That push really messed things up. It knocked Qi Yuhuai unconscious. The old lady of the Qi family was terrified and immediately called someone to take her to the hospital. Once she got there, the diagnosis was confirmed!" Aunt Tian recounted the story in great detail.
The imagery immediately came to mind when I looked at the image.
"And now? Is Qi Yuhuai still in the hospital?"
"After something like this happened, how could they possibly stay in the hospital? They brought people back as soon as they finished their check-up." Aunt Tian sighed deeply. If her daughter had done that, she would have been disgusted. Luckily, she only had one grandson.
After finishing the sweet soup and sharing the gossip, Aunt Tian prepared to leave, but before she left, she reminded Buling, "Little Bu, not many people know about this, so don't..."
“I understand, Aunt Tian. I listen to gossip but don’t spread it. I still have the morals of a gossipmonger,” Bu Ling immediately assured her.
Aunt Tian nodded in satisfaction and went back to her room. What she had just said was not an exaggeration; very few people knew about this matter to this day.
The old woman knew because she was one of the people who took Qi Yuhuai to the hospital yesterday, but she was also begged by Old Madam Qi not to tell anyone.
She didn't tell Xiao Bu because she couldn't suppress her gossip; she believed Xiao Bu was a perceptive person.
After Aunt Tian left, Bu Ling and Sang Shen, who had been eavesdropping, looked at each other in bewilderment. After a long while, Sang Shen sighed softly, "Luckily I moved here."
"What?" Bling asked, puzzled.
Mulberry shook her head: "Nothing!" Changing the subject: "What do you want to eat tonight?"
"Whatever you want, do whatever you think is best." At this moment, Bu Ling's mind was completely occupied with the news about a fifteen-year-old girl getting pregnant, and she couldn't think of anything else.
Seeing that Bu Ling seemed distracted, Sang Shen didn't ask any more questions.
That evening, after dinner, Sangshen put his bag on the table: "Guess what's inside?"
"What is it? It's bulging?" Bling asked politely.
Sangshen smiled smugly, opened her handbag, and took out all the contents: "Surprised? Unexpected?"
Bling: Wow!
"So much money!" Bu Ling's eyes lit up. "Where did it come from?" Sang Shen had been with her all day. Where did she get so much money? Did she conjure it up?
Sangshen gathered the money on the table and pushed it all to Buling: "It's all yours!"
Bling feigned refusal: "This...this isn't a good idea, is it?"
"Take this. My brother and uncle gave it to me. What they gave me is for you." Sangshen was incredibly generous, like a silly boy.
"Then I won't be polite!" Buling quickly gathered the money to her side; it was a huge pile, quite impressive to look at.
Buling started counting the money, sorting it as he went, and asked, "Why would your brother and the others give you money?"
“They gave me their secret stash of money, because they were afraid I would suffer in the future,” Sangshen said matter-of-factly.
Buling looked up and witnessed once again how much this person was favored by the group: "You just take it because it's given to you?"
"What else?" Sangs asked back.
Bling nodded: "That's true." If it were her, she would have taken it too.
"It's so great to have an older brother, isn't it?" Bu Ling felt this deeply.
Mulberry: "Yes, it's so good to have a brother."
The story of how Buling and Sangs reached the pinnacle of their lives by relying on Kenge is quite a topic of conversation.
After counting the last bill, Bu Ling looked at the two stacks of money on the table and breathed a sigh of relief: "There are two hundred and seventy bills in total, each one is ten yuan, that's two thousand seven hundred yuan. Is your family all that rich?"
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