Jiang Yuzhu hung his head like a baby elephant that had lost its value and was thrown from the circus to the grassland. He stared at the wine bottles and other garbage on the table, and then looked at his father who was sleeping drunk on the sofa.
Dad...really doesn't pay any attention to me anymore.
She also tried to persuade her father not to drink, but her father always pushed her away and was silent like a stone. Every day he would drink and then sleep, and then drink after waking up, as if the whole world had nothing to do with him anymore.
Jiang Yuzhu picked up the wine bottles and other garbage on the table and threw them into the garbage station outside... The stinky garbage station still emitted a bad smell even in winter. Jiang Yuzhu held his breath and tiptoed back.
She had never done this kind of thing since she was a child. It was always done by her aunt at home.
But she couldn't accept a messy and unkempt home... A true aristocrat would remain elegant and tidy even in the most difficult environment. Until now, she still firmly believed that she was still that socialite.
After cleaning the gloomy house and covering her father with a quilt, Jiang Yuzhu clapped her hands and touched her belly.
Okay, let’s think about what to eat today!
Today...is New Year’s Eve.
Is it already New Year’s Eve?
Jiang Yuzhu was stunned for a moment. She didn't notice that time passed so quickly. She seemed to be living completely alone on another line that was incompatible with society.
In previous years, there would be many relatives and friends of parents coming over at this time. Since the family misfortune, Jiang Yuzhu has not contacted these people. She doesn't want others to see her family in such a state of decline...
But the reality is that she doesn't have such worries, because unlike the phone calls, New Year's greetings and regards in previous years, no one contacted her family after her father revealed a little bit of the family situation.
In a trance, Jiang Yuzhu truly understood that sentence.
A poor person in a busy city has no one to care about him; a rich person in a remote mountain area has distant relatives.
...Don’t think too much about it. Since it’s New Year’s Eve, I might as well go have a good meal.
She really wanted to eat something delicious now... She had only eaten instant noodles and steamed buns for several days, which were just enough to fill her stomach, and she wanted to eat meat.
Father Jiang gave her a lot of money...but Jiang Yuzhu was reluctant to spend it.
It's not that she was a girl who would be thrifty and restrained after learning that she had no source of income. In fact, it was quite the opposite. She had always spent money lavishly, spending whatever she had.
The reason why he didn't spend money was because Jiang Yuzhu thought of something.
Next year...if she still wants to go to school, she will have to pay tuition.
Jiang Yuzhu wasn't sure whether she should continue to go to school. She couldn't even find anyone to discuss it with. She told her father, but he seemed not to hear her and kept drinking at every meal. She felt so sad...but she was unwilling to drop out of school like this.
So she added up all her money, counted it carefully, and discovered something horrible.
Even if all the money is added up, there is still a shortfall of several hundred dollars for next year's tuition, clothing, extracurricular activities fees...
So, not only could she not spend any money, she also had to find a way to make up the gap of several hundred dollars.
Feeling confused, Miss Jiang ate steamed buns for two days.
Not only can we not spend money, but we also have to find ways to make money. This really makes it difficult for our Miss Jiang.
A few hundred dollars was just pocket money that could be spent in a one-time purchase for Miss Jiang in the past. But the pocket money that a certain Xu Benben asked her to help him spend once now makes her worry a lot.
Don’t worry about that…
Today is New Year's Eve and she wants to eat meat!
…She wants to eat meat!
Walking to the commercial street again, her long-standing habit brought her unknowingly to the front of her own closed 'Jiang Derick Tea Restaurant'. She looked at the booming business of other shops on the street, and then looked at the closed roller shutter door of her own restaurant.
Jiang Yuzhu pulled her scarf upwards to cover her face which was about to cry.
"Is she Lao Jiang's daughter?"
A voice sounded beside her ear, Jiang Yuzhu turned around and saw that it was Mr. Qi from the store next door. Jiang Yuzhu remembered that his father said that Mr. Qi's business next door was not as good as his and would probably go bankrupt soon. At that time, his father sighed several times.
As time went by, she found the memory so funny.
"Uncle Qi, Happy New Year's Eve!"
"Ah, you too, you too!"
Boss Qi looked at Jiang Yuzhu sympathetically and asked, "How is Old Jiang doing now?"
"Dad, he's... okay."
"It's okay, it's okay... Hey, Lao Jiang's business used to be better than ours, who knew it would turn out like this. But we have to thank your father, otherwise we really wouldn't be able to find a way out."
"A way out?"
"Yeah... otherwise your father would have provoked us and we would have exhausted ourselves. Now it's different. We went to find Boss Xu... and he gave in! Let me put it bluntly, we surrendered to him, and now we have a chance to survive! Boss Xu is really a good person!"
"Mr. Xu!?"
Jiang Yuzhu opened her big watery eyes wide. When did Xu Shang... become so unattainable?
"By the way, why don't you ask Lao Jiang to beg Mr. Xu, maybe there will be a glimmer of hope for your family!"
"Thank you, Uncle Qi. I will tell my dad."
Jiang Yuzhu said politely, but she knew very well in her heart...there was no hope for her family at all.
These people didn't know that all of his family's assets were mortgaged to the bank, and it wouldn't be long before the bank would take everything away. And the money from the mortgage, as well as the money his father borrowed based on his personal credit... were all taken away by that woman!"
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