PNB Chapter 580 This time, Wang Jianjun's efforts failed.
Chapter 580 This time, Wang Jianjun's efforts failed.
Wang Zhong took a deep breath and nodded, "That makes sense."
"That's fine then." The old man stepped forward to uphold justice, looked at Fang Qing and said, "Just give me a deadline, when will you pay this money?"
Fang Qing is truly broke right now; the only way to give her money is by selling the house.
She'd realized in the last few days that Lu Jiangting was also broke, and he couldn't afford to borrow money from him.
Even if he were willing, he might not be able to borrow that much money.
“I can’t come up with that much money in a day or two. Give me a month, and I’ll definitely find a way to get it.”
"A month?" Wang Zhong jumped up and down. "I have to stay here for another month? So much land is waiting for me to go home and plant it. I can wait, but the crops can't."
"If you don't want to wait, you can go back first. I'll send it to you once I've raised enough money."
"I don't believe you."
"If you don't believe me, there's nothing I can do. I can write you an IOU first. If you still don't agree... then even if you sell me, I still can't get the money out."
Wang Zhong disagreed, but everyone wanted to help him solve the problem.
Seeing that Fang Qing had already said so much, everyone started to persuade Wang Zhong again.
“I think she really doesn’t have the money. Maybe what she said is true, and she didn’t mean to withhold it from you. Let’s not worry about the reason. The important thing now is to get the money. Do you want to take the IOU home first, or wait here?”
“I…” Wang Zhong hesitated for a moment and said, “Give me the IOU first. Do you want to go home and wait? I’ll think about it later.”
"Okay, the old man agrees to write the IOU, so hurry up and write it."
A kind-hearted vegetable vendor nearby offered Fang Qing paper and pen, allowing her to write on the spot.
Fang Qing wasn't very good at writing, so she used pinyin when she couldn't write. Her simple IOU was written in a way that was hard to describe.
After everyone checked and confirmed that everything was correct, they gave the IOU to Wang Zhong.
"Hey bro, if you get this, and she doesn't give it to you in a month, take this to her."
"Okay, everyone, thank you."
"You're welcome."
Wang Zhong happily took the IOU home.
Fang Qing, looking exhausted, carried her crushed vegetable basket back home.
The vegetables were spoiled, but they can still be eaten after picking them.
Wang Cuilan complained, "What happened to you? Did you drop it? How did you manage to flatten the vegetable basket?"
Fang Qing gave a bitter laugh, feeling that her life was so miserable.
Did you only see the broken shopping basket and not the injuries on her body?
It's so bitter, so incredibly bitter...
"Yes, I fell."
Wang Cuilan pouted and grumbled as she carried the tattered vegetable basket into the kitchen.
She used to pretend, trying to coax Fang Qing into doing more work.
She doesn't want to pretend anymore.
That bitch doesn't deserve anyone being nice to her; she should just do more work.
"Dad, I need to discuss something with you," Fang Qing said to Lu Cong, who was reading a newspaper inside the room, standing at the doorway.
"Ah."
Lu Cong didn't even lift his eyelids.
Lin Yuyao and her team are promoting their new drama, which will be released soon.
This time, the format of filming and broadcasting simultaneously was adopted.
How can she be so capable?
Looking at Fang Qing again, the contrast only made them realize how much their family had lost.
"I want to sell the house in my hometown and return the money to Grandpa Chenchen."
Lu Cong flipped through the newspaper and said indifferently, "That's your business, you don't need to discuss it with me."
"I'd like my older sister to help sell them, but I'll have to trouble Dad to put in a good word for me."
"There's nothing I can do to help you like this. I can give you her phone number; you can talk to her yourself. I won't interfere in your affairs."
Lu Cong had already heard from Wang Zhong and the others that the house belonged to Wang Chenchen and that they didn't want to touch it.
Fang Qing wanted to sell the house and pay them back without their knowledge. She figured that in their eyes, it was just money going from one pocket to another, and they would make a scene if they found out.
He must be crazy to get involved.
After getting the phone number, Fang Qing went to the phone booth outside to call Lu Jiangting's older sister.
She only said that she needed the money urgently, and that Lu Jiangting's company had allocated her an apartment, but she would have to pay a portion of the cost herself.
The family had just paid for the house, but they didn't even have money for renovations, and Lu Cong was always sick.
To the other party, this meant that the family urgently needed money.
Fang Qing sold her house to supplement her family's income, and her sister-in-law was naturally happy about it.
She immediately said she would take care of it and guarantee that the money would be sent within a month.
After hanging up the phone, Fang Qing let out a long sigh of relief.
I was thinking that this matter could be put to rest for now.
Things should get easier once Lu Jiangting pays his salary.
Despite thinking this, she still looked exhausted.
She was exhausted both physically and mentally after only two years of marriage to Lu Jiangting, and felt like she had aged several years in an instant.
The reality of her life was far from the happiness she had envisioned.
But now, it seems she can't go back.
If she had known things would turn out this way when she first got married, she would have definitely wanted a divorce.
Just like Sister Zhao said, she has a son with a job, her son pays child support, and Lu Jiangting occasionally gives her some subsidies, so she's doing alright.
She married him and served his parents until they died, but all their affection was gone. She didn't understand why her life had turned out this way.
She regretted not making a decisive move sooner, and regretted not having come to her senses sooner. If she had been able to divorce Lu Jiangting immediately when he proposed during the Chinese New Year two years ago, things wouldn't have escalated to this point where it's impossible to salvage the situation now.
So now, can she get a divorce?
If she gets divorced now, wouldn't all the suffering she endured be for nothing?
Fang Qing was unwilling to accept this, so she refused to get a divorce.
Even if she and Lu Jiangting spend their whole lives like this, she doesn't want a divorce.
……
In contrast to Fang Qing's increasingly painful life, her counterpart, Lin Yuyao, experienced a happy event in her family.
The eldest brother, Lin Gang, secured a transportation line, the one from Nancheng to Guangcheng.
Lin Yuyao knew that these two major directions would have very good economic development in the future. If she couldn't make money in either of them, then she would be stuck in the right place at the wrong time.
"Brother, you can go ahead and do it with peace of mind. This line will definitely make money, a lot of money."
Lin Gang was both happy and apprehensive about this wonderful piece of good news.
So he invited his sister and brother-in-law to dinner, and took the opportunity to talk to them about it and get their opinions.
Lin Yuyao had high hopes for it.
Fu Huaiyi, following his wife's lead, said, "Anything Yao Yao approves of will definitely work. Big brother, you can go ahead and do it without worry."
"That's great. I'll invest all the money I've earned into buying a car."
Is that enough?
“That’s enough. Since we don’t have many vehicles, we’ll work harder. We’ll assign two drivers to each vehicle to take turns driving. Once the volume of goods picks up, I’ll hire more people and continue buying. But, this means we can’t bring my parents over this year.”
"My parents won't be coming this year either, so I'll just keep working and try to bring my nephew to Nancheng to attend kindergarten."
"Yes, yes, the child is still young, it's good for him to stay in the countryside."
He has now called his cousins over, along with a few other coworkers he got along well with from the coal mines. They said that driving a car with him would be more promising than mining coal.
He also has close childhood friends who can come to him if they are willing and can get their driver's licenses.
The rumor circulating in his hometown now is that Lin Gang made a fortune driving a truck.
Aunt Yao looked disdainful and said sarcastically, "Yes, after making a fortune, he called over a bunch of cronies to make money too."
The families of those "bad friends" were not happy about it.
"I think you're just being sour. They helped raise their cousins, but not yours."
"Pah, serves you right. Who told you two to always go against others?"
Auntie was furious. When she got home, she grabbed her husband's ear and said, "Sleep, sleep, sleep! You're going to sleep yourself to death. Look at other people, your brother's family is rich, everyone is rich, and you're the only good-for-nothing."
Uncle Lin was also angry, "What use am I? I envy others who get rich, do you think I don't want to? But I just can't get rich, what can I do?"
"You should figure something out. Just because you don't know what to do doesn't mean you should give up."
"Then what do you think we should do?"
"Then how about... we move your father's grave too?"
"..."