Chapter 1714: The Matter Settled

With Fu Yan Cheng's intervention, the station side was quite cooperative.

No matter how sympathetic that man's experience was, he really wasn't suited to keep working at the station. The Fu family didn't even need to step in — the station itself couldn't keep an employee with mental issues; the risk was just too great.

The very next day, someone came looking for them.

The station naturally wanted to wrap this up quickly, to avoid any negative fallout.

But the comrade in charge said that, to put it plainly, the station wasn't the primarily responsible party, and out of humanitarianism they'd offer three hundred yuan in compensation — which immediately angered Zhang Yurong: "What kind of talk is that? My daughter almost lost her life. If you people hadn't hired that sort of person to work at the station, how could my daughter have ended up in such a thing?"

The people the station sent to negotiate also felt they were pretty innocent themselves. They talked for ages without reaching an agreement, and had to part on bad terms.

The next day, the station people came again, but this time they had two more people with them — apparently the ones who could make the final call had come.

With the experience of the previous negotiation, and with the New Year right around the corner, Fu Yanhong didn't want to keep dragging this out either, and in the end they settled on five hundred yuan in compensation.

As Jinyi's father, Fu Yanhong signed the letter of understanding addressed to the station on her behalf, and only then was the matter considered settled.

Even though something like this had happened and the rescue had been timely, the little girl had still been frightened, having nightmares and talking in her sleep for two nights running.

For that reason, when Liu Chuxue was preparing the cake base for the triplets' birthday cake, she specially made a small cake for Jinyi first, using only the spatial pool water for it, hoping it would help the child in some way and let her recover quickly.

After the small cake was done, Liu Chuxue called out toward the yard: "Xiaomi, change their clothes for them, I'm taking them out for a bit."

Through this period of training, Gu Xiaomi had made great progress and no longer had the timid look she'd had when she first came to the house.

She answered: "Okay."

Just as they were nearly ready on their side, Song Sanrui came back, pushing a tricycle with a warm canopy rigged on top. Seeing Liu Chuxue coming out of the kitchen, he said excitedly: "Sister-in-law, the canopy's set up, take a look."

Liu Chuxue smiled and said: "That's not bad. Next time we go visit relatives, we just stick the few of them inside — saves a lot of trouble."

Song Sanrui's face was all smiles: "Right, this way going out in the dead of winter won't let them get frozen anymore."

Thinking about the cake she'd just made — she'd originally wanted to put some strawberries in, but it was hard to explain — now seeing the warm canopy, she thought about putting up a small warm canopy in the yard tomorrow, which would make it easier for her to "cheat."

She could put a few pots of strawberry seedlings in the house, and during the first month of the new year she could still give the little ones a change of flavor.

Gu Xiaomi brought the triplets out, saw the finished cart canopy, and said: "It's done already?"

Song Sanrui patted his very own tricycle: "Of course. Just look at who's doing the work — sitting inside this cart you can't feel the cold at all. Want to go up and try it?"

As a result, with that one move of his, the triplets came toddling over on their little legs, and Fu Bao got in first: "Uncle Rui, Fu Bao wants a ride."

Lebao also tilted her head up and said in a milky voice: "Lebao wants a ride too."

Kangbao just trailed behind them, but this little one was always one for few words — he just stared fixedly at Song Sanrui.

Song Sanrui flipped up the cotton curtain at the back and lifted Fu Bao, who was standing at the very front, up first: "Alrighty, Uncle Rui will lift you all up right now. But let's get one thing straight — I'll pull you out for a ride, but you have to sit properly and sit steady, and you can't stand up before we get there. Can you do it?"

This time Kangbao actually spoke up: "Yes."

Song Sanrui looked at Fu Bao and Lebao again, and heard the two of them reply in their milky voices: "Yes."