Chapter 355: Qin Huairu: Still Have to Pay a Fine?

Yu Li took a deep breath, glanced at Yan Jiecheng, and said:

"This surgery fee is still short."

"With the connections I had before, they took it first."

"Ah, just great, now the director is stuck in the middle."

Yan Jiecheng let out a long sigh, lowered his head, and scratched his hands.

Yu Li: "Ah, forget it, saying this now is useless."

"I'll go to the restroom first; later we'll go ask for the contract fee."

After Yu Li left, Yan Jiecheng was still bowing his head, hands clasped over his head, looking worried, when Qin Huairu and Xiao Dang walked over.

Xiao Dang called lightly, "Uncle Yan."

Yan Jiecheng didn't hear.

Qin Huairu furrowed her brows and said loudly:

"Yan Jiecheng, what are you doing?"

Yan Jiecheng jumped in surprise, hurriedly looked up, stared at Qin Huairu, and said:

"Qin Jie..."

Qin Huairu: "If the business lost, it lost; loss comes with profit, it's no big deal."

"Didn't our family also lose everything?"

"At least you still have a restaurant."

"We're fine, you... this isn't that disastrous."

Yan Jiecheng pursed his lips and said:

"We don't have Shazhu."

Hearing that, Xiao Dang asked unhappily:

"What do you mean?"

Yan Jiecheng: "Oh, I meant nothing."

"Yes, both our families lost everything."

"It's true we have a restaurant, but we also lost this year's contract fee."

"You guys are okay; Shazhu still gives you money."

Qin Huairu: "Yan Jiecheng, you can't say it like that."

"We have nothing to do with Shazhu."

"It's just a neighborly relationship in the courtyard."

"Plainly speaking, it's the same as your relationship with us."

"Shazhu is only well‑meaning, feeling sorry for our orphaned widows."

"Enough, let's drop it."

"What on earth is wrong with you?"

"Looking at your worried frown, your face is all wrinkled like a bitter melon."

Yan Jiecheng let out a long sigh and said:

"Sigh, don't mention it."

"Thanks to Yu Li's connections, my father and mother have been admitted to the hospital."

"Besides not being able to pay the hospitalization fee, my mother has been diagnosed with another problem."

"Given this, surgery is needed."

Hearing this, Qin Huairu's brows tightened.

Just as she was about to speak, Yu Li walked over.

"Qin Jie, you're here."

Qin Huairu nodded and said:

"So you're also here."

Yu Li: "Man's plans are no match for destiny."

"What a misfortune, it all fell on the two of us."

"Not only was the cargo confiscated as a penalty, we also have to pay a fine."

Qin Huairu, upon hearing, couldn't help but shiver all over and hurriedly asked:

"What? Still a fine?"

"It can't be..."

Yu Li: "Hmm, I heard them say we have to pay a fine."

Qin Huairu: "What are we supposed to do then?"

"How much is the fine?"

Yu Li: "I don't know that either."

"They'll issue us a ticket; we'll know then."

"Sigh, my parents‑in‑law can't take this blow; they've collapsed all at once."

"The hospital's check now suspects my mother‑in‑law has a problem and needs surgery."

"Isn't that unlucky?"

"Sigh, this matter..."

"There's public medical insurance, right?"

"How can everything be reimbursed?"

"I ran into my mother‑in‑law."

"Think about it, the hospital fees, the surgery fees, the red envelope—none of these can be omitted."

"Oh dear, I'm afraid we don't even have money for meals."

Xiao Dang: "We're unlucky too."

"We've also lost everything, our whole family ruined."

"If you say we still have to pay a fine, we don't even know where to find the money."

"Also, my grandmother can't bear this blow and has been hospitalized."

Qin Huairu thought for a moment and said:

"How about this: I still have a bit of money."

"I'll advance it to you first."

"The rest, you figure out yourselves."

Xiao Dang, upon hearing, was momentarily stunned.

After Shazhu gave twenty thousand yuan, and after Liu Haizhong and his wife paid their share, there wasn't much left.

The household has not a single cent left, yet Qin Huairu still wants to give money to Yu Li.

Moreover, Yu Li just said there's also a fine to pay.

How is this thought?

Are our days over?

Hearing Qin Huairu's words, Yan Jiecheng hurriedly stood up.

He and Yu Li were both very agitated.

Qin Huairu continued:

"When you recover your strength, then return this money to me."

Yan Jiecheng glanced at Qin Huairu, and for a moment didn't know what to say.

Qin Huairu: "Don't be afraid, I won't charge you interest."

Yu Li: "Oh dear, Qin Jie, please don't trouble us."

"If you can lend us money, we would be immensely grateful."

Qin Huairu: "You're welcome, we're all living in the same courtyard."

"Who doesn't have some difficulty? Right?"

"Actually we're also in trouble now, but I feel you are in a worse situation than us."

"So I'll help you first."

"When you recover, repay the money as soon as possible."

After a moment of daze, Xiao Dang hurriedly grabbed Qin Huairu and said:

"Mom, wait, wait, I'm a bit confused."

"What did you just say?"

"Give this money to Uncle Yan?"

"That won't do."

"Our family this time also lost everything."

"These funds were still borrowed by Sha Shu from others."

"After paying the hospital fees for Second Elder and Second Grandmother, there wasn't much left."

"Will we have no days left?"

"Besides, we still have to pay the fine."

Qin Huairu sighed deeply and said, "How could I not know?"

"But now your Third Grandfather's family is in difficulty, we can't not help."

"We'll figure out another way to deal with the fine."

In fact.

Qin Huairu had already thought it through before coming.

That is, lend all the remaining money to Yan Jiecheng and Yu Li.

Doing so would both earn a good reputation and let us keep it for ourselves.

Later, when Yan Jiecheng and Yu Li repay the money, then that money will be openly ours.

As for now having no money and still needing to pay the fine, that's not a problem.

Isn't there still Shazhu?

Shazhu won't let their family go hungry.

As for where Shazhu gets the money or how, she can't control that.

As long as Shazhu is there, she fears nothing.

This is a win‑win situation; how could Qin Huairu not be happy about it?

Xiao Dang hummed softly and said nothing.

Qin Huairu: "Xiao Dang, go with Uncle Yan to see your Third Grandmother."

"I'll go with your aunt to hand over the money."

Having said that, Yu Li, who was so excited she couldn't close her mouth, left.

Yan Jiecheng looked at their backs and also began to laugh.

Xiao Dang walked up to him, said irritably:

"Hey, I say Uncle Yan, aren't you usually quite calculating?"

"Why this time did you count yourself in?"

Yan Jiecheng bitterly smiled and said:

"I'm begging you, Xiao Dang."

"I'm already at my wit's end."

"If I keep taking your Uncle Yan's beating, I—I'll have to drill a fissure in the ground."

"Sigh, this time I really must thank you and your mother."

Xiao Dang let out a cold snort, said irritably:

"Sure."

"Who is my mother?"

"A great benevolent person."

Yan Jiecheng said with a disdainful expression:

"You're exaggerating."

"It's a loan, not an unpaid one."

Having said that, he turned and left.