Chapter 816: 810. A Penny Can Stump a Hero (Please Subscribe and Vote)

Zhang Ran rushed back that same day, but he did not go home; instead, he went straight to Shancheng.

According to He Yong's intelligence, Meng Shu was in Shancheng, though he did not know the specific details very well.

He only knew a general idea.

At the time, Zhang Ran had said to let the matter completely pass and to stop investigating, so after He Yong finished checking the basic information on these people, he had stopped.

Shancheng.

In an old residential compound; due to the terrain of Shancheng, many residential compounds were built differently than in other places.

Sometimes you appear to be on the first floor, but in reality, you are on the twentieth floor.

The situation in the old compounds here was slightly better, and because Shancheng's environment was very good, although the old compounds were a bit dilapidated, they possessed even more of an antique charm.

It made people unconsciously stop and linger!

Meng Shu was currently hiding under a tree smoking, smoking quite heavily; standing beside him was a young man, his son, Meng Gu.

"What did Xiaomin say over there?" Meng Shu asked abruptly.

Meng Gu's face was also full of worry; seeing his father's weathered face, he felt very pained inside, but he still spoke the words.

"Xiaomin said she wants to give the child a good place to live and a good educational environment; it's fine for the adults to suffer a little, but she doesn't want the child to suffer," Meng Gu said with his head lowered.

Meng Shu took a fierce drag of his cigarette and said, "That's true. Don't blame Xiaomin for this matter either. When Xiaomin married into the family back then, she didn't ask for anything, and the bride price was just a formality. Now that she's pregnant, asking for a house is nothing."

Regarding his daughter-in-law, Meng Shu had no complaints; after all, when she married into the family back then, she hadn't asked for much.

Now that she was pregnant and wanted a good living environment for the next generation, Meng Shu could understand that.

"Dad, but now..." Meng Gu didn't know what else to say.

He also wanted a house, but he knew his family's situation: his mother was sick with a lung disease, which was very difficult to cure completely and required constant spending.

He also had a younger sister who was in college; although his father was a construction foreman and had earned some money over the years,

he couldn't keep up with the family's high expenses, and many construction payments were still owed to this day.

It could be said that the Meng Family wasn't actually poor, because just the owed construction payments alone added up to two or three million.

This money would be enough to buy a decent house here in Shancheng.

But this money was just very hard to collect, otherwise it wouldn't have dragged on for so long.

"Dad, Xiaomin said that if it really comes to it, she'll drag her big belly to collect the debt. I really don't believe it, these people really just..." Meng Gu said fiercely.

Their family still had a little bit of savings left, but Meng Gu would never touch these savings, because they were for keeping his mother alive.

So now, everything depended on these construction payments.

"Don't say such nonsense; you can't let Xiaomin do that. I'll think of another way," Meng Shu said loudly.

"What way can you think of? Every time you pay out of your own pocket to cover things. If you had gone to make a scene with those workers, it wouldn't be like this now. People simply ignore you; how are you supposed to collect it alone? Are you going to go again..." Meng Gu stopped immediately when he reached this point.

Meng Shu's expression also became very ugly, but it was mostly filled with guilt.

"Dad, I... I didn't mean it like that," Meng Gu said hurriedly when he saw his father like this.

Meng Shu sighed and said, "It is I who have failed the three of you, and failed your mother even more."

Back then, Meng Shu had quite a bit of money, and with his quick-witted mind, he was very carefree at the start and could be considered a successful person.

But there was one thing perhaps even he hadn't noticed: because he was by Zhang Ran's side and had seen many things, and because he himself worked as a bodyguard, he subconsciously leaned toward that way of doing things.

Although he acted according to the rules, no matter how orderly he was, such things were not allowed, so during the crackdown, he went straight inside.

When he went inside, his wife was just pregnant with their second child, and there was also Meng Gu.

But she was a strong-willed person, and she raised the two children just like that; the ailments she had were contracted during that time.

For a woman to raise two children was truly not easy; on the third day after giving birth, she had started working.

After Meng Shu came out, he completely cut off those kinds of things and became a construction foreman.

He had earned some money over the years, especially since it coincided with the great economic development, and Meng Shu knew how to handle people, did things properly, and had strong organizational skills.

So he was soon doing quite well.

But perhaps because he didn't want to add any more trouble to the family, and didn't want to go inside again for any reason, he chose to concede in many situations when faced with disputes.

This also caused his business to never grow large.

"Alright, you go back and keep Xiaomin company first. Let her rest and nurture the pregnancy in peace. I will take care of the house matter. During this time, I will go to collect the debt every day; before the child is born, I will definitely get them a house," Meng Shu said with a deep breath.

Meng Gu wanted to say something, but no words came out, and he eventually left.

He wanted to show some backbone and say it wasn't necessary, but he couldn't say it.

Although his own salary wasn't low, the family's expenses were high, and he couldn't save much money at all.

And his wife was pregnant; this was his first child, and he also wanted to give the child a good environment.

Moreover, the family actually had the means, it was just that the debts were hard to collect.

Xiaomin knew this situation exactly, which was why she made such a request at this time.

Meng Shu stood downstairs in a daze for a while; only after the smell of smoke on his body had dissipated did he go back up.

"What's wrong? Where is our son? *Cough, cough, cough*," Meng Shu's wife was cooking in the kitchen; she didn't see their son, so she asked, but she couldn't stop coughing after saying two sentences.

"Didn't I tell you? Let it be and don't move, let me do it," Meng Shu said immediately.

"I'm fine, it's not like I can't move anymore," his wife said dismissively.

"You just stay put honestly. I've already booked an appointment with a specialist in Beijing for a while from now; we'll go to Beijing for treatment then," Meng Shu said while stir-frying.

"Let's stop treating this illness of mine. I've seen plenty of doctors over these many years and taken plenty of medicine; it won't be cured, and I don't want to suffer like this anymore."

"Don't talk nonsense," Meng Shu barked.

His wife didn't mind much and said with a smile, "Was our son wanting to buy a house just now? There's still some money in the house; give it to him and let him use it for now. Xiaomin is pregnant and needs to be careful."

"Who told you that? Our family has money, we don't need that," Meng Shu's expression suddenly turned unpleasant, and his voice grew louder involuntarily.