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Chapter 133 : Heirloom
The surgery fee was raised with everyone’s concerted efforts, and a local female classmate in the dormitory asked an acquaintance to arrange a bed for the child.
After the doctor’s examination, the news was good, and the doctor said the operation had a high chance of success.
The child has now been admitted to the hospital for examination, and the surgery is scheduled for next week.
While Chen Jing was busy taking care of the children, she also had to find time to work part-time. She was as busy as could be. Several girls in the dormitory would visit them whenever they had time.
One day, they had an appointment to visit a patient in the hospital together, and Wang Hong came in with an angry look on her face. “You don’t know, Chen Jing asked me to help her inquire about the scholarship.I went to the department to see a teacher today, and the teacher told me that the department had reviewed Chen Jing’s situation and felt that she did not meet the application requirements for a scholarship.”
“I was furious on the spot. I asked her, if a child with heart disease who is hospitalized and needs high recovery costs can’t get a scholarship, then who is eligible?”
“Do you know what the teacher told me?”
“What?”
“She said that Chen Jing currently has a part-time job and earns several hundred yuan a month, so she doesn’t meet the requirements for applying for a scholarship.
They also said that she had already taken up the scholarship quota, so students from poor families couldn’t apply for it.”
“Why would she say that? If Chen Jing can’t apply for a scholarship, then who can?”
“Needless to say, it’s obvious it’s Sun Yulian! When I went to the department to ask the teacher, she was sitting there chatting and laughing with the teacher. I also heard that they must reserve a place for her.”
“That’s too much! She eats and drinks better than we do! Why does she get a scholarship?
Just because she has a boyfriend and someone in her family works in the Education Bureau, she’s so shady?”
“We must make a fuss about this.”
“Yes, we can’t just let it go like this.”
A few girls got together and went to Jiang Li’s shop to discuss it. The next day, Chen Jing found the department head in tears and dragged him to the hospital.
When the final results came out, Chen Jing successfully applied for the scholarship, but Sun Yulian was not left out. The one who was squeezed out was a usually honest student.
Although the student was honest, as it involved such a large sum of money, he finally reported Sun Yulian to the school.
After investigation, the school canceled Sun Yulian’s scholarship. Finally, after teachers and students visited and investigated, and the whole class voted and evaluated, the list was made public, and this scholarship farce came to an end.
After renovation, the shop reopened, and business was even more booming than before. In December, it snowed heavily in Haicheng.
Jiang Li is three months pregnant, and her pregnancy looks stable. Fang Peilan comes to the store frequently these days.
She couldn’t sit still at home. She either stewed some tonic food and sent it to Jiang Li or went to Jiang Li’s house every few days to eat.
Compared to the deserted old house, talking to Chen Xianyun and Old Lady Qi made her feel happier.
Qin Xiaoting occasionally brings her children to the store. The two chubby little kids are over one year old, and it’s time for them to have fun.
They walk unsteadily, have fat arms and legs, and their faces look like they were drawn with a compass.
Fang Peilan saw it with her own eyes and loved them with all her heart. She often held one in each hand, touching one and kneading the other, kissing them sweetly.
One day, a group of people were talking in the store when Fang Peilan’s driver came in and said, “Madam, I’ve got you.”
The person who got out of the car was a thin woman, very dark and thin, with only a pair of eyes that seemed to speak, which made people feel pity for her.
Even on snowy days, she still wore a pair of cloth shoes she had made herself. Although her clothes were worn out, they were kept clean.
Jiang Li hugged He Ning and whispered to Fang Peilan, “Is that her?”
Fang Peilan nodded. “If you hadn’t reminded me, I wouldn’t have thought of checking Zhou Hui’s background.”
“You’re right. How could a person with a mean and vicious character secretly help those who were reformed in the bullpen?”
“Zhou Hui followed your uncle to Haicheng to replace someone else.”
“She is?”
“She is Zhou Hui’s sister, named Zhou Taohua. When the people I sent to investigate what happened back then, her parents had arranged for her to marry a fool and let her serve the fool’s parents. I gave her parents some money, and she followed me to Haicheng without even packing her things. He’s also a poor man.”
To be honest, Zhou Taohua and her sister look very similar, but for some reason, the same facial features on this woman make people feel gentle and friendly.
Fang Peilan took Zhou Taohua to Xu Haicheng’s house, where Zhou Hui was clinging to Xu Haicheng. “Old Xu, are you really willing to ignore our Lingling? She’s a girl, and she went to that kind of place. How do you expect her to live her life after she gets out?”
Xu Haicheng didn’t want to hear the same thing again, so he turned his back. Zhou Hui refused to give up and continued, “Old Xu, what did you say to me when you asked me to come to Haicheng? You said you would protect me and take care of Lingling as if she were your own child. Do you think your words don’t count?”
Seeing Xu Haicheng keeping silent, Zhou Hui became anxious, “If I hadn’t braved the heavy rain to go up the mountain to pick herbs for you, you would have died. How dare you treat me like this now?”
When Xu Haicheng heard her talking about what happened back then, a trace of impatience rose in his heart. Over the years, she had always brought up this matter, and no matter how great the kindness was, it had now been worn away little by little.
“My mother has spoken, what do you want me to do? Besides, the evidence is irrefutable. I can’t just ask someone to break into the prison.”
“Old Xu, I understand your dilemma. But after Lingling has had such an incident, it will be difficult for her to find a good family in the future. Who would want to marry her if they heard she had been in prison?”
“She is my daughter, Xu Haicheng. Who dares to look down on her?”
“That’s what I said, but Lingling was brought here by me after all, so there’s a layer of separation between her and the Xu family. If we can give her more dowry, her future in-laws will treat her better for the sake of the dowry. How about you give Lingling your family’s heirloom rubies as a dowry?”
Zhou Hui had long set her eyes on the set of jewels necklace, earrings, bracelet, and ring.
Diamonds and rubies are interspersed, each the size of a thumb. It is said that they were passed down from the ancestors of the Xu family and are worth as much as several old houses of the Xu family.
Thinking of that stormy night, Xu Haicheng finally softened his heart and said, “Okay, when Lingling gets married, I’ll let her take them with her.”
“Giving our Xu family’s things to an outsider? What a joke!”
Jiang Li followed Fang Peilan into the room, and on her hand was the priceless ruby ring.
Zhou Hui couldn’t take her eyes off it, and then she couldn’t suppress her anger. She didn’t know where this wild girl came from, but she actually stole Lingling’s things.
“Mom. Why are you here?”
Fang Peilan glanced at her disappointing eldest son, who was basically useless.
When his father was alive, he once said that Haicheng’s greatest strength was his soft-heartedness, and his greatest weakness was also his soft-heartedness.
The advantage is that he is loyal and protective, while the disadvantage is that he is easily influenced by others and easily persuaded.