"Why should I listen to you! Our family simply doesn't have the money to send my daughter for tutoring. We've never signed her up for any tutoring classes. Who knows if you just used tutoring as an excuse, took a quick look around the tutoring place, and then went out to play? Who knows what happened during that time? A lot of things don't have to happen only at night. Who knows if you did something bad during the day and the little boy just went home at night. Otherwise, why didn't my daughter come home at night and instead stayed in a hotel? Isn't it because she was afraid we'd find something out?!"
Xu Jinhua's mother roared righteously, spouting nothing but fallacies. Every word implied that her own daughter had done something shameful with Lin Chengzhi.
She slung one bucket after another of dirty water on her daughter without the slightest sign of unease, as if she wasn't her daughter's real mother.
Lin Chengzhi was so angry that his face turned green. He had never confronted such an uneducated shrew before. Even when he did something wrong and his parents wanted to beat him, they would first reason with him and then punish him. He had never seen such an unreasonable person.
"You don't want to verify the facts, nor do you want to know the truth. You just blindly want your daughter to drop out of school. I heard that Senior Xu Jinhua even earned her tuition fees by working during the summer vacation. Do you know how much the tuition for this high school is? Do you know how much money Senior Xu earned from working? How can you be so sure that the money Senior Xu earned herself wasn't enough for her to sign up for a tutoring class?"
Seeing that Lin Chengzhi was so angry that he couldn't even speak, Wei Ziqi simply stepped in front of Miaomiao and Lin Chengzhi and confronted the woman.
He used to be from a poor family and had lived in the bustling alleys of earth - brick houses since childhood. The people living there were all struggling for a living every day. Maybe because of a trivial matter, two families would start arguing. Wei Ziqi had seen so many shrews arguing in his life that he had even encountered people more unreasonable than this woman.
"Hehe, how could I not know about my own daughter's affairs! The store where she works was introduced by me. Otherwise, which store would dare to hire a yellow - haired girl in her teens? Originally, I let her go out to work to supplement the family income. But what does she do? She takes all the money. Fine, if she studied hard, it would be okay. But unexpectedly, she's flirting with little male classmates at school and even learned to fall in love! I bet she spent all this money on you, you pretty boy! My daughter was so well - behaved when she was a child. It's you who seduced my girl and made her so disobedient. I'm being nice not to sue your family, but you actually want to teach me a lesson? Talking back to your elders. You have no manners at all. You're really a child without proper upbringing..."
"Mom!" Xu Jinhua suddenly roared, interrupting the woman's abuse.
She was very grateful for the help Lin Chengzhi had given. Seeing her mother pointing at Lin Chengzhi's nose and scolding more and more vulgarly, she had already been in tears. This hysterical cry was her last outburst.
Seeing this, the woman immediately turned her fire on her daughter and continued, "You even dare to yell at me now! Didn't you say you wanted to study hard and get into college? Your wings are hardened. You don't need the family to pay your tuition fees. You went out to work and came to school on your own. It turns out there's someone hooking you up at school. It was okay that you didn't drop out of school or get married before, but now it's absolutely not okay. Someone is willing to pay 200,000 yuan as the betrothal gift to marry you. You go back and drop out of school obediently and marry him. Don't cause any more trouble. Studying at school has turned you into a slut."
"I didn't fall in love with anyone! I didn't have puppy love. I won't drop out of school, and I won't go back!" Xu Jinhua couldn't stand it anymore and mustered the courage to resist.
She had long anticipated that her parents wouldn't let her study so easily. They would surely come up with all kinds of reasons to make a scene at school. To escape her fate, she had already prepared herself mentally to resist to the end.
"I finally understand. So, Auntie has been holding on to this little thing, refusing to listen to explanations or verify the facts, just to make Senior Xu drop out of school so you can go back and sell your daughter. It's really laughable that you're willing to sell your daughter for just 200,000 yuan." Lin Chengzhi couldn't help but retort and mock.
It was really hard to imagine that in such a free era, there were still parents selling their daughters into marriage, and it was the marriage of an underage daughter who hadn't even finished high school.
"Just 200,000 yuan? A little kid talking big. Aren't you afraid the wind will blow your tongue? You're just a poor student. You probably don't even have 20 yuan in your pocket, yet you look down on 200,000 yuan. Are you interested in my daughter? That's okay. As long as you can offer a higher price than 200,000 yuan, I'll give you this daughter. You can do whatever you want with her. You don't have to be so sneaky anymore."
The woman had completely lost all sense of shame at this moment. She looked at Lin Chengzhi contemptuously, measuring her own daughter like a commodity with money and uttering vulgar words that made people feel physically sick and want to vomit.
"You!" Lin Chengzhi couldn't really say bravely that he could offer a betrothal gift to buy Xu Jinhua.
Firstly, it would be too insulting to Xu Jinhua.
Secondly, 200,000 yuan was indeed not a small amount for him, and he didn't have that much money on hand for the time being.
"Third brother, here you are!"
Just then, Miaomiao, who had been silent all this time, suddenly took out a bank card from her pocket and handed it to Lin Chengzhi.
For so long, Miaomiao had been digesting the information she heard. She didn't really understand it, but she could judge the situation just by looking at people's expressions.
This old hag was bullying her third brother!
And she said her third brother couldn't afford the money!
Father Lin Yao's stupid - dad class once said: Anything that can be solved with money isn't a problem. Just swipe the card.
"What's this?" Lin Chengzhi was a bit confused by Miaomiao's sudden action.
"Bank card. Dad gave it to me. Dad said the money in it is enough to buy an old mansion." Miaomiao replied stupidly.
Lin Chengzhi held the bank card and was completely stunned. What did it mean that the money was enough to buy an old mansion? Although he wasn't very familiar with housing prices, he knew that old mansions in prime locations, especially villas, would cost at least tens of millions.
Was it really okay for Uncle Four to give so much money to Miaomiao, who had just entered junior high school?
"Third brother won't take your money. It's okay. Third brother will solve this matter." Lin Chengzhi held the bank card like it was a hot potato and quickly stuffed it back into Miaomiao's hand.
If Uncle Four knew he used his sister's money to solve his own problem, he might really be in big trouble.
However, Miaomiao's action reminded him of Lin Yao's love - education last night. Sometimes, it would be easier to solve things if he revealed his identity.