A spring passed without incident. Cheng Zheng's birthday was in early August. As early as ten days before his birthday, he had repeatedly reminded Yun Jin not to forget it. Yunjin thought about what to give him, but he kept emphasizing that he didn't want anything that could be bought with money. Cheng Zheng's father, Cheng Yansheng, has never advocated spoiling his son materially, but on his son's 23rd birthday, he and his wife Zhang Jinyin gave him a great gift, and he also said that he wanted to give his son a surprise. In order to ensure that he and Yun Jin can spend the whole world together on his birthday, Cheng Zheng's birthday celebrations with colleagues and friends started a few days in advance. This evening, Yunjin was alone at home. Halfway through a game of chess, she received a call from home, which was actually from her uncle on his cell phone. Over the years, her uncle seldom talked to her in person, and her mother usually relayed anything to her. This time, Yun Jin had a faint premonition that something was about to happen.
Maybe things in the world are like this, the more you are afraid of something, the easier it is to happen. Uncle's words were only halfway through, Yun Jin's heart was already frosted. It turned out that my mother had been in bad health for a long time and always thought it was just an ordinary gynecological disease. I didn't expect that I couldn't stand it two months ago, so I went to the hospital for a comprehensive examination, and it turned out to be a mid-term cervical cancer. put her in the hospital. Surgery and treatment were a huge expense. My mother didn’t have medical insurance, and my uncle couldn’t compare to before. In order to understand the urgent need, he had no choice but to embezzle a certain amount of public funds from the garment factory where he had just been in charge. This was also a trade-off. , according to his idea, find a way to fill it in at the end of the year. Relying on the timely treatment of this money, my mother's illness was finally stabilized. I never thought that people were not as good as heaven. In August, the entire enterprise carried out a property and capital verification activity, and it was about time to find out the factory where he was located. , but where can I find money to fill this gap for a while? If he was found to have misappropriated the money during the process of liquidation and capital verification, it would be impossible to keep the job he just won, and his reputation for half his life would be ruined.
"How much is it?" Yun Jin ordered herself to calm down, but her voice trembled uncontrollably.
"114,000."
"One hundred thousand..." Yun Jin's tone was like a moan.
"Yunjin, you need to know that your mother's illness requires chemotherapy, and those medicines..." Uncle said anxiously.
"She's my mother! My own mother! Why didn't you think of telling me that this daughter would rather spend the untouchable money? Why?" Yun Jin interrupted her uncle uncontrollably, tears streaming down her face. . "It's been two months, and you couldn't hide it before you thought of telling me, what do you want from me?"
The uncle seemed frightened, and became more incoherent, "Yun Jin... That's not the case... I just wanted to say that your mother is temporarily fine now. The reason why we didn't tell you at first is that on the one hand, your mother is afraid of your worries, on the other hand, even if I told you, you just started working, and you can't get so much money... I know that Cheng Zheng has money, and I wanted you to talk to him at first... I meant to borrow, not to give it to him. But your mother said that she was afraid that you would ask He borrowed money, and from now on, he will not be able to hold his head up in front of him... If you don't say it, I know that you are a strong boy. Uncle is useless. Some things may embarrass you.... Your mother doesn't say that I am I don't know, I'm a rude person. But your mother married me, and I didn't want her to be in trouble. I thought it would be fine after a while, but I didn't know it was so unfortunate... Yun Jin... Uncle really had no choice but to call you Yes, your mother doesn't know. I'm just afraid that if this matter is found out, even President Zhang will not look good... "
Yun Jin put down the phone as if she had lost her soul, tears were half dry on her face, and there was a kind of numb pain. It turned out that she was such a failed daughter, and she didn't even know that her mother had such a disease. Uncle is right, even if she tells her, what can she do? She has no money. Ask Cheng Zheng to borrow it? Even her uncle knew that she couldn't open her mouth. Is her mother's life more important or her dignity? Is she actually such a selfish person? However, my mother and uncle kept saying that they didn't want her to be unable to raise her head in front of Cheng Zheng, but when such a thing happened, how could she be able to raise her head in front of him? She felt that her heart was about to split, and no one could make her blame. Suddenly she felt that all this was too absurd, like a fateful situation, she avoided step by step and got stuck in it step by step.
As if she had suddenly reacted, she quickly opened the drawer and found all her bankbooks and savings cards, 15,000 yuan, which was all her savings. She dug out the phone book and called Yu Hua first. Yu Hua hadn't even graduated from the medical department, so she immediately said that she was willing to give her all the money, but only a few thousand dollars. Then she called a few familiar roommates and classmates in the university one after another. None of them were rich, but you Bit by bit, the total is less than 20,000 yuan, plus her own savings, at most 40,000 yuan, the difference is more than 114,000 yuan. Yun Jin clutched the thin passbook and felt that every pore on her body was full of emptiness.
When the phone rang, she seemed to be taken aback, and when she picked it up, it turned out to be Cheng Zheng. "Yunjin, come down, I'll be waiting for you downstairs, hurry up." His voice was full of mystery and excitement.
Yun Jin mechanically found a wet towel to wipe her face, put away the passbook, and hurried downstairs. As soon as she walked out of the elevator, she saw Cheng Zheng standing beside a behemoth, smiling brightly at her. "Look at Yunjin, so this is what my mom and dad said about the surprise. The limited edition Hummer H2 dark blue was specially opened today. I can't think of my dad's pedantic vision."
Yun Jin stared blankly at the dazzling and exaggerated off-road vehicle in front of her, speechless for a while. Cheng Zheng thought that she was as stunned as he was at first, so he pulled her into the passenger seat, "I'll take you around... See if you don't see it, it's also equipped with a rain and snow self-sensing wiper system, as well as dual screens... Cheng Zheng explained to her in high spirits, but Yun Jin asked reflexively, "How much does this car cost?"
Cheng Zheng frowned and thought for a while, "About 500,000 or 600,000, I don't know the exact price, how much is it. There are only more than 870 cars produced in this world, and money may not be able to buy them."
"But if you don't have money, you don't have to think about it. More than half a million..." Yun Jin shook her head and smiled bitterly, but it was just a birthday present, a big toy, but it might be an astronomical figure that could be at stake in the fate of a poor family.
"Don't think it's my dad who is so generous, if he is so generous, the anti-corruption bureau will have to trouble him, and it must be the money thrown by my mother." Cheng Zheng looked at her and said.
Yunjin turned his head back to the front, "Since your parents gave you the car, you have to drive carefully." What did she want to tell him? Now she doesn't want to say anything.
The next day, Cheng Zheng insisted on driving her to work, and Sao Bao's car attracted a lot of attention along the way. Before leaving get off work at noon, Yun Jin called Shen Ju'an. In the afternoon, 80,000 yuan was credited into her account on time, and she immediately transferred the total of 120,000 yuan to her uncle.
Yun Jin thanked Shen Ju'an for not asking more and extending a helping hand without hesitation, but she knew better that borrowing money from him was actually the last resort. Not to mention the inextricable relationship between him and Cheng Zheng's family, just relying on her ambiguous relationship with him, she should not have a financial entanglement with him, and she will not take this step until there is no retreat.
In fact, no matter what it seems, she should ask Cheng Zheng for help, because now he is her closest person. If her mother had told her immediately when she found out about her illness, she would have spoken to Cheng Zheng even if she was embarrassed. After all, there is nothing like Mother's illness was more important, but her mother and uncle chose this extreme way to consider her feelings, and she was even more unable to face Cheng Zheng. The garment factory where my uncle works is a branch of a subsidiary of Cheng Zheng's mother Zhang Jinyin Group Company. Although this uncle's actions are far from disturbing the senior management of the group, because it was introduced by President Zhang himself, there is also Yunjin. Relationship, everything is not easy. Now she just wants to let her uncle fill in the money secretly, dissolve the whole thing invisibly, and pretend that nothing happened. As for Ju An's money and favors, she will find a way to pay it back slowly. He is not her lover, she can treat his money and favor as a debt with peace of mind, as long as it is a debt, it will be repaid one day.
That night, she returned to their house with exhaustion. As soon as she opened the door, she saw Cheng Zheng sitting on the sofa. Hearing the sound, she turned her head and looked at her with a slightly unfamiliar look. Yun Jin had some understanding in her heart that maybe the matter could not be hidden from him after all, and she could not escape it, so she simply walked straight to him and sat on the sofa opposite him.
"Earlier, your former roommate Xiaowen called and said that she had something to do at home, so she couldn't give you the money to lend your mother's medical treatment. Then, I called your mother. , your uncle said thank you to me. Not long ago, my mother told me again, your uncle... let me not tell you, she will handle it. Su Yunjin, tell me, where did you get the 110,000?"
Sure enough, there is no wall in the world that does not leak the wind. Now it seems that her wall is actually air-tight everywhere. Seeing his suspicious eyes, Yun Jin's heart sank, and she simply told him everything, including Xiang Shen Ju'an.
Cheng Zheng laughed instead of being angry: "When these things happened to you, the first thing that came to your mind was not me, but Shen Ju'an. Tell me, am I a failure?"
Yun Jin was full of powerlessness: "I don't even know how to explain it to you... You don't understand."
Cheng Zheng stood up abruptly: "I don't understand, can you tell me? Why do you treat me as a fool? Could it be that Shen Ju'an understands?"
"Yes, he will understand, because he, like me, knows how terrible poverty is, and knows that there is no dignity without money! Unlike you, he never knows what poverty is like. Cheng Zheng, I didn't take you for a fool, I It's about the relationship between us, I can owe Shen Ju'an, but I can't owe you, it will make it hard for me to be with you!" Yun Jin also stood up, looked up at him and said.
Cheng Zheng grabbed a data bag on the sofa and held Yun Jin's hand with the other hand, "If you really care about our relationship, then come with me." Then he pulled her out the door involuntarily. go.
Yun Jin was led into the car by him, vaguely aware that he was driving to Zhang Yue and Shen Ju'an's residence, but no matter what he said, he ignored it.
Soon he arrived at the residential area in the middle of the mountains and the water where Shen Ju'an was located. Cheng Zheng called him and drove the car into the parking lot to wait. Ten minutes later, Shen Ju'an appeared in the parking lot neatly dressed, looking at Yun Jin and Cheng Zheng, he seemed to have a hunch that something was going on.
Just as he approached, before he could speak, Cheng Zheng got out of the car, opened the information bag in his hand, took out a few stacks of banknotes, and threw it on Shen Ju'an. A stack of them scattered in mid-air, and the pink hundred-yuan bills floated down his head and face.
"Cheng Zheng!" Yun Jin shouted sharply, but there was no time.
Shen Ju'an encountered such a change, but his expression did not change much. He stood in the same place without knowing a thing, and let the banknotes spill from him, his expression indifferent.
Cheng Zheng still didn't let him go, and said as if he had been resentful for a long time: "I will give you all the money, I don't know what you want, my cousin is willing to marry you, I have nothing to say, but you can I can't stop entangled with Yunjin."
Shen Ju'an slowly twisted a banknote that fell on his shoulders, and said lightly, "I think you have misunderstood."
"Misunderstanding?" Cheng Zheng sneered, "Don't think that everyone is as stupid as Zhang Yue. We don't know what you want. Is this money yours? You shouldn't take the Zhang family's money to indulge the saint, right?"
"Shut up!" The same sentence came out of the two women's mouths in unison. In Zhang Yue's coat, especially the home clothes that he didn't have time to change, he hurried over with messy hair. Yun Jin grabbed Cheng Zheng anxiously and annoyed.
Shen Ju'an bent down as if nothing was wrong, picked up the scattered banknotes one by one, and put them back neatly into the information bag that Cheng Zheng had brought earlier, he did not look at Cheng Zheng, but only said softly to Yun Jin: "You Are you sure you don't need the money?"
Yun Jin was so embarrassed that she looked up at him and only said sorry. Zhang Yue walked to Cheng Zheng and said bluntly, "Are you still a child? Have you ever done things with your brain?" Cheng Zheng replied unwillingly, "I'm afraid it's you who do things without your brain, and you go inside even if you know it's a trick. Jump." Zhang Yue was so angry that his delicate face changed color, pointed at Cheng Zheng's nose and scolded: "You don't have to worry about my affairs, you leave me right away!" Cheng Zheng patted her hand away: "Who is it? Don't mind your business, you mind your husband."
"Cheng Zheng, come with me." Yun Jin strongly dragged Cheng Zheng into the car, but couldn't drag him at all, so she let go in a fit of anger, "You are so unreasonable! If you don't go, I'll go." Turn around and go to the parking lot exit.
Cheng Zheng then turned around and chased after him, and at the end he said, "Zhang Yue, you are stupid, you will suffer in the future."
Zhang Yue gritted his teeth as he watched Cheng Zheng and Yun Jin leave, and said fiercely, "Death Cheng Zheng, whoever takes care of you in the future will be a bastard!" Shen Ju'an smiled and took her hand, "Let's go, don't be annoyed. , what do you care about with him, go home."
Here, Cheng Zheng drove home with Yun Jin, and the two of them were speechless all the way. It wasn't until he got home that Cheng Zheng's anger slowly dissipated, and he talked to Yun Jin shyly, but Yun Jin took a bath and slept without saying a word, and didn't even look at him. Cheng Zheng lay beside her and gently pushed her shoulders that were exposed outside the thin quilt: "Hey, say something, are you still angry?" Yun Jin silently moved his body away a little, Cheng Zheng approached again, Unconvinced, she said, "I was right at first, so why are you angry now? I didn't scold you just now." Yun Jin felt that she was too tired to speak, and was helpless because of his arguing, so she turned over. , said coldly: "It's true that you are right, it's all my fault, Cheng Zheng, I'm really tired like this, what's the trouble for the two of us?"
Cheng Zheng panicked, and hugged her across the thin blanket: "I don't care so much, I just want you by my side. Yes, I admit that I don't like Shen Ju'an, I deliberately embarrassed him today, but Yun Jin, you Can you take me to heart? Tomorrow is my birthday, you said you wanted to give me a gift, I want a promise, don't leave me." Yun Jin closed her eyes and sighed deeply.