Era: Life's Big Winner

Chapter 105 Sophora japonica: My money!
The next day, the snow stopped and the weather cleared up.

There was snow piling up on the streets, icicles hanging from the branches, and the wind was howling, with the temperature freezing cold.

At the food factory, Liu Hongchang taught everything he knew, patted Huaihua's butt, and left, saying with a smile: "Hurry up and clean up."

"I'm tired!" Huaihua bent over the table, looked back at him, and said with resentment, "What happened today? You rushed around like a man with gunpowder on his chest."

As he spoke, he opened the drawer, took out some paper, picked some for himself, and then turned around to clean up for Liu Hongchang.

"Where does all this nonsense come from?"

Huaihua smiled and said, "There must be something wrong. I won't ask. Just come to me next time if you need anything."

Liu Hongchang laughed, stretched out his hand and pinched her cheek, saying: "I haven't settled the score with you yet. When you came to my house yesterday, I gave you a look. Don't say you didn't see it, right?"

"I saw it, but I have to talk to Wenhui and don't have time to accompany you." Huaihua said with a smile.

After cleaning, Liu Hongchang took the documents and sat down on the sofa. He nodded, smoked a cigarette slowly, and flipped through the documents.

Huaihua tidied up, went out to wash her hands and rinse her mouth, and when she came back, she made a cup of hot tea and placed it in front of Liu Hongchang.

"Open the windows, there's a strange smell in the room." Liu Hongchang ordered with a smile.

Huaihua said "oh" and went to open the window.

The cold wind blew in, she stretched her head to look outside and said in surprise: "Huh? Why is my mom here at the factory?"

"Is it true?" Liu Hongchang was surprised when he heard this. After thinking for a while, he guessed, "Could it be because of your sister's job?"

"No way? My mom said that she will let my sister work in a noodle factory next year. It's all settled." Huaihua replied with a shake of her head slightly.

Liu Hongchang asked in confusion: "Noodle factory?"

"Yes, it's the job that silly dad helped me find not long ago." Huaihua nodded and walked to her desk and sat down to work.

Liu Hongchang glanced at her and said nothing more.

After a while, Qin Huairu came to the door of the office and smiled, "Is Director Liu busy? Sorry to bother you, I want to talk to Huaihua about something."

"Come in and sit down?" Liu Hongchang said politely with a smile on his face and raised eyebrows.

Qin Huairu shook her head and smiled, "It's just a few words. I have to go to work after I finish speaking."

Huaihua was confused and stood up and walked over.

After a while, she returned to the office, walked up to Liu Hongchang and whispered, "Do you have any money? Lend me three hundred."

"What?" Liu Hongchang asked puzzledly.

Huaihua said awkwardly: "My brother hit someone with his car and sent him to the hospital."

"Is it serious?" Liu Hongchang asked in surprise.

Huaihua nodded slightly and said, "If it wasn't serious, Mom wouldn't ask me for so much money for an emergency."

Liu Hongchang clicked his tongue and took out three hundred yuan from his briefcase and gave it to Huaihua.

Huaihua kissed him, breathed a sigh of relief, and gave the money to Qin Huairu.

After sending the people away, Huaihua returned to the office, and Liu Hongchang asked, "Your family should have some savings, right?"

"Of course there is." Huaihua nodded, "But as far as I know, the family's expenses all depend on silly dad's salary and extra income. My mom saved all the money, saying that she wanted to find a wife for my brother."

After a pause, she frowned again and said, "But my brother wants to get married this year, and my mother still asked my silly father to find a way, saying that all the savings are deposited in a fixed deposit, and it is not cost-effective to withdraw them. Only my mother knows how much is saved."

Liu Hongchang was speechless and said, "Your mother is too cunning. Shazhu has been badly cheated in this life."

Huaihua smiled awkwardly, not knowing what to say.

In fact, she also felt that her mother was wrong. To say that her mother was unkind was a nice word, but in fact, she was a little too harsh on Shazhu. The key point was that one was her biological mother and the other was her stepfather, and they were both her flesh and blood. She didn't have the courage to criticize her elders.

"You work for me, and when you take your salary home, do you give it to your mother?" Liu Hongchang asked curiously.

Huaihua quickly shook her head and pouted, "No way! I save all my money except for the necessary expenses."

"Don't worry, I just borrowed the money from you, I'll go get it and return it to you at noon."

Her salary was not high, only twenty-eight yuan a month, but Liu Hongchang gave her a lot of pocket money in private, which made up a total of three hundred yuan.

Liu Hongchang smiled and said, "It seems that your mother knows that you have money, so she came to borrow from you. Maybe she won't pay it back after borrowing it."

"No way?" Huaihua was stunned for a moment and said with a worried look on her face.

Liu Hongchang smiled and said, "When you were a child, you got lucky money. Didn't your mother take it and say she would give it to you when you grow up?"

"It's the same situation now. They'll find an excuse to take your money away, and then it'll depend on the situation whether they return it or not."

Huaihua thought about it and felt that what he said made sense. She suddenly felt depressed and frowned, "Maybe you are overthinking it?"

"Haha, I hope I'm overthinking it." Liu Hongchang said with a smile.

Huaihua was a little nervous, as three hundred yuan was a lot of money, enough for a family of five to eat and wear for a year.

After that, she kept thinking about it, fearing that her mother would not return her money.

At noon, when she went to the cafeteria to eat, she whispered to Liu Hongchang angrily, "Mom said she would pay me back by the end of the month. If she doesn't, I will quarrel with her, move out of the house, and never talk to her again!"

"No, have you been thinking about this all the time?" Liu Hongchang said with a smile.

Huaihua scooped up her face and said worriedly, "How can I not worry about her? I worked so hard for so long to save this little money. If she takes it away, I will be heartbroken."

Liu Hongchang shook his head and said, "I shouldn't have reminded you of this if I had known earlier. You've been worrying about this for nothing. Hasn't this happened yet?"

"No, you are right to remind me." Huaihua bit her lip and said, "Based on my understanding of mom, she is really capable of doing this."

"Think about it more positively. Money is a small matter. You can save it slowly after you lose it. Your mood is the most important thing." Liu Hongchang said with a smile.

Huaihua looked so pitiful that she was about to cry and had no appetite at all.

Halfway through the meal, she asked Liu Hongchang for leave and left the factory, going to the steel rolling mill to find Sha Zhu and asking him to help her get the money back.

As for her asking her mother for it herself, she definitely doesn't have the courage to do so.

Qin Huairu is good at using softness to overcome hardness. When Huaihua dares to ask her for money, she cries and pretends to be aggrieved, and then complains a lot.

At around two o'clock in the afternoon, Huaihua came back with a sad face.

"What? Can Sha Zhu help you?" Liu Hongchang asked.

Huaihua sat down at the desk, leaned on it, and said absentmindedly, "It's probably difficult. He's just a witness."

"Witness? Can't I be one too?" Liu Hongchang chuckled.

Huaihua pouted and said, "So I think he was just trying to fool me. Oh, if I had known, I would have gone to the hospital with mom in the morning."

"You should go to the hospital and tell your brother about this. How can he, as a brother, bully his sister?" Liu Hongchang suggested.

Huaihua was stunned for a moment, then her eyes lit up and she said happily, "Yes, I will just consider that money as a loan to you. You don't have to go to the hospital, after all, it's for emergency use. I'll definitely be able to ask you for money later."

"That's right. You can't do anything to your mother, so what about your brother?" Liu Hongchang said with a smile.

Huaihua agreed and said, "My brother will definitely not be able to bring himself to embezzle my money. I will tell him tonight."

(End of this chapter)