Chapter 140: Delivering Money to Old Yan (Part 2/2)

This gesture immediately made Shen Lingyao’s heart race, her hands instinctively raising to rest shyly on his chest, gently pushing herself back.

What’s happening?

A kiss?

This is so sudden!

Brother Qingfeng!

Did he think that just because he earned two hundred thousand, he could just kiss someone?

Hmph!

If he really dared to kiss her, she would bite his lips fiercely, and then… then kiss him back, not letting him take advantage of her!

Her face turned even redder.

The two were very close, their noses touching.

Caught up in her girlish fantasies, her chest heaved with emotion.

The scent as delicate as orchids made Zhao Qingfeng’s heart race too, lost in the moment.

But he didn’t actually kiss her.

Instead, with their foreheads touching and using her nose as the pivot, he cheekily moved his head side to side, pretending to ‘take advantage’ in an intimate manner.

“Brother Qingfeng, what are you doing!”

“Praying, I guess. I wasn’t sure how to properly give the money, so I borrowed a bit of your intelligence.”

“Meanie, bullying me again, o(≧口≦)o!”

“Ha-ha, it really worked, I’ve got it now! (o?v?)ノ”

He had figured out how to deliver the money.

With his face still flushed, Zhao Qingfeng grabbed Shen Lingyao’s hand, and they both hopped towards Old Yan’s home.

Meanwhile,

Old Yan was facing a particularly difficult question at home.

He and his wife sat on the small stools in the living room, glancing at the fifty thousand yuan on the coffee table, then at the distant relative sitting on the sofa with a smile plastered on his face, sighed after a long thought.

“Just take the money back, I really can’t mortgage the house.”

The distant relative’s money didn’t come without strings.

He knew Old Yan had no children, what would happen after his death?

But Old Yan’s property was worth some money.

Due to its prime location near the middle school, whether selling or renting was easy, a seventy-square-meter house could fetch eighty to ninety thousand without a problem.

Seeing Old Yan’s refusal, the distant relative continued to persuade with a smile.

“Second brother, what’s more important, life or the house? Take the money, get treated. Didn’t we set a one-year deadline? Besides, if you run out of money, you’d have to sell the house at a low price anyway, right? The outcome is the same, better I benefit from this, and I can still speak well of you.”

Old Yan initially thought of selling the house.

But this thought was fleeting.

Not because the location was too good to part with,

But worried that without a house, poor students would have nowhere to eat, and those lagging behind would have no place for tutoring.

“Let it be.”

Old Yan waved it off, his head hung low like a defeated general.

The distant relative didn’t give up, continuing to reason with him.

“Second brother!”

“My foolish second brother , why can’t you understand? Nowadays, in our family circle, aside from me, who else is willing to lend you money?”

“Let’s not even talk about whether you can survive after treatment, just your way of dealing with people is not good!”

“Far to mention, two years ago, third brother’s child wanted to attend your No. 2 Middle School, came to you, look at your serious attitude!”

“What about fairness and justice, not taking someone else’s spot, that you’re not that kind of person, are these things you should say among relatives?”

“I’m telling you, relatives have long stopped bothering with you.”

“It’s only me, kindly helping you, do you think I want your house? I’m doing this so you look good in front of everyone, not to be badmouthed after you die, do you understand my good intentions?”

He blurted out all in one go, scrutinizing Old Yan closely.

Old Yan continued to hang his head without answering, while his wife wiped the corners of her eyes, “Little fourth brother, you’ve misunderstood your second brother. Two years ago, he said let third brother’s child come to our house, he’d tutor them personally. Retake the year, then try for middle school again, but he didn’t listen, Old Yan had no choice…”

“…”

His fourth brother scoffed.

He knew about this, but he couldn’t understand.

Other teachers could manipulate spots, why couldn’t Old Yan, isn’t he human?

“Alright, alright, I won’t talk nonsense.”

His fourth brother weighed the money, then threw it on the table, half-standing, “I’m asking you one last time, agree or not? If you agree, we’ll sign the agreement, otherwise, I’ll take my money and leave, you figure it out!”

As he spoke,

Old Yan’s spirit plummeted to the lowest.

His wife felt equally cold inside, loving yet angry with Old Yan for not accepting the principal’s suggestion, to just accept the donation.

Now look what happened.

No money borrowed, and ended up in a mess.

She couldn’t care less.

Treatment was what mattered.

She started to push Old Yan back to the bedroom to sign the agreement.

His fourth brother was persuading on the side, but Old Yan adamantly refused.

As they were arguing,

The door suddenly opened.

A six or seven-year-old boy, his mouth full of chocolate, stood at the doorway, holding a bundle of newspaper-wrapped items, saying to Old Yan’s fourth brother, “Dad, a big brother asked me to give this to Second Grandpa.”

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