City’s Best Divine Doctor
Chapter 509 - 509 0510 Good Eye

509: Chapter 0510: Good Eye 509: Chapter 0510: Good Eye Ye Weidong and the others set up the large roll of firecrackers and then shouted a few times from the downstairs.

“Set off the firecrackers!”

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Everyone stepped back, and Ye Weidong lit the firecrackers.

Soon, the old textile factory neighborhood was filled with the ‘crackle and pop’ of firecrackers.

It took nearly ten minutes before the large roll of firecrackers finally burned out.

With one roll left, Ye Weidong handed it to Zhou Weiguo, asking him to help burn it later that night.

Thick smoke rose, and although some people cursed at the beginning, wondering why firecrackers were being set off in broad daylight, when they found out that Ye Weidong was celebrating Ye Qiu’s achievement as the top scholar in the Jiangnan Province college entrance exam, no one complained any longer.

Now Ye Weidong and Chen Fang had come back here just to set off firecrackers, then they would return to the Peach Blossom Source Residential Area in Jiangnan.

After living there for a week, the couple seemed to have gotten used to life there.

The two realized that this old neighborhood was indeed old and crowded, but it had a certain warmth of human relationships.

Living here was fine if one was nostalgic.

However, if one preferred peace and quiet, it was better to go back to the Peach Blossom Source Residential Area.

Butcher He, Li Lanfang, and He Xiaoqing, having sold pork all day, were just getting off work at lunchtime and saw the scraps of paper left from the firecrackers and the lingering smoke at the entrance.

Butcher He and Li Lanfang were surprised, unsure if it was a celebration or a funeral in someone’s family.

As Butcher He, with Li Lanfang and He Xiaoqing, passed by and saw many people chatting around the area, they also noticed Ye Weidong and his wife.

But now, it seemed there was nothing left for the two parties to say to each other.

After Butcher He went away with Li Lanfang and He Xiaoqing, Ye Weidong and Chen Fang also prepared to ride their motorbike back to the old neighborhood.

In the end, as Ye Qiu said, there would be no more encounters with Butcher He’s family.

However, at this time, some residents quietly started discussing.

“That Butcher He’s family is being chased for debts.”

Chased for debts?

What debts?

Ye Weidong and Chen Fang were perplexed.

When the couple stopped, a resident said, “Didn’t you know, some time ago, Butcher He had a car accident and was taken to the hospital; then the money for the emergency was stolen.

Afterward, Li Lanfang borrowed about 500,000 yuan from Butcher He’s friends to pay for his treatment.”

This incident was well known in the old neighborhood, and in the end, it was Ye Qiu who Li Lanfang pleaded with to cure Butcher He, preventing him from having an amputation.

However, after the incident, Li Lanfang dared not badmouth Ye Qiu any longer, knowing full well she couldn’t afford to offend someone like Ye Qiu.

“And what happened afterward?”

“Later, the police caught the robbers, and the money was recovered.

Butcher He and his wife also went to get the money back.

That money should have been returned to Butcher He’s friends, who also considered it a lifesaving and hard-earned sum.”

Ye Weidong and Chen Fang stopped, both wanting to hear what had actually happened.

However, Ye Weidong was well aware that when Ye Qiu was in the hospital for treatment, he had asked to borrow 100,000 yuan from Butcher He and his wife.

Li Lanfang dared not lend it, and surprisingly, they had 500,000 yuan.

Eventually, Ye Weidong had no choice but to mortgage his house to the bank to borrow 100,000 yuan.

Thinking about all this, a heaviness settled on Ye Weidong and Chen Fang once again.

“What happened with that money?”

The residents always loved a good piece of gossip.

Moreover, the impression of Butcher He and his wife is getting worse and worse among the residents of the old neighborhood.

“I, I heard that Li Lanfang isn’t willing to repay the money to Butcher He’s friends.

Instead, she used that 500,000 yuan to buy a small three-bedroom apartment in Jiangnan, and that money served as the down payment.

Now that Butcher He’s friends have found out Li Lanfang has money but isn’t repaying it, and since they urgently need money for their own family affairs, they’ve come to Butcher He’s place several times to ask for repayment, but they haven’t received anything.”

“Is that really what happened?”

Another resident was very surprised and asked out of curiosity.

This news was known by many people in the neighborhood.

As the saying goes, borrowing money is easy, but repaying is hard.

When Butcher He was in a tough spot and needed emergency funds, Zhou Butcher, Zhu Butcher, and others each contributed between 50,000 to 100,000 yuan to help him out.

Unexpectedly, now that the stolen money had been recovered, Li Lanfang was unwilling to repay it.

Instead, she used it to buy a very small three-bedroom apartment in Jiangnan, and that was just the down payment.

The rest was all mortgaged, requiring monthly repayments of five to six thousand yuan.

Under such circumstances, as Butcher He and his wife sold pork, earning a bit more than 10,000 yuan a month, and with mortgage repayments of five to six thousand yuan, it seemed unlikely they’d be able to pay back the 500,000 yuan they borrowed from Zhou Butcher and the others any time soon.

“Are there really such people?”

Those people couldn’t believe how selfish Butcher He and his wife could be.

However, these matters had nothing to do with them; they were just there to watch the excitement and hear about these private affairs.

“Ye Qiu really has good judgment.”

That’s what Ye Weidong and Chen Fang secretly thought.

Now Ye Weidong had no desire to stay any longer.

After saying a quick goodbye to Zhou Weiguo and the others, he rode his motorcycle back towards the Peach Blossom Source Residential Area in Jiangnan.

However, the remaining residents from the textile factory were still there, chatting, and it was all related to Ye Qiu and Butcher He’s family.

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On the way back, Ye Weidong increasingly felt that Ye Qiu was different from others, having a deeper understanding of human relationships, especially in judging people—he was always spot on.

If Li Lanfang was really as the resident from the old neighborhood had described, who would dare help her if she ran into trouble in the future?

Ye Weidong shook his head, deciding not to think too deeply about it because he knew that Ye Qiu and He Xiaoqing really didn’t have much to do with each other anymore.

It could just be said that Li Lanfang’s personality might end up ruining her own daughter.

By the time he got back to Peach Blossom Source Residential Area in Jiangnan, it was already after four in the afternoon.

After parking his motorcycle in the garage and seeing Ye Qiu’s car there, Ye Weidong and Chen Fang got off the bike and walked into the lobby on the first floor.

After washing up and cooling down, they sat on the sofa.

Seeing Ye Xue watching TV, he asked, “Xue, where’s that lad Ye Qiu?”

“Dad, he’s upstairs.”

“Good lad, he’s really made me proud this time.

I’m planning to buy some groceries from the market and celebrate at home.”

Ye Weidong said.

“Dad, didn’t you say you wanted to host a banquet and invite all our relatives and friends for a meal?”

“Not anymore, I was too scared last time.

Let’s just have a meal together, just us.”

Remembering how the guests all got food poisoning at the last banquet, Ye Weidong was indeed frightened and didn’t dare to think about hosting another banquet, even though Ye Qiu had just been declared the top scholar of Jiangnan Province.

“Go ask Ye Qiu how many friends he wants to invite over, then head to the nearby market to buy groceries and we’ll cook ourselves.”

Ye Xue went up to the second floor and saw Ye Qiu playing on the computer.

“Ye Qiu, Dad said we’re celebrating for you tonight by cooking at home.

He’s asking how many friends you want to invite over for dinner.”