Stay Home Daddy: I Was Reborn After My Daughter Passed Away
Chapter 257 - 258 Ji Pianran is actually so concerned about his own affairs!_1

Chapter 257: 258 Ji Pianran is actually so concerned about his own affairs!_1

Gu Chen said to Shen Cuizhi, "Mom, what Pian Ran said is right. No matter how big the problem, we need to fill our stomachs first."

Truth be told, Shen Cuizhi had not eaten well at all these past few days.

How could she eat? As soon as she opened her eyes, there were so many people in her courtyard every day waiting for money.

She could have kept them from coming in, but there was no helping it. Gu Hang always felt that family disgrace should not be aired in public, so he let people come in.

Once they entered, as soon as she brought the food to the table, they would start eating, without any politeness.

Eat as much as she cooked, showing no consideration for the family’s needs.

When they talked, it was all about money. Shen Cuizhi couldn’t swallow her food just by looking at them, so worried.

At first, they were relatively polite, but these last few days, their behavior had become increasingly vile.

They were almost to the point of taking away everything in the house.

Shen Cuizhi had thought about repaying the money, but with more than ten people, the most owed was three thousand, the least was five hundred. In total, it amounted to over ten thousand yuan.

Gu Zhigang lived with her, but now that his children had their own families, his money was managed by his daughter-in-law.

They didn’t give her a single penny each month. Their modest pension was completely spent on the daily needs of the family.

Now, just asking for over ten thousand yuan was like asking for their lives!

Ever since she entered Gu Chen’s house, she had cried all her tears and said all there was to say. Plus, with her son and daughter-in-law comforting her, her mood was not as low as before.

After all, someone was going to figure things out.

Now that she was not so anxious, she realized that she was actually a bit hungry.

Shen Cuizhi nodded her head, "Alright."

Gu Chen stood up and went to the kitchen, planning to casually prepare something for his mother to eat.

Now, only Ji Pianran and Shen Cuizhi were left in the room.

Ji Pianran pursed her lips and after a long pause, looked at Shen Cuizhi with a very serious light in her eyes.

"Mom, I think the first step is to repay the debts we owe. That way, they won’t come harassing us, and you can have some peace."

A son’s life hanging in the balance, greeted by inexplicable creditors upon opening your eyes – that would worry anyone.

Ji Pianran could fully understand her mother-in-law’s feelings at the moment.

Shen Cuizhi was an honest person by nature; the thought of owing money and not paying it back truly unsettled her.

But she truly had no money. What could she do?

The only solution was to wait for Gu Zhigang to return and see how he would resolve the issue.

Hearing Ji Pianran’s words, Shen Cuizhi waved her hand, her tone filled with helplessness.

"Ah, where is there any money to be found?"

Ji Pianran blinked, her long eyelashes trembling, and she pursed her lips, lowering her head in thought.

Truth be told, the cash that Gu Chen had given her was all used up for buying land last time.

If it was cash she needed, she truly did not have any.

She had only one card left, given by her mother Wu Shuhui, and she didn’t know how much was on it.

After a while, she stood up and walked towards her own room.

Although she did not know how much money was on the card, she was sure it would be enough to handle the emergency.

She went into her room and took the bank card out of the drawer, clenching it in her hand.

Then she returned to the living room.

By then, Gu Chen had finished the pancakes, which he just placed beside the table.

He had just passed the chopsticks to his mom.

When he saw Ji Pianran coming over.

She walked over to Shen Cuizhi with her head lowered, then stuffed the card into Shen Cuizhi’s pocket.

"Mom, this card was given to me by my mother. The money in here should be enough to settle the debts."

Shen Cuizhi was startled, looking at Ji Pianran with disbelief in her eyes.

Her eyes widened dramatically in surprise.

"Mom? You found your mother?"

She remembered that when Ji Pianran said she was separated from her family while fleeing from calamity.

She never expected that they would actually be found now?

Shen Cuizhi rubbed her hands together, somewhat excited.

"Not bad, really not bad!"

It was truly a great thing that her daughter-in-law could reunite with her family.

Honestly, she had always thought that this child might not see her parents for the rest of her life but had never mentioned it for fear of making Pian Ran sad.

Fleeing from calamity—that was something people did when they were so poor they were starving to death.

No cellphones, no fixed address.

The world is so vast; searching for someone based solely on faith was like looking for a needle in a haystack, incredibly difficult.

Shen Cuizhi’s thoughts were not without reason.

As a child, she too had fled with her parents to this place, heading to Guandong in a large-scale migration that now seemed terrifying in retrospect.

Back then, many people died of hunger on the way; becoming separated was all too common.

And there were many they never saw again for the rest of their lives.

Gu Chen’s little aunt was lost during that time, missing since she was eight years old; she would be in her forties now, if she were still alive.

Unfortunately, they never saw her again, nor knew whether she was dead or alive.

Who would have thought that Ji Pianran would be able to meet her parents again—it was indeed a great thing.

She was truly happy for Ji Pianran.

Ji Pianran smiled and nodded her head, "I found them."

"Good, very good," Shen Cuizhi finished saying.

She then took the bank card out of her pocket and stuffed it back into Ji Pianran’s hand.

"This won’t do; this is what your mom gave you; you absolutely cannot use it to pay off Gu Zhigang’s debts."

She would have felt fine taking the money if Gu Chen had earned it.

But this was given by Ji Pianran’s mother, it was for her own daughter.

If she took it away now, what would that mean?

Honestly, although she had saved her before and later took her as a daughter-in-law, she felt she had provided too little care for them.

Aside from buying them a house, she really hadn’t done much.

Now, to take the money parents gave to fill her own son’s famine, she couldn’t bear it.

In this respect, she was actually a very reasonable person; she would never use her daughter-in-law’s money to pay off her older son’s debts!

Seeing that Shen Cuizhi wouldn’t take it, Ji Pianran hurriedly grabbed her hand.

The light in her eyes flickered.

"Mom, listen to me; now is not the time to argue about these things, the most important thing is to solve the problem first," said Ji Pianran.

"But, but you can’t use the money your mom gave you," Shen Cuizhi frowned.

She was truly moved by Ji Pianran’s gesture.

The fact that she was willing to give her family the money her mother gave her meant she truly considered them her own family.

This kind of act was rare, not just within their own family’s daughters-in-law, but even in the village!

But as moved as she was, she really felt uncomfortable taking someone else’s money.

"Take it back, take it back; let me think of another way," she said.

Shen Cuizhi really felt awkward about it.

"Mom, how about this; we can go to the city together later, and I’ll withdraw the money first. Consider it a loan to my older brother, and we can treat it as the same whether we repay it later or not, is that okay?" proposed Ji Pianran.

Though she said so, she had absolutely no intention of getting the money back.

After all, Gu Zhigang was Gu Chen’s big brother.

She had witnessed all the good things that Gu Chen had done for her own father.

She should be even better to the Gu family!