Chapter 13: The Money Giver Comes
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Emma followed her sister, Ava, off the bus as her stomach rumbled twice.
"Emma, did you not eat dinner?" Ava stopped in her tracks.
Emma touched her stomach and answered truthfully, "I haven't eaten anything all day."
Ava couldn't help but sound distressed.
"Then what do you want to eat? Let's go eat first."
Although the neighborhood where her mother-in-law Grace lived was right in front of her, Ava knew very well that Grace would not leave food for her, much less prepare food for her sister.
Emma looked around and spotted a small noodle stand staked out on the side of the road, "Let's go eat noodles."
"Okay." Ava answered with a bite, quietly relieved in her heart.
She now has a few dozen dollars left in her card, if Emma really wants to go to a restaurant, she can only find someone to borrow some money ......
Emma was indeed hungry, and ate four bowls of noodles in one breath before she put down her chopsticks and wiped her mouth to look at the soulful Ava across the table.
The bowl of noodles in front of her was cold, and she had only moved two bites.
"Does it still hurt?" Emma asked.
Ava subconsciously touched her face and shook her head, "It doesn't hurt anymore, that medicinal patch you gave is very effective."
When she was in the car, Emma gave her a medicated patch, she put it on her face for but ten minutes and the redness and slap marks disappeared.
Emma's eyes fell on the gauze on her arm, "Did you fight back?"
"...... What?" Ava didn't respond for a moment.
Emma frowned, "That evil mother-in-law of yours scalded you with boiling water, don't tell me you didn't fight back."
"She didn't do it on purpose, it was me who accidentally spilled the hot water ......," Ava subconsciously made excuses for Grace.
Married for so many years, and mother-in-law Grace from time to time there will be some friction, Ava have endured.
After all, the family and everything is happy, Grace is the eldest.
What's more, now that her own mother's family is gone and she has lost her greatest dependence, she can only tolerate Grace some more if she wants to live a good life.
Emma looked at her sister in silence, her eyes clear and sharp.
From the face of the face, she has a bad luck cover today, not to mention that she has broken her fortune and hurt her feelings, and next, there is a big disaster ......
"Sis, no matter what happens, you can tell me. I'll help you out."
Twenty year old girl, leaving home can't even eat a meal, what can help her?
Ava only thought that her sister was comforting her, she patted Emma's hand and said with relief, "If you have this heart, sister is touched. But if you can take care of yourself, you're doing your sister a big favor. Tomorrow I will go to find an old classmate to see if I can arrange an easier job for you. It's good to earn four or five thousand a month, at least it can guarantee your basic life."
Four or five thousand a month?
Emma raised her eyebrows in wonder, "Is it so hard to earn money under the mountain?"
She started with five thousand for helping people read fortunes in the mountains ......
Ava just assumed that Emma had stayed in the mountains for a long time and was out of touch with society.
"Of course, you don't know how hard it is to earn money nowadays. I'm also considered a graduate of a prestigious university, but as soon as I graduated, I got married and had children and became a housewife, and now it's hard for me to go back to find a job ......"
Emma suddenly smiled slightly.
"There's no rush, here comes the money delivery."
"...... What?"
Ava hadn't reacted yet, and first heard a piercing sharp brake.
"Shout-"
A black van suddenly rushed over and stopped at the side of the road.
From the car came down a few fierce men, heading straight for them.
Ava saw the faces of the incoming men and her face went white at that moment, she stood up violently and rushed forward to protect Emma behind her without even thinking.
"What are you guys doing here again? I gave you all my money! This has nothing to do with my sister!"
Her voice was shaking.
How vicious this group of loan shark hooligans were, Ava had seen it this morning ......
The scarred man at the head of the group smiled but didn't laugh, and took out an IOU from his pocket, on which Mason's signature and handprint were still on the IOU.
"Mrs. Mason, your husband Mason gambled a few more times this afternoon, and now with interest, he owes us a total of fifty million dollars! In order to save his life, he has offset the Ai family villa to us." The scarred man's face suddenly became ferocious, "Now he's in hiding, playing disappearance with me. Mrs. Wan, I'll just have to ask you for the house!"
"......"
Ava looked at the black and white IOUs and Mason's familiar signature, and only felt the sky spinning and her eyes darkening.
This morning the gang came to the door, Ava realized that Mason behind her back in the outside gambling, but also owed a butt of debt ......
She originally thought that Mason was just a momentary misstep, but she never thought that he could even take their wedding house and gamble on it!
Ava clenched her back teeth and said in a trembling voice, "No, there's absolutely no way I'm giving you guys this house!"
It was the last inheritance left to her by her parents!
She grew up in that house, and all the good memories were in it ......
The scarred man unhurriedly collected the IOU.
"Then it can't be helped, I can only take you back to talk slowly ......" He slanted his eyes at the little brother behind him, "What are you still waiting for? Ask Mrs. Wan to get on the car!"
Ava looked at the several big men who surrounded her, trembling with fear ......
"You guys don't come over! I ...... I'll call the police now!"
"Hehe, hurry up and report it! I'll see which one who is not afraid of death dares to meddle!"
The scarred man didn't take Ava's threat in his eyes at all.
He dared to do this business openly and honestly, and he naturally had high-level cover in the police station.
The owner of the noodle stall and the few passersby around him ducked away, they were all ordinary people, how would they dare to mess with these punks ......
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