Chapter 387: Awkward Future Entrepreneur
Chapter 387 The Awkward Future Entrepreneur
"You are—Jiang Mengyu?" His voice carried a hesitation, as he truly couldn’t believe that the small, skinny, and dark little girl would turn into the fairy-like noble lady before him.
Mengyu smiled: "Yes, it’s me!"
"Are you really Mengyu? How is that possible? How did you grow so tall, so much, so—" The word "beautiful" was on the tip of Ah Xin’s tongue, but he couldn’t bring himself to say it.
Due to chronic malnutrition, Ah Xin, who was skinny and small, looked like he was only thirteen or fourteen years old, but in reality, he was already sixteen.
Seeing the little girl who used to scavenge trash with him transform into a fairy, how could he dare to believe it?
"It really is Mengyu." Ah Xin stared at Mengyu in disbelief: "Did you get rich?" Then he immediately added: "How did getting rich make you grow taller? Is it because you’ve been eating well?"
He really wanted to grow taller, but being only 1.6 meters at the age of sixteen, what could he do if he couldn’t grow taller?
"You will grow taller," Mengyu comforted him. However, it wasn’t just an empty comfort, because, as Ah Piao in her previous life, she had seen him being interviewed on TV, and by her estimation, he was at least 1.75 meters tall.
A few people arrived at the hospital, and after examining the girl, the doctor started scolding: "Why did you wait until now to bring her in? Don’t you know this child already has pneumonia? Go complete the hospitalization procedures, and pay a deposit of two hundred yuan."
"What, pneumonia?" Ah Xin was shocked.
For all of them, when they fell ill or had a fever, they would just buy some cold medicine or fever-reducing drugs and get better - so why did it have to escalate into pneumonia for the little sister?
He looked at Mengyu with a troubled face.
Mengyu took out the money and gave it to Xiao Hua, who without another word, went to complete the hospitalization procedures.
After the doctor prescribed the medication, he instructed the nurses to give Ah Chou an IV drip, and then he walked away.
Ah Xin stressed: "Consider it a loan, I will definitely pay you back."
But Mengyu asked him: "Who is this girl to you?"
Ah Xin was taken aback: She was just Ah Jun’s little sister who collected trash with him, how was she related to him?
Mengyu chuckled: "Since she’s not related to you, why are you taking responsibility? Are you very wealthy?"
Ah Xin indignantly said: "I will earn a lot of money in the future!"
Mengyu found it amusing: "But that’s in the future. You don’t have money now, right? So why are you competing with me to pay?"
Ah Xin wanted to say more, but Mengyu interrupted him: "Stop arguing about money with me, I still have a favor to ask you."
"What is it?" Ah Xin perked up immediately.
"I remember there were about a dozen kids who collected and sold trash with you, right?"
"Yeah, they all went out to look for things. Today, because Ah Chou was sick, I was figuring out how to take her to the hospital when you guys came." He then asked: "What do you need us to do?"
Mengyu briefly explained her situation to him: "So, now I need people to keep an eye on Jiang Huaiyu, and tell me immediately if there’s any news. I’ll send you three hundred jin of rice every month."
Since food hadn’t yet been liberalized, giving them money didn’t guarantee they could buy rice. That’s why Mengyu offered them rice instead.
A move stirred in Ah Xin’s heart: "Okay." The black market price of rice was a little over 30 cents per jin, and three hundred jin a month was equivalent to one hundred yuan.
Collecting trash and selling it, they were not guaranteed to get so much rice in a month.
And these half-grown lads had big appetites, like himself; if allowed to eat his fill, he could consume one jin of rice in a single meal!
He had always been half-starved.
If he could get those three hundred jin of rice, plus the money from selling trash, he would be able to have a full stomach.