Chapter 883 - 302: Bai Weixi’s Dilemma, The Shocking Mother-in-law (2)

"No matter what the future is like, whatever happens, you have to be able to face it calmly..."

Listening to her mother’s teaching, Bai Weixi knit her delicate brows, feeling a bit unhappy.

Still, although she wasn’t happy, she also understood that her mother was thinking for her sake...

"Mom, I get it." Bai Weixi replied perfunctorily.

Yang Jinyu had just thought of this matter and casually reminded her. Seeing Bai Weixi’s "in one ear, out the other" attitude, she could only drop the topic and explain why she’d come.

"Weixi, here’s the thing, your cousin is also working in Modu, right? He’s getting married, and the bride’s side is asking him to buy a place in Modu. Your eldest uncle’s family doesn’t have enough money, so he came to your dad, wanting to borrow some..."

"You know, your dad and I have always spent money with a loose hand, so we haven’t saved much. I was thinking, if you have any spare money in your hands, maybe you could first lend a bit to your eldest uncle..."

"Originally, this should’ve been your dad’s job to talk to you about it, since it’s their Old Bai family’s business. But your dad’s thin-skinned and couldn’t bring himself to say it, so I came to ask."

After explaining the ins and outs, Yang Jinyu hurriedly added another sentence.

"Weixi, I’m just mentioning it casually. If you’ve got extra money, then help out; if you don’t, I’ll just tell your eldest uncle honestly and let him figure out something else."

"He’s a public servant; if it really doesn’t work, he can get a loan, borrow a bit more, and they’ll be able to put together the down payment."

Bai Weixi hadn’t expected that, late at night, her mother would come into her room to talk about "borrowing money"...

She actually had a pretty good impression of her cousin; when she was little, he often took her out to play.

He went to an aeronautics and astronautics university in Beijing and has been working there ever since. She hadn’t expected that now he’d be buying a place in Modu...

Bai Weixi asked, "Mom, how much do they need to borrow?"

Somewhat embarrassed, Yang Jinyu said, "Your eldest uncle said he wants to borrow 200,000."

"Two hundred thousand?"

Bai Weixi froze for a second, then secretly let out a breath of relief; that much money, she should have in her bank card.

"I should have 200,000, but I’m not totally sure. I’ll have to go to the bank and check."

Hearing her daughter say this, Yang Jinyu felt relieved and said with a smile:

"Alright then, tomorrow your dad and I will go with you to the bank to check."

Bai Weixi nodded. "Mm."

Yang Jinyu added, "Besides this, there’s another thing I want to discuss with you."

Curious, Bai Weixi asked, "Mom, what is it?"

Yang Jinyu smiled and said, "Here’s the thing, didn’t Li Yuan buy you a big apartment in Modu?"

"From what you said, that place hasn’t been renovated yet, right?"

"Yeah!" Bai Weixi nodded.

Before coming back, Li Yuan had taken her to see that apartment once. It wasn’t exactly a completely bare shell; it had some basic finishing done, and the water and electricity were already connected...

Smiling with anticipation, Yang Jinyu said, "So, now that we’ve basically finished visiting all the relatives in our hometown, and you said you’re heading back to Modu in the next couple of days, your dad and I were thinking, we’re not too comfortable with you going back alone, so we’ll specially see you back."

"And while we’re in Modu, we can take a look at your place, see how to renovate it, so that in the future when we go to Modu, we’ll have a place to stay too."

"Besides checking out the apartment, your dad and I also want to take you to visit your grandma and grandpa on my side. They’re getting old, their health is getting worse and worse. Just a few days ago they had a thrombosis surgery, and they’re still in the hospital now. Your eldest uncle told me to go back and visit when I have time..."

Bai Weixi didn’t have a deep impression of her maternal grandparents; she’d seen them a few times, and her feeling had been that they were rather stern and hard to approach.

As for those relatives, because she’d had so little contact with them, she didn’t really feel much.

But seeing the look on her mother’s face, Bai Weixi still nodded and agreed.

"Alright, Mom, I’ll go with you."

...

Early the next morning,

Yang Jinyu called Bai Weixi up to go to the bank together to check the balance.

Bai Weixi’s bank card was with CCB, and coincidentally, there was a CCB county branch right at the gate of No.4 High School.

"Old Bai, go line up, it’s the sixth day of the New Year and there are quite a lot of people."

Yang Jinyu nudged Bai Tianqi, telling him to go line up.

A black line seemed to flash over Bai Weixi’s head as she spoke, feeling utterly speechless:

"Mom, we don’t need to line up at the counter; we can just check it directly at the ATM."

"There’s no one here right now, I’ll go check."

Only then did Yang Jinyu come back to her senses. She patted her own silly head and laughed:

"I haven’t withdrawn money in ages, I almost forgot about this. Go on, check it."

Bai Weixi gave a slight smile, walked up to the ATM, slid the black-gold card into the slot, and entered her birthday.

Then she tapped "Check Balance."

In an instant, a long string of numbers appeared on the mechanical display.

"The balance of your bank card ending in 2750 is: 5,457,892.45 yuan."

Seeing that number, Bai Weixi instinctively counted the digits after the decimal point.

One, two... seven digits, ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten-thousands, hundred-thousands, millions...

"More than five million? How can there be this much?" Bai Weixi was so shocked by the number in the account that she cried out.

Next to her, Yang Jinyu and Bai Tianqi had just been wondering how much money their daughter had in her bank card.

Suddenly they heard Weixi’s exclamation, heard the words "five million," and were startled too, almost unable to believe it.

Yang Jinyu’s eyes went wide, and she hurriedly asked, "Weixi, what did you just say the amount was?"

Bai Weixi only blanked out for a moment before quickly snapping back.

Thinking of how Li Yuan had directly wired five million into her card, her heart felt sweet and she was very happy.

With a soft, radiant smile, Bai Weixi replied, "Dad, Mom, you can see for yourselves."

Bai Weixi stepped aside to let Bai Tianqi and Yang Jinyu come closer.

When the two of them saw more than five million clearly displayed as the account balance, they were instantly stunned.

"Five point four five million, I’m not seeing things, am I?" Bai Tianqi was dumbstruck; even he was shaken by that figure.

He had never seen so much money in his life.

He and Yang Jinyu had worked and saved all their lives, and even now they only had a couple hundred thousand at most, not even as much as that tail end.

While Yang Jinyu’s heart was trembling, she was thinking even more. The look she gave her precious daughter grew more satisfied.

"Looks like Li Yuan really treats Weixi very well." Yang Jinyu thought to herself.

That last bit of resentment, in the face of real cold, hard cash, gradually faded away.

They hadn’t seen the house in Modu yet, but this balance showing in the account was very real, right there in front of them...

Coming back to herself, Yang Jinyu asked curiously, "Weixi, how come Li Yuan gave you so much money? Is it for renovating the house?"

Bai Weixi shook her head. "I don’t know either when he transferred so much."

"As for the house renovation, he hasn’t said anything and I haven’t asked. We’re living in another villa right now."

Looking at her silly daughter, Yang Jinyu was speechless inside.

She had five or six million sitting in her bank card and didn’t even know it, just casually tossing the card in her bag, carrying it everywhere, not even worried about losing it.

Seeing people lining up behind them at the ATM, Bai Tianqi quickly reminded her, "Weixi, put your card away first, we’ll talk when we get home."

Bai Weixi froze for a second and instinctively asked, "Dad, weren’t you going to withdraw money? I’ll just transfer it to you."

Bai Tianqi shook his head. "We’ll talk about it later. Take the card out and put it away first."

Bai Weixi nodded, still puzzled.

...

After they got home, Bai Tianqi immediately called his older brother to say they could lend him the money.

Yang Jinyu reminded her:

"Weixi, transfer this two hundred thousand to your dad and let him lend it to your uncle. It’ll be easier for the two brothers to settle it later."

Bai Weixi didn’t really understand, she just obediently nodded her head.

Yang Jinyu added, "Old Bai, remember, this is a loan to your brother’s family. Keep the remittance slip and the IOU safe."

Bai Tianqi frowned slightly, wanting to say something, but seeing the serious look in Yang Jinyu’s eyes, he ended up nodding as well.

After giving her instructions, Yang Jinyu happily took Bai Weixi’s small hand, her face alight:

"Weixi, let’s drive to Modu today and go see your new place."