Chapter 1689: Chapter 1305: Mockery_3

Basically, it can be confirmed that Xu Chunxia has an illness involving personal privacy.

At the entrance of the courtyard.

"Kang Libao, you... you really won’t lend me money?"

Kang Li dragged Xu Chunxia out of the courtyard, then walked farther away from the gate. After that, she let go of Xu Chunxia, just in time to hear what the other woman was saying.

She didn’t say anything, just quietly watched Xu Chunxia.

"I know what I said at your place before wasn’t just excessive, it was totally unreasonable, but you already beat me up—can’t just send me away empty handed, can you?

And besides, even if I do what you said and go look for some dish-washing or nanny job, that’s going to take time, isn’t it? Right now I don’t have a single cent to my name..."

"When things are like this, you still don’t plan to go back to your hometown?"

"I don’t want to return in disgrace."

"..."

Kang Li stared at Xu Chunxia for a moment, then asked: "By the way, how did you get tricked?"

"I don’t want to talk about it."

Xu Chunxia was afraid Kang Li would laugh at how brainless she was and refused to say how she’d been deceived.

"It was a man who tricked you, wasn’t it?"

As soon as she said this, Kang Li immediately saw a change in Xu Chunxia’s expression and knew she’d probably guessed right. For a moment, she was rather speechless. In a dry tone, she said, "The difference between people and other animals is that we can think independently, discover problems, study them, and then try to solve them.

To put it simply, we humans have a kind of wisdom that other animals don’t, but as for you, I don’t know what you use your brain for. You managed to let a man swindle you out of all your money; impressive. Xu Chunxia, you’re really something. Having a brain and not using it, you just handed a man a ’get rich quick’ opportunity."

"I know you’re mocking me."

Xu Chunxia looked at Kang Li. "If you can’t lend me much, can’t you at least lend me a little?"

"..."

Kang Li shifted her gaze to Xu Chunxia’s outstretched hand. After a moment, she pulled two Great Reunion Banknotes from her pocket. "That’s all I have. If you want it, take it."

"Twenty?"

Xu Chunxia stared at the twenty yuan Kang Li handed her, her eyes full of disbelief.

"Too little? Xu Chunxia, you realize this is half a month’s wage for an apprentice worker."

In recent years, wages may have increased a bit, but apprentice workers only get 18 at the lowest, 26 at most. Even full-time workers start at just 36 yuan.

Besides, prices are low in this era, so money goes further. The twenty yuan she gave Xu Chunxia would last her a good ten days.

"Don’t want it?"

Kang Li wasn’t going to indulge Xu Chunxia’s bad habits. Seeing the woman hesitate, she prepared to put the money back in her pocket.

Unexpectedly, Xu Chunxia snatched the twenty yuan out of her hand and said, quite disdainfully, "Having recognized such a wealthy dad, you’re still so stingy. Kang Libao, you’re really small-minded!"

"Yes, yes, I’m very small-minded. Now that I’ve given you the money, I won’t waste any more breath with you."

With that, Kang Li turned toward the courtyard gate. "Don’t come looking for me again. I don’t resent you enough to be enemies, but neither do I want any connection with you. I especially don’t want to get close."

As these words landed, Kang Li was already walking back into the courtyard.

Xu Chunxia gripped the twenty tightly, watching Kang Li’s back and muttering under her breath, "Kang Libao, you think I want any connection with you, or want to get close?"

...

"She left?"

As she entered the living room, Kang Li heard Cai Xiufen ask. She nodded. "I lent her twenty."

Chief Kang said nothing.

Jiang Boya had been playing with the three dumplings, but after hearing that, he looked over at Kang Li. "People like that? You shouldn’t even lend them a cent."

"I know someone like her isn’t worth a thing, and she’s not deserving of sympathy. But at the end of the day, she’s still from our village. If I really don’t lend a single cent, I wouldn’t care about saving face, but if people in the village find out about today, they’ll end up gossiping about my parents.

After all, people usually sympathize with the weak, and Xu Chunxia’s family doesn’t have a single reasonable person. If something happened to her here in Beicheng and her relatives found out, they’d cause trouble at our place for their own benefit, twisting facts in the village, and I don’t want to hear that buzzing like flies."

When Kang Li finished, Chief Kang said, "People from the same village see each other all the time. If Libao really didn’t lend even a cent, it wouldn’t sound good at all if word got around."

Jiang Boya heard this and, without emotion, said, "She brought it all on herself; it has nothing to do with Libao, nothing to do with you, big brother, or sister-in-law. But, that said, you have a point. You’ve lived in the same village for years. If you really didn’t lend her anything and it got around, it would sound pretty bad."

Kang Li said, "Dad, Xu Chunxia was taken abroad by someone. To be honest, it kind of helped me out of a jam, and I don’t mean that out of pity."

"I know what you mean."

Jiang Boya’s expression was hard to read. He said, "That woman from the Davis family, in order to cure her son’s illness, will try anything. She arranged for someone to trick that lunatic just now into going abroad, all to make sure I wouldn’t find out and ruin her plans.

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