Chapter 1928: Distributing Money

“In that case, give me your phone. I’ll transfer five hundred yuan to your card. That should last you for a period of time.”

Thankfully, she didn’t have any cash on her. Otherwise, her mother would have definitely taken away all the cash on her when she was undergoing surgery. Thankfully, her mother wasn’t good at paying with her phone as well. Otherwise, what should she do if her mother had been using her phone to transfer money to her account behind her back?

The more Qiao Zijin thought about it, the more worried she became. She decided to study her phone. In the past, because of convenience, she didn’t set up any phone lock settings and anyone could turn on her phone. No one knew her payment pa.s.sword, but her mother might, as she had used her birthday.

Right. She should do a fingerprint lock so that it’s more secure.

Upon hearing the text message prompt from her phone, Ding Jiayi knew that Qiao Zijin had already transferred the five hundred yuan to her. When she saw the five hundred yuan, not only did Ding Jiayi not feel the joy from receiving money out of filial piety from her favorite daughter for the first time, but she felt disinterested instead.

Five hundred yuan. Five hundred yuan…

If she remembered correctly, that wretched girl only gave her a few hundred yuan at the beginning when she just came out of school and wasn’t earning a lot. Later, that wretched girl’s salary increased and she was doing part-time as a translator. The money she gave her increased month by month. When other children were still earning one or two thousand yuan a month, that wretched girl was already giving her ten or twenty thousand yuan a month.

If that wretched girl didn’t give her so much money each month, she wouldn’t have been able to afford the courtyard or big house.

Ding Jiayi was already used to receiving a five-figure amount from Qiao Nan for her ‘living allowance’. Qiao Zijin suddenly decreased this five-figure amount to five hundred yuan. Even if this money was given by her favorite daughter, Ding Jiayi still felt particularly troubled when she saw this small amount.

It was rare for Ding Jiayi to speak sincerely. “Actually, it’s pretty good when that wretched girl was still at home. She made contributions to this family.” At least, in terms of money, the amount that the three of them made wasn’t even half of what that wretched girl could earn.

When the wretched girl was still around, she didn’t need to bother much about money. Now, Zijin only gave her five hundred yuan. This amount could last her ten days in normal times if she scrimped and saved. However, Zijin had just finished her surgery and needed more nutrition. It might not even last her five days, let alone ten days or a week. Was she going to ask Zijin for money again five days later?

There was no other choice. She wasn’t working and Old Qiao was already retired. His retirement salary wasn’t high enough. She had to ask Zijin for money to spend on the items to nourish her body.

If not for Qiao Zijin having just finished her surgery, Ding Jiayi wanted to discuss with her how much she was going to provide her as a monthly living allowance for the days to come. Otherwise, it was not only troublesome but also pointless to ask her for money once every few days or a few times a month.

Qiao Zijin’s worries were not completely unfounded. Although Ding Jiayi had provided the money for Qiao Zijin’s initial hospital stay, the money taken out from Ding Jiayi’s pockets were all obtained from Qiao Nan. Once Qiao Nan broke the habit of giving Ding Jiayi money, the money in her hands decreased day by day. In addition, Qiao Zijin was still hospitalized. Ding Jiayi had spent all the few tens of thousands yuan she had obtained, which were initially meant to provide her for her old age.

When Qiao Nan was still around, Ding Jiayi never hesitated and just kept asking Qiao Nan for money to provide for Qiao Zijin. Although Qiao Nan was gone now, Qiao Zijin’s and Ding Jiayi’s lives were still continuing. Qiao Nan aside, Qiao Zijin was also her daughter. She had just sold a house for two million yuan. Ding Jiayi, who didn’t have any money, would definitely have to ask Qiao Zijin for money.

In Ding Jiayi’s worldview, there was nothing wrong with this. In fact, it was correct.

After confirming that Qiao Zijin had no issues with her surgery after twenty-four hours of observation, the doctor shared with Ding Jiayi and Qiao Dongliang about some conditions and allowed the Qiao family to handle the discharge procedures for Qiao Zijin. It was unknown why, but when the family left the hospital, they couldn’t help but heave a huge sigh of relief.

What the three of them didn’t notice when they left was that there was a flas.h.i.+ng camera behind their backs. The night Qiao Zijin was discharged from the hospital, Ping Cheng followed up with a piece of news. A month ago, they were still kicking up a fuss, saying that Qiao Zijin had no means to survive as Qiao Nan had taken away all of Qiao Zijin’s life-saving money. However, this afternoon, before Qiao Nan returned, not only did Qiao Zijin not die, but she even had the money to accept the kidney transplant and was discharged from the hospital in good health.

This proved that without Qiao Nan, Qiao Zijin still had some money in her pockets.

Qiao Zijin was so angry when she saw the news that night that her wound started to hurt. After taking a few mouthfuls of the pigeon soup, she returned to her room and sulked. After divorcing Chen Jun, Qiao Zijin thought that she was still in her early forties and hadn’t lived half of her life yet. It was impossible for Chen Jun not to remarry. She didn’t have to keep her chast.i.ty for Chen Jun after the divorce. She didn’t even do so when she was married, let alone now that she had gotten a divorce.

It was just that once this piece of news was broadcast, Qiao Zijin couldn’t help but wonder if she could find a man in Ping Cheng who was willing to marry her. Upon seeing the content of the news, Qiao Zijin’s and Ding Jiayi’s faces turned dark. Ding Jiayi kept saying that this was fake news, but Qiao Zijin could see her sorry state from the news.

Based on this piece of news, it was difficult for her to even make friends in the future, let alone find a man who was willing to marry her.

Lying on the bed, Qiao Zijin felt so uncomfortable that she tossed and turned and couldn’t go to sleep. The news made her upset. During the meal just now, her mother kept repeating that she had already spent more than two hundred yuan out of the five hundred yuan within a day, which made Qiao Zijin feel even more uncomfortable. There was only one motive for her mother to have mentioned money, and that was to get money from her.

She said that it didn’t matter what she and her father were eating but she was still recuperating, so she didn’t dare to buy only vegetables. It sounded nice, but in short, it was about money and asking for money. The two million yuan had not reached her hands yet, but she had already spent four hundred thousand yuan. Her mother was still asking for money every day. It was afraid that the remaining one million and six hundred thousand yuan will be spent sooner or later as well.

No, she had to think of a way. Moreover, once the house in her hands was sold, she would become homeless. In the past, she didn’t fancy the courtyard and wanted to sell it for money. Now that the big house was sold, it was better not to sell the courtyard. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have a place to stay in. There was a need to sell the house, but the courtyard had to belong to her.

Right. Once the one million and six hundred thousand yuan was in her hands, she would give her mother ten thousand yuan.