After Luo Honglan left, Fang Pingying noticed it was already getting late. Although there were still buses returning to the compound, the weather was cold with light snow falling. Worried about the road to the military base being difficult to navigate, she asked Luo Zhiyong, "You’ve taken a few days off; can you stay here another day tomorrow?"
Luo Zhiyong nodded but hesitated, "I do have leave, but I haven’t been back to the base for several days. I’m thinking of going back to see if there’s anything that needs attention."
Ever since his wife renovated the shop, he hadn’t even helped to look after it, delegating everything to her. He felt a bit guilty about this and planned to help her check the carpentry and tidy up the shop tomorrow.
Fang Pingying saw that he had been running around these past few days and wanted him to rest for a day, so she said, "There’s probably nothing urgent. If there was, Huang Lin would have certainly notified you by now."
Luo Zhiyong also felt there was nothing to worry about, "That’s true. Let’s not go back tonight then. We can go back to the compound together tomorrow."
"Are you going to follow up on Zhiming’s matter tomorrow?" Fang Pingying asked him.
Luo Zhiyong pondered for a mont, "I won’t go. I’ve already said my piece to that woman today, telling her I won’t be involved in this matter. Even if she seeks out, it’s no use."
"Why not stay here tomorrow, and let Honglan accompany them? You can buy their tickets in the morning, and after that, directly take both our mothers to the train station to buy tickets for their trip ho." Fang Pingying was worried that if Luo Zhiyong didn’t personally send them off, Zhou Yuni might not leave so smoothly, "My shop needs to start working in the next few days as we’re opening soon."
What she ant was that she couldn’t start work with them around.
"Alright, I’ll buy the tickets in the morning, and then I’ll take them straight to the train station," Luo Zhiyong understood her aning, and he shared Fang Pingying’s sentint. Now he didn’t want anything else, but to just send Zhou Yuni and the others off, hoping that would settle the matter.
Fang Pingying nodded and, rembering that he’d need to buy tickets tomorrow, asked him, "Do you still have money on you?"
"I do, there’s still so left from last ti." Actually, Luo Zhiyong only had several dollars left, but considering all the trouble, he felt embarrassed to ask his wife for more money. He thought about buying a ticket for his mother-in-law tomorrow, and let Luo Zhiming and his wife pay for Zhou Yuni’s.
After all, his mother-in-law was a different case from Zhou Yuni, and he had to maintain basic propriety.
"Take this money. You’ll still have to buy sothing for them to eat on the road tomorrow," Fang Pingying handed over 20 yuan to him as soon as she saw his expression, knowing that he must have run out of money. However, she still reminded him, "But don’t always be the first to offer money. We don’t want them thinking we have so much money we can’t spend it all. With people who like to count every penny, we need to be just as cautious."
She paused, then brought up yesterday’s incident, "Just like the money for staying at the hostel yesterday. Fang Xiu actually had money but pretended to be poor, obviously trying to force us to pay. I wasn’t planning to pay, but you handed over the money without a second thought."
Luo Zhiyong knew he was rather careless with money and admitted his mistake with a smile, "Wife, I know. The matter with Zhiming has indeed caused trouble for our family. Don’t worry, after this, if he truly has another issue, I definitely won’t get involved, and I will never waste money again."
"If you’re really able to keep out of it, that would be good. Then Zhiming wouldn’t dare be so arrogant," Fang Pingying said with a chuckle, without blaming him, "However, I guess after this incident, Zhiming will have to keep his head down for a while. Having to compensate a month’s salary, he won’t be able to act rashly even if he wants to."
"That’s also true." Luo Zhiyong also hoped it would be the case. If Zhiming dared to make another mistake, Luo Zhiyong wouldn’t intervene even if it ant his death.
Fang Pingying nodded, walked into the inner room, straightened out the bedding, and called him, "Let’s sleep early tonight. After sending them back tomorrow, we can relax a bit."
"Okay."
The next day, Luo Zhiyong went to the hostel in the morning to tell them how to handle the situation and also made Luo Honglan supervise.
To prevent them from causing more trouble, Luo Zhiyong, with an iron-blue face, reiterated, "Today, you must do as I said. If you cause trouble like yesterday again, I’m washing my hands off this. No matter what happens in the future, you’ll have to deal with it yourselves."
Perhaps because the issue had been dragging on for so long, frustrating everyone, or perhaps fearing that Luo Zhiyong would truly stop involving himself, this ti everyone behaved and did not cause trouble. They spoke to the woman about repaynt, and swiftly took her to the hospital to terminate the pregnancy.
In fact, the woman was honest; it was her family who was strong-willed. As long as her family could get so money, they did not care much about her. Even for the abortion at the hospital, they let her go alone with the Luo Family, without anyone to accompany her.
After settling Luo Zhiming’s issue, upon returning, Luo Zhiyong just happened to have lined up and bought train tickets for the noon train.
They could still make it to the train station in ti if they hurried, so Luo Zhiyong urged Zhou Yuni and Li Yuchun, "Pack up your things; Zhiming and I are taking you to the train station to go ho."
Although it was agreed upon yesterday, now that she had to go back, Zhou Yuni was sowhat reluctant, "So soon, I was thinking of having a good look around here."
Luo Zhiyong couldn’t be bothered to waste ti talking with her and handed her the train ticket, "If you want to stay here, it’s up to you. Take care of your own food and lodging, I’m leaving."
Having said that, Luo Zhiyong walked briskly several steps forward.
But Zhou Yuni grabbed his arm, "You..."
"Whether you’re going back or not, if going, I’ll escort you to the train station. If you don’t want to go back, I’m returning to my duty station right now." After saying this, Luo Zhiyong glanced at Luo Zhiming and added, "And Luo Zhiming, since you’ve already greeted people about it that day, now that this issue is resolved, go back to the timber mill this afternoon and start working. Be diligent, repay the money on ti every month, otherwise, if soone takes this to the Police Station, don’t co looking for ."
"Mom, you should go back; I have to go to work, and big brother has to return to his duty. What’s there for you to enjoy here?" Luo Zhiming saw Luo Zhiyong’s impatient deanor today, unwilling to indulge in further conversation with them, also hesitated to keep Zhou Yuni because he couldn’t afford to cover her expenses.
So, he said to Zhou Yuni, "Mom, and also, the hostel fee is due today. When I ca out just now, the staff were already reminding about it."
Hearing Luo Zhiming also speak in such a manner, Zhou Yuni felt it inappropriate to insist, and thus agreed to go back.
Li Yuchun, having previously had a serious talk with Fang Pingying, found it difficult to imdiately suggest going back to Fang Pingying to ask her to stay, and also concerned about Fang Xiu working under Fang Pingying’s arrangent, did not object and directly agreed to go ho.
Luo Zhiyong told them to go back to get their belongings, and seeing Xu He standing still to the side, he then said, "Right, Xu He, you ntioned you didn’t know which bus to take to get to your workplace, right? Go with them to collect your things. I’ll take you to the train station along the way, and I’ll speak to the driver. You just get off when you reach the place." (To be continued. If you like this work, welco to Qidian (qidian) to cast your recomndation votes and monthly ticket. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian to read.)
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