Chapter XI

I don't know how many times a day I have to watch the real-time news of the fight against the epidemic, and I think this is probably how everyone spends their days now.

There's a little video that says another 14 days are coming, is your wallet okay?

Alas, my wallet is terrible!

Although I don't have a mortgage or a car loan, I have to pay insurance every month. Now they are all staying at home, the children do not go to school, and the kindergarten tuition is not in a hurry for the time being.

That's right, I have always borne the children's tuition fees, as well as the usual food and clothing. I have no complaints about that.

Social security and medical insurance cannot be severed. It's less than 770 yuan a month, which is not much. But now that I don't go to work, I don't have any income or savings, so it's too sad.

Since I transferred three sums of money to my mother after the New Year, my hands were already empty. So, my mom is very worried that I'll be poor and have nothing to eat.

Since I repeatedly refused to allow my mother to return the money to me, she had to call me and tell me that if you are in a hurry, borrow it from your third or fourth uncle, and they will lend it to you immediately.

My mom must have said hello to my two uncles, but I wouldn't open my mouth to borrow money from anyone. You can't borrow it from your uncle.

I really can't, I'd rather cut off those two insurances once.

I sent a few red envelopes to Lao Wang for him to buy vegetables, I didn't want to pretend to be deaf and dumb at his house to eat and drink, but Lao Wang confiscated them.

He still goes to work every day and has an income all the time. He didn't say anything else, just said no, I don't want it.

I must have been injured in all the previous battles between me and him, so now I am careful not to communicate or say a single emotional word.

What I never expected was that Yu Zecheng would transfer money to me. He used WeChat to transfer money directly, and I was shocked to see the 3,000 yuan.

He said, "I'll take the money!" and I'll pay you insurance.

I didn't even think about it, so I returned it immediately. I said, "Thank you, I still have the money to pay for the insurance."

He turned around again and said very forcefully: "Take it!

Can I take it? I asked myself.

3,000 yuan is not a lot, but it can relieve my urgent need. His behavior is a charcoal in the snow for me now.

The point is, can I spend his money so blatantly?

Seeing that I was silent and didn't reply, he sent another sentence: Even if I lent it to you. When will you return it to me, it's almost over!

I sighed, I really want to accept it, I'm not high!

But I immediately returned it: I really don't need it, thank you very much!

His head was quiet, and he didn't transfer money or speak again. I'd love to have a chat with him and ask him where he is now? He works in a state-owned enterprise, so he should be on vacation now, right?

But at this time, the atmosphere was very delicate and awkward, he did not speak again, and I did not disturb him again.

To be honest, before I met Lao Wang, in the first two years when Yu Zecheng and I became netizens, he gave me red envelopes, and I accepted them all.

Once when I was shopping in the mall to buy underwear, he asked me what I was doing on WeChat, and I said to buy underwear. Soon, he sent me a red envelope, and I clicked on it immediately without thinking about it, two hundred yuan.

At that time, I asked him: What do you mean, give me money?

He said, "It's just a slip of the hand!" Why don't you send it back to me!

I laughed and didn't plan to give it back to him. I said, "I'm going to keep it as evidence, maybe I'll show it to your wife one day!"

He replied with two big question marks, and then said, "Oh! It's okay, whatever you want."

Another time I went out to eat with my colleague, and he opened WeChat and asked me what I was doing, and I said that I went out to eat with my colleague, and he sent a red envelope, which was still 200 yuan when I clicked on it.

I asked: Are you slipping your hands again?

He said: No, it's to buy you delicious food, and it's good to lose weight when you're full!

I laughed: I have two pieces of evidence in my hand now, don't offend me, otherwise I'll send it to your wife!

He replied in seconds: Wife, what wife? and then withdrew in seconds.

I didn't understand then, and even now, why he quickly withdrew that rhetorical question.

Just now he transferred me 3,000 yuan, should I also take a screenshot to give a souvenir? That's right, it's not any evidence, it's a commemoration.

I don't know who said that there is no woman who can't do it with money these days.

Look, look, I'm so poor that I can't afford to pay 800 yuan for insurance, so I don't want the 3,000 yuan if I treat money as dung!

What is it, my state of mind is not high enough? But I really want it! I'm just a layman!

It's just that I really didn't dare to ask for it.

I'm 38 years old, and I'm almost halfway through my life. I probably won't have an online friendship that can last for more than eight years.

I want this friendship to last forever, so I must not let the money go wrong for it.

Although Yu Zecheng and I have never met, the friendship is full, and it is by no means something that can be defined by the word netizen.