Chapter 12: The Man with the Joy in His Name
In the intense preparation for opening a store, what Jiayi lacks most now is money. She not only needs store rent, store decoration, publicity, daily operation of the machine, raw materials cost money, a few inquiries, tossing everywhere, she has smashed all the savings of the past few years of work into it is still a little stretched.
"At least 50,000 short." Jia Yi helplessly spread her hands and cried to Yuanyuan.
Yuanyuan also snapped her fingers and said, "This amount is not big or small, and my friend borrowed it." β
Hearing this, Jia Yi opened her palm and stretched out her hand to Yuanyuan with surprise on her face.
Yuanyuan pushed away: "It's not me, an unemployed vagrant's annual salary is not 50,000." Qiao Le, his monthly salary is more than 50,000 yuan. β
Jia Yi shook her head helplessly, "No, you can't ask him to borrow it." β
"Why? Doesn't he borrow? β
Jia Yi sighed and said, "No, it's that I don't want to ask him." Anyone but him. β
"Why, why can't he? Did you quarrel? β
Jia Yi lowered her head, looking embarrassed, not knowing how to answer.
"I see, are you worried about Xiaoyin?" Yuanyuan said as if she had an epiphany.
Jia Yi shook her head and nodded again, but Yuan Yuan didn't pay attention at all, and just looked at herself and said, "That's right, Xiao Yin should be very mindful of you asking Qiao Le to borrow money." However, if you ask Xiaoyin directly and let her know that you need money to open a store, maybe she will understand. β
Jia Yi sneered and said, "Ask Xiao Yin directly?" Hum! She's going to complain to her abrasive cousin. β
"Complaint? I'm afraid that the lawsuit won't be enough, but she may pay for it herself so that you don't have to borrow it from Qiao Le. Yuanyuan frowned again as she spoke, and said, "However, although Xiao Yin's family is very rich, she doesn't seem to have any savings herself, and most of them reach out to ask her cousin for money." β
Yuanyuan's words made Jia Yi think of a good solution: Xiao Yin didn't want Jia Yi to borrow money from Qiao Le, but she didn't have any money herself, so she would ask her patron saint Gao Qu to borrow money. In this way, it is also a good choice to not only borrow money, but also to avenge that night.
She and Yuanyuan immediately discussed it, and then asked Xiaoyin to come out to meet and talk about borrowing money, not surprisingly, Xiaoyin really agreed. She held Jia Yi's hand and said, "I know your difficulties, and I have always wanted to help you, the matter of borrowing money is on me, Qiao Le has also been busy recently, I think it will be more convenient for me to help you." β
Jia Yi and Yuan Yuan happily touched their eyes, they can take it so quickly, this girl is not a little simple!
But on the way back, Yuanyuan, who had an uneasy conscience, still took Jia Yi's hand and said, "Do you think we are using Xiaoyin?" β
Jia Yi nodded again and shook her head again, "It's just borrowing money, and it's not that you don't pay it back." Having said that, she actually had a little contempt for herself in her heart, but unfortunately the temptation to open a store was so great, and she quickly put this boring guilt behind her.
Xiao Yin really borrowed money from Gao Qu. At home, her mother Qu Yaying has always been strict, and she must ask about the money exchange, and her father Lu Qihong is often not at home, if she wants to get the money smoothly, she can only ask Gao Qu for help. But her cousin, who has always loved her, is still very curious about Xiaoyin's reason for borrowing money.
She had to think of a casual excuse: "Recently, a classmate flew to Paris, I want her to bring me a few of the latest fashion items, so expensive, I don't have any extra money on hand, I ask you to borrow it first." β
Gao Qu couldn't help frowning.
Xiao Yin was afraid that her cousin would not agree, so she hurriedly said, "I promise to pay it back within three months." She squatted down coquettishly again, shaking his arm with one hand, and pouted, "Don't you believe me?" β
Gao Qu was a little overwhelmed, he pinched his cousin's pink little face, and said with love: "Believe in it, how could I not believe you?" I'll transfer it to you later. β
Xiao Yin was stunned that he transferred the account in front of him, confirmed the number, and then refused to give up, and was about to go out, when she suddenly remembered something, she returned to Gao Qu's side, approached with her little face, and dropped a light kiss on his face: "Thank you, cousin." β
Exactly like when she was a child, Xiao Yin also liked to kiss Gao Qu's cheek when she was a child, rubbing and kissing like a kitten. He watched Xiao Yin leave, she rarely asked him for anything since she dated Qiao Le, let alone be as intimate as today, he once thought that his cousin's mind had completely shifted to another strange man, and the two no longer had the warmth they had when they grew up together, but now that the scene has reappeared, it really makes him satisfied.
At least this money was not lent to her by Qiao Le's guy, what's the difference? Gao Qu thought to himself.
Xiao Yin handed over the money to Jia Yi as promised, but at this time, Jia Yi, who was looking at the stacks of cash in front of her, was a little empty, she looked at Xiao Yin and asked, "This money ...... Can you really lend me? β
"Of course, if you want to open a store, you can take it!" Xiao Yin said with a smile.
"But...... I'm afraid it will take a long time to pay it back. β
"It's okay, my cousin is not short of this money, if you don't have enough, I can borrow it again!"
"That'...... Does your cousin know that I borrowed the money? β
He ...... Ah, he's too busy, it's okay, I'll call the shots, he'll follow me! Xiao Yin said and pushed the cash in front of Jia Yi.
Jia Yi frowned and hesitated, but once the scene of him tricking himself that night appeared in her mind, she immediately put her heart down, tightened her teeth, put the cash on the table into her pocket, and she looked at Xiao Yin again and said, "Don't worry, I will definitely pay it back!" β
Xiao Yin nodded, pulled her hand out of her palm, and said with a smile: "However, Sister Jiayi, you must not sue Qiao Le about this matter......
"I ......" Of course she wouldn't sue Qiao Le, but when she thought of that man, she felt a sense of guilt in her heart, how could she be so unbearable, full of guilt for everyone.
"Promise me, don't sue SΓΉ Qiao Le!" Xiao Yin suddenly reached out to hold Jia Yi's hand, just now she deliberately pulled it out, but now she took the initiative to hold it, only to hear her voice gradually lower, almost pleading: "Also, if you can...... Can you see him less......"
Jia Yi looked at her in a daze, and the guilt that was just about to come out of her heart shrank on the spot, and even Jia Yi herself was a little caught off guard, and before she could react, she stared at Xiao Yin again and said, "Do you really think we have anything?" β
Xiao Yin immediately let go of Jia Yi's hand, muttered and said, "I...... I don't know, but you're really abnormal! β
"I'm just friends with him, you don't have to worry too much."
"But he's suddenly sullen these days, and I think it's because you left him." Xiao Yin said weakly, her voice so low that she cried.
Qiao Le...... Unhappy? Jia Yi asked, her heart tightening, and her mind recalled the last time they talked on the phone, she let him be teased in plain detail in the light of playing a game, and his voice that was almost dry up could not be removed.
Isn't the man with the word "Le" in his name happy? In the past, it was probably a big joke in their threesome, but who would have thought that she would become accustomed to his unhappiness when she returned, and only today did she realize the strangeness when his name was pronounced, followed by unhappiness.
Thinking of this, her eyes were low, and she fell back to the bag on her lap, where there was bulging money, the money that was "cheated" from Gao Qu, and the capital that allowed her to escape from the past and start a new life, but did the past she want to escape really include Qiao Le?
"Sister Jiayi...... As long as you promise me, you can come to me if you want to borrow money or anything in the future! β
Jia Yi raised her head, looked at Xiao Yin's slightly red eyes, shook her head and said, "This is the last time, if I still have to borrow money, then there is no need for me to open this store." Other than that...... I can only promise that you won't go to Qiao Le to cause you unnecessary misunderstandings, but I am still friends with him, so ...... I also hope you can be considerate, in fact, I can see that he loves you very much, you don't have to worry too much......"
She persuaded Xiao Yin, and also persuaded herself, although she needed money very much, and urgently needed it, but it was not enough to mortgage her and Qiao Le's friendship over the years, not to mention that a large part of the reason she borrowed money from Xiao Yin was to take revenge on Gao Qu, and she refused to let Qiao Le become an innocent victim again, at least in terms of money, she did not allow the friendship between them to be trampled on like this.
But the track of her new life is indeed gradually deviating from Qiao Le, and even bypassing him completely, running in another direction, out of control.