As soon as Meng Yunhan saw Han Yichen walking toward their bedroom, she was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. She immediately raised her voice, "Why are you taking out the family savings for something so small? Fine. If she wants to pay for his tuition, then let her pay. I am not going to stop her."
The word 'savings' was like her sore spot. Every time someone spoke about savings, Meng Yunhan felt like someone was holding her in a chokehold.
Han Yichen paused in his stride. He turned and looked at Meng Yunhan with a wary look in his eyes, as if he was silently assessing her. "What did you say?"
Sensing the suspicion-filled note in Han Yichen's voice, Meng Yunhan knew that the man was suspecting her. She curled her lips in a disdainful smile and faked a courageous front before saying, "Let her take that fool to the county. If she wants to waste her money, who am I to stop her? You are the head of the family. Do whatever you want." She snorted and tried to hide her guilty conscience.
Han Ruochen sneered inwardly. She knew it. With all the savings gone, Meng Yunhan would certainly not let her father take a look at the savings book, and eventually she would have to relent. However, that didn't mean that Han Ruochen was going to let her off so easily.
She smiled sweetly and turned to look at her father. "Dad, can you give me ten yuan?"
Han Yichen was not going to refuse such a simple request. He turned to look at Meng Yunhan and said to her in an imperious tone, "Give Ruochen ten dollars."
"What? Why should we give her ten yuan? She earned so much money yesterday. She doesn't need it," Meng Yunhan quibbled right away. They were already running so low on funds; where would she get ten yuan to give to Han Ruochen? That too, when this wretched girl had enough money in her hands. She didn't want to.
"What do you mean by that she has enough money? Ruochen's money is her own. She can use it how she wants, but that doesn't mean that, as her father, I shouldn't give her any money," retorted Han Yichen. It was as if he couldn't understand his wife anymore. He knew that Meng Yunhan was greedy, lazy and biased, but now that Han Ruochen was no longer willing to bow down in front of Meng Yunhan, he was seeing a completely different personality in his wife. One he didn't even know existed.
"You are spoiling her way too much!" Meng Yunhan glared at her husband and refused to take out the ten yuan. "How can you give her so much money? What do you even know? Maybe she might use the money for the wrong things."
Han Ruochen pursed her lips and said to her father, "Dad, I will bring the receipt from the academy. If you want, then you and mom can keep it with you." After she finished speaking, she sighed heavily as if she were helpless with the current situation.
After living two lives, Han Ruochen had long understood her father and knew how to react in such a situation. In the past, Han Ziyan had often backed down in the same fashion, behaving as if she were thinking about the family, and Han Yichen would calm down.
If Han Ziyan could do it, she too could do it.
Sure enough, just as she expected, her father's expression turned even fiercer. He turned to look at Meng Yunhan and raised his voice, "Are you going to give the money or not!?"
Meng Yunhan was scared silly by his roar. She didn't dare to fight with Han Yichen. These days, she had a feeling that Han Yichen's patience was no longer as good as it used to be; if anything, his patience was running dangerously low when it came to her. She didn't want to give even a penny to Han Ruochen, but at the same time, she knew that if she didn't take out the money, her secret would be exposed.
In the end, Meng Yunhan chose the lesser of the two evils and brought ten yuan from her own savings.
"Here," she threw the ten yuan note on the floor and said to Han Ruochen, "Take it. All day, every day, you just open your mouth and ask for money. You'd better use it properly."
Han Ruochen sucked in a breath when she saw her mother throw the ten yuan note on the floor. Even though she could feel her cheek burning with humiliation, she still bent double and picked up the ten-yuan note from the floor. Who cared if her mother was humiliating her on purpose? As long as she could get her hands on even the smallest sum of money, she was willing to swallow this humiliation. Anyway, for her mother, who was poorer than the beggars on the street at the moment, even this little sum would bring immense pain.
Just as Han Ruochen expected, when she straightened up, Meng Yunhan's expression was twisted into a rather hideous one. Even Han Beijiang was scared stiff by the ferocious expression of his mother. He buried his face into the crook of his sister's neck in the hope that his mother wouldn't be able to hurt him like she usually did when she was angry with him.
Han Ruochen frowned upon seeing the reaction of her brother, but didn't call Meng Yunhan out. After all, she knew that her mother abused Han Beijiang behind their backs, but she had no way to prove it yet. Suppressing the anger in her heart, she said to her father, "I will be going then, Dad."
After she finished speaking, Han Ruochen turned on her feet and walked out without even looking at Meng Yunhan, whose expression was so bad that she looked like she was having a seizure.
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