"What?"
"We can't go on like this!"
"How is that even possible?"
Qin Huairu's words made Jia Dongxu calm down slightly, but he still stared at her fiercely.
"You explain yourself clearly today. How is it that we can't go on? Although I'm not working right now, what about the savings we had? It’s only been a few days—have you spent all of it?"
Savings?
"Where would we have any savings left in this house..."
The long-repressed grievances made Qin Huairu cast caution to the wind.
Before Jia Dongxu’s accident, he only gave her ten yuan a month for household expenses. He kept the rest for himself, and what he used it for, Qin Huairu had no idea.
That ten yuan had to cover the monthly living expenses for their entire family—five people, counting the children. It was barely enough to scrape by.
But that old hag, Mrs. Jia, could eat like a horse.
On top of that, since Mrs. Jia didn't have urban residency, she had no ration coupons. Sometimes, Qin Huairu had to scrape together extra money to buy grain at high prices from the Pigeon Market.
Add to that the money she needed to save to help her own family back home—how could there possibly be any money left?
If it weren't for He Yuzhu helping them out from time to time lately, they would have been starving long ago.
"What?"
Qin Huairu's words left Jia Dongxu completely stunned.
Their family had no money! Not a single cent left?
Impossible! Absolutely impossible.
Jia Dongxu couldn't accept such a result. Without money, how was he suppos…
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