Chapter 342 — Driven into a Corner
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"I..." Tang Zhi bit her lip and looked to her father, hoping he might put in a word for her, but Tang Jucheng only lowered his head, the very picture of a henpecked, long-suffering good man.
At that moment, Tang Jucheng was in fact silently cursing his own uselessness. If he had made something of himself by now, would the family still be struggling this hard?
"Sis, is your man really that rich?" Xiaowei, overhearing his aunt, could not help asking. If there was any other hope, who would go sell a kidney? Xiaowei too had only thought of selling his kidney because he was driven into a corner—but if the problem could be solved without selling it, naturally he would not be foolish enough to insist on going under the knife.
"Xiaowei, don't listen to Mom's nonsense. He's not your brother-in-law—just a classmate I'm fairly close to." Looking at the hope in Xiaowei's eyes, Tang Zhi felt deeply torn.
She knew that if she borrowed money from Wei Zhao this time, the ties between them would become truly impossible to disentangle. But if she did not borrow it, Xiaowei would still have to sell his kidney...
"Sis, why don't you ask him?" Hearing Tang Zhi say this, Xiaowei felt certain that the man his aunt had mentioned must be his sister's boyfriend—and even if he was not, he was almost certainly close enough.
"I... Xiaowei, it's not that your sister doesn't want to help you, but if I borrow the money, what would I repay it with? Do we have any money to pay anyone back?" Tang Zhi sighed.
"Sis, sooner or later he'll be my brother-in-law anyway. You're already his, so he won't force you to pay it back, will he?" Xiaowei looked at Tang Zhi. "Besides, Xiaodan and I have hands and feet. If we work hard from now on, there'll surely come a day when we can pay it back..."
"That's right, Yun'er. Your brother has never asked you for anything. This is nothing more than a lift of the hand—why must you be so stubborn, girl?" Tang's mother was growing annoyed too. There was clearly a way to solve this, yet you had to force your brother to sell his kidney? "If you won't make the call, then I'll call him myself!"
"You... you're all forcing me..." Tang Zhi's eyes reddened, and she was on the verge of tears. "You don't understand at all. You have no idea what's really going on..."
Tang Zhi wanted to say that it was not even certain whether Wei Zhao would end up with her, but in the end she did not say it.
"Yun'er, how can you call this forcing you? Would your mother ever harm you?" Tang's mother was rather displeased. She was not asking her daughter to do anything shameful. Wei Zhao was clearly there to be borrowed from, yet she refused to go—what sense did that make?
"I'll call, I'll call, all right!" Tang Zhi stood up, took her phone, and ran out of the room into the yard, where she could not hold back her sobbing...
Her mother did not understand. Her brother did not understand either. They all thought she had enough sway with Wei Zhao to make him lend her family a hundred and fifty thousand! Had they even stopped to consider her situation?
It was true that Wei Zhao liked her now, but when it came down to it, her relationship with him had not even been formally confirmed. On what grounds would he lend her a hundred and fifty thousand? That was no small sum. Besides, if she could have borrowed money, she would long since have borrowed some for her father's surgery—why would she have waited until now?
After she had cried herself out, Tang Zhi still dialed Wei Zhao's number. No matter what, she could not let her brother sell his kidney.
Wei Zhao had sent Tang Zhi a text message, and when she did not reply for a long while, he assumed she had not seen it. He never expected that she would end up calling him instead.
"Hello? Tang Zhi?" Wei Zhao was rather pleasantly surprised. Tang Zhi calling him of her own accord was, by any measure, a good start. "What made you call me? Miss me?"