Chapter 879: Chapter 880 Toxic Fatherly Love 12

The old lady’s son awoke from his sleep, habitually checking on his mother and found her missing. Worried, he sat up ready to go out and look for her.

A few days ago, an elderly man in the advanced stages of cancer in the neighboring ward, unable to bear the pain any longer, took advantage of the moment when his family was resting and jumped off the roof in the early morning.

Now the relatives in the cancer ward are really worried, fearing their own patients might do the same, and they can’t help but keep an extra eye out.

“Mom, you went to the restroom.” Seeing the old lady return, her son couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.

“Thank you.” He expressed his gratitude to Zhang Yu again.

“It’s nothing.” Someone took over, so Zhang Yu, after a big yawn, was ready to rest.

“You haven’t gone to sleep yet?” The son noticed that the bed was neatly made.

Zhang Yu hummed a reply, “Just hung up the IV, goodnight.”

After a whole day of running around and being tightly wound up, Zhang Yu barely lay down before she started snoring away.

“Not easy.” The son whispered softly.

The old lady hummed in agreement, “Not an easy time for the grandmother and grandchild.”

In the days that followed, Wu Hao and his spouse did not show up again, much to Zhang Yu’s relief. Although she could handle confrontation, it was still draining, and it made Li Cuifen upset.

Just before the start of the school, Li Cuifen finished her first round of chemotherapy.

“Granny, shall we go back and rest first?” Zhang Yu had already been moving things to the new house since yesterday.

“No need, we are going over there, remember the house has to be rented out?” Li Cuifen knew that with cancer, social insurance would cover a good portion of the expenses and she wouldn’t have to bear much.

This illness requires nourishment to withstand chemotherapy, which means money is needed.

Previously, Li Cuifen would think about not spending too much money and wanted to save for Little Yu, but now all she wants is to live a good life, which means earning money.

“Take a taxi.” Li Cuifen stood by the roadside, didn’t need reminding from Zhang Yu, and hailed a cab directly.

Wow, Zhang Yu didn’t expect Li Cuifen to take the initiative to get a taxi, “The old lady has seen the light.”

It really isn’t easy, it seems that after facing a critical moment of life and death, she has come to a realization.

Originally, Zhang Yu was worried about the possibility of hiring a nanny for the family, wondering if there would be opposition considering the considerable amount of money involved, but now it seems very likely.

As soon as they got out of the taxi, their old neighbors saw them and greeted them, “Old Li, are you discharged from the hospital?”

“Discharged.” Li Cuifen chatted with the neighbors.

Someone noticed she was empty-handed, “Aren’t you discharged from the hospital? Why don’t you have any belongings?”

“I’ve got cancer, the expenses are quite high, so I’m thinking of renting out the house and living elsewhere,” Li Cuifen said without mentioning buying a house.

Wu Hao and his family were still scheming against their own, so they definitely couldn’t let them find out about them buying a house.

“Rent out?” Everyone was surprised that Li Cuifen’s illness had driven her to such a point, “Don’t you have health insurance?”

“I do have health insurance, but the out-of-pocket expenses are still high, and I need to take nourishments.”

“It requires quite a lot of money, and Little Yu is already in her senior year, soon off to university, the expenses are large,” Li Cuifen made it clear that not renting out the house was not an option.

The neighbors had envied Li Cuifen to some extent, as many around them rented out their houses for income, yet her family of two lived in such a large house without renting out any space.

Little did they know that just due to an illness, she was actually compelled to rent out the house, “If you’re going to rent somewhere else to live, why not stay in your own home and rent out a few rooms?”

“The rent is higher for the whole place,” Li Cuifen simply explained, “Renting a place to live outside isn’t expensive.”

This isn’t wrong, Zhang Yu did rent a place outside just for storing furniture, but there’s no need to tell them that.

Everyone thought, initially hearing that Li Cuifen was so poor she had to rent out her house just to get by, they were thinking of how to properly ridicule her.

But what’s there to ridicule, after all, renting out a house could bring in a decent income.

Li Cuifen took Zhang Yu home, opened and closed the door, and waited until the door was shut to say, “That feels great.”

“Before, I thought it was just the two of us, the old and the young, better to keep a low profile.”

“So, I didn’t bother to confront them. Now that we’re moving, there’s no need to indulge them.”

Zhang Yu got it when she heard this; Li Cuifen had all sorts of complaints about the neighbors, too.

“Right, no need to indulge them.”

“We’re moving soon, no need to look at their faces anymore.”

“Later, if you want to talk to the neighbors, just talk; if you don’t want to, just stay home.”

“Eat whatever you want to eat, don’t worry about the neighbors.” The old house, the neighbors around are all old neighbors, not saying hello and just entering your house is very normal behavior.

What your family eats, what you’ve bought, who visited your house today, including every little thing that happens at your home, they all know everything inside out.

Every time Li Cuifen wanted to improve the meals for Zhang Yu, she had to be careful, otherwise, it would be gossiped about everywhere.

Now it’s fine, they are going to move soon, and they can do whatever they want without concern.

Zhang Yu breathed a sigh of relief at the thought of moving away from here; Li Cuifen might understand her change, but the neighbors, what do they know?

They’ve also watched the original owner grow up, knew her very well, and if they noticed her personality had significantly changed, there would definitely be all kinds of murmuring.

After moving out, and then coming back after some time, if there’s a change, they might find it odd, but they won’t be able to point out anything specific. They’ll think that after moving out, Li Cuifen fell ill, which made Zhang Yu grow up fast.

A perfect transition, Zhang Yu thinks it’s really a good move.

Li Cuifen called out a few times, but to her surprise, Zhang Yu didn’t respond, “Zhang Yu.”

When Zhang Yu heard the old lady calling her name, she quickly looked over and saw that the old lady had dug out a box from a corner in the storeroom on the first floor.

“What’s this?” Zhang Yu was puzzled, not understanding why the old lady brought it out.

Looking at the layer of dust on top, who knows how long it had been there.

“Take it.” After Li Cuifang handed the box to Zhang Yu, she started rummaging again.

Just like that, she found five boxes, “Alright, throw away everything here.”

Throw away? Looking down at the not-so-big box in her arms, she understood, “This wouldn’t be the treasures you’ve hidden, would it, Granny?”

It’s not that heavy, what could it contain? Zhang Yu truly hadn’t taken this seriously, thinking if it were something valuable, it couldn’t just be in a simple cardboard box.

“This is a good thing.” Li Cuifen took Zhang Yu to the stairwell, without entering the room, and opened the box right there in the stairwell.

Zhang Yu was stunned by the thing that peeked out from the box wrapping; had she not quickly covered her mouth with her hand, she would have exclaimed in shock.

“Granny, how did you, why did you?” In fact, knowing that Li Cuifen had such a property, including a shop, Zhang Yu had thought that whether it was the Zhang family or the Li family, the ancestors must have had some money.

But it wouldn’t have been extremely wealthy, otherwise, during those years, they surely would have been targeted for struggle sessions.

However, seeing the jewelry before her, she was stunned, “This…”

Zhang Yu was uncertain, wondering if it was really as she had thought.