Chapter 599 Self-Inflicted Woe (5)_1
Everyone was the kind of person who hated spending money and would split a penny into several pieces to use, so no one was willing to fork out that kind of cash, resulting in a hullabaloo that reached Captain Wu Guoqing.
Captain Wu Guoqing was also troubled. Liu Mei had not only brought disaster upon herself by burning herself to that ghostly appearance, but she also dragged the entire village into it. He had gone to the hospital that afternoon to inquire, and Xiu Jianlin couldn’t even come up with the medical expenses, let alone having the money to repair the village’s electrical circuits.
It was utterly frustrating.
Ruan Jianguo didn’t care much about the money, mainly because he had his father-in-law, brother-in-law, and sister-in-law at home. He didn’t dare to let them fumble around in the dark. He had wanted to go to Wu Guoqing and ask him to have someone repair the electrical circuit first, offering to pay for it himself, but the Ruanlin family stopped him.
"You’re the only one who dares to get involved in such thankless tasks. Do you believe that if you get involved this time, you’ll never be able to shake it off?" The Ruanlin family scolded him in anger, "Or is it that you’ve made some money and now can’t wait to show off?"
"Mom, what are you talking about? I’m just anxious, with Shu Lang and the others at home..."
"That’s not how it should be done." The Ruanlin family gave him a glance, thought for a few seconds, and then said, "Go and have the Captain write an IOU. You can cover the money for now, but it must be repaid, no matter what. As for how, you’ll need to discuss that with him."
Getting the money out of Liu Mei was probably impossible, just as unlikely as it was for the other villagers to agree to share the costs.
The Ruanlin family knew the money was mostly unlikely to be recovered, but it was crucial that everyone understood that the Ruan family wasn’t going to be the big sucker; they were just helping to front the money. In the future, no matter what, it had to be repaid. They didn’t want others to have the impression that the Ruan family, being wealthy, had to be the ones taken advantage of.