Urban Medical Immortal Dad
Chapter 353: Can You Afford to Pay This Money_1

Chapter 353: Chapter 353: Can You Afford to Pay This Money_1

At this moment, the Luo Shanchuan family, having just finished dinner, sat on the sofa, watching TV and chatting.

They had long been accustomed to Yang Meifeng not coming home for dinner.

Chen Chen had watched TV at home the whole day and wanted to go out to play in the evening. Luo Ning, harangued by her, had no choice but to say to her husband, "Mo Han, I’m taking Chen Chen downstairs to walk around the complex. Please wash the dishes."

"Okay."

Mo Han smiled slightly, waved to his daughter, and prepared to head to the kitchen to wash the dishes.

Seeing his daughter and granddaughter leave, Father-in-law Luo Shanchuan pulled Mo Han aside with a somewhat troubled expression and said, "Mo Han, do you think I’ve treated you well?"

This question really stumped Mo Han.

To say the father-in-law had been good to him, it wasn’t apparent when his mother-in-law bullied him; he had never seen him step forward to defend him.

But to say the opposite seemed wrong as well; over the years, his father-in-law hadn’t made things too difficult for him.

After thinking it over, Mo Han smiled awkwardly and replied, "Yes, Dad, you have been very good to me, of course."

"Then you wouldn’t mind lending Dad some money, right?"

Luo Shanchuan’s face turned red as he said, "You know my retirement pay is all taken by your mother."

"Mom and my elder brother kicked our family out of the Luo Group, and I expect they won’t give us any living expenses anymore."

Mo Han did believe these words since his father-in-law typically didn’t have any hobbies aside from appreciating antiques and playing chess.

Previously, he had some personal savings and bought a few antiques to admire.

Once his mother-in-law found out, she forcibly took back the personal savings, leaving him a mere three hundred yuan a month, making even buying cigarettes difficult.

However, the father-in-law should have adapted to this situation, no? Why would he suddenly ask him for money?

As Mo Han remained silent, Luo Shanchuan seemed to guess his thoughts and carefully took out a small tin box from a cardboard box on the balcony.

"Tea?"

Seeing the writing on the tin box, Mo Han paused and asked, "Dad, did you buy this tea?"

"It wasn’t bought; it was given."

Luo Shanchuan sighed, opened the tin, and took out a few pinches, placing them in a teacup and brewing a cup of tea for Mo Han. "You try it first and see how it tastes."

Seeing that his father-in-law seemed to value the little box of tea leaves, Mo Han did not ask further questions and just took a sip from the cup.

The truth be told, the flavor of the tea was very mediocre, almost indistinguishable from the kind sold for two hundred yuan a kilo outside.

But faced with his father-in-law’s eager look, he had to lie, "It tastes not bad, Dad, who sent you this tea? Why so stingy to send only a little bit?"

No wonder Mo Han complained; the tin box wasn’t very large, only a bit bigger than Golden Throat Lozenge, and it did indeed contain a scant amount of tea leaves.

"Ah..."

Luo Shanchuan sighed and said gloomily, "Don’t call Xiao Li stingy."

"Xiao Li?"

Upon hearing this name, Mo Han immediately became interested. Could his father-in-law have something going on, an affair?

He chuckled and asked, "Dad, who is Xiao Li?"

"Why would she send you tea for no reason, does she fancy you?"

"Nonsense!" Luo Shanchuan sternly said, "How could a man as upright as me fancy a young girl of just eighteen or nineteen years old!"

To prove his innocence, he continued, "A couple of days ago, a young girl added me on WeChat, wanting to discuss life’s ambitions with me."

"You know I am always willing to help, and seeing the girl’s life confusion, I wanted to give her advice, so I accepted."

"We chatted for a while, her name is Xiao Li, just nineteen this year. Her dad died in a car accident when she was three, and her mom passed away from cancer when she was five. It was her grandmother who brought her up."

"This child has had such a tough life, orphaned at such a young age, only her grandmother to rely on. Now that she’s grown up, her grandmother fell ill."

"In order to raise money for her grandmother’s treatment, she learned tea roasting from the elders in her village and started selling tea leaves."

"We hit it off when we chatted, so she sent me a little can for free. I tasted it and thought it was good. I wanted to buy some, three to five thousand yuan’s worth, to help her grandmother with medical expenses."

"But I don’t have much money, and your mother definitely wouldn’t give it. I’m worried Ning’er might misunderstand, so..."

So you want your son-in-law to foot the bill?

Mo Han found it funny. He had seen too many of such tea selling scams online, and now his father-in-law had actually fallen for it.

He cleared his throat and shook his head, "Dad, I do have some money on hand, but this Xiao Li seems suspicious..."

"What’s suspicious!"

Before he could finish, his father-in-law became angry, "I’ve been chatting with her for so long, don’t you think I would know?"

Mo Han helplessly said, "Dad, you’ve been scammed. These tea sellers are all over the internet, and they love to trick middle-aged men like you..."

"Impossible!"

Luo Shanchuan took out his phone, opened up Xiao Li’s Moments, and said confidently, "Look, this is Xiao Li’s Moments. See, despite her beauty... no, despite her hardships, she’s roasting tea in such hot weather."

Following his father-in-law’s phone, Mo Han saw a scantily clad woman, around twenty-five or twenty-six years old, flipping tea leaves with a spatula, with sweat beads on her forehead occasionally streaming down her cheeks to a spotlessly white area on her chest.

The father-in-law swallowed, his eyes transfixed.

Shit! Has the old man always had this kind of taste?

Mo Han shook his head in disbelief, "Dad, she’s definitely a scammer. Tea roasting is done with hands; who would use a spatula? This is just for show."

The father-in-law insisted angrily, "What’s wrong with the young lady, pure as ice and jade, using a spatula to avoid injuring her hands? And her tea isn’t expensive; such delicious tea is only a bit over two thousand yuan a kilo."

"Just answer my question, will you give the money or not?"

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