Chapter 273 - Im Sorry Sara (1/2)
Cixi walked aimlessly down the busy streets with tears in her eyes. It seemed a lot of people were still busy celebrating Christmas since they were people at every corner she looked at.
It was already past eight in the evening and thankfully, the streets she passed by were not very bright and so people who did not pay attention, did not know she was crying.
She did not even know where she was going to. She simply wanted to release her pent-up emotions while walking.
After walking for a while, she considered going to the hotel she had been lodging for a couple of times now but she just did not have that spirit right now.
Speaking of hotels, she remembered what she had been doing with most of her time whenever she lodged there.
She had been trying to track the idiots who messed with her daughter.
It finally dawned on her that she had not gone through the laptop since yesterday and now, it was still in the room and she could not go get it right now.
After wandering about for a while, she saw a field with wooden chairs around.
She thought the place was going to help relieve her a bit and so she plopped herself down on the nearest wooden chair.
She noticed someone was already sitting on the other end of the same chair— it was a man in his mid forties or so, but she did not pay much attention to Jim since she had a lot going on with her.
She buried her face in her palm and began to cry even more as she remembered how her brother had sent her out.
She had done that for her family. To save them!
The Songs did not seem like people who would have let them off if she had not done so.
At that time, she had been scared and wanted to mention it to her mother and brother but she could not.
Her mother was sick while her brother was always busy trying to organise things for the family.
One day when she went to the pharmacy to go get drugs for her mother, she bumped into Madam Song there.
Since she had seen her before, she knew instantly that it was madam Song.
It had been an emergency and she needed to get her mother some drugs but her brother was not around and there was no much money in the house.
She had been stranded when she was told the amount was short and she had no other money with her to top it up with.
Madam Song suddenly appeared like a grim reaper. Yes! A grim reaper because she could not call that woman a guardian angel.
Madam Song paid the bills and told her to go save her mother's life.
Although she hated the woman, she had been a tiny bit appreciative. Not very appreciative since their entire misfortune was caused by them. And even though she had wanted to yell and abuse Madam Song, she had to save her mother's life at any cost and so she had taken the drugs with her in a hurry.
After two days, Madam Song appeared again with her husband and demanded payments for the drugs she had bought for her mother. If she had left it at that, it would not have been so shocking. But she had also demanded for it with interest!
Like what the hell!
When did they make that agreement?
She thought she was smart enough and could easily come out from it by threatening to involve a lawyer but those old folks were very cunning.
They had asked her whether her family had been able to get a lawyer for their father's case and if she thought she would be able to get any lawyer to help with such a useless case.
Cixi figured she could not tell her mother nor her brother that Madam Song had been the one who paid for the drugs and so she had to do everything discreetly.
She had turned abusive when Madam Song asked for her money back and even threatened to throw her in prison if she refused to okay with the complete interest.
When she realised that the Song elders were serious, she settled for a bargain. And that was when they asked her to do it.
”Steal all the letters and get rid of it. Your brother must never see it” Father Song had told her.
Apparently, it seemed she had been sending but they had been blocking it all off but because they did not want her to become suspicious, they decided to use other means; blocking it at the other end.
She had refused to do it. She did not want to make any deal with the devil. She swore never to do it but then, they stopped threatening her with sending her to jail and promised to send her to medical school abroad.
When she still refused it and tried to walk away from them, they threatened her with her family, promising to do worse than they had already done.
”See? At least we tried to reason properly with you but you refused. We have no choice then.” Madam Song threatened.
At that point, she knew there was nothing else she could have done. She had already lost her father. She did not want to lose her mother nor her brother. So, she agreed.
Since her brother was not always around, it made her job easier to always handle the mails.
Most of the mails were reminders of loans they were to pay or places they were to vacate from.
The first time she received a mail from Changyu, she had still been a bit skeptical but finally, she decided to open the letter to check its contents.
She had been expecting a note of apology but to her surprise, she saw a short
'Brother Jun. Have you been receiving my previous letters? Please write me back. I miss you and still cannot leave the house yet.'
And at the end, she drew an heart shaped emoji after the words 'Love Yu'
Cixi scoffed in disbelief and felt tears begin to run down from her eyes. So this was it? This was what she was sending when her family was suffering?
She did not even need the Song elders to tell her to get rid of it. Even if they had not told her and she accidentally saw it, she would have kept it from her brother.
In anger, she burned it and the others that came after it without even bothering to check the contents.
Whenever Jianjun asked if they had been any letters from Changyu, she gave him a simple 'No!' even before he was done with his question.
Even after Helene came over to their place, she still continued 'handling' the letters until one day when Helene took the mails and saw the one from Changyu.