A few days passed, and Qiu Yingying's mood improved a little. Room 2202 ushered in another difficult day.
There were a total of two difficult days in Room 2202, or difficult days for Fan Shengmei and Qiu Yingying.
One is on the 15th day of the last month of each quarter, the fifth day after the wages are first paid. The three girls who share the house must pay three months' rent for the next quarter in advance on this day.
This is not a small amount of money. Guan Ju'er and Qiu Yingying are better off. For Fan Shengmei, she really needs to plan carefully and save again and again to get enough of the money.
The second hard day is the day in the middle of each quarter when property fees are paid.
Now the second hard day has come, and it’s time to pay the property fees for the next three months.
At this time, Xiao Zheng, the administrator of this building, will provide particularly attentive service. Sometimes, even without warning, Xiao Zheng will remind residents to pay attention to the electronic screen at the entrance of the community, where there are reminders to pay property fees.
If something drags on until the end of the month, as a tenant, facing Xiao Zheng’s smiling eyes and passing by, I always feel like a ray of light on my back, making my whole body uncomfortable.
Compared with those of them who walk, those who own cars are much better off.
The car drove directly into the underground garage and took the elevator from there. He didn't meet Xiao Zheng at all, and naturally he didn't have to face such uncomfortable eyes.
Fan Shengmei and the others did not delay. Xiao Zheng just gave a reminder and the girls paid the property fees for the next quarter together.
After walking out of the property, Qiu Yingying patted her purse and said with a sad face: "My boyfriend was just arrested, and now my purse is missing. Why am I suffering so much!"
Guan Juer answered: "Yes! Rent in Shanghai is expensive, property fees are not cheap, and the cost of living is too high."
"If my mother didn't agree, I would actually go home and work."
Qiu Yingying said: "Yes! I also want to go back to my hometown to work. The cost of living is low and there is no pressure. How happy!"
"But my dad doesn't want to. He thinks that working in the Shanghai stock market is the only way to be successful. He has never let me go back, so he can only persist in this way."
Seeing the two little sisters complaining to each other, Fan Shengmei smiled faintly and did not answer. She was actually suffering more than the two little sisters.
After all, the two little sisters earn and spend their own money, and from time to time the family can help a few. Although they don't have much money, they have always lived well.
She was in a much worse situation. Although her monthly salary was quite high, she had to send living expenses to her parents and pay off the mortgage for her brother. The rest was hers.
She is like walking a tightrope, calculating carefully every month to maintain her current stable life.
If she overspends that month or has an unexpected expense, she will suffer throughout the month. In order to balance her income, she can only make careful budgeting and cut back, and save the overspending money in other areas.
The same is true now, her purse is much emptyer than the two little sisters.
With the salary just paid ten days ago, she paid off the mortgage for her brother and sent living expenses to her parents. In addition to some of her own expenses, such as meals, phone calls, and car expenses, it was also an expense.
After paying the property fee, the money in her card dropped to three digits, and there were still twenty days before her salary would be paid. This was all her expenses for the next twenty days.
Looking at the two little sisters who were still complaining to each other, she sighed slightly, not wanting to join the conversation and not daring to join the conversation.
Talking about such an embarrassing situation will only damage the image of the eldest sister in Room 2202 and damage her self-esteem.
Not only the little sisters, but also Li Mu's financial dilemma, she dared not mention. A family like hers would put men off, and it would easily damage her image in Li Mu's mind.
In addition to the financial dilemma, Li Mu provided her with a generous material life, which was something she could not achieve before and did not want to lose.
I can only endure it, swallow all the pressure into my stomach, and endure it silently.
The days will always get through.
However, this kind of thing is not so easy to hide.
In the past two days, Li Mu saw that Fan Shengmei was not in a good mood, she was also depressed, and she was still wondering.
It wasn't until the community notified me to pay the property fees that I suddenly thought that Fan Shengmei's rent and property fees were paid quarterly, and it was still some time before her salary was paid.
So, one can imagine the reason why she was in a bad mood.
He had some guesses in his mind, but Li Mu didn't show it on his face. When others went to the bathroom to take a shower, he opened Fan Shengmei's mobile phone and looked at it. Sure enough, the bank text message showed that the balance was only 816 yuan.
Fan Shengmei’s monthly salary is not that small, so why is there so little left? She went through the records again, paying property fees, paying off the mortgage for her brother, living expenses for her parents... After removing some of the stuff, there is really only this little left.
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Li Mu sighed, Fan Shengmei's life was indeed not easy, and as his pillow, he couldn't stay in such embarrassment forever.
However, the money cannot be given directly. If the money is given this time and a hole is opened, what will happen in the future? Do we have to keep giving it?
Moreover, the amount cannot be given too much. Fan Shengmei, who is not short of money, has no motivation to change without the pressure.
It is not possible to give money directly, it will easily hurt Fan Shengmei's self-esteem, and his purpose will not be achieved.
After thinking about it, I took out two shopping cards with a limit of 5,000 yuan from my bag. This kind of thing is easy to cash out, not as sensitive as giving money directly, and the amount is not large.
After Fan Shengmei finished taking a bath, she entered the bedroom wearing a pink bathrobe.
Li Mu pretended to be casual and took out two shopping cards from his pocket.
"Hey, who gave this to me, I almost forgot."
He glanced at Fan Shengmei and threw the two shopping cards on the table next to him.
"You have a lot of free time, help me get rid of these two shopping cards."
Fan Shengmei didn't pay attention at first, but when she saw that they were two shopping cards with a limit of 5,000, her heart skipped a beat, and then she was pleasantly surprised.
She is now so poor that she can't let the blame go. She only has a few hundred yuan left in her card, and there are twenty days left before the next salary payment. She is worried about this matter, but she doesn't dare to talk to Li Mu. She didn't expect such a good thing as the world falling.
Compared with the tens of thousands of yuan bag Li Mu bought her, these two shopping cards were nothing, but her current mood was much happier than when Li Mu bought her a bag.
She didn't dare to sell the bag for money, for fear that Li Mu would find out and look down on her, thinking she was the kind of womanizer.
These two cards are different. They are originally used for spending money and can be easily exchanged for cash.
However, Fan Shengmei was very excited in her heart, but she was very reserved on her face. Seeing that Li Mu didn't seem to care about it at all, she turned around and forgot about it. She also pretended not to care about the two shopping cards and put them in her bag inadvertently.
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Next, Li Mu found that Fan Shengmei's mood had completely changed. She still looked depressed, but she acted particularly proactive and enthusiastic.
It would be better than Li Mu buying her a bag costing tens of thousands of yuan.
Unfortunately, in order to change the parasitic relationship between Fan Shengmei and her family, she can only be allowed to continue to be poor.
Only after being forced into unspeakable suffering and falling into a desperate situation can she take the initiative to reflect and have the desire and motivation to change.