The days passed uneventfully. The production at the food factory also progressed smoothly. In order to prevent anything from happening in the future, the food factory brought forward the production schedule of the steel factory's order by a week.
Yu Yan had been living from hand to mouth recently. She had changed her eating habits to eating meat only twice a week and the food her adoptive parents had sent over previously was no longer distributed to others. Only then did she barely last until mid-August.
However, after a quarter of the month, she didn't receive any money from her adoptive parents, nor could she get into contact with her adoptive brother again.
"Yu Yan, I've been feeling unwell recently and want to go to the medical center to get an examination. Can you return the nine yuan to me now?"
"No, I feel like I'm lying. Yu Yan, I…"
In the dormitory, Qian Hao repeatedly practiced how to ask Yu Yan about returning the money.