Uncle Bo did not say anything. He simply shook his head and then calculated the cost of the things that Han Ruochen had brought.

"Alright, sixteen jins of earth dragons. They are sold for five hundred yuan a jin, so I will give you eight thousand yuan for these and as for the conches, they are sold for two hundred and forty yuan a jin, so I will give you a total of five thousand and eighty yuan."

"All the seafood that you have brought amounts to thirteen thousand and eighty yuan."

After Uncle Bo finished speaking, he quickly handed Han Ruochen the money. This sum already exceeded Han Ruochen’s expectation, and she couldn’t believe it for the time being. It seemed like Uncle Bo was looking after her because of her connection to the Zhai family. Han Ruochen sighed; she had never wanted to owe anything to the Zhai family, but in the end, she still ended up being indebted to them.

However, this was good as well; as long as she could earn some money, she did not mind owing a few favours to the Zhai family. At most, she would repay them in the future; for the time being, she just needed to save money!

While Han Ruochen was hoping to make the situation of her family better, Han Ziyan hurried back home. She had finally received a holiday after working for an entire week and wanted to take some rest, but more than that, she wanted to get some money from her mother. One of the employees in the army canteen had told her that as long as she could arrange twenty thousand yuan, she would be able to climb up the ranks and be promoted to the army warehouse, where she did not have to do anything and just wait to collect her salary.

And there were a few things that she needed to compensate for as well.

Even though Han Ziyan wanted to do a good job in the canteen, she was greedy and unreasonable. This personality of hers had long been ingrained in her mind and soul. Thus, even when she did not want to cause trouble and wanted to work hard in the canteen, she still couldn’t help but keep her hands to herself and ended up eating some things that she should not have.

In the end, the chef of the canteen caught her and scolded her bloody. Asking her to bring three thousand yuan for the things that she had destroyed. How was she supposed to know that the meal was prepared for the higher-ups and used high-quality ingredients? It was their fault that they left it open!

"Mom! Where are you? Mom, how is everything at home? Did Dad start giving you money?" As soon as Han Ziyan walked inside the house, she started calling her mother. Her mind was full of the money and the new job that she wanted to get, and she did not even look at the expression of her mother. "Mom, can you please give me some money... I really need it for my new job...Mom."

Han Ziyan dragged and stretched her tone while speaking like a spoiled child as she hung onto her mother’s arms and twisted around.

In fact, even if her mother did not agree, Han Ziyan was determined to get the money from her. If nothing worked, then she would bully her mother into bullying Han Ruochen and snatch her money. Even if her father did not have money, Han Ruochen did have some, and Han Ziyan did not feel comfortable about leaving so much money in Han Ruochen’s hands.

In this family, the only one who was supposed to be spoiled and treated well was her.

How dare Han Ruochen take the money that belonged to her!? Did she not know what she owed her?

How much did she suffer because Han Ruochen’s father snatched her mother from her father?

"How much money do you want?" Of course, Meng Yunhan understood Han Ziyan too well; she knew what Han Ziyan was thinking when she behaved like this. She also understood that there was no way she would be able to get rid of the idea forming in Han Ziyan’s mind, even if she wanted to, so she could only sigh and ask the amount.

"Not a lot...just twenty-five thousand yuan."

Meng Yunhan gasped as soon as she heard her response. Even if they had savings in the house, she couldn’t have taken so much money out of the pockets. Twenty-five thousand yuan? How could she get so much money?

"Ziyan, have you forgotten what the conditions at home are right now? Even if we had savings, getting so much money for me is impossible. Much less now! You need to think twice before asking for such a grand sum of money."

Because of Han Yichen’s threats, she had no other choice but to think twice before making a decision when it came to spending money.

Meng Yunhan doted on Han Ziyan a lot. Thus, as long as Han Ziyan made a request, she would think of a way to fulfil it, even if it meant that she had to rely on eating vegetarian meals for weeks. As such, even though she had been working for quite some time, she had never been able to save much money. If she wanted to save some money for Han Ziyan’s dowry, then she needed to make sure that she would be able to save enough money every day, or else things would be troublesome.

Hence, there was no way she could get such a large sum for Han Ziyan; even her husband would never agree.

"Mom, you don’t have money, but Han Ruochen does have it." Han Ziyan said to her mother. "You can simply make her pay for it and then ask Dad for the remaining three thousand."

In this way, she would be able to get enough money to not only pay for the compensation but also for the job. That way she would be able to get best of both worlds.