Chapter 231 Mortgage

Ye Bufan said, “Good, I’m a little hungry.”

“Then let’s go, what do you want to eat?”

As An Yimo was speaking, her phone rang.

She glanced at it, saw it was an unknown number, and directly pressed the answer button.

After the call connected, she heard the other side say, “May I speak with Ms. An Yimo?”

“That’s right, it’s me, may I ask who this is?”

The other end of the phone spoke very formally, “Ms. An, this is chinese yuan Bank. Your mortgage has not been paid on time for two months.

If you do not repay, we will initiate legal proceedings against you. This is your final notice…”

Hearing that the caller was the bank demanding payment, An Yimo awkwardly glanced at Ye Bufan, then whispered, “Don’t worry, I will pay off the loan immediately.”

“Today is the last day of the deadline, please hurry!”

After hanging up the phone, An Yimo quickly opened her mobile banking app and paid off the mortgage that had been overdue for more than two months.

Ye Bufan said in surprise, “You bought a house? Is the repayment pressure very high?”

An Yimo nodded, “I have to pay 10,000 chinese yuan a month. These two months, because of unemployment, I’ve been delaying the payments.”

Ye Bufan asked in confusion, “You pay so much a month, is the house very big?”

An Yimo said, “It’s 120 square meters, 3 bedrooms and 1 living room, in Jiangnan Ruhua community.”

Ye Bufan had heard of this community before; it was quite good among ordinary residential areas.

He asked again, puzzled, “By the way, since you bought a house, why are you still living in a place like Chengzhong Village?”

An Yimo said, “My parents and younger brother are living in the house now. I didn’t want to live with them because it was too noisy with too many people.”

Ye Bufan looked at her intently, “I guess it’s not that you didn’t want to move in, but that they didn’t let you.”

An Yimo said in surprise, “Ah? How did you know?”

“Is that hard to guess? What girl would want to live in a place like Chengzhong Village by herself, and she’s already two months behind on rent, about to be kicked out, and still not going home.

This can only mean it’s not that you don’t want to go back, but that you simply can’t go back to that home.”

An Yimo’s expression was somewhat downcast, and after a moment of hesitation, she said, “My sister-in-law said she wasn’t used to living with others, so my mother told me to move out and rent a place.”

Ye Bufan frowned, “You support them every month and even pay their mortgage, but they kick you out alone. That’s too much!”

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Yimo said, “There’s no other way. If I hadn’t agreed to that condition back then, my sister-in-law wouldn’t have married into the family.”

“What does that have to do with you? He’s your younger brother, not your son. What obligation do you have to get him a wife?

Even if he were your son, a man that old should take responsibility for himself.”

An Yimo said, “He’s my younger brother, and I’m his older sister. It’s only right for me to help.”

Ye Bufan said, “But there has to be a bottom line to helping. You can’t just let yourself be so wronged.”

“It’s nothing, I’ve gotten used to it over the years. They are all my family,” An Yimo clearly didn’t want to continue the topic, and with a slight smile, she said, “Let’s go, we’re going to eat.”

Ye Bufan shook his head, but this was her family matter, so he didn’t say much more.

“Let’s go to Chengzhong Village first. Don’t live in that kind of place anymore. From now on, you can live in the general manager’s office. It’s a suite anyway, very convenient to live in.”

An Yimo nodded, “Xiao Fan, thank you.”

“Let’s go, I happen to have a car. I’ll help you move your things over, then we can eat.”

The two of them went to Chengzhong Village together. This time, to help move things, Ye Bufan also followed her into the room.

Upon entering, he frowned again. The room was only about 7 or 8 square meters, with a single bed, and it looked small and damp, with flies and mosquitoes occasionally flying by.

A sudden, inexplicable anger rose in his heart. She was paying a high mortgage every month, yet she had to live in a place worse than a beggar’s dwelling. He truly didn’t know how this woman endured it.

An Yimo didn’t have many belongings, and she quickly packed two large bags and left the room.

After taking the things to the general manager’s office, at An Yimo’s request, the two went to Jiangnan Grand Restaurant for dinner.

Ye Bufan said, “There’s no need for just the two of us to go to such a high-end place and get such a big private room.”

“You’re my boss, I have to curry favor,” An Yimo smiled, “Just kidding. You’ve helped me so much, I can’t take you to a street stall for dinner, otherwise, I wouldn’t feel right.”

Ye Bufan said, “It’s only right for me to help you with small things. It’s nothing.”

The two ordered six dishes and a bottle of red wine, and began to eat and chat.

An Yimo thought of something. She suddenly put down her chopsticks and said, “Oh, right, I took 10,000 chinese yuan from you yesterday. I’ll return it to you now.”

As she spoke, she opened her bag and pulled out a neat stack of chinese yuan.

She was a person who never liked to owe

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others. She had already overdrawn her salary from the finance department today, so she immediately wanted to return the money to Ye Bufan.

Ye Bufan said indifferently, “Actually, there’s no need to rush to pay it back.”

“Debts must be paid. When you have the money, you should pay it back.”

An Yimo said, handing over the stack of banknotes. Ye Bufan saw the stubbornness in this woman’s eyes, so he didn’t decline further and reached out to take the money.

But just then, the door was pushed open with a bang, and immediately after, a man and a woman burst in from outside.

The woman was in her fifties, very well-dressed, with thick makeup on her face.

Upon entering, she saw the scene before her and immediately fumed, “An Yimo, no wonder you haven’t sent money home for so long! So you’ve been taking our money to support a toy boy outside!”

An Yimo said in surprise, “Mom, little brother, why are you here?”

The woman was An Yimo’s mother, Zeng Yurong, and the man was her younger brother, An Baoxu. She didn’t understand how these two had suddenly found their way here.

Zeng Yurong angrily said, “The family can’t even make ends meet, how can we not come looking for you? Are we supposed to starve to death at home?”

An Baoxu was about 20 something years old. Although not as burly as Gao Daqiang, he was still strong and well-built.

He said arrogantly, “Luckily we came, otherwise we wouldn’t have seen you supporting a toy boy. You’re so generous to him, why are you so stingy with your own family?”

An Yimo quickly explained, “Mom, little brother, you’ve both misunderstood. This is my boss, and this 10,000 chinese yuan is what I owe him.”

An Baoxu said, “You know to pay back what you owe others, but you owe us two months of living expenses, why haven’t you given it to us yet?

Don’t you know how difficult our lives are right now? Our daily food standard has dropped to two meat and two vegetable dishes, what else do you want?”

Seeing these two freeloaders being so self-righteous, a hint of anger rose in Ye Bufan’s heart again, but since it was their family matter, he forcibly restrained himself from acting out.

An Yimo said, “Mom, little brother, I’ve already prepared your money.”

As she spoke, she opened her bag and pulled out four more neat stacks of chinese yuan from inside.

Zeng Yurong took the money and put it into her bag, saying unhappily, “Why is there so little? Don’t you know you’ve owed us for over two months?”

An Yimo said, “I’m not well-off right now either. I’ll give you more next month when I have the money!”

She had overdrawn some money from the finance department today, paid off the mortgage, and returned 10,000 chinese yuan to Ye Bufan, so this was all she had left.