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"Host, it’s okay, if it’s broken, it’s broken. There’s more space, I’ll get you another piece."

Yuan Chun pulled off the torn plastic, threw it aside, and said, "Let’s lay it in the afternoon, I’m going out for a walk."

Mrs. Guo had been discharged from the hospital, but the cast on her leg hadn’t been removed, so she couldn’t work. She hired a woman with whom she had a good relationship and who was also unemployed to cover her shift.

Mrs. Guo had just been home recuperating for three days when an accident happened to Guo Jingling. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Guo Jingling was taken to the hospital.

His entire right arm below the elbow was crushed by a machine, beyond repair, and his shin bone was broken by an iron plate. Although it could be set, the doctor said that even after setting it, he would need to recuperate at home for a year or two before he could walk.

Since the injury happened at the factory, the electronics factory covered all of Guo Jingling’s medical expenses and even hired a male nurse to care for him in the hospital.

Although the Guo Family didn’t have to pay for the medical expenses, they wanted to buy some nutritional supplements for Guo Jingling. Therefore, Father Guo stayed at the hospital to help the nurse take care of their son, while Mrs. Guo used her crutches to go home to get some money notes to buy some canned malt extract for her son at the supply and marketing cooperative.

But when Mrs. Guo opened the cabinet to get the money, she discovered that all the money she had saved up over the years was gone.

"How could it be gone? It was just there last night." Mrs. Guo frantically shook out every piece of clothing from the wardrobe.

However, there was nothing...

Not a single cent.

A sinking feeling struck Mrs. Guo’s heart, and a bad thought crossed her mind. Panicked and flustered, she used her crutches to get the key and opened her dowry chest.

Not to mention money, even a few pieces of new fabric were gone.

Mrs. Guo checked several other hiding places for money and where she hid her jewelry, and they were all empty.

Not only was the money gone, but the gold, silver, and jade jewelry she secretly exchanged for were also gone. Among them was a pair of emerald jade bracelets, which she had exchanged for ten pounds of fine grain. She loved them dearly and had planned to wear them out someday to show off to her old friends.

Mrs. Guo sat on the floor pale-faced and wailed in despair.

After losing so many valuables, Mrs. Guo, upon crying it out, had a neighbor’s child help her report it to the police.

But in the end, it came to nothing.

The police officers investigated for several days but could not identify the thief.

The Guo Family was left without money, and Guo Jingling remained unconscious in the hospital, so Father Guo had to go to the electronics factory’s finance department to request an advance on two months’ salary, which just barely alleviated the Guo Family’s situation.

"Host, the electronics factory is so generous; they even compensated Guo Jingling with one thousand yuan and covered his medical expenses."

Five days later, Guo Jingling passed the critical phase and woke up. Due to losing a hand, he certainly couldn’t continue his job at the electronics factory.

The electronics factory compensated him with one thousand yuan and offered him a security guard position.

Guo Jingling had previously been a minor leader at the electronics factory, earning over fifty yuan a month, while the salary for a security guard was only thirty-two yuan a month, nearly half less. Although the factory compensated him with one thousand yuan, all things considered, Guo Jingling was still at a loss.

The security guard position offered no prospects for advancement, whereas his previous position did. If he worked diligently, climbed the ladder slowly, perhaps in ten or twenty years, he could become the factory director or even be promoted further.

But now, he would only ever be a regular security guard.

He could never rise again.

Compared to the one thousand yuan, his future and status were indeed compromised.

But that’s fate.