Chapter 2630 — Three Things
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In their eyes, if some kind soul or orphanage took the child in, perhaps the child might live; but to bring the child home without treatment was a dead end!
Yet sick orphans like these were rarely adopted. Even couples unable to bear children of their own, when they went to adopt, all chose healthy ones—who would adopt a sick infant?
And so the monthly medical expenses had now become the second-largest outlay, after the orphanage's construction and food, and it was still trending upward every day! These abandoned infants with illnesses had been sent here, and Yu Xiaoke could hardly just ignore them and refuse to treat them, could she?
If she were truly that heartless, she would not be Yu Xiaoke! So Yu Xiaoke would rather lower the food standards for the children at the orphanage than skimp on medicine to treat these little ones.
At that moment, Yu Xiaoke was studying the tasks posted by the Thieves' Gate, trying to find one to take on. She had gone over them again and again, but nothing quite suited. The ones that paid well were either too dangerous or simply unrealistic and impossible to complete, while the easy ones paid too little and wasted too much time. For the moment, Yu Xiaoke truly did not know how to choose!
It was then that Wei Zhao's call came through. Yu Xiaoke had been feeling vexed to begin with, and seeing a call from her "admirer," she was not particularly inclined to answer. But Wei Zhao was, after all, her benefactor, and it would not do to ignore him. With no other choice, Yu Xiaoke steeled herself and picked up. "Hello? Wei Zhao, you were looking for me?"
"Oh, I just wanted to ask—how has the orphanage been lately? Is the funding sufficient?" Hearing the less-than-pleasant tone in Yu Xiaoke's voice, Wei Zhao frowned slightly. What was with Yu Xiaoke? Had she swallowed gunpowder? Every time he had seen her recently, she had been like this.
"It's all right. Don't trouble yourself about the funding—I'll handle it myself!" Yu Xiaoke said coldly. "I'm getting ready to take on a task posted by the Thieves' Gate. It's fairly difficult, but if I pull it off, the payoff should come to around ten million!"
"You're taking on Thieves' Gate tasks again?" Wei Zhao was startled. He was about to say, Have you not learned your lesson from that tomb-raiding job last time? But it struck him all at once that his current identity was Wei Zhao, not the Male Thief—how could he possibly know about the tomb-raiding? Yu Xiaoke had only ever mentioned taking on tasks to him, never the specifics. So Wei Zhao hurriedly changed tack. "The tasks there are all quite difficult, aren't they? Even I would have some trouble completing them. If you go, I'm afraid you'll come out the worse for it!"
"As if it's any of your concern?" Yu Xiaoke did not know why, but the moment Wei Zhao showed her any care, she felt displeased.