"I can!" Kazuya was naturally confident. He patiently explained to Haruka: "I've thought about it. Medical expenses are not a problem. Even if your father needs long-term hospitalization, it's not as scary as you think. The main problem is the continued operation of this shop. The idea of selling the house is stupid. It is better to continue to operate and make a steady flow. This is the way to solve the problem."
"Continue to operate?" She looked up at him and said hesitantly: "Hire a chief cook from outside? It's hard to find that kind of person... do you want to be the cook? No possible, the diners won't pay for it."
He said with a smile: "The diners are eating the food, not me. It doesn't matter if I am young. As long as the dishes are delicious, it will be fine."
Naotaka was sent into the hospital and Haruka felt that the izakaya could no longer operate, but Kazuya felt that it could continue. That would mean that there was still money to keep coming in to support six children. This is the main problem of the Sakura family. Medical expenses are easier to deal with. According to the background of the Sakura family, there should still be some money even if the house is not sold, .
As for Naotaka's illness, as long as the hospital can maintain the situation and he can improve his [Chinese Medicine] skills, there may be hope that this middle-age man can be awakened. But that is obviously an extremely long process. It is estimated that LV 7 will not be of much use to people in a vegetative state. At the very least, they need LV 9, or even LV 10. But who knows how long it will take to reach LV 10.
But there is no need to explain to Haruka first that he can save Naotaka in the future. If telling her now, she will probably call the mental hospital right away.
Haruka whispered: "It's still difficult to operate if the diners don't mind. What you don't know is that the store is almost out of business. The KEC opposite has kept the price very low. We didn't only make any money in the past two weeks, but also had a loss. If my father was not sick, I might have been able to think of a way or advise him to change his career, but now... "
She made up her mind as she gritted her teeth, "You are right. The house cannot be sold, this is the foundation of this family. I will drop out of school and go work! If I can't earn money, I will go to...I will go to..."
Kazuya was shocked. This little radish went to another extreme. Instead of thinking about selling the house, she started thinking about selling herself. It is said that people in Kansai really like to sign long-term contracts for raising a young girl. She looks pretty good and may be really sold for a lot of money.
He couldn't just watch her sell herself, so he quickly stopped her and held her head down to prevent her from getting up, "Wait a minute, the situation is not to the point where you should sell yourself. Let me handle everything else!"
Haruka threw away his hand and said angrily: "You don't understand at all. There's nothing we can do. Do you understand? There's nothing we can do! Do you think it's easy to support so many people in our family?"
Kazuya held her head down again: "So what if it's difficult! You've practiced swordsmanship for so many years and it's still a family tradition. But when you encounter difficulties, you start to give up on yourself? See the path of the sword clearly and go forward indomitably, that's what you should do!"
"But now it's time to sacrifice my body!"
"What will they do if you sacrifice your body? Who will take charge of this family, Haruna?"
When mentioning her younger brothers and sisters, Haruka was stunned. She was quickly pressed down by Kazuya like a deflated rubber ball.
Kazuya also took a step back and said softly. : "Let's try it first. If it doesn't work, how about we think of other ways? Trust me once and leave everything to me!"
"Trust you?"
"Trust me!"
Haruka lowered her head and thought for a while, then raised her head, lowered her head repeayly. She finally said in a low voice: "You won't get any benefits. Just because my father helped you? He didn't help you much either..."
As far as she knew, her father had at most taken Kazuya out of the police station once and saved him from the risk of being a defendant. Other than that, there seemed to be nothing else. Does tow bookselves count?
Why did he step in? Didn't he know this is big trouble? Did he have any other requirements?
Kazuya laughed dumbly, "You don't understand what a man is. A man looks at his heart and his friendship, not his interests. Moreover, Haruna and Akiho are also my friends. Isn't it reasonable to help your friends? Maybe they can alsohelp me one day in the future!"
Haruka muttered "What kind of man are you at sixteen?" but then couldn't help but feel light-hearted, as if half of the heavy burden on her shoulders was suddenly taken away. Although she couldn't understand why Kazuya wanted to step in, she decided to believe him for once.
The situation couldn't get any worse, so why not trust him? She tilted her head and sat there silently, agreed that Kazuya would make the decision next. He did not disappoint her, too. In the next few days, he showed how a man can handle affairs calmly.
Naotaka's medical expenses were actually very easy to handle. He is self-employed and covered by the National Health Insurance. His disease can be classified as a "serious or chronic disease" so he can apply for a "high medical expense cap". He taught Kazuya a lot some time ago. He said a lot of things like "know the law before you want to benefit from it" after drinking. Kazuya really read some law books and this item is from some extended items in the Japanese Constitution.
Of course, don't even dream if you don't pay a single yen. It will definitely cost money, but the main purpose is to keep medical expenses within an acceptable range.
Haruka may be a good hand in manage her family. She's not really a good hand and only know to beat and scold. When running these things outside, she was far less dexterous than Kazuya. She knew there is such a thing as health insurance, but she didn't think that she could actually significantly reduce the medical expenses. Maybe some kind people at the hospital would remind her after a while, but she still had to pay a lot of money before that.
She was still young and had not considered these things as thoroughly as Kazuya, and her mentality was not calm enough. She just thought that it would be over because of this matter.
Kazuya was willing to ask others for help humbly. He went around the town autonomous committee, the hospital, the social welfare office and so on. In three days, he made it clear to the hospital and asked them to recalculate the bill. The surgery fee they should pay is only 160,000 yen this month and the rest is paid by the government. Their pressure was relieved immediately.
And Kazuya was able to do it so smoothly all thanks to Naotaka's friends and his good looks. Many times, the handlers asked him to find Haruka's relatives first. But look at Naotaka's name and then at Kazuya's handsome face with a charm value of over 25, they finally passed it.
The urgent need was quickly solved, and Kazuya was ready to solve the long-term income problem of the Sakura family. He temporarily put aside his plan and was not ready to move from the apartment for the time being. He took out his own money and also asked for a large sum of money from Haruka to buy three carts of radishes.
There was no other way. This is the only one among vegetables that's cheap and plentiful.
Under the astonished eyes of the Sakura family, he was crazy in washing, peeling and chopping. When his vitality was gone, he crazily gnawed on the radish to increase the recovery speed of his vitality. His eyes turned red and almost chopped off three of his fingers. He farts even smelled like the smell of radish. It took him four days to finally upgrade [Cooking] from LV 8 to LV 9.
Kazuya slowly put down the kitchen knife and carefully studied the available skills obtained after the [Cooking] was upgraded to this level. It seems that the more skill books are merged, the better available skills will be gained when the skill is upgraded. He happened to be idle some time ago and merged all the cooking books collected by Naotaka.
It turns out that there is still such a thing. I must pay attention to it when I learn skills in the future. I can't be greedy to upgrade only one skill.