Not only did he lose all the family money, he also owed a large amount of foreign debt. In the end, he abandoned his children and ran away to an unknown place.

His grandmother was so angry that she kept saying his mother was dead until he was a child, and only told the truth before she died.

The more He Xiaojie listened, the more distressed she felt about his plight. She wanted to offer some words of comfort, but she heard him continue, "I actually have a brother, five years older than me. When I was ten, he gave me up for adoption. Then, a year later, he teamed up with human traffickers to sell me and my sister."

"ah?"

The topic suddenly changed, and she almost didn't react. "You were only six years old at the time, right? He sold you out? How big of a grudge does he have against you?"

Wen Jie shook his head, a hint of tenderness in the depths of his eyes, "On the contrary, he is very good to us. He is the one who takes care of us when mom is not at home.

When his younger sister was born and had no milk to drink, his mother didn't care, so he went to other people's homes to steal goat's milk and pig's milk, and went to the village cowshed to steal cow's milk. He was caught several times and was beaten all over his body. New wounds piled up before the old ones were fully healed.

He was in so much pain that he couldn't even walk, but he still smiled and hugged his sister to comfort her, saying that she could finally have two days of full meals, and the beating was worth it.

"Then why did he—"

“When my eldest brother was ten years old, our family was in huge debt and all the neighbors disliked us.

We had been out of food for two days. My sister was so hungry that she had no strength to move, and I was so hungry that I was chewing grass on the ground. My eldest brother had no choice but to run in the rain to ask Mom for money to buy food, but he was scolded and kicked out.

Recalling the powerless and desperate time in the past, Wen Jie frowned and told her the story of that year.

That year, Wen's mother had an argument with her mother-in-law over her husband's compensation. Worried that Wen would take the money, she took the children and moved to her parents' home, never telling the children that they still had relatives alive.

The eldest brother had a vague idea of ​​what was going on and even shouted for his grandmother, but after being severely scolded by his mother, he never dared to say it again.

Besides, even if he wanted to go there for refuge, he didn't know where it was.