After the doctor returned home, Zhao Dashu took the initiative to ask about Zhao Dayong.

"How is my second brother's health?"

He'd known for years that Zhao Dayong was in poor health. He just wondered how his condition had improved over the years.

As brothers, I really didn't want him to leave us so soon.

The doctor shook his head. "I'm afraid it won't work. The second master's health is extremely poor, and he is very harsh on himself. If this continues, it will be very difficult."

Zhao Dashu raised an eyebrow. "If you have any doctors you'd like to see, just say so."

"He doesn't seem like someone who will live a long life, and he doesn't take good care of himself. He probably won't last five years," the doctor said honestly.

Madam Song gasped. Her second brother's health had deteriorated to this extent?

Five years? Still not enough to last?

In the face of life and death, nothing else matters. At this moment, Song felt that all the grudges between her family and Song Dayong's family could be wiped clean.

It's like her in-laws; they wanted to sell her daughter back then, but now that she's dead, how can she still hate them? Are they supposed to go to the underworld to find them?

"The main cause of the second master's illness is excessive worry. If he doesn't let go of his worries, there is no cure."

Uncle Zhao knew what was bothering his second brother, but he was powerless to help him. Of his children, apart from Erzhuzi, he couldn't help any of them.

They're all ingrates.

If he were to offer even the slightest assistance, these people would want to tear a piece of his flesh off.

"Okay, thank you for your hard work."

After the doctor left, Zhao Dashu sat in the main room for a long time without moving.

When he was young, his second brother would take him up the mountain to find wild fruits. When he couldn't walk anymore, his second brother would carry him down the mountain.

He ate most of the wild fruits he found.

Actually, the brothers had a good relationship when they were young, especially his relationship with his second brother, which wasn't bad.

Why did they gradually drift apart? The main reason was still their parents' issues.

His parents were biased. At first, they only favored his older brother, but later, for some reason, they disliked him intensely. He was the only one in the family who suffered the most.

Gradually, his second brother also distanced himself from him.

After getting married, she had no son, and the relationship between everyone was as cold as ice. No one in the family could stand him.

The eldest brother, second brother, and youngest sister, after growing up, were all quite shrewd and knew how to read their parents' expressions.

He, Zhao Dashu, was the one disliked by his entire family. There was no affection whatsoever between the brothers.

Ultimately, it's because people are realistic and unwilling to associate with those who are worse off than themselves.

Once his life improved, his older brothers started thinking about how to take advantage of him and seize his things for themselves.

He knew they were envious and jealous, and thought he deserved to be poor his whole life.

I can understand this mentality: laughing at others' lack and envying their possessions—it's always been like this.

Especially your closest relatives are most afraid of seeing you become wealthy, and they are also most afraid of you asking them for money.

Now that his parents are gone, and knowing that his second brother may also not live much longer, all the events of the past vividly flashed before his eyes, and Zhao Dashu couldn't help but tear up.

Song patted his shoulder, unsure how to comfort him.

"Wife, do you think Second Brother would change his personality if he knew he might not make it?"

Ms. Song didn't know how to answer, but then she remembered what her daughter had once said: "A leopard can't change its spots."

Second Brother probably won't change, right?

The hardest thing for a person to change is their personality.

Zhao Dashu also felt that things wouldn't change; in fact, his second brother never thought he was wrong.

Just like a father who schemed his whole life, how could he bear to stop scheming at the very end?

Besides, he didn't think he had made a mistake in his calculations; he might even be feeling smug about it.

"Everyone has their own destiny, and we cannot interfere with other people's lives."