Chapter 111
"But I don't have any money to lend you. I only make a few dollars a month, and I can't take out three hundred yuan." Ye Fuyue continued.
Shen Yao also said: "I don't have any money, so I won't lend it to you."
After saying that, Ye Fuyue and Shen Yao stood up and prepared to leave.
As soon as they opened the door, Ye's father and mother rushed out of the house and knelt down in front of them.
Ye Fuyue's solar plexus jumped: Here comes this trick again.
The actions of Ye's father and mother attracted the attention of many people in the yard.
Everyone came out to watch the fun, pointing at Ye's father, Ye's mother, and Ye Fuyue and whispering to each other.
"It's New Year's Day, what are you doing?"
"How can a parent kneel down before their daughter?"
"My daughter and son-in-law, please help us!" Ye's mother wailed, her tears breaking. "We've been defrauded of our money, and the creditors keep coming to our door. Life at home is simply unbearable. Otherwise, we wouldn't be begging you with such a shameless face!"
"Your parents raised you and have never asked you for anything in their lives. Just this once, please help your parents, otherwise they really won't be able to survive!" Ye's father also looked pitiful: "You have seen the situation at home. Although it is Chinese New Year, we don't even have a decent meal at home. Your parents are really desperate, so they thought of asking you for help!"
The onlookers were somewhat aware of the recent situation of the Ye family, and they all said:
"The Ye family has had quite a few people come to collect debts recently. Even though the two daughters are married and the burden on the family is lighter, their lives are getting worse day by day."
"Yeah! Today is clearly the day to go back to her parents' home, but the little girl hasn't even shown up yet. I'm afraid she doesn't want to come back."
"Although the Ye family used to favor boys over girls and treated the two girls poorly, they at least raised them both! Even if Father and Mother Ye treated them badly, they still had the grace to raise them. Now that their parents are having such a hard time, it's their responsibility to help them."
"right!"
Shen Yao had a gloomy face and was about to go forward to pull up Ye's father and mother, but Ye Fuyue secretly stopped him.
Don’t they like kneeling? Just let them kneel. They haven’t learned enough from the last lesson, and now they want to do it again, right?
Then she will satisfy them!
Ye Fuyue gathered her emotions for a moment, her eyes welling up with tears. "Dad, Mom, you raised me, and I'm very grateful to you. But ever since my younger brother went to the countryside, you've been completely focused on him, always thinking about how to get him back to the city. I know that my younger brother has always been the one you value most, and it's understandable that you put all your thoughts on him."
"But you can't keep counting on me!"
"I've met you three times since I got married, and you've never once asked me if I was doing well or if I needed anything. You just want my husband to find a job for my brother, free of charge, so he can return to the city. Even after I told you my husband wasn't capable of that, you still didn't believe me. You even knelt before me in front of so many people in the compound, forcing my husband to find a job for my brother."
"If you really cared about my well-being, would you kneel down before me in front of so many people in this compound and roast me over a fire?"
"This time, my man came back with me, but you still haven't asked me a single question about my situation, and you still don't care whether I'm doing well or not. You always ask me to borrow money. Back then, you kept the 100 yuan betrothal gift my man brought. You were scammed out of 1,000 yuan in order to buy a job for your brother so he could return to the city. You thought of me and asked me to fill this hole for you. When I refused, you knelt down and forced me to do it. Do you really want to force me to death?"
"We have no other choice! We don't want to beg you, but if you don't care about us, we will really die!" Ye's father said with a sad face.
"Then who's going to care about my life or death? I filled your hole this time, but next time you run up a mountain of foreign debts in order to let your brother return to the city, are you going to ask me to fill your hole again? You treat me and my in-laws as your bank!"
Ye Fuyue looked at the few people who had spoken for Ye's father and mother earlier.
"Aunt Cui, your wife secretly gave fifty yuan to her parents, and you chased her, scolded her, and beat her. Tell me, if I gave my parents a thousand yuan, what would my in-laws do to me?"
Aunt Cui opened her mouth but couldn't say anything.
"Aunt Zhang, when your son was looking for a daughter, the thing you said the most was not to marry someone with a thief in their family. You said that when my parents ran out of money, they came to me and made trouble, asking for money, kneeling down in front of me, forcing me to give them money. Does that make me the thief in your family that you hate the most?"
Aunt Zhang's eyes were wandering and she couldn't speak.
"Auntie Li, when your wife's parents were seriously ill, your wife secretly gave them 20 yuan for medical treatment. You cursed your wife's parents all over the courtyard. They are not incompetent, and you still have the nerve to ask your wife for money. Look, my parents are fine now, they have arms and legs. Shouldn't they work hard to pay back the foreign debt they took on for my brother?"
Aunt Li trembled and could not speak.
Ye Fuyue's gaze fell on Ye's father and mother again: "Mom and Dad, you both have the courage to kneel down before me. Let you make money to pay off your debts, you should also be quite courageous."
Seeing that Ye's father wanted to speak, Ye Fuyue spoke first, "Or did you plan it all from the beginning? No matter how much foreign debt we owe, you force me to pay it back. You just need to find a job for my brother so that he can return to the city?"
"We didn't think so..." Ye's mother said hurriedly.
Ye Fuyue interrupted her: "Since you don't think so, what do you mean now? You keep kneeling down and forcing me. You want to ruin my reputation and kill me. You don't care whether I live or die, right?"
Ye's father and mother opened their mouths, wanting to speak, but for a moment they didn't know what to say. It seemed that no matter what they said, it would eventually turn out to be beneficial to Ye Fuyue.
Ye Fuyue took a deep breath, her face filled with sorrow. "Since you don't care about me, my reputation, or my life, and just want me to fill your hole, then there's no need for me to come back."
After Ye Fuyue finished speaking, she took Shen Yao’s hand and left.
It was not until Chen Yao and Ye Fuyue left the family compound that the onlookers quietly dispersed.
What can we say? Who doesn't have a son and a daughter-in-law? If the daughter-in-law learns this, and she gets scolded by her in-laws for helping her parents, she will drag Ye Fuyue out to criticize them. How can they discipline her? Isn't this asking for trouble?
Ye's father and mother, who were still kneeling on the ground, became anxious when they saw that no one spoke up for them or scolded Ye Fuyue.
"Lao Cui...Lao Zhang...Aunt Li...don't leave!"
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