As soon as he said this, everyone in the room stopped being angry and stared at him in surprise and shock.
"You..." Lu Jiayang felt his throat tighten, "What are you going to give me back?"
"Although my parents passed away in a hurry, they still left some inheritance. I calculated it before, and it's a total of 200,000." Lu Zixiao paused, "Sorry, I didn't tell you until now."
"It doesn't matter whether they tell us or not. We don't want it either," Lu Jiaming said anxiously. "Then how much money do we still need from those two idiots? Is 200,000 enough?"
Lu Zixiao's lips trembled. Looking at their worried faces, he told the truth, "It's not enough. We still need 300,000 yuan in total."
"So we still have to come up with another 100,000 yuan?!" Lu Yuxuan's voice changed in shock. "Where can we get this? Should we borrow it?"
Xiaobao pouted and muttered softly, "Even if we can borrow the money, I still feel like giving them 300,000 yuan is a big loss. This amount of money is enough for us to live on for a long time."
Li Mingyang quietly took his hand, but looked at Lu Zixiao, "Brother Zixiao, how much money do you still need? I can ask my grandparents, they won't sit idly by."
"No need, let your grandparents keep their money for their retirement." Lu Zixiao waved his hand. "No need to borrow. I haven't touched my parents' inheritance. I've saved some money over the past year. I'm still short of about 40,000 to 50,000 yuan. There's still half a year left, so it should be in time."
"You..." Lu Ziyi looked at him seriously, "Tell me the truth, how many jobs have you secretly worked without telling us?"
"...just what you know." Lu Zixiao paused obviously.
"Don't talk nonsense to me!" Lu Ziyi's face rarely showed a trace of anger. "Before, you always skipped evening self-study and told me you were going to tutor, but every time you came back in the middle of the night, tired as a dog. When I asked you, you said you had extra classes. But in fact, you were doing other work, right?"
Lu Zixiao tilted his head and coughed lightly, pretending to be dissatisfied and said, "Just talk if you want to, why are you scolding me?"
"Is it?" Lu Ziyi asked him insistently.
"...Yes," Lu Zixiao admitted helplessly.
"Brother, why do you hide everything from us and don't tell us?" Lu Jiayang said helplessly, "I can't imagine how difficult it is for you to earn money, support the family and save money by yourself. At least... at least let us help you share some of the burden."
"There's no need," Lu Zixiao said softly, "I'm the eldest son, I just took on my due responsibilities."
"You only have a few years of carefree youth and childhood before entering society. I hope you can enjoy them... I hope I haven't wronged you."
"How can I feel wronged?" Lu Jiayang turned his head away with red eyes, "I have everything I want, I'm not hungry and I'm not cold, that's enough."
"Yes," Lu Yuxuan said sullenly, "If you could beat me less often, I wouldn't feel wronged at all."
"You deserve it," Lu Zixiao said, "and when did I ever hit you too hard? It was just because you were shouting for joy."
"Brother, why don't we give up this house?" Lu Jiaming suddenly said, "We can sell it for money. We can give them the difference and move somewhere else, far away from them. Maybe we can even have some money left over for our living expenses."
"No," Lu Zixiao shook his head. "House prices are generally very high nowadays. We have a large family, so if we buy a house, we have to buy a large one to accommodate them. If we calculate it this way, the remaining money will probably not be enough."
"Fuck!" Lu Jiaming cursed softly, "The worst that can happen is we just give up and simply stop paying them. I wonder what they can do to us? Can they even kill us?"
"They don't dare to kill people, but I'm like my dad. I don't want to gamble with you," Lu Zixiao said. "I can't afford to lose."
Lu Jiaming choked.
Lu Zixiao's deep gaze swept across each of their faces, and he said firmly, "Xiaobao has finally returned, and our lives have just gotten back on track. I will not allow anyone or anything to ruin this beautiful thing."
"Even if this peace and harmony is bought with money, I am willing to do it."
Seeing their lost and silent expressions, Lu Zixiao felt a little sorry for them and lowered his voice to comfort them: "Don't worry about the money, and don't save money just to give them money. You just need to live your life as usual, and leave the rest to me."
"But big brother..." Xiaobao said in a trembling voice, "We feel sorry for you."
He said "we", representing everyone in the family, but no one objected.
"Don't be like this," Lu Zixiao sighed. "I'm used to it, and I don't feel tired at all. You're acting like I've been wronged."
"I understand," Lu Jiayang stood up. "Since you said so, brother, all we can do is to accompany you, support you, and get through this difficult time together."
"Yeah," Lu Jiaming also stood up. "Although I'm very reluctant to give them money, but now that things have come to this, for the sake of our future stable life, damn it! I'll just have to endure it!"
"Brother, I will try my best to study hard and avoid getting into trouble in the future," Lu Yuxuan said seriously, "When you go to my next parent-teacher conference, I will try not to let you sit in the last row."
Lu Zixiao was so embarrassed that he didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Thank you so much!"
"And me!" Xiaobao stood up with his little paw raised. "Didn't second brother say that I'm our family's lucky star? Don't worry, big brother, with me here, we'll definitely make it through. No difficulty can defeat us!"
"Okay." Lu Zixiao's mouth curled up slightly, "I always believe that Xiaobao can bring us good luck."
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