Mr. and Mrs. Yu were very soft-hearted towards outsiders; some relatives would borrow all their money from them just by pleading poverty…
Even without money, they insisted on borrowing from friends in other places and raising money to lend to relatives.
I finally saved up some money to go home for the Chinese New Year, but I couldn't stay long before I had to go out to work to pay off my debts...
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It was during this time when his parents came home for the New Year that Yu's father got drunk and started bragging at the dinner table, and that's when the original owner learned—
It turns out that for so many years, only his parents sent money home to support the whole family.
My uncle's family not only never sent money home, but they also kept asking us for money.
My uncle is really unreliable. He's made a bunch of bad friends, and the money he earns in a year isn't even enough to cover his gambling losses.
Yu's father often had to clean up his older brother's messes.
The original owner's expectations of such parents had long since vanished.
Although I was angry when I learned this, I quickly became indifferent to it.
I'm just an insignificant outsider, someone who's no good enough to embarrass them. What business is it of mys to care about them?
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The old house is no longer habitable; we need to build a new one.
The two Yu brothers built their houses together.
And because the eldest uncle's family has a son, the house is built to be larger, with more rooms.
Uncle Yu had no money at all; the money for repairing the houses for both families was mostly borrowed by Uncle Yu's father from all over the place.
Then Yu's father worked hard every year to pay off the debt.
My uncle ostensibly borrowed the money, but how many debts has he borrowed over the years? I've never seen him pay it back.
Mr. Yu was very generous, often saying that they were all family and it didn't matter if they didn't pay it back, etc...
The original owner later overheard these words from his uncle.
"His daughter is useless; she'll have to rely on my son when she's old. She's too busy trying to curry favor with us to dare ask us for money. Does she dare to openly defy us?"
His tone was confident and smug, full of self-assurance and self-satisfaction.
Only then did the original owner realize why even her parents favored her cousin, why they always talked about family, and why she was unconditionally exploited...
My heart sank...
But it didn't matter anymore; she had long since accepted reality and considered herself an outsider...
From now on, let them live together as a family...
She wants to study and rely on herself.
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