One yuan can buy several kilograms of grain, enough for a family's expenses for seven days. You can't even afford two yuan? I think you're definitely the tail end of socialism. I'm going to have a serious talk with the village; we absolutely cannot have such corrupt people in our village.”
Yang's mother was furious.
"Qiao Wanyue, shut up."
She turned her anger towards Gou Dan, saying, "Get lost, I don't want your two yuan."
Yang's mother chased people away with a large broom.
Dog Egg didn't budge.
His knees buckled.
"A man's knees are worth their weight in gold."
Dog Egg's limp knees straightened up instantly.
Gou Dan let the broom fall on him. This happened every month. After Yang Laoda saved him, the two families tacitly agreed that Gou Dan should give money to the Yang family every month. But every time he gave money, Yang's mother would make veiled accusations. She didn't say that she thought the money was too little. She just kept crying about her dead husband. In fact, everyone knew that she thought the money was too little.
But that money was all the money his family had.
He earned ten yuan from selling dried vegetables this time. It wasn't that he didn't want to give it to the Yang family; his grandfather coughed up blood, and if he didn't go to the hospital soon, he was worried that his grandfather would leave him. That's why he hid eight yuan for his grandfather's medical treatment.
But he didn't expect that Yang's mother already knew.
His words implied that he wanted all the money.
He closed his eyes in pain.
When will this kind of life end?
The air was filled with the shouts and curses of Yang's mother.
Sometimes he wondered if he was really heartless. When he was a child, he fell into the water and was saved by Boss Yang, but he himself lost his life, leaving behind an orphan and a widow.
His grandparents told him to be grateful, that his life belonged to Yang Laoda, and that he should repay the Yang family. But for the past ten years or so, all the money he earned each month, as well as his grandparents' work points, went to the Yang family.
The Yang family, however, constantly spoke of the life-saving grace they had received.
Sometimes he wondered if he could return his life to Boss Yang and then not owe him anything.
Gou Dan endured more than a dozen blows from Yang's mother, his arms swollen. No one from the Yang family came out; they all hid inside the house, looking at Gou Dan with disdain.
He cursed them as heartless and treacherous.
Yang's mother's hands were almost numb from shaking, but Gou Dan did not kneel on the ground to beg for mercy as usual, nor did he swear to take more money.
"Get out, you're not welcome in my house." He stood there like a wooden statue, and Yang's mother threw down the broom and pushed him away.
Dog Egg didn't budge.
"Dog Egg, her family doesn't welcome you, but they do welcome your money. You'd better give her everyone else as soon as possible, otherwise she'll be showing up at your house in mourning clothes and crying, and you'll still have to give her the money."
Both Gou Dan and Yang's mother were stunned.
How did that brat know!
That was indeed Yang's plan. Gou Dan's family was heartless and cruel. Her eldest son died to save her, and he sold him for ten yuan, but they only wanted to cheat her with two yuan. This time, she was determined to make a scene so that everyone would know and she would make Gou Dan support her with all his money.
But that's what I really think; I definitely can't say it out loud.
Yang's mother glared at Qiao Wanyue and said coldly, "I don't want his money, I want my eldest son to come back to life."
Qiao Wanyue said, "You knew he wouldn't survive, that's why you kept Gou Dan tied up, right?"
Yang's mother gritted her teeth.
Qiao Wanyue spat out the sunflower seed shells in her mouth. "I think no one knows better than you, Zhong Qingqing, why Yang Laoda died. He really died saving Gou Dan?"
Qiao Wanyue only had suspicions.
In her previous life, when she married into the Yang family, the eldest son had already passed away many years ago.
At first, she also thought that Yang Laoda died while saving someone.
But recently she has begun to have doubts about the selfish and mean-spirited nature of Old Mrs. Yang, as well as the personalities of the Yang sisters and Yang Huaiyuan.
If Yang Laoda were a kind and benevolent person, he and his siblings certainly wouldn't have acted this way.
But it's just a suspicion; after all, what if a bad seed produces a good melon?
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