Qiao Wanyue scoffed, "Even if you die, they won't be free."
He paused, crouched in the water in agony, slapping the surface with his hands, his eyes filled with pain.
Qiao Wanyue said slowly, "Death is the stupidest way to solve things."
She said quietly, "If you die, do you think they won't ask for money anymore? You know perfectly well that even if you die, your grandparents will still be alive. Can you bear to let them pressure your family members, to the point that your grandparents hanged themselves?"
Dog Egg suddenly woke up.
His eyes showed pain, but he subconsciously deceived himself, "I gave my life back to him, I don't owe him anything anymore."
Qiao Wanyue scoffed, "Naive."
"What they want is never your life, but your guilt. If you die, they'll have no source of money. Who do you think they'll turn to? They can't possibly come to me, can they? After all these years, haven't you figured it out yet?"
"Then what am I supposed to do? I'll never be able to get rid of them in my entire life."
“I have no money, I don’t have a thousand yuan. I can’t buy Yang Huaiyuan a job. My grandparents are starving to death. I just want to give them money to see a doctor and buy them good food.”
What can I do?
Dog Egg howled in pain.
Qiao Wanyue watched him go crazy in the water, which was only up to his thighs. As long as he didn't go deep, he wouldn't drown.
He muttered to himself, "I know Uncle Yang died to save me. Ever since I was seven, my grandparents have warned me that I have to live with the Yang family's legacy for the rest of my life. I can't be willful, I can't abandon the Yang family."
I started working when I was seven, and I gave all the grain and money I received to the Yang family, even my grandparents'. We knew we owed him; he saved my life.
“I have paid it back. I have never forgotten it. But why am I so tired? I want to get rid of them. I want my grandparents to have enough to eat. But my grandparents say, ‘Someone saved your life. We have to repay their kindness.’”
"They eat meat during the New Year, while we eat grass, because all the money and ration coupons were given to them."
"Are you trying to say what if we don't give it to them?" Gou Dan said with a wry smile. "If we don't give it to them, they'll dress in mourning clothes and cry at our doorstep. Do you know what I'm most afraid of? I'm afraid of the anniversary of Old Yang's death every year."
"The Yang family members, dressed in mourning clothes, knelt at our door, crying, saying that I was the one they saved, that he died because of me, and that his spirit was with me, and that they were crying at our door."
As for me, all I could do was kneel on the ground and kowtow.
Gou Dan closed his eyes and said with a bitter smile, "I'm in my late twenties. Men like me in the village are already married. I don't dare, and no one would marry me. Everyone in town knows I owe the Yang family my life."
"Sometimes I wonder, why wasn't it me who died?" Gou Dan closed his eyes.
"Sister-in-law Yunzhou, you're a good person. Thank you for listening to me. Go back now, I won't die." Gou Dan had vented his pent-up anger, lay flat on the water, and closed his eyes.
Qiao Wanyue took an apple out of her pocket and threw it into the water. The apple floated to Gou Dan's side, and the cool thing touched his skin. He slowly opened his eyes and saw a fresh apple.
"Eat."
She took one out herself and started munching on it with gusto.
Gou Dan wanted to decline, but when he heard Qiao Wanyue chewing, his stomach rumbled.
He looked at the juicy apple. He hadn't eaten fruit since he was seven. All the good things in his family had to be sent to the Yang family. Otherwise, if Yang's mother saw anything good in his family, she would wear mourning clothes and cry.
He and his grandparents had never eaten such good apples.
He wanted to leave it to his grandparents.
“Eat up, I have more, you can pay for it,” Qiao Wanyue said.
Dog Egg licked his dry lips.
After hesitating for a moment, he picked up the apple and started biting into it. The sweet juice filled his mouth, instantly healing his parched throat. The sweet juice flowed down his throat and soothed his body.
He finished it in just a few bites.
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