"You've been with me for so many years, don't I know you? If there were any other way, I wouldn't have come to this point."
"When I left the village, I had such a bad time with everyone, and when I got engaged this time, you saw it all. I also know what we will encounter when we return to the village this time."
"If there were any other way, I wouldn't have come to this point. While we still have money, I could go back to the village and buy a house that no one wants, and live a good life."
"If we were here, how would we live? No one has a job, and we can only survive for a few years with your savings, not to mention the occasional disturbances from the casino."
Although Mr. Xia is not well educated, he knows that gambling is the hardest thing to quit. No matter how much a person promises, he will never quit gambling.
If they can't reduce the money, then they will always be harassed by the casino. Once he loses the money and can't pay it back, they, as his in-laws, will be the first to be visited.
What will happen then? The first time he plays, there will be a second time, and the second time will be a third time. How can their family afford to support him in gambling for the fourth time?
Needless to say, even if he did have the money, he wouldn't give so much money to an outsider. Yes, in his mind, both the girl and the son-in-law were outsiders.
All the money in their family was left to his eldest grandson, and no one else had a penny. If he had to spend so much money to help an outsider, he might as well die.
That's why he considered returning to the village. If he wasn't really forced into a desperate situation, he wouldn't have chosen to return to the village.
Looking at his wife, she stopped talking. He leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes, and thought about the past half of his life.
When he was less than 20 years old, he came to the city and worked hard. When he was 25, he finally got his first house and was able to bring his family members from the countryside over.
At that time, when he returned home, he would look up at people, because in his mind, they were already city people, eating public grain, and were different from these peasants in the countryside.
So even though he had some unpleasantness with his brothers, he didn't mind at all, because afterwards he felt that there was no intersection between them and he had distanced himself from them.
At that time, he thought that he would get better and better in his life. Indeed, that was the case a year ago. He slowly climbed up and became a small leader.
There are four adults in the family, three of whom have jobs. They receive a large sum of money every month and live a pretty comfortable life.
But when did it change? Was it when his son was expelled, or was it even earlier, when that ungrateful Xia Jin left home, that their family had already been on the decline?
Now it's his son who has lost his job, and then it's himself and his daughter-in-law. It seems like there is an invisible big hand controlling their family.
Things are even worse now. The husband his granddaughter found is a gambler who cheated them of most of their savings and forced them to hide from others to make a living.
He had lived a life of glory and arrogance, but he never thought that when he was old he would have to flee back to the village in a desperate situation, because only in that way could his family have a way out.
Only in this way can their family get rid of the gambling grandson-in-law. He calculated the money in his hand and thought about how to do the biggest thing with the least money.
After finishing his calculations, he thought to himself, is it really like what others say, Xia Jin is a little lucky star? The reason why their family lived so smoothly before was because of her.
If these things had been told to him before, he would definitely not have believed it. When someone in the family compound said this before, he dismissed it and thought, "That's a disaster star, how can it be a lucky star?"
But now he gradually wavered in his previous thoughts. He thought that it might be true. Otherwise, if he was really a disaster star, how could he get better and better after leaving his home?
On the contrary, after Xia Jin left, their family seemed to have been going downhill, gradually reaching a point of no return. He even had to take his entire family and flee back to the place he least expected.
When he thought about the ridicule and contempt they would face from the villagers after returning home, he felt uncomfortable. He had been arrogant for half his life, but in the end he had to suffer such humiliation.
Finally, he thought, forget it. It was true that things change over time. When he came to drink the engagement wine before, he looked down on his brother and had a big fight with him.
Now it seems that it is true. I have to carry a lot of bags like a refugee and make a living under their hands.
If he had known this would happen, he would not have given all the land and house in the village left to him by his parents to his brothers. At that time, in order to show his magnanimity, he gave them all to them.
At that time, he thought that he had already walked out of here, so he would never go back in his life. There was no point in keeping those things, so it was better to do a favor.
But he didn't expect that when he was about to be buried, he was sent back in disgrace. After he returned, he had no place to live and had to spend money to buy one from others.
"Count carefully how much money we have left, and then you can keep the change for yourself and give me the rest."
"Okay, I'll go check later to see if we really need to go back to the village and whether we should discuss it with Jianguo."
Old Man Xia said impatiently, "There's nothing to discuss. I said go back, so I go back. You are too short-sighted. Only by going back can we save our family and our wealth."
"That gambler is just a gambler. After you help him pay back this time, he won't borrow money again. Rather than being dependent on him for a long time, it's better to escape early."
Mrs. Xia looked at her husband and said angrily:
"Okay, I'll listen to you. It's just a pity. Xia Cai's leg is broken. It's all Xia Qingqing's fault. If it weren't for her, our family wouldn't have ended up like this."
"She's just an ungrateful person. We've worked so hard to raise her, and now when we need her to repay us, she teams up with others to cheat us out of our money."
Old Man Xia was also very angry when he thought about this, so he said, "Let's go and take a look tomorrow. If not all of it, we will try to get back at least half of it."
"We can't let them get away with it. So, you take better care of him. We can give him more compensation later. Besides, the doctor said his leg can't be healed."
"If we had money, we could still find a way, but we are at the end of our rope now, so we can only give up."
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