Because of this incident, Mr. Huang could no longer stay in the hospital and had to be discharged.
But as mentioned before, the neighbors in the tenement were too embarrassed to ask the Huang family for the debt because they saw each other all the time.
But outsiders didn't care about all that, so after Grandpa Huang was discharged from the hospital, people from the Huang family started coming to visit him one after another within a few days.
They were all relatives and friends who came to visit, ostensibly to see me, but actually to collect debts.
With stiff smiles, the Huang family saw off wave after wave of debt collectors. By evening, the house was finally quiet, and the smiles that had lasted all day were now drooping, and everyone looked terrible.
During this period, Aunt Ren's health deteriorated, and Shi Fen became pregnant and could not do much work. The two children were still young and could not help much either, so Huang Lao Er had to take care of everything inside and outside, which exhausted him.
This has made me lack energy at work, and I'm always distracted. I've been called in by my team leader for making mistakes more than once.
Now that there are so many debtors coming to his house, he doesn't know what to do.
Should we hate our parents? After all, it was their own decision that led to this situation at home.
What good is it to hate them?
Now his father has suffered a stroke, and his mother has fallen ill from anger; he hates her but there's nothing he can do to change anything.
As a son, he couldn't abandon them; otherwise, his workplace would be the first to hold him accountable.
He couldn't help but feel resentful, even though he didn't hate them.
Why should he be held responsible for the trouble his brother caused?
Moreover, with so much debt, it's obvious that the company wouldn't agree to advance so much salary. Even if they did, how would they live for the next few years without income?
Finally, Huang Lao Er looked at the house he had lived in for more than 30 years. Was he really going to sell it?
No, he doesn't want to!
This house is his only backup plan; he won't sell it!
However, Huang Lao Er's idea didn't last long. From that day on, people started coming to his house every day to collect debts.
Every day, Huang Lao Er had to smile and beg them for a grace period, while also taking care of his ailing family members, saving his energy for work, and worrying that if he didn't repay the money, the group that lent Huang Lao San the money would really take the house away.
Within a few days, he was overwhelmed by these things.
Finally, one evening during dinner, Grandpa Huang once again couldn't control himself and defecated in bed. Grandma Ren sighed and Shi Fen quietly complained that her stomach was uncomfortable.
Huang Lao Er couldn't hold back any longer and slammed his chopsticks down...
When the whole family looked over, he said in a fit of desperation, "Why don't we sell this house?"
"What? Sell the house? I don't agree!"
Shi Fen was the first to speak, and she said angrily, "I don't agree to sell the house! This is the only house we have left. Where will our whole family live if we sell it? Why should we have to pay back the money they owe us?!"
Aunt Ren's face was also very unpleasant. She didn't want to sell the house either, after all, it was the only house in the Huang family. Just like her daughter-in-law said, where would they live if they sold it?
But upon hearing her last sentence, Aunt Ren's expression became even more complicated. She knew that because of her eldest and youngest sons' affairs, her second son had become a burden, and now the whole family depended on her second son to support them.
But what can we do?
They're all her own sons, how could she not care? She knows about her second son's family's grievances, but aren't they family?
Is it really necessary to distinguish them so clearly?
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