"Later I learned that all the money came from my eldest brother. My parents said that my eldest brother had saved an official and that's why he was given so much silver. But I didn't find that my eldest brother was close to any official."
"Second Brother, when you send money, to whom do you give it?" Zhong Yan asked, looking up at him.
Zhongheng was taken aback: "Of course it's left to my eldest brother. He's the only one in the family who can read."
Soon, his face turned red with anger.
He said he had saved so much money, and every now and then he would eagerly send it back, but it was all gone!
So that's where the problem lies. After receiving the silver and the envelope, the elder brother didn't mention his younger brother at all. Instead, he treated all the silver as his own!
"Little sister, please don't go out! I'll be right back!"
Zhongheng didn't question him immediately. After running back, he first jumped onto his elder brother's roof and secretly lifted a piece of tile to check the situation inside.
When she overheard her elder brother and sister-in-law's conversation and realized that the money she had sent over the years had indeed been taken by her elder brother, and that most of it had been gambled away, she angrily punched him.
With a loud crash, a hole appeared in the roof of the main house of the Zhong family.
"Second, second brother? What are you doing here?" The eldest brother of the Zhuang family had already taken his pants off halfway when he suddenly saw someone fall from the sky, and he was so frightened that he knelt down.
"Brother, shall we have a proper chat?" Zhongheng said with a half-smile.
He's not stupid. The reason he didn't take his younger brother's words to heart before was simply because he felt he wouldn't be staying at home for long, and there was no need to cause a scene or upset his parents.
But to secretly pocket so much hard-earned money without mentioning him at all, and for most of the money to be taken to the casino by his older brother, is utterly despicable!
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A few minutes later, all the members of the Zhong family were summoned to the hall.
When Zhong's parents saw Zhong Heng sitting there, a hint of disgust flashed in their eyes.
"Why are you making such a fuss in the middle of the night? You can't even let people sleep in peace!"
"Didn't you say you were looking for your sister? Why aren't you looking for her anymore? You're so old and still unmarried, yet you're trying to control your sister!"
"Second brother, even if you don't have a house anymore, you don't need to tear the house down, do you?" Zhong Xiaodi hurriedly put on his clothes and ran over, sneezing from the cold, which made his parents feel very sorry for him.
"Oh, so this family doesn't even have my house?" Zhongheng tapped his fingers.
"Brother, what are you thinking? You've been taking my money all these years, and you haven't even built me a house?"
"Second son, what are you talking about? What do you mean by taking your money? When did you send the money back?" Old Master Zhong scolded.
"Ask your eldest brother and let him tell you what happened," Zhongheng said, finding it rather amusing.
He had finally seen through it all. He had even planned to bring his whole family to the desolate mountains, but now it seemed there was no need at all!
"Second brother, stop being so willful. You're tearing down my house in the middle of the night. What else do you want to do? Don't you just feel bad that we didn't leave you a house and that we married off your sister?" Brother Zhong said, his voice stern but his heart pounding.
"Aren't you going to tell the truth now?" Zhongheng casually tossed a chair over.
At this moment, he wished he had the strength of Madam An, so he could crush the stone and show it to all these guys!
"You've gone mad! You haven't been home for so long, and this is how you treat us when you come back? Is this how you treat us?" Zhong's mother roared.
"Brother, since you won't explain, then I'll take out this IOU and let everyone see it." Zhongheng had already made plans when he heard that his brother owed money at the casino. The moment he jumped down, he grabbed the IOU next to his brother's pillow.
The sudden outburst of this IOU nearly made Brother Zhong's eyes pop out of their sockets.
"An IOU?" Old Master Zhong opened it and found that it was an IOU for five hundred taels of silver.
"Boss, when did you accumulate so much debt?" Zhong's mother also plopped down on the ground.
"What, how did you get so much money, brother? You can easily owe five hundred taels of silver without any worries, and you can still sleep so soundly at home?"
"What official could give you so much silver that you could squander it like this?"
Zhongheng said indifferently.
"What do you know?" Brother Zhong panicked.
"I really don't understand. I just came here to ask where the five hundred taels of silver sent home every year went. Over the years, that must have amounted to at least three thousand taels. Where did all that silver go?"
"The house in this county town probably wouldn't even cost a hundred taels. What about the rest of the silver? Brother, you didn't tell our parents and younger brother about this silver from beginning to end, did you?"
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