Erzhuzi laughed mockingly, "Father, Mother, I heard everything you said yesterday afternoon. I was just about to go find you, didn't expect that, did I?"
I never expected that you had so many plans as soon as I left. You arranged everything clearly, from my work to the money I earned.
You've been so good to me, how can I put it? You really are my wonderful parents.
Zhao Dayong's old eyes narrowed; he was actually standing at the door.
"You were eavesdropping on our conversation?"
"Yes, I overheard. If I hadn't overheard, I wouldn't have known how good my parents were to me and how well they arranged things for me."
Zhao Dayong slumped his shoulders, looking somewhat powerless.
It's over. Their second son is leaving them too. He miscalculated.
Li couldn't believe he would dare to run away with his child and wife. "Your father and I were just talking nonsense, how could you take it seriously?"
"Really? I've already separated from the family. It shouldn't be a problem to take them with me now, right?"
Li objected, "What will we do with the land if you leave? We can't expect your father and me to farm it, can we? Do you want to work us to death?"
"If you're not allowed to plant it, I've rented it out."
"You rented it out? When did that happen? Why didn't you discuss it with us?"
“After listening to what you said yesterday, I feel like I’ve grown up. I know what I’m doing and I don’t need to worry my parents about everything.”
The eldest brother is now unmarried, and the third brother is even more of a troublemaker. Parents, just keep an eye on them.
Li Shi and Zhao Dayong watched helplessly as they moved things away bit by bit, and watched the mule cart leave.
"Husband, they're gone. Everyone in the house who can work is gone?" Li was utterly desperate. She felt like the whole world had abandoned her.
"Let them go. We can still take care of our home and farm without them."
“But there’s no one to do the housework? I’m all alone at home, are you all trying to work me to death? And the money, the second son is clearly unwilling to take out the money, what will happen to the eldest and third sons in the future? Neither of them has a wife.”
Zhao Dayong closed his weathered old eyes. "What else can we do? Things will work themselves out. Right now, the second son is angry and it's not good to say anything. We'll coax him slowly once he calms down."
"No, how did he end up at our door yesterday? Why didn't we notice there were people at the door?"
"That's what I mean. It's such a coincidence that there was already a troublemaker named Guo, and now he's overheard all this. With Guo stirring things up, the second son might become estranged from us."
"There's nothing we can do about it, we're telling the absolute truth. He's neither as capable nor as smart as the eldest brother, giving him work would be a waste. As for money, with two brothers in the family unmarried, who else would he help if not him?"
They didn't say a single wrong word; the mistake was that they didn't let him hear those words.
After the person left, Li felt that the house was very empty and seemed to lack human presence.
Apart from the two of them, only the eldest son and the youngest daughter remained in the not-so-small courtyard, and she felt a sense of desolation.
Dazhuzi lay on the kang (a heated brick bed), listening to the sounds outside. He knew that his second brother had taken his wife and children away to the county town to live a better life. They probably wouldn't come back.
He was resentful. Why was his second son living a better life than him? That idiot! If it weren't for him leading the way, he would have been the family's workhorse a few years ago.
That bastard, Third Uncle, he gave him a chance to live but then refused to give him any? In what way is he worse than Erzhuzi?
Thinking of the departed Pan family, Dazhuzi became even more furious. He had no money, no wife, no children, and not even a healthy body; he had nothing.
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