On the phone, my mother told me that Sanjia and her family had moved to the city to settle down.
My third wife has a child, five or six years younger than me, named Jiang Dong. He went out into society after graduating from junior high school. He is a typical idle person.
He was in his early twenties and didn't even have a decent job. He was also addicted to gambling. He had just a little money and then spent it again within half a day.
The most exaggerated thing is that at the end of last year, my cousin lost a lot of money gambling outside and owed a lot of loan sharks. I heard it was hundreds of thousands, and people came to collect the debt every day.
Of course he had no money to repay, so he went into hiding. As a result, his creditor ordered someone to beat him up, stay in a hospital for half a month, and threatened to kill him if he couldn't pay back the money.
My mother called me to tell me that the third concubine and the third uncle had been looking for her every day recently, hoping that she could use 200,000 to repay the loan shark to her cousin. She also said that for the sake of relatives, she would save their son.
When I heard my mother say this, I was really amused.
How did their family treat us when we went home?
They regard us as a thorn in their side. Their own chickens ran into our field and died after eating vegetables. They also blame my mother for using pesticides and make my mother pay for it.
It's fine now. If something happens to your family, you'll come knocking on your doorstep and pay back 200,000 yuan. How can you be so thick-skinned?
I directly told my mother to ignore it, but she hesitated a little on the phone and said that we should borrow some. She said that Jiang Dong was still young and might have just gone astray due to confusion.
My mother is kind-hearted, I know that, but I really don’t want to have anything to do with Sanjia’s family.
I still insist on never borrowing it, because for some things, once there is a second time, or even countless times in the future.
My mother sighed and then hung up the phone with a heavy heart.
Don't blame me for being stone-hearted. Although Jiang Dong is my cousin, we have never met a few times since we were young, and he has never called me brother.
I still remember that two years ago, when I was in the spotlight, he encouraged the third lady to come to me to borrow money, saying that he had found a girlfriend and wanted to marry her.
I didn't think much about it at the time, so I borrowed 100,000 yuan from him. At that time, 100,000 yuan was nothing to me.
But later I found out that he had used it to gamble and that he did have such a girlfriend, but because of the gift money, he never got married in the end.
So, there are some people here! I can help, but there are some people I won’t help anymore even if I get rich.
Because if you help, you are harming yourself.
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After I came to the company, I was dismissed to handle some daily affairs. The position of general manager is not easy to hold. I have to sign a lot of documents and hold various large and small meetings every day.
Sometimes I am so busy that I don’t even have time to drink water, but I like this feeling very much. I feel very fulfilled and don’t feel like every day is wasted.
During my lunch break, I was suddenly pulled into a WeChat group, which was full of relatives, both from far and near. There were probably more than 40 people in it.
However, I am not familiar with many of them. The group name is "Love each other as a family". I guess it is a family group.
But this is the first time for me to be in this kind of family group after so long, and it feels quite strange.
At this time, my third wife circled me in the group and asked me to lend money to my cousin to pay off his debt.
It was all said in voice, quite politely, and sincerely, so that people couldn't bear to refuse.
Only then did I understand what it meant to invite me into the group after a long time.
But why do you want to include me in the group?
I had to pretend not to see her and let her talk in the group, but I didn't respond.
Most of the relatives in the group also knew Jiang Dong's temperament, so they refused to lend him money, and no one paid attention to her. I don't know how the third mistress could talk.
I can only say that I have pity for the parents in the world!
In order to help his son pay off his debt, what else can he not give up?
But I can't give up my principles of life just because of how their family is.
And this isn't a matter of principle, it's just that I don't like their family.
After the third lady chatted in the group for a while, no one seemed to care about her, so she called me directly.
I didn't want to answer it, but I really can't stand her harassing me all the time.
I had no choice but to answer the phone, and the third lady asked me politely: "Afeng, are you busy now?"
I knew what she was going to say, so I replied directly: "I'm a little busy, what's the matter? Mistress."
"I dragged you into a group, did you see that?"
"What group? I didn't pay attention." I pretended not to know.
"It's like this. Your brother owes some money outside. I hope you can lend me some money to help you pay off your brother's debt."
"That's it..." I paused and said, "But, Mistress, I don't have any money!"
"How is that possible? Your family has been expropriated now, so you must have lost a lot of money, right?"
I smiled bitterly and said, "That's because I was expropriated, and I didn't get any money. I really don't have any money."
"Then I heard from your mother that you have bought a car again. Where did you get the money to buy a car?"
I'm convinced. Where did I get the money? What does it have to do with you?
Before I could reply, the third lady said again: "Well, you sell the car first. I only need 200,000. The car is not a necessity anyway. Can you buy it later when you have money?"
After hearing this, I finally couldn't help it, but I didn't curse anyone. I just refused: "I'm sorry! Sanma, I bought the car myself. I didn't use a penny from you, so you can't even think about it."
The idea for my car.”
After saying that, I hung up the phone directly, thinking that the matter was over, but what made me most angry was still behind.
The third lady started to talk a lot in the group again, saying that I was unfilial and why did the Chen family have a rip-off like me who would not save my family members.
He also said that my father should not have allowed me to be born in the first place, saying that their family was really in trouble, and now they finally moved to the city. They paid two or three hundred thousand as a down payment, and the three of them together had one person.
I only earn five to six thousand yuan a month.
How difficult it is...
After talking about their situation, he talked about my situation, saying that since I am alone now, I don’t have to raise children, and I have no burden at all, so why can’t I spend some money to help my brother?
After seeing these words, I was so angry that my heart, liver, spleen, and lungs began to hurt.
Fortunately, my mother is not in this group, and she doesn’t know how to use a smartphone. Otherwise, if my mother saw this, she would probably be furious.
In the end, I couldn't bear it anymore and replied in the group: "Sister, did you bring me into this group just to kidnap me morally? Do I need to lend you money? I can't afford 200,000 yuan. I'm really serious."
Did my money fall from the sky?"
As soon as she heard me speak, the third mistress became anxious: "I didn't say I wouldn't return it to you, why are you like this! If you don't want to borrow it, then I won't. As for kidnapping or something? Did I kidnap you?"
"
When her words were not enough, she continued: "Your family really has no affection at all. I remember when you had a high fever when you were young, your mother came to us to borrow money, but we didn't say a word and just borrowed money from you."
The money is for your mother."
It's okay if I don't talk about it, but I get angry when I talk about it.
I replied again: "Third Sister, what you said is wrong. I admitted that you did lend money to my mother that time, but do you know what exchange conditions you asked my mother to do?"
The third lady probably knew that this didn't make sense, so she started scolding me directly, and even called my mother by name.
The more I listened, the more I listened, and the more angry I became. I am not an easily angered person, but I really don’t believe these words came from a relative.
Even in the end, my uncle and the others came out and started making noises, asking me to lend a helping hand to save Jiang Dong.
Finally, I became anxious and cursed directly in my voice: "Sister, if you say that, don't blame me, Chen Feng, for being ruthless. I will not lend you money. Even if I have money to feed the dogs, I won't give it to you. There is no way to live."
If you have no choice, just wait to die!”
After scolding, I immediately exited the group chat.