The old lady could be said to be using both soft and hard tactics. Seeing that hard tactics didn’t work, she started to wipe her tears continuously.
However, Wang Yunmei was already used to this trick. In the past, she would still be soft-hearted for the sake of her family. However, after all these years, she had long understood how she wasn’t important in her parents’ hearts.
“Mom, why didn’t you go look for my elder brother? He made so much money from his business these past few years. Although one hundred thousand yuan is not a small sum, it’s not like he can’t take it out, right?” Wang Yunmei ignored the old lady’s tears and asked coldly.
When Cai Chunhua heard her daughter’s tone, she knew that her tears had been for nothing. Immediately, like a tap that had been turned off, she stopped crying.
“Of course, we would have gone to look for your elder brother first. However, your elder brother recently just invested in a new project, and there is very little liquid capital. If he gives it to your brother to get married, it will break his company’s capital chain.”
When Wang Yunmei heard this, she immediately sneered in her heart. Over the weekend, she saw her brother bring his lover around to look at houses. Now, he had fabricated such a lie. Only the old lady would believe him.
Back then, her parents doted on her elder brother the most among the four children in the family. They also gave him the only chance to study in school. Now that he had succeeded in becoming famous and had money, he did not know how to be grateful. The monthly alimony he gave the elders was always the same as the rest of the siblings. He never gave them a single cent more.
Even so, her parents still listened to her elder brother and placed him first in everything. They never made things difficult for him.
“What about Yunfa’s house?”
Wang Yunmei knew that she wouldn’t be able to convince her mother no matter what she said about her elder brother. Therefore, she thought of how her younger brother had a house in South City.
Her parents had worked hard to save up for two houses in the past. One was for her elder brother, and the other was for her younger brother. Although they were both flat houses in South City, they were worth tens of thousands yuan if they were sold. Moreover, the South City District was going to be demolished soon. If they could wait until the demolition, the demolition fee alone would be enough to buy a new house.
However, it was obvious that her mother and brother did not know about the demolition at all. Wang Yunfa rubbed his aching cheek and sat back on the sofa. “Can that lousy house be used for marriage? Even if we sell it, it won’t be enough to buy a new house!”
“That’s right.” Cai Chunhua continued, “The woman said that she wanted a new house. She even asked for a betrothal gift. The other miscellaneous items require money as well.”
“South City is about to be demolished…”
“Mom!”
Wang Yunmei was halfway through her words when Jian Ai came out of the kitchen and interrupted her.
As if afraid that Jian Ai would know about these troubles at home, Wang Yunmei instantly stopped talking. “Xiao Ai, are you full?”
Looking at her mother’s red eyes, Jian Ai’s eyes darkened.
Jian Ai could hear their conversation from the kitchen. She immediately nodded and walked up to them without waiting for Wang Yunmei to speak. She looked at Cai Chunhua and Wang Yunfa coldly and said, “Are Grandma and Uncle here to borrow money?”
“Xiao Ai, this is between adults. Go and study in your room. Don’t worry about it.” Wang Yunmei felt the change in Jian Ai’s aura, and it instantly reminded her of what had happened at the Public Security Bureau a few days ago.
Cai Chunhua and Wang Yunfa also frowned. Although she was their granddaughter, Jian Ai had always been gentle and weak. She had always been quiet as well, so they never liked her.
Seeing that the two of them were silent, Jian Ai didn’t respond to Wang Yunmei. Instead, she sat down on the sofa and raised her head. She said, “Our family has money, but we’re not lending it.”