Chapter 149: Chapter 149: Regrets Are Too Late, Division of the Family Chapter 149: Chapter 149: Regrets Are Too Late, Division of the Family Having said that, Luo Bin wanted to enter the house, but he was stopped by a thug, “Look here Luo Bin, you can talk about your father-son issues later, first settle the debt you owe us.”
Luo Tiancheng from the main house felt embarrassed, with people already peering into the yard, he didn’t want the reputation of the children from the main house to be tarnished by Luo Bin.
He came out and asked directly, “Exactly how much money does Luo Bin owe you?”
One of the thugs answered, “He owes us seventy bucks.”
Luo Bin looked up and said, “You’re lying, it was clearly only sixty.”
The thug replied, “The extra ten is the interest for these past few days.”
Luo Tiancheng definitely didn’t want to pay this amount, but he also wanted to get rid of these people quickly to avoid affecting the reputation of his children, which could impact their marriage prospects.
So he said to his brother Luo Tianming, “Just pay them and send them away first.”
Even if Luo Tianming was reluctant, he had no choice but to pay up now, as Big Brother’s face was looking particularly unpleasant.
He also knew that his nephew Luo Tao was currently seeing someone for marriage, and feared that today’s incident would lead to trouble, which was truly headache-inducing.
After paying off the thugs, Eldest brother’s wife Qiao Juan came out from the house and said directly, “Tianming, it has been a while since we returned from the farm. The kids are all grown up now; shouldn’t we think about dividing the house?”
Luo Tianming knew that dividing the property was inevitable sooner or later, and it might even be better to do so to avoid further conflicts, so he nodded in agreement.
Seeing her younger brother-in-law agree, Qiao Juan said, “Let’s discuss it further when your sister-in-law comes back tonight.”
After saying this, she turned and went back into her own room, thinking to herself that it was finally time to divide the house.
But considering that there were only a few rooms in the yard, how everyone would live after the division remained a problem. Her eldest son was currently courting someone and wouldn’t be long before getting married, but what about the wedding house?
As she pondered this, she heard shouting from next door, “What right do you have to hit me?”
“I am your father, and if you don’t behave, can’t I hit you?”
“What if you are my father? Did you raise me? The parents from the countryside never laid a finger on me. If you can’t be good to me, why did you even bring me back?
No one in this family has ever treated me as one of their own. Is it you, or those so-called brothers, sisters, younger brothers, and younger sisters? Haven’t all of them looked at me as if I were trash?
Didn’t you just return from the farm to the city yourself, what are you so proud of?”
Hearing his eldest son’s words, Luo Tianming’s heart was filled with complex emotions. When the family ran into difficulties years ago, he and his wife Feng Hui were young and naive, only wanting to find a secure home for their son, not wanting him to suffer with them.
That’s why they made the switch at the hospital, but indeed, the child had a few years of peaceful life in the countryside; however, it had also fostered skewed values in him.
He knew his eldest son didn’t fit in with the family, but he never expected such words from him and deeply regretted their decision from those years.
That afternoon, as it happened, everyone in the family was back, and there was nothing much for the Luo Family to quarrel over. The house was divided so that each family had two rooms, and each family got one storeroom. The kitchen was assigned to the main house, just on their side, but the money spent today for Luo Bin just so happened to make up for this kitchen.
Each family received one hundred twenty bucks, and with that, the Luo Family was formally divided. They agreed that the living arrangements would remain unchanged for now and would be decided after Luo Tao’s wedding.
Meanwhile, Luo Qiao was busy catching fish near the mountain pond, as it was the scheduled time again, and like before, she didn’t exceed three hundred pounds.
She had prepared dinner ahead of time in her space, then, after work, she went straight to the pond to catch enough fish before hastily heading back.