bullyxtreme Chapter 241
Chapter 241
Several people rushed forward to help and rescued Chen Weimin and the others. Their hair was all messy, and Chen Weimin was also injured.
When they attacked, Chen Weimin shielded Xu Meiyu, so Xu Meiyu was fine, only suffering a minor scrape, while Chen Weijun himself sustained a small injury.
Chen Mei was on the verge of collapse, "Second brother, what exactly do you want to do?"
Fang Rong shouted, "I want to work!"
Fang Rong herself wasn't tired of saying it, but everyone else was.
"How dare you! Why should someone give you a job? Do they owe you something?"
"Let me be clear with you, apart from you who dote on your son, no one else cares about him at all."
"If your son weren't able to take care of himself, he might be even dumber than that idiot in the next courtyard."
"You still have the nerve to ask for a job? Whoever introduces you to a job is a sucker. Whoever is the introducer will be disliked by both sides in the future."
Old Chen, the one who was being taken advantage of, also looked very unhappy. These people were indeed speaking rudely. Fang Rong originally thought she could endure all the humiliation from them, but as soon as they started, Fang Rong and Chen Weijun couldn't take it anymore.
They wanted to seek justice for their child.
“My son has been smart since he was a child. My older brother’s son, Xiang Dong, was able to become a worker even after repeating a grade for several years. Why can’t my son, Li Gang, become one? It’s because my older brother didn’t put in the effort to find us a job.”
"Everyone has praised him for being smart since he was a child. How come you're all blind? You few think you can spread rumors about him? You're the bad ones, you bunch of sons of bitches."
"Don't think I don't know. You only started targeting me because you saw me hit Xu Meiyu. Xu Meiyu is your precious baby, someone you want to hold in your hands. You're afraid she'll blame you, so you're afraid she'll blame you."
"And sister-in-law, you must be enjoying watching the show from the sidelines, right? You've been wanting to get rid of our family for a long time, haven't you? Now that everyone is criticizing us, you must be the one who's happiest."
Grandma Xia: ...I didn't even smile, how can you blame this on her?
Old Chen punched Chen Weijun on the head. It was other people cursing them, what did it have to do with his family? Was Fang Rong just talking about his family because she thought he was easy to talk to?
From his eldest son to his wife, what, did they do this to her?
"Get lost! Have I really given you the time of your day? I've done so many good deeds for your family for free over the years, and all you do is blame it on us. Chen Weijun, have you no shame?"
"If it weren't for Mom asking me to take care of you as the eldest brother before she passed away, I would have cut ties with you long ago. Do you think you're some kind of hot commodity that everyone has to cater to?
"Why didn't I take you with me when I left? It would have saved me from wasting so much money on this piece of trash who's even less virtuous than you, and giving birth to two useless sons who leech off their relatives. How can your whole family still have the face to live in this world?"
Old Chen cursed and hit him at the same time. Chen Weijun was stunned by the first punch, and after being hit several more times, he finally came to his senses and started to fight back.
Old Chen was old and did technical work, not physical labor, so he was easily knocked to the ground by Chen Weijun. In a real fight, he wouldn't be able to beat the enraged Chen Weijun.
"Brother, do you think you've helped me a lot? You've only given me a few insignificant favors through your fingers, and you expect me to be grateful? Don't think you're so good or kind. After Mom and Dad passed away, they left us money. You just got lucky and used that money to secure your future."
“This money belongs to all of us, not just you. So it’s only right that you support us all in the future. We all have a share in that job you were in. Did you think you could hide it from me so well that I wouldn’t know? Back then, Dad was a carpenter, and Mom often took on jobs. They were the most hardworking people. It’s impossible that they left without leaving a single penny.”
Chen Weimin was stunned by his second brother's words. "Second brother, are you crazy? I remember how much money we spent on Dad's illness back then. You're older than me, you can't possibly not understand this. Mom even took us out to borrow money in the middle of the night. In the freezing cold, my eldest brother was wearing Dad's old cotton-padded coat, and you were wearing my eldest brother's old cotton-padded coat. I had no clothes and stayed at home."
"Back then, we couldn't borrow any money, and your lips were so cold they turned purple. You crawled into the blankets and held me to keep warm, which made me sick. I almost died that winter. Have you forgotten?"
Chen Weijun was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered the fear that he had almost killed his younger brother. But why did he always remember his mother giving money to his older brother?
"...Even if it was borrowed money, Mom paid off all the debts after Dad passed away. I often saw Mom giving money to my older brother! The money for my older brother's wedding was probably all given by Mom. So, it's only natural that my older brother would save up money for our dowry after receiving so many benefits!"
Old Chen's heart was pounding. He was so angry with Chen Weijun that he almost fainted. He never expected that Chen Weijun had always thought this way about him.
At that time, Chen Weimin was younger than him, and Chen Weijun couldn't understand things that he could.
"Second brother, Mom gave me money because I was the eldest son in the family at that time, and I had to learn to support the whole family. So she gave me the money so that I could go and pay back the money to each family and thank those who were willing to lend us money."
"Don't even mention saving money for my bride price. When Mom passed away, all we had left was a bag of rice. I had to go from house to house to borrow money, write IOUs and put my fingerprints on them, hoping people would take pity on us brothers and let us get through that period."
“You guys do handicrafts at home, and I carry heavy loads outside. At that time, the third brother was the weakest, and you liked to slack off. Amei also washed clothes for others to earn that little money. We were all that age and had big appetites. With that little money, we had to pay for the third brother's medical expenses, and everyone had to eat. If we hadn't borrowed money, we would have starved to death long ago.”
“Back then, everyone was struggling financially, and there wasn’t much money to lend. I was also young, and even manual labor was something many people would fight over to do. Why do you think they would give someone like me that kind of work?”
"I had to beg for it myself. Sometimes people would give me work because they felt sorry for me, but most of the time I couldn't get any work. Have you forgotten those hard days?"
Chen Weijun pursed his lips and remained silent. He remembered eating icicles from under the eaves during the coldest winter, searching the mountains for food, and even stealing Lao San's medicine and money from Chen Mei for washing clothes.
As time went by, some memories faded, and in the end, he only remembered his dissatisfaction with life, his older brother, and his parents, because it was the hatred of poverty that was etched into his bones.