"What are you all doing here?!"
Qin Gang's seemingly simple question struck at the deepest part of everyone's heart.
Yes, what did they come for?
Their family wasn't welcoming them. When they were poor and had no money, you looked down on them. Now that their family had money, these people instantly changed their tune.
After not being in contact for years, they, like headless chickens, drove two tricycles, dragged their entire families along, and didn't even spare the eighty-year-old elders. A large group of people descended upon the old Qin household.
What was the purpose of this?
When confronted directly by Qin Gang, the relatives in the room all wore complex expressions, their faces shifting with various emotions.
"You rascals, completely lacking in manners! Do you treat your elders like this?!"
"They are all your elders, understand?!"
As the atmosphere in the room turned silent and heavy, an aged roar suddenly broke out.
On the adobe kang, an old man who had been sitting there for a while slammed the table with fury.
"Qin Shuren, Jiang Cuihua, is this how you two are raising your children?"
"Letting them disrespect their elders, devoid of any filial piety or respect for the young!"
Jiang Cuihua cried even harder when reprimanded by her old father, while Qin Shuren’s face grew grim.
"Cuihua, Shuren, I am truly disappointed in you!"
The old woman also spoke, her face filled with anger.
It seemed Qin Gang's words had touched upon something unforgivable.
"If your younger brothers and sisters had money, how could they not have lent it to you?"
"They have families to feed every day!"
When the old woman spoke, it was as if she had opened a floodgate for the assembled relatives. Instantly, one by one, they began to speak.
"Third sister, we wanted to help you back then, but we really had no money!"
This was Jiang Cui’e's excuse.
"Yes, we were also desperately poor at the time, we simply couldn't spare any extra money!"
"You are our own sister, and Shuren is our brother-in-law. How could we stand by and watch him suffer without helping your family?"
This was Jiang Cuiping's reason.
"Third sister, we are also very poor, truly unable to do so!"
"Everyone knows our family's financial situation, how could we not help!"
Jiang Guoping and Jiang Guoli also chimed in.
In short, everyone's reason was the same: no money, too poor, willing but unable.
On the ground, the three Qin brothers listened to these excuses, their faces turning red with anger. The shamelessness of these people refreshed their understanding of the world.
We're all ancient spirits playing games here, aren't we?
As siblings, they had a general understanding of each other's financial situations.
"No money, a perfect excuse that is impossible to refute!"
Qin Chuan laughed with rage, his sharp eyes sweeping across the faces of these relatives who were, by blood, so close.
"I ask you, if you couldn't spare three to five hundred yuan, surely you had one to two hundred, or even lower, tens of yuan?"
"Don't tell me that not a single one of you had even tens of yuan at home!"
"If everyone contributed a little, it would have added up to a considerable sum. Did you do it?"
Upon hearing Qin Chuan's questioning, the relatives, who had been chattering and eloquent, fell silent once more.
"Furthermore..."
Qin Chuan paused, forcibly suppressing his anger. "When my mother and my second brother went to you, not only did you not lend them money, but none of you even offered them a proper meal!"
"Am I wronging any of you present here by saying this?"
Stared at by Qin Chuan's sharp eyes, filled with boundless anger, none of them dared to meet his gaze.
They had indeed gone too far.
Finally, Qin Chuan’s gaze fell upon the two elders on the kang, still as sharp as ever, showing no sign of weakening.
"Grandpa, Grandma, my mother has always been weak-willed and values her emotions deeply."
"She often doesn't want us brothers to make a big fuss, fearing it would damage family relations."
"But as her sons, seeing our mother suffer such humiliation, we cannot stand idly by!"
Qin Chuan said slowly.
"You just called us ill-bred and disrespectful to elders!"
"Then I will now ask you two elders a few questions in return."
"Did you, as elders, set a good example?!"
Qin Chuan's anger surged, as if he intended to vent the accumulated resentments of two lifetimes in this one opportunity.
"My mother is your daughter, and even if my father is not capable, he is still your son-in-law! Do you have elders like you, who shut their doors and refuse entry when their own daughter kneels at their doorstep begging for money?"
"Every year, the money you painstakingly earned was all given to two useless sons!"
As if completely taken aback that Qin Chuan dared to speak to them in this manner, the old couple on the kang widened their eyes and trembled their fingers. "You… you scoundrel…"
"Don't rush to curse, I haven't finished speaking!"
Qin Chuan completely ignored the elders' fury and continued.
"Since you keep talking about elders and demanding respect from us juniors, I'll ask you another question."
"After my father was hospitalized, did you go to the hospital or our home to visit? Even for a moment?!"
"And you! You! Have any of you visited your brothers-in-law or sisters-in-law?"
Qin Chuan pointed his finger, indicting everyone present.
He exuded an unprecedented rage, like a drawn sword, its edge piercingly sharp, as he霸气ly questioned them.
The entire room fell into utter silence. No one dared to meet those fiery eyes.
Outside in the yard, the cousins who had been playing with their children and chatting happily had, at some point, quietly gathered at the main entrance.
When they saw the entire room, including their parents, being berated by Qin Chuan alone, with no one speaking, they were terrified!
Every one of them looked at Qin Chuan or Qin Gang with fear in their eyes.
Gone was the defiance they had shown earlier.
"Xiao Chuan, don't say any more!"
Finally, Jiang Cuihua broke the silence, covering her face and weeping profusely.
"Mom, I must take this opportunity to have a good talk with them and see who is being unreasonable!"
Qin Chuan said coldly, uncharacteristically going against his mother's wishes.
"What my second brother said earlier is very true. When our family had no money, they all looked down on us with disdain! They even watched us fend for ourselves!"
"Now that our family has just a little money, they swarm here in droves!"
"As my second brother said earlier, what are you here for?!"
Qin Chuan's icy gaze swept across everyone again.
"If you want an apology, considering what you've done before, there's a long way to go before you can gain our entire family's forgiveness!"
"To be frank, our family will remember this for the rest of our lives!"
As Qin Chuan delivered this harsh statement, everyone's expression visibly changed.
The situation seemed more serious than they had imagined.
"If you are all merely here as guests, then after lunch, you can go back to wherever you came from!"
"Our old Qin family is too small to accommodate such distinguished guests."
With that, Qin Chuan turned and left, not wanting to stay another second.
Behind him, Qin Gang and Qin Yang followed closely. The three brothers, under everyone's gaze, quickly drove away.