To make up for the debt owed to Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng

She is usually very frugal, but she cannot be stingy in this matter.

She gave Yunqi the room fee along with the meal fee.

Yunqi sensed that her sister suddenly seemed preoccupied, and despite asking her several times, she refused to say anything.

How could she say that?

How could she let Yunqi know what her mother and brother had done? Family scandals shouldn't be aired in public, and she and Yunqi weren't exactly friends who could talk about anything.

Seeing that she kept giving vague answers, Yunqi stopped asking.

At noon, after class, the second sister planned to go to the guesthouse alone without Yunqi following her. She also didn't tell her eldest sister, who was already busy enough and didn't want to trouble her further.

To her surprise, she found her mother and brother standing at the entrance of the teaching building, watching the students coming and going, pointing and whispering among themselves.

She quickly went over and blocked their view. "Mother, what brings you here?"

"Zhaodi!" Her mother grabbed her, but then spotted Yunqi following closely behind and waved happily, "Yunqi!"

Yunqi smiled and walked over. "Auntie, Jiagui."

Well, if this continues, my second sister won't be able to talk to her mother properly anymore.

She turned to Yunqi and said, "Didn't you say the teacher wanted to see you at noon? Aren't you going?"

Yunqi: ...

Okay, so this is kicking people out.

"Alright, I'll be going now, Auntie, Jiagui, goodbye." Yunqi tactfully left, assuming that Lin Qingyun wanted to have a private talk with her family.

The school has more than one cafeteria. The second sister deliberately avoided the cafeteria that her eldest sister often went to and took her mother and her brother to eat there instead.

On the way to the cafeteria, her mother and brother kept looking around. After entering the cafeteria, her second sister found them seats and told them to sit and wait, but they continued to whisper and look around.

"Jiagui, look, what do you think of this one? Big butt, easy to give birth to."

Why don't you just find a pig?

"Tsk, what do you know? You are the only heir of our Lin family. We can't let our lineage end with you! And look at this one, he walks with great energy and spirit, he looks very healthy."

"And this one, Jia Gui, look! This is the prettiest one we've had in the last couple of days!"

Lin Jiagui ignored his mother and stared intently at the girls who walked by, his eyes practically glued to the screen.

When the second sister came back with the food, she saw the two of them looking at something, and her mother's eyes were practically gleaming.

"Let's eat." She placed the lunchbox in front of them.

The food was good; it had meat, and large chunks of fatty meat at that.

Lin Jiagui looked away as soon as he saw it, and without caring whether his mother or sister ate or not, he started eating from his lunchbox.

The second sister sat upright and said, "I'll go with you to the train station to buy tickets later. You can go back now."

Wu Axiu was very excited at the moment, but when she heard her second sister's words, it was like a bucket of cold water was poured on her. Her face immediately changed, and her eyes filled with tears. "Zhaodi, how can you be so heartless! Mother just missed you two sisters. I brought your brother to see you and even brought you some local specialties from our hometown. I left them all with your sister, but you want to send your mother away. You want your classmates at school to know that you are such an unfilial person. What will your classmates and teachers think of you?"

The second sister was speechless at her mother's words. She believed that her mother was capable of doing such a thing. At this moment, if she forced her mother to go back, her mother would jump up and down, sit on the ground, and sing while crying how unfilial she and her eldest sister were.

Yes, she could reveal all the things her mother did and get everyone on her side, but is having such a mother something to be proud of?

Seeing that her sister remained silent, Wu Axiu suddenly realized that this second daughter was much easier to manipulate than the eldest. With tears streaming down her face, she continued, "I was wrong before, but I only wanted to give you two sisters a good future. The two marriages I found for you were both good, at least the families were wealthy. You used to only enjoy the good life. Look at your sister, isn't she doing well now? I was just short-sighted. When have I ever harmed you? I didn't know my two daughters were so capable, able to go to the capital's university. If I had known earlier, would I have let your sister marry that bumpkin surnamed Gu? Wouldn't it have been better to find a cadre in the capital?"

If it were the second sister from before, she would have been moved by her mother long ago. Watching her mother's performance, she only coldly questioned, "Yes, for my own good, she sold me to her own sister for five hundred yuan! For my own good, she sent burly men to the factory to forcibly take me away! For my own good, she never gave me a single bite of meat or egg at home! For my own good..."

"Alright, alright," her mother interrupted her, "You're a college student now, I can't argue with you, I'm not going to say anything more..."

Her mother started crying again, "But I think you two sisters are really sincere, otherwise, why would I spend so much money to buy a ticket all the way to the capital?"

"Now that you've seen it, you can leave," the second sister said, hardening her heart.

“The capital is such a big place, I’d like to see more of it. How about Jia Gui and I spend a few days in the capital before going back? We don’t want to trouble you, really, we’ll enjoy ourselves on our own.”

The second sister didn't say a word.

Wu Axiu's eyes darted around. "You mean you agree just because you haven't said anything?"

"Let's eat," the second sister said. "I have class this afternoon."

Looking at her second sister's stern face, Wu Axiu smiled obsequiously, "Zhaodi, look, you're already a college student, you'll be a government employee in the future. You and your sister have both made something of yourself, but what about your brother? He's still a country bumpkin digging in the dirt..."

"Doesn't he work in a garment factory?"

Wu Axiu choked, stammering, "Then...what's the difference between him and a country bumpkin?"

The second sister knew that her mother was up to something new, and these new tricks usually involved taking advantage of her eldest sister, who was the only one making money.

She remained unmoved. "Then let him take the college entrance exam. My sister and I have study materials; he can just follow them."

"I get a headache just looking at books!" Lin Jiagui had already eaten most of his meal. The meat in his lunchbox was all gone, leaving only cabbage. He pushed the lunchbox away and threw down his chopsticks.

"I prepared food for both you and Mom, and you ate all the meat by yourself?" After saying this, the second sister felt that she had said something unnecessary, as this was a habit that her mother had instilled in her brother since he was a child.

Sure enough, her mother quickly pulled the lunchbox over, saying, "It's okay, it's okay, I'll just eat cabbage."

Second sister: ...Okay, I knew it.

Her mother looked at her son with great satisfaction, "Zhao Di, look at your brother, isn't he handsome? I just took a look, and there aren't many male college students in your school who are as good-looking as him!"

The second sister didn't say anything. Didn't she know what kind of person her brother was? A pretty face but no substance!

Her mother's eyes gleamed with calculation, and she was very pleased with herself. "Zhaodi, I think our family's Gui is a perfect match for a college student from your school. Look, your brother doesn't have a girlfriend yet. Are there any girls among your classmates who are good-looking, from good families, and preferably from families of officials in the capital? Introduce one to your brother."