Chapter 7 — 19 Lakhs 2, Buying Out a Family

Chu Hao also panicked and looked up at me, like he saw a ghost. He didn't understand... why I was so far away and understood so clearly. Of course I know. Last night, I didn't sleep. Besides thinking about countermeasures... I also did one thing. I have a close friend since childhood who currently works in the neighborhood group in this area. I briefly told her the situation, asking her to help me find out what Chu Hao had been doing recently. She is very kind. In just one night, from the neighbors' stories, the whole truth was pieced together. Chu Hao bought a car... not because of his pride. He hooked up with a rich local woman, ten years older than him. This car... is a tool for him to please her, both as a driver and as a boyfriend. As for the trick that tricked me... it was because the woman promised that as long as he could drive a car properly, she would introduce him to a "big project". The remaining 50,000 I gave to my second uncle, and the mink coat to my second aunt... were just hush money. Let them help him act in front of my mother. They... are just family. An unbreakable alliance of interests. As for me... from beginning to end I was just an outsider, exploited to the point of exhaustion.

“You… you slander!”

Truong Quoc Cuong jumped up, pointed straight at me, and shouted angrily.

"I see you went to the city to learn bad habits! You have a cruel heart! How dare you make up stories to defame your family!"

“Slander?” I laughed coldly.

I took out my phone and opened a recording file.

"Truong Quoc Cuong, 52 years old, unemployed. Last Wednesday afternoon, at 4 o'clock, at the 'Golden Sac Nien Hoa' card room, he lost a game of 30,000. Chu Hao drove a black Volkswagen to deliver the money."

"Right?"

A man's voice rang out on the phone, clear and decisive. Truong Quoc Cuong staggered, as if exhausted, and sat down on the sofa. He looked at me... his eyes were full of fear. The whole living room... was as silent as death. Truong Tu Mai, Chu Hao, Ly Mai... all stared at me. Perhaps they never thought... The docile, resigned person in their eyes... could actually go to this extent. I put my phone away, my eyes calmly scanning each person.

“Does anyone else think… I shouldn't sell that car?”

No one answered. On their faces… there was only shock and shame. Right at that moment.

“Ding doong—”

The doorbell rang. I glanced at the wall clock, the hour hand... just showed eight o'clock. I stood up, smiling for the first time in the past two days.

"It seems... Mr. Vuong has come to collect the car."

I opened the door. Outside the door is a middle-aged man dressed politely and smiling professionally. It's manager Vuong of the used car market. Behind him were two uniformed staff members.

“Hello Miss Chu, good morning.”

His eyes glanced past me, looking into the living room filled with tension, his smile paused for a moment and then quickly returned to normal.

“Is it convenient for me to come in?”

“Inconvenient!”

Truong Quoc Cuong was like an angry mad cow, rushing to block the door.

"You are not welcome in this place! Go away!"

The face is full of meat, the eyes are fierce, normal people would have turned away in fear. But Manager Vuong just raised his eyebrows, turned to look at me, waiting for a decision. I leaned over, completely pretending not to see my "precious" uncle.

“Mr. Vuong, please come in.”

“This is my family member, just… has a little different opinion about selling cars.”

I said it as lightly as nothing. Manager Vuong understood and led people past Truong Quoc Cuong enter. He was so angry that he was shaking, but he didn't dare to really move his hand, his face turned purple.

"Chu Tinh! Do you still have me in your eyes?"

As if I hadn't heard, I took out a stack of car purchase documents from my pocket.

"Mr. Vuong, these are all the vehicle documents, please look over them first."

“The owner of the car is my younger brother, Chu Hao.”

I handed over the paper, then looked at Chu Hao who was dumbfounded.

“He… also agreed to sell.”

Chu Hao's lips trembled, looking at me without saying a word. Does he dare say no? Manager Vuong quickly flipped through the papers and nodded professionally.

“Complete procedures, no problem.”

“Is that Mr. Chu?” He looked at Chu Hao, "Just sign the title transfer contract, we will check the car and transfer the money immediately."

Chu Hao's face was as white as paper. Truong Tu Mai couldn't sit still anymore and rushed over to hold my hand tightly.

"Tieu Tinh! You can't do that! You're forcing your sister to death!"

"Mom, please! Please love us!"

She cried until she was hoarse, as if I were the criminal. The second aunt stood next to her, adding fuel to the fire.

"What a karma! I've never seen such an evil girl!"

"Because of the money, I don't need my mother, I don't need you!"

Manager Vuong and two employees stood aside, quietly watching.