Chapter 2 — Mom Chooses Brother, I Choose Freedom

Before I finished speaking, my aunt rushed: "Oh my God, if the Truong family doesn't leave it to your brother, then who will it leave it to? Why is a girl like you fighting over the house?" I was stunned: "Auntie, although I am a girl, I am also a child of the Truong family! Both my brother and I have the responsibility to take care of you!" Auntie began to lecture: "It's a good thing to do to raise your mother, but asking to divide the house is too much! Your brother is a boy, he has to get married in the future, if he doesn't have a house, who will marry him?" "And if you also have to get married in the future, won't you also choose someone who has a family? So why do you have to fight with your biological brother?" “If you take the case to court, the judge won't judge you!” I laughed coldly: "Guess why the house transfer needs my signature? Because according to the law, I also have a part in it!" Auntie smiled faintly: "Hey, this little girl, even brought up the law to talk to her family. Your mother is right, you are really selfish, for the sake of the family you deny your family!" I completely exploded: "Auntie, they want to calculate with me. If they can't calculate, they will turn around and say I'm selfish. It's obvious that they want me to give up what I deserve! Based on what?" “Based on your mother giving birth to you and raising you!” My aunt said no to me, and began to moralize and use emotions to coerce me. From childhood to adulthood, I heard these words too much. Every time we had a family gathering, my relatives would surround me and whisper in my ear: 【Your mother is suffering so much, you must be filial to her!】 【If it weren't for you and your brother, your father would have passed away, your mother would have left too, it's all because of you that she's staying!】 【When you grow up, remember to find a rich man to marry, and later help your mother and brother too!】 I grew up with words like that, soon got used to pleasing her mother. I gave everything that was good to my mother first, then she passed it on to my brother. Mom said, my brother will be the breadwinner of the family in the future, the whole family must rely on him, I will marry and have to live to see his face, and when my mother gets old she will also have to rely on him. So, not only do I have to please my mother, but I also have to please my brother. Year after year, I am bound by morality and mentally manipulated by them. Thinking of this, I immediately hung up. 3 I put down the phone and can finally get a good night's sleep. Unexpectedly, WeChat notifications rang continuously. Mom's maternal family group exploded, all the messages tagged me. 【Tu Hue, why did you become like this? When I was a child, I was very obedient!】 【Just sign a name to transfer the house to my brother, what's so difficult about it? Look at these aunts of yours, are there any of them fighting over property with your uncle?】 【That's right, your mother raised you this much, arguing with her for the sake of the house, aren't you afraid of hurting her?】 My mother in the group began to play the pitiful person: 【Okay, you guys stop talking about Tu Hue, blame me for not knowing how to raise my children, it's just because of my fate!】 【Giving birth to a child like this, is my fate. It's also because my brother Truong passed away early... or I should have gone with him!】 The aunts in the group competed with each other to advise my mother not to think too hard. My uncle sent straight 60-second voice messages. I know 60 seconds is WeChat's limit, not his. I don't want to listen either, just saying the same words over and over again, I'm tired of hearing them. None of the cousins spoke up, they were probably hiding in the group can't wait. My brother - Truong Tu Thanh - didn't know which corner he was sleeping in and woke up, jumping out and cursing. 【Fuck you, Truong Tu Hue, your guts are so big! Dare to compete with your brother for a house, are you worthy?】 【Girl, you're useless! Is it your turn to ask for a share of the Truong family's assets? If you don't know how to carry water and look at your face!】 【Those girls who are trying to fight over their mother's property deserve to be taught a lesson!】 【If you don't sign tomorrow, I'll come to your place and make a fuss!】 I sent a message to the group: 【Aunts, when you give up your maternal property, the responsibility of taking care of your grandparents is your responsibility, right?】 Before seeing the aunts' response, the uncles and aunts spoke up: 【Of course, whoever receives the property has to take care of it, nothing more!】 【We didn't even see a penny of dowry, the wedding money was taken by the uncles and aunts to get married, so of course it's his responsibility to take care of it!】 When he saw that he was being touched, he started to retort: 【That's not right! My parents are everyone's parents, so why does the matter of old age care only fall on me?】 The two uncles started to get upset: 【Then take all the houses and redistribute them, then let's talk about taking care of them!】 I tried to interject: 【Dear uncles, check your savings book. I heard what mom said, every month the aunts send you two thousand yuan!】 The chat group is all chaotic, some people talk, some talk back. It's true, everyone finds it easy to talk about things that haven't touched them. At that moment, my mother texted me privately: 【Damn slut! I really regret not drowning you in the urinal that year!】 【You ungrateful person! White-eyed dog! There will be a day when God will beat you to death before you can yawn!】 【You said those words in the group, now the eldest aunt and the second aunt are arguing loudly!】 I didn't say a word, immediately blocked my mother, deleted the message, and then immediately left the group. 4 Four aunts texted me privately. In the group just now, she didn't say a word. In my impression, she rarely speaks up in the relative group. My mother, eldest aunt, and second aunt both disliked her, and often complained in front of me that Aunt Tu was unfilial. My uncle was even more speechless. Every time he mentioned his aunt, he spat: "That white-eyed wolf girl, why would you dirty your mouth by mentioning her!" 【Tu Hue, Aunt Tu understands you. Ten years ago, my aunt also stood up to protest, but it had no effect.】 【All the grandparents' assets were left to the son, and the care was left to the daughters.】 【The eldest aunt proposed that the grandparents stay at each daughter's house alternately, for half a year in each house. Your mother and second aunt both nodded, but she was the only one who disagreed.】 【Later, because the uncles and aunts were also dissatisfied, the plan was canceled, in exchange for each person sending two thousand yuan every month.】 【From then on, aunt was labeled an "unfilial daughter". The dowry money of 100,000 that my aunt's husband's family gave, my grandfather gave it all to my uncle. And her dowry was two cotton blankets.】 【From that time, she no longer returned to her mother's house.】 Listening to Aunt Tu, I remembered the words my mother often complained about her, my heart was filled with countless emotions. 【Auntie, if my mother's family has to use money to exchange for a place, it's okay if she doesn't come back!】 【Now I can see clearly, my mother only has my brother in her eyes. She gave birth to me to pave the way for him!】 Auntie Tu texted back, her tone full of importance heart: 【Tu Hue, from now on, don't worry about how others see you, and don't care about what they say. If they don't take advantage of you, they will turn around and defame you!】