Chapter 4 — Peace Is Home

The mother struggled even more. Her hair, which had been well taken care of, had turned white, her cotton shirt had been washed until its color faded, and she couldn't stop shaking. She looked at me, her cloudy eyes suddenly emitted an unusual light. She tremblingly reached out her hand to grab my sleeve. "Thanh Tu, mother has finally met you." She coughed until her intestines were torn apart, she couldn't even stand up straight. I pulled Minh Chau back a step, avoiding her hand. Seeing that, the second young man of the nearby silver house immediately tried to move forward to chase people away, but I raised my hand to stop him. Seeing me dodging, Hua Thanh Ha's face immediately sank. "Hua Thanh Tu, do you still have a conscience? Mother has become so sick, she doesn't even have money to buy medicine. You're dressed so luxuriously, do you really want to see someone die without saving you?" I looked at my mother's sick appearance, knowing that this time she was not pretending to be sick. She was really sick. Being tormented by the eldest daughter she loved the most, she looked as dry as a rotten tree. I quietly looked at Hua Thanh Ha and asked in confusion. "The Hua family's house is worth at least two thousand taels. Even if you sold all the antiques and paintings inside, it wouldn't be enough to have no money to buy things." "Where is the money? Did you take it away to play cards and lose everything, or was it used to support the young lover outside?" As soon as she heard this, Hua Thanh Ha's face immediately turned red. She thought she hid it very well, but she didn't know that the capital was only that big, and that bad news had spread throughout the wards. I don't need to intentionally find out, there are people who take it as a joke and tell it to my ears. Hua Thanh Ha was addicted to gambling. She wasn't afraid to stand here, but because she firmly believed that I was her sister and wouldn't be able to give up her dignity. Like before, I will help you solve the consequences. At this time, Hua Thanh Ha retorted shrilly. "What nonsense are you talking about?" She turned to pull her mother, her voice extremely pitiful. "Mother, look at him. I said in his heart there is no longer us. Not only did he not give people money to buy drugs, he also stood in the middle of the street and slandered me!" Mother followed her pull, "thud" and knelt in front of me and suddenly cried. loudly. "Thanh Tu, mother begs you. I don't want you to take care of me, I just ask you to take out fifty taels of silver." "Eldest sister owes fifty taels to the casino. If you don't pay today, they will sell your eldest sister to an underground brothel!" Those dull crashing sounds terrified the listener. But in my heart there is only coldness. Diseases and drugs are all fake. Using my life to fill Hua Thanh Ha's bottomless hole is the real thing.08I lowered my head to look at the dusty finger marks on the hem of my dress, then looked up at Hua Thanh Ha who was full of calculations. She stood behind her mother, although she tried to show a pained look. But the corner of my eyes continuously stared at the maids next to me, their eyes filled with greed. She firmly believes that for the sake of Tran Bac Marquis Palace's reputation, I absolutely do not dare to let my biological mother kowtow to the point of bleeding in a crowded place. "Fifty taels?" I finally spoke up, my voice without any warmth. "Just now I said it was buying tobacco, but now it has turned into a gambling debt. Mother, I'm afraid your illness is a mental illness." Mother's gesture of kowtowing stopped. She raised her tear-filled face. "Thanh Tu, mother knows you resent me. But your eldest sister was deceived!" "She was a woman, abandoned by the Ly family, and was miserable in her heart, so she got involved in those dirty things. Just consider it as having compassion."

Compassion, give alms to him this time.” “Only fifty taels! To the mother of the Marquis Palace like a child, it's just like plucking a hair! "Plucking a hair?" I laughed, handed Minh Chau to the mother behind me and then took a step forward. "The money of the Tran Bac Marquis Palace is the merit of the Marquis's bloodshed in the Northern Cuong, using my life in exchange for it. It's also my inheritance that I stay up late and get up early to check the books, take care of the store, every penny I have accumulated." "What is the basis of giving alms to a man who is gluttonous, lazy, hard-working, and loves gambling?" Hua Thanh Ha was poked in a sore spot and immediately jumped up like a cat whose tail was stepped on. "Hua Thanh Tu, don't look down on people too much! What kind of person loves gambling? I am your eldest sister! Mother has already knelt down to pray to you, what else do you want? Do you want to watch me die?" I calmly asked: "What does my death have to do with me?" Hua Thanh Ha was cowed by the coldness in my eyes. I paid no attention to her, just looked down from above at my mother kneeling on the ground. "Mother, you have lived more than half your life, why are you still so naive?" "Do you really think that after giving fifty taels of silver to her, Will she change her ways and obediently take care of you until the end of her life?