Dictation: Li Hongxin
Editor|Lao Yu
"My brother, settle the accounts, one yard to one yard, my brother owes me 50,000 yuan and hasn't paid it back for many years, I went home angrily and asked for money, but after I went home and knew the reason, I tore up the IOU in shame. ”
01
Hello everyone, my name is Li Hongxin, and I am 36 years old this year.
I was born in the countryside, went to university, worked in the city, and then settled in the city.
Last week, I took the time to go back to my hometown, and there are two main reasons for returning home.
One is that I haven't been home for 6 years, and this year I suddenly miss my hometown a little.
Another point is that my brother owes me 50,000 yuan, and he hasn't paid it back for 6 years.
This made me angry, so this time I went back, and I planned to ask my brother to return the money to me.
02
Speaking of my younger brother, in fact, there are a lot of contradictions between our brothers.
My brother and I were born together in the countryside, both of whom were born to my parents, but I think that my parents have preferred my younger brother since childhood, which makes me very unhappy.
I don't know why, my brother and I are only 3 years apart, but in the eyes of my parents, I am the eldest brother.
What's the benefit, I have to let my younger brother, the good food at home is always more for my younger brother, and the new clothes for the New Year, my younger brother is obviously better.
When it came time to work, my parents always felt that I was the eldest brother and should work more, so I did most of the housework.
I remember that my father once told me that the burden on the family was heavy, and I was afraid that I would not be able to afford to support my two children in the future.
My father advised me to go to work if I didn't get into high school after graduating from junior high school.
Although my parents said so, I have had the strength to refuse to admit defeat since I was a child.
I think that the more my parents favored my younger brother and the more they didn't let me study, I preferred to read.
Therefore, I have been working hard since junior high school to achieve the top 5 grades in my Xi grades.
After graduating from junior high school, I was admitted to the key class of a key high school, and my father had nothing to say but let me continue to study in high school.
After graduating from high school, I was admitted to a university in the province, and my father dismissed the idea of letting me go to work and chose to let me continue my studies.
When I was in college, I thought about everything, I went to the provincial capital, I didn't come back if I had nothing to do, and I wanted to work in the city and settle in the city in the future.
In short, I don't want to go back to my parents, I'm better than my brother.
03
Frankly, since I went to college, or since I went to high school, my parents haven't treated me too badly.
My parents gave me the tuition fees I should pay and the living expenses I should have paid.
It's just that I'm still not angry, in my opinion, my parents have always favored my younger brother and doted on my younger brother, and if I went to college at the same time as my younger brother and could only give up one, my father would definitely choose to give up on me.
It's just that later I was more competitive, went to a key high school, went to college, and my parents didn't have a choice to treat me better.
Because after graduating from junior high school, my younger brother was not admitted to high school, and then went to a technical secondary school, and then later, my younger brother went to work in other places.
I think that in the past 10 years, I have been relatively okay.
After graduating from university, I stayed in the provincial capital to work, step by step, little by little, to become the head of the company's department, a year's salary plus a year-end bonus, there are hundreds of thousands of smaller.
I bought a house in the city, married a daughter-in-law, and now I have a son, and my life is quite happy.
If you compare it carefully, I used to think that it was much better than my younger brother.
I often feel relieved that my parents were looking at the wrong person in the first place, and they always thought that my younger brother was smarter than me, and that my younger brother was the pillar of the family.
But now my brother is just a very ordinary person, and he even owes me money, and he hasn't paid it back for 6 years.
04
I remember 6 years ago, I was 30 years old and my younger brother was 27 years old.
One day, my parents brought my younger brother to the city to see me, and they brought some souvenirs and gifts.
I invited my parents and younger brother to eat delicious food, and I also played in the city for 2 days.
For 2 days, my father and brother were always talking and I knew they had something to say.
And I can also guess that if you want to say and stop, and if you want to say but don't say it, there is a high probability that you are borrowing money.
Sure enough, the night before his parents and younger brother were going back, my father was the first to speak.
The father said: Ah Xin, your brother has talked about a partner, and he will be engaged after a while.
Me: Okay, that's good, my brother should get married, 27.
Father: The bride price for the wedding is 130,000 yuan, and we are ready for this.
But the woman's request was to build another house, because she didn't want to live with our in-laws.
But after taking out the 130,000 bride price, we have no money to build a house, so I want to ask you to borrow 80,000 yuan, and we will borrow a little from other places to build the house first.
At that time, I actually deposited 80,000 yuan, although it was a lot for me, but it was not too difficult.
It stands to reason that it is a matter of course for the eldest brother to lend money to the younger brother.
But at that moment, I was suddenly very unhappy.
I don't know why, but I feel like I'm back to the feeling when I was a kid when my parents doted on my younger brother and ignored me.
In my opinion, until I grew up, my parents still did not change their Xi of eccentricity.
So that time I was a little angry, I said to my parents: it's okay to borrow money, but you have to write an IOU and return it within three years, and the interest will not be used.
When I said the IOU, my parents were stunned, obviously not expecting me to have such a request.
But the younger brother quickly played a round and said: No problem, no problem, brother, I'll write you one right away, and I'll write it to you.
In this way, my brother borrowed 80,000 yuan from me that time.
05
At the beginning, the younger brother said that he would return it within three years, but after the exchange of 30,000 yuan, the remaining 50,000 yuan was never returned by the younger brother. Six years have passed, and I still owe it.
Not only did my brother not return it, but he rarely called me, and he didn't tell me the reason.
I began to have opinions about this, I think that my younger brother deliberately did not pay it back because he had money, and even his parents had the intention of letting his younger brother not have to pay it back.
So last weekend, I decided to go home.
Before I went home, I prepared a lot of gifts to take home.
When the car stopped in front of the house, it was my brother and mother who came out to pick me up, and my father was just standing in front of the house, walking slowly, looking like an old man in his eighties and nineties.
When I arrived at the door, I carefully looked at my brother's new home, which was three stories high, and like most of the houses in the village, it was square and square, and it was very beautiful with porcelain plates.
At this time, I think it's good for my younger brother to build a house, at least he has face and is comfortable to live in.
In addition, my younger brother also has a child, my brother-in-law hugged my nephew and asked him to call me uncle, and the little nephew called me in a milky voice: Uncle, uncle is good.
I was also very happy to see my nephew, so I immediately hugged my nephew a few times and gave him all the snacks I took home.
That day, I was very happy at home, and my mother cooked a hearty dinner and brought out the rice wine from the home.
At the moment of eating, I even thought, if I don't let my brother pay back the money, forget it, this time I should come back to play, the atmosphere is so good, don't spoil it.
But after dinner, in the dead of night, my brother and I were smoking on the balcony, and when the cold wind blew, I suddenly remembered it again.
My brother talked to me about family life, and I told him about my life in the city.
Suddenly, I said to my brother: Brother, your sister-in-law wants to open a store recently, but the money is a little tight......
When the younger brother heard this, he nodded and said okay, he will find a way in the next two days.
After saying this, the younger brother went to bed, went out early the next morning, and did not come home for two days.
I saw that my brother didn't come home for two days, and I started to get angry again, I thought that my brother deliberately didn't want to pay back, knowing that I had to work, just wanted to wait for me to leave.
With this anger, I went to my uncle's house to talk to him.
06
In the evening, I had dinner at my uncle's house, and after dinner, I was drinking tea with my uncle.
Before I could speak, the uncle took the lead in speaking: Ah Xin, your father's legs have been much better in the past six months, and he can walk.
I hesitated and immediately asked him what was wrong with my dad?
Uncle was also surprised by my doubts, and then he seemed to understand his expression.
He asked rhetorically: "Don't you really know about your father's stroke last year?" It seems that your brother really didn't tell you.
Your dad had a stroke in the first half of last year, was hospitalized in the hospital for a month, and then went home, took medicine every day, took it for almost a year, and now he is finally not paralyzed and can walk.
After saying this, the uncle clearly knew that I didn't understand, and then he asked again: Your mother was not in good health the year before last, so she went to the hospital for a physical examination, and later spent a lot of money.
After the uncle said this, he immediately said to me: You, you haven't come back for so many years, the family is thanks to your brother, your parents have something to do, your brother is on top, and a lot of money has been spent in the past few years.
Your brother still has children, and he spends more money, and if you are an elder brother, you can help your younger brother.
Your father once told me about your two brothers, and you always blamed your parents for being good to your brother and not to you, and your parents also knew that.
So in the past few years, your parents and your brother have not told you where there are difficulties and money in the family, just to make up for the losses to you back then.
Don't worry about the things of the year anymore, there are a lot of adults.
After my uncle told me this, I suddenly felt very ashamed.
I immediately went home and asked my parents again if this was the case.
The parents also nodded, saying that this was indeed the case.
After getting the answer from my parents, I suddenly realized that I was not a good big brother or son at all, but just a narrow-minded person.
In the past few years, my younger brother has borne all the difficulties in the family, but I always think that my younger brother still has 50,000 yuan to pay me back, which really shouldn't be.
The night I learned the truth, I didn't sleep all night, tossing and turning and feeling ashamed.
Early the next morning, I tore up the IOU.
Since I had to rush back to work and my brother didn't come back, I had to send him a text message:
"Brother, my brother already knows about the family in the past few years, and I feel very ashamed now, it's my brother's mistake.
Thanks to you for taking care of my parents in the past few years, I have torn up the IOU, and you don't have to pay back the money, just as my medical expenses and alimony.
I'm going back to work first, and I'm going to come back for the Chinese New Year this year, and we'll get back together when the time comes. ”
Conclusion
In the past few days since I came back, I have often been glad that I chose to go home this time, otherwise I might never know the truth of the matter.
Now that I think about it, some of the things that seemed wrong about my parents when I was a child may have been unintentional.
When we grow up, we should forgive, and don't always care, after all, nothing is more important than family affection that blood is thicker than water.
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