Chapter 536: Feng Family Five Brothers (4)
Through the narratives of a few people, An Yiqing learned about the stories of the brothers. Their surname was Feng, named Tianci, Tianbao, Tianfei, Tianhai, and Tianyu. They were identical quintuplets who grew up together from a very young age, with a close bond between them. When they were five years old, the Feng parents both died in a car accident, and from then on, they became unwanted wild children.
It was during the winter of that year that the bizarre old man suddenly developed a bit of kindness and subsequently adopted them, providing them with food.
However, the old man was addicted to alcohol and had many jars of strong liquor he had brewed himself buried in his courtyard. He would drink until he was drunk every day. When he was sober, he was very strict with the Feng Family Five Brothers, but when he was drunk, he would beat and scold them even more, often leaving the children too injured to move.
Year after year passed in this way, with the Feng brothers gradually growing up amidst the old man’s beatings and scoldings. In fact, they could have found jobs with their abilities and supported themselves, but they couldn’t bear to leave the pitiful old man. He had no children of his own, and although he would curse at them when he was drunk, he was genuinely good to them when he was sober, despite his severity.
Feng Tianyu was the youngest, mischievous and playful. The old man often reproached him for not studying properly, but whenever he saw Feng Tianyu holding something he was extremely fond of, the old man would always scrape together enough money to buy it for him. He treated the other brothers the same, showing no favoritism.
Therefore, the Feng brothers had mixed feelings of both love and hate for the old man. They had never called him "Master," but they also never complained about his beatings and scoldings.
They thought life would continue peacefully, but a few years before the old man died, he left home for over a month. When he returned, he was a changed person. His drinking worsened every day, and he developed an addiction to the most dangerous vice, gambling!