Chapter 45: A Whole Family
"The last time your brother called you, wasn’t it just for you to lend a hand and give some money? We’re all family, after all. Didn’t college teach you anything about gratitude? Our family raised you all these years without asking you for anything. Now that you and your mom are making money in the city, we, your grandparents, have stayed in the countryside our whole lives and just want to see the world outside. Respecting and accommodating your elders is a responsibility of yours, you know.
"By the way, have you moved? I didn’t see anyone at the old place. If you’ve moved out, how come you didn’t tell us a word? We ran around for no reason. Send us the new address quickly, so we can come and stay over. Once we have a place of our own, we will move out. Meanwhile, go to the supermarket and buy some meat and alcohol. Your cousin and I haven’t eaten yet, understand?"
Jessie felt her blood pressure rising and gritted her teeth as she asked, "Looks like the dutiful children Grandpa and Grandma raised aren’t doing very well now, seeing how they don’t even have their own place in the city."
Upon hearing this, the voice on the other end instantly exploded. He shouted angrily, "Jessie! Have you gotten too big for your boots, cursing your family like this? Let me tell you, all your siblings are doing exceptionally well! Your third brother has already bought a house in the city, and his wife is pregnant, your second brother..."
Jessie sneered, finding it hilariously pathetic.
She should probably thank Grandpa Moore’s loose lips; he could never hide anything, always boasting about his children and grandchildren. If it weren’t for this, she wouldn’t have known her third cousin had bought a house in the city. Since everyone was so capable, how did they have the audacity to ask her for money?
Do they think she was that easy to push around?
Before Grandpa Moore could finish his bragging, she interrupted him, "If they’re all doing so well, why not have them buy you a house as well? Despite that, here you are pestering us instead. Truthfully, you’ve really got some nerve. If you dare to bother me again, I’ll call the police!"
With that, she hung up the phone. On the other end, Grandpa Moore was so enraged by her words that he was left speechless before he cursed, "This ungrateful child! She has no manners at all! How dare she hang up on her elders!"
Frankie chimed in, "Exactly! She even threatened to call the police on us!"