Lu Qingqing didn't speak up, but that doesn't mean Mr. Lu would let his youngest son manipulate him.
Mr. Lu appeared gentle on the surface, but he was actually very stubborn at heart. He said to his wife solemnly, "What's there to worry about? As long as we parents are determined not to pay his mortgage, he'll be out of options. The country doesn't have laws that require parents to pay their son's mortgage; he's even more afraid of going to court than we are, after all, he's the one planning to commit fraud. Maybe some people will say that if we ignore him and he becomes unfilial later on, but come on, given the current situation, do we still expect him to provide for our retirement? The pension is far more reliable than he is."
The era of raising children to provide for old age and storing grain to prevent hunger has long become a thing of the past.