"Third Brother, how could you do such a thing? You know well that your elder brother, I am in dire need of silver. Your nephew's schooling costs a large sum of silver every month, and the grocery store only earns a meager income! Our parents live with us and during the partition of the family property, our household got no farmland. We are already struggling to make ends meet. You dare to open such a large timber shop with an outsider and not collaborate with your own elder brother! When did you develop such a habit of reaching outwards?"
"Elder Brother, he is not an outsider; he's the maternal uncle of my child."
"Outrageous! He's not an outsider? Does he bear the surname Shen? You certainly forget your parents after marrying! No wonder Mother always says…"
"Cough, cough… How could you behave so disgracefully!" I was fooled to assist him, to treat him and Wen'er as my own son and grandson, considering his utter disregard for his own family!