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Chapter 450 The Purpose of Coming Has Not Been Achieved

Chapter 450: Chapter 450 The Purpose of Coming Has Not Been Achieved

Anyway, the couple arrived at the Zhao family’s doorstep one after the other.

Zhao Tianlei was watering and fertilizing the grapevines in the courtyard.

If he could enjoy some grapes when he returned for the summer vacation, even if they couldn’t, his parents surely would, this needed tending to.

"Laosan..."

Zhao Laosan noticed his older brother and sister-in-law come together.

He vaguely guessed the purpose of their visit.

"Sister-in-law, big brother, please sit in the house," Zhao Tianlei said as he put down his hoe and invited his brother and sister-in-law inside.

"Where is your wife?"

"She went out for a walk."

He knew that his wife, fearing the stench, would leave whenever he tended to the grapes.

A walk?

"Laosan, I heard that you helped Xiao He find his job?" Sister-in-law Zhao didn’t beat around the bush and went straight to the point.

"Yes," Zhao Tianlei didn’t intend to hide it.

"Then could you help your big brother find a job too? With four kids at home, two of which need to go to school, and all relying on earning work points from the fields, we simply can’t afford to educate all four siblings," Sister-in-law Zhao just wanted Zhao Tianlei to help find a job.

"Sister-in-law, jobs aren’t so easy to come by."

Half of Sister-in-law Zhao’s patience had worn thin, "Xiao Mao’s father is your own blood brother."

"Did I ever say he wasn’t my blood brother?"

Zhao Tianlei spoke lazily.

"Let’s go back," Zhao Tianxiang actually felt a bit resentful towards Zhao Tianlei, his younger brother.

Why was he so good to Xiao He, helping him find a job and making money together?

"Laosan, Daya and the others are your own nieces and nephews."

"I’ve never denied that. Are you perhaps wondering why I’d rather help Xiao He find a job than help my own big brother?"

Was Sister-in-law Zhao puzzled about this?

"That’s a question for my dear big brother. When I was a child and fell into the river, why didn’t you save me? If it weren’t for Xiao He, I probably would have died a long time ago. Do you still remember, big brother?"

Zhao Tianxiang gasped. Back then, he was just a teenager, going to the river to catch fish. Laosan and the others insisted on following, and while he was focused on fishing, he couldn’t tend to his brother who had also gone into the river.

Xiao He was even younger than Laosan but managed to drag Laosan ashore.

Little Aunt Zhao fell ill because of childbirth.

Little Uncle Zhao, working alone, had to support a large family, and they could barely make ends meet.

Zhao Xiaohe was adept at catching fish in the river and trapping birds in the mountains, especially skilled considering he was not much younger than Zhao Tianlei.

"I remember." Zhao Tianxiang felt complicated emotions, not having expected that Laosan would still remember that incident from years ago, thinking he was too young back then and had likely forgotten.

"Let’s go, home," Zhao Tianxiang seemed to have lost a bit of his vigor.

When Sister-in-law Zhao heard their conversation, and heard Xiao Mao’s father say they were going home,

"Laosan, that’s all in the past, it has been over and done with for a long time," she said.

But the purpose of their visit was still unfulfilled.

"Let’s go," Zhao Tianxiang no longer had the face to stay any longer, grabbed Sister-in-law Zhao’s arm, and walked towards the outside.

Sister-in-law Zhao didn’t want to leave, but seeing the bad expression on Xiao Mao’s father’s face, she had no choice but to leave with him.

As they walked far away, she muttered a few words, "Why is Laosan so petty, still holding onto something that happened so long ago, it’s not your fault, is it?"

When he had seen his younger brother nearly drown, he had been scolded and beaten when he got home, and he was truly frightened at the time.

No wonder Laosan is so good to Xiao He, he might have forgotten about that incident, but his brother still remembered.

Even though they were brothers.

Yet he had failed to rescue him in time.

Laosan blamed him, and had been doing so all these years silently.