"Doesn’t your son-in-law respect you?"
"I have no money. My son-in-law’s family went bankrupt, they have no money either. The money he has was all borrowed from his brother. Aren’t you guys clearer on this than I am?"
Uncle Gu was taken aback.
Father Gu said, "Get your parents to go ho quickly, stop making a spectacle of yourselves. The elders are confused, don’t tell you’re confused along with them?"
The problem was, Uncle Gu had been scamd out of his money just the sa, he was desperate and urgently looking for soone to fill that void, otherwise, he wouldn’t have brought his grandparents to their youngest brother’s house to ask for money. The police couldn’t even help with this, soone had to take responsibility.
So Grandfather Gu snatched the phone away, his deanor fierce, and said to Father Gu, "Regardless, we’re getting that one yuan back. It belongs to us."
"Dad, you and mom were the ones who said you didn’t want it at the ti, that you returned it so Nuannuan and her husband could use it to live a good life, you can’t go back on your word."
"That’s because—," Grandfather Gu stamped his feet angrily, "your mom didn’t realize that it’s not just any one yuan!"
"One yuan is one yuan, there’s no such thing as ordinary or not, it’s just one yuan of RMB, Nuannuan’s mother’s eyesight didn’t fail her."
Grandfather Gu’s lips trembled, "Are you out of your mind? That one yuan can be sold for thousands now."
"Dad, that one yuan is just a token of respect Yebai gave to you, not worth thousands. If you turn around and sell that one yuan, then Yebai’s token of respect will lose all its aning."
Having said this, Father Gu felt he had done his utmost, fulfilling his duty as a child to advise his parents.
But whether the elders would listen or not was an entirely different matter.
Grandfather Gu couldn’t understand why he couldn’t just sell the one yuan token of respect Xiao Yebai had given him. The money the children usually gave them as a token of respect, they spent it without any trouble.
This one yuan, while it’s one yuan, is an investnt, and that makes it different. It’s like if children gave their elders a set of porcelain, could the elders just turn around and sell that porcelain? Rushing to sell it would equate to devaluing it.
Giving a gift, especially an investnt piece, naturally ans the recipient should keep it well, only then can it be considered honoring the giver of the investnt piece.
Father Gu knew the elders wouldn’t understand all this over the phone, so he had Uncle Gu listen, slowly explaining the principle that Yebai, his son-in-law, had taught him, for Uncle Gu to hear.
Uncle Gu got it this ti, enlightennt dawning on him: Father Gu’s son-in-law, that’s a real investor. What was his own son-in-law, a small-business owner, compared to this? Fooled just the sa.
"Third brother, then what should we do?" Uncle Gu asked Father Gu, clearly aning for him to seek advice from his son-in-law.
"There’s nothing to be done. Investing cos with risks, and one must face the consequences just like when I buy lottery tickets."
This was sothing Uncle Gu, as well as Grandfather Gu and Grandmother Gu, couldn’t accept.
Father Gu tried to console them, "My son-in-law’s family is about to go bankrupt, and it’s the sa for them."
How is that the sa? Uncle Gu just about blurted that out, but then thought, if they truly didn’t have money, pressuring them more would be useless.
Uncle Gu, Grandfather Gu, and the others could do nothing but dejectedly return ho.
Truth be told, the loss suffered by Grandfather Gu and his family wasn’t the biggest in the county.
There were plenty of people who were tricked out of their investnts of hundreds of thousands.
Like Mother Wu, who put all the three to four hundred thousand her son had into it all at once, only to end up with nothing. If she had known, with that three to four hundred thousand, she could have opened a shop in the county or bought a nicer house to live in.
Mother Wu, just like Grandfather Gu and his family, couldn’t believe it and felt compelled to find soone to take responsibility, so she turned to Lin Yishan, her investnt advisor, dragging Lin Yishan into her plight, "Shanshan, didn’t you say there would be no problems?"
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