Mind reading saves the whole family; I'm firmly in the role of a charlatan.

Chapter 265 Are we saving this for the New Year?

The aunt standing next to Du Anrao felt a lump in her throat, so angry that she wanted to curse at him at any moment.

"Holy crap, I just heard you say how much her third son hates her and her eldest son because of this. I thought he really did pay back the money by saving and working hard. But this is it? This is it! So what exactly is he hating? This whole family is crazy!"

Du Anrao was amused by her frantic appearance and sighed, "For people like them, this kind of thing is just an excuse. What they hate is that although they are favored, they are not the ones who are favored the most. For such people, giving them as much as they want is their due, but if they fail to do even the slightest thing, they will be hated."

A small favor is appreciated, but a large one breeds resentment; this is the essence of the saying.

The eldest son was like this, and so was the youngest son, so it's no wonder that someone has ended up in this situation and deserves no sympathy whatsoever!
"In order to repay this debt that should not have fallen on his shoulders, the second son was forced to do the hardest and heaviest work. But just when he was about to pay off the debt, he had an accident. Because of the long hours of working and being too tired, he accidentally dozed off while working, resulting in the loss of three fingers on his right hand."

"Hiss—" Isn't this just like the saying "the rope always breaks at its thinnest point" and "misfortune always finds its way to the unfortunate"? This second son is too pitiful!
"If treated in time, although some functions would be affected, there was hope of restoring them when they were severed. But..."

Everyone's hearts jumped: "But what is it?"

"But none of the family members he supported with everything he had were willing to spend a penny more on him. They just watched him struggle in pain and eventually become disabled."

"Pah! What a scoundrel!" The woman in yellow couldn't help but spit in Madam Kou's direction. If it weren't for the presence of Du Anrao and the others, she would have wanted to kick her.

Madam Kou's eyes flickered, her expression panicked but she still stubbornly insisted, "His life was given to me by me, so it's only right that he be returned to me. Besides, it's not like we didn't want to save him. At the time, his younger brother was still in college, and the family was already poor. Where would we get the spare money to treat his injuries?"

These words enraged Du Hexuan and the others: "You know how to borrow money when your youngest son is in college, but you don't know how to borrow money when your second son is so badly injured. You and your older brother are truly an eye-opener."

"Besides, he was injured at work, which is a work-related injury. He can get workers' compensation after applying, and it won't cost much at all. This is really ignorant of the law, and it's killing people!"

“They’re not ignorant.” Du Anrao listened to his fourth sister’s explanation, his eyes narrowing slightly. “If they had paid back then, the workers’ compensation would have only filled this hole.”

Everyone was slightly taken aback, but quickly realized the meaning behind Du Anrao's words.

"They...they wouldn't be planning to swallow all this money, would they? Are they crazy for money?!"

Looking at the astonished expressions on his family members' faces, Du Anrao realized that they had ultimately underestimated the moral bottom line of these people.

“They not only wanted to keep the money, but also wanted to make it even more, so they deliberately delayed treatment, leaving their second son disabled, so that they could legitimately extort more money from his factory.”

"What a beast! How can someone's heart be so black?" Several hot-blooded people clenched their fists, looking like they wanted to beat her up.

Madam Kou's face turned deathly pale. She instinctively took a step back, her voice trembling with fear, and said, "What...what do you want to do? Hitting someone is against the law!"

"You know that hitting someone is illegal? Even if the current laws can't do anything to you, you'll still be boiled in oil when you die!"

Du Yihan nudged her younger sister and asked curiously, "In the end... did they succeed?"

"You succeeded, but..." As if remembering something, a slight smile finally appeared on Du Anrao's face. "But?"

"They just went too far and finally angered the second son and his girlfriend."

Mrs. Kou actually wanted to keep all the compensation that her second son had received in exchange for his lifelong disability of three fingers, so that she could use it to help her third son, who was about to graduate, get married.

The second son, who was already disheartened because of his disability, finally lost all hope in these so-called relatives and this family.

His girlfriend, who was already heartbroken by his ordeal, was furious and stormed into the Kou family home, where she had a huge argument with Mrs. Kou and their third son.

When the matter was brought up, Madam Kou immediately complained: "I raised him for so many years, provided him with food and clothing, and in the end, that slut outside bewitched him with just a few words, turning him against his own mother and even his own brother. He's an ungrateful wretch!"

Du Anrao's expression darkened slightly: "It's true that you gave him food, clothing, and even his life, but that's not a reason for you to take whatever you want from him. No matter how much he owes you, he gave up his studies and life for your beloved eldest and third sons, earned so much money for you, and even lost three of his own fingers. It's time for him to pay it back."

"What do you mean by repaying? I gave birth to him and gave him his life. He should repay me for the rest of his life and listen to me for the rest of his life."

Du Hexuan curled his lip and immediately commented sarcastically, "Did they give birth to a son or a slave?"

Finally realizing that trying to reason with an idiot made him look like an idiot himself, Du Anrao rolled his eyes speechlessly and said coolly, "People treat you like their mother, but you treat them like donkeys. You work day and night and still get whipped. It's no wonder that such a filial son has the heart to sever ties with you. You deserve it."

Du Yuxi and the woman in yellow beside Du Anrao both brightened up, revealing expressions of surprise: "Her second son has severed ties with her?"

"They want to take people's lives. There are so many mothers who are obsessed with exploiting their children and sucking their blood. Do they still want to keep them around for the New Year?"

Everyone agreed, but some still had doubts: "Would she and her two ungrateful sons really agree to this?"

That's their family's blood bank and ATM, a source of free labor that can be exploited for a lifetime.

A slight smile finally appeared on Du Anrao's face: "She had no choice but to agree."

It turns out that after his girlfriend stormed into his house and had a big fight with his mother and brother, the second son of the Kou family finally woke up from decades of PUA and was determined to sever ties with the family. No matter how much Mrs. Kou and his brothers suppressed, insulted, and morally blackmailed him, they still couldn't change his mind.

He even demanded that Mrs. Kou return not only the workers' compensation but also the compensation she had extorted from the factory using his hand injury as leverage.

"Would this woman and her two money-grubbing sons agree to this?"

"Of course they couldn't agree, but their second son has a powerful backer, so they have no choice but to agree."

(End of this chapter)