As soon as Huang Pingguo arrived, the Huang family instantly surrounded him. "Pingguo, you can't just abandon our whole family! Otherwise, your father and I really will have no choice but to take everyone back home to starve to death.
"Pingguo, I know we were wrong this time. We sold the house and the land back home without discussing it with you, but what's done is done. You have to help us figure something out.
"We don't want to squeeze the whole family into your house either, but we have nowhere else to go..."
A few of the women began to wipe their tears. They knew Huang Pingguo was notoriously soft-hearted, so they had prepared this tactic well in advance.
"That's right," one of them chimed in. "It's not that we refuse to work, but all the good land in this village is already taken. We wanted to buy a plot, maybe a few acres of farmland, but we couldn't find anything suitable.
