Gu'er didn't say anything. Her mother-in-law had already said everything that needed to be said. 'It seems this brother of Wei Hong's is no good,' she thought. 'Otherwise, Mother-in-law wouldn't have put it like that. Wei Hong is using "starting a business" as an excuse to borrow money. If we really lend it to her, I'm afraid we'll never get it back. Just like Mother-in-law said, this isn't two hundred—it's twenty thousand. We can't lend it.'
Sun Jiaming felt the same way as Gu'er. He usually sent his mother two or three hundred to help out. Since they didn't live together, he didn't want her to struggle financially. His mother always refused, saying she had enough and that he should save his money. But he didn't want his mother to have too hard a life, so he was never stingy with her.
