"Isn't that the truth," Yang Yufeng said with a hint of sympathy. "When he was helping build Xiaojun's house, he'd eat two meals a day at our place. Then he'd go home at night and just suck in his stomach, waiting until the next morning to come back to work and eat again. Remember those few days it rained? I asked him about it later, and he said that for those three rainy days, he didn't have a single full meal at home."
Zhang Yuanmin sighed. "His family's situation is even worse than ours used to be."
"You all don't know the half of it!" Suddenly, Li Ruhai shot up, planting his right elbow on the table. He slapped the table with his left hand and whispered, "Gu Yang's third brother is already so old and still a bachelor, to say nothing of Gu Yang himself. I heard that his parents want him to marry into a well-off family as a live-in son-in-law. If the woman's family gives them a bit of money, they can use it to find a wife for his third brother."
