Chapter 375: Chapter 375
That night, Long Gang, buoyed by his parents’ blatant favoritism, had a huge fight with them and stormed out of the house.
His voice was loud, naturally the neighbors on either side could hear everything.
In fact, he never intended to let Long Qiang go, he merely wanted to test their attitude.
Sure enough, with their partiality, he could plan his departure without any burden.
It wasn’t easy to accumulate wheat and rice, so he estimated the time every day for harvesting. In his previous life, he had an alarm clock, but this life, he couldn’t even afford one.
Because he had no money to buy food, he had to take radishes, garlic, and cabbages from his space and run to distant places to exchange them for money and food stamps.
Fortunately, his produce was good quality. After one taste, people remembered him, and every few days, they requested deliveries.
After the big fight with his parents, he rented a house in the town and never went back.
He didn’t want to wear his old clothes anymore, so he thought of using the vegetables in his space to make some money and to provide for his new clothes.
Because of renting a place and needing to buy daily necessities, he initially thought he could level up to level 2 within about ten days, but it ended up taking around twenty days.
With the New Year approaching, he couldn’t get the information his master was inquiring about until after the New Year, so Long Gang could only continue to plant crops in peace.
In early December, it was time to give out last month’s salary. He hadn’t been home for nearly twenty days, but on payday, his mother found his workplace and came to ask for his salary.
She hadn’t even asked once if he was doing well during these twenty days, she just came and asked directly for his salary, and even wanted to inquire about his bonuses and the specifics of his overtime, wanting to know exactly how much money he made.
Even with Long Gang’s usually good temperament, seeing her , he was utterly disappointed.
Without any hesitation, he slapped ten yuan into her hand and then turned and walked away, not even desiring to glance back at her.
Long Gang stared at her retreating figure with red eyes and roared, "I’ve been away from home for twenty days, and you don’t even ask how I’ve been living? How I’ve survived? I earn only fifteen a month, and when you take ten yuan, have you ever thought about how I’ll get by the next month?" ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ novel·fıre·net
Unexpectedly, his mother turned around with a cold laugh, "If you dare to stay away from home, that shows you can survive on your own. Since you can survive, why should I ask? If you have the ability, never return to this house in your lifetime. I want to see just how capable you are. It’s less than half a month until New Year, just if you can persist through the New Year without coming home, then I won’t need you to provide for our old age!"
Upon hearing this, Long Gang suddenly raised his voice and questioned, "Are you serious about what you just said?"
His mother glanced at him with disdain, "What if what I said was true? Do you dare to actually stop providing for us?"
Long Gang turned to his colleagues and gave a bow, "Please bear witness for me, this is my mother, who has been biased all her life, never caring whether I lived or died. Today she said that as long as I don’t come home for New Year, as long as I dare to completely sever ties with her, she won’t need my support. These are her words, not mine. But even a cornered rabbit will fight back. I’ve been called a wastrel for twenty years, today I want to stand up for myself and make them regret treating me this way!"
"Good for you, Long Gang, you should have done this long ago, how are you any worse than Long Tie Long or Long Qiang? Why act like a shrinking turtle all the time? Don’t worry, we’re from the same village, I’ll definitely spread the word so that our whole village knows!"
The teasing and supportive comments from his colleagues kept coming, making his mother’s expression grow uglier. In the end, she clenched the money and walked away without turning back.