How desperate was the situation?
"Listen to your mother," she said, "take your brother to your workplace and let him take over your job. Then, we'll go to the village chief and have your household registration removed from our family. After that, go to the police station and make a record for yourself. That way, you'll have your own separate household, and they won't dare to depend on our family anymore."
"Then have the village chief write you a letter of introduction, and you take off for a few days to hide from the storm. If they can't find you, they'll leave by themselves, and then we won't have to pay them any money!"
"Dad, Mom, how could that work? If I give up my job to my brother, what will I do when I come back? Also, I don't have any money to go anywhere, how could I leave without money?"
"What about the money you earned for New Year's? I've made inquiries, and you got twenty yuan, didn't you? Did you spend it all that quickly?"
