"What else are we supposed to do?! Send him to the hospital? Never mind that he might not survive—who's going to cover the costs! Is your Shen Family going to pay for it?"
Guo Chunxiang had followed Shen Nian's family in, and upon hearing Miao Cuifen, she interjected anxiously. It was as if she was afraid that the Shen family had come over just to make arrangements to send the old man back to the hospital.
'It had been hard enough to persuade the second and fourth brothers to bring the old man home from the hospital. She couldn't let Miao Cuifen and her family show up and send him right back.'
'It wasn't that she was afraid of the trouble—she just didn't want to spend the money!'
'The old man didn't have any money of his own. If he went to the hospital, the costs would have to be split among the sons, wouldn't they? And when you got down to it, wouldn't that be *her* money being spent!'
