There was actually a very simple and effective solution.
Cut through the tangled mess with a sharp knife!
Have Dad or Mom play the "bad cop" and flatly refuse every request for loans from people back home.
Not a single cent!
After doing that a few times, no one should dare ask again.
But if they did that, Dad basically would never be able to return to his hometown again, because his reputation there would be completely ruined.
He would offend everyone...
If it were Wang Ye, then so be it. He had no real attachment to that hometown. He had never lived there growing up and barely knew anyone there.
But Dad was different. He had been born and raised there. Apparently, after graduating from high school, he had even served as production team leader for two or three years before taking the college entrance exam and attending junior college.
That had been a huge event that shook the whole village!
When Wang Ye's father had left for college, more than half the village had been stirred up. One family gave him two eggs, another handed over a handful of boiled peanuts, and others stuffed a few steamed buns into his bag. Together, they had scraped together half a sack of provisions for him.
Those were truly poor times, especially for someone like Wang Ye's father, who came from the countryside.
Although the school provided subsidies, he still had to bring plenty of provisions himself. Otherwise, he simply would not have enough to eat.
It could be said that during those years in college, quite a few people in the village had genuinely helped him, even if it had not been much...
So Dad had always remembered their kindness. After he found some success, he had also helped many