When Wymond heard such news, he got so excited that he almost cried. Both his brother and sister got into Somerset High School. The chances of the student from the high school getting into college were very, very high.
"Good, great!" That night, Wymond especially made an extra dish for his brother and sister.
It was said to be an additional dish, but it was just carrots and meat slices, and there were barely any meat slices. With such few meat slices, all three siblings still could not bear to eat them.
Seeing that his brother and sister were so sensible, Wymond felt that he must work twice as hard to make more money. Seeing that both his siblings would be going to college in another three years, they would certainly have a lot of things to spend on. That was what he had thought about, but as a person who had no education and was not cultured like him, where could he go to earn money?
Throughout the three years that his brother and sister were in high school, Wymond did his very best to earn money, but he still had a buttload of debt. All of the money from the debt was spent on his siblings and also on the repairs of the worn-out house.
When the day his siblings received their college acceptance letter arrived, Wymond was extremely overjoyed, but he was also incomparably worried. Where was the money? What was he going to use to support his siblings? He needed to support two college students.
"Wymond, let Helena go to college. I will provide for her." At that time, Vincent already started to like Helena.
"No!” Wymond immediately scolded Vincent. He took a puff on his cigarette, and then said slightly heartlessly, "If she had gone to college, gotten a job, done well in the big city, and then she no longer wanted you. What should you do? Out of the two of us, we can’t both be single, right?
"Well..." Vincent replied.
"I'd rather let Helena stop studying and support you through college. In the future, once you have gotten a job and become capable, even if you were to dump Helena, you would still be my brother. Don't blame me for being selfish. You are my own biological brother. I can't stand not letting my brother go to college, and then both of us work to provide for an outsider! I just can't do it! In the worst case, after you’ve become successful in the future, we will find a good person for her to marry. That’s not a bad deal for her!"
Vincent fell silent for a long while, and then he quietly went back to bed.
Three days later, Vincent went looking for his brother on the construction site again.
"Wymond, I had already borrowed from the whole village. I personally borrowed it. It's enough for one person's tuition. As for the other person, I had also thought about it. We can work while studying at college. We can even apply for a student loan for a portion of tuition. This way, both of us can go to college." "Vincent! Do you want to let Helena go to college that badly?" Wymond said. "Wymond, I like Helena. I must marry her in the future. After both Helena and I got a job, our family's lives will be better. When the time comes, we will bring you to the city to live with us, Wymond," Vincent said.
Wymond looked at his brother and then he suddenly smiled. "It is certainly the best if that really is the case. Don't worry about me. I am fine. Do your best in college and take good care of Helena. In the future, she will truly be a part of the Yates family."
"Mm-hmm." Vincent nodded his head heavily.
Both Helena and Vincent then went to college with the money the whole village had lent them. His brother had made a promise to the village folks that he would pay back the money and asked them not to be worried. However, even though Wymond had a buttload of debt, the joy on his face could not be concealed.
"Wymond, you are a good person. You could have just not cared for Helena. It was already very kind of you to raise her since childhood. You are also just a child and you’re even thirty yet." Some of the folks from the village felt very sorry for Wymond.
Wymond, however, shook his head. His face still looked very happy. "Helena was a child that we had picked up, but she has good grades and she is very studious. As long as I still have some ways, I would not give up on her academic career. Besides, Helena and my brother are truly a great match for each other."
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