"Have you ever heard the joke about the tight-fisted rich man who refused to spend money all his life? When having a meal, he would hang a salted fish from the beam and have his family stare at it while they drank thin porridge."
"After enduring a lifetime of hardships, he couldn't close his eyes before dying. He kept moving two fingers back and forth. In the end, it was his son who understood what he meant, and blew out one of the two candles that lit up the room. Only then did he take his last breath."
"The Shen family, from top to bottom, are all such characters—your grandfather, your father, even your younger brother who just graduated from middle school, aren't they all made of the same cloth? They hoard the good things for themselves and are unwilling to share a tiny bit with others. Only you are different; you don't seem to be like a child of the Shen family."
