Article by author Ly Hung on Toutiao platform (China)
The eldest brother inherited the land, the younger brothers all agreed.
I am the eldest of four brothers living in a rural area. My family has many children and my parents are farmers. Our financial situation is not good, so I had to study and work from an early age.
I was the best student among my four siblings, but my education path was also the shortest. I had to be persuaded and tried hard to get scholarships and grants before I could finish high school. As soon as I graduated, I decided to go to work in a factory to help my parents support my younger siblings. My three younger brothers all went to college and stayed in the city, but their future was still one level better than mine.
I consider myself the eldest child, so I shouldn't compare myself too much with my younger siblings, and I volunteered to take on the responsibility of taking care of my parents. Luckily, my parents recognized my sacrifice. Before he passed away, my father decided to leave all the land in the countryside to me, and my younger siblings would only receive a portion of their savings. My father told us to love and care for each other, and as the eldest, I had worked hard for many years, so this portion of the inheritance was well deserved.
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At that time, my younger siblings who came back from the city all agreed with this will. Partly because they all had houses and cars in the city, and had no intention of returning to the countryside. I received the land and continued to take care of my elderly mother. The family was still harmonious at that time. When my mother passed away, we still had a good relationship, and we all got together for the holidays. I thought I was quite lucky when I looked at the situation of some friends who were having tense disputes with their siblings because their parents divided their inheritance unevenly.
Land prices increase, fueling property conflicts
But what I did not expect happened. The land my parents left me suddenly increased rapidly, with some people asking to buy it for 3 or 5 times the value when I inherited it. The land of my neighbors was also asked to buy at high prices, and many people agreed to sell it. I don’t know who told my younger siblings in the city about this information, but they all went home and suggested selling the land to divide it equally.
I refused because this was the property my parents left me, whether to sell or live in it was my decision. After several unsuccessful attempts to persuade them, my younger siblings began to criticize me for being selfish and being favored by my parents. My younger sibling even said that I lived nearby so I urged my parents to divide the land for me.
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I reminded everyone that we had agreed to the will when our parents were still alive, there was no reason to blame them now. My siblings and I argued loudly. The villagers gossiped about our family's conflict over the inheritance. Since then, my siblings no longer came home during the holidays, and we had a cold war.
I didn't want to cause discord among my siblings, but thinking about their unreasonableness, I felt angry. My wife advised me not to make a big deal out of this, as it would be difficult to face them later. The silence in the family chat group for months made me frustrated. Until one day, I sent a photo to it.
That was the university admission notice that I accidentally found while cleaning the house. No one in my family knew that I had received a university scholarship but gave it up for the sake of my younger siblings' future. I recalled my childhood memories, when my siblings and I only ate rice with vegetables, and when we had candy and delicious food that others thought was good, we gave it to each other, sharing every little bit. So why, when we grew up, each with more material possessions, did we have conflicts, causing our brotherhood to be damaged?
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A few days later, they all called me one by one to apologize for saying bad things to me. They made an appointment to come back to my brother's house to have a meal together. I told them frankly that I wanted to keep this piece of land as a savings, and that if my family were in trouble in the future, it would not be too late for them to help me sell it. I still think that if inherited property becomes the reason for the breakdown of blood relations, it is a pity and I do not want any family to fall into this situation.
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