LIFE AFTER PRISON - Season 3 Episode 16

Sigh, let’s just save our breath. We’ll find out soon enough!” Gaston smiled faintly, looked at his watch again, and could not help but remark, “I postponed an important meeting just to come here. They won’t hear the end of it from me if they order the cheapest food for us!”

“Yeah!” Pierre echoed.

At this time, Severin’s other paternal uncle, Clement Feuillet, had arrived too. When he saw that Gaston had already arrived, Clement immediately stepped forward and said, “Wow, look who the cat dragged in! You’re here too, big shot! We don’t get to see you very often!”

Gaston could not help but smile triumphantly when he heard his third brother calling him ‘big shot’. He pretended to be modest and said, “Please, I’m not some big shot. I’m just barely eking out a living.”

“Haha, you’re being too modest, Gaston. I heard that you just bought a large apartment in the city center that costs several hundred thousand, right? I am so jealous of you. People like us might not be able to earn that much money in our entire lives!” Clement said with a flattering smile.

Gaston had been looking for an opportunity to flaunt his successes, and he was happy when Clement brought it up. “It’s just about four-hundred-and-fifty-thousand dollars, but there’s still a lot of renovation that needs to be done, and it would probably cost another hundred and fifty thousand before we can move in.”

At that moment, Marie, Queenie, and Simon had just arrived and they happened to hear the conversation just as they were walking.

Marie’s expression darkened immediately. “That sounds like a lot of money. Didn’t you say you had none when your brother Maurice and his family asked to borrow a few hundred while they were in dire

straits?”

Gaston’s mouth twitched a few times and his smile stiffened considerably.

He immediately sneered. “Hehe, there’s no law compelling me to borrow money from someone who doesn’t have any, right? Besides, it’s not that I didn’t want to borrow the money from them, but my company was having a downturn. They simply came at the wrong time!’

Marie felt even more upset for her sister Judith and could not help but say, “Really? I remember them asking to borrow money from you more than once. Did they always come at the wrong time for such a big boss like yourself? Will that few hundred dollars even affect your company’s daily operations?”

Gaston became even angrier and said with disdain, “Poor people like you can never understand the operations of a big company like ours. You won’t get it anyway if I try to explain it to you!”

Pierre then remarked coldly from one side, “That’s right. Dad. Just ignore them. It’s our money, and we’re free to decide whether or not we want to borrow it. Are we supposed to lend them money just because they’re our relatives? There’s no logical reason!”

When Clement saw Marie and Gaston’s war of words, he immediately changed the subject and

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said, “You guys seem to be doing quite well, Marie. You drove here, right? That car looks new. How much downpayment did you pay?”

Marie knew that their family was relatively poor, which was why Gaston and Clement always looked down on her family and Judith’s family. When she remembered that she had finally gotten some money, she felt a little tenacious and said directly, “Downpayment? We didn’t pay any downpayment. The car

was worth only fifteen thousand, and we can still afford to pay for it in full! And by the way, our family bought a new home too, and we paid the two-hundred -and-fifty-two-thousand dollars in full.”

“Tch, how is that even possible?” Clement did not expect that Marie would try to boast when he was trying to alleviate the tension between both parties, so he could not help but smile disdainfully.

“Pfft, are you kidding me? Where can your family get all that money? I don’t believe you’re able to get that sort of money!” Gaston chimed in.

“We can’t, of course, but I did lend money to my sister’s family before. They’re now rich, and Severin is the kind of person who repays tenfold the kindness that you show him. He gave us four hundred and fifty thousand to settle the debt he owed us!” Marie said directly.

“Impossible! Four-hundred-and-fifty-thousand dollars for that little sum of money you lent to them? Why would he give you that much?” Gaston, Clement and the others were wide-eyed in shock and wondered if they had heard it wrongly.

“Sigh, let’s just save our breath. We’ll find out soon enough!” Gaston smiled faintly, looked at his watch again, and could not help but remark, “I postponed an important meeting just to come here. They won’t hear the end of it from me if they order the cheapest food for us!”

“Yeah!” Pierre echoed.

At this time, Severin’s other paternal uncle, Clement Feuillet, had arrived too. When he saw that Gaston had already arrived, Clement immediately stepped forward and said, “Wow, look who the cat dragged in! You’re here too, big shot! We don’t get to see you very often!”

Gaston could not help but smile triumphantly when he heard his third brother calling him ‘big shot’. He pretended to be modest and said, “Please, I’m not some big shot. I’m just barely eking out a living.”

“Haha, you’re being too modest, Gaston. I heard that you just bought a large apartment in the city center that costs several hundred thousand, right? I am so jealous of you. People like us might not be able to earn that much money in our entire lives!” Clement said with a flattering smile.

Gaston had been looking for an opportunity to flaunt his successes, and he was happy when Clement brought it up. “It’s just about four-hundred-and-fifty-thousand dollars, but there’s still a lot of renovation that needs to be done, and it would probably cost another hundred and fifty thousand before we can move in.”

At that moment, Marie, Queenie, and Simon had just arrived and they happened to hear the conversation just as they were walking.

Marie’s expression darkened immediately. “That sounds like a lot of money. Didn’t you say you had none when your brother Maurice and his family asked to borrow a few hundred while. they were in dire straits?”

Gaston’s mouth twitched a few times and his smile stiffened considerably.

He immediately sneered. “Hehe, there’s no law compelling me to borrow money from someone who doesn’t have any, right? Besides, it’s not that I didn’t want to borrow the money from them, but my company was having a downturn. They simply came at the wrong time!’

Marie felt even more upset for her sister Judith and could not help but say, “Really? I remember them asking to borrow money from you more than once. Did they always come at the wrong time for such a big boss like yourself? Will that few hundred dollars even affect your company’s daily operations?”

Gaston became even angrier and said with disdain, “Poor people like you can never understand the operations of a big company like ours. You won’t get it anyway if I try to explain it to you!”

Pierre then remarked coldly from one side, “That’s right. Dad. Just ignore them. It’s our money, and we’re free to decide whether or not we want to borrow it. Are we supposed to lend them money just because they’re our relatives? There’s no logical reason!”

When Clement saw Marie and Gaston’s war of words, he immediately changed the subject and

said, “You guys seem to be doing quite well, Marie. You drove here, right? That car looks new. How much downpayment did you pay?”

Marie knew that their family was relatively poor, which was why Gaston and Clement always looked down on her family and Judith’s family. When she remembered that she had finally gotten some money, she felt a little tenacious and said directly, “Downpayment? We didn’t pay any downpayment. The car was worth only fifteen thousand, and we can still afford to pay for it in full! And by the way, our family bought a new home too, and we paid the two-hundred -and-fifty-two-thousand dollars in full.”

“Tch, how is that even possible?” Clement did not expect that Marie would try to boast when he was trying to alleviate the tension between both parties, so he could not help but smile disdainfully.

“Pfft, are you kidding me? Where can your family get all that money? I don’t believe you’re able to get that sort of money!” Gaston chimed in.

“We can’t, of course, but I did lend money to my sister’s family before. They’re now rich, and Severin is the kind of person who repays tenfold the kindness that you show him. He gave us four hundred and fifty thousand to settle the debt he owed us!” Marie said directly.

“Impossible! Four-hundred-and-fifty-thousand dollars for that little sum of money you lent to them? Why would he give you that much?” Gaston, Clement and the others were wide-eyed in shock and wondered if they had heard it wrongly.