Under Dan’s tearful explanation and Wei’s angry additions to the story, the Tang family came to understand the problem. It was about both of their scholarships.
Dan and Wei both lived in the village nearby- the two of them had been neighbors who’d grown up together and fell in love with each other- their parents had agreed to their relationship as well.
Both families were very poor- paying for school fees was simply above their ability.
But a couple of big bosses came to the village one day, offering scholarships for the children of the poor.
All the families were bursting with happiness from the news, and Dan and Wei were the children of two of those families… They went through primary and high school successfully under that funding, and were about to graduate…
As agreed upon, they’d both work for the company for a while without pay after they turned eighteen- it was considered a form of repayment for the funding they’d been given.
