"Oh, you're really lucky, aren't you? People get engaged, and they even send a luxury car to pick you up."
"Yes, it's made me feel a bit embarrassed. Coming from so far away, they specifically send a car, so I really have to go."
Someone who knows her family well said, "It's such a joyous occasion; as an elder, you definitely have to go. Besides, hasn't your older sister already passed away? You're now the highest-ranking from the groom's mother's side."
"That's true; my sister had no luck. She lost her husband in her sixties and passed away herself before she turned seventy. Now, among our generation, besides me, it's just my good-for-nothing brother."
"But isn't your brother doing quite well now? I heard his son has started a factory and must be earning a lot."
"Earning what? My brother's even used up his coffin savings, and he hasn't recouped the investment yet."
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