A penny can stymie a hero.
Once ambitious and spirited, my father inevitably found his courage wane and ambitions extinguished under the weight of enormous debt.
"Didn't our family open up the foreign market in the past two years? We collaborated with a foreigner named Stinson for over two years, and the business kept growing. This foreign boss, Stinson, placed increasingly large orders, and he was always prompt in settling payments. About six months ago, he gave our family a super-large order. Your mom and I calculated that completing this transaction could earn us a full twelve million."
For a food processing factory like theirs, an order with a profit of over a million is considered a large order.
They can't even get two orders like that a year.
Suddenly receiving a super-large order with a profit over twelve million, no wonder my parents lost their rationality and made some extremely risky moves.
