!!! ( I’m writing half of the text through Google translator, so forgive me in advance if anything is not clear, I can retell it to you and convey the idea separately ) !!!

Two weeks ago, I started collaborating with a woman I had known since childhood. Dad said that helping her, she would sit on my neck and demand help even on weekends.
Let me explain: I work full-time at an official job, my aunt (she’s not my relative, but I call her aunt because she’s older than me lol and she’s my mom’s age) she works as a seller of trinkets, and sometimes she wants to go to festivals and fairs where she also sells her own , I help her for a small amount, because I just wanted a new experience, and it wouldn’t be difficult to help her once or twice.
Now to the point. on Saturday I helped her again, replaced her while she was not at the outlet, everything was fine, but the guys who were selling nearby decided to find out about me, what I was doing with her, how long I had known her, etc.

the guys are more unpleasant, they treated me like a stupid blonde or Stacey, I don’t know how to explain correctly, as if I was in the wrong place where I should have been..
After talking and helping me close the store, they told me what nuances there are in communicating with my aunt and what I might have if I continue to treat her well, but why on earth should I believe them? Auntie just told me not to communicate with... them...
And then the puzzle came together, because why would she ask me not to tell what she’s doing and how I’m helping her, if there’s no benefit to her “enemies”?

After talking with the guys, I realized that they were just such “heavy” people in character, but they had no malice towards me. After talking, it turned out that we had a common opinion on the topic of the Aunt. I will answer honestly, after that I was scared, because my dad said that from the outside everything was as they told me, I just didn’t understand it until I discussed it with someone else.
By the way, there was a common theme with the guys, this is that my aunt plays crypto games, people from post-Soviet countries know exactly what I’m talking about, in short, these are games that drain you of either personal time or money, but most often both That. and Auntie just plays them, imposing these games on everyone, point blank ignoring that this is a scam, hell, she was even robbed a couple of times and she still uses a crypto wallet that did it!

I hang my keychains for her approval on her island with little things (islands are places where merchants sit in shopping centers)
She gave me a lot of her jewelry to redo, and I’m afraid that she might get angry if I suddenly say that I want to take everything home.. The guys said that she often says behind the backs of others what she thinks about them, and she thinks unkindly, that I also heard from her personally, and this reinforced my anxiety...