Chapter 13 Relatives
On the eastern suburbs of Changle, on both sides of the national highway leading to Qinhai City, there are many low colored steel tiled houses. These temporary buildings look dilapidated and inconsistent with the prosperous scene in Changle City.
This is the urban-rural fringe. Most of the shops on both sides of the road operate construction materials, cement and other construction materials. Although the appearance looks dilapidated, the small bosses here all have a small fortune. Even the worst ones can be used as Honda to open it.
The red brand of "National Building Materials" is crowded in many building materials stores, making it very inconspicuous, but a black and shiny Honda Accord in front of the door seems to have increased the value of the store.
Next to the car, a thin, black and thin middle-aged man was holding a towel in his forehand and wiping the car carefully. Although the body of the car was so dark that it was almost lit, he was still very focused, just like stroking his lover's skin.
Behind him, on the red plastic chair in front of the store, a fat woman wearing a big red half-length down jacket with a dark yellow curly hair was casually chewing melon seeds while teasing a golden retriever under her feet. A fat face that was as fat as a pancake, a pair of goldfish eyes bulged, but she was painted with thick eyeshadows, and her thick pouty lips were painted as if she had drunk blood. The whole face looked like an abstract oil painting, which was impressive.
She had two bright gold bracelets on her hands, and a big gold ring on her short and thick fingers that looked like a carrot. The yellow symbolizing wealth did not bring her nobility, but instead made the vulgarity that seemed to be born with her body more and more obvious.
A tricycle was parked in the open space in front of the door of "National Building Materials". The door opened and two men, one old and one young, walked down from it.
"Three of the old man got out of the car and shouted. The thin black man who was wiping the car stopped the movement in his hand, raised his head and took a look. After making a "um" sound from his nose, the following was gone and he continued to wipe his car.
As for the fat curly woman, she hadn't even raised her head, it seemed like two people didn't exist at all.
Chu Yang followed his father Chu Guochang and looked at the strange man. From his expression and movement just now, Chu Yang felt a cold mood. He often felt this emotion in Huayin Sect. His fellow disciples also treated him like this.
But he didn't know what his father Chu Guochang brought him here to do.
"Last brother, when did you buy this car?" Seeing that Chu Guochang didn't pay much attention to him, he had to pretend to walk to him casually and find a topic to chat.
"It's been more than half a month." Chu Guoli continued to wipe the lane without raising his head. Chu Guoli lacked respect from his second brother. Among the three brothers, Chu Guoli only obeyed his eldest brother Chu Guoping. He was just over 40 and is now the deputy mayor of Xinshan Town, his small business, thanks to his elder brother's care, and he has made a lot of money in the past two years. As for the second brother, his family opened a broken musical instrument store, and he has been so alive for many years. He has opened a store in the county for more than ten years, and he is still renting a house in the suburbs. Chu Guoli looked down on him from the bottom of his heart.
"How much does it cost?" Chu Guochang asked as he looked at the car, but his focus was not on the car.
My wife Yang Ru had a heart attack again. She had been hospitalized in the county hospital for only one day, and the money for prescribed medicines had been injected for several thousand yuan. This morning, the doctor came to urge her to pay the hospitalization fee. Chu Guochang had no choice but to bring his son to the third place to think of a solution.
"No, nodding after 200,000 yuan, 2.4 automatic transmission." Chu Guoli patted the car and said casually, but the pride in his tone betrayed his true thoughts.
In Changle, a small county town, it is considered a decent person to be able to drive a car worth more than 200,000 yuan. In the past, he only saw his elder brother always sitting in a black Honda Accord, and he felt that it was so majestic. In the past two years, business has been good, and Chu Guoli's back has become hard. This year, he finally bought an Accord and has a strong glory.
As the saying goes, wealth and not returning home is like walking in the night in brocade clothes, boring. If you live a good life, it is necessary to show off, otherwise where can you find a sense of superiority? Chu Guoli couldn't find a sense of superiority in front of his elder brother, so he could only find it in his second brother.
"Haha, not bad, not bad, it's almost the same as the boss's." Chu Guochang said in looking at the car.
"Brother, that's the old model. I'm the new model this year." Chu Guoli said proudly.
"Oh, the new model is good, the new model looks good." Chu Guochang nodded and praised, and walked towards the fat woman again.
"You brother and sister are still there? Why didn't you see Xiaomei?" Chu Guochang asked.
Xiaomei is the daughter of the third family, one year younger than Chu Yang. She is in the second year of junior high school at Changle No. 1 Middle School. From her father, Chu Yang learned that Xiaomei is a good student with excellent academic performance and the heart of her grandparents.
"I went to the city with her classmates and said I was going to the cinema to watch some blockbusters." Li Meihua said without raising her head while eating melon seeds. Compared to her husband, she looked down on her family from the bottom of her heart. She didn't have the ability to make money, but she was bored even if she said something, and she looked bored.
What annoyed Li Meihua even more was that the second family members came to him, so they didn’t have any good things. They also borrowed money. Although they didn’t borrow much each time, Li Meihua was still very annoyed. His own money was earned by hard work, so why should he lend it to him? Besides, the money they lent out was not a meat bun to beat a dog, and he went there but never returned?
Seeing the two men coming again, Li Meihua felt an ominous premonition in her heart.
Sure enough, after a few words from this second brother, he finally revealed his purpose.
"That~~ Third brother, your sister-in-law has a heart attack again. This time she is very serious and is staying in the county hospital." Chu Guochang saw that the brother and wife didn't like to answer her words, so he had to walk back to the car and talk to his third brother Chu Guoli.
"Is that so? I'm sick again? Second brother didn't tell me about you. She needs surgery for this disease. How can you drag it like this?" Chu Guoli took over the conversation and said.
"Cough cough~~" The cough suddenly came from behind Chu Guoli's wife Li Meihua. He felt tight and swallowed the following words.
"Hey, our county does not have the conditions to undergo surgery. It's too far to go to Yanjing, which is inconvenient." Chu Guochang said with a sigh.
He did not say anything he had no money to undergo surgery, for men, that was his last dignity.
"Oh, that's the same." Chu Guoli sighed and started to wipe the car again.
"Three, let me tell you something. Your sister-in-law spent more than 3,000 yuan on hospitalization this time. This morning, the doctor said that she would pay some medicine, but I was a little tight, so why don't you get some from you first and wait a while..."
"Get out! You dog, you just fed the bones you had eaten in the morning, and now you are running here to eat again. If you see you, you will be upset! "Li Meihua behind her suddenly started cursing, and at the same time, she kicked the golden retriever beside her with her pointed leather shoes. The golden retriever let out a wail and immediately ran away with her tail.
Hearing these words that were almost openly pointing at the same time, Chu Guochang's face changed, and he finally resisted and said nothing.
For his wife, this grievance is nothing. Moreover, the wife of the third family has always had that kind of virtue, and it was not the first time he was used to it.
When Chu Guoli heard his wife scolding her behind her, he felt his scalp numb and his hands trembled twice as he wiped the car.
He straightened his waist and stopped wiping the car. He held the car door with one hand, sighed and said, "Oh, second brother, it's not that I won't help you, you've seen it. I'm here and I've left all the money there. I just got the order two days ago and spent another 50,000 or 60,000 yuan. Now the store has no money, and I still owe more than 100,000 yuan to loan outside. Oh, I'm not having a good life."
Hearing the third brother's words, Chu Guochang trembled for a moment. Looking at the brand new car, his eyes were filled with anger and disappointment.
Chu Yang stood behind Chu Guochang and kept watching the farce quietly. Just now, the couple sang and reconciled, which made Chu Yang sneer from the bottom of his heart.
"Let's go, people have driven you like a dog, and it's no point to stay here anymore." Chu Yang stood there, crossed his chest with his hands and smiled coldly.
Chu Yang's words made Li Meihua, who was eating melon seeds, and Chu Guoli, who was holding the car door, turn his eyes together.
Chu Guoli looked at this nephew who had never had any sense of existence, his eyes were full of doubt, as if he was wondering how he could say such a sentence.
Li Meihua couldn't hold her face anymore, and she stood up and looked at Chu Yang and said, "Oh, my nephew, why do I not like to listen to you? You ran here to borrow money from all the time. Before we could say anything, you should be tough first. Don't come here if you have the ability? People say that they are poor, and this is true!"
"Chu Yang, sir, don't interrupt me!" Although Chu Guochang was angry when he heard his son's words, he always had to say a few words to his son in terms of face.
"Come on, you are willing to stick to someone else's cold butt here. I don't have that hobby. Why don't you say it earlier if you want to use money? Just go back to the store to get it. Is it worth borrowing from such a person?" Chu Yang said disdainfully. He has been learning Chinese for the past two days. This sentence "Hot face to stick to someone else's cold butt" is just right.
"Oh, I'm still slapping the swollen face and pretending to be fat. I really didn't see that my eldest nephew was so ambitious before! I originally wanted the third brother to give you three or five hundred to respond to the emergency. After all, they are all their own brothers. You can't let you have no money to see a doctor and let outsiders laugh at me, right? But since you don't appreciate this affection and insist on being a hero, then just pretend I didn't say that I wanted to borrow money. Sorry, I won't borrow it yet!!" After Li Meihua said this sarcastically, she turned around and walked into the room, and threw it onto the door with a "bang".
"Second brother, Xiao Hua is just like this, don't take it to your heart." Chu Guoli looked at his wife and shook his face, his face looked a little ugly, and he quickly explained in a low voice.
"Forget it, don't make things difficult for you, I'll think of other ways." Chu Guochang waved his hand a little discouraged and turned around and left with his son.
He did not blame his son for what he said just now. In fact, that was what he wanted to say. He was a seven-foot man and he was not able to treat his wife. He also had to borrow money everywhere to see other people's faces. This humiliation made him want to beat him hard!
Although the third wife's words were unpleasant, he could not give any refutation. He was poor and had a short ambition, thin and long hair, and he could bear the hero with one penny. He was not a hero, but at this moment, he was really forced to fall down by one penny.
Chu Yang sat in the tricycle and looked at his father opposite him. The man he still felt a little strange now suddenly felt a sense of sympathy in his heart. On him, Chu Yang seemed to have seen his past.
Since childhood, Chu Yang has been looked down upon by his fellow brothers and brothers. Everyone laughed at him as a "bad breeder" and a wild child without fathers or mothers. During his sect days, Chu Yang was often bullied by them in groups. However, Chu Yang was not as obedient as Chu Guochang. No matter who bullies him, he would bully him twice as much. Even if this caused greater revenge, he would not care.
Whenever he and his brothers finished fighting and returned to his residence with green and purple bodies, his master Luo Qing always gently applied medicine and massaged him, and never blamed him.
When Chu Yang thought of his master, he felt a pain in his heart again.
The man in front of him was even more pitiful than him. At least he had a master to feel sorry for him, but he had nothing. When he encountered such an extremely difficult situation, he could only choose to resist alone.
When he returned to the store, it was already completely dark. Chu Yang opened the store door and looked at his father Chu Guochang still standing outside the door. He asked strangely: "Dad, why don't you come in?"
"I~~I'll go to your uncle's house again." Chu Guochang sighed, and even he had no confidence in what he said.
"Forget it, what are you going? Are you addicted to seeing other people's eyes and smiles?" Chu Yang said, turning around and walking to the counter, opening the drawer, and taking out a stack of money that the little girl threw to him in the morning.
If I had known that my dad was taking him to borrow money, I would have listened to the sarcasm of the two snobbish relatives. Chu Yang said he would not go even if he died. Chu Yang didn't know whether the money was more or less. He had not been in this world for a long time and had no clear idea of the currency here. However, when I heard that my dad was only missing a few thousand yuan in hospitalization, I guess this ten thousand yuan would be enough to solve the urgent problem.
"Go to you, go and treat your mother." Chu Yang came to Chu Guochang and handed over the stack of money.
"You~~Where did you get so much money?" Looking at the money in Chu Yang's hand, Chu Guochang was shocked. Looking at Chu Yang's eyes, he was full of worry. Could this child have done something illegal while he was not here?
"Don't worry, the money for selling flutes is not stolen or robbed." Chu Yang said lightly.
"It's just a little expensive," he added carefully.
"The money for selling flutes? Just a few days in this period of time? How many flutes have you sold?" Chu Guochang looked at the flutes in the room and asked with disbelief.
"Don't worry, do you want this money? Don't give it to me." Chu Yang was a little annoyed.
"You dare! Little bastard!" Chu Guochang was anxious when he saw his son seemingly wanted to take back the money, and snatched the money. Now he can't take care of that much, his wife's illness is important.
"I will use this money first. Your mother's illness is important. Look at the store here and don't cause trouble!" Chu Guochang said as he hurriedly disappeared into the vast night.
Chapter completed!