As I said that, I glanced at Zong Bao, but Zong Bao put his hand on his forehead, looking helpless.
"Please?" Grandpa was puzzled: "Is it Tong Dawei? He has the same virtue as your aunt, and he behaves well even when he gets an advantage. Can I please help you?"
I gently touched the corner of my mouth and looked at my grandpa without answering. In fact, I didn’t know where the confidence came from. I just felt that it would be difficult for my uncle to go out this time. Of course, it wouldn’t be possible if someone else took this trip for him.
It will cost your life, because the fates are different, but after all, there is evil spirit, and injuries are inevitable. I think if the uncle saw his colleague injured, he would not be afraid even if he begged me, it would be inevitable.
.
Grandpa sighed to himself: "Actually, at my age, I also know what our family is like. The house was burned down. I was originally counting on your dad, but something happened to your dad's factory again and it was burned down.
In order to prevent this famine, I also borrowed a large sum of money from your brother-in-law. Although your brother-in-law didn't say anything about repaying it, there is no reason not to repay the money when it's due. If Little Bao'er is sick, he needs a kidney transplant.
I spent hundreds of thousands on something else. Even if I have a golden mountain at home, I can’t afford to go through such trouble. I don’t expect the house at home to be built now. I just hope that your father will be able to calm down before he follows.
Your eldest uncle repaid the money, but who would have thought that your father is now in a state of despair. If the family is really separated, not only will your father’s money from selling the factory and store be lost, but maybe this house will also be lost in the end.
There's nothing left. This is what worries me right now. Huijuan is my girl, and seeing her suffer makes me angry too."
I glanced at my grandpa and opened my mouth: "Grandpa, don't you still have me?"
Grandpa waved his hand, raised his eyes and looked at me: "Jiaolong, you are a girl, why do you have to suffer like this with your family? Grandpa feels uncomfortable when he sees how you are dressed. You look like a young man. This
It’s all the pressure from your family that forces you to do it!”
I smiled helplessly and stood in front of my grandpa: "Grandpa, I am not forced to do this because of the great pressure. I just like to dress like this. Besides, these suits are all custom-made, which makes me look energetic.
, I am a gentleman, so I have to be formal, otherwise when someone invites me to see something, I will think, oh, it’s just a little girl, first of all, she doesn’t have enough momentum, my suit is expensive, and besides, how handsome she is!
"
Grandpa glanced at me with a gloomy face: "The spirit is spirit, but she doesn't look like a girl. Jiaolong, your grandma has already said that you are a girl. Being a boy is tiring, so let's grow our hair long."
, how nice it is to dress up like a little girl, grandpa feels very happy just looking at it."
I shook my head: "Grandpa, please don't try to persuade me on this. This is really my personal hobby, and I like to dress like this. Don't worry, you don't have to worry about things at home, although my store is still on the rise.
, but as long as I contribute money to Yu Fu, I will buy a house and let you live with me. You can't go back to your hometown now, and I won't worry if you go back by yourself. You don't have to worry about other things. Everything is fine.
me."
Grandpa took my hand and said, "Jiaolong, don't be too tired."
I twitched my lips and said, "I'm not tired, grandpa. I'm also struggling. Young people nowadays are like this. Some of them may work a thousand times harder than me."
Grandpa shook his head: "You are different. This is because you are tired."
As he said that, my grandpa looked at me again: "Two days ago, your mother came to me and told me to persuade you to have an operation. She also said that she would change her household registration to make you a son. I scolded you. Don't worry.
She won't dare to say this to you again. You have been a girl since you were a child. I don't know what she thinks when she asks you to get a wife. Anyway, I think you have to get married and find Xiaobai.
He can take care of you and don't live so tiredly. Being a woman is better than being a man."
I sighed in my heart, but looked at my grandpa and didn't say much. I knew he was doing it for my own good, but there were some things that I couldn't explain clearly to my grandpa. I can only say that he thought about things too simply.
Alright.
…
"Hey, I understand. I'll go back when the store closes. Well, you and my aunt and uncle can talk first, okay."
I hung up the phone and glanced at Wen Xiaoni: "Xiaoni, there are not many customers anymore. Let's close the store early. I have something to do at home and I have to go back early."
Wen Xiaoni responded: "Is there anything going on at home? I've called you several times this afternoon."
I exhaled helplessly: "It's a small matter. It's just that my aunt and uncle want to separate from my parents. They asked me to go back and watch."
"This is still a trivial matter!" Wen Xiaoni looked at me with wide eyes: "But why does your aunt live with your parents? Shouldn't your aunt leave her parents' home when she gets married? Why are we still together?
Get over it."
"You have to ask my grandma about the specific situation. I don't know. Let's settle today's accounts first. Let's get off work early today."
When I was closing the store door, I heard crying again inexplicably. I looked up at the sky and found nothing unusual. Then I looked to the northwest. There was a gloomy air. Is it the end of the day?
Wen Xiaoni followed my gaze and looked up at the sky: "Jiaolong, what are you looking at? A kite."
"Huh?" I came back to my senses and responded casually: "Oh."
Wen Xiaoni didn't know why, and looked at me with a chuckle: "Let's go fly it someday. The weather is nice now. My neighbor goes to the square to fly a kite every day. I think it's quite interesting to watch him fly it."
I nodded, thinking about things randomly in my mind, and said, "Oh, okay."
"Okay, I'm leaving first, Zong Bao, see you tomorrow!"
Zong Bao nodded without responding and looked directly at me: "Let's go."
I frowned: "Zong Bao, is there anything big going on today?"
"Wen Xiaoni gave the customer the wrong curtain measurements."
I shook my head and looked at him, "I'm referring to national events. Didn't our store order newspapers? Is there any big event, a flood or something?"
"I did not see."
I sighed: "Forget it, let's go..." After walking for a while, I still felt something was wrong, so I looked at Zong Bao again: "What's the date today?"
"April fourteenth."
"April 14th?" I muttered: "What kind of disaster is it..."
As soon as I entered the house, my aunt, uncle, mother, and grandfather were sitting on the square table in the living room on the first floor waiting for me. The two of them seemed to be standing in line, and their posture was similar to that of a summit meeting between various countries.
Dad was lying lazily on the sofa behind the square table, still holding the remote control in his hand, but he was changing channels without looking at the TV. He looked slightly drunk, but his eyebrows were furrowed. He must have just finished drinking.
He was so drunk that he was invited to participate in the separation of the family. But judging from the way he was lying on the sidelines, he was not satisfied with the separation. He just suppressed it and didn't want to say it, or maybe he didn't love him for some reason.
That’s all.
Seeing me coming in, my eldest uncle was the first to speak: "Hey, Huijuan, you keep saying that dividing the family is unfair to you. Even though your eldest sister and I left the house to you, you still said it was unfair. You also said that there are many foreign debts that have not been paid off.
, but now that your child can bring a bodyguard with him wherever he goes, will it be okay in the future? The foreign debt will be nothing."
I walked straight to my uncle, sat on the chair, tilted my chin slightly and pointed at Zong Bao: "Zong Bao is my friend, not my bodyguard."
The eldest uncle curled his lips: "What kind of friend? Don't tell me that you are dressed like this and still have a boyfriend. Aren't you stimulated by that Zhuo Jing..."
I gritted my teeth: "Whether I was stimulated or not has nothing to do with you, and it has nothing to do with today's game."
"Dawei, don't say we haven't separated yet. Even if we have separated, you will still have to say hello when we meet each other. Don't say it too harshly. You still have a long way to go in the future. You don't know who will have to say hello in the future.
Whoever you beg for, don’t form a grudge now, it will be too late for you to regret it in the future!”
Grandpa spoke directly from the side and looked at his uncle: "Jiaolong is not only my granddaughter, but her parents are still sitting here. Don't be too rude when you speak!"
The eldest uncle waved his hand: "Sure, you have a large family, and now Dazhi has become a member of your family, so I won't say anything more. Anyway, isn't this a family separation? We have said everything that should be said about our family. You
If you agree, then we will find a house and move out tomorrow."
Mom took a deep breath and looked at her uncle: "Brother-in-law, I called you that, but you didn't say that. This house itself was left to Dazhi by my mother-in-law, and Dazhi's name is also written in the house book. It can't be because
You left the house and you didn’t have to bear a penny of the foreign debt. How am I going to repay that much money? And you said to Qiao Qiao, what does the foreign debt owed by the business have to do with her? There is no use for Qiao Qiao.
Qiao, go and pay it back. You and Dazhi did this business together! Now that we can’t continue doing it, the debt we owe should be borne by both of you!"
The eldest uncle leaned back on the chair behind him: "Dazhi and I share the responsibility? You have already said that the name of Dazhi is written in this house book and has nothing to do with me and Xinyun. When the factory was registered, it was also Dazhi.
My own name, what does it have to do with us if we are in debt? Besides, our family has already spent all the money that should be spent. When we can't make money, Dazhi takes the lion's share. If we have debts, I have to bear it with him.
Bar!"
"Our family has never had a big head, it has always been half of the family!" Mom emphasized, looking at the eldest uncle: "In short, if we want to divide the family, we have to divide the debts. With Dazhi like this, if we want to pay off the debts, then
The only option is to sell the house.”
"Then just sell it. A house this big can be sold anyway..."
"Dawei! What are you talking about?"
It was rare for my aunt to interrupt my uncle's words from the side, which really impressed me. It seemed that my aunt and my father still had some real feelings for each other, not to the point of being cold-blooded and insensitive.
"Why are you quarreling with me? What I said is wrong!" The eldest uncle raised his eyebrows and said, "I'm not doing it for you. If I didn't see you suffering here every day, how could I have arranged the separation of the family?"
The aunt frowned: "Don't talk yet." After saying that, she turned to look at her father: "Dazhi, what do you think? Just tell me. I won't irritate you at all. We grew up together.
, I will help mom take care of you, and I also promised mom that I will not leave home and get married just to make your life easier. Tell me, what do you think? If I can satisfy you, I will try my best to satisfy you."
"Tsk! Lin Xinyun, you are such a tiger! What kind of ideas can Dazhi have now? If he had ideas, could we still sit here and discuss the matter of dividing the family?"
The eldest uncle became anxious immediately, but the aunt made me change my view of her slightly, and what she said to my father was quite encouraging.
The aunt rolled her eyes at the uncle: "Don't say anything yet, listen to Dazhi, Dazhi, you say..."
The room was quiet for a second or two, and we all looked at Dad. Unexpectedly, instead of making a sound, he turned up the volume of the TV. For a moment, the announcer's well-spoken Mandarin filled the room -
"A 7.1-magnitude earthquake occurred in YS County, QH Province, my country at 7:49 this morning. So far, it has caused about 300 deaths and 8,000 injuries. Since most of the local houses are civil structures, 100% of the damage caused by strong earthquakes Eighty percent of the houses collapsed, causing serious damage, and a large number of people were buried. The number of casualties may further increase..."
I was stunned, my ears were filled with the announcer's voice, the calamity was actually referring to this...
I still remember two years ago, when I was still in the countryside and just went to my grandma's grave every day. The village chief said loudly through the loudspeaker that if one side is in trouble, all sides will support it, so we should consciously go there and donate money.
It was also an earthquake. I remember it was so tragic when the TV showed it that I burst into tears when I heard it. It was even more serious than this time, but I didn’t have the ability to predict it at the time. I didn’t even know about it until the village chief’s loudspeaker.
After I woke up, I went with other villagers to do my little bit, praying for the speedy recovery of the injured and the speedy recovery of the relatives of the deceased. The village chief at the time wrote down the amount of our respective donations in a book and said some words.
He said, hey, this is a natural disaster, what a pity, what a pity.
It is indeed a natural disaster...
I was still listening to the announcer's voice in my ears. Although the earthquake was far away from me, there were so many casualties. I instantly felt a feeling in my heart that life is so fragile and I cherish the moment. My heart was so blocked that I couldn't express it. It was a catastrophe.
It's so cruel, I'd rather I couldn't predict it at all. Otherwise, if I predict the catastrophe, wouldn't it mean that another life will die like this? Cruel, it's really too cruel.
"Bang!" I was startled. When I came back to my senses, I saw my uncle staggering to his feet and running straight to my father. His eyes were fixed on the TV and he was taking something out of his pocket with one hand.
, shouting loudly: "Where is the cell phone! Where is my cell phone!!!"
"Your phone is on the table." The aunt looked at him in confusion: "What's wrong with you?"
The uncle didn't say anything, and stumbled to the table again. He grabbed the phone and pressed a series of numbers with trembling fingers. He put it to his ear with a look of worry on his face. It was probably because the call was not connected, so he changed the number again.
, after getting through, he stuttered and opened his mouth: "Sister-in-law, sister-in-law! Have you called Brother Liu? There was an earthquake there! Didn't he come back? He didn't catch up! What..." The uncle's body softened immediately.
, stretched out his hand to support the table, and after a long while, he breathed out suddenly: "Oh, I was scared to death. It's broken, right? It's still under treatment. It's okay, it's okay. It's going to the hospital here, right?
, Okay, don’t be anxious, don’t be anxious, um, okay, I’ll go see him when he turns around..."
The aunt looked at the uncle with confusion: "Who is Brother Liu? What's wrong? Where did he go?"
The eldest uncle's face was full of shock, and he murmured to himself: "Old Liu is delivering this goods for me. That's where I'm going this time..."
I couldn't help but frown, and there was a flash in my mind. In this way, I didn't sense the catastrophe for no reason. It had something to do with my uncle. Before I could react, my uncle suddenly rushed to me.
: "Qiaoqiao! Qiaoqiao, you really saved my life! What you said is so accurate, otherwise I would have to go there this time! Even if I can save my life, I have to be like Lao Liu
Broken bones, that was an earthquake! Qiao Qiao! Uncle, thank you! It scared me to death, it really scared me to death just now!" (To be continued)