Liu Ying angrily blamed: "If you don't take the children back, how could the children want to go?
!It’s not all your fault!”
"Yes Yes Yes."
Cheng Tianyuan's face was downcast and he said softly: "It is true that there are reasons for me, but I really don't want to go back.
Mom, if Lingling hadn't bought so much land in the village and she had to go back once or twice from time to time, I wouldn't want to go back even once."
Liu Ying glared and scolded: "You still have the nerve to say that?
!After all, that’s where you were born and raised!”
"yes."
Cheng Tianyuan nodded: "I have never denied that I am from Chengjiacun, nor have I forgotten that Chengjiacun is my hometown.
Over the years, the village has built bridges and roads, built nursing homes and kindergartens. As long as the villagers ask, I will donate money.
I never shirk the construction of my hometown, and I will use as much strength as I can.
But I’m also a little upset and tired, do you know?”
Liu Ying turned away her face and stopped talking.
Cheng Tianyuan lowered his voice: "Whether it is the old neighbors or fellow villagers in the village, they think that our economy is better than theirs, so whenever something happens in the village, it is natural for us to pay for it.
Not only that, it’s the same with your mother’s side, every time she calls, she either wants to borrow money or asks for some expensive electrical appliances.”
Liu Ying's eyes dodge and hesitate: "Then we are indeed much better than them... Shouldn't we help the fellow villagers?"
"should."
Cheng Tianyuan nodded firmly: "I think it should, but it shouldn't be taken for granted.
Mom, some of your old relatives have only repaid the money they borrowed. The others have no contact after borrowing the money.
I didn't ask for money from them, but they said outside that I had made a lot of money and then turned their backs on me.
Mom, I come from a rural area. I never think rural areas are bad, nor do I think Chengjia Village is bad.
It’s just that we have left that place and it’s time to gradually integrate into the new environment and get new concepts and ideas.”
"You have forgotten your roots!"
Liu Ying scolded: "Do you blame my old relatives for dragging you down?
Yes or no?"
Cheng Tianyuan sighed softly: "It's not a burden, I just feel a little annoyed.
Mom, Lingling and I are almost independent financially. She pays for most of the expenses inside and outside Xinyuan.
When I borrowed money from old relatives, Lingling turned a blind eye and pretended not to know.
I used to be willing to borrow money, but people thought I was very rich. If I didn't want to pay back the money, they said I was a traitor, and then they cut off contact.
After doing it more times, I don’t really want to go back.”
"If you don't go back, even your children won't recognize Chengjia Village!"
Liu Ying said angrily: "Isn't it good to go back once or twice during the New Year and festivals to pay homage to our ancestors and the Lord of the Land?"
I have told you several times, but you pretend not to hear me every time!"
Cheng Tianyuan said solemnly: "I don't want to go back.
I don't want to go. The children are very unfamiliar there, so how can they take the initiative to go?
Yes, this is indeed my fault."
"snort!"
Liu Ying turned away in anger.
Cheng Tianyuan leaned against the wall and whispered: "Mom, the village has built bridges and roads over the years, including building a small park on the mountainside. Although I can't contribute, I insist on paying for it.
In the past twenty or thirty years, our family has participated in various projects in the village, and nearly tens of millions of dollars have been invested in them.
I am from Chengjia Village, and I try my best to help my hometown with construction, so I shouldn’t forget my roots, right?”
Liu Ying stared suspiciously and asked: "What?
Tens of millions?
Are there—that many?”
"Um."
Cheng Tianyuan replied: "I keep accounts every time.
When the old village chief was here, I paid several times to go back to support the construction of my hometown.
I knew him well, and the money I paid wasn't much at the time, so I didn't write it down.
Later, when we moved to the Imperial Capital, we could only send money there every time.
I have a card specifically used to send money to my hometown, and it totals more than 8 million.
When I built a nursing home, I paid 1.5 million, and the others were more than 10, 200,000, and occasionally 400,000 to 500,000.
Calculated more than 20 years ago, it was already close to 10,000,000."
Liu Ying was stunned and hesitated: "...so many?
Why didn't you tell me?"
Cheng Tianyuan explained: "I told you when we built the nursing home, but I didn't tell you the specific amount.
You told me to pay more if you could, and I agreed, originally deciding to wire one million.
Lingling was also present at the time and said that building a nursing home was a good thing, so she added another five hundred thousand to it.
Others are building bridges and roads, and the latest one is building a small park on the mountainside.
I didn’t think it was necessary to tell you everything, so I didn’t mention it in detail.”
"It turned out to be so much money."
Liu Ying blinked a few times and whispered: "It's all good things, just do it if you can.
You have helped a lot in the construction of my hometown, and people will not say that you have forgotten your roots."
Cheng Tianyuan asked funnyly: "Didn't you just say that I forgot my roots?"
Liu Ying hesitated: "That's because you don't often take your children back! The children don't know where their ancestral home is or what their hometown looks like."
"If they don't know, they don't know."
Cheng Tianyuan answered: "They grew up in the imperial capital and have lived in the bustling center of the imperial capital since they can remember.
In their hearts, they consider the imperial capital to be their hometown.
Mom, they don’t even recognize Chengjia Village, so why do you have to force them?”
"wrong!"
Liu Ying taught him a lesson: "Their roots are in their hometown. They are descended from Chengjia Village! You should teach them to recognize their hometown and take them to worship their ancestors from time to time."
Cheng Tianyuan sighed softly and whispered: "The Imperial Capital and Rongcheng are too far away. Every time I go back to worship during the Qingming Festival and Double Ninth Festival, the children either have to go to school or go to work, and there is no way I can go back and forth in a day.
You are too old to travel by plane.
Lingling was too busy, so she went and came back in a hurry several times, as if she was rushing for something.
You are in the Imperial Capital, and the children are also in the Imperial Capital. We can't all run away, so we can only stay here.
I am always alone when I run around. I know fewer and fewer people in the village. The elders of the older generation have passed away one after another. Most of my peers have gone out. I hardly recognize any of the young people.
As I kept going, I found it too boring."
"So you just stopped going!"
Liu Ying was still angry: "If you don't go alone, you won't let the children go either!"
Cheng Tianyuan shook his head helplessly: "I don't want to go myself, how can I lead several children back."
Liu Ying scolded: "I have been angry about this! We moved away, and then left like this?
No way! I don’t want it in my hometown?
Will you really never go back again?
When I die, I will be buried back in Chengjia Village.
Is it possible that you and the children won’t pay homage to me and your damn father in the future?”
"mom!"
Cheng Tianyuan frowned and whispered: "Don't talk nonsense, this matter is still far away, there is no rush to arrange it."