Chen Pan's previous life was happy for the first fourteen years. Although she had no parents, her grandparents gave her abundant care and love.
But the next fifteen years were spent almos...
Chapter 28 If I say that no matter what I did just now...
Just as Li Chengcai was observing the fourteen-year-old Chen Pan through the car window, Chen Aiguo, who had finished all his work, also walked over slowly with his hands behind his back.
As soon as he saw the car in the distance, he was startled and immediately quickened his pace reflexively.
As he approached quickly, Li Chengcai, who was sitting in the back of the Santana, also noticed him hurriedly coming after being reminded by the driver in front.
"Brother Shan, please go down and open the door for me. I have something to say to him!"
Feeling excited and stimulated, Li Chengcai even spoke in an unusually gentle and polite manner. Hearing his voice and tone, Li Ashan in front of him quickly developed goose bumps on his arms and shoulders.
But no matter what his physical reaction was, after hearing Li Chengcai's words, he quickly got out of the car to stop the person: "Third Uncle, long time no see——"
Chen Pan has lived on the roadside for a long time and is used to seeing vehicles coming and going outside, so he didn't notice the cars outside for a while.
But at this moment, after hearing the faint sound of conversation outside, she reacted quickly.
After standing up and quickly tying up his half-dry hair, Chen Pan quickly opened the door and walked towards the three people talking outside without hesitation.
"Uncle San, please don't be so polite. Please accept my things. If you three hadn't been outside that day, I would have fallen to my death and no one would have known. It was because of you that my family received the news first, and my father helped me contact an ambulance immediately.
I've been wanting to thank you for a long time, but I was hospitalized for treatment, and by the time I got out, you'd all left the village. It's a rare opportunity for you to come back today, and a rare opportunity for me to actually run into you. These gifts aren't specially prepared by me, but they were given to my father by someone else. They're not particularly bad, and they barely represent my appreciation. Please accept them quickly."
As soon as Chen Pan went out, he heard someone say this in the car. He looked closely and saw that the person who spoke was Li Chengcai, who was wearing a neck brace and his arms and chest seemed to be fixed.
While the other person was speaking, Li Ashan, who often followed him, was carrying two cartons of Maotai and several expensive gift boxes, and quickly handed them to his grandfather.
"No, no, what we did that day was what any normal person would do. As long as you're okay, that's all that matters. As for the gifts, I really can't accept them without merit."
Chen Aiguo, who was stopped as he approached, quickly glanced at his granddaughter who was walking towards him quickly, then smiled and immediately pushed away the things in his hands. Although he didn't know what the other party was planning, Chen Aiguo was not ignorant. His subconscious reaction at this moment was to smile and reject everything the other party said.
"How can you say you don't deserve a reward without doing anything? Grandma Chen and Panpan were the first to come and look after me when I got into trouble. I still remember how Panpan and Grandma turned pale when they saw me in trouble. When I was in the hospital, I kept thinking about apologizing to you and thanking you."
Li Chengcai is smart. He looks at Chen Aiguo's cautious look, and then looks at Chen Panpan's vigilant expression.
He remembered the two things his family had done to the Chen family before, and immediately slapped his head with his good hand and pretended to say, "By the way, besides apologizing for scaring Sister Panpan and Third Grandma that day, I also want to apologize to you for my father's misunderstanding. During that time in the ward, I kept talking about your family, and my original intention was to ask my father to thank you on my behalf. But my father didn't hear the whole thing and misunderstood. He thought that you were responsible for my accident, and instead told the people in the factory not to sell you cement. I'm really sorry."
“…”
He had no idea how things had turned out like this. Even though Chen Aiguo could be considered eloquent, he was speechless at this moment.
Glancing at his bewildered grandfather and Li Ashan, who was expressionless and carrying something in his hands, Chen Pan reacted and said without hesitation, "No, many people in the village later said that if my grandmother hadn't been standing there, maybe you wouldn't have been so nervous and the accident wouldn't have happened. Everyone thought so, and I thought you and your family thought the same thing."
“Of course not!”
Unexpectedly, the little girl spoke so bluntly. Li Chengcai, sitting in the car, had a slightly distorted expression. But he quickly adjusted himself and continued with a heartfelt voice, "If you hadn't stood there and shielded me that day, I might have fallen into the spring and broken my neck or drowned."
That day, Li Chengcai had indeed strayed too far and failed to stop. If the old woman from the Chen family hadn't suddenly appeared at the scene, he might have crashed headfirst into the stone fence surrounding the spring. He would have either been injured on the shore, or he would have broken through the fence and fallen directly into the half-meter-deep spring enclosed by the village. If he hadn't gotten up immediately, and no one had discovered him immediately, he might have drowned or frozen to death.
But at the same time, if Chen Pan had not used the brick to scare him, if he had directly bumped into the fat old woman who was obviously over 130 pounds to cushion the impact, he might not be as miserable and unlucky as he is now.
Although his mind was in turmoil, Li Chengcai still looked apologetic and grateful.
Chen Pan's family lived on the outskirts of the village, while the Li family lived on the innermost. The Li family had been wealthy for a long time. More than a decade ago, Li Chengcai's father built a factory in the village, and the following year they built the only three-story house in the village. With toilets and faucets installed, their family established a unique and transcendent presence in the village.
Some people subconsciously try to build good relationships with such families and quickly get close to them.
Some people understand the gap between the two families and will never take the initiative to approach them.
For example, Chen Pan's family, where Chen Aiguo had lost his only son, was certain he would not work in their factory. Therefore, his relationship with them was very distant. He never tried to curry favor with them, nor did he take the initiative to approach them to talk. He would only politely keep a distance.
In short, although Chen Pan's family and Li Chengcai's family are in the same village.
But the relationship between the two families is not deep. They just know each other and would only nod politely when they meet occasionally.
Therefore, Chen Aiguo and Chen Pan don’t know much about Li Chengcai’s true character.
All the things they heard about the other party's arrogance and seemingly bad character were from other people in the village.
But no matter what, whenever the other party returned to the village, he would drive his motorcycle around the village at full speed, which was witnessed by everyone.
It was also a reality that he almost hit Grandma Chen while driving his car that day.
At this moment, no matter whether he really didn't remember Chen Pan's brick, or he didn't notice Chen Pan's brick at all in that situation, or he didn't care about Chen Pan's brick or he was just pretending.
Anyway, no matter what he said, he asked someone to bring out the four bottles of Moutai and the boxes of health products that looked very expensive, but neither Chen Pan nor his grandfather wanted them.
Later, the two of them used the excuse of catching a bus and quickly ran home.
A minute later, Grandpa Chen Pan was carrying two bags of flour, and Chen Pan was holding a bag of flour, and they both went out quickly again.
After putting down the three cloth bags, Grandpa Chen Pan returned home and quickly took out another flour bag, and a big bundle came out.
After leaving this time, he quickly locked the door. As he left, he nodded quickly to Li Chengcai, who had been sitting in the back of the Santana, and Li Ashan, who had been standing with his belongings. "Chengcai, Ashan, you two can go back. We're leaving too. Regarding what happened before, that was what we should have done. Don't do it again. My family never claims any great favors, but we also never blindly suffer without resistance. We do everything with a clear conscience and without regrets to the world."
I always feel that the other party's behavior today is very abnormal, like a weasel wanting to pay New Year's greetings to a chicken.
Before leaving, Chen Aiguo couldn't help but say a few more words.
The Li family is a powerful family, and it is indeed instinctive for them to temporarily avoid it after something like that happened.
But everyone has a bottom line and a reverse scale. If something really happens, he will not really retreat.
After implicitly expressing his intention, Chen Aiguo quickly went to the intersection ahead to wait for the bus, carrying the bag of flour and a large bag of things prepared by his granddaughter.
"snort!"
Li Chengcai, who was injured and could not move his neck or body much, naturally understood what the other party meant.
If the grandfather and grandson's rejection of him no matter what he said just now could be considered as raising Li Chengcai's anger level from 50 to 90, then Chen Aiguo's final sarcastic words just now ignited his anger to 200%.
He stared motionlessly at the two people standing diagonally in front of him. Even though a large truck loaded with goods was coming from behind, Li Chengcai did not ask Li Ashan, who had gotten back into the car, to restart it.
The large trucks currently driving on their village road are actually almost all transporting cement from the Li family cement factory.
Similarly, in their entire Qingshui Village, and even in the entire Chenjia Town, the only family that drives a Santana worth 200,000 yuan is the Li family.
At this moment, after seeing the cars stuck in traffic in front, the truck behind them naturally and cautiously stopped a hundred meters behind them.
The driver behind did not honk the horn to urge us, nor did he get off the bus to ask or explain the situation. He just watched from a distance and waited.
Li Chengcai and Li Ashan in front were also staring motionlessly at Chen Aiguo and his grandson in front of them.
Time passed by minute by minute. About four minutes later, the bus from Chenjia Town to Longcheng, which was passing by their village, slowly came down.
Li Chengcai whispered something to the people around him, and then their black car passed the large bus in front and drove away quickly.
"Holy crap, that's Li Decheng's car up ahead, right?"
"Of course it is. Who in our area drives a car like this?"
"Yeah, I heard that with the money I spent on this car, I could buy three two-bedroom apartments of 70 or 80 square meters in the city!"
"Is it really that exaggerated?"
"Why not? I heard this car costs over 200,000 yuan."
"Oh, no, is his car broken down? Why is he blocking us?"
Chen Pan and Chen Aiguo quickly got on the bus and started buying tickets.
No matter how people around them discussed it, they didn't pay attention at first.
But after hearing everyone's last sentence, the two people who habitually sat in the back of the car were startled and immediately looked up at the same time.