"No, you...you..." He didn't know what to say.
Xie Linan said: "You don't know how difficult my family was back then. The food was divided up by you. Without my father, my family had no source of income. If the harvest had not been good that year, and if our neighbors had not lent us food out of pity, we would have starved to death.
You didn’t take more, but you didn’t help us because we were poor. So now I don’t take more, and I won’t help you because you are poor.”
"You...you really want to keep holding a grudge and disown us?"
"Yes, I won't recognize you. Don't forget, it's not that I don't recognize you, it's that you didn't recognize us first. The neighbors all know that we are pitiful and lend us food, but what about you?"
He looked at Xie Zhiguo and said, "Back then, I went to you and asked you to borrow food, but you said you had none. I clearly saw that you still had meat on the table, but you refused to lend me even a pound of food. Tell me, do you really have none, or do you think we are poor relatives and don't want to have anything to do with us?"
Xie Zhiguo felt a little ashamed.
"And you." He looked at Xie Zhili again.
"When I needed tuition money to study, I asked you to borrow some money. Do you remember how you treated me?"
"No, I was..."
"Don't talk about that time or this time. You are not rich, but you are not so poor that you can't lend that little money. My father paid for your study. You didn't pay it back because you were worried that I would not return it to you after borrowing it from you. You think I am the same as you."
He borrowed money to study and to get married. He borrowed money from his own elder brother, and he said it was a loan, but in fact he wanted it back. He never thought about paying it back, so he knew it very well.
Xie Zhili stammered and was unable to speak.
Xie Linan pushed Xie Zhiguo's hand away, closed the lid of the box, and locked it.
The two looked jealous, but did not dare to really grab it.
The stalemate lasted for a while, and no one said a word as they watched Xie Linan take the box into the house.
Finally, Xie Li said, "Uncle Xiao, Uncle San, it's all right, you can go now. We've met for the first time since the 19th, so don't get the date wrong."
The two families stared at each other in anger, and finally left swearing.
"This kid is so heartless. If I had known he would be like this, I wouldn't have let him live to this age."
"What? You dare to kill me?"
Xie Zhili: “…”
"No, I didn't say that. Brother, aren't you angry?"
"What's the point of getting angry? We broke off the relationship first."
At that time, he felt that his family belonged to the city, and that his poor nephew from the countryside would be dragged down by the lame old man and his two younger brothers for his whole life, so it was not worth making friends with him, so he gradually cut off ties with them.
But who could have imagined that this nephew was so amazing?
If he had known that he would be so successful, he would have borrowed money and rice to support him.
Forget it, what's the point of saying this now?
Fortunately, my family is okay. Although it is far from as good as Xie Linan's, it is already quite good compared to ordinary families.
Xie Zhiguo admitted it and called out to Zhang Hui, who was indignant and cursing with them.
"Okay, don't talk about this anymore. Let's go."
Xie Zhili and Li Mei were still angry and kept scolding Xie Lin An for being heartless.
Xie Linchuan didn't care about that. He asked, "How much money do you have at home? Is it enough to buy a house?"
“Not quite there yet.”
"It's been so long and you're still a little short? Dad, Mom, are you planning to keep me single forever?"
"Oh, don't worry, we are trying to find a solution."
"What can I do? I've thought about it for so long, but you still have nothing to do. I say, you are so poor, why do you want to have a son? Don't you know that if you have a son, you have to buy a house and marry a wife? If you are poor, can't you have a daughter instead of a son?"
괗그: “…”
"What am I talking about, kid?"
"Am I wrong? If not, I'll just go out and be a live-in son-in-law for someone else. It's better than being single."
"Hey, you little bastard, stop talking nonsense. We are trying to find a way to buy you a house next year."
"Humph, I'm afraid that your investment growth rate cannot keep up with the growth rate of house prices."
After saying this, Xie Linchuan ran away angrily.
괗그 looked at Xie Wen again.
"Xiao Wen, Hongxia is back. Did you play with her?"
"Um."
"What do you guys talk about?"
"You don't understand what I'm talking about in school."
"What don't you understand?" Xie Zhili said, "I'm a teacher, how can I not understand?"
"You are a primary school teacher. You went to a technical secondary school directly after graduating from junior high school. You didn't even go to high school. What do you understand?"
After saying that, he ran away angrily.
Xie Zhili and Li Mei looked at each other.
Suddenly I realized that my sons were becoming more and more disobedient as they grew up.
"It would have been better to have a girl. If the baby was a girl, I could have married her off to her brother in exchange for a dowry."
"Okay, stop talking about this and go back quickly."
They haven't slept well during this period, and now they want to go back and catch up on their sleep.
Xie Linan and his family packed up their house, bought the next flight ticket, and prepared to go back.
According to custom, after the 19th day, they would come back for the final worship and the ceremony would be completely over.
That night, after dinner, I didn't see Xie Linan.
I didn't bring my cell phone and I didn't say where I was going.
I asked the neighbors, and everyone said they hadn't seen him.
Later, it was Ye Xiaozhen who found Xie Linan at her grandfather's grave.
He was sitting in front of the grave drinking.
Ye Xiaozhen sat down next to him and whispered, "Everyone is looking for you."
"What is there to look for? I didn't bring anything with me. How can I run away?"
Ye Xiaozhen: “…”
"Alas! Grandpa doesn't want you to be like this."
Xie Linan smiled bitterly and said, "I always thought that Grandpa would tell us a lot of things before he died, but I didn't expect it to be like this. In the end, he couldn't even speak."
As he spoke, his eyes became red again.
"That's not how it's played on TV. Don't those dying people talk a lot?"
"You said it was a TV series, and that's what the plot requires."
"But...but I still have a lot to say to Grandpa, and he suddenly can't say it..."
Ye Xiaozhen hugged him and let him lean on her shoulders.
After a while, I felt my shoulders getting wet.
"You can say whatever you want to grandpa now."
Xie Linan shook his head. "I won't say it anymore. I just said it. But... he didn't respond."
I'll be scared to death if there's a response, okay?
"Let's go, it's time to go back and let Grandpa rest in peace."
The bottle in his hand was empty. He placed the empty bottle on a stone beside him, then stood up and left with Ye Xiaozhen.
On the second day, they and their family flew back to Haicheng.
Those who should go to school should go to school, and those who should go to work should go to work.
After the 19th day of the lunar year, Xie Linan followed custom and had to stay for the last ritual.
After he went back alone, Ye Xiaozhen and the others never went back.
I got a death certificate for my grandfather and divided the money in the passbook.
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