Chapter 79 Chapter 79 The old woman is being rude to the young man...
Wu Jianguo once saw such a joke when he was browsing a certain audio platform:
A man saw a bowl in an antique market and asked the owner: How much is it?
The boss said: Thirty thousand.
The man asked tentatively, how about two thousand?
The boss readily said yes.
The man's first move was not effective on cotton, so he asked if two hundred would be enough.
The boss readily said yes.
The man became even more annoyed, and made up his mind to ask if twenty more would work.
He felt that he had chopped down a dragon-slaying sword, and even prepared himself for a scolding from his boss, but he didn't expect -
The boss just thought about it for a moment and agreed readily.
Buyer: ...
The uncomfortable feeling reached its peak at this moment.
He felt like he was being treated like a fool, and angrily threw the bowl onto the stall and refused to buy anything.
The bowl fell to the ground and broke.
The buyer didn't care and just took out twenty yuan and gave it to the boss.
The boss paused, then said in a firm tone that this bowl was an antique, worth 20,000 yuan, and he asked for compensation!
When he saw this joke at that time, he just smiled and moved on. Now this joke flashed in his mind again, as if God was hinting at something.
yes! His dressing-case was broken into pieces, and he just asked for the price. He was the one who broke the things, so it is only right that he should compensate!
He said that he was the chosen one and God was trying every means to make him rich!
Wu Jianguo laughed proudly in his heart, then grabbed Zhang Meijuan by the collar, his face full of anger: "Pay me compensation! You broke my family's heirloom makeup box, you must pay me - twenty dollars!"
He felt that this condition was already very generous - in later times, if you broke a broken bowl that was definitely a fake on an antique street, you could ask someone for 30,000 yuan, but his box was at least a good box with complete carvings.
As long as he pays twenty dollars, he is like a great philanthropist reincarnated for ten lifetimes!
Wu Jianguo is proud.
But Zhang Meijuan couldn't accept it at all. She jumped up suddenly as if she was burned by fire: "Twenty yuan? Are you trying to rob me?"
"No, that won't work. Robbery is against the law." The smug Wu Jianguo couldn't help but say what was in his mind.
Zhang Meijuan: …
Wu Jianguo: …
The two looked at each other.
Zhang Meijuan screamed like a kettle spirit: "So you are trying to extort money from me, right? You think I don't know the value of this thing. This thing is worth at most 30 cents. You want 20 yuan from me, are you planning to save it to buy a coffin for yourself?"
Wu Jianguo was furious. It was inevitable that a person who had died once and traveled through time again would be superstitious. He did not care that he had just decided to "cultivate his character" on the earth ten minutes ago, and he just slapped him in the face.
"How dare you curse me? This is outrageous. You smashed my things and you're still so arrogant! I'm telling you, this matter today can't be resolved without fifty dollars!"
forty!
Song Guogang, who had been standing far away pretending to be dead, could no longer pretend. He stepped forward and said, "You are going too far. My wife clearly told me that this is just an ordinary box. Why do you want twenty yuan? Twenty is not enough. Now you have doubled it!"
Wu Jianguo curled his lips in his heart: Of course he knows this thing is a fake, if it was real he would only ask for a mere twenty dollars? He is not a fool!
He took a look at Song Guogang's dusty face and patched clothes from the long journey, and recalled their obvious foreign accents. He confirmed that they were people he could not afford to offend, and his attitude became even more arrogant.
"My box, why should I listen to your wife? I tell you, this is my family heirloom. It's already very generous of you to give me only twenty!" He was very tough and confident - he felt that this was an opportunity for him to make a fortune sent by God, and if he refused it without knowing what was good for him, he would be struck by lightning!
Song Guogang was also furious - what was this? They hadn't even entered the Dongfeng Brigade yet, and they were beaten up for no reason on the road. Now they were bruised and swollen and in pain all over their bodies. Now they met this even more ruthless guy who dared to extort forty yuan from them!
If they had money, would they come here from so far away?
It would be better to just beat him up!
He shouted angrily and rolled up his sleeves threateningly: "Don't go too far!"
How could Wu Jianguo be the kind of person who would admit defeat?
He also widened his eyes and roared even louder than him: "Who is going too far? You broke my stuff and you should pay for it. It's only right!!"
The atmosphere between the two was so tense that it seemed like it would explode at the slightest spark.
Mrs. Sun happened to be out with her eldest daughter-in-law, Chen Guifen, looking for someone.
She watched Wu Jianguo come out with the wooden box, and thought that she had listened to her and was willing to sell the things. She was proud of herself for scolding him so well that her sword was still sharp, but then she changed her mind - that's not right!
How can this damn guy Wu Jianguo be an obedient person? What if he just took the box out for a walk and then tricked her, an old woman, by saying that the scrap yard wouldn't accept it - or worse, instead of returning the items, he bought two broken pots and jars?
This damn spendthrift girl actually dared to spend one dollar to buy a broken box. How much money does their family have to allow her to cause such trouble!
Now that Zhao Sanzhu is in jail, she has lost a big guy who can take advantage of her!
Talking about Zhao Sanzhu being arrested, she just felt particularly sad that she had lost a purse, but she didn't feel much reluctance towards this person.
After all, she was a beauty in the Dongfeng Brigade when she was young, and the boys who liked her were like - how does the saying go, carp crossing the river!
The most important thing is that she gave birth to three boys in a row - although the middle one was Zhao Sanzhu's son, none of them had the surname Zhao. They were a blood family, so there was no difference!
There are three boys. Which man wouldn’t be envious?
Even if he was not interested in her, he would not treat her too badly considering that she was raising three boys alone.
Grandma Sun is a selfish person to begin with. She has become even more outrageous as a result. She thinks everything else matters to her and all men are only worthy of being used by her!
Having been with Zhao Sanzhu for so long, maybe she had some feelings for him at the beginning - after all, when he was young, Zhao Sanzhu was the village party secretary, so it was not an exaggeration to praise him as a young and promising man. The aura of his status plus the stimulating relationship between uncle and sister-in-law made it understandable that Sun Xiaohua couldn't control herself for a while.
——All men in the world can make mistakes, so why can’t women?
She is very confident!
But after so many years, even the deepest feelings will fade, not to mention that Zhao Sanzhu seems to have been fed with pig grass mixed with over-pickled sauerkraut (which causes hair loss if eaten too much) over the years. Not only does his face full of wrinkles look more and more like the black pigs in the pen, but the most concerning thing is his head, the hair has fallen out like a duck egg, and a bald mosquito would split its legs if it stood on it. In an attempt to cover up his mistake, he used the only remaining hair to make a "Z" shape. He really looks like a turtle without a shell, just pretending!
I don't know what went wrong with me some time ago, but I came to see her in the middle of the night. It really proves the saying that if a middle-aged couple kisses, you will have nightmares for several nights!
What's more, they are not husband and wife.
Moreover, in recent years, Zhao Sanzhu has been playing more and more extravagantly, giving her the feeling that he is so cruel that he would even rub against roadside telephone poles, thinking that he doesn't mind being dirty!
But Zhao Sanzhu was the village party secretary after all, and he could give her some money every now and then. It was not easy for her to break up with him directly. She felt that she had been eating shit to make money all these years! Who understands her suffering!
She deserves this money!
So when Zhao Sanzhu went in, she actually breathed a sigh of relief, finally she didn't have to deal with this old guy anymore.
Not to mention that Zhao Sanzhu was imprisoned for having homosexual relations.
Oh my God! Random gay relationships!
No one in the surrounding area has ever heard of such a thing. It's such a shameful thing that has never happened before!
She even wished she and Zhao Sanzhu could cut off the Chu-Han River boundary from now on and pretend that she didn't know this man!
Doesn’t Sun Xiaohua want fame?
She considers herself to be a shrewd old lady.
However, Zhao Sanzhu's downfall did have an impact on her family. At the very least, it lost a major source of funding, so they had to save more!
No, she had to watch Wu Jianguo sell the box with her own eyes. It cost one dollar!
She put on her shoes and rushed out to kill. In order to warn her daughter-in-law, she also brought Chen Guifen with her - look, I am still the head of this family, don't try any tricks, it's useless!
Fortunately, the eldest daughter-in-law is obedient.
As he walked along the road, he saw his annoying young wife grabbing a stranger's collar and starting a quarrel.
He was grabbing a woman by the collar, his head facing another man, his eyes as wide as bullfrogs, and it looked like a war was about to break out.
This troublemaker can't live without stirring up trouble every day!
Old troublemaker Mrs. Sun evaluated in her heart with a condescending attitude.
Wu Jianguo's eyes suddenly lit up, as if he had seen reinforcements from his own side arrive on the battlefield: "Mom! Mom, come here quickly!"
Mrs. Sun paused in her tracks - what bad idea was this person up to again? He hadn't called her mother for at least half a month, and now he was suddenly so affectionate with her. Probably something had happened to him.
She was secretly alert, but also somewhat complacent: "Now that I know to call you mom, I tell you, it's not impossible to help you, but you must give me that one dollar makeup box..."
"Mom!" Wu Jianguo suddenly raised his voice and interrupted, "This man broke our heirloom box and he refused to pay for it!"
Grandma Sun was puzzled: "Where can we find that..."
Wu Jianguo interrupted abruptly: "You gave it to me when I first came in, saying it was your family heirloom. Now it's in my hands. I was just about to go to the commune to get it painted when it was dropped!"
He blinked fiercely at Grandma Sun.
Mrs. Sun also saw the makeup box broken into two pieces on the ground, and she suddenly came to her senses.
"Yes! This is my family heirloom, you must compensate me--" She paused, unable to guess the price offered by this little bitch, and hesitated for a moment.
"This box is worth twenty! They called me names and insulted my dignity, so they should pay me twenty, so the total is forty!"
Wu Jianguo shouted angrily
Be good.
Mrs. Sun smacked her lips: This little bitch really dares to ask for a price. For such a broken box, she has to pay forty yuan for just one curse. She really is worthy of being an educated youth from the city. She is really a black-hearted person.
——Then he roared even more fiercely and confidently: "Pay me money! Fifty dollars, not a cent less!"
Oh my god, she added another ten dollars.
"My good box, this is what my mother-in-law gave me, it's a family heirloom of my Zhao family! My good daughter-in-law, I must compensate you for scolding me like this!!"
She followed suit and started shouting.
Song Guogang thought that an elder who could control the little shrew had come, but he didn't expect that an old shrew who was even more powerful than the little shrew had come, and he felt dizzy on the spot.
He was so angry that he was shaking all over: "You...you, you are really unreasonable peasants!"
He spread his hands and shouted desperately: "Anyway, I don't have a penny, so I can't pay! I don't have money, but I have my life!"
Grandma Sun's eyes bulged out: "You have no money, why are you so arrogant even though you have no money?"
"I don't believe it. Eldest wife and third wife, search for me!" She waved her hand as if she was commanding thousands of troops.
Wu Jianguo had been unable to bear this man any longer and pounced on him fiercely. He had become quite skilled in fighting after daily encounters during this period - he first kicked Wu Jianguo in the chest with a skilled move, causing him to bend over in pain and lose his fighting ability. He then turned around and moved behind him, grabbing Song Guogang's hands tightly like a lock.
The strength of this body was about the same as when he was a man in his previous life. Plus, he knew a few fighting skills, so he could subdue the person in no time.
Mrs. Sun cooperated well and started searching by stretching out her hand.
As soon as Song Guo came back to his senses from the severe pain, he saw Mrs. Sun with an old face as pale as an orange peel, touching him all over. He screamed on the spot.
"Help! It's just my life! This old woman is being a hooligan! Zhang Meijuan, what are you still standing there for? Come and help me!"
Zhang Meijuan woke up as if from a dream and was about to rush over when she was held down by Chen Guifen.
Although the two are about the same age, Chen Guifen has been doing farm work all year round after all. She can carry two buckets of water and walk briskly, while Zhang Meijuan, a city dweller who is exhausted from doing housework, can still do it with ease.
Thinking of the meat and vegetables that fifty yuan could buy, Chen Guifen's eyes were full of enthusiasm: "Mom, now that you've searched that man, search this woman too!"
Song Jiabao had already been frightened out of his wits during the last fight. Now, looking at this vicious family of shrews who were beating his parents, he trembled in fear and hid away with his head in his hands.
Mrs. Sun found five yuan and thirty-one cents from them, then looked at the patched coarse cloth on their clothes and curled her lips.
"You call us peasants, and I thought you were so capable, but you only get so little money."
But it was a return on investment. Mrs. Sun stuffed the money into her pocket contentedly. Just as she was about to tell her daughters-in-law to call it a day, she saw the belt on Song Guogang's waist.
belt!
It just so happens that her second son is coming back soon, and she wants to prepare a gift for him. Shouldn't she be given some extra money as a tribute?
She reached out and grabbed her belt.
Song Guogang thought that he, a grown man, was going to be killed by this old shrew, and he screamed miserably with fear.
Mother Sun slapped him and said, "Why are you yelling when you pick up the belt to pay off the debt? It's so noisy!"
Chen Guifen learned it.
She looked Zhang Meijuan up and down, and imitated her by taking off her coat and shoes.
Zhang Meijuan hugged her arms and screamed, "You are going too far. You are bullying us outsiders, right? When I find my girl Song Ruan, I will definitely not let you go! My girl is pretty, and any two young men who are pursuing her can avenge us!"
What kind of people are these in this village? ! !
"I don't care whether you are soft or hard, your daughter is Song Jiang and it is only natural for her to pay back the debt she owes...Song Ruan?"
Mrs. Sun paused.
Song Guogang thought the threat was effective, and he also shouted: "Yes, my daughter is Song Ruan."
Grandma Sun and the others remembered how Song Ruan killed the wild boar with one punch and ran away with the pig on his back easily, so they looked at each other and stopped.
"Your daughter is Song Ruan, you can't be unreasonable!"
Chen Guifen looked fierce but was actually timid. She looked at Grandma Sun with some fear: "What should we do, mother? They are Song Ruan's parents!"
Song Guogang thought he had found a backer, and he shouted even more fiercely: "Just wait, we came here specifically to see Song Ruan. If she knows that we have been wronged, she will definitely help us vent our anger."
Mrs. Sun was also a little frightened, but after she looked the group of people up and down, she felt a little relieved.
The couple said they were here to see their daughter, but they didn't bring anything with them and didn't have much money on them. It didn't look like they were here because they were worried about their daughter. Instead, it looked like they were here to get something for free - she was very familiar with this kind of thing!
After her man left, she got a lot of things with this trick - they were all foxes with a history of thousands of years, so it seemed like everyone knew these tricks.
The daughter has just arrived in the countryside, and the parents have the nerve to ask for money - it's obvious that they don't take their daughter seriously!
In this situation, only a girl who has been brainwashed to the point of being stupid could be truly devoted to her parents. But seeing Song Ruan's shameless attitude of not wanting to suffer any loss and daring to extort three eggs from her just after arriving in the countryside, she didn't believe that Song Ruan was so stupid!
But they are a family after all. Mrs. Sun comforted herself several times in her heart, but she still felt a little guilty - what if Song Ruan, who doesn't play by the rules, suddenly has a brain attack and thinks that they are a family and it doesn't matter how hard they try, and really stands up for them?
She let them go for now!
Seeing that there was no one on the village road, she quickly called out to her daughters-in-law: "Hurry up, hurry up. Since there is no one here, just say we have never been here."
Wu Jianguo and Chen Guifen also knew how powerful Song Ruan was, so they quickly ran away.
"Yes, yes, we have never been here."
At Song Ruan's home in the Dongfeng Brigade, Han Zhenzhen didn't hear any noise from next door for a long time. She reluctantly sat up straight and started studying again.
"Why did their house become quiet so quickly today?" She murmured with some regret. Usually, even if they stopped quarreling for a while, Grandma Sun would scold them from time to time. Ye Xiang usually would endure it for a few words and then stop, and a new round of war would start again.
Today seems to have come to an abrupt end.
Jinhua, who had dug out a roe deer from the cellar in the backyard to have her lunch, came in leisurely from the door, lay down beside the kang, and began to lick it with her paws.
As the beard moved, Han Zhenzhen's eyelids trembled and her breathing became rapid.
She subconsciously grabbed Song Ruan's arm, and before she could speak, she heard a knock on the door:
"Is Comrade Song Ruan at home? If you want to take the exam to become a school teacher, go and sign up now!"
Song Ruan thanked him and climbed up from the kang.
Han Zhenzhen followed closely like a little tail and climbed up.
Song Ruan's shoes were pressed under Jin Hua. She kicked and yelled, "Get out of the way. You're pressing my shoes."
Jinhua moved her butt lazily, revealing her shoes.
Han Zhenzhen's shoes were also pressed under Jinhua, but she didn't dare to kick them. She looked at Song Ruan pitifully.
So Song Ruan kicked it again: "There is another pair, lying here every day and getting in the way!"
Jinhua stood up with a dissatisfied grunt and went to the yard to bask in the sun.
Han Zhenzhen breathed a sigh of relief, but due to Jinhua's power, she didn't dare to say much. She followed Song Ruan out the door with a sly look in her eyes.
Song Ruan locked the door skillfully - after all, if she was not there, it would be scary if Jinhua sneaked out to take a walk on the village road.
"Is this Song Ruan's home?"
Not long after they left, Song Guogang, who was in a dishevel, followed the information he had finally found out. He held up his trousers and limped towards the courtyard of the separate house with Zhang Meijuan and Song Jiabao, who were also covered in dust.
"She is so carefree and has money to move out, without considering at all that her parents are suffering!" he cursed.
Song Jiabao was also very envious.
He started to tremble in front of his sister, and went up to bang on the door wildly: "Song Ruan, Song Ruan! Open the door!"
There was no sound in the room.
"Dad, that money-loser isn't here!"
He turned around and complained.
Song Guogang rolled his eyes and said, "Then let's climb in!"
Song Jiabao was stunned.
Song Guogang thought his idea was a good one. He looked at the courtyard wall and said clearly, "Now that bitch Song Ruan has her own little ideas. We can just say that we have no money. Anyway, we won't know if she hides the money!"
"Why don't we catch her off guard? Then we can go and look for the money while she's not at home. Then we can take it and she won't be able to do anything about it!"
Song Jiabao was sincerely convinced: "Dad, you are really thoughtful!"
Zhang Meijuan added: "Let's take away the quilts, clothes and other things as well!"
“Yes, yes, yes!”
The whole family was ready to fight, and the frustration that had originally been caused by the bruises and bruises on their faces had dissipated a lot.
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