Chapter 112 Phone
Seeing that he seemed to be thinking about something, Liu Jialing smiled and said, "Besides, Gu Ci may not be willing to listen to you, and he still blames you for breaking up the couple?"
Gu Haihua loves himself the most. He sighed and said nicely, "Freedom of marriage is advocated now. I really shouldn't interfere with him too much. You go find someone to exchange the three-turn and one-ring ticket, and I'll transfer the money to him."
He also planned to write him a letter.
He thought to himself: I have to pay for the money and the ticket myself, so I won’t go.
He has to get married and start a family, and he has to stand on his own. From now on, he can forget about anything else except the 20 yuan a month.
Even if he wants it, I won't send it to him again.
Liu Jialing agreed straightforwardly this time: "Okay, I'll go to each department and ask."
She also said virtuously: "We still have a lot of biscuits and candies left over from New Year's greetings. I'll send some to him, and it will make his life a little better."
"You also promised to send him twenty dollars every month, so that his life in the country would not be difficult."
Why is she so generous this time?
It’s because he wants the girl to see that his family will send him good things, so she will naturally pester Gu Ci.
She wished that Gu Ci would get married immediately so that she could feel at ease, and now she was willing to give him some food and daily necessities for free.
Another thing is to remind Gu Haihua that the twenty yuan he promised to give him every month was already a lot, and he can't let Gu Ci go on and ask for more.
Gu Rui and Gu Xue ran in from outside carrying brand new backpacks. They saw that there were only a few pieces of braised pork left in the lunch box on the table, but there were still quite a few stir-fried vegetables left in another lunch box.
Gu Rui complained: "Mom, why don't you leave more for me?"
Liu Jialing glared at him and said, "Two pieces each is not enough. We can eat meat every now and then. Your eldest brother lives in the countryside and can only eat meat a few times a year."
Gu Haihua felt a little embarrassed at first. He was thinking about something earlier and lost count of what he was doing when he picked up his chopsticks. He even forgot to leave more for his children.
But after hearing Liu Jialing's next words, he felt somewhat dissatisfied with Gu Ci. How could he have no meat to eat after giving that ungrateful bastard so much money?
Then he thought about the fact that Gu Ci asked for four major items: a watch, a bicycle, a sewing machine and a radio, and he felt that giving him these would be letting the girl down.
Not to mention the countryside, even in a big city like Shanghai, only a small number of people can afford the "three turns and one ring" betrothal gift.
With the three turns and one bell, one can live a happy life of "moderate prosperity", which is also the highest wealth that working people can have now!
He thought that Gu Ci would call him tomorrow, so he decided to have a good talk with her and not be so stupid as to just give the girl whatever she wanted.
When Liu Jialing was young, she was ignorant and did not do a good job on the surface, so she got a bad reputation for abusing the son of Gu Haihua's deceased wife.
She was not welcomed for a while after that.
Later, she became smarter and understood his thoughts. She knew what to say in order to satisfy him and end up in a good situation for herself.
Looking at his expression now, you can tell that he is very dissatisfied with Gu Ci.
She didn't say this for the betrothal gift, but wanted him to stop sending money to Gu Ci in the future.
Twenty dollars a month, that's two hundred and forty dollars a year, which is really too much.
Especially in the future, what if Gu Ci has children and is still not satisfied and wants them to give him more money?
Everything in the Gu family was to be left to her son, and she couldn't allow Gu Haihua to be soft-hearted.
Noon on the 21st day of the first lunar month was the time Gu Cixin and Gu Haihua had agreed to call each other.
Gu Ci came here today with Chu Hong driving a ox cart.
In the morning they took some washbasins to the two villages outside and exchanged them for full carts of rice.
They simply went to the processing plant and processed all the paddy grains into rice and sent it to the enamel factory. After weighing and accounting for everything, the two went to a state-owned restaurant to eat shredded pork noodles, and then rushed to the post office to make a phone call.
Nowadays we all use old-fashioned telephones, which require transfers, which is quite troublesome.
Chu Hong had never made this kind of call before, and it was very interesting to watch.
Soon, the call was connected.
Gu Ci followed Chu Hong's instructions and said, "Dad, did you receive the letter I sent back? I'm getting married, can you come over?"
Chu Hong definitely didn’t really want Gu Ci’s biological father to come over, she was just waiting for him to refuse.
Otherwise, according to Gu Ci's opinion, he didn't even want to say polite words to invite people.
Gu Haihua was stunned.
It seemed like he hadn't heard Gu Ci speak to him so calmly for a long time.
In fact, before the Chu family encountered trouble, even if Gu Ci lived in his mother's house, he would go to visit Gu Ci and have a meal at his deceased wife's parents' house.
Even Gu Haihua himself could not deny that the two elders of the Chu family, together with his brother-in-law, helped him a lot in the beginning.
When he entered the hospital, he was taken care of by the director of internal medicine, and it was his father-in-law who helped him.
But ever since the Chu family got into trouble last year, he saw the situation was not good and did not dare to help and even distanced himself from the matter, which made his eldest son resentful of him.
Even when the father and son were talking together, they had nothing in common.
He just felt that Gu Cishu was too arrogant, and if he hadn't been prudent and protected himself, he would have definitely implicated himself.
Now hearing Gu Ci calling him, he couldn't help but sigh again: "Are you really going to get married? Do you know that once you get married, you can't come back?"
"You can drive, right? I can find a connection for you in the transport team. In a year or so, you'll have a chance to come back."
Most of the telephones nowadays have some sound leakage, and Chu Hong's ears are particularly sharp, so she heard everything Gu Haihua said.
But Chu Hong acted as if she didn't hear it and continued looking at the newspaper on the counter.
Of course, it is impossible for her to focus on the newspapers. This is also a contradiction she has experienced personally. She even doesn't let go of her own gossip.
Gu Ci also felt that his own father was a very bad person, cowardly, heartless and ungrateful, and now he wanted to break up the couple.
He immediately said, "I won't go back until I find my grandpa and the others."
Gu Haihua was almost pissed off by him: "You are such an ungrateful bastard."
Gu Ci felt that he had no self-awareness. Wasn't he the ungrateful one? "Thank you for the compliment."
Another invitation: "Can you come to my wedding?"
It doesn’t matter if the person is not there, but the money is there.
Now that he has found his grandfather and the others, he can't rely entirely on the Song family for support, right?
"The hospital is busy, and you can't leave me," Gu Haihua reminded him, "You want too many things, three turns and one ring, even in Shencheng, the girl's family usually doesn't dare to ask for it."
Chu Hong sighed in her heart: It’s indeed a bit too much. I don’t even dare to think about it myself. It’s still your own son who kills you.
"They are asking for too much. They are basically selling their daughters."
Chu Hong: I dare not say it. My family is not selling our daughter, but looking for a son-in-law.
But your silly son is only interested in cheating you out of your money.
"I can give you at most 200 yuan and a bicycle ticket."
Gu Haihua almost said: Silly boy, be careful or you might lose both your money and your life.
Chu Hong also felt that he was a kind person and couldn't bear to cheat him.
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