Chapter 33 Chapter 33 Son hits dad? Good job!
Grandma Qin was obviously from the city. She exuded a temperament that was clearly different from others. It wasn't that she was elegant and noble, but her manners when dealing with people and the tone of her voice when speaking were gentler than those of other grandmas.
Grandma Qin looked much younger than Grandpa. She had short hair that was mostly black, and the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes were not very obvious. She looked to be around sixty years old.
It seemed that Shen Miao had been staring at her for too long, and realizing that someone was watching her, Grandma Qin also turned her head to look at Shen Miao.
When their eyes met, Grandma Qin didn't recognize who she was, but she nodded politely anyway, her smiling eyes full of kindness from an elder to a younger generation.
Shen Miao, on the other hand, felt like she was caught peeking, so she pursed her lips nervously at her.
"Miaomiao? Is it Miaomiao?"
Shen Miao was just about to take a sip of water to calm down when an auntie with a big red flower on her chest hurriedly walked up to her and said, "Ah, I haven't seen you for so many years, Miao Miao has become more beautiful."
"Auntie Wang? Congratulations~"
Even though she hadn't seen him for many years, Shen Miao still recognized her at a glance. She was the mother of today's groom Zhao Quan, Wang Chuncao.
It is said that happiness nourishes people, and this is absolutely true.
I remember when I saw Aunt Wang when I was a child, she always looked timid, like a watchdog tied up at home that was often beaten. She would subconsciously lower her head when she saw people and dared not say a word. Every time I saw her, she was wearing long sleeves and long pants to cover up the bruises and swellings on her body from being beaten by her husband Zhao Jun.
Now that Zhao Jun has left home, the life of the mother and daughter has finally improved. Without those scars, the smile on Wang Chuncao's face is refreshingly rosy, and her figure seems to have become rounder.
“I haven’t seen you for several years, you have become more beautiful again!” Shen Miao stood up, took her hand and greeted her warmly.
"Oh, you're still so sweet!" After being praised by her, Wang Chuncao's smile became even more intense. "I'm already in my forties or fifties. There's no such thing as being pretty or not. I'll be ugly if I don't age."
After exchanging a few pleasantries, Wang Chuncao lowered his voice and explained his purpose. "Miaomiao, can you come in and help with this? Someone's hand is twisted. Can you help take a look at it?"
Wang Chuncao originally wanted to go find Shen Wanshan, but she felt embarrassed to go over when she saw him talking to someone. After all, it was not a decent thing, and she didn't want too many people to know about this happy day.
It just so happened that Shen Miao came along today, so she thought of asking her to help take a look. If it wasn’t serious, she would take it away and run for a while.
"middle."
Shen Miao agreed readily.
Anyway, she had nothing to do just sitting there, and the people at the same table were all children and she had nothing to talk about, so she might as well go with her.
“Who is that?” Shen Miao asked casually while following behind Wang Chuncao.
"Your brother's father."
Wang Chuncao didn't intend to hide it from her, but she didn't want to acknowledge his identity, so she only called him by this nominal title.
It is true that Zhao Jun is Zhao Quan's biological father based on blood relationship, but emotionally and logically, he cannot be considered a member of this family.
Shen Miao: ???
Didn't Zhao Jun run away with his mistress? When did he come back?!
Zhao Jun did not live in the newly built building of their family. He followed Wang Chuncao out and walked south to the old courtyard where their family used to live.
Houses in the village are not built or demolished casually. It is calculated based on the square meters per person. Each person has a certain amount of living space. If you feel that the house is not enough, you can buy a new one with money. If you feel that the house is old, you can build a new one, but the area of the old one must be offset.
Zhao Jun bought a lot of square meters for his family back then. After Wang Chuncao and Zhao Quan built a new house and moved away, the area of this old house was exactly the area of the old house he bought plus the area he got. Although it was large, it was dilapidated and he was the only one living in the house.
When I followed Wang Chuncao into the house, there were two aunts and two older uncles in the room.
Zhao Jun was lying on his side on the bed, screaming "Ouch, ouch" non-stop. There was broken glass and torn "囍" characters on the floor, and he hadn't had time to clean them up yet.
What a turn of events!
When I first met Zhao Jun, he was full of energy and looked like a typical nouveau riche. He had a beer belly and a slicked-back hair, as if he was afraid that others would not know that he had made money.
At this moment, Zhao Jun had lost a lot of weight, his back was hunched, and his clothes looked quite old. He didn't look like the powerful figure who beat his wife and abused his children.
"You're yelling in vain. Isn't it unlucky for such a good day for your wedding?!"
Wang Chuncao, who had been oppressed in the past, now became the person with the most say. She kicked the broken glass on the ground casually, as if she would grab a handful and stuff it into his mouth if he didn't obey her the next second.
Even though he was sick in bed, Zhao Jun was still stubborn and said, "Bah! I never gave birth to an ungrateful person like him!"
"That's enough," the uncle next to him said coldly, "Hurry up and let them check the extent of your injury. If it's not serious, let him rest. If it's serious, send him to the clinic. You have to make a fuss here. Aren't you ashamed if it gets out of hand?"
This person should be an elder of the Zhao family. Although he was on Zhao Jun's side, his words were full of disgust and contempt for him.
Seeing that the atmosphere was a little better, Shen Miao then walked to Zhao Jun’s bed and carefully examined his arm.
"It's a little dislocated," Shen Miao gently touched his protruding bone, "It doesn't look like he fell, was it twisted by someone?"
"It was your brother Zhao Quan who beat you." Wang Chuncao said calmly.
Shen Miao: ???
A few years ago, Zhao Jun took all the money in the family and ran away with his mistress, and no one could find him.
It is not easy for a woman to raise a child. Everyone feels sorry for Wang Chuncao.
Fortunately, with the help of the neighbors and Zhao Quan's own success, he finally managed to survive. Not only did he build a new house, he also married a beautiful new wife.
Life at home was getting better and better, but Zhao Jun came back at this time...
This happened more than half a year ago.
Zhao Jun is sick with coronary atherosclerotic heart disease, commonly known as coronary heart disease.
He fainted when he was going out and was sent to the hospital by kind passers-by. He stayed in the ICU of the hospital for several days before he was out of danger. When Zhao Jun was able to open his eyes and speak, he initially asked the hospital to contact his mistress, but it turned out that the mistress had disappeared with his money. He had no choice but to send people to Qingping Village to find Wang Chuncao.
Zhao Jun is old and has long lost the ability to make money like he did when he was young. In recent years, he has been living on the savings in his passbook. He has always been planning to go to the south to make a comeback in the future, so he has not bought a house. Now that his money has been taken away by the mistress, he is left with only his life.
The two did not get a divorce certificate at that time, so they were still husband and wife. Wang Chuncao was kind-hearted and thought that they were husband and wife after all, and there was also some space for him in the house, so she not only picked him up from the hospital, but also allowed him to continue living in the old courtyard.
If he had behaved himself and not made trouble, life could have gone on in peace, but he chose to commit suicide.
Today is Zhao Quan's wedding day. Zhao Quan had not planned to let him attend from the beginning, because he could not be considered a father at all. The elders in the family also agreed. After all, his matter was really not to be made public, so he thought that it would be enough to bring the bride alone to toast him with a glass of wine after the wedding.
But he disagreed and had been making a scene since last night, saying that he was the groom's father, so why couldn't he take the seat? He said that he had raised him for more than ten years, so why couldn't he have a hot meal?
Then this morning when the father and son had a quarrel, Zhao Jun slapped Zhao Quan in anger and wanted to pick up a stick to hit him.
Zhao Quan is now 25 or 26 years old, and he is no longer the child who was unable to fight back. So he pinned him to the ground and beat him up, even dislocating his arm...
You deserve it! You really deserve it!
Although a son who hits his father will be struck by lightning, if God has eyes and knows that Zhao Jun is such a father, he will turn a blind eye to Zhao Quan.
Crunch~!
In order to vent the anger of Brother Zhao Quan, Shen Miao took advantage of Zhao Jun’s distraction and suddenly helped him straighten the dislocated bones.
"ah!"
Zhao Jun cried out in pain, probably because he accidentally pulled a wound somewhere else on his body. His ferocious expression looked very painful.
The elders who shared the room all frowned in disgust, not wanting to have their ears dirtyed by his screaming and howling.
“Okay, it’s nothing serious, just injured the fascia, just rest for two days.” After getting up, Shen Miao also ignored Zhao Jun, and turned to Wang Chuncao and said.
"Middle, thank you!"
"Oh, it's nothing, no need to thank me~"
As he said that, Wang Chuncao called for Shen Miao and the others in the room to leave together, “Let’s go, the feast is about to start, the chef we found today is quite good, how about everyone trying it.”
Leaning on the pillow and rubbing his newly healed hand, Zhao Jun glanced towards the door, but did not dare to make a fuss about going to his son's wedding banquet.
Now that Zhao Quan is the head of the Zhao family, it's time for this father who abandoned his wife and children to experience what it's like to live under someone else's roof...
When Shen Miao came back with Wang Chuncao and the others, the first hot dish had already been served.
Four cold dishes, eight hot dishes, two soups, one salty and one sweet, and finally a large steamed bun decorated with red dates. The weddings in several nearby villages all have almost the same configuration.
The adults didn't move much at the table. They simply picked up the dishes with their chopsticks. They all knew that the main dishes like chicken and fish were coming later, so they were chatting with each other.
The two tables with children ate the fastest. They were so busy eating that only a few green and red peppers were left on the plate of pork belly that had just been served.
After sitting down, Shen Miao glanced in the direction of table number one.
That is today's main table, where only the most senior people from the bride and groom's families and their parents can sit.
Before Wang Chuncao came back, Shen Wanshan and Grandma Qin seemed to be sitting next to each other, but there was a space of half a meter between them. It was not until Wang Chuncao came back and took her seat that they moved their stools and sat closer.
Shen Miao had guessed well, Grandma Qin and Grandpa were definitely not a simple brother and sister relationship.
Although Grandpa is more than ten years older than Grandma Qin, when they sit together, they look like a couple who have been together for a long time.
Grandma Qin was still as quiet as when she first arrived. She seldom spoke, but just listened silently to the people around her talking about their children and grandchildren.
Grandpa would be more proactive. When she didn't understand, he would introduce the person who was speaking and his relationship with her family. He would also put some of her favorite dishes into her bowl.
Seeing Grandpa being so kind to Grandma Qin, Shen Miao was a little dazed:
Shen Miao's grandmother died before she was born, and there was no photo of her grandmother at home. She heard everything about her grandmother from her grandfather.
So when I see him sitting with Grandma Qin, my mind will unconsciously put her in the shoes of my own grandmother.
But she is not her grandmother.
"You are... Dongmei's daughter, Miaomiao, right?"
As I was watching, a woman next to me suddenly handed me a cup.
"right."
Shen Miao raised her cup and clinked it with hers, but she didn’t recognize who she was for a moment, “Excuse me, who are you?”
"Your mother's third sister's husband's younger sister's neighbor's sister's sister's sister," the woman smiled like a flower, and picked up a lot of cold dishes that she didn't eat from her table and put them on her plate, "Forgot? I held you when you were one month old, and you even smiled at me~"
"ah……"
No wonder Shen Miao couldn’t remember it, this memory was indeed a bit long ago…
"Hello, great."
"What big brother? You should call me like your mother does. Call me aunt."
"Oh, auntie~ hello~"
The woman said her surname was Chen and her name was Chen Xiulan. She lived in Beiguan Village.
Beiguan Village, like Nanguan Village, is an urban village in Henan City. She and Wang Dongmei had met several times when they were young, and she had come to the Shen family's clinic for treatment, so she had known her for decades.
Chen Xiulan seemed to be from a well-off family, as she had gold bracelets, gold rings, and gold earrings. She spoke without any airs of an elder. She was also coaxing a two or three-year-old baby from another family. You could tell at first glance that she was a sincere and warm-hearted person.
Shen Miao was just worried about being bored sitting at a table with the kids, but she didn't expect Chen Xiulan to also be a gossiper. After chatting for a few words, the two quickly became familiar with each other.
Shen Miao didn’t know the people present today, but after eating and chatting with Chen Xiulan, she got a clear picture of each family’s situation in a short while.
The one with a shaved head at that table was from the Yao family. Shen Miao was so happy that she called her aunt. She was cheated by a man when she was young, so she shaved her hair and her personality changed drastically. She has not found a husband yet;
The raggedly dressed man at the third table was surnamed Zhang. Although he looked old, according to seniority he should have come over and called Shen Miao "Auntie". His family was very rich in the early years, but unfortunately he later gave birth to a prodigal son who got involved in things he shouldn't have and squandered all the family's wealth.
And the table where she sat seemed to be a children's table, but in fact there was an elder of hers, the one sitting opposite her, whose nickname was Mingming. He was the son of the old man of the Li family. If the old man hadn't been too old and didn't like to move, he would have personally accompanied him here today...
With a bite of melon on the left and a bite of vegetable on the right, Shen Miao finally ate to her heart’s content today.
Who would have thought that every household has some unknown secrets!
Shen Miao and Chen Xiulan got along very well, and Chen Xiulan was also fond of Shen Miao, so she took the initiative to invite her to her home to play.
"There will be a party in my village on the 15th of next month. It will be very lively. When the time comes, call your mother and let our two families go to have fun together."
Temple fairs are divided into spring fairs and autumn fairs. The spring fair usually starts after the New Year, and the autumn fair usually starts just before winter. The time of the fair varies in each village and is determined according to the lunar calendar.
The gatherings in these villages in the east just ended last month, but I didn’t expect that the turn of the urban villages in the city would come next month.
“Hit!”
Shen Miao agreed straightforwardly.
Shen Miao's favorite pastry sold at the temple fair is a kind of pastry. She can't name it, but she knows that it is coated with a layer of egg liquid on the surface, sprinkled with sesame seeds and baked to make it crispy. The filling is soft chestnuts or purple sweet potatoes. When you bite it, it will fall apart. If you chew it carefully, you can taste melon seeds and peanut crumbs.
Mm~it smells so good!
This pastry is only available at temple fairs. She would buy two kilograms every time and then save it to eat for more than a week.
This time I go there just in time to buy some more and see the differences between the temple fairs in the urban villages and those in the villages on the outskirts of the city.
As we chatted, the sweet and salty soup was finally served on the table.
After scooping a bowl of rice wine dumplings, Shen Miao simply pulled a stool and sat next to Chen Xiulan, "By the way, aunt, do you know the grandmother surnamed Qin next to my grandfather?"
Looking in the direction indicated by Shen Miao, Chen Xiulan nodded while chewing the egg flower in her mouth, "Why don't I know him? He lived in your village before."
After looking at Shen Miao again, Chen Xiulan finally realized the meaning of her question.
"You are really good at playing dumb here, you want to ask about her relationship with you, right~"
Shen Miao laughed “hehe” twice and moved closer to Chen Xiulan, “Then tell me about it?”
Growing up with his grandfather, Shen Miao often heard stories about his grandfather's medical practice. It seemed that his grandfather had been dealing with medicinal materials all his life and had no life of his own. His parents rarely mentioned things about his grandfather when he was young.
She finally had this opportunity, so of course she wanted to listen to some gossip about her grandfather.
After finishing the egg drop soup in the bowl, Chen Xiulan picked up two slices of pear and put them to her mouth, slowly telling her about the past events she knew: "That was thirty or forty years ago, I was still a child at that time..."
According to Chen Xiulan, Grandma Qin's name was Qin He, and she was a city girl who grew up in Henan Province.
In 1958, she was supposed to be sent to the countryside to work. But her family used their connections and spent money to send her to Qinghe Village, which was the closest to Henan City.
After Qin He, an educated youth, came to Qinghe Village, she lived in their Shen family. People in the village said that Shen Wanshan was "the cowherd who met the seven fairies" and he got a wife who came to his door for free.
Because Shen Wanshan was already over 30 years old that year, he was only concerned with learning medicine from Shen Miao's great grandfather, and because of the poor family situation, he had never married.
At that time, seeing Qin He bringing meals to Shen Wanshan every day, and Shen Wanshan mending her torn clothes, everyone thought that the two of them would definitely be successful, but they didn't expect it to end in tragedy...
Reality is not a myth. A poor cowherd can never marry the fairy from heaven.
Qin He had been in the village for less than three years when her family used their connections to find a way to transfer her back to the city step by step. Shen Wanshan knew from the beginning the disparity between the two families. A country doctor could not afford to marry a city lady, so when he knew that their future was hopeless, he resolutely sent her back to the city in person and severed the relationship.
"Ah... then my grandfather would definitely not want to part with her."
After listening to Chen Xiulan's words, Shen Miao felt inexplicably sad. It was not because of the regrettable past between Grandpa and Grandma Qin, but because of her own grandma.
According to my own experience, what would develop next would be that after my grandfather lost the light in his life, in order to continue the family line, he married a woman he didn't love, gave birth to a child, and then continued to live a boring life.
Therefore, the person Grandpa loves most in this life is Grandma Qin, not his own grandma...
But Chen Xiulan patted her shoulder and interrupted her fantasy: "Silly girl, why are you reluctant about this? You didn't see your grandma pass away that year. That's what it means to be reluctant."
“Ah?” After hearing her say this, Shen Miao became interested again, “Quick, quick, tell me again, what’s going on between my grandfather and my grandmother!”
Chen Xiulan smiled slightly and deliberately kept it a secret, "Next time, when you two come to my village for the fair, I'll tell you in detail~"
Shen Miao: !!!
Wow, how can you only eat half of the melon?
My dear aunt, please tell me quickly!!!
*
After eating the wedding wine at Zhao Quan’s house, Shen Wanshan’s mood really improved a lot, and the haze that shrouded his heart finally disappeared.
To be precise, the haze had shifted to Shen Miao’s head, and she was the one who was anxious about the time passing too slowly every day, because she wanted to listen to Aunt Chen talk about grandpa and grandma’s gossip so much.
Even though my biological parents should have heard something from my grandfather, and maybe I could get something out of them, they definitely wouldn't know as much as Chen Xiulan, who loves gossip!
After waiting and waiting like this, Shen Miao finally waited until the fifteenth day of the eleventh lunar month.
After not contacting each other for many years, Wang Dongmei almost forgot about this not-so-close relationship, but since Shen Miao agreed to it, she naturally had to keep the appointment.
That day, Shen Miao and Wang Dongmei got up early and rode to the city together. You can't go to someone's house empty-handed, so you turn to the nearest farmer's market, thinking of buying some fresh fruits and dried fruits.
The city's farmers' market is crowded in the morning. In addition to the fixed storefronts and vendors inside the market, there are also many tricycles outside that come from the villages to set up stalls and sell vegetables.
After buying three kilograms of apples and two kilograms of oranges, Wang Dongmei wanted to buy some more melon seeds and peanuts. When she walked forward with Shen Miao, she saw from afar that the road leading to the dried fruit area was crowded with people.
"Oh my! My food! Pay for my food!"
"Why did you bring him out when you knew he was mentally ill? How do you act as a mother?"
"Fly, fly, take a plane~"
“I’m sorry. I’m so sorry…”
People nearby were watching the fun, not making as much noise as when they were bargaining for vegetables, and they tacitly made way for a perfect circle of space, for fear of disturbing the people in the middle.
Wang Dongmei didn't like to join in the fun and wanted to take a detour, but as soon as she turned around, she found that her daughter, who loved to eat melons all her life, was almost squeezed to the front row.
"Make way, make way, please make way, thank you..."
The fruit in Shen Miao's hand became her weapon to clear the way, and in a short while she squeezed to the innermost part.
But when she looked up and saw the man in his twenties screaming like a child, she was completely stunned as if she had been struck by lightning.
He, He Shengwei? !
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