Fu Gang's eyes darted around. His family wanted to buy a house in the county town, but they were still short half the money.
If my younger brother could help me out a bit, the house problem would be perfectly solved!
Moreover, if his wife knew he had brought back so much money, she would definitely treat him more politely. Thinking about how his status at home would rise several levels in the future, Fu Gang was so excited that he couldn't contain himself.
Old Mrs. Wang was a shrewd woman; she could tell at a glance that Fu Gang had fallen for her.
She deliberately didn't tell Fu Gang about Fu Shi's ruthlessness towards his family and how he almost killed Fu Jian last time, because she was afraid he would back down.
“Yes, Gang, my dear grandson, go and have a good talk with Shi. We don’t ask for anything else, we just want the family to be able to sit down and have a proper meal together.”
How long has it been since she's had a proper meal? Ever since Wang Zhaodi was sent back to her parents' home, their meals have gotten worse every day.
As for the meager earnings of Fu Lao Er, they weren't even enough to buy flour for his family!
Now that Wang Zhaodi has returned, she has started to slack off. She goes out all day and doesn't come back until mealtime, making the wild vegetable dumplings taste strange, which Grandma Wang can't eat at all!
Noticing her mother-in-law's gaze on her, Wang Zhaodi couldn't help but shrink back.
What happened? Did they find out that you made wild vegetable dumplings with cow dung on them and fed them to Fu Lao Er and Wang Lao Tai?
That shouldn't be happening!
Fu Gang feigned righteous indignation, cleared his throat, and said, "Then I'll go talk to the third brother now. As a member of the family, how can he just think about his own happiness?"
"That's right, he's reached the age to get married. If he doesn't come back, who will arrange it for him? Gangzi, you're close to him, remember to give him some advice!"
Old Mrs. Wang gave him a lecture, adding fuel to the fire, while Fu Lao Er silently continued smoking his pipe.
Wang Zhaodi sat there picking at her fingers. Hehe, so naive. That little brat Fu Shi is now learning from Boss Fu. If Fu Gang goes there, he'll definitely not get away with it!
After dinner, Fu Wan took the children back to their new house to sleep.
When she returned, she didn't forget to fill a bowl with rice for Wangcai.
Thinking about how fish farming had started smoothly and the cannery was thriving, Fu Wan was still thinking before going to sleep, "Hmm, I need to quickly implement my plan to start my own snack factory."
Although canned fish is delicious, it's a bit salty if you don't eat it with rice.
Once she has some free time, she needs to get people to research and produce fish cakes, shrimp cakes, spicy fish and squid tentacles, and all sorts of other snacks.
These snacks must be expensive to produce, but what she's making are high-end snacks.
Comrade Qian from the cannery is a talented person; I need to put more pressure on him.
Thinking this, Fu Wan slowly drifted off to sleep.
At the same time, Fu Shi was about to go to bed when he heard a dog barking at the door.
Immediately afterwards, there was a knocking sound on the door.
"Ah Shi, Ah Shi? Open the door!"
It's so late, who would come looking for me?
Fu Shi frowned, turned around and picked up the wood-chopping knife next to him.
He remembered that Boss Fu had no plans to go out to sea these past two days, and Fu San wouldn't be contacting him so late.
Moreover, the knocking on the door was very impatient, so Fu Shi couldn't help but tighten his grip on the wood-chopping knife in his hand.
Who is it?
"I am your second brother!"
Second brother?
Fu Shi didn't react in time, but still opened the door a crack.
Fu Gang's face squeezed through the crack in the door, but when he saw the sharp wood-chopping knife in Fu Shi's hand, he couldn't help but take a step back.
The third child seems to have changed quite a bit!
He would never have dared to point a machete at anyone before.
Seeing that Fu Gang was alone, Fu Shi opened the door.
His face showed no sign of a long-awaited reunion. After pulling the light cord on the wall, Fu Shi asked coldly, "What are you doing here?"
"Hey, what are you saying? Can't I just come to see you?"
As soon as Fu Gang entered the room, he habitually put on his older brother's airs, "A Shi, how come you've become so heartless? I finally came to see you, and you won't even pour me a cup of tea?"
"Hehe, Second Brother, that's enough. You say you're coming to see me? Do you even believe that yourself?"
When Fu Shi was young, Fu Gang swindled him out of a lot of his secret savings. That money was earned through hard work by going out to sea, and Fu Shi still hasn't paid him back.
They said they came to see him, but they came empty-handed and immediately started questioning him. Do they really think he's still the same fool he was a few years ago?
Fu Gang was speechless for a moment, and after a long while, he could only find a stool and sit down.
Fu Shi took the wood-chopping knife and sharpened it on a nearby stone. For some reason, he felt that the knife was somewhat rusty.
However, the sound of the knife being sharpened made Fu Gang feel uneasy.
Why did he feel that there was a hidden murderous intent in that voice?
"Ahem, Ah Shi, how have you been lately?"
After a long while, Fu Gang finally came up with an excuse to start a conversation, but Fu Shitou didn't even look up.
"very good."
Fu Gang was speechless for a moment, and just as he was about to say something, he raised the knife in his hand.
"Second brother, just tell me directly, what do you want from me?"
"Borrow...borrow money."
With the broadsword in front of him, Fu Gang really couldn't bring himself to tell the lie that he had come to visit him.
Upon hearing this, Fu Shi suddenly laughed. Fu Gang was different from Fu Jian. Fu Jian was both stupid and wicked, but Fu Gang was very good at understanding the times.
"I have no money, but you can take my life. It's getting late, Second Brother, you'd better hurry up and leave!"
Want to borrow money? You're dreaming!
After Fu Shi finished speaking, he got up to see Fu Gang out.
Fu Gang didn't expect him to refuse so directly, and in his anxiety, he blurted out what was on his mind.
"Fu Shi, how did you become so heartless? You haven't even made a fortune yet and you're already abandoning your brothers and parents?"
Fu Shi looked up at him, then remained silent for a moment.
After a while, he laughed strangely again.
"Fu Gang, don't you remember you borrowed money from me and haven't paid it back?"
"Bullshit, when did I borrow yours..."
Fu Gang instinctively retorted, but then a scene from the past flashed through his mind, and he fell silent again.
Seeing his reaction, Fu Shi knew that he had remembered.
"So I won't ask you to pay me back, and you shouldn't come here to bother me."
"How dare you say I don't want my parents and siblings?"
"When they kicked me out of that family, they signed a letter of severance. If they really want me to support them in their old age, fine, you can discuss it and decide how much you and Fu Jian will contribute, and I will contribute the same amount."
"Don't come looking for me. Don't think I'm still the easy-to-bully talisman I used to be. If you really push me too far, I'm capable of sending you all to meet the King of Hell!"
Fu Shi waved the wood-chopping knife in his hand. Ever since he was thrown out of that family, he had become familiar with the old hands at the docks after recovering from his injuries.
When you see a person, act like a human; when you see a ghost, act like a ghost.
He didn't need to be so easy to talk to people like Fu Lao Er and Fu Gang; he only reserved his humanity for those who were good to him.
Faced with such an unfamiliar rune stone, Fu Gang was genuinely a little scared, especially since it was so late at night. All he could say was, "You just wait!"
Then he turned and fled without looking back.
Good heavens, who cares about money? Fu Shi is more terrifying than the underworld now, how could he dare to ask this person for money?!
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