"Get the hell out of here! Look at the door he kicked down, it's all deformed. Would you have gotten away with this if you hadn't messed with him?"
"You can't do anything right all day, but you drink every single meal, get drunk and then cause trouble. I'll teach you to drink!"
The aunt was so angry she was almost insane. She went into the house, grabbed the half-empty pot of wine the man had drunk, opened the lid, and poured it all over him.
"What are you doing? Are you crazy too?!" The man was also red-faced with anger, and kept trying to back away, but he couldn't avoid it and got splashed with wine.
That's all 60-proof sorghum liquor! It's such a waste to just throw it away like that!
"You like to drink, right? I'll let you drink your fill this time. But if you drink again, I'll shove your head into a vat of wine and drown you, you beast!"
The woman slammed the empty wine barrel to the ground with a loud crash, her chest heaving violently with anger.
The man looked down at the wine stains all over his body, feeling sullen, and plopped down on the ground.
Chen Feng, who was some distance away, turned over in a daze, and the shouting in the distance woke him up.
"What are you doing, staying up so late?"
He didn't know whose house was arguing, nor could he hear clearly. He muttered something to himself and then fell asleep again.
He never imagined that Zheng Ping would be the main character tonight.
The next day, Chen Feng didn't wake up until almost nine o'clock. After waking up, he leaned against the kang (a heated brick bed), lit a cigarette, and looked up car pictures on his phone.
He's said that Wuling comes in many different models, and he doesn't understand them either.
Today he plans to sell the goods and then buy a car and tools.
After studying it for a while, Chen Feng settled on the most classic model, the Wuling Sunshine!
He doesn't plan to buy a new one; he wants to buy a used one. First, it's cheaper, and second, he can use it however he wants without feeling bad.
Who cares about the pitfalls? Just drive it! Then put a "Mount Akina Speed King" sticker on the back of the car, and he'll be the coolest guy on the road.
However, he didn't know anything about used cars, so after thinking about it, he decided to have Huang Fei come with him, since Huang Fei at least knew a little about them.
When Liu Ping saw that Chen Feng had gotten up, she heated up the food, and Chen Feng came out to wash up and eat.
"By the way, didn't you say before that my uncle's family needed to do some work? Did they do it?" Chen Feng asked.
“I did it. Not two days after you left, he found someone to do the work. I took our shovel and went there. He said his shovels were broken and he didn’t have enough, so I took all three of ours with me,” Liu Ping replied, picking up a piece of food.
"Um, what did I make for you guys for lunch?" Chen Feng asked casually.
"Don't even mention it, it's not much better than pig swill. Your uncle is really good at making do. That pot of stew looks like he brought out all the wilted vegetables in the house."
"The workers' faces twitched from all the food they were given."
Even someone as meticulous as Liu Ping wrinkled her nose when she thought about it.
"You're worried about the money, aren't you?"
Chen Feng laughed and said that this was his uncle's consistent style, saving money wherever possible, sometimes to the point of being quite excessive.
"What about tonight? Did they make you something special after the workers left?"
Upon hearing this, Liu Ping snorted.
"Make me something special. We don't have that kind of face. Dinner is just leftovers from lunch, even worse than lunch. I'll just eat a little and say I'm full. I'll go home and cook some noodles."
Chen Feng frowned upon hearing this. "Others are workers. I understand that you might not eat well in order to save money. I'm not asking you to cook separately."
But at night, when it's just the three of you in your family, do you still do this?
Last time he came to help with the work, he added two new dishes and opened a can of food, in addition to the leftovers from lunch.
When I got here, I couldn't even get enough to eat. What kind of food is this?
Is this kind of thing even possible?
"Did you get the shovel back?" Chen Feng continued to ask.
"What are you taking? Your aunt said her shovel broke, and we don't need that many right now. She also said you haven't come back yet, so she just brought one back for me," Liu Ping said, shaking her head.
Chen Feng knew this would happen, and his expression was extremely speechless and disgusted.
"No, if you don't buy a shovel and use someone else's, how does it become yours?"
"These two are really something, I'm speechless."
He didn't know what to say.
It's not that Chen Feng is stingy; he just doesn't like borrowing things from his uncle's family.
Rather, the things he borrowed were basically never returned, as if they had become his.
You say you need two shovels, and he says he wants to use them, but you can't just chase after him and ask for them.
No way, you're really in a bind.
Chen Feng even recalled that once, Liu Ping had just bought a brand new fish plate.
Then when he got home, he let Liu Ming's wife borrow it, saying that a friend was coming over and needed it.
Liu Ping thought to herself, "If you need it, I'll lend it to you."
When it was returned a month later, a piece of the fish plate had been chipped off the tail.
Liu Ming said it was accidentally damaged, so he returned it without any intention of buying a new one. He just shamelessly returned it.
Liu Ping sighed deeply as she watched the perfectly good plate become secondhand.
If the plate you're using to hold the fish has a chip on it, how are you supposed to use it?
Even if a family isn't wealthy, they wouldn't use a plate with a missing tooth or crack; that's considered unlucky.
Although Liu Ping felt bad about it, she still threw it away in the end and secretly bought a new one without telling him, afraid that he would borrow it.
You know, if a plate costs ten or eight yuan, you can't ask your own younger brother to pay for it; you just have to accept it yourself.
There are countless similar incidents, which is why Chen Feng calls him "Uncle Diao Mao" (a derogatory term for a man who is considered unlucky).
"Well, when he brings it back, I guess he'll let you see it when there's only one or two left."
"When you go to the county town, bring back a new one," Liu Ping said, gently shaking her head.
“Okay, I’m going to the county town this afternoon to look at cars,” Chen Feng said.
"Okay." Liu Ping nodded.
After finishing their meal, Chen Feng went to Huang Fei's house. Huang Fei was also up at this time, and he was alone in the kitchen, looking at his phone with a toothpick in his mouth, with the dining table in front of him.
Clearly, everyone else had finished eating and gone back to work, so he got up to have a bite.
"Fengzi, have you eaten yet? Have a bite, but it's a bit cold."
Huang Fei saw that it was Chen Feng who had opened the door and immediately greeted him.
"Oh my god, I just finished eating too." Chen Feng sat down next to Huang Fei.
Before Chen Feng could even take out a cigarette, Huang Fei took two from the table and handed one to Chen Feng.
Upon seeing the cigarette pack, Chen Feng couldn't help but laugh.
"Oh my god, where's Yuxi?" Chen Feng said, taking the cigarette.
"Of course, we've made some money, so we can't splurge a little." Huang Fei chuckled and lit a cigarette.
"By the way, I'm thinking of buying a car to use for gold mining. I don't know much about it, so come with me this afternoon to take a look," Chen Feng said, taking a drag of his cigarette.
"Buy a car to make money?" Huang Fei was somewhat surprised when he heard this.
This is the first time I've heard of someone buying a car for professional gold mining in this area. It seems Fengzi is planning something big.
“If you want to buy a car to strike it rich, listen to what I have to say.” Huang Fei thought for a moment and then began to analyze without holding back.
“Let’s buy a used car, and choose one in good condition. New ones are too expensive, and it would be a waste to use a new one to mine for gold.”
"This isn't like when we drive our own car, where we buy a new one just to save face."
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