Chapter 144 Playing Cards
Mother Ye was very happy, but she had to go to the village. As soon as Mother Ye left, Grandma Ye touched the bracelet lovingly and glanced at Grandpa Ye:
"I spent my whole life washing clothes, cooking and serving someone, and in the end I still got to enjoy the blessing of being a granddaughter."
Grandpa Ye was not happy with this and said with a tut:
"Why are you saying this in front of the kids?"
Grandma Ye raised her head and said nothing more. Why bother arguing with an old man?
It delayed her from going out for a walk!
I went out excitedly, and Grandma Ye's voice came from outside the door: "Nothing, you stay alone, I'll go out for a walk."
Last year, the old lady Wang at the head of the village wore a pair of gold earrings and ran around the village every day to show them off, saying that her son and daughter-in-law were filial and bought them specially for her.
Grandma Ye snorted inwardly. When Old Lady Wang was young, she took care of the whole family. Her son finally grew up and wanted to start a family. In order for her son to get married, the two old people used all their life’s savings to buy a house for their son. Now that she is old and needs her son to take care of her, she is sent back to her hometown with just a pair of earrings!
If you don’t come back during the holidays and your parents forget about you, how can you expect them to be filial to you?
In the second half of last year, Mrs. Wang broke her leg while doing farm work at home and stayed in the hospital for more than half a month. Her son did not come back and did not answer the phone.
The villagers felt sorry for her. Old Lady Wang had no other faults except that she was very concerned about her reputation.
The son I raised with great effort was wasted, but I still insist on being nice.
They had a son and a daughter. They treated the son as if he didn't exist and severed the family ties with him with a pair of earrings. The son bought a house and moved out early. The daughter, on the other hand, married and lived nearby, a few hundred meters away from home. She was very filial to her parents.
Grandma Ye has organized a new show-off meeting under the big willow tree in the village. She doesn't say anything else but praise her granddaughter for being filial and capable!
A group of elderly men and women were enjoying the cool under the willow tree. There was a pond built by the village there, and it was cool in the summer. So whenever there was any big event, this big willow tree would witness all the gossip in the village and become a place for the elderly in the village to show off.
Grandma Ye left, and Grandpa Ye took a puff of his cigarette angrily, and the smoke blurred his face.
After a while, Grandpa Ye spoke:
"Ye Zi, I'll give you some money. Please help me buy a pair of gold earrings for your grandma!"
Ye Zhen was surprised and looked up at Grandpa Ye exaggeratedly. It was incredible that this old man was still so romantic at such an old age?
"Master, why did you suddenly think of buying gold earrings?" Ye Zhen asked deliberately, chuckling.
"I'll ask you to help buy it, so that the old woman won't go around complaining that I didn't buy anything for her."
Seeing Ye Zhen laughing there, Grandpa Ye got annoyed, "I'll buy you one with money. Buy you a big one! A heavy one! I have money now!"
"How can I buy it? How about I drive you to the jewelry store next time and you can choose it yourself? How can I buy gifts for you? Even though you spend your money, how can it be the same as what others buy?"
Grandpa Ye thought about it and felt that it made sense, so he nodded softly.
Hey! This old man.
Ye Zhen laughed in his heart!
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More people come to the village to purchase goods, and the villagers earn more money.
Zhang Shuiying cleaned the house very well. She just took people to the village for a walk and cooked a meal for the guests at noon. She could sell whatever vegetables the guests liked. She had sold several local chickens raised at home in the past few days. In addition to the strawberries, she could earn at least a few hundred yuan a day!
This is a good thing that I never dared to think about before!
Thinking that there are fewer livestock at home, she also plans to raise a few more chickens, ducks and rabbits this year to feed the chickens. Depending on the situation in the village, as long as the village is still growing strawberries, there will be no shortage of customers!
The more she thought about it, the better it seemed. Zhang Shuiying no longer lived with her son. She was still in good health and supported herself by farming. She had also saved a large sum of money for her retirement. She was not afraid of anyone.
Early in the morning, she carried a hoe and prepared to go to the field to check. She didn't plant many strawberries, and they had all been picked. The next crop was still green. The grass in the field grew fast, so she planned to weed it today.
Unexpectedly, after I closed the door and before I turned around, Zhang Shuiying's daughter-in-law came over with a shy smile:
"Mom, are you going out?"
Zhang Shuiying looked at the other person in confusion: "What's the matter?" Except for eating, she rarely saw the other person.
Zhang Shuiying's daughter-in-law stepped forward and took the other's hoe attentively, smiling and saying:
"Mom, look at what you said. Are you going to weed the strawberry field? It's so hot in the sun that you can't do it alone. How about calling your grandchildren to help?"
When the time comes to divide the money, just give her some on the grounds that the grandchildren helped.
Zhang Shuiying had no idea of the other party's intentions, so she stepped forward and took back the hoe:
"No, I can do that job myself."
Zhang Shuiying's daughter-in-law gritted her teeth, her expression unchanged:
"It's not that Ye Tao and Ye Chen have nothing to do at home. They are idle every day anyway, so let them exercise."
Without waiting for Zhang Shuiying to refuse, he hurriedly shouted to his family:
"Ye Tao, Ye Chen, come and help your grandma with the work!"
Both children are students. They came back for the summer vacation. Zhang Shuiying's daughter-in-law is lazy. Her husband Ye Yong goes out to work. Her children live in the school dormitory. She is alone at home and doesn't even farm. When she has money, she goes to the town or county to play mahjong. She doesn't keep the house clean and just throws the clothes aside after changing them.
When the children got home from school on Friday, Ye Tao came back with a basin of unwashed clothes, so Ye Chen washed and cleaned the house. The dishes and chopsticks were piled together and had grown mold in the summer.
He usually likes to take advantage of others. If there are no vegetables, he will go to Zhang Shuiying's vegetable garden to pick them, or he will steal them from other vegetable gardens in the village.
She is not a person who favors boys over girls, because in her heart, sons and daughters are the same and they all have to work and serve her.
It's better when Ye Yong is at home, but now he's working outside and no one can control him, so there's no point in talking to him.
I only repainted the cupboards and other places at home when the two children came out.
"Go, go to the fields with your grandma, and have lunch at her house. I have something to do, so I won't be back for lunch today."
Zhang Shuiying's daughter-in-law pulled the child over and prepared to go home to pack up and go to town.
"Where are you going? Aren't you going to play cards again?" Zhang Shuiying asked suspiciously.
"How can that be? I just have something to do." Zhang Shuiying's daughter-in-law turned her head away unnaturally and reminded the two children:
"Learn to grow strawberries with your grandma, I'm leaving..."
Before she finished, Zhang Shuiying's phone rang. When she answered it, she heard the other party's urgent words:
"Huang Xi'e, are you almost there? You're the only one missing from the poker table!"
"I'm coming, I'll be there soon." After hanging up the phone, Zhang Shuiying left in a hurry without saying anything else.
After her daughter-in-law left, the two children stood there and looked at her eagerly. Zhang Shuiying sighed heavily:
"Let's go!"
The two children are from the countryside and are used to being raised in a free-range environment. They have an unreliable mother and were raised by Zhang Shuiying since childhood, so naturally the relationship between the grandmother and grandchildren is deep.
After lunch and finishing the afternoon work, Zhang Shuiying's daughter-in-law had not returned yet. When she called her, she only heard noisy sounds from the other end.
"Mom, the two kids will stay at your place for a few days. I'll be back later..." Before she could finish, Zhang Shuiying heard the female voice next to her: "I'm going to explode!"
Zhang Shuiying threw down the cards in annoyance. She lost again this time. She blamed her mother-in-law for calling her at the wrong time, causing her to lose again.
He replied impatiently: "Hang up, hang up, I have something to do."
Zhang Shuiying was speechless for a moment holding the phone. The two children already knew what kind of person their mother was, and they looked like they were used to it.
Zhang Shuiying sighed heavily again. It was because their place was small that many people played mahjong and other cards secretly. These people would hide, so how could one find where they were playing cards?
A cunning rabbit has three burrows!
In the past, Zhang Shuiying's daughter-in-law followed her husband Ye Yong to work outside, and the child was left to Zhang Shuiying. However, she found the work tiring after working for a short while.
Fortunately, Ye Yong took care of her. Zhang Shuiying's daughter-in-law thought he was nagging, so she used the excuse that her child had to go to high school and needed to be supervised, and went back to her hometown.
I don’t know who I learned this bad habit from. I play cards whenever I have time and ignore everything else.
I just feel sorry for the two kids.
After several days, Zhang Shuiying's daughter-in-law still didn't come back.
Deep in the winding alleys of the county, in a bungalow, the sounds of mahjong, playing cards, and swearing were mixed.
"I won again!" The opponent won again, and Huang Xi'e rubbed the mahjong tiles anxiously.
The place was filled with smoke and the air was poorly circulated. There were several mahjong tables and small card tables, with men and women gathered together with excited expressions. You couldn't tell at all that they had been staying up all night for several days.
When she was tired, she would lie down on the sofa next to her to rest. When she woke up, she would be dragged to play cards again. They played ten yuan each time, but Huang Xi'e didn't win many times, and the balance in her bank card was getting less and less.
Another night passed, and Zhang Shuiying's daughter-in-law became more and more courageous. She just won a game, and she will definitely win again next time.
Just like that, when I was tired, I would lie down and rest. People playing cards kept coming and going. Zhang Shuiying's eyes turned red, but she continued to play cards!
Little did he know that the money Ye Yong had left for his two children’s tuition fees was almost gone!
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