The old village chief was also surprised to see Wei Jianguo. I didn’t expect that the boy who was bullied back then would grow up to be what he is today.
The current village chief is the son of the old village chief. He had a good relationship with Wei Jianguo when he was a child. He never bullied him or helped him.
Wei Jianguo simply greeted the village chief and explained his purpose. "I brought my wife and children back to see my father and rebuild his grave. I have to stay in the village for two days. I'm sorry to bother the village chief."
The village chief was better than the villagers after all, and he was able to cheer up and greet Wei Jianguo, "If you need any help from the village, just come to me. Where are you staying? Do you want me to help arrange it?"
Wei Jianguo secretly thought that he was a smart guy, "No need, my father's house, I have had someone clean it for the past two years, we can just live there."
This house used to belong to my third uncle. Wei Jianguo was adopted by my third uncle and inherited this house as well.
It just fell into disrepair and was severely damaged.
In the early years, the educated youth in the village had no place to live and once lived here.
But in 1978, when Wei Jianguo asked someone to come back to rebuild the cemetery for his third uncle, he also asked for the house back. Then they demolished the old house and built a new one.
Nowadays, this house is one of the best in the village.
There were people arranged by Wei Jianguo who came to check from time to time, and the county magistrate also warned the village chief during meetings. So even if the villagers were jealous of the house, they didn't dare to make any rash moves.
Song Shuxi and Wei Jianguo are a couple who have a great understanding of each other. Whenever Wei Jianguo made it clear that he disliked the villagers, she would step in to ease the relationship a little.
It’s not that I’m afraid of them, but there’s no need to cause trouble for myself.
She smiled and said, "We'll be living here for two days. We can go to the mountains to get meat, but I'll have to ask the village chief for vegetables."
The village chief smiled with wrinkles on his face, "That's easy. This is my family's private plot, and it's well taken care of. Do you want to pick the fruits yourself or do you want me to deliver them to you every day?"
"Please trouble the village chief to deliver it to us every day." After saying that, Song Shuxi signaled Lele to give the money.
After saying goodbye to the village chief, I walked all the way to my house.
Looking at the farmhouse in front of her, Song Shuqian felt a little nostalgic, "Honey, this house looks like the yard we lived in Huludao."
Wei Jianguo took her hand and said, "This is built according to that house."
That small courtyard holds many beautiful memories for the couple. It is where they fell in love and where their two sons were born.
When building this house, his comrades asked him what he wanted it to look like, and Wei Jianguo instinctively thought of that.
An An and Zhou Minhui parked the car in the yard and took Le Le, Yue Yue and Yang Yang in to clean the house.
Wei Jianguo and his wife were chatting in the yard.
Song Shuqian asked, "Do you want to move our mother's grave out when you come back this time?"
The mother-in-law was very good to Wei Jianguo. Before her death, she had a very good relationship with her father-in-law and was willing to be buried with him.
Therefore, they have not moved their mother-in-law's grave for so many years.
But after my father-in-law remarried, he has a wife and children, and I’m afraid he has already forgotten his first wife.
Wei Jianguo didn't speak for a long time. He was thinking. He didn't know what his mother was thinking.
After a long while, Wei Jianguo spoke, "I'll ask him. If he wants to be buried with my mother, then let them be buried together. If he wants to be buried with the current one, then move my mother's grave out."
Song Shuqian took the initiative to hold his hand without saying anything. She knew that what he needed now was company.
The courtyard is full of warmth and affection.
Outside the courtyard, the village was in an uproar.
In recent years, someone rebuilt the tomb of Wei Laosan, and people come to worship him during all four seasons and festivals, and they also built a yard.
Everyone guessed that Wei Jianguo was doing very well.
But any speculation did not reflect the impact brought by Wei Jianguo.
He drove a car that was out of their reach, dressed elegantly, and wore an expensive watch on his wrist. He looked more impressive than the county magistrate. The wife he married was young and beautiful, and at first glance, she was obviously a city lady. The kids were great too.
The villagers couldn’t say what was good about them, but they could feel that they didn’t fit in with the village.
"This kid from the Wei family has become successful. Do you think that Wei Lao Si will regret it? He is obviously his son, but he became the third brother's."
"What's the point of regretting? I've already adopted you."
"You can't say that. After all, they are my biological children. There is no such thing as an overnight grudge between father and son."
"Come on, forget it. Have you ever looked after the fourth elder Wei over the years? It's not like he hasn't tried to contact him, but he just couldn't get through. This means that the young man didn't give him any contact information."
"It's what he deserves. His wife died, and he followed his new wife to abuse his own son."
The women in the village all hate such men. No one wants their children to be tortured by their stepmother and biological father after they die.
Wei Laosi, Wei Jianguo’s biological father, also heard the news that his eldest son had returned.
The worried face was now filled with a hint of life. "Did Jianguo come back to see me?"
An old lady with a mean face held a bowl of medicine for him with her skinny hands, "I think you are dreaming, that wolf cub was only in his teens and dared to break off relations with me and give me up for adoption. Now he won't pay any attention to an old man like you."
The old lady slowed down her tone and said, "We were wrong back then. We haven't apologized to him all these years. You should go and apologize to him."
"I'm his father. How can a father apologize to his son?"
"He is the son of my third brother. His father was not good enough. I had a stepson right after I got married. When I saw him, I thought, I am not your first woman. I was just too jealous. I was jealous that you treated another woman as well as you treated me.
That's why I don't want to talk to Jianguo.
But I swear to God, I did nothing but ignore him.
It's normal that he doesn't want to pay attention to me now, but you are his biological father, Dazhu, Erzhu and Shuanzhu are his brothers, Weihong, Qingfeng, Yuejin, Fusheng and Shouyi are his nephews, how can you not know them.
Old man, please take your sons and grandchildren to see him later and say something soft and conciliatory to him. "
Wei Jianguo's stepmother is very flexible. Now that she sees that he is living a good life, she wants him to raise her own child.
Wei Laosi was a soft-hearted person, and he would compromise if people spoke sweetly to him.
This is why Wei Jianguo has been reluctant to come back over the years.
An An Le Le, Yue Yue and Yang Yang got together and chatted while their parents were away.
Yueyue asked, "Big brother, second brother, do you think that our father has a strange relationship with the villagers? I only know that my father has a hard time in the village and is bullied, but it seems that there is more to it than that."
Song Shuqian never talked about Wei Jianguo's past in front of her children. She didn't want her children to sympathize with Wei Jianguo because of what happened to him. She hopes that her children can be proud of their father, love him, admire him and respect him, but not feel sorry for him.
She herself never sympathized with Wei Jianguo.
Because he doesn't need to.
An An started to remember things at a very early age. When he was a child, his mother and Aunt Tiantian never avoided him when talking to them, so he knew more and simply told his younger brothers and sisters what he knew.
Yueyue and Yangyang were indignant, and the four children decided to teach the villagers a lesson.
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