Chapter 491 492: Raising a son is not as good as raising a pig
Boss Bear sneered, "We didn't ask you to give it to her. Besides, you've trampled the truffles to pieces. Why should we give them to you?"
The youngest bear looked at him with disdain, "Okay, it's only twenty-five dollars, I'll just take it as my bad luck!"
Xiong Dahai, who was lying in the room, listened to the quarrel outside, and turbid tears flowed down his ears...
My body is useless, my brain should be confused, and my ears should be deaf, so that I can't hear those disgusting words and I won't lie here in torment.
Seeing that they had stopped arguing, Zhou Dalin said, "Now let's say your husband wants to live alone. How are we going to provide him with the monthly pension and annual food?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Gan Xiuqin asked, "Uncle, why do the three of them have to move out and live on their own, but we have to live with the old man?"
"Why?" Zhou Dashi shouted, "Because the old couple built the house themselves. If you're not convinced, go build your own house and live there!"
Gan Xiuqin said unconvincedly: "The old couple also built their house. We also want a new house and move out..."
"Bang~" Zhou Dalin slapped the Eight Immortals Table, "You dare to say such nonsense while the division book is still there. When the family was divided, you two wanted to keep the old house. Now that you see the old man can't move, you regret it, but it's too late! If you have the ability, go out and lay the foundation and build the house yourself."
Seeing that both uncles were angry, Xiong Laoda hurriedly apologized, "Uncle, uncle, don't argue with her."
Zhou Dalin and his brother looked at each other, then at the other three brothers, "Your mother said that she won't live with any of you. It's been two days, don't tell me you haven't come up with a set of rules yet?"
The youngest Xiong said calmly: "I am the youngest, I will follow whatever the elders say!"
Zhou Sufang was disappointed after hearing this: "Old man, we thought of everything for him, but in the end he didn't even want to take care of us! What we said before was that we were willing to give the old man the house and that he would support us and live with us was all fake, the only thing that was real was the money!"
The eldest bear poked the absent-minded third bear and said, "Third bear, what do you say?"
I said it when my eldest and second uncles asked me just now. What else do you want me to say?
You just want to say a few words to the youngest one, I don’t want to get involved in your affairs!
Xiong Laosan was complaining in his heart and glanced at him, "You are the boss, I will do whatever you say!"
Seeing the three people pushing each other, Zhou Sufang cried sadly, "You have no conscience. Your mother and your husband raised you with great difficulty, built a house for you, and took care of your grandchildren..."
"Wu...Wu..." She wiped away her tears, "Now that your old man is paralyzed and can't work anymore, everyone treats us as a burden and doesn't want to support us! What are we still alive for? Wu...Wu..."
The three brothers, Big Bear, looked at their toes and pretended not to hear.
Zhou Dalin and his brother looked at their three brothers and then at Zhou Sufang with gloomy faces, and suddenly thought of the day when they were too old to move...
"Wow... What's the point of raising a son? It's better to raise a pig, which can be sold for money to pay for medical treatment..."
Seeing the three people hanging their heads in silence, Zhou Sufang walked outside crying, "I'll go get the cart over here and drag your old man to the river. We two old fools will just jump into the river and drown, so as not to burden you..."
Xiong Laosan couldn't bear it any longer, he took a few steps forward and grabbed her, "Mom, what are you doing! I told you when my uncle and his family came that I would give the same as other families in the village. You and the old man can tell me what you want, as long as I can do it, I will agree to it."
Zhou Sufang never dreamed that he would be the first to stand up. She blew her nose, turned around and looked at Xiong Lao Da and Xiong Lao San with tears in her eyes, "Since you guys won't say anything, I will tell you our demands.
The second son is still in the cell, so I will give you the land that your husband and I have to cultivate, and we will keep the vegetable plot behind the house for ourselves. Your husband is ill and needs medicine and acupuncture, but we don’t want much, you three can give us 50 yuan a year each, and 800 kilograms of millet a year each.”
After hearing this, Xiong Lao San nodded without hesitation and said, "Okay, I'll do as you say!"
Brother Zhou Dashi looked at him with satisfaction, then looked at Big Brother Xiong and Little Brother Xiong, "What do you two brothers say?"
Before Xiong Laoda and Xiong Laosan expressed their opinions, Gan Xiuqin shouted in dissatisfaction: "I don't agree! Fifty yuan? Eight hundred kilograms of millet? Why doesn't she go..."
She swallowed the word "rob" that was about to come out of her mouth, "My eldest brother and I have three kids to raise, and we have to pay taxes. Eight hundred kilograms of millet is too much. We can't afford it!"
When she thought about how every family in the village who made money by digging truffles bought dozens of kilograms of smoked meat and bacon and made sausages, she felt as sad as if she were being scratched by a cat.
If they hadn't been at enmity with the Zhou family and the Zhou family hadn't accepted the truffles they dug, how could they not even be able to afford the meat!
Now even the loser Li Wu and the three-handed Xu Hongbing are making a fortune following Zhou Laoya.
Li Wu also replaced two eyeballs for his blind mother, so that she could walk again and do farm work!
Zhou Dashi looked at her with a dark face, "Did your mother and husband ever teach you the rules? When is it your turn to speak before the man even opens his mouth?"
Gan Xiuqin sneered: "Why is it not my turn to speak? The money and food to support the two of us in our old age is earned by me together!" If I respect you, then you are my uncle. If I don't respect you, then you are nothing!
Zhou Dashi pointed at her nose and yelled, "You disobedient and unfilial thing! You will never grow old, and you will not expect your two sons and daughters-in-law to support you in the future?"
Gan Xiuqin retorted, "When we are old, we will not ask our sons and daughters-in-law to give us 800 kilograms of millet and 50 yuan every year when we know that they eat sweet potatoes and sorghum every day!"
The Zhou Dashi brothers were speechless after being rebuked by her and felt that they should not have come here.
"I am not going to live any longer. You two should go buy some rat poison and kill us two old things with it!"
Zhou Sufang cried and ran towards the eldest brother, but was grabbed by the youngest brother, "Mom, you don't only have your eldest brother as a son. If he doesn't support you, you still have me and your third brother."
Boss Xiong and his wife were dumbfounded!
"Uncle, uncle!" The youngest brother Xiong supported Zhou Sufang and called out to them. He looked at Gan Xiuqin with disdain and said, "My third brother and I agree with mom's request. We will pay her every year as she said!"
As long as the first wife and her husband were unhappy, he would be happy! Just because of the truffles, Gan Xiuqin, that shrew, went to his father-in-law to sow discord between them, and he was almost divorced...
Gan Xiuqin looked at the youngest bear and felt so angry that her hands and claws started itching. She wanted to scratch him a few times. Thinking about the fight they had just had last night and the three old guys were still there, if they really had to fight, she and the eldest brother would definitely lose...
Seeing that her two sons agreed to her request, Zhou Sufang glared at Gan Xiuqin and pointed at Xiong Lao Da, "If you don't support us two old guys, we will pretend that we never gave birth to you. Take your wife and get out of this room!"
Big Bear suddenly remembered the time when the youngest Zhou was pushed by a wild boar. "Mom, the third and youngest brothers both agreed, so of course I have nothing to say! But there is one more thing. Last time, the old man took out two hundred and fifty yuan to buy him hemostatic medicine, and then the youngest Zhou returned the money."
"The money for the youngest resident's surgery was given by our elders. How do we calculate the extra money he spent? Also, we have been doing small jobs for him for so long. We should calculate the money clearly today while our elder and second uncles are here!"
Gan Xiuqin agreed: "That's right, we should carefully calculate the money."
What Zhou Sufang hated the most at this moment was Xiong Da and his wife, "If you want to count it this way, then let me ask you, we two old guys hosted a banquet for you and helped you raise three children.
Now your old man is paralyzed in bed, the third and youngest sons are not married yet, and I am unable to hold a wedding for them or help take care of the children. How can you calculate the extra money your family has spent?"
Can it be calculated this way?
Mr. and Mrs. Xiong were dumbfounded.
The youngest bear felt happy when he saw the eldest and second bear brothers being speechless after being scolded by his mother.
Zhou Dalin and his brother looked at him, not knowing what to say. The two brothers had a falling out and were bringing up old grudges. The way they looked at each other was worse than that of enemies.
At this moment, a muffled "thump" sound came from the room.
Zhou Sufang hurried in and saw Xiong Dahai falling off the bed. His face flushed red when he saw her come in, and he was mumbling something.
She rushed forward and forcefully moved him to the bed, unable to stop her tears, "Old man, don't be angry, if anything happens to you, how am I going to live in the future!"
"I might as well die than live like this!" Xiong Dahai realized that no one could understand what he said, and he wished he could just run into a wall and die here. However, his body was out of control, and he didn't even have the ability to run himself into death.
Zhou Dashi and his brother came in and felt their noses ache. They carried him to the bed and said, "Brother-in-law, don't be angry. Every family in the village that split up quarreled like this. Some even fought in front of their elders!"
The youngest Xiong felt a little guilty when he looked at him, so he stepped forward and said, "Old man, we have agreed to Mom's request, so don't be angry..."
Xiong Laosan also said: "Old man, don't worry, I promise that your pension and food will not be reduced..."
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Over there, Zhou's mother and daughter and Qian Chunhua had already arrived in the town, and the streets that had been deserted in the past were now crowded with people.
The streets are lined with small stalls selling all kinds of agricultural products, popcorn, candy figurines, cotton candy, fortune tellers... the sounds of hawkers' calls are heard everywhere.
Qian Chunhua smiled and said, "There are many more people this year than last year!"
Last year, Zhou's mother came to the market the day before the New Year. "It was about the same last year, right?"
"When I came here last year, there weren't so many stalls." Qian Chunhua held her watch bag tightly against her waist, worried that a pickpocket might steal the money in her bag.
Zhou's mother said to Qian Chunhua, "What are you going to buy?"
"There are too many people and too many pickpockets. I have peanuts and dried sweet potatoes at home, so I won't go shopping. I will go to the supply and marketing cooperative to weigh two kilograms of melon seeds and buy some cloth to make new clothes for Hongbing, Xiaofang and my grandson."
"We'll go to our house in Yumei Town after we buy the stuff, and you can meet us there when you're done."
"That's right!" Qian Chunhua pulled her back, "Be careful, don't squeeze into crowded places. There are the most pickpockets in crowded places!"
"Okay, we'll wait for you there!"
Qian Chunhua nodded and walked towards the supply and marketing cooperative with her bag on her back.
(End of this chapter)
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