Chapter 397: Father and Son Have a Clash
Luo Xiaohua, Gao Shufang and Huang Su'e prepared the lunch. As for Xuanyuemei, she was pregnant, so they naturally didn't ask her to cook.
The dishes are naturally extremely rich.
The son and daughter in the family are able to earn money, and the burden on the old couple is suddenly lightened a lot. It is also the day of reunion when the children come home rarely. In addition to buying pork, Luo Xiaohua also cruelly slaughtered an old hen that did not lay eggs.
In addition to these, there are also fish on the table that Gao Yuanjian caught from the reservoir, most of which are yellow croaker, a fish with a very good taste.
As soon as the food was served, Luo Xiaohua first gave his eldest grandson a chicken leg, then picked up the largest yellow croaker, and smiled as he asked the one-year-old grandson to eat more.
A chicken had two legs, one was given to the youngest in the family, and the other was given to the oldest person in the family, Grandma Gao.
Men and women sat at separate tables. The men drank the Site liquor brought back by Gao Mingcheng, while the women drank the soda brought back by Gao Mingwan.
This time when he came back, Gao Mingwan specially brought a box of soda.
Gao Mingwan smiled and said, "I have already sent Mid-Autumn Festival gifts to Xiuxiu's family. Xiuxiu was sick for seven or eight days last time, but she has recovered now. Her mother has not allowed her to go out for half a year. Now she looks whiter than people in the city."
His tone was quite proud. In the countryside, it was rare to have fair skin.
"Big brother, second brother, in five days, I will also get married! Come on, cheers! Fourth brother, you have to work harder too! Haha!" Everyone could see Gao Mingwan's joy, and they all sincerely wished him well.
Luo Xiaohua was also smiling. She was also very satisfied with Wang Xiuxiu.
However, when she heard that Wang Xiuxiu was whiter than the people in the city and had not been to the fields for half a year, her heart suddenly skipped a beat.
She lowered her eyes and looked at her hands which had become rough from working, and thought, although the eldest daughter-in-law's farm work was average, it was still okay. As for the second daughter-in-law, don't count on her. Now the third daughter-in-law is probably not able to do farm work.
What should she do? Is she going to do all the farm work and housework by herself?
Luo Xiaohua felt very uncomfortable, but soon her eyes fell on the fourth brother Gao Mingli.
She decided to find a husband for the fourth child who was good at both housework and outside the home!
As for appearance? That's not important. Anyway, the prettier the woman, the less capable she is at work!
After eating and drinking, the women had left the table to go about their business, but the men were still there, talking and even smoking.
With a crackling sound, the match was lit, and one match was enough to light four cigarettes.
There were five people present. Except Gao Mingcheng, the other four were smoking. Gao Mingcheng glanced at Gao Mingli and a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.
Because in his impression, Gao Mingli had never smoked in his home.
He didn't know that because Xuanyuemei was pregnant and had expressed that she couldn't stand the smell of cigarettes, Gao Mingli would only smoke outside. He didn't have a strong addiction to smoking yet, so Gao Mingcheng and others mistakenly thought that he didn't know how to smoke yet.
But now they had a little drink and were chatting happily. After Gao Mingpeng took out a cigarette, everyone started smoking.
In an instant, the main room was filled with smoke.
Gao Mingcheng couldn't sit still anymore.
Although he doesn't smoke, he is exposed to second-hand smoke by sitting here!
Besides, if you sit here for too long, your body will be covered with the smell of cigarettes, and then you will be disliked by many beauties.
He wanted to leave, but Gao Mingpeng stopped him.
"Second brother, I need your help with something."
Gao Mingcheng looked at Gao Mingpeng. Although the relationship between the two brothers was average, he would definitely help if he could.
"It's like this. Am I the accountant of the village committee? Now the village wants to collect some money and assigns me to collect it, but it turns out it's really difficult to collect the money!" Gao Mingpeng exhaled a puff of smoke, sighed, his face full of worry.
He looked at Gao Mingcheng, and said with a hint of expectation in his eyes: "I think you are more influential than me in the village now, so I would like to trouble you to run a trip for me and ask everyone to pay the money they are owed."
After hearing this, Gao Mingcheng almost laughed out of anger.
He said directly: "The village party secretary asked me to be the accountant at first. Guess why I didn't agree?"
The villagers don't live a rich life, and the job of collecting money is the most annoying. Moreover, the retention fee is getting higher every year, and there are many miscellaneous fees. In the end, there is resentment among the people.
Gao Mingpeng was stunned, and a hint of unnaturalness flashed across his face.
When the village party secretary came to see him, he didn't say that he had already looked for Gao Mingcheng, and Gao Mingcheng didn't tell him about it afterwards, but now...
He suddenly felt extremely uncomfortable.
I feel a little disgusted and a little angry.
Before he could get angry, Gao Yuanjian, who was slightly drunk, slammed the table and scolded him harshly: "Your elder brother asked you to help a little, why are you making excuses? Don't you have to collect medicinal herbs every year? Just tell everyone that if they don't pay the money first, you won't accept their medicinal herbs!"
Gao Yuanjian behaved like a patriarch, and his true nature was completely exposed after drinking.
Ever since Gao Mingcheng became rich, Gao Yuanjian hadn't spoken to him in such a disdainful yet commanding tone for a long time.
This is probably what they mean when they say truth comes out when drunk.
Gao Mingcheng's face turned ugly.
If he really did what Gao Yuanjian said, wouldn't he offend everyone in the village?
He himself is not often in the village. What if someone becomes resentful and runs to Xiaofushan, destroys his orchard, or poisons the fish he raises? What should he do then?
Even if the villagers knew who did the damage, they would cover it up for each other, and he would become a complete outsider.
Gao Yuanjian asked him to do such an offensive thing and he didn't care about his life or death at all!
At this moment, the apparent warmth between father and son was completely torn apart.
Gao Mingcheng stood up with a look of disappointment on his face.
He looked at Gao Yuanjian and Gao Mingpeng coldly.
In his previous life, he had seen through them, but in this life he couldn't kill them all, so he just maintained the superficial attitude of "I am fine, you are fine, everyone is fine".
As long as outsiders can't gossip about you and you can live your own life well, that's enough.
But now, his father doesn't treat him as a human being!
The reason why his elder brother had been bossing him around in both of his lives was because of his far-sighted attitude!
Gao Mingcheng endured and endured, and finally did not say anything unpleasant, and just said: "If this family does not welcome me, you can just say that I will not come again in the future."
After saying that, he walked out the door.
Gao Yuanjian slammed the table, making a deafening noise, and angrily shouted, "I can't even ask you to do anything. What's the point of having a son like you?"
Gao Mingcheng said calmly: "Then just pretend that you don't have a son like me!"
The angrier Gao Yuanjian got, the calmer Gao Mingcheng became. This was probably because he had seen through everything.
At the door, women were attracted by the sound, and many beautiful faces were filled with worry.
Gao Mingcheng stretched out his hand, held many beautiful hands and walked out step by step.
As a result, he noticed a sharp sound of wind behind him, so he quickly turned around and stretched out his hand to block the bowl thrown at him.
The bowl was caught in his palm and then thrown to the ground.
With a loud snap, the coarse porcelain bowl was completely broken into pieces.
Gao Mingcheng could no longer remain calm, because this was not only directed at him, but also at many beauties.
Xuanyuemei was going to give birth in a month or so, and she was most afraid of being frightened. However, Gao Yuanjian got drunk and acted crazy, and he didn't care about Xuanyuemei's safety at all!
Gao Mingcheng looked at Xuan Duomei and said, "You go first!"
Xuanyue looked at him with worry, but she was pregnant and couldn't help Gao Mingcheng, so she had to leave this place of trouble first.
After Gao Mingcheng asked Xuanyuemei to leave, he quickly walked to the table, pressed the edge of the table with both hands, and overturned the entire table. The dishes and chopsticks fell to the ground with a loud noise.
He stared at Gao Yuanjian fiercely and said, "You like to smash things, right? Then smash them to your heart's content! In your eyes, I am easy to bully, right? I am cheap, right? You gave me some good things quickly, right?"
In addition to smashing the table, everything in the main room was smashed by Gao Mingcheng, even the black and white TV he had given as a gift.
When the TV was smashed to the ground and the screen shattered, Luo Xiaohua couldn't help but scream.
This TV is the first one in Gaojia Village. Every night when the TV is on, people in the village will come to the house to watch TV, so it has been placed in the main room.
Luo Xiaohua was almost mad with anger, she rushed forward and wanted to hit Gao Mingcheng.
But when he met Gao Mingcheng's gaze that was devoid of any warmth, he didn't dare to punch him.
At this moment, Gao Mingcheng was like an enraged leopard, extremely ferocious.
Gao Mingwan and Gao Mingli were dumbfounded. They stood there in a daze and didn't dare to say a word.
As for Gao Mingpeng, he, like Luo Xiaohua, looked at the broken TV with a look of heartache on his face.
Gao Yuanjian's drunken state was awakened by the noise. His cheeks were flushed and even his eyes were red, which showed that he had drunk a lot of alcohol.
He tried to speak but burped first.
After Gao Mingcheng smashed it all, he felt much better.
He took out a hundred yuan from his pocket, threw it on the ground, then turned and left with a sneer.
With every step he took, he felt his body become lighter.
By the time Gao Yuanjian came to his senses, he had already left home.
Sounds of cursing and crying came from this small courtyard.
Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, the day when every family reunites. Even if life is bumpy on ordinary days, this day can always maintain the appearance of beauty.
However, there was such a loud noise coming from Gao Yuanjian's home that the surrounding neighbors all rushed over there.
When Gao Mingcheng saw these people, he thought for a moment, then turned and walked towards his grandmother's house.
Before I got there, I saw Xi Nainai and Gao Zhuang walking towards this side. It was obvious that they had heard the noise and wanted to come over to see what was going on.
Gao Mingcheng called his grandmother and said, "Something happened. Let's go into the yard and talk."
After entering the courtyard of Xi Nainai's house, Gao Mingcheng told Xi Nainai and the others what had just happened, and then said to Gao Zhuang: "If anyone asks, tell them the truth. Also, make it clear to the villagers that collecting herbs is collecting herbs, and paying is paying money. These are two different things!"
Gao Zhuang was filled with anger and nodded in agreement. He couldn't help but feel sorry for Gao Mingcheng: "Uncle is too unreasonable!"
Gao Mingpeng was the accountant. He couldn't collect the money. It was his personal problem. What did Gao Mingcheng have to do with it? He even came up with a stupid idea!
This is really a deception for Brother Ming Cheng!
Gao Mingcheng was no longer angry. He said, "Duomei is still on the way. I'll go take her home first."
"Well, then you should go quickly. If the villagers ask about it, we will definitely say good things about you." Grandma Xi said with concern.
Gao Mingcheng smiled and left.
This time, he had no intention of saving face for his father. Why should he have to endure all the bullying?
He knew that he was not liked by his family because he was naughty since he was a child and could not say nice things. When he was a teenager, he often hung out outside, made friends with bad people, and often fought and caused trouble.
Everyone said that his parents were worried about him and that he had brought shame to the family.
He admitted it.
But didn't he bring any benefits to the family?
If you lose a fight, you have to take the blame yourself. If you win a fight and someone comes to your house to complain, you will be beaten up.
After he became famous, whenever people in his family fought over water or land, everyone would give in and not dare to confront them, for fear that he would come and hit them.
It was during that period that his father started working in the village committee. A large part of his status and reputation was based on his own abilities, but a small part was also based on his ability.
No one has ever mentioned this matter directly, but Gao Mingcheng actually knows it very well, simply because that's how a family is, when one prospers, all prosper, and when one suffers, all suffer.
Gao Mingcheng shook his head and stopped thinking about these things.
When he walked to the old village pond, he saw Xuanmei standing next to the tractor. When she saw Gao Mingcheng coming, a smile immediately broke out on her face.
Judging from Gao Mingcheng's appearance, he shouldn't have suffered any loss, that's good!
(End of this chapter)
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