Chapter 31 [31] I just want to be a bad guy.
Tang An did not get angry, but continued to educate people with his eloquent tongue through the door.
...Aren't you angry about this?
Wu Chuang's wife had to admit that this young man had a really good temper.
Even more cowardly than his loser father.
"Mom, this guy is really honest. He doesn't get angry at all and still cooks for us."
Mrs. Wu: "He's a good person, but there's nothing I can do. My son is the most important to me. I can only feel sorry for him. You can't be soft-hearted."
Wu Chuang's wife said, "Don't worry, Mom. I'm not stupid. My husband is my support. Of course I would sacrifice him, an outsider."
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law both agreed that it was most appropriate to control Tang An now.
Wu Chuang's wife yawned: "Mom, it's a bit noisy. How can I sleep?"
Mrs. Wu rubbed her ears and wondered why this young man was talking so much.
He glanced around the house, then stood up, went to the closet, found two pieces of cloth, and stuffed them into his daughter-in-law's ears, one on the left and one on the right: "Is this better?"
"Mom, I'm much better." The daughter-in-law said, "Mom, it's a little hot. It's better here. We have a fan, so it's cool. It's so hot, why didn't this family install a fan in the room?"
Mrs. Wu curled her lips and said, "Of course I don't know. I'm just poor."
"Look at that Tang Aiguo, he looks like a loser. He's not the type to make money."
"I heard that the woman had an accident while riding her bicycle to sell jelly. If she gets into trouble with such an unlucky man, she will have a hard life."
"I think this son is just a talker. He takes after his father completely. What's so great about a widow raising 13 children, 7 children? What kind of thing is that? How much suffering must she have endured? Half her life was lost. What kind of blessing can her son enjoy no matter how high his official position is?"
"He's just a greenhorn, and he wants to trick me into going through hardship. But I've eaten more salt than he's eaten rice. I don't believe that."
"Isn't that stupid!"
"We have to get Chuangzi out as soon as possible so that you and your unborn child will have someone to rely on. If your father is in prison, the child will be bullied to death in the future."
"Mom, you're right. I don't believe that."
Outside, Tang An was still racking his brains over stories about widows raising children: "...Don't underestimate yourselves just because you're women. The Chairman has said that women are an important force in revolution and construction. As long as you're not afraid of hardship, you can raise a good child..."
Wu Chuang's wife was prompted by her mother-in-law and immediately lost her good impression of Tang An. She clutched the bed sheet and sat up: "No, that's too stupid! Why doesn't he go and persuade his mother to endure the hardship!"
Mrs. Wu: "His mother... maybe it's because of his ability to endure hardships. This bastard might be proud of his mother's ability to endure hardships, which fits the glorious image he talks about."
Wu Chuang's wife: "This woman is too pitiful. It would be better to drown a son like this."
"I want to hit him."
Mrs. Wu: "Just let him bark like a dog and go to sleep. When you wake up, you still expect him to cook for you."
"Too."
At the bus stop, Li Mu got on a township bus and was no longer with Tang Yuanyuan.
Li Mu also spread a piece of carefully selected white checkered cloth on the ground today, arranged the underwear and socks according to style, and divided them into two piles. He also took a pile of defective socks and sold them at a special price.
After two hours, there were only a few leftovers. He sold them all at a low price and ran to the bus stop with the sack. Luckily, he caught a return bus.
I ran all the way, and only slowed down and wiped the sweat off my face when I was almost home.
Tang Yuanyuan hasn't come back yet.
He curled his lips, made himself a cup of malted milk, and slowly fell asleep on the lounge chair in the yard.
I finished a cup of malted milk, but Tang Yuanyuan didn't come back.
That's really slow.
Then he had to work hard to make lunch himself. He hadn't eaten much of the meat Zhao Dong sent. He cooked rice and made some pork and potatoes stew. Then he heard the sound of the courtyard door being pushed open and someone came out of the kitchen with a spatula in his hand. It was Tang Yuanyuan who came back.
"Why are you so slow today?"
Li Mu straightened his chest and raised his eyebrows: "I came back this time and drank a cup of malted milk. I've already cooked the meal."
Tang Yuanyuan pushed her bicycle in. She was riding fast and was already sweating all over. "I went to the train station to buy tickets. I bought yours too. The bus is at 6pm."
Li Mu's mouth stiffened for a moment.
In other words, Tang Yuanyuan still got home before him, picked up her bicycle and went to the train station to buy the ticket.
"I went to Taohua Town today. Taohua Town is far away, so I sat there for half an hour longer than you. I sold out very quickly today. If I had gone to Hua Town as well, I would definitely have come back before you."
Tang Yuanyuan said "Oh" without any expression and didn't take it to heart.
Li Mu was furious, and then he remembered: "Hey, why do you make decisions for me?"
"I didn't say I was going. I'm good at selling small commodities."
Tang Yuanyuan filled a basin with water and washed her face. "Then I invite you to come with me, okay?"
Li Mu: "You invited me here. I didn't want to go at first. Don't say I'm learning from you this time."
Although small commodities are profitable, the market for clothing is still larger. Tang Yuanyuan just went to the department store and saw that the styles of clothes there are old-fashioned and not as good-looking as those in the south, but the prices are much higher than here.
Tang Yuanyuan didn't believe that Li Mu didn't like the clothing market and was just waiting for her to say this.
Besides, the train was too chaotic, and they needed each other whether they were importing small commodities or clothes.
After school starts, they have no time to purchase goods and can only try their best to earn more money during the summer vacation.
Tang Yuanyuan needs to earn the lawyer fees, and Li Mu also needs to earn the training fees. They both need money.
Li Mu's head popped out of the kitchen again: "Come and light the fire, it's almost out."
Tang Yuanyuan put down the towel, bent down and walked into the kitchen, heated up the oil for cooking, and opened the lid of the rice pot on the stove!
What kind of meal is this?
Didn’t it just begin?
Tang Yuanyuan threw the firewood into the stove: "Why bother with so much trouble? Isn't it enough to cook some rice porridge?"
Li Mu said angrily, "Why are you going to high school? Just become a nun and eat rice porridge for the rest of your life."
Li Mu's cooking skills were not very good. He added too much soy sauce and the meat had turned into charcoal. Fortunately, he added enough water and the potatoes were stewed until they were soft and glutinous, and were soaked in the aroma of pork.
Tang Yuanyuan only picked potatoes to eat.
Li Mu: "Why don't you eat the meat? It's not mushy, it just looks black."
Tang Yuanyuan: "You eat it, I don't eat meat."
Li Mu put a chopstick of meat into Tang Yuanyuan's bowl and said with a smile: "You still have such self-awareness. Although I am not a good person, you live in my house, so I won't bother you with a few chopsticks of meat. Besides, you have to pay for the food."
Tang Yuanyuan put the meat back on the plate: "It's not because of this."
"I want to observe mourning for my mother."
Li Mu looked at him as if he were an idiot. "No way! It's the modern age, and you still believe that? Why don't you just bind your feet?"
Tang Yuanyuan ate potatoes with big mouthfuls and rolled her eyes at him, saying, "It's none of your business."
"You're not going to eat my kindness, but I'll eat more by myself."
Li Mu snorted coldly and put the meat into his mouth with a sly expression: "It smells so good."
Tang Yuanyuan ate quietly with potatoes.
After eating a few more pieces of meat, Li Mu found that he did not tempt Tang Yuanyuan, and instantly felt bored.
"You didn't like eating meat before? Are you really not greedy?"
"Not greedy."
Now that her mother is gone, she can't do anything else but this little thing.
Tang Yuanyuan washed the dishes, then sat down at the table again, spread out her textbook and studied seriously.
Li Mu turned on the black-and-white TV series at home and watched Journey to the West: "Hey, Tang Yuanyuan, do you want to watch it with me?"
"Alas, you are deaf. In Journey to the West, Sun Wukong is about to be released from the Five Finger Mountain."
Looking back, Tang Yuanyuan was sitting at the dining table, her pen moving across the white lotus paper. She moved closer and muttered to herself, reciting classical Chinese texts, and the pen was also writing uncommon characters from the classical Chinese texts.
"Well, it's not too late to recite it after watching TV."
"You go and see for yourself. I won't watch."
Li Mu curled his lips: "You are such a boring person."
"Your brother didn't study as hard as you, but he still managed to get first place in the exam. Watching TV for a while won't affect his studies."
Tang Yuanyuan spread out her Chinese textbook, too lazy to argue with Li Mu.
Tang An was born with good grades without any effort.
She knew her shortcomings. She was not very talented in studying, so she had to work harder. Otherwise, she would not have been able to get into No. 1 Middle School as a free student last year.
Now she has fallen behind by another year, and she doesn't want to miss out on classes when school starts.
The train is at 6 o'clock today, so I have to eat dinner early and catch the train.
It was Tang Yuanyuan's turn for dinner. She cooked sweet potato porridge as usual, but added some boiled eggs. Tang Yuanyuan ate happily, but Li Mu ate painfully!
"Forget it, the food is mine, you just wash the dishes."
He was about to vomit after drinking the sweet potato porridge.
Tang Yuanyuan nodded slightly. After all, she didn't pursue eating well. Cooking was a very simple thing for her. "No, lest you say I did it on purpose. I think it's good to eat like this."
Li Mu put down his chopsticks: "You can eat it, but I can't."
"Okay, I was wrong before. The rice is mine and the bowl is yours."
Tang Yuanyuan reluctantly agreed.
Halfway through the meal, Zhao Dong came to give Li Mu the tuition fee for No. 1 Middle School, a total of 500 yuan. Li Mu said a few fake polite words, saw Zhao Dong off, and put all the money in his pocket.
Tang Yuanyuan ate rice grains and said, "Uncle Zhao is a good man."
The smile in Li Mu's eyes faded, and a deep rainstorm swept through his dark pupils, turning into the coldness of snow.
"Good man?"
“The truly good people are all the bones in the ground.”
"Good people don't live long."
"I just want to be a bad guy, with a ruthless heart. Tang Yuanyuan, are you particularly disgusted by me?"
Tang Yuanyuan replied with four words: "Incomprehensible."
It was only five o'clock after dinner. The two of them took sacks and food, locked the gate, and rushed to the train station.
On this side, when Tang Aiguo returned home from work, he saw the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law still staying at home, and he stared at them.
And his son was busy cooking in the kitchen.
"Why are you still at my house?"
"Just sign a letter of understanding for us, and we'll go back."
Tang Aiguo pushed them out: "Get out of here! Leave my house."
Mrs. Wu then lay down on the ground and wailed loudly, "I am such a miserable old woman. I am already old, my son is in jail, and two of my sons have died. There is no one to help me. Wuwuwuwu..."
Wu Chuang's wife also wiped her tears and cried.
Tang An came out with a spatula: "Dad, why did you make them cry again?"
Tang Aiguo: "...What do you mean I made them cry?"
Tang An pulled Tang Aiguo away and said, "After you left this morning, they cried for a long time. I had a hard time talking them through."
Tang Aiguo: "Isn't this person still in our house?" How can this make sense?
Tang An: "This is called a roundabout tactic. Think about it, if you force them to leave like that, they won't want to leave. I'm already doing their job, teaching them to be independent."
"As long as they are willing to stand up for themselves, they won't be afraid of their sons or husbands going to jail and leave our home."
Tang Aiguo: "What does this have to do with staying in our house?"
Tang An: "Dad, think about it, people are all made of flesh and blood."
"If they want to stay, they can stay. We'll provide them with good food and drink. After a couple of days, they won't feel comfortable staying here anymore. We'll be free, and they can become independent and earn money to support their children."
Tang Aiguo: "Her son hit and killed my wife, and I still want to treat her and her son well?"
Tang An: "Dad, even sitting there is a custom from the old society."
"It's not like I'm serving you. Don't you always like to listen to the radio? Zhuge Liang captured Meng Huo seven times and released him seven times, and Liu Bei threw Adou to the ground. It's the same principle."
"I solved this problem wisely."
Tang Aiguo had no intention of serving the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law a meal at home. The meal was free. "You are so smart."
"Let's solve it with force."
Tang Aiguo's move was exactly what Mrs. Wu wanted.
Ten minutes later, Tang Aiguo, with bloody scratches all over his face and neck, packed up his bedding and went to the second room.
This old woman is so unreasonable!
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