Chapter 104: Helping my sister predict the gender of her baby
After leaving the provincial capital, Master rested his eyes the entire way. Arriving home around eleven o'clock, Master said, "I'm a little tired. I'll take a nap this afternoon. You should come on duty on time."
When I got out of the car, I handed the red gift bag to my wife. Then I went home, parked the car, returned to the bedroom, and opened the gift bag.
Two packs of cigarettes, two boxes of tea, and a red envelope. With my sharp eyesight, I knew it was ten thousand yuan without even opening it. When I pulled it out, I realized I'd misjudged it; it was twenty thousand.
To Yi Zong, these 20,000 yuan in brand new bills were just two cents or two cents, but to me, they were a timely help, as I needed money for renovations. I put the 20,000 yuan away and didn't give it to my mother this time.
I brought two boxes of tea upstairs. My mother took them, took them out, looked at them, and asked, "Isn't this valuable?"
I shook my head and said, "I don't know."
She looked around, held up a finger, and said, "At least one thousand yuan a box, two boxes is two thousand. Oh, I wish he didn't give you tea."
"You mean there's plenty of tea at home, and it's cheap?"
My mother sighed and said, "It would be great if he gave you 2,000 yuan. You need money to renovate the house."
After hearing that, I burst out laughing.
After laughing, I deliberately joked: "Five thousand yuan a box."
She was even more distressed: "What's the use of this? You can't exchange it for money. You can take it back and drink it yourself. I can't bear to give it to others as a favor, but it hurts to drink it yourself." After saying that, she really stuffed it into my arms.
I was stunned for a moment.
She stuffed it in while pushing me away, it seemed like she really didn't like it.
I had no choice but to return to my room, tea in hand. Sitting down and thinking calmly, I realized my mother truly cared about me. She had used up all her savings to pay for the rent. Now she still owed the bank loan, and needed money for renovations.
I absolutely couldn't let my mother worry about me. I found the 20,000 yuan, put it in a red envelope, and ran upstairs. She was washing rice. I called out, "Mom, come here."
I walked into her room, closed the door, and said, "Actually, I gave her a red envelope. I was afraid you would tell her and make her unhappy, saying that you always protect me and say good things about me every day."
My mother pulled it out and looked at it. Her face froze. After a long while, she asked, "Twenty thousand for just two days? Is that acceptable?"
I smiled and said, "Don't worry, I have no position or power. If he is willing to give me one million, I dare to accept it."
My mother sighed, "Rich people are so generous."
I comforted her, saying, "Mom, take good care of yourself and I'll be rich someday. When my uncle comes to visit Wuxiang, give him 20,000 yuan and tell him to take it and use it to buy some nice clothes."
My mother turned her face away and laughed, tears streaming down her face. She wiped her eyes and looked at me lovingly: "I'm going to buy a free-range chicken this afternoon and stew it. You must come back on time for dinner."
At this moment, my sister's voice rang out from the living room: "I forgot to turn off the faucet. I'm old and my memory is bad."
My sister took Mr. Xipo's Chinese medicine in August last year and got pregnant in September. She is now pregnant, but she still walks up and down the stairs and refuses to give up any power.
My mother walked out, looking much better than usual, and said hurriedly, "I'm old and confused."
My sister saw me and asked, "Are you back?"
I nodded.
She patted her belly and said with a smile, "Shanhong, can you calculate for me whether this baby is a boy or a girl?"
My mother was chopping vegetables and quickly put down her knife to come over. At that moment, my phone rang. I smiled and said, "Let's figure it out over dinner. I'm taking a call now."
It was Dongzi who called. He said he had worked at the neighborhood office for a year and had now been officially transferred back to his original unit. He asked if his master was home, saying he wanted to come to Youranju that afternoon.
I walked downstairs and said, "Congratulations. He needs to rest this afternoon, so I'll go with him tonight."
Dongzi thanked me a lot again. I said, "Who are we talking to? Why should I thank you? We're from the same village. If I need anything in the future, I'll ask you for help. We shouldn't thank each other."
After hanging up the phone, I thought to myself: This Deng Fugen is truly amazing. Master is truly good at judging people. He gave Deng Fugen 100,000 yuan when he was still a humble figure. I, Wan Shanhong, must learn to observe people. I must help others when they are still weak.
I shook my head at Dongzi. He's not a vegetable eater. I'm just doing my best to show my friendship to my fellow townsman. And Linghu Yitong, he's not a vegetable eater either. He's too bookish.
Murong Feng! I suddenly slapped my thigh. I opened my phone and added a note to his WeChat: Follow this person.
At this time, my brother-in-law called down from the window: "Shanhong, it's time for dinner."
The whole family ate around the table. My sister opened another table and sat at a small square table. There was no chili in the dishes, mostly soups, such as pig's trotter soup, red date and white fungus soup, and a bowl of steamed pig's heart.
After eating these things every day, she had almost no appetite. While slowly sipping the soup, she asked me, "Can you tell if it's a boy or a girl?"
I said, "A man."
Everyone looked at me.
My brother-in-law said, "Don't you usually do a character test?"
I said seriously: "I did a character test. Sister just said, 'Calculate whether it's a boy or a girl'. There are seven characters in total. And the character '男' has exactly seven strokes."
The whole family used chopsticks to draw in the air. After a while, they were all stunned. It was indeed seven strokes. My sister was still worried, so she searched Baidu on her phone and exclaimed, "Strange, how come I didn't say a word more or less?"
My brother-in-law was still worried and asked, "Is it really possible to calculate it like this?"
I said, "From the very beginning, the fate of everything is determined. For example, the moment a person is formed in his mother's womb determines how many years he will live."
The meal was almost over, and my brother-in-law put down his chopsticks and said with a smile: "Impossible?"
I put down my chopsticks as well. "It's not impossible, it's genetic determinism. This gene determines that an individual's cells will continue to decay, and the end point of decay is age.
For example, a cell phone circuit board, once manufactured, has genes that dictate that it can only last ten hours, not eleven hours.
My mother waved her hand and said, "You two intellectuals, go talk downstairs. We don't understand."
My father was unhappy and said, "You only represent yourself. What Shanhong said makes sense."
My mother stared at my father, then turned to me and said, "What's the point of being reasonable? If you give birth to a girl, I'll knock you on the head and make you scream."
I stood up and jokingly said, "Mom, do you want to bet a thousand dollars?"
She picked up the broom and hit me: "You are crazy about money."
Her broom stopped in mid-air, and my brother-in-law said, "Why are you pretending? Come on, hit me for real."
I was afraid she would really hit me, so I ran downstairs. She stuck her head out the window and shouted, "Come back to eat tonight. Don't go anywhere else."
My brother-in-law also came downstairs and we went into the night talk room together.
He took the initiative and sat down on a small stool to make tea. As he did so, he said, "Yesterday some people called to ask about the groundbreaking ceremony, and I told them we could do the move-in ceremony together."
I said, "Okay, I won't participate. Master advised me not to participate."
My brother-in-law said, “That’s fine.”
Suddenly, Murong Feng called me. He said, "Master Wan, are you home?"
I was delighted: "Yes."
He said, "I have an important decision to make, and I can't explain it over the phone, so I decided to take the high-speed rail. Is that okay?"
I still only said one word: "OK."
He told me his itinerary and estimated that he would arrive at the high-speed rail station at 5 pm.
I stood up and said to my brother-in-law, "I want to take a nap. I'm feeling a little tired. Go up and tell Mom I'll have dinner outside."
My brother-in-law left and I sat there, thinking: What important matter has Murong Feng encountered?
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