I am Fugui

Chapter 5 Father Xu
Seeing that Laishun was reluctant to part with Xu Jiazu's house, Xu Fugui bumped his shoulder, "Let's go, this is not our home, no matter how much you look at it, it's useless."

He walked two steps forward, didn't hear anything, turned his head and saw that Laishun was still staring at the direction of the house.

He laughed and said: "Hey, you kid, why don't I tell Long Er to ask him to hire you as a job?"

Laishun pointed at the house, "No, young master, do you think that is the master?"

Looking in the direction of Laishun's fingers, an old man in a black silk gown slowly came out from the black gate of the house, carrying a cloth bag on his shoulder.

Xu Fugui hurried forward and took the cloth bag from the old man's shoulder, "Father, why did you go to Long Er?"

Father Xu raised his eyelids and glanced at him, expressionless, "Bastard, you still have a bit of conscience, so you didn't leave."

Xu Fugui lowered his head, his nose sore, "Father, I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry for the ancestors of the Xu family."

Father Xu's face softened a little, and he walked towards the village with his hands behind his back, "Say these words for something, you bastard, you won't stop until you piss me off."

"It's good for you to poke such a big basket. It's a pity that I have to run this house for you at my age."

"Bastard, let me tell you something. I'm old and I can't do it anymore. From now on, you will have to shoulder the burden of the Xu family."

Under the night, looking at Xu's father's slightly bent back, Xu Fugui's nose became even more sore, "Father, I know."

Father Xu obviously didn't have much confidence in him. He coughed, waved his hands, and walked on the dirt road in the country.

Laishun followed, and couldn't help but snatch the cloth bag from his hand, and put it on his shoulder.

"Master, where did you borrow this grain?" Laishun asked carelessly.

"Borrow? Fifty catties of polished rice, who dares to borrow it? Your master, I pawned my fingers for ten silver dollars, and bought these fifty catties of rice back."

"I don't know if I'm not in charge. Why is this copper coin worthless? I still remember when I was young, I went to the rice shop, and a catty of rice was only five or six yuan."

"Today, I went to the county to ask. The best polished rice cost [-] copper coins a catty, and [-] catties of polished rice cost me almost two silver dollars. Bah, this shitty world!"

As he spoke, Father Xu spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm angrily.

"Ah? Master, did you pawn your finger?" Laishun asked in disbelief.

Xu Fugui bowed his head and said nothing, saying that a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Even though his Xu family lost all their land and ancestral house, they still kept some jewelry at home.

Even in this era of war, these valuables can be worth a lot of money.

It's a pity that in his previous life, he had been caught in the blow of losing all his family property and couldn't get out. All these valuables were used as silver dollars to maintain the life of the family.

Sitting and eating, it didn't take long before the family had no money or food, so he resigned to his fate and learned to farm.

If he had awakened earlier in the previous life and kept these valuables, life at home would not have been so difficult.

At least, when Fengxia and Xu's mother were sick and had a fever, they had the money to hire a doctor.

Father Xu glanced at him, "Bastard, don't even think about the money. If you dare to go to the casino again, I'll break your leg!"

Xu Fugui responded, "I won't go again, father, don't be angry, don't get angry because of me."

Father Xu glanced at him in surprise, "You bastard, you still know how to care about me? Tsk tsk, you can't be a young master, so you want to be a dutiful son?"

Xu Fugui quietly rolled his eyes, "Father, can you stop calling me a beast, you're scolding yourself."

Father Xu shook his head slightly, "You're just a beast. Mr. Private School was right. You'll be a bum when you grow up."

Xu Fugui muttered, "I'm a little bastard, but you didn't teach me well."

Father Xu smiled instead of anger, and stretched out two fingers, "You're right, you little bastard was taught by me, an old bastard. The Xu family's ancestors have produced two bastards, my father and I."

"But I'm better than you. I gambled when I was young, but I didn't lose all my family property. If I lose enough, I won't gamble."

"It's not like you, a bastard, who gambles all night and doesn't have any calculations in his mind. He doesn't know the family property after the calculations are over."

"I've lost it all, so you won't have to go out and wander around, you bastard, and you can work for me at home with peace of mind in the future."

"You don't even want to get a dime of the family's money."

Father Xu was just like him when he was young. He was proficient in eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. Originally, the Xu family had more than 200 mu of land, but they lost more than 100 mu of land to him.

The Xu family's rich family background is in the hands of the two of them, and it can be regarded as the end of tossing.

The night covered the earth, a bright full moon hung alone in the sky, and the cold moonlight sprinkled on the dirt path, reflecting three blurred figures.

"His father is back, let's eat, I'll wait for you."

Xu's mother had been waiting for them outside the house, and greeted them directly when she saw the situation.

Father Xu hummed, and walked into the house on his own. When he came out, the black silk gown on his body had been replaced with coarse cloth clothes.

"If you ask me, this clothes are more comfortable to wear than silk. Silk clothes are slippery when worn on the body, like saliva."

There was no table in the thatched hut, and everyone gathered around the adobe stove, each holding a rough clay bowl with two sweet potatoes in it. Seeing that no one was talking, Xu's father took the initiative to say something.

After speaking, seeing Xu Fugui peeling an egg, he stretched out his chopsticks and tapped him precisely on his wrist.

"Father, why did you hit me?"

Xu Fugui withdrew his hand, seeing that the egg was about to fall to the ground, he quickly caught it without caring about it being hot.

Xu's mother grabbed his hand and looked at it distressedly, then turned her head and scolded, "Old man, why are you beating my son for no reason?"

Father Xu snorted coldly, "Animals are not worthy of eating eggs."

"Old bastards are not worthy of eating. My family's wealth has just subsided. What's wrong with eating an egg?"

Xu's mother is usually a very gentle person, especially for her only son, she can be regarded as doting on her, and she will support him in everything, no matter right or wrong.

Xu Fugui gave them a funny look, and put the peeled eggs in Jiazhen's bowl, "Father, I peeled these eggs for Jiazhen, mother, don't worry, your son is in good health."

"That's about the same." Father Xu didn't say anything more.

Xu's mother glanced at Jiazhen, and said with a smile: "Eat, Jiazhen, Fugui still knows how to hurt others, and knows that you should eat well."

Jiazhen responded, and ate eggs in small bites. Although she was wearing coarse clothes, her movements showed everyone's norms.

Not only Jiazhen, but Xu's father and Xu's mother also did the same. Although they ate boiled sweet potatoes, their actions were not rude.

Xu Fugui had long since lost these habits, he took a big bite of sweet potato and chewed hard to comfort the noisy Wu Zang Temple, causing Xu's father to turn around in disgust, out of sight and out of mind.
(End of this chapter)