quadruple sleep

Chapter 309 The Hooked Aunt

The quarrel was not just once or twice, and the neighbors heard the content of the quarrel clearly. It was probably that Liu's mother disliked Liu Jun for staying at home every day and doing nothing, and felt ashamed to help out at the breakfast restaurant, and scolded him for being ambitious but incompetent. Liu Jun couldn't help but yelled back at them once, saying, "Why didn't you treat me like this when I brought the money back? I paid with my life for that money."

Lu Nanshen paused the lady boss's words and asked her, "Aunt, did the neighbors hear it clearly? Did Liu Jun really say that?"

"That's right." The proprietress slapped her thigh, "That's what he said. When Liu Jun's neighbor came to my store to treat him to a meal, he told me exactly that. He heard it very clearly."

"Where did Liu Jun work before? What did he do?"

The reason why Lu Nanshen asked this was because before Liu Jun had the car accident, he was a private car driver in the city. To put it bluntly, he was a private car driver. On the day of the accident, he happened to be unwell and took a rest, so he rode an electric bike to the supermarket to buy things. Private car drivers were okay in the past few years, and they made a decent income, but it has been difficult in the past two years. But even before that, it was not possible to make that much money, not to mention exchanging life for money, and the driver's job is not that dangerous.

Therefore, Liu Jun must have been referring to the past. The lady boss shook her head after hearing this, "We don't know either. Ask his parents, and they'll tell you that he's a hauler in the city, and hauling is very profitable. We also have a hauler in other places, and it's very profitable."

Transportation and running a private car are two different things.

But Liu Jun's information did not show that he had ever been involved in transportation. Lu Nan thought for a while and asked two key questions, "In which year did Liu Jun take the money and go back to his hometown? And in which year did he stay at home?"

The proprietress recalled for a long time, "Oh, that was too early. Dajun left home when he was sixteen, so he was about seventeen or eighteen? Well, about that. I remember that it was only a little over a year, less than two years, and the Liu family became prosperous. And then he stayed at home... not long after that. He stayed at home when he was twenty years old."

Lu Nanshen secretly calculated Liu Jun's age. A light flashed through his mind inadvertently, but it quickly disappeared and he failed to catch it.

The lady boss continued. Liu Jun stayed at home for about two years, and finally returned to the city. This time he stayed in the city for a longer time, but he did not go back to his hometown as often as before. Many years passed like this, and Liu's father had passed away. Suddenly one day, Liu's mother went out to the breakfast restaurant and told everyone that she was going to her son's home in the city. At this time, everyone knew that Liu Jun had married and had children in the city.

Maybe it was because Liu Jun made money in the early years, and Liu's mother was too ostentatious, which led to Liu Jun's mediocrity and Liu's mother felt aggrieved for many years. It was not until her son took her to the city that she was finally able to raise her head and feel proud. Her ostentatious nature came back, and she told everyone that her son was worried about her old age and left her alone in her hometown, so he asked her to sell the restaurant as well? I said, it's a pity to sell such a good restaurant, but my son said, it's not like he can't support me, why should I suffer that?
The lady boss sighed, "Actually, we are all neighbors, there is really no need to show off like that. Everyone knows each other. It makes everyone gossip about her behind her back, saying that she is going to the city to enjoy herself, but she is just going to be a free babysitter to look after the children. When the children go to school and become independent, won't they kick her back to her hometown?"

Hang Si understood.

The evil of human nature: you can be good, but you can't be better than me. Or even if you know that the other person is showing off, you will still feel jealous because of her showing off. You can't stand seeing others' goodness, this is the bad nature in your bones.

"Then Dajun had a car accident, and Yurong returned with her children and mother-in-law." The boss lady said. The neighbors had a good impression of Yurong, a hardworking daughter-in-law who was also the head of the Liu family, because Liu's mother was not as flamboyant in front of Yurong as before, and Yurong's words were the truth. Yurong was able to return to the county town with her family, which really surprised the neighbors.

The previous breakfast restaurant had been sold, and the owner had switched to other businesses. Yurong opened a small shop and started from scratch. Liu's mother was good at steaming buns, especially mixing the dough, and Yurong was good at cooking, so the snack bar had everything from breakfast to lunch and dinner.

"I feel sorry for Yurong. She is such a good woman. After her husband passed away, she has been taking care of her children and mother-in-law." The proprietress sighed sincerely, "We all say behind her back that the Liu family is lucky to have such a daughter-in-law. If it were someone else, she might have taken the compensation and ran away, leaving the children to the elderly, or flirted with some man. It is true that widows are often gossiped about, but everyone respects Yurong, so there is nothing bad to say about her."

These words came from the heart, and Lu Nanshen could see that the boss lady was really praising Wang Yurong. "That's right..." The boss lady hesitated.

"That's right. Whenever neighbors show concern for them and ask about Dajun's car accident, they either keep silent or change the subject. In short, they don't like to talk about it."

The proprietress sighed again, "It's understandable, right? No one wants to talk about such a sad thing, but I always feel that their family is particularly sensitive about this matter, and particularly... um, evasive. They are clearly the victims, but they act as if they hit someone. There is a family named Sun here. His wife was in a car accident a few years ago and became disabled. That family really tells everyone they meet and scolds them whenever they get the chance, as if they are afraid that others don't know that their family is the victim. The reaction is completely opposite to Liu Jun's family."

Hang Si felt that both reactions were very tiring. There are some people in this world who love to complain. No matter how familiar they are with others, they will pour out all their ugly deeds to others to win sympathy from others. There are also some people who just puff up their own pride and swallow their own bitterness, but always appear bright and beautiful to outsiders.

If both types of induction exist, then there is a logical reason for their existence. However, it is true that the Liu family is the latter, but they don't even mention it, which in itself goes against conventional logic.

Finally, the lady boss also talked about Hang Si's previous hesitation, "For someone like Da Jun's mother, even though the pillar of the family is gone, she can still go back to her hometown without caring about the opinions of outsiders. She has simply changed her character."

This conversation gave them a lot of information.

Finally, the proprietress volunteered, "We are from the same village, how about I help you persuade Yurong? We watched this Dajun grow up, and we feel sad that he is gone. If there is really a grievance, we can also help her Liu family to seek justice."

Lu Nanshen was waiting for her to say this, and immediately offered her some tea, "Then thank you very much, Auntie."

"This child is so polite. You call me auntie, it's fate. Dajun is a pitiful child, I can't bear it, I will help him as much as I can." The proprietress patted her chest and assured, "Don't worry, leave this matter to auntie, I will do the ideological work for Yurong!"