Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2612
Guan Youde bid farewell to Zhong Ji, and returned home with a drowsy head. He didn't even say hello to the acquaintances he met along the way.

The door was pushed open with a "squeak", and the adobe house was empty, with few valuable things. It would not be too much to say that it was a barren house.

After lying on the dilapidated bed and squinting for a while, Guan Youde got up, lit firewood on the small stove, and boiled the medicine. All the money in the family has been wasted in the medicine pot these years.

I don’t know what sins he committed in his previous life. He got a strange disease when he was the most vigorous. In the past ten years, he has seen all the famous and fashionable doctors in the surrounding area. He also invited gods from the Taoist priests. , his body is getting worse day by day, but God doesn't let him die immediately.After the Australians came in, he pawned his family property and pooled his money to seek medical treatment at the Provincial Hong Kong General Hospital. A doctor surnamed Fu said it was an intractable disease and prescribed a traditional Chinese medicine prescription for him.It's strange to say that his illness has been stabilized, and he has relied on this prescription for two years to continue his life.

After drinking the medicine, Guan Youde remembered that when he was seeing a doctor in Guangzhou, he met a childhood playmate who was doing business in the city and invited him to make a fortune together, so he inevitably had an idea in his mind.He touched his empty purse, rummaged around in the house, and only found a dime of silver, not even enough to go to Guangzhou City.

"The only way is to ask that stinky woman and Nizi for some money." Guan Youde thought to himself.

In the evening, Guan Youde came to Sanji not far from the village, where several silkworm farmers' thatched huts were located.The walls of the thatched huts are woven with mud from the branches mowed in the mulberry field in winter, and the roof is covered with straw.This kind of thatched cottage is the residence of poor local silkworm farmers, and the silkworm rooms and bedrooms are mixed without distinction.Due to the simple construction, low cost and wide distribution, there are no such silkworm houses where there are mulberry fields.

Guan Youde opened the door and went in, only to see a haggard middle-aged woman in rags, feeding mulberry leaves to silkworms in a dim thatched hut.The woman glanced at Guan Youde, her face was gloomy, she didn't say a word, her hands kept working, as if Guan Youde would disappear automatically as long as she didn't stop.

"Give me two taels of silver, and I'm going to Guangzhou City." Guan Youde said to the woman, he didn't call her by name, nor did he call her by title.

The woman was very dissatisfied when she heard this, and said: "Bao'er takes care of all the money."

Guan Youde scolded unhappily: "You bastard, what's your attitude? Do you still have me, the head of the family, in your eyes?"

"The head of the family should look like the head of the family." The woman retorted, with thorns in her words.

Guan Youde also got angry, and scolded: "I have betrayed all my relatives and divorced my wife and children all my life, and it was all because of you, a bitch! If you hadn't given me a cuckold, I would have become what I am now?"

"Humph," the woman sneered, and said in her heart: What a betrayal, wife and children, I am your wife, I have not enjoyed half a day of happiness with you in this life, you have a strange disease yourself, and all the property in the family has exhausted you. Blame me too!You are ruthless and ungrateful, hooked up with wild women, and kicked me out of the house, and now you have the face to accuse me of crimes, why is God so ungrateful, and didn't ask the king of hell to take you in earlier.

It turned out that this woman was Guan Youde's married wife, Huang Shi, who was kicked out of the house by him two years ago.

Guan Youde scolded, but Huang just endured it and continued without saying a word.At this time, the leaky thatched door was pushed open, and a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy came in. This was Bao'er in Huang's mouth, and the only heir of her and Guan Youde, named Guan Zongbao.

When Guan Zongbao saw that Guan Youde had come, his mood suddenly became very depressed. He didn't even want to look at him, didn't call him, and went straight to help Mrs. Huang with work.

Guan Youde was furious again, and scolded: "Guan Zongbao, do you still see me as my father? Are you my son?"

Mrs. Huang also got angry and screamed, "Why isn't he your son?"

"If you were my son, you wouldn't even call me Dad! Do you still have any respect for me as Dad?" Guan Youde said angrily.

"Ask yourself, what have you done all these years that deserve my respect?" Guan Zongbao didn't know where the courage came from, and he raised his neck and yelled at Guan Youde. Normally, he would hide whenever he could. Avoid as much as you can.

"Then you are not my son! Do you dare to go to the ancestral hall with me and confess your blood in front of the whole family! If it turns out that it is not my son, I will not look for you in the future, and you will not be responsible." Guan You While cursing, De took out matches and cigarettes and lit them.

Seeing this, Huang yelled anxiously: "Don't smoke here! The silkworms will be smoked to death by you! Get out!"

Seeing that his mother was anxious, Guan Zongbao stepped forward and shouted, "Get out!"

Guan Youde saw that the sky was upside down, the stinky woman and her son dared to yell at him like that, they were so angry, they cursed: "You dare to drive me out! This is my home! I am the head of the family!"

"Go back to your Guanjia Village and be the head of the family! My grandma and I built these two thatched huts with bundles of sticks and grass!" Guan Zongbao was very angry and shouted at him without showing any weakness.

How could Guan Youde bear this anger, he slapped Guan Zongbao on the face with his backhand, Guan Zongbao was beaten back two steps, furious for a while, he rushed forward to wrestle with Guan Youde.Since ancient times, sons beating Lao Tzu was the most despicable behavior in feudal ethics. Guan Zongbao didn't dare to be cruel, but just tried to find a way to press Guan Youde to the ground and not let him move.Guan Youde was merciless when he beat others, but it was a pity that he was old and sick after all, and his strength was not as strong as that of Guan Zongbao, who was in his teens. After hitting Guan Zongbao a few times, he was crushed to the ground.

Seeing his father and son fighting each other, Mrs. Huang was so anxious that she couldn't stop crying and crying.

Guan Youde was not willing to give up. Seeing that there was no chance of winning, he bit Guan Zongbao's calf firmly with his mouth. Guan Zongbao quickly let go of his leg in pain. Due to the excessive force just now, Guan Zongbao has already lost strength in his limbs. His hands and feet seemed to be filled with lead, but he was locked up instead. Virtue has the upper hand.

Seeing this, Mrs. Huang was afraid that her son would be beaten into trouble, so she rushed up to beat Guan Youde, and shouted: "Don't hit my son, don't hit my son, if you want to hit you, hit me..."

Guan Youde let go of Guan Zongbao, and went to beat the Huang family.For a while, there was a commotion in the thatched hut, crying and shouting mixed together, and the neighbors who lived next to them were all attracted to them, and then they were separated.The neighbors saw that it was someone else's family business, and they just tried to persuade them with kind words, and no one was willing to uphold justice.

Guan Youde spat and said, "Give me two taels of silver, and I'm going to Guangzhou!"

Huang cried: "Two taels of silver! The past two years have been in turmoil, don't you know how difficult life is? If I give it to you, what will my mother and son use to buy charcoal for drying cocoons and silkworm paper for the next one? "

Guan Youde snorted coldly, "Whether you steal it or sell it, what does it matter to me? You are my wife, and it is only right and proper to give me money! I have worked so hard to raise my son, and now it is my turn." It's time for him to take care of his son!"

Guan Zongbao knew that Guan Youde would never give up until he got the silver today. He only felt that there was infinite resentment in his heart, but he didn't know where to vent it. He gritted his teeth and said, "Silver! Silver! You only know silver! Have you ever had such a thing in your heart? Our mother and son?"

After finishing speaking, Guan Zongbao turned around in the thatched hut, and picked out a few pieces of broken silver from several different positions on the roof, the wall, and the ground, and threw them to Guan Youde: "You want silver?" Just take it, and don’t bother us in the future!”

Guan Youde picked up the silver, weighed it in his hands, and said with a sneer, "I'll be back." After speaking, he left without looking back.

After the fight just now, Guan Zongbao was weak all over, his mouth and tongue were dry, and the soaring adrenaline in his blood made him pale and dizzy.Unbearably thirsty, he scooped up a bowl of cold water from the bucket and drank it. After a while, he felt uncomfortable in his stomach and threw up holding the urine bucket.

Mrs. Huang endured it for many years. Today, since she was seen by her neighbors as a family scandal, she began to cry in front of them. If she didn't speak up at this time, in a few days, all the gossip that was unfavorable to her mother and son would spread in the village.Others can't care about this matter. After listening to it, it can't do anything except sigh and sigh. Well-meaning people can at most say a few words about Youde when they hear gossip.

After the neighbors dispersed, only a mess remained in the thatched cottage. Guan Zongbao took out a candle and lit a match to light it up. The shadows of the mother and child flickered under the faint flames.

Guan Zongbao glanced at his calf, there was a scary tooth mark on it, and blood was still flowing.He remembered that the elders in the clan once said that the mouths of animals are poisonous, and they had to be washed with shochu after they were bitten, so he dug out a small bottle of shochu from the sundries and poured it on. The pain caused tears to come out of the corners of his eyes.

Huang's eyes were dull, his expression was in a trance, and he just shed tears silently.The burden of survival has made her breathless, and there is a man like a plague god who comes to make troubles at home from time to time.

After treating the wound, Guan Zongbao asked Huang: "Grandma, what should I do next?"

Huang cried: "This god damn it, why didn't God take him away! I don't know what crime I did in my previous life, and I have to pay off the debt. I've had enough of this kind of life..."

Guan Zongbao heard Huang's thoughts of committing suicide, and hurriedly said: "Grandma, if you don't want to live with him, then don't live with him."

Huang said: "I thought about it too, but with his current state, how could he divorce me? If he was a bastard, he would have been killed and sold for meat long ago. Who told him to be a human again."

"Then we'll go away and never come back."

Mrs. Huang hesitated, "My mother and son are gone, he must go to my mother's house to make trouble, your grandfather is getting old, and uncle is useless..."

Guan Zongbao was also resentful in his heart. The neighbors are poor, but the family can live in harmony. There will always be a good day. Why is his family flying around all the time?Everything is rooted in that person, and we must find a way to get rid of him.

(End of this chapter)