Chapter Thirty-eight
Peony Hong is used to the days when she comes to reach out for her, so how could she bear the hardships of a remote countryside? But when she is pregnant, she cannot rely on her beautiful face and sweet singing style to make her feel reluctant. Guo Shanren is careful with Muony Hong every day and uses ways to make Muony Hong happy. Guo Shanren himself cooks all three meals a day, and even when he gets up in the morning, he doesn't let Muony Hong do it. His father-in-law Guo Shanren often holds a piping pot and meets his son and daughter-in-law Nian Cuiying with his piping pot. Guo Shanren sees his son and daughter-in-law pursing his lips and laughs with a embarrassed face, and he doesn't feel anything. In Guo Ziyi's words: Shuangyou is more filial to his wife than to his mother.
If you can't stand it, you have to read it. If you close the door, it's a family. Who outsiders know? Every morning after dinner, Guo Ziyi locks himself in the study and uses reading to relieve his anger. But the yard often makes the bitter tone of Qin Opera enter his ears, making people feel idle, as if the peony red has thousands of bitterness and hatreds, all accumulated together. The resentful tone makes the sun tremble. Seeing the shadow of the sun shook constantly on the wall. Guo Ziyi was upset and closed the window, but the sound squeezed in through the crack of the door, like a dog holding its tail, miserable and cold. Guo Ziyi couldn't sit still, took a book, came to the ditch, sat under the pear tree, and let the mountain wind blow away the boredom in his heart.
Guo Shuangyou came here, and the father and son sat together. Guo Ziyi knew in her heart that the purpose of her son looking for him was to ask for money. The actor had to rely on money to support him. If Guo Shuangyou was not desperate, he would definitely not go home. Guo Ziyi was not confused, and his palms and backs were full of flesh. Although he was unwilling to do so, the actor was pregnant with the descendants of the Guo family and had been single-handed for several generations. He still hoped that he would have another grandson in his heart, so he could not block his son's road too much. Guo Ziyi wanted to have a good talk with his son. Shuangyou had already become a father of two children and was about to be a grandfather, so he had to calm down no matter what.
The father and son sat opposite each other, Guo Ziyi waited for his son to speak, and as long as his son's request was not excessive, he would find a way to satisfy him. He would like to make his son angry and not to tell his son to die. He would be better than having no son. He was old and had few days left. Although he had many regrets in this life, he still had to rely on his son to support him in his old age.
Unexpectedly, Guo Shanren held a gun and a stick as soon as he opened his mouth: "Dad, I called you dad, right?"
Guo Ziyi raised her head and asked her son: "What does it mean?"
Guo Shanren expressed his anger for more than ten years: "Don't put on the pig's nose - pretend to be elephant! On the surface, it was to marry me, but in fact it was to marry you a little wife. The foolish daughter had slept with you for more than ten years! Guo Quanfa is your youngest son, right?"
Guo Ziyi was like a stuffy pig, dizzy. The thief bit her bite, and the thief bite her bite, and the thief bite was seven points in his bones! No wonder Guo Shuang has not been sleeping with his wife for more than ten years. It turned out that he suspected that his father had an affair with his wife... This was a mystery, and he jumped into the Yellow River and could not be cleared. Guo Ziyi had difficulty telling her mouth, so he had to break her teeth and swallow it into her stomach! Guo Ziyi laughed, her cheeks became gloomy and terrifying. Seeing the mountains in the distance, Guo Ziyi wanted to stand up and slapped the beast with a righteous slap, but his body seemed to be nailed there, and the land under his butt was sinking, burying him little by little. He gasped and his throat was choked.
Guo Shanren was still relentless: "Since you have two sons, you should divide the property into two parts and drive me out of nothing like this. How can you bear it?"
Guo Ziyi was completely destroyed and didn't even have the strength to say a word. Guo Shanren was so angry that he felt that his goal had been achieved, so he stood up and left.
As the mountain wind blows, Guo Ziyi gradually wakes up, worked hard all his life, worked diligently, and worked hard to run this family. In the end, his son bites this bite, tearing his spirit to the point of blood. He is unwilling to accept it, and pinched his thighs hard, feeling it hurts, knowing that he is not dead, at least his heart is still beating, and the blood in his blood vessels is still flowing! He staggers and stands up, a plan of revenge is planned in his chest, even if I am Guo Ziyi, I can't let you, Guo Shuang live happily! You said I have two sons, Guo Quanfa is not a fake, it is the flesh and blood of my Guo family! I want to leave all the belongings that this old rooster can't bear to Quanfa, you don't want to use a copper cousin!
After thinking about it, my heart calmed down. After returning home, Guo Ziyi told Nian Cuiying: "Fry a plate of eggs for me, then a plate of badger meat, warm a pot of wine, and bring it to the study. After sending it back, I asked him to come to my study." Nian Cuiying didn't know what she said, and took the wine and food for her grandfather to the study as she told her grandfather. When she saw her grandfather's tears, she asked her grandfather: "Grandpa, why are you crying?" Guo Ziyi wiped her tears and said to her grandson's wife, "Grandpa is happy..."
Guo Quanfa rode a mule to Wagou Town that day, and had no idea what was going on at home. Since his father married him a stepmother, Guo Quanfa has been reluctant to stay at home. Every day, he rode a mule to Wagou Town to buy medicinal materials. Although there are not many people who come to sell medicinal materials, it is better than staying at home and listening to his stepmother scolding him. Although Guo Quanfa has no feelings for his father, he does not feel disgusted, but Guo Quanfa has an innate annoyance to his stepmother. That feeling of annoyingness is embedded in the bones and cannot be erased.
When it was dark, Guo Quan sent it back, and his wife Nian Cuiying told him that his grandfather seemed to be unable to think about anything. Guo Quanfa came to his grandfather's bedroom and saw his grandfather sitting upright on the kang smoking hookah. On the wall of the kang, he was lit with candles that he wouldn't want to use on weekdays. He put a mule cage on the ground, and the two bags were filled with stuff. Before Quanfa could speak, his grandfather said, "Quanfa, go to bed early tonight, get up early tomorrow, let's go to Fengqi."
Quanfa sat on the edge of the kang and asked grandpa: "What are we going to Fengqi for?" Grandpa said, you will know when you go.
The next morning, before dawn, grandfather stood in front of Quanfa's window and shouted, "Quanfa, get up, let's go to Fengqi today, go early and return early." Quanfa rubbed his hair's slapped eyes and saw the mule tied to a stone stake, the pack was already on the mule's back, two trunks were put into the pack cage, the other mule was covered with a saddle, and a velvet mattress (carpet) was placed on the saddle. Quanfa was a little surprised. The velvet mattress was my favorite thing, and it was usually covered on the kang. Grandpa said that he would sleep on it and (comfortable).
It seems that grandpa is going to go far. Quan asked: "Grandpa, where are you going?"
Guo Ziyi replied: "Grandpa is upset and wants to go out for a few days."
Quanfa continued to ask, "What is it carrying in the carriage?"
Grandpa touched Quanfa's head, and his voice was a little choked: "You will know after you arrive at Fengqi."
In the Dongxia house, the actor might be peeing and could hear the sound of urine flowing into the copper basin. Suddenly, the actor exclaimed: "Wolf"! Guo Shanren woke up from his sleep and grabbed the actor's hand that he put on the edge of the kang: "Don't be afraid, this yard is covered with brick walls, and the wolf cannot enter." The actor's voice was a little terrified: "How could I hear the sound in the yard?" Guo Shanren said: "That may be a mouse."
Guo Ziyi covered the mouth of Quanfa and did not let his grandson make any noise. Suddenly, the mule sniffed and screamed to the sky a few times, piercing the silence before dawn. The grandfather and grandson led a mule and quietly left the yard. When they were about to leave the village, their grandfather suddenly said, "Let's go to the ancestral grave to have a walk."
Guo Quanfa had a premonition and was a little confused. He couldn't tell what happened at home when he arrived in Wagou Town yesterday. Seeing that his grandfather changed his past kindness and became silent, he became scared and shouted: "Grandpa, you have me, don't be unable to think too far"!
Grandpa pulled the mule and walked silently in front of the ancestral grave. When he arrived at the ancestral grave, Grandpa stood in front of every tomb for a long time. In front of Quanfa’s mother’s grave, Grandpa held Quanfa’s hand and said, “Quanfa, this is your mother’s grave. Remember in the future, don’t forget to burn paper for your mother during the holidays.” Quanfa cried: “Grandpa, can you tell me what happened when I was not at home yesterday? Grandpa still didn’t speak and was silent. The sun came out, and the singing of birds came from the forest. Grandpa suddenly said, “My great-grandson was called Guo Wentao when he was born, the second great-grandson was called Guo Wenxuan, the third great-grandson was called Guo Wenyi, and the fourth great-grandson was called..." Guo Quanfa raised his head and asked Grandpa: “Grandpa, how many great-grandson do you plan to have”? Grandpa smiled at the sky: “Of course the more, the better.”
Guo Ziyi never told Quanfa that the quarrel he had with Guo Shuang was a mystery. Guo Ziyi planned to bring it into the coffin. She lowered a gentle slope and climbed over the donkey's tail beam. Fengqicheng was far away. Grandpa got off the mule, walked to an old locust tree, and said to Quanfa: "Let's sit down."
The grandfather and grandson sat under the old locust tree, and then the grandfather told his grandson that there were two silver dollars carrying on the mule, which was about two thousand yuan. Guo Shuang's donkey was hurting his grandfather's heart. Grandpa didn't plan to leave a copper coin for Guo Shuangyou. Guo Ziyi planned to hand over all his belongings to Quanfa's father-in-law Nian Tianxi (called Donkey), so that Nian Tianxi would take care of Quanfa first, and wait for Quanfa to grow up before coming back...
That year, Guo Quanfa was seventeen years old. Although he was about to be a father, his thin shoulders were a little immature. Although he had no good feelings for his father, he never thought of taking over the property. He saw his grandfather's cracked lips swallowing a mouthful of saliva. Grandpa always had a scheming heart when he did things. It seemed that the father must have hurt his grandfather's heart! When the stepmother entered the house, his grandfather expressed his cautious admission. Why did it take a few days? What prompted his grandfather to make such a big decision? Guo Quanfa knelt down at his grandfather and burst into tears: "Grandpa, you are so old that you are not as good as your own home anywhere! You stay, your father will not support you, Cuiying and I will support you in the old age and see you off..."
Guo Ziyi sighed: "Baby, do you think I want to leave? I can't explain some things to you, and there is no need to figure them out. Grandpa goes out for fun. In a few years, Quanfa will take the trouble on his shoulders, and he will come back."
The mule shouted directly into the backyard of the tavern called Donkey. When he saw his son-in-law and his uncle, he would like to say hello to his grandfather and grandson if he had eaten? Guo Ziyi pointed to the pack cage on the mule's back and said, "Don't take off the pack first, give us some food and drink. You will close the door later. Let's go together with your old house in your village last year, and I have to entrust some things to my in-laws."
He asked the donkey and felt strange. He didn't know what Guo Ziyi was going to do. According to Guo Ziyi's instructions, he closed the door, cut a plate of donkey meat for the grandfather and grandson, brought a few sesame cakes, and made two bowls of mixed soup. He saw that the grandfather and grandson had enough food and drink, and then took the grandfather and grandson to the road to the last year's house.
When he arrived at Nianjiazhuang, his mother-in-law came out and first greeted Guo Ziyi: "Uncle, why do you have free time to visit your relatives today?" Guo Ziyi smiled and counted as an answer. The mother-in-law also wanted to ask about her daughter Cuiying's recent situation, so Guo Ziyi waved her hand: "Please carry the pack down first and then talk about it."
The pack was carried down, and Guo Ziyi tore open the hole in the bag and called the donkey dumbfounded, with two silver dollars in total!
Guo Ziyi sat on the steps in the yard, took off her shoes, poured the soil inside the shoes, and said to the caller, "Please ask the in-laws to keep these two silver dollars for Quanfa and Cuiying first. In a few years, the child can take on the responsibility, and then return the silver dollars to the child."
Chapter completed!