Chapter 783: The best old friend
Wang Ju rushed back from the He family's villa. Naturally, he missed the He family representative who visited the hospital again. He learned from his wife and son that the He family representative knew that the He family paid for the ambulance and helped them with the Wang family's emergency treatment. I paid 50,000 yuan for the hospitalization fee, and also gave him a pill. I heard that it was one of the return gifts given to the He family by the adopted grandson of the Chao family at Mr. Chao’s birthday party last year. It was a detoxification pill.
Hearing that the He family generously sent pills, Director Wang was not only not surprised, but also extremely depressed. It was understandable that the He family took the initiative to bear the hospitalization expenses. After all, their old man had an accident at the He family. As the owner, the He family had to bear the responsibility of guests. Liability for unexpected risks.
However, the meaning behind sending pills is definitely not out of friendship, but a potential sign that from now on, the He family and the Wang family will not interact with each other in private except for official business. Even if there is a private banquet, the He family will He will not invite their family again. After all, the He family does not make pills. It is impossible to give pills to guests who are drunk every time.
It was also because their old man was discourteous at Mrs. He's birthday party by getting drunk. If he wanted to follow the He family's path in the future, he would not be able to ask for a good word in front of the Chao family's little righteous grandson. It was also difficult for the Chao family. After all, yesterday Wan was not only using favors from the He family, but also using favors from the brothers of the Chao family. It was impossible for Mr. Chao to help them put in a good word in front of his sister.
Last night, the old man got drunk and was impolite. The potential loss was huge.
Now that things have come to this, Director Wang can't complain about his father. He immediately goes for discharge surgery and goes home to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. After taking the pills sent by the He family, he will come back after the festival to experience it. Depending on the situation, he will see whether he needs to be hospitalized. treat.
The people of the Great Celestial Dynasty have always had the custom of giving gifts on festivals. Whether they are rich or noble, they visit relatives on important festivals to enhance their relationship. The Mid-Autumn Festival is no exception. In cities and countryside, good friends either send each other gifts or gather together. , or move around.
The customs in Jiudao Township are basically similar to the trend. On some festivals, relatives are required to visit relatives to give gifts. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, a newly married girl usually has to give a Mid-Autumn gift to her parents' family, or take her parents to her husband's house to celebrate the festival. Yueqing also follows the custom and gives gifts first. My mother-in-law’s house sent me a moon cake.
The National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holidays are long, and Zhou Chunmei and Zhou Tianming also returned home on the National Day. Zhou Chunmei went to Lejia frequently on the first day and the next day, and found that the food was similar to that at home, nothing special. He didn't like it anymore. Instead, Zhou Tianming often went to his aunt's house to see his little cousin.
Brother Zhou originally wanted to take my mother back from Lejia before the National Day because the Mid-Autumn Festival was coming, but his sister and brother-in-law refused. His mother was happy living in Lejia and didn't want to go back. He didn't force her and let her live in Yueqing's house. He and himself Zhang Poluo and others helped the Le family build a house.
Money can make a fool of himself. The money for Lejia's house construction has been secured, and the bricks needed have been delivered. They were placed in the empty space in front and behind the original Liu's house. The steel bar store on the street had already cut the steel bars that Lejia needed, and they can go there at any time. After moving back, the owners helped deliver cement, lime and river sand to their home. Before construction started, all the materials were ready.
After more than a month of hard work, the demolition and construction team has completed the demolition of the house walls built by the Liu family. The work of cleaning up the brick walls and waste bricks has also been basically completed. The wall foundation will soon be dug and the foundation can be laid. Construction of the wall started.
Autumn is dry and very hot at noon. The demolition and construction team composed of Brother Zhou and others do not work under the scorching sun. They usually start work after two o'clock in the afternoon. After lunch, Brother Zhou, Zhang Poluo and Liu Lu go to Lejia to enjoy the cool weather while they work Most of them pass by the entrance of Lejia, and often sit there before going to work together. Or sometimes they wash their faces and hands in front of Lejia and take a rest before going home.
When the three of them arrived, little Leshan was sleeping, and they didn't bother the baby, because the Le family picked a lot of cucumbers, and the three brothers couldn't wait to wash the cucumbers and make vinegar to eat.
Just in the middle of eating, I heard someone calling Yueqing outside. The voice sounded strange. Brother Zhou and his buddies ran out of the Lejia main room to take a look. They saw a man about their age getting out of a motorcycle parked on the alley next to the Lejia house. After getting off the car, he walked to the eaves of Yueqing carrying a box of beautifully packaged moon cakes. The man was about 1.7 meters tall, with an ordinary Chinese character face and a big beer belly.
Looking at that man, Brother Zhou felt that he looked familiar. He couldn't remember it for a moment, so he said smoothly: "Yueqing is at home, come in and sit."
The man who had just walked into the eaves of Lejia carrying moon cakes saw the man coming out of Lejia's house. Several people's eyes fell on Zhou Xialong, and the expressions on their faces changed: "You are... Zhou Nilu, ah no, are you Zhou Xialong?"
"I remembered, you are Wang You who went to the paddy field." Brother Zhou thought he looked familiar at first, but couldn't remember who it was. When he heard the other party calling his nickname "Zhou Nilo", he knew who it was. .
Xiashuitian Village and Meizijing Village are separated by a road, but they are not facing each other. Taking the direction of the county town as the starting point, Meizijing Village is south of the middle of the township road, and Xiashuitian Village is at the end of the township road.
Because they all live near Xiang Street, many people in the same town who are one or two years apart are almost all elementary school classmates. Wang Yu and Yueqing were also classmates in elementary school and junior high school. When Wang Yu was a child, his father had lumbar stones and his family was extremely poor. , when he was studying, he often asked Yueqing to borrow money.
Because Wang Tao and Yueqing were familiar with each other, the Wang family borrowed thousands of dollars from the Le family one after another, but they never paid it back. Wang Tao's father's stone disease was also cured by Yueqing's father Lehong. Lehong knew that Wang's family was in trouble, so he confiscated any medicine money from Wang's family.
When Yueqing’s leg was broken and the Le family was in urgent need of money, do you know what the Wang family did? Haha, that family obviously had money, so if they didn't pay it back, they would let it go. They also lied and said that they didn't borrow the money from the Le family at all, and told the Le family that if the Wang family borrowed the money from the Le family, they would come up with an IOU.
In the past, people who lent money and things were acquaintances. Who would ask someone to write an IOU? It was based on credit. Lejia never asked anyone to write an IOU when lending money to others, so naturally it couldn't be issued.
Before Yueqing broke his leg, Wang You and Yueqing were still working in the same electronic product factory in the same place in Gdong Province. Yueqing also approached Wang You personally, but Wang You simply avoided seeing him.
The Wang Tao family just cheated the Le family of money, and what was even worse was to add insult to injury behind the scenes, telling others not to lend money to the Le family, saying that the Le family was a bottomless hole, and the money borrowed by the Le family must be borrowed and never repaid. .
More than ten years have passed, and Brother Zhou has forgotten Wang Yu's name. Naturally, he didn't recognize him at first sight, because his nickname "Zhou Nilu" was given to him by Wang Yu's brother. The Wang brothers The people in Hexiashuitian Village called him the loudest nickname, so when Wang Yu accidentally called him a nickname, he took his seat.
Recognizing who the person was, Brother Zhou's face turned from sunny to gloomy, and he stared at the shy Wang with a beer belly in a bad tone: "Why are you coming to my brother-in-law's house?"
Zhou Xialong called out the name "Wang Yu", adding the prefix "Xia Shuitian" in front of it. Zhang Poluo and Liu Lu also quickly remembered who Wang Yu was. There were many people with the same name and surname. There were two people in Jiudaoxiang Street. Wang Yu, because they live in different villages, it is easier to distinguish them. When Wang Yu and Yueqing from Xiashuitian Village were classmates, they often went to Yueqing's house to play. In fact, it was more about eating and drinking than playing. Wang Yu's parents were also very attentive to the Le family. As soon as something happened in Yueqing, the Wang family's attitude changed immediately, and they turned against each other faster than turning the pages of a book.
Recognized by Zhou Xialong, Wang Hao forced out a smile and greeted warmly: "Xia Long, I haven't seen you for many years, but you haven't changed at all. Unlike me, who works hard every day and ages quickly. You all agree. I'm here."
"Don't talk about it. I remember someone said that when they went to Le's house, they were afraid of getting their shoes dirty. They would never urinate in the direction of Le's house. What are you doing here now? Go back wherever you come, lest the mud in front of Lejia's door stains your expensive shoes. Uncle Le has been dead for many years, and Yueqing has not studied medicine. If your father has kidney stones again, there will be no job in Lejia that you want to find now. Bodhisattva, you went to the wrong place when you were looking for someone to get the medicine. Go back to the hospital quickly, and don’t say it’s Lejia that will delay your treatment.” Brother Zhou didn’t care whether he was from the same hometown or his classmates were from different schools
. They were so shameless, Zhang Poluo and Liu Lu grinned unkindly. Zhou Xialong usually didn't talk much. He was an honest man, but he was not easy to mess with. I don’t like how to turn, so go straight.
Many years have passed since the Le family incident. Zhou Xialong still remembered the little incident of Chen Sesame and rotten millet. When he exposed it, Wang Yu's face turned red and he smiled: "Xia Long, I was young and ignorant back then. At this age, I also understand the hard work of being a parent, and I know that I was really nothing back then. If I don’t pay back the money now, I’ll pay you back.” “
Haha,” Brother Zhou didn’t hide his disgust: “You mean to pay back the money? I remember you back then. Wang Yu told the people in Shiliba Village that your family had never borrowed money from the Le family. He also swore that if the Wang family borrowed money from the Le family and refused to acknowledge the debt, they would die. Now you are saying that you have to pay back the money. What kind of money is it? When did you borrow it? Did you write an IOU to Lejia? Did you have witnesses when you borrowed the money? "
Zhou Xialong would not let go of the old things, and even regurgitated some old sayings. No matter how thick-skinned Wang Hao was, he could not hold on. His face turned red, and he looked pleadingly at the other two people, hoping to help him out, but the two people standing outside the gate of Le's house had no way to help him out. Meaning, there is no way to advance or retreat at the moment.
Just as he was not knowing whether to advance or retreat, he heard a woman's voice coming from inside the house: "Brother, who is here?"
Hearing his sister's words, Zhou Xialong immediately looked at the window of the room facing the road, and saw a face Dui Shang smiled: "Xiao Feng, did you wake up the baby? You take the baby and continue to sleep. There are irrelevant people outside, so you don't need to worry about it." "
Leshan hasn't woken up yet. If we are guests, please call me ." Yueqing says hello." Zhou Qiufeng was taking a nap with her baby when she was woken up by the sound. She originally wanted to get up and see who it was, but after her brother said it was an insignificant person, she really didn't care.
"I know." Brother Zhou agreed with a smile, but he had one thought in his heart: This is not a guest, he is just a shameless second-rate guy, and he would use a broom to greet him.
(End of chapter)