Chapter 35 Grace and Righteousness
The second reunion with his father, six years have passed in a blink of an eye, at this time Zhang He has moved out of the ancestral house in Guangqumen, and also ended his rental career for nearly a year, living with his wife and children in a suite of his father-in-law, becoming an authentic inverted son-in-law.
On this day, Zhang He happened to not pick up the group, and was sitting alone on the sofa at home reading a book. Suddenly, a knock on the door broke his silence.
"Wait a minute!" Zhang He shouted at the door, then closed the book, got up and went back to the bedroom to find his mobile phone, and habitually asked outside while opening the door: "What did my daughter-in-law order?"
Unexpectedly, the person standing at the door was not a courier brother, but an old man with white hair. This couldn't help but make Zhang He stunned before he said, "Why are you here?" and then opened the security door outside and let the old man in.
I saw that the old man didn't extinguish the cigarette in his hand, so he entered the door in a daze, and after turning around in this two-bedroom apartment of less than 50 square meters, he unceremoniously went to the sofa and said: "If I don't look for you, will you not look for me for the rest of your life?"
Zhang He stood in front of the old man and said coldly: "What's the matter? I'm here to ask for 10,000 yuan." This person is Zhang He's father.
Father Zhang smiled awkwardly when he heard this, got up and said, "Young men should be broad-minded, how can they hold grudges?
Zhang He still said coldly: "Yes, what's wrong?"
"Did you buy a car?" asked Zhang's father.
"I can't shake the number!" Zhang He turned around and moved a chair and sat down.
"That's right, I'm almost 65, wait for you to go to my place one day and drive my car away!" Father Zhang said casually.
"Are you sick?" Zhang He's first reaction was that his father was dying, so he would say such a thing.
"Nope. Eh, that's my daughter-in-law, are they my granddaughters?"
"Ahh
"How old are you?" asked Father Zhang.
"The eldest is 5 years old, and the second is 3 years old. Zhang He looked at the photo and replied.
"The eldest looks like her mother, and the second looks like you. Father Zhang looked at Zhang He and said.
"Why are you here today? You can even find my father-in-law's house, it's powerful enough!" Zhang He changed the subject.
"Hey, I just went to the Guangqu Gate, knocked on the door for a long time and no one opened, just upstairs down an old lady, asked me who I was looking for, I said to look for you, the old lady gave me your address here. Zhang's father explained.
"Isn't it wearing glasses, he's quite tall, his hair is gray, and he looks bigger than my grandmother. Zhang He asked.
"Yes, yes, that's right, I always play cards with your grandma. You are gone, the old lady is quite reluctant, and she shed tears with me for a long time. Zhang's father said.
"Oh, that's Grandma Ma who lives on the fourth floor. Zhang He said peacefully.
"Eh, how did I hear the old lady say that you had to move out?" asked Zhang's father.
Zhang He replied: "The matter of the house will have to be resolved sooner or later." ”
"You're stupid!" Father Zhang suddenly sat up straight, as if he was indignant for Zhang He, "It's okay not to go." I followed my grandmother when I was a child, and I never left for a day. Even if you go to court, the grandmothers of the neighborhood committee and the old ladies who play cards with your grandmother are willing to testify against you? What are you afraid of? The old ladies of the people have advised you not to leave, and you have deviated, I really don't know what you think, do you know how much your grandmother's house is worth now? Why didn't you call me at that time? I will help you deal with your aunts. When Father Zhang said this, he suddenly changed his words and asked, "Eh, how did you divide it in the end? How much money did you take?"
Zhang He didn't pay attention to his father's words, but suddenly frowned, stared at his father with an unkind expression and asked, "Why are you here today?"
Zhang's father was very interesting this time, so he immediately stopped talking, smiled at Zhang He and said, "Seeing that you are here, I just want to meet my daughter-in-law and granddaughter." ”
"Humph!" Zhang He snorted coldly, and said secretly in his heart: "Can I believe that my daughter-in-law looks at my granddaughter?"
"How much can a red envelope hold? Doesn't that mean that you should take your daughter-in-law and children to drive to me one day?" Father Zhang replied with a smile.
"What kind of car, what kind of taxi?" Zhang He asked.
"What kind of taxi, how old is your dad and me, and he still drives a taxi? 140,000 to buy, the trunk is big. Zhang's father replied.
"Then why didn't you drive over today?" Zhang He asked.
"It's not open, who knows if I can find you, and it's not easy to park in this city, even if I find you, don't you have nowhere to park?"
"When will it be handed over?" Zhang He said directly to his father.
"Anytime!" replied Father Zhang, who reclined down on the sofa again.
"Auntie, is she good to you?"
"It's good. Father Zhang looked out the window and replied.
But Zhang He noticed a trace of distraction in his father's eyes, so he opened his mouth again and said tentatively: "What are Auntie's two sons doing? Are they good to you?"
"The second child is okay, I raised him after all, and now he is doing post-production in a film and television company. The boss is not close to me, he has been following his father, and he is not good at work after graduation, he is always worried about my little thing, and he wanted to take my car to register Didi a few days ago. Father Zhang deliberately avoided Zhang He's eyes, as if he had the strength to reply.
"Isn't he a college student at a prestigious university?" Zhang He wondered.
"I dropped out of school before graduating, and took 100,000 yuan from me, saying that I wanted to start a business, but in the end I didn't do anything. I got married last year, and I gave another 100,000 yuan, but this child..."
"Wait a while!" Zhang He suddenly stretched out his hand to interrupt his father's words, and asked with a straight face: "100,000 yuan for dropping out of school and starting a business, 100,000 yuan for marriage, and 10,000 yuan for your own son and I when I get married." You dare to tell me today, you really don't take me seriously, do you?"
"Isn't this your aunt? I have to pay for other people's sons when I live with others. Besides, the law says that stepsons have the same inheritance rights as their own sons, and if there is no me one day, and there is no your aunt, won't I still have half of you in that house? What is this 50,000 100,000 yuan of nonsense?" Zhang's father glared and argued, and then added at the end: "Okay, don't I have to give you this car and number! How difficult it is to shake a car number now, just by renting a car number, can't you also charge a small 20,000 yuan this year?"
I don't know if it was Zhang's father's momentum that suppressed Zhang He, or Zhang He also felt that what his father said made some sense, in short, he didn't argue with his father anymore, but asked a little compassionately: "Then you give me the car, can my aunt agree? I won't fight with you, right?"
"What does it have to do with her, she hasn't gone to work for so many years, it's all my money. Father Zhang said disdainfully with a glare.
"That's it. Don't fight with you two because of me. Zhang He said as he looked back at the clock on the wall and said, "It's 12 o'clock, let's have a meal." ”
"Let's go, I just didn't drive to have a beer. Zhang's father immediately stood up.
"Then go to the Shaxian snack at the entrance of the community. Zhang He said, then took his clothes, put on his shoes, and walked out of the door with his father.
After a while, the two arrived at the restaurant. As soon as he entered the door, Zhang's father immediately found a place by the window and sat down, looked at the poster light box on the wall, and said to Zhang He unceremoniously: "Don't order too much, put together two cold dishes, have a chicken leg rice, I can't drink too much at noon, just have a bottle of beer." ”
"Yes. Zhang He answered, then walked to the cash register, and ordered two plates of rice bowls, two cold dishes, and two bottles of beer according to his father's arrangement.
In this way, the "grand scene" of the father and son sitting together for lunch for the first time in their lives appeared. Zhang He looked at his white-haired father, and couldn't help but feel a little emotional, so he took out his mobile phone again, turned around, and turned back to his father and said, "Look here." only heard a snap, and the only group photo of the father and son in this life was born.
After eating, he sent his father to the No. 8 bus station across the road, and Zhang's father also took out his mobile phone and asked Zhang He to scan WeChat, saying: "When the weekend passes, give me a call first, and I'll clean up the car first." ”
"Cheng, then we'll see you on the weekend, you slow down, get home and have a WeChat. ”
"Okay, let's go. After Zhang's father finished speaking, he boarded the bus.
Zhang Hemu drove the bus away from the station slowly, and it was not until he watched the car pass the intersection in front of him that he smiled on his face with some mixed feelings, and then picked up his mobile phone to connect his wife's phone, and couldn't hide his excitement and said, "Guess who came just now." ”
"Your dad is here?"
"How do you know?"
"Listen to your tone, no one else. ”
"Hehe, this old man is really powerful, as long as you want to find me, you can find it soon. ”
"Why is he here?" asked Mireen calmly on the other end of the phone.
"He said he wanted to give our family a car, and he said that he would even give us the car number. ”
"Hehe, your dad has a conscience that has found out? or is he sick?
Suddenly you're going to give us something?"
"At first, I thought he was sick, and he was good at his words. But listening to him, it seems that his aunt's eldest son pushed him too hard, and he always worries about him, so..."
Mi Lin didn't wait for Zhang He to finish speaking, then interjected: "Cut, your dad is really funny, it was because he was wronged over there that he remembered you." Don't take it seriously? Don't wait for one day when he changes his face and you feel uncomfortable. ”
He told us to pick up the car on the weekend, it's Wednesday, and we'll be in the car in three days. In the future, we will no longer have to hold the child stupidly, and we will always be refused by the taxi. Every time I think of the time two years ago, when the eldest daughter and the youngest daughter suffered from pneumonia at the same time, but as soon as the taxi saw the four of them, they pretended not to see and sped away, forcing the couple to walk to the hospital with the child in the snow for atomization and dripping, Zhang He felt panicked. This time, when I heard that my father was going to give him a car, I was naturally overjoyed.
But Mi Lin still said calmly on the other end of the phone: "If you really want to give it to us, we won't ask for it in vain, how much money did your father buy for the car, we will give him as much as he wanted." If it's not enough, just ask my dad to borrow some. If he changes his hexagram, don't worry about it, let's ignore these eight things. ”
"Okay, I see, you can go to work. Zhang He hung up the phone with a smile and began to walk home while looking forward to the beautiful scenery of taking the child out for an outing.
But who would have thought that when he was happily telling his daughter on the weekend that he was going to take them to see his grandfather, his father called one step in advance, saying that he should not come over on the weekend, and take the time to ask how the car and license plate were transferred.
Zhang He didn't care much, so he asked his buddies to go to the second-hand car trading market in Huaxiang on Monday, and then went to the traffic management bureau to ask about all the transfer matters, and then after connecting the two groups, that is, more than half a month after his father called, he called his father on the evening of another weekend.
"Hey, I've asked about the transfer. The traffic management bureau said that the car can be transferred at will, but the license plate can only be transferred by husband and wife, or inherited by father and son. ”
"Oh, I know that too. Zhang's father said calmly on the other end of the phone.
"Then when am I going to drive to your place?" Zhang He asked with a smile.
"There is such a thing I forgot to tell you last time, when I bought this car, your aunt's son paid half of the money. I can't give it to you for nothing. ”
"Hey, your daughter-in-law said that she would give you the full amount, and she couldn't let you lose it. Zhang He, who was excited, didn't pay attention to the cow coaxing words that his father said last time.
But unexpectedly, his father said, "You didn't shake the number, why did you buy a car? Forget it. ”
Zhang He was stunned for a moment, so he was silent for a long time before he said coldly: "What do you mean?"
"Didn't you say that only husband and wife can transfer the house, and father and son can only inherit the code? How can you inherit it now that I am alive?" Father Zhang seemed to laugh and defend.
"Just borrow me to open it first, it doesn't matter if you don't transfer the account, it's father and son anyway. ”
"What's the matter? If you hit someone, I'll have to eat melons with you. If you don't have the money to pay, I have to pay. This is no joke. You, don't worry about it, forget it, didn't your father and I didn't have a car when I was a child? Don't you live the same life? If you want to drive, wait for the number to be rolled down, and then I will sell the car to you. ”
"You..." Zhang He, who felt that he had been teased, finally broke out, only to see him suddenly stand up and walk into the bathroom with the phone and roared: "What the hell are you using me to fill in the blanks? What about playing with me? I'm a bully, right? Give you a face? Is this a thing you guys do? Let me tell you Zhao Xihuan, from now on neither of us know anyone, you guys will transfer your car and house to your daughter-in-law's name as soon as possible, or wait for the day you die, I will designate you to make trouble, so that you don't look blind." ”
"Bastard! People who are so big are still in a hurry. If you say so, I'll transfer the house to your aunt tomorrow, and I see what you can get in the future?" I don't know if Father Zhang also feels that he is at a loss this time, or if he is really old, anyway, when he said this again, he obviously didn't have the domineering energy he had at the beginning, and even his tone was not much higher.
But Zhang He didn't care if his father was more cowardly than before, he just continued to roar: "Hurry up, hurry up, I see if you dare, don't transfer it all to others when the time comes, people kick you, let me pick it up." ”
"You bastard! I haven't gone to court yet? You're cursing me?"
"What are you suing me?" Zhang He said through gritting his back molars.
"I'm almost 70 years old, should you give me child support? I still feel sorry for you, saying that it's not easy to see you with two children, or I won't know where your home is when I go back to the court, don't know what to do." ”
"**" Zhang He hung up the phone angrily.
Seeing that Zhang He finally stopped growling, Mi Lin hurriedly walked into the bathroom, rubbing Zhang He's back and said, "Hey, why are you so angry? If you don't give it, you won't give it, so let's save money? Okay, don't make you angry because of this, it's not worth it!"
Zhang He didn't speak, just closed his eyes and shook his head. This night, Zhang He lost sleep again. He couldn't understand why his "self-denial and revenge" eventually evolved into "salute first and then soldier", and whenever he "used his soldiers", he couldn't give the "enemy" a heavy blow at all, but hurt himself again and again. This was true of his aunt, it was true of his father, and it was true of all the conflicts he had with people since he was a child. Tossing and turning, Zhang He suddenly remembered a line from Chang Siye in the movie "Teahouse", "Let's look forward to it, we hope that everyone will be reasonable, and no one will bully anyone." However, in this world..."
Early the next morning, Zhang He, who had not had time to delete his father's WeChat, saw a link with a statue of Sakyamuni sent to him by his father. I saw that this link didn't need to be clicked, and you could see a few big words written on it: "Those who are not filial to their parents will fall into hell." ”