Chapter 20: Tricky
Inside the old mansion, Fang Jiefang heard the voices of his grandson and granddaughter outside, and knew that the two of them had come back from school, and walked out, and there was a man who looked about the same age as him standing next to him, with a warm face and a smile, he was very tall, but his back was slightly hunched, wearing a long gray-brown shirt, and he looked at Fang Ning and his sister with loving eyes.
Looking at this old man, Fang Ning suddenly felt a little sad.
He will not forget that it was this person who gave him almost the same love as his grandfather.
If he said that back to this era, he was still so out of place with the world, then after seeing this man, the last trace of strangeness also dissipated invisibly, it was this person who was very familiar in his memory, his voice and smile gradually overlapped with the slightly restrained old man in front of him.
Fang Longxing!
Grandpa is a good friend, it is difficult to evaluate his life in one or two sentences, he is always tolerant and helpful to people, he is also a good person, he has not done anything bad, when grandpa was doing business in Yuezhou, he came to take care of Fang Ning and Fang Wei every once in a while, but he is such a good old man, but he has an unfilial son, of course, this is a later story and will not mention it for the time being.
Fang Longxing in front of him is only fifty-three years old, although he has passed the golden peak of men, but he also has the charm of an old man, Fang Ning used to say that Grandpa Long and Andy Lau in his youth are somewhat similar, which is also a well-known thing.
"Grandpa Long, you're here!"
Fang Ning hesitated for a moment, the old Grandpa Long in his memory coincided with the person in front of him, but this did not affect his respect for Grandpa Long, so he walked over quickly, his eyes revealing well-behavedness.
Fang Wei was not as close as Fang Ning and Grandpa Long, but she was also quite happy, in the past, as soon as Grandpa Long came to their house, he must have brought a lot of snacks, so she looked around, "Grandpa Long, did you bring snacks?"
"Hey, this girl knows how to eat, and she doesn't care about me!" Grandpa Long also showed a warm side.
Originally, Fang Wei just said this jokingly, he used to pester Grandpa Long to ask for snacks because he was still young and greedy, but now he doesn't say that he has grown up, but at least he is a lot sensible, but he didn't expect Grandpa Long to really bring snacks, which made Fang Wei feel surprised and excited, jumping up, that look is amazing.
Grandpa Long still loves their grandfather, but Fang Ning is no longer the ignorant Fang Ning, of course, in the eyes of others, this is a sign of growing up. He looked at Grandpa Long, and saw that his eyebrows showed a trace of sorrow, and he knew that he must have encountered something unsmooth, and his heart was depressed, Fang Ning glanced at Grandpa a few times, Fang Jiefang also locked his eyebrows a little, and vaguely knew what it was, so he thought about it and said to Grandpa, "Grandpa Long, what troubles is he encountering?"
"Well, your grandfather Long still has a few acres of empty paddy fields at home, and he wants to dig a pond and breed some crayfish. Fang Jiefang knew that Fang Ning was a personal elf, so he asked them to sit down and talk in the back room first.
Fang Lan made a table of good dishes in the kitchen, and the master's family also came over, and Grandpa Long first greeted the grandmother and asked about her health.
Although the old lady is a little mean, but it is also for her daughter-in-law, she still has a good relationship with her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law to outsiders, she is now in her seventies, her body is better than her grandmother, her body is tough, she is not deaf or blind, and her teeth can gnaw down large pieces of meat, as far as Fang Ning knows, she has lived until she is ninety-six years old.
The master is relatively dull, and I don't know what the reason is, he has been a little gloomy since he came back in the afternoon, and now he got some grain wine from the back room, poured a glass, and drank the stuffy wine alone.
"Eat this braised stewed pig's trotters, this is the spoon of Chef Lan's palm, the pig is a wild boar beaten with electricity in the field, the meat is delicious and chewy!" Fang Ning played the role of enlivening the atmosphere in front of the dinner table, he got up and went to get some grain wine, and also poured it for Grandpa and Grandpa Fang, and he poured a shallow small glass, Fang Wei also wanted to drink, but after trying a little, he stuck out his tongue vigorously, slurped, fanned his tongue with his hand, and said in annoyance, "This wine is so spicy, it's really not a good thing!"
And so the crowd laughed.
Grandma was a little hot and couldn't eat, and when she saw them drinking, she was not easy to mix in, so the little grandmother helped her back to the master's house.
The master drank a lot of wine, his eyes were a little red, and he said a few words to Fang Jiefang, grandpa was solemn, and said Wait a minute, I will come to you, and the master got up and left the table, leaving only grandma, Fang Wei, Fang Ning, Grandpa Long and Fang Jiefang.
After tea and dinner, Grandpa Long mentioned that he was down to business, in fact, he mainly came to borrow money, he used to do carpenter work, but he couldn't bear it when he was old, so he didn't do it, he didn't have any savings, his son didn't get married in his thirties, so he wanted to do some business and save some money for him to get married. Originally, the funds were enough, but the account book of the family was managed by his wife, and the property was jointly owned, plus his wife was married for the second time, and she also had a son, so she was reluctant to use the money, so she pulled it back and forth, and after half a month, the pond foundation was dug and the silt was cleaned, and the matter of buying crayfish seedlings was postponed indefinitely.
Grandpa Long was quite embarrassed to talk about this, after all, the two children were there, but he was really embarrassed, otherwise he would not come to the door to borrow money.
Fang Ning understood that every family had a scripture that was difficult to read
He agrees with both hands for breeding lobsters to get rich, but he doesn't think much about the matter of Grandpa Long saving money for his son, his son is notoriously short-tempered, unfilial, and has low eyes, he asked for a daughter-in-law in the early years, and he couldn't stay for half a year, so he ran back to his hometown in Guizhou, Fang Ning and his grandfather went to Guizhou to pick up his daughter-in-law back, and almost planted people there, and then the daughter-in-law didn't come back, but Grandpa Long's son held a grudge against Fang Jiefang, which was also one of the reasons why Fang Jiefang went out of the village before, so Fang Ning didn't treat that guy very much, and even thought about finding someone to beat him up when he grew up。
In normal times, the five or six thousand yuan would have been borrowed, but this time it was not only Fang Jiefang who had difficulties, but even Fang Ning felt that it was a little tricky.
In order to cope with this unprecedented ice disaster, a large number of living materials must be needed, and these materials did not fall from the sky, they all needed money to buy, five or six thousand less, at least a lot less living materials, sometimes it was such insignificant materials, it was really the last straw that crushed the camel.
Fang Ning considered another problem that he remembered that the cycle of crayfish was four months, and there was less than three months before the ice disaster, if he really bought shrimp seedlings, then this group of shrimp seedlings would definitely not survive this harsh winter, and then don't make it useless.