Chapter 6: Outwitting the White-Eyed Wolf
Zhou An frowned slightly when he heard this.
It stands to reason that his second uncle wants to eat him a little yellow eel, he should give it, and he has to behave happily, but he doesn't want to give it to this second uncle in his heart.
Because his second uncle is not a thing!
The typical ungrateful, to use their old saying here, "crossed the river, knows the water", when he crossed the river, he couldn't swim, and when someone helped him cross the river, he immediately said that he actually knew how to swim.
Don't look at Zhou Taiqing, although he is the director of Zhuyuan Primary School, Zhou An looks down on him in his heart, and this disgust has continued from before Zhou An was reborn to the present.
His grandfather and grandmother died early, when Zhou An's father, second uncle, and third uncle, only his father was an adult, and the second and third uncles were still young, all of whom grew up by his father, and gritted his teeth and worked hard to earn money for the two brothers to study.
Among them, Zhou An's third uncle didn't like to read since he was a child, and was forced by Zhou An's father to read for two years without reading again, Zhou An's second uncle Zhou Taiqing was different, seeing that his eldest brother could only sell coolies to earn money because he had no culture and no craftsmanship, so he studied hard, and finally was admitted to the technical secondary school with the first score in the township at that time.
At that time, it was different from now, only those with good grades could be admitted to technical secondary school, and those with average grades could go to high school, and finally go to university for a chance.
Zhou Taihu worked hard for him to finish his studies, and after graduation, he was assigned to the nearby Zhuyuan Primary School as a teacher, and he also made a lot of efforts in Zhou Taiqing's building a house and getting married.
However, what about Zhou Taiqing?
Zhou Taiqing, Zhou An's second uncle usually respects Zhou Taihu's eldest brother very much, and his beautiful words are better than anyone else's, but Zhou An remembers very well that his father recently had a rectomy operation, and the family did not have enough money, so his mother opened his mouth to borrow a little from his second uncle, but the second uncle found a bunch of reasons to explain how difficult his family's life was, and he didn't borrow the last penny, only after Zhou Taihu was discharged from the hospital and went home, he brought more than a dozen apples and eggs.
This is once!
What makes Zhou An most unrelieved is that before he was reborn, his father Zhou Taihu was seriously ill and hospitalized, and the situation was very dangerous, he spent all his savings, and all his relatives and friends who could borrow outside had borrowed it, and finally even decided to sell the house to raise money.
But that time, Zhou Taiqing faced that his own brother was seriously ill to that extent, and Zhou An came to borrow tens of thousands of yuan from him to save his life.
What did Zhou Taiqing, who was already the deputy director of the county education bureau do at the time?
As if it was a repeat yesterday, after Zhou Taiqing carefully asked about his eldest brother's condition, he first said that he never took care of the family's money, and he could only give Zhou An an answer after discussing this matter with his wife.
When Zhou An left, he received a message from Zhou Taiqing from WeChat on the way, in which he said that he had asked Zhou An and his aunt, and gave a bunch of reasons again, such as: the house in the city is being renovated, the daughter-in-law has just become pregnant, Aunt Zhou An has quit her job to serve, and the mortgage loan of the house has to be repaid every month, etc.
After reading his information, Zhou An felt that the second uncle's family was already in great financial difficulty, and he was about to be unable to open the pot, so if he had money, it was best to lend him a little.
That day, Zhou An rode all the way back to his home, silently found a blank piece of paper, wrote a few "house for sale" announcements with markers, and posted them on the bulletin boards of several nearby communities.
On the way home, he deleted all Zhou Taiqing's WeChat account and mobile phone number, because of Zhou Taiqing's excuse, he didn't even believe a single punctuation mark.
With three suites and two cars at home, and a net worth of millions, he was so poor that when his brother was hospitalized and his life was difficult to protect, he couldn't squeeze out a penny?
Even if he takes 10,000 steps back, he really can't squeeze it out, but what about borrowing? With his status, can he borrow 10,000 or 20,000?
Zhou An, who had already decided to sell the house at that time, understood a truth: if you want to help, one reason is enough, and if you don't want to help, a thousand excuses can be made up.
So, how could Zhou An have a good impression of such an ungrateful second uncle?
How could he be willing to get up early and be greedy for darkness and share half of the little yellow eel he caught?
But he's a junior!
His parents haven't seen the true face of Zhou Taiqing's dog thing, if he flatly refuses Zhou Taiqing's request, not to mention how other people in the village will point fingers behind his back, his parents will teach him that he doesn't understand the rules, no big or small, with his father's temper, it is estimated that he will get up from the bed and smoke him.
Seeing that Zhou Taiqing's outstretched hand was about to grab the paint bucket in Zhou An's hand, Zhou An suddenly turned sideways slightly, avoided Zhou Taiqing's outstretched hand, and smiled.
Zhou Taiqing, who looked stunned, said: "Second uncle, don't be busy yet! You don't have anything in your hand, the yellow snake is slimy, don't dirty your hands, I'll send it to you later! My nephew has something I want to discuss with you first!"
Hearing Zhou An say that he would send it to him for a while, Zhou Taiqing smiled, nodded, folded his hands in front of his lower abdomen, and said very happily: "Well! You say! I'll listen!"
If you only look at his attitude, anyone will think that he is a good uncle.
But Zhou An was sneering in his heart.
"Second uncle! That's the case, you also know the situation of my family, my dad is still lying in bed to recuperate, and he will definitely not be able to go out to earn money in a short time, and my mother and I can't think of any way to make money, and my dad has just been discharged from the hospital, and he needs nutrition recently, but since he came back from the hospital, he has been able to eat vegetarian food with us, and his body will definitely not recover well if he continues like this, so second uncle, you see...... Can you lend me two or three thousand yuan to help my family tide over this?"
"Sincerely" said his request, Zhou An's eyes kept paying attention to the expression of his second uncle Zhou Taiqing.
As he expected, Zhou Taiqing was smiling and listening patiently at first, but as soon as he heard him say that he wanted to ask him to borrow money, Zhou Taiqing's expression changed slightly, his brows furrowed, and his eyes were also rolling around.
After Zhou An finished speaking, Zhou Taiqing coughed lightly twice, cleared his throat, and then raised his hand to pat Zhou An on the shoulder, and sighed: "Anzi! How can the second uncle not know the situation you said? I also want to help your family! Really! What is my relationship with your father? We are brothers! Isn't that right? If you and your aunt could squeeze out a little money, we would have sent it to your house by ourselves, so why should I use you to talk to me? Right? Alas! You kid! Forget it! I don't want you yellow snake anymore, you can take it back to make up for your father's body! Alas! Go back quickly! Be barefoot early in the morning, be careful not to catch a cold!
He seemed to notice Zhou An's bare feet at this time, and as he spoke, he walked to the side and pushed Zhou An's shoulder, urging Zhou An to go home quickly.
Zhou An didn't have any disappointment on his face, when he should have been disappointed, he had already been disappointed, Zhou Taiqing's response was in his expectation, he didn't really want to borrow money from him just now, he just wanted to borrow this matter to keep the yellow eel he had worked so hard to get.
He would rather feed the dog than give a yellow eel to Zhou Taiqing, a white-eyed wolf!
"Okay! I'll be back!"
Zhou An nodded, smiled at Zhou Taiqing, and passed by him.
Zhou Taiqing stood on the side of the road and looked at Zhou An's back, his face was cloudy, obviously not very happy.