Chapter Seventy-Five: Right and Wrong
Luo Chuanxin was panicked by his son, Luo Zhenhua and Luo Zhenzhi were still young a few years ago, and they didn't know anything about the family. In the eyes of his daughter and two sons, he has always been a very proud father: a responsible father in the family, the most authoritative elder among the brothers in the house, and a respected elder in the village. Now, how is he going to face his son's inquiring gaze?
Embarrassed and angry, Luo Chuanxin yelled at Tan Xiuju: "Shut up! If it weren't for what you have done over the years, how could the Zhenying family do this?!"
Tan Xiuju had never seen Luo Chuanxin's angry appearance, she was so frightened that she didn't dare to speak anymore, her lips trembled, and tears immediately fell.
Luo Zhenying was also frightened, he hurriedly appeased his father and mother at the same time, but there were more psychological doubts!
He coaxed Tan Xiuju first and asked her to make dinner first. After Luo Chuanxin calmed down, Luo Zhenhua cautiously asked, "Dad, what's going on?"
Only then did Luo Chuanxin briefly tell Tan Xiuju about his previous petty theft. "Your mother is too stingy, greedy and cheap, and has done many bad things behind my back over the years. By the time I knew it was too late, I had taught her a lesson, but she still made mistakes again and again, and often quarreled with your second aunt, which made your second aunt suffer a lot. I've been trying my best to compensate their family all these years, but Zhenying is afraid that she has long been dissatisfied in her heart, so she will do this time! Alas, in the end, your mother went too far!"
Luo Zhenhua said indignantly: "How can my mother do this? No wonder my second aunt often quarreled with her a few years ago. But Brother Zhenying is too much this time! They are all a family, what can't be said directly, do you have to humiliate our family like this?"
"Alas, don't blame you Brother Zhenying, if you want to blame, blame me for not taking care of your mother!" Luo Chuanxin sighed.
Luo Zhenhua stood up suddenly: "Dad, I'll go to Brother Zhenying and apologize to the second aunt on behalf of my mother!"
After a while, Luo Zhenzhi came back from school, saw his father sighing in the hall, very unhappy, and asked with concern: "Dad, what's wrong with you?"
Luo Chuanxin shook his head and said: "Alas, the major shareholder of the factory in the village is your brother Zhenying's family. β
Luo Zhenzhi was surprised and said, "Brother Zhenying, then why didn't he let our family subscribe?"
Luo Chuanxin sighed and said the matter briefly, Luo Zhenzhi said angrily: "How can Brother Zhenying be like this? Although Mom has done something wrong, you have also helped their family a lot over the years! During the Chinese New Year, we all helped them and asked Xueping's sister-in-law to apologize to them! Brother Zhenying really went too far this time!"
When Luo Zhenhua came to Luo Zhenying's house, Luo Zhenying had just stepped into the courtyard door, and Luo Zhenhua called out to him: "Brother Zhenying!"
Luo Zhenying nodded at him and said, "Come into the house and say." β
After entering the hall, Luo Zhenjie came back at some point, and ran out of the room when he heard the movement.
Luo Zhenhua's first sentence was: "Brother Zhenying, I only learned today that my mother had done so many wrong things in the past and made my second aunt suffer so many grievances. I apologize to your family today on her behalf. I'm sorry!"
Luo Zhenying didn't expect him to say such a thing as soon as he came, and he didn't know how to answer. Luo Zhenjie said: "Brother Zhenhua, is it enough to apologize, should my family's field also be returned?"
Luo Zhenhua was stunned: "What field?"
Luo Zhenjie said sarcastically: "Yo, you came to apologize before you figured things out?" The fourth uncle and the fourth aunt calculated our family again and again, and exchanged a small piece of dry land and three or four acres of old foundation for nearly ten acres of fertile land for our family, didn't the fourth uncle tell you about this?"
Luo Zhenhua said indignantly: "You are talking nonsense! My dad can't do this!"
Luo Zhenjie snorted coldly, too lazy to argue with him again. Luo Zhenying had a complicated expression: he didn't believe that the fourth uncle would be such a person, but he thought a lot about it during this time, and some things that he had ignored before gradually came back to him, and he knew that his younger brother was telling the truth. All along, the fourth uncle he respected was the one who calculated their family behind his back.
Luo Zhenhua looked at Luo Zhenying with a look of disbelief: "Brother Zhenying, do you also think that my father is such a person?!"
Luo Zhenying said sadly: "My family's two fields were indeed exchanged by your family, as for how they were exchanged, you can go back and ask the fourth uncle yourself!"
As soon as these words came out, a trace of doubt finally appeared in Luo Zhenhua's firm heart, Luo Zhenying is a well-known honest person in the village, and he has always respected Luo Chuanxin very much, he will not say anything! But that is his father, how could he do such a thing? But those two fields really belong to their family, what is going on? Luo Zhenhua stumbled home.
"Dad, what's going on with Brother Zhenying's two fields?" Luo Zhenhua asked in a hoarse voice.
Luo Chuanxin said, "What's going on?"
"Those two fields originally belonged to Brother Zhenying's family, but how did they become our family?" Luo Zhenhua wanted to know what was going on.
Luo Zhenzhi asked curiously, "Brother, what's the matter?"
Luo Chuanxin said bitterly: "Those two fields were exchanged for land and homestead by our family and their family, and your second uncle personally agreed, and the formalities were also completed in the village. β
Luo Zhenhua said: "Then which piece of land did our family give?"
Luo Chuanxin gasped and said, "Zhenhua, what do you want to ask? What did they tell you?"
"Our family is on the dry land in the west, right? How big is it? I remember it was one and a half acres. There is also our family's original homestead, which is only two acres in total. How many acres of fertile land have they changed? Seven or eight acres of fertile land! Is this my mother's idea, or is it your idea?" Luo Zhenhua asked tremblingly, he didn't know why, he was very scared in his heart! He wanted to know the answer, but he was also afraid that the answer was not what he wanted.
Luo Zhenzhi looked at the eldest brother dissatisfied: "Brother, why are you talking to Dad like this? Dad is already very sad today." β
Luo Zhenhua didn't answer him, his eyes stared at Luo Chuanxin in a daze.
"Ahem-" Luo Chuanxin said sadly: "Zhenhua, the matter of the field was agreed by your second uncle, at that time our family was having a difficult time, and your second uncle wanted to help us agree." I have also been grateful for the kindness of their family over the years, so I have always taken good care of Zhenying's family. Ahemββ, I didn't expect them to hate us for this!"
"Kindness?!" Luo Zhenhua didn't expect his father to say such a thing, and he felt a crack open in his heart. "What kind of person is the second uncle, don't you still know? Even if he agrees, have you ever asked the second aunt and Brother Zhenying if they are willing? You and your mother accepted it so with peace of mind?"
"Ahem, ahemβ" Luo Chuanxin coughed violently, his face flushed, and he couldn't speak.
Luo Zhenzhi was very worried and said, "Big brother, Dad is coughing like this, you can stop for a while." Dad said that the two fields were voluntarily exchanged for us by the second uncle, and they were not snatched back by my parents. The second aunt and Brother Zhenying should also blame the second uncle, why should we blame our family? Brother Zhenying has gone too far in the matter of the shares of the douban sauce factory. Big brother, why are you still helping them?"
Luo Zhenhua said bitterly: "Brother, are you also confused?!"