Chapter 40: Brothers Talk
Dongzi's grandfather died in the second semester of Dongzi's sophomore year of high school, and the old man's body has always been very tough, plus he is deaf and blind, so he serves very well every day, as long as he gives a little food to eat, he believes that he can live a long time.
After the death of Dongzi's grandmother, Yan Yuxiang once looked for Yan Yufu and expressed his intention to take care of the elderly, hoping that this eldest brother could call the shots, but it was really okay for the three sons to take turns to take care of them.
But when Yan Yufu found Yan Yuming to discuss, he was rejected by Yan Yuming, saying that he wanted to take care of Grandpa Dongzi personally, and even Yan Yufu was not allowed to interfere, and the family naturally knew why.
Yan Yuxiang had no choice, the death of one after another people in the family had exhausted him, and he was afraid that his old father would also be in Yan Yuming's hands, but there was nothing he could do.
He had no choice but to send Yan Yufu some food and drink every once in a while, so that he could honor his father on his behalf.
Grandpa Dongzi survived a spring and autumn after the death of his wife, couldn't hold on anymore, and finally passed away in the early hours of the morning.
It was Yan Yuxiang who was notified by the black bull, and he couldn't cry, he really responded to that sentence: The parents are here, there is still a place to come, and the parents are gone, and there is only the way back.
Yan Yuming is still the unrepentant person, when Grandma Dongzi died, he got a sum of money and bought a small car in the county, but it didn't take long for Yan Cheng to drive into the ravine, fortunately, the people in the car were fine, but the car must have been scrapped again.
Yan Yuxiang ignored Yan Yuming's obstruction of him, and when he heard that his father was not alive, he went straight to it, and when he saw his father's body, his mellow father less than a year ago was already skinny.
Although Yan Xiuping did not sue Yan Yuming for a long time due to the fact that there were many things in the family this year, but this time she said that she would not attend Grandpa Dongzi's funeral, and Yan Yuxiang had no choice but to obey, and for him, there were more and more helpless things.
Yan Xiuping heard a news from the village doctor, that is, judging from the death of Grandpa Dongzi, he was starved to death. Oh my God! How could Yan Yuming do it! This is his biological father!
Yan Xiuping looked at her increasingly haggard husband, but finally didn't tell him the news. What we don't know is how Yan Yuxiang will feel after learning such news!
Fortunately, this time Yan Yuming did not make any outrageous moves at Grandpa Dongzi's funeral, but everyone's 20,000 yuan still couldn't run, Yan Yuxiang made up 20,000 yuan for Yan Yufu this time, money has never been a thing with him, but unfortunately Yan Yuming can't understand this.
Dongzi's grandparents passed away one after another in the past year, which made Yan Yuxiang a little unbearable. But not long after the incident, another seemingly unrelated person also left.
Not long after Dongzi's grandfather died, Yan Yufu came to Yan Yuxiang's home, and in the impression of Yan Yuxiang and his wife, since moving to a new house, this is the first time this eldest brother has come.
Yan Xiuping did not show that she was unwelcome, but warmly entertained him, and now the contradictions in the family are gone, so Yan Yuxiang and this brother look very kind.
Yan Yufu was very restrained, and when Yan Yuxiang proposed to stay at home at noon for two people to have a drink, Yan Yufu neither agreed nor refused.
Yan Yuxiang saw the eyes of his eldest brother, he knew that there must be something, he asked Yan Xiuping to fry a few dishes, and then sent her to play mahjong, although Yan Xiuping also wanted to do this, but her father-in-law had just passed away, if she was too happy, she was afraid of provoking the criticism of the people in the village, so she hid in another room.
During the banquet, the two brothers went back and forth, and after a while, they went down to a bottle of wine.
Yan Yuxiang picked up another bottle from the ground, although he has been drinking a lot less in the past few years, but the amount of alcohol is getting bigger and bigger, Yan Yufu did not refuse.
I saw Yan Yuxiang unscrewing the cap of the bottle and said, "Brother, you came to talk to me today, right? Xiuping is not here, you can say anything." ”
After hearing this, Yan Yufu pursed his lips, and before he could speak, he cried.
Yan Yuxiang poured him a glass of wine and said, "What are you crying about, we are all fifty years old, how can we still be like children, what I don't look down on the most is your urine!"
Yan Yufu wiped his tears and said, "Yuxiang, brother is sorry for you......"
Yan Yuxiang picked up the wine glass, clinked glasses with him, poured the wine into his mouth, and said: "What's sorry, everything has passed, and now the old ones are gone, and this family will have its own way in the future, I don't have such a ability, I can make this family round again!"
Yan Yufu said: "You don't have this ability, who has such a ability!"
Yan Yuxiang raised his head, looked at this brother, and said, "Won't you still want to match me and Yuming today, right? Why did you go earlier......" I saw that he still wanted to say something, but when the words came to his lips, he swallowed them back!
Yan Yufu said: "I know that I didn't do it right when my mother died, I didn't do well at that time, and now I have left a bane, but ...... Ay...... What can I do?"
Yan Yuxiang looked at this brother who had crossed the threshold of knowing the destiny of heaven, his temples were much whiter, and his life was also hard!
Yan Yuxiang said: "Brother, I still say that, the past is over, you don't have to give me the money, just treat it as the two of us to help Yuming, he is also forty or fifty people, how to go in the future depends on himself." As he spoke, he picked up his glass and took another sip.
Yan Yufu said: "Yuxiang, I know that you are rich now, and people say that you are rich, and your insight is naturally not comparable to Yuming, you ...... If you don't listen to my brother's advice, don't worry about Yuming!"
Yan Yuxiang put down the chopsticks in his hand, raised his head, and said, "What? It's not that I have to worry about him now, it's that he has to worry about me!"
Yan Yufu nodded hurriedly and said, "Yes, yes, brother, I said the wrong thing, Yuming is not sensible! Mom loved him the most when she was alive, you just have to take care of it for the sake of the elderly. ”
Yan Yuxiang said: "I have already said this meaning before, but you don't listen, what can I do, now I don't care, even if I want to help him Xiuping won't let me!" After a pause, he said: "I'll tell you the truth, Xiuping wanted to sue Yuming a year ago, and the complaint had already been written by a lawyer, and the lawyer said that with the current situation, the lawsuit will definitely win." I don't understand why our brothers are so hostile to each other!"
Yan Yufu said: "This must not be done! Yuming owes a lot of debts outside, if you poke it out, even if you don't think about himself, you have to think about the children! That's your own nephew!"
Yan Yuxiang said in surprise: "What? Yuming is in debt outside, how much does he owe? We gave him 80,000 yuan before and after, plus why did my mother leave him more than 100,000 yuan, right? This is not enough for him to spend?"
Yan Yufu nodded and said, "We are brothers, I won't go around the bend with you, Yuming owes a lot outside, and the loan sharks have come to the door several times." ”
Yan Yuxiang looked at the eyes of his eldest brother to make sure that he had not lied to himself, thought for a while, and said, "How much does he owe?" Alas! Why doesn't this Yuming have a long memory! Two days ago, I heard that Yan Cheng scrapped a new car, what do you say if you don't have money!", he knocked heavily on the table.
Yan Yufu said: "I don't know how much he owes, you don't want to think that if he doesn't owe so much money, I can tolerate him so much when my mother is away?"
Yan Yuxiang said: "What about now?"
Yan Yufu looked at Yan Yuxiang's eyes, did not speak, and sighed.
Yan Yuxiang looked at the expression of his eldest brother and knew that Yan Yuming not only did not accept the lesson, but must have intensified his nonsense!
Brothers are like this, no matter what happens, when it comes to the most critical time, it is still reliable to crawl out of a mother's belly.
I only heard Yan Yuxiang slap the table again and said, "That's it, you go back and tell Yuming, as long as he still recognizes me as a brother, I will help him again with how much money he needs." Yan Yuxiang relented after all.
Yan Yufu said: "I told him a long time ago, I said that you go to find your second brother, as long as you say it well, your second brother will definitely help you, but he just won't come!"
Yan Yuxiang stood up and said, "Fuck, what kind of enmity do I have with him!
Yan Yufu looked at Yan Yuxiang a little excited, didn't speak, picked up the wine glass and took a sip, before saying: "I think Yuming may be embarrassed, he is like that to you, how can he be embarrassed to ask you for money again!"
Yan Yuxiang sat down and said: "You don't have to comfort me like this, we both know who Yuming is, he has made up his mind, even if he messes around with us again, in the end, this matter has to be entrusted to us!"
Yan Yufu recognized what Yan Yuxiang said, but he didn't nod.
The two didn't speak, Yan Yuxiang thought that if he helped him so easily this time, he didn't know how to be grateful, but it would get worse, and there was another difficulty that he had no way to explain to Yan Xiuping!
He picked up his wine glass and said, "Brother, come and drink, let's two of us, the emperor is not in a hurry, the eunuch is not in a hurry, Yuming is not in a hurry, but we are in a hurry." ”
Yan Yufu knew that he was talking back, but he didn't answer, he also picked up his wine glass and drank another glass.
Yan Yuxiang looked at Yan Yufu's expression of wanting to speak and stopped, and said, "Brother, you still have something to do today, right?"
Yan Yufu said: "No...... Nothing. I just can't hold it back, come and talk to you. ”
Yan Yuxiang said: "You can't hide it from me, you say, what's the matter, won't it be Yuming's matter again?"
Yan Yufu said: "Hmm...... Yu Ming came to me last night and wanted to borrow money from me. ”
Yan Yuxiang said: "What is he borrowing money for? ”
"No, he borrowed money for another thing. Yan Yufu replied hesitantly.
Yan Yuxiang drank a little, he was easy to swear when he drank, only to see him say: "Why are you such a mother-in-law, you can say anything, don't you just come to tell me something today, just say what you have!"
Yan Yufu said: "Okay, then I said, Yuming said that Yan Cheng has not been for a few days, and the coffin has not been prepared yet, so borrow money to buy a coffin and prepare." ”
Yan Yuxiang said: "What! Yan Cheng, you? Why did Yu go there tomorrow morning? I knew that she was already a half-sick person, why didn't she know how to prepare in advance." ”
Yan Yufu said: "You say that he doesn't work now, this is really a coffin, alas...... You said that as a big brother, I should help, but I don't have a penny in hand!"
Yan Yuxiang smiled and said, "Okay, my eldest brother, you are really good enough to go around today, you just tell me directly, you have to let me grind it out little by little!"
Yan Yufu looked at him with a sneer, and said tentatively: "Isn't there no way for me! He is not sensible, if you can't do it, you will help him again?"
Yan Yuxiang said: "It's still my words, you let him come to me, as long as he calls him a brother, don't talk about Yan Cheng's fucking things, even his usury, I will find a way to help him pay him!"
Yan Yufu said embarrassedly: "I said the same thing last night, but Yuming had a hard mouth and couldn't come, so I just helped him run." ”
Yan Yuxiang said: "Fuck! I don't want to, there's no way to ask for money!" After he said this, he actually regretted it a little in his heart, but since he had already said it, it was inconvenient to take it back.
Yan Yufu listened to Yan Yuxiang's words in his heart, he didn't expect that this younger brother, who has always been soft-hearted, would scold Yuming today, no wonder, Yuming is sorry for him too much.
After the two finished speaking, they didn't speak again, each drinking their own drinks, and they were also thinking about their own thoughts in their hearts.
When Yan Yufu was about to go back that afternoon, Yan Yuxiang called him to stop.
I saw him take out an envelope from under the cabinet at home and stuff it into his hand, he was going not to say anything, but after thinking about it, he said: "Brother, you gave this to Yuming, when Yan Cheng is not away, if Yan Cheng comes to kowtow to me on the door, it can be regarded as admitting that I am an uncle, then I will go, if I don't come, I won't go." When he said this, tears rolled in his eyes.
Yan Yufu took the envelope in his hand and turned it upside down, knowing that it was a stack of money, but he couldn't estimate the exact amount, and there were very few opportunities for him to see so much money in his life.
Yan Yufu said: "Can you not discuss it with Xiuping?"
Yan Yuxiang said: "Xiuping will understand, she will understand one day!"
Yan Yufu said: "Well," he turned his head and left, he really didn't know how to tell this younger brother, because he was afraid that if he stayed a little longer, the two of them would hug and cry, so let's go.
Yan Yuxiang looked at his brother's distant back, all he could think about was Yuming's nonsense, he just wanted Yan Yuming to call him brother again, he just wanted this family to be harmonious! He didn't understand why it was so difficult to do this!
He was thinking about it when he heard Yan Xiuping ask from behind, "Is he leaving?"
Yan Yuxiang nodded, and just wanted to turn around, only to feel a buzz in his head, and his body collapsed involuntarily in the courtyard, and his wife's eager voice of concern came from his ears: "Yuxiang! Yuxiang! What's wrong with you......?"