Chapter Ninety-Three: Morality in the Middle (Part II)
In rural families with many brothers and sisters, there is not much age difference between nieces and uncles and aunts, and some nieces and nephews are even older than uncles and aunts. As the eldest of the seven brothers, Li Chuantian is only seven years older than his eldest niece Li Zhonghua and three years older than his cousin Li Xiaolan. With such an age gap, it is better to say that the two are brothers and sisters than uncles and nephews, especially since the two have been working in Guangdong for five or six years, and they have a deep relationship, even if Li Chuanmeng once quarreled with Li Chuantian, it did not affect the relationship between the two at all.
Li Xiaolan has a rough personality, she has been scary since she was a child, and she has fought her current boyfriend Da Mao Ling countless times, and she got along after the two of them went to work. In her eyes, Li Jiaming used to be a slug who followed her buttocks, and now he is just a smart and cunning hairy man, although that kid asked Da Maoya to pay thirty yuan in rent every month, but that money was not enough for the snack money he spent on a few little guys.
During the Chinese New Year, Li Xiaolan and Li Zhonghua made fun of Li Chuantian, which was mostly a joke, but now when she saw that her uncle really gave her little cousin an expensive scooter, she couldn't bear it anymore. That's four or five thousand yuan, they used to work in Guangdong, and they couldn't save five thousand yuan a year after working tirelessly!
"Cut, he's your own nephew, what's wrong with helping you come up with an idea?"
If her brother-in-law and younger siblings can't make money, then the nephew should help the uncle, but the two of them have made a lot of money because of this idea, so they have to thank the nephew, instead of taking a few kind words that are not useful and perfunctory.
The people do not suffer from widowhood but unevenness, Li Xiaolan eats the second aunt's meal, so naturally she will not argue with her anxious aunt, but she will still be reminded.
"Fifth aunt, Uncle Chuantian is not good enough for Ming Yan? He helped Honghong buy a household registration, get a job, and also helped his maternal uncle open a shop, but his maternal uncle didn't say thank him for anything!"
With that sister-in-law feeding the pig in advance, the second aunt no longer believes in her own people, or it is more reasonable for Brother Chuan Meng to say that 'the brother settles the account'.
"What do you know? Ming Yan has been eating in Chengwan House since the first grade, and the family eats shredded potatoes, and he eats white rice alone! Ming Yan's mother died early, and his grandfather and grandmother were so kind to their brothers and sisters, if he didn't help his maternal uncle, he wouldn't be able to live with his mother!
Lan Mei, if you do business with Da Mao Ling on the street to make money in the future, you have to follow the rules of doing business, Mo This is your own person and a friend. In that case, what kind of shop are you going to open? You might as well volunteer for your relatives and friends!"
The rough Li Xiaolan's face turned red, and she finally remembered that her fifth aunt confiscated her vegetable money and rent, but her boyfriend's was a lot of money. The niece eats and lives, and the aunt doesn't mind, because she doesn't do business, and if she also opens a store to make money, I'm afraid she will have to figure everything out.
educated her niece a few words, and the second aunt taught her brother-in-law a lesson, just like before he got married, he scolded him for his mistakes and didn't beat them. Now after this little uncle begs for a wife, he always listens to his wife, how can he do it if he doesn't have an idea?
"Fourth, Ming Yan is different from other soldiers, he has a scale in his heart, don't always think about his uncle and nephew, he should help you. Don't think I don't know, at that time, Jinhua helped the third child pay off the debt, except for the money you can't use for the time being, I'm afraid it's more because you don't want to lend money to the eldest brother. Lending to the third brother is nothing more than a delay of a few years, and sooner or later he will have to pay it back; if you lend it to the eldest brother, you won't be able to repay it at all if you don't wait for him to finish providing for the four sons!
Hmph, don't look at the quarrel you had at that time, if the eldest and second men really passed the examination, and Chuanmin and the third child couldn't borrow the money, why don't you borrow it? Weimin will beat you up for a meal first, and then go to settle the account with you! The eldest brother is no one else, the four of you are a mother who crawled out of the belly, quarreling and arguing, if you really encounter such a big event, why don't you help you try?"
Li Chuantian, who had just finished supper, had a flushed face, and his wife knew that although she had said before that that she would help the third brother pay off the debt first, she might not have that thought. If the third brother doesn't go out to work, I'm afraid that the thousands of yuan won't be so easy to borrow.
"Yes, I'm not wrong, right? Fourth, what I want to get, Ming Yan is such a smart man, he can't think of it? Be a man, don't think too smart about yourself, don't think too stupid about others, how do you say that?"
Li Xiaolan also blushed, but it didn't matter if Da Mao Ling came in behind, he was able to catch up with Xiaolan half because of his childhood sweetheart, and half because he was particular about being a good person when he was working outside, which made his workers and friends full of praise.
"Hehe, Ming Yan said, 'There are no stupid people in this world, at most, I didn't expect it at the time, and when people thought of it, the knot in my heart would be difficult to untie!'Hehe, fourth, I'll talk about it, don't be angry, Ming Yan is indeed right, being a man is not as good as doing business. Calculating that thing is the most useless in human relations, and if you gain at the time, you may suffer a big loss afterwards.
Didn't I say it, if the eldest brother didn't have two good cubs, so that Jiaming owed favors, and now he has such a good life?"
Li Chuantian, who was red-faced and swollen-necked, thought about it, his nephew was right, if he really wanted to talk about it, he just gave him two boxes of eggs, and it was the eldest sister who opened her mouth. If you don't have the affection of your eldest sister and sister-in-law, maybe you will send dozens of eggs to your heart, and you won't be so generous at all. As for those who help the third brother provide their brothers and sisters with education, they are just angry sisters-in-law, and they really can't guarantee whether they can do it.
Hey, if you really want to talk about it, Ming Yan is really good to herself, and even the contradiction between herself and her eldest brother has been solved. If he hadn't lied to himself, saying that he would have helped his eldest brother to provide for the eldest brother and the second brother to study, and the eldest brother would have lent the extra 5,000 yuan to himself after paying off the account?
Thinking of his father's death, the eldest brother and sister-in-law who got their own land made themselves hungry and full, Li Chuantian felt uncomfortable again. The five or six-year-old son has already remembered, when he was very hungry, he even went to eat the potato seeds in the potato cellar secretly, and as a result, the eldest brother beat him up, so he let the second sister-in-law take him over and raise him as a son.
When it comes to the past, the second aunt is also gloomy, and people who are poor will have short ambitions. If you really want to blame, you can only blame everyone for being too poor, and there is no way to do many things.
"What do you know? You only know that you are hungry, do you know that your eldest brother and sister-in-law eat potato vines?
Fourth, Mo always wanted to be beaten with chopsticks, but he didn't expect people to use chopsticks to clip meat for you. In the past, my sister-in-law brought you here, but the eldest brother and sister-in-law didn't have that ability, not the eldest brother and sister-in-law didn't want you. Think about it yourself, who didn't suffer at that time? Your second brother can make a living money outside, but our family can't eat enough, and you have to mix shredded potatoes with yellow foot clothes (wild vegetables). The eldest brother fell and couldn't do anything serious, and the sister-in-law alone had what to eat in the house? You said you were hungry, didn't you eat as a family, and they didn't let you eat at the table!
Also, you always say that the eldest brother cut down the things on your mountain, if the eldest brother and sister-in-law don't cut down the trees on the mountain, can they afford to pay for the four sons to study? Hmph, the trees on your mountain are all raised by the eldest brother and sister-in-law, why can't they cut them?"
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Early the next morning, Li Chuantian, who had untied the knot, took the morning bus back to Tonggu, and the second aunt helped several nephews and nieces make breakfast, and also called Li Jiaming into the kitchen. The little uncle mentioned last night that when the nephews and nieces grow up, Jiaming will help them discipline them, but that was just the child's words two years ago, can you still count in the future? As the nephew gets better and better, she is sometimes not sure about him.
The second aunt really didn't have nothing to worry about, if the fourth uncle hadn't sent the motorcycle over, Li Jiaming might not care about the future little cousin and little cousin in the future. Sometimes breaking one's promise is more uncomfortable than keeping one's promises, such as taking one's children with you, just spending some money to send them to good schools and ask for tutors, but letting them go.
Of course, Li Jiaming can't do that kind of thing to his relatives, but it is impossible for him to spend seven or eight years carefully disciplining him like he did to Mao Tong and fine dogs. Owe money to repay money, owe favors to repay favors, owe favors to the fourth uncle in the previous life, it is enough for him to make a fortune in this life, and if he continues to help, others owe him, not that he owes others.
Regarding the second aunt's question, as long as it is not a very difficult matter, Li Jiaming has no habit of lying, so he said honestly: "Second aunt, how can you say this." At the beginning, the fourth uncle promised to help me pay off the debts and give me so many eggs, which I really thought at the time. Now I have a way to make the fourth uncle and them rich, and even if we are clear, the next thing is to see what he and his aunt do. ”
The second aunt immediately slapped the car key in her nephew's hand and reminded: "Mingya, the fourth uncle just gave you a motorcycle!"
Li Jiaming smiled, hugged the shoulders of the second aunt who was half a head short, put the key in the pocket of her apron, and joked: "That's why I got his car, don't you want it?" Second aunt, you don't think that a man who has been carrying a motorcycle for more than ten years is not worth it, right? You can take this car and ride it, what does a junior high school boy say about riding a motorcycle?
Besides, my cycling is good for my body and saves me from having to go for a run every day. ”
Now rest assured, if the second aunt is not reluctant to pay a few thousand yuan, she will also go to a scooter with Torin full insurance. She is not tall, how can she ride the family's men's motorcycle? As for the nephew who gave it, she didn't feel that she owed a favor, since the death of the moon sister, she has been treating him as her own cub.
"Jiaming, I heard Chuantian say that there is no problem with the eldest and second men taking the university entrance examination this time, and on the grave of your father-in-law and mother-in-law, you guys have nothing to do to clear it. Jiade and Sanyan are like a girl, how can they do things on the mountain?"
"Oh".
After breakfast, Li Jiaming said a few words to Mao Tong and the fine dog, and went to cut the mountain when he went home tomorrow. It is the man's business to remove the weeds and wattles on the ancestral grave mountain, and the uncles are not at home, and only his three brothers have gone.