Chapter 53: Past Entanglement
Speaking of the favor owed to the Ye family, Grandpa Lu sighed melancholy, looked at Lu Jue twice, his mouth moved, he wanted to say something but didn't know where to start.
As soon as Lu Jue saw his grandfather's expression, he had some guesses in his heart.
So, his face was slightly cold, and he asked in a calm voice, "Is it related to that woman?" ”
The woman in Lu Jue's mouth was none other than the biological mother who chose to abandon her child in order to return to the city.
Grandpa Lu straightened his face and reprimanded: "What this woman, that woman, that's your mother!" No matter what she does, she can't change this fact, you have not only the blood of the Lu family, but also your mother's blood in your body. ”
"Is she worthy of the title 'mother'? Grandpa, I know that as a junior, I shouldn't blame my elders for what they did. So, I never resent her. Lu Jue said with a calm face, but the hand on his side was clenched into a fist. I just thought she had never been a person, and anyway, she never fulfilled her responsibilities for a day except to give birth to me and Sanshan. Thinking about it, she is not uncommon, me and Shanshan, a pair of children who will hold her back. ”
"Alas!" Grandpa Lu sighed heavily, slowly turned around, opened the large wooden cabinet at the head of the bed, and fumbled in it for a while before taking out a small wooden box with patent leather off.
The wooden box was not locked, so Grandpa Lu put it directly in Lu Jue's hand and motioned him to open it.
Looking at this wooden box that was old for a few years, Lu Jue pursed his lips and opened it without hesitation, and the contents were immediately clear at a glance.
"These are all ...... Ious? Lu Jue took out a stack of thick notes from inside, and the first one had two eye-catching words written on it - IOUs.
His heart jumped, and he hurriedly read the contents of the IOU, and the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became.
The stack of thick notes contained in the wooden box, each one was an IOU, and the amount owed varied, ranging from a few dollars to dozens or even hundreds. And the time indicated under the IOU is also far and near, far away for several years, and close to ...... Lu Jue saw the latest IOU, it turned out to be four years ago!
Four years ago, what happened four years ago, Lu Jue will never forget. That year, he was admitted to Pingle County No. 1 Middle School with the first place in the county's high school entrance examination, which should have been a great thing to honor his ancestors, but because of two other things, the joy brought by his good results was diluted or even washed away.
That year, he and Lu Shan's mother abandoned their children and quietly returned to the city. And Grandma Lu was so angry because of this incident that she couldn't afford to get sick, and finally fell seriously ill and went to the hospital, and the already poor family became even more gloomy.
At that time, Lu Jue was already very sensible, he knew that his family was very poor and could not afford Grandma Lu's treatment and hospitalization, so he decided to drop out of school and no longer add burden to the family. In order to raise money for his grandmother's hospitalization, he also went to the blood bank to sell blood, but was rejected because he was not old enough.
Just when Lu Jue was at a loss, Grandpa Lu raised money, but he didn't tell Lu Jue that the money was borrowed, only that he sold the only valuable thing in the family in exchange for it. Lu Jue did not doubt him.
Until today, Lu Jue didn't know that the money for his grandmother's treatment at that time was borrowed by the Ye family.
Lu Jue expressed his gratitude for Ye Jiaken's kindness of borrowing money, but this is not an excuse to use his sister Lu Shan to repay his kindness.
"Grandpa, the Ye family lent money to our family, according to the situation at the time, this is tantamount to saving grandma's life, but this code is one yard, we can't marry my sister because we owe the Ye family a great kindness, and treat it as an invitation!" Lu Jue said with some excitement.
"Boss, no matter how confused your grandmother and I are, it is impossible for us to do a mess of using my granddaughter to repay the favor." Seeing that Lu Jue misunderstood what he meant, Grandpa Lu was not annoyed, and said softly, "This matter is a long story, so I'll pick the key points and tell you." ”
In the matter of treating Lu Shan marrying Ye Gang, Grandpa Lu and Grandma Lu's thoughts are not far apart, but Grandpa Lu is the same man, so he has to look farther than Grandma Lu.
He could see that Ye Gang was not only tenacious, but also very principled, on the surface, Ye Gang was taciturn, giving people the impression that he was honest. But Grandpa Lu didn't think so, just ask, how could a man with a sharp eye really be honest?
Grandpa Lu thinks that it's better not to be too honest, a man. As the saying goes, "horses are good at being ridden, people are good at being bullied", it is better to be smart and wise, as long as this person is principled, responsible, and has a good character. And these points, Ye Gang just fits.
This is the main reason why Grandpa Lu chose Ye Gang as his grandson-in-law, and there is another reason, Grandpa Lu hesitated, but decided to sue Lu Jue.
"When your mother left, she didn't leave empty-handed." Grandpa Lu sat on the edge of the bed, his eyes showing a gloomy color, "When your father was still here, he was very good at hunting, so he also saved a sum of money, which was prepared by your father for you and Shanshan." Even when your dad had an accident, he resolutely refused to touch the money, and in the end, the money for your dad's injury and medical treatment was all from the Ye family, because your dad had saved Ye Dezheng before, and his father-in-law was a sincere person, although he knew that your dad was just saving him at the time, but he still took out all the family's savings to repay the favor. When your mother left, she took the money with her, and your grandmother became angry because of it. ”
"At that time, the family really didn't have a penny, your grandmother was waiting in the hospital for help, and you and Shanshan still had to go to school, all of which needed money. Your grandmother and I saved up a little money, but that money didn't help at all. So, I can only be cheeky to borrow money, but no one is having a good time in those years, and how much can I borrow? In the end, there was really no way, so I asked the Ye family, and I didn't think about how much their family could borrow, after all, the Ye family was not a rich family. Who knew that people had hollowed out their family funds, so they scraped together enough money to lend me, which is still thinking of your father! I thought, in such a family, it will not be wrong for your sister to marry in the past. ”
Moreover, when the Ye family came to the Lu family to come to the family last year, they made it clear that the money owed by the Lu family to the Ye family did not have to be repaid, and the Ye family would have to bear the cost of Lu Jue and Lu Shan to continue studying in the future. The Ye family's meaning was a bit of a feeling of forcing the Lu family to agree to the marriage with favors, so Ye Dezheng and Zhang Huicai felt embarrassed and felt sorry for Lu Shan.
But Grandpa Lu and Grandma Lu didn't think so, they didn't think about the Ye family's money, but felt that the Ye family valued Lu Shan, and because of the Ye family's guilt, they would definitely not treat Lu Shan badly in the future.
After Lu Jue listened to the ins and outs of the matter, he didn't know what to say. And Lu Shan's side, after hearing Grandma Lu's story, thought to herself, it was really her father-in-law and mother-in-law, what a real thing to do!
After she casually packed a few clothes, she followed Grandma Lu into the kitchen to pack up the food that could be taken away, and after a while, the big woven pockets were bulging, and Lu Shan estimated that she could weigh fifty or sixty pounds.
She thought about it, and simply went to the back mountain, released the moldy Xuanmang who was idle in the space, and went into the depths of the back mountain with one person and one wolf, and after being busy for a long time, she returned home with a lot of harvest.
Lu Shan is not afraid of too many things, anyway, she has space, she can pretend as much as she wants.
After she cleaned up and it was dark, Lu Shan instructed Mao Sui to recommend herself to take care of the animals after a few words, then she went out of the space, went to bed, and waited for the arrival of tomorrow-
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