73. Borrow money

This year's Spring Festival is a bit strange, the temperature drops sharply on the second day of the new year, the cold winter rain is dripping non-stop, and it snows heavily in the afternoon.

It rarely snows in the latitude where Dongzhuang is located, let alone when the Spring Festival is approaching the beginning of spring.

"It's snowy!" Father Fang put his hands in his sleeves, stood under the eaves and looked at the snowflakes that were fluttering, and sighed.

The tip of Fang Jing's nose was red from the cold, and he jumped on the spot: "I always feel that this snow is a little abnormal." ”

"When did you become a weather expert?" Father Fang laughed and teased.

Fang Jing snorted and stopped talking.

"Where's Xiao Chen?" Father Fang always felt that the number of people in the family was wrong, but most of the time he didn't pay attention to it, and he would suddenly remember it when he saw Fang Jing, because Fang Jing and Cen Jiu had always been unfocused and focused on Meng, and the relationship between the two was so good that Dad Fang would think of Cen Jiu as soon as he saw Fang Jing.

"Let's go to practice." Fang Jing sighed twice into the palm of his hand and said, "Dad, it's too cold outside, let's go in." ”

Fang's mother burned a big tree pocket in the hall, and the room was warm. If you have a fire and don't bake it, you have to blow a cold wind outside, that's not a hero, that's a real fool.

Fang Jing felt that he was actually quite smart, not stupid at all, and of course he was not willing to endure the cold wind outside.

"You go in, I'll stand for a while." Father Fang has been very persistent in the action of standing since he had "legs" again, as if he wanted to make up for all the deficiencies in the previous years. If it weren't for the doctor's advice to pay attention to rest and not be too tired, Dad Fang would probably prefer to stand all day and night.

Normal food, clothing, walking, a healthy ordinary person may not be able to understand how fortunate it is, only the lost person will understand how rare these things are in the eyes of ordinary people.

Fang Jing didn't say anything more, just shrunk his neck and silently accompanied Father Fang to stand under the eaves, Father Fang squinted at the snowflakes falling in front of him, and after a while, he turned his head to look at Fang Jing and asked, "You really decided, you won't go to work in the future, and specialize in salvaging that wreck?" ”

"Hmm." It was too cold, Fang Jing stomped his feet and replied, "I was born by the sea, grew up by the sea, and when I grow up, I also want to engage in work related to the ocean. ”

He stretched out his hand and took a falling snowflake, the snowflake touched the temperature of the human body, and melted in his hand, leaving only a cold touch.

"About me like you, I am a fisherman close to the ocean in my bones, I was born to belong to this ocean, I know that this job is dangerous, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is not easy, the only thing I can guarantee is that I will try to be careful in the future."

"It's my fate." He looked at Father Fang, a flash of firmness flashed in his eyes, "I hope you can understand me." ”

He has already made up his mind, of course, he will not change lightly, but if he can get the understanding and support of his family, of course it is the best, if Fang's father and Fang's mother really can't understand, then there is no way.

Fang Jing went down the next day, and Father Fang's originally straight back slowly bent down little by little, and it seemed that all the spirit and spirit were gradually dissipating because of Fang Jing's words.

The two fathers and sons stood under the eaves for a long time, so long that Fang Jing couldn't help but sneeze, and was about to raise his feet to go back to the house, when he heard Fang's father's muffled voice coming over.

"You're already so old, you have your own ideas for everything, a manly man, you can do whatever you want, just don't do what you do, think about your mother, think about your brother, think about this family, just take good care of yourself.

Fang Jing paused, wanting to say something, but his throat was dry and astringent, and it took a long time before he spit out a sentence with difficulty.

"Dad, thank you."

In the room, because he was worried that Fang Jing was afraid of the cold, Cen Jiu, who was about to send Fang Jing with a coat in his hand, withdrew his feet that had stepped out of the threshold, and a faint smile slowly appeared on his indifferent face.

His boyfriend has a good daddy too!

It's just like being a dark guard who has nothing, but he still picked it up and took care of his Shadow Eighteen as much as he could, all of them are good Daddy.

On the fourth day of junior high school, the Fang family came with a few unexpected guests.

Since Fang's father's accident, the second uncle Fang, who has rarely moved around in recent years, actually took his son back to the old house to visit Fang's father.

That's a surprise!

Fang Jing's first thought was that his second uncle's family was going to produce some demon moths.

"Brother, sister-in-law, happy new year." Before he arrived at the gate of the hospital, Second Uncle Fang's voice came in, and his tone was as affectionate as if he had a deep relationship with Father Fang, the eldest brother.

Fang Jingzheng and Cen Jiu came back from outside, he annoyed Second Uncle Fang's family, and shouted impatiently: "Dad, there are guests." ”

After shouting, he didn't even bother to say hello, and pulled Cen Jiu into the courtyard.

When Fang's mother heard the voice, she thought it was someone coming, and ran out happily, and when she saw that it was Second Uncle Fang's family, her face immediately stretched long, and she responded lukewarmly: "It turned out that his second uncle was here." ”

"Happy New Year, sister-in-law, Binbin and I have come to greet you for the New Year." Second Uncle Fang didn't seem to notice the coldness of Fang Jing's family, and smiled very affectionately, "By the way, what about the eldest brother?" At home? ”

As the saying goes, don't hit a smiling person, and after the New Year, Fang's mother is too lazy to be angry with this ungrateful villain, how can she say that she is also Lao Fang's brother!

"He's on the dock, I'll call him, you guys go and sit down." Fang's mother greeted and glanced at Fang Xiaole again.

Fang Xiaole understands in seconds.

His father and mother came back from the United States, brought a lot of good things, and Sister Xin also bought a lot of gifts, and after coming back, he gave some of them to some old friends, and many of them were piled up at home, so he didn't want to show them to his second uncle.

And there are a lot of porcelain that his brother fished up at home, although the valuable ones were sent to the auction by his brother's teacher, and those at home are not too valuable, but I heard that one piece can be sold for tens of thousands!

He had to keep an eye on his second uncle's family, and he must not let them touch him hand in hand.

Second Uncle Fang didn't know that his little nephew was treating him as a thief, but he felt that Fang Xiaole was very intimate with him, you must know that he had brought a lot of gifts today, two of which were sent by Director Jiang's family, the Fang family's dirt buns, where had they seen such a high-end thing.

In fact, Fang Xiaole really thought too much.

Because there are many people living in the family, the rooms are basically their own private spaces, Fang's mother in order to avoid suspicion, and said that there are many people coming and going during the New Year, and there are many people, as long as the people are not there, several rooms are locked, only the kitchen and the hall are wide open, unless Second Uncle Fang looks at the wax goods hanging on the beam above, otherwise there is really nothing to take away.

There was a big old tree root burning in the corner of the hall, and the room was warm, and inevitably there would be a lot of ashes.

Aunt Fang frowned, carefully carried the hem of her coat, and sat far away from the fire.

"Why are you still burning this? Why don't you install an air conditioner, you can't use a few kilowatt-hours of electricity a year, it's clean and comfortable. "Aunt Fang kept complaining, her coat was only bought this winter, and it cost more than 3,000 yuan! If you accidentally get splashed with Martian foam or something, you really don't even have a place to cry, and you think it's really a countryman, and you can't even turn on the air conditioner in winter, and you have to burn this old tree root, and it's dirty and not warm.

"You have to burn this for the New Year to have an atmosphere." Fang Jing didn't bother to take care of her, went into the kitchen to boil a pot of boiling water, made tea for Second Uncle Fang's family of three, and sat by the fire with Cen Jiu to brush Taobao.

Since learning to use computers and mobile phones to surf the Internet, Cen Jiu's enthusiasm for online shopping has increased, and sometimes he can spend half a day without buying anything.

For Cen Jiu's little hobby, Fang Jing is usually very indulgent, when there is nothing like this, he will even accompany Cen Jiu to brush it together, and when he sees what he likes, he will help Cen Jiu buy it.

Fang Bin only glanced at it, then pursed his lips disdainfully.

He has always only gone to the mall to buy licensed goods, and Taobao or anything is only visited by people who have no money to buy cheap.

"Xiao Jing, I bought some things for your dad, you can put them away." Second Uncle Fang specially stood for a while with the gift box in his hand before letting Fang Jing take it in a show-off tone.

Fang Jing took it and put it on the side of the wall - there are too many people visiting each other these days, and it is not good for everyone to come to the door empty-handed during the New Year, so they will bring some gifts, a pack of Wangwang, a bag of fruits, a pair of wine, a few packs of cigarettes or something, there are too many, the table can't be placed, and the rest of Fang's mother is piled up in the corner, planning to tidy up the sky again.

The corners of Second Uncle Fang's eyes twitched, and he couldn't help but remind: "I bought some supplements for your father and mother, and a good cigarette, you should put it away carefully, so as not to be taken and mixed up." ”

When he entered the door, he saw two more men in the Fang family.

Fang Jing really got up and flipped through it, and turned the cigarette out, it was indeed a good brand, quite expensive.

Just as Xiao Ze came out, Fang Jing casually threw the cigarette to Xiao Ze: "Here, the second uncle brought it over, let's smoke it." ”

As soon as Xiao Ze grabbed his hand, he grabbed the cigarette in his hand, put it under his arm, didn't raise his eyebrows, and went out with his feet.

Mix and smoke......

Together......

Minato and ......

Do you know how much this cigarette costs? He can't buy one for a month's salary from working in a museum.

Second Uncle Fang couldn't figure out whether Fang Jing was slapping his swollen face and becoming fat, or if he was really rich and had seen a lot of good things, and he didn't pay attention to ordinary things, so he had several thoughts in his mind, remembering the purpose of coming back, and was about to speak, when he heard a strange sound in the courtyard, followed by Fang's father's loud voice.

"Zhengchun is coming, you just need to say hello, why are you dragging me over, I'm busy!" Father Fang was idle, he was taking care of Alicia, and when he was called back by Mother Fang, he was immediately unhappy.

"There's a guest at home, and you, the head of the family, don't say anything." Mother Fang said it politely, but in fact, she was too lazy to entertain the hypocritical and ruthless Second Uncle Fang's family.

She can be regarded as seeing through the personality of Second Uncle Fang's family, and she doesn't even bother to maintain the superficial relationship, and even because the other party's father is a little resentful, she directly called Fang's father back and asked Fang's father to call his white-eyed wolf brother by himself.

Father Fang was carrying a toolbox in his hand, and walked in, and saw Second Uncle Fang greet lightly: "It's here." ”

I didn't want Second Uncle Fang to say anything, so I said again: "Since you're here, I'll eat lunch and go back." ”

After speaking, no matter what Second Uncle Fang thought, he turned around and went back to the dock to continue working.

Second Uncle Fang's eyes were about to fall out.

"Big Big Big Brother...... Your leg ......" He knew that Father Fang was wearing a prosthetic, but he thought it was an ordinary prosthetic leg for decoration, but the section exposed under Father Fang's pants, even if he saw him, he knew that it was very tall at first glance.

"Oh, you said this, Xiao Jing saw that I couldn't walk, so I had to go to the United States to pretend, but it was only 800,000 things." Father Fang waved his hand absently, carried the toolbox and walked out again.

Life has been up and down for decades, he has long seen it, everything is fake, only his family is real, he has done his best to this brother, and there is no affection for him. From now on, every penny he earns will be left to his wife and son, and the brothers of the white-eyed wolf will all stand aside.

Father Fang walked in a particularly chic manner, but he didn't expect Second Uncle Fang behind him to have a shocked expression.

800,000 only?!

Even when the Fang family was the richest, 800,000 was a huge amount of money, okay? Of course, money was worth a lot more at that time than it is now.

So that rumor is true, Fang Jingzhen made a lot of money, sent his younger brother to study in the United States, and could afford to spend so much money to send Fang's father to the United States just to install a prosthetic leg.

Second Uncle Fang's eyes suddenly flashed with a gleam, he didn't say anything, he silently observed all morning, and it wasn't until he finished lunch that Second Uncle Fang explained his intentions.

"Binbin talked about a girlfriend two years ago, that is, the daughter of Director Jiang of Civil Engineering, I think Binbin is not young, Yiyao's child is also very good, and the most important thing is to be good to Binbin, so I plan to do something for them as soon as possible."

Fang Bin talked about his girlfriend, and the Fang family also knew, and Fang's father didn't think much about it, so he said: "This is a happy event, has the date been set?" ”

When Second Uncle Fang mentioned this, he had a sad expression: "It was originally scheduled for May Day, but now it is estimated that it will be postponed again." ”

"What's wrong?"

Second Uncle Fang waited for him to ask, and immediately poured bitter water and pulled Fang's father to talk, "You don't know, how difficult it is to marry a daughter-in-law now, there is no house or car, and no girl is willing to marry at all." The Jiang family said that if the two get married, their family will marry a car, and our family will prepare a new house. ”

"You also know that our family is an old house, if Yiyao is willing, his mother and I are willing to move out and rent a house to vacate the house for Binbin to make a new house, but the girl is not happy and wants to live in a new house. In the first two months, my mother and I went to see several real estate projects, and now the housing prices are really incredible, the houses that are far away have to be seven or eight thousand square meters, and the slightly better ones are tens of thousands, and a random house is two or three million, and my mother and I have worked hard all our lives, and we can't even afford a decent house. ”

Fang's father was silent and didn't speak, Fang's mother in the kitchen cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks a little bigger, and heard a clear sound, as if a bowl had been broken.

Second Uncle Fang looked at Fang's father's face, and said tentatively: "Brother, I can't help it, how can Bin Bin say that he is also your nephew, no different from your own birth, I just thought that if you still have plenty of money at hand, or help Bin Ji with this, he is a good boy, and he will be filial to you in the future." ”

Fang Jing: "......"

Lying on the grass, he knew that his second uncle's family had nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, and they still came to borrow money after a long time!