Chapter 9: Debt of Kindness
"Grandpa Kong, you drink"
Mu Hongmei, who came over with a small half gourd gourd scoop of cold boiling water, didn't finish speaking, and the gourd gourd scoop in her hand was snatched by Mu Zhengfang.
When he handed the snatched water to Kong Mingzhong, he looked at Kong Mingzhong's uncertain, but obviously worse and worse complexion, and considered what he had said to admit his mistake.
"Daddy, my nephew really knows that he is wrong today, you always drink saliva to extinguish the fire, and whatever you say in a while, your nephew will listen to you."
After speaking, seeing Kong Mingzhong looking at himself with a pair of old eyes, but he didn't mean to catch the water at all, although Mu Zhengfang gritted his teeth in anger and secretly scolded the old immortal in his heart, but his face made an expression of regret and admitting his mistake.
"Oh, Daddy, my dear Daddy, you're always here. Hey, do you really hate me as a big nephew? ”
Seeing that Kong Mingzhong was still staring at himself noncommittally, Mu Zhengfang felt a little furious in his heart, his small eyes rolled, and he said aggrievedly: "Don't, big daddy~." Ever since my father died, I've been the only elder like you who can be truly good to me.
Otherwise, if you think that I can't relieve you from the few times I just pinched myself, you will give me a few more strokes today, and it will also give me a long memory.
If I Mu Zhengfang hid today, I wouldn't be a man! ”
At this time, Mu Zhengfang seemed to have forgotten how he had turned out the old favor that people owed to his father, and asked this old man in the form of envy.
When he said these words at this time, he was able to make a careful and aggrieved face without any psychological burden, as if someone else had humiliated him.
In this originally small stove room, except for Mu Hongbing, an ignorant child, Kong Mingzhong and Mu Hongmei were both speechless at this time for Mu Zhengfang's self-talking, self-directing and self-acting style.
It is said that he is speechless, but it is better to say that after seeing all this clearly, he is disappointed and shameless, so he is unwilling to deal with him.
When she was fetching water just now, Mu Hongmei was still thinking about how to let this old man she respected see her father's true face and not be really fooled.
But at this time, looking at the old man's attitude towards his father just now, Mu Hongmei was a lot more relieved, and she knew that there were some things, and she didn't need to remind her more.
But when she thought that maybe from now on, there would be no care and help from this old man, she couldn't help but feel a little panicked and lost.
When she found out that she was so contradictory and shamelessly wanted to rely on other people's minds, Mu Hongmei was really ashamed and ashamed.
I can't help but slander, Mu Hongmei, Mu Hongmei, you have really lived for decades in vain, how can you have such a shameless and despicable mind. People don't owe you at all, but you owe them a great favor in your previous life, and you don't think about how to repay, how can you want to get help from others again
At this time, because Mu Zhengfang was too self-righteous and acted too much, it became too fake, so Kong Mingzhong, who had already seen all this today too seriously and thought too clearly, had no joy or anger on his face.
He didn't take the water scoop handed to him by Mu Zhengfang from beginning to end, but just watched Mu Zhengfang perform this 'family drama' that he couldn't touch his emotions at this time.
Hearing Mu Zhengfang's last word fall, and making sure that Mu Zhengfang's performance had come to an end, the old man looked away from staring at Mu Zhengfang, and turned to look at Mu Hongmei, who was standing on the side and biting her lip.
"Hongmei, it's not too early, have you written down all the things you told you to prepare?"
"Huh?"
Mu Hongmei, who was ashamed in her heart, and her head was about to drop to her heart, didn't react a little, but then she realized that the old man was talking about what to prepare for her mother's first seven burnt buns.
Busy nodded and said, "Well, I remember everything." Thank you, Grandpa Kong. Bearing back the sadness of remembering her mother's death, and the urge to make herself want to cry because she knew that the old man was still caring for and helping him as usual after discovering the truth, Mu Zhengmei tried to show a grateful smile to the old man.
Looking at Mu Hongmei's smile that was obviously pretending to be strong and more ugly than crying, he had made up his mind before, and after preparing for today's major event of Li Guo's needle seven, Kong Mingzhong, who was unwilling to care about Mu Zhengfang's lazy man's affairs from the order onwards, couldn't help but feel sour again, staring at Mu Hongmei a little distracted.
But it was only a moment, Kong Mingzhong retracted his mind and nodded approvingly at Mu Hongmei.
"Well, just remember. There are still some things at grandpa's house, so I'll go back first, and come back before the sun sets in the afternoon. ”
When Kong Mingzhong spoke, he bent down and put Mu Hongbing in his arms to Mu Hongmei's side and stand. Seeing that the little guy was still a little distracted, and the little mouth babbled and made a move to get back into his arms, Kong Mingzhong's heart was sour again.
"Hongbing, grandpa still has something to do, you obediently listen to your sister's words, ah?" When Kong Mingzhong said, Mu Hongmei also took half a step forward and took Mu Hongbing, who wanted to stick to him, into his arms.
"Little brother is obedient, Grandpa Kong still has something to do at home." Then he smiled apologetically at Kong Mingzhong: "Grandpa Kong, thank you." You go back first, I'll get everything ready for use. ”
Although Mu Hongbing couldn't speak, he could understand the meaning of many words said by adults, and at this time, he no longer leaned on Kong Mingzhong, obediently leaned on Mu Hongmei's arms, blinked his big black and white eyes, and showed a sweet smile at Kong Mingzhong.
Looking at the two well-behaved and cute children, one big and one small, but they didn't have a good background, Kong Mingzhong felt even more uncomfortable.
Sighed secretly, raised his hand and rubbed Mu Hongbing's hair was thin and yellow, and after nodding at Mu Hongmei with a complicated expression, he stood up and didn't look at the pestle next to him at this time, looking embarrassed and a little anxious, Mu Zhengfang, who rubbed his hands and feet from time to time, glanced at it, and walked directly out of the stove room.
"Hey, Daddy...... You are" Mu Zhengfang, who had been stared at by Kong Mingzhong since just now, and then completely ignored by others, probably guessed the meaning behind Kong Mingzhong like this at this time, and panicked in his heart, and his mouth that usually spoke neatly was knotted.
Just when Mu Zhengfang was still stammering and didn't finish asking, Kong Mingzhong had already stepped out of the door of the stove room, stopped his feet and turned his head suddenly, looked at Mu Zhengfang coldly, and left a paragraph.
"Stop playing tricks on Lao Tzu, your careful thinking that can't be put on the stage! It is true that there is affection between Lao Tzu and your father, but Lao Tzu is not a melon baby. The little ninety-nine in your heart is not good in front of Lao Tzu!
Your surname is Mu, Lao Tzu's surname is Kong, even if you really want to think of yourself as Lao Tzu's own nephew, Lao Tzu is not unrecognizable, and he dare not recognize it.
To put it more broadly, Lao Tzu is the leader of a production team, although he has the responsibility to lead the members to live a good life. But every family has a family, you want to be a lazy man and settle down, and you want to live a poor life, Lao Tzu has the law?
Why do you want something, Lao Tzu has to rush to help you? I don't owe you! Lao Tzu won't help you either!
If it weren't for your father's affection, and the face of these two obedient and well-behaved little babies right now, Lao Tzu would really not want to step into the threshold of your house half a step from now on.
Today I put my words here, you'd better not give Lao Tzu a mess, or beat people at every turn to break the law and discipline, otherwise Lao Tzu will let you know what is the pot and the iron is poured!
Lao Tzu is here today, from now on, you know yourself! After saying this last sentence with a heavy heart, Kong Mingzhong resolutely turned around and left.
Even if it didn't take a moment behind him, Mu Zhengfang roared like a shrew scolding the street, although he was even more disappointed in his heart, he didn't stop to refute or fight back, he just stiffened his back and walked away.
"Old immortal, get out. With a clear conscience. You owe Lao Tzu"
Mu Zhengfang scolded fiercely in his mouth, but in the face of Kong Mingzhong's unusually strong and ruthless today, he didn't dare to catch up and continue to entangle, except for standing in the courtyard and venting his angry curses with a loud curse.
Until Kong Mingzhong walked out of the gate of the Mu family far away, he could still faintly hear Mu Zhengfang's extremely ugly roars.
After making sure that Mu Zhengfang didn't chase him out and couldn't see himself, the old man was still stiff before, as if the backbone of a thousand catties of heavy burden could not be crushed, slowly rickety, and the whole person looked very depressed as if he had just experienced a thousand hardships.
"Alas~"
It wasn't until he returned to the gate of his house nearly a hundred meters away that he couldn't hear Mu Zhengfang's splattering roar at all, that Kong Mingzhong stopped.
Standing in front of the gate in a daze, too much helplessness and disappointment, the old man sighed, and then gathered his complicated thoughts, and then pushed open the closed old red lacquered wooden courtyard door of his house.
Although Kong Mingzhong said cruel words to Mu Zhengfang today, only he knows best, even if his old friend Mu Lao's father has passed away for many years, as long as he lives for one day, he can't let go of the friendship that he wanted to be with him like a brother since he was a child, and in that special era, his old friend didn't mind his unreasonable misunderstanding and complaints over the years, and he didn't care about the kindness that he did his best to maintain throughout the whole process.
And it was because he woke up after the death of his old friend, and he had no chance to repay Daddy Mu to him, including his family, so he could only repay this kindness to Daddy Mu's descendants over the years.
And this descendant is Mu Zhengfang.
Even if he has not been in contact with the Mu family for many years, as an old man who has watched Mu Zhengfang grow up, Kong Mingzhong clearly knows what kind of person Mu Zhengfang is.
That's a houndice scoundrel who doesn't know what to do, doesn't know how to be grateful, and maybe never understands what contentment is, and a rare lazy man in the world.
But because it is clear, since the death of Father Mu, looking at Mu Zhengfang, who has nothing to do every day because no one is disciplined and restrained, and he has nothing to do every day, and he has begun to sell his belongings after eating the last meal, and he has lived a life of no one and no ghost, Kong Mingzhong feels that he has the responsibility and obligation to help his old friend bring this loser back to the right path.
Although Kong Mingzhong didn't have the opportunity to meet him and say a word of confidant until Daddy Mu died, Kong Mingzhong knew that if Daddy Mu had any of his biggest wishes, it should be that Mu Zhengfang, a loser, could one day change his past wrongs, embark on the right path, and live a good life in a down-to-earth manner.
Fulfilling the last wish of his old friend has since become a way for Kong Mingzhong, who knows that he owes too much to his old friend, to repay this debt of kindness.
But today, in the face of Mu Zhengfang's desire to use all kinds of means on himself and become more and more unreinformed, Kong Mingzhong is really physically and mentally exhausted.
Mu Zhengfang's disappointments again and again, and over the years, the two sons in the family are not rich in their own family, and they also take special care of Mu Zhengfang, an outsider, who does not understand, all of which make Kong Mingzhong a little breathless.
All the pressure, finally today, made Kong Mingzhong have the idea that even if he has no face to face his old friends after death, he will never want to care about Mu Zhengfang's life or death.
But when he saw the young sister and brother Mu Hongmei, Kong Mingzhong finally relented.
So in the end, except for the next 'cruel words' that were not ruthless, he didn't say anything that didn't care whether Mu Zhengfang's family lived or died.
But today's cruel words, in Kong Mingzhong's view, must be said. Only in this way can Mu Zhengfang know how to be restrained and not become more and more excessive.
At least, that's what Kong Mingzhong thinks. But is a scumbag like Mu Zhengfang, will he really understand and stop in moderation?