Chapter 228, the problem of the Gu family
Because this Spring Festival is the most crowded and complete Spring Festival in the Deng family in the past 20 years, and there are many children, this time the New Year's goods are also rich, especially Zhou Guizhi, who actually took out a thousand yuan from his private money to Deng Jianwen, asking him to buy more fireworks and firecrackers, let off bad luck and welcome the new year.
So, Deng Jianwen and Deng Jianwu brothers went to the city to purchase, not to mention anything else, just the boxes of big fireworks and firecrackers piled up half a room, of course, the cost was far more than 1,000 yuan.
On the afternoon of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, after eating a sumptuous Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Mei Lan took a few children to the river to release the cupola, this kind of cupola is to be released in the field to be fun, when Mei Lan was young, he and his friends inserted the cupola into the dirt or dry dung, as soon as the lead was lit, everyone swarmed and ran, and the rest of the slow runner would inevitably be drenched with mud or dry manure, becoming everyone's laughing stock.
Rural children don't have computers, game consoles or mobile phones, so they are tired of this kind of game, and occasionally there are more naughty people who throw cannons under the girls' feet, and Mei Lan has never done that kind of scolding.
It is said that when Mei Lan and the others were playing on the river beach, Gu Pu also brought a teenage boy over, and he also came to the river for a walk after eating.
"Mei Lan, what a coincidence, it turned out to be you." When Gu Pu saw Mei Lan, he hesitated slightly, but still walked over.
"Gu Pu, I hope it's best for us to pretend not to know each other in the future, of course, it's better to take a detour." Merlin really didn't want to see him.
"Sister. I, I ......"
"Don't, don't call me sister. I'm not your sister. After Mei Lan finished speaking, she called Peng Peng a few to go home.
"Hey, who are you, dare to drag like this?" The little boy spoke
"Gu Zhang, don't make trouble, she is also your sister."
"Bah, I don't want her to be my sister." Gu Zhang's nose snorted to the sky.
Mei Lan didn't pay attention to him, and took Huhu's hand and shouted to those people to go home. Who knew that just when Merlin turned around. Gu Zhang threw two smashing cannons under Mei Lan's feet, not only Mei Lan was startled. The hooves were even more frightened and cried.
Gu Zhang actually clapped his hands and laughed when he saw it.
Mei Lan was so angry that she let go of Hu Hu's hand, walked over and slapped Gu Zhang is crackle a few times, Gu Zhang didn't expect Mei Lan to dare to hit her, and soon he fought back. kicked and kicked at Mei Lan, Mei Lan was even more angry, and she didn't care if the other party was a child, she dragged and hooked, and beat Gu Zhang to the ground in a few strokes.
"Hey, don't go, let's make a gesture." A ten-year-old boy is at the stage where he seems to understand what he doesn't understand, and losing to a girl is always a faceless thing.
Merlin ignored him.
You don't have to think about it to know that the father of this child must be the rich Gu Rujiang.
Mei Lan, who was not in a good mood, met three or four more women at her doorstep. One of them has Jiansheng's wife who I saw last time, and Mei Lan calls her Aunt Jiansheng.
"Mei Lan, why are you still here today?" Aunt Jiansheng asked.
Meijiawan is only ten miles away from here. Mei Lan had no reason not to go back to her house for the New Year and stay at her grandmother's house, so these women were very surprised to see Mei Lan.
After all, Mei Lan's life experience is currently known to the Mei family and the Deng family, and outsiders don't understand the reason, so they naturally can't understand it.
"Oh, it's okay, my grandmother said it was a new house. Be noisy. Merlin smiled.
Although the other party felt that this reason was a bit far-fetched, he did not ask any further. Hurry to leave.
Mei Lan saw that these women were carrying a basket in their hands, and felt a little strange, so she asked casually, "Aunt Jiansheng, what are you busy with?" ”
"Hey, you don't know yet, today is Aunt Xiaofeng, it is the sixtieth birthday of the woman of the Gu family, this is despite the fact that the brothers are back, and they want to give the old lady a good birthday, the second child of the Gu family will pay for it, and the old lady over sixty years old in the village will give a red envelope of 1,000 yuan for each person, and also said that early tomorrow morning, no matter who goes to the Gu family to pay New Year's greetings to the old lady, they will give a red envelope of 100 yuan."
"You mean you're sending red envelopes to our family?" Mei Lan's face darkened suddenly.
"No, there are all in the village, and you can't pull down your grandmother's family alone, not only a red envelope, but also a bag of dim sum. By the way, the Gu family will also set off fireworks at the door tonight, I heard that the Gu family spent more than 10,000 yuan just to buy fireworks, tsk, how can this Gu family be rich? The other woman said.
Mei Lan didn't ask anything anymore after hearing this, and these women didn't pay attention to Mei Lan's face because they were in a hurry to go to other homes to send things.
When Mei Lan returned home, the Deng family was sitting in the living room, and their faces were not good-looking.
If you don't want this money, the people in the village will definitely suspect that the Gu family has any grievances with them.
In short, in Zhou Guizhi's words, the Gu family is really not a thing, knowing that the Deng family has such a deep grudge against them, they actually sent someone to send red envelopes, isn't it just to embarrass the Gu family?
"Grandma, grandmother, don't worry, if you want me to say that these two thousand yuan is easy to do, isn't she celebrating her sixtieth birthday? We took the money to buy her a pair of bells and sent them. Melan said.
"You kid, this is too bad, we can't do this kind of lack of morality, there will be retribution." Zhou Guizhi was the first to shake his head in disapproval.
She is in her eighties, and she is the most taboo about these things.
"Mother-in-law, I think Lan Lan has a good idea, what they do is much less virtuous than this, and I don't see any retribution for them." Deng Jianwu clapped his hands and said.
"Okay, how can you talk like a child when you're dozens of years old, and the whole village is watching." Liu Qiaozhen glared at Deng Jianwu.
Liu Qiaozhen really did this, not to mention others, even the spittle stars of the whole village can drown Liu Qiaozhen's family, and the countrymen are the most taboo about these things, so they are also the most unaccustomed to these tricks.
After all, Deng Wenxiang's family still has to live in the village, and in the future, they will still have to rely on the people in the village to send them to the mountain.
"Then forget it, just take it, aren't they still planning to invite the whole village to dinner? Let's just ignore them, on the sixth day of the new year, our family went out to visit the house and left early in the morning. Deng Jianwen said.
"But no, what people want is for us to be embarrassed, we just don't take it seriously, when their house sets off fireworks, we will also put them and make trouble, or take these two thousand yuan to go to town now, and we will have time to buy another two thousand yuan of fireworks." Mei Lan said with a smile.
Don't look like they're the only ones who have money.
"Okay, what are you doing with this anger?" Deng Jianwu knocked Mei Lan on the head.
"Yes." Mei Lan also patted her head, almost cheesy again.
"Mom, have the old people in the village been like this all these years?" Deng Shuiying asked suddenly.
"No, most people set up a few tables of wine, give out a little buns or biscuits, and have not given money." Liu Qiaozhen said.
"Actually, there are not many old ladies over the age of 60 in the village, and there are only forty or fifty people in total, and they only spend 40,000 or 50,000 yuan to buy a reputation, and for people like them, the money is too much to spend anyway." Deng Jianwen said.
He is in the county seat of Meixian County, and he knows more about Gu Rujiang's affairs than others, because Gu Rujiang's construction company is in the county seat.
"I can't spend too much money to spend, if I want to say that I must be weak-hearted and have done too much evil." Merlin pursed her lips.
Not to mention anything else, at least Xu Yan's mother's life must be counted on Gu Rujiang, right?
Also, the Gu family harmed Deng Shuiying to give birth to Mei Lan out of wedlock and foster her in someone else's house, which is somewhat of a thing that damages yin morality, presumably they also want to use an excuse to do some good deeds to seek peace of mind.
"No, why is she only sixty?" Merlin suddenly realized a problem.
Mei Lan is almost twenty years old, how can Gu Rusong also have forty-two three? How could this Deng Xiaofeng be only sixty years old?
"Hmph, what's impossible?" Zhou Guizhi snorted coldly.
Mei Lan waited to ask carefully, and when she saw that there were such a child in the house, this kind of topic was obviously not appropriate.
However, Mei Lan understood one thing, that is, Deng Xiaofeng gave birth to Gu Rusong at the age of eighteen, didn't she say that she was pregnant with a son at the age of seventeen?
Gu Runhe is a Shanghai educated youth, and it is unlikely that he will take the initiative to fall in love with a rural woman, right? There's definitely some story in there.
However, Mei Lan was not interested in inquiring, she was not interested in the Gu family at all.
As she was talking, Mei Lan suddenly heard movement outside, and it turned out that the Gu family had started to set off fireworks.
"Come on, play two rounds of mahjong, and the Spring Festival Gala will start in a while." Deng Jianwu shouted.
He was worried that Deng Shuiying and Liu Qiaozhen would not be able to get over this hurdle, but Mei Lan looked heartless.
It's not entirely right to say that she has no heart and no lungs, after all, it was Gu Rusong's chaos that led to Mei Lan's twenty years of hosting, but Mei Lan's hatred for Gu Rusong was not as intuitive and entangled as the Mei family and the Deng family, she completely ignored Gu Rusong and regarded him as a stranger.
Mei Lan didn't play mahjong on the table, she went upstairs to chat with Cai Ganlin, today's matter, she wanted to ask Cai Ganlin's opinion.
"Isn't it two thousand dollars? If you don't want it, you donate it. ”
"The problem is not two thousand yuan, and the money is not for me, what they want to do with it is their business, I just want to ask you what the Gu family wants to do? I met the people of the Gu family at the end of three days, and they didn't bother me. ”
"Then it's just right for you to go back to Beijing."
Cai Ganlin didn't come over this week, because it was close to the Spring Festival, and he had more work at hand, so he was really busy, and every night when he returned home and faced the empty house, the whole person felt empty.
Therefore, Cai Ganlin especially wanted to bring Mei Lan back to Beijing.
Merlin gave him a pouting look.
As he was talking, there was a sudden movement downstairs, and when Mei Lan was listening attentively, Peng Peng came up and said that the Gu family had come to the door to fight. (To be continued) R466