I stood at the door, aggrieved, angry, unwilling, and my brain surged up, but my mother grabbed my hand and pushed me into the house, saying Ge'er, don't be angry, it's us who are not right first, let's not be angry, don't be angry......

But I couldn't help it, took out three hundred yuan from my trouser pocket, crumpled it into a ball and threw it at the feet of the eldest aunt, saying that even if we bought this chicken, now we don't owe each other, please get out of my house quickly!

The eldest aunt sneered and said Do I agree to sell this chicken? You can buy it if you want to? Today I can tell you, this chicken is a thousand dollars, and you can't lose a son!

I was so angry that I immediately took money out of my trouser pocket, and when I came back by car, I had already withdrawn all the bank deposits, more than 10,000 cash, but my mother didn't let me, came up to stop me, and said with a crying voice: "Son, three hundred is enough, it's not good for my mother, I'll deal with it here, you go into the house, don't come out, let that girl see the joke is not good......"

I couldn't bear to be so embarrassed by her, endured her anger, obediently went back and closed the door, and then my mother continued to kill chickens outside, and the eldest aunt kept scolding next to her, all kinds of vicious words came out, my mother didn't say a word, really didn't say a word, but only I know how painful she was in her heart, she died of her husband before she was thirty years old, and I suffered a lot for me to study, but I didn't expect to go home when I was old, and I had to suffer this kind of insulting bird spirit.

Huo Xinlan listened silently in the house, and when I saw her, I got angry, saying that you have no human feelings, do you have to make my mother unable to get off the stage?

Huo Xinlan looked very innocent, and said Why are you angry at me, I didn't say a word, what does it matter to me?

In fact, it was really none of her business to make such a fuss, but I felt aggrieved and had to find an outlet, so I said very badly: "If you hadn't agreed to stay and eat, would my mother have gone to get someone else's chicken?" My family is so poor, so poor that you have to sell the house, you have watched the joke for a long time now, are you satisfied? ”

Huo Xinlan was also angry, not to be outdone, and said: "I don't want to participate in your family's affairs, but Auntie left me to eat, why can't I stay?" If you want to let me go, it depends on whether my aunt agrees. ”

I looked at her angrily, and she glared at me with her head held high, and did not back down, and finally I was the first to lose, and did not speak again, but sat silently to the side and smoked.

It didn't take long for my mother to kill the chicken, and when she was eating, her face was very bad, but she still smiled and kept sandwiching chicken for Huo Xinlan, Huo Xinlan had no heart or lungs, as if what had happened just now had not happened, and she only cared about eating.

It was already evening after eating, and while my mother was cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, I asked Huo Xinlan, how much money are you going to give for my house? The entire large courtyard outside is mine, adding up to more than six or seven hundred square meters.

Huo Xinlan said very coldly: "Your attitude is too bad, I didn't want to buy it, but my aunt kept me for dinner, so I gave her face and went back to think about it." But you'd better not get your hopes up, I'm not too interested in your family's land anymore, anyway, I'm talking about the land in the next village, so I don't need to look at your face at all. ”

I didn't expect her to be so direct, and her words were so ugly, I was stunned on the spot, this land can't be sold, it proves that there is no money, what about living expenses? What about the capital that wants to turn over?

I gritted my teeth, and was about to pull down my face to beg, but Huo Xinlan didn't give me a chance, turned around and left, and didn't forget to remind me when I went out of the door, saying that there should be dead rats in your house, the smell is quite big, and it is best to find it out and throw it away.

After I waited for her to leave, I found a dead mouse in the corner of the room on the left, it was estimated that it had eaten pesticides in the field, it was rotten, it was very foul, and my face was hot all of a sudden, and I was a little embarrassed, it turned out that Huo Xinlan was not disgusted with my dirty house, but smelled the smell of dead rats as soon as I came in.

When my mother came out of washing the dishes, she asked me excitedly, what did that girl say, when will she buy our house?

I couldn't bear to hit her, so I said that the price was still being discussed, and it was estimated that there would be results in the next two days.

My mother put her mind at ease and said that's good, this girl has a good heart and will be very filial, anyway, you and Jiajia are going to divorce, why don't you try to develop first?

Actually, my mother doesn't know, I have fallen out with Huo Xinlan, and there is a high probability that the house will not be sold, this is all done by myself, for the sake of damn self-esteem, for the sake of damn face, I forcibly sent away the only person who could help me get out of the predicament. But I couldn't bear to hit my mother, so I followed her wishes and said that this girl is really good, I'll think about it again, I can develop the best, and I can't do anything if I can't develop.

Although there was no letter, my mother was still very happy to hear it.

It made my heart hurt even more.

At seven o'clock in the evening, a child from the clan came to inform me that an hour later the ancestral hall would hold a meeting to discuss the matter of ancestor worship the day after tomorrow, and each family would send a representative to listen to the arrangement.

In our hometown, the annual ancestor worship is very grand, people who go out to work will basically come back, and everyone has to participate in the ancestral grave, first hold a meeting to decide the route, discuss the details, and wait for the mountain to eat collectively in the ancestral hall, it is very lively, it is a characteristic custom in Pingxi.

My mother's rheumatoid offense hurt and her leg hurt, so I let her rest at home, and then went alone, and when I arrived at the ancestral hall, it was already crowded, and almost all the people surnamed Chen in the clan came, the older generation got together to chat, the young people were making barbecues in the yard, and there were some half-grown children in their teens and teenagers, chasing and playing everywhere.

I was a little lonely, the last time I came to a meeting, it was three years ago, at that time I was still a big boss with a net worth of tens of millions, and I did a lot of good things in the village, the patriarch was very polite to me, and asked me to stand up and give a speech to everyone, at that time my wife was standing next to me, very obedient holding my hand, surrounded by envious eyes, some young men are even more straight-eyed, that kind of attention, still vivid.

But at this moment, I was standing in the crowd like a stone sinking into the sea, without causing the slightest wave, and no one knew me, and the whole lively atmosphere had nothing to do with me.

It's quite ironic, I also saw Huo Xinlan in the yard, she was cooking barbecue with a few girls, talking and laughing, which made me very embarrassed, I wanted to go up to say hello and ease the relationship, but Huo Xinlan glanced at me lightly, so she didn't turn her face away, and didn't give me a chance at all, so I had to walk away in a gloomy way.

Huo Xinlan has the same surname as me, she should have come here with her friends to play, and she should have joined in the fun.

The meeting started on time at eight o'clock, everyone quieted down, sat in the courtyard with a small bench, the patriarch was a ninety-year-old old man, with sparse hair, on crutches, but full of energy, first talked about the origin and branch of our surname Chen, and then listed the celebrities of the ancestral era, sprinkled a large paragraph, and then talked about the details of the ancestor worship, so that everyone came to the ancestral hall on time the day after tomorrow to gather, after worshipping the ancestral mountain, the meal was opened at four o'clock in the afternoon.

After talking for more than half an hour, the patriarch changed his words, and mentioned the matter of donations, such as the big gathering of the ancestors of the family, the expenses are still very large, in the past, they were donated according to the number of heads, one hundred yuan per person, more than 1,000 yuan, you can register on the honor list, paste it out with red paper, more than 10,000, it can be engraved on the stone tablet for everyone to visit.

Three years ago, I donated 100,000 yuan in front of everyone, so my name is the first stone tablet in the clan, and the only one with a gilded edge, which has not been surpassed by anyone so far.

The stele stands on the left side of the main hall, there are more than three meters high, it looks quite magnificent, more than ten meters away, I can see my name, the patriarch saw everyone looking over, and said that the stele was re-carved this year, which developed person present, can enthusiastically donate, in addition to the ancestral expenses, the ancestral hall will be repaired, this is the matter of glorifying the ancestors, it is a great honor!

Indeed, donating in front of so many clansmen, it is really quite face-saving, the village is different from other places, here are familiar people, once they show their faces, they will become everyone's after-dinner conversation, and when they go out to meet, they will also be praised by all kinds of people, and vanity can be greatly satisfied.

I saw the uncle and the four aunts in the crowd, as if they were discussing how much money to donate this time, there were talking and laughing, I didn't let them see it, I thought in my heart, this time I simply donated two hundred, I and my mother one hundred, after all, there is not much money on me, there is no need to be in the limelight.

But as soon as this thought came to me, the patriarch's words gave me a slap in the face, and I was stunned.

The patriarch said loudly: "Since Chen Ge has not donated money for two years, after unanimous discussion by his uncle, he will be immediately deprived of the right to be the first on the stone tablet list, and he will be removed from the list tomorrow!" ”