Chapter Seventy-Five: The Family Feast
There is no sun and moon in the mountains, and in the blink of an eye, Li Mu's cultivation in the south mountain has already passed for more than two months.
In these days, except for the only few days a month when he can meet the person in his heart, Li Mu spends all of his time in this Nanshan.
However, although this requires such hard exercise every day, with the company of the little guy and his master, seeing that his spiritual power, physical fitness and those skills are growing rapidly, Li Mu only feels that the past two months have been very fulfilling and happy.
But such days were interrupted by a text message, a text message from his father.
The content of this text message is very simple, Li Mu will receive it every year, but it is so unconscious, the day of the Qingming Festival every year is coming again.
My father is also asking if he has time to participate in such a festival this year.
And his inquiry made Li Mu's heart full of guilt all of a sudden, this year's New Year, but he was not able to rush back home to have a good reunion with his parents.
At that time, I was fighting for my life in the underground boxing market abroad......
In this regard, Li Mu also used the excuse that he was studying the project with his mentor and couldn't come back, and prevaricated.
But now it is the major event of the annual Qingming Festival to worship the ancestors, and Li Mu, who has not been home for nearly half a year and has not seen his parents, can no longer cope with the past.
is away from home like this, and this text message also makes Li Mu feel so homesick.
And in the face of Li Mu's situation, the old man did not have any obstacles, and directly gave Li Mu a big vacation.
After all, everything has to be combined with work and rest, otherwise it will only make people start to slack off and become inefficient, and having such distractions will only make Li Mu's exercise more effective than it gets.
And with the take-off and landing of the plane and the Mercedes-Benz of the car, at this time, after nearly half a year, he returned to his home again, and Li Mu also felt that the gray hair on his parents' heads seemed to have increased a little, which also made the guilt in Li Mu's heart a little heavier.
In fact, before Li Mu came, he also asked his master, but whether there was any panacea that could endure and make his parents healthier and prolong their lives.
But for a question like Li Mu, the old man could only shake his head and give the words "exercise more and pay attention to diet".
The elixir of oneself and the arsenic of the other, this is a three-point poison, how can there be such an elixir that has an effect on everyone? Not to mention that it is still such a miracle medicine that can prolong life.
And there really is such a miracle medicine, I am afraid that the old man himself has already taken it first.
In the end, Li Mu could only buy large bags of fruits to take home, so that his parents, who didn't pay attention to diet, could eat more of these beneficial fruits.
Not long after Li Mu arrived at home, an old Mazda seven-seater MPV also drove downstairs to Li Mu's house, but it was his little aunt and a family of three who came to pick him up.
Because Li Mu's family has never had a car, it is dozens of kilometers away to go to the Qingtan Cemetery, so the family will take their own family with them every year for the Qingming Festival.
"Mu Mu is really getting more and more energetic and handsome, how is it, do you have a girlfriend in this university? Do you want your little aunt to introduce you......" Seeing Li Mu's appearance, this little aunt began to talk like this.
This also makes Li Mu a little helpless, thinking that such nagging between relatives is a problem that everyone often faces, right? However, Li Mu actually doesn't hate such broken thoughts as his little aunt, but he has always been very spoiled by himself.
When I was a child, my family didn't have any money, but it was often my little aunt who brought me all kinds of snacks and snacks from time to time to satisfy my hunger. It can be said that the relationship between the two has always been very good.
And I haven't seen each other much for almost a year, which also makes Li Mu feel full of warmth in such nagging.
Coupled with the quirky cousin next to him, the atmosphere in the car has also become extremely harmonious.
In this way, Li Mu and his entourage also headed towards the Qingtan Cemetery, and at three o'clock in the afternoon, everyone finally arrived at the location of the Qingtan Cemetery.
"Why is it only here now? We've been waiting for you for a long time! And at this moment, a small middle-aged man with a little thin eyebrows and some sinister eyes complained like this when he saw the appearance of Li Mu and others.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but there are too many people on the road." And Li Mu's little uncle also apologized again and again.
"Brother-in-law, I didn't say you, of course you're driving a Mazda, you're going to get stuck in traffic.
You can't change to a Mercedes-Benz or BMW like me, so come over early! I still have a lot of business to be busy, this minute is tens of thousands, and I can make an appointment with the boss to talk about business at night! And this not very pleasant man made such a discordant sound.
He is Li Mu's fourth uncle, and now he is almost there, but he still hasn't started a family yet.
used to be an out-and-out gangster, but before he seemed to have committed an accident and hid outside for many years, but he didn't even rush back from Grandpa Li Mu's funeral.
However, in the past two years, I heard that it seems that I have made a fortune outside, and I have finally returned to the town to "glorify my ancestors" and "return to my hometown".
And for this fourth uncle, Li Mu is also a little disliked.
He is too mean, making some money outside, but he doesn't care about others anymore. In front of the people in the family, they all shouted and drank, and they commanded, and there was no appearance of a family at all. The most important thing is that his grandmother has always been biased towards him, but no one can do anything about him......
But fortunately, this year is basically the two days of Qingming and New Year, and there will be a chance to meet him, but usually Li Mu and his fourth uncle have no intersection.
And soon, this kind of Qingming sacrifice has finally begun, and all such small unhappiness has been left behind by everyone.
Just like in previous years, the routine of cleaning tombstones, offering vegetables, and burning paper for worship is also progressing step by step.
Of course, when the incense was on, his fourth uncle grabbed the first one, and he had to fight for his grandfather to bless him to make a fortune......
The ritual was finally completed after those two hours, and as a rare gathering of the family every year, such a family feast was also essential.
And under the recommendation of the fourth uncle who "has a wide range of friends" and "is full of face", everyone also followed to a restaurant.
In the face of such a rare family banquet and rare gathering, this big family also opened the conversation box one by one. Although such topics are nothing more than personal work, Li Mu and other juniors' academic and love problems, there is nothing new at all.
But in this kind of conversation, the feelings that everyone is so alienated because of the perennial separation are slowly warming up and slowly getting closer.
Even Li Mu's fourth uncle is still boasting about himself, and he still doesn't care about other people's feelings, but in such a harmonious atmosphere, everyone slowly ignores his unpleasant existence.
It's just that he was so happy and so harmonious, but he was quickly broken by Li Mu's fourth uncle!
"Second brother, second sister-in-law, these two jade pendants in your neck look very good! That's a lot of money, isn't it?! In the midst of everyone's conversation, Li Mu's fourth uncle had already noticed the existence of the two valuable jade pendants.
"This is what Mu Mu bought and gave us at the stall before, and it's only a few hundred yuan, and it's not worth much." And listening to his little uncle's words like this, Li Mu's mother didn't think much about it, but was still a little happy.
"So? Why don't you give it to me, second brother and second sister-in-law? But it just so happens that I have a client who likes this kind of jade. In this way, I will not take advantage of you, I will pay 10,000 yuan, and I will buy it with you! And as soon as he heard Li Mu's mother's answer, Li Mu's fourth uncle's pair of small eyes also turned suddenly.
"This, uncle, it's not a question of money or not. This is a piece of heart that Mu Mu gave us, but it is not good to transfer it to others. And Li Mu's mother was also a little embarrassed.
"Second daughter-in-law, I don't like to hear what you say! There are no outsiders here! Shouldn't a family help each other? Just two jade pendants from the stalls, it is not easy for the fourth son to do business outside, shouldn't you help in front of your sister-in-law and brother? !
At that time, for the sake of Mu Mu's affairs, the fourth child did not make much effort!
How? Now that Mu Mu is out of the picture, he has been admitted to Dongjiang University, and he is looking for you to discuss the jade pendant bought on the stall, and he is pushing it like this? ! And listening to Li Mu's mother's words, the old lady who had always favored this little son was suddenly unhappy.
It's just that at this moment, no one has found out, and the most unhappy person is afraid that Li Mu himself will be counted!
This is a jade pendant that I spent more than one million yuan and carefully selected, and the actual value is only more than two million, but my fourth uncle has to buy it with 10,000 yuan!
What else is it not to take advantage of it?! This is clearly a famous gun! And I haven't heard that my fourth uncle, who has always been stingy, has helped me anything!
"Mom! I finally got it out of the antique market, and I just want to honor you! How can this be given to the fourth uncle! If the fourth uncle wants to do business and tie up with customers, then let him go somewhere else to buy it! Why do you have to give up this jade pendant?! And Li Mu was also angry, so he said it directly.
"Hey! Mu Mu can't talk nonsense, when you were in high school, you got into trouble with the Wei family, but it was only with the help of your fourth uncle and finding someone to trust the relationship to solve it! Otherwise, where can we let the Wei family take the hundreds of thousands of dollars in our family?
Now that your fourth uncle has business difficulties and needs, then we will just give it to him, otherwise we will really become that ungrateful villain? And listening to Li Mu's words, Li Mu's mother also frowned at Li Mu rarely.
After he finished speaking, he also began to untie the rope with the jade pendant around his neck.
And Li Mu was stunned by such words.
Hundreds of thousands? His fourth uncle just cheated his family of hundreds of thousands? ! Those hundreds of thousands are the savings that my parents saved by frugality!
If it was before, if Li Mu didn't know that it was that stupid girl who helped him at that time. Maybe listening to his mother's words, Li Mu will still thank his fourth uncle, or maybe he will let him deceive this pair of jade pendants.
But at this moment, Li Mu already understood everything!
And this also made Li Mu's heart angry at this moment.
The hundreds of thousands are the life savings of his parents, and this pair of jade pendants with an actual value of at least more than two million is even more than what his parents can't buy in their lifetime.
And his fourth uncle deceived his parents again and again, he had such savings before, but this time he was already going to cheat away all the net worth of his parents.
Don't say that such a thing is your own uncle, it's your father's own brother, it's an ordinary person who has never known each other, but how many people can do it so shamelessly?
And if you want to say this ingratitude, it is your own uncle who is right!
The house that his father should have been assigned before, but because his fourth uncle owed a lot of debts at that time, his grandmother secretly sold the house that belonged to his father, and finally it was closed.
And now that he not only doesn't think about his father's goodness, but wants to squeeze his family dry again and again, won't his conscience really hurt?!
This also made Li Mu's eyes cold involuntarily!