Chapter 23: The Fang Family
On Saturday, as always, I went to work, wiping the dust on the shelves, and Kuohai walked in with a bag on his back. Emotionally tense turned around and pretended not to see it, Kuohai saw this, smiled and walked directly over to stand in front of me. "Hey, little kite, why are you avoiding me, I've been to your school to look for you several times." The terrible voice above my head made me more and more embarrassed, and the store manager smiled and shook his head, thinking that we were a little couple and having a conflict.
"Kite, send the things that the guests have ordered."
The store manager's open-mindedness at the moment makes me feel bitter in my heart. It's not good to refute people's kindness, so he nodded with a smile. "Okay, I'll go." As he spoke, he picked up the bag in the corner and walked out the door. Kuohai looked at it, made a gesture of thanks to the store manager, and walked out with me.
"I'll carry it for you." Avoiding the hand stretched out by the open sea, he walked into the residential area closer to the road by himself, and the wide sea was not annoyed, and still followed. "Actually, do you care about your relationship with Jian Yan, that's why you rejected me." Kuohai's words made my heart stagnate, and I stopped to look at him.
"Kuohai, in fact, I didn't think about falling in love, I just wanted to study hard and work hard and save enough money to go to the conservatory." When Kuohai heard this, he nodded in understanding. "I know, I heard Jian Yan say that your dream is to be admitted to the conservatory, but there is no conflict, I can wait." frowned and looked at the son of the rich family in front of him, and could feel the sincerity in his words just now, but when he thought of the relationship between me and Jian Yan, he couldn't accept it calmly.
"That's why you've been avoiding me lately?" The abrupt voice made me and Kuohai turn around at the same time, and before I could see the intention of the visitor, Kuohai's face was swung with a heavy punch, and Kuohai wiped his bleeding nose, and fought back without consulting the reason.
"Okay, stop fighting." didn't think much about it, went up directly and pushed the two away, Kuohai and Zhou Zhuojin both hung up their lottery, and no one got a bargain.
"Why are you polite Zhou Zhuojin, classmate Kuohai, are you okay?" Kuohai smiled and shook his head.
"It's okay, it's not like I haven't fought, I see what you mean. I'm here today mainly to tell you that I have forty minutes to board the plane and study abroad, can we be friends? Kuohai's serious words made me chuckle out loud, and I suddenly felt very relaxed.
"Of course."
Shaking hands and saying goodbye, Kuohai walked a long way, reluctantly turned around and looked at me with a smile. Picked up the bag on the ground, didn't bother to pay attention to Zhou Zhuojin, who had been looking at me with a bad face, and saw that I was leaving, Zhou Zhuojin was not embarrassed, but kept following.
Taking advantage of the lunch break to practice the piano in the piano room, Jian Yan leaned on the piano and looked at me with no love, finished playing attentively, and closed the lid.
"What kind of eyes are you, you probably want to sell me?" Listening to my teasing, Jian Yan pouted and shook her head.
"Are you deliberately rejecting Kuohai to take care of me, so you are with Zhou Zhuojin." Looking at Jian Yan's worried expression, he didn't know whether to cry or laugh.
"Who told you that I was with Zhou Zhuojin?" Jian Yan frowned and sighed deeply. "I always feel that you rejected Kuohai because you took care of me, and deliberately got closer to Zhou Zhuojin." As if he was guessed to be thinking carefully, he smiled lightly and got up and hugged her.
"You don't have any mental burden, I swear I don't, if there is, then, then I can't get into the conservatory." When Jian Yan heard this, he was immediately unhappy.
"Phew! What nonsense! I'm counting on me to be your agent when you get ahead in the future. Jian Yan's words made the atmosphere a lot more lively, holding her hand, and said softly aggrievedly. Agent, can we go to dinner, I'm hungry. ”
"Let's go, sister will take you to eat something delicious!"
With the arrival of the summer vacation, Uncle Jian directly punished her at home for not going out because Yan Yan deliberately pushed off the marriage contract, and threatened to send her abroad if she dared to go out, and she was not allowed to come back for three years. Listening to Yan Yan's whine on the phone, he promised to go to see her when he didn't work part-time this week, and Yan Yan hung up the phone when he was comforted.
It was still hot in the morning, but it rained heavily in the evening, and I had no choice but to hold an umbrella and walk home when I looked at the bus that had not come in the rain. A roar of speeding motorcycles came to a halt in front of me.
"Come up."
Zhou Zhuojin, who was drenched, said in a hurried voice, he wanted to refuse, but seeing the eagerness on Zhou Zhuojin's face, he didn't hesitate to sit down, the car was running fast, and he could only hold on tightly throughout the whole process.
"Hurry up and take a hot shower, I'll go back first." After speaking, Zhou Zhuojin rode away with another gust of wind.
From that day on, as long as there is time, Zhou Zhuojin will come to pick me up, and it is useless to shirk many times, and in the end I can only agree.
When my mother's phone called, Zhou Zhuojin, who had come to eat again, was arguing with me about what to eat at night.
After answering calmly, he raised his head to look at the dazzling scorching sun, but his body did not feel warm.
"Happy birthday to you, I can't eat with you at night."
"What is so important?" Zhou Zhuojin heard my refusal and looked unhappy.
"Something."
The lonely answer made Zhou Zhuojin realize that I had something on my mind, so he didn't ask any more, started the motorcycle, and motioned to send me over.
I felt very uncomfortable all the way without saying anything, only I knew why I had been alone all these years.
My parents divorced when I was young, and my grandmother, who loved me, passed away early. As I get older, my parents, who are busy with life, don't have extra time to take care of me. So much so that in a year's time, there was only a short time to get together with my parents.
After an hour's drive, he stood at the door of the old mansion for a long time, and Zhou Zhuo wanted to open his mouth to urge, so he pulled the broken hair in front of his forehead and walked in. The heavy wooden door made a screeching sound as it was pushed, interrupting the conversation in the main hall at the same time, and walked around the shadow wall, where the chairs at both ends of the main hall were filled with elders. At the head of the list were my mother and an aunt.
Walk in under the gaze of everyone and greet the elders one by one. Before I could find a seat to sit down, my aunt spoke first.
"Kite, your mother should have told you on the phone."
The forced tone made his heart, which had already comforted him, still couldn't help but hurt. I have always known that although the family has long been in decline, fortunately, I have a good mentality, and I am used to seeing the high and the low, and I can still cope with it.
"I said it, but I don't know if my aunt and aunts think the same way." I have always been meek, and this appearance is very useful to all the elders here. It's just that no one is a plaything, and besides, I am no longer the young and ignorant I used to be.
"Yes, we think the same as your mother."
"That's it, why else I asked you to come? We're busy. ”
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The sound of one after another filled the ears, and there was only one purpose. I've always been aware that even if I don't show it, I like to make a fool of myself.
"In that case, I'll take care of everything as soon as possible."
I thought that my mother, who was sitting on the upper seat with an unbearable face, would open her mouth to comfort me, but who would have thought that my mother just smiled and nodded at me, as if she was very pleased with my obedience. But the shrewd aunt cleared her throat and spoke for her mother.
"Don't think your mother is biased, although this house was left to you by your grandmother, but you have a thin foundation since you were a child, and you are inferior to your sister in all aspects. Although the Fang family has been declining over the years, it still has to go on, and you need a capable person who can make the Fang family stand up in the future, since you are destined to not be able to support the Fang family, it doesn't hurt to give it to your own sister. ”
If the aunt took it for granted, Chu Xin, who was standing behind her mother, walked out generously.
"Sister, I'm sorry."
Chu Xin finished speaking in a choked voice, in exchange for the relief and caress of the elders. Looking at such a warm scene in front of him, his eyes widened, and he held on to prevent tears from flowing out.
"What my aunt said is that the family has been able to live peacefully all these years thanks to my aunt's care."
The shrewd aunt of the seat heard the insinuations with a sneer, and there was obvious displeasure in my expression. It's just that I can't find fault with my words, so my aunt has to endure a slight anger.
"I can see that you have been sensible all these years, and you are almost eighteen, so you should have a sensible mind, and you can't let me, an old woman, stare at it every day. I know that you are unwilling, but your sister is not bad, and it is easier for you to hand over the burden of the Fang family to her, and it is also a good thing for you to stand up with the blessing of the ancestors of the Fang family. ”
I didn't want to talk to my aunt too much, so I just smiled lightly and nodded to cater to it. When my aunt saw that I didn't say more, the breath in my heart was relaxed.
The decline of the Fang family has been more than 40 years, the Fang family in the past is not a businessman, the main livelihood is only the caravan transportation, because the ancestor at that time is also a capable person, the relatives are living quite well, the change of years of the caravan transport ended, car transport went to history, but also because the older generation of the concept of obsolete and unwilling to change, and was eliminated by history.
The Fang family is gradually lonely, and they also leave a lot of real estate and land, no one is stupid in front of personal interests, and the Fang family in the past is now just an ordinary family who is good at calculation.
It's just that some people refuse to wake up, always thinking that the Fang family can rise one day. The idea is good, but it's not harmonious.
Since I was born, I have been asserted that I have physical problems, but fortunately, my poor and unassertive mother persevered, and the huge family was full of people who watched jokes, and I gradually grew up, but my body was indeed prone to minor illnesses and pains.
This is also the reason why the elders have tried to force me to hand over the old house several times, in their opinion, my sister Chu Xin is much better than me in all aspects, smart and likable since she was a child, and she is much better than me, a sick man.
It is said that the old house is not in my mother's hands but in my hands, and it is just an attachment of my grandmother at the beginning.