Huayu: I'm reborn, but you still force me to be a scumbag?

Chapter 262 The Young Couple Next Door to Old Zhang's House (Thanks to Running Rabbit Ao for the tip!)

Lao Zhang, whose original name was Zhang Jianhong, was born and raised in Maoping Town, Yiling District, YC City.

But Lao Zhang’s grandfather, Lao Lao Lao Zhang, was not from Hubei, but from Northeast China.

Lao Lao Lao Zhang was a soldier who was paid by the army. He originally worked for the old marshal, but later when the flag in the Northeast changed and an incident occurred, he followed the young marshal into the pass.

After that, he went to the battlefield to fight against the Japanese devils and did many bad things.

During the War of Liberation, he suddenly had an inspiration and became a deserter, escaping all the way from Peking to Hubei.

Finally, on the street of Yichang County, I had just eaten a bowl of Ba Wang wonton at a wonton stall, but when I turned around, I saw Zhang Jianhong’s grandmother.

Just like that, a soldier who had survived hundreds of battles and seen a lot of the world, inexplicably fell in love with an unmarried rural girl in her 20s when he looked back.

In modern terms, it is called love at first sight. In the language of novels, it is called falling in love.

But Old Zhang was not well educated, he only knew that he liked the girl and wanted to marry her.

So, he, who was originally going to Chongqing to live with his relatives, decided to stay in this town.

He used all kinds of tricks and tried every possible means, and finally persuaded the old mayor at that time to marry his daughter to this soldier who spoke Northeastern dialect. In the end, he even gave them some property as a dowry.

From then on, Lao Lao Lao Zhang settled down in the mountain valley by the river, built his home, and had three children.

When Lao Zhang was very young, he was held in the arms of Lao Lao Zhang and heard the old man tell this story.

That was in 71, and Lao Zhang was 5 years old.

"I was still young at that time, but I remember my grandfather would laugh whenever he talked about this. My grandmother said he was an old liar. He also laughed."

"He often said something that I still remember. He said he was a Northeastern guy who cheated the Nine-headed Bird."

"Every time my grandmother heard this, she would beat him. My grandmother was healthy, tall and strong. My grandfather said that when he was young, she was the one who helped the family farm and carry manure. She was very strong and her beatings hurt a lot."

"But when she beat my grandfather, she didn't hit him hard, she hit him gently. Because my grandfather had fought in wars when he was young and had been injured many times, his health was not good. At that time, he often took medicine."

"Xiao Wang, I heard that you Xichuan women also like to beat people, right?"

The incandescent bulb in Mr. Zhang's living room has a low wattage, and the room is large, so the light is quite dim.

Lao Zhang’s wife, surnamed Huang, is in her 50s. She is sitting on a stool nearby, knitting a half-finished sweater.

On the other side of the living room sat two young people, a man and a woman.

There was nothing surprising about their attire, just jeans and down jackets, but they all looked very young and handsome.

The man is in his early 20s, and according to Lao Zhang, the woman may have just graduated from high school, about the same age as the second child in their family. He doesn't know what their family thinks that they are getting married at such a young age.

Hearing what Lao Zhang said, the young man named Wang Xiang laughed and said in Xichuan dialect: "Uncle Zhang, no, the girls in our place are all very gentle."

The Yichang dialect is not much different from the Xichuan dialect. When Lao Zhang heard it, he also laughed, "Gentle? Then why did you find a northern girl as your wife?"

Wang Xiang smiled and said, "She and I, well, it's a coincidence. We are destined to be together, Jingqiu, right? Hmm? Jingqiu."

The beautiful girl named Liu Jingqiu was so absorbed in listening to the story that she came back to her senses when she was called.

He nodded a little stiffly, and then asked Lao Zhang curiously: "Uncle Zhang, what does the nine-headed bird mean?"

The air in the room seemed to freeze for a moment.

Then Wang Xiang laughed out loud, "Uncle Zhang, ignore her and continue talking."

Old Zhang laughed twice, tapped his pipe on the edge of the table, and said, "There's not much to say after that. I was young at that time and don't remember much."

"I heard from my grandfather that he came from a poor family and had injuries, but he held on all the time. But one night in 72 or 73, he passed away."

"My grandmother stayed by my grandfather's coffin all night when they brought him back. When my father and his family saw her in the morning, they found she was dead and had gone with them. She didn't have any wounds on her body, which was very strange. When she died, she was lying on top of my grandfather, holding his hand."

Lao Zhang spoke lightly.

After all, it happened many years ago.

Even though Old Zhang and the wife he tricked into marrying died on the same day and the same night.

When the three children of the Zhang family found out that their parents were gone overnight,
What happened in this room,

It will definitely not be like the story that Lao Zhang is telling now, which is as light as a wisp of smoke and disappears without a trace when the wind blows away.

But no matter how mournful the cries were, they were buried in the dust of history and forgotten.

Who else will shed another tear for it?
So, when Lao Zhang saw Liu Jingqiu lowering her head and wiping her face with her hands, she was obviously a little surprised.

A smile appeared on Old Zhang's dark face full of wrinkles, and he said to Wang Xiang, "Your wife has a good heart. She is a good woman."

Wang Xiang turned his head to take a look, smiled, and nodded imperceptibly.

Old Zhang said with a cheerful smile, "When my grandpa and grandma got married, they went to Chongqing to take a wedding photo. It's too late today, and it's hard to find it in the box. I can show it to you some other day when I'm free."

After chatting for a while, the two young guests left.

After seeing his new neighbors off, Zhang came back and said to his wife, "How are they? I wasn't kidding you. Don't they look like the stars on TV?"

My wife said angrily, "What kind of star? I listen to the radio every day, how can I recognize any star?"

"That year, the TV station broadcast The Return of the Condor Heroes, and everyone said that this TV series was good. I said that we should go to Lao He's house to watch it, but you said it was embarrassing and didn't let me go. Now you are telling me what kind of celebrity it is! I don't know, I can't recognize it."

Old Zhang's face fell when he heard that. "Well, I just said they look like them, I didn't say they really are. Why are you so angry with me?"

As he spoke, Lao Zhang lit a cigarette sullenly and continued, "Haven't we been saving money to buy a house for our eldest brother in the city these years? What I was thinking is that we both go to bed early every day, and we have a radio in the house, so there's no point in having a TV."

"Well, if you want to watch The Return of the Condor Heroes, wait until this Saturday when my second sister comes back from vacation, and we can go to the city together to buy a TV and see which TV station has it rerunning, is that ok?"

His wife glanced at him and said, "Zhang Jianhong, do you really think I want to watch The Return of the Condor Heroes?... I saw you hiding in the corner several times before and eavesdropping on the TV at Old He's house. You were listening to that Condor Heroes. Do you think I didn't see it?"

"When I first married you, you put that book under your pillow every day. Do you think I don't remember it? You also said that Jin Yong's writing was not good, and the part about Yin Zhiping was totally unreasonable. You were going to change it. Zhang Jianhong, what are you saying about being stubborn?"

Old Zhang's face suddenly turned red. Looking at his wife's angry look, he wanted to say something, but he really didn't know what to say.

I just felt my face hot and my eyes swollen.

His chest rose and fell heavily several times, and he could only say "Aiya, aiya" twice, "It's nothing, those were the books I liked to read when I was young, but I didn't like them so much later."

"I mainly heard Lao He talk about it. He said that Yang Guo and Xiao Long Nu were well acted in that TV series, so I became a little curious. Haha, I didn't see it later, so I just let it go. Right. If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten it a long time ago. What Yang Guo and Xiao Long Nu, hey, it's nothing special, haha, it's nothing special."

His wife said, "Zhang Jianhong, you have been like this all your life. Well, I am still the eldest son's mother, but I am just angry. What's wrong with the girl next door, Wang Chun? You have to find someone from the city, and you even said that if you want to get married, you have to buy a house in the city."

"Haha, when I first came to live in your Zhang family, I only asked for a mattress and two quilts, but she asked for a house! As a result, what kind of life have we led in the past few years!"

Old Zhang showed a helpless expression and said, "Hey, what's the point of you saying all this now? Say less. Next time when they come over, don't be so rude. The eldest said that he plans to have a child next year, and we can have grandchildren too."

"Haha, holding my grandson." Although the old partner still pretended to be disdainful, the expression between his eyebrows eventually softened.

The couple chatted about household matters for a while, and the topic suddenly turned to the young couple who had just moved in next door.

"Lao Zhang, Lao He, did they sell the house or rent it out?"

"It's rented. His third uncle came to handle the paperwork for him."

His wife put the half-cut sweater in her hand on the table, looked at Lao Zhang and asked, "What do you think they do?"

Old Zhang was surprised and asked, "What do you mean?"

"What do you mean?" The old man's eyes widened. "What do you mean? It's possible for such a person to come to a place like ours, is it possible?"

"Oh, what a fuss, what kind of person is that? I think he is just an ordinary person with two eyes and a mouth." "Ordinary person?" His wife laughed. "Go look all over Yichang and find two more ordinary people like him. You just mentioned celebrities, I think those Hong Kong celebrities in the past were not as good-looking as them."

"How could such a person come to our place and rent Lao He's house?"

Lao Zhang said, "Why is it impossible? Everywhere is developing now, and our place is not bad. Didn't the town say not long ago that it was going to develop tourism?"

"Haha, we are developing tourism in this damn place. What the hell? What kind of tourism do we have here? Are there any scenic spots or celebrity residences?"

"Let me tell you, Lao Zhang, there's probably something wrong with these two people. Especially the woman."

"Looking at her appearance, there's no way she's the kind of person who came to live with us."

"I suspect... there's probably something going on between these two, really. I think..."

Seeing his wife's mysterious look, Lao Zhang asked curiously, "What do you think? What do you think? Tell me quickly."

"I think they're eloping!"

elopement?

Seeing his wife's confident words, Old Zhang couldn't help but feel a little suspicious.

I recalled the interactions with each other during this period of time.

Mr. He next door went out to work the year before last, and the house that had been empty for a long time was finally rented out two months ago.

But it took a long time, and someone only moved in a week ago.

At that time, he went to the town to send money to his eldest brother. When he came back, he heard that the gate of Lao He's house was opened and a large black car came. Two young people, a man and a woman, got out of the car, opened the door and moved things inside. It should be that Lao He's tenants finally arrived. The Zhang family had a new neighbor from then on.

But at that time, Lao Zhang didn't care too much.

The next afternoon, the sun was shining brightly. When he was taking out the freshly stuffed sausages to dry in the yard, a head suddenly popped out from the roof of Lao He's house next door.

His eyes met immediately.

The owner of that head is the young man named Wang Xiang who came with his wife as a guest today.

It must be said that Lao Zhang felt that he was quite good-looking when he was young. After all, his grandfather was born good-looking, otherwise he would not have been able to become the son-in-law of the old mayor.

But compared with this person, there is really no comparison. There is no way to compare.

Lao Zhang felt that the feeling he had when he first saw Wang Xiang was similar to the feeling he had when he watched "God of Gamblers" in the video hall in town and saw Chow Yun-fat for the first time with his sleek slicked back hair, wearing a suit and windbreaker and walking into the casino.

Even though he was a man in his forties or fifties, he was a little intimidated.

However, Chow Yun-fat is Chow Yun-fat after all.

As for Wang Xiang, he simply has a good look, decent skin, and beautiful facial features, but he doesn't have any temperament, and the clothes he wears are similar to those of the young people in the village. He is still not as good as the big stars in Hong Kong.

After all, we are ordinary people, so the taste is not right.

But, the boy looks really good when he smiles.

At that time, Wang Xiang stuck his head out from the roof, looked at him, and immediately retracted it.

But after a while, he popped up again, and this time, he greeted him and chatted with him from a distance for a while, chatting about this and that.

When Lao Zhang inadvertently mentioned that his family had never bought a TV and had not even been able to watch the Return of the Condor Heroes a few years ago or the opening ceremony of the Olympics this year,
For some reason, Wang Xiang suddenly laughed.

The moment he smiled.

Old Zhang couldn't help but think that he must not let his second son, who is now in high school, see this young man, otherwise, the sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl would definitely be scared to death.

He chatted with Wang Xiang for a long time that afternoon, probably for more than an hour.

I learned that the other party was from Xichuan, had just gotten married not long ago, and was planning to come here with his wife to see if there were any opportunities and to start some small business.

After a brief conversation, Lao Zhang had a good impression of this young man from Xichuan and felt that he was a very sincere person.

Often, before he even asks, the other party seems to know what he wants to know and tells him everything.

The next day, they were still on the roof, but this time, Wang Xiang brought his wife with him.

Let me put it this way, if he hadn't heard that spirits were not allowed to appear after 49, Lao Zhang would have really thought that some kind of god or monster had come to become his neighbor.

These young couple are too extravagant.

Although the farthest Lao Zhang has been in his life is Chongqing, since people say that the women in that mountain city are pretty, he has indeed broadened his horizons.

But he had never seen this before.

The accent and temperament don't seem like someone from a small place at all.

When Wang Xiang communicated with him in his Sichuan dialect mixed with a slight Hubei accent, Lao Zhang did not think there was anything wrong. However, after speaking only two or three sentences to his wife, Lao Zhang felt a little ashamed of himself.

I feel like my waist is getting two inches lower when I talk.

In this way, the young couple next door got to know Lao Zhang.

Occasionally they would say hello when they met on the street, and when they were at the door of the house, Xiao Wang would often come over and chat with him for a while; unlike his wife, who was quite shy and generally didn't talk much.

But Xiao Wang always took her with him wherever he went, and when he chatted with them, he deliberately let her talk.

But the girl was too young and had nothing in common with Lao Zhang and the others.

At this time, Wang Xiang would often get very angry, and Lao Zhang had heard him scolding his wife several times after he left. It was vague, as if he was saying that she was too timid and useless.

His young wife has a good temper, completely different from the one at home. She is almost never heard to talk back to him. Occasionally, she would say a word or two, as if she was acting like a spoiled child.

Tonight is the first time that Wang Xiang visits their home.

He was quite polite when he came. Not only did he buy some rice cakes from Wang's shop on the street, he also brought two bags of fruit. They looked quite heavy, but Wang Xiang asked his little wife to carry all the things. He himself took nothing and had empty hands.

When he saw her at the door, Lao Zhang was stunned for a moment. He was filled with envy, even jealousy.

After entering the house, the young couple said little but asked many questions. They were particularly interested in the old stories from decades ago.

Food coupons and the commune are all things from Zhang’s youth.

Wang Xiang understood a little bit, but the new bride named Liu Jingqiu seemed to be completely ignorant. One could tell from her appearance that she was a city girl, and from a well-off family who had never suffered any hardship.

The question asked almost made Lao Zhang not know how to answer.

Would a normal person ask a question like “If I don’t have enough food coupons to buy food, can I only eat meat?”

Later, when Lao Zhang inadvertently told the story of Old Lao Lao Zhang, Lao Zhang found that the two young people suddenly became more interested, and it seemed that they even sat up straighter.

He was also puzzled.

In the past, none of his two children would like to hear these old stories. But these two young people listened very attentively.

Especially the young wife named Liu Jingqiu. When the little girl started crying at the end, it scared the storyteller.

In his mind, Lao Zhang reviewed the past few days of the two parties meeting and getting to know each other. After that, he did not agree with his wife, but said, "Who cares? If they really eloped, if someone really came to arrest them, we still have to ask them clearly and help them if we can. He is young and a good person."

Finally, he smacked his lips and added, "My grandfather and my grandmother eloped in the beginning."

PS:

Thanks to the leader of Running Rabbit for the reward!
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I'm still writing the chapter for the leader, I'll probably post it tomorrow morning after revising it. It's a big one.

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