Restart life

Chapter 28 0027 [Empress]

The boss is installing and debugging the pot cover.

This type of satellite antenna can even receive foreign TV stations.

Strictly speaking, it is an illegal act, but no one will bother with farmers.

Because the cost of law enforcement is too high.

Amidst the laughter and cheers, another peasant woman came running over, panting: "My husband is working in Zhejiang Province, and he took the IOU..."

"Took it away" is probably an excuse. This family probably lost the IOU.

Chen Guiliang didn't waste any words and took out the ink pad he had picked up from the game studio. "It's okay. Miss Liu, just write a receipt. The elders present are all witnesses. I will pay back your family's debt in full, including interest."

Immediately, a villager began to praise him, saying, "Guiliang is just as honest as his father. He's very open and honest, and he's sure to have a great future!"

As long as you are successful, you will be surrounded by good people.

You will feel that the world is beautiful.

"Easy to say, easy to say."

Chen Guiliang opened three boxes of Hongtashan cigarettes and distributed them to the men who came to watch the fun.

Grandma also took out the baked cakes her grandson bought and gave them out to women and children when she saw them.

Cigarettes and cakes led the way, and praises were heard everywhere.

Chen Guiliang watched silently with a smile on his face, as if he was watching a real-life farce.

"Young man, the satellite dish has been adjusted and can receive dozens of TV stations." The boss came out of the house.

Chen Guiliang handed the boss a cigarette at the right moment and said to his grandfather, "Father-in-law, mother-in-law, and uncle, I'm leaving first. There's a color TV on the roadside."

"I'll take you home." said grandpa.

Chen Guiliang said, "No, I'll take a tricycle. I've bought a color TV, you guys can go watch TV."

Surrounded by villagers who came to watch the fun, my grandparents and uncle accompanied Chen Guiliang to the village road and watched him get into the bed of a tricycle.

The villages in the southwest region are scattered with a few households living in the east and a few in the west, unlike the relatively concentrated areas in the plains.

Although Chen Guiliang's parents are from the same village, their homes are quite far apart.

He sat on the tricycle and continued to bump around for a while before finally returning home.

The same drama is being played out again.

Chen Guiliang didn't even need to come to pay his debts; the creditors came running as soon as they heard the news. Even creditors from the next village came on motorcycles or bicycles.

The grandmother who went up the mountain to chop firewood had a neighbor who took the initiative to help her report the news and hurried home carrying a large bundle of firewood.

"My Queen, my father has made a fortune and will be back during the Chinese New Year." Chen Guiliang said with a smile.

Grandma seemed unusually calm: "As long as the debt is paid off, it's fine."

She used to be the daughter of a landlord. She not only attended a private school, but also attended a new-style school.

She was a widow who remarried and had a one-year-old child with her - Chen Guiliang's father.

In other words, Chen Guiliang's father was just his grandfather's stepson.

Ignoring the compliments of her neighbors, grandma went to stack firewood by herself, as if everything happening around her had nothing to do with her.

Grandpa, second uncle and second aunt also came.

Second Aunt seemed particularly enthusiastic and helped grandma with housework for the first time.

Chen Guiliang smiled and said nothing.

"Guiliang, I heard that your father made a fortune?" Second uncle Chen Xingmin was sincerely happy.

Chen Guiliang took out a box of Hongtashan cigarettes and threw the whole box to his second uncle with a smile.

Chen Xingmin reached out to take it, put it in his trouser pocket and said, "Good cigarette."

The uncle and nephew stood there and chatted, occasionally dealing with villagers and creditors.

Chen Guiliang only wanted to chat with his second uncle, but was too lazy to even look at his grandfather and second aunt.

Before his rebirth, Chen Guiliang even pretended to have something to do and didn't attend his grandfather's funeral.

In the eyes of some people, stepchildren and stepgrandchildren are not considered real children and grandchildren.

The relationship is worse than that with outsiders.

There is no gratitude, only hatred. Being treated differently is too much.

Of course, the relationship between the younger generations is pretty good, and Chen Guiliang gets along well with his cousins.

His father, second uncle, aunt, and three siblings also had a very deep bond, as his second uncle and aunt were raised by his father, and truly, the eldest brother was like a father to him.

"Guiliang, I heard that your father made hundreds of thousands?" Second Aunt came over here deliberately to ask, holding firewood in her hand.

Chen Guiliang said: "Yes."

Second Aunt immediately said, "Guirong (my cousin) has bad grades, and he's taking the high school entrance exam next year. I'm planning to send him to No. 1 Middle School, and I'm afraid he'll have to pay school selection fees. Can I borrow 10,000 yuan from your dad?"

Chen Guiliang looked at Chen Xingmin and said, "Uncle, do you want to borrow money? As long as you ask, I will find a way."

"No," Chen Xingmin shook his head. "Guirong can go to any school he can get into. There's no need to pay school selection fees to attend a good school."

Second Aunt immediately glared at her husband fiercely. The couple would probably have a fight tonight, and Second Uncle was often the one who took the beating.

A henpecked man and a tigress.

"Guiliang, I'm leaving first." Chen Xingmin didn't want to see his wife embarrassing herself here anymore.

Chen Guiliang waved his hand and said, "Goodbye, Uncle." Seeing she couldn't borrow any money, Auntie immediately stopped pretending. She threw down the firewood in her hands and walked away, not even bothering to carry it a few meters away to put it away.

Grandpa stood at the door, always looking for an opportunity to speak.

But Chen Guiliang didn't even look at him.

Grandpa stood there for a while, then turned around and left, taking a hoe from under the eaves.

Chen Guiliang reminded: "That's my home."

"Let me borrow it for a while." Grandpa carried the hoe and walked away.

Chen Guiliang sarcastically said, "Remember to return it. The creditors wouldn't want anything my parents left at home, and you've almost taken it all away in the past few years."

When Chen Guiliang's father and second uncle separated, his grandparents also separated with their two sons.

Even after the family split up, Chen Guiliang's family still had to pay grain to his grandfather every year. If they didn't pay, his grandfather would make a scene and even go to the village director, accusing his eldest son of being unfilial.

After being reborn, Chen Guiliang no longer hates anyone, but don't expect him to like anyone either.

He will always remember the Spring Festival in the third grade of elementary school when he was playing with his cousins ​​and went to the teahouse to ask his grandfather who was playing cards for money to buy snacks.

His cousin and sister each got 5 cents, and he refused to leave and wanted some too.

Grandpa slapped him hard in front of everyone playing cards in the teahouse and scolded him, "Get away from me and don't cause me any trouble!"

……

As the sky gradually darkened, the onlookers left one after another.

The owner of the color TV shop had already left on his tricycle.

Only Chen Guiliang and his grandmother were left at home.

From the time Chen Guiliang returned home until now, grandma had only said one sentence and now went to cook silently.

Chen Guiliang followed him into the kitchen, wanting to say something but not knowing how to start.

He looked at the water tank, then turned around to get a bucket and fetch water from the well about a hundred meters away.

One scoop after another until the water tank is full.

"The meal is ready." Grandma finally spoke.

Chen Guiliang hurried to serve the food, and the grandfather and grandson sat around the table in the main room, while the newly bought color TV was playing a TV series.

There were two dishes and one soup, and the meat dish was just oil residue.

Grandma is very frugal. She will only cook a meat dish when Chen Guiliang comes home.

The so-called meat dishes are either oil residue or meat from the trough.

Moreover, this was the treatment after graduating from high school. In junior high school, every meal was vegetarian, and meat was only available during festivals.

So when Chen Guiliang was in junior high school, he had a great dream: to eat meat once a month!

Chen Guiliang walked to the TV and said, "My Lady, here is the switch."

Grandma said, "I know. I used to use a TV."

When Chen Guiliang was in elementary school, his family had a black and white TV, which was later taken away by an angry creditor.

"This is different. You can turn the TV on and off with the remote control."

Chen Guiliang took the remote control and said, "This button is the switch. Here is to change the channel, here is to adjust the volume..."

Grandma listened carefully.

She has a good memory. When people in the countryside ate from a big pot, my grandmother worked as a scorer in the production team.

Being a scorekeeper was a highly sought-after job, earning more work points for the team members and their families. But my grandmother was unyielding and meticulous, earning resentment from both the team members and their families.

"That dish on the roof is called a satellite dish. It can be used to tune satellite channels," Chen Guiliang said. "The TV seller has already tuned it. It's best not to tamper with it. If a strong wind blows the dish crooked, you won't be able to receive some stations. Wait until I get back from vacation to tune it."

Grandma said, "Please teach me."

Chen Guiliang didn't even eat, and taught his grandmother step by step how to adjust the satellite antenna.

In less than ten minutes, grandma had mastered it completely.

She switched the tunes here and there, then started changing channels, then stopped midway.

This channel is broadcasting Sichuan Opera.

Grandma ate slowly while staring at the TV.

The way she ate was particularly elegant, chewing slowly and carefully, as if she was still the young lady from the landlord's family decades ago.

"The lyrics have been changed?" Grandma said to herself.

Chen Guiliang said: "The Sichuan opera on TV may have been revised and is different from what you heard before. The lyrics and dialogue have been changed to be more in line with the times. Some uncivilized content will also be deleted and revised."

Grandma commented: "It's not a good change."

Chen Guiliang teased her, "When I have money in the future, I will support a troupe of opera singers and let you be in charge of reviewing the lyrics."

"Then I'll wait." Grandma smiled.

In Chen Guiliang's eyes, his grandmother's smile was more beautiful than the moon at the border. He had only seen his grandmother smile a few times since he was a child.

The grandparents sat in the main room chatting, while grandma watched TV until very late.

At night, Chen Guiliang was sleeping in a daze and seemed to hear someone singing in a low voice.

"The red apricot blossoms fill the garden with fragrance, and loneliness makes me lose my youth. Ever since Zheng Lang came to the capital, my heart is filled with longing for him..."

(End of this chapter)