Duan Gui returned home like a deflated rubber ball. As soon as he entered the yard, he saw his father, Duan Daming, sitting at the door eating melon seeds.
He is now ashamed and worried. He is worried that he will lose his job!
In his family situation, unemployment almost means death!
"Dad, I'm back."
Duan DaMing spit out a melon seed peel from his mouth with a pop, rolled his eyes at him, turned around and walked into the room, seeming to sigh lowly.
Duan Gui's face suddenly turned redder.
"Dad, did you hear something?" Duan Gui said as he approached the room.
Duan Daming is fifty-two years old this year. According to him, when he was young, he served as a soldier, carried a gun and went to the battlefield. Later, he was injured on the battlefield and had to retire.
After retiring, Duan Daming soon lived a peaceful life, because he claimed to have been injured and could not do anything, so he lived idle for eighteen years relying on compensation.
When Duan Gui was eight years old, he finally made Duan Gui's mother angry and ran away. From then on, he raised Duan Gui alone. Now he lives on Duan Gui.
To say that I can make a living is actually an exaggeration.
He didn't even dare to think about Duan Gui's miserable childhood. This Duan name often left him alone at home and disappeared for ten days and a half. Duan Gui could only survive by doing odd jobs for the neighbors.
So, this dad is really unreliable.
"Pooh!"
Duan Daming scolded: "You bastard, you still have the nerve to say it, your story has spread, so I am embarrassed to go out, even the widow Liu on the street ignores me -"
Widow Liu owned a liquor store at the corner of the street, and Duan Daming would go to her to chat with her whenever he had nothing to do. There were already rumors among the neighbors.
Duan Gui cried out in his heart, this tofu Xishi is too cruel. In order to clear his name, he sold him out so thoroughly, what should he do?
"Dad, please listen to my explanation——"
"Hey, there's nothing to explain—"
At this time, Duan Daming's attitude suddenly softened and he sighed deeply.
"I'm talking about Xiaogui, I'm not talking about you. You're not young anymore. You need to be more careful. Don't get in touch with everyone. You can mess with that tofu Xishi. She has been proposed to her at the doorstep of her family. People have been trampled to the ground, but it’s just our family, how can people like us?"
"Besides, even if she falls in love with us, we can't agree to it. Marrying her would be like marrying a leech. Just wait for her blood to be sucked. She has three brothers in her family!"
The situation of Yan Qing, the tofu beauty, is indeed a bit complicated. Her parents died early, and she set up a stall selling tofu on the street to support her three younger brothers and provide them with education. This is a big expense. .
"That's a bottomless pit. You must not jump into it. Xiaocui from Yihongyuan is very good. If not, just marry her back. It's cheaper. They don't ask for gifts and they bring their own dowry. , This is such a cost-effective deal, why don’t you nod?”
Xiaocui is a senior girl in Yihongyuan. She is the same age as Duan Gui this year, but she does not have a bond of prostitution and is just working as a team member in Yihongyuan.
I have made some money over the years, and I plan to become a good person recently.
From the day Duan Gui went to Yihongyuan to help, Xiaocui fell in love with Duan Gui and took great care of him.
Duan Gui also knew what Xiao Cui meant, but he was a young man who always felt that the two of them were inappropriate, so he kept pretending to be stupid.
Duan Daming had also heard that Xiaocui had accumulated a lot of wealth, and had persuaded Duan Gui several times.
"Son, why don't we just obey!"
"No, I won't obey."
Duan Gui suddenly felt a surge of blood and thought to himself, what kind of father is this? How can there be such a father in this world? What kind of fate do I have?
Hearing this, Duan Daming immediately rolled his eyes: "Boy, let me tell you, there is no shop like this after passing this village. If you don't pee and show your virtue, Xiao Cui will like you." , that’s because you are burning too much, otherwise you would never have the chance to marry a wife based on our family’s conditions.”
"You're a poor guy, but you still want to reach the top of someone else's beautiful tree. Just dream."
"Let me tell you, your grandpa has written again. He has no money again. I heard that he has an asthma attack. He is in urgent need of money. You kid, hurry up and dig out the money."
Speaking of this grandpa, Duan Gui burst into tears again. He only knew that he had such a grandpa, but he had never seen him before, but he still had to support him every month.
According to Duan Daming, his grandfather lived in the countryside not far from here, but every time Duan Daming paid to visit him himself, he never let Duan Gui go with him.
Duan Gui had long suspected that this grandfather was a fabrication created by Duan Daming for the purpose of extorting money from him.
It is very possible that the person he has supported for many years is not his grandfather at all, but Widow Liu.
"Boy, you still dare to stare. Are you trying to be an unfilial son?"
Duan Gui ignored him lazily, and hurriedly took out a couple of silver coins from his pocket and threw them to him. This was his salary that he had just received, but now it was all fed to the wolves.
Sure enough, after Duan Daming took the silver, he immediately beamed with joy, smiled, and put the silver into his sleeve.
"I will send it to your grandpa now. There is rice in the pot. You can eat it yourself. Hey, I have been worrying about you all day long."
Seeing Duan Daming sighing and trotting out, probably going to Widow Liu's wine shop again, Duan Gui sighed inwardly, thinking that the money would be reimbursed soon.
Looking at the four walls of this family, Duan Gui felt waves of despair. With such a family environment and such a father, he would be forced to death sooner or later.
Miss Yan Qing was almost the only fire that kept him alive, but it was extinguished now. In the past, his only pleasure was to buy a piece of tofu and then say a few words to Yan Qing, which made him feel that this world was worth it.
But now everything is cold.
In fact, he never thought about marrying Yan Qing. He didn't dare to have such extravagant hopes. He just thought that being able to say a few words to her was the happiest thing in the world. He didn't expect that people's hearts were like this!
Duan Gui's family only has two rooms. In the inner room there is an earthen bed and two cabinets. In the outer room there is a broken table, a stove and a few chairs, but there is nothing else.
With such conditions, even if Xiaocui were to marry, there would be no place to live, let alone Tofu Xishi.
When it comes to buying a house, he has never had such a dream in his eight lifetimes.
When he opened the lid of the pot, Duan Gui almost shed tears. This Duan name was too unreliable. He even said that there was rice in the pot. How could this be rice? Isn't this just a pot of vegetable and tofu soup? I'm already hungry. It's been a day, how can this thing work?
He bought this tofu from Yan Qing——
"Is this my biological father?" Duan Gui said subconsciously.
