12. Second Story Extra 2.
“Wumao, where have you gone?” Tan Chunjuan shouted, and after a while, a 12- or 13-year-old girl ran over with a skirt: “Mother, am I here?
” It’s mud, did you run out to play again?” Tan Chunjuan looked at her little daughter helplessly, her other two daughters were gentle and graceful, but she didn’t know what was going on. After they built a house near the pig farm, she became more and more wild, thinking about running outside all day.
Originally Tan Chunjuan didn’t care about these things. After all, she ran all over the mountains and fields since she was a child, but in the past two years, this little daughter has become more and more beautiful…
“Mother, I really haven’t gone far… Also, mother, can you? Stop calling me fifty cents?” Gao Qian looked at her mother helplessly.
“Your brother is already a scholar, I still call him Si Mao!” Tan Chunjuan said proudly. Her youngest son, who is now sixteen, has already been admitted to a scholar!
Gao Qian curled her lips and stopped talking, and Tan Chunjuan said again, “Quickly pack up and change your shoes, we’re going back to town.”
Now they live here most of the time in order to watch the pig farm, but every time they will still go back during the Chinese New Year. This year, Tan Chunjuan chose to set off on December 22 to celebrate the new year tomorrow.
Things were already packed up, and soon, Tan Chunjuan, Gao Zhen, and Gao Xun and Gao Qian got into the carriage. By the way, Gao Xun is Si Mao.
His name is Gao Xunzi Qiusuo. He was a scholar at a young age and has a promising future, but his parents still used to call him Si Mao.
The carriage swayed back and forth, and when it reached the town, it was already dark, and Da Mao was waiting at the door, and quickly welcomed them in.
Tan Chunjuan and others moved to the vicinity of the pig farm, but Da Mao had been living in the town, and he also married and had children in the town. Of course, when the pig farm was busy, he would also help.
After selling meat for many years, now Da Mao is just another Gao Zhen, with a very similar physique and temperament. People who don’t know what happened back then see him and Gao Zhen standing together, and they will think that the two are father and son.
When Tan Chunjuan woke up the next day, Da Mao’s wife had already brought breakfast to the table.
A large plate of cabbage dumplings, millet porridge, and various pickles and cured meats were placed on the table. Just looking at it made people very appetizing, but Tan Chunjuan still felt uncomfortable when she was served by her daughter-in-law. Begin to live the days when you can stretch out your hand and eat when open your mouth like this? When she thinks of all this occasionally, she always feels unreal, but then it all happens to be true.
She is forty-five now, and the skin on her hands and face is even smoother and fairer than when she was young, because she has gained a lot of weight, and there are not many wrinkles except the corners of her eyes.
The family had a lively breakfast, and Da Mao and his wife were busy together. Many people came to buy meat at the end of the year, and Da Mao alone could not take care of it.
Tan Chunjuan helped Da Mao to look at the children, but after a while, Wu Mao suddenly rushed in with a whimper: “Mother, there is an old woman outside who refuses to give money, and it seems that the eldest brother wants to hit someone… Women feel disgusted when they look at them, but it’s not good for a big brother to beat people…”
“I’ll go take a look.” Tan Chunjuan walked out with the child and saw the old woman in front of the meat stall, only to realize that this person was actually an acquaintance. ——After a few years, Widow Zhang looks older.
At first, just looking at her appearance would make people think that she was younger than Tan Chunjuan, but now it’s fine to say that she is Tan Chunjuan’s elder.
“Da Mao, this is the meat for your father, and you still ask me for money, are you not ashamed?” Widow Zhang was rolling around in front of the meat stall, holding a large piece of meat firmly in her arms, while Da Mao was pulling her and didn’t let her go.
“My father is in the house.” Da Mao’s expression did not change at all: “If you don’t want to spend money, I can give you some bones or something, but you give me back this piece of meat.”
“You unconscionable, your father raised you when you were eight years old, and you called someone else’s father in a blink of an eye! Now that your father is old, you sell meat yourself and don’t even give him any meat!” Widow Zhang cried and made trouble.
Widow Zhang looked really pitiful, and everyone who was present at the time basically knew what happened, and immediately persuaded: “Da Mao, Yao Tianhao is your father no matter what, you can’t ignore him.”
“Yeah, that’s your father, no matter how bad he is, he’s still your father.”
“You don’t even care about your own father, isn’t it unfilial?”
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This Gao Jiang is living a good life now, and he sends his children to him. After entering the school, he refused to support his father… Everyone present looked at Da Mao with contempt.
Da Mao frowned, and suddenly picked up the big knife he used to chop the meat next to him and slashed it on the chopping board: “If you have the kind of surname Zhang, take the meat away, and I’ll cut it from your son tomorrow!”
Widow Zhang trembled. Shaking, threw the meat on the ground, turned around and ran away, the people around looked at Da Mao’s expression but were full of disapproval, and one of the old men even said: “Da Mao, that’s your stepmother, whose also to be called mother, what are you doing? How can you treat her like this? And your father, that’s your biological father. He is injured and can’t do anything now, how can you not care at all?”
“Yao Tianhao has never raised me, so what am I giving him money for? It’s you, I remember that Yao Tianhao used to help you, why didn’t you support him? It’s really ungrateful.” Da Mao said coldly.
He always remembered the days before he was eight years old. At that time, he was very afraid of his father, afraid that his father would give away the things at home again. At that time, they often didn’t eat a few bites of the food that his mother had worked so hard to earn, and his father gave the rest of the food because he felt that others were poor. Even if he caught a beetle for his sister to play with, his father could grab the beetle in his hand and give it to others because of the strangeness of other children watching!
It is better not to have such a father. For the current life, Da Mao cherishes it. If his mother hadn’t brought him to remarry, he would have starved to death long ago. How could he live a life of eating meat every day?
Gao Zhen is not his biological father, and he seldom talks to him, but he is 10,000 times better than his biological father. This man sent him to study and taught him a craft. He spent a lot of money to talk to him about his daughter-in-law, and then gave him ten acres of land.
At that time, he had been watching the butcher’s shop for several years. With some savings, he originally wanted to spend money to get married. After all, he was not Gao Zhen’s biological son, but Gao Zhen never gave him this opportunity to spend money. On the other hand, his own father…
a sarcastic smile appeared on the corner of Da Mao’s mouth.
In fact, Yao Tianhao had a lot of contact with him. When he just followed Tan Chunjuan to Gao Zhen’s place, Yao Tianhao would come to see him from time to time, saying that if he was wronged, he would help him out.
Later, when his mother was pregnant with a child, Yao Tianhao looked for him more often, and said that when Gao Zhen had a biological child, he would definitely be driven away.
He just thought it was funny at the time, Yao Tianhao even drove his own son away, thinking that others would fail like him?
When he took over Gao Zhen’s meat stall more than ten years ago, Yao Tianhao still came to him and told him not to help Gao Zhen work in vain, but what was the truth? Over the years, Gao Zhen didn’t get a cent of the money he made, but instead helped him marry a daughter-in-law.
The more the comparison is made, the more we can perceive that Gao Zhen is better, so no matter how miserable Yao Tianhao is, Da Mao will never be moved.
When he left the Yao family, he didn’t want to call this person father anymore, what’s more, Gao Zhen was so good to him, wouldn’t he be sorry for Gao Zhen if he recognized his father again?
Of course, he also imagined that Yao Tianhao would regret it and would give him something. If so, he would write down everything Yao Tianhao gave, and when Yao Tianhao was old, he would throw it on Yao Tianhao’s face…
But Yao Tianhao never gave anything to him. What, even if he sent him a drop of money before he got married, Widow Zhang came to the door the next day wanted to get them back.
After Da Mao threw out Yao Tianhao’s words that whoever had kindness to him would go to raise Yao Tianhao, his meat stall became quiet, and there were only a few people who continued to persuade him to do his filial piety. The children are not called Yao Tianhao’s father. He was defeated.
Not long after Tan Chunjuan married Gao Zhen, Yao Tianhao married Widow Zhang. The two later gave birth to a son, but the child died when he was three years old, only the third child of Widow Zhang son called Yao Tianhao “Father”.
These three children were very good to Yao Tianhao before Yao Tianhao married Widow Zhang, but later…
After Yao Tianhao married Widow Zhang, the original virtues remained unchanged, and Widow Zhang could not stop him no matter how powerful she was. Of course the three children would not have feelings for him.
In fact, even Widow Zhang is not willing to take care of Yao Tianhao now, but Widow Zhang is so old and has no ability, so there is no other way out except to follow Yao Tianhao…
Da Mao continued to sell meat , Tan Chunjuan watched after a while, she turned around and planned to go back to the house.
“Sister-in-law…” A voice full of vicissitudes sounded, Tan Chunjuan looked over and saw an acquaintance, it was Yao Tianhao’s good brother Dong Yuanxiang.
“My husband has nothing to do with you, don’t call me sister-in-law.” Tan Chunjuan said without thinking when she saw this person.
“I’m sorry…” Dong Yuanxiang bowed his head and apologized: “Mrs. Gao, eldest brother, he has been thinking about you and wants to see you. Would you like to meet him with me?”
“I still want to take care of the children at home. .” Tan Chunjuan refused with a smile. What she going to do, to see Yao Tianhao, did she think her life was too comfortable? Although Gao Zhen didn’t dislike her being married before, he definitely didn’t want her to see Yao Tianhao.
Tan Chunjuan refused decisively, and immediately entered the room. Dong Yuanxiang wanted to say something when he saw Da Mao staring at him, and Gao Zhen looked at him when he wanted to talk to Tan Chunjuan. They look the same.
Dong Yuanxiang walked back dejectedly, and arrived at his house not long after, while Yao Tianhao was leaning on a cane, sitting on the threshold of his house, seeing no one beside him, the man’s expression suddenly darkened.
“Big brother…” Dong Yuanxiang really didn’t know what to say. Yao Tianhao broke his leg half a year ago, so he couldn’t be a clerk, but the son of the widow Zhang occupied Yao’s house and drove Yao Tianhao out…
“Yes My fault.” Yao Tianhao whispered and sighed deeply.
