13. Second Story Extra 3.
Yao Tianhao and Dong Yuanxiang sat on the threshold and looked at each other silently.
“Brother, I’m sorry.” After a while, Dong Yuanxiang spoke first. If he hadn’t made up his mind, Yao Tianhao wouldn’t have really divorced Tan Chunjuan and lived his life like this.
His eldest brother was one of the most energetic and stylish people in the town back then, but since he broke up with Tan Chunjuan, the whole person has become more and more sloppy. At first, he thought that the situation would get better after Widow Zhang became the eldest sister-in-law. However, it was the opposite.
After his eldest brother married Widow Zhang, although it was better for a while, it got worse after that. Widow Zhang, who had looked very gentle at first, quarreled with his eldest brother, and it was even worse than Tan Chunjuan.
On the contrary, Tan Chunjuan…
At first, when Tan Chunjuan was divorce remarried Gao Butcher, he thought Tan Chunjuan was a fool. Butcher Gao couldn’t even compare to his elder brother’s finger, and he was very preoccupied with others. How could he possibly have a good life with such a man?
At that time, he despised Tan Chunjuan very much, and even thought about waiting for Tan Chunjuan to regret it. Although it was impossible for his eldest brother to marry Tan Chunjuan again, for the sake of her son and daughter, it was still possible to support her. He was so self-righteous, and after finding that Tan Chunjuan basically did not go out, he felt that his thinking was very correct, until he saw Tan Chunjuan again after more than two months. He thought that Tan Chunjuan, who would be devastated after the divorce, gained a lot of weight, and her complexion was much better. When she was standing next to Butcher Gao and talking to Butcher Gao with a smile, like when she was young. She was a pretty girl from many years ago. After Tan Chunjuan left his eldest brother, she didn’t have a bad life. On the contrary, it got better. Twenty years later, Tan Chunjuan has become the envy of everyone in this town. Many women regret that they didn’t die back then. Marry a high butcher. And Yao Tianhao… Looking at his eldest brother who is nearly fifty but has accomplished nothing, Dong Yuanxiang can no longer tell himself that his eldest brother is a capable person and has a good home.
“The surnamed Dong, why is this person still here?” Dong Yuanxiang was still immersed in regret, but suddenly a woman shouted loudly, and at the same time threw a broom in front of him and Yao Tianhao: “The surnamed Dong, since you care so much this brother, get out of here and live with him!”
The woman who spoke was Dong Yuanxiang’s wife, Mrs. Zhao, her eyebrows were raised, and she didn’t seem to be looking at her husband when she looked at Dong Yuanxiang. It’s like looking at the enemy. Zhao Shi really didn’t like Dong Yuanxiang. Not long after she married Dong Yuanxiang, Dong Yuanxiang’s mother became seriously ill. The Dong family is not a wealthy family. If someone in the town like the Dong family is sick, they usually endure it. If they can survive, they will endure it. If they can’t survive, they will die, but Dong Yuanxiang took his mother to treat the disease. Of course, this is also what it should be. It also shows that Dong Yuanxiang is a filial piety, just to treat his mother’s illness and sell all his family’s property in arrears. Even the doctor said that there is no cure. Can’t see past it.
Seeing that Yao Tianhao had sold the land, and finally only bought a few medicines for Dong’s mother, Mrs Zhao even hated Yao Tianhao – so much money, she and Dong Yuanxiang would not be able to pay it out for the rest of their lives!
Fortunately, Yao Tianhao did not let them pay them back, and he continued to subsidize Dong Yuanxiang, but it was because of this that Dong Yuanxiang refused to live his life in a down-to-earth manner. Obviously their family has no money, and even owes a lot to her parents’ and brothers, Dong Yuanxiang can still drink and eat meat with Yao Tianhao every day!
Their shop can’t make much money, but the price of wine and meat is not cheap. If these two eat a meal in the evening, the profit for the day will be gone! Mrs Zhao was grateful for Yao Tianhao helping them, but seeing that Dong Yuanxiang was dominated by Yao Tianhao everywhere, she hated Yao Tianhao more and more, and even hated Dong Yuanxiang. She and her children are frugal, and usually only eat the leftovers of the guests, but Dong Yuanxiang served Yao Tianhao with good wine and meat… Fortunately, now the master of the house has been replaced by her children, and she no longer has to bear Dong Yuanxiang anymore!
Looking at Dong Yuanxiang arrogantly, Mrs Zhao scolded again: “If you don’t do anything, you can eat rice by yourself. If you bring others back to eat rice, you will die!”
“How can you say that?” Dong Yuanxiang looked angrily with his wife.
“Why can’t I tell you, when did you make money back? Did you want your son to support you? Now you have to raise another cripple!” Zhao threw the dustpan again, the dust flying towards Dong Yuanxiang and Yao Tianhao.
Dong Yuanxiang was trembling with anger, but he didn’t dare to refute it. He was relying on his son to support him, but his son didn’t like him… There was no difference between him and Yao Tianhao, and neither was liked by his wife and children.
“I’m leaving.” Yao Tianhao stood up with a cane. Although Dong Yuanxiang didn’t help him, he was the only one who was willing to take him in. He couldn’t still implicate him. Leaning on crutches and walking on the street step by step, Yao Tianhao saw the brother Zhang, whom he had funded for decades, walking with his wife. On the head of that middle-aged woman, there was still a thing that he sent out. Tan Chunjuan’s hosta. He saw the two of them before they had time to speak and the two saw him, and immediately avoided to an alley next to them ran away. He helped otherd but now they all avoided him when they saw him.
“Mother, Grandpa Yao is so pitiful.”
“What do you care about him? His family doesn’t care, neither do the people he raised before.” A mother and son walked by in a hurry. The mother often came to their house to play when she was a child. He also gave Er Mao’s clothes to their family.
“Dad, do you want Uncle Yao to come and sit at our house?”
“Didn’t you give him food before? You can’t even feed your own children, so you still want to feed others?” A father and son sitting under the eaves for a brief chat, that son had no milk when he was born, and he (YT) even gave him a chicken… Yao Tianhao looked at everything around him, and suddenly felt extremely empty. What’s the meaning of his life?
His parents left him a lot of family business. He used to have a sweet wife and young children, but he lost all of them… He has helped many, many people, but unfortunately none of those people are willing to help him now. In shirk, he feel that he helps others more that even his brothers don’t help him, what can they do?
His leg was broken to save someone, but the person who was rescued ran faster than anyone else, and that person’s family just thought he didn’t exist because they didn’t want to be entangled by a lame man.
Unconsciously, Yao Tianhao walked to his home and saw Widow Zhang washing clothes at the door.
“What are you doing when you come back from death?” Widow Zhang glared at Yao Tianhao. She always thought that this man would be a good husband, but she did not expect that this man would turn out to be a wealthy boy became the poor family but still had to give money to others!
She is really blind to marry such a man. If she knew this, she would have married someone else in the first place!
“This is my home, where can I go if I don’t come back here?”
“Come back here, but don’t expect me to feed you.” Widow Zhang said angrily, this Yao Tianhao doesn’t have a penny now, what a waste of money to support him.
Yao Tianhao was stunned for a moment. After a while, he slowly walked in with a cane. Thinking of the past twenty years of his life, he couldn’t help but smile bitterly.
After he and Tan Chunjuan reconciled, he went to repair the house for Widow Zhang. At that time, he thought that whether it was Tan Chunjuan or the two children, they would always come back, and he should let Widow Zhang leave first. But just after the house was repaired, Widow Zhang’s mother-in-law fell ill and lay in bed unable to move. Widow Zhang tearfully begged him to let them stay for a few more days.
He suddenly remembered what Tan Chunjuan had said before, saying that since Widow Zhang lived, she would definitely not leave. At that time, he still thought that Tan Chunjuan was thinking too much, but he didn’t expect that Widow Zhang’s mother-in-law is really ” Just in time” was sick. He had some doubts about Widow Zhang, and his attitude was naturally not very good. He didn’t know if it was because of this that Widow Zhang cheated on him – one day he woke up drunk and found himself sleeping with Widow.
Widow Zhang was going to die and Widow Zhang’s mother-in-law was still sitting at the door of the room slapping her legs and crying. He was not allowed to deny the account, so he could only marry Widow Zhang.
After the two got married, Widow Zhang controlled him very tightly, not allowing him to spend a penny outside, otherwise she would make a lot of noise. Tan Chunjuan had never been like this before. Even when she finally got angry, she only asked him to give her a sliver of money every month.
Widow Zhang gave him a child, but she didn’t take care of him very often. Widow Zhang’s children always bullied the child, so that the child died early in sickly.
Since then, he has torn his face with Widow Zhang, and became more and more reluctant to give Widow Zhang money. Widow Zhang inquired about his whereabouts. Just after he gave money to others, Widow Zhang immediately went to the door to ask for it.
In this way, they have passed 20 years…
For so many years, Widow Zhang has never worked outside like Tan Chunjuan, and it is up to him to raise children in the end, but Widow Zhang and her children, didn’t take him seriously at all.
Sitting on the bed in the utility room, Yao Tianhao suddenly remembered that in order to accommodate Widow Zhang and others, he had asked his own children to give up the room.
He was really stupid at that time, and he didn’t even turn toward others toward his own child…
“The old immortal is back?” Widow Zhang’s eldest son’s voice sounded outside.
“Yeah, I guess he can’t stay in Dong’s house any longer.” Widow Zhang said.
“If he can’t stay at Dong’s house, go find his own son, what are you doing back here? Do you still expect me to support him?” Widow Zhang’s eldest son said disdainfully, this Yao Tianhao spends his family’s money all day, but now he is counting on him for his old. No way!
“His own son don’t want him. Da Mao is so powerful and can’t take any advantage of it.” Widow Zhang also said that when she followed Yao Tianhao, she also wanted to live a good life, but Yao Tianhao never lived with her at all. It meant that she was humiliated and rolled around, so she only had enough to fill her stomach with her children.
Yao Tianhao has helped so many people, but only a few flowers have been given to her. Why don’t you go to those people to support them, but let her son support them instead?
When the two of them talked, they didn’t avoid Yao Tianhao at all. Yao Tianhao stretched out his hand and touched his short leg, and recalled the appearance of Da Mao, Er Mao and Tan Chunjuan that he secretly saw during the Chinese New Year last year.
They are really having a good time.
That night, Yao’s house was on fire. It first started from the utility room, and then burned to other rooms. The beams, furniture, clothes, bedding, etc. were all burned away, leaving only a few walls.
After the people from the yamen came to see it, they said that Yao Tianhao should have started the fire in the utility room and was not careful enough to set it on fire, but the family of Widow Zhang, who was lucky enough to escape, insisted that Yao Tianhao set the fire.
However, Yao Tianhao had already been burned to death, and he was the only person who was burned to death in this fire, and the truth of the matter could not be known.
In the years that followed, many people passed by this dilapidated house that could no longer be live in, and would sigh, “Yao Tianhao is a good person, but it’s a pity that good people don’t live long.”
