0p0 Chapter 197: Earnest Talk
Chapter 197: Earnest Talk
"It's all his mother's fault. Now she's sitting there crying in the chicken shit field, and no one cares about her. She deserves it."
"To put it bluntly, the child is still ignorant because he has no father to take care of him. Such a good family has ended up like this, don't you think?"
Lu Sangui just listened but did not agree with her. After a while, Meng Po felt bored.
He pointed from a distance and said, "Look, that's Qiu Yong's field over there. The people working in the field are his tenants. You can go and ask them and you will know."
He also said that he had better go back to look for his grandson, lest he lose the child and be scolded by his daughter-in-law again.
Lu Sangui turned around to thank her, and took out a few large coins and stuffed them into her pockets to thank her for accompanying him on the trip.
Mrs. Meng couldn't refuse, so she accepted it happily, and got rid of her anger at Lu Sangui for ignoring her.
Even when he returned to the village and met the villagers, he spread Lu Sangui's reputation as a steady and generous person.
Lu Sangui walked forward a few steps and saw a boy delivering food on the roadside, calling the tenant farmers working in the fields.
He walked forward and asked, "Is this Qiu Yong's field?"
The tenant farmer wiped the sweat off his face with the towel draped over his shoulders, and his tanned skin looked even more shiny under the sun.
Hearing his question, he couldn't help but look him up and down before he said loudly, "Yes, the master's surname is Qiu. Does this gentleman have something to ask the master?"
Lu Sangui smiled and said, "I am an old acquaintance of your master's family. I came here from another place just to find him and reminisce about the past. My family said he went to the fields, so why can't I see him now?"
"Well, it's not even noon yet, everyone has gone home to fill their stomachs, and the host has been dragged home by Old Liu to eat. If you want to look for him, just ask my Tiedan to take you there."
He waved to the boy over there and took the basket hanging on his arm.
"Go, take this master to Mr. Jiang's house to find Mr. Qiu's house."
The little boy tilted his head and looked at Lu Sangui again and again, answered crisply, and ran towards the village first.
Lu Sangui only had time to bow to the tenant farmer before the child had already run a long distance away, so he had to quickly chase after him.
It's summer, the weather is hot and the cicadas' chirping is annoying.
Lu Sangui followed the little boy to the door of a house in the village, and heard the sound of cups clinking from inside.
"Granny Jiang, someone is here to look for Master Qiu." The little boy pushed the door open and shouted.
Lu Sangui followed him in and saw Qiu Yong, who was sitting in the main seat, looking at him with a puzzled look on his face.
Qiu Yong's face changed from confusion to surprise, and finally he stood up and strode over. When he got close, his face was already in tears.
"You, when did you come back?" He said with a trembling voice, stretched out his hands to hold Lu Sangui's shoulders, and choked.
Seeing his brother like this, Lu Sangui couldn't help but feel excited and angry.
"Oh, this is... you haven't eaten yet, come in and sit down."
The farmers were honest and sincere. No matter they knew the host or not, as long as they were friends of the host and had arrived at dinner time, they would quickly invite the host in and ask their wives to add more dishes.
The family went to the fields on the pretext of having eaten their fill, in order to make room for the host in entertaining the guests.
The little boy who led the way also ran away and went home.
"No need to rush, no need to rush." Lu Sangui felt a little embarrassed and was dragged to sit by Qiu Yong.
After sitting down and drinking a few glasses of wine, the two of them opened up to each other. Lu Sangui mentioned that he went to Qiu Yong's house to look for him, which made Qiu Yong sigh.
"If my mother hadn't been worried about her offspring, how could I have done such a thing..." Qiu Yong said this with his face covered with wine.
Lu Sangui's face darkened, and he said in a deep voice: "What are you talking about? Even if your mother said that, did she force you to sleep with her?"
Qiu Yong was speechless after hearing this. He put the wine glass heavily on the table, with an expression that looked like he was half crying and half laughing.
"A real man should take responsibility for what he has done. It is really despicable for you to put all the blame on women."
They had known each other since childhood, so Lu Sangui did not say any polite words to him and just started talking.
Qiu Yong opened his mouth as if to explain, but said nothing.
"I heard from sister-in-law Lu about you and Yue Niang, so I hurried over to find you. Since you two got engaged, I have accompanied you to her house many times. Even when I was away from home, I never thought that you two would be separated."
"You said we get married and live together, what's the point? Your mother wants a grandson, you want a son, it's all fine. But you are bullying others by doing things this way."
Old Mrs. Jiang interrupted them with a smile, served new dishes, tidied up the messy table, and then left.
Qiu Yong drooped his eyelids, looking aggrieved.
"I didn't want to, but I didn't know that something strange happened..."
"It's been done, why are you talking about it now?" Lu Sangui said in a muffled voice.
"We grew up together with Brother Fang Hai. You are the youngest, and we usually give in to you, but that doesn't mean you always find excuses to evade problems."
"I came back this time just to ask you, what are your plans for the future? Do you want to be a rich man in this village, or do you want to go out and explore the world with me?"
Qiu Yong pursed his lips: "Brother Sangui, if you are willing to take me, I will definitely go with you. But this house is in such a state now, how can I feel at ease to go out..."
"What happened in your family? Just a concubine who was pregnant, but you made such a scene?" Lu Sangui became more and more angry.
"The doctor checked and said it's a boy." Qiu Yong frowned.
Tonghua's family members would come to ask for money from time to time, saying that they were poor relatives, but they were more like bandits. When they came to the house, they would take whatever they liked and leave.
Normally, Tonghua is very domineering at home. When he sees family members, he is like a mouse seeing a cat and dares not say a word.
"Well, if you think so, I'll give you some more money, and you can buy more land. The rent alone will be enough for you to live on."
"But I'm saying this in advance. If you have a thing like that at home, I'm afraid no girl from a good family will marry you in the future. So what if you give birth to a son?"
Qiu Yong was unhappy and thought that his words were unpleasant, but he also knew that every word he said came from the bottom of his heart.
If it weren't for the friendship between the two of them who grew up together, who would have bothered to come all the way here to say these things to him.
"Brother Sangui, I, I really don't have an idea in my mind. Otherwise, I will listen to you and do whatever you tell me to do."
Lu Sangui looked at him and sighed deeply.
The three of them grew up together. Lu Fanghai was the most opinionated one. He knew what he wanted and how to go about his own business.
Lu Sangui and Qiu Yong have always followed Lu Fanghai's opinions, but Lu Sangui not only listens, but also thinks about why Lu Fanghai does so.
So when he committed a crime, he would leave immediately and also go to talk to Lu Fanghai to hear his opinion.
But from now on, after leaving Taohua Village, it will be up to him to make any decision.
The fact that he has become what he is today shows that he is a man who knows what he is doing.