si-mexico Chapter 110 Visiting a Brother He Hadn't Seen for Many Years
Chapter 110 Visiting a Brother He Hadn't Seen for Many Years
Gong Yong and Xiao Bao gazed at the moonlight outside the window and suddenly fell silent.
Xiao Bao broke the silence first, saying, "Dad, you used to be such a jerk, doing so many wrong things, and Mom still hasn't forgiven you."
Do you think I can apologize to Xiaoxue now and properly fulfill my roles as a father and a lover?
Gong Yong responded, "If you've made a mistake, then correct it."
You see, your mother was very cold to me at first, but as she got older, although she never completely forgave me, we've been doing alright.
Xiao Bao pressed further, "Do you think this kind of life is good?"
Gong Yong said, "It's much better than other people, at least your mother and I are not divorced."
Xiao Bao said, "That was Mom's forbearance. She didn't divorce you for the sake of us three children."
Gong Yong said, "It's because of you three children that your mother hasn't gotten a divorce."
Xiao Bao said, "Yes, that's how you trap Mom, right?"
Gong Yong said, "Yes and no."
Xiao Bao then asked, "How did you manage to change Mom's attitude later on?"
Gong Yong replied, "I've learned to admit my mistakes."
I learned to correct my mistakes.
I learned to care for her.
Learning to care for your three children—that's what I did to win her back.
Xiao Bao continued, "If I do these things, will Xiao Xue treat me better?"
Gong Yong said, "What can you do if you don't even have the courage to do it?"
Xiao Bao said, "I don't know what to do either."
Gong Yong said, "Let's just do it first and see what happens. As for whether she forgives you, at least she hasn't divorced you yet, right?"
Xiao Bao said, "My mom gave Xiao Xue so much confidence that she wouldn't get a divorce."
Gong Yong said, "That's right. A mother-in-law gives her daughter-in-law confidence, so shouldn't you, as a husband, also give your wife confidence?"
Xiao Bao said, "I did some stupid things before, I don't know what got into me."
Gong Yong said, "Well, you are also a spiritual practitioner, and you should have seen through many things. It's just that you can't avoid the temptations around you."
Xiao Bao said, "In the first few years after I was discharged from the army, I felt that I could avoid a lot of temptations, but after I married Xiao Xue and spent most of my energy on the children, I felt that I was being neglected."
Gong Yong said, "That's a sense of loss, because before, your wife was completely devoted to you, but after the baby was born, you'll find that she neglects you, right?"
Xiao Bao said, "Yes, ever since we had our first and second children, I feel that my wife devotes all her attention to the children and very little attention to me."
Gong Yong said, "Actually, you're quite silly. Our family's financial situation is already so good. We've already hired a nanny, but look at Xiaoxue, she still insists on doing everything herself. She's just loving her child and fulfilling her duty as a mother."
Xiao Bao said, "Yes, I know she just loves children, but I'm still jealous."
Gong Yong said, "You can't stand Xiaoxue being nice to other people, including your own son and daughter, so you're expressing your dissatisfaction in another way."
Xiao Bao said, "I don't know if you think it is or isn't?"
Gong Yong said, "Outsiders would think you are."
Xiao Bao asked, "Then what should I do?"
Gong Yong said, "Then you must first learn to love children like she does."
Aren't you currently at home taking care of four children? Haven't you noticed that your four children are closer to you than to their mother? The children are all grown up now; haven't you realized how much time you've missed?
Xiao Bao said, "My child has indeed grown up, and I have missed a lot of his time."
Gong Yong said, "No matter how much of a jerk or how much of a scumbag I am, the time I spend with you guys hasn't decreased, right?"
Xiao Bao recalled for a moment and said, "Yeah, pretty much. You always spend time with us after get off work and on holidays, most of the time."
Gong Yong said, "That's right. And what about you? What do you do with your spare time outside of work?"
Xiao Bao said, "It's for social occasions."
Gong Yong said, "Do you think you should attend those unnecessary social events?"
Xiao Bao said, "Some social engagements are unnecessary."
Gong Yong said, "Our group company is so big now. Many people come to us asking for favors, not the other way around. So, as the boss, do you think you should entertain them?"
Xiao Bao said, "There are some social engagements that can be declined; there's absolutely no need to maintain them."
Gong Yong said, "Yes, you haven't seen through this."
Xiao Bao said, "Xiao Xue is doing very well now."
Gong Yong said, "That's right. Now your wife is the kind of person that people ask for favors from. She never socializes. We rarely have the opportunity to ask others for favors. All she needs to do is be fair and just."
Xiao Bao said, "Dad, I know where the problem is, I'll change it."
Gong Yong said, "While your wife is still here and you haven't divorced her, and your four children have grown up, you need to learn to love them and put to good use the smooth talk you had when you were courting Xiaoxue."
Xiao Bao said, "Okay, I understand."
The two men sat there peeling fruit. Xiao Bao peeled a roasted orange and gave half to Gong Yong, and they ate and drank tea at the same time.
After that, the two of them stopped talking and quietly ate their snacks, drank their tea, and gazed into the distance.
I don't know what they were thinking, but I think Xiao Bao was reminiscing about his time with Xiao Xue and figuring out what aspects he wanted to correct.
On the contrary, Gong Yong lowered his eyes and drank his tea, lost in thought, his mind a jumble of emotions.
Nothing more was said that night. Of Gong Yong's relatives, only his younger brother was still alive.
Gong Yong took out his phone and called his brother who lived far away, asking if his younger brother was still healthy and if anything was wrong at home.
When Gong Yong's younger brother received his brother's call, he was startled, knowing that his brother had also woken up from his seclusion.
First, I congratulate my brother on his increased cultivation level. Second, I say that I am too old to walk and cannot come to the valley to visit him.
Secondly, she said that her two children were doing well and living a good life. Then she mentioned that she missed her older brother and asked if he would like to come and visit her.
After thinking for a moment, Gong Yong said, "I'll buy a plane ticket tomorrow and go back to Chengdu to visit you."
My second brother said, "I'm not in Chengdu, I'm in my hometown."
Gong Yong was startled and said, "Why are you in your hometown? Don't you have a house in Chengdu?"
Gong Yong's younger brother, sitting across from him, said somewhat apologetically, "The house in Rongcheng was given to my son and daughter-in-law, and the other one to my daughter and son-in-law. My sister-in-law and I are going back to our hometown."
When Gong Yong heard this, he didn't react at first. Later, he realized that his younger brother and sister-in-law were probably not well-liked by their daughter-in-law, and that he wanted to live alone and had returned to his hometown.
But Gong Yong knew that the house in his hometown had been uninhabited for decades. Could his brother, who was so old, really live in that house?
Gong Yong sighed deeply, and then said,
Okay, I'll drive back myself. See you at my hometown tomorrow.
The next day, Gong Yong found the eagle spirit and asked it to help him get somewhere. The eagle spirit said no problem.
Gong Yong loaded the car into his own storage compartment, and then loaded some fruits, grains, and oils from the valley into his compartment as well.
Then I went to town and bought some furniture: three beds, five sets of quilts, five sets of four-piece bedding sets, and five sets of mattresses.
Gong Yong wandered around that market and bought everything he could think of: coffee tables, TV cabinets, small appliances, televisions, refrigerators, washing machines, mobile phones (five mobile phones in total), iPads, computers, and other such things.
Then came more food. He bought a pig, a sheep, and a cow—not enough, so he got five more. He also bought twenty or thirty chickens, ducks, and geese, slaughtered them, and put them all into his storage space. He also bought some outdoor equipment.
For example, tents, air mattresses, and flashlights.
Because the equipment Lin Yue bought decades ago was not as advanced as what she has now.
So Gong Yong bought some of the latest advanced equipment and also bought five cars from a 4S store.
You're probably wondering where Gong Yong's money came from? His wife used to give it to him, and now he gets it from his wife at the company!
Gong Yong got 500 million yuan from his wife, and Xiao Xue transferred that much money to her father-in-law without hesitation.
Because she knew her father-in-law had money in the bank, but...
That money was deposited many years ago. Because he went into seclusion for ten years, the money is still there, but with current prices, it probably can't buy much.
When her father-in-law was about to go into seclusion, he, like her mother-in-law, exchanged most of his cash for gold bars. So, Gong Yong now has very little cash, but quite a lot of gold bars in his spatial dimension.
To make his travel easier, he asked Xiaoxue to transfer five million to him.
After buying all these things, I spent several hundred thousand yuan, but it was still less than a million.
Gong Yong then went around the market again and bought a stove, the kind that looks up and is long and narrow. It can burn either coal or charcoal to keep warm, and it's a bit like a stove in Northeast China. You can put a teapot on top and use it to brew tea or cook hot pot. Gong Yong bought three of these stoves.
He was worried that if he went back to his brother's old house, his brother wouldn't have repaired it and he would just have to make do with it. He had nowhere to stay when he went back, so he bought a lot of outdoor gear.
Then he went to find the eagle spirit, who said, "Send me your location."
Uh, the eagle spirit can even use a phone now. After sending its location, the eagle spirit started to spread its wings and fly according to the location, with Gong Yong sitting on its back.
Under the cover of night, when no one was watching, he took Gong Yong to Gong Yong's hometown, a trip that took less than two hours.
That's the speed of a sculptor. If he were driving, it would probably take a whole day, but Diao Jin only took two hours.
After the carving spirit arrived, it dropped Gong Yong off in an open area not far from their home. The area was sparsely populated, but the road was still there.
Under the cover of darkness, Gong Yong took his SUV out and parked it on the road, then began rummaging through the trunk.
The trunk was filled with a lot of things. After that, the front seats and the middle seats were also piled with things. The car was full before we slowly drove into the village.
It took almost another thirty minutes to drive into the village after entering the town.
Upon entering the village, Gong Yong saw that the house he hadn't returned to for decades was still there, but it was very dilapidated. The road in front of the house, which used to be paved with cement, was now full of potholes and there was no light at all.
He drove home late at night, and as soon as he arrived at his house, the dogs in the village started barking. They kept barking until he drove into his yard.
The two black dogs inside kept barking, but one of them remained silent. People say that dogs that don't bark are more likely to bite.
Gong Yong knew this, so he took out his phone and called his brothers and their wives.
Actually, the person upstairs, his brother and his wife had already heard the sound, but they didn't know where the sound was coming from so late. His brother's wife thought it was her son coming back, but it wasn't; it was his older brother who had come back.
When Gong Yong's younger brother saw that the call was from his older brother, he came downstairs and opened the front door. He was stunned to see his brother driving the car; his brother was still as handsome and dashing as he had been before he turned forty.
The second brother clung to his older brother's leg and wailed loudly.
After venting his grievances of the past few decades, Gong Yong cried until he almost fainted. He quickly took a pill from his personal space and fed it to his second brother.
Footsteps came from upstairs again; it was my brother's wife. She hadn't come downstairs dressed and wasn't planning on, but then she heard her husband wailing downstairs.
I couldn't resist any longer, so I put my clothes back on and slowly walked downstairs.
When she saw that her older brother looked like he was only forty years old, tears kept falling from her eyes.
Because at that time, the brother's wife was only 1.55 meters tall, an old woman with a face full of wrinkles, walking unsteadily, and leaning on a cane. Looking at their eldest brother, he was handsome and dashing, and did not look like he was forty years old. This was the difference, which shocked the old couple.
Gong Yong hugged his younger brother and waited for him to finish crying before saying, "I'm back. How have you been?"
The second brother said, "It's alright, it's alright."
My brother's wife also said, "It's alright, it's alright."
Gong Yong had already turned on the power switch in his house; the switch hadn't changed in all these years.
When it was opened, seeing the mottled walls, the tables and benches from decades ago, and the bed from decades ago, I let out a deep sigh.
It turns out that his brother and his wife weren't living as well as he had imagined. It turns out that he had secretly given his brother and his wife so much money, yet their old age was still miserable. What could he say?
The couple raised their children themselves, although the two children may have been raised by Gong Yong's mother for the first ten years, which led to some bad habits.
But the subsequent growth requires the two young people to follow along. Since it can't be changed, there's nothing that can be done.
He realized that he was over eighty years old and frail, and he couldn't even walk as nimbly as his older brother. Thinking of this, the second brother burst into tears and hugged his older brother.
My sister-in-law said tremblingly, "Brother, are you back so late for dinner? I'll make you something."
Gong Yong said, "No need to bother, let's sit down and chat."
Gong Yong said, "Please sit down first, I'll go and bring some things from the car in."
Gong Yong opened the door and took three bags of food from the trunk of the car—rice, flour, and cooking oil—and put them in the kitchen.
The kitchen light was also turned on. I looked around the kitchen, but there was no space to put it there.
They carried it back and placed it on the dining table in the main room. It was a large, square table. They put three bags of rice, three bags of flour, three buckets of oil on it, and then carried a few boxes of fruit on it.
The two old men were dumbfounded to see their brother working so hard, and how he could lift such heavy objects so lightly. They thought he was probably over 80 years old, how could he be so strong and young, and lift things so lightly now?
Before Gong Yong's younger brother could react with surprise or his sister-in-law could nag, Gong Yong had already unloaded most of the cargo from the car and placed it in the main room.
Some things were still on the front seats and in the front chairs. Gong Yong thought for a moment,
Taking it out isn't impossible, but some of the meat needs to be taken out.
Then Gong Yong went to the main room and put down two more of the large square tables that were stacked on top. After putting down the two tables...
There's no need to go into the car; actually, there aren't any. We took out half a pig, half a cow, and a whole sheep from the storage space and put them on the table. That's all we can fit now; the table is already full.
The elderly couple were startled. "Brother, why did you buy so much meat? It's not going to keep well now!"
"Oh dear," Gong Yong said, "don't worry about it."
Gong Yong then placed a large square table and a long-neglected refrigerator in a room between the main room and the kitchen.
He opened the refrigerator and found it completely empty; there was nothing in it. And then, the refrigerator was broken.
Gong Yong unplugged the refrigerator and waved his hand, and the refrigerator went into Gong Yong's space.
Gong Yong then took out a double-door refrigerator he had bought from the town, cut open the packaging, plugged it in, and saw that all the function lights were on.
I put it back in its original place, and because the refrigerator is bigger than before, I also moved two earthenware pots next to it.
The two old men followed behind Gong Yong, watching. They'd seen his brother conjure things up effortlessly before; they'd often witnessed such feats in their youth. Now, seeing him do it, while not visibly astonished, they felt his brother truly seemed to be performing magic, trembling as he followed Gong Yong.
Gong Yong said, "You all sit here and don't move."
Then the two old men returned to their original positions and saw his brother busy at work, and then they saw his brother tidying up the house between the kitchen and the main room.
In the past, we used stones to press down the rice to cook it, and all sorts of messy things disappeared.
Then he brought out a long row of aluminum alloy countertop-like structures and installed them in the original spot. Gong Yong bought them based on his memory of the location, and they fit perfectly. He then placed some pots, pans, and dishes that his brother had previously placed there on top, because this was the spot where the appliances were originally intended to be installed, but because…