At the end of her sentence, Zhang Meili pinched Xue Gouzi’s body so hard that he didn’t know where to hide.
“Alright! He still had to go to my father’s place!” After the hoe was on the ground, Xue Dagui stood up in a bad mood. “If my father sees that he is injured, I will skin you alive!”
Usually, Xue Dagui wouldn’t care about this matter, but this morning, Xue Dabao had come calling, saying that his father had asked his grandson to go over, so he had to interfere.
Otherwise, if his father saw the bruises on Xue Gouzi’s body, even if he didn’t hit him, wouldn’t he still get blamed?
“What about the candy?” Zhang Meili shouted again, but she stopped pinching Xue Gouzi.
Xue Dagui’s brain worked much faster than Zhang Meili’s. Zhang Meili had suspected that Gouzi had gotten a share of the candy. Even Xue Dagui thought so too.
He might not be decent, but his brother’s family was decent and would definitely give Gouzi the candy.
His nephew, Xue Yan, was well-educated and exceptionally decent. It was impossible for him to only give it to Xue Dabao and Xue Xiaobao and not to his son.
His nephew had a good relationship with his son.
However, now, in order to solve this problem and prevent Gouzi from crying and going to his father’s place and making his father worry, he naturally didn’t have the heart to pursue the matter of the candy.
Xue Dagui said, “He already said he doesn’t have any. He won’t lie. Have you ever seen him lie? How could you not know about your own child? Alright, alright, hurry up and get the hoe. Come with me to the field to pluck the weeds. The weeds in our field are taller than what we’re growing. There’s no grass in other people’s houses, but the two of us are so lazy that they’ve grown.”
Without waiting for Zhang Meili to speak, Xue Dagui turned to Xue Gouzi and said, “What are you waiting for? Your grandfather wants you to go over. Hurry up and go to him.”
Xue Gouzi was a coward, but he was not st*pid. He could tell that his father was helping him. No matter the reason, this was the first time his father had helped him. He was a little stunned and dazed. It was only when his father shouted at him that he came back to his senses. He rushed out of the door with tears streaming down his face and went to his grandfather’s place.
Xue Dagui scratched his head when he saw that not only did Xue Gouzi not stop crying, but his tears fell even quicker. It was rare for him to start reflecting on himself. Was he not a decent father usually?
“I’m not going!” Zhang Meili sat on the stool and refused to take the hoe to the field.
“What did you just say?” Xue Dagui immediately glared at her ruthlessly.
Zhang Meili was afraid, so she reluctantly went to take the hoe, but she was full of complaints and kept grumbling, “No matter how much we hoe the weeds, there won’t be much harvest. Why do we have to hoe it? It’s better for our family to make candy and sell it.”
“Do you know how to?”
“Let your brother teach you. Don’t tell me… did your brother’s family not teach you?” Zhang Meili said matter-of-factly.
Xue Dagui thought for a moment. “If he were to teach us, it wouldn’t be too much of an advantage. He should be able to teach us. But our family doesn’t have the money to buy things like glutinous rice.”
“You can just borrow the money from his family!” Zhang Meili said immediately, as if it was a matter of course. “They definitely have it!”
Without waiting for Xue Dagui to speak, Zhang Meili continued, “We’ll just return it after we’ve earned the money back. Wouldn’t that be great? We can even settle the debt with your brother’s family. Look, when will this chance come up again? No matter if we can pay it back now or not, we’ll just borrow it first. Won’t we be rich if we have money?”