Chapter 122 Life is a Mirror
"Forget it?" Liu Qingshan asked.
"Forget it." Deng Xianfu nodded repeatedly, "Let's go, Qingshan, let's go back and sit. Don't talk here, it's not good to let people listen."
As he said that, he pulled Liu Qingshan back to the main hall and sat down.
As soon as Liu Qingshan sat down, Deng Xianfu's wife said, "Qingshan, you misunderstood my meaning. I mean, as long as Mrs. Tan comes to the door to apologize, there is no need to settle the score with her."
"Oh, don't get involved." Deng Xianfu pushed his wife away and said angrily, "Men are talking about things here, why are you, a woman, doing here? Why don't you clean up the dishes?"
His scream scared his wife, but he became honest, shut up, turned around and went to clean up the dishes.
Deng Xianfu found a stool to sit down, leaned against the wall, took a breath, and then said quietly: "Oh, think about it carefully, this matter is wrong. If I had not listened to my wife at that time and left half of the water for Mrs. Tan, then Mrs. Tan's vegetables would not have been sunburned to death. My wife said at that time, we should use water first, so that the pond would be full in less than a day. Then when Mrs. Tan came to the vegetable field in the evening and found that there was no water, she would naturally move the stone away. But who knew that Mrs. Tan hadn't gone to the vegetable field for those days. Oh, forget it, this matter was over."
"It's best if you can think so." The village chief glanced at Liu Qingshan with appreciation, then looked at Deng Xianfu and said, "It's really not easy for Mrs. Tan's family. When she was loosening the soil in that field, I asked her, why are she growing so many vegetables? Anyway, the government paid and rice, so she couldn't eat so much. As a result, what do you think about Mrs. Tan?"
“How to say it?”
"Haha, Old Mrs. Tan said, grow some vegetables and sell some money. When grandchildren bring their children to their homes to pay New Year's greetings, she can give the little children a big red envelope. She said she was incompetent and couldn't love her grandchildren well before. Now that grandchildren have children, she wants to make up for that regret. She also wants to be like other people's elderly people, have some money in hand, can buy new clothes for children, buy delicious food, and can also give the children a big red envelope."
This made the village chief feel uncomfortable.
The weather was still very hot at that time. Old Mrs. Tan was wearing a thin set of clothes and working in the fields. The scorching sun like fire burned her thin body, evaporating the few moisture in her body, and sweating all the thin set of clothes on her body.
At that moment, Old Mrs. Tan seemed to have just gotten up from a puddle. Not only was her face wet, but her chin was ticking with big beads of sweat falling.
But when she talked about her little wish, her face still smiled like a flower. Even the pale hair on her head seemed to have turned into a lily with vigorous life, which slightly set off her contented smile.
Deng Xianfu was silent.
"That day, when I was building roads in the mountains, I also met Mrs. Tan." Liu Qingshan had returned to normal, no longer gritted his teeth, no longer showed fierce eyes, but said tenderly like a village chief, "I had a very unhappy relationship with her because of the mountain. But later she fell down and was injured. I was a little confused at that time, but when I thought about it carefully, what should an old lady in her seventies and eighties care about her? Just because of her age and hard work, she should be respected by younger generations like me. No matter how much the quarrel was before, it was the previous thing, and I couldn't stand it and not save her."
"I helped her stop the bleeding and carried her home. She was so moved that she was so moved. This shows that although Mrs. Tan's mouth was a little bad, her heart was very soft. As long as you give her a little bit of good, she could reveal her whole heart. Uncle Xianfu, no matter how powerful we were when we were young, we would have a day of old age. Life is a mirror. How do we treat the elderly now and how young people will treat us in the future? Do you think so?"
Deng Xianfu looked at Liu Qingshan in surprise, and then he realized that the kid's previous actions were just acting for him, just to let him understand something.
Now, he finally understood.
He nodded and sighed again: "Oh, yes, what you said is right. I was wrong before. Dashu, you can take the money back."
Deng Xianfu walked to the table, picked up the red envelope, and handed it to Tan Dasha: "We are wrong first. You don't blame you. If you take this money back, you don't have to pay the medical expenses. You don't have to pay back the money you owe to the village chief. I'll give it to the village chief now."
Before Tan Dasha could come back to his senses from this sudden change, Deng Xianfu took out a stack of banknotes from the room and counted dozens of them to the village chief: "Village Chief, these are the medical expenses you helped to pay. I'll give them to you, so there's no need to pay them back."
"This is not very good." The village chief looked at Tan Dasha, then turned around and stared at Deng Xianfu, "After all, you have been living in the courtyard for a week, so this money should be paid by Dasha's family."
"It's really no need. I don't need this little money." Seeing that the village chief didn't accept it, Deng Xianfu stuffed the money into the village chief's pocket, "If you take the money, you will settle the matter, and no one can say anything in the future."
Liu Qingshan smiled and said, "Uncle Xianfu, you are the most enlightened person I have ever met."
"What a clarification, I just talk about the matter. Compared to your kid, I am far inferior to your uncle. Look at the good show you just played, I almost frightened me."
"Hehe, actually, I think I am very smart and powerful. How could I think of the trick of using poison to fight poison? My IQ is probably higher than my appearance."
"Oh, so low, that's not even as good as a fool?" Deng Xianfu said with a smile.
"Uncle!" Liu Qingshan squinted his eyes, "Who do you look down on?"
The atmosphere inside the house became relaxed and active.
The few people sat and chatted for a long time, and waited almost nine o'clock before leaving.
As soon as Liu Qingshan and his group left, Deng Xianfu's wife hurriedly asked, "Xianfu, is it really that way?"
"What else can you do if you don't forget it? Do you really have to knock on Mrs. Tan's hoe? Oh, forget it, don't be right and don't forgive me. No matter what, we are wrong first. Now the village chief and the boy Qingshan are helping Mrs. Tan, but it's obvious that the old lady is not very bad. Besides, they are all from the same village. If you look up, you don't look down. There is no need to do anything."
Deng Xianfu said as he went back to the house.
But his wife followed in and said, "Isn't Qingshan standing on our side?"
"Are you really stupid or fake?" Deng Xianfu said with a funny look, "That kid is a personal spirit. He knew that we couldn't do that ruthless move, so he deliberately scared us. Do you think he really wanted to take us to knock on Mrs. Tan. He was deliberately scaring people. Alas, no matter what, we are not kind enough for now."
Speaking of this, Deng Xianfu couldn't help but stare at his wife again and said angrily: "If you hadn't said you would have cut off all the water that day, you wouldn't have caused so many things. It's all your fault."
"I, how long did Old Lady Tan not go to the vegetable field?" The woman said aggrievedly, "I don't know how many days she will not go to the field."
"Forget it, buy some vegetables and go to her house to apologize."
"We still have to apologize? Are you making mistakes? You are the one who is hurt, and we are the one who suffers."
"I only spent a few thousand dollars on this injury. What does that few thousand dollars mean to our family? But the dish that died because we cut off the water was all the hard work of Mrs. Tan. You said she was so old, and now she would not apologize while she was still awake and relieve the trauma she suffered because of us. Do you have to wait a few years before you go to her to repent before she dies?"
The husband's words leave the woman with nothing to say.
Although she is not easy to talk to, she is also a sensible person. The woman nodded: "If you know, just go there. Then buy some powder and come back first. I will make a pancake before going. That dasha looks likes to eat."
Deng Xianfu looked at his wife and smiled with relief.
A family's wealth is by no means obtained out of thin air.
Chapter completed!