Chapter 38 Chapter Thirty-Seven

On the gate of Tian’s courtyard there are big red happy characters, and there are cheerful drums and music in the courtyard, and a thousand firecrackers explode on the tall poles... Tian Qing and Dou Hua greeted the guests at the door. "Congratulations!" The voices of "Congratulations and Congratulations" can be heard endlessly.Qingqing wore new clothes and ran around to join in the fun. Mr. Huang from the private school walked in with a cane, and Tian Qing immediately greeted him. "Master, you are here! Your legs and feet are inconvenient. If you say a word, I will send someone to pick you up!" Tian Qing helped Mr. Huang up the steps.

Mr. Huang waved his hand, "No, no, it's rare that I have time to go out for a walk, exercise my muscles and bones." "Mr. Xiucai! How are you, old man!" Dou Hua greeted him. "Okay! I just can't chew peanuts." The sound of drums soared into the sky...the wedding banquet began. It wasn't until the night when the lights were turned on that Tian's compound became quiet... Carpenter Xu and Shuzhen were in their new house, sitting at the table drinking Heji wine. "Tian Qing's mother, I have built more than a dozen big houses like this in my life, and almost all of them were built by people from Shanxi who made a fortune from Xikou. Unexpectedly, I am over fifty years old, and I also live in such a house. This is all borrowed from Tian Qing. I always feel that I don’t have enough confidence when the servants call me old man and old man one by one!"

"Nonsense! Didn't you provide Tian Qing with a private school? Didn't you teach Tian Qing kung fu? Didn't you save Tian Qing's life? Didn't you use your savings to buy Liang Mandun's overcooked cowhide for Tian Qing ? Didn’t you make the grinding machine to turn bad cowhide into buckskin? Tian Qing’s trading company has your shares, and this house has your money!” "Is this what Tian Qing said?" Carpenter Xu didn't expect it. "How would I know if he didn't tell me?" Carpenter Xu scratched his head, "I really don't know how many shares I have in his company. Didn't Tian Qing tell me?"

"That's because you have always regarded Tian Qing as your own son! He has long regarded you as his own father!" Carpenter Xu rocked back and forth on the rocking chair, "That's great!" "What's so nice?" "You, Tian Qing, Douhua, Qingqing, our family is so nice!" "But how much hardship we have suffered, how many crimes we have suffered, and how much hardship we have suffered!" Shuzhen thought of the past, and couldn't help feeling sad when she thought of Dandan. "Mother Tian Qing, you have survived all this, you are such an amazing woman!"

"You don't know how many tears I have shed! For Tian Qing, for Dandan, and for you. There is a song that is true: the one on the other side of the mountain is separated from the water and not from the sound, and the mountain spring connects two tears. Heart. It’s hard to live with the white clouds on the Daqing Mountains! People miss people!” Shuzhen snorted, and Carpenter Xu's nose became sour. "Tian Qing's mother, let's not cry on the day of great joy." Shuzhen wiped away her tears, "I'm so happy. Come, drink Hebei wine!" Tian Qing and Dou Hua had been busy all day, but they were also excited and did not sleep. At this time, they were lying on the kang and talking.Tian Qing talked about marrying his mother and Uncle Xu, and finally fulfilled one of his wishes.Thinking back to the year when I went to the west exit, I almost forced my mother to death.Now that I think about it, I am afraid. If my sister hadn't reminded me earlier, my mother would have hanged on the tree!Just when she was about to hang herself, she thought of leaving a clean house for her children to carry on the family line, so she ran outside the village to find a crooked neck tree.Compared with the love my mother has for me, no amount of filial piety is enough.

"Your sister is not the same, she didn't even have the strength to die, she crawled out of the house, sat and hanged on the wooden shelf of the grain storage!" Dou Hua sighed. "And you! When you were kicked out of the house by your in-laws and you couldn't take care of yourself, you broke two coffins and wanted to send me off for the last time. And Xiuxiu, I heard from Mr. Huang that when she went to the execution ground, I sang that song, this is the Shanxi woman, the Shanxi man's woman who walks west!" Douhua snuggled into her husband's arms, "Your mother, Xiuxiu and I are lucky. We have suffered and shed tears, but we still have men who miss us, love us deeply, and live for us. Your sister is What a pity, what she was looking forward to and waiting for turned out to be a heartless man. It's a pity that her pair of soles and shoes were made in the middle of the night! Why do you keep her death a secret? The second elder of the Liang family?"

"At first I thought, it's something that can't be changed, why tell them to make them sad? Plus, once I tell them, it's like telling Liang Mandun. They have children, if they know because Their marriage killed an infatuated woman, and their lives would be clouded. My sister told me not to hold grudges against Liang Mandun, and not to take revenge on Liang Mandun. Alas, let Liang Mandun and Qiu Qiaoqiao live a good life! Besides, I don't want this sad incident to dilute my mother's happy event." "The happy event is over, should you tell the two elders of the Liang family? And about your father, you should also tell your mother, otherwise how would you bring his body back to the Tian family's ancestral grave?"

Tian Qing sighed, "Yeah! I have to go to my sister's grave in two days." Dandan's grave stands alone on a hillside in Tianjiazhuang.Shuzhen, Carpenter Xu, Tian Qing, Douhua and Qingqing came to visit the grave early in the morning.In front of the grave, Qingqing wiped her tears and called her aunt, which made her heart feel sad.Tian Qing also cried, "Sister, my poor sister, my younger brother came to see you. Sister, if you didn't go to the Liang family to be a child bride-in-law and save a mouth, my younger brother would have starved to death. Sister! Brother will never forget your kindness! I promised you that I would never bear any grudge against Liang Mantun, never take revenge on Liang Mantun, if I have done it, you can rest assured."

Tian Qing knelt on the ground with a plop, kowtowing his head. Dou Hua cried and went to help Tian Qing, but Tian Qing refused to get up, "Sister, you were born in the Tian Family Courtyard and grew up in the old house until you were nine years old. Now my brother has bought back the Tian Family Courtyard, and Mother bought your room as well." The tidying up is done. My mother and Uncle Xu, who have been suffering for a lifetime, are finally reunited. Sister, you can just smile at Jiuquan..." Shuzhen, Carpenter Xu, and Dou Hua have long been weeping... At this time, the glass carriage stopped at the foot of the mountain, and the thin monkey helped Liang's father and Liang's mother up the mountain.Liang's mother burst into tears: "Dandan! My poor daughter-in-law! Why did you just leave like this! Dandan..."

It turned out that the Liang family also thought it was strange. How could a daughter not come to her mother's wedding?But they didn't dare to ask on the big day, after all, the Liang family was sorry for him.Early this morning, the helpers of Tian’s family said that the whole family had gone up the mountain, and they realized something, so Shouhou brought them here. Mother Liang sat down on the ground all of a sudden, patted her thighs and cried: "Dandan! Mother came to see you, but mother came a step late, we did not see each other for the last time! Mother knows you Stomach wronged! Ever since you beat my disobedient son Mandun and left you behind, you haven’t said a single word of complaint to me! But I know that our Liang family is sorry for you...My dear Dandan, Poor Dandan..."

Father Liang also burst into tears, "Dandan, my good girl..." Tian Qing supported Liang's mother with tears, "Aunt Liang, you can't be resurrected after death. My sister has already left. Don't cry yourself out, old man." , I am ashamed! Ah..." "Aunt Liang, it's my sister who is suffering. I can't blame you two elders. My mother has something to say to you two elders." Tian Qing said. Mother Liang stopped crying, "Mother-in-law, just say what you have to say." Shuzhen wiped her tears, "In-laws, in-laws, there is something I have to discuss with you two. According to the rules of our Tian family, only the men and daughters-in-law of the Tian family can be buried in the ancestral grave. She is no longer from the Tian family, and the water spilled by a married girl is not allowed to enter the ancestral grave. When Dandan died, you were not there. I discussed with Douhua and buried her here first. But I... "She choked up and said, "I really can't bear to see my daughter lying here alone, a lonely ghost with no one to take care of her!" Father Liang interrupted her, "Mother-in-law, don't talk about it. Although my rebellious son divorced Dandan, our old couple still regard Dandan as our daughter-in-law. Conscience full of divorce We married her, but our Liang family didn't divorce her. Besides, she didn't remarry, so she should be buried in our Liang family's cemetery! I can be the master!" Tian Qing knelt down and kowtowed to Liang's father and Liang's mother: "I thank the two elders on behalf of my sister!" Father Liang stretched out his hand to support Tian Qing, and let out a long sigh: "Hey! Tian Qing, don't you mean to embarrass me to death!" Liang's mother climbed to the tombstone, patted the tombstone and cried, "Dandan, mother is going to take you home this time! Did you hear me? Don't lose it, go with mother, mother is going to take you home It's over... my good Dandan!" After dealing with her sister's funeral, Tian Qing told her mother about her father again.He told everything about his father's experience over the years, especially the process of losing his life to save him this time. "Mom, do you see?..." Shuzhen sighed, "Tian Qing, we all thought that your father froze to death on the grassland outside the mouth when he was begging for food. Unexpectedly, he died to save you, which is a well-deserved death. My tears have long been I'm done crying, for the Tian family, for your father, for myself, for you and Dandan, and for your Uncle Xu, now, mother has no more tears." Even so, Shuzhen's tears still slid down her cheeks... … "mother,……" "Tian Qing, your father lost me to Sam Xia together with the Tian family compound back then. If you, Uncle Xu, hadn't come forward to save me, my mother might not be in this world long ago. The relationship between me and your father has already been broken. , I should not be counted as a member of your Tian family." Tian Qing was a little anxious when he heard that: "Mother!" Shuzhen waved her hand: "Tian Qing, listen to what mother has to say. Although your father has caused our mothers to suffer a lot, he is the biological father who gave you blood after all. This time, he gave up his life again. After saving you, he still has a deep conscience and deep love. Although your father did not give you the kindness of nurturing, he did have the kindness of procreation and saving your life. You will never be able to repay these two great kindnesses in your life! Don't bury your father in the Tian family's ancestral grave. This is a matter between you and your son. It's not good for me as a mother to make irresponsible remarks in the middle. Although your father has lost the ancestral business that several generations of the Tian family have painstakingly managed, he is still A member of the Tian family should be the ghost of the Tian family when he dies. It is only right and proper to bury his bones in the Tian family's ancestral grave." Tian Qing heaved a sigh of relief, and knelt down on the ground with a plop, "Mother, my mother who understands righteousness! My son kowtows to you." "Douhua, quickly help Tian Qing up." Shuzhen yelled. Douhua helped Tian Qing up, Tian Qing wiped away tears, "Mother, I'm worried that you hate my father and won't let me bury him in the Tian family's ancestral grave." Shuzhen smiled sadly, "How much has mother experienced in her life? It's already calm, how can there be so much hatred? If you live by hatred, can mother still live to this day? Didn't mother never hate your father?" , but the hate will pass after a while. If mother lived by hating your father, wouldn't she punish herself with your father's fault? Is mother so stupid?" "Mother, you're so kind." Douhua stepped forward and took Shuzhen's hand. "Dou Hua, life is not easy! It is not easy for Tian Qing's father. The more he lost, the more he wanted to win, and he wanted to win back the lost family property; he didn't expect to lose in the end without leaving a single tile. He was wandering outside Is it easy to spend most of your life? When a person is dead, let him return to his roots. Tian Qing and Douhua, you can pick a day to bring him back and bury him in the Tian family’s ancestral grave. But there is one thing, mother must tell you in advance gone." "Mother, tell me." Tian Qing stood respectfully in front of Shuzhen. "Your Uncle Xu is so kind to our three mothers. Without the help of your Uncle Xu, none of our three mothers would be able to live today. My mother is married to your Uncle Xu now, and I will be with your Uncle Xu after I die. Don't enter the Tian family's ancestral grave." Tian Qing nodded solemnly after hearing this. Liu Yidao's plan to extort ransom from Tian Qing failed, but the mountain leopard came to Baotou City smoothly.First, they sent someone to deliver the letter to Liang Mandun, and then waited in a small town outside the city. When Man Tun heard that his parents had been kidnapped, he felt anxious, and immediately followed the accountant in a cart to the tavern in the small town mentioned in the letter, preparing to pay the ransom to the bandits.What he didn't expect was that the other party was actually a mountain leopard.The other party also recognized him, and when the two talked, it felt like they were old acquaintances. "You tied up my parents?" "Haha, what a coincidence! What a coincidence! Did you bring the ransom?" "I brought the belt. However, I won't be able to collect that much in a while." Liang Mandun kept his eyes open, "I scraped together a hundred yuan." "That's too little!" The accountant said at the side: "Since you know each other, please say a few nice words in front of the big boss!" "It's not easy." "How about I write you an IOU, and you release my parents first. After half a year, you will come to pick it up again?" Man Tun said tentatively. The mountain leopard thought for a while, "Forget it, who told us to stir the horse ladle in the same pot! Bring it!" The mountain leopard put Dayang into the horse's bed, stood up and said, "Okay, when I go back, Let him go." The accountant wiped his sweat nervously, and was relieved to see the leopard riding away in the mountains. Fortunately, Liang Mantun shared the money with the accountant, and paid a hundred yuan less. When I went home and talked to my daughter-in-law, Qiu Qiaoqiao was worried that they would take the ransom and would not let him go. Liang Mantun told his daughter-in-law with certainty that if you don’t let people go after paying the ransom, they will sell the horse hide to the tannery as cowhide. Same - no one will buy from you next time.The same goes for bandits. "It's just that the one hundred yuan is wrong enough. It's all Tian Qing's fault. He threw my parents to Liu Yidao and asked me to pay the ransom. Is there anyone like him? What is it!" Liang Mandun decided to bury Tian Qing. He first told Wang Pumpu that Tian Qing would not go to redeem his parents and let the bandits come to Baotou to ask him for money.Wang Pumpkin didn't believe it, and the two even quarreled.It was Gong Wenpei who ran over to rescue them.Liang Mantun said angrily when he left: "It's Tian Qing's fault, my father and mother threw it from him to the bandit Liu Yidao, and he didn't care about it, let the bandit ask me for money! He is not a man enough! From now on, he won't be able to hang out in Baotou like a dog!" Liang Mantun didn't let go of his anger, and went to a small restaurant to tell others. "Hey, everyone, you've all heard of Tian Qing, the chairman of Zhitong Trading Company, right? Isn't this person a figure in Baotou? He actually did such a dishonest thing! He scared away when he met the bandits , Let the bandits capture my parents as meat tickets, and let the bandits come to me for ransom. Is there anyone who does things like this? Ah? Tell me, is there anyone who does things like this?" Just happened to meet a big stupid man who came to buy cakes, but the big stupid man didn't say a word, and threw him out the door with a full bag.Liang Mandun couldn't bear this, he rushed in, "You stupid bastard, you have been fooled by Tian Qing, Tian Qing is not a good guy!" The big silly man grabbed Liang Mandun, "Liang Mandun, you can hit me, you can scold me, but you can't scold Tian Qing." He picked up Liang Mandun again and threw it outside the door.The diners in the store roared with laughter.Liang Mandun got up, pointed at the door and cursed: "Silly big man, you are so fucking stupid! Don't look at Tian Qing's appearance as a dog, in fact, he is a heartless black heart profit!" The silly big man came out with the cake, staring straight at Liang Mandun, who was so frightened that he turned around and ran away. Liang Mantun walked into his yard angrily, and saw the glass carriage parked in the yard at a glance. "Did the leopards in the mountains send my parents back?" he asked loudly. "No. It was sent by Tian Qing." The accountant told him that Tian Qing was sitting in the room. "He, he still has the nerve to come to see me? I want to ask him face to face, and I see how he will behave in the future!" Liang Mantun walked towards the manager's office without looking back.The accountant chased after him, "Manager Liang, come back, listen to me!" But Mandun turned a deaf ear and ran to the manager's office. Liang Mantun walked to the manager's room and broke in. "Tian Qing! You still have the guts to come!" Sitting in the room are Father Liang, Mother Liang, Tian Qing, Douhua, Thin Monkey, Wang Pumpkin, and Qiu Qiaoqiao.Liang Mandun didn't look at anyone else, he went straight to Tian Qing, pointed to Tian Qing's nose and asked, "Tian Qing, did my parents go back to their hometown in Shanxi with you? Did you throw their two elders to Liu Huan outside the tiger's mouth?" One knife? Now, in front of my parents, tell me, why did you let Liu Yidao send the mountain leopards to come to me for ransom? Hmm?" Qiu Qiaoqiao waved straight at him and he ignored it. Father Liang roared, "Liang Mantun!" "Father, don't worry about it. I just want to settle this account with Tian Qing today!" "Settling accounts? You want to settle accounts? Okay, okay! Then I will tell you one by one, when Liu Yidao kidnapped me, Tian Qing and Douhua went to the front station outside the tiger's mouth, and they were not there at all. Liu Yidao tied me and your mother When you asked me about the ticket, I told Liu Yidao that you are my son. In this way, Liu Yidao sent someone to ask you for a ransom. What responsibility should Tian Qing take?" Father Liang was furious. Liang Mantun was stunned for a moment, and said forcefully: "Whether he is here or not, he shouldn't let you be kidnapped!" "Liang Mantun, you told me that Tian Qing burned Liu Yidao's lair, and they formed a feud. I was afraid that Liu Yidao would not tell Liu Yidao knowing that Tian Qing was killing tigers. But later, your original My good friend, the table master surnamed Zhao appeared out of nowhere, he said that the glass carriage belonged to Tian Qing. At this time, Liu Yidao's people had already gone to Baotou to demand ransom from you. Tian Qing came out to save me , caught Liu Yidao's second-in-charge, and went to find Liu Yidao himself, and Liu Yidao agreed to exchange his second-in-chief for me and your mother! Your mother and I were saved, but Tian Qing was still tied to the bandits, if not Tian Yaozu killed the bandit surnamed Zhao and the guard. Tian Qing is not necessarily dead or alive at the moment! But Tian Yaozu was beaten to death by the bandit. Think about it, boy, Tian Qing, Douhua and the gunners all rode They are good horses. If they want to run, Liu Yidao will not be able to catch up. It is because your mother and I walk slowly that we are afraid that Liu Yidao will catch up. Tian Qing spent two hundred and eighty yuan to let Shouhou go to the patrol team , hired a squad of soldiers to escort us..." Father Liang told Mandun the whole story. "It's unnecessary." Liang Mantun lacked confidence, but he still insisted on saving face and refused to give in. Father Liang couldn't help it anymore, "Fuck your mother's shit! Why have you been going out every day to ruin Tian Qing's reputation these days!" "Where do I have it?" Mandun denied. "Have you?" Wang Pumpkin stood up. Only then did Liang Mandun see Wang Pumpkin, and he squatted on the ground discouraged. Only then did Tian Qing speak, "Uncle Liang, Man Tun is right. If I hadn't picked you up, you wouldn't have been kidnapped by Liu Yidao, and Man Tun wouldn't have suffered a loss of two hundred yuan. I should pay the money. Skinny Monkey, give me two hundred yuan." Liang Mantun hesitated, "No need." Liang's father, Liang's mother and Qiu Qiaoqiao hurriedly said, "No need! No need!" "No, my brother will settle the score clearly. If I have to do it, I must do it." I saw the thin monkey put ten bundles of ocean on the table. "Manager Liang, do you count?" Liang Mantun pushed, "No, no, no." Dou Hua stood up, "Uncle and Auntie are also tired from the journey, so we won't bother you anymore. Tian Qing, let's go." Everyone went out, and only Qiu Qiaoqiao and Liang Mantun were in the room. Qiaoqiao asked in a low voice, "Mantun, didn't you only give a ransom of one hundred yuan to the leopard in the mountain? Why did you take two hundred yuan from Tian Qing?" piece?" "He made me lose face so much, how much is it worth?" Qiu Qiaoqiao was taken aback, and looked at Liang Mandun in surprise, "Mandun!" Liang Mantun ignored her and took the money to see his parents. He wanted to ask about the situation when he returned home. Father Liang pointed to Liang Mandun's nose and said, "Mandun, Mandun! You still have the face to question Tian Qing, our Liang family owes Tian's family too much, you can pay it back in your next life. " "Father, what do I owe the Tian family to me?" Liang Mantun lacked confidence. "You owe Dandan." "It's all old stories about old sesame seeds and rotten millet. Why do you still mention her?" "Dandan, she... she's dead!" Mother Liang couldn't help wiping away her tears. Liang Mantun couldn't believe his ears, "Father, what did you say?" "You divorced Dandan, Dandan was so aggrieved." Mother Liang couldn't help crying again when she thought of Dandan. "Ah!" Liang Mandun fell down and sat on the edge of the Kang. Liang Mandun was ill. Ever since he heard the news of Dandan's death, he had been lying on the kang with a towel on his head, and he kept sifting through the chaff...Qiu Qiaoqiao looked at Liang's father, Liang, helplessly. mother. "Father, mother, what's wrong with Mandun?" Liang Mantun tremblingly said: "Qiaoqiao, go, let the master cook me a bowl of ginger soup." As soon as Qiu Qiaoqiao left, Liang Mantun sat up and grabbed Mother Liang's hand, "Mother, she came to look for me." Mother Liang's face turned pale with fright, "Mandun his father!..." Father Liang sighed, "Hey! If you don't do anything wrong in your life, how can there be a tooth-gnashing person in the world!" Liang's mother hurriedly knelt on the kang and kowtowed her head like pounding garlic: "Dandan, mother's good daughter-in-law, mother knows that you have been wronged, and mother knows that you are a filial child. Seeing that your father and For my sake, please spare Mantun. Mother, please!" Knowing that Liang Mandun had accepted Tian Qing's two hundred oceans, the accountant couldn't stand it anymore. He found Tian Qing and told him that he didn't plan to do it for Mandun anymore. "Oh? You didn't work with Liang Mantun? He quit you?" "No, I don't want to do it with him anymore. I was there when Liang Mantun paid the ransom to the mountain leopard. The ransom was two hundred yuan. The mountain leopard recognized him, and he cried poorly, so he only paid One hundred yuan. But today he actually charged you two hundred yuan. This is not a business, he treats it as a business, and it is a 50/50 profit, where is the integrity? I don’t bother to be with such a person anymore.” The accountant disdain say. "This Liang Mantun, he is very rich now, why can't he change his narrow-mindedness? Then what do you plan to do in the future?" "Tian Qing, if you don't mind, I'll come to you to beg for a meal." "What are you talking about! I'm planning to expand my business and need a chief accountant. This job must be yours!" Tian Qing naturally attaches great importance to Mr. Accountant. "Okay, when do I take over?" "How about this, I'll buy you a house first, and you go back to Shanxi to take over the old sister-in-law. You have been wandering abroad for most of your life, and it's time to reunite with your sister-in-law. After the home is settled, it's not too late to take over!" The accountant stood up excitedly, "Tian Qing! I... I won't say anything! You come with righteousness, and I promise with myself." "Sir, you are my Kaimeng teacher in business. You gave me a chance to repay you after so much effort. You don't need to say anything!" "Manager Tian, ​​in fact, for Boss Qiu, Ai Wu and Wu, I have paid much more to Liang Mandun than to you!" The accountant said with emotion. "This is exactly what I respect for you! You will return to Shanxi in two days, and I will go back to Qi County to bury my father. Let's go together."