Chapter 4 Four

We still have some fields in the countryside of Guilin, and a distant uncle of ours collects the land rent on his behalf. We call him Uncle Man.He was so short and fat that he couldn't even see his neck, so we called him Uncle Tanzi behind his back.He only comes to our house two or three times a year, and he only comes to rent money for my mother's land.The fat aunt said that Uncle Tanzi was so poor that he was about to become a pair of pants. After helping us manage the fields, he saved a couple of dollars and built a big house, but he only lost a wife.He is a little close to the Huaqiao Liu family, so Mrs. Yuqing called him her cousin.For some reason, since Mrs. Yuqing's arrival, Uncle Man suddenly sees us more frequently.I'm flattering to send a chicken today, and a duck tomorrow.If there is nothing to do, spend half a day at our house.If my mother is not at home, he will just sit there, and when I come back from school, he will follow me to my room and make out with me, asking gossip: "What does Rong Geer like to eat? Do you want to eat Huaqiao?" Bowl of Cake?

Uncle Man bought it for you. "Usually when he came, he would only count money with my mother, and he didn't pay much attention to me. Now he came to flatter me suddenly, which made me confused and confused. I asked the fat lady why Uncle Tanzi is so hot recently. network, she replied with a smile: "Silly boy, you still don't understand this. Your Uncle Tanzi has taken a fancy to your sister-in-law Yuqing and wants to ask her to be his wife." "No, what if he begged her to go and no one took me?" I cried anxiously. "I said you're stupid, just put your sister-in-law Yuqing away so that Uncle Man can't see it." The fat aunt taught me with a giggle.

From now on when Uncle Tanzi comes to our house, I will always drag Sister-in-law Yuqing far away so that he won't see him. Who would have thought that he would pester Sister-in-law Yuqing to strike up a conversation with her as soon as he came, and as soon as I saw the two of them Speaking, he stamped his feet outside and shouted: "Sister-in-law Yuqing, come here, I have something for you to do." Yuqing's sister-in-law was often entangled by Uncle Man until I got angry and shouted: "Are you deaf? Are you coming or not?" Sister-in-law Yuqing just fell off Uncle Tanzi, and ran over in a hurry, I blamed her for a long time, and stared at her.She hastily argued:

"My little ancestor, it's not that I won't come. Your Uncle Man keeps holding me back. How can I be ashamed to ignore him?" I told her that it would be better not to provoke someone like Uncle Man, because he didn't know what he was thinking.Yuqing's sister-in-law said that she didn't want to talk to him in every possible way, but it was just out of favor. Sure enough, it didn't take long for Uncle Tanzi to come to my mother to find out that he wanted to marry Yuqing's sister-in-law. My mother said to him: "I said Uncle Man, I can't make decisions about this kind of thing. You and her are still a little close. Why don't you go ask her yourself?"

When Uncle Man heard this sentence, he scratched his ears and cheeks with joy, and hurriedly rolled up his long gown, crawled up and down, panting, and ran upstairs to find Mrs. Yuqing, and I followed in a hurry. Uncle Man said to Sister Yuqing: "Yumei. Think about it again, my cousin will never treat you badly. You will spend the rest of your life eating and clothing on me. What else do you worry about?" Yuqing's sister-in-law turned her face away and said: "Cousin, don't mention these things, okay?" "You think I'm old?" Uncle Tanzi rubbed his hands anxiously.

Yuqing's sister-in-law didn't make a sound. "It's just that I'm not good enough for you?" Uncle Tanzi got a little angry, snorted and said, "I have dozens of acres of land and a big house, and I don't want someone to be a matchmaker. " "Cousin, don't tell me these words, I just don't want to marry you!" Yuqing's sister-in-law turned around and said, her face was so pale that even I was shocked.She is usually kind to me, I don't know how she can bluff people when she loses her temper. "You—you—" Uncle Tanzi was so angry that he pointed at Yuqing's sister-in-law and trembled:

"Why are you so ungrateful, I beg you because I think highly of you, what are you doing here? Old lady!Be an old mother for a lifetime! " Aunt Yuqing came over and threw the door curtain open with a "huolang", and Uncle Tanzi had no choice but to run out embarrassingly.I rushed ahead of him and ran to the gate to learn from Lao Yuan and the others. I laughed so hard that Lao Yuan slapped his thighs and rolled onto the bed.When Uncle Tanzi climbed out of the gate, Lao Yuan asked him with a smile: "Master Man, will your old man bring the chicken tomorrow? If you do, I will wait to help you pick it up."

Uncle Man pretended not to hear, and hurriedly wiped his sweat and slipped away.