Volume 1: Reborn in the 80s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 73 A Lesson You Will Never Forget
In Hejiaao Village, when Old Lady He heard that the little girl of the Hu family had returned to her parents' home with her child, she had a sullen face for three days in a row.
When the yellow dogs at the entrance of the village saw her, they wanted to tuck their tails between their legs and run away.
More than ten years have passed since her youngest son, He Xiangjun, sacrificed his life bravely for justice, and the number of smiles on Grandma He’s face can be counted on one hand.
Probably because she never smiles and always has a stern face, Mrs. He's mouth corners are downturned, her eyelids are drooping all year round, and her nasolabial folds are very deep. At first glance, she looks like a bad-tempered and fierce woman.
When Grandma He is unhappy, the whole family can't be happy.
Mr. He always wanted to persuade his wife that their son had been gone for so many years and it was time for her to calm down no matter how angry she was.
What's more...Alas!
Speaking of which, Mr. He also blamed the Hu family at the beginning, thinking that if his son had not come back to have a blind date with Hu Qiongfang, he would not have encountered such a disaster.
But what happened later made the old man less resentful of Hu Qiongfang.
That year, He Xiangjun, who returned to his hometown to visit relatives and go on a blind date, accidentally ran into a woman who jumped into the river with her child in her arms and committed suicide on his way back to the army.
How could a soldier not go to rescue when faced with such a situation?
In the dead of winter, He Xiangjun tried his best to rescue the child and her mother, but he himself no longer had the strength to climb out and died in the ice hole.
Mr. He originally thought that his son sacrificed himself to save the mother and daughter, and his family had no intention of asking for compensation from the other party. But his son is your family's savior, so it's only right for him to come and burn incense, right?
As a result, what the whole family did not expect was that after being rescued, the woman who jumped into the river with her child in her arms, not only did not show the slightest bit of gratitude, but she actually told others that she did not ask He Xiangjun to jump in to save her.
In short, their family will never be responsible for He Xiangjun's death.
Anyway, it was He Xiangjun who insisted on jumping down to save people, and she didn't beg He Xiangjun to save her.
If you don't have the ability, why would you jump in to save others? You can't blame their family if you die.
Anyway, they won’t compensate the He family a penny.
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The person my son risked his life to save turned out to be such an ungrateful and heartless person!
Mr. He and his wife were so angry that they wanted to fight with this family.
But when the He family brought people to find that family, they discovered that the family lived in two adobe houses that were leaky on all sides, and there was a blind old mother in the house.
It was broad daylight and the man was drunk.
And that ungrateful woman who didn't even burn an incense stick for their son was limping and had a big bruise on her face.
In the middle of winter, the child on the woman's back didn't even have a pair of cotton shoes. He was wearing autumn cloth shoes. The exposed parts of his little feet were covered with frostbite.
There were two ragged children standing under the eaves, hitting the icicles on the eaves with bamboo poles to eat.
Old Mrs. He stood there and watched for a while, then turned and left.
What's there to destroy in a family like this?
It was demolished and their family has no money to build a new house. Maybe the village will have to find a way to find them a better house than this one.
Let this woman live with this kind of man for the rest of her life.
A life of poverty and suffering, and being beaten half to death by men every other day, this is the retribution she deserves!
Compared with this ungrateful woman, Hu Qiongfang's behavior is not so resentful.
Just as Mr. He said when he was comforting his wife, his son came back this time specifically for a blind date.
If there is no Hu Qiongfang, there will be Wang Qiongfang and Li Qiongfang. You right?
Besides, no one stipulates that you have to get married after a blind date.
Because of this incident, Hu Qiongfang was kicked out of the house by her parents and has not been able to return to her parents' home for more than ten years.
No matter how big the mistake is, such severe punishment is enough.
However, when he heard that the Hu family had taken Hu Qiongfang and her three daughters back home and that the family was reunited, Mr. He felt really bad.
I just couldn't bring myself to say anything to comfort my spouse.
His own son was buried in the ground, and the woman who almost became his daughter-in-law happily returned to her parents' home with her child with another man... How could he be happy?
However, what the two elders of the He family never expected was that in the evening of that day, the entire Hu family came to their Hejiaao Village.
The brothers Hu Jianguo and Hu Jianjun carried two pig hind legs, six bottles of good wine, various snacks, malted milk, canned oranges, brown sugar, live chickens and ducks...
The whole floor was filled with them.
Hu Qiongfang was originally being held by Grandma Hu. As soon as she entered the door and saw the two elderly people of the He family, for some reason, tears suddenly flowed down her face. She broke free from Grandma Hu's hand, and knelt down in the yard with a plop.
"Uncle He, Aunt He, I, Hu Qiongfang, am sorry to your family and to Brother Xiang Jun. It's all my fault..."
Having been a deserter for fourteen years, she thought she would be able to face He Xiangjun's family calmly. But when they really came face to face, she realized that no matter how much time has passed, a person will eventually pay for his or her willfulness, weakness and mistakes in his or her youth.
Indeed, even if she was not there, He Xiangjun would have gone on blind dates with other girls, but this was not a reason for her to shirk her responsibilities.
If she had been braver and more decisive back then, she would have told her parents that she already had a lover when her family arranged a blind date.
Given the personalities of Hu Fengnian and his wife, knowing that their daughter was dating someone, even if they didn't like the boy, they would never let their daughter go on a blind date again.
The Hu family would never do something like having two relationships at the same time.
If Hu Qiongfang had come clean to her parents earlier, she wouldn't have been arranged by her family to go on a blind date with He Xiangjun.
If she hadn't gone on the blind date, no matter whether anything happened to He Xiangjun later, it would have nothing to do with Hu Qiongfang.
Grandma Hu wanted to use this incident to teach her daughter a lesson she would never forget: One should be open and honest in life!
Anything that needs to be done secretly is most likely not a good thing.
And there will be endless troubles.
Mr. He was frightened by Hu Qiongfang's kneeling and subconsciously wanted to help the person up, but when he looked at his wife next to him, he retracted his outstretched hand.
Alas, his wife had risked her life to give birth to his son. What right did he have to ask for forgiveness on his wife's behalf?
Especially when seeing the two children following behind .
If Xiang Jun from their family hadn't died, his child would be about this age, right?
Old Mrs. He hadn't noticed it at first, but when Old Mr. He glanced over, she also saw Jiang Tian and Jiang Cheng following behind Grandma Hu.
Thinking about how her son died at such a young age, without even a wife, Old Mrs. He couldn't help but feel sad.
"My God, are you blind?"
"Why do people who do bad things have so many children and grandchildren?"
"My son, who defended his country and was kind and filial, ended up not having any children?"
