Chapter 226: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 226: I'm Alive, I'm Just a Joke!

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Wang Zhanggen felt that everyone could deny him face, even his own older brother could deny him face, but as his son, Wang Dashan absolutely could not deny him face.

So his temper flared up immediately.

Wang Dashan had long anticipated that Wang Zhanggen would give him a cold face, so he hurriedly explained:

"No, no, I'm not denying you face, it's just that this client is really important to me. Doing real estate sales isn't as simple as you imagine. I really need to close this deal. I know my younger brother will understand me, Dad, I hope you can understand me too. After all, although my younger brother ranked first in the county this time, it's just an ordinary final exam, not the college entrance exam. Once my younger brother's college entrance exam scores come out, I will definitely go back to attend his university entrance celebration!"

Wang Dashan appealed to both emotion and reason, hoping to persuade his father.

However, Wang Zhanggen not only was not swayed, but became even angrier:

"I see you just simply don't want to come back! What's with all these excuses! You just kept saying you'd come back, and now you've changed your mind all of a sudden. You're playing me, right! You three brothers have all grown wings and don't put me, your father, in your eyes at all! One by one, you're all full of rebellious bones!"

Hearing these words, Wang Dashan could only smile bitterly.

He really wanted to refute Wang Zhanggen: You, as a father, what have you done for this family all these years, what have you contributed to your three brothers?

But after thinking it over, he decided to forget it.

Saying these words would only cause an argument, what use would they be?

He would only accept the views he thought were right. His stubbornness was like a stinking stone, and no one could change his notions.

Wang Dashan suddenly understood why, all these years, his mother Li Xiulan, when facing Wang Zhanggen's unreasonable demands, always chose to endure and compromise.

He used to not understand this matter, but after going out into society and gaining some experience, he gradually understood the reason.

And he gradually came to understand his mother's weakness and forbearance.

"Dad, don't be like this, this client is really important to me..."

Wang Dashan could only patiently persuade him.

Hoping Wang Zhanggen could understand him.

But instead he was met with Wang Zhanggen's angry roar:

"Get out! If you don't come back on New Year's Eve, then you'd better never come back for the rest of your life!"

After saying this, Wang Zhanggen viciously hung up the phone.

"What's wrong? What happened?"

Li Xiulan had just entered the living room and saw Wang Zhanggen so angry his face turned purple, so she hurriedly asked with concern.

"You gave birth to a good son; he's not coming back on New Year's Eve!"

Li Xiulan was stunned and hurriedly asked:

"Who isn't coming back on New Year's Eve? Dashan or Erhai?"

"Besides Wang Dashan, that rebellious unfilial son, who else? If he doesn't want to come back, then he doesn't want to come back, but what excuse is he making for me? Saying he happens to have to meet an important client on New Year's Eve! Is there such a coincidence in this world! Lying without even drafting it!"

Wang Zhanggen was still huffing and puffing with anger.

Li Xiulan quietly said:

"Maybe it really is such a coincidence. Dashan doesn't want to come back, so he won't come back. Compared to this banquet, work is more important."

Wang Zhanggen glared viciously at Li Xiulan:

"You also think I'm wrong to hold this banquet, don't you!"

Li Xiulan rolled her eyes. She wasn't afraid of Wang Zhanggen, so she retorted:

"Even Xiao Hua doesn't want to hold this banquet, but you insist on holding it. You're not just wrong, you're ridiculous!"

Wang Zhanggen was so angry his lungs were about to explode:

"What did you say!"

Li Xiulan said sarcastically:

"I'm just speaking the honest truth."

Wang Zhanggen was so angry he wanted to hit someone.

But at this moment, his mobile phone rang again.

He picked it up and saw it was Wang Erhai calling.

"Erhai calling back at this time, surely he doesn't want to come back either!"

Wang Zhanggen muttered this sentence while huffing and puffing, then hurriedly answered the phone.

As expected, everything was just as he had predicted!

"Hello, Dad, I'm not coming back on New Year's Eve. I'll come back after the Spring Festival. At that time, I'll give my younger brother a big red envelope."

Wang Zhanggen trembled all over with anger:

"Why aren't you coming back either!"

He growled in a low voice.

Wang Erhai told the honest truth:

"Simply don't want to go back. Going back is too much trouble. Besides, if I go back on New Year's Eve, then I have to go back to Guangzhou to work for a few days. After working a few days, it's the Spring Festival, and then I have to go back again. Running back and forth like this, the bus fare will cost quite a bit. I'm thinking I'll just wait until after the Spring Festival to go back. Or, you give the mobile phone to my younger brother, and I'll tell him personally. He will definitely understand me."

Wang Dashan wasn't going back, so Wang Erhai didn't want to go back either.

Anyway, going back after the Spring Festival would be the same.

Wang Zhanggen was so angry he couldn't speak.

At this moment, Li Xiulan hurriedly snatched the mobile phone from his hand and said to Wang Erhai:

"Erhai, if you don't want to come back, then don't come back. Coming back after the Spring Festival is the same. Xiao Hua actually opposed holding this banquet this time, but your dad insisted on holding it! You focus on your work. Work is more important!"

"Fine, fine, Mom understands us. I'm hanging up now."

"Go ahead and hang up, I'll give the phone back to your dad."

Wang Erhai hung up the phone, and Li Xiulan handed the mobile phone back to Wang Zhanggen.

She discovered Wang Zhanggen sitting on the sofa, his face darkening, looking very unsightly.

He was gasping for breath, his lips trembling.

"What's wrong with you? This banquet isn't actually such a big deal. If Dashan and Erhai don't come back, so be it. Anyway, nearly two hundred people will show up by then. That many people, very lively. It won't make you lose face!"

Li Xiulan said this one sentence.

But Wang Zhanggen said while trembling:

"It's precisely because so many guests will come that I'll lose even more face! Think about it—so many guests will see my banquet. My elder brother not coming is one thing, but my own two sons not coming either—I'm just a huge joke!"

Wang Zhanggen trembled all over. He simply couldn't imagine how humiliated he would be then, or how those guests would mock him behind his back.

Most importantly, the youngest son, Xiao Hua, the star of the banquet, had already made it clear he wouldn't attend that day and wouldn't make an appearance!

If by then he couldn't see a single one of his three sons, how absurd, how ridiculous it would be!

"I racked my brains to put on this banquet. For whom did I do it? Wasn't it just to add some face to this family? And the result? You lot don't appreciate it, and instead you treat me like this!"

Wang Zhanggen grew more and more excited as he spoke.

"I'm alive and I'm just a joke! When I was young, I was laughed at for wearing a green hat. When I went out to work, I was laughed at for not earning money. Now that I'm old, not one of my three sons is filial to me, making me even more of a joke! How did I end up such a failure!"

Wang Zhanggen's emotions grew more and more excited, and his breathing became heavier and heavier.

Suddenly his vision went black!

He actually fainted from anger!

Seeing this, Li Xiulan was immediately shocked:

"Hey, what's wrong with you? Don't scare me!"

Li Xiulan shook Wang Zhanggen, found he had no reaction at all, was immediately at a loss, and hurriedly shouted at Xiao Hua, who was studying in the bedroom:

"Xiao Hua, come out for a moment. Your dad has fainted!"