Chapter 992

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Wang Zhanggen took out his mobile phone and, for the first time ever, took the initiative to call Wang Dashan.

"You stinking brat, buying so much furniture and not saying a word, scared the daylights out of me when I just entered the new house!"

As soon as Wang Zhanggen opened his mouth, he spoke with a very aggressive tone.

His words seemed reproachful, but carried joy.

"Dad, I know you like solid wood, so I bought all solid wood. How do you feel after seeing it? If you're not satisfied, we can return it and buy different ones!"

Wang Dashan replied with a laugh.

"It's alright, barely passable, just making do!"

Wang Zhanggen's mouth had already curved into a wide grin.

But the words coming out were still that same deadpan manner.

This man, his whole life, had never spoken a word of praise, especially not to his own three sons!

"It's just barely making do, huh, Dad? Your standards are even higher than our new building!"

Wang Dashan responded jokingly.

He could actually tell Wang Zhanggen's attitude from his tone.

It was very obvious that Wang Zhanggen was very satisfied with the furniture he bought.

"Say, you bought furniture for the whole building at once, that must have cost a pretty penny, right?"

Wang Zhanggen asked this question.

Wang Dashan replied lightly:

"Not much, just under three hundred thousand. Furniture at Foshan Furniture City is very cheap!"

Wang Zhanggen was immediately surprised:

"Three hundred thousand and you call that not much? You earn a little money and get all full of yourself!"

Wang Dashan laughed:

"Dad, those are all solid wood furniture, it's normal for them to be a bit more expensive."

But Wang Zhanggen said:

"I was planning to just buy the first floor's worth, and get the second and third floors later!"

Wang Dashan then said:

"Since you're buying anyway, might as well buy it all at once. Buying later would just mean more hassle moving things around."

Father and son chatted for a good while, then Wang Dashan had to go to work and Wang Zhanggen had to go home for breakfast, so they hung up.

Wang Zhanggen returned to the old house side, and Li Xiulan had already made breakfast.

"Salted vegetable porridge again, salted vegetable porridge every day, don't you get tired of it?"

Wang Zhanggen picked up the bowl of salted vegetable porridge Li Xiulan had served him on the table, slurped a big mouthful, and though his mouth said he was tired of it, he ate with great relish.

"If you find it tiresome, then you come cook yourself!"

Li Xiulan gave him a sidelong glance.

Wang Zhanggen very tactfully replied:

"Just pretend I never said what I just said."

Then continued eating with great relish.

This man is just this deadpan way.

Ask him to cook personally and he'd rather starve to death!

Li Xiulan had long since become used to his ways, so she didn't bother arguing.

She was old now, and didn't have the heart to argue anymore.

Anyway, it's just making do living together; as for feelings, the old couple lost those long ago.

"Speaking of, didn't Dashan and Erhai go to Foshan Furniture City to look at furniture yesterday? Give them a call and ask how it went?"

Li Xiulan asked while eating her porridge.

Wang Zhanggen said:

"Already bought it."

Li Xiulan asked again:

"Then when will it be delivered?"

Wang Zhanggen said:

"Already delivered."

"What? Already delivered?" Li Xiulan was stunned, half-doubting, "So fast? Then hurry up and eat, after breakfast we'll go help carry things in!"

But Wang Zhanggen said:

"It's all already moved inside and arranged, no need for you to worry!"

Li Xiulan was even more surprised:

"You're not deceiving me, are you!"

Wang Zhanggen pulled a long face:

"Why would I deceive you? If you don't believe me, go see for yourself!"

Li Xiulan simply didn't believe it.

She didn't even eat breakfast, immediately put down her bowl and chopsticks, and ran over to see for herself.

As a result, when she arrived at the new house, she discovered it really was filled with furniture!

Seeing this furniture, Li Xiulan was moved beyond words.

When the building was being constructed, her three sons had spent no small amount of money, yet she hadn't been this moved.

Now seeing the house suddenly filled with furniture, she was so moved she cried.

"This furniture must have cost a lot, right? Don't know how to save a bit, why buy such good stuff? In a rural home, as long as it's usable it's fine……"

Li Xiulan muttered to herself facing a house full of furniture.

At this moment her mobile phone rang.

It was Wang Erhai calling.

"Hello, Mom, the furniture for the house has already been bought, it was delivered home last night, why don't you go take a look?"

"I'm already at the new house, Erhai, you and your eldest brother are so thoughtful, buying so much furniture, it must have cost a lot, right? Your eldest brother still has to raise kids, and you still have to get married, both need money, actually back at the hometown, just making do would've been fine."

Li Xiulan said this.

But Wang Erhai said:

"Mom, let's not say those things, earning money, isn't it just so we can live good days? Spending a bit is nothing, as long as you're happy!"

"Mom is very happy, you've all grown up, become promising, Mom's bitter days are over too, suffered for most of a lifetime, finally can enjoy blessings!"

Li Xiulan sighed from the bottom of her heart.

Recalling the hardships she had experienced in the first half of her life, she still felt it was like a nightmare.

Who knows how many times, she even thought she might as well just die.

It was her three sons who gave her the support to keep living.

Otherwise, she truly couldn't have held on until now.

"Mom, from now on you just enjoy your peaceful blessings, those fields at home, don't you plow them, I'll plow them all, I've contracted over 200 acres of high-standard farmland, next spring we'll plant rice all together! We'll use a small rice transplanter, fast speed, and the seedlings are planted straighter!"

Li Xiulan said cheerfully:

"If I'm idle with nothing to do, I'll get bored stiff, when the time comes I'll lend you a hand!"

But Wang Erhai said:

"If you're idle, then go shopping in town more, when you're tired from shopping, you can rest inside the New Era Restaurant, when your belly's hungry, just have the kitchen make you a meal! You can eat all dishes for free at the New Era Restaurant!"

Li Xiulan became even more cheerful:

"Shopping every day would get tiresome too, still, busying myself with rural home matters, feels more reassuring."

The older people get, the more conservative they become, the more set in their ways, the less willing to step out of their own one acre three points of land.

Li Xiulan was naturally no exception.

So although in Shangou Village, the things she did every day were more or less the same, getting up in the morning to wash clothes and cook, after eating going to the fields or vegetable garden to busy herself a bit, returning at noon to make lunch, going out to the fields again in the afternoon to busy herself a while, returning in the evening to cook again, basically just like that, but Li Xiulan had long since grown accustomed to it.

Stepping out of this track, she even felt a bit unaccustomed.

Just like when she initially went to stay at Wang Dashan's big villa in Guangzhou, although she only stayed a few days, she felt very unaccustomed.

"Then why don't you and Dad go travel outside together, see the magnificent landscapes of the motherland!"

Wang Erhai gave a suggestion.

But Li Xiulan directly rejected it:

"Your dad and I are both old, how can our bodies withstand such tossing about? Didn't we go travel to Beijing with your Third Brother before? Running about all the way, so tiring, after returning I even got a fever, went to find Doctor Zhong for an IV drip, only then did I get a bit better!"

Li Xiulan was speaking the honest truth, some things, especially like travel, if you didn't enjoy them when young, when old you don't have the energy to enjoy them, even if you go do them, only tossing about remains, none of that feeling from when you were young.

Like buying osmanthus and carrying wine together, in the end it's not the same as, a teenager's journey.

Li Xiulan also said:

"Don't worry about us, you just live your own life better, don't only focus on work, take care of your body too!"

Wang Erhai nodded:

"Got it Mom, I'm not small anymore, this doesn't need you to say, I know how to do it too!"