socalfunplaces Chapter 372
Chapter 372
Old man Shi was holding a palm-leaf fan, waving it slowly, listening to Meng Guangzhu talk about the village.
Whether it was the trivial matters at home, or the rabbit farm, or the fields, he listened with great interest.
It wasn't that these things attracted him.
But he felt the atmosphere of fireworks in the Meng family.
This was something he hadn't felt in Beijing for a long time.
The children were a little sleepy, so the aunt brought a cool mat and a small blanket and let the children sleep on the bungalow.
It was still quite hot, and there was no fan in the house, so the little guys could easily get prickly heat.
Sleeping on the bungalow was not so hot, and the children could sleep more peacefully.
Meng Haisheng and others chatted until midnight, and when the night wind was not so hot, they took the children back to the house to sleep.
Meng Haisheng was so excited that he couldn't help but want to pull Lin Mucheng to exercise.
"Be quiet. There are so many people living in our house. It would be terrible if they heard us."
Lin Mucheng was going crazy. Didn't the bastard Meng Haisheng know that the walls of their house had no sound insulation effect?
"Our house is a kang, not a bed. As long as you don't make any noise, it's fine."
Meng Haisheng was shameless. His face was thicker than the city wall.
The weather was hot, and the two of them were sweating in a short while.
Lin Mucheng was embarrassed to death, but Meng Haisheng took a basin of hot water and went back to the house, wiping the two of them clean with a towel.
The weather was hot, and young people couldn't sleep. It was common for them to take a bath and go to bed at night.
Lin Mucheng secretly comforted himself that no one would think too much.
The next morning, Mr. Shi got up early.
He took Zhang Xing and walked around Xiashan Village before going back to have breakfast.
"Haisheng, is Xiashan Village surrounded by mountains?"
"Yes, the quality of the bupleurum produced in the mountains here is very good. I didn't have the capital to start a business at the beginning, so I made my first pot of gold by digging bupleurum from the mountains and reselling it."
Old man Shi was surprised to hear that Meng Haisheng had made 200,000 yuan by reselling bupleurum in the past.
"You can make so much money, why do you go to the mountains to dig it yourself?"
"I remember that digging bupleurum is very hard work. Bupleurum is small and difficult to dig."
Meng Haisheng smiled.
"I dug a lot. At the beginning, no one went to the mountains to dig bupleurum, so I went with my eldest brother and brother Danniu."
"We often find that kind of bupleurum nest, as if someone planted it specifically for us. We can dig several with a shovel."
When it comes to digging bupleurum, Meng Haisheng is very excited.
"You want to accumulate funds quickly."
Old man Shi pointed out Meng Haisheng.
If you only rely on reselling, you can make money, but the speed is definitely not that fast.
According to Meng Haisheng, he can dig 200 kilograms a day, which is still a very considerable amount.
"Nothing can be hidden from Grandpa Shi's eyes."
Today, Grandpa Shi wanted to go to the farmland to have a look. After breakfast, Meng Guangzhu came with a basket on his shovel to ask Grandpa Shi to go up the mountain.
"Dad, you guys come back early."
"I know."
The Meng family is also a big family.
Meng Haisheng returned home in glory, and sometimes his grandfather was there, so Meng Guangzhu wanted to invite his brothers and cousins to come to his house to have fun.
He did this to make Grandpa Shi's identity public.
There was nothing big about Meng Guangzhu taking Grandpa Shi to the mountain, just to see the farmland contracted by Meng Haisheng and the alfalfa planted.
To see the vegetables grown by Meng Guangzhu.
"This piece of farmland used to be the food for our family. All the children in our family survived by relying on this farmland."
Meng Guangzhu and Mr. Shi were standing in a piece of farmland halfway up the mountain.
The farmland that used to produce grain was now planted with alfalfa by Meng Guangzhu.
Things are different now. The family is rich now.
These thin fields on the mountain ridges, planting a season of wheat, and working hard to harvest those bags of wheat is not enough.
He simply planted all alfalfa, and he didn't have to worry about it. He just harvested it when it grew taller, and he didn't even need to apply pesticides or fertilizers.
"I've been to this mountain area in Xiashan Village before."
"When there was a war, I led my soldiers to ambush on this mountain."
Looking at the somewhat familiar mountains, Mr. Shi was full of sighs.
He never expected that the place where he had fought was actually the place where his son grew up.
"Dad, can you tell me about what happened back then?"
Meng Guangzhu walked slowly with Old Man Shi in the field, and the two chatted casually.
He couldn't tell what he felt in his heart.
If he hadn't been lost, maybe he would be a city dweller now, and he could go to school like Shi Rongqing and Shi Rongjin, and then work to help manage the Shi family's business.
Unfortunately, fate plays tricks on people,If Meng Haisheng had not been admitted to the capital, he would never have thought that his biological parents were actually someone else.
Thinking of the hardships he had suffered, it would be a lie to say that he had no complaints.
Meng Guangzhu also had a knot in his heart.
"Your mother and I spent our youth in the flames of war. Many children of cadres were killed by the enemy."
"At that time, I had a comrade-in-arms. The couple had a daughter. Both of them had to go to the battlefield, so they had no choice but to leave the child to the logistics department to take care of."
"He had a high position, and the enemy couldn't kill him, so they assassinated his six-year-old daughter."
"When his wife found out, she went crazy. During a battle with the enemy, she took a grenade and died with the enemy."
"She didn't have to die, but the pain of losing her daughter made her lose hope of living."
"After you were lost, your mother was depressed for a long time. I was afraid that she couldn't stand the mental stimulation, so I asked for Rong Qing as soon as possible."
"Rong Qing's arrival diverted your mother's attention, but I know she has never gotten over the self-blame."
"Later, your mother gave birth to Rong Zheng for less than two years, and finally passed away."
When talking about these past events, Mr. Shi felt his eyes sore.
This was the first time he had told Meng Guangzhu about that past in such detail.
"There were too many people who participated in the war back then who had no choice. If Guangzhu's father had had a little hope at that time, he would not have given up looking for you."
Meng Guangzhu sighed slightly, but he was relieved in his heart.
No one wanted everything that happened back then to happen. Perhaps this was God's test for him.
If he could survive this test, he would have endless blessings. If he couldn't survive it, he would have to live a mediocre life.
"Dad, I understand your difficulties."
"Guangzhu, don't blame Dad."
"Maybe I blamed you before, but I don't blame you now. You can only choose one between the country and your family. You chose the country. This is righteousness, and you are right."
Old man Shi didn't expect Meng Guangzhu to say this. He patted his shoulder excitedly.
"You are worthy of being my son."
Meng Guangzhu and Old man Shi strolled on the mountain and untied the last knot in their hearts.
Meng Xiaoyue from the village came to Meng Haisheng, hoping that he could help her untie the knot in her heart.
There were many people to be entertained today, so Meng Haisheng asked someone to build a canopy in the yard.
There were many people at home, so it was more appropriate to set up a round table in the yard.
Meng Haisheng was leading a few people to set up the table and clean up the yard, and Meng Xiaoyue came to him timidly.
"Brother Haisheng, do you have time? I want to ask you something."