I just reborn, how come I become a scumbag?

Chapter 261

As soon as Xu Anruo talked about Zijin and Zipei, Tan Zhonghong couldn't help but smile and nodded. His two daughters were his pride and his life.

"Zipei, Zipei is too naughty. She is not as sensible as her sister when she was young."

Tan Zhonghong said with a smile, wiping his tears.

But then, he seemed to remember something, sighed, looked at Xu Anruo, and smiled bitterly:

"Xiao Xu, you can say that, uncle, uncle..."

As he spoke, his eyes turned red again, and his voice choked again.

"Uncle can't speak either. Uncle, uncle often dreams of her mother in these years. In the dream, her mother resents me and says that I am a burden..."

"Uncle, don't say it anymore. It's over, it's all over!"

Xu Anruo really couldn't bear to listen anymore.

He could understand and empathize.

As for Tan Zijin's family, the person who has suffered the most in all these years is not Tan Zijin, but Tan Zhonghong.

He has been struggling with guilt, anxiety, regret and pain.

Just like the dream he always had, there was no dream, it was just his self-denial deep in his heart.

Was he wrong?

Was it all because of his stubbornness back then?

"Uncle, you came back this time to persuade grandma not to plant paddy fields next year, right?"

Xu Anruo took the initiative to change the subject.

Tan Zhonghong also knew that it was not good for him to be like this, wiping his tears, and said:

"Xiao Xu, don't be surprised at uncle's behavior... Oh, yes, Zijin said it was you who said that it is indeed impossible to plant paddy fields. It is not worth it for me to grow paddy fields at an old age."

Xu Anruo nodded, thinking.

He looked at the row of shops across the street and saw a lottery shop.

"What about you, uncle? Are you going back to Liucheng after National Day?" Xu Anruo asked again.

"After harvesting the late rice at home and transferring the land to others, I still have to go back. I can't do anything with my legs. It's a pity that the boss has taken me with him all these years."

"Uncle, let me ask you, how much money does the family still owe?"

"Ah? Xiao Xu, this, this has nothing to do with you, you have already..."

Tan Zhonghong obviously heard what Xu Anruo meant, and reacted strongly, and said quickly.

But before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Xu Anruo.

Xu Anruo pointed to the lottery shop across the street and said:

"Uncle, go to that shop and buy a lottery ticket tomorrow morning."

"Ah?"

"Buy a lottery ticket and go back and say that you won the prize. Five hundred thousand should be enough. Just consider it as a loan to you...Uncle, listen to me first!"

Xu Anruo's face suddenly became serious and solemn, and his tone changed, with a bit of aura in it.

Tan Zhonghong nodded woodenly, and wanted to speak but stopped.

"I'm not doing this for you, I'm doing this for Zipei. Zipei is still young and needs her father around. Grandma is old too. What if...right?"

"Just think of the money as a loan from you. It won't be a problem to pay it back in ten or twenty years. Let me put it this way. Zijin is very capable, but Zipei is a better candidate. If you train her well, she will have a good chance of getting into Peking University or Tsinghua University in the future."

"Before, her sister was by her side. Now that Zijin is in college, what should she do? Isn't the most important part of her life these few years of studying? Money can be earned at any time, but once the training and companionship of a child is lost, it can never be made up, right, uncle?"

Tan Zhonghong lowered his head and nodded when he heard this. The fried rice on the table remained untouched.

Xu Anruo continued in a sincere tone:

"Zijin is very hardworking. She has finished her studies, but she actually has many problems. She is too sensible, even a little inferior, and is reluctant to give up this and that. Uncle, as a father, do you think this is good? Do you hope that Zipei will be like this in the future?"

"Don't worry about money. When Zijin graduates and starts working, she can earn what you earn in ten years or even a lifetime in one year. If you really send Zipei to Tsinghua or Peking University, it will be even more amazing. Auntie is also... right?"

At this point, Xu Anruo took a deep breath and sighed:

"Before, I bought books for Zipei because she likes to watch TV. Why? Because grandma and Zijin sometimes go out to work and leave her alone at home. I'm afraid she will touch the fire when she climbs up and plays with electricity, so I let..."

Before she finished this sentence, Xu Anruo suddenly stopped

because Tan Zhonghong, who had been lowering his head opposite, seemed to be out of control.

Xu Anruo was silent.

The two of them were sitting at an open-air stall. The people at the next table were eating and drinking happily. At his table, a man in his forties who had lost a leg was crying.

"Uncle, I have no other intentions or intentions. Zipei called me brother, and I just hope that she can be like other children, be a little happier, and not be buried if she has potential."

After a while, Xu Anruo smiled and said sincerely.

After he finished speaking, he paused and thenAdded:

"Also, uncle, don't feel too burdened. To put it bluntly, money is a big deal for you, but it's nothing to me. Buy a lottery ticket tomorrow morning, just think of it as Aunt's blessing, good luck has finally come, and don't go far away when you come back."

"Xiao, Xiao Xu, uncle..."

"Okay, let's eat, uncle, it's cold, it's getting late, I have to go back to the dormitory later, and I have to meet with some friends tomorrow morning."

After Xu Anruo finished speaking, he ate fried rice as if nothing had happened.

Tan Zhonghong didn't say anything, just nodded and started eating.

After the meal, Xu Anruo sent Tan Zhonghong back to the hotel, leaving contact information on the way. After Xu Anruo got in the car and drove a long way, he could still see Tan Zhonghong standing there with a cane in the rearview mirror.

Xu Anruo shook his head, this father and daughter!

Back to Jiangda, it was almost one o'clock in the morning.

The door of dormitory building 14 had been locked for a long time. The uncle was lying there sleeping. Before getting off the car, Xu Anruo took a pack of cigarettes from the car.

He had not smoked for a long time, so he had quit smoking. He just kept one in the car.

Knocked on the door, the uncle woke up, looking very unhappy. When he opened the door, he was about to say something. Xu Anruo handed the cigarette to him with a smile and said:

"Uncle, I'm sorry to bother you."

The uncle put the cigarette in his pocket calmly.

Xu Anruo was about to write Wang Bin's name on the late return registration book, but the uncle said:

"What else to write? Go back to sleep quickly, it's better to come back late than not to come back at all!"

What is this called? This is called understanding and tolerance between people.

On the other side.

Tan Zhonghong returned to the hotel room.

He was still cramped and uncomfortable. He had never lived in such a good room in his life.

Lying on the bed carefully, tossing and turning.

Tan Zhonghong decided to come to Lucheng because he learned the truth about the scholarship from Tan Zijin's class teacher. First, he wanted to thank her in person, and second, he had some selfish motives.

Before, on the phone, grandma praised the boy as a very good person, and Zipei said that his brother was the best, and if he was his brother-in-law, it would be even better.

As a father, how could he not be sensitive to these things?

So Tan Zhonghong's mentality was very complicated. He was afraid that his daughter would meet the wrong person, and he was also afraid that he, a disabled father, would bring shame to his daughter.