69novels Chapter 521: Mediating the Yan Family Father and Son
Chapter 521: Mediating the Yan Family Father and Son
Although Yan Jiecheng and Yan Jiefang are not as loyal brothers of Lin Geng as Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu, they still obey Lin Geng's words. When Lin Geng asked them to go home for the New Year, they both obediently went back to the Yan family during the New Year.
When Yan Bugui and his wife saw their two sons coming back with a lot of New Year's goods, they immediately burst into tears. Aunt Yan covered her mouth and burst into tears, hugging her two sons and crying uncontrollably.
Yan Bugui also had tears in his eyes. He looked at his two sons for a long time. Finally, he patted Yan Jiecheng and Yan Jiefang on the shoulders and said, "It's good that you're back, it's good that you're back! Go home, go home and let your mother make you something delicious! Let's have a good drink today!"
Yan Jiecheng and Yan Jiefang were also quite surprised by the behavior of the old couple Yan Bugui. When they came back, they were still a little uneasy, fearing that this time when they returned home, Yan Bugui and his wife would force them to live back home again and calculate their wages. They even imagined a scene where after they returned home, Yan Bugui would find all kinds of reasons to force them to pay money to the family.
But when he met Yan Bugui and his wife, he was confused by their performance and for a moment he didn't know if he was dreaming.
After returning home, Yan Bugui took Yan Jiecheng and Yan Jiefang to ask about their work in the past six months, but he never asked about their salary. After asking about their work, accommodation and meals, Yan Bugui sighed and said to Yan Jiecheng and Yan Jiefang:
"Big brother, second brother! We were wrong in the past. In order to save a little money every day, we not only schemed against others, but also schemed against you! We were so scheming that we even became estranged between father and son, and you had to be on guard against us every day!
After you left some time ago, I talked to Xiaolin. Xiaolin said something to me that really woke me up. This family! You really can’t be so calculating. You’ve calculated so much that you’ve even calculated away the family affection!
Otherwise, you two wouldn't have run away as soon as you found a job and refused to go home no matter what!
Now Dad has also figured it out. We were wrong in the past. At that time, I was the only one who supported you four siblings with my salary. It was not easy for a family of six. It would have been impossible for me to support such a large family without calculating.
But now that you two brothers are older and have jobs, the pressure at home is much less. Your mother and I won’t plot against you anymore!
Daddy is going to apologize to you today! Don't bother with us, after all, we, your mom, have worked hard to raise you. We don't expect you to be filial to us, but at least come back to see us every now and then! We will be satisfied!"
Yan Jiecheng and Yan Jiefang were stunned after listening to Yan Bugui's words. They looked at each other and saw surprise in each other's eyes. They felt that their father must have taken the wrong medicine today to say such a thing. Not only did he not force them to come back to live, he also did not plan to ask them to pay money to the family, and he even apologized to them. This kind of behavior made the Yan Jiecheng brothers dumbfounded.
Later they remembered that Yan Bugui said that after they left, he had a talk with Lin Geng, and Lin Geng enlightened him. The two brothers then began to believe that their father might have been sobered by Lin Geng's lesson, and was not as calculating as before.
When the meal was ready, the two brothers were a little dumbfounded. Their mother had fried a chicken, stewed a fish, and also stir-fried meat and cabbage. The portions were huge. Yan Bugui even took out two bottles of Erguotou for the first time. This was not the loose liquor that he bought from the supply and marketing cooperative, and he did not add water to the wine.
The two brothers were stunned by the sight of such a sumptuous table of dishes. They could hardly believe that this was what the Yan family could usually eat.
In the past, even during the Chinese New Year, their family would just stir-fry two vegetarian dishes, fry an egg, and make some dumplings. The dumpling fillings mostly contained radish and only a little bit of minced meat, so there was just a hint of meat flavor.
There were only two or three fried eggs, and there were much more green onions than eggs, so much so that you could only see chopped green onions but no eggs.
Even for a dish like that, Yan Bugui had to share it with the whole family. Each person had to be given a few shredded potatoes. Each person could only get a few dumplings at most. It was not enough to fill them up, not at all!
But today, when their parents saw them back, they seemed to have no intention of living together anymore. They stewed a chicken and a fish for them, and also fried a big plate of stir-fried cabbage and meat, with quite a lot of greasy slices of fat in it.
This was the first time they had seen such a sumptuous meal since they were born, and Yan Jiecheng and Yan Jiefang were stunned.
At this time Yan Bugui instructed Yan Jiekuang to call Lin Geng and invite him to come over for a drink. Yan Jiekuang agreed and ran out quickly. After a while, he invited Lin Geng over.
This time, Lin Geng did not refuse Yan Bugui's invitation to come for dinner. When he came, he brought a piece of bacon, a dried rabbit, and a bottle of Fenjiu for the Yan family.
The entire Yan family quickly stood up to greet Lin Geng and warmly invited him to sit down.
Lin Geng did not hesitate and sat in the seat of the guest of honor. Then, while eating and drinking, Lin Geng and Yan Bugui told Yan Jiecheng and Yan Jiefang about the recent changes in their parents. He also advised Yan Jiecheng and Yan Jiefang earnestly that even if their parents were too stingy and calculating in the past, that was also the case with their whole family relying on Yan Bugui's meager salary to make a living. If they were not stingy, their whole family would probably have starved to death during those three difficult years.
Now that life has become better, Yan Jiecheng and Yan Jiefang have grown up and have jobs, Yan Bugui and his wife will no longer be as stingy as before.
So no matter what, as children, they should still fulfill their filial duties, and it is also their responsibility to come back to visit the couple every weekend.
In fact, at this time, although Yan Jiecheng and Yan Jiefang were dissatisfied with Yan Bugui and his wife, they were not like in the original drama, where they were forced by Yan Bugui to become enemies with Yan Bugui and his wife. As soon as they found a job, they left home completely and no longer cared about Yan Bugui and his wife.
And they actually knew that it was really not easy for their family to support six people with Yan Bugui's salary. If they didn't budget carefully, they really couldn't make ends meet. They estimated that someone in the family would starve to death during the three difficult years.
So now they can understand why their parents were so calculating in the past, and they don't hate Yan Bugui and his wife very much.
After listening to Lin Geng's persuasion, Yan Jiecheng and Yan Jiefang both nodded and agreed. They would come back to see the couple on weekends when they had nothing to do. What had passed was past, and they would show filial piety to Yan Bugui and his wife in the future.