noffsinger Chapter 218 Li Sanni helps her father Li Guangfa clean up the mess
Chapter 218 Li Sanni helps her father Li Guangfa clean up the mess
"There is a street-front store near the Daoguan Township Government. It would be a good place to open a tofu shop. Consider it a little compensation from your father.
Don't sell the house. Instead, open a tofu shop, because that is the craft passed down from your husband's family. There is absolutely no problem using it to support your family and carry on the family line.
If Li Facai and Li Fajia really have no food to eat, let them work in your tofu shop to earn a living." Li Guangfa took out the house deed, keys and will from under the pillow and handed them to Li Sanni.
"Sanni, Dad wants to eat dumplings. Go to town and buy some fresh pork and leeks and make dumplings for him." Li Dazhuang said as he took out a passbook and a stack of 50-yuan bills from under his pillow: "This money will be used for my final expenses before I die. Take it." Li Sanni nodded, took the money, turned around and walked out with tears in her eyes.
"Sanni, when you come back, find Li Facai and Li Fajia. I have something to tell them."
"Dad, I understand."
Li Sanni came out of her father's bedroom and walked to the living room on the first floor. She picked up the landline phone and called the Dahuaishu Village Committee, asking the uncle who was the gatekeeper of the village committee to pass a message to her husband Huang Bingzhu: "My father is ill, and she needs to stay at her mother's house for a few more days."
In fact, Li Sanni had the same fate as Li Dazhuang's third daughter. She had been neglected by her family since birth because the Li family had always wanted a boy.
When she was born, the boy she was expecting turned out to be a girl, which greatly disappointed her grandparents and father. So she was not liked by her family since she was a child, and lived a life of being dispensable and inferior.
It was not until Li Sanni grew up to be eighteen years old that a matchmaker came to propose marriage. Li Guangfa and his wife believed the matchmaker's words and married off their own daughter without any understanding or investigation.
Li Sanni could only let fate take its course and married without any resistance to a family that made a living by grinding tofu in Dahuaishu Village, ten kilometers away from Lijia Village.
However, Li Sanni is very lucky. Her husband is hardworking and capable, and he loves her very much. The couple works together, and under the guidance of his parents-in-law, their tofu business is booming.
After marriage, they had two daughters and one son. The eldest daughter and the second daughter both work in the Dream Come True Textile Factory, and the son is in high school. The family is harmonious and happy.
Li Sanni rode her bicycle to the market in Daoguan Village, bought pork, leeks, black fungus, etc., and hurried back to Lijia Village. She asked several villagers and finally found Li Facai and Li Fajia in an abandoned yard. She discovered that five or six young people were gathering together drinking and playing cards.
Li Sanni stepped forward and greeted them, "Li Facai and Li Fajia, come home. I'll make dumplings for you. Grandpa has something to tell you." Li Facai and Li Fajia reluctantly put down the cards in their hands and followed Sanni home.
"Li Facai and Li Fajia, you two are not children anymore. It's time to learn some skills and make money to support yourselves. Your father has been arrested and your mother ran away with someone else. You have to think about how you are going to live in the future." Li Sanni said anxiously.
"How else can we live? Eat, drink and have fun," said Li Facai.
"How much money do you have? If you continue like this, you will only spend money and not earn any. You will end up eating up all the savings. What will you do when you have no more money? Have you two thought about it?" Li Sanni asked.
"A lean camel is bigger than a horse. My father has been arrested and my grandfather is rich. What do I have to be afraid of?" said Li Fajia.
Li Sanni smiled bitterly and said, "It's already so late. Even a ten-year-old child can understand this. You two are already nineteen or twenty years old. How come you still don't understand anything? You might as well raise two pigs."
"Third aunt, we are not pigs. We are grandpa's precious grandchildren. Do you understand?" said Li Fajia.
As they were talking, the three of them arrived at Li Guangfa's luxurious villa. Li Sanni ordered Li Facai and Li Fajia to hurry upstairs to their grandfather's bedroom, as their grandfather had something to say to his grandchildren.
Li San carried the meat and vegetables to the kitchen, where he chopped the meat, picked the vegetables, and made dumplings.
After a while, Li Dazhuang's mother came back from chanting sutras in the temple. Hearing some noise in the kitchen, she walked over and saw her third daughter kneading dough.
"Sanni, why are you back?" "Mom, where have you been? My dad is sick, did you know?"
"Your father's illness is just like that. He has plenty of money. He has three or four lovers to take care of him, including treatment, doctor visits, and medicine. He never needs me to take care of him.
My son Li Dazhuang is in jail, my daughter-in-law ran away with someone, my married daughter no longer visits, my two grandsons only know how to eat, drink and have fun, and I am an old woman who can’t manage or do anything. I can only pray to Buddha and chant sutras to have some peace and quiet.” Li Dazhuang’s mother said sadly.
"Mom, doesn't Buddhism teach people to do good deeds? Just put aside your past grudges, bring water and food to my dad, and spend some time with him. A husband and wife will be bound by a hundred days of grace." Li Sanni said.
"Sanni, you are making it sound so easy. When your father was squandering huge amounts of money on prostitutes and mistresses, he should have thought about the consequences he would face now.
Sanni, listen carefully, I will never serve Li Guangfa. In a few days, I will go to Mount Wutai with my Buddhist friends to worship Buddha." Li Dazhuang's mother said happily.
"Mom, let's make dumplings together. Dad wants to eat dumplings."
Li Dazhuang's mother took a look at the pork and leek filling and said to Sanni, "I am a vegetarian and I don't eat meat. You make some vegetarian fillings and I will make the dumplings with vegetarian fillings."
Upstairs in Li Guangfa's bedroom, Li Facai and Li Fajia came to their grandfather's bedside: "Grandpa, tell me if you have something to say. I have to go out for a drink and play cards. The house is so dead and boring."
"Get rich, get rich, listen to me, grandpa is sick and won't live for many days. I'll ask a matchmaker to find you two wives. If you marry your grandson's wife, I will die with my eyes closed."
"Grandpa, I won't marry a wife because I haven't had enough fun." Li Fajia said
"Grandpa, I don't want to get married either. Everyone knows that our family is in trouble and our family traditions are not good. My father is a criminal and is in prison. My mother eloped and is a slut.
Our brick factory and transportation company have closed down, and our family is not as good as before. Which girl would be willing to marry me?" said the eldest grandson Li Facai.
"Grandpa has made up his mind. It would be great to marry a girl from a poor family in a remote mountainous area. Children from poor families are hardworking and not pretentious. They have good physiques and can provide us with traditional hospitality."
"You old man, you have a nice dream. Do you want to let a girl from a poor family come to your Li family and jump into the fire pit?" Li Dazhuang's mother pushed the door open and said sarcastically.