Chapter 57 Man'er's Sad Story
Chen Sufen and Liu Yue'e heard the noise and rushed to the door.
Then I saw Gu Dahan driving a horse-drawn carriage, Gu Dashu and Gu Jingzhe pulling a cart, on which lay a young man in gorgeous clothes and a pig.
Liu Yue'e, who didn't understand what was going on, asked, "Where are my mother and sister?"
The carriage stopped, and Tong Huaqiong and Gu Taohua took Lu Zhaozhao down from the carriage.
Chen Sufen didn't care about anything else. She was surprised and happy to see Gu Dahan.
"Dad, why are you here?" Chen Sufen was so excited that tears rolled down her cheeks.
Tong Huaqiong briefly introduced the Lu brothers and sisters to Chen Sufen and Liu Yue'e, and Gu Dashu and Gu Jingzhe pulled Lu Zhaoyang into the yard.
After the flatbed cart stopped, Gu Jingzhe and Gu Taohua began to unload the purchased supplies from the flatbed cart.
Tong Huaqiong always felt that something was missing this time when she returned home.
Yes, before when she got home, Maner would rush up to her and happily call her grandma, but today no one called her grandma and she was quite uncomfortable.
Just when I was about to ask where Man'er had gone, I saw her squatting in front of the pigpen, crying into the trough.
"What's wrong with Maner?" Tong Huaqiong asked.
Chen Sufen pursed her lips and smiled, "She woke up in the morning and found the piglet was missing, so she was very sad. I told her that the piglet would be back in the evening, but she didn't believe it. She has been guarding the pigpen all day."
Maner squatted her small body in front of the pigpen, her shoulders twitching.
Tong Huaqiong was so distressed.
When Maner heard Tong Huaqiong coming home, she didn't look back.
Today was supposed to be a happy day. Her mother made a new skirt with the floral cloth that her grandmother had torn for her. She put it on and planned to show it off to her little friend Daya while they were cutting grass for the pigs.
Daya always refused to believe that her grandmother had changed for the better, and she even more refused to believe that her grandmother had bought her a new piece of cloth. She wanted to let Daya see that her grandmother had really changed and loved her very much now.
She carried the small basket to the pigpen and found that the piglet was gone.
Gu Yaozu told her that he saw his father and his third uncle tying the piglets into a car in the morning, most likely to sell them or slaughter them for meat.
Maner was terrified.
It is absolutely possible that her second and third uncles sold or slaughtered her piglets.
Gu Yaozu's next words made little Maner completely collapse.
"My grandmother also knew about this. When the piglet was tied up, she said she would take it to Pingchuan County and have its eggs cut off..."
Man'er was subconsciously afraid that Tong Huaqiong's transformation in the past few days was in vain, and she didn't know when Tong Dajiao would possess her. Yaozu's words confirmed her worries.
What is the difference between the grandmother’s attitude towards the piglet now and her attitude towards her in the past?
The piglet's eggs must be cut off.
It's over! It's over!
The bad grandmother from the past is back.
Man'er didn't have the heart to show off her clothes to Daya. No matter how Chen Sufen explained to her that the piglet at home would be fine and her grandmother would not continue to become a bad person, Man'er just didn't believe it.
She squatted in front of the pigsty and cried all day.
Chen Sufen couldn't persuade him no matter what.
Tong Huaqiong shouted, "Man'er, your piglet is here."
Hearing Tong Huaqiong's shout, Man'er didn't dare to look back, for she was afraid that if she looked back she would meet her former bad grandmother.
Look how scared the child is!
Tong Huaqiong left the Lu brothers and sisters behind, walked to the pigpen, took Maner's hand, and said gently: "Maner, grandma is back."
Tong Huaqiong's kind voice finally made Man'er unable to hold back. She turned her head, threw herself into Tong Huaqiong's arms, and burst into tears.
All the worries and grievances of the whole day were vented out.
My goodness, that cry was earth-shaking.
Maner: "Grandma, has our little pig been slaughtered by the second and third uncles? Wuuwuwu... wuuwuwu..."
Tong Huaqiong: "If your second and third uncles dare to kill the pigs, I will kill them. They took the piglets to Pingchuan for medical treatment."
Maner: "Wow... Grandma, I'm so scared that you'll become a bad grandma..."
Tong Huaqiong: "Grandma promised you that I will always be a good grandma. I promise I won't become a bad grandma."
Maner: "Yaozu said grandma cut off the piglet's testicles... wuwuwu... will the piglet die?"
Tong Huaqiong: “…”
The piglet's eggs were indeed cut.
"Yaozu, you are talking nonsense. Why would I cut off a pig's balls for no reason? Yaozu, you scared your sister Maner, I will cut off your balls." Tong Huaqiong said.
Yaozu was excitedly looking for Maner to tell her that Little Pig was back, but then he heard his grandmother was about to cut off his balls. He was so scared that he covered his crotch and dared not move forward.
"Grandma, you didn't lie to me? Did Xiaozhu really go to Pingchuan County to see a doctor?" Man'er asked, and asked a little worriedly, "What's wrong with Xiaozhu? Is he cured?"
Tong Huaqiong nodded and said, "Of course it's true. Our little pig has returned from the hospital."
"Wow...Where is it..." Maner's tears were destined to never dry before she saw the piglet.
Tong Huaqiong regretted not telling Maner in advance before taking the pig away. Look how worried the child was. Her heart must have been broken the whole day and her little face was wrinkled with tears.
Tong Huaqiong yelled at Gu Dashu and Gu Jingzhe: "Dashu and Jingzhe, you two bastards, get Maner's pigs back to the pen first."
Gu Dashu and Gu Jingzhe were originally helping Lu Zhaoyang up and preparing to help him down from the flatbed cart.
Hearing Tong Huaqiong's roar, he dared not disobey.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Lu." Gu Jingzhe said.
The two brothers put Lu Zhaoyang down, picked up the piglet and walked towards the pigpen.
Lu Zhaoyang was left confused.
This further confirmed for him that in the Gu family, pigs were more valuable than people.
Maner's eyes lit up when she saw the piglet.
"Grandma really didn't lie to me. The piglet is back home." Maner wiped her tears and reached out to touch the piglet's head.
The piglet grunted twice, looking as if he had lost all hope in life.
Yes, who can get excited after being beaten with an egg?
In her previous life, Tong Huaqiong accompanied her classmates to get their cats sterilized. The kittens were unhappy when they woke up, and the sterilized male cat quickly turned from a handsome young cat into a greasy, fat, homebody cat.
I'm afraid that this little pig will soon become a fat pig.
It would be great to turn into a big fat pig, this is exactly what Tong Huaqiong wants.
Gu Dashu and Gu Jingzhe carefully put the pigs into the pigsty.
Fortunately, the pigpen was not dirty at all due to the careful care taken by Chen Sufen and Maner, otherwise Tong Huaqiong would really feel sorry for the knife that was cut between the piglet's legs.
In order to comfort the pigs for losing their eggs, Tong Huaqiong asked Gu Dashu to get fresh pig grass and Gu Jingzhe to get wheat bran and corn to mix into the grass.
"Mom, Master Tan, the cleansing doctor, said that we can't feed her now and can only feed her tomorrow morning." Gu Jingzhe kept in mind Master Tan's medical advice.
I forgot about it.
Tong Huaqiong nodded and said, "Then I'll feed him tomorrow morning."
"Man'er, the piglet has just recovered from its illness and can only be fed tomorrow morning. Don't give it anything to eat today." Tong Huaqiong saw Man'er holding a handful of grass and carefully instructed her.
Fortunately, Maner listened to Tong Huaqiong and kept the grass in her hand far away.
"Little pig, grow up quickly, grow up soon." Maner touched the pig that was lost and found again, and smiled happily.
Tong Huaqiong thought that given Maner's feelings for the pig, she was afraid that she would have to cry behind the butcher when the pig was slaughtered.
Tong Huaqiong used the lantern to see that the wound between Xiaozhu's buttocks was treated very neatly. Apart from a little redness, there were no other problems.
"Did the pig slaughtering go smoothly today?" Tong Huaqiong asked her two sons.
"Master Tan was reluctant at first, but it was my third brother who persuaded him," said Gu Dashu.
Tong Huaqiong nodded, Gu Jingzhe did have this ability.
"How much did it cost?" Tong Huaqiong frowned.
The family is still relatively poor now, and it is not easy to take out two taels of silver to give to Zhu Gadan. If her son dares to withhold the silver from her, she will directly become the vicious stepmother of her two sons.