The Garden Life of a Little Gardener

Hearing what Gu Li said, the hall immediately became noisy, and everyone's eyes switched back and forth between Gu Li and Mr. Zou.

Mr. Qi, who was standing next to the senior brother, saw this and said a few words to calm everyone down first, and then said to Gu Li, "Ali, you must be worthy of your conscience when you speak and do things. Your master and husband all these years Everyone is watching how they treat you, no matter how much trouble you make, your master and Ah Xiong are up to you, they dote on you, but this is not the reason for you to be unscrupulous."

"Of course what I did was worthy of my conscience. I just don't know that master has been guilty of all these years. Master, why didn't you answer my question just now? If I'm wrong, you can point it out, and I will definitely listen to you."

"Don't talk? Why are you so silent? Is there nothing to say? Back then, Master Bao made this fish and sheep delicacy. It was eaten by my grandfather, and he lost his qualifications, so I let you get the bright moon." Lou and Zou’s recipes. After you got the recipes and Mingyuelou, did you ever fulfill the promise you made back then? Do you remember?”

Facing Gu Li's repeated questioning, Mr. Zou finally spoke after being quiet for a long time: "Decades of old things, do you have to withdraw?"

"I just want to know the truth. Is it true what my aunt said? The master I have always admired and admired is an ungrateful villain. Is the beautiful family I thought I was just a beautiful phantom. My aunt said If you abide by the agreement back then, my surname should be Zou, and nothing will happen to Ah Xiong. My mother said that we should be the most well-deserved heirs of Mingyuelou and the Zou family. She said that you are a thief and should not be surnamed Zou. , is this true?"

"Your aunt told you that? When did it happen? Before she died, right? No wonder your attitude changed drastically after you came back after finishing Hui Niang's business."

"Ali, you heard from my uncle that things are not what you think. Your mother has a prejudice against my brother..."

Before Mr. Qi finished speaking, Gu Li said, "Master, I don't want to hear from you. I want to hear from Master. Master, tell me what's going on?"

After hearing the words, Mr. Zou looked around the lobby, and saw that everyone in the hall had different expressions, some were worried, some were puzzled, and some were eager to listen to gossip with a hidden light in their eyes.

Seeing this, the old man sighed lightly and said: "Originally what happened many years ago, most of the people involved were absent, and the dead were the most important. I always thought about the past and let it go, but I didn't expect that there are some things that I can't get over. .Since someone asked today, let me tell you, there is nothing invisible, and everyone who is doing it can come and listen together.”

"When my master was alive, he took in four disciples, Brother Mao, Brother Bao, and I have Junior Brother Qi. Everyone in the master knows that Master has no son but only one daughter. Our junior sister is actually called Master. But she has not taught her any skills, her name is not listed in the family tree of Shimen, and she has never shown her patriarch."

"We are four senior brothers. I won't say more about the other senior brothers. I am the only one. I was brought back by the master from outside. I grew up wandering and didn't know who my parents were. I was lucky enough to be brought back by the master. The little worker who started the fire started and worked all the way to Qiedun, and the master was pleased with him. He accepted me as a disciple and gave me the surname Zou, so that I can be a man with a name and surname from now on. This kind of rebuilding grace will never be forgotten.”

The people in Mingyue Tower were very surprised when they heard the news. They didn't expect that Mr. Zou was not the direct heir of the Zou family, not even the blood, but just inherited the Zou family's inheritance as a disciple.

Seeing that everyone started talking, Mr. Qi coughed a few times and said: "When the master accepted the senior brother, his surname Zou was recognized by the family. Now you go to the genealogy of the Zou family, and the senior brother's name is also in the family tree. above."

It is precisely because of these that everyone does not know that the old man was adopted.

"My master is an old-fashioned and stubborn person. He insists on passing on craftsmanship to men and not to daughters, and to disciples and not to daughters-in-law. Therefore, although he has junior sisters under his knees, he has never thought of passing on the crafts of Mingyue Tower and the Zou family. Give it to Junior Sister."

"Of course, master, he was born in the late Qing Dynasty and grew up in the Republic of China. At that time, he had that kind of thinking, so it is understandable that he would have that kind of thinking. But it does not mean that he is not good or doesn't care about my little sister. Our little sister Being pampered by the master in her boudoir, I usually don’t come out to meet people, everyone is like a lady, even we disciples, we can’t see her twice or three times a year.”

"Back then, the master's family was fighting vegetables, and the master's health was no longer good. Our brothers and sisters could see that the master wanted to leave alone. Whoever inherits the recipes of Mingyuelou and Zou's family, the master may ask whoever marry the junior sister."

"Brother Mao was already married at that time, so he voluntarily withdrew from Doucai. Brother Bao missed his elderly parents in his hometown, and he didn't want to stay in Suizhou at all, so he deliberately made no I have my own heart for fish and sheep, and I also left some flaws when making fish feasts. Our original intention is to leave Mingyue Tower and recipes to the juniors who have the most suitable conditions."

"Wow, there is such a thing? It's really unimaginable."

"Eh, no, in this case, why is Mr. Zou the one who inherits Mingyue Tower in the end?"

Old Master Qi's face turned red when he heard the words, and he said very ashamedly: "It's me who didn't live up to it. Even if the brothers have sincerely surrendered, I still failed to win Doucai."

"I don't want you, you are different from us. Brother Mao and I both grew up under the knees of the master. Although I started later than the brothers, I was actually the first to follow the master. Brother Bao Not to mention, he is a beginner in Dai Yi, and he already had a good craft before he became a master, only you started from scratch, and you have not yet become an apprentice when you are fighting vegetables."

"No, it's because I don't live up to expectations. The master doesn't like my craftsmanship, otherwise the following things wouldn't have happened."

"Brother Mao got married, but the younger brother didn't leave the teacher, and the school urgently needs someone who can support the door. The master actually likes brother Bao the most, but brother Bao has old parents in his family. He had to let the brother take care of his parents, so he finally inherited Mingyue. I am the person who cooks Lou and Shimen recipes."

"Before the master left, he asked me to make a promise on the hospital bed that I would marry my younger junior sister and take good care of her. I agreed at the time, because I couldn't close my eyes if I didn't promise."

"But you didn't keep your promise. You inherited Mingyue Tower and took the Zou family's recipes, but you didn't marry my mother and let her wander outside." Gu Li, who always remembered this matter in her heart, said so.

"Yes, I didn't marry your mother, because I belonged to my heart, but I didn't let her go home. At that time, the situation in China was not good. Mingyue Tower was collected into the collective, and I was just a chef in the back kitchen. Even The shopkeeper is not counted, but I still try my best to take care of her. I give half of my salary of tens of yuan a month to her, and let her live in the house I allocated for marriage until she gets married. Only when it is guaranteed, your wife and I dare to have a child."

"For so many years, I know that my junior sister has been blaming me for not keeping my promise. If she lives well after marriage, maybe this grievance will pass away slowly. But your father didn't come early, she couldn't bear to remarry , the remarried is still a bastard, I can't even tolerate you, so I can only take over and raise her. After so many years, she still feels that I owe her, but I can say with conscience, except for not fulfilling the promise to marry her, other things I did everything I could."

"Ali, your master is telling the truth. After Mingyue Tower was returned, your master only wanted the chef's salary, not even a dividend. All the money he earned was given to your mother. Otherwise, you would think that the villa she lived in How did you pay off the car you drove, and the gambling debts of your stepfather, that bad gambler? Do you rely on your stepfather who doesn't do anything about childbirth, and our little junior sister who doesn't leave home?"

"We haven't seen each other for so many years, we are already junior sister, she has let go, but I didn't expect that not only did she not let go, but she still remembers it, and I don't know what she said in your ear when it was over, which made you keep making trouble. .”

"I...I...how could this be? That's not what my mother said. Who is right? "

"Ali, so many of us are here, can we all lie to you?"

"Auntie, I..."

"Don't listen to your mother's crazy words. She just has a bad life and complains about others. I know what she is thinking. The two marriages failed to end well. She hates your master and your wife. She always thinks that if your master kept his promise back then The one who promised to marry is her, so she should live the life of your wife and wife and the son under your knees. But she doesn't think about it, the reason why your master and wife have been loving for decades is because they have feelings for each other Basics, what does it have to do with marrying her or not? People, the more you can’t get, the more you want, and finally it becomes an obsession. When she left, she was in a trance. Maybe she thought what she thought was true, but I didn't expect to disturb the peace of the children, and Lao Yan, a good couple, is separated."

Gu Li glanced at her ex-husband when she heard the words, and the other party was also looking at her, thinking about what her aunt said just now, maybe she really believed her mother's resentment and wrongly blamed the master's family.

But who would have thought of such a situation?

Who would have thought that her mother dug such a big hole for herself before she left, and she herself foolishly chose to believe it and jumped into it without hesitation.