Reborn to Strive

Guan Baiyu probably didn't want to be heard by Shi Xinghuo, so he lowered his voice very low.

And in order for Shi Zhen to hear clearly, he stayed very close to Shi Zhen.

When Shi Zhen saw his own appearance, it was clearly reflected in his eyes.

He also saw the joy and... a little pride in Guan Baiyu's eyes?

Shi Zhen closed his eyes, unable to tell what was going on in his heart.

He knew that Guan Baiyu's grandma didn't leave any money for Guan Baiyu.

Guan Baiyu said this in his previous life.

Once Guan Baiyu went to find his adoptive parents, and when he came back he was in a bad mood. After he asked, he told him about the conflict between his adoptive mother and his grandma.

That is a common contradiction between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in rural areas. The mother-in-law is strong and patriarchal, and she dislikes her daughter-in-law no matter what she does. In addition, her daughter-in-law has never given her a grandson, so she treats her daughter-in-law as an enemy.

What about the daughter-in-law?She is also a human being, and it is impossible to be treated like this without complaining, so she doesn't care about her mother-in-law when she is old, and hates the adopted son brought up by her mother-in-law.

At that time, Guan Baiyu also mentioned that his adoptive mother always felt that his grandma had left him a lot of money, but in fact, his grandma only left him a dozen yuan in total, and all the money had been spent before he entered high school. .

After he found Guan Baiyu, he gave Guan Baiyu 30 yuan when they met. It was also because Guan Baiyu mentioned that because he had no money, he couldn't even afford salt for a while.

The money that Guan Baiyu's grandmother left to Guan Baiyu, Guan Baiyu has at most a few yuan left at the moment, so, where did the three hundred yuan come from?

Shi Zhen took a deep breath and thought of what Guan Jinjin said - Guan Baiyu went to Yan Jiangtao's house at noon today.

He had inquired about Yan Jiangtao before, and knew that Yan Jiangtao's father opened a small weaving workshop and made a lot of money.

So the 300 yuan that Guan Baiyu took out...was the compensation from Yan Jiangtao's father after he came to the door, right?

Shi Zhen couldn't hold back, and said in a hoarse voice, "This money was given to you by Yan Jiangtao's father, right?"

Guan Baiyu was taken aback.

After Shi Zhen went out for a trip and came back, something was wrong, Guan Baiyu could feel it.

However, although Shi Zhen looked a little unhappy, his attitude towards him had not changed. Guan Baiyu suspected that Shi Zhen would be like this because he wanted to do business but didn't have enough money.

Even if it wasn't for this reason... With Qian Shizhen, he would definitely be happier.

He hastily gave the money to Shi Zhen. In the end, Shi Zhen was unhappy because he found out about his going to Yan Jiangtao's house?

Guan Baiyu opened his mouth slightly, unable to speak, and also a little scared—he lied to Shi Zhen, will Shi Zhen be unhappy?

Also, would Shi Zhen feel ashamed if he went to Yan's house to make trouble like this and took his money?

Guan Baiyu clenched his fists in a state of confusion, and suddenly heard Shi Zhen say: "Xiao Yu, I'm sorry."

Guan Baiyu was stunned, and looked at Shi Zhen in confusion—why did Shi Zhen apologize to him?

Shi Zhen was very guilty: "I'm sorry, you were beaten at school, and I didn't know it at all, Xiao Yu, I'm sorry..."

He thought that Yan Jiangtao's mouth was a bit dirty at school, but he didn't expect him to hit someone!

At the beginning, he only asked people to pour some dirty water on Yan Jiangtao, which was too cheap for Yan Jiangtao!

"I wasn't beaten at school..." Guan Baiyu said, he was indeed not beaten, Yan Jiangtao kicked him a few times at most, but it didn't hurt.

Shi Zhen didn't believe Guan Baiyu's words.

Based on his long-standing understanding of Guan Baiyu... Guan Baiyu often reports good news but not bad ones, and is very tolerant when he is wronged.

Guan Baiyu doesn't like to cause trouble, Yan Jiangtao forced him to go to Yan Jiangtao's house, what he did must be too much.

Shi Zhen wiped the end of Guan Baiyu's eyes lightly with his thumb: "You don't have to lie to me...it's because I didn't take good care of you."

Guan Baiyu was in a hurry: "Brother, I'm really fine! Don't be like this!"

Shi Zhen took a deep breath and said, "Then... tell me, what's going on?"

Shi Zhen planned to ask Guan Baiyu to explain what was going on first, and then he would find someone to inquire about it.

Guan Baiyu doesn't want

To cause trouble for Shi Zhen, so I have never told Shi Zhen about the school.

But now Shi Zhen thought he was being beaten, and seeing Shi Zhen's appearance, he felt that he was being bullied miserably... Guan Baiyu didn't want Shi Zhen to feel guilty, so he told what happened at school yesterday.

Guan Baiyu was very angry yesterday, but now he is not so angry. When he said it, he was afraid that Shi Zhen would be angry, so he said it lightly.

However, Shi Zhen was still very angry.

Guan Baiyu said it easily, but what Guan Baiyu said reminded him of the things in his previous life.

In his previous life, Guan Baiyu was admitted to the city's key high school, not to mention the city's key high school, and even the worst high school in Changxi City. Could there be something about Yan Jiangtao in it?

Not to mention the previous life, Guan Baiyu almost missed out on a good high school in this life.

Although Yan Jiangtao didn't succeed, it can't conceal how abominable what he did!

Yan Jiangtao also poured vegetable soup on Guan Baiyu's schoolbag...

No wonder Guan Baiyu washed his schoolbag last night.

"Brother, I'm really fine, and I've already taken revenge. I couldn't get angry today, so I went to complain to Yan Jiangtao's father, and Yan Jiangtao was severely beaten by his father!"

Seeing Guan Baiyu like this, Shi Zhen felt even more uncomfortable.

He was poor when he was a child, but he has never been wronged like this.

This matter can't be left alone!

Shi Zhen kept silent, Guan Baiyu was even more worried: "Brother...don't be angry with me..."

"I'm not angry with you, I'm angry with myself, I don't even know you were bullied."

"Because I didn't say..."

"Then promise me that you will tell me next time you are bullied, okay?" Shi Zhen looked at Guan Baiyu.

Guan Baiyu hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

This time, Guan Baiyu was actually the victim. Seeing that he was uneasy, Shi Zhen gave him a hug, and quickly let go: "We are a family. No matter what happens to you, you should tell me, you know Don't you? Don't worry, I will always stand by your side. "

Guan Baiyu lowered his head and let out a "hmm".

Before facing Yan Jiangtao's father, he kept crying, all because of garlic slices.

In fact, he himself didn't want to cry at all, nor did he intend to cry.

But at this moment, he couldn't hold back his tears.

His brother said he would always stand by his side!

Guan Baiyu was thinking about saying something soft to Shi Zhen to make Shi Zhen like him more, but at this moment Shi Xinghuo woke up and asked, "Ah Zhen, what time is it? Are you going to sleep?"

Shi Zhen came back to his senses, sighed and said to Shi Xinghuo: "It's time to sleep, we'll go back after getting ready."

Shi Zhen took out the pig's head from the pot, put eggs and brine in it, added some more firewood, and took Shi Xinghuo to Guan Jianguo to sleep.

The marinated eggs are boiled for a while, and then soaked overnight, and the taste will be delicious.

Guan Baiyu watched Shi Zhen and Shi Xinghuo leave, a little envious of Shi Xinghuo.

Why didn't Shi Zhen sleep with him?

Shi Zhen and Shi Xinghuo went to bed early at night and woke up early in the morning, and it was only four o'clock in the morning when they woke up.

Shi Zhen went to stew another pig's head.

He was going to Changxi City by bike today, so he moved all the things he wanted to sell to the town in advance, and he was busy until eight o'clock before he left by bike.

Starting from Anshan Town, Shi Zhen rode for more than an hour, and finally, Changxi City appeared in front of him.

At this time in Changxi City, there were many neat five-story buildings, most of which were dormitories built by some factories before.

There are also two very tall buildings with more than ten floors, but most of the houses are relatively short.

In addition, even in urban areas, there will be situations where some houses are surrounded by vegetable fields.

Shi Zhen didn't know much about Changxi City in this period, he even thought it was very strange.

In Changxi City a few years later, he became acquainted... For example, at the beginning of the 21st century, a large shopping mall opened in Changxi City, and it was crowded with people!

At the beginning, he took Guan Baiyu to the shopping mall on a motorcycle, but after he bought a car, he drove there.

And now, the place where the shopping mall is built is still

A vacant lot.

Shi Zhen asked people and found a vegetable market in the city.

In this era, the vegetable market and its surroundings are often the commercial center of the entire city, where most shops are located.

The vegetable market in Changxi City is much larger than that in Anshan Town. The stalls in the vegetable market are not built by themselves like Anshan Town, but are built with bricks and painted with cement. Very tidy.

There is a store selling funeral supplies near the vegetable market, and there are many wreaths at the door.

Shi Zhen went in and asked the prices of various items, and found that they were a little cheaper than Anshan Town. He asked if he could wholesale some, and the shopkeeper agreed directly.

According to the shopkeeper, a lot of people came to wholesale a few days ago, and Shi Zhen was a latecomer.

The wholesale price given by the store is not considered a special discount, but if you sell it in Anshan Town, you can earn a little bit.

Shi Zhen bought some fake flowers and some colored ribbons that can be used to decorate the grave. It cost about a hundred yuan, and they were all packed in snakeskin bags and tied to the bicycle.

After buying these, Shi Zhen walked around again to learn about Changxi City in this period.

He rode his bike around Changxi City and saw someone selling toys in Changxi City, such as a frog that would jump forward by itself after being winded, so he bought some.

These things are not expensive, and you can sell them if you can bring them back, or you can give them away if you can’t.

So he didn't buy much.

Shi Zhen also found a tricycle shop here, and the tricycles sold here are dozens of dollars cheaper than those in Anshan Town.

If he is lucky, after the Qingming Festival, he will have money to buy a tricycle.

When Shi Zhen returned home that day, it was already dark.

The lights of Guan Baiyu's house were on, and there were many people sitting at the door, chatting, full of life.

Shi Zhen liked this kind of atmosphere very much. When a small head poked out from the door, his heartbeat accelerated unconsciously.

It was Guan Baiyu.

"Brother, you're back!" Guan Baiyu cried out happily when he saw Shi Zhen, and carefully looked at Shi Zhen's face.

He made Shi Zhen unhappy yesterday, because he was afraid that Shi Zhen would not treat him as close as before.

"I'm back." Shi Zhen smiled at him, unloaded something from the bicycle and handed it to him.

Guan Baiyu's eyes lit up when he saw this, and he hurried over to pick it up with a smile on his face.

"Shi Zhen, do you still want to fold that ingot of yours?" Guan Jianguo's mother asked at this time. She was chatting with someone nearby, but when she saw Shi Zhen, she immediately came over.

Guan Baiyu said at this time: "Brother, Second Grandma and the others have already folded all the ingots and sent them over. I also gave the money. They still want to continue folding."

Tomb-sweeping Day was the day after tomorrow, and there was still time. Shi Zhen was in Changxi City, so he bought some tinfoil, and immediately took it out and gave it to Guan Jianguo, his mother.

His mother Guan Jianguo left happily.

Shi Zhen entered the house and put away his things, only to find that Guan Baiyu's house was full of baskets, and the baskets were full of ingots.

Guan Baiyu said: "Brother, they didn't have anything to pack, so they sent them in baskets. We will return the baskets in a few days."

Shi Zhen didn't expect that so many treasures could be folded out of ten packs of tinfoil. He was a little shocked. He checked and found that although some of them were not folded very well, most of them were not bad.

Thinking of this, Shi Zhen planned to distribute the tinfoil in his hand like yesterday.

Except for his mother Guan Jianguo, no one else was waiting here, and he needed to deliver the tinfoil to the door.

Shi Zhen took the paper and walked out. As soon as he went out, he saw a short old lady pulling a short middle-aged man and striding towards him.

That little old lady was Guan Baiyu's little grandma, the one who came to the door to wait for the pork head to be cooked, and still had to leave.

She came here a few times afterwards, asking Shi Zhen for pork head meat, but at that time Shi Zhen had already sold pig head meat in the village, so he didn't give it to her.

Why not sell it to Guan Jianguo and the others, but give it to her?

The little grandma was very dissatisfied with this, and talked to Shi Zhen several times, and even said in the village that Shi Zhen was stingy and couldn't do business.

Fortunately, everyone in the village knows her virtues.

Just listen.

Of course, what shocked Shi Zhen the most was that Guan Baiyu's little grandma, while speaking ill of him outside, was also cheeky enough to drop by the door, and when they weren't paying attention, she took a piece of dried tofu out of the pot and ate it.

She doesn't take valuable meat or eggs, but just a piece of dried tofu every time she comes over. Shi Zhen wants to ask her for money, but he can't do it.

Seeing her now, Shi Zhen felt a little difficult.

The little grandma was indeed here to find fault, and she came up and said: "Shi Zhen! You are too partial!"

Shi Zhen: "..." Eccentric?He has nothing to do with this little old lady, so what he says is not partial.

"How can you do this! You rented a house and rented Xiaoqiu's house, and you bought the ingot to find Xiaoqiu... She is Guan Baiyu's second grandma, and I am also Guan Baiyu's third grandma. How can you be so partial!" The little grandma was very annoyed.

Only then did Shi Zhen know that Guan Jianguo's mother is Xiaoqiu.

The little old lady was crying and wanted to explain to Shi Zhen, but Shi Zhen didn't plan to spoil her: "No one else likes your house, I will definitely rent it from them! You come here to take advantage of me from time to time, I don't Asking you for money is already very good, how can I spend money to find you to work? I asked you to fold a thousand ingots, and in the end you gave me [-] ingots, what should I do?"

A few days ago, she came to steal dried tofu and eat Shi Zhen, because he was too lazy to argue with an old lady over a piece of dried tofu.

His time is precious.

But he is not a soft-tempered person, so he is naturally outspoken at this time.

Most people in the village don't like to cause trouble, they will maintain a superficial peace with others, and few people will be so face-to-face.

The little grandma originally thought that Shi Zhen would accept her complaint and give her some compensation, but now that Shi Zhen didn't play cards according to common sense, she was a little confused.

But she has seen the world, so she is not afraid of being said a few words like this.

The little grandma said: "I think you just look down on our family, my life is really hard..."

Shi Zhen: "..."

"You can't do this! Guan Baiyu, when you were a child, I hugged you, but your grandma didn't have time to take you, so she put me there and let me watch you... You can't lose your conscience!" the little grandma said.

Guan Baiyu didn't like to argue before, but now he couldn't hold back: "My grandma also brought Kaikai for you."

However, the little grandma didn't care what Guan Baiyu said: "Anyway, you can't do this! I will also do the job of folding ingots! Also, Shi Zhen, you want to ask someone to help, why do you need a young man from another village? My family, Pingguo, can help you! Just pay him the same salary as that young man, as long as you pay ten yuan a day, Pingguo will follow you!"

As the little grandma spoke, she pulled the middle-aged man beside her to show Shi Zhen.

The little old lady is less than 1.5 meters tall, and she is very short. This middle-aged man...he is probably only in his early 1.5 meters, thin and small.

It was obvious at a glance that he was the little old lady's son.

Shi Zhen knew this person. He was the eldest son of Guan Baiyu's third grandfather.

Shi Zhen remembered that this man had been a bachelor all his life in his previous life, never married a wife, and every day he had nothing to do, looking for people to play cards and gamble for money.

Fortunately, he can't even speak Mandarin, so he never played cards with strangers, and only played with gamblers in his village and nearby villages, so he never lost a lot of money. After a year, he lost tens of thousands of dollars at most.

At that time, the house was demolished, and the rent of the house he was assigned was about [-] to [-] a year, so his daily life was to borrow money from others to gamble. After losing for a year, he would use the rent to pay off the debt at the end of the year.

If the rent is not enough to pay back, he will make a fuss about selling the house. His younger brother and his younger brother's son Guan Kai regard his house as something in his pocket. Of course they refuse to sell it, so they can only help him pay back the money...

Shi Zhen didn't know this at first. Once the family had a fight at home. Those who went to the hospital went to the hospital, and those who went to the police station went to the police station. Guan Baiyu's adoptive father had to help him run around, and asked someone to ask him He only listened to one ear.

Anyway, no matter how short he is on his side... it is impossible to find Guan Pinguo.

Guan Pingguo doesn't even do his own farm work!

He is still illiterate, so he can't figure out the price!

Shi Zhen said directly: "I recruit people here, at least junior high school graduates."

"You just sell pig's head meat, and you want someone who graduated from junior high school. You are biased and look down on people! I am so miserable..." The little grandma howled, ready to "cry".

Shi Zhen was also annoyed, so he simply rolled up his sleeves and squinted at them: "I just look down on people, do you have an opinion?"

The little grandma's crying stopped abruptly, and it was blocked in her throat.

She glanced at Shi Zhen's arm in horror, and took her eldest son and ran away at an astonishing speed.

Shi Zhen looked like he was going to hit someone, little grandma was scared!

Shi Zhen: "..."