Chapter 290: Chapter 290

Everyone else had something they liked to eat, except for him, and Zhao Guangran was filled with grief.

His old man is so biased there’s nothing left to say. Zhao Guangran actually forgot that even though he didn’t get what he wanted, he had eaten quite a lot of sunflower seeds, peanuts, and chestnuts.

He didn’t even want to eat the regular three meals a day because he was so full from eating all those snacks. If it weren’t for Hua Miaozhu losing her temper, he probably wouldn’t have wanted to eat any proper meals.

Ever since the holiday started, Cai Ming has been going to the mountain every day with Zhao Gang and the others, busy watering the black fungus, checking the growth of the chives, and also looking at whether the traps they previously set had caught any game.

Besides selling a small portion of the game, they would either eat them or preserve them by drying or pickling, otherwise, during the long spring, they wouldn’t be able to go up the mountain to hunt, and it would be hard to get meat.

At this time, another letter from the Gong Family arrived, shocking Gong Tao’s family, who hadn’t heard from them or Gong Zheng for ages.

It was heard before that Dong Li wanted to divorce Gong Qiang, which stopped Gong Dajiang from coming to the Northeast, and no one knew how things developed. Not only did the Gong Family not mention a word, but even Gong Zheng, who sent letters monthly, completely lost contact.

Gong Tao had no intention of dealing with the Gong Family’s mess. Getting a letter only ruined his mood. Instead of thinking about the Gong Family, he’d rather think about how to get rich, improve his carpentry skills.

Think about how to have his wife give birth to another child, and how to design their home in the future.

He also had to help his brother-in-law find a reliable wife. Fortunately, the siblings Gong Ruwen and Renee were sensible in every way and didn’t require his worry, otherwise, Gong Tao would have been really busy.

From the moment he opened his eyes, he was busy making money until he went to sleep, really busy all the time, especially with overtime at night, being a man wasn’t easy.

The Gong Family, which he thought had quieted down, unexpectedly sent him a letter at the end of the year.

Holding the letter, Gong Tao smiled bitterly, "I can bet it’s just complaints, nothing but complaints."

Gong Tao didn’t believe the Gong Family could turn their fortunes around. Oh, maybe Gong Zheng could, but if Gong Zheng really turned things around, would his wife help out the Gong Family?

Back then, when her family fell on hard times, Zhang Lan did all those disgraceful things. You think Wu Rui wouldn’t bear a grudge?

"Complaining about what, they have a pension, life shouldn’t be hard," Cai Meina wished for the Gong Family to have a hard time, and probably wouldn’t even let the children go back to eat this year.

It wasn’t just last year’s big argument but the Gong Family didn’t have much to entertain them with anyway. Gong Zheng used to bring something back, but how could he now?

Faced with the letter filled with complaints, Gong Tao was indeed troubled, "Although Big Brother and his wife haven’t divorced, they’re living their own separate lives."

"Gong Xiaoyu doesn’t even want to go to school anymore, the old man found him a job." Earlier, he talked about disciplining his grandson properly, at least letting him graduate middle school, but now he hasn’t even graduated middle school.

As for why the old man changed his mind, isn’t that a normal thing?

Over the past year, Gong Tao had seen his old man change his mind numerous times, not to mention the old man used to value Gong Xiaoyu so much, and now considering things for this grandson was also normal.

Wow, Gong Xiaoyu actually went to work? Cai Meina was stunned, he’s just a kid, how could he already be working?

Especially since that kid has a temper that’s been raised to be so domineering by Zhang Lan. If he doesn’t learn to tone it down a bit, with such a hot temper at work, who knows how much he’ll be bullied? Thɪs chapter is updated by novelꞁire.net

"Sending him to work, who knows how much trouble he’ll cause?" There’d been plenty of incidents of Gong Xiaoyu fighting with classmates before.

In school, everyone was just a kid, so it wasn’t as big of a deal. But once you’re working, regardless of age, you’re considered an adult, especially with Gong Xiaoyu’s ’I’m number one’ attitude. Who would give him the time of day?

As for Gong Dajiang’s reputation, all it could do was get Gong Xiaoyu shuffled into a factory. "By the way, which factory did Gong Xiaoyu get into?" Cai Meina wanted to know how far the old man would go for this grandson.

Cai Meina asking wasn’t a problem until she did, and then Gong Tao’s expression turned grim.

Hey, what’s going on, could it be that Gong Xiaoyu got a good job? Gong Ruini thought it must be, because if Gong Xiaoyu got a bad job, Gong Tao, who’s always ready to laugh at Gong Qiang’s family, would definitely say it out loud.

Gong Ruwen also kept staring nervously at Gong Tao. As for this so-called cousin, Gong Ruwen never had any good impression, just bullying, more bullying, and pinning blame on others.

"The old man is really biased. His old friend went into the army and later on became a leader in a graduate institute without expertise, just based on experience."

"Though he’s retired now, his connections are still there. Back then, when Gong Zheng graduated, he wanted the old man to help him out a bit. You know what the old man said?" Thinking of how the old man lectured them in the past, it really made one want to slap him.

Although not knowing what Gong Dajiang said, he definitely didn’t speak up for Gong Zheng. Gong Zheng must have been incredibly frustrated, as he wouldn’t lift a finger for him back then, but now for the wasteful Gong Qiang’s family, they go to such lengths. Such a great opportunity was ruined by Gong Dajiang.

If Gong Xiaoyu were an obedient and sensible kid, being a bit stupid would be alright, as he could learn slowly, but he’s both dumb and arrogant. Joining such a unit, Gong Ruini genuinely prayed for him.

Prayed he wouldn’t burn out too quickly, entering such a unit meant he’d have to grind slowly, truly feel the lessons from working in such a place, learn that no one would cater to him these days.

It’s uncertain if Gong Xiaoyu would explode, but if he did, Gong Ruini didn’t know how Gong Dajiang, who got him into this mess in the first place, would regret it.

Who knows how much face the Gong Family has to plead on behalf of this grandson?

Wait a minute, usually in such a good matter, Gong Dajiang wouldn’t tell Gong Tao, isn’t this basically using sarcastic taunts on this son?

They wouldn’t be asking for them to procure ginseng again, would they? It’s been a while since back then, they didn’t agree before, but it seems like they were still stubbornly trying, bringing up disgusting matters every few months.

"The old man said his old friend’s health isn’t good and that if he had some ginseng it’d be great, and mentioned that the family currently doesn’t have enough money and hoped we could cover it." Gong Tao really didn’t want to read this letter, it was just disgusting.

Before, at least there was a pretense of sending a bit of money for ginseng, now they’re back to asking for them to cover it. The issue is, would he help cover it?

Such a good job and it’s not even for his son to do, not his daughter’s job either, why should he have to pay, "Let’s pretend we never received it."

Oh well, it’s not his hurry, let those who are anxious be anxious."

Cai Meina just gave a simple "yeah," "We won’t cover it, we don’t have the money." That’s just an expense with no return.