juan tu
Chapter 73 Goodbye, Fourth Uncle
Both Sanzai and Fang Senyan were equally anxious and eager. They ran quickly towards a small house by the sea. The house looked crooked and dilapidated, as if another typhoon would knock it down. Sanzai pushed the door open in a flurry, about to shout, but Fang Senyan dragged him back and covered his mouth.
The house had only one room inside and out. The cooking area was planned under the eaves of the main entrance. On the left side, next to the wall revealing the mud, there was a makeshift bed made of stones, bricks, and a door panel. A tattered quilt revealing cotton batting covered it, and white hair protruded from the end of the quilt, gently swaying in the fishy sea breeze. From the slight breathing, it could be heard that the patient on the bed was sleeping soundly.
Next to the bed was a wooden stool with half a bowl of dried porridge on it, surrounded by buzzing flies. Fang Senyan looked at the corner of the dirty, blood-stained gauze wrapped around the quilt, and a strong sense of sadness immediately arose in his nose.
At this moment, Fourth Uncle probably also heard the movement and struggled to sit up halfway from the bed, turning his head to look over.
At this moment, Fang Senyan's mind was blank. He only felt that the things he was carrying were as heavy as a thousand jun (a Chinese unit of weight), and his hands trembled involuntarily. The luggage scattered all over the ground with a crash, and his eyes gradually blurred. For a moment, the whole world seemed to be left with only that pair of weathered and gentle eyes!
"Fourth Uncle!"
At this moment, Fang Senyan finally burst into unrestrained sobs in front of the bed. The hardships and adversities since their separation, the fragility and pain that had been forcibly suppressed deep in his heart, were finally released.
In front of others, he could only be strong, and had to be strong, so as not to be looked down upon. Only in front of this man, in front of this man who had sheltered him from the wind and rain for nearly twenty years without complaint or regret, a man who was called uncle but was actually a father,
— he could cry, he could vent to his heart's content!
Seeing Fang Senyan, Fourth Uncle also felt a little tearful, repeatedly saying:
"It's good that you're back, it's good that you're back."
After the father and son talked about what had happened since their separation, Fang Senyan didn't hide anything, except for the things related to the Nightmare Space, and told everything truthfully. When he heard that Fang Senyan had killed someone, fled for his life, and escaped, Fourth Uncle couldn't help but worry about Fang Senyan's future, and Fang Senyan had to comfort him for a while. Seeing Fang Senyan's return, the stone in Fourth Uncle's heart fell to the ground, and he fell asleep again as Fang Senyan spoke, his spirit exhausted.
During the days that Sanzai was away, thanks to Aunt Zeng next door who came to take care of Fourth Uncle every day, now that Fang Senyan, the pillar of this family, was back, of course he had to thank her. Then he had to go to Uncle Da's place to express his gratitude. By the time he finished these chores, it was evening, and he was soaked by the rain on the way home. When he got home, he saw that Fourth Uncle's face was pale and he was shivering non-stop. Fang Senyan hurriedly made a fire and cooked a pot of steaming brown sugar ginger soup and brought it over. The whole family drank it together. Several large mouthfuls of scalding hot ginger soup seemed to warm up the internal organs, and Fourth Uncle felt much better and finally fell asleep again.
There was only one bed in the house, so Fang Senyan and Sanzai slept on the floor. They had done this countless times on the ship before, so it didn't count as hardship at all. Fang Senyan listened to Fourth Uncle's gradually even snoring, and his mind gradually calmed down. Outside, the rain was flying, and bursts of coldness were mixed in the wind, penetrating to the bone marrow. Sanzai shrank a few times in the thin quilt, so Fang Senyan simply covered him with his own blanket. His datafied body couldn't be said to be immune to cold and heat, but he could ignore the temperature of fifteen or sixteen degrees Celsius at this time.
When Fang Senyan woke up the next morning, he saw that the sky was dim and thought it was still early. Listening carefully, he immediately heard the crisp sound of rain gathering on the thatched roof and dripping onto the oilcloth paper outside, and also heard the vague sounds of the farmhouses in the new year mixed together. He immediately realized that it wasn't that the sky was not bright, but because the weather was really bad.
When he came back yesterday, the house was dark, and he couldn't see the details inside for a while. Fang Senyan looked around at this time and saw that the surroundings were all adobe brick walls, and most of the lime that had been brushed on had fallen off. Several dusty New Year pictures of chubby babies pasted on the walls with porridge had turned yellow, and the corners were curled up. The uneven ground was still hardened mud, and there was no ceiling on the roof, only a slightly sloping beam supported seven or eight acorns, covered with decayed mountain grass that had been smeared gray and black by the years. Of course, there was also a piece of plastic cloth that Sanzai had temporarily hung up, otherwise, the rain would leak all over the house.
"This place can't be lived in anymore." Fang Senyan sat up halfway from the floor, turned his head to Sanzai and said in a low voice. "Living here, even a healthy person will become sick. Besides, Fourth Uncle's injury hasn't healed yet?"
Sanzai had already woken up and said aggrievedly:
"I've told Fourth Uncle many times, but Fourth Uncle said that the remaining money is our two's marriage money and can't be touched."
Fang Senyan directly pulled Sanzai out of the door and said impatiently under the eaves:
"I'll take care of the money. Fourth Uncle is stubborn, you can listen to him on most things, but I have the final say on this matter. Didn't I see that there are those detached small buildings next to it when I came? I want this kind of house! I think Aunt Zeng takes good care of Fourth Uncle, you get the house and then go and invite her old self, ask her how much spare money she has in a month at home? We'll pay double to ask her to take care of people."
Sanzai was also a quick worker, but he lacked initiative. This had nothing to do with age, it was just his innate personality. However, as long as you gave him something to do, he could handle it properly. After Fang Senyan finished speaking, he directly threw a few stacks of money to the obedient Sanzai and asked him to take care of a series of trivial matters such as renting a house and buying furniture. Then he went to the stove under the eaves behind the house to cook sugar water eggs for Fourth Uncle and brought them in to feed the patient, and then he also sat next to him, holding a bowl and eating breakfast, while chatting with Fourth Uncle about household matters.
While talking, Fourth Uncle asked him about his future plans. Fang Senyan had already had a draft in his mind. Even if Fourth Uncle didn't ask, he would find a reason to talk about it, so he immediately lowered his voice and said:
"Fourth Uncle, after I got rid of Hua Shanfei's men that day, I went all the way, and took advantage of the fact that his lair was empty, so I killed him back and accidentally snatched a batch of his goods, took them to Hong Kong and asked Xiaoshuo (little) for an acquaintance to sell them! It can be regarded as a blessing in disguise, and I got back more than three million Hong Kong dollars. It's a pity that Fourth Uncle, you are not well now, otherwise we could have started doing it first."
Fourth Uncle asked doubtfully:
"Doing what?"
Fang Senyan said in surprise:
"Of course it's ordering a boat. I've been making a living on the water all my life. If I don't run a boat, am I going to sit and eat my money? Although Fuyuan is maintained fairly well, it has been rolling in the sea for at least fifteen or sixteen years. Just sell it, and it's just right to order a new boat. But I still have things to do, how can I have time to stare at them to see if they are cutting corners? It's definitely not safe to let Sanzai do this kind of thing, how can it work without you old man watching?"
As soon as he mentioned the boat, Fourth Uncle immediately became energetic:
"More than three million Hong Kong dollars? That can build a very good boat, Uncle Da has a way! How big do you plan to build it?"
Fang Senyan knew Fourth Uncle's dream and immediately said:
"I think the seventy-seven specification is not bad. Our boat is estimated to go abroad, so the horsepower must be over a thousand!"
The seventy-seven specification is an iron-hulled trawler with a length of forty-nine meters, which is Fourth Uncle's lifelong dream. Fourth Uncle's face immediately shone with light and said:
"This idea is really good."
Senyan said seriously: "So I think you old man should recuperate as soon as possible. Without you staring at those bastards who start work, how dare I give them money to build a boat? Let's go to the hospital this afternoon when the rain stops. The sooner you get better, the sooner the boat can be built."
After hearing Fang Senyan say this, Fourth Uncle hesitated for a while and then agreed. In fact, his knot was that he thought he was a useless person at this time, and what was the point of wasting money on treatment. Once he found his own value, he naturally had the desire to live.
……....”
Fang Senyan successfully stimulated Fourth Uncle's desire to survive and interest, and finally breathed a long sigh of relief. As long as Fourth Uncle cooperates, then the next thing will be a natural success. After two days of systematic treatment in the hospital, plus Fourth Uncle's body had always been considered strong, his condition improved a lot. In order to reassure him, Fang Senyan also really went through Uncle Da to order an iron-hulled trawler and get all the procedures done first.
Seeing that five days had passed in the real world, and everything was on the right track. Fang Senyan was worried about the things in the space. After all, the power from the Nightmare Space was his foundation at this time ——— he called Jessica according to the number in his memory. This willful girl immediately complained about why he hadn't answered the phone before, and then said very aggrievedly that her house had been made dirty by that large group of wild beasts, and the roars were endless, so she didn't dare to go home to sleep.
Fang Senyan was overjoyed when he heard this, hung up the phone and went directly to Uncle Da. As the saying goes, money can make the devil push the millstone. After confirming that Fang Senyan, this stowaway, had no criminal record in Taiwan, he spent five times the price to get a direct flight ticket to Hong Kong, and arrived at Jessica's mansion three hours later.
Although Fang Senyan had caused a big incident this time, most of the dead were members of the underworld, and Yiwufu was not a good bird either, so no victims came out to cry and file a complaint. Therefore, it was only known and spread within the police, and for the police, what good would it do to announce such a series of homicides, other than showing the police's incompetence and inability, and causing social panic and turmoil? Therefore, they naturally made a fortune in silence, and had to investigate secretly, so Fang Senyan could not see any news in the newspapers or on the Internet.