stjorthotic Chapter 4, Part 3: Grandpa, I want to take care of you in your old age!
Chapter 4, Part 3: Grandpa, I want to take care of you in your old age!
Seeing his chubby niece Zhang Erya rushing towards him like a cannonball, Zhang Chengfei lightly dodged, causing her to miss her target.
At the same time, a system notification sounded:
"Ding dong, the host has accumulated 5,000 Dislike Points, which the system has converted into 5 skill points."
The original owner of this body spent three years studying at a vocational school and only managed to get 68 skill points. I just stood in the courtyard for a while and actually got 5 points? Zhang Chengfei smiled with satisfaction.
Having received the benefits, he even suddenly found Zhang Erya much more pleasing to the eye.
Seeing Er Ya's disappointed eyes after her failed attempt, he freed one hand and patted her shoulder: "Er Ya, your third uncle knows you've had a hard time. From now on, you don't need to pretend to be strong anymore, because your strength—oops, I mean your third uncle—is here."
Zhang Erya didn't care what he was saying at all; her triangular eyes kept darting around the large and small packages: "Third Uncle, did you bring these things for me?"
"Yes. Not only yours, but also my grandson's." Zhang Chengfei placed the items on the stone table in a very ostentatious manner, then took them out one by one, "Look, granulated sugar, malted milk powder, a big piece of meat, a rooster..."
These are all great products!!
Aunt Erda, who was standing nearby, couldn't help but say, "Comrade, are you sure the niece you're looking for is Zhang Erya? This city is so big, there are plenty of people with the same name."
Before she could finish speaking, Zhang Erya immediately became anxious: "Li Juhua, what did you say? How could you be wrong?! This is my second uncle."
She brought her face close to Zhang Chengfei's: "Look, our features, our eyebrows and eyes, they're practically identical!"
The gazes of everyone in the courtyard lingered on the two men's faces. Sha Zhu chuckled, "Apart from having the same nose and two eyes, you can't see any resemblance at all."
Madam Jia angrily retorted, "You idiot, what do you know?!"
Jia Dongxu also complained, "My third grandfather and my mother look exactly alike. Are your eyes just for pooping? Can't you even tell?"
Although he himself felt it didn't look like it, his great-grandfather had brought so many good things! Just for those reasons, it had to look like it, no matter what!
Sha Zhu was furious after being scolded by the mother and son. He was about to step forward and teach Jia Dongxu a lesson when he saw Yi Zhonghai in the crowd shaking his head at him.
He knew the old man wanted to see how things would develop, which is why he suppressed his anger.
Seeing that Sha Zhu had backed down, Zhang Erya felt extremely smug, thinking that these bumpkins in the courtyard had seen her second uncle, who was about to become a cadre after graduating from vocational school, flinch.
She showed off the gifts her third uncle had brought one by one, exclaiming in an exaggerated and affected manner, "Wow, such a big bag of white sugar! How much does this cost?"
So much pork! Tsk tsk tsk, Uncle, you're spending too much!
Is this malted milk powder something that cadres aren't allowed to buy? Oh, yes, they are. Even so, not everyone can afford it!
And these canned goods, Merlin brand, one can of yellow peaches and one can of fish. Third Uncle, you really are my dear Third Uncle. You, you've been so good to Er Ya, Er Ya has no way to repay you, so she can only ask Dong Xu…”
At this point, she suddenly realized that she hadn't introduced her family yet, so she immediately called out to Jia Dongxu, "Dongxu, quickly introduce your third maternal grandfather... never mind, just call him third paternal grandfather, it sounds more intimate."
Anyway, Lao Jia is dead, so Zhang Erya is in charge of this family!
Zhang Erya continued, "Dongxu, quickly kowtow to your third grandfather. He's still young and probably doesn't have any children yet. He'll be counting on you to take care of him in his old age!"
"Me? Me, taking care of my third grandfather in his old age?" Jia Dongxu pointed to his nose and then looked at Zhang Chengfei, who was several years younger than him.
"That's right!" Zhang Erya nodded, urging Jia Dongxu to kneel down before Zhang Chengfei again.
Kneeling is fine, he's my third grandfather anyway, I won't suffer any loss!
Jia Dongxu bent down to kneel, but Zhang Chengfei raised his hand to stop him: "Er Ya, this is a new era, don't keep using the old ways of the old society. Whether Dongxu kneels or not, he is still my grandson, Zhang Chengfei's grandson, and that won't change."
Besides, his own equipment isn't as useless as Yi Zhonghai's; there's no need to outsource things like retirement.
"Third Grandpa's words make perfect sense." Jia Dongxu breathed a sigh of relief, then his eyes darted around. "Third Grandpa, you graduated from vocational school, have you been assigned a job yet?"
"It's all arranged. I'll report for duty tomorrow."
Jia Zhangshi immediately became excited and was about to ask her third uncle which factory he had been assigned to as a cadre?
Before he could even speak, Xu Damao chimed in with a strange tone, "It's a good thing you were given a job. If you hadn't, Aunt Zhang and Jia Dongxu wouldn't have accepted you as a relative."
These words implied that the Jia family was materialistic and disdainful of the poor, and Jia Zhangshi immediately panicked.
Although Xu Damao was right, who wouldn't want to leave a good impression on their third uncle, who was about to become a cadre and received generous gifts?
Thinking of this, she immediately interrupted, "Third Uncle, you must be tired from your journey. Come on, go home and have some water."
While pulling Zhang Chengfei away, he directed Jia Dongxu and Banggeng to tidy up all the good things on the table and take them home.
Jia Dongxu could have simply taken the things, but he didn't!
He picked up each of the items Zhang Chengfei brought, raising them high like a ring girl at a boxing match, and rotating them 360 degrees.
After making sure everyone present has seen it, hand the item in your hand to the stick, and then repeat the process to the next item.
This single action earned Zhang Chengfei 198 points of dislike.
As the four people left, the people in the courtyard immediately erupted in chaos.
The first to be criticized was Sha Zhu: "Did you all see that? Zhang Erya's eyes actually turned red when she saw her third uncle. She's such a good actress."
Xu Damao scoffed at him: "What do you know? This isn't called being good at pretending, it's called having good acting skills, you know what acting skills are?"
Yan Jiecheng clicked his tongue in astonishment: "This isn't about being close to her third uncle, it's about being close to his money!"
Yan Bugui frowned: "Zhang Chengfei is stupid. Why did he have to come now, just when things are about to get better? Isn't he just letting the Jia family take advantage of him?"
How infuriating! Why don't I have relatives like that in my own family?
No, I have to write a letter back home tomorrow to ask if I have any uncles (third, fourth, fifth, or sixth) who can help me out—oops, I mean, to claim kinship.
Liu Haizhong felt they hadn't gotten to the point: "Old Yan, you just said Zhang Chengfei graduated from the Mechanical Engineering Institute of Beijing?"
Seeing Yan Bugui nod, he said thoughtfully, "Graduates from this school, once they take up a job, will be on the cadre payroll, starting as a level 16 clerk... The monthly salary of a level 16 clerk is..."
The thought that he had worked for decades and was almost fifty years old without ever becoming a cadre, while Zhang Chengfei was only nineteen and had already become a cadre, filled Liu Haizhong with an indescribable feeling.
The second aunt, echoing her husband's analysis, said, "How could a young man possibly spend all that money in a month... I bet that old hag Zhang Erya swindled it away to supplement the Jia family's income."
Everyone nodded in agreement, agreeing with what the second aunt said and feeling sorry for Zhang Chengfei, who had fallen into the tiger's den. Only Sha Zhu suddenly laughed after hearing this.