Cultivation by Trial and Error
Chapter 75 - 75 75 Father and Son

75: Chapter 75 Father and Son 75: Chapter 75 Father and Son Chen Hai placed the cardboard box on the flatbed cart, but Chen Zhonghua didn’t think much of it.

He simply assumed that it was a bunch of review materials and miscellaneous items his son had brought from school.

After all, since Chen Hai hadn’t returned home after coming to the school to take the college entrance exam, as a boarding student, it wasn’t odd for him to have a boxful of things to take back home.

Chen Hai’s silence, in Chen Zhonghua’s eyes, was a sign of his guilt.

“You little rascal, you just got back from Liuyuan County, you must not have eaten yet!”

“Here’s some money, look around here and see if there’s anything to eat.

While you’re at it, bring me back two steamed buns!”

“After you’ve eaten, hurry back here and don’t loiter around outside!”

After scolding Chen Hai for a bit, Chen Zhonghua returned to the matter at hand.

He pulled out a handful of crumpled bills from his dirty trouser pocket and counted out two yuan, passing it to Chen Hai.

He had hauled the flatbed cart to town early in the morning and had been busy all morning; the money he had made totaled less than five yuan.

Those two yuan were already half of the wealth he had on him.

“Dad, I have money.

Tell me what you want to eat, and I’ll buy it for you!” Chen Hai quickly waved his hand, declining.

The money his parents had was truly hard-earned.

Not just now but even in the past, unless absolutely necessary, he would not willingly ask for money from home.

Among all virtues, filial piety is the most important.

Although Chen Hai was pretty poor in his studies, he was always decent in showing filial respect.

“You have money?

The few yuan you have on you, after almost ten days out and about, you probably haven’t missed troubling your cousin Dongmei for food!”

“I’m giving you money to eat, so just take it and quit your yapping!”

Chen Zhonghua’s face was filled with anger as he scolded, he was quite annoyed when it came to this topic.

“Dad, I really do have money!”

He glanced around to see if anyone was paying attention; seeing no one was, Chen Hai quickly moved closer to Chen Zhonghua and pulled out a stack of banknotes from his pocket, flashing them in front of his father.

During these days in Liuyuan County, excluding the amount he gave to Sun Jinzhong, Chen Hai had earned a total of eight thousand five hundred yuan.

Of course, he had spent nearly two thousand on buying a pager and a TV.

The remaining money was in his backpack, which he carried with him all the time, and the few hundred in his pocket was just spare change.

Even so, upon seeing the banknotes and the Big Red Flower bills, Chen Zhonghua’s eyes nearly popped out of his head.

“Money should not be displayed openly, put it away, put it away!”

Having snapped out of his shock, he glanced around nervously and quickly ordered Chen Hai to put the money away.

“Dad, I told you I had money, but you wouldn’t believe it, now you have to believe it, don’t you?”

After putting the money away again, Chen Hai said with a smile.

“Hai, tell me honestly, did you do something bad?

Otherwise, where did all this money come from?”

With a steely expression, Chen Zhonghua stared hard at Chen Hai, his voice heavy with questioning.

Initially, he was shocked to see the money, but once he regained his senses, he couldn’t help but be suspicious.

After all, he made his living by pulling the flatbed cart, and after a day of back-breaking work, he’d earn just ten or twenty yuan.

Yet his son Chen Hai, with just a casual rummage, was able to produce several hundred yuan.

A kid who just walked out of school, spending about ten days in the county—if it wasn’t for doing something wrong, he really couldn’t think of any other way to make so much money.

“Dad, I earned this money fair and square!”

“Uncle’s wife over at Tai Island, isn’t there a boss who offered a reward of five thousand yuan to help him find a grave?”

“My son, I got lucky and found the place for him, and I got that reward money!”

Chen Hai hurriedly explained upon seeing his father’s expression.

“Really?”

“Definitely true.

If you don’t believe me, you can go ask uncle’s wife about it, and you’ll find that many people know about this!”

“That’s good to hear!

What did you say?

You said you earned five thousand yuan just like that?”

“Yeah!

But out of that money, I gave a thousand to Brother Zhong, and over here, I bought a new TV, which cost nearly a thousand too!”

Patting the cardboard box on the flatbed tricycle, Chen Hai then dug out the receipt and stuffed it into Chen Zhonghua’s hands.

“Goldstar?

It’s a brand name, eh?

You spent nine hundred ninety-eight yuan, that expensive?”

“You kid, you should save money for when you get married, why spend recklessly?”

Taking the receipt, Chen Zhonghua looked it over.

Although he was complaining, a wide grin spread across his face.

He carefully put the receipt away, and without minding that they were right beside the main road, he couldn’t wait to start unpacking the TV from its box.

“Dad, let’s leave the TV here for now, you can take your time with it.

I haven’t had lunch yet, so I’m going to grab something to eat!”

Chen Hai understood his father’s mood.

After all, he was very aware of how long his parents had been coveting a television.

After quickly finishing a bowl of noodles at a nearby snack shop to fill up, Chen Hai wandered around the area.

His father was a heavy smoker; at home, he smoked a pipe, and outside, he smoked cigarettes rolled with his own tobacco.

It wasn’t because he didn’t like pre-rolled cigarettes, it was just that buying tobacco leaves was cheaper.

In the store, Chen Hai bought his father two packs of Big Red Flower.

As for a gift for his mother, after some thought, he decided to buy a gold necklace for Jiang Meixian at a jewelry store.

With gold prices around fifty to sixty yuan per gram, a gold necklace under ten grams cost just a few hundred yuan, which was nothing for Chen Hai.

To honor his parents, he wouldn’t mind spending even more; he wouldn’t feel the slightest bit of pain.

By the time he returned with a box of takeaway for his father, to the spot where they were originally, he found that a crowd had already gathered around the Chen Family’s flatbed tricycle.

“Uncle Liu, our homes are just three of four li apart.

If you feel bored in the evening after going home, you can come to my place, and I’ll put on whatever show you want to watch!”

“Uncle Qi, we live even closer.

If you want to watch TV, just cross a hill, and you’ll be at my front door!”

“Brother Yan, when your Jun finished middle school, I wanted him to go to high school with my Hai, but you wouldn’t listen.

You insisted he wasn’t cut out for studying and made him learn a trade instead.”

“You see, there’s a benefit to having more education.

Look at our Hai, just finished high school and he’s already making money, enough to buy a TV for the family!”

…

Chen Zhonghua had always struck Chen Hai as a man of few words.

Chen Hai really hadn’t expected his father to have this side to him.

The people gathered around the flatbed tricycle were mostly folks from Chenjiaping Village; when they weren’t busy with farm work, they would, like Chen Zhonghua, head into town to see if there was any work that could earn them some money.

Chen Hai had only been gone for just over half an hour, and he had no idea how, in such a short time, his father had managed to spread the news about buying a TV and gather so many people here.

Seeing his father’s proud air, Chen Hai just smiled and said nothing.

In his view, after so many years of hard work, it wasn’t a bad thing for his father to show off a little and bask in the limelight.

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