Chapter 166: Goosebumps

On the passenger side, Zhao Guozhong’s expression was both sighing and excited.

After the car left the city, he couldn’t help but say with a smile, “Did you see the funny looks on Old Sixth and the others’ faces before? It was so fun! When I was in the private room, I boasted to them that you were rich and powerful, but none of them believed me. Now look, they’re all dumbfounded.”

Chen Feng said unhappily, “Why are you boasting about me for no reason?”

Zhao Guozhong chuckled and said, “Among my younger generation, only you are worth boasting about. The others, including your brother, are not good enough. I thought you just made some money in Xiuzhou, but I didn’t expect you to have such a wide network and so much power. Hehe, so many people were obediently made to stand and be searched tonight. Only you and I were not searched or made to stand. You really gave me face this time.”

Hearing this, Chen Feng secretly shook his head. As the saying goes, the more you lack something, the more you want it.

What Zhao Guozhong lacked most was others’ respect and high regard.

He had been messing around in society since he was a teenager and had achieved nothing. He finally found a wife, but she ran away in less than two years. After that, everything went wrong for him. He could only waste his years, being despised and ridiculed by others, and had had enough of others’ disdain.

Now he was almost fifty years old, still a bachelor, and had no money. It was truly miserable.

Tonight, he had originally lost all his face, in front of his so-called old friends, and also in front of his nephew, Chen Feng.

But suddenly, the nightclub was inspected. His nephew, Chen Feng, quickly regained the face he had lost, allowing him to greatly gain face in front of Old Sixth and his four bad friends.

As for his face in front of his nephew, Chen Feng, they were family, so it didn’t matter.

After a while, Zhao Guozhong couldn’t help but ask, “Ah Feng, who was that leader who helped before? You were so close with him. Your relationship should be very good, right?”

“My classmate,” Chen Feng answered simply, not giving any specifics. Otherwise, he was really afraid that his uncle would ask Qin Zhen for help from time to time through him.

“Sure enough, it’s a classmate. I knew it. Hehe, it’s good to have such a powerful classmate,” Zhao Guozhong grinned. “What’s his position? Captain or chief?”

Chen Feng said perfunctorily, “He’s from a confidential department. I don’t know either. You don’t have to ask around.”

“Oh, oh, oh, I know,” Zhao Guozhong nodded quickly, his face showing a look of awe. “Confidential department, of course it has to be confidential. I understand.”

Zhao Guozhong didn’t ask any more questions. When they were almost home, his phone rang. He picked it up and looked at it, then said to Chen Feng with a smile, “Old Sixth is calling. This guy is really thick-skinned.”

After saying that, he directly hung up the other party’s call.

“Hmph, I’ve already broken up with him. He still has the face to call me. Damn it!”

Zhao Guozhong had a smug look on his face, and the corners of his mouth were grinning, almost crooked.

Seeing his smug look, Chen Feng couldn’t help but shake his head again. What was there to be proud of? He felt that he had lost face in front of Qin Zhen tonight.

However, no matter what, he was his uncle. He had been very good to him when he was a child and had even saved him.

Although he had always looked down on him in his heart, especially when he stared at his own mother and great aunt for their wool.

The most excessive thing was that five or six years ago, he had borrowed 50,000 yuan from his mother and great aunt respectively with all kinds of good words and false words, a total of 100,000 yuan, and then disappeared without a trace. He didn’t even call for two or three years.

It made them think that something had happened to him. His mother and great aunt almost posted a missing person notice.

Later, after much inquiry, they finally contacted him and confirmed that he was safe, and then they were slightly relieved.

After that, they had intermittent contact, but his uncle never came back to his hometown.

It wasn’t until this sudden return on New Year’s Eve that Chen Feng thought he was probably out of money. In addition, he had also heard that their two brothers had opened a car wash shop and made a lot of money, and wanted to come back to get some benefits or handouts.

He was very angry before, but when he saw his mother worrying about his uncle, he suddenly saw it through.

No matter what, this uncle was his mother’s own younger brother, and he was also entrusted to her by his maternal grandparents before they died. He was his mother’s relative, and also his own relative.

So why not be a little more tolerant of his uncle and help him when he could?

He now had the ability to guide his old uncle onto the right path of life, let him live a good life in the future, and also let his mother rest assured.

This was the fundamental reason for the change in his attitude towards his old uncle.

In addition, he now had a terminal illness. His perspective on problems was different from before, and his mentality had also become more open-minded. He no longer haggled over some small things, especially with his relatives and friends.

Zhao Guozhong hung up the phone three times in a row. When the other party called for the fourth time, he waited until it was almost automatically hung up before answering, and pressed the speakerphone.

“Old Seventh, is it interesting for you guys to call me one by one?”

Zhao Guozhong held his phone with a smile on his face, but his tone was neither yin nor yang.

Old Seventh on the other end kept apologizing and saying good words, which made Chen Feng shake his head. It was really that people of a feather flock together. The friends his old uncle made were this kind of bullying the soft and fearing the hard, and seeing the wind and steering the rudder.

After listening for a while, Chen Feng ignored it.

The car soon arrived at his own door and stopped. Zhao Guozhong was still grinning and talking to that Old Seventh.

Chen Feng was too lazy to bother with him. It was already midnight. It was more important to go to bed early.

The next morning, Chen Feng got up at seven o’clock as usual, and his spirits were not bad.

After washing up, he went for a run as usual, then came back to take a shower and have breakfast.

At this time, his little uncle, Zhao Guozhong, was also up. When he saw Chen Feng, he came over with a smile and said in a low voice, “Old Sixth and the others all called me to apologize and say good words. They all said they would have a banquet at the Mingyue Tower to apologize to me. Hehe, do I care about their meal? The bottle of wine I had last night for 8,800 yuan is at least worth two or three of their banquets at the Mingyue Tower.”

Chen Feng frowned slightly and said, “You should just ignore these people in the future.”

Zhao Guozhong nodded quickly, “Of course. I’m not really stupid. After being set up by them like that last night, I’d be a real fool to continue to associate with them.”

“It’s good that you know. It’s human nature to flatter the high and trample on the low, but those few are white-eyed wolves who forget righteousness for profit. You must not associate with them again, unless you have no bottom line than them. Otherwise, you will only bring trouble to yourself in the end.”

“Yes, yes. You’re right,” Zhao Guozhong nodded again and again. “They are white-eyed wolves. I used to treat them with good wine and cigarettes. Although they occasionally treated me back, they would always earn it back in multiples.

I used to treat them as friends and didn’t haggle with them. But what happened last night made me see them clearly. Just like what you said last night, I treat them as friends, but they treat me as a fool.

If I make up with them after a few words of apology, they will probably laugh at me for being a fool behind my back. Hmph, now I’m treating them as fools and playing with them.”

Chen Feng nodded and said, “It’s good that you know in your heart.”

Zhao Guozhong said with a forced smile, “I know very well who is good to me and who is not. In this world now, only your mother and you are the best to me.”

Chen Feng was so disgusted by his words that he got goosebumps all over his body. He rolled his eyes at him, continued to eat his congee, and ignored him.

Zhao Guozhong watched him eat with a smile on his face until Chen Feng said unhappily, “Little uncle, if you have nothing to do, go to the field and help my parents pick vegetables.”

He was going to Tianzhou to pay a New Year’s visit today. His parents had gone to their own field early to pick vegetables, planning to send them to his grandmother and aunt, and they would definitely send a lot.
In the past, his grandmother and aunt would definitely not care, but now these organic vegetables grown by themselves in the countryside, people in the city might not be able to eat them.

In the past, Zhao Guozhong would definitely not go to the field to do things, but today he immediately nodded and agreed, “Alright, then I’ll go and help.”

After saying that, he left. Zhao Guozhong was very familiar with where their family’s land was. After all, he used to live at their house often.

At about nine o’clock, Zhao Guozhong and Zhao Xiaolan’s couple came back from the field, carrying four large woven bags of vegetables, including cabbage, Chinese cabbage, white radish, and sweet potatoes.

Seeing this, Chen Feng couldn’t help but say, “Mom and Dad, do you have to send so much? There are only five people in my aunt’s family, including my grandmother.”

Zhao Xiaolan said with some helplessness, “It was your grandmother who said to send more. You can’t buy our organic vegetables from the countryside in the city now.”

Chen Feng pouted and corrected, “It’s not that you can’t buy them, it’s that they’re too expensive. She’s just like that.”

He wasn’t very close to this grandmother who had no blood relationship with him. She wasn’t very good to him and his brother when they were young, and he still had some resentment in his heart.

They had only seen each other once a year during the New Year for more than ten years, so of course their relationship had become more and more distant.

Zhao Xiaolan rolled her eyes at him and said, “Even if you can buy them, they may not be real. The taste is much worse than what we grow ourselves.”

Chen Dayong, on the other hand, said with some anger, “How can you talk like that? No matter what, she’s still your grandmother.”

“Not my real one.”

“You kid…” Chen Dayong glared angrily. He usually wasn’t very close to his two sons and didn’t talk much, but if he was really angry, he wouldn’t hesitate to hit his children.

“Alright,” Zhao Xiaolan interrupted Chen Dayong’s impending outburst. “This is also for your aunt. Your grandmother is not good to you, but your aunt has always doted on you since you were a child.”

Chen Feng was suddenly speechless. His grandmother was not his real grandmother, but his aunt was his real aunt, and she and his father had the same father.

Since he was a child, his aunt had doted on him very much. She often carried him around the village.

After getting married and moving to Tianzhou, she also often thought of him. The red envelopes she gave him for the New Year were always at least a thousand yuan, and it was like this every year until he got married. At that time, her wedding gift was 18,000 yuan, which was very generous.

“Alright. I was just saying. Dad, why are you taking it so seriously?”

After Chen Feng complained a little, he changed the subject and said, “Are brother and the others ready? If they are, let’s go. It takes two or three hours to drive there. If we go late, we won’t be able to make it for lunch.”

As soon as he finished speaking, his older brother’s voice came from the stairs, “Alright, alright. We can go anytime.”

“Alright then, Mom and Dad, you go and change your clothes. Get ready to go.”

More than ten minutes later, the family gathered at the door. His little uncle knew that their whole family was going to Tianzhou to pay a New Year’s visit today, so he wisely said that he would go back to his own house to live.

Zhao Xiaolan persuaded him a few times to let him continue to stay here, but he still refused.

This made everyone except Zhao Xiaolan quite satisfied.

Although Zhao Guozhong was Zhao Xiaolan’s own younger brother, his sister’s whole family was not at home. It was a bit inappropriate for him to stay alone.

“Ah Feng, come back after playing for two days. Uncle is still waiting for you.”

Before leaving, Zhao Guozhong said goodbye to his nephew, Chen Feng, reluctantly, which gave Chen Feng goosebumps all over his body again. And the rest of the family were all very surprised, not knowing the reason.

“Alright. You should also go home and pack up.”

Chen Feng waved his hand at him with some impatience.

Zhao Guozhong quickly nodded with a smile, “Alright, then you drive carefully on the road. I’m leaving too.”

He was also very straightforward. He said as he took the electric scooter key that Chen Dayong had given him, got on the electric scooter, made a graceful turn, and waved goodbye to their two brothers’ cars before floating away.

This clean and neat manner made Chen Feng and the others stunned.

“Ah Feng, what’s wrong with your uncle?”

As Zhao Guozhong’s own older sister, Zhao Xiaolan was a little confused.

Chen Rui, on the other hand, stuck his head out of the car window and reminded, “Ah Feng, you have to be careful. If you’re not careful, you’ll be tricked. Little uncle might be up to something.”

Zhao Xiaolan immediately scolded, “What are you talking about? How can you talk about your own uncle like that?”

Chen Rui chuckled and said, “Mom, didn’t you see how cheesy little uncle was? I’ve never seen him so fawning over Chen Feng before. He even specially asked Chen Feng if he wanted to buy some fruit, and he would go and buy it. He also kindly reminded Chen Feng to turn on the navigation, drive carefully, and not get stuck in traffic on the road. They are both nephews. Why haven’t I seen him so concerned about me?”

Zhao Xiaolan was suddenly unable to refute. She asked again, “Ah Feng, what’s going on?”

Chen Feng was afraid that his family would misunderstand, so he briefly explained, “Last night, little uncle went to the county town to drink and had a conflict with someone. He called me to help. I happened to have an acquaintance in the county town who helped to settle it.”

“Really? Why didn’t he call me last night?” Chen Rui was suddenly a little unhappy.

Zhao Xiaolan said unhappily, “Could you have gone if he had called you?”

These words had a hidden meaning.

Chen Feng heard it and immediately interrupted, “I helped little uncle and let him save face in front of his friends, so he’s like this to me. I can’t stand it. Mom, you can talk to him next time. I’m his nephew after all. There’s no need for him to flatter me like this.”

“He’s really something. Why did he go to the county town to drink?”

Chen Rui said with a full stomach of resentment, “Last time we went to great uncle’s house, he won several thousand yuan from me and Dad. He must have gone to have fun.”

It was really like that. Chen Rui didn’t wrong him.

“Alright, let’s go. Don’t let your grandmother and aunt wait too long.”

Zhao Xiaolan wisely changed the subject.

“Chen Feng, you drive in front. Have you turned on the navigation?”

“Yes, it’s on.”

The two brothers drove one after the other towards Tianzhou.

First, they took the national highway. After two or three kilometers, they got on the highway. They drove straight on the highway for about two hours, and then drove for another twenty or thirty minutes to his aunt’s house.