Chapter 48 Chapter 48 "Team Leader, I want to ask for leave."...

"Huh?" Charlie's eyes widened. "You mean my uncle? He passed away two years ago."

Jiang Dong nodded silently.

"By the way, I forgot to ask you where you live last time, and there is no way to contact you. What if Jiang Zai insists on looking for you?" Xia Li thought of this and asked Jiang Dong.

Jiang Dong thought for a moment, then gave his address. "I live in Shiban Village, No. 366. Even if you can't find me for something, don't rush over there unless it's something really important. Remember, it's a mixed crowd there. I'll buy you a pager someday."

"Okay, then hurry up and go." She urged, also a little worried that they would meet again on the road.

Jiang Dong looked at her, sighed, shook his head, and strode away.

Charlie watched his figure vaguely emerge from the alley before returning to the house.

It was already past noon when Xia Pingzhi brought Jiang Zai back home. Xia Li was too lazy to cook, so she bought some food outside and ate it anyway. She was alone at noon anyway.

When my aunt returned home and saw that the materials that had been piled in the hallway were gone, she asked, "Xia Li, has it been fixed?"

"Yes, it was done in just over an hour this morning." Charlie came out to the living room.

Xia Pingzhi was a little confused, "There should be some materials left, right? They should be endless, right?" Such a small gap.

Charlie smiled and replied to her aunt, "How could I possibly use it all? I helped patch up the cracks in the roof, so I didn't use it all. I put it in the utility room later, thinking I could use it next time."

I hope I don’t need it, but I can’t live without it when I do. Anyway, there is a lot of space in the house to store all these miscellaneous things.

Xia Pingzhi nodded. "Did he eat at home after work? You just let him go?" Seeing Xia Li hum, she said helplessly, "Alas, you didn't tell me he came this morning. If I had known, I wouldn't have gone out today. Your colleague came over, but you didn't treat him well."

Her aunt's face was filled with apology and embarrassment, so Xia Li didn't dare say anything more. She just let her aunt think that it was her colleague who came to help. Otherwise, after knowing that it was Jiang Dong, she didn't know how to explain it clearly. After all, the relationship between the two of them was unclear.

Xia Li herself didn't know how to face Jiang Dong. Now that Jiang Dong had found her, she no longer had to worry about him finding her at any moment. Jiang Dong's attitude towards her was completely different from what she had expected. Although she didn't know why, she knew that this situation was actually the best it could be.

Life is still under control.

Jiangzai must have gone out with his aunt, had some delicious food, walked around, and felt much more cheerful. The melancholy on his little face had finally disappeared.

Now, there is a smile on his face.

While her aunt was out of the living room, Xia Li walked over to Jiang Zai, sat down next to him, and asked him, "How was it, Zai? Did you eat well today?"

Jiangzai turned his head and looked at his mother: "I didn't say I wanted to eat that, it was mom who said that. I wanted to wait for dad to come find me. Mom, did dad come to see me today?"

Xia Li was stunned for a moment, then smiled awkwardly and said, "Didn't your father say he had to work yesterday? How could he come to see you so soon?" Seeing Jiang Zai's expression instantly turn sad, Xia Li quickly said, "But since your father told you, he will definitely come in two days. He's a real man, he shouldn't have lied to you, right?"

Jiang Zai shook his head and said loudly: "Dad won't lie to me."

Why was he so excited all of a sudden? Xia Li quickly reached out and covered his mouth. "Keep your voice down, ancestor, don't let your aunt hear you. By the way, you didn't say anything you shouldn't have said when you went out today, did you? What did we say last night?"

Last night, Xia Li found some time and called Jiang Zai to her room, in order to warn him not to tell her about his meeting with his father.

Of course Jiangzai would ask why. He also wanted his aunt to meet his father. His father was a very nice person, and his aunt had never met him.

Xia Li felt that she had told too many lies in front of her child. He was still young and couldn't tell the difference. What if he learned it when he grew up? Parents are their children's first teachers. She was the one with the primary responsibility for the child. It would be unacceptable if she taught him bad things.

She didn't want to lie to her child anymore. Telling lies would inevitably alienate the relationship between father and son. But if she told the truth, how could she explain it to her child clearly?

At that time, I could only tell Jiangzai that you would know when you grow up.

It was the same old cliché. She used to get annoyed when adults said it, but she never imagined she would have to use it on her own child one day.

Jiang Zai agreed last night, and Xia Li even made a pinky promise with him to be on the safe side.

"I told my aunt that my mother took me to see my father yesterday morning." Jiang Zai suddenly wanted to say to Xia Li with a smile.

"What?" Charlie stood up suddenly and shouted in surprise.

Xia Pingzhi heard it and walked out of the bathroom with soap on her hands and asked, "What's wrong with you? Are you okay?" She stood at the bathroom door, looking at the mother and son sitting on the sofa, with a look of worry on her face.

"Oh, nothing, aunt, you are busy." Charlie replied.

At this moment, she also calmed down, and her loss of composure only lasted for a moment.

Xia Li pouted and sat back on the sofa. She reached out and flicked Jiangzai, "You little thing, when did you learn to lie to your mother? You even told me you told your aunt, but how could you? I don't believe it. Jiangzai is a very good and honest child. I trust him."

Jiang Zai had indeed been clever just now, thinking he had really tricked his mother, and he was very happy. Although his mother saw through him again, she still praised him, which made him very happy. However, he still looked at Xia Li with a bit of accusation: "Mom, why are you as good at flicking my forehead as Dad?"

"It was your father who shot me too. I just got my revenge." Charlie answered as a matter of course.

Jiangzai: "When did Dad play Mom? Why didn't I see him yesterday?"

Of course your father hit me hard this morning when you were not around, Charlie thought to herself, and she would never dare to hit me hard, children's brains are so fragile.

After washing her hands, Xia Pingzhi went to the living room to sit down and rest. Xia Li stood up and gave her a glass of water.

"Aunt, you drink."

"Yeah, okay," Xia Pingzhi continued. She went on to talk about today's meal. "You don't even know how crowded that fast food restaurant is. How could there be so many people? And the food isn't cheap. They say living conditions are really good now, and everyone's spending power has gone up a lot."

"Yeah, but there are definitely more people taking children there. The elders are thinking about what the children like!"

"I see that the restaurant also sells chicken, and it's fried, which is not very healthy. I'll buy a local chicken next time and cook it for my child using the method here. That's how delicious it is. The chicken fried outside doesn't taste like chicken at all," said Xia Pingzhi.

Xia Li also really liked the chicken her aunt cooked. It had been ages since they had eaten it since there were only the two of them at home, so it wasn't worth making. "Okay, leave it to me. I remember Uncle Wu, the security guard at our factory, has his own chickens. He asked me about it before. I'll find time to ask him and buy some from him if he has any."

"That's great." It's naturally better to buy from someone you know, and the quality is also guaranteed.

As the two were talking, Jiang Zai suddenly yawned. Who knew it would be contagious, and his aunt yawned too.

Xia Pingzhi asked Jiang Zai, "Let's go take a nap, ok?"

Jiangzai rubbed his eyes, and his eyelids were drooping.

"Then aunt, you two go and have a rest. I'll go check if the door is closed and then go into the house to read a book." Xia Li arranged.

Inside the factory, after a busy morning of work, Xia Li was having lunch when Zhao Haiyan came over with a lunch box.

"Sister Xia Li." Zhao Haiyan greeted Xia Li.

Xia Li was picking up some food with her chopsticks when she heard someone talking to her and sitting across from her. Xia Li looked up and said, "Oh, it's Haiyan! What's wrong?"

Zhao Haiyan wasn't afraid of interacting with people. When Xia Li asked her, she swallowed the food in her mouth before telling her, "Nothing much. We just went out with Zhao Qingqing on the weekend, and we were thinking of going out to dinner with you, Sister Xia Li."

"Sure, no problem. By the way, how are things in your dorms with the typhoon a few days ago? I've been busy these past two days and haven't had time to ask you."

Xia Li knew the conditions of the dormitories well; after all, she had lived there for over a year. It was crowded, cold in the winter and hot in the summer, making it incredibly uncomfortable.

"There wasn't much damage in the dormitory, and no one's belongings got wet. I heard the office windows weren't closed tightly in the middle of the night, and the wind blew them open, sending things flying everywhere and sweeping in the rain. There were people in the dormitory, and everyone was on high alert. But we heard that gust of wind at night, and it was terrifying. It was so strong, we were worried the house and us would be blown away. Fortunately, the wind and rain died down, and everyone finally went to sleep." Zhao Haiyan still feels a lingering fear when she mentions that night. After all, she'd never seen such strong winds and heavy rain before. They were so scared in the middle of the night, and only when they left the dormitory early the next morning did they realize just how powerful the typhoon was. Several of the trees lining the factory road were completely uprooted. It was terrifying, wasn't it?

Zhao Haiyan described it vividly, and Xia Li was also worried. After all, whoever lives in that kind of dormitory and that kind of house will be worried.

"It's true that this typhoon is more powerful. I haven't seen one this severe in the past few years. The house we live in is leaking. We've never seen anything like this before."

After lunch and a short rest, the afternoon work began again.

Her daily work was done step by step. She was walking back and forth checking when a person walked up to her.

"What's wrong with you, Fang?"

"Team Leader, I want to ask for leave."