Chapter 38 I'll go kowtow to this whole family.

The next morning, Yu Xue went to check out the two companies recommended by Wen Feng, and then looked at a few more on her own. After that, she took the collected information to Wen Feng.

Wen Feng had just finished a meeting. He picked out a few restaurants and planned to go out to eat with Yu Xue, but as soon as he stepped out of the company gate, he saw Yu Xue carrying a food box.

Yu Xue said, "It was sunny today, and I felt a bit hot, so I went home to change my clothes. Luckily, the chef was there, so I asked him to cook some food, which I brought over with me."

"Oh." Wen Feng took her bag and said, "It's fine since there's heating in the company, but I'm worried it'll be cold when I get back after the sun has set."

Yu Xue: "It's okay. I'll have dinner with you and chat for a while. It'll be around 2 PM at most. I'll leave once you start work. I want to go see my mother. I don't know if she's home. I'll go check on her first. If she's not feeling well, I'll stay with her for a couple of days, or I can bring her here and let her sleep in your room while you sleep in mine."

Wen Feng said, "Okay."

When Yu Xue entered, she saw a woman waiting at the office door. She was probably Wen Feng's secretary, whom Yu Xue had met before. When the woman saw Yu Xue, she paused for a moment.

Yu Xue was also taken aback. What happened? A love rival? That shouldn't be the case. She remembered that Wen Feng's secretary was a very nice person. Once, when Yu Xue came to the company to deliver something, she didn't bring an umbrella, and the secretary even took the initiative to hold the umbrella and walk her part of the way. Then, the secretary asked to take a picture with her.

The secretary hesitated for a moment, but finally took it out. In her hand was a rectangular red box. "Mr. Wen, Mrs. Wen, I'm here to deliver wedding candy. I'm getting married. I'm sorry, I didn't expect you to come, so I brought one."

"It's alright, it's alright." Yu Xue breathed a sigh of relief and quickly said, "Wedding candy is more about blessings. Happy wedding, let me send you a red envelope."

Yu Xue took out her phone.

"I can't accept this..." the secretary said, but still opened the payment code.

Yu Xue had never attended a wedding before and didn't know how much to transfer. She thought for a moment and felt that transferring more would definitely not be wrong. After all, he was Wen Feng's employee and not a stranger. She could just consider the extra amount as a bonus. With that in mind, she transferred five thousand yuan and said, "Happy wedding."

The secretary received the money, her face beaming with joy. She thanked him repeatedly and left happily.

Wen Feng went to the restroom next door to wash his hands. When he came out, Yu Xue had already set out the food and arranged the gym brochures according to her preferences.

Wen Feng walked to the table, and the first thing he did was to help Yu Xue choose something.

Yu Xue snatched the brochure from his hand and said, "Let's eat first, and I'll explain it to you while we eat."

Yu Xue picked up a piece of fish for Wen Feng and said, "The first one is my favorite. The environment is decorated very well. I mainly like the environment. There are private gyms, and each gym has a different theme and is decorated very beautifully. It's just that I don't really like the fitness coach who led the way to me. I don't like what he said."

Wen Feng: "What did he say?"

Yu Xue: "He said that girls definitely like the pink or purple theme... I was actually planning to choose the pink theme, but after he said that, I don't want to anymore. But if I don't choose the theme I like, then I won't have to go to their house!"

“But I want to choose that theme again.” Yu Xue had been struggling with this decision the whole way. “It’s just that I don’t like what the fitness coach says, but I can work out on my own, so I don’t need a coach. Uh… actually, I was originally planning to sign up for fitness classes. I felt that if I signed up for classes and someone kept urging me, I would stick with it. Otherwise, I might forget about it after a few days.”

Wen Feng: "I can urge you every week. If you sign up for this, I'll go with you every week. Or, you can change your coach. They probably have more than one coach."

Yu Xue held up two fingers and pointed to the second brochure. "Uh... they don't have female instructors. Actually, if they didn't have any, I probably wouldn't have thought of that. But the second one does, and she said she knows me, has heard my songs, and is a bit of a fan. I chatted with her for a while, and she's quite professional and very likeable. She said she just arrived here, and if I go, I'll be her first student. Hmm... I want her to make money from this, but I still can't let go of that pink suite; that place is decorated so beautifully."

Wen Feng was amused by her tone and said, "How about this, you choose the second one, and we'll go home and tidy up the rooms, decorating our room in pink. Or we can take a picture at the gym and I'll decorate it exactly the same for you."

“Okay!” Yu Xue put another piece of fish on his plate. “There must be formaldehyde in the newly installed house. So, once it’s finished, we’ll take the housekeeper and the chef and move into the house I bought. It’s not far away. We can let the smell dissipate before moving in.”

Wen Feng readily agreed and picked up a piece of fish for her as well, saying, "Don't just eat vegetables, you need to eat meat too. An unbalanced diet will make you sick."

Yu Xue: "It's not that I don't eat meat. I don't like eating fish because I have to pick out the bones. I choked on one when I was a child."

Wen Feng: "I'll point out your flaws."

Yu Xue: "No, it's impossible to clean it all. I have to be very careful every time I eat it. It's okay, I won't eat it today. I'll ask the chef to make mutton vermicelli tomorrow. I love that."

After the two finished their meal, Yu Xue stayed with Wen Feng in the office for a while. When she woke up, Wen Feng was still asleep. Not knowing whether to wake him, she took his phone and set an alarm for 2:30, which was their company's working hours, and then quietly left.

Today is a weekday, so Mom is very likely not home. However, since Yu Xue is planning to stay there for a week anyway, it doesn't really matter whether she's there or not.

Her mother had a change of clothes, so she didn't take anything else, just her phone.

To her surprise, not only was her mother there, but her grandparents were also there. When she entered the room, before she could even call out "Mom," she saw two figures blocking her way. Both of them were very old; her grandfather was holding a cane, and her grandmother could barely sit up straight.

"Xuexue!" Liu Xin exclaimed in surprise. She stood up and strode to the door. "Why didn't you say you were coming? Are you feeling any better?"

After offering her condolences, she glanced back at her grandfather, whose face looked unwell, and said, "Grandpa and Grandma are here. We're discussing something and it's not convenient for us. Why don't you go home first? Mom will come find you later."

Grandpa's gaze followed Liu Xin the whole time; his pursed lips and glaring eyes made his whole face look terrifying.

Yu Xue had seen that same look on her grandfather's face before. She took Liu Xin's hand and said, "Mom, I'll stay with you."

Two against two is always better than one against two.

The two of them helped each other to the sofa and sat down.

Yu Xue secretly sent Wen Feng a message, asking him to come over if he had time.

Grandma glanced at Yu Xue, then looked at Liu Xin, and said, "Your parents didn't mean anything by it. They just thought that Yuan Yuan was sick, and we're too old to take care of her. Wen Feng is busy with work, so they wanted to find a woman to take care of Yuan Yuan."

Liu Xin looked into her grandmother's eyes and said, "Mom, I have a job, I have to go to work. Today you insisted that there was an emergency at home and asked me to take leave. This is already the biggest concession I can make. Quitting is definitely not an option. Wen Feng has arranged for a lot of staff to guard the ICU entrance, so nothing will happen. I'm not as physically strong as them, what could I do there? Even if Wen Yuan comes out later, there will be caregivers. Those caregivers can clean up his excrement and urine, which I can't do. If I can't take good care of him, it's better to hire a caregiver."

Grandpa's face contorted with rage as he shouted, "Liu Xin, we didn't approve of your marriage back then. It was Yuan Yuan who pleaded with you to come into the family. Yuan Yuan loves you so much! Now that he's sick, you won't even take care of him? How can you be so ungrateful?"

Liu Xin opened her mouth, but couldn't say anything.

Over the years, regardless of how much she still felt for Wen Yuan, Wen Yuan had never done anything to wrong her. She couldn't bring herself to speak ill of Wen Yuan, but as for how much she had given, it was just so-so.

Yu Xue said, "Grandpa, Dad and Mom have a good relationship. If Dad were here, he definitely wouldn't let Mom give up her job. He knows how important her job is to her."

Grandpa looked at Yu Xue, his expression softening, and said reasonably, "Yu Xue, you don't know, back then, our family was very opposed to Liu Xin marrying into the family. It was Yuan Yuan who knelt down and begged us, and we had no choice but to agree. He loves Liu Xin so much, and now that he's sick, shouldn't your mother, as his daughter-in-law, go and take care of him?"

Yu Xue looked up from the table at her grandfather, her heart trembled when she met his pale pupils, and she immediately looked away again.

This grandfather looks a lot like her grandfather; both have pursed lips, short hair with stray white hair, sharp eyes, and light-colored pupils.

They are exactly the same, yet completely different.

Their faces were completely different, but their expressions were exactly the same.

She thought back to her childhood.

When Grandma heard that Mom was pregnant with a boy, she traveled all the way from her hometown to take care of her.

But after arriving, Chen Wanxi had an even harder time. Her grandparents were old and had cooked all their lives, but suddenly they couldn't cook anymore. They couldn't even cook noodles properly, so Chen Wanxi had to cook.

After working hard for half her life, Chen Wanxi suddenly doesn't even know how to wash her underwear. Since her underwear can't be washed with the washing machine, she has to wash it alone in the toilet while she's pregnant.

The two elders sat in the living room. Grandma sat motionless, watching TV like a puppet, while Grandpa paced aimlessly around the house like a robot. Yu Xue was caught between them, afraid to move or speak, only able to keep squeezing her arms.

The sound of running water in the bathroom made Yu Xue want to help, but she didn't dare, afraid that if she went over, she would get a scolding from Chen Wanxi, or even be beaten with a washboard. If her grandparents came over and scolded her mother, her parents would start arguing again that night.

She looked up at Wen Feng's grandfather again, and this time, her heart wouldn't allow her to remain silent.

Yu Xue: "If our family is so poor that we can't afford a caregiver, then we should indeed take turns taking care of him. But it's not that our family is incapable. My father is lying in the ICU and can't even get out, so we can't go in either. What's the point of my mother going to stay with him?"

Seeing that her grandmother was about to say something, she lowered her eyes and continued looking at the table, but her mouth continued, "Besides, when Dad knelt down back then, he didn't lose his job. He didn't lose anything from kneeling, and he even won the heart of a beautiful woman. Over the years, Mom has given birth to his children, given up her job and future for him, all for the sake of this family. But what did he do? He became a father for no reason, without having to give anything, not even to accompany Mom on maternity leave or take care of the children. How can his kindness to Mom not require any substantial sacrifice, just kneeling is enough? How can Mom lose her job for him? If you think kneeling is a sacrifice, I can kowtow to you two on Mom's behalf right now. If that's not enough, I can kowtow at the entrance of the ICU. I don't care about what people say. After I kowtow, let's not mention this matter again."

As she spoke, she got up and walked out.

"What are you doing!" Grandpa stood up, leaning on his cane, and shouted.

Mom quickly stood up as well.

Yu Xue: "Go and kowtow."

"Stop her! Stop her!" Grandma shouted.

Mom took Yu Xue's hand.

Yu Xue glanced into her mother's eyes and sat down.

Grandma said angrily, "You're shameless, but the Wen family has a sense of shame."

Yu Xue nodded: "Yes, I'm shameless, and my children may be shameless in the future too. Starting with our generation, the Wen family can change this bad habit of caring about face. Bowing more often can solve a lot of problems."

Grandpa was so angry that he couldn't speak.

The room remained silent for a long time.

Grandma spoke again, saying, "Liu Xin, it's understandable that you're busy with work. How about this, we each take a step back and let Yu Xue take care of her."

"No way!" Liu Xin refused outright. "Xuexue doesn't work because she's not feeling well. Mother-in-law, there's a limit to your unreasonable behavior. If you want to wait outside the hospital, go ahead! Go every day! I'll have someone bring you a bed and deliver lunch to you every day. How about that?"

She stood up and said, "The child is here. I don't want to say anything unpleasant, but Wen Yuan and I have been married for so many years. You can all see with your own eyes who has lost more. I even lost my job to have his child! Now that I've finally found this job, do I have to lose it again because he's sick? If you think marriage means I have to obey your every word, then let's get a divorce."

She turned to take Yu Xue's hand, but suddenly, her grandmother tugged at her clothes. Liu Xin lost her balance and fell onto the sofa. Yu Xue quickly pulled her up, and her grandfather also joined in to help her grandmother hold Liu Xin down.

The housekeeper threw down the kettle, rushed over, and pulled the grandparents apart.

Yu Xue helped Liu Xin sit on the sofa.

Grandpa was about to hit her with his cane when Yu Xue, quick-witted as ever, shouted, "I'm pregnant!"

grandfather:!

grandmother:!

Liu Xin: !

Wen Feng, who had just reached the door: !