If it weren't for today's accident, Wei You actually didn't want to confront Wei Shaodong head-on.

After all, he is an outsider, Wei Shaodong is Wei Xu's biological father, and he has no right to tell others how to raise a child.

If Wei Shaodong was really angered, and if he did something to Wei Xu while he was away, or if he was really determined to sell the child, he might not be able to get the child back even if he called the police.

But now, things have obviously developed to the point where they have to be discussed, and Wei You can only muster up his patience and have a good talk with the other party.

"From a legal point of view, you have the obligation to raise your son to adulthood. Not to mention the issue of selling children, abandoning him is illegal." Wei You said this as he sat on the sofa.

Wei Shaodong spread his hands in surprise: "I support him, am I not supporting him? Am I not letting him study? Am I not giving him food to eat?"

"But the way you raise him is just to keep him alive."

"That's none of my business. I'm just an ordinary person. I work outside every day and don't have time to come back to take care of him. My salary is just this much, and I have to eat and drink, pay off my debts, and pay his tuition. This is all the money I can give him." Wei Shaodong sat on the sofa and said in a nonchalant tone.

Wei You was getting angry again, and he said, "Okay, if that's the case, then when he grows up, he will take care of you in the same way. I hope you can still be as confident as you are now."

"I can use his care." Wei Shaodong sneered: "Don't worry, when I can't work anymore, I will go begging, and I won't take a penny from him even if I die under the bridge."

Wei You was stunned. He didn't expect him to say such a thing.

He looked at the other person's brows that revealed stubbornness and impatience, and his expression became complicated: "I really don't understand, what are you trying to achieve by doing this?"

"I just don't like looking at him."

"Why is Wei Xu so obedient? What's wrong with him?"

"Ask his bitch about this!"

Wei You realized that the key problem might lie with Wei Xu's mother, and after a little thought, he asked, "Why did his mother leave?"

"Why so many whys!" As if he had been poked in an untouchable wound, the man suddenly became irritable and stood up and yelled, "I'm so annoying, get out of here, I'm really chatting with you, there's nothing to chat about, why are you meddling in other people's business!"

After saying that, he went straight to the kitchen, opened the refrigerator, took out several bottles of beer and placed them on the cupboard.

As soon as Wei You saw him take out the wine, he knew that this conversation could not continue, so he said: "Okay, then I will say a few last words. Since you don't like him so much, then in the future when you are not around, I will invite him to my house for dinner, or like today, I will help him attend his parents' meeting. Don't interfere too much, let alone say things like selling him to someone else that would make him sad. Considering that he is still your son, make him happy."

Wei Shaodong snorted coldly when he heard that, turned his back to him, opened a bottle of wine, tilted his head back and took a sip, then leaned his hands on the cupboard and looked at the gloomy sky outside the window without turning his head or saying a word.

·

When he returned home, Wei Xu was squatting beside the coffee table, with his head down, kneading the colored plasticine he had just bought today.

When he found Wei You coming back, he immediately put down the plasticine, raised his slightly red eyes to look at him, and asked in a nasal voice: "Brother, do you want to buy the melon seed?"

Wei You didn't expect that he would open his mouth with these words: "What are you thinking about!"

Wei Xu's mouth curled down, and his eyes suddenly became tearful: "Don't you want me?"

"No, buying and selling children is illegal, you know?" Wei You sat down next to him, and wiped his tears and snot with a tissue as usual, then said: "Your father doesn't really want to sell you, he's just too angry. You didn't talk to him at the parent-teacher meeting, but asked me, an outsider, to go. It's normal for him to be angry."

"Brother is not an outsider."

“That’s not the point.”

Wei You sighed, raised his hand and pressed on the top of Wei Xu's forehead: "You don't have to take his words to heart. Anyway, we will still be the same in the future. When you don't want to be at home, just come to your brother's place. The door of my house is always open to you, you little idiot."

Wei Xu blinked hard several times to hold back the tears that were about to flow, sniffed, and then nodded.

Wei You actually wanted to ask him about his mother, but considering that the child was so young and his mother left so early, Wei Xu might not know much about this matter.

In the end, he just patted the child's back soothingly, then stood up and said, "Okay, I'm going to cook, you can continue playing with the plasticine!"

"Yeah." Wei Xu responded and continued to pick up the yellow plasticine and roll it into a small ball.

Wei You went to the side and observed for a while. Seeing that he was playing very seriously and was not affected by what happened before, he went to the kitchen to cook with peace of mind.

·

The following days seemed to have no changes, yet there seemed to be some small changes.

The change is that since the chat with Wei You that day, Wei Shaodong has relaxed his control over Wei Xu. Even if Wei Xu went to sleep next door on weekends when he was at home, he would just ignore it.

It was as if he had gotten rid of a trouble. Apart from putting a few dollars in the drawer every week to fulfill his so-called obligation to raise the child, he didn't mind where Wei Xu did what he did every day.

Despite this, Wei Xu would still go back to his home several times a day. In addition to cleaning, he would also go back to watch TV. After all, Wei You didn't even have a TV.

Time passed in a relatively peaceful life, and soon we entered winter, when we needed to wear cotton jackets and thick sweaters.

Since December, the temperature has dropped sharply, and the trees on both sides of the street have become bare as if overnight.

Wei You was afraid that his child would get cold on the way to school, so he followed the "trend" and bought him a plush hot water bottle to hang around his neck, as well as the four-piece set of winter essentials: a hat, scarf, earmuffs and gloves.

Except for the scarf, the other three items in the four-piece set were bought by Wei You in a shopping mall in the real world. The hat is a pink wool knitted hat with two cute little pig ears on it.

At that time, Wei You went to the mall to buy milk tea. When passing by a jewelry store, he fell in love with this hat at first sight and bought it directly. By the way, he also bought a hat and earmuffs with a pig doll attached to them for his child.

Regardless of whether the child likes it or not, every morning Wei Xu is dressed up as a chubby pig and sent to school by Wei You.

As winter approaches, living in a home without heating and air conditioning becomes unbearable.

After several nights in a row of children unable to bear the cold nights crawled into his bed, Wei You had no choice but to call his landlord, Grandma Li, and have a discussion with her using both emotional and logical means.

Finally, Grandma Li agreed, and the two of them worked together to spend a huge amount of money to install an air conditioner in each room.

Grandma Li promised to pay half of the money for the air conditioners, but she had a condition: when the lease was not renewed, the two air conditioners would remain in the house and Wei You would have no right to deal with them.

Wei You didn't think it mattered. Although he was quite cost-conscious, he wouldn't take away the air conditioner when moving.

After installing air conditioning in the room, Wei Xu spent more time at Wei You's house, and except for watching TV, he almost never went back to his own home.

Speaking of watching TV, it took Wei You a while to discover the pattern. From Monday to Friday at 7 o'clock in the evening, Wei Xu would go home to watch TV without fail, regardless of whether he had taken a shower or not.

At first, Wei You thought that Wei Xu was watching cartoons like Doraemon again, so he didn't pay much attention to it. Until Christmas Eve that day, Wei You had just stood beside the sofa and peeled an apple, and said to Wei Xu, "I want to eat an apple on Christmas Eve." The next second, at seven o'clock, the other party got up and went to the next room.

Wei You was curious about what he was watching, so he followed him with the apple. When he got over, he saw the opening credits of the cartoon on TV coming to an end, and four words "Dragon Ball" appeared next to the screen.

I'm not watching Doraemon anymore!

Wei You was a little surprised. He inexplicably felt that this child seemed to have grown up!

Wei You vaguely remembered watching this cartoon on TV when he was a child.

Out of nostalgia for his childhood, after handing the apple to Wei Xu, he did not go back immediately, but sat on the sofa and watched two episodes of "Dragon Ball" with Guazai.

But maybe it was because he joined the film midway or because he was too old to understand children's thinking, Wei You found that he could not really understand the film.

After one episode was over, he asked Wei Xu, "Do you like this anime?"

Wei Xu nodded repeatedly and said, "I like it."

"What do you like about it?"

"Very cool, little savior Xiaodu!" When talking about his favorite things, Wei Xu's expression suddenly became much richer, and sometimes he couldn't help but make gestures: "He has the Shenlong, can transform into super strength, and has the Denglong Sword, which is super cool."

Wei You understood that the little boy’s dream of mecha had come true.

"So do you want to own the Shenlong?"

"I do," Wei Xu's eyes lit up, "Does my brother have one?"

"No, I'm not that omnipotent yet." Wei You answered with a smile, but he was thinking that when he returned to reality, he could search online to see if there were any models similar to the Shenlong, so he could buy one for his child and help him fulfill his dream.

It was probably Wei You's question that made Wei Xu mistakenly believe that he was interested in the cartoon. When telling a bedtime story, the little boy couldn't help but instill a lot of plot in the cartoon into Wei You.

As he spoke, he would occasionally add a few lines in his soft baby voice, so that when Wei You lay down on the bed that night and turned off the lights, his mind was filled with the sound of "Little Savior Xiaodu" on repeat.

He couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He finally got away from Doraemon's music, but this kid changed the background music again. Is this the trouble of raising a child?

Just as Wei You was sighing about this, he suddenly heard the sound of the door opening.

He opened his eyes and saw a blurry little figure standing at the end of the bed in the dim moonlight.

"Why are you here again?"

Wei Xu walked to the bed in his slippers: "I want to sleep with my brother."

Although the air conditioner was turned on in the room before, the temperature was not very high. Wei You was afraid that he would get cold if he didn't wear enough clothes, so he lifted the quilt and said, "Come up and sleep. Is the air conditioner turned off in the room?"

"Yeah." Wei Xu responded quickly, climbed onto the bed quickly and got into the quilt.

Wei You felt a soft little stove against him and thought to himself, this is good, his left arm will not belong to him again tonight.

Wei Xu hugged his arms habitually and put his cheek on his shoulder. After a moment of silence, he suddenly said, "Brother."

Wei You uttered "hmm" vaguely.

Wei Xu whispered, "Although Guazi likes Xiaodu, he still likes his brother the most."

Wei You has recently gotten used to going to bed early and getting up early with his children, and he felt a little sleepy after closing his eyes for a while.

Hearing this, he raised his hand and casually touched the child's hair, saying perfunctorily: "I know, I know, go to sleep."

Wei Xu snorted softly and fell asleep contentedly.

·

In the middle of the night, Wei Xu felt the quilt was a little cold. He reached out his hand in a daze and felt around, but he only touched a cold pillow.

He opened his eyes confusedly and called out "Brother".

When he got no response, he sat up again and turned on the light.

It was quiet all around.