Because Mu Shengnan was still staying at home today, she left for work more than forty minutes earlier than Huang Jianjun and the others.
Huang Eryuan and Chen Zhaodi regained the right to use the bicycle, so they went out a little later than the Huang brothers.
So when it was just the two of them, Huang Jianguo finally voiced his grievances from the previous night.
"Jianjun, you lied to Mom and Dad last night, didn't you?"
Huang Jianjun originally thought that since Huang Jianguo hadn't contacted him last night, the matter was over.
Little did they know that Huang Jianguo was planning to settle accounts with him when they were alone.
Although Huang Jianguo was asking Huang Jianjun, he already had a clear answer in his mind. He was certain that Huang Jianjun had lied last night.
"I'm asking you, are you mute?"
Despite Huang Jianguo's perpetually gentle demeanor towards Huang Qinqin, he seems indifferent to Huang Jianjun's lack of respect for him.
But when Huang Jianguo really gets angry, he can be quite frightening.
Huang Jianjun was now in a panic and stammered, "No, no, I'm not mute. Um, I, I was just telling a white lie."
"I changed the order of events mainly because I didn't want my parents to be sad or upset. I didn't do it on purpose..."
After speaking, she cautiously glanced at Huang Jianguo's expression out of the corner of her eye.
Huang Jianguo snorted in dissatisfaction: "It's fine as long as Mom and Dad weren't sad this time."
"I'm warning you, although you should be responsible for your brother's wife after you marry her, if you dare to do anything like forgetting your mother after marrying your wife, you're finished."
"No way! Bro, you're wronging me!"
Huang Jianjun loudly protested his innocence: "I said those things last night just to avoid upsetting my parents."
"Look how happy Mom and Dad are when they heard that Shengnan's parents wanted a house from me."
"Last night, Mom and Dad were practically ready to pack me up and send me to the Mu family right away. Didn't you see that, brother?"
Huang Jianguo scoffed: "So what?"
"Don't think I don't know that what you were thinking back then was just that you didn't want your parents to have any complaints about your younger siblings' parents. Can you honestly say that wasn't true?"
Huang Jianjun lowered his head, somewhat ashamed by what he said, but still wanted to explain: "But that's because..."
"Because you know your parents are soft-hearted and easygoing, they won't care too much about these kinds of details."
"So you subconsciously feel that it's better to make your parents sad than to make your younger siblings' parents sad, right?"
Huang Jianjun didn't want to refute him, but undeniably, he did have this thought in his mind.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have subconsciously taken the responsibility and decided to move out before even telling Huang Eryuan and the others.
To put it bluntly, Huang Jianjun knew that Huang Eryuan and Chen Zhaodi wouldn't stop him, even if they didn't want them to move out.
However, in order to consider Mu Shengnan's feelings and to avoid Huang Jianjun being caught in the middle, they will definitely compromise.
Huang Jianjun may or may not understand, but from the moment he decided to move out, he had already chosen to make things difficult for Chen Zhaodi and the others.
"Brother, I'm sorry, I know I was wrong. I won't do it again."
Seeing that Huang Jianjun knew he had made a mistake, Huang Jianguo did not continue to pursue the matter.
He patted Huang Jianjun on the shoulder and said earnestly, "Actually, what you did last night was appropriate, because it made both sets of elders happy."
“I can understand your helplessness in being caught in the middle. I’m not saying that you have to stand on your parents’ side if this happens again.”
"And you need to know that your parents have backed down because of you, and you need to understand in your heart who is actually compromising for you."
"If I hadn't said anything to you today, would you still think that your parents got the better deal, that they were the biggest beneficiaries?"
Huang Jianjun lowered his head in shame again. Although he didn't say anything, the answer was obvious.
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The next morning
Because she had promised Village Chief Huang that she and Manager Gao would also go to have dinner there, Huang Qinqin was planning to go see Manager Gao again today.
However, while eating breakfast, she suddenly realized that she could write a letter to Manager Gao so that she wouldn't have to make the trip herself.
Without hesitation, Huang Qinqin quickly finished her breakfast and then said to Xu Junhui, "Junhui, wait for me a moment."
"I'm writing a letter to Manager Gao now. Could you take it to him at the department store when you get off work at noon?"
Xu Junhui nodded: "Okay, don't be too anxious, take your time, I'm not in a rush to get to work."
Because she was in a hurry to write a letter to Manager Gao in the morning, Huang Qinqin didn't eat much, and she got hungry again after only an hour.
With difficulty, Huang Qinqin got up from the recliner and called out weakly to Zhang Yumei in the kitchen, "Mom, is there any leftover breakfast?"
"No, Qinqin, are you hungry?"
"Uh, I'm a little hungry."
When Zhang Yumei heard that Huang Qinqin was hungry, she immediately took out some pastries and biscuits from the kitchen and gave them to her.
"Come on, Qinqin, have some peach shortbread or steamed egg cake to fill your stomach first. What do you want to eat? Mom will cook it for you now. Would you like steamed egg custard or noodles?"
Looking at the food in front of her, Huang Qinqin felt no appetite at all: "Mom, I don't really want to eat this. I'm a little tired of it. Do you have any dried longan at home? I'd like to eat some of that."
If anyone else heard Huang Qinqin say that, they would definitely criticize her relentlessly. Who can eat peach shortbread and sponge cake until they're sick of it?
They usually can't even get to eat this when they want it, but Huang Qinqin says she's tired of it. How infuriating is that?
However, Zhang Yumei didn't think there was anything wrong with what she said, because the things that were kept at home were originally for Huang Qinqin, Xu Hongxia and the other children to eat.
It's normal to feel tired of eating too much.
"I'm not sure if there are any left. Mom, go look for them first. It seems like we haven't exchanged any dried longans in a long time."
The last time I went to Chenjia Village to buy dried longan was more than a month before Xu Fang's divorce.
Although we replaced a lot of them that time, we've been eating them for several months now. Plus, we gave some to Chen Zhaodi and the others in between, so there are only a few left at home now.
"Qinqin, there are only a few left at home. You can eat these to satisfy your craving. Then Mom will go and cook you some noodles."
Because Huang Qinqin said she was tired of eating steamed egg custard, Zhang Yumei decided not to steam egg custard for her anymore.
However, she remembered that Huang Qinqin really liked fried eggs, so she asked, "Qinqin, would you like a fried egg added to the noodles?"
Huang Qinqin shook her head: "No need, Mom. You don't need to cook noodles either. I'll just eat some dried longan and drink a cup of malted milk to fill my stomach."
"Okay, Mom will make you a cup now."
Meanwhile, Zhang Yumei silently planned in her heart: it's time to find some time to go to Chenjia Village and exchange some dried longan for some.
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