Chapter 24 Sorry Mom, I Wet the Bed
As soon as Wu Jianguo walked to the door of his house, he smelled the tempting aroma of meat buns. He could tell from the smell that they were buns with pork and green onion filling.
Teacher Li had just brought the buns out of the kitchen when her husband came back. "You're back on time! The meal is ready. Go wash your hands and have dinner."
"Mom, why are the buns so delicious today?" He loves buns, so his mother-in-law often makes them.
But this was the first time he had seen such delicious dumplings. Wu Jianguo simply thought that his mother-in-law had learned from others and improved her craft.
"I don't have such good cooking skills." Zhao Chunhong walked out of the kitchen carrying a pot of porridge.
Isn’t it paid by your mother-in-law?
Wu Jianguo looked at his wife.
Teacher Li told him how the buns came about. Wu Jianguo frowned and asked, "I heard someone say Xiao Yu abused his children at home. Is that true?"
Zhao Chunhong lowered her eyelids guiltily, and said nothing, just scooping porridge in silence.
If my daughter and son-in-law knew that I went to the Gu family and said some things without understanding the situation, causing Xiao Yu to feel wronged and hurt, and that I wanted to divorce Captain Gu, I would definitely have to blame myself.
Teacher Li shook his head and said, "I don't think this is true. Qian Lan, from Captain Yu's family, lives next door to the Gu family, but she assured me that Xiao Yu is dedicated to taking care of the children and is an honest man, not the kind of person who would abuse children."
"The younger one is very kind to her. She has raised him until he is plump and white."
Zhao Chunhong finally spoke up, "The two younger ones are very close to her. They came to deliver buns today, and the third one came along too. The younger ones are really plump and white, and the third one looks better than before."
She said this because she felt guilty, so she tried to clear Xiao Yu's name in front of her son-in-law.
"It seems there is a misunderstanding." Wu Jianguo said.
"It should be." Teacher Li handed him a bun.
Wu Jianguo took a bite and his eyes suddenly lit up.
He loves eating steamed buns. He has traveled to many places in the past years and eaten many steamed buns with different flavors, but this is the first time he has eaten such delicious steamed buns.
Gu Huai's wife is really good at cooking.
The Wu family ate up nearly thirty buns in one meal, and Wu Jianguo ate ten of them with porridge.
After eating, I felt so full that I picked up my little daughter and took the two older children out for a walk.
They all ate too much. If they don't take a walk to help digest the food, they won't be able to sleep at night.
The meatball soup was eaten with meat buns with thin skin and big fillings, which made the three brothers Gu Dong, Gu Nan, and Gu Xi's stomachs full.
Beibei ate meatball soup with steamed bun skins. There was no salt in her meatball soup. Salt was added after the soup was scooped out for her.
But it still didn't stop her from eating with relish.
I didn’t finish the buns, there were about fifteen left.
Yu Hui picked them up and put them in a basin, then placed them in a pot of cold water to cool them down. They would not go bad even if they were left there overnight.
Tomorrow morning, I will cook a pot of porridge and eat it directly with buns for breakfast.
Yu Hui was cleaning in the kitchen while the four children were sitting in the main room.
"Mom didn't even have meatball soup tonight." Gu Xixi said in a low voice with a frown.
Tonight, they all had a bowl of meatball soup, but Mom didn't. She drank the weird-tasting tomato and egg soup left over from lunch.
Gu Dong and Gu Nan also saw it and felt an indescribable feeling in their hearts.
They felt that their stepmother gave them the delicious food and kept the unpalatable food for herself.
Moreover, this happened after he was so angry.
"Sister, mom is fine, right?" Seeing that her two brothers didn't say anything, Gu Xixi looked at her sister and asked.
Beibei, who was sitting in the cradle playing with his toes, stared with his round eyes and nodded vigorously.
"...No matter how good she is, she is not our biological mother." Gu Nan said in a low voice, and grandma said that this was all sugar-coated bullets.
If they were all conquered by the sugar-coated bullets, the stepmother would reveal her true colors and they would become pitiful little cabbages.
The father doesn't love me, the mother doesn't love me, and the stepmother kicks me hard.
Yes, no matter how good she is, she is not our biological mother.
Gu Dong said in his heart.
It was late at night. After Yu Hui coaxed Beibei to sleep, she took a flashlight and went to the cave where the lights were turned off to take a look.
All three children fell asleep, Gu Dong slept on the outside, Gu Nan slept in the middle, and Gu Xi slept in the innermost part, against the wall.
Yu Hui pulled the quilt for Gu Xi, then reached out and touched Gu Nan's forehead to make sure he didn't have a fever. Then she tucked the quilt for Gu Dong and turned to leave.
When she turned around, the sleeping Gu Dong opened his eyes and stared at her back for a while. He closed his eyes only after she closed the door.
At three o'clock in the middle of the night, Gu Dong woke up because he had to pee. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw a person standing beside the bed. He was so scared that he quickly closed his eyes tightly.
The person standing by the bed reached out and touched Gu Nan beside him, "Fortunately, there is no fever."
Wait, this person is Yu Hui.
Did she come to see if her second brother had a fever?
At this moment, he could hear the crowing of chickens in the distance. It should be two or three o'clock. She was able to get up so late to feel her second brother to see if he had a fever.
He discovered it twice in one night.
Yu Hui saw that the quilt on Gu Dong had hit his waist, so she pulled the quilt for him and tucked in the corners.
I noticed that his eyes were tightly closed and his brows were tightly furrowed, and subconsciously I thought that this kid was having a nightmare.
This is what the children in the orphanage experience when they have nightmares.
"What kind of nightmare is this? Why are you so scared in the dream?"
"Be good, dreams are all fake, all fake, just sleep peacefully, just sleep..." Yu Hui comforted him softly while gently patting Gu Dong's chest with her hand.
Gu Dong: “…”
Did his stepmother think he was having a nightmare?
It was the first time he had been comforted so gently, and the first time someone had patted him so gently.
This feeling is so... so warm and reassuring.
Gu Dong, who was about to get up to pee, fell asleep again after being comforted like this.
Yu Hui left only after seeing Gu Dong’s brows relaxed.
Not long after she left, Gu Dong, who had been looking for a toilet in his dream, finally found it.
The next morning, Gu Dong lifted the quilt, looked at the map he had drawn in silence for a moment, and looked at Gu Xi who was sleeping in the innermost bed.
"Gu Xi, I told you to pee before going to bed. Look, you wet the bed."
Yu Hui brushed her teeth and washed her face under the eaves and was about to go to the kitchen to make breakfast when she heard the voice of Gu Dong scolding Gu Xi from the east wing.
Gu Xi sat on the bed with a pouty look on his face, his head lowered and not saying a word.
Woo, I went to the toilet after dinner, but I didn’t go to the toilet because I didn’t have urine in my stomach before going to bed.
I didn’t even dream about looking for a toilet, so why did I wet the bed?
Gu Xixi couldn't understand why she wet the bed.
"What's wrong?" Yu Hui walked into the room.
Gu Dong saw that she felt guilty for a moment. Before he could say anything, Gu Xixi knelt on the bed and apologized pitifully, "I'm sorry, Mom. I wet the bed."
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