Chapter 286 Anyway, I Didn’t Abuse Your Son
Pu Xianglan's expression changed several times. "What do you mean? Are you saying that I didn't feed your son enough?"
"You are such a good guy, Li Zhuang. You think I have abused your son, right?" Pu Xianglan started to make a fuss.
"I didn't say that, and I don't think so." Li Zhuang shook his head. He had no right to say anything about Pu Xianglan because he himself was not good to his eldest son Dongdong and had always ignored him.
Even though he knew that his son was not full, he, as a father, never shared a single bite from his own bowl with his son.
"But today someone asked me in person if I had any difficulties at home. If I had any difficulties, I should tell the organization and seek their help."
Pu Xianglan was stunned.
"Who asked?"
"Deputy Captain Gu, they saw Dongdong's clothes were thin and ill-fitting, his face was blue from the cold, and he was as thin as a monkey, so they asked if our family was in trouble."
"Luckily, he doesn't know I'm a second marriage, otherwise, what do you think he would think of us?"
Li Zhuang felt that Deputy Captain Gu was not pointing fingers at him, and he really thought that the child's condition was caused by difficulties in his family.
But if Dongdong is still like that when he meets him next time, no one knows what he will think.
Pu Xianglan's eyes wandered. "Who cares what he thinks? Anyway, I didn't abuse your son, and I didn't deprive him of food or clothes."
Li Zhuang said: "We have a clear conscience, but if outsiders saw Dongdong's expression and knew that we were getting married for the second time, they would think too much."
"We both have jobs. If this gets to our workplace, how are we going to live?"
What people despise the most nowadays is the vicious stepmother. If there is a stepmother, the stepfather becomes the biological father. If this news really gets to the workplace, they can forget about holding their heads up.
Pu Xianglan pursed her lips and said nothing. In fact, some neighbors had already pointed fingers at her, saying behind her back that she was a cruel stepmother who treated her stepson harshly.
"Let Dongdong eat more." Li Zhuang said.
It’s time for dinner and Li Dongdong’s clothes have been washed.
He wiped his cold, red hands on his clothes, sat on a stool, and looked at the bowl in front of him with some surprise.
Is this really his bowl?
Why are there so many more sides?
Could it be that mom picked the wrong one?
Seeing his son not moving his chopsticks, Li Zhuang said, "What are you looking at? Eat quickly. If the noodles clump together, they won't taste good."
Pu Xianglan glanced at her stepson and stuffed a big mouthful of noodles into her mouth.
This was the first time Li Dongdong had a full meal at home since he had a stepmother.
After dinner, Pu Xianglan carried her daughter back to the bedroom.
Li Dongdong was washing dishes in the kitchen. He liked washing dishes very much because he could use hot water.
Li Zhuang followed Pu Xianglan into the bedroom. When she saw him come in, Pu Xianglan snorted and turned her face away.
"Xianglan, when you are free, please make a cotton-padded jacket for Dongdong."
Pu Xianglan glared at him and continued to make a cotton-padded jacket.
Li Zhuang explained, "Deputy Commander Gu likes our Dongdong very much. He also praised Dongdong for being sensible and asked him to come to his house often to play. The weather is getting colder and colder. We can't let Dongdong wear a thin layer of clothing and go to Deputy Commander Gu's house to play while freezing black."
Pu Xianglan frowned, "Do we really have to go to his house to play?"
Li Zhuang nodded seriously, "If you were someone like me with more connections, could get promoted sooner, and get a raise, you'd have to let Dongdong play with Deputy Captain Gu's children more often."
Pu Xianglan felt uncomfortable when she thought about having to buy new cloth and new cotton to make a new cotton-padded jacket for Li Dongdong, who was not her own son.
But thinking of what Li Zhuang said about promotion and salary increase, she nodded.
If they could establish a good relationship with a deputy regimental-level cadre, it would definitely be beneficial to their Li Zhuang family and not harmful.
"Is Beibei asleep?"
Gu Huai walked into the bedroom carrying two glucose bottles filled with hot water and closed the door with his foot.
Yu Hui lay on her side on the bed, gently patting Beibei's back and saying in a low voice, "He fell asleep. Feifei was just saying that she would wait for Daddy to come back, but she fell asleep as soon as she turned her head."
Before going to bed, Beibei always likes to play flying high games with his father.
Gu Huai smiled, wrapped the thermos with the old clothes hanging at the end of the bed, and stuffed it into the quilt, just at the position of Yu Hui's feet.
Yu Hui glanced at Gu Huai. Ever since he was caught secretly warming her feet, he went to get two empty glucose bottles. Every night, he filled them with hot water, wrapped them in old clothes, and put them in her bed.
Gu Huai got on the bed, lay down, looked at Yu Hui sideways and said, "I met Li Dongdong's father when I came back today."
"Do you know his father?" Yu Hui asked.
"I don't know him." Gu Huai said, "He took the initiative to call me and said he was Li Dongdong's father."
Then Gu Huai told Yu Hui what he said after meeting Li Zhuang, as well as the other party's reaction and answer.
"I don't know if what I said will be of any use, or if it will make them treat the child a little better."
Yes, he said those words on purpose.
Yu Hui thought for a moment and said, "As long as Li Zhuang still wants his son to play with Dongdong, he should be nice to the child. I heard from Dongdong that Dongdong gave him a very expensive diary. It cost 15 cents. The money was given by Dongdong's father."
The child is in that state, and Li Zhuang doesn't seem like someone who can give him pocket money.
Most likely, they gave money because they heard that they were attending the birthday party of Deputy Captain Gu's son, so that the child could buy a nice gift.
From this, it can be seen that Li Zhuang also wanted Li Dongdong to play with their Gu Dong.
"I hope they can treat the child better. Li Zhuang is the child's biological father. How can he see his child in that state and still do nothing?" Gu Huai couldn't understand.
Yu Hui looked at him and said, "There's a saying, 'If you have a stepmother, you have a stepfather.' That's why your good sons tried every possible way to drive me away."
Gu Huai immediately apologized with a smile, "That's because the children are ignorant. You are the best stepmother in the world. If you were to leave, the children would definitely cry and beg you not to go."
He hoped that she would never leave.
Yu Hui curled her lips and said, "Even if it is possible."
When she thought about the pitiful look of the children crying and begging her not to leave when she left in three years, she felt a little bit uncomfortable.
The couple chatted for a while about Yu Qiang's mother coming to recuperate, and then fell asleep.
The next day was the winter solstice. Yu Qiang's mother arrived in the afternoon. Yu Qiang took the whole afternoon off and borrowed a car to pick her up at the train station.
Yu Qiang's mother came alone. Yu Zhuang sent her on the train and got off. She called Yu Qiang to tell him the arrival time of the train and the carriage number, and asked him to come to the station to pick her up.
Yu Qiang entered the station wearing a military uniform. When most people had gotten off the train, he explained the situation to the conductor and got back on the train to carry the people off.
Yu Qiang's mother Bao Pandi brought a bag containing two sets of clothes. The thick clothes were the cotton-padded jacket she was wearing. She waited to arrive at her eldest son's house and ask her eldest daughter-in-law to make new clothes for her.
Yu Qiang carried his mother out of the train station and onto the jeep.
It was the first time for Bao Pandi to ride in such a nice car. He touched it here and there, then looked at his eldest son and asked, "Qiangzi, you've been promoted to battalion commander. Is this the car the army has assigned to you?"
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