Chapter 95 (Catching Bugs)
Yunmian also looked up the hillside, and saw that it was empty, without a single person.
"Could your father be lost?" a guess popped into her mind.
Tang Jiayuan shook his head without hesitation: "No, he said he would go..."
The child's voice suddenly stopped, and his face turned pale for an instant, as if he remembered something, and he ran towards the store on the mountain.
Yunmian didn't have time to catch him, and was afraid that he couldn't find the way back, so she quickly pulled her mother to chase after him.
Xie Lecheng saw them passing by and gave up being a lazy father, pulling Song Yu along to follow.
Seeing this, the audience who came over from Tang Qi's side in the barrage couldn't help but curse.
[Gamblers will not die well!]
[Ahhhh, I'm so pissed off watching this! Tang Qi is gambling again. Even if he sees people playing mahjong in the countryside, he'd be itching to join in a few games!]
[So how did he raise his son? Was it all thanks to Li Qing? I really want to go through the screen and chop off Tang Qi's hand with a knife!]
Before, Tang Qi and Su Yuan went up the mountain together to go to the grocery store and the pharmacy. Their original plan was indeed to buy some chewing gum, but when they got there, they saw people playing mahjong in the grocery store. He took one look and couldn't walk anymore.
Su Yuan couldn't possibly wait for him, so she went to find a doctor and got the medicine, then came back to apply the medicine to Song Yu. By that time, Tang Qi had already sat at the mahjong table, took out all the change in his pocket and put it in the drawer of the mahjong table as capital.
The reason why Tang Qi was invited to this show was because of the trouble he had caused in the circle due to gambling.
Tang Qi had been married to his ex-wife Li Qing for five years. When his son Tang Jiayuan was four years old, he was stripped naked and thrown out by people in the casino, and even one of his legs was broken.
At that time, Tang Qi's songs were very popular, and no one knew whether his rivals were deliberately trying to mess with him, but he was the one who walked into the casino himself, and he was the one who placed the bets in every game. He could have stopped long ago, but he even lost all the school district house that he had invested in advance to buy for his son Tang Jiayuan.
After this incident was exposed, Li Qing and Tang Qi divorced.
After the divorce, Li Qing wanted to fight for the custody of her son Tang Jiayuan, but she worked at a TV station and often worked overtime. She also had to pay for her mortgage and car loan in Beijing. She did not earn as much as Tang Qi from the copyright of his song, nor did she have as much time as Tang Qi to take care of the child. In addition, the man’s family members made all kinds of efforts, so she ultimately lost the case.
Tang Jiayuan could only be taken to live with his mother for two days on weekends, and was basically raised by Tang Qi at other times.
But Tang Qi is a gambler.
When everyone in the circle, including his fans, knew that he was a compulsive gambler, Tang Qi became more relaxed. Apart from occasional work and songwriting, he basically never stayed at home.
He is even a frequent visitor to the teahouse downstairs in the community. Tang Jiayuan grew up with him in these messy places.
I thought he would at least be able to control himself a little when he came to the variety show, but who would have thought that he would sit at the mahjong table on the first day of the live broadcast in front of so many viewers.
After Tang Jiayuan ran all the way into the store with his head down, he looked at his father stroking mahjong with his fingertips, and the light in the little boy's eyes dimmed little by little.
Yun Mian, Song Yu and Xie Lecheng stood close to Tang Jiayuan, looking inside curiously.
"Mom, what is that?" Yun Mian had never seen the small square piece on their table.
Yun Mengjin lowered her head to pick out the seasonings that might be useful for her cooking, and answered her, "It's mahjong."
Mahjong?
Yunmian turned her head to look at Xie Lecheng and Song Yu: Do you know what this is?
The two children also shook their heads in confusion.
"Is mahjong a toy?" Song Yu carefully grabbed Tang Jiayuan's sleeve.
"It's not a toy!" Tang Jiayuan's eyes turned red. He stared at the door curtain fiercely and said hatefully, "It's the most disgusting thing in the world! It's the thing that turned my dad into a monster!"
Song Yu was a little frightened by his expression. After taking a small step back, her curiosity about mahjong was immediately dispelled.
It’s really strange. Mahjong is so bad, why does Uncle Tang like it so much?
Xie Lecheng glanced at Tang Jiayuan's eyes, which seemed like he was about to cry, and walked over to lift the curtain again to look inside.
Then he was pulled out again by the collar by his father who came slowly behind him.
"What's so good about this?" Xie Yuan sneered, "If you really like gambling, just gamble your life or death. What's the big deal about gambling a few small amounts of money?"
Yun Mian's eyes lit up when she heard this: "Gambling. Money?"
She stole a glance at her mother, then tugged at Xie Yuan's clothes. When he lowered his eyes to look at her, she asked him in a low voice, "Uncle, can I exchange that little piece for money?"
"It's not that small piece that can be exchanged for money." Xie Yuan saw that she seemed interested, and thought of the fact that Yun Mengjin agreed to cook for money before, and asked Yun Mian in front of him thoughtfully: "Do you really need money?"
Yunmian nodded honestly: "I want a lot of money."
"Then you can't gamble, unless you want your family to be ruined." Xie Yuan rejected her curiosity and exploration of an unknown field with just one sentence.
He said this lightly, but the certainty and coldness in his tone made the three children stunned.
Tang Jiayuan lowered his head and walked around them in silence, without trying to call his father who was happily sitting at the mahjong table inside.
Yun Mian looked at his back and suddenly felt that this boy, who was two years older than her, seemed very sad.
The heavy sadness seemed to break his small body.
"Uncle, how long will Uncle Tang stay in there?" Yun Mian suddenly asked Xie Yuan.
Xie Yuan looked back at the curtain and said calmly, "I guess it will be night time."
Or to be more exaggerated, without the intervention of the program crew, he would keep playing until he had spent all his living expenses before going back.
"But my brother seems to be about to cry..." Yun Mian looked back hesitantly, and Tang Jiayuan's figure had disappeared from the convenience store.
Yunmian looked at her mother, and she had already chosen the things and went to check out.
The little girl pursed her lips, turned around and hurriedly chased after him.
Seeing this, the two children Xie Lecheng and Song Yu also turned their gaze away from the snacks in the convenience store and ran out after her.
Outside, on the gray steps, little boy Tang Jiayuan was burying his head in his arms, leaning on his knees and crying silently.
Yunmian walked up to him, took out a tissue from his pocket and handed it to him, saying softly, "Brother, it's your turn to wipe your tears this time..."
The originally angry audience in the live broadcast room were amused by this sentence, and then they remembered that on the first day of the broadcast today, they actually successfully collected scenes of three children being made to cry by their parents.
Thinking about it this way, Xie Yuan doesn't seem to be such a bad father?
He is definitely the tallest among short people.
Tang Jiayuan wiped away his tears and took the tissue handed to him by Yun Mian and held it tightly in his hand.
"Brother Jiayuan, are you crying because your father turned into a giant monster?" Xie Lecheng asked him while sitting beside him with his face in his hands.
Tang Jiayuan nodded with red eyes. The originally shy but gentle big brother's eyes were now full of negative emotions.
Song Yu secretly observed Tang Jiayuan's expression, and silently added back the point he had deducted from his mother in the afternoon.
Compared to Jiayuan's father who turned into a big monster, my mother seemed much gentler.
Yun Mian, like Xie Lecheng, sat on the steps, looking at the abandoned village school next to her. After she came to a state of daze, she whispered to Tang Jiayuan, "Your father has turned into a monster. How can we turn him back?"
If possible, they would rather not turn into big monsters, otherwise these children will be in danger and easily be eaten by monsters!
Tang Jiayuan rubbed his eyelids vigorously, until his eyes turned red but no more tears fell. Then he calmed down a little and replied softly: "As long as he doesn't gamble, he won't become scary."
My dad is not a nasty bad guy in normal times.
But after getting involved in gambling, my dad seemed to have completely changed into a different person, a crazy monster who only cared about winning or losing the bets.
Tang Jiayuan rested his head on his arms and said dejectedly, "I hope someone can defeat him and let the monster in his body escape and never come back."
Hearing this, the three children all looked worried, and for a moment they didn’t know what to do.
But this sadness was soon broken.
Yun Mengjin bought a piece of bubble gum for each of the four children. It was the cheap bubble gum that was sold in rural stores to offset change. After chewing it for a while, it would blow out big bubbles, which would then burst with a bang...
This was what Tang Qi had used as an excuse to buy before, but the chewing gum was a little more expensive, so Yun Mengjin chose a more fun and cheaper alternative.
Children’s sorrows are always easy to be soothed and filled. The four children walked happily on the way home, chewing candies hard in their mouths, and competing all the way to see who could blow bigger and rounder bubbles.
Tang Qi, who was told by Xie Yuan that he would not be back until the evening, actually sat at the mahjong table until the evening before coming back.
Just in time for dinner.
Four children came in and out of the kitchen one after another like little ducks lining up. Yun Mengjin, who was helping to cook, was taking out small bowls and chopsticks, while another child was dragging a stool out with a grunt.
The adults were each doing their own things, and the children were busy going in and out like little ants.
This was the first time the atmosphere in the yard was so harmonious throughout the whole day.
Pornography, gambling and drugs are strictly prohibited. The above settings are required by the plot. Variety shows in real life are definitely not allowed to broadcast these, so it is a private setting by the author.
There will be another chapter at twelve o'clock, and I will start updating it tomorrow night to make up for it.
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution:
Ran Zhexuan 5 bottles;
20262458 2 bottles;
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