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Little Xiaonuo is almost ten months old and is in the babbling stage. She is wearing a handmade jacket with a red background and white flowers, a white bib with black edges around her neck, and she is babbling and jumping around on the Queen Mother.
"My dear, why are you jumping on grandma again? What if you crush her?" Wang Xuemei said helplessly to her mother, "Mom, don't indulge her all the time. It will develop bad habits."
Guaiguai, a premature baby, wasn't in particularly good health. Despite Wang Xuemei's meticulous care, he was a bit thinner than the other children, but still managed to weigh around 16 pounds. The child was quite strong, and when he played, he didn't play hard, which sometimes even Wang Xuemei couldn't stand, let alone her mother, who had always lived a pampered life at home.
The saying that grandparents are close to their grandchildren is true. The Queen Mother touched the boy's head lovingly and coaxed him softly: "Aoao~~ Let's play well and don't listen to mom~"
When Guaiguai heard his mother's voice, he cried out "Ah!", hugged his mother's neck and pointed at Wang Xuemei, grinning foolishly as if he was looking for his mother, and shouted "Mom~~ma~~".
When she smiled, the row of small baby teeth with only a few of them were exposed. The little cutie with a gap in teeth was very adorable and seemed to be able to sweeten people's hearts.
Xiao Li's eyes were filled with tears. When he saw Guaiguai reaching out his hand towards them, his throat started to itch and he coughed dryly, saying, "Mom, give me a hug."
"Xiao Li is back." The Queen Mother's eyes were always on Guai Guai until he spoke and then she noticed Xiao Li standing beside him.
"Guaiguai, daddy is back. Let's let daddy hold the baby, okay?" She stood up and wanted to hand Guaiguai to Xiao Li, who was looking at the child expectantly, but Guaiguai refused to cooperate at all. He hugged the Queen Mother's neck with a frightened look and refused to let go.
The child didn't recognize her father. Mother Wang felt a little embarrassed and a little sad. She patted the child's little bottom gently and handed her to Wang Xuemei beside her. She said to Xiao Li, "I'm going to go cook while you two chat. Your father and brother will be back from get off work soon. Xiao Li, why don't you have lunch here today? You finally made it back, so why not have a few drinks with them?"
"Okay." Xiao Li's eyes were always following Guaiguai. Guaiguai was hiding in her mother's arms at the moment. Her little face was flushed, and her big watery eyes looked at Xiao Li curiously, as if asking her mother who this strange uncle was?
"Baby, this is daddy. Let daddy hug you, okay?" Wang Xuemei pointed at Xiaoli and introduced him to Guaiguai. Xiaoli took the opportunity to make all kinds of faces and play hide-and-seek, successfully attracting Guaiguai's attention. Soon, the child's giggling laughter like a copper bell could be heard in the yard.
When Xiao Li was in the orphanage, he had developed a knack for interacting with children. He could always make the children let down their guard and quickly get to know him. Under his and Wang Xuemei's careful guidance, the children quickly and obediently accepted this stranger, reaching out their hands to him and stumbling in their baby voices, "Hold me~~Hold me~~"
"Okay, daddy will hold you." At this moment, Xiao Li felt as if he had won a lottery ticket worth tens of millions. He took the baby from Wang Xuemei's hands carefully with a nervous look on his face.
Wang Xuemei saw that he looked like he was facing a great enemy, so she smiled and patted his shoulder: "Come on, don't be nervous, relax, and believe in yourself."
"How can I not be nervous?" Xiao Li held the precious baby in his arms. He kissed the child on the forehead devoutly and said, "Holding her, I feel like I own the whole world."
Heavy with love.
Around noon, Wang's father, dressed in a Mao suit, with slicked-back hair and glasses on his nose, returned with his colleagues from school. Seeing Xiao Li playing with the obedient boy in the yard, a look of relief appeared on his face. "Xiao Li is back. Let's have a nice drink together today."
"Okay." I don't know if all fathers-in-law in China like to drink with their sons-in-law, but Xiao Li is always treated well every time he comes to the Wang family, under the pretext of exchanging feelings.
Xiao Li didn't feel whether there was any emotional exchange, but he was deeply impressed by his father-in-law's drinking capacity and drinking habits.
Wang's father is named Wang Jishi, 54 years old this year. He is a doctor at Beijing City Hospital and also a professor at Beijing Medical University. He has a son and a daughter who have inherited his mantle and become glorious medical staff.
Wang Jishi is just like his name. Jishi is an excellent doctor. He has treated many veteran generals and is an excellent doctor.
It's just that this guy has a shortcoming, which is that he likes to find someone to have a couple of drinks with no matter what. He has a low alcohol tolerance and likes to talk nonsense after drinking. Not long after he sat down today, Wang Jishi got drunk again.
When he was drunk, he pulled a colleague named Liang Xiao from the hospital and said, "They say that public-private partnerships are the inevitable trend of Xinhua's economic development and will allow us to enter a new society at full speed. In my opinion, this is a shameless plunder of the country and a wrong decision made by the leaders! We..."
"Dad!" Xiao Li slammed the wine glass heavily on the table, and the wine splashed all over the dining table. He always knew that his father-in-law would talk nonsense when he was drunk, so he would just talk to him normally. He didn't expect that today he would be so outrageous as to criticize the decision of his superior in front of others.
"What's the matter? You just came back and you threw the table at me? I know you're a patriotic soldier and can't stand us saying anything bad about the country, but since you're wrong, you can't stop people from saying it. Do you know how many people have been forced to death because of this policy, and how many workers have been laid off because of it? Our things belong to us, why should the country just take them away? Why?"
"Why do you say that?" Xiao Li's temper flared up, and he overturned the entire table of dishes. 'Clatter!' All the work Wang Mu and Wang Xuemei had done all morning fell to the ground. He said sternly, "Because it was decided by the senior leader, and because we're all Chinese."
The two of them started arguing without any clear reason. Liang Xiao, who had been sitting and watching the fun, finally couldn't sit still anymore. "It's not a big deal, it's not worth flipping the table. Old Wang, your son-in-law has a really bad temper. You should say less such things in the future."
"No matter how bad his temper is, I am still his father-in-law. What can he do to hit me? Am I wrong, Lao Liang? Can't we talk to each other?" Wang Jishi was so drunk that he almost didn't know who he was. When someone agreed with him, he would continue to speak, as if he was right and the country was wrong.
Xiao Li was really helpless against this stupid teammate and wanted to really beat him up.
It was Wang Xuemei who heard the noise and came out from the inner room. She first glanced at the two people confronting each other, then at the mess on the floor, and said to Liang Xiao, "Uncle Liang, I'm so sorry about what's happened. My father drank too much, so it looks like we won't be able to have dinner today. Why don't you go home today and come to our house another day?"
The intention of seeing the guest off was obvious, and Liang Xiao left very tactfully.
After he left, Wang Xuemei said angrily, "What's going on? Why did you overturn the table?"
There are so many dishes, what a waste.
Wang Jishi sat on the stool, staring at Xiao Li in a daze. Xiao Li held his forehead and said, "I flipped it over. When your father-in-law wakes up, tell him not to drink anymore. Just quit drinking. Otherwise, he'll think he's the king and say whatever he wants after drinking some horse urine."
"And that guy named Liang Xiao, don't have any contact with him if you can. That old guy doesn't look like a good person at first glance." If it weren't for his intentional or unintentional guidance, Wang Jishi would never have said that.
Xiao Li repeated what he had just said to Wang Xuemei, and she gasped, "Did my father say that?"
Compared with Wang Jishi's words, it seemed that there was nothing wrong with Xiao Li overturning the table.
Wang Xuemei even wanted to applaud, and was glad that Xiao Li directly overturned the table and prevented her father from saying anything more serious.
You have to know that when the whole nation was rushing into socialist society through "public-private partnership", Wang Jishi said such unorthodox words. If people knew about it, the Wang family would be finished!
When the head of the Wang family, Old Lady Wang, returned from her younger sisters' home, she heard the news before she even had a date with Xiao Li. Her hands, which were leaning on her cane, trembled constantly as she kept saying, "Unfilial son, this unfilial son!"
"Splash that rebellious son of a bitch on me."
Many years later, Wang Jishi, who was in his fifties, knelt in the yard and was beaten with a rattan stick by his mother in front of his children, son-in-law and granddaughter.
"Mom! Mom, I was wrong, please don't hit me anymore." The pain completely sobered Wang Jishi up. He knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, "Mom, I'm already this old, please give me some face."
At the age of fifty, he was punished by the family rules in front of his children and grandchildren. He was so embarrassed that he couldn't act like a parent in the future.
"You are still trying to save face with me. I will ask you to save face. I will beat you to death today, you unfilial son. I made you drink some horse urine and then talk nonsense everywhere!" An old lady who had experienced the Republic of China period had seen too much. She knew that if she didn't teach her son a lesson he would never forget today, he might get into big trouble in the future.
The pain of beating her son was felt by the mother. Old Mrs. Wang kept beating him with red eyes until she could not beat him anymore. Then she waved her hand and asked someone to take Wang Jishi back to the house.
"Xiao Li, your father said that in a moment of confusion after drinking. I will watch him and make him drink less in the future. Don't worry, this won't happen again." Old Lady Wang sat on the stool, looking very tired and continued, "Let's forget about what happened today. As for Liang Xiao, he has a relationship with your father, so it's no big deal."
"Let's go, you guys go back." Old Lady Wang stood up shakily with her cane and took Wang Xuemei's hand. "I'll see you off. Xuemei will be going to S Province with you this time. Live a good life with Xiaoli in the future. Take good care of Xiaoguai and don't miss home."
"When you leave, there's no need to come back to see us. From now on, it's better for us to have less contact."
Wang Xuemei looked at the old lady in surprise: "Grandma!"
"Let's go, and don't come back once you leave. Xiao Li, help grandma take care of them. Grandma thanks you."
This wise old lady must have been aware of the family crisis. She didn't know what the future would hold, which might lead her grandson-in-law to overturn the table. It seemed that things were not that simple.
So, in a split second she made the decision that was best for Xiao Li and Wang Xuemei.
Xiao Li held Wang Xuemei in his left hand and Guaiguai in his right hand, and promised him solemnly: "Don't worry, grandma, I will cherish them as much as I cherish my own life!"
Then, he left the Wang family under the gaze of Old Mrs. Wang.
Not long after they left, everyone in the alley knew that Wang's son-in-law had had a fight with his father-in-law for unknown reasons. The Wang family had announced that they would refuse to have anything to do with the Xiao family, and from then on, the Wang family no longer had a daughter named Wang Xuemei!
When the son-in-law and the father-in-law had a fight, everyone shook their heads and said: This son-in-law is too unreasonable.
Some people who knew Xiao Li also said, "I don't think he is that kind of person."
But no one cares what the truth is. All they know is that the Wang family and their daughter broke up because of their son-in-law.
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