Chapter 448 Emergency
Even Ke Wenpei's son and daughter couldn't stand hearing this.
They looked at Bian Haifang with tears in their eyes and cried, "Mom, we don't want to be hungry, we want to eat!"
Bian Haifang looked at the two precious children with heartache, "Son, it's not that mom is cruel, but life at your uncle's house is really not easy."
Ke Wenpei almost laughed out of anger when he heard this.
I thought, "Not easy? What's so difficult about it! Although they live in the countryside, they have several acres of land for farming and harvest so much food every year. How can their life be difficult? Only someone with a hole in his brain can't see how wealthy they are in secret."
However, this could not be said openly, otherwise Bian Haifang would start crying again, and their rare quiet environment would be disrupted again.
"Your brother and his brothers took a lot of food from home before the New Year. Now they want to come back to support us. It seems possible. If you really feel bad about it, you can return some of it to him after the summer grain is harvested." Ke Wenpei thought and decided to trick the food back first.
When Bian Haifang heard that it could be paid back, he nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go back and discuss it with my brother. If it really doesn't work, we can give my brother some interest, and when he pays it back, we can give him an extra 20%."
Ke Wenpei is simply outrageous. He doesn't know how Bian Haifang has the confidence to say such things. Does she really want them to starve to death?
However, he can only coax her now, otherwise he won’t be able to borrow even emergency food, and the family will be in trouble.
As for the "interest", he would hide the summer grain among the laborers and see who dared to cause trouble there.
Over the years, he has had to be tough to make a living.
He was thinking a lot, but his face didn't show it. He nodded, "Okay, you discuss it with your brother."
Ke Wenpei thought it was simple, but he didn't consider that his brother-in-law didn't believe it at all.
When Bian Haifang returned to her parents' home and told them the situation, more than a dozen people in her family directly kicked her out as a married girl.
She even cursed and swore, saying that she had been married for more than ten years and still had to go back to her parents' home to beg for money. She was not ashamed. It was not easy for anyone these days. She lived in the city center with a stable job, but she actually begged for food from these country folks. She was not afraid of being laughed at if she told others about it.
Bian Haifang was dumbfounded. She didn't expect her family to react like this. She was extremely sad for a while, but she was still making excuses for her brother and sister-in-law, thinking that they must be in such a difficult situation, otherwise they would not ignore their family affection.
After she returned, she told Ke Wenpei about her failure to borrow food, and at the same time she kept speaking well of her brother and sister-in-law from her natal family.
Ke Wenpei listened with a gloomy face, but he remained silent, because he really didn't want to talk too much to the person who was confused.
After Bian Haifang finished her chatter, he just said, "Then let them all starve!" Then he left the ward and returned to the labor team.
Because he was thinking about home, he was often distracted during his subsequent work. Within a few days, he made several small mistakes.
Although it didn't cause any big impact, his absent-mindedness was noticed by everyone.
The captain was very worried about this and called him to the office for a talk. Without much hesitation, he told the captain about the difficulties at home.
After hearing the story, the captain was silent, because he didn't know how to deal with such a weird family relationship.
However, considering Ke Wenpei's good performance in the past period of time, it is not impossible to lend a hand.
He asked the other party to go back and wait for news, then left the office and reported the situation of his subordinates.
After discussion, the leaders decided to lend Ke Wenpei 200 kilograms of grain for him to use in emergencies.
They thought that although the other side did not have much surplus food, there were vegetables in the fields and wild vegetables and mushrooms on the mountains. If they worked hard, they would be able to survive until the summer harvest.
Ke Wenpei did not expect that the labor team would be so tolerant and kind to him, a man who had made mistakes before. When he received the good news, he almost cried with joy.
He immediately rushed to the leader's office to thank him and promised to work hard in the future and return the money in time after the summer grain was harvested.
The leaders nodded and asked him to take care of the housework first and then come back to work properly.
Ke Wenpei happily borrowed a car from his colleague and brought back bags of rice and noodles.
When Bian Haifang saw him bringing back the food, she smiled and praised him: "My husband is really capable. He managed to get so much food in just five days. He is really capable!"
Ke Wenpei wanted to nod, but he felt that the words were a bit sarcastic. He was afraid that something might happen, so he said directly: "This is borrowed money. You have to pay it back in the summer harvest. You should save some food at home."
Bian Haifang waved her hands disapprovingly and said impatiently, "I know, I know, are you annoying?"
Ke Wenpei didn't want to argue with her, so he could only go to his mother and remind her: "We borrowed the food from the labor team. The leaders took pity on our family because they had been robbed, so they approved it. Although it's not much, it's enough for an emergency.
Now that the temperature outside is high and the sun is bright, let the two children plant some vegetables in the fields or dig some wild vegetables from the surrounding hills. If we persist, we can get through this period of famine."
Mother Ke nodded with tears in her eyes. "I know. Don't worry. Just work hard at the company. You don't have to worry about the family matters."
Ke Wenpei nodded, looked at his son and daughter, and returned to work.
Because he had no worries, he was full of energy in his subsequent work.
Everyone saw this scene and after asking around, they found out that such a big thing had happened to the Ke family. They also understood why he had made so many mistakes before.
Now, the rain has finally stopped and the sky has cleared up, and everyone is happy for him.
However, this happiness did not last long, as Ke Wenpei was hit by a bolt from the blue again.
It turned out that his unreliable daughter-in-law thought that if he could borrow grain once, he could borrow it a second time, so she gave him most of the grain and took it back to her parents' home to ease the relationship.
Ke's mother was so angry that she almost had a stroke, but she held her breath and waited for her son to come back and explain the whole story before she managed to get through it.
During the mid-month holiday, Ke Wenpei happily returned home to visit his family, but he did not expect to see his lifeless old mother and his emaciated children.
He asked his mother in disbelief. After learning about the stupid thing Bian Haifang had done, he wished he could tear her into pieces. He was even more determined to drive this evil out of the house.
This time, even his son and daughter stood on his side, because they were both afraid of being hungry in the past few days.
In the past, they became cold and heartless simply because they disliked their mother's dominance and their father's weakness.
But after Ke Wenpei made up his mind to clean up the mess, they were both extremely excited.
Compared to the mother who often subsidized her parents' home without realizing it, they still value the father who has stood up again.
At least, most of the time, he really cares about this family.
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