Chapter 52 Awakening
Jiang Cha followed Huo Jingchuan out of the room, and Ye Surong had already brought the dishes to the table.
She looked at Jiang Cha, wanting to say something but stopping herself. Jiang Cha turned her head in angrily and saw Jiang Cheng's disgusting face at a glance.
Jiang Cheng gave her a provocative smile.
Only Jiang Cha can see this smile.
Jiang Cha sat down at the dining table, "Where will he sleep tonight? I won't give him my room."
Ye Surong placed a bowl of scrambled eggs with mushrooms in front of Jiang Cha and said softly, "I've already told him that he can sleep on the floor."
Jiang Cha pouted in grievance, wanting to cry but holding it back.
She knew that as a mother, Ye Surong loved each of her children equally, but Jiang Cha still felt wronged.
Huo Jingye's voice reached home before he did.
"Cha Cha, those super delicious wild grapes you mentioned last time, I picked a lot today. Come on..."
Before he could even utter the word "try it", Huo Jingye saw Jiang Cheng standing in the living room.
"Why are you here?"
He frowned in disgust. Huo Tingkun came out with a spatula and said, "People are here, so what are you yelling about?"
"No, didn't he leave with his father? Why is he here?"
Huo Jingye is a person who can't keep secrets. If he likes someone, he likes him. If he doesn't like someone, he can't pretend to like him.
"I went to the countryside with them and went hungry nine times out of three days. If I hadn't really been unable to survive, I would have been too embarrassed to come back to my mother with such humility!"
Jiang Cheng used this set of words to successfully soften Ye Surong's heart.
But Huo Jingye didn't buy it.
"Going hungry nine times in three days?" He sneered, "Then if you come to us, you'll have enough to eat in the future. But don't your father and grandmother still have to go hungry nine times in three days?"
"I……"
Jiang Cheng couldn't think of any rebuttal for a moment.
Huo Jingye poured the grapes in his arms into the vegetable basket and walked towards the sink, muttering to himself in a voice that the whole family could hear.
"As the saying goes, a son doesn't despise his mother's ugliness, and a dog doesn't despise his family's poverty. But some people are so different. When their mother's family is in trouble, they are afraid of being implicated, so they cut off all ties with their mother, live with their father and go hungry, kick their father and grandmother away, and come to their mother's house to act cute and miserable. I just can't understand it. There are so many people in the world, why do you always get treated so unfairly?"
After following Huo Jingchuan for a long time, Huo Jingye's sharp tongue has become no less powerful.
If the situation allowed, Jiang Cha would have wanted to applaud Huo Jingye.
Huo Tingkun slapped Huo Jingye on the back of his head. "Try to say something nonsense again?"
Ye Surong's expression was obviously not right. Huo Tingkun was worried that his wife was really angry, and he was so scared that he wanted to cover Huo Jingye's mouth.
Huo Jingchuan was cunning enough not to say a word against Jiang Cheng in front of Ye Surong.
However, whenever his blade-like gaze fell on Jiang Cheng, Jiang Cheng always felt uneasy.
Jiang Cheng didn't dare to provoke Huo Jingye, let alone him.
His current idea is very simple. As long as he can successfully stay here and the Ye family's money is his, a little ridicule is nothing to him.
Just wait and see, the two brothers of the Huo family, as long as he has established a firm foothold at home, these two people, along with Jiang Cha, will be gone sooner or later.
"How about letting him sleep on our side? We're all men, so it's more convenient."
When Huo Jingchuan said this, everyone present was stunned.
"No, I'll just use my mom!"
Jiang Cheng felt a chill down his spine when he thought of what Huo Jingchuan had just said to him.
Still want to live under the same roof with him?
It would be better to let him die!
Huo Jingye wanted to speak again, but Huo Tingkun pointed at his nose and warned him with his eyes, forcing Huo Jingye to swallow his words back.
Huo Jingchuan put his arm around Jiang Cheng's shoulders and said, "Anyway, the extra bed in the room where Jingye and I stayed before hasn't been taken down yet, and we have an extra room over there, which is perfect for him to stay in."
He lives in a room all by himself?
Huo Jingye couldn't bear it any longer and threw the grapes in his hand back into the water with a plop.
"I don't agree. I want to live in a room by myself."
Huo Jingchuan didn't have much of an objection: "Okay, you can live in the room Dad used to live in, and Jiang Cheng and I will live in another room!"
"Mom, I don't want it."
Ye Surong put the bowl and chopsticks on the table and said, "I'll give you a hundred yuan. Leave now and go back to the countryside to find your father. Don't come to my place again!"
She agreed to let Jiang Cheng move in because she was soft-hearted.
However, Huo Jingye's words just now woke him up.
Jiang Cheng has already gone astray, and staying here will only cause trouble for everyone.
"Mom, are you going to kick me out?"
Ye Surong's expression didn't seem fake, and Jiang Cheng panicked.
"I'll be obedient and live with Brother Huo. If you drive me away, I'll really have no choice but to die. Mom, can you really bear to see me die?"
He couldn't work in the fields for a whole day.
Huo Jingchuan patted Jiang Cheng's shoulder with a smile.
"Aunt Ye, please let him live here. After all, he is your biological son!"
Huo Jingchuan rarely smiled. When he suddenly smiled like this, Huo Jingye shuddered, as if he suddenly understood what Huo Jingchuan meant.
Let Jiang Cheng live with them?
Once the door is closed, there will be only three of them at home. What can't they do?
Huo Jingye understood.
"I think what Big Brother said is right!"
Jiang Cha rubbed his arms which felt a little cold. These two brothers turned against him so quickly?
Huo Tingkun gave Huo Jingchuan a teachable look, and he put his arm around Ye Surong and sat at the dining table.
"The child has finally come here, we can't ruin his mood, eat, eat!"
Huo Jingye and Huo Jingchuan sat on Jiang Cha's left and right.
More and more people are eating at the square dining table.
Jiang Cheng sat between Huo Jingchuan and Huo Tingkun, not next to Ye Surong or Jiang Cha.
He didn't expect that in the end, the person who made him stay was the person he had always been afraid of, Huo Jingchuan.
Jiang Cha didn't give Jiang Cheng a good look, but it was difficult to change years of habits in a short time.
For example, when she and Jiang Cheng sat at the same table to eat, she would subconsciously become nervous and dare not pick up the dishes she liked.
The atmosphere at the dinner table was strange.
When Jiang Cheng was not around, they would eat and chat in a relaxed manner.
But now, no one spoke.
Jiang Cha picked up a piece of the mushroom scrambled eggs closest to her with chopsticks, ate a piece of vegetable with chopsticks, and ate half a bowl of rice.
Huo Jingchuan frowned barely audible.
Looking at Jiang Cheng again, he was not polite at all and only picked out the meat to eat.
He ate one mouthful after another without any regard for others.
Huo Jingye couldn't help but complain, "Are you the reincarnation of a starving ghost?"
He snatched a piece of braised pork from under Jiang Cheng's chopsticks, picked out the fat, and put the lean meat into Jiang Cha's bowl.
"I haven't had a full meal in days, do you know?"
Jiang Chengcai didn't care about that. He had already treated himself badly for so many days. Now that he finally had a full meal, there was no reason for him not to eat.
He couldn't let himself be wronged, and Huo Jingchuan and Huo Jingye couldn't bear to see Jiang Cha being wronged.
"Cha Cha, eat more."
Huo Jingchuan put the fish belly meat into the bowl of ginger tea.
Jiang Cheng was so engrossed in his eating that he immediately shouted, "This is mine."
Jiang Cha shuddered with fear, and the bowl in her hand fell onto the table with a thud. She quickly caught it.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to!"
She apologized frantically, her movements proficient, as if this had happened a thousand times before.
Ye Surong slammed her chopsticks on the table and took a deep breath.
"Jiang Cheng, nothing here belongs to you, and nothing here should be yours by right. You'd better know yourself."
No matter how thick-skinned Huo Jingye was, he could still see some clues.
He finally realized that Cha Cha seemed to be very afraid of Jiang Cheng.
Why?
Isn’t Jiang Cheng her biological brother?
Huo Tingkun's gaze also fell on Jiang Cheng. His gaze seemed to have weight, pressing Jiang Cheng to the point of suffocation.
Jiang Cheng finally realized that this was not the Ye family, and there was no grandmother who would put all the delicious food on the table in front of him alone and let him eat it first.
Huo Jingchuan didn't care about that. He continued to pick up food for Jiang Cha with a stern face.
"This is your home. If a bowl breaks, we'll buy a new one. If food spills, we'll just cook it again. You can eat whatever you want. You don't need to apologize to anyone."
Jiang Cha stared at Huo Jingchuan in a daze. Her heart, which she had locked in the cabinet with all her strength, began to stir again.
She held the chopsticks and said, "Hmm," "So, if you break the dishes or spill the food, you don't have to get beaten or scolded, right?"
Jiang Cha asked cautiously, and every word she said was like a sharp blade cutting their hearts.
Ye Surong couldn't hold it in after all. She covered her lips and rushed into the room crying.
Huo Tingkun hurriedly followed.
"Hey boy, shall we talk?"
Huo Jingye grabbed Jiang Cheng by the collar and took him directly to the next room.
Huo Jingchuan and Jiang Cha were the only two people left in the restaurant. He looked at Jiang Cha's anxious eyes with heartache.
"Were you often beaten?"
Jiang Cha pursed her lips, and Huo Jingchuan waited patiently for her answer.
Even after receiving so many psychological treatments, Jiang Cha still couldn't admit the suffering she had experienced.
She opened her lips, but the words in her heart rolled out of her mouth as if they were muted.
Huo Jingchuan was not in a hurry. "You can say whatever you want to say. It doesn't matter if you don't want to say it. No matter what you do, I will support you."
"Even if I'm not a good person and do bad things, will you still support me?"
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Huo Jingchuan was decisive and did not hesitate.
"I, Huo Jingchuan, always keep my word."
Jiang Cha's heartbeat became irregular again.
She hurriedly raised her hands and covered Huo Jingchuan's eyes.
He covered his chest with his other hand.
Her heart couldn't bear Huo Jingchuan's gaze.
Concentrated and serious, every word was like a pick on a guitar, disturbing the strings in her heart.
"Don't look at me like that anymore."
Huo Jingchuan laughed. "Why are you so overbearing in front of me? Do you even want to control my gaze?"
"I don't care. I can't."
There were a few muffled sounds coming from the next room. Jiang Cha was stunned and a picture emerged in his mind.
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