Chapter 226 The organization is very disappointed in you
"Xiao Sui? Come out and eat!" Shen Deng brought the dishes to the table and shouted from outside.
Gu Qingqing looked at the two sleeping kids on the bed and said, "Why don't you guys eat first and I'll watch them from inside the room, in case they roll down."
"No, let's eat together." Chu Dai found two chairs and leaned the backs against the bed.
The bed is quite big, and the two kids can sleep next to each other in it. They can’t roll off when they wake up. After they learned to walk, they never fell when they slept alone, and they would slowly twist themselves out of the bed when they woke up.
Gu Qingqing took another look, confirmed that nothing would happen, and followed the man out of the room.
The main hall is outside the room, and there is no light in the yard, so we eat in the main hall.
Shen Deng's two children also came back from their grandmother's house and helped to serve the dishes and get the bowls and chopsticks. When they saw the stir-fried pork with garlic sprouts, their mouths watered.
"Mom, what good day is today? Are you willing to buy meat?" asked the little girl.
"When has your father ever come back without buying meat?" The woman glared at her.
"I've never seen you cook it all before. You always cut it into minced meat and mixed it in the sauerkraut. You had to use a flashlight to find it." The girl said with a smile.
"We have guests at home. Don't just put the meat into your own bowl when you see it." The woman was too lazy to talk to the girl: "Bring the rice over too."
Shen Deng worked in a state-owned timber factory, earning about 30 yuan a month, which was enough to support his family.
His family is simple, with a daughter-in-law, two children and four other people in total.
The elderly people above died early, and only my daughter-in-law's parents are still there.
The family's food was better than that of other families in the village. They could often eat rice and flour. Shen Deng was not a farmer, so he had a grain supply every month.
But it’s not good to eat it every day, every few days is fine.
The eldest son of Shen Deng is relatively quiet and speaks little. He is eighteen years old this year and is in his second year of high school and will graduate soon.
The daughter is sixteen, two years older than Shen Sui, and is in the first year of high school.
So when she saw Shen Sui, her eyes widened and she was so shocked that she couldn't speak. She pointed at the boy and stammered: "Mom...he he he..."
Is this gentle, well-dressed person in front of me the dirty kid from before?
"He is your cousin, Shen Sui." Shen Deng also had a headache seeing his noisy daughter. The personality differences between his sons and daughters were too great.
"Comrade, please sit down. It's time to eat."
"Thank you, Brother Shen." Gu Qingqing helped to move the dishes away so that the woman could continue to put the dishes on: "Actually, there is no need to do so much. Sisters-in-law, you are too enthusiastic."
There were five or six dishes on the table, including stir-fried pork with garlic sprouts, cold-mixed black fungus, blanched shrimps, pan-fried hairtail, stir-fried choy sum, and an egg soup.
He must have seen that there were children around, so he made some rice soup for them.
"Sister, you don't have to be so polite. Xiao Sui is our nephew after all. We are happy to see that he is doing well. We can't thank you enough for raising him so well."
After hearing what her mother said, the little girl finally came back to her senses.
Is this person in front of me really Shen Sui? !
She turned to look at her brother, who didn't react just like her.
Shen Chi frowned slightly, obviously unable to figure out what kind of experience could cause such a profound change in an introverted boy.
Her eyes fell on a man who was much taller than Shen Sui. He was well-spoken and sharp in his every move.
"Hurry up and eat, it will get cold soon." The woman called out, "Lili, why are you standing there like an idiot? Serve us some rice."
"Ah? Oh." Shen Li came back to her senses after being urged by her mother and went to help Gu Qingqing serve the rice.
"Thank you, little girl. I can do it myself." Gu Qingqing said softly.
Shen Sui served rice to his brother-in-law, and then to his elder sister. Before he sat down, he went to the door to check if his two little nephews were awake.
Shen Deng and his wife looked at each other and could see that Shen Sui really regarded himself as a member of their family.
"Eat your food, girl." The woman greeted warmly.
"Okay, then we won't be polite. Sisters-in-law, you guys can eat too." Gu Qingqing smiled with her eyes tilted, her brows relaxed.
Through the conversation, Gu Qingqing learned that the woman's name was He Yu, and her family was from the same village as Shen Sui's mother.
The older of the two children is named Shen Chi and the younger one is named Shen Li.
Shen Chi was fine. He ate in silence without saying much. Shen Li's eyes kept glancing at Gu Qingqing and Chu Dai, which made her feel very uncomfortable.
Shen Sui moved his chair forward a little and used his body to block her sweep.
Only then did Gu Qingqing feel better.
Then she shook her head and smiled, she was just a sixteen-year-old girl.
During the meal, He Yu talked about a lot of Shen Sui's past: "When he was two or three years old, his aunt brought her son back to her parents' home. Because of a quarrel, his cousin beat little Sui half to death, and the old lady turned a blind eye and did nothing."
"His mother had a quarrel with her mother-in-law and sister-in-law over this matter before. Later, she took him back to her parents' home in a rage. Her family members instigated her and said that Xiao Sui was a troublemaker and that they should not take him to the sanitation clinic to make him suffer so that he would learn his lesson."
"Fortunately, his mother only had this one son. She was heartbroken and didn't listen to his grandmother. She took Xiao Sui to the town's health center and found that he had a broken bone."
He Yu sighed, "It was also because of this that the gap between Yingzi and the old lady and her sister-in-law became deeper and deeper. She always went back to her parents' home, and the allowance her husband sent was also used to support her parents' home."
"The old lady must have hated it because all the money her son earned at the front was given to her daughter-in-law's family. Later, they often fought, but Yingzi didn't lose out because of the help of her family."
Shen Deng added, "Four years ago, Aze died, and the old lady didn't live long either."
One can imagine what happened next. An orphan and a widow would definitely be exploited when they returned to their mother's home.
He Gui's wife asked her mother-in-law to find a way to cheat her sister-in-law out of all her money. The last money Shen received was the pension issued by the army.
At this point, He Ying had almost no money left.
"Yingzi is also stupid. She thinks her parents are helping her and talking to her mother-in-law and sister-in-law out of kindness. But in fact, they are helping her because they are afraid that the money in her hands will end up in the hands of the old lady."
Shen Ze is dead, the old lady is gone, and the money has been scammed, so there is no need to pretend anymore.
He Gui's sons all went to school, and Shen Sui had to go to work in the production team. Children of this age usually cut grass for pigs and herd cattle. Shen Sui did adult work and was scolded and treated harshly when he returned home.
This is also the reason why Shen Sui didn't have much flesh on his body when Gu Qingqing first met him.
After hearing this, Gu Qingqing's knuckles turned white while holding the chopsticks.
No wonder, when Shen Sui first adopted him, he was very well-behaved. He would get up before dawn to clean the yard and weed the vegetable garden in the backyard. He would also boil water and cook for himself, and would not say a word even if he was wronged in school.
He was afraid that Gu Qingqing would think he was a burden and would only cause trouble.
After finishing the meal, Gu Qingqing was extremely depressed. She thought that if the He family dared to come, she would report them to the police and accuse them of encroaching on the martyrs' estate and abusing their children.
Seeing that she was biting her lips tightly, Chu Dai put down his chopsticks, leaned back slightly in his chair, and held her left hand with his right hand from under the table and placed it on her leg.
The man's warm big palm wrapped her soft hand in his palm to comfort her.
"Brother Shen," the man asked, "Did Ah Sui's aunt marry in this village?"
"Yes, that's why I often went to my mother's house to eat and drink there. That's why Yingzi's conflicts with them became more and more serious."
The man nodded, no further questions.
After dinner, Shen Sui helped to clear the table. Gu Qingqing took a larger porcelain bowl, filled it with half a bowl of rice, poured some egg soup, and scooped some eggs.
"Is it enough? Do you want to decorate it more?" He Yu said, "Children are growing up. I think your two children are well taken care of, but they are too thin. They need to eat more."
Tuantuan looks like their father every year, with slender bones and a thin body. He doesn't gain much weight, but he actually eats a lot every day.
The two grandfathers and my father's meat coupons were used to provide the little ones with meat every day. They cooked red date meat cake soup and minced meat and chicken egg custard in different ways.
"That's enough. I'll just make some more milk powder later."
He Yu suddenly stopped talking.
He is over one year old and still eats milk powder every day. It seems that his family conditions are really good.
When her two children were young, they had no milk to drink and could only drink porridge. The living conditions were not good at that time and the man did not go to work in the lumber mill.
Shen Li's eyes were fixed on the man with an upright posture. She had never seen such a handsome man before, with sharp eyebrows, bright eyes and a handsome appearance.
The temperament he possessed was something that the people around her didn't have. Compared to him, the classmates in her class...
There is absolutely no comparison.
Shen Chi noticed that her eyes were fixed on the man not far away, and reminded her: "Don't think about things you shouldn't think about."
"No way." Shen Li denied it flatly: "I just think their clothes are made of good material, and they don't look like those of an ordinary family."
Although her father worked in a state-owned factory, he was only allowed a certain amount of cloth coupons each year. It was good enough for him to make two new sets of clothes for her, which she could then wear when visiting relatives during festivals.
She lowered her eyes to look at her clothes with two or three patches on them, then looked at the woman's lotus pink long-sleeved suit. It would be a lie to say she wasn't jealous.
"No is best." Shen Chi said nothing more, wiped the table with a rag, and went to the kitchen.
Chu Dai took the bowl from the woman's hand, went to the room with her, and fed the two little guys dinner.
Tuan Tuan Niannian was still sleeping when he was woken up by Gu Qingqing.
Pulling out a chair, the couple sat by the bed, each holding one in their arms. Chu Dai held the porcelain bowl with his slender fingers and fed his older son a mouthful, then fed his younger son who was rubbing his eyes and yawning.
Gu Qingqing thought of something and asked, "How is Xue Xu going to get home tonight?"
Unexpectedly, she would mention this man. The man paused and said, "He is not a child. He can find a place to live by himself."
"Oh." After a while, she whispered, "How do you know he has no children? Don't you usually have no contact with each other?"
"We are all from the same compound, who can keep such trivial matters secret?" The man looked at her with a half-smile: "Comrade Gu Qingqing, it's not good for you to care about other people's affairs in front of your man."
Gu Qingqing opened her mouth: "No, it's that Pei..."
Before she finished her words, she heard the man drawl in his voice, "The organization is very disappointed in you."
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