The most lively family in the compound recently is the Chen family. They used to look like a family, but recently the atmosphere between the children has been very bad. They don’t even say a word to each other when they meet in the compound.
Yu Hongzhen and his sister moved into the military family compound. There were too many things going on in the Chen family, which affected them. He was not yet their official son-in-law, so it was not easy for him to live there permanently. What's more, he was scolded by Chen Xiangbei that day, so no matter how thick-skinned he was, he didn't dare to live there anymore.
Yu Qingqing had been in a daze these past few days. If she hadn't answered clearly when asked questions, Yu Hongzhen would have thought she was sick again.
"Brother, I want to go see my aunt." Yu Qingqing suddenly said this one day.
Yu Hongzhen: "But didn't she say she didn't want to see us again?"
Yu Qingqing: "I've been thinking these past few days, if I had been a little more crazy in the countryside, a little more crazy in front of my parents, would those tragedies that happened to me have not happened? I think that when my aunt smashed the house and cursed us that day in a fit of rage, after thinking about it, there really wasn't a single wrong thing she said."
"Of course, I'm talking about the things she said about me. I don't know if what she said about the other people's personalities is true."
Yu Hongzhen was still terrified when he thought of what happened that day. Although he knew Xiang Hong's house was bustling, he didn't expect it to be this lively. And then there was the scolding he received that day, "Qingqing, do you also think that big brother is useless?"
Yu Qingqing shook her head. "Brother, I know you have your reasons. You've been waiting for an opportunity to drag Mom and Dad down... Otherwise, even if we resist, someone will suppress the matter. Brother, your desperate reports ruined your future in Hai City, but the impact on them wasn't that great. So, don't blame yourself."
Yu Hongzhen laughed self-deprecatingly, "You don't need to comfort me. You're thinking about what Auntie said, and I've been thinking about it too these past few days. Putting aside what you just said, I haven't put much thought into you. Just like she said, even if I can't move my parents now, I can definitely rescue you from them first."
The two siblings reviewed their past mistakes on this day, and the more they thought about it, the more incompetent they felt.
After Chen Xiangbei scolded everyone on the day his parents divorced, no one really cared about him anymore. He was given a room to live in, but there was no one to cook for him.
Except for the vegetables that Grandma Xia instructed everyone to buy before the New Year and some of them were left over, no one else would take the initiative to buy vegetables. They didn't go home for dinner and ate outside.
Old Chen applied for overtime every day, and ate and drank in the factory, almost living there. Chen Xiangnan and his wife either went to a state-owned restaurant outside to eat, or went to the Tang family for meals. Chen Xianghong went to the vicinity of the army every day to wait for Yu Hongzhen to have dinner together, and was taken by him to meet a few people. She would also live in the army in the future.
In the whole family, only Chen Xiangbei was like a left-behind child. No one paid attention to him, and no one cared whether he would starve to death.
Fortunately, Tang Jiao helped him find a new quilt after he was scolded, otherwise his life might have been even more miserable. Chen Xianghong also left him some money. After all, he was her brother who had grown up with her. Although she was still angry, she was also worried that he would starve to death.
Chen Xiangbei was very regretful. He knew that his father and second brother did not care about him as much as his mother, but he did not expect that these people's revenge on him would be cold violence. Everyone ignored him.
If I had known, I wouldn't have scolded him so harshly. After his mother left, who would still treat him as a child?
But what he didn't know was that the others had stopped talking to each other. It seemed as if everyone had tacitly become unfamiliar with each other, to the point where they wanted to avoid each other when they met.
When Xu Meiyu heard the news of Old Chen's divorce, she was just finishing up the last round of New Year's greetings for her father. This year, there were so many people visiting her father that she had put her plans to visit Old Chen's family on hold.
But when she was about to take the things with her, Chen Weimin ran over in a panic and told her the news. It was Chen Mei who found Chen Weimin and told him the news.
"He's crazy, really crazy, my sister-in-law is crazy." Chen Weimin looked even more panicked than the people involved in the divorce. "My brother will be an abandoned man from now on. He's so concerned about his reputation, so he must be crazy, right?"
Xu Meiyu didn't know the details, but since something so big had happened at Chen Weimin's house, she had to go check it out. "I went over to ask today. Big brother is such a jerk. He didn't even inform us about something so serious and quietly got a divorce. If I had known something big was going to happen to them during the Chinese New Year, I wouldn't have bothered to help my dad. If it weren't for our son graduating this year and looking for a job, I wouldn't have bothered to bother with all this personal stuff."
While Chen Weimin was looking for New Year's gifts, he replied, "Luckily, our son has found a job."
Xu Meiyu rolled her eyes at him. "No matter how bad my son's job is, he's definitely not unemployed, and he wouldn't go to the countryside. It's just that this job is particularly good this time, and it's worth all my hard work these days."
The two came to the compound where Old Chen lived. The compound was empty and their house was also empty.
"Where are the people? Why is there no one here?" Xu Meiyu knocked on the door, but there was no sound from inside.
Chen Xiangbei heard the noise outside, but he was too lazy to move. After a long time, someone was still knocking on the door, so he got up impatiently and opened the door.
"Third Aunt?" Chen Xiangbei was surprised.
Chen Weimin patted his head gently and said, "You only have your Third Aunt in your eyes, not your Third Uncle?"
Chen Xiangbei called out weakly, "Happy New Year, Third Uncle."
"What's going on with your parents? If your aunt hadn't told me, we wouldn't know anything." Xu Meiyu asked straight to the point.
Chen Xiangbei, the chatterbox, seemed to have been unleashed. He began to talk non-stop. After a long while, he still hadn't finished. Xu Meiyu was already getting impatient. "Okay, okay, I get it. Where does your mother live now? I have to go see her."
Chen Xiangbei lowered his head: "It's in the work dormitory."
"I understand. Let your third uncle stay here with you. I will go see her alone." Xu Meiyu ignored Chen Weimin's pitiful eyes without any sympathy and left without any reluctance.
Before leaving, she said, "Xiangbei is such a pitiful child. As his uncle, please play with him for a while."
Xu Meiyu quickly arrived at the entrance of the textile factory and asked someone to help call Old Mrs. Xia.
In the past few days, Old Mrs. Xia finally found out the details of several girls in the dormitory. She had a hunch that her days in the dormitory would not be too dull.
When she heard someone was looking for her, and didn't explain who they were, except to say it was a woman, she thought Xiang Hong had given up and came to see her. She didn't want to see him at first, but when she heard that the man was dressed fashionably, she felt that he was not her frugal Xiang Hong.
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