Chen Xiangbei was frightened by Yang Su's scream and shouted even louder, "What are you yelling about? You are so old and still so jumpy, ah ah ah ah ah ~"
Wang Ming covered his face. When he saw Yang Su coming back, he immediately felt emboldened. He was very angry about the slap. "Xiangbei, are you trying to kick us brothers and my mother out? Uncle Chen said this apple was edible, so why do you insist on saying we stole it?"
Chen Xiangbei: "If my dad really said that, then why can't I find any apples or sweet potatoes? Did you steal the whole basket and hide them in your room?"
Wang Ming felt so wronged. It was his mother who gave the apples to the two of them and told them to eat them slowly because there were plenty of them.
Yang Su rushed over from behind, pushed Chen Xiangbei away, looked at Wang Ming's face, and then said, "Xiangbei, how can you hit and frame people so casually? Do you have any manners left?"
Chen Xiangbei staggered after being pushed. Hearing this, he retorted: "I don't have any family education, but you do. Are you teaching your child to steal things?"
Yang Su: "This isn't stolen. This is the apple your father brought back for the whole family to eat. Since I'm married to your father, we're a family. Why can't I eat an apple?"
Chen Xiangbei: "The family ate apples, where are the remaining apples?"
Yang Su: "Of course this kind of thing should be locked up."
Chen Xiangbei: "Your whole family, locked up. Lock up the apples, lock up the rice, lock up the sweet potatoes, lock up the salt. Your two losers do nothing but lie in bed eating the food you cooked. Others can only beg you to open the door before they can eat, right? Who are you guarding against? Who the hell are you guarding against?"
Yang Su's eyes widened. Chen Xiangbei was full of things to say about favoritism, and any normal person could have guessed she was being partial. But Chen Xiangbei himself was a child who often didn't go home, so how could she have known he'd returned last night? As a stepmother, it wouldn't be appropriate for her to just go directly into her adult stepson's room.
So, she pitifully said to Old Chen, "Brother Chen, I really didn't know Xiangbei came back last night. He hasn't been home for several days. I thought he wouldn't come back yesterday either. Besides, food is precious now, and many families lock up their food. I'm not the only one who does this. I'm really not the kind of person who is partial."
Old Chen was indeed persuaded by her. He was indeed a little unhappy just now, but after seeing Yang Su's explanation, he understood. Chen Xiangbei was a wanderer. Who knew when he would go out and when he would come back? Who knew whether he was rich or poor, or whether he had done good or bad things?
So, when Chen Xiangbei was about to speak, Old Chen spoke up, "Alright, we're all family. From now on, just let us know when you go out and come back so there won't be any misunderstandings. Stop arguing all the time. We should all live in harmony as a family."
Old Chen felt very proud and thought he was becoming more and more like the head of a family.
Chen Xiangbei was not going to be fooled by Old Chen's nonsense. He said sarcastically, "Brother Chen, please get your mind clear. Now all the food and drinks in our house have been locked up by this woman. Even if you want to eat, you have to ask her for permission. You earned every stitch and thread in the house. Why do you have to ask an outsider for money when you want to eat and your son wants to eat?
Besides, when my second brother and his wife come back, she will be pregnant. Pregnant women need to eat immediately when they are hungry. If she is not here, do you want my second brother to tear down your dilapidated house? Brother Chen! ~"
Old Chen got goose bumps from being called "Brother Chen" over and over again. "Third brother, talk to me properly. I'm your father."
Chen Xiangbei lowered his lips and said sarcastically, "Oh, now you know I'm your dad. How come you didn't remember you were my dad when you were raising someone else's son and ignoring me? I thought you didn't plan to be my dad anymore, so I had to call you Brother Chen. I even thought calling you dad was useless, and only when I called you Brother Chen would you listen to me?"
Old Chen was pissed off at Chen Xiangbei. This kid had been disobedient since he was young. He used to remember to eat but not to beatings, but now he only remembers to beatings but not to eat. These few words sounded as if his father was abusing him, but wasn't he just standing here with a hatchet, very strong? Wasn't he well-fed? "What on earth do you want to do? Aren't you staying at your mother's every day? Why did you come back? You piss me off every time you come back, you piss me off every time you come back. If you don't want to recognize me as your father, then don't come back. There wouldn't be so many things going on at home when you weren't back."
Chen Xiangbei fell silent. He suddenly realized that his father had really changed a lot. He would never say this to him before, not even when he got into trouble. But ever since he married Yang Su, his father... No, maybe his father had never changed. In the past, it had always been his mother who managed the family and the brothers and sisters. His father would stay at home quietly except for working at the factory, doing nothing and not giving any money. His favorite saying was "A harmonious family brings prosperity", but he himself did nothing, putting all the pressure on his mother.
His mother had been squeezing herself out to maintain the semblance of peace at home for years, until last year when she couldn't bear it anymore and tried to make them all take on the responsibilities at home that they should have.
But the children were not up to the task, and each of them only thought about themselves. As for his father, he still acted like a peacemaker, but before he asked his mother to intervene, now he had to do it himself. Everything he did was not to make the family better, but just to make the family appear harmonious. Just the appearance of harmony was enough.
He may not really like the old woman Yang Su, but this woman created the illusion of a harmonious family for him, making him feel that living with her was what he wanted, even if the son was not his own.
Ultimately, his father is the most heartless and unemotional person in the family.
His father didn't care about decades of marital love, decades of father-son love, whether they were biological or not, blood relatives or not. He just wanted to save face, as long as outsiders saw their family as harmonious, and as long as others mentioned him, Chen Weiguo, and said he was a good comrade.
Whoever can make him a good comrade in all senses in the eyes of outsiders is his true relative and the person he is willing to truly protect. Otherwise, anyone can be abandoned.
Seeing Chen Xiangbei fall silent, Old Chen thought he was scared and ignored him. He said to the two brothers Wang Ming and Wang Xian, "You two leave him alone and go back to your room to eat. Uncle believes in you."
Yang Su was not happy about this. His son was slapped for no reason. Why did they let Chen Xiangbei off so easily? "Brother Chen, the slap Xiangbei gave Xiao Ming just now really scared me. It was such a hard slap, I was afraid he would get hurt."
Old Chen really didn't care much. He consoled her, "It's definitely okay. It's just a slap. What's the big deal?"
What he didn't say was that he had been beaten by Old Lady Xia countless times before, and he was fine every time, wasn't he?
He also has experience in being beaten.
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