On the other side, Old Mrs. Xia called a few young men from the compound to help her take Old Chen back home. His condition did not require hospitalization. If Old Mrs. Xia had not had to go to work, none of her three sons would have been of any use. Old Chen could have been discharged from the hospital after the examination last night and would not have had to stay in the hospital for a single day.
They returned home, and Chen Xiangbei, the idiot, came home at mealtime and complained about being hungry when he saw them. They had already eaten at the hospital, so who would care about him?
While Old Lady Xia wasn't paying attention, Chen Xianghong threw him a sweet potato that she hadn't finished eating at noon, which touched Chen Xiangbei so much that he almost thought he was going to be abandoned. He thought his sister was still the best.
"Sister!" He ate the cold sweet potato. "What should I do if you leave? Mom has changed. Now that you've gone to Hai City, who will care about my life or death?"
Chen Xianghong: "Mom is tough on the outside but soft on the inside. How could she ignore you?"
Chen Xiangbei shook his head. "Why can't you understand? Mom has no affection for us three sons now. What happened to my eldest brother is still fresh in my memory. Who dares to mess with her?"
Chen Xianghong: "Mom is just angry at Big Brother. It will be fine after a while."
Chen Xiangbei: "Sister, why are you so stupid? You've been home for so many days, don't you see? Our mother is hard on the outside but even harder on the inside. She's so vicious."
Chen Xianghong didn't believe it. Her mother had thought a lot about her in the hospital. She was not a vicious mother at all.
"Don't be prejudiced against me. I'm really a good person."
Chen Xiangbei felt that he and his sister had no chance to talk, so he decided to finish his meal early and go back to his room. His sister was just a blockhead, otherwise she wouldn't have gone to the countryside.
It was already very late when Chen Xiangnan came back on the last bus. When he arrived at his compound, the door of his house was locked. He used his key to open the door but found that it would not open. Then he remembered that his mother had changed the door lock and had not given him a new key.
He was about to die, how could he go back to sleep?
He walked over and knocked on Chen Xiangbei's window, but the man was sleeping like a dead pig and didn't respond at all.
Chen Xianghong's room is next to his parents' room. If he goes to knock on the door, he will definitely wake up his parents. Then he will probably be scolded and won't be able to sleep all night.
He hardened his heart and prepared to knock, but he was still scolded.
"Chen Laoer, why are you outside?" A voice sounded. He turned around and saw that it was Hu Jie who came back.
"Brother Hu, my mother changed the lock and hasn't given me the key yet, so I can't get in." Chen Xiangnan replied with a wry smile.
"Oh, I just got back from the factory. If you really can't make it, come to my house for a night." Hu Jie put his arm around his shoulders. "There's no woman at home anyway. Yingying is probably sleeping with Aunt Yin. It's just right for us two brothers to keep each other company."
Chen Xiangnan was delighted. "That's perfect. To be honest, I was wondering whether I should sleep outside the courtyard for a night."
"Even though it's summer, there are still a lot of mosquitoes outside. Come with me for a meal and a drink later. I only arrived at the factory in the evening, and the canteen chefs have all gone home, so we haven't eaten yet."
The two of them went back and chatted while drinking some wine from other provinces. They didn't go to sleep until they couldn't hold it any longer.
When Chen Xiangnan woke up, it was already bright. Hu Jie had a day off today, so he slept until noon like him.
He stood up and opened the door, and saw his two children, Lingling and Hu Yingying, sitting in the yard, whispering to each other.
Hu Yingying saw her father standing behind Uncle Chen at a glance and was very happy.
"Dad, when did you come back?"
Hu Jie smiled and picked her up, then pricked her face with his uncut stubble. "It was too late last night, so I didn't call you."
Chen Lingling also ran over, "Dad, you're dead. Grandma scolded you this morning when we were having breakfast."
Damn that leaky little cotton-padded jacket, it brought him bad news just as he woke up.
"What did your grandma say?"
Chen Lingling imitated her grandmother, her hands on her hips, "That bastard, the second son, didn't come back all night. Now that he's grown up and become independent, he's capable of never coming back for the rest of his life. When we need him, he runs away, and when we don't need him, he's always right in front of us. Damn him!"
After she finished speaking, she smiled and said, "Dad, that's what grandma said. I have a good memory."
Chen Xiangnan touched his nose and asked, "Did grandma tell me what she wanted Dad to do?"
Chen Lingling said in a baby voice, "I don't know."
"Then I'll go find your grandma!"
Chen Lingling: "Grandma is going to work~"
"Where's my aunt?"
Chen Lingling: "Auntie went to buy groceries."
"Is Grandpa still in the hospital?"
Chen Lingling: "She was there during breakfast, and then I asked Uncle Wang to take her to the hospital."
Chen Xiangnan finally understood what his mother asked him to do, which was to take his father to the hospital.
"What about your uncle? He didn't come back yesterday?"
Chen Lingling pointed to her own house and said, "My little uncle is a lazy pig. Grandma can't wake him up even when she calls him. Grandma says he's pretending to be dead and she'll deal with him when she comes back."
Chen Xiangnan had a plan in mind, "Lingling is amazing, she can remember so much."
Chen Lingling immediately raised her head and said, "Of course, I'm very smart."
"Second brother~ Woo woo, you miss mom so much, mom is here to see you." A melodious call exploded in their ears. Chen Xiangnan almost thought that the second brother was calling him, and turned his head faster than anyone else.
When he turned around, he found that there was a group of people he didn't know standing outside the compound.
Looking back, he found Hu Jie with a dazed look on his face, unable to recover from his shock.
He nudged Hu Jie with his elbow. "Your family?"
Sister Hu nodded, put Hu Yingying in her arms into Chen Xiangnan's hands, and then walked over.
"Mom, Dad, Big Brother and Big Sister, why are you here?"
The old man leading the group said impatiently, "What are you talking about? Why can't we come? You've settled down in the city, kid, have you forgotten your roots?"
Hu Jie: "No, isn't it the holidays that I visit you?"
Father Hu blew his beard and glared, "Why, you don't want us to come? Your mother and I are worried that your last wife has been gone for so long, and you're still single, so we wanted to see how you are doing. You're just a girl now, how can we take care of you in your old age? Hurry and marry a wife while you're still young. I'm too embarrassed to tell anyone in the village that I have a widower son."
Hu Jie: "Dad, I'm out all the time and rarely stay home. If I marry a wife, wouldn't that be harmful to her?"
Father Hu: "How is it harmful? You're just an honest worker with a good salary, and you often bring things home. Who would look down on you? All the young girls in our village want to marry you. Don't let them look down on you because of this. I finally got the job and transferred my household registration to the factory, but now people say you're a widower who brings bad luck to your wife. I don't dare to go out. You're the most promising one in our family."
Chen Xiangnan's face darkened. What did he mean? The widower had provoked him, and his wife had died, so why was he so ashamed? This old man wanted to be beaten!
Father Hu didn't notice that the faces of the Hu family following behind him were also dark. What did his father mean? Only the second son was promising. Did he bring shame to them?
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