At 7:30 in the morning, fresh vegetables and eggs from the Honglian Brigade were delivered to the dumpling shop.
Qin Ye and the young delivery guy worked together to move the vegetables and eggs on the cart into the store.
It was at this time that Lam Kwok Tung came, carrying a net bag of pears.
"Get out of the way." Qin Yechong said coldly to Lin Guodong who was standing at the door.
Lin Guodong took a step to the side and frowned at Qin Ye.
You still remember that it was this kid who said in front of so many people that you had severed ties with your mother, causing you to be laughed at and embarrassed.
There was an English tape playing on the radio at the counter. After washing up, Li Xiaoyu read along with the radio and walked from the backyard to the store with her schoolbag.
After listening to English tapes for a while, she felt that her spoken English had improved a lot. Her English teacher also liked it and asked her to stand up and read the text.
Just as she put her schoolbag on the table, she saw her eldest brother, Lam Kwok Tung, enter the store.
"Brother?"
Why are you here so early in the morning?
Li Xiaoyu blinked in surprise.
Lin Guodong: "Where's Mom?"
Li Xiaoyu glanced towards the kitchen and saw her mother scooping porridge in the kitchen.
Lin Guodong also saw it and shouted towards the kitchen.
"mom."
Li Yunshu frowned but didn't respond. Instead, he smiled and said to Xiaozhuang, who was delivering the food, "Xiaozhuang, don't be in a hurry to leave. Stay and have a bowl of porridge."
Xiaozhuang smelled the fragrant pork liver and lean meat porridge and swallowed his saliva. "Okay, auntie, I won't be polite with you."
Aunt Li is so nice. Every time she comes to deliver food, she always gives me some delicious food.
Li Yunshu smiled and said, "Please don't be polite to your aunt."
Lin Guodong felt uncomfortable and embarrassed as he watched his mother chatting and laughing with others, ignoring him, his own son.
When Li Yunshu came out of the kitchen with the porridge, Lin Guodong called out again.
"mom."
"Mom, it's almost the Spring Festival. Our factory gave us a basket of pears. I brought some for you. They are so sweet." Lin Guodong walked to the table carrying a bag of pears.
Li Yunshu didn't even look at Lin Guodong carrying the pears. She said, "No need. If I wanted to eat pears, I would buy them myself. You can take them back. Also, I'm not your mother."
Xiaozhuang didn't understand what was going on, and glanced back and forth between the two of them curiously.
Lin Guodong said with an embarrassed look on his face, "Mom, I was wrong before. You are my real mother no matter what. You are magnanimous and should not be angry with me, your son."
Li Yunshu said, "When your father was admitted to the hospital, you pointed to the heavens and the earth and said that you, Lin Guodong, only had a father but no mother. How long has it been since then? Have you forgotten?"
Li Xiaoyu didn't know that her elder brother had said such things to her mother. No wonder she was too embarrassed to see her mother before.
Lin Guodong said angrily, "What I said back then was just a rant, it doesn't count. Mom, don't take it seriously."
"It doesn't count?" Li Yunshu laughed. "Don't you understand that spilled words are like spilled water, which can't be recovered?"
"You said that you were just talking in anger and that it doesn't count. You told me not to take it seriously. Then can you lick the saliva you spit on the ground?" Li Yunshu looked at Lin Guodong and asked.
Why did she feel that just because she, as a mother, had a good life and a profitable life, she could discard her previous words?
Lin Guodong: “…”
That must be impossible.
"Mom, I was wrong before..."
Li Yunshu interrupted him directly, "You are not wrong, it's just that I am rich now."
If she was a poor old woman with no job and no money, who could only make some money by pasting paper boxes at home.
Not only would Lin Guodong not come to tell her that she was wrong, he would also stay away from her, fearing that her poor mother would ask her for money.
Lin Guodong's wheat-colored face flushed red, and his mother almost said directly that she came to curry favor with him and admit her mistake because she saw that he was rich and wanted her money.
There were two outsiders watching from the side, which made Lin Guodong feel extremely embarrassed. He put the pear on the table and turned away.
"Take your pear away." Li Yunshu shouted at Lin Guodong's back.
Lin Guodong didn't listen and disappeared at the door.
When Lin Guodong arrived at the factory, his face was dark.
Lin Yongnian walked up to her with a teacup in his hand and said, "Didn't you go to give pears to your classmate? Why is your face so gloomy?"
When Lin Guodong left home in the morning, he said that he wanted to send some pears to an old classmate who had helped him.
Lin Guodong wiped his face and said, "Nothing."
"By the way, this autumn National Day falls on the 23rd, and the factory will have three days off. I want to go back to my hometown to celebrate the holiday. Do you want to come with me?" Lin Yongnian looked at Lin Guodong and asked.
Lin Guodong frowned and said, "It's so troublesome to go back to my hometown for the holidays. Besides, there are four of us going home together, and we can't stay at my second uncle's house."
"Didn't you just go back? Why do you go back so often? If you go back again, I won't have any money to give you."
Lin Yongnian drooped his lips and said, "Don't worry, I don't need you to pay me. I can pay you at the end of the month."
The holiday starts on September 30th, and there is no work on the 1st, so this month's salary will be paid on September 29th.
Lin Yongnian had thought it through. When his salary arrived, he would use 80 yuan to pay off his debts first, and keep the rest for himself. When he returned to his hometown, he would buy Taohua a silk scarf and some cigarettes, alcohol, and candy for his second uncle.
This time I brought home less stuff, and I didn't give my second uncle any money. I could clearly feel that my second uncle's family was not very welcoming.
Lin Guodong: "It's up to you. If you don't mind the trouble, then go back. We definitely won't go back."
Lin Yongnian said, "Then you can go to Zhang's house to celebrate the festival."
Lin Guodong didn't want to go to Zhang's house for the holidays. If he went, he would be asked to buy things.
When Zhang Jiao got home from work in the afternoon, she pulled Lin Guodong into the room and asked, "Did Mom receive the pears you delivered this morning?"
When this matter was mentioned, Lam Kwok-tung became annoyed and said unhappily, "She didn't want it, but I just let her go."
"Did Mom say anything?"
Lin Guodong said irritably, "What are you saying? Besides saying she's not my mother and I'm not her son, what else can you say?"
Zhang Jiao frowned and said, "Why are you so hasty when you speak? Can't you be a little calmer? How can I be kind to you if you're like this?"
"When I told her, it wasn't like that. I spoke to her in a nice and gentle way, saying that I was wrong before and that I was wrong. But what did her say? She said it wasn't my fault, it was because she had money."
"She almost pointed at her nose and said that I, Lam Kwok Tung, only went to curry favor with her and apologize because I saw that she did good things for her and that I had money now and wanted her money." Lam Kwok Tung pointed at his nose and said excitedly.
Zhang Jiao pouted and said, "You are such a shrewd mother. How can you say that to your own son?"
Guodong, as her son, had to bow to her first, but she took advantage of the opportunity to ease the relationship between mother and son.
Could it be that she really wanted Lin Xiaoyu to be her daughter and see her off to the end?
"Forget it, I won't say anymore." Lin Guodong waved his head and left.
During dinner, Lin Yongnian also told Zhang Jiao that he wanted to go back to his hometown for the Spring Festival.
Zhang Jiao said it was too much trouble. Instead of going back to her hometown to celebrate the festival and spending so much money, it would be better to celebrate the festival in the city and go to a restaurant with the whole family to have a good meal.
But no matter what Zhang Jiao said, Lin Yongnian insisted on going back to his hometown to celebrate the holiday.
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