I dare not offend them when they are around, nor when they are not around.
No one knew what would happen to Qi Bowen in the future, and everyone still held onto the last bit of fear of offending anyone.
When Qi Bowen was kicked out, he was in a daze, and he had lost his last glimmer of hope.
"You just wait, I will definitely make a comeback. I will definitely get revenge on all of you who looked down on me and humiliated me."
Qi Bowen watched as passersby pointed and whispered about him, then left without looking back, uttering a domineering remark.
When he got home, Li Ci had just gotten up.
"You didn't buy me breakfast?" Li Ci saw that the kitchen was empty. After calling for a while, she realized that only she and Qi Bowen were at home now, and she was in a daze.
Upon seeing Qi Bowen walk in from outside, he immediately started yelling at him.
Qi Bowen clenched his fists. He hadn't even eaten breakfast yet; it was already noon.
"Mom, I just went to the Ministry of Reform, but they kicked me out." Qi Bowen couldn't help but tell his mother about his grievances.
"Why?" Li Ci was taken aback by Qi Bowen's words.
"They said it was my grandfather who had me dismissed from my post." Qi Bowen thought of this and felt that his grandfather was really ruthless, leaving them no way out.
"Your maternal grandfather?" Li Ci thought of her father, and at this moment she couldn't care less about complaining.
"Bowen, what do you think we should do now?" Li Ci was in a daze, with no thoughts at all.
She thought that if she left Beijing, her father would be worried and would look for her, and that Qi Feng, who had loved her so much before, would definitely miss her.
But she asked her uncle-in-law, and no one in Beijing had asked her, not even a phone call.
After returning to Beijing, she thought her father would come looking for her, but there was no sign of him at all.
"Mom, are you hungry? I'll go buy some groceries first. I haven't eaten yet." Qi Bowen saw Li Ci's condition and felt that the time was right.
He couldn't wait any longer; he had to go back to the Li family.
"Okay, go buy some groceries first." Li Ci felt her stomach growling with hunger after being reminded by him.
Then I heard him say he hadn't eaten, and I realized he didn't have much money, so even if he wanted to get something to eat, he wouldn't have any.
There wasn't much left in the house, so Li Ci went inside and took out some money and tickets.
"Go buy some groceries first, and while you're at it, buy me some pastries, because the ones at home are all damp. Also, go to the state-run restaurant and buy some meat."
Li Ci didn't know how much these things would cost. In the past, she didn't need to handle these matters; Qi Feng always asked her.
"Okay." Qi Bowen's eyes flashed when he saw the seven or eight ten-yuan bills in his hand. He felt that he still had to find a way to get the money out of his mother's hands.
Without money, you really can't do anything.
Although his mother hasn't worked in recent years, his father's salary is with her, and he also receives occasional payments from his maternal grandfather.
Judging from her lavish spending, he knew she must have a lot of money.
Qi Bowen took the money and left, leaving Li Ci alone at home. She looked around in a daze, feeling that the house was too quiet.
She dared not go out, dared not look at the mocking eyes of the people in the family building. She wondered in confusion, what was the purpose of all this?
Qi Bowen returned quickly. Now they are like rats in the street; whenever they go out, everyone points and whispers about him.
If he could, he wouldn't want to go out at all, but he knew he couldn't.
As soon as he got home, he didn't say a word and went straight into the kitchen. He was starving and would worry about everything else after he had eaten.
"Mom, when I went out just now, I heard people saying that person came to Beijing. Now that his family is together, we have no standing with Grandpa anymore."
“I know I’m not worthy, but Mom, you are Grandpa’s biological daughter, and that other person, he was born after you suffered so much.”
“They all ignore you, I feel really sorry for you, and Dad too, none of them care about you.”
After filling his stomach, Qi Bowen began his performance for Li Ci.
He had overheard the conversation in the family compound and realized he was already prepared for that person's arrival in Beijing.
Now that he knows he's a member of the Li family in Beijing, he's probably feeling quite pleased with himself and will definitely come back as soon as possible.
He's just someone from the countryside; how can he compare to someone who grew up in Beijing?
"What? That person came to Beijing? Why didn't anyone notify me?" Li Ci put down his chopsticks, finding the food in front of him hard to swallow.
"Yes, he should have visited you first. You are his mother. I didn't expect him to be like this, only recognizing his maternal grandfather."
Qi Bowen echoed Li Ci's words, knowing what she cared about: she wanted everyone to obey her and treat her as their god.
She can't stand others not putting her first, and the reason she had a falling out with her grandfather was because he didn't go along with her.
He had noticed her confusion during this time, and he guessed that she was still hoping that her grandfather would come and apologize to her!
"Hmph, that ignorant country bumpkin. He only cares about whoever feeds him. How could he possibly remember me, the woman who was kicked out of her home!"
Li Ci spoke as if mocking himself, but Qi Bowen could clearly see the dissatisfaction in his eyes.
"Mom, are we just going to watch like this? Watch that person deceive Grandpa and the others?" Qi Bowen knew that his mother was angry because that person had taken her place in the Li family.
No one knows his mother better than him over the years. His maternal grandfather was very strict with him at home, and his father didn't like him.
Although Li Ci said she was in a difficult position, she was actually very happy inside, feeling that she was irreplaceable in the family.
Now that the identity of that person from the countryside has been revealed, and seeing how his maternal grandfather and father acted, his mother feels that she is not the most important person, and she can't accept it all at once.
“Bowen, you’ve always been smart, what do you suggest?” Li Ci thought of what Qi Bowen had said when he was in Sichuan Province.
"Mom, I know that Grandpa and the others care about you, and they feel indebted to that person."
“If we do nothing, and that person becomes more and more important to our grandparents, then we will really have no place in the Li family.”
"Mom, think about the future. I was thinking of going out to work, but now I've lost my job. In Beijing, no one dares to go against Grandpa and the others."
"What will we do in the future? Without a source of income, we simply cannot stay in Beijing."
"Mom, trust me. Let's find a way to go back to the Li family first, and then we can talk about the future. If that person is a good person, then Mom can live a good life with them."
"If he's a wicked person, Mom, are you just going to watch Grandpa and Dad be misled by him?"
"I heard he brought a country wife back with him. You have no idea how much people outside are laughing at our Li family."
Qi Bowen's words were all for the sake of the Li family and Li Ci, and he even advised her to get along well with that person.
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