Chapter 68 The Wen Family
Wen Qing had almost eaten up all the meat dishes on the table. There were only eight or nine slices of meat in the dishes.
What does he and mom and dad eat!
Wen Hai was about to continue arguing with Wen Qing when Wen Qing gently put down his chopsticks, lowered his head and carefully glanced at Wen Qianjin and said, "I'm sorry, uncle. The food was so delicious that I couldn't resist. I won't eat it anymore and will leave it for aunt and brother. I'm sorry, brother."
Wen Hai felt that he couldn't swallow the food in his throat and rolled his eyes. His cousin started pretending again.
"Sister, you lied! You did it on purpose!"
Wen Qianjin saw his niece being bullied by his son and started to lecture Wen Hai for being ignorant. "Wen Hai! Why are you talking so much? It's just a few pieces of meat. Xiaoqing, don't worry about him. Eat yours."
Wen Hai wanted to argue, "Dad, what did I say wrong? She ate all the meat by herself. What would Mom have to eat?"
Wen Qianjin was completely enraged. His son was so ignorant. They were all family members, so it didn't matter who ate the meat. He slammed the table.
"If you don't want to eat, go back to your room. Who spoiled you?"
Wen Hai glanced at Wen Qing angrily.
Wen Qing lowered her head and gave him a quiet smile, looking at him teasingly.
"If you don't want to eat, then don't. I'm going to find my mom!" Wen Hai jumped off the chair and ran out of the house along the corridor.
Wen Qianjin was about to get up and chase him, but Wen Qing noticed his move and said, "Uncle, go chase Xiaohai quickly. Auntie will be angry again when she comes back and sees him playing in the yard without eating."
Wen Qianjin paused as he stood up.
Then he sat down again, picked up his chopsticks and said, "Don't pay attention to him. He's been spoiled by your aunt every day. When he's hungry, he knows to go home and eat."
The Wen family lives in the meat processing plant's staff housing compound. Everyone in this area is familiar with them. Judging from the weather, Ye Li will be back soon and can bring Wen Hai back with her.
Wen Qianjin thought for a moment and decided not to rush to find Wen Hai. What could possibly happen in the yard? He lowered his head and continued to eat with Wen Qing.
"Uncle, this is delicious, try it."
Wen Qing picked up the last piece of meat on the plate and gave it to Wen Qianjin, and the Wen family dining table became harmonious.
When Ye Li arrived home in the dark, she saw a dark figure squatting at the foot of the wall in the empty courtyard. Just as she was about to take a closer look, the figure spoke, "Mom, you're back! I was freezing to death."
It turned out to be her son Wen Hai.
"Why are you here so late at night?"
Ye Li hurried forward to check on her son. She didn't know how long the child had been outside. His little hands and face were so cold.
"I don't want to go back. Dad and my cousin are family. Dad hates me."
When Wen Hai saw his mother coming back, he pouted and complained.
Ye Li held her son in her arms and felt that the child's cotton jacket was frozen stiff. She knew that it was Wen Qing who was causing trouble again.
Wen Qing is the daughter of her boyfriend, Wen Qianjin's elder brother. Wen Qianjin's elder brother and his wife both died when Wen Qing was ten years old, leaving Wen Qing an orphan. Wen Qianjin then adopted his niece.
At that time, she had just been married to Wen Qianjin for a year, and she was pregnant with Xiaohai. Feeling sorry for the little girl being alone, she agreed to bring her back home, but she didn't expect that she would bring a disaster to the family.
Ye Li opened the door holding Wen Hai, and Wen Qianjin was washing dishes.
Putting Wen Hai in the living room, Ye Li went into the kitchen to look for Wen Qianjin. "It's so cold, why did you leave Xiao Hai outside?"
Wen Qianjin wrung out the water from the tablecloth and said, "Xiao Hai is too ignorant. It would be a good lesson for him to stop bullying Xiao Qing."
Ye Li couldn't stand hearing the word Wen Qing. It was Wen Qing again!
Ye Li said to Wen Qianjin, "Wen Qianjin, who is your child after all? You always side with that ungrateful bastard! Can't you see that Wen Qing is just pretending?"
Wen Qianjin looked at Ye Li's mad and unreasonable appearance, which made her look like a crazy woman. He turned around, put the rag on the shelf, stood up and went back to the house and said, "Ye Li, I really can't communicate with you. I didn't say that you love your niece Ye Ling. Why are you so mean to Xiao Qing?"
Ye Li sat at the dinner table watching her son eat noodles. There was no more rice for her and her daughter in the pot, so she made up her mind and took out a few handfuls of white flour from the jar to make a bowl of white noodles for her son.
Why keep it? Leave it for that troublemaker Wen Qing?
Wen Hai sucked on the noodles and said to his mother, "Mom, these noodles are so delicious. If I could eat white noodles every day, I would be in heaven."
Ye Li was amused by her son and said, "You're dreaming! The factory director can't even eat white flour every day. Go to bed quickly after dinner."
Seeing Ye Li smile, Wen Hai asked tentatively, "Mom, how is my sister?"
Ye Li's face fell and she said, "The situation is not good. You are a child, so leave it alone and focus on your studies."
Then I rushed to Wenhai to brush my teeth and go to bed.
Wen Hai returned to his room and quietly took out the sack of clothes from under the bed. He found a folded summer short-sleeved shirt, opened the clothes and found his small savings vault. He lay on the head of the bed and counted the banknotes in his hand in the moonlight.
He didn't dare make any noise. There were only two rooms in the house, and he and Wen Qing squeezed into one room, which was separated by wooden boards. There was no sound insulation at all, and if he turned over quickly in bed, he could hear it from the other side.
One cent, fifty cents, Wen Hai counted them in the moonlight and it was a total of two dollars and sixty cents. He didn't know how much money Sister Ye Ling needed, so he had to take out all the money he had saved. Holding the two cents and sixty cents in his arms, Wen Hai slowly fell asleep, thinking that when Sister Ye Ling got better, they would go to play with Dabai together.
Ye Li sat on the edge of the bed mending Wen Hai's torn pants, thinking about how to discuss Ye Ling's matter with Wen Qianjin. After waiting for a while, she saw that Wen Qianjin was getting ready to go to bed.
Ye Li said, "Xiao Ling's surgery fee is still quite a bit short. We still have over 90 yuan in savings. Why don't we withdraw some of it and give it to them for emergency use?"
Wen Qianjin knew that Ye Li would say this, but Ye Li loved her children so much that why didn't she think about the two other children of her own?
"It's not that I don't want to pay for Xiaoling. You know Xiaoqing is unemployed right now. A while ago, a job became available at the machinery factory, and I already agreed to buy it for her. Xiaoqing doesn't have any parents, but your Xiaoling has a father, a mother, and grandparents. Why do you have to be the one to pay for it?"
The needle in Ye Li's hand pierced her finger, but she didn't feel any pain. She held on to her clothes tightly. She knew that Wen Qianjin would always say that Wen Qing had no parents, and then everything was her and her son's fault. Why?
"Wen Qianjin, what does it have to do with me that Wen Qing has no parents? Did I make her parentless? Before Xiaoling got into trouble, you wanted to use all the family money to buy her a job. What did I say? Now Xiaoling has suddenly gotten into trouble and is waiting for money to save her life! Your niece's job is more important than my niece's life, right?"
Ye Li stood up and threw the mended clothes on Wen Qianjin, who pulled them off and threw them on the bed.
Wen Qianjin's anger was also aroused
"Ye Li, don't twist the facts. Ye Ling has your entire Ye family to support her, but what about Wen Qing? I ask you, what will she do if she doesn't have a job? Jobs are so hard to come by, who knows when the next one will be!"
"Okay, okay, you old Wen family is a family. My son and I are superfluous. You can live with Wen Qing! It's exactly what she wants!"
Ye Li slammed the door and went to sleep with her son. Wen Qianjin was not going to give her money. She would take her son back to the Ye family early tomorrow morning, and the Wen family would be left to them!
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