"Find what you want to see yourself."
After saying that, he leaned closer to the two children on the other side and whispered, "Let's go find Brother Daqian and the others to play."
Lu Linqi and Lu Chuqing nodded in succession, got off the chairs, and went out with him.
Just outside the main room, two girls were standing in front of the west room at the far end, along with two smaller girls a little further inside the door.
An instinct rushed to Lu Chuqing's mind, and she immediately saw a girl take something from one of the little girls' hands, saying, "If you want to go back, ask your mom to buy it for you. This belongs to someone else. If you take someone else's things, they'll beat you up later!"
This argument is quite infuriating.
Although the intention was to scare the children, it also indirectly made the children think that their family members were all vicious and would hit people at the drop of a hat.
The little girl shook her head, whining, "No, I want this..."
Lu Chuqing recognized it clearly; it was the strawberry-themed music box that Lu Linqi had bought for her.
Anger surged through her mind, and she ran over, grabbed the strawberry music box, hugged it to her chest, and stood inside the doorway, looking at them.
"Don't you know you shouldn't just enter someone else's room? And you shouldn't take other people's things without permission!"
The noisy little girl saw Lu Chuqing staring at her, opened her mouth wide and burst into tears, without saying a word, just opening her mouth and howling loudly.
The girl panicked a bit and tried to comfort her, saying, "Don't cry, those things belong to someone else, why are you being so unreasonable?"
The little girl cried even harder, squeezing her eyes shut, but not a single tear fell.
Lu Chengyang was also furious, but he couldn't really tell the children to leave, so he gestured for Lu Chuqing to put the music box away and pulled the door to close it again.
"They're all watching cartoons in the main room, you should go watch cartoons too!" the boy said sternly.
The two girls blushed furiously and tried to pull the two little girls to the main room, but the crying little girl stuck her bottom out and refused to move, just standing there wailing.
Lu Chuqing had already placed the music box, and Lu Chengyang simply fastened and locked the door, putting the key in his pocket.
I didn't even bother to look at them again, and led the two children toward the stairs.
The adults downstairs finally heard the girl crying. An older woman stood up and called upstairs, "Minghui! Minghui! Is your sister crying?"
The girl named Minghui craned her neck and looked downstairs, saying, "She insisted on taking other people's things, and when they refused, she cried!"
Just then, Lu Chengyang and his group arrived at the courtyard. Lu Yongkang, drunk, asked his eldest grandson, "Chengyang, let your sister play with whatever she wants! These all belong to your cousins, uncles, and aunts. We're all family. Get along well with your younger siblings!"
This time it was Lu Linqi who spoke up, "Sir! I bought that for my sister. I paid for it, so it's mine. I don't want them to play with it."
The woman's face darkened, and she called upstairs again, "Minghui! Bring your sister down!"
Minghui probably wanted to hug her younger sister, but her sister shook her head and refused, crying even louder.
Minghui had no choice but to say to her, "She won't let me hug her, and she's rolling around on the ground!"
Upon hearing this, the woman felt her face burning with embarrassment. She stomped upstairs and scolded the little girl on the ground, "Why are you crying? Why are you so disobedient!"
The little girl cried and clung to the woman's leg, shouting, "Mommy! I want that singing strawberry!"
Minghui also felt that her younger sister was being unreasonable, and said with dissatisfaction, "They locked the door, where are you going to ask for it? If you want it, ask Dad to buy it for you."
Upon hearing this, the woman glanced at the tightly closed door and peered through the half-drawn curtains and open glass window.
I noticed the light-colored, fresh floral print bedding set inside the room, with the quilt neatly arranged at the foot of the bed and several small animal dolls piled up next to it.
There was a dressing table on the inner side. You couldn't see the whole thing, but just a glance was enough to see all the bottles and jars on it.
A hint of envy flashed in the woman's eyes, but she quickly looked away, forcefully picked up the little girl, and slapped her on the bottom. "Hold on! Behave yourself, and your dad will buy you something on the way home!"
The woman deliberately made a stern face, and the little girl was so frightened that she forced herself to hold back her tears and was carried downstairs.
As the woman went upstairs, Lu Yongkang, drunk, lectured Lu Linqi, "Linqi, that's your sister too. What's wrong with letting her play with her for a bit? She's a guest in our house, so we should treat her politely!"
Lu Linqi didn't think he was wrong and calmly retorted, "Even our own family members don't say they can just enter someone else's bedroom. As a guest, you entered someone's room without permission and took their things without permission."
"Just because she likes something, does that mean she can take other people's things without saying a word? If so, what's the difference between her and a thief?"
The men were all drunk, and the women were all chatting with their own thoughts on their own.
Lu Linqi's voice wasn't very loud; he was only speaking to Lu Yongkang, but it was inevitable that the two people next to him would hear it.
The man to Lu Yongkang's left was slightly older and belonged to the same family as the woman from earlier. After hearing Lu Linqi's words, he stared at the boy for a few moments.
That look carried a hint of malice.
Lu Yongkang sensed something was amiss and cheerfully introduced him to the man, "This is Lin Qi from the Erhang family! You've hardly ever seen him before, so you probably don't remember him!"
As he spoke, the old man patted the boy on the shoulder, his words tinged with pride, “Children grow up so fast, it’s not surprising you didn’t recognize him.”
The man casually picked up a disposable transparent cup, took a swig of the liquor inside, smacked his lips, and said, "My third uncle is lucky. Look at these grandsons, each one more capable than the last!"
These words carried a slightly different meaning. Having lived most of his life, Lu Yongkang was adept at handling social situations. He still smiled and patted the man's shoulder, saying, "Nephew! Your uncle envies your two or three daughters!"
"Look at my kids, each one more disappointing than the last. It's one thing that your Jun and the others are boys, but I was hoping for more granddaughters, girls, but alas! It's another boy! I'm so fed up!"
The younger generation was unaware, but Lu Yongkang had heard about it.
His eldest brother's nephew had already had two daughters. He paid for the third pregnancy, but when he heard it was another girl, and the baby was almost five months old, he decided to have an abortion.
She later became pregnant again, and gave birth to another girl, which she then sold directly to a family in a nearby village.
Then she became pregnant again, this time with a boy. However, the couple got into a car accident while going to the market, and the miscarriage occurred.
The woman was getting old, and pregnancy and childbirth were really difficult. After her last child was also a girl, the young couple gave the girl to another family and adopted the other family's extra son.
Perhaps it's because they're getting older that they've become more sentimental. The young couple were reluctant to part ways and made an agreement with each other's families to arrange a marriage between their two children, with each family taking turns raising them until the children grow up and get married.
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