Li Yali went into the inner room, took out a foot basin, added hot water, and brought it to Wang Tianxiao's feet.
"Come on, soak your feet. After that, get some rest on the kang (heated brick bed). The damage is done, so all we can do is try to find a solution. Worrying too much won't help."
As she spoke, she was about to help Wang Tianxiao take off his shoes.
Wang Tianxiao quickly sat up, indicating that he would take off his clothes.
He doesn't have the bad habit of having his wife wait on him.
"It's alright, I'm your wife, it's not strange for me to wash your feet," Li Yali said with a smile, squatting on the ground and looking up at her husband.
Wang Tianxiao shook his head.
“I can do it myself. You’re my wife, not my maid. I’ve never done this before, and I never will… unless I get too old to move someday, then I’ll have to trouble you.”
"What are you saying? You're only in your early twenties, and you're already thinking about getting old. You're way ahead of your time," Li Yali stood up and sat back down on the kang. "Then you can wash yourself. I wanted to let you enjoy the treatment of a master, but you don't appreciate it."
“How could I possibly accept your service?” Wang Tianxiao reached out and pulled his wife into his arms, whispering, “That would shorten my lifespan.”
"You're talking nonsense again."
Wang Tianxiao took off his socks, soaked his feet in the water, and turned to look at his child. Only then did the gloom in his heart gradually ease.
Wang Tianren was a negative example for him.
“Actually, when I came back, I saw Lao San come back at the entrance of the alley. He was drunk and I wanted to kick him a few times.”
"So you didn't kick it, right?"
"Um."
Why?
“I felt it was unnecessary,” Wang Tianxiao smiled faintly, looking at his wife’s gentle eyes under the oil lamp. “At that moment, I suddenly felt that he was a pitiful man.”
"Yes. If a person loses their morality and conscience, they have lost their humanity. They are pitiful."
Wang Tianxiao suddenly sighed.
"What's wrong?"
After hesitating for a moment, Wang Tianxiao said sullenly, "I just feel uneasy."
"Would you like to tell me?"
Wang Tianxiao turned to look at his wife, hesitated for a moment, and then said with a wry smile, "Actually, I don't want to be a particularly magnanimous person."
Li Yali paused for a moment, then immediately understood what Wang Tianxiao meant and smiled.
"That's just how people are. Sometimes what they think and what they do are two different things. If everyone's actions and thoughts were completely consistent, wouldn't the world become very rigid?"
Wang Tianxiao smiled as well.
His wife deliberately steered the conversation to another level, actually to comfort him.
This would prevent him from experiencing further discomfort due to this act of kindness that went beyond his original plan.
It's not easy to be a good person.
But it's not easy to really be ruthless and become a bad person.
All I can say is that there are things we should do and things we shouldn't do.
"Shopkeeper..."
"Um?"
"No matter what, I support you. On the contrary, it is precisely because of this that I feel you are a real person with flesh and blood, and I like you very much."
"Really? You're not just trying to comfort me?"
"Yes, really," Li Yali said, her head down.
Wang Tianxiao nodded and grinned, "I quite like myself this way too."
His conflicting thoughts have been completely swept away.
My mind became more open-minded again.
The next day.
When Wang Tianxiao saw the hospital in the morning, he completed the transfer procedures in advance, got a referral letter from the doctor, and coaxed the child to eat something.
Around 8 o'clock, the fourth brother and his wife arrived with Tian'er.
Wang Tianxiao originally planned to leave Tian'er with his mother Zhang Yufeng temporarily when they went to Lancheng, but Tian'er was too young and had never been away from his parents before. He also didn't want to stay at home alone, so they had no choice but to take him along.
However, this made things much more inconvenient for the couple with two children.
After a while, Wang Tianzhong also came over.
The group saw Wang Tianyi, his wife, and their child off to the car bound for Lancheng. Hongwei huddled up, his gaze becoming somewhat vacant. The three-year-old child already had a hint of world-weariness in his eyes.
"Fourth brother, you go to Lancheng first and find your sister and brother-in-law. They are familiar with Lancheng and will take you there. Once you get there, be careful in everything you do, and make sure to keep an eye on the children. We can discuss other things when we get back."
"Okay, Second Brother."
Wang Tianzhong and Zhang Yufeng also gave some explanations.
Wang Tianxiao retreated to the back of the crowd. He looked around, thinking that since his third brother had returned last night, he might see him today. But after searching for a long time, he couldn't find him.
It seems he really doesn't want to take care of this child anymore.
Wang Tianxiao's last hope for this brother, who was only in name, was completely extinguished.
He vowed he would never forgive him.
Wang Tianxiao actually wanted to discuss it with his elder brother. If that didn't work out, he would have the child adopted by his elder brother, as a way of securing the family line.
A hundred years from now, I can help my elder brother hold his portrait, burn the first incense, and so on.
Anyway, with the third child in this condition, there's no way he can continue to take care of the children. Without parents, the children won't have a good life.
But we have to wait until the child is fully recovered before we can discuss this further.
He's sickly now, so even if his older brother agrees, his sister-in-law probably won't.
People are very realistic.
Not everyone thinks of others like Wang Tianxiao does.
After seeing off the fourth brother and his wife and their child, Wang Tianzhong invited his mother to sit at his house for a while. Wang Tianxiao then parted ways with him and went to Zhang Wenyuan.
The two agreed that, barring any unforeseen circumstances, they would meet every three days to exchange opinions, examine the similarities and differences in their ideas, learn from each other's strengths, and eliminate the bad.
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