Wei Qingfeng let out a chuckle and replied nonchalantly, "No, my parents told me in a dream that the longer you recover, the greater the changes will be. They told me not to make a fuss and just protect you."
Wei Ci was bewildered. Is this even possible? Can you believe what you dream about?
Then why didn’t her dream of becoming the richest man in Dayong Kingdom come true?
Wei Qingfeng smiled bitterly. It wasn't that he was inexperienced and was making a fuss out of nothing. It was just that his recently deceased parents were making too much of a fuss.
She would appear in his dreams every few days to warn him not to bully his sister, to protect her, to understand her changes, and to accept her strangeness.
He didn't take it seriously and had the same dream for half a month. Every day in the dream, he was chased by his biological father with a bench in his hand and jumped up and down.
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Knowing that her family would not suspect anything unusual about her, Wei Ci felt relieved and chattered away, becoming the happiest girl in the family again.
On the night of New Year's Eve, Gu Zhan secretly brought Gu Zhengyang, who was staying in the sheep pen and didn't want to cause trouble to others, to the Wei family.
On the table were the dishes Wei Ci had been looking forward to, such as stewed bones with sauerkraut, fish stewed with tofu, and braised pork with Spanish mackerel dumplings. The aroma lingered in the air all night, making the greedy people drool.
Wei Ci imitated a chivalrous knight and raised the wine bowl in his hand. The bowl contained light red raspberry wine, which was sweet and sour. Raspberries were the fruit in the space. Not only did they taste great, they also had good beauty-enhancing effects.
"I wish everyone a happy new year! May all your wishes come true!"
The Wei Qingshan brothers smiled at each other, raised their glasses of white wine and clinked them together: "Happy New Year, everyone!"
"Happy New Year!"
Gu Zhan swallowed the fragrant white wine in the bowl in one gulp, and under his uncle's green eyes, he calmly took away the wine bowl in front of him and poured a glass of the same fruit wine as Wei Ci.
"This is a drink for girls. It's not suitable for a grown man like me to drink it!"
Gu Zhengyang's eyes were blazing with fire as he stared at his own nephew. Sure enough, nephews were here to collect debts. It would be better for him to raise a piece of barbecued pork!
Gu Zhan ignored the temper of his uncle beside him, and drank the last drop of white wine in the bowl slowly and unhurriedly. He even arrogantly turned the bowl over in front of his uncle, indicating that there was not a drop left and he had finished it.
"Comrade Gu, don't forget your illness. You can drink wine, but it must be fruit wine."
We had agreed that if I came here with him and hid, I would listen to him, and when he was not around, I would listen to the Wei brothers and sisters. This man is weak and cannot drink alcohol. His father had repeatedly warned him that it was okay for his uncle to eat less, but he must not be allowed to drink.
Gu Zhengyang snorted. He had seen everything. Why was he afraid of this little problem?
Even though he thought so, Gu Zhengyang still lowered his head and took a sip of the fruit wine. He was surprised by the sweet and sour taste. He drank it in one gulp. After finishing it, he quietly came over to ask for more wine.
There were two sets of bowls and chopsticks on the main seat at the dining table next to Wei Ci, and there was wine in the bowls. This was the place where Wei's parents often sat during the Chinese New Year.
The Wei brothers' noses turned red and their eyes turned red. This was the first time they had spent a year without their parents. It was not until this time that they felt like facing reality.
They have no parents anymore.
"Dad, Mom! Happy New Year!"
A bowl of wine was poured onto the ground, and the two Wei brothers choked with sobs.
Wei Ci was stunned for a moment, a little distracted.
She missed her own mother too. How would she spend the New Year without her? Would her stepmother give her another hard time on New Year's Eve, with no one to keep her company?
There was a moment of silence at the dinner table. Everyone drank silently without saying a word. They felt sad thinking about their parents and their families. At the end of the drinking, several grown men just hugged their heads and cried.
Wei Ci held the chopsticks stupidly, staring blankly at her eldest brother who was steady during the day, her second brother who was cheerful, and Gu Zhengyang who was pretending to be calm with his hands behind his back. After drinking some wine in the evening, the two brothers began to cry uncontrollably.
"I've come back to my senses."
Gu Zhan placed the fish meat with the bones removed in her bowl and calmly patted the little girl on the head, bringing her back to her senses and letting her eat properly.
Wei Ci bit her chopsticks and looked at her elder and second brothers. For some reason, her nose suddenly felt sore and the corners of her eyes immediately turned red.
"Wow, I miss my mom too..."
Gu Zhan's hand trembled, and the fish ball he picked up bounced away with a sizzling sound. Looking at the little girl opposite him with tears slowly welling up in her eyes, at this moment, he was more panicked than when he met a fugitive who had committed a heinous crime.
"Well…"
What is he going to say?
Should he also say that he missed his mother?
But what should he do since he almost forgot what his mother looks like?
What should I do if I can’t muster up that emotion?
The New Year's Eve dinner was a complete mess, with three drunkards and a listless little girl sitting at the table. Gu Zhan, the only normal person, could only smile bitterly and roll up his sleeves to clean up the mess.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, before dawn, Magou Village was in commotion because something happened in Uncle Wei's family again.
On New Year's Eve, Wei Qingmiao got up last night to go to the toilet. Unexpectedly, it was freezing cold and the wooden board under his feet was frozen and cracked. It is said that he didn't pay attention and just squatted down and fell into it.
Wei Ci, still dazed, wiped her face with a warm towel and regained consciousness. Hearing Gu Zhan's strange tone, she tilted her head and looked at him questioningly: "From your tone, did you see it with your own eyes?"
Gu Zhan handed her the goat milk he had prepared earlier, motioning her to drink some to warm her stomach first, and then he slowly talked about what happened after Wei Ci fell asleep last night.
The Wei brothers drank too much last night and were so angry that they went to fight with their second and third uncles without caring about anything else.
Although they had no evidence to prove that they were directly related to their parents' death, it was an established fact that Aci was sold by them. If they really let Wei Qinghao from the third house take the blame, they would not be able to figure out who the culprit was.
So, after getting drunk and losing their minds, the Wei brothers, with their fighting power soaring, ran out in a flash. Fortunately, they still knew to put on thick clothes.
"So, you were there the whole time when my eldest and second brothers were doing these things?"
Gu Zhan nodded, his tone sincere.
Not only that, he also had to clean up the two drunkards' tracks all night long, while also being on the lookout and supervising the second branch of the Wei family, and at the same time being alert that the two drunkard brothers might be discovered by others before they had set up their trap.
As a result, he turned around and witnessed Wei Qingmiao falling into the toilet. He shouted for half an hour but no one responded. He almost froze to death there.
"Later, when Wei Qingfeng (Second Uncle Wei) got up to go to the toilet at night, he discovered something was wrong and saved her life."
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