Chapter 136 The Xia Family's Situation
"Sister..." Xia Meng opened her mouth aggrievedly.
"How did you find this place?"
"I saw my second brother here online, and then I followed the clues and found him here. Sister, is this your home?"
Xia Meng was extremely well-behaved at this moment, completely different from the arrogant look on her face when Yang Shuhua met her on the roadside.
Yang Guojun and Liu Guizhen both came out and approached to ask, "This is Xiaomeng, right? You came here by yourself? Come in and sit down."
Xia Meng looked at the middle-aged couple, then at Xia Wu, not daring to be impolite, and called out, "Hello, uncle and auntie. I'm Xia Meng, you can just call me Xiao Meng."
"Thank you, uncle and aunt. I took the initiative to come to my sister and cause you trouble."
"Oh, it's not a bother, it's not a bother. What's the problem? Look at what you said. It's not easy to take a bus all the way here. Our place is not as good as yours. The conditions are a little worse. Just don't be disgusted."
Xia Wu watched his parents entertain Xia Meng without saying anything. Xia Meng limped into the house, and Liu Guizhen quickly noticed: "What's wrong with your foot? Why are you limping?"
She also didn't hear from Xiao Wu that the girl had difficulty walking?
"Auntie," Xia Meng began to act pitiful, her eyes red, "I accidentally sprained my ankle..."
"Ouch! Is it serious? Sit down quickly. Come here, let me take a look at you."
Liu Guizhen personally helped Xia Meng into the house and asked Xia Wu to come over and lend a hand. After Xia Meng sat down, Liu Guizhen lifted her skirt, revealing Xia Meng's swollen ankle. "That's a serious sprain. Wait a minute, I'll go get some ice for Xiao Meng. When your grandfather comes back, let him push Xiao Meng."
Yang Guojun brought tea and some fruit and placed them on the table for Xia Meng to eat. Xia Meng obediently took a plum and held it in her palm, and asked curiously, "Uncle, are these the fruits grown by my sister?"
"Yes, these are fruits grown on our own hill. They are said to be delicious. You should try them."
"Okay, I'll try it," Xia Meng took a small bite, like a good girl, "Wow, it's really delicious! Thank you, uncle, sister is really amazing!"
Yang Guojun and Liu Guizhen both liked Xia Meng very much. They felt that she was well-behaved and polite. On the contrary, they couldn't understand why Xia Wu was so cold to her.
Xia Wu asked her parents to take care of their own things and she would take care of Xia Meng. Yang Guojun even told her not to bully Xia Meng. Xia Wu said helplessly, "I know."
The Yang family wanted to treat the Xia family as distant relatives with whom they could interact, and they never thought about the Xia family's harshness.
As soon as they left, Xia Meng seemed like a different person. She held the cup far away and put the fruit down.
She is a mysophobe.
There are few people in the Xia family who don't have mysophobia.
Whether they are pretending or are genuine mysophobes, their harshness is already considered a mental illness.
Xia Wu is now an outsider and can see everything clearly.
She asked Xia Meng: "What is your purpose in coming here?"
Xia Meng tilted her head and pouted, pretending to be cute: "Sister, why don't you reply to my message?"
"I'm not your sister anymore. Your sister is someone else. My WeChat account is no longer in use. Why are you contacting me when you have nothing to do?"
Xia Meng looked hurt: "I don't care, once a sister, always a sister, you are my sister, add me on WeChat, I want to stay with you for a while."
"Did I agree to let you stay?"
"You have to agree even if you don't. My suitcase was stolen, and all my clothes and documents were in it," Xia Meng spread her hands and told a big lie.
"Call your parents and ask them to pick you up."
"My dad hasn't been home for two weeks, and my mom went abroad to play cards," Xia Meng said nonchalantly. "Even if I called them, they would just scold me and tell me to figure it out on my own."
"Then call your brother and ask him to pick you up."
"Oh, don't mention it. You know he's not a good guy. During the Chinese New Year, he hit and ran and almost went to jail. My dad paid to settle the matter. He really didn't want to see him, so my second brother sent him abroad and told him not to come back for three years. I guess he was left to fend for himself."
Xia Wu frowned, thinking about the character of Xia Meng's brother, who was indeed capable of doing such a thing.
"Then call Xia Heng."
Xia Meng was speechless: "Do you think he will pay attention to me?"
It was always the younger brothers and sisters in the family who chased after Xia Heng and his friends and played. Xia Heng had never been seen to take special care of anyone, except for Xia Wu in the past.
After going through all this, Xia Wu really couldn't find anyone who could help Xia Meng.
She looked at Xia Meng, who had an expression of "I'll leave it to you", thought for a long time, and finally sighed helplessly.
"Okay, you stay here, I'll contact someone to pick you up as soon as possible."
"Hey, sister, you're so nice! I love you so much!"
"There's a price to pay for staying here. Have you seen your second brother? He has to work if he wants to stay here, so you have to work too."
"But I sprained my ankle, so I can't do it."
"Wait for my grandfather to come back and give you a few injections. You'll be able to walk soon, and in two days you'll be able to move around freely and be able to do things."
"But I can't do it. I won't do it."
"If you don't work, you won't have anything to eat."
"Can't I order takeout?"
“Takeout can’t be delivered to the village.”
Xia Meng and Xia Wu stared at each other, and finally, Xia Meng gave up struggling, "I don't want to milk!"
It’s so disgusting, how can the second brother do this!
"You want to milk the cows, but I won't let you. Heal your foot first, and then do whatever I tell you to do."
Xia Wu no longer cared about Xia Meng. Yang Shuhua was combing Weifeng's hair outside and was going to give it a bath. Xia Wu went back to the house and took out Jindou and Heidou's bathing products. He moved a stool and asked Weifeng to squat by the basin of water. He first combed the hair and then used scissors to cut off the tangled hair that could not be combed out. In the middle, Yang Shuhua talked about Weifeng's experience. It squatted there obediently and let its new owner tidy it up.
At least he looks much more obedient than Xia Meng.
After listening to its story, Xia Wu liked this mighty big dog even more, and even gave it a name that she liked.
Weifeng's fur is a little dull, probably because of lack of nutrition. It doesn't matter, I will arrange delicious food and drinks for him immediately.
When guests came to the house, Yang Guojun rode his bike to Haotang Village to buy fresh pork. Xia Wu asked his father to buy some more bones to make soup for the family dog.
Xia Meng sat not far away and watched Xia Wu bathing the dog. She felt that her sister treated the dog better than her.
At noon, Liu Guizhen went to the mountain to get some steamed buns and brought back Jindou and Heidou. When he saw that there was a new dog in the house, Heidou stood outside the door and did not come forward. He could not believe that there was a new dog in the house.
Woof! The master has changed his mind!
Xia Wu touched Heidou's dog head and introduced the new member of the family to it. Although Weifeng was big in size, it was very honest in front of Xia Wu. Heidou came forward and circled around it to smell its scent, as if acknowledging the existence of the new member.
"You three have to get along well with each other and watch the door carefully. I will make delicious food for you every day!"
Xia Meng stayed at the Yang family. At noon, Grandpa Yang came back on his bicycle after seeing a patient. He didn't say anything when he saw there was another child in the family. He personally checked Xia Meng's ankle. The sprain was quite serious, but it didn't bother him.
Old Master Yang took out a silver needle, heated it up, and was about to give Xia Meng acupuncture. Seeing him take out a few centimeters long silver needle, Xia Meng's face turned green and she screamed in refusal: "I don't want acupuncture! Just wait for it to heal on its own!"
"That won't do. If you don't take care of it, you'll develop a chronic illness in the future," Old Man Yang said with a smile, twisting the silver needle to comfort her, "Don't worry, it won't hurt. It will be healed in a moment."
"I don't want it! I don't want it! Sister! Please let me go! I want to go back!"
Seeing her crying and begging to leave, Xia Wu showed a cruel and evil smile on his face. Want to leave? Too late!
"Brother, grab her hand, Grandpa, hurry up and pierce her!"
Xia Wu instructed Yang Hongwen to grab Xia Meng's hand. Before Xia Meng could kick or hit anyone, she leaned over to Xia Meng's ear and whispered, "If you dare to kick anyone, I will definitely beat you up."
Xia Meng took a deep breath, tensed her body, and lost even the courage to struggle. Seeing that she was about to be stabbed, she could only tremble and say, "Grandpa... please be gentle - ah!!!"
It felt sore and numb, as if countless ants were moving inside her flesh and bones. Xia Meng couldn't describe the feeling. The sprained part was hot and the soreness and numbness made her want to struggle and escape. Her tears were coming out, but she didn't dare to move because of Xia Wu's words.
An unknown amount of time passed before five or six silver needles were inserted into Xia Meng's instep. After waiting for about ten minutes, Mr. Yang removed the needles, twisted Xia Meng's foot, and asked, "How do you feel now?"
Xia Meng cried so hard that her nose and tears were all over her face, and it looked like a tabby cat. She cautiously tried to move her ankle and exclaimed "Ah" in surprise.
It doesn’t seem to hurt at all!
Xia Meng stood up, tried to take two steps, and said in surprise: "It's OK! I can walk! It doesn't hurt at all!"
Old Master Yang smiled and said, "I'll give you a few more injections tomorrow and you'll be completely healed."
Xia Meng's face instantly fell, and she begged, "Grandpa, can you not give me the injection?"
Old Master Yang packed up his needle bag and ignored her. Xia Wu broke her fantasy: "No."
Xia Meng stayed.
Compared to Xia Heng's hopelessness, at least Xia Meng would pretend to be polite in front of the Yang family. She said that all her things were stolen and only a mobile phone was left. Xia Wu had to find his own clothes to give her as a change of clothes.
Most of Xia Wu's clothes consist of tops and pants. She rarely wears skirts, let alone lolita skirts. Xia Meng dislikes this very much. She thinks wearing such ordinary clothes will only lower her taste. If she has a choice, she will definitely not wear a short-sleeved shirt and long pants combination.
But Xia Wu was very cruel and told her that she would run naked if she didn't wear it.
Xia Meng: "..." Then she should wear it.
Xia Meng wore Xia Wu's clothes loosely. After her foot healed, she always followed Xia Wu around. She did whatever Xia Wu did and even slept with Xia Wu at night.
After two days, Xia Wu had become accustomed to Xia Meng's presence. Although she didn't like this naughty cousin when she was at the Xia family, at least at the Yang family, Xia Meng's performance was still very good.
After taking a shower at night, the two of them slept in the same bed. Xia Meng had her hair loose, and Xia Wu was concentrating on playing with her mobile phone. The message she sent to Ji Yunzhou fell on deaf ears, and there had been no reply for two days.
Xia Meng glanced at the chat interface between her and Ji Yunzhou and suddenly asked, "Sister, are you in a relationship?"
Xia Wu put down the phone and asked, "Why? Do I need to ask you for permission to date?"
Xia Meng turned over and lay on the bed, "No, sister, don't you like Fu Shilin very much? Who are you dating, Fu Shilin? Or someone else?"
"Fu Shilin is so old news from so many years ago. I don't like him anymore. Why are you asking so many questions, little brat?"
"Oh, I'm just curious. Although Fu Shilin is a bit annoying," Xia Meng didn't like Fu because she didn't like people who were more arrogant than her, "but in terms of appearance and family background, he is indeed top-notch. If you break up with him, can you still be interested in someone worse than him?"
Xia Wu glanced at her sideways, "Who told you that my boyfriend is worse than him?"
"Where is your boyfriend from? Is he from here?" Xia Meng didn't dare to think about it. How could the men here be good-looking?
But her sister's biological brother is good-looking, but a little stupid.
"What do you think of me? I'm going to sleep. If I don't sleep, I'll go out and feed the mosquitoes."
Xia Wu was too lazy to pay attention to Xia Meng's gossip. It was time to go to bed after his hair was dry.
"Hey, sister! Just talk to me. You've been gone for so long, aren't you curious about what's going on at home?"
Xia Wu turned off the lights and the room became dark.
Xia Meng was still rambling, "During the Chinese New Year reunion dinner, I saw that Xia Wei. She was just so-so. She looked like a white lotus. If she hadn't taken your place..."
"She didn't take my place, I took her place for more than 20 years. You have to understand this." Xia Wu was calm when she heard this again. She didn't care at all. She didn't care about either the Xia family or Fu Shilin.
"Oh...you don't hate her anymore?"
"Why should I hate her? I might as well hate you."
"I didn't do anything wrong, why do you hate me?" Xia Meng muttered, "But she's not engaged to Fu Shilin, you want to know that too, right?"
Huh? Xia Wu was indeed surprised.
In fact, she was quite curious.
"Why isn't she engaged to Fu Shilin?" Xia Wu finally couldn't help herself and asked curiously.
"I heard from Ms. Liu that she said she is still in college and doesn't want to get married too early, and she doesn't like Fu Shilin."
"Huh???" Xia Wu was even more puzzled. It was impossible that he didn't like Fu Shilin?
"I suspect she's playing hard to get, but I have no evidence. She rarely lives at home. I've been to my uncle's house several times and never saw her. The servants said she lives on campus and only goes back occasionally. It's strange, isn't it?"
It's really strange. She doesn't go back to the Xia family or the Yang family. Where does she go during the holidays?
"Will she be here during the New Year?"
"Yes, but she only stayed for two days and then left. She was admitted to graduate school and said that her supervisor wanted to see her about something."
Xia Wu did not ask any more questions. Thinking about it carefully, she realized that she didn't know anything about Yang Wei. Their only interaction was their reunion at the Xia family. She felt like she was facing a formidable enemy in front of Yang Wei, fearing that her arrival would take away everything from her.
But what is all that she has?
Occasionally, my parents and villagers would mention Yang Wei in front of Xia Wu, and they all praised her.
Because she had a stupid brother, Yang Wei was placed with high hopes at home. When relatives saw her, they would always remind her to study hard so that she could help her brother when she had a bright future, and at least not let Yang Hongwen starve to death.
Now Yang Wei has become Xia Wei, and Xia Wu has become Yang Xia Wu. The two have returned to normal. Whether at home or in the village, fewer and fewer people mention her, just like Xia Wu no longer has a place in the Xia family.
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