Just like what Cheng Jingmo said, "It's all over", she could not erase the suffering and pain he had endured.
What she could do was to let Cheng Jingmo feel the warmth of family and the happiness of being loved.
Cheng Jingmo closed the door, hugged her back, leaned over and whispered in her ear: "I will treat you well too."
In the main room, the family looked at each other, and Cheng Jingmo's words that he would not send money back in the future and that he had repaid his kindness kept echoing in their minds.
Cheng Huazi had been smoking silently. Cheng Jingmo's words tonight were undoubtedly a slap in the face to him in front of the whole family.
In particular, Cheng Huazi always thought that Cheng Jingmo didn't know about the incident of throwing Cheng Jingmo back into the mountains.
It turned out that he knew it when he was very young, but he kept it hidden for so many years and never mentioned it.
This kid has been very scheming since he was young!
Cheng Huazi pretended to cough, stood up and went back to the room. Mu Huanzhen, Cheng Shuanzhuo and his wife, and Cheng Shuansuo and his wife followed him.
The whole family crowded into the house to discuss countermeasures.
Cheng Shuanzhu complained, "Mom, I told you to return the bracelet to Brother Jianwa, why did you insist on keeping it?!"
Mu Huanzhen said angrily, "That bracelet is made of gold, and it's becoming increasingly valuable! Even when our family was going through the hardest times, I couldn't bear to pawn it! Why should he be able to take it back just because he wants to?!"
Zhang Hongli and Li Cuihua looked at each other and thought: So there really is a gold bracelet!
Cheng Shuanzhu added, "It was originally left to him by Jianwage's biological mother, so he should have it back. If you don't give it back to him, and now you have a falling out, it will be embarrassing for everyone."
"Hmph!" Mu Huanzhen sneered, "I think he came back this time with bad intentions, wanting to distance himself from this family! The second night after their banquet, he spoke to me with no respect at all!"
That night, Mu Huanzhen and Cheng Huazi were in the room. After counting the gifts from the guests and adding up the various costs of buying vegetables and noodles, they still had four dollars and sixty cents left.
Mu Huanzhen said dissatisfiedly: "On the surface, we made money, but in fact we lost a lot of money. Most of the seafood was eaten."
She complained to Cheng Huazi again, "You should have stopped the wife from picking up the baby! When will it be her turn to have the final say in family matters? She eats all that seafood, it must be worth more than 200 yuan!"
Cheng Huazi said, "What's the point of saying this now? I've already eaten it!"
Mu Huanzhen went out to the toilet and saw Cheng Jingmo hanging clothes in the yard.
"Mom!" Cheng Jingmo called her in a calm tone, "Don't say those things in front of my wife, and don't let her hear them."
Mu Huanzhen took the opportunity to teach Cheng Jingmo a lesson, "Jianwa, you should also talk about your wife. This family needs to plan their lives. Look at her, she is always extravagant in everything she does. Our family doesn't have the conditions to support her."
Cheng Jingmo said, "These seafood were prepared by her parents. She can eat whatever she wants. There's still more left, enough for the family to eat for several meals. If she wants more, we can bring it to you when we get back. But don't tell her."
Mu Huanzhen said nothing and went to the bathroom, cursing in his heart several times: What kind of fairy is your wife? You can't even talk to her? You're an ungrateful bastard who got a wife and forgot his mother!
Cheng Shuanzhu slapped his thigh angrily, "If he dares to ignore this family, we won't let him leave this time!!"
Cheng Shuanzhu rolled his eyes at him, "Don't be stupid! If you do that, you'll really lose face! Besides, do you think he and his wife are easy to bully?"
Li Cuihua also took the opportunity to roll her eyes at Zhang Hongli and said, "I don't know what the Pick-up Boy's Wife did to offend certain people? If it weren't for those people always finding fault and causing trouble, it wouldn't have turned out like this!"
Zhang Hongli narrowed her eyes. "Who are you talking about? The kid-picker doesn't recognize this family. Is he blaming me? Besides, she was the one who started the fight that day!"
"What are you doing running into someone else's room? If it were me, I'd beat you up too!"
Seeing that the two sisters-in-law were about to quarrel again, Cheng Shuanzhu and Cheng Shuangsuo pulled their wives at the same time, "Stop talking!"
The room fell into silence, and Cheng Huazi kept smoking his pipe.
After a long while, Mu Huanzhen finally said, "Dad, please say something!"
Cheng Huazi recalled that twenty years ago, a series of accidents happened in the family, and his third uncle said that picking up a baby is a lucky star for the family.
Indeed, he and Mu Huanzhen had been married for more than three years and still had no children.
Since picking up Cheng Jingmo, the family has given birth to six children.
Moreover, life is getting smoother and smoother. I used to never be able to fill my stomach, but now I have steamed buns and steamed bread for every meal.
Cheng Huazi took two more puffs before slowly speaking, "Find the bracelet first. You can return it, but this relationship can't be severed!"
Mu Huanzhen still couldn't bear to part with the gold bracelet. "Let's just say we can't find it, isn't that enough?"
Cheng Shuansuo said, "Mom, just listen to my dad. Think about it, 30 yuan a month is enough to buy a bracelet in a year. If we really break off the relationship, how much money will we lose!"
"No matter what, I gave Pickup Baby his life. I can't deny this favor even if I want to! Let's be more gentle tomorrow and never let him ignore this family." Cheng Huazi said, "Alright, let's all go back to the house."
Everyone in the room is destined to have a hard time sleeping tonight.
Yu Xiangnian lay in Cheng Jingmo's arms, "Cheng Jingmo, what if they don't give you the bracelet?"
Cheng Jingmo said: "They will give it to them. They are reluctant to spend the money every month."
Yu Xiangnian was shocked. "Didn't you say you wouldn't send them money anymore? Are you trying to scare them?"
"No, but they will definitely give us the gold bracelet in exchange. When we return, if we don't send it to them, they won't be able to do anything about it."
Yu Xiangnian: “…”
Then he pursed his lips and smiled, "You've learned bad habits! Picking up babies."
Cheng Jingmo frowned, "What did you call me?"
Yu Xiangnian said word by word: "Pick up, baby."
This name seemed to have a special flavor when it came out of Yu Xiangnian's mouth.
Cheng Jingmo said, "Call it again."
"Pick up the baby, pick up the baby, pick up the baby, pick up..."
Cheng Jingmo swallowed the rest of the words.
After the kiss, Yu Xiangnian's red lips were shining.
She whispered in his ear, "Let's go back quickly. You won't be able to sleep even if you want to."
Cheng Jingmo: “…”
He would only say such words when he was drunk, and Yu Xiangnian didn't even blush when he said such words.
The two couples in the next two rooms were also discussing what happened today.
Li Cuihua said, "Shuanzhu, is what Brother Jianwa said today true? If so, then my parents really didn't treat him well, but he has done his best for the family."
Cheng Shuanzhu had only heard about some things today. For example, he didn't know that Cheng Jingmo had been abandoned in the mountains, sold, and then bought back.
In his memory, Cheng Jingmo slept in the cowshed and wore rags from other people's homes. Mu Huanzhen would hide food and tell Cheng Jingmo that there was no food left at home.
When he was a child, Cheng Jingmo took him to the reservoir to fish and to the mountains to catch wild game to supplement the family's income.
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