Li Cuihua added, "What if the baby-picker decides to break off relations?"
Cheng Shuanzhu said, "What should we do? Are we going to starve to death? Other families don't have people like him who send money home every month, but they still live well. We have hands and feet, fields and land, how can we starve to death?"
Li Cuihua said: "I am still hoping that when Da Mao and Er Mao grow up, they can help them so that they can also eat public food."
Cheng Shuanzhu was silent for a moment before he said, "Brother Jianwa is a reasonable man. If you need his help in the future, he will help you if he can."
Li Cuihua nodded in agreement. "If he gets into a fight with Mother and the others tomorrow, we'll have to mediate and do this favor. That way, it'll be easier for us to ask him for help in the future."
In another room.
Zhang Hongli asked Cheng Shuansuo curiously, "What kind of bracelet is it? It must be very beautiful."
Cheng Shuansuo had seen this bracelet when he was very young, but he had never seen Mu Huanzhen take it out in all these years.
But now he was upset and didn't bother to pay attention to Zhang Hongli.
Zhang Hongli added, "If he insists on taking it back, he must be giving it to his wife."
Cheng Shuansuo turned over impatiently and turned his back to Zhang Hongli.
Zhang Hongli pinched him, "You get upset when I talk about his wife! No matter how unhappy you are, she's someone else's wife, she can never be yours!"
Cheng Shuansuo flipped over and said, "I'm warning you, if you say anything nonsense again, I'll spank you! Sister-in-law is right, if you hadn't caused trouble, Brother Pickup Baby wouldn't be like this!"
"Oh! Your whole family is making me take the blame for this!" Zhang Hongli said sarcastically, "How did your parents treat him before? If they had been a little nicer to him, it wouldn't have ended like this!"
Cheng Shuansuo: “…”
He only learned some things tonight.
Zhang Hongli continued, "Not even mentioning not giving him food or clothes, but throwing a seven-year-old into the mountains in the snow—wasn't that just killing him? And then selling him off. How could he not hold a grudge?"
"He wanted his mother's bracelet back, but you refused. Now he wants to distance himself from her, but you won't let him. You're just thinking about the money he sends back every month."
Cheng Shuansuo said angrily, "Didn't you use the money he sent? Don't you miss it?"
"I've only ever used one or two yuan, unlike you who spent over two hundred yuan at a time. Mother often secretly gave you money without telling anyone. Do you think I didn't know? Where did you spend all that money?"
Cheng Shuanzhu turned over again and covered his head with the quilt, not wanting to pay any more attention to Zhang Hongli.
The next day at noon.
Cheng Huazi and his friends finished their work and went home for lunch.
Cheng Jingmo asked, "Dad, can you return the bracelet to me?"
Cheng Huazi lit a cigarette and took two slow puffs before saying, "Of course I'll give you the bracelet. But on the day you mentioned yesterday, Dad didn't approve."
Cheng Jingmo nodded, "Yeah."
This made Cheng Huazi confused. He thought Cheng Jingmo would ask what he disagreed with, and then he would tell him.
But Cheng Jingmo’s current attitude is, if you don’t agree, it’s your business, I don’t care.
Cheng Huazi could only bite the bullet and say, "Jianwa, your parents may not have cared about you before, but that's how our family situation is. It's been so many years, it's pointless to hold a grudge until now."
"You're living a life of luxury now. If your father hadn't braved the snow and rescued you from a wolf, you wouldn't be living this way. You blame your parents for treating you badly, but you should also think about who gave you this life."
Cheng Jingmo listened with a blank expression.
Yu Xiangnian was also listening and thought to himself, this old man is going to start moral blackmail again!
Cheng Huazi paused to take two puffs of his cigarette before continuing, "If you want your mother's things back, we'll give them to you. But it wasn't easy for us to raise you. You can't just abandon this family like that."
Cheng Jingmo said calmly, "Dad, I said everything I needed to say last night."
Although the two did not explain it, everyone understood.
Cheng Huazi meant to send money back as usual every month, and Cheng Jingmo meant to stop sending money from next month onwards.
Cheng Huazi added, "You come home so proudly, and then you abandon this family altogether. How will the villagers view us, and yourself?"
Cheng Jingmo replied: "I don't care what others think."
Seeing that Cheng Jingmo was unmoved, Cheng Huazi gave Mu Huanzhen a look.
Mu Huanzhen continued, "Jianwa, we've returned the gold bracelet to you, that's enough for you. If you feel we've treated your wife with contempt, we'll apologize to her. But if you ignore us just because of this, you'd be completely heartless."
Cheng Jingmo tilted his head to look at Mu Huanzhen, "Where's the bracelet?"
Mu Huanzhen pulled out a handkerchief from her pocket. "It's inside! But you have to promise to take care of this family!"
"No matter." Cheng Jingmo said, "With so many people working at home, it's no problem to support the whole family. I'm sure you've saved some of the money I sent back before, so it's no problem for emergencies."
Mu Huanzhen was anxious, "Jianwa, if you are so heartless, don't even think about getting this bracelet back!"
"Cough..." Cheng Huazi faked a cough, "Mother, give the bracelet to the baby. It's our family who has wronged him. If he doesn't acknowledge it, forget it."
Mu Huanzhen opened her mouth several times, but could not utter a word. She held the handkerchief tightly in her hand and did not move.
Cheng Jingmo walked up to Mu Huanzhen and pulled the handkerchief out of her hand with great effort.
He opened it and looked at it carefully for a while, then closed it and put it in his pocket.
He walked to the courtyard in the middle of the main hall and bowed to Cheng Huazi and Mu Huanzhen.
"Dad and Mom, thank you for raising me. I'm leaving now. Please take care of yourselves."
After getting up in the morning, Cheng Jingmo had already packed his luggage.
After more than twenty days here, the temperature has risen by several degrees. Yu Xiangnian put on the clothes she brought and prepared to leave.
As for the three cotton-padded jackets and the new bedding, they were no longer wanted.
It was still the same luggage he brought with him, two suitcases and a backpack, all on Cheng Jingmo's back.
Cheng Jingmo once again said to Cheng Huazi and Mu Huanzhen, "Dad and Mom, take care of yourselves."
No one responded, one was smoking a cigarette and the other was standing there stupidly.
Cheng Jingmo took Yu Xiangnian and Xiaojie to say goodbye to the others.
Xiaojie and Laoliu fell in love while sleeping together. They both held each other's hands with red eyes, reluctant to let go.
Cheng Jingmo turned around first and said, "Let's go."
Just as the three of them took a few steps, Cheng Shuansuo rushed out of the kitchen with a kitchen knife and rushed in front of them, "Let's see who dares to leave?!"
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