Chapter 116 Chapter 116 Xia Li hadn’t figured out how to…
Charlie hadn't figured out how to face her mother.
She told Zhang Haiyan to tell her friends to ignore everything and pretend they knew nothing about it. The woman didn't know anyone else, so everyone should just do what they were supposed to do. If there were any new developments, they should contact her immediately.
She also asked Zhao Haiyan to pass a message to Uncle Wu, the factory security guard. Uncle Wu was her acquaintance and would definitely help her.
Anyway, there is only one solution for now, which is to deal with it coldly.
Afterward, she returned to the office and continued working as if nothing had happened. Being a highly professional person, Charlie turned her anger into motivation and worked very hard that day.
Seeing Xia Li rushing around all day, as if she had never stopped working, Wen Ying couldn't help but tell her to take a break, as things weren't so urgent now.
Xia Li's serious expression even startled the other colleagues in the office. Old Peng hurried out, grabbing something, under the pretext of errands. Sister Liu, always talkative, hadn't been able to contain herself the entire afternoon. She could sense Xia Li's mood in the seat in front of her. Fourth Uncle, looking rather intimidating, barely spoke. She even went out less often to fetch water.
The other two young men could only look at each other. After exchanging information with their eyes, they also buried their heads in their own work or went out to do things.
However, Charlie was not aware of the atmosphere in the office at all. She was completely immersed in her work and had no idea what time was.
Until two gentle greetings came from my ears.
"Sister Xia, Sister Xia?"
Xia Li looked up and saw that it was Zhao Weixin.
She said "Hmm?", thinking that Zhao Weixin had something to ask her.
Zhao Weixin smiled wryly and said, "Sister, it's time to get off work. Go back and rest early!"
Xia Li was stunned for a moment, then looked to the side. The entire office was empty at this time, with only her and Zhao Weixin left.
She raised her wrist and looked at her watch again. It was not time to get off work, it was more than half an hour past time.
How come she didn't hear any noise today?
Xia Li gathered up the things spread out on the table and asked Zhao Weixin, who was standing beside her, "I have a manuscript here. The director asked me to write it, but I forgot the time. What about you, Weixin? Why haven't you left yet?"
"I just happened to have some unfinished work on my hands, and since you're here today, Sister Xia Li, I'm not in a hurry."
Xia Li smiled. "That's great! Let me tell you, our factory director has a very good impression of you. She told me before that you're a nice person, down-to-earth, and studious." Xia Li patted his shoulder and jokingly imitated the leaders on TV and Zhao Weixin, saying, "Work hard, young man. You have a bright future!"
After that, both of them smiled.
Afterwards, Xia Li looked towards the factory director's office. Although she couldn't see anything through the wall, she asked Zhao Weixin, "Is Director Wen off work too?"
Zhao Weixin nodded.
Xia Li nodded thoughtfully. After work started this year, Wen Ying no longer lived in her office, but rented a house outside. However, Wen Ying had not yet told her where she lived.
Another strange thing was that their factory director seemed to be working less overtime lately. Usually, Xia Li didn't notice when she left work on time, because Wen Ying usually stayed on for a while longer before leaving. But then, a few times, she left a little later and even left together with Wen Ying. Today, although she had indeed lost track of time, the fact that Wen Ying had walked ahead of her still made Xia Li suddenly realize that something had changed in their factory director's life.
She looked at Zhao Weixin next to her, smiled, and said, "Let's go out together!"
get off work!
I forgot the time today, so I got home at a different time than I originally planned, and it was already late.
Jiang Zai knows his mother's off-work time and has now learned to read the clock. Xia Pingzhi even praised him for being smart, saying that children usually learn to tell time by the third or fourth grade, but Jiang Zai has already learned it in kindergarten. This child is really smart.
Sometimes, Xia Li felt like her aunt and she had switched roles. Usually, it was the parents who doted on their children, praising them endlessly and at every turn, but in her family, it was her aunt who always liked to praise the children in various ways.
Although Xia Li admitted that her son seemed to be quite smart, she never mentioned it to others to avoid being seen as boasting. She was so modest.
Another reason was that when she was in high school, she read an article called "The Story of Zhongyong," which tells the story of a child who was incredibly smart, the kind that amazed everyone, but who grew up to be ordinary and lost in the crowd. Recalling this story, Xia Li didn't want her child to become like that, but she also didn't want him to become too proud.
However, sometimes she really couldn't help but praise him. After all, in her eyes, her son Jiangzai was really smart and cute.
After all, she works for others and work is important, so Xia Pingzhi knows that it is normal for Xia Li to come home late.
But recently, after their child, Jiangzai, learned how to read the clock, he's become very interested in it every day. She doesn't know what he's like at school, but at home, he'll check the time when he wakes up in the morning, when he gets home from school, and when his mom gets home from work.
That's what happened today. The child was still in the room, but Xia Pingzhi saw him playing and then he came out of his room and sat obediently on the sofa.
She hadn't reacted at first, but after a while, when she heard Jiang Zai talking, she realized that the child was looking at the time and waiting for his mother.
Jiang Zai said to his aunt: "Aunt, it's time, why hasn't Mom come back yet?"
Xia Pingzhi didn't know what to say for a moment. Xia Li had been coming home at about the same time the previous few days. Since she didn't have to go shopping, she didn't have to waste time on the road. Therefore, she always arrived home at about the same time, giving Jiangzai a false sense of time.
That is, he thought his mother would come back by this time.
He used to not be able to read the time, but now that he can, he stares at the hands on the clock and waits for his mother to come home. So every time the hands reach a certain position, he will go to the living room and get ready to greet his mother.
After learning the thoughts behind the child's actions, Xia Pingzhi was deeply moved. She had always been a soft-hearted person, and as she grew older, her kindness only grew even kinder. The more she looked at the child beside her, the more she felt that Jiang Zai was a treasure sent to her by God. This child was truly sensible.
Being smart might be the icing on the cake of a child's qualities, but being kind and sensible is what Xia Pingzhi, having lived for so many years, values most. It's also what she cares about most.
This child must have suffered a lot in the past to become so sensible and considerate. Look at the grandson of the Fang family, he acts like a little emperor every day, demanding everything at home. It's not that the child is inherently bad, but that the child has been spoiled by the adults at home since he was a child and has never suffered any hardship, so he is willful and naive.
In comparison, her child is really a blessing for both her and Charlie.
She touched Jiangzai's head, feeling extremely distressed and loving, but also feeling an indescribable melancholy.
Xia Li was a poor child. She had never been loved by her mother since she was little, and only had her biological father to take care of her. But just think about what a man could do to take care of her.
When she was still in her hometown, she would take care of her niece. But she and her sister-in-law really didn't get along, and after moving to Guangcheng, thousands of miles away, it was sometimes difficult to even get in touch with her, let alone take care of her niece.
After arriving in Guangcheng, Xia Li heard that her niece had graduated from high school. She felt relieved, thinking that her sister-in-law, while not good in other areas, had at least helped her child graduate from high school, and that she was a decent mother. But after learning a lot from her niece, she burst into tears. Her brother and niece had truly been badly harmed by that troublesome woman.
Initially, she thought her niece was remarkable for her self-reliance and her ability to live her current life independently. She was good at talking, making money, and not afraid of hardship, much better than many women.
But after spending more time with her niece, she gradually realized that many things were wrong.
Her niece didn't seem to know how to love. Xia Pingzhi herself felt embarrassed to say the word "love," but Xia Li just didn't seem to understand it.
Perhaps it was because there were too many abnormal people in this era, or perhaps it was because Xia Li acted too much like a normal person. Therefore, no one noticed her "abnormality".
But she was her aunt, and they were blood relatives, how could she not see it?
So, after learning about her niece's relationship status, she didn't rush her to find another man and start a new family. She simply asked her niece to bring the child with her so she could have a true blood relative by her side. She wanted her to slowly learn to love and care for her child while also mending herself.
So when she proposed to take Jiangzai back in exchange for the ownership of the house after her death, and her niece even accepted it with pleasure, she did not have any grudges, only heartache; after Jiangzai came to this family, her niece still devoted herself to her work, as if she only regarded the child as a little pet to tease in her spare time, she did not get irritable or angry.
She knew that people's hearts were made of flesh and blood, and that they were connected by heart. As a mother, Charlie would also grow up slowly. Just like now, they had made an appointment, didn't they?
Her niece will not be like that woman, who was stingy in giving her love and lacked the responsibilities of a mother. She will give love and she will also receive a lot of love.
Xia Pingzhi comforted the child, explaining that his mother might be working overtime. She told him that his mother had worked overtime before, but he didn't know how to read the clock at that time, so he didn't know that his mother would sometimes come home late.
Jiang Zai nodded, as if he had heard it in his heart.
When Charlie returned home and walked into the living room, she saw two people waiting for her. Suddenly, she felt a sense of satisfaction.
When her son Jiangzai saw her, he was very excited. He ran over, hugged her thighs and said, "Mom, you came home late today."
Charlie smiled and ruffled his hair. "Yeah, I know I came home late today because Mom lost track of time at work."
As she spoke, she tried to walk into the house dragging the small pendant on her leg.
Although every step was very strenuous, Jiangzai felt as if his mother was playing a game with him. The two of them walked slowly as if they were one person, which was very fun.
Charlie didn't urge him to go down. She dragged him to the clothes rack where the bags were hung. After she felt relieved after taking off the things on her body, she half-dragged him up and threw him onto the sofa.
It was cold, and the hardwood sofa was covered with soft cushions, so it didn't hurt. Jiang Cub climbed up from the sofa and was about to turn over and run away, but his mother's "claws" soon came down and kept tickling him.
"Cluck! Cluck!"
Charlie was also delighted when she heard this. Who knew that her child's laughter could be so funny, like a chick.
Finally, it was Xia Pingzhi who took action. Sometimes when her niece teased her son, the child would laugh for a long time, but she didn't dare let him laugh anymore, as it would easily cause the child to get a stitch in the side.
Xia Li listened to her aunt's words very much. When her aunt told her to stop, she stopped. Although she was tickling Jiangzai, he was still a little boy, lively and energetic, so it took a lot of effort to tickle him.
Charlie sat aside, breathing slightly with her mouth open, looking at her son who was still lying on the sofa with his four legs in the air. He had been lying there for a long time without moving, with his eyes wide open, staring at the ceiling motionlessly.
She felt much more relaxed at this moment, and the troubles of the day seemed to have been swept into other corners and could not disturb her mood for the time being.
Xia Pingzhi looked at the two people. They didn't look like mother and son at all. They looked more like two children. She shook her head helplessly.
A man walked out of the living room, raised his head, looked at the dim sky, and after a while, went into the kitchen.
Charlie didn't want to bring her troubles to others, so she didn't tell her aunt about the woman's visit. She knew her aunt had a bad relationship with her, so bringing up this person again would definitely add a lot of turmoil to their previously peaceful lives.
The next day, she continued to work as usual.
In the afternoon, I received a message from Zhao Haiyan. The message on the pager was very short, with only a few words, which said: The two have left and their whereabouts are unknown.
After seeing the news, Xia Li felt only half relieved for some reason. She knew that even if the woman had left the electronics factory, she wouldn't easily return home. She wouldn't leave until she received tangible benefits. She would definitely seek information about her from other sources.
But it doesn't matter. Guangcheng is so big, there are many good people and bad people. She hopes that the woman can meet someone who can teach her how to behave, and then after learning a lesson, she and her so-called companion can quickly return to her hometown in disgrace and never come out again.
Moreover, at this time, they could not easily disobey Guangcheng's temporary residence permit system.
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