On the other side.
When Wu Yingwei returned home and was eating breakfast, he pointed to the crab gobies in the basin and asked, knowing the answer already, "Where did these crab gobies in the basin come from?"
Mei Yueqin looked at Wu Ping.
Originally, she planned to say that she brought it from her parents' home, but she didn't expect Wu Yingwei to suddenly come home. In the past, she would be busy until noon before coming home for lunch.
She said she went to her parents' home so early in the morning, but Wu Yingwei definitely wouldn't believe her.
Wu Ping's eyes flickered, and he stammered.
Wu Yingwei frowned: "What's wrong? Can't you speak properly? Did you steal it?"
"No, no," Wu Ping said, forcing a smile. "Actually... it was actually sent by A'an."
"He's the one who caught him."
"Both Yueqin and I can vouch for him."
Mei Yueqin chimed in, "Yes, yes, yes, I see that Erzi is different from before, Dad, please don't be angry..."
Wu Yingwei said, "So you two still acknowledge me as your father."
"There are still things to do in the village."
"Let's go."
After saying that, he put down his chopsticks and left with his hands behind his back.
Wu Ping and Mei Yueqin looked at each other in bewilderment.
After Wu Yingwei left the house, Wu Ping asked, "Yueqin, what do you think Dad meant by this?"
Mei Yueqin said, "It's hard to say."
"Dad probably already knows that Erzi has turned over a new leaf."
"Luckily you told the truth just now, otherwise Dad might have been angry."
Wu Ping smiled wryly: "I wouldn't dare lie to Dad."
Mei Yueqin seized on the key point: "Then who do you dare to lie to?"
Wu Ping raised his hands in surrender: "I dare not do this to anyone."
"You rest, I'll clean up."
Mei Yueqin rolled her eyes as she cleared the dishes: "Alright, I'll do it."
Wu Ping asked, "Since Dad isn't angry, do you think A'an can come home to live?"
Mei Yueqin frowned: "It's hard to say."
"Let's try bringing it up during dinner tonight."
"I'll stew these crabs with tofu tonight, and then I'll give half of them to Erzi."
Wu Ping smiled and nodded, then breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's good that Dad found out. We won't have to sneak around anymore."
They had given him a hard time before.
When delivering something to my younger brother, I had to avoid people and didn't even dare to walk on the main road. I could only twist and turn through alleyways, sneaking around like a thief.
...
Wu Yingwei arrived at the village committee as usual.
Everyone greeted him cheerfully.
"Old Wu, you're here."
"I heard your second son sent a lot of crabs home?"
"Tsk tsk tsk, I'm so envious. The last time I ate crab tiger was last year, and I've almost forgotten what it tastes like."
Wu Yingwei said, "That's easy. I'll eat it tonight and tell you what it tastes like tomorrow."
The man laughed and cursed, "Damn, I thought you were going to treat me to dinner."
"Old Wu, you seem to be in a good mood today."
"That's right. Now the whole village knows that his second son has turned over a new leaf. He takes his younger brother, Aqing, to go beachcombing every day and they've caught a lot of valuable seafood."
"A prodigal son who returns is more precious than gold."
"Young people need to be taught a lesson; they won't grow up if they aren't given a good talking-to."
Everyone chatted and laughed.
At this moment.
When Chen Gui arrived, everyone kept asking him questions, since he was one of the parties involved. They asked Wu An how many crab tigers he had caught and how much money he had spent on them.
Chen Gui was so angry he wanted to curse. They really knew how to rub salt in the wound.
Hearing everyone talking about prodigal sons returning home and advising Wu Yingwei to let Wu An go home, Chen Gui felt even more upset and increasingly like a clown.
Seeing that everyone was getting more and more exaggerated, Wu Yingwei quickly said, "Who knows if he's acting or if it's real."
"What do you mean by 'a prodigal son returning home is more precious than gold'?"
Let's see.
Chen Gui also shouted, "Stop chatting, let's start the meeting!"
Actually, the work in the village isn't that stressful or busy; it's mostly just trivial matters.
Some jobs are thankless and difficult, and people are unwilling to do them, but Wu Yingwei will take them on.
After a while, he became extremely busy.
While others were free, they weren't exactly comfortable. Some even had grievances against Wu Yingwei, thinking, "What, are you the only one who gets special treatment just because we're all free?"
...
Wu An was awakened by hunger.
I glanced at the alarm clock; it was already 1:30 in the afternoon. I rubbed my eyes, sat up, and washed my face with the cool well water, which woke me up.
He was stumped when he tried to bring the beer, rice, and noodles into the house.
He had just woken up and was feeling lazy; he didn't want to cook or drink anything.
Moreover, it's too hot. Even the slightest movement will leave you drenched in sweat, let alone cooking.
I had two packs of instant noodles left from the ones I bought in the early morning. I was just about to boil water and cook them when I saw a figure walking straight towards me under the blazing sun.
The sun was shining brightly outside, so bright that the air seemed to distort. He thought he was seeing things, so he rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn't mistaken, and then rushed out of the house: "Sister-in-law, what brings you here?"
Mei Yueqin's eyes flashed with joy when she saw the row of clothes on the clothesline. Even though she knew Wu Anxue was doing well, she was still very happy to see it with her own eyes. She said, "I'm bringing you food."
Wu Ping took the two large porcelain jars and said, "Why bother delivering this in the middle of the day? I bought rice and noodles, and I also have instant noodles. We can make do with this."
"This sun is so hot it's killing me... Come inside, come inside."
Once inside, he quickly turned the electric fan around to face his sister-in-law and turned the fan speed to maximum.
Mei Yueqin told him not to bother and to eat first.
There wasn't a stool in the room, so Wu An simply squatted by the door, opened the large porcelain jars, one of which contained rice topped with shredded meat and stir-fried green beans, and the other contained steamed salted fish.
Upon seeing the salted fish, Wu An's eyes lit up. He grabbed one with his hand and stuffed it into his mouth. There were few bones, and even if there were, he didn't need to spit them out; he could just chew them up and swallow them.
While eating, he mumbled, "Sister-in-law, the salted fish you pickled is absolutely delicious."
I ate a couple of mouthfuls of rice and swallowed them whole, feeling incredibly satisfied.
As he ate, he felt his eyes stinging, and he quickly looked up to avoid crying in front of his sister-in-law.
Salting fish is a tradition here. Before refrigerators existed, people would salt the fish to keep for later consumption. Even now that people are better off and have refrigerators to freeze fish, every household still salts fish to eat.
Later, when he was working away from home, he would miss the food from his hometown. He tried searching online and found that there was salted fish for sale. It looked just like the fish from his hometown, so he bought some to try.
result.
The salted fish looked the same, but the taste was far inferior to the salted fish my sister-in-law made.
It was then that he understood the truth that "things that are easily obtained are often not cherished, and only after they are lost do we regret it."
He ate heartily, a mouthful of salted fish and a mouthful of rice, his heart filled with mixed emotions. In this life, he must cherish everything he has now!
Mei Yueqin didn't sit idle. The room was paved with stone slabs, and seeing some mud, she subconsciously picked up a broom and started sweeping. She said, "Erzi, Dad already knows about what happened to you these past two days. Let your brother and I talk to you tonight, and maybe you can come home tomorrow."
Upon hearing this, Wu An paused in his eating, swallowed the food in his mouth, wiped his mouth, and said, "Sister-in-law, don't rush."
Even if Dad tacitly allows me to go home tomorrow, I won't just go back like this.
"If I don't do something and make people look at me differently, I really won't have the face to go home."
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