Chapter 13: Children
It was a long time after Shen Caisheng walked out of the house before he let out a long breath.
At that moment, he almost thought that Yuan Lingling was pregnant with his child.
Yuan Lingling had mentioned this to him more than once before, and he also knew that a woman needed a child.
But he did not agree to Yuan Lingling at that time, because he felt that if he had a child, he would have to be responsible for the child. He could not guarantee his own safety, nor could he guarantee that he could give the child a complete family. Yuan Lingling obviously could not be a qualified mother, so he would definitely not agree.
But now she seems to have changed a lot.
However, Shen Caisheng has not yet figured out how to be a good father.
Father?
He got goose bumps all over his body at the thought of possibly having a child.
Shen Caisheng walked aimlessly and unknowingly came to the small shop in front of the hospital.
"Yuxi."
The boss was a middle-aged lady. She looked at him a few more times and smiled cheerfully. "Okay, two dollars and fifty cents, how about a lighter?" As she spoke, she took out a pack of Yunnan Yunnan cigarettes from the cupboard. These cigarettes had just come out and were not available anywhere else.
Shen Caisheng glanced at her and hummed.
The elder sister looked at him with a guilty look, but still smiled and said, "Come again next time."
Chen Caisheng didn't pay attention to her little trick. Just as he was about to take back the change, a man rushed out and said, "Wrong, wrong, little brother. Two dollars and two cents. My wife remembered it wrongly." He smiled and said, "I won't charge you for the matches. Let's make a good relationship."
As he said this, he winked at the woman next to him.
Not wanting to bother with the quarrel between the two, Shen Caisheng took his things and walked out. Just after taking a few steps, he heard the two people's deliberately low-pitched conversation.
"I told you not to charge random money. Do you know who he is? He's the guy on the street over at the brewery. Does he want to quit the shop?"
"I don't know..."
Listening to the two people's gossip intermittently, Shen Caisheng took out a cigarette from the cigarette box and put it in his mouth. He struck a match, and with a crackling sound, the fire cast a faint shadow on his face.
The cigarette was lit, and Shen Caisheng took a puff. The irritability in his heart finally subsided a little, but the image of Yuan Lingling and Xie Guangan standing here together suddenly appeared in his mind.
There was a child following the two of them, and the scene was extremely eye-catching.
Chen Caisheng held a cigarette in his hand and recalled a memory from the past.
At that time, his parents had just passed away, and he seemed to be out of touch with the world.
There were several times when he saw Yuan Lingling hiding in a corner and crying while doing her homework after being bullied. He had no intention of helping her at that time. If he helped her, who would help him?
What's more, he didn't understand that Yuan Lingling had no obligation to be tolerant towards those people, but she was just a punching bag. So what if he helped her once? Could she rely on others for help all her life?
Later, when he saw Xie Guangan taking action, he had even less intention to meddle in other people's affairs.
One was bullied without any resistance, the other helped secretly.
At that time, Shen Caisheng just thought that they were both weird, and he never expected that he would have the current involvement with Yuan Lingling.
"Brother Caisheng."
Suddenly, someone called Shen Caisheng, pulling him back from his memories.
Shen Caisheng felt a pain at the fingertips. The cigarette butt in his hand had already burned in front of his fingers. He got burned when he moved. The cigarette butt fell on the snow and was quickly frozen by the accumulated snow, emitting a little white smoke that was barely noticeable.
He raised his foot and ran over the cigarette butt, completely obliterating it in the already filthy snow.
"Brother Caisheng, long time no see, why are you here?"
The person who came was Ma Jie's younger sister. The little girl who used to follow them around has grown up. She is now studying at a technical secondary school in the city. According to Ma Jie, she will have a bright future.
The two of them were not very familiar with each other. For Ma Jie's sake, Shen Caisheng smiled and said, "I came out to buy some things. You should go back first. Your brother keeps talking about you all day long."
Shen Caisheng's ears were covered with calluses from all the constant nagging about his good sister going to her grandpa's house and not coming back.
"Hey, I'll wait for you, let's go back together." Ma Lili is well-behaved, but her skin is a little dark. She looks quite cute with two pigtails, especially her pair of bright black eyes which add a lot of color to her. However, she looks too smart, so Shen Caisheng doesn't want to get too close to her.
It was just a matter of going home together, so there was no reason for Shen Caisheng to refuse.
He was just about to go into the store to buy some more things when he heard Ma Lili say again: "Brother Caisheng, you already have a wife, why are you still going out to buy things by yourself? Doesn't your wife love you? If it were Sister Xie..."
"Don't talk nonsense!" If she hadn't mentioned it, Shen Caisheng would have forgotten that she and Xie Aihe had a good relationship. Now Shen Caisheng couldn't bear to hear the names of the Xie family. He didn't want to hear a single word of Xie. "Okay, go back first."
He got angry all of a sudden, and of course Ma Lili was also afraid. Like most of the children in the neighborhood, Ma Lili had been afraid of the cold Shen Caisheng since she was a child. It was only because Shen Caisheng had a good relationship with Ma Jie, and when she grew up she discovered that Shen Caisheng seemed only fierce on the surface, so she dared to get close to him a little, but only a little.
So at this moment Ma Lili was really scared. She thought that she didn't say anything just now.
Seeing him standing there and lighting up a cigarette, not entering the store or paying attention to anyone, Ma Lili didn't dare to stay any longer and left awkwardly.
Shen Caisheng is not addicted to smoking. He tried it for the first time out of curiosity, which almost made him cough up pneumonia. But later he had to use this thing to pretend. Now, anyone who sees the way he lights and holds a cigarette will have to say that he is a heavy smoker.
After Ma Lili left, he impatiently stuck his cigarette butt against the wall, put it out, and went into the store.
As Ma Lili walked along the road, she became angrier and angrier. It had been a long time since anyone had been so angry with her.
She has always been spoiled at home, and now that she is angry, she wants to go back to her family to complain. Although she also knows that her family will not have any conflicts with Chen Cai, it does not mean that her mother cannot cause trouble for Yuan Lingling. She knows that her mother has never liked Yuan Lingling.
"Mom, Dad, Brother, I'm back."
At this moment, Ma Jie was resignedly helping his mother to slaughter sweet potatoes to prepare pig food. When he saw his beloved sister coming back, his waist and legs no longer felt sore. He stood up, wiped his hands, and went to greet her, but was avoided by Ma Lili.
"dirty!"
Ma Jie wiped it on his apron again, "You little bitch, you even dislike your brother!"
"No, I just changed into new clothes." Ma Lili turned around to show Ma Jie, then remembered what happened just now. She looked around but didn't see Yang Ying. She asked, "Where are my parents? Why aren't they at home? Brother, you don't know that Brother Caisheng actually scolded me just now, just because of that bitch next door..."
She deliberately raised her voice so that Yuan Lingling could hear her scolding her. This scared Ma Jie to death. Is it okay to say such things?
Now their old mother has become a sister to Yuan Lingling, so she must be expecting a beating if she says such things.
"Keep your voice down. How can being scolded be glorious?"
Ma Lili choked. What her brother said was true.
"Tell me, why did Brother Chen scold you? There must be a reason." Ma Jie understood Brother Chen and understood her spoiled sister even better.
"What's the reason? Didn't I just say that the crazy woman couldn't compare to Sister Xie? She couldn't compare to her anyway." Ma Lili snorted coldly. Sister Xie was so nice. When the supply and marketing cooperative had defective cloth, she would always tell them first. How much defective cloth had our family bought over the years?
Ma Jie was speechless. Now only his silly sister could not see clearly what kind of people in the Xie family were.
However, he still understands his sister even though others don't.
"I'm telling you, don't even think about getting close to the Xie family. You think you like them, but do they think you like them?"
Ma Jie didn't want to say such harsh words to his sister, but if he didn't get to the point, she wouldn't listen at all.
Sure enough, when Ma Lili heard this, her face suddenly turned red.
"Brother, what are you talking about? I just like playing with Sister Xie. Don't talk nonsense."
Ma Jie sneered. With her attitude, she would rather dig out her eyeballs and stick them on Xie Guangan.
To take a step back, even if Xie Guangan liked this girl, he would not agree. The Xie family would not look like a decent family, and she might be bullied if she married into the family. He really didn't understand the girls nowadays. They all just jumped into the fire pit.
He won't agree anyway!
"I don't want to talk to you anymore. I'm going to look for my sister from the Xie family!" Ma Lili didn't care where her biological mother had gone. After her brother had exposed her secret, she had no face to stay here any longer and was ready to run away.
"Stop right there!" Ma Jie couldn't stop her and tried to chase her, but Ma Lili ran faster and almost slipped.
Seeing this, Ma Jie didn't dare to chase her anymore, for fear that his sister would fall and that people would laugh at her.
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Yuan Lingling didn't want to mention her pregnancy to anyone for the time being. Her trust in Shen Caisheng was not enough for her to tell him about it.
She had a hunch that the child might be a key point of change in their relationship, but she had no way of knowing whether it would develop in a good direction or a bad direction.
Aunt Yang talks a lot, especially when she talks about Jiang Liping, she can't stop chattering. Yuan Lingling tried to persuade her to speak more quietly, fearing that someone would hear her.
After listening to her complaints, Yuan Lingling no longer felt sad at all, and instead ate a lot of gossip.
When Shen Caisheng returned home, she was full from eating the melon and the soft egg cake was just out of the pan. Yuan Lingling was holding a large bowl of yellow egg cake with a satisfied smile on her face. When she saw him enter the kitchen, she immediately greeted him, "You're back. Come and try the egg cake we made."
"It smells so good. Your cooking skills are amazing. You will definitely make a lot of money if you set up a stall. Caisheng is really lucky." The Shen family only has the two of them. Although Yang Ying felt sorry for Yuan Lingling putting eggs and sugar in the food, the smell was really good. "I'll go back and try it too."
Earlier, she said that Yuan Lingling couldn't cook. She thought that Shen Caisheng didn't want his wife to suffer.
Yuan Lingling didn't notice Yang Ying's ambiguous smile. She put the egg cake on the chopping board and prepared to pour it out of the basin and cut it into pieces. "Aunt, don't bother. Go back and let Uncle and Ma Jie taste it while it's hot."
Yang Ying waved her hands repeatedly, "That won't work, you guys keep it for yourselves, I have to go back and practice."
She was so fast that before either of them could react, she was already at the kitchen door.
Yuan Lingling wanted to chase after them, but Shen Caisheng stopped her and said, "Give it to them later..."
Before he could finish his words, the thing in his pocket fell out as he moved, landing right between the two of them.
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