"Summer." Bi Yue thought, there was chaos in summer, don't let Kyoto be under martial law again, and she is not there.
"I originally wanted to come this winter, but my dad couldn't bear to let me go, and my grandma said I was too young and had only just started working. I was still researching, but my family still hadn't said anything. Bi Tielin is really good, he backed off. He said he had to re-sign the contract with the power company. You know he was in a difficult situation, but that power company is so inhumane. How can I still cooperate with them?"
"Xiaoxiao, businessmen don't have eternal enemies, but they do have eternal interests. I was also very dissatisfied with that power company, and I begged them so hard back then. But why not do it when it comes to making money? Many times, profit drives us beyond our control."
"True. Anyway, the wedding will be postponed to next year."
"Then let's do it after autumn. I won't be here in the summer, and neither will Bi Cheng. I'll arrange for him to go to Nanjing."
"ah?"
Bi Yue didn't want to elaborate. She took two bites of meat and sipped the white wine. The spiciness made her exclaim exaggeratedly, "Great!"
"Have some tea. Let's have some beer. You insisted on opening the liquor."
"Hey? What's Liang Haoyu like?"
Liang Xiaoxiao immediately opened up:
"Did you know? Ding Li got married again a while ago.
She is so shameless. Last year she found out that I often went to see Haoyu. Maybe she wanted to reconcile with my dad, but she actually blocked me.
Later, Haoyu got angry with her and said that if she went again, he would not go either.
What good will it do her if I don't go?
I bought Haoyu's books and school bags, whatever they were, and brought them all from Kyoto. I also paid for his tuition and uniforms.
She may have figured it out and is afraid of offending me.
But I'm really speechless about her. What do you think she's thinking? My dad isn't sick, and he won't want her in this lifetime. How could anyone dare to think about it?"
"Didn't you say she's looking for someone again? What kind of person is she looking for? Ding Li is indeed good-looking, so I guess she'll be easy to get. You have to say that men are superficial animals, they only care about looks."
"That's right, since my dad has no hope, she has started to focus on finding a partner.
Now that I think about it, I really admire that woman.
After she left my dad, all those bad things started to spread around the factory. She couldn't continue working there and went back to her county. You know what, she got another job as a cashier.
No one helps her with her work this time. Is her job good?
This time she was even more capable. She had a decent job, was pretty, and who knows how she hooked up with someone, but she married the boss of a small brick factory in their village. The man had a daughter, about fifteen or sixteen, and she was raising Haoyu.
Bi Yue nodded frequently as she listened. "First, it was your dad. Your dad was a mid-level cadre, and your family was well off back then. Now he's the owner of a brick factory. Even if it were you and me, even if we were graduate students, we might not be as enthusiastic as Ding Li. We have to be brave enough to admit that if this woman is not decent, she has many options."
Liang Xiaoxiao grinned and took a sip of white wine:
“It has nothing to do with our family anyway.
It’s Haoyu, he’s pitiful.
Ding Li asked Haoyu to call her dad or something, but Haoyu refused and was beaten twice. His body was covered in bruises.
You mean that woman? That's her biological child. She only has this one biological son after marrying into a hundred families. Is she stupid? She beat her own child just to please the brick seller?
I only found out about it later.
Haoyu was also stubborn. I gave him pocket money and told him to call me if anything happened. He ran to the top of a mountain and stayed there for half the night. He almost ran away without a word. Later, his grandmother found him.
It was his grandmother who told me all these things.”
Bi Yue was surprised: "You are still in contact with Ding Li's parents? What do you think?"
"What can I think? Am I not the landlord? If it weren't for Haoyu, they would have kicked me out long ago.
I was so angry. His grandmother wanted me to persuade Haoyu to go with Ding Li and live together, but I just said that I would take back the house.
So, now Ding Li lives with the family she married into, and Haoyu lives with his grandparents.
Anyway, they don’t need to worry about my studies, and I don’t need him for food, clothing and other necessities.
Yueyue, Haoyu has really grown up. I went to see him on my birthday one time, and he actually remembered to boil eggs for me and put them in his schoolbag. They were still warm when I took them out. I... never mind.
Those little hands were so rough from collecting firewood, but now they can get up early to cook for themselves. It seems like they have grown up in an instant.
In fact, I sometimes think, if Ding Li hadn't been so cruel to me in the beginning, if she had married into my family and confessed to my father later, if she had been more honest and kind, and stopped making such troubles, wouldn't she be so ashamed? Perhaps the result would not have been like this."
"That's all in the past. You're overthinking it. It was just a love affair. In fact, if she wasn't older, your father wouldn't have been able to marry her, and none of this would have happened. What can I say? You're acting like you're supporting a kid holding hands. I hope that kid has a conscience."
Liang Xiaoxiao took a long breath, squinted her eyes through the hot steam from the hot pot and looked at Bi Yue and said:
"I'm not asking for anything else. It's just that I met this kid once, and he called me sister. I have a hunch that if I don't care about him, he will definitely grow up to be a bad person. Haoyu is actually quite stubborn. When he grows up, even if he goes to college and can use his winter and summer vacations to earn money, and he is mentally strong enough, I will leave him alone."
"Does your father know?"
"I know. I go there about once a month and buy a lot of things. It's not like I don't see it. He just doesn't ask. He never asked Haoyu a single word. But the house wasn't taken back. Maybe it's just like I thought, turning a blind eye.
As for Haoyu, he always asks me about my dad whenever he sees me, as if he has decided that this is the only dad he has in his life."
Bi Yue picked up a piece of meat with chopsticks and put it in Liang Xiaoxiao's bowl:
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