Liu Jiandong chose a fishing spot near an old man. The old man cheerfully told him how to do it, and they even brought a wooden board. An'an sat on the board and started skating on the ice.
A moment later, someone was standing there laughing with their mouth open, as if they were enveloped in a cloud of mist.
"Don't go too far, your uncle is fishing and can't take care of you."
"Brother Xiaoliang can watch me, Uncle, hurry up and fish."
Hearing a noise beside him, Chen Junliang turned his head and saw it was Song Qinghou, "Auntie."
Song Qing simply squatted down with him. An'an called out "Mom" from afar, then ran to the old man. He had caught a big carp weighing five or six pounds. The fish scales reflected golden light in the sunlight and kept jumping on the ice.
"Wow"
She wanted to watch the excitement, but didn't dare get too close. Only when the old man's fish was too weak did she push it into the pile of fish.
"Grandpa, you're amazing!"
She said a few words and the old man became happier and happier as he listened. "When you leave, Grandpa will send you some fish. When you get home, have your mother stew them in a big iron pot."
"She can talk to anyone." Song Qing sighed helplessly. This girl is getting bolder and bolder, and her little mouth is always chattering.
Chen Junliang sat there smiling; An An was indeed quite natural and familiar with him.
"...Xiao Liang, are you worried about me?"
“Grandma and Grandpa wrote back saying that he was doing well at home, and my dad was treating him much better than before.”
Even the grandmother, who used to be indifferent to everything, has stopped playing cards and is now staying home to buy groceries and cook for them.
Song Qing buried her face in her scarf and didn't say anything. Chen Wei guessed that she wanted to keep her youngest son by her side.
Chen Junliang lowered his head and looked at the frozen ground, his voice muffled.
"Does Mom want my younger brother to come back here?"
Originally, he lived with his father and younger brother with his mother. Now his younger brother has been taken back by his father. If his mother wants his younger brother to come back, does she have to send him back to that home?
After all, he'll be grown up in a year or two, while his younger brother is still small and needs to be taken care of. When he grows up, he'll be able to decide where he wants to go.
"Your mom is worried about your dad."
"...Wouldn't it be better if I went back?"
Song Qing sighed inwardly. She originally thought that Xiao Sheng had been tricked into going with his father, but she didn't expect that even the address was given to Chen Wei by him.
Upon hearing the news, Song Qing reacted in the same way as Guan Lian: disbelief. He was just a child; how could he have given the address here to the other side?
But Guan Lian later went to the liaison office to ask, and the child did indeed hold onto some money a while ago, saying that his mother wanted him to make a phone call home.
He remembered his home address and had money on hand, so the people in the liaison office naturally assumed that Guan Lian had sent him.
"No, Xiao Liang, your mother had no choice but to let you stay there. Besides, she knew you were all grown up, capable of protecting yourself, and able to travel by train alone. You did a great job, didn't you?"
In a mother's heart, every child is important. Not wanting her son to stay there doesn't mean she wants her to stay there too.
Chen Junliang just couldn't understand why his mother was now planning to take leave to go back and bring his younger brother back, even though his younger brother clearly wanted to go back.
He was the one who told his father the address here, and he went with his father voluntarily.
He could tell that his mother had been in a bad mood lately, and she often spaced out at home, but he always thought that since she wanted to leave, he should let her go. He wasn't worried about her at all.
"Mother"
An'an finally had some free time and came over. She went up to Song Qing and Chen Junliang and said, "Go watch Uncle fish. Uncle said he'll catch some fish later. You two should go and see."
Liu Jiandong spent most of the day freezing and only caught a few small catfish. The little fish jumped around on the ground a few times and then went silent. The old man's fish weighed several pounds, and he was too embarrassed to look over.
But An'an was very happy, saying that her uncle had finally caught a fish and that she was going to go and pull her mother and Xiao Liang over.
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"This half-grown boy is eating his father out of house and home! His stomach is like a bottomless pit, he keeps eating bowl after bowl. We're not landlords, how can we possibly keep this up!"
Yang Chunhua was in a bad mood and grumbled for a long time while washing the rice. The family had only eaten rice for a day or two, but now they mix one bowl of rice with two bowls of dried sweet potatoes, or simply steam a bowl of mixed grains.
No matter how much she added, the boy ate it all up as if he hadn't eaten for days. Chen Wei would even laugh and praise him, saying that eating more would make him grow faster.
She hasn't been able to eat her fill these past two days.
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