Wei You stayed at home the whole day cleaning and arranging the place, not even having time to eat lunch. It was not until three or four in the afternoon that he finally cleaned up the two-bedroom house.
After finishing everything, Wei You collapsed on the sofa again, staring at the blank wall opposite.
Perhaps because it was too quiet, he suddenly felt a little melancholy and homesick.
Even if there was a TV at this time, I wouldn’t feel so lonely.
But in this era, TV sets of any known brand are not very cheap, so Wei You has no plans to install one for the time being. However, it would be a waste to leave the snow-white wall opposite empty, so he could hang a screen on it and then get the projector that is unused at home and watch movies in his spare time.
Thinking of this, Wei You was worried that he had forgotten about it, so he stood up and found a piece of paper, and wrote down on it the things he wanted to bring next time he went back.
By the time I finished recording all this, it was almost time to pick up the kids from school.
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"Wow!" After opening the door, Wei Xu looked at the clean and comfortable living room inside and exclaimed softly.
"Wow, weren't you here helping me clean yesterday?" Wei You laughed and took out a pair of Doraemon-patterned slippers from the shoe cabinet and placed them in front of Wei Xu.
Wei Xu put on new slippers, raised his head and said, "It's different from yesterday."
"Really? What's the difference?"
The boy walked quickly into the house, his eyes passing over the living room and kitchen. He wanted to answer, but he couldn't come up with an answer for a moment.
There are naturally many differences. Yesterday's sofa seats were bare, but now they are covered with beautiful cushions and brightly colored pillows. The ugly white marks on the wall that were left after the landlord removed the landscape paintings have now been filled with new landscape paintings.
The newly bought small bookcase was filled with children's story books and the small succulent potted plants purchased yesterday. A fruit plate was placed on the coffee table, and the dining table was wiped clean and covered with a tablecloth.
A waisted glass vase was placed in the center of the dining table, with lilies in full bloom, exuding a rich fragrance.
Wei Xu walked from the living room to the kitchen in his new slippers, then from the kitchen to the bathroom, and finally stopped at the door of the second bedroom.
Yesterday this was an empty and deserted room, but after Wei You's decoration, it has become a very cozy bedroom.
The Simmons mattress was covered with light yellow bedding, the desk by the window was tidy and placed with a dark green desk lamp and a cactus pot, and the wall was hung with crayon drawings he had made in art class. Although the room was not big, it exuded a comfortable and lively atmosphere everywhere.
"Do you like this room?" Wei You put his schoolbag on the desk.
"Yeah," Wei Xu nodded vigorously, "I like it very much."
"I'm glad you like it. It's worth my time and effort to carefully arrange it." Wei You said in a casual tone.
"Okay, do your homework for a while. I'm going to cook."
Wei Xu nodded and said "hmm". After entering the room, he walked around the desk first, then sat down on the edge of the bed and bounced twice. Feeling the softness of the bed, a smile appeared on his face.
"How about salt and pepper shrimp tonight?" Wei You asked as he put on the apron given by the supermarket. "Do you want braised or blanched shrimp?"
Wei Xu didn't understand what these methods meant, so he said, "I like whatever my brother does."
"You're getting better and better at talking," Wei You raised his eyebrows, and then said, "Okay, then make it according to my taste."
"Um."
Wei Xu watched Wei You's back as he left, feeling dazed. After a moment, he murmured, "It feels like home."
Of course, it was not like the house next door that was filled with smoke, alcohol and dampness, but it was the home with warm and bright colors that had always existed in his fantasy.
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From that day on, Wei You moved into this old residential building as Wei Xu's neighbor.
His daily life is very regular. Apart from sending his children to and from school, he buys groceries, does housework, reads books, and sleeps in a rocking chair in the sun.
After returning to modern times and bringing a projector, he added a new entertainment item to his nightlife: lying on the sofa and watching movies stored on his computer.
He downloads classic movies and never gets tired of watching them several times.
Guazai often watches movies with him. Although the child cannot understand many movies at his current age, it may be helpful for his growth if he can see more scenery and characters through the movies.
In addition, because he was really not used to life without a mobile phone, Wei You hesitated for a while and finally bought a new mobile phone in the real world.
Admittedly, this phone would have lost many of its functions if it was used fifteen years ago, but if it was simply used to take pictures, check time, and record some video creation inspiration anytime and anywhere, it would still be very useful.
Wei You tried hard to make himself happier in the past, but such a life was still somewhat empty after all.
One night, he thought that since he was free anyway, he might as well take advantage of the time difference to learn something.
So at noon the next day, he took Guazai to sign up for an art class. Guazai attended the children's interest class, while he followed the teacher to seriously learn sketching and gouache.
His idea was very simple. If he couldn't make a living as a UP host in the future, it would be easier for him to change careers if he had multiple skills.
Of course, we have to live a good life in the game world, but we can't fall behind in real life.
Wei You would return to modern times every week or so. Sometimes he would go downstairs to buy things, sometimes he would download new movies, and sometimes he would just do nothing and lie on the sofa watching videos and surfing the Internet.
The time he came back was not fixed each time, sometimes one or two days, sometimes five or six days. At first, Wei Xu would secretly hide away and feel sad for a while, but after doing it many times, he gradually got used to his life where he would disappear from time to time.
The peaceful days passed quickly, and before we knew it, thick dead leaves began to pile up on the downhill road in front of the primary school, and the weather gradually became colder.
One weekend morning, Wei You was about to go downstairs to throw away the garbage. When he opened the door, he happened to run into Wei Shaodong who was coming back from outside carrying a bag of tea eggs.
He was really shocked. Although he had moved in for more than a month, he had never met Wei's father because of the nature of his work, which required him to go out early and come back late.
He thought he would have to have a conversation with Wei Shaodong, but he just glanced at him indifferently, then turned around, took out the key, opened the door and walked into the house while humming a song.
Judging from her reaction, it seemed like she had completely forgotten about him.
Since Wei Shaodong didn't remember the previous incident, Wei You didn't take this meeting to heart and just regarded it as a small episode in his peaceful life.
It was not until one late autumn evening when the autumn frost began to shimmer that Wei Xu hesitantly spoke at the dinner table and asked him to help attend his parents' meeting.
Taking into account the child's family situation, Wei You decisively took on the responsibility and attended the parent-teacher meeting the next day as Wei Xu's uncle.
The parent-teacher meeting was very pleasant. Because Wei Xu ranked first in the grade in the midterm exam, Wei You was almost invited by the teacher to go to the podium to give a speech on how to educate children.
Of course, Wei You rejected this proposal on the grounds that he was just the child's uncle, but he still felt quite proud in his heart.
On that day, in order to reward Wei Xu for getting first place in the exam, Wei You went to the supermarket and bought him the 24-color plasticine he wanted most.
Everything went smoothly up to this point until the two returned to the residential building and ran into Wei Shaodong, who had returned home early on Friday and was waiting at the door.
Wei Xu, who was holding the plasticine, was happy a second ago, but the moment he saw his father's face leaning against the door smoking, his expression instantly froze.
"If your teacher hadn't called me, I wouldn't have known about it. But for the parent-teacher meeting, you didn't go to your father, but went to a stranger neighbor. You're so brave!" He probably didn't want to be laughed at by the residents of the same building, so he lowered his voice intentionally, but there was still a strong sense of threat in his voice.
Wei You put his arm around Wei Xu's shoulder and took him up to the fourth floor. When they met face to face with Wei's father, he said, "It was wrong of me to ignore your opinion and attend the parent-teacher conference on behalf of your child. But Mr. Wei, have you ever thought about why he came to me instead of you?"
"What do you want to say?"
"Besides the weekend, when else do you spend time at home?"
The man tilted one corner of his mouth and sneered: "Is it still my fault?"
He suddenly grabbed Wei Xu's collar and pulled him in front of him: "Have I treated you badly? Yeah? You're doing this to me!"
Wei You quickly protected the child behind him and said, "Speak properly."
The other party seemed not to hear, staring at Wei Xu who was hiding behind Wei You, and said angrily: "I work so hard every day to make money to feed you, clothe you, and send you to school. I've been good to you, haven't I? Has your bitch mother ever supported you for a day? Has she ever given you a penny?"
"These are what you should have done," Wei You said. "You said you were good to him, but you were not seen for years, you got drunk and beat and scolded the child, you cut off his living expenses at any time, and you let such a young child starve to the point of knocking on the neighbor's door to beg for food. Is this how you raise a child?"
Wei Shaodong raised his head and said, "He is my son. How I raise him is none of your business."
"If I don't care, he won't even have a decent meal."
"Okay, you have a good conscience, so you can support him, pay for his tuition and lunch. Can I sell him to you? It's not much, just 50,000 yuan..."
"Wei Shaodong!" Wei You interrupted him angrily.
He simply couldn't believe how a parent could say such things in front of their children.
The hem of his clothes was suddenly grabbed. Wei You looked down at Wei Xu and saw the boy with his head down and his lips bitten, his nose and eyes red, as if he was trying hard to hold back tears.
Wei You suppressed his anger, patted the boy on the back, then turned around, opened the door of his own house, touched his head and said, "You go in first."
"Go! If you go, don't come back!" The man slammed the door, making a loud noise, and pointed at him and cursed: "Don't you ever think of asking me for a penny again in the future."
Wei You ignored him, pushed the child into the house, closed the door, then turned around and looked at the man who was also red with anger, exhaled helplessly, and said: "Let's talk it over."
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