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Chapter 8: Cold Mother and Son

Li Xiaohai glanced at him and continued to wrap his head around the shuttle thread. Ah Nan didn't even look at him.

The eldest son became sensible early. He listened to his gossip a lot outside and had opinions about him. He started to ignore him when he was a little older.

It was fine when Anan was around, but after she left, the two children complained that he put the burden of the family on his mother-in-law, causing her to get seriously ill and die early.

From then on, I saw that he was no different from outsiders, so I didn’t regard him as my father...

Li Xiaozhou ran up to him, hugged his legs, looked at him and said with a sweet voice: "Dad, they said you found a big fish?"

"Yes, dad has found a big fish." Li Changle saw that his eldest son and Nan raised their heads and glanced at him after hearing this. They smiled and picked up the smaller version of the little guy with one hand. They thought it was still such a big baby. My son is considerate.

I wonder if the two brothers over there who were dissatisfied with him rushed home or cried?

He carried Li Xiaozhou and walked to Li Xiaohai, put him down, and placed the ginger candies in front of his eldest son, "Leave one pack of ginger candies to share with your younger brother, and share the other two packs with your older brothers and sisters."

Li Xiaohai looked at the sugar bag on his lap and pursed his lips. Before he could respond, Li Xiaozhou stepped forward and picked up the sugar bag with a "Wow" sound, "Brother, brother, there are so many candies! I want to eat it!"

Zhou Ruonan raised his head and glanced at Li Changle, and said to his eldest son: "Xiaohai, take it back and put it away. I'll get angry after eating too much ginger candy. My brother and I will eat two pieces a day."

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"Remember." Li Xiaohai picked up the candy bag and walked back with Li Xiaozhou. Li Xiaozhou held his hand, "Brother, grandma said I can only eat two pieces. I want to eat two pieces together, okay?"

"No, one piece in the morning, one piece in the afternoon..."

Li Changle walked up to Zhou Ruonan with a net bag in hand and saw that what she was weaving was a kind of woven fishing net called a crab net. Only the clay pendants that had been fired in the kiln were fixed to the fishing net by hand.

He looked at his indifferent wife, feeling bitter in his heart. He took a deep breath and squatted in front of her with a shy face, "A Nan, I brought Qingzhan and Pipixia back."

As he spoke, he rubbed his belly with a grimace, "Okay, Nan, can you make something to eat? I just ate two wheat cakes in the morning and went to the sea, and I carried dozens of kilograms of seafood to the dock. I’m already growling with hunger.”

Zhou Ruonan raised his head and said, "Did you really find the rice fish and the giant flower dragon?"

Li Changle didn't answer. He reached out and took off the shuttle and ruler from her hand, "Go home and I'll tell you everything!"

Zhou Ruonan looked at the fish and shrimp in the net bag and worried that the weather would be bad and they would become stale after being stored for a long time, so he got up and walked back with him.

When they separated, the one they picked by drawing lots was the one next to the alley. There was a small courtyard seven or eight meters long and more than four meters wide at the door.

The house is about nine meters deep. Before the separation, it was divided into two rooms, the front and back, and a thatched house was built behind the house to serve as a kitchen.

When Zhou Ruonan's school is not on holiday, they eat together with their parents. During holidays, their parents eat together here.

The two of them turned into the yard and saw Xiaozhou squatting there watching Xiaohai play a top. When they saw the two coming back, they left their brother behind and ran to him.

"Abba, the ginger candy is so sweet. If you catch a big fish in the future, you can buy it for me."

"Okay!" Li Changle pinched his nose, "It's too hot in the yard, go play in the alley."

"Okay!" Li Xiaozhou responded sweetly and went to pull Li Xiaohai, "Brother, let's go play in the alley."

"You're the only one who's so nagging every day!" Li Xiaohai said to him, but still took the top and went with him.

Zhou Ruonan went into the house, took out a porcelain basin, put it on the ground, and said quietly to him: "Pour out the fish and shrimps, I will wash them."

"Anan!" Li Changle reached out and took her hand, took out the remaining money and put it in her hand.

"My father spent 300 yuan in the hospital. The money you and my mother gave me is still 150 yuan short... I went shopping for overseas goods and sold 268 yuan... This is the remaining 68 yuan, you can take it and put it away."

"What's wrong with you?" Zhou Ruonan looked at the money in his hand in surprise. He didn't understand how a man who used to spend eleven yuan if he had ten yuan in his hand suddenly changed his gender?

Could it be that his father-in-law's injury stimulated him?

Li Changle's mind flashed, "When I sent my father to the hospital today, he fainted on the way... I don't want to be unable to pay for the treatment of my family members in the future."

I don’t want you to use your life to support this family, and I don’t want Xiaohai to live a lifetime of resentment.

He said the last sentence to himself in his heart.

Zhou Ruonan raised his head and took a deep look at him. He took the money and went to the separate room. He stared blankly at the money in his hand. He didn't expect that Li Changle would still give him the money.

Li Xiaohai came in, looked at the money in her hand, and asked in a low voice like a thief: "Mom, is this the money he gave you?"

Zhou Ruonan said "hmm", thinking of his words just now, she glared at him again, "That's your father, don't allow him to do it!"

Li Xiaohai snorted, "He doesn't even do anything for you, so he just goes out and fools around every day." The unspoken meaning is that Li Changle is not worthy of being a father.

"Boss, he is your father." Zhou Ruonan looked at him and said softly, "He just told me that he already knew that what he did before was wrong. Let's give him a chance to correct it, okay?"

Li Xiaohai looked at her worriedly, "What if he lies to you again?"

"Aniang thinks he is different this time." Zhou Ruonan looked at his son distressedly, angry that Li Changle was not doing his job properly and letting such an older child have to worry about him.

Li Xiaohai hesitated for a moment before nodding, "Then let's give him a chance to correct his mistakes!"

Zhou Ruonan rubbed his head and said, "Good son!"

"I'll take my brother there." Li Xiaohai went out happily after receiving the praise.

"Don't go to the Chang Pond to play." Zhou Ruonan chased to the door and warned him. When he nodded in agreement, he turned back and put the money in the drawer and locked it, preparing to clean up the fish.

When I went out, I saw that Li Changle was not there, and the fish and shrimps were still in the porcelain basin, so I went to the kitchen to get a basket for washing rice. When I came out, I saw Mrs. Li walking to the door of her house.

"Ah Nan!" Sister-in-law Li took out the money from selling eels and mackerel and handed it to her, "Ah Le's fish were sold for three yuan, take it."

"Sorry, sister-in-law." Zhou Ruonan took the money and put it in his pocket, picked up the candy on the table and handed it over, "Ale bought some blue fish, and I'll get one for you."

"No, I'm too lazy to do it alone." Sister-in-law Li took the ginger candy, walked up to her and asked in a low voice, "Do you know about the rice fish and the giant flower dragon that Ah Le caught?"

"He told me when he got back!"

"Ask him to leave the money to you, otherwise he will spend it randomly."

"He gave me the money when he got home. He said he gave me a few dozen for my father's pocket."

"Then you have to watch more carefully and don't let him hang out with Wang Mazi and Ah Rong again." Sister-in-law Li didn't believe Li Changle and wanted to ask her parents-in-law when she went to the hospital.

Zhou Ruonan smiled bitterly and did not respond. Sister-in-law Li gave her a sympathetic look, put the backpack at the door, and returned to the second room on the east side.
Chapter completed!
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