When I got up early in the morning, Zhu Sha followed Ma Xiaolong and his family to clean the house.
She is tall and is responsible for cleaning the windows. Ma Xiaolong is responsible for cleaning the roof and other high places. Ma Xiaofeng is the worst. He has to clean the water heater, wash basin, toilet, etc. in the bathroom.
Ma Xiaofeng takes care of all the dirty and tiring work, but she is eager to be public and kind to Ma Xiaofeng.
She is indeed my good sister, come on.
Zhang Chiling and Chen Jun also came to help.
This has been the case for the past few years. When the cleaning work here is done, Ma Xiaolong and the others will go to Zhang Chiling's house to clean.
Helping each other is an example of good neighbors.
The whole family worked together, and the sanitation was completed before dark.
Looking at the brand new home, everyone feels a sense of accomplishment.
After the meal, the adults sat together drinking tea and chatting, while the children shared candies and melons. This was the atmosphere they wanted.
The next day, the whole family went to Zhang Chiling’s house to clean again.
There were so many people that it took two or three hours to clean up.
Zhang Zhiling baked leek boxes for everyone to eat. Knowing that Zhu Sha loves fennel, she specially baked a few boxes with fennel stuffing.
There were so many people, everything tasted delicious, and Cinnabar was particularly satisfying.
While eating happily, Zhang Chiling answered the phone and her good mood disappeared instantly.
Seeing that Zhang Chiling was in a bad mood after answering the phone, Liu Ying asked: "Zhiling, who called?"
"No one." Zhang Chiling forced a smile, walked to the stove and said, "I'll do it!"
"..." Liu Ying didn't ask any more questions. Everyone has secrets, so there's no need to break the casserole and get to the bottom of it.
Everyone finished their lunch happily. Zhang Zhiling asked Chen Jun to go to the opposite door to play and stay at home alone.
The children have all left, but Liu Ying has not left.
"Sister Ying, is there anything else going on?" Zhang Chiling asked.
"I'm fine, I was afraid that something might happen to you." Liu Ying sat next to the bed and patted the side: "Sit down and talk to my sister."
"..." Zhang Chiling walked over to her and sat down.
"What happened?" Liu Ying asked, "Who made that call?"
"..."
After a moment of silence, Zhang Chiling said: "My mother."
"???" Liu Ying thought she heard wrongly: "Your mother?"
"Um."
"..."
Liu Ying didn't know how to do it anymore. She frowned and asked, "What did she tell you?"
There was another period of silence, and when Liu Ying was almost impatient, Zhang Chiling spoke up: "Let me take Xiaojun there to celebrate the New Year."
"Ha!" Liu Ying became angry when she heard this: "She is very embarrassed."
Zhang Chiling was silent.
"What do you think?" Liu Ying couldn't bear it after all, and said, "Don't keep it in your heart, talk to your sister."
Zhang Chiling was very conflicted and struggling: "I don't want to go back, but she said that she is my only daughter. Now that she is old, she wants to reunite with my mother and daughter..."
"Bah!" Liu Ying was furious: "When I was young, I threw my daughter away and ran away. Now that I am old, I want my daughter to go back and serve her? She has taken advantage of all the good things. It's really a toad that wants to eat swan meat. She looks so good.
Ugly, think beautiful!”
"..." Zhang Chiling raised the corner of her mouth and almost laughed, but she couldn't hold it back for a while and laughed anyway: "Sister Ying, you always talk in the same way."
"I didn't learn it from your son." Liu Ying said angrily: "Your son is erudite and talented, has seen a lot and is knowledgeable. I am a person who is close to the best, but I just learned a little bit from him!"
Zhang Chiling chuckled lightly and said: "How many years have you been eating vinegar and you haven't finished it yet?"
"I'm done eating. I'm just angry with him," Liu Ying said.
"Why?" Zhang Zhiling was puzzled: "What's wrong with Xiaolong?"
"Hmph!" Liu Ying looked at her face and said, "I'm angry that he didn't affect you. Obviously that kid is very decisive in doing things and never drags his feet. But as a result, he hesitates when something happens. His ink marks are annoying.
.”
"..." Zhang Chiling lowered her head, feeling extremely ashamed.
"Zhiling, you are good at everything, but you are too soft-hearted." Liu Ying held her hand and said, "You have to understand that being soft to good people is a noble virtue, and being soft to bad people is harmful to others and yourself. That person is a human being.
It's true that I married you, but the grace of raising you is far greater than the grace of giving birth. You were raised by my parents. From this point of view, I am your sister. As a sister, I cannot watch you jump into the fire pit."
"..." Zhang Chiling looked at her gratefully and said, "Sister Ying, thank you."
"Don't thank me yet. Tell me, are you still going?" Liu Ying asked.
Zhang Chiling opened her mouth but was speechless.
"Just be angry with me!" Liu Ying slapped her on the shoulder: "Are you going?" Another slap was: "Are you going?" Another slap was: "Are you going!?"
Zhang Chiling burst into tears but refused to speak.
Liu Ying's face turned livid with anger, and he slapped her again: "I can't accuse you, I'll let your son accuse you!"
After saying that, he got up and left.
"Sister Ying! Don't..." Zhang Zhiling couldn't stop her at all. Thinking of Ma Xiaolong coming over, she suddenly felt uneasy.
When she got home, Liu Ying opened the door angrily and saw Ma Xiaolong washing fruits in the kitchen. She shouted: "Xiaolong, go teach your mother a lesson!"
"???"
…
When he walked into Zhang Chiling's house, Ma Xiaolong used the door bolt to fasten the wooden door in order not to be disturbed.
In the bedroom, when she saw Ma Xiaolong pushing the door open, Zhang Zhiling, who was still a little restless, breathed a sigh of relief, but also felt helpless: "Xiaolong, sit down!"
Ma Xiaolong happily walked to sit next to her and said, "I already know the matter. Mom, do you want to go back?"
"..." After a moment of silence, Zhang Chiling nodded: "Although she abandoned me back then, she gave me life after all. Now that she is old, I..."
"Don't talk about that." Ma Xiaolong waved his hand and said, "I just want to know, after you go back, will you come back?"
Zhang Chiling was stunned for a moment, and her expression changed slightly.
"Don't worry, think about it carefully." Ma Xiaolong took out a piece of wine candy from his pocket, tore open the package and handed it to her: "Eat a piece of candy and relax."
"Thank you, son." Zhang Zhiling didn't think much about it. Although it was a wine-filled candy, local wine-filled candy did not contain any alcohol at all. It was just sugar juice.
Taste the wine.
With Zhang Chiling's body getting drunk after half a glass of beer, the small amount of liquor in this candy quickly knocked her out of her wits, causing her eyes to become hazy and her mind to become confused.
Seeing that the time had come, Ma Xiaolong asked, "Mom, do you really want to go back?"
"I... don't want to go back, but for... our children... we must have... a minimum of filial piety. Phew... I want to set an example for... Xiaojun," Zhang Chiling said in a daze.
"Then are you coming back?" Ma Xiaolong asked.
"She...she should be in her fifties. If she is in good health, I...will come back."
"What if she keeps pretending to be sick every day?"
"She...how could she...do this...no...that's not possible."
"What if? She didn't hesitate to leave you behind and left you alone for more than 20 years. There is nothing that this kind of person can't do."
"..." Zhang Chiling said nothing, but tears fell.
Ma Xiaolong was particularly distressed. He raised his hand to wipe her tears and said, "People can trip over pits, but they can't fall in the same pit twice, right?"
"……Um."
"Besides, Xiaojun has grown up and is used to the life here. If you take her there, what will happen to you orphans and widowed mothers if that person doesn't let you come back? Even if you are willing to stay, will Xiaojun be willing?"
"..."
"Besides, your life and career are all here. Are you willing to abandon it all and go to a place where you don't know the good or bad luck?"
"..."
"If you leave, you will never see your son again. Are you willing to do that?"
"No...no..." Zhang Chiling finally made a move. She shed tears and swallowed: "I can't live without Xiaolong."
Hearing this, Ma Xiaolong breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Then we won't leave, okay?"
"Well..." Zhang Chiling wiped away tears: "If I don't go... I won't go... I won't..."
His body tilted, Ma Xiaolong quickly hugged him, looked down and saw that he was asleep.
…
"He's back!" Seeing his son coming back, Liu Ying hurriedly asked: "How is it? Have you persuaded him to stop?"
"Don't worry, I'll do the work." Ma Xiaolong took a bite of a juicy pear. His mouth was dry just now, so it just moistened his throat.
Liu Ying breathed a sigh of relief, patted him on the shoulder, and beamed with joy: "What a good boy, you are indeed a good son of your mother. Tell me, how did you persuade him to stop?"
"Simple, it's nothing more than four words - cheating and abduction." Ma Xiaolong said.
"..." Liu Ying's face tensed up, but she didn't hold back and burst into laughter.
Ma Xiaolong also smiled and said: "Actually, it's nothing. My godmother is easy to get into trouble. The more you persuade her, the less likely she will listen. At this time, you have to take off her inner protection first."
"Oh?" Liu Ying didn't quite understand, but she seemed very powerful: "How do I unload it?"
"Simple, isn't my godmother a bad drinker? I just handed her a piece of wine-filled candy imported from Mao Xiong, and that was all."
"..." Liu Ying was stunned.
"When I was drunk, I only spoke from my heart. At this time, I told her the worst possible situation that she might encounter in the future. Anyway, no matter how bad it was, I even took out Xiaojun to scare her. She was so scared.
She didn’t even dare to go, so that was the end of the matter.”
"..."
Liu Ying looked up at the sky. She knew that her son was smart and had many tricks, but she didn't know one thing - those who play tricks have a dirty heart.
Today she finally learned the lesson.
After hesitating for a moment, Liu Ying advised: "Son, I don't care what you do in the future, but you must not do anything illegal or disciplinary. Mom doesn't want to have to go to prison to deliver meals to you when you get old."
"Oh my God! Can you hope that I can do something good?" Ma Xiaolong was speechless: "What I do now is an honest business. Is it necessary to do something illegal?"
"Just don't do it. Remember, you can't do anything that violates laws and disciplines." Liu Ying was afraid that he wouldn't take it seriously, so she emphatically warned: "Come here, read it to me three times: I won't do anything that violates laws and disciplines in the future."
I will not do anything illegal or indiscipline in the future. I will not do anything illegal or indiscipline in the future."
"..."
"Say it!" Liu Ying was anxious.
Ma Xiaolong was helpless: "I will not do anything illegal or disciplined in the future..."
Three times in a row, life is hopeless.
"Are you relieved now?"
Liu Ying nodded, shook her head, and said seriously: "I will take charge of your ideological education from now on, um... I remember someone who seems to have a complete copy of Mao Xuanxuan at home..."