C23 Cousin Living Home
"The child should be going to school by now, right? You can't drag him away just because of a little sickness. Education is very important." I really don't understand how they become parents. His big brother spends all day on the sofa watching TV and always says that his waist is sore and his legs ache. If I lie down every day, my waist is sore and my legs ache too. This family ate and drank here for free for a few months, and they had no intention of going back. The adults don't work, and the children don't go to school, I really don't know what they think.
"It's already summer vacation!" The eldest sister-in-law mumbled.
"School is about to start in a month!" It was already the end of July, and the school was just about ready to begin.
"That's perfect. I was going to tell Lian Kang, but now I'm going to tell you the same. Our tree is preparing to go to primary school in H City. Find us someone, find us a better school."
I almost bit my tongue. I looked up at my sister-in-law, who was a meter and a half tall, and her body was like a wall, and the words came out of her mouth like a whisper. I didn't know what to say. God knows how difficult it was to go to school in H city, even if the children in H city's hukou were not in the school district, it would still be harder to get into a school they liked than to go to.
"Sister-in-law, don't tell me this. It's better if you tell Lian Kang because I don't have the ability." I went upstairs, and my mother-in-law trotted after me.
My sister-in-law muttered something behind my back that I could hear. If it were in the past, my mother-in-law would also nag me, but this time, she didn't.
"Fei, what about the thing I said just now? about Lian Kang's cousin? "
"Mom." I held on to the banister. "This isn't a small matter. There's a new pregnant woman in the family, and it's not just to give her a place to live. It's so simple to give her a bowl of food. We're responsible."
"You don't have to be responsible for it!" The old granny stood in front of me: "She is my cousin's daughter, ah, calling me Aunt, what can I do to you? The thoughts of the people in your city are complicated, and they think of everyone else as bad people."
I was speechless. "Mom, let Lian Kang talk to me."
I couldn't communicate with them. It wasn't that I was cold-blooded, there were already a lot of people living in my house, and I couldn't watch my own family come in day after day.
As I went upstairs, my mother-in-law shouted after me, "Just for a few months, she's gone since she was born! "Four months at most!"
Not for a day, not for a second, I couldn't bear what I shouldn't have.
I thought that this matter with my cousin was over, but I didn't expect that Lian Kang would mention it to me when he came back tonight.
I really did not expect, distant cousin, who knows how many layers.
"Lian Kang, do you think the request you made is laughable? If she's alone, I'll be fine for a few days, but do you think it's convenient for her to stay with us for the time being? "
"Fei." Lian Kang looked at me intently. "You have always been kind."
I don't understand these words, why am I not kind? There are many poor people in the world, and there are also many street children. Do I have to bring every single one home?
"Lian Kang, I don't want my home to be full of strangers."
"Ms Zhou, Xuan Yuan is a stranger, aren't you also very nice to them?"
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when I looked at him. "I invited them to do something. I paid them."
"My cousin can also do things for you. You don't even have to pay her." His expression was serious, and for the first time I couldn't communicate with him.
That was probably what the chicken and duck talk meant. I realized Lian Kang's brain circuits were actually similar to his family's, so his words were moving back and forth.
"If I say no, what do you say?"
He sighed and fell back on the bed, saying nothing for a long time.
Those who should compromise, I will compromise. Those who shouldn't compromise, I don't need to be a good person.
I showered and went to the Xuan Yuan room to tease Pudding before returning to my room to sleep. Lian Kang had his back to me as he slept. I turned off the light and lay down.
In the middle of the night, when I was sleeping soundly, Lian Kang hugged me tightly from behind and slid his hands across my chest.
I took his hand. I knew he was trying it out, but I couldn't accept the fact that I was in intimate contact with someone I had made unpleasant a few hours ago.
"Fei." His mouth was close to my ear, and a warm breath came into my ear. "Did my sister-in-law make a request this afternoon? She wants trees to go to school here? "
"As long as you know too much."
"I'll send them back to Hebei in a few days. Trees were originally in the county studying in primary school, they should go back now."
"Right." I snorted.
"Then, my cousin's matter is decided."
"What is it?" I struggled out of his arms and turned on the light. The light was in his eyes, and he shielded it with his hand.
"What's wrong, Fei?"
"I made it clear that I don't agree."
"But, I've already offended my big brother and the others. You can't let me offend my mother, right?" He leaned over and pitifully rubbed his head against my arm. "You also know that trees are the most favored in our family. My dad is used to him, but now that I've chased them back, they will definitely be angry. You can't let me die from being scolded by them, right?"
"You mean to say that you wanted your cousin to live here in exchange for your nephew going to school?"
"That's not what I meant, but you can't make me unable to explain myself to them, right?"
"This is my house, why do you have to explain this to them?"
"Fei, I'm already so worried at work. Do you really have the heart to say that I have to take a pinch at home?"
I lay down and turned off the light again.
Xuan Yuan knew about this and ran over to talk to Liu Jing, who came looking for me. After talking for a long time, she told me not to waver and not let any random people come in.
I also thought so, but the atmosphere in the house was really bad. Lian Kang's head was hanging low, even his mother-in-law was being very careful. Big brother and sister-in-law took the tree away, but the child still refused to leave.
But I also have my own life, and they should have theirs!
My parents-in-law did not return, and I did not urge them to leave. After all, they were my parents-in-law, and it was my duty to support them.
At dinner, my mother-in-law shed tears again, saying that we were a happy family, and that her niece might have gone to sleep on the street at night.
The other day I gave my mother-in-law five thousand dollars and told her to give it to her niece, who took it and said, "What can you do with five thousand dollars in H City? The rent for two months is not enough, the Lord still needs to eat. "
She could have gone back home, my mother-in-law said.
I don't know what to do with other people's lives.
Late that night, the phone rang downstairs for a long time. I woke up and heard the door to my mother-in-law's room open and she went downstairs to answer it.
After a while, the sound of Grandma crying came from the living room. Lian Kang and I ran downstairs and she sat on the sofa crying.
"What's wrong?" My first thought was that it was a call from my hometown. Something had happened at home and my heart was pounding.
"My niece, my poor child, lives in a hostel, my God, the rats are all over the bed, and the poor child is squatting on the bedside table. How terrible!" Grandma looked at me, crying.
After scaring me to the point where I was sweating all over, I thought that some kind of natural disaster had befallen me. My legs were all soft.
As I walked slowly up the stairs, I could feel hot, eager eyes on my back.
After walking a few steps, I sighed. "Mom, go get your niece tomorrow, but it's agreed that if she's sick, she can't stay here. Also, we have to have a birth certificate, otherwise she can't go to the hospital, so I suggest that she go back to her hometown for a few days."
"Let's talk about this later!" The mother-in-law wiped her tears and stood up.
I made a concession just like that, regretfully wanting to slap myself in the face.
Lian Kang didn't sleep in his room at night. It seemed that his mother-in-law told him to pick her up at the guest house overnight. He didn't expect his mother-in-law's family relationship to be so strong.
When I woke up in the morning, Pudding had already woken up. Xuanyuan carried her on the swing in the garden downstairs and laughed. When I heard Pudding's laughter, all my worries slipped away.
After washing up and changing my clothes, I hastily went downstairs to have a casual meal before heading to the company for a meeting. Today, I have an important meeting with a customer.
Originally, I didn't like to eat white porridge and youtiao in the morning, but my grandma and grandma loved to eat them, so every breakfast was white porridge and youtiao, oil cakes, pickles, and so on. I didn't want Ms Zhou to be so tired from cooking so many different kinds of food, so I ate the same as them.
Just as I sat down at the table, I pulled out a bowl and was about to eat when my mother-in-law came over and said, "This is Yinzi's bowl. It's yours."
"Yingzi?" I was stunned and immediately reacted. It should be Cousin Lian Kang.
It looks like two bowls of porridge are exactly the same. Forget it, I'll hurry up and finish eating to the company.
While I was eating, a person sat beside me. I looked out of the corner of my eye and saw that it was a light purple satin nightgown.
"Hello, Mrs. Lian." A familiar voice, a familiar name.
I raised my head and met a pair of charming and seductive eyes. Her skin was the color of wheat, and she bit on the spoon as she smiled amorously.
My head stung like someone had whipped it.
Lee Ying, Lee Ying! Lian Kang's cousin turned out to be Lee Ying!