Chapter 6: More Important Than Reading
Midday.
Lin Fang returned home, and she quietly collected the money from the sale of the paintings. Seeing that her mother-in-law had returned, she hurried to the kitchen to cook.
Just as he was about to chop vegetables, he heard his mother-in-law shouting in the back room, Lin Fang looked up and thought badly. Before she could think about what to say, her mother-in-law had already rushed into the kitchen.
"You say, what about painting!" Su Zhen never expected that Lin Fang would be bold enough to steal the painting.
Seeing that she didn't speak, Su Zhen was furious, "I asked you, what about painting!
"Mom, I'm ......"
"You secretly sold the painting, didn't you!" Su Zhen knew without thinking about it.
Lin Fang put down the kitchen knife in his hand, and wiped his apron with his nervous hand, "Mom, listen to me...... I didn't mean to steal the painting. ”
"Okay! There was a thief in our house! What did I say, why did you sell the painting?" she was so angry that she took the kitchen knife from the board in her hand and pointed the knife at her.
"Mom......" Lin Fang saw her mother-in-law angrily pointing a knife at herself, and she stepped back in fright. "Mom, listen to my explanation......"
Before she finished speaking, her mother-in-law grabbed her hand, pulled her outside the house, and stood in the yard, she didn't dare to push her old man away.
Li Chenghua heard the noise and hurriedly walked outside the house on crutches.
"Mom, what are you doing here?" saw that her mother was pulling with Lin Fang.
"Look at your good daughter-in-law! She actually sold the painting secretly!" Su Zhen pulled Lin Fang, still holding a knife in her hand, she didn't plan to let her go, "You said! Where did you sell the painting!"
"What...... What?" Li Chenghua was stunned when he heard this, he never thought that Lin Fang would steal a painting.
"Lin Fang!" Li Chenghua stood, he didn't go to grab his mother, and hurriedly stopped Lin Fang, for fear that she would push down his mother.
Lin Fang was pulled by her mother-in-law, and the knife was directly on her neck. She looked at her husband aggrievedly, but not only did her husband not stop her mother-in-law. Also rebuked her.
"How can you do such a thing! I told you that?!Tell my mother where you sold the painting!" Li Chenghua frowned and looked at Lin Fang, who tapped the ground hard with his cane.
"How could you do such a stupid thing!"
Lin Fang didn't think that her husband would say this, and looked at him with wide eyes and surprise, "Stupid thing?! Feifei goes to school, is this stupid thing? I know it's not right for me to steal the painting and sell it, but if the painting is sold, Feifei can go to college......"
"Go to school?!You only think about letting her go to school?!You don't even listen to your mother!" Li Chenghua didn't think of what kind of college he could let his daughter go to now.
Lin Fang heard what he meant, and he never dared to disobey his mother's half a word. I didn't care about my daughter's future at all.
Seeing that they were all asking themselves made her heart chill completely.
"Why did our family marry such a daughter-in-law as you! How did we steal things! How did our family treat you badly! You just want to go to your daughter! She wants to study, so you have to provide for her to go to college! You actually sold the painting that your father left me, who gave you the guts! You white-eyed wolf!" Su Zhen was so angry that she picked up the kitchen knife in her hand and forced her daughter-in-law.
Lin Fang saw that the knife was about to slide directly to herself, she shouted, pushed it away, and said hoarsely: "Can a painting be more important than a child's reading?!"
Su Zhen stumbled and almost fell to the ground, and the knife fell to the ground. The son behind him grabbed her, and she was so angry that she shouted at Lin Fang: "Of course it's more important than her reading!"
When Li Wenhao came back, he saw his grandmother scolding, he quickly threw down his backpack, "Grandma......"
"Hao Hao, look at it, your mother is crazy......! My painting ......" Su Zhen sat on the ground and cried, clutching her chest, so angry that she couldn't swallow this breath.
Li Wenhao didn't know what was going on, he quickly helped his grandmother up, "Grandma." ”
Li Chenghua leaned on crutches, "Lin Fang, how can you do this to your mother! Say quickly, where did you sell the paintings?"
Su Zhen got up and pulled her daughter-in-law, "You want the painting back for me!"
"It's already sold. ”
"Sell?!Are you going to me off! You just turn to your daughter and let her learn painting and go to college. Don't you see that there is still Haohao at home? and Chenghua. ”
Lin Fang looked at her husband, he had never been on her side, and remembering his words last night made her feel cold.
"If you sell the painting, you can let Feifei go to college, she has been admitted to Tongcheng University! You don't think about her? She's your granddaughter. ”
"What did you say?" Su Zhen looked at Lin Fang in surprise.
She took a step back, gasped, her eyes widened and she was stunned, and when she saw that her son on the side did not speak, she understood, and it turned out that her son also knew.
"That's what you're going to do for this?!Are you going crazy to sell my paintings for your daughter?!!Are you crazy!" She directly picked up the kitchen knife on the ground, "If you don't get the painting back today, I'll fight with you this old bone!"
"Grandma!" Li Wenhao panicked when he saw it, and stepped forward to hold Grandma's hand holding the knife, but he was afraid of hurting her old man. But who knew that she was angry and pushed him away hard.
Lin Fang had never seen her mother-in-law so fierce. I want to kneel and beg her for forgiveness, "Mom......"
It can be seen that her son was also pushed away by her, and she forced her with a knife towards herself. She had no choice but to pull with her.
For a while, Su Zhen and Lin Fang pulled up, and Li Chenghua on the side pulled Lin Fang away, but he couldn't stop his mother.
Li Wenhao wanted to persuade his grandmother, but he couldn't stop her, he saw his grandmother and mother like this for the first time.
……
At noon, Li Fei was standing in front of the bakery, wanting to go home, when he walked out.
"You also came yesterday?" Lin Ye asked.
He actually saw her come in the morning, but he was busy in the morning, and he didn't come out to talk to her.
"Hmm. Li Fei nodded. I saw that he was wearing a white short-sleeved T-shirt, looking clean and handsome, revealing strong and slender arms.
She inadvertently glanced at the muscles, the smooth lines of his arms.
It turns out that he is the kind of person who looks thin and undressed and has a good body.
Seeing her looking, Lin Ye just nodded lightly, "I just happened to have something yesterday, and I asked for leave." Here's the cake I just made today, you can try it. He smiled and looked at Li Fei. "I forgot to ask you what your name is. You forgot to sign the painting you sent me. ”
Li Fei looked at him in surprise and smiled awkwardly, "My name is Li Fei, and the smoke and rain are gone." ”
"Lin Ye. He looked at her shyly smile.
Li Fei held the sketchpad in his hand and didn't know how to speak for a while.
Lin Ye suddenly remembered something, "You wait a minute." He turned and went into the store to get the cake.
Li Fei saw him turn around and enter the store.
Seeing that he came out quickly, holding a pink cardboard box in his hand, she looked at it and knew that it should be a cake inside.
"I made it this morning, you taste it. Lin Ye reached out and handed the cake to her.
"This ......" Li Fei was a little embarrassed and wanted to refuse his kindness.
"Sister-" Li Wenhao rode his bicycle to the mall to find his sister, and saw her standing in front of the bakery from afar.
Li Fei heard that he turned around and parked the car to the side, panting and running to his younger brother, "What's wrong?"
"Sister, it's not good!" Li Wenhao was about to say when he looked up and saw a man standing next to his sister.
Lin Ye had seen him a long time ago, and saw that it was her younger brother, but now that it was the first time he saw him, he still looked a little similar. He didn't speak, still holding the cake in his hand.
"What's wrong?" Li Fei saw his brother so anxious for the second time. It was when my father was in a car accident.
Her heart suddenly rose to her throat, "You say!"
Li Wenhao didn't know the man next to her, he hurriedly took his sister's hand, "Sister, you go back with me, something happened!"
"......" Before Lin Ye could hand her the cake in his hand, he saw her brother anxiously pulling her away.
Suddenly it occurred to me that I wanted to say that he had gotten the admission letter from Tongcheng University and wanted to tell her about it. Seeing her look back, he took a step forward, and he raised his hand, but he still didn't say anything.
She's gone......
……
Li Fei asked his younger brother on the road, and he simply said that his mother stole the painting and sold it.
When she heard this, she chuckled in her heart, panicked, and didn't know what was going on.
As soon as he arrived home, before Li Fei entered the door, he heard the sound of beating and scolding in the house.
Inside was grandma's scolding, mother's crying.
She immediately pushed the door open, and when she entered, she saw that they were fighting. It was a mess for a while.
"Mom-" Seeing her grandmother's hand pulling at her mother's clothes, she went over and pulled away her grandmother's hand.
Li Fei took her grandmother's hand and motioned for her to stop beating her mother. "Grandma, you let it go......"
Su Zhen saw that it was her granddaughter who held her hand, she was so angry that she withdrew her hand and slapped it directly.
"Smack-" Su Zhen slapped Li Fei directly in the face.
For a while, everyone looked at it and didn't move, and saw that Li Fei's cheeks had red palm prints.
Li Fei felt a hot pain on her face, she looked at her angry grandmother, her cheeks tingled, and her grandmother slapped her heart like a knife.
"Grandma'......"
Seeing this, Lin Fang, who had originally fallen to the ground, quickly got up, "Feifei." She covered her daughter's face in distress.
"Sister. Li Wenhao took her hand, and when he saw the bright red slap marks on her face, he frowned, "Grandma......"
Li Fei waved his hand directly, took a step forward and looked at his grandmother, who was glaring at him angrily, and his father, who had been silent.
"What do you think of my mother?!She has worked hard for the family all these years, in exchange for your beating and scolding?!"
"Dad, you just watched my mother get beaten? Do you think it should be? Just because she stole the painting and sold it? she also did it for the sake of this family......" She dared to speak so loudly to her father for the first time.
When Li Chenghua heard this, he frowned deeply, holding a cane in his hand and looking at his daughter.
"Mom......" Lin Fang persuaded with tears.
"Don't call me mom!" Su Zhen was still angry, and didn't feel how to beat her, "Look at the daughter you taught! You taught her that?"
"Where have you gone with all these years of reading?!" she took her anger out on Li Fei again.
Lin Fang wiped her tears and stopped her daughter in front of her, "How can you beat Feifei, if you are angry, you will come to me." ”
"Lin Fang!" Li Chenghua took a step forward and stopped.
"Mom and Dad, grandma, don't make any noise. Li Wenhao stood in the middle and persuaded.
"Yes, she's back, and she's going to show her how you do as a mother, stealing things. Su Zhen continued.
Seeing that Lin Fang didn't speak, she went directly into Li Fei's room and turned out the admission letter she had hidden under the pillow.
Walk to the door and throw it directly to the ground in front of everyone.
"What do you want to do?!What do you mother and daughter want to do!" Su Zhen couldn't breathe, clutching her chest and scolding.
"Quietly stealing my paintings and selling them so that I can secretly go to college?! Now I'll leave it here, go to college?! Don't even think about it!"
Li Chenghua looked down at the admission letter on the ground, he raised his eyes to look at his daughter opposite, frowned deeply, and grabbed his mother, "Mom, don't get excited." ”
Li Fei looked at her father's attitude, she looked directly at her grandmother, and said in a choked voice, "Do you think of my mother and me as a family?!"
Su Zhen was stunned, she never thought that she would ask such a question, her eyes widened and she said: "You have to go to some college to be willing, right? Look at your father, you are right, have you ever thought about your father and your brother? That painting was left to me by your grandfather! She stole it without my permission! And left the money for you to go to college?!"
"Even if I hadn't stolen paintings, even if I hadn't been like this, you wouldn't have given me college, would you? It was the first time that Li Fei dared to question his grandmother like this.
"Yes!" Su Zhen grimaced without the slightest hesitation.
For the first time, Li Fei dared to speak out loud like this, and quarreled with his family. In the eyes of outsiders, she has always been a good student, but what's the use of this, she doesn't yell at it. She stared at the acceptance letter on the ground, at her grandmother and father standing aside.
She picked up the admission letter on the ground, "You just don't want me to study, do you?"
With red eyes, she tore the admission letter in half. Throw it on the ground, "Are you satisfied now?"