Wang Chu was discharged from the hospital on the fifth day after being hospitalized, Li Xiangyang took Li Haoran to pick him up in a car, she didn't want to go back with him, but her mother said, "Married daughters are not allowed to be confined in their parents' house, especially Xiaoyuezi." ”

"It's superstitious." Wang Chu didn't know where this superstition came from, so she naturally didn't believe it, but her mother said it, and she had to change her mind.

Following Li Xiangyang back to confinement means that Wang Chu will have to take care of himself by himself, and he is so busy that sometimes he can't even eat, let alone take care of her. The mother-in-law had a broken leg, and the mother had to take care of her niece, and the task of taking care of her could only fall to the father.

My father took more than a month's leave to take care of Wang Chu, but the employer was reluctant at first, so my father had to make a resignation report. The father brought two sets of clothes to the co-pilot of the car, and Li Haoran and Wang Chu sat in the back.

Mother brought a blanket to Wang Chu to cover, she didn't want to look at Li Xiangyang, her eyes were forced to meet him, her mother tried not to make her face ugly, but it was still difficult to suppress the anger in her heart, so she glared fiercely.

"Oh Mom, it's not cold in the car, so you don't need to cover it with such a thick blanket." Wang Chu said.

"What not? As the saying goes, a fire before giving birth, a ball of ice after giving birth, especially a small confinement, you can't suffer a little cool breeze, if you get cold, you will be branded with confinement disease, and when you get older, anything will come out. The mother covered Wang Chu with a blanket and muttered, "Dad, you take good care of my daughter, don't give her something cold, don't let her touch cold water, stew more chicken soup and pigeon soup, and keep up with nutrition." The mother stuffed some pre-prepared things into the car, and it was almost full, "I have almost prepared everything you have to eat during the month." She shoved a note to her father and said with a straight face, "What should be eaten and what should not be eaten on this is clearly written, don't give me a stubble." ”

"Oh Mom, okay, I know what to eat and what not to eat, so don't worry about it." Wang Chu persuaded impatiently.

"What do you know? You say that I, a mother, can't prepare everything for you? When his mother said this, her eyes moved to Li Xiangyang and looked at him with hatred, "Unlike some people, he may come to the hospital to see you when you die." After saying that, she slammed the car door shut, Li Xiangyang was stunned, his face was unhappy, but it was inconvenient to say anything.

"Goodbye, auntie." Wang Anwen stood not far from the car and asked.

"Goodbye." Wang Chu wrapped his hand.

"Sister, will you come with me to my house?" Li Haoran lowered the rear window and shouted.

"I'm not as idle as you, I want to study hard and do my homework hard." Wang Anwen said disdainfully.

"Who says you can't do your homework at home? I'm still more than a month away from school. Li Haoran said again.

"All you have left for the day is to play." Li Xiangyang yelled, "You said you passed all the subjects, or what?" If you fail another subject next semester, be careful of your broken legs. When Li Haoran opened his mouth, he immediately closed the car window, buckled his hat on his head, and leaned his head on the car seat without saying a word.

The mother entered the house before the car left, and the niece watched the car leave, saying goodbye and waving, "Auntie, eat better and make yourself fatter." ”

"Got it, stinky girl." After Wang Chu said this, the car was already far away.

Along the way, his parents didn't speak, and what Li Xiangyang did had already made his father's heart cold fifteen years ago, and he was already full of hatred for this son-in-law.

Li Xiangyang was worried that Wang Chu would catch a cold, so he adjusted the air conditioning in the car to zero, and the air outside the car window was filled with a hot smell, and the car was tightly closed, and he could feel the hot air pouring into the car. Especially when you get on the highway and the speed of the car increases, this feeling of heat is even stronger.

Starting from Basha kilometers, all the way to the west, is an endless desert, the highway in the middle of the desert looks like a slender cloth bag, the clear and transparent sky is like a cauldron buckled over the desert in the distance. The straight road had no end, no turns, and very few vehicles on the road, except for the occasional crow and wild pigeon.

Having said that, there is no short distance in Xinjiang's high-speed kilometers, and the distance between counties is more than 100 kilometers, and the distance between cities is more than 300 kilometers. One of the most popular jokes on Douyin, Xinjiang, which has 1.66 million square kilometers and accounts for one-sixth of the country's total area, why doesn't it have free shipping? From Urumqi to Kashgar, it is equivalent to from Xi'an to Shenzhen, from Hami to Kashgar, from Chengdu to Hangzhou, from Altay to Hotan, equivalent to from Beijing to Guangzhou, equivalent to 100 Beijing or 287 Shanghai, equivalent to Beijing, Shanghai, Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, Guangdong, Hainan, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Hunan Thirteen provinces and cities combined, equal to four Japan, seven Britain, sixteen South Korea, just like this Basha highway, to Muhuali, nearly 320 kilometers of road, It's unbelievable to drive a car and run a round trip a day without getting nauseous.

Departing from around 3 p.m. and arriving at Muhuali at 6:30 p.m. His father came to the house for the first time, and this two-story villa made his eyes shine. My father was poor all his life, and he lived in the adobe house of the company until he retired, and used his life savings to buy a commercial house worth 210,000 yuan for his younger brother, and bought himself a low-rent house that could be lived in for less than 160,000 yuan, which can be regarded as finding a place for his later life.

The house looks like a two-story building from the outside, and there is actually a basement, which is the same size as the upper two floors, and the parents turned the upstairs and downstairs all over, including the basement, and his various actions showed that he was full of curiosity and satisfaction about this house, thinking that his daughter could live in such a big house, and he could have a husband who was a deputy political commissar, which naturally made many people envious, and also surprised his father. But the father knows very well what kind of life his daughter is living, from the first time Li Xiangyang beat Wang Chu, the father felt that his daughter had no happiness at all, so that in the future, the eardrum perforation incident, the incident of almost throwing Wang Chu down from the window on the fourth floor, as a father, he did not know, but he still concluded that his daughter was not happy. His eyes were slightly sad, the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, and there seemed to be a small sigh, which could only relieve some of the depression in his heart.

Li Xiangyang goes out early and returns late every day, and he doesn't even come back on time for dinner, and sometimes he doesn't come home until 12 o'clock in the morning at night, and his father also sees it. But as a father, he couldn't stand Li Xiangyang's various actions and let his daughter suffer a lot of grievances. found a suitable time, my father finally asked Li Xiangyang to have a good talk, while Haohao went out to play, while Wang Chu was asleep upstairs, the two closed the door of the living room, no one knew the content of their conversation, from the door can only vaguely hear the sound of the conversation between the two, but can not distinguish the content.

When Wang Chu woke up and came down from upstairs, his father and Li Xiangyang ended their conversation, probably hearing footsteps, Li Xiangyang opened the living room door for her, "You should sleep more." He had a concerned expression, "You can only take a good rest to take care of your body." ”

"You two?" Wang Chu looked at his father in the living room, and then swept Li Xiangyang's face, "What are you talking about secretly?" ”

"What do you mean by sneaking?" Li Xiangyang said with a straight face, "My dad and I are discussing how to let you eat better and let you grow more meat." ”

Wang Chu didn't believe it, so he pretended to smile and saw that his father's face was not distempered, and there was no unpleasant dispute between the two, nor did anything that made his father smile.

"What does Chu Chu eat?" The father walked out of the living room and asked, "I'm going to cook." ”

Wang Chu hesitated, "I don't have much appetite." ”

"Dad, you'll rest." Li Xiangyang said, with a sense of flattery and stammering, "I'll go stew pigeon meat for Chu Chu to eat." ”

Wang Chu just frowned, and walked into the living room without speaking, she sat on the sofa, turned on the TV, and her father also sat over, he looked a little unnatural, and pretended to move his eyes to the TV, this move she knew that her father was covering up the content of the previous conversation.

"Dad, what were you talking about just behind closed doors?" Wang Chu asked without hesitation.

"Didn't say anything." The father had an indescribable hesitation, "Just talk about his work, you usually have to understand him a little more, he is really busy at work." ”

"Dad." Father's words made Wang Chu a little surprised, and his previous attitude was like the two of them, "What kind of ecstasy soup did he pour you?" Did you help him speak? ”

"It is not easy for him to climb from a small section member to the position of deputy political commissar for so many years." Father's answer was obviously very convincing, "You should let go of what happened fifteen years ago, don't listen to your mother, and live a good life with Xiangyang." ”

Wang Chu lowered his eyebrows and sighed coldly, this tone was so small that even she couldn't distinguish it, "How many nice words did he choose, and how many words did it take to make your attitude change so much?" ”

"Dad also knows that you have suffered a lot of grievances." The father continued to persuade, "Li Xiangyang has a bad temper, but he is still a good person after all. ”

"It depends on how to make up your mind with the good guys." Wang Chu stood up from the sofa, "It's really rare to see a good person like him." With that, she turned and walked out of the living room.

Li Xiangyang was wearing an apron in the kitchen and putting the cut chicken into the pot, and when he saw Wang Chu, he called out tenderly, "You go up to sleep, I'll call you when the meal is ready." ”

Such a tone made Wang Chu extremely unaccustomed to it, and even a little surprised, she glanced at Li Xiangyang with a little sadness and went upstairs.

When he was free, Li Xiangyang brought back two sheep from the company, and competed with his father to tie an apron and cut the mutton into pieces and put it in the refrigerator, leaving a part of the stewed mutton for Wang Chu to eat.

My father is not very good at cooking, except for the good braised noodles and ramen, he basically can't stir-fry, but he still tries his best to change his tricks to make food for Wang Chu to eat, and then show the video to his mother to prove his achievements. Wang Chu has a bad spleen and stomach, and it is difficult to swallow every time she eats, especially when she eats meat, she needs to take it with water to swallow. After a month, she was not fat at all, her whole face was sallow, and when she squatted for two minutes, her eyes were dark, and she even entered a state of fainting.

"You call and ask Li Xiangyang when he will come back for dinner? The meal is ready. "My father made the best onion fried meat for Wang Chu, and served it on the table, and there were stewed mutton, potato roast beef, vegetarian fried loofah and celery fried meat on the table.

"He sent me a WeChat message, saying that he was in a meeting, let's not wait for him." Wang Chu explained.

"Every day, I can't eat at all." The father sat on the chair and shouted into Li Haoran's room, "Haohao, come and eat." ”

"Come on." Li Haoran immediately put down the book, jumped out of the room, and the first thing he did when he sat at the dining table was to pick up a piece of mutton and grab it, "I'm dying of hunger." Before he finished speaking, he put a piece of mutton into his mouth.

"Eat slowly, kid, don't choke." Wang Chu prompted.

"Chu Chu, you have to eat more, I have been working hard to make delicious food and serve you for almost a month, you are not fat at all, your face, your mother is not anxious with me when she goes back?"

"Dad, I know you've done your best." Wang Chu sat on the dining table and filled a small bowl of mutton soup, "I have this physique, and I don't get fat if I eat anything." ”

"You know how the fat man came about? It's eaten, you eat a little bit like a cat a day, can you get fat? The father complained, then picked up a piece of stewed meat and gave it to Wang Chu, "This piece of meat must be eaten." ”

"I can't get fat even if I finish eating a plate of meat." When Wang Chu saw the mutton, it was like having a grudge.

The father took out his mobile phone and made a video with his mother, "Old woman, you see that I make so many delicious foods for our girl, look at her?" It's been almost a month, with yellow muscles, let me tell you, don't say that I didn't take good care of her, but I tried my best to change tricks every day to make food for her, and I don't know where she ate? He pretended to complain aggrievedly and switched the video screen to Wang Chu for his mother to see.

"Oops." The mother accused, "You ran to take care of your daughter, who do you blame for not eating fat?" Tell you to take good care of your daughter, and you take care of your daughter like this? ”

"I make a big table of dishes for each meal, and I don't blame you for your daughter not getting fat."

"Why don't I blame you? I brought so many chickens, fish, and pigeons, did you give her food? ”

"You've already eaten the little you brought." My father couldn't say anything because of his grievances, "I've worked hard enough, you can go around me, okay, I won't tell you, let's eat." The father hung up the phone and shook his head helplessly, "Your mother, no matter how good I do, she thinks I haven't done a good job." ”

"My mom is a knife-mouthed tofu heart." Wang Chu persuaded, "You have endured most of your life, just don't worry too much." ”

"Your mother's temper, I can't help it!" Father forced a smile, he looked at Wang Chu, "You can also persuade people, but you also have to learn to persuade yourself." ”

Wang Chu pursed his lips and glanced at his father impatiently, "Dad, eat." ”

As soon as the words fell, the sound of the key opening the door came from outside the door, Wang Chu knew that it was Li Xiangyang who came back, he changed his shoes, "As soon as I entered the community, I smelled a fragrance." Li Xiangyang's voice revealed a desire for appetite, "I'm drooling." He took off his clothes, hung them on the hanger, went to the bathroom to wash his hands, and then walked into the dining room, "Dad's craftsmanship is getting better and better, and my mother is really blessed." He sat on the chair, "Unlike me, who is busy all day long, and I have been wronged for so many years, and I haven't eaten a ready-made meal for her." ”

"My family knows how to cook, and I have good skills." The father said, "I don't need you to cook for him, you can give her more understanding and care." As soon as his father finished speaking, the phone rang, he picked up the phone, it showed that the security company was calling, and his father answered the phone, "Hey, hello Manager Song." ”

"Hello Wang Zhen, I'm Manager Song of the security company."

"Hello, hello, Manager Song." My father greeted him eagerly, "I made a note of your phone number, I know it's you, please tell me something." ”

"That's right, I helped you implement your security work, working as a security guard in a winery, do you have any opinions?"

"No opinion, no opinion, Manager Song." My father's face was already happy, and he got up from his chair, "When are you going to go to work over there?"

"The winery told you to go tomorrow."

"Tomorrow?" The father's smile quickly disappeared from his face, and he looked at Wang Chu with guilt.

"Questions?"

The father hesitated for a long time, "I'm coming to my daughter's house, it's quite far away, even if I go back, it's tomorrow." ”

"Okay, then you can come to work the day after tomorrow."

The father was still a little embarrassed, but given his age, it was difficult to find a job, so he agreed, hung up the phone, he returned to his seat, and looked at Wang Chu and Li Xiangyang embarrassedly.

"Grandpa, you have to leave tomorrow?" Li Haoran asked while eating.

"yes, Haohao." My father explained, "I didn't expect the job to be implemented so quickly, and it was not easy for my grandfather to find a job at such an old age." ”

"It's okay Dad." Li Xiangyang said, "Tomorrow happens to be a weekend, and I will send you back early in the morning." ”

"Chu Chu is not completely complete, and I don't feel at ease when I leave." The father's expression was complicated.

"It's been almost a month, and I can take care of myself." Wang Chu explained.

"What can you take care of, you see your face is still so bad." Father looked at Wang Chu with pity.

"Don't get in the way, Dad, it's not easy for you to find a job, it's not easy, I'll send Chu Chu to my mother first, my sister has also come up to see my dad, let my sister take care of Chu Chu for a while."

"That's done." Father nodded.

"Mom." Li Haoran twisted his body, "Tomorrow is a weekend, take me with you, and I'll come back with my father when I send you to grandma's house." ”

"You're done with your homework tonight." Li Xiangyang instructed, "It just so happens that your aunt also wants to see you." ”

"Oh." Li Haoran looked reluctant, "I'll go do my homework." ”

"Let's go again after eating, son." Wang Chu persuaded, "If you don't eat enough now, you will be hungry at night." ”

"I've eaten almost." Li Haoran got out of the chair and placed the chair neatly, "There is a lot of homework, I better hurry up and do my homework, otherwise I won't be able to see grandma tomorrow." With that, he left the kitchen, went into his bedroom, and closed the door.

On the second day, before leaving, Li Xiangyang took two cigarettes and a box of wine to his father, and brought some health products to his mother. ”

"I don't want the money." The parents first glanced at Li Xiangyang, and then at Wang Chu, "Just be kind to Chu Chu in the future." ”

"Don't worry, good Dad, I will be good to Chu Chu." Li Xiangyang promised, "You have to take the money, otherwise you don't treat me as a son." ”

"That's right." The father smiled tactfully, "It's all a family." ”

"Then you will take the money." Li Xiangyang pleaded.

"Done." Father nodded, "I'll take it." ”

"That's right." Li Xiangyang put the money in his father's hand and got into the car. Wang Chu got into the passenger car, his father sat in the back, the car set off from the community, and a red halo appeared in the distant sky, it seemed that it was gray weather again.