Chapter 29

“You don’t even come into the house, but you’re asking for a red envelope on the street. What a great manner.”

Yuan Huilan muttered in a low voice, and squinted at Ruan Qiqi with disdain.

Ruan Qiqi had excellent hearing and good eyesight. She was planning to leave, but now she didn’t want to leave.

“Uncle Mo is right. It’s true that Lu Ye and I don’t know the etiquette and didn’t visit you. So, let’s go to dinner now and try the aunt’s cooking. After all, Lu Ye has lived for 25 years, and he still doesn’t know what the food cooked by his own mother tastes like. Let’s try it today.”

Ruan Qiqi smiled and said something directly to Yuan Huilan’s face.

He didn’t even cook a meal for his son, so how could he have the face to talk in front of her!

She was not afraid that Lu Ye couldn’t keep up with her pace. If Lu Ye couldn’t even do this, this object could be deleted.

“That’s right. I ate a few meals of my stepmother’s cooking. I’ve never eaten my biological mother’s cooking. I don’t know what it tastes like. Mo Jinsong and Mo Congrong definitely know better than me. They just need to tell my mother what they want to eat, and my mother will cook it for them. People who don’t know would think they are my mother’s biological children!”

Lu Ye sneered, and cooperated with the sarcasm.

Yuan Huilan’s face turned green and red, and she couldn’t hold her face. She resented Lu Ye for speaking regardless of the occasion, just like his father, a rough man, without any self-cultivation.

“Why didn’t I cook for you? Did I starve you when you lived with me?”

Yuan Huilan gritted her teeth and looked at her son, feeling very complicated.

She still had feelings for her son. After all, he was the flesh that fell from her belly, and Lu Ye’s body was flowing with her blood, but she couldn’t like this son with full satisfaction.

Lu Ye’s bad temper is too much like his father’s. He is rude and uneducated. When she was young and ignorant, she was attracted by Lu Desheng’s bravery in fighting and impulsively married him.

But less than a month after the marriage, there was a huge disagreement between her and Lu Desheng.

Lu Desheng was unhygienic, liked to swear, had a bad temper, smacked his lips when eating, loved to eat raw garlic and green onions, had a strong body odor, and didn’t like to wash his feet before going to bed. She really couldn’t stand these bad habits. Moreover, she talked to Lu Desheng many times, but this man not only didn’t change, but also scolded her for being a petty bourgeois moaning.

What made her most unbearable was that she and Lu Desheng had no common language at all. She liked to read poetry and liked to discuss poetry with her lover, but every time she mentioned poetry, Lu Desheng was dismissive and said that the scholar went to the battlefield crying for his parents and wet his pants, and he couldn’t be relied on at all.

She was so angry that she never talked about poetry with Lu Desheng again. But it was too painful to live with a man who had no common channel in thought and soul. Yuan Huilan wanted to divorce after only three months of marriage.

But she found out that she was pregnant. The medical conditions at that time were too poor and medicine was in short supply. Any medicine had to be given priority to the wounded. She had no choice but to give birth to this child. It happened that

half a month before giving birth, Lu Desheng received an order to evacuate urgently. He left with the large army, but left her behind and asked her to find a way to catch up with the large army.

The situation was very serious at that time. The enemy was searching everywhere. She hid in the home of a fellow villager. She was trembling every day and had nothing to eat. She gave birth to the child in fear.

Later, the situation became more serious. Yuan Huilan was afraid of being captured by the enemy. She only did confinement for a week, and then entrusted Lu Ye to the fellow villager, left some money, and went to chase the large army alone.

Half a year later, she caught up with another army and learned that Lu Desheng had sacrificed. To be honest, she was not particularly sad at the time. Even if Lu Desheng had not died, she would have divorced.

Later, she met Mo Qiufeng in her revolutionary work and was deeply attracted by his gentleness and profound knowledge. Moreover, Mo Qiufeng’s wife died and left two children.

They loved each other and got married soon. Yuan Huilan was very glad that she married Mo Qiufeng. They had a common language, common channels in thoughts and hearts, and no differences in living habits.

With Mo Qiufeng as a comparison, she became more and more disgusted with Lu Desheng, and even felt that her marriage with Lu Desheng was a stain in her life.

Including the children she had with Lu Desheng.

Therefore, in the following years, Yuan Huilan subconsciously avoided looking for the child, but later she knew that Lu Desheng was not dead, so she told him the home of the fellow villager who fostered Lu Ye. When he was ten years old, Lu Desheng took his son back.

She heard from Lu Desheng that Lu Ye lived alone in the mountains, his body was covered with lice, and his hair was tangled, like a savage. Although Lu Ye, who was taken to the compound, was cleaned up, he was particularly vigilant, with fierce eyes, as if he would attack at any time.

At that time, she felt guilty. It was true that she had let the child down. However, this remorse only lasted for a few days. Mo Qiufeng’s two sons and her daughter all needed her care. She had no extra time for Lu Ye.

Moreover, Lu Ye had a bad temper, a strange personality, and was moody. Yuan Huilan really couldn’t like this biological son. Mo Jinsong and Mo Congrong were much more sensible. It was indeed like his father.

If his father was not good, the sons he gave birth to would not be good either.

Yuan Huilan looked at her son with dissatisfaction, her eyes were very stern, and there was also some disgust.

“I did cook. I cooked what the Mo family liked. During the difficult period, there was a shortage of food rations, so the Mo family was given priority to eat first. I didn’t care even when my own son was crying out of hunger. I’m really a mother!”

Ruan Qiqi’s voice was loud. Yuan Huilan had not reflected on herself until now. There was no need to save face for such a woman.

“Qiqi, you don’t understand. My mother sacrificed her son to save others. It’s called noble character.”

Lu Ye was weird and loud, completely ignoring Yuan Huilan’s livid face.

Qiqi is right. They are the ones who have wronged him. Why should he bear it? He should be angry when he needs to be angry.

He should piss off these irresponsible adults who only care about giving birth but not raising them!

Yuan Huilan was so angry that her body was shaking. At this time, several people came over and greeted her. She felt even more ashamed. She had to force a smile and greet these people.

“Go home and sit down.”

Mo Qiufeng spoke at the right time. He knew that Lu Ye resented his wife, but he didn’t expect that the resentment would be so deep.

He also knew the reason. Huilan cared too much about his son and ignored Lu Ye. It was indeed Huilan’s fault, but Lu Ye’s temper was too weird. He still remembered the grudge after so many years. He was really left-wing.

Ruan Qiqi pulled Lu Ye away. Mo Qiufeng wanted to save face, so he must give a red envelope. He would not refuse it for nothing.

Yuan Huilan walked in front with a stern face. After returning home, she sat down angrily and ignored people.

“Didn’t you tell us to go home for dinner? Why are we going to come back and starve?”

Ruan Qiqi didn’t sit down, but glanced at the cold tables and chairs and said something sarcastic.

“You’ll get used to it. I’ve been starving for half a year at the Mo family!”

Lu Ye sneered, very cooperative.

“Then go open the window, let’s go to the window and drink more.”

Ruan Qiqi pulled him to the window and pretended to open the window.

“Enough, have you guys had enough trouble?”

Yuan Huilan couldn’t help it, she slapped the table hard and shouted angrily.

“No, we didn’t make trouble. You asked us to go home for dinner. We went back, but there was no food, not even a cup of hot tea. We don’t want to drink the northwest wind, so are we going to drink toilet water? We can’t drink that. You didn’t tell us before we came that you all drink toilet water for dinner. In our country, only dogs eat shit!”

Ruan Qiqi was very stable and reasoned with her calmly.

“You…you called me a dog?”

Yuan Huilan was so angry that she wanted to slap Ruan Qiqi in the face, but her cultural upbringing didn’t allow her to hit anyone. She could only sulk by herself, her lungs were about to explode.

Mo Qiufeng was calm and composed, with a calm expression, and it was impossible to tell what he was thinking.

“Aunt, I’m just stating the facts. I didn’t say you’re a dog. Lu Ye is your son. If I scold you, I’m scolding my man. I’m not that stupid. I can still tell the difference between relatives and strangers. Unlike some people, they can’t tell the difference between relatives and strangers. They’re crueler to their own sons than to stepmothers. Tsk… It’s really a rare story, worse than beasts!”

Ruan Qiqi was very eloquent. Although she spoke fast, she was clear and spoke very densely. Yuan Huilan couldn’t get a word in at all. She could only passively listen to her scolding. She was so angry that she couldn’t refute.

Mo Qiufeng couldn’t sit still. This girl was sharp-tongued and scolded people without using any dirty words. If he didn’t say anything, I’m afraid his wife would be angry to death.

“Huilan, go cook for them.”

As soon as Mo Qiufeng opened his mouth, the tense atmosphere in the room suddenly relaxed. Yuan Huilan was very obedient in front of him. She didn’t dare to go east or west, so she went to the kitchen obediently.

“Auntie, if you cook noodles, Lu Ye and I will each have five eggs. If you cook, we are not picky, more bacon and sausages.” Ruan Qiqi made a loud request, not at all shy.

“I remember Xiao Ye likes bacon, Huilan, fry more.”

Mo Qiufeng smiled gently, looking kind, but Ruan Qiqi knew that this was just an appearance. If this old fox was really a good person, how could he turn a blind eye to Lu Ye’s experience at home?

“I also like sausages, bacon, steamed cakes, egg cakes, malted milk, do you have any?” Lu Ye sneered.

These were all things he wanted to eat when he was a child, but he couldn’t eat them.

In the Lu family, these things were eaten by his younger brother.

In the Mo family, these things were eaten by Mo Jinsong, Mo Congrong, and his younger sister.

None of them were for him.

Only his younger sister Mo Heping, who was four years younger than him, would hide the food and secretly give it to him, so he had the best relationship with Mo Heping.

“I remember there are still some steamed cakes at home. I’ll go get them.”

Mo Qiufeng stood up with a smile, went to the cabinet and found half a bag of steamed cakes and half a can of malted milk, and made them two cups of very strong milky flavor.

Steamed cakes have a milky flavor and are very delicious.

“Eat it.”

Mo Qiufeng put the things in front of them, and also a red envelope, and stuffed it into Ruan Qiqi.

“Thank you, Uncle Mo.”

Ruan Qiqi took it unceremoniously and put it in his pocket.

“Don’t be polite, family. Since you are dating Xiaoye, you should care about him and love him more in the future. This child suffered a lot of grievances when he was young. It’s also my fault that his mother and I didn’t fulfill our responsibilities and hurt his heart. Alas, the past is over, and we have to look to the future. Xiaoye, don’t let resentment blind your heart. Let go of what you should let go, so that you can live more easily.”

Mo Qiufeng said something earnestly, trying to persuade Lu Ye to let go of his hatred.

He sincerely felt that Lu Ye was blinded by hatred, which also affected his character and made him act more and more extreme. This was not good. As a man, he should be more open-minded and not always care about the past.

Lu Ye sneered and did not respond.

“Uncle Mo, how can you repay kindness with kindness? According to you, the previous hatred can be put aside, but should we put aside the hatred for the Japanese devils?” Ruan Qiqi asked back.