Chapter 80: Qingchuan, You Have a Home Now

Shen Sangyu hadn’t expected her first encounter with Wen Chao to unfold in such a bizarre manner.

The Wen family wasn’t large, and their relationships were straightforward. Shen Sangyu couldn’t think of anyone else who could emerge from the adjacent room besides Wen Chao.

But…

Her gaze slowly drifted downward, and her brows furrowed.

At this moment, Wen Chao was wearing nothing but a pair of shorts, with his upper body completely bare.

It was the peak of summer, and it wasn’t uncommon for some elderly villagers to go shirtless to cope with the heat.

However, being at home with Wen Chunyan a young girl Wen Chao’s lack of decorum seemed inappropriate.

What irked Shen Sangyu the most was the way Wen Chao was blatantly staring at her.

“Why are you staring at me like that?” Shen Sangyu frowned.

Wen Chao snapped out of it but couldn’t help letting his gaze linger on her for a moment longer.

Finally, he seemed to register her presence and blurted out, “Wait, who are you? You”

As if struck by a realization, his eyes widened. “You’re Shen Sangyu!”

Shen Sangyu raised an eyebrow but said nothing.

“Who else would she be but your sister-in-law?” a voice interjected from the doorway it was Wen Qingchuan.

Wen Chao turned around, his face draining of color. His lips trembled. “B-big brother?”

Wen Qingchuan’s expression was stern, his voice icy. “Big brother? You sound uncertain. You had the nerve to ask Mom for money, but you can’t even address me properly?”

The sharp tone made Wen Chao’s face go even paler. He stammered but couldn’t form a response.

Wen Qingchuan wasn’t about to let him off easily. His piercing gaze landed on Wen Chao again.

Wen Chao, whose slightly plump frame was visibly trembling, lowered his head in submission, not daring to say a word.

“Look at yourself! Go back and put on some clothes!” Wen Qingchuan commanded.

Wen Chao instinctively muttered, “I just needed to pee…”

Wen Qingchuan’s expression darkened further. “Does needing to pee prevent you from getting dressed? You’re in your twenties! Aren’t you embarrassed to wake up this late?”

Wen Chao seemed used to such reprimands, remaining silent. However, a faint hint of defiance emerged as he muttered under his breath, “Didn’t Shen Sangyu just wake up too?”

Wen Qingchuan shot back, “Are you comparing yourself to your sister-in-law? Now hurry and get dressed!”

Shen Sangyu: “…”

Those words sounded suspiciously like something Li Shuhua would say.

Shen Sangyu nearly burst out laughing. To hide her amusement, she lowered her head.

Reluctantly, Wen Chao turned back to his room to obey his brother.

Once Wen Chao was gone, Shen Sangyu looked up with a smile. “Your brother seems pretty scared of you.”

Wen Qingchuan replied nonchalantly, “That’s because I’d beat him if he didn’t listen.”

Shen Sangyu was surprised. “But haven’t you been away from home for ten years?”

Ten years, and Wen Chao was still afraid?

“Being gone for ten years only makes him more afraid of me. When he was a kid, he stole money, and I broke his front teeth,” Wen Qingchuan explained matter-of-factly.

Shen Sangyu found it hard to believe, but at the same time, it felt exactly like something Wen Qingchuan would do.

Don’t be fooled by a man’s gentle demeanor on weekdays. In fact, Wen Qingchuan will never show mercy if you cross his line.

Shen Sangyu thought about Wen Chao’s teeth, which seemed to be quite neat, so Wen Chao should have been young at that time.

“He stole money, did your parents not care about him?”

Shen Sangyu was a little puzzled. After all, if Wen Chao stole money, Li Shuhua would be very angry according to her personality.

“He stole my money.” Wen Qingchuan explained: “I used to cut grass for pigs with the elders in the village.

They would give me food or money. Later, Wen Chao found out and stole the money I hid.

Later, my mother also knew about this, so she confiscated the money and beat me up.”

Shen Sangyu’s heart tightened.

She could imagine how hard Wen Qingchuan had to work when he was a child to save private money.

She was even sure that the money might not be much, but Wen Chao, as a younger brother, actually stole the money secretly.

As a mother, Li Shuhua not only did not blame her younger son at all, but beat Wen Qingchuan instead.

“So you were so angry that you beat Wen Chao?”

Wen Qingchuan hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded hesitantly.

“Well done, you should teach him a lesson!”

As soon as Shen Sangyu finished speaking, Wen Chao had already dressed and came out of the room.

Because Wen Qingchuan was there, he didn’t dare to look directly at Shen Sangyu this time and went out.

At noon, Wen Qingchuan took her out and didn’t eat at Wen’s house.

Shen Sangyu also realized that Wen Qingchuan’s previous words about moving out were not just talk.

“Uncle Liu, Aunt Liu, I’m sorry to bother you these few days.”

In a small courtyard, Wen Qingchuan held fifty yuan in his hand and kept stuffing it into the clothes of a lame old man.

Shen Sangyu was stunned watching from the side. The scene in front of her was like the elders giving red envelopes to the younger generations during the Chinese New Year, but because they didn’t dare to accept it casually, they kept resisting, but in the end they still gave the red envelopes.

The old man in front of him was about sixty years old, with traces of time on his face, especially the old man’s left and right legs seemed to have problems. When he came, he was leaning on a cane to dry chili peppers.

Wen Qingchuan said that this was Uncle Liu. When he was a child, it was the Liu family who took care of him the most, but the Liu couple’s life was not very good.

They lost their son when they were young, and finally had another child when they were thirty years old, but they still couldn’t keep it in the end.

Uncle Liu’s legs were scars left from the battlefield before. At that time, the medical conditions were not good and there was no money to treat the disease. After the leg was injured, it rotted, and the injury never healed.

Aunt Liu was not in good health because she lost her son twice in succession, but when she saw her and Wen Qingchuan coming, she said she would go to the yard to kill one for them to have lunch.

Shen Sangyu could see that Uncle Liu and Aunt Liu were not in good conditions, otherwise Wen Qingchuan would not have asked her for fifty yuan before coming.

Uncle Liu couldn’t beat Wen Qingchuan at this time. He said it was a waste, but in fact, his eyes were red with emotion.

Wen Qingchuan’s face was always expressionless, but after getting to know him for a long time,

Shen Sangyu discovered that whenever Wen Qingchuan liked someone, his voice would be gentle.

Just like now

“Uncle Liu, don’t waste it! Thanks to you and Auntie when I was a child, otherwise I don’t know if I could survive.

Please accept this money. Sangyu and I will accompany you and Auntie Liu for a physical examination in two days.”

Uncle Liu burst into tears. He wanted to tell Wen Qingchuan not to waste money, but he knew that this was Wen Qingchuan’s intention, so he didn’t refuse. He was happy but also a little sad.

When he was young, he just gave Wen Qingchuan a bite to eat, but this kid actually remembered it all the time.

“You send us money and things every year. Now that you are married, you should take care of your own small family and stop sending us money in

the future.” After saying that, Uncle Liu glanced at Shen Sangyu, and the more he looked at her, the more satisfied he became:

“Sangyu, Qingchuan has not had an easy time these years, but the old man has watched him grow up since he was a child.

He is a good person. When he was a child, he remembered the food I and I gave him. I have already made up for it in my life.”

Shen Sangyu knew that Wen Qingchuan sent money to the Liu family, and

Wen Qingchuan had told her before that Uncle Liu and Aunt Liu knew that

Wen Qingchuan was married and that the original owner’s parents had passed away, so they specially sent a wedding quilt that weighed ten pounds.

The fact that Wen Qingchuan still remembers the kindness of a meal is enough to show that the Liu couple are good people.

Therefore, Shen Sangyu smiled slightly and said, “Qingchuan is right. It is right to be filial to you and Aunt Liu.”

Uncle Liu was stunned and burst into tears.

He looked at Wen Qingchuan and suddenly said, “Qingchuan, you have a family now.”