Chapter 83: Mining (1/2)

Chen Suling and her husband were preparing to go to the mall with her eldest sister. They were going to bring Tang Jinyu with them, and we’re looking for him, but they rushed immediately when they heard the news.

Especially Tang Hongjun, when he heard his wife answer the phone and told him that something had happened to Xiaoyu, he was startled and ran in to find his son. He was the first to come in. When he arrived in the living room, he saw the two brothers sitting on the sofa waiting. Tang Hongjun walked over and asked, ”Are you all right? What's the matter, are you two injured?”

Xia Ye shook his head, ”I'm fine, uncle, it was Xiaoyu that was crying.”

Chen Suling immediately went over to look at her son. She checked and saw that her child was not injured. She was slightly relieved, but she felt pain in her heart when she saw him crying, ”What's wrong with Xiaoyu? What's wrong?”

Xia Ye had heard his brother say it to him, so when Chen Suling asked, he told her the truth.

Chen Suling couldn't figure out what her second sister-in-law was doing by grabbing that suitcase. She opened her mouth and didn't know what to say, and her eyebrows furrowed.

Xia Ye said: ”Auntie, grandma and everyone are all waiting for you. You will know when you go.”

Chen Suling stroked her child's head. Tang Jinyu with tears in his eyes, didn’t want to cry. He called her mother with his mouth pursed. Chen Suling said, ”Baby it’s okay, stay here with your brother. Mom will go up and ask what's going on.”

Chen Qiuguo knew that she was hot-tempered and that she would not tolerate sand to be rubbed into her eyes, so she immediately followed: ”I will accompany you, Suling, slow down and wait for me.”

(Note: No sands are allowed to be rubbed into the eye.; be offensive to the eye about unreasonable thing)

The two of them hurried up, and Tang Hongjun, who was behind them, bent over to wipe the tears from his son's face, and said distressingly: ”Xiaoyu don’t cry anymore.”

Xia Ye asked him: ”Uncle, shall we go now?”

Tang Hongjun sighed. He was also very angry. He had never seen an adult steal from a child. But even if he thought so in his heart, he shook his head and said, ”If it weren’t for today’s matter, it would’ve been okay to go, but now I’m afraid that the old lady will embarrass your aunt, and would not let her go.” He glanced at the top of the stairs. Then, he slowed down and said to his child, ”Xiaoyu wait here, dad will accompany mom to go up there, and I will come back to pick you up soon.”

The adults in the family went up, Xia Ye still sat on the sofa holding the little guy, Tang Jinyu sat on his lap, lying in his arms and slowly stopped crying, but from time to time he hiccuped, voicing out his grievances.

Xia Ye chatted with him a few words, and the little guy gave him different responses.

”I bite very lightly…”

”Do you have any reason to bite?” Xia Ye wiped the tears from his face with his thumb, and he was crying like a tabby cat just now.

”My aunt touched my accordion, it doesn't make sense!”

The little guy was so angry that he wanted to cry again, and Xia Ye immediately became cold, ”Hold back your tears.”

Tang Jinyu sat on his knees, held back for a while, and his tears did not roll down from his eyes, and he looked even more pitiful.

Xia Ye looked at his tears, sighed, pinched his small neck and rubbed his neck slowly and comforted him: ”You can't cry anymore today, what if you get sick again?”

Tang Jinyu nodded, and with a slight movement, big tears rolled down. The little guy worked so hard and didn't make a sound. He only sniffed and didn't cry again, feeling particularly aggrieved.

Xia Ye explained it to him, ”Xiaoyu, I'll tell you one last time, at any time, nothing is less important than yourself. What is the saying we usually say?”

”Health comes first.” The little guy finished speaking, and was a little unconvinced. ”But brother…”

”Yes?”

”My accordion.” He murmured.

”I gave you a piano,” Xia Ye corrected him, ”I will give you more in the future. I will give you a new piano every year, baby, I promise you that I will buy you a piano that will last for a lifetime. So If you encounter something like this again, and you lose a piano, come to me, so that you suffer from any losses, okay?”

It took a long time for the little guy to nod reluctantly.

Xia Ye coaxed him to talk, the little guy reached out his hand to hug him, and rubbed his head in his arms, ”Brother, uncle said that he will get me a new piano next year, since my piano is too small, but I can't bear it.”

Xia Ye laughed, his heart softened by what the little guy said just now, and raised his hand to touch his little head and whispered, ”I will buy you a new one next year.”

”That's different.” The little guy muttered, ”That is the piano that my brother used before, and it also has your name on it., I have my name next to it as well, and I will keep it by my side for the rest of my life.”

Xia Ye was silent for a while, and hugged the little guy in his arms for a few minutes.

Just now, he didn't want the little guy to grow up at all, and even wanted him to remain at such an innocent age and never change the feelings in his heart.

Xia Ye sighed slightly and called his name.

The little guy in his arms moved. He was sensitive to Xia Ye’s emotions. He poked his head out to look at him. Although his expression was faint as usual, Tang Jinyu still noticed a difference. He touched Xia Ye’s forehead, and asked him: ”Brother, what's the matter with you?”

Xia Ye squeezed his face and said, ”I don’t want you to grow up, okay.”

”I want to grow up, I want to grow up to be as tall as my brother, and as good as my brother. When I grow up, I will study hard and make a lot of money.”

Xia Ye smiled and said, ”You don’t have to do so well, I will support you.”

The little guy touched his forehead again, and this time his tone became firmer, ”Brother, I will make money! Really, I will make a lot of money in the future, I’ll be very good to you. You are very important in my heart, just like…” The little guy thought for a moment, and said without hesitation, ”Just like my father!”

Xia Ye: ”…”

Tang Jinyu was a little excited, and still promised Xia Ye: ”Brother, I will provide you with elderly care!”

Xia Ye squeezed his small neck and asked him to look back, and pointed up the stairs, and said blankly, ”Look there, the one on the second floor is your father.”

In the guest room on the second floor, the Chen family were all together.

On the original neat floor of the guest room, there was a small suitcase. The zipper on it was violently torn open, revealing the half-old accordion inside. The red lacquer shell was well maintained. It looked old but it has always been well cherished, and it looked good.

Chen Suling stood there with a cold face, and Tang Hongjun was silent by her side.

Chen Qiuguo, who has always been a good person, sighed after seeing the suitcase. She didn't help to speak for her behalf for the first time. She really didn't know what to say, Pei Yun was so devilish, how could she do such a thing?

Grandma Chen sat on the small sofa in the guest room and looked at Pei Yun and said coldly: ”You speak, let me hear clearly, what dissatisfactions did you have for the past few years! I don’t want to hear that our Chen family values boys over girls, so don’t bring this up again…”

Chen Wenqian wanted to help his wife speak, and grabbed Pei Yun's hand to make her apologize first, but Pei Yun raised her head and looked at the old lady, biting her lips and said: ”It's you who is clearly patriarchal!”

Grandma Chen laughed angrily, ”Me?”

”Yes, it’s you.” Pei Yun shoved off Chen Wenqian's hand and decided to just say it. She couldn't stop her tears rolling down her eyes. ”You were partial to Xiaoyu at the beginning, you favor boys, and you and Dad left something for him. …”

”Nonsense!” Grandma Chen was dumbfounded and shivered with anger when she patted the arm of the sofa.

”I'm not talking nonsense! You and Dad are the most partial. When my sister-in-law brought her child back for treatment, you and Dad would give them so much, and pay it back. I saw it with my own eyes that time, my dad left him something, saying, ”All my wealth goes to Xiaoyu's body.” I remember these words clearly. I haven't said anything for so many years. I know that because Deyun is a girl, you don't want to give it to her, but Deqing is also your grandson. You haven't given him that much, Dad… ”

Seeing that she would say more, Chen Wenqian grabbed her arm and scolded: ”Haven’t you said enough!”

Pei Yun looked at him, saw her husband’s bloodshot eyes and the angry expression on his face. Although she didn't say anything, she still couldn’t accept, and bit her lip.

”What kind of nonsense are you talking about? When did we give Xiaoyu all our net worth?” Grandma Chen said, ”I love Xiaoyu a little bit, but that's because I feel distressed that his body is sick. The two of them have been carrying a sick child for so many years and never abandon him. How bitter it is for the two of them. I am also a mother. I am a girl who has been raising Jiaojiao in the palm of my hand for more than 20 years. I live every day. What day do I see that I am not allowed to use to supplement her a little bit!”

Pei Yun avoided her sight, ”You and Dad are at fault first.”

”Then you were in the right? What were you doing with Xiaoyu's stuff?”

”I was looking for evidence.”

Grandma Chen was so angry that she pressed her chest, and the Chen sisters on the side panicked. Chen Suling rummaged for her pills, and Chen Qiuguo poured water on her. Chen Qiuguo got angry for the first time, even with her good temper, ”Pei Yun, do you want to anger my mother, before you give up!”

Chen Wenqian wanted to drag her away, but Pei Yun still looked straight at the old lady. Before she leaves today, she won’t leave until she understands what she saw with her own eyes and heard with her own ears

Mr. Chen glanced at her and said, ”I did.”

With this sentence, the room became quiet.

Pei Yun looked straight over, her lips pursed into a smile, but a stream of tears rolled down first.

Grandma Chen also looked at her husband, she had no idea about it, ”Old man, what's the matter, what have you left?”

Old Chen said: ”The things I gave to Xiaoyu, you can't find it with him, I have been carrying it with myself for so many years, and I will never leave without it. . Since you asked about it today, no matter what, I will show it to you. ”As he said, he carefully rummaged through his inner pocket of his clothes, and took out a kit embroidered with the word ”Fu”. After a long time, there were only a few tears left behind, but the kit was still intact.

It was the size of a palm, it was a little shabby but still strong, Old Chen opened it, and carefully took out a piece of origami paper inside, as if torn from a book, folded it into a small square with some unreadable characters written on it. The only thing that can be seen is that it was half a piece of paper, and there are torn marks on the edge.

Old Chen asked her to come over to see it more clearly. Pei Jun couldn’t understand. She subconsciously wanted to raise his hand to touch it, and was immediately blocked by the old man’s hand. He said in a deep voice, “You don’t know what this is, but you want to take this too?”

For the first time, Pei Yun saw Old Chen speak coldly to her, and was a little timid for a while, and asked, ”What is this?”

Old Chen ignored her, looked at the paper for a while, and said solemnly: ”When Xiaoyu was over a year old, he almost died from his illness. Suling and her husband brought their child to seek medical advice, and all the doctors persuaded her to give up, saying that this child can't be cured…”

That was eight years ago. Chen Suling found an expert, and had a glimmer of hope, but still did not get a word of hope. The doctor only said to stay in this hospital and they would try their best to cure him. She and her husband stayed in the hospital all day and night, and their eyes were red. The next morning, Tang Hongjun stayed guarding in the hospital, but she went out alone.

Old Chen was worried that his daughter would have an accident, so he hurriedly followed.

Chen Suling was really desperate. She didn't know what to do. She sent her child to the hospital, but she didn't dare to stay there and watch him weaken a little bit. She was afraid, afraid that she would completely collapse in the hospital.

There were many temples in Henan, so she went to worship Buddha, and went to every temple, and worshipped with her head down.

There was an old monk who lived in a temple. After doing calculations for her, he only shook his head. After repeated questioning, the other party only gave the sentence ”This child cannot be kept by your side” and was sent away.

Chen Suling knelt on the futon and worshipped the Bodhisattva. She was dumbfounded. After a while, tears suddenly came out of her eyes, and she cried in a low voice: ”I beg you to be merciful, I beg you, you take my life away, and return my child to me.”

“How can I rest assured if I don't keep him by my side? If I can't hold him in my arms and kiss him every day, and raise him until he gets older, who can I possibly give him to? How could I?”

Chen Suling cried bitterly, depressed at first, and couldn't help crying until her voice became hoarse.

”That's my child.”

”The meat that came from my body!”

”My child, my child…”

She almost fainted from crying, and Old Chen almost couldn’t look anymore, and then wept.

His daughter was the strongest, and was better than her brothers and sisters, and a little more proud, but now she has been polished into this. He couldn't bear it, and after sending his daughter back, he went to find the old monk. They had no hope, so they could only ask for a suggestion.

Xu Shi sincerely moved by the other party. The old monk gave him this sachet as a sustenance for his grandchild to be raised elsewhere, and that he must put it away so that his grandchild can ”come back” and be well.

Old Chen didn't know whether it would work, so he could only try it anyway. He had worn it close to his body for a full eight years, and he had never mentioned it to anyone.