Volume 1 Chapter 53 Gathering Treasures

  So these days, the old lady is in a very good mood and has gotten rid of her previous anxiety. With full confidence, she no longer rushes to redeem the pawned items.

  "Dad, mom, I want to go home! It's no fun here! There isn't even fried chicken, I want to go back to Yangzhou!"

  Xie Wenbao got bored after staying in his new home for a month.

  This month, Xie Wenjing watched her brother being lazy and saw him reading books perfunctorily. She endured it without scolding him, only because Father had been recovering extremely well recently and she didn't want Father to worry about her brother and affect his physical recovery.

  Fortunately, this is in a rural village, the younger brother at most just runs around and plays, won't get involved with prostitutes or gamblers, won't recklessly squander family property. As long as someone follows him, nothing will happen.

  Xie Wenjing plans to wait another month, after her father's body is a bit better, before picking up her brother.

  But looking at his brother's current behavior, it seems he won't be able to wait that long.

  "Wen Bao, this is our home! Your father, mother and sister all live here, so of course it's your home too." Xie Chengyu coaxed his son in a soft voice.

  For this son, Xie Chengyu also felt apologetic. He himself had not become his support, and he didn't even have the energy to teach him, all he could do was coax him into happiness.

  "No, it's not, we live in Yangzhou, and my grandmother is still waiting for me to go home and make fried chicken for me! I want to eat fried chicken!"

  Xie Wenbao loudly shouted back at his father's words.

  "Will your mother make fried chicken for you?"

  Xie Wenjing's mother also came over and coaxed her son.

  "No, I don't want to eat this countryside fried chicken. I want to eat Yangzhou's fried chicken, the one made by Auntie Li. I want to go home, I'm going home right away!"

  Xie Wenbao pushed open the door and dragged in his captive Du Juan, shouting wildly.

  "Wen Bao, Father has come to seek Buddha's blessings. Before his body recovers, we can only stay here. Once Father's body is better, our whole family will return to Yangzhou, okay?"

  Xie Chengyu patiently continued to coax her son. Ignoring the discomfort in her heart, her son was now really too naughty, but she still felt guilty and couldn't bear to scold him.

  "Then you ask your own Buddha, I'm going home, my grandmother is still at home waiting for me! I want to go home, you ask your own Buddha, you send me back home, I want to go home! Dong'er is also waiting for me to go home!"

  The azalea and her husband stared at each other, not knowing how to explain to their son that his grandmother was so vicious. Nor did they know how to explain that the boy's favorite playmate had a heart that could be killed.

  "Dad and mom, don't bother with him anymore, go back to your own room first. I'll take care of him." Xie Wenjing coldly looked at her younger brother, it's time to discipline him properly.

  These days, for the sake of Father's health, I've been tolerating his laziness and superficial reading. But now he's become so insolent that he dares to speak disrespectfully to Father and Mother. It can't go on like this anymore.

  Xie Wenjing's eyes shot out a knife, and Xie Wenbao, who was being arrogant, suddenly hid behind his mother and scolded Xie Wenjing viciously.

  "I don't want you to interfere, I don't want you to interfere, what right do you have to interfere with me? I just want to go home! At home, there's my grandmother, and she won't let you bully me! I just want to go home! Go home!"

  Xie Wenbao let out a loud roar.

  "Father, mother, if you believe in me, go back to your own room. Du Ma, hold him down. Let me see if I can discipline him?"

  Xie Wenjing shouted loudly.

  "Wenjing, what's wrong with Wenbao?" The three aunts heard the commotion and naturally ran over.

  "Third Uncle, Third Aunt, why haven't you gone home yet? My parents are asking for us to return, and you're not even Buddhist, so what's the point of staying here for so many days? Our grandmother is waiting for us to go back home! Just take me with you and let's go home! I don't want to stay in this countryside! There's nothing fun to do here, and the fried chicken isn't even as good as the one in Yangzhou. Let's just go back to our home in Yangzhou now!"

  Xie Wenbao saw San Shu and San Shu's wife arrive, and hurriedly ran over to pull San Shu's hand, as if he was about to return home to Yangzhou.

  "Wen Bao, listen, your father is ill, and so many of us have come over just to pray for his recovery. Look, isn't your father getting better now? He can even eat with you and talk to you, couldn't he before?"

  "So, Wen Bao, we still need to pray for your father's recovery and hope that he will truly get better. Isn't that even better?"

  Third Uncle pulled Wen Bao back and patiently coaxed him.

  "It's no use, it's no use. If Father is ill, why do we need so many people to pray for him? Isn't it enough with just my mother and sister accompanying him?"

  Third Uncle, Third Aunt, take me home! I miss Grandma, I want to go home and see Grandma!

  Xie Wenbao is stubborn but not stupid, he knows how to use his grandmother to pressure people.

  Unfortunately, no one in the family could explain Grandma's situation clearly to a child who didn't understand, not even Third Uncle's son and daughter knew.

  If you can't make things clear to the children, it's easy for outsiders to find out. Once they know, it's absolutely not a good thing for your own family. Especially that grandmother who is pretending to be extremely kind and endearing, the children all think she's the best grandmother.

  "Wen Bao, a person's home is where his parents are, not where his grandparents are. Where the parents are, that's where the children's home is."

  "Your parents are here, this is your home!"

  Third Aunt also spoiled this disobedient child, in just over two years, Elder Sister has been busy taking care of Elder Brother and neglected to discipline this child, who has become so unruly. That family really can't be careless anymore.

  The stepmother's means are not ordinary, so subtle and high. If the child of their own family is induced by that disguising stepmother to become like this, I don't know if they will die from anger. It's really pitiful for elder brother and sister-in-law.

  "What a broken home? It's not my home at all. Let's go back home! Back home! Grandma's house is our real home!"

  Xie Wenbao impatiently yelled at Third Aunt.

  "Dad and mom, third uncle and third aunt, you all go ahead, my brother is being disobedient, I will take care of him."

  Xie Wenjing's head felt painful, this younger brother's voice was not ordinary loud, she herself couldn't stand the noise, let alone her father's body. She had to scold this out-of-tune younger brother.

  "What's it to you? Get lost! Get out of here, what right do you have to interfere with me?" Xie Wenbao was furious when he heard his sister's words and kicked Xie Wenyin hard in the shin, showing how angry he was.

  Xie Wenjing was not angry about this, knowing that her brother had been led astray. Compared to the past, this younger brother of hers was much better now.

  "What's wrong with you? How can you talk like that? Can't your sister control you?" Du Juan couldn't help but raise her voice and scold this precious son of hers. This child needs to be disciplined, otherwise, it's hard to know what to do with him.

  "Mind your own business! I don't want you to interfere with me! My grandmother will take care of me, none of you are allowed to interfere with me! I'm going home, I'm going home right now!"

  Xie Wenbao suddenly burst out crying and shouting.

  Azalea's eyes were streaming with tears, and her heart was aching and suffocating. Xie Chengyu also looked very embarrassed. For more than two years, because of himself, he had let his son become like this now, it was all his own fault!

  "Wenfeng, you tell me, according to the Xie family's clan rules, how should a clansman who yells at and disrespects his elders and older sister be punished?"

  Xie Wenjing suddenly asked in a cold voice to Xie Wenfeng beside her, who was only ten years old and just one year older than his younger brother.

  "Sister, you should kneel for a day in the ancestral hall."

  Xie Wenfeng replied weakly, "Big sister's appearance is really scary!" Wenfeng was afraid in his heart.

  "What are you meddling in? Our Yang family ancestral hall is still in Yangzhou! If we go back to Yangzhou, I'll get my grandmother to make the two of you kneel down in front of the ancestral hall!"

  Xie Wenbao glared fiercely at Xie Wenyin and Xie Wenfeng.