After staying at his cousin's house for so long, Chen Fengnian had already realized a truth. No matter whether he was right or wrong, if his cousin was embarrassed, he would just have to admit his mistake first.
Wrong or not is secondary, attitude is primary.
Regardless of whether it is wrong or not, if my cousin said it was wrong, it is wrong.
The clever Chen Fengnian saw that there was no sunshine on his cousin's face, so he admitted his mistake first and showed his good attitude towards studying seriously.
The naughty kid said three adjectives in one breath, but they were a bit inappropriate for the occasion. Le Yun glared at him fiercely: "You can hang a beam on your head and stab your buttocks. If you dare to cut through the wall of my house to steal the light, I will beat you to death."
Then she changed her tone: "Aunt Feng, let this naughty kid live in my room on the first floor so that he can study hard, and I will sleep in the study on the second floor."
Xiao Lele solved the problem of addressing Li Xiaoyan by herself, and by the way, she also solved the problem of addressing herself. Zhou Qiufeng said nothing and just listened to Xiao Lele discipline the naughty child.
When he heard Xiao Lele talking to him, he smiled and replied: "Okay. Let him live wherever you arrange for him to live."
"My books are basically all in the bedroom on the first floor. Please read them carefully and study hard. If you don't understand something, ask me again. If you dare to cheat and cheat, be careful of your bad behavior."
She told Aunt Feng that she would let the naughty kid live in her bedroom on the first floor. Le Yun threatened the naughty kid fiercely and asked him to carry his backpack and go see the room with her.
How dare Chen Fengnian say no? He picked up his backpack and followed his cousin in a hurry. The cousin let him stay in the bedroom where she used to live, which meant that she trusted him very much!
Li Xiaoyan sat next to Grandma Zhou, trying to minimize her presence. When she heard the conversation between the girl from Lejia and the boy, she felt sad. She called out "cousin" and was humiliated in front of her, but the boy was arranged to live in Lejia.
The room the girl stayed in, the treatment was completely different.
She had heard about some unwritten taboos of the Lejia. The third floor of the south building of the Lejia, the refrigerator room of the north building of the Lejia, and the second floor of the north building were all important areas of the Lejia. Without the permission of the Lejia girl, she could not go to those three floors privately.
place.
Also, the second floor of the South Building of Lejia is free of charge for casual visitors. Only people led by Lejia family members can visit.
Not to mention the Lejia girl’s bedroom and study, we refused to visit.
Li Xiaoyan was jealous. Her mother was now Uncle Leshan's mother-in-law. She was also a relative of the Le family. Why didn't the Le family girl treat her as a relative?
Chen Fengnian followed his cousin into the room, looked around, ran to the couch and touched it, with a look of amazement on his face. The couch in his cousin's boudoir felt many times more expensive than the bed in the guest room.
Le Xiaoxiao led the naughty boy to the private area, packed some things that he might need recently and put them in a large suitcase, and carried them to the study on the second floor along with his own medicine box and a backpack.
The cousin went to the second floor. Chen Fengnian threw his backpack aside and smartly went to work as a handyman for his cousin.
Le Yun saw the naughty child once, put her belongings in the study, and continued back to the living room on the second floor to teach her younger brother music theory.
Xiao Lele took Chen Fengnian away, and Zhou Man's grandma, Village Chief Zhou, also avoided any topic related to Meng's mother and daughter, and talked about some common things. After the handsome guy finished unloading the goods, Village Chief Zhou followed him to the village office again.
Grandma Zhou talked for a while, saying that she wanted to feed the piglets and go back to her home first.
Li Xiaoyan followed Grandma Zhou to the Le family for a visit, so she left naturally.
When I returned to Zhou's home from Le's house, I thought Grandma Zhou would say something, but Grandma Zhou didn't say anything and she panicked.
It was okay for Grandma Zhou to scold herself when she came back, but the old man didn't say anything, which was not a good thing.
She followed Grandma Zhou to feed the piglets, and then returned to the main room of Zhou's family. She cried and admitted her mistake: "Grandma, I was wrong. I just felt that calling Leyun closer to me cousin, I didn't know she didn't like Zhou."
The kids call her cousin."
Grandma Zhou originally thought that Li Xiaoyan only wanted to have a closer relationship with Lele and deliberately called her cousin, and was not prepared to embarrass her, but when she heard the last sentence, she felt something was wrong.
Why does Lele not like the Zhou family's children calling her cousin?
Did Miss Li want to remind her that Lele looked down on the Zhou children? Or was she blaming Lele for not treating her as a relative?
Grandma Zhou's heart was even more blocked. She originally thought that children raised by people like Xiaomeng and Granny Li would be able to handle things clearly. She thought that this step-granddaughter was different from Zhou Chunmei, but now she felt like she was overthinking it?
She felt uncomfortable, and her voice was no longer as gentle as before: "Miss Li, from now on, you can call Qiufeng Aunt Feng or Aunt Zhou as Lele said, and when you meet Lele, you can call me Sister Le.
Okay, anyway, you and Lele are not familiar with each other. We all live our own lives, and we will not force you to associate with the Lele siblings."
Grandma Zhou called her "Miss Li"?! Li Xiaoyan was stunned. She stayed there for a few seconds and burst into tears: "Grandma, what did I do wrong? Just scold me and hit me. Don't say that. I'm sorry."
Not worth it."
"You are a girl from the Li family. Only your mother can beat you and scold you. My words are of no use." Grandma Zhou turned her face and said, "Don't cry at all. I heard that you are a reasonable person.
You have a good heart, I am willing to accept you and your mother to come to Zhou's house.
You have your own thoughts. As long as you don't go too far and don't harm the Zhou family and the Le family, naturally no one will say anything. If you instigate discord between my girl and my son, then don't blame me for not being able to tolerate you."
Li Xiaoyan, who was crying, held back her tears, and was stunned for a while. She... was seen through. Even Grandma Zhou could see that she had other thoughts?
What about others? Miss Le...did she also see through her and know that she had little thoughts?
Li Xiaoyan was in a daze, and her tears stopped flowing.
Grandma Zhou gave Miss Li a few words and stopped being aggressive. She calmly went out and walked around the back of the house twice, which was considered a step down for Miss Li.
Li Xiaoyan sat in silence for a long time before she came back from her lost state. Looking at the empty kitchen, she felt anxious and scared, restless, and hurriedly went to the third floor of the downstairs and went back to her room to stay.
Grandma Zhou walked around outside for a few times before returning to the kitchen. She didn't see Li Xiaoyan, and she didn't look for her. Miss Li was showing signs of becoming crooked, and she had to straighten her head as soon as possible.
It's hard to say whether it can be corrected, but if you find something is wrong and still ignore it, you will definitely not be able to change it again if you want to.
Just like her granddaughter Zhou Chunmei, she was not found to be crooked before, but by the time she was discovered, she was already crooked and could not return to the right path.
Grandma Zhou felt that she could not let Miss Li become the second Zhou Chunmei, and she was very concerned about it. In the evening, she finished the housework, prepared dinner and waited for her son and daughter-in-law to come home.
Brother Zhou and his wife went in and out together morning and evening. It was already dark when they got home, so they washed their hands and feet and went into the kitchen.
Brother Zhou was not surprised when he didn't see Zhou Tianming. He guessed that he must have gone to Lele's house. He didn't see Li Xiaoyan, so he asked: "Mom, did Xiaoyan go to Lele's house with Tianming?"
When her son mentioned Li Xiaoyan, Grandma Zhou glanced at Sister Meng and did not hide anything from her. She said directly: "Lele came back at noon. I wanted to see Lele in the afternoon. Xiaoyan said she wanted to go with me. I
I thought I would take Xiaoyan to Lele's house to get to know her sooner or later, so I naturally took her there.
Xiaoyan went to Lele's house and called Lele 'cousin', but Lele didn't agree. Lele said that the Zhou family, Tianhong Tianlan, asked her to call her sister Lele, so that Xiaoyan would not be misunderstood. She also asked Xiaoyan not to call her Qiu.
The phoenix is called 'gu', which is how children in the village call them aunt or aunt."
"Hiss", Mrs. Meng was frightened for a while and took a breath of cold air.
Brother Zhou also felt that the whole person was not very good: "Mom, I told you before that when Xiaoyan comes back, you call Tianhong Tianlan and the others Lele to Xiaoyan, and let Xiaoyan shout like that, you always
Haven’t you had time to say it yet?”
"I said it," Grandma Zhou said with a bad face: "I told Miss Li the day she came home from vacation. Miss Li also said she would remember it at the time, but today in front of you, Grandma Man, Grandpa Man, and Chen Fengnian
In front of me, I called her 'cousin'.
When Lele came back, he was accompanied by two bodyguards. They were moving things in the main room at that time. Under such circumstances, what can I say? Of course, your uncle and aunt can't smooth things over.
Lele corrected Miss Li's title and said nothing more.
When Miss Li came back with me, she cried and said that she just felt that calling her cousin was closer, but she didn't expect that Lele didn't like the Zhou family calling her cousin.
I said something to her, but she went back upstairs and never came down. You go and have a look."
After listening to her mother-in-law's words, Sister-in-law Meng also knew that her daughter had done something treacherous, which not only offended Miss Le, but also made her mother-in-law resentful.
She immediately apologized: "Mom, Xiaoyan did something wrong and caused you trouble. I will talk to her tonight."
"Well. You are a sensible person, I feel at ease." Grandma Zhou said what needed to be said and did not go into a long speech.
Mrs. Meng asked her mother-in-law and Zhou Xialong to eat first. She went downstairs to look for her daughter on the third floor. When she saw the light in the room, she knocked on the door and shouted twice, and the door opened.
Seeing the red and swollen eyes of her daughter who opened the door, Mrs. Meng sighed: "Xiaoyan, the old man just told me what happened when you went to Lejia."
"Mom also thinks I'm wrong, right? I just want to show that I'm closer, and there's no need for her to touch my face like this." Li Xiaoyan wanted to cry again.
"Then why did you let the Lejia girl give you face?" Mrs. Meng was not soft-hearted and asked straight away: "Did you help the Lejia when the Lejia was in the most difficult time, or did you protect the Lejia girl or any of the Lejia?
elder?
Or, what have you done to be kind to Lejia?"
Li Xiaoyan was left speechless by the question.
Confused, Mrs. Meng asked again: "You have nothing to do with the Le family, and you have no kindness to the Le family. You are not related to the Le family, so why should the Le family girl give you face?"
If you have made a great contribution to this place, the Le family will also benefit. If Miss Le doesn’t give you face, you still have the right to say that others are ungrateful. Have you made any contribution to this place?"
"Mom..." Li Xiaoyan felt sad and shed tears again.
"You have done nothing good for this place. Before you came to the Zhou family, you had no connection with the Le family at all. Because you can only visit the Le family as a guest with the Zhou family, where do you get the face?"
Sister-in-law Meng was never willing to scold her own girl for harsh words, but she had heard something wrong from her mother-in-law's words before, fearing that her daughter would be dazzled by other people's wealth and grow crooked, so she scolded her harshly.
"Girl Lejia is capable. I heard that she is also a high-ranking figure among the big shots in the capital. She casually donated a library building to the school, as well as books, computers and other music-related things, which totaled more than 100,000 yuan.
100 million.
In addition, she also donated a batch of machines to county hospitals, each of which is worth 100 million, and also donated a batch of machines to rural hospitals, which are worth hundreds of thousands at least.
Now the Lejia girl is a big shot who can't even be invited to dinner by the high-ranking officials in the county. Whoever she has dinner with will be a favor to whomever she wants to have dinner with.
What about you, do the senior officials in the county recognize you when they meet you? Do others know who you are?
Not to mention the ones that are far away, even in Plum Village, not every family is related to the Le family. There are only a few families that are most respected. They are all families who have always helped each other when the Le family was in the most difficult time.
When you come to Zhou's house, being able to go to Le's house with you is already a blessing that not many people can envy. How shameless do you have to be to say that Miss Le won't give you face?
If you let others know about your thoughts, do you think they will spit on your face or scold you for being shameless?"
Meng's sister-in-law said one sentence after another, each sentence piercing the girl's heart.
Li Xiaoyan's heart was riddled with holes, and her tears rolled out in strings, like broken beads falling to the ground.
"Have you forgotten the past?" Sister-in-law Meng was not ready to stop, so she continued: "When your father was still alive, what kind of life did we and my mother live in the hands of your father?
In your father's eyes, we are no different from the chickens and dogs at home. We can be scolded whenever we want, and we have to be beaten every three to five days.
Because you are the flesh that fell off my body, I couldn't bear to leave you. I was afraid that you would be beaten by your father if I left, so I stayed, and I managed to survive.
In the years after your father left, some people tried to make peace with me. Other families only allowed me to remarry because they thought you were a burden. No one agreed to let you come with me, and no one wanted to support you and send you to school.
You were born to me, and I couldn't bear to let you be abused. I would rather be a cow and a horse myself, and I also wanted to send you to study so that you could live a better life in the future, so I didn't agree to remarry.
Only old principal Yin can be such a matchmaker. Only the Zhou family has never disliked you from the beginning and is willing to raise you as a girl. It was also the Zhou family who said that the small village where you live is too remote, and you, a girl, go to school and walk on the mountain road.
It's not safe, so I offered to let you live with the Zhou family.
Miss Le met me once at the old principal's house, and she didn't object. Only then did the Zhou family feel that my mother and I were not snobbish, and we had a chance to enter the Zhou family.
Ask yourself, when you came to the Zhou family, did the Zhou family's grandma look down on you? Did your uncle Zhou dislike you for anything?
Xiaoyan, is it because the Zhou family is so good to you and the old man is so easy to talk to that you have forgotten your roots and become lawless?"
"No..." Li Xiaoyan's face turned pale little by little. She wanted to say no, but she couldn't even convince herself.
Grandma Zhou, Uncle Zhou were very kind to her, and the aunts of the Zhou family were also very kind. In the Zhou family, she had never suffered any grievances, and she did not have to be cautious in everything. The Zhou family never guarded against her like they guarded against thieves.
She also knew in her heart that her mother was right because the Zhou family treated her well. Her mother was now the daughter-in-law of the Zhou family, the daughter-in-law of the uncle of the little boy from the Le family. She took it for granted that the Le family siblings had to respect her.
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After being scolded by her mother, Li Xiaoyan cried even harder: "Mom, I know I was wrong."
After talking about the truth, Mrs. Meng felt relieved: "Nothing in this world comes for free. Only sincerity can replace sincerity. As long as you really know your mistake, go down and have a meal after thinking about it clearly."
"Yeah." Li Xiaoyan responded with a nasal voice, went to the bathroom to wash her face, and then followed her mother downstairs.
When she entered the kitchen and saw Grandma Zhou and Uncle Zhou, Li Xiaoyan didn't dare to lose her temper. She called Grandma and Uncle Zhou and sat down with her mother.
Grandma Zhou and Brother Zhou were still waiting to have dinner together. When Mrs. Meng and her daughter arrived, they started to eat dinner without asking anything.
