Chapter 20 Visit
An Yuan pushed open the door.
The room was still the same. Xiaozhen was sitting at the desk reading a book, the cat was half lying on the table, and the chicken was squatting on a chair cleaning its feathers.
After An Yuan came in, the cat and the chicken all dispersed tacitly. An Yuan thought, as if I were a monster. She looked at the cat unwillingly, and the cat suddenly jumped onto the top of the cabinet next to it as if it had been scalded.
An Yuan could only speak angrily: "Xiao Zhen, the teacher just called and said that you suddenly skipped class in the middle of class. What happened to you?"
Xiao Zhen replied: "I had a stomachache and I couldn't help it so I ran to the toilet."
An Yuan was shocked when she heard this, and asked her son nervously whether he was healthy and whether he wanted to go to the hospital. Xiao Zhen could only comfort her and say that he was fine.
An Yuan, who was full of suspicion, insisted that Xiao Zhen had diarrhea because he had eaten some street food outside. So she lectured on the unscrupulous merchants and the harmfulness of gutter oil for nearly 40 minutes. It was not until Xiao Zhen repeatedly assured her that she was fine and saw her son's rosy face that she was reluctantly relieved.
Before leaving, An Yuan wanted to touch the chicken again. Before she could get close, the chicken flapped its wings in fear and flew out of the window.
I feel like these two pets must have some misunderstanding of my position as the head of the household.
The phone beeped. An Yuan remembered that she had a dinner party with her best friend tonight, so she dressed up hastily and got in the car.
Driver Zhang told her that there was a toolbox under the seat, but he didn't know who had left it there.
"That belongs to Lao Liu," An Yuan said. When Lao Liu was their driver, he would often help fix things. This is his toolbox. An Yuan sorted it out yesterday and was looking for a chance to send it to Luo Qingxi.
So she told Xiao Zhang to drive to Luo Qingxi's house and deliver Lao Liu's belongings first.
An Yuan leaned against the car window, watching the scenery along the street speeding by. The feeling of driving with Xiao Zhang and Lao Liu was completely different. An Yuan was very dependent on the driver. When she was a child, she was weak and would get carsick when she got in a car . Only when she got in the car of driver Su at home did she not get carsick. Among the several drivers in the family, driver Su's skills were indeed the best. After retiring from the army, driver Su drove for her grandfather and was the most caring person for her grandfather. Grandpa felt sorry for her and only let driver Su drive her. An Yuan's problem of carsickness did not get better until she became an adult. She had developed the habit of appreciating the driver's driving from the subtle details.
The driver who drives her must be steady.
Lao Liu drives steadily, turns smoothly and calmly, and riding in his car gives you a comfortable feeling. Now that he has a new driver, An Yuan has never gotten used to it. Xiao Zhang is not a bad driver, but he lacks that comfortable feeling. She misses Lao Liu very much. If Lao Liu had not insisted on leaving, An Yuan would have been unwilling to let him go.
He was a loyal and taciturn man with a good temper. The driver was not in a good mood when driving, and he wanted to scold all the passers-by who blocked his way. But Lao Liu was always friendly even when he leaned out of the car window to urge people to go faster. Maybe this was why Luo Qingxi chose him.
When An Yuan first met Lao Liu's wife, she was shocked. According to her imagination, Lao Liu's wife should be a typical rural woman. When Luo Qingxi appeared beside Lao Liu, countless words like "Beauty and the Beast" and "A flower stuck in cow dung" flashed through An Yuan's mind.
Luo Qingxi's beauty is from the inside out. Her hair is black and shiny, her skin is as white as ivory, her nose is just right, her eyes are just right, and she has a pure and elegant beauty. In An Yuan's eyes, she is almost as holy as a snowy mountain.
When Lao Liu said this was his wife, An Yuan felt a strange sense of frustration, or perhaps a pity for beautiful things. This is too strange, she thought.
Maybe it's really a matter of personal choice. An Yuan thought of herself, when her father yelled viciously, "If you stay with him, don't even think about entering this house in your life!"
She didn't answer, but just pulled her small suitcase and left home, desperately coming to Yan An's side. She would never regret this decision in her life.
What made Luo Qingxi choose Lao Liu? He was a rustic, dull, old-looking man with only a high school education. No matter from which aspect, he was totally incompatible with the elegant and refined Luo Qingxi.
An Yuan felt that she would never understand Luo Qingxi. She had a good impression of Luo Qingxi, but Luo Qingxi was just like her temperament, quietly keeping a distance from others. She was very gentle and polite, but you could never really get close to her.
"Xiao Zhang, stop the car."
An Yuan opened the car door and quickly walked into a shopping center. There was a famous ice cream puff shop in the mall. She remembered that Liu Xingquan liked to eat this kind of sweets. She picked two of each flavor and asked the store to pack them. She hoped to see the child's happy face. When Liu Xingquan was a child, he would act like a spoiled child to her. When did he become so distant?
Luo Qingxi's home is in the old city. Although it is close to the downtown, most of the houses are old public housing. The low and old houses are intertwined, outlining the deep and dark alleys. The houses here are all products of the last century , and all kinds of facilities are seriously outdated, but the advantage is that the rent is cheap.
Xiao Zhang stopped the car at the intersection and asked if he wanted to deliver the stuff. An Yuan shook her head, picked up the tool box and puff bag, and walked towards the winding alley.
There was almost no sunlight in the alley, and sewage was bubbling in the open drain. An Yuan counted the house numbers according to her memory and turned into a corridor. As soon as she entered the doorway, she saw a group of people blocking the stairs, and she could hear women yelling and cursing.
An Yuan stood on tiptoe and looked out, and found that the woman's yelling and cursing came from the door of Luo Qingxi's house on the second floor. The people blocking the stairs were watching and talking loudly.
She asked curiously what happened.
A neighbor replied, "What else could it be? This family's nasty mother-in-law is here to make trouble again. Oh, his daughter-in-law is so pitiful. Old Liu left her not long ago, but her mother-in-law didn't think about sympathizing with the orphan and the widow, but came to make trouble instead."
"Why is that?"
"Why else? For money." The neighbor laughed.
An old lady on the second floor was crying and shouting, "My son! How could you leave me alone? What should I do in the future..." An Yuan recognized this old lady as the old lady Liu who appeared at the funeral of Old Liu.
Old Mrs. Liu cried out at the top of her lungs: “My son, ah ah ah ah…how can you be so cruel…”
"Mom..." Luo Qingxi stood at the door, his face a little pale.
"Who is your mother?! I don't have a shameless and conscienceless daughter-in-law like you!" The old lady screamed, "You swallowed my son's hard-earned money!!"
"Mom, I didn't..."
"You still say you don't have it! Where is the 300,000? My son drives for a big boss, he must have at least 300,000 in savings! It's all my son's hard-earned money!! You take it out for me!!"
"Mom, Ruiguo helped you build a house in your hometown. He also paid for your second uncle's hospitalization and your third brother's wedding. He didn't have much savings over the years."
"You swallowed his money!" Liu's mother cried out to the crowd, "I worked so hard to raise my son, and now he's gone!!! His body is still warm, and this woman is cheating us out of our money!"
"Do you know? My son is a driver for a big boss, with good benefits and a good income. If this woman hadn't instigated my son to resign, how could my son have gotten into trouble!!"
"mom……"
"You killed him!!"
"Mom, I didn't..."
"If you hadn't whispered in his ear, how could he have gone insane and ruined his job? Now he's gone, and you're still taking his money!! This is my son's hard-earned money!!!"
"Mom... Ruiguo has been subsidizing you all the time. You know best that he really doesn't have much money saved."
Liu's mother screamed: "You're lying! You're lying!!"
"Mom, I've already given you Ruiguo's pension, and the remaining half is the share that Xingquan and I deserve. There really isn't much left from all our savings after the funeral."
"You're quibbling! You're lying!" Old Lady Liu rushed over and tore off Luo Qingxi's clothes fiercely. "My son, whom I raised with great difficulty, is gone just like that! You're a jinx, and you still want to take my money!!"
Luo Qingxi kept backing away, trying to break free from the old lady's crazy arms.
"Don't hit me!" The neighbors who were watching started to make a noise. One of them stopped Old Lady Liu and said kindly, "Old lady, please don't get excited. We are all family, can't we talk to each other properly?"
"I raised my son! His wife is so heartless and unfilial! A slut! If my son hadn't been blind enough to marry her, she wouldn't have lived to this day! I'm going to teach her a lesson now!"
"Old lady, please be reasonable," the neighbor said. "Xiao Luo said he has given you the pension, and Lao Liu has also been giving you a lot of subsidies. It's not easy for Xiao Luo to take care of a child alone now. You should also consider your grandson."
The old lady looked her neighbor up and down and yelled, "What do you know? Why are you speaking for this woman like that? This is my son's woman, what does it have to do with you? Do you think she's young and attractive because she's an orphan and a widow?"
The neighbor said anxiously: "Don't say such harsh words."
The old lady screamed, "My son is dead! He just left his mother behind! Now his wife wants to eat my money! Who will pity me?!" She reached out to grab Luo Qingxi, who dodged. A few neighbors who couldn't stand it tried to hold the old lady back. In the chaos, someone touched her , and the old lady staggered and sat on the ground naturally.
"Murder! Murder! It's not enough to kill my son, he also wants to kill his mother... Murder!!" She cried loudly and threw and smashed everything she could reach.
The crowd naturally spread out in a circle, leaving the old lady in the middle. This time no one dared to touch the old woman.
An Yuan hung up the call. She had just called the police, and they would probably be here in a few minutes.
At this time, Luo Qingxi was surrounded by several neighbors, who whispered to comfort her. Luo Qingxi didn't say anything, but just looked at Liu's mother rolling around with red eyes, and there was no other expression on her face, as if it was something that happened to other people.
An Yuan stood downstairs and looked at Luo Qingxi for a long time, thinking that today was not a good time to send her something.
