Chapter 1336: Chapter 1230: New Ranch Worker [Double Release]
Chen Xi got off the car, and as he returned ho, a tall, large figure rushed over:
"Brother! Brother! I’m hungry!"
He had just stopped, not yet said a word, when a roar ca from the kitchen beside him:
"Hungry hungry hungry! Always like a starving ghost reincarnated! Just had two big bowls at noon, now you’re hungry again! I must have sinned, giving birth to sothing like you—"
Chen Xi’s expression turned grim.
"Mom, didn’t I give you money for food? Let Chen Chi eat as much as he wants, don’t starve him when I’m not ho."
"Who’s starving? Who’s starving?!"
Soone quickly rushed out of the kitchen holding a spatula, cursing as they spotted him:
"Now that you’ve got so money, you don’t regard your parents, huh? Did he grow so big for nothing? Can he grow by drinking dew?!"
"Isn’t it I, his mother, who fed him? What do you an by not feeding him enough? He’s like a starved ghost every day! You say he’s not full, then he’s not full, huh?"
When Chen Chi saw the mother and son arguing, he stood there, his tall body slightly curled, his head bowed low, an action he executed so expertly.
Watching, Chen Xi felt another wave of lancholy in his heart.
Yet, he had no other solution.
Because before them stood their biological mother as a fact.
If even their own parents were like this, there’s no point in counting on others.
Their family was originally just a reflection of every rural household in the mountains, but unfortunately, his younger brother Chen Chi developed a fever at birth, and when he awoke, he was a slow-witted child.
He could only say simple words and still doesn’t know how to make a phone call very well, but fortunately, his temperant was not wild; under the constant beatings and scolding from their parents, he beca more timid and obedient.
Chen Xi had been in the army for so long and chose to bring money ho after demobilizing because he worried about this brother.
But when he brought the money back, the parents showed him warmth, but when asked about Chen Chi, they only hemd and hawed.
The next day, after setting up a banquet in the village and listening for so ti, he heard that Chen Chi had been sent by his mother to work under a contractor from the sa village.
Frankly speaking, the contractor from the sa village didn’t beat or scold them indiscriminately.
But...
When Chen Xi found him, his foolish brother was carrying a heavy sack of bricks and cent down from the seventh floor of an old walk-up building in the middle of sumr, step by step.
His shoulders were swollen like Lao Gao, his face and body blackened, wearing a tattered tank top, lips bloodless, yet he still greeted him with a silly smile.
When asked what he had for lunch, he simply said two big mantous.
Chen Xi felt a pang of bitterness in his heart.
Because with Chen Chi’s build, from childhood to adulthood, even eating plain rice with leftover soup at ho, he grew taller day by day.
His mother said Chen Chi would eat two bowls in one sitting, and he believed it, but with two bowls of rice, adding so soup or rice soaked in water over the years, could that be called eating?
As for the wages, carrying construction waste and furniture wasn’t cheap, and the contractor could even get a charitable subsidy from the governnt for rehiring disabled persons.
Yet, Chen Chi’s salary was just 2000 yuan, all handed over to his parents.
Chen Xi took a deep breath and went ho to question what was happening. He was clearly sending money ho every month... At the very least, it should cover Chen Chi’s food and clothing.
But as soon as he spoke, his parents were the first to explode.
Just like today—
"To feed and clothe him?! It’s simple in your mind, isn’t it? Should we, two adults, do nothing but stay at ho and watch him?!"
"Chen Chi doesn’t need watching! Since he was seven or eight, he could stay at ho quietly by himself. Give him a lump of mud, and he could play the whole afternoon—"
"You say he doesn’t need watching, so he doesn’t need watching, huh? Then why don’t you stay ho with him? Oh, you’re out earning money for your future, and after I’ve raised him all these years, do I still have to serve him?"
"I’m telling you, Chen Xi, don’t think just because you have so money, you’ve got strong wings! I’m your mother, and your dad is your biological father, see that idiot from the next village, their family sent him to a factory..."
"Did I send Chen Chi or not?!"
Her voice was alarmingly loud, attracting neighbors to gather and watch. Soone whispered beside them: "Didn’t you an to, but couldn’t send him? They say inspections are strict, and they don’t accept anymore..."
Chen Xi sealed his lips tightly.
Owing to past incidents, he now carried Chen Chi’s ID at all tis, warning his parents that if they couldn’t find him, he would report to the police... That’s the only way they cald down.
Looking at Chen Chi, he saw him obediently shrinking behind him, his large fra clearly unshielded, yet still carefully holding onto his clothes.
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