??Chapter 22: Chapter 22 I Don’t Want to Call Him Uncle
Chapter 22: Chapter 22 I Don’t Want to Call Him Uncle
“I like it when Mommy does that too.”
Lu Yun looked up at her mother with an innocent and adorable smile, “We three should love each other and always be together.”
“You little flatterer, who taught you to say that, hmm? But I like it.” Lu Aiguo was suddenly moved and reached out to scoop her up, kissing her cheeks on both sides, then tried to put her on his shoulder.
“Heeheehee, Daddy, put
down, I want to walk on my own.” Lu Yun giggled as she struggled to get down, “I’m grown up now, people will laugh if I’m still riding on your shoulders.”
“Don’t worry, who dares to laugh at you with Daddy here?” Lu Aiguo pretended to look fierce, “Anyone who dares to laugh at you, Daddy will go beat them up.”
“Embarrassing, embarrassing, an adult bullying a child,” Lu Yun laughed even harder.
“You should just let her walk on her own. Your daughter is worrying about you,” Xia Yuan said with unrestrained laughter by their side.
“Really? Daughter…” Lu Aiguo was simply overjoyed.
“Mhm mhm mhm…” Lu Yun quickly nodded her head.
The laughter of this family of three carried far, but also sharply stabbed the hearts of so people lurking in dark corners.
“You little whore, laughing now, feeling proud, sooner or later you’ll fall back into my hands.” Chen Juxiang walked out of the corner, her face still swollen with bruises that hadn’t faded, venomously watching the three people as they walked away,
“Feeding an ungrateful brat, calling another man ‘Dad,’ have you forgotten your own father? Wait until I’ve coaxed you back, then see how I’ll deal with you. Pah, a loss of investnt, just like your cheap mother, both are good for nothings,” she seethed.
Every ti Chen Juxiang thought of the “struggle session” the whole family had given her when she ca back that day, her hatred intensified.
She touched her still-aching face, thought of how her husband had beaten her rcilessly with his shoe in front of his son, daughter, and daughter-in-law without any hesitation; the concealed satisfaction in her daughter-in-law’s eyes; the way her youngest son and daughter didn’t co to stop their father, only hiding to the side and staying silent as she was being hit. Her eyes reddened with fury.
If only her eldest son was still around.
Thinking of her “obedient” eldest son, who wouldn’t dare to disobey her slightest command, who, when told to hit his wife’s head, would never hit her body instead, her eyes revealed a sense of longing. If her eldest son were still here, would her husband dare to beat her that badly? It seed she had wasted her affection on the younger ones…
Chen Xiangju knew her eldest son very well. All that nonsense spoken by that little beast, that ungrateful wretch, that loss of investnt, must have been fabricated—her eldest son could never have said such things to her.
Chen Xiangju’s surreptitious spying and harboring of malice were things Lu Aiguo’s family could not know about, but even if they did, they would likely only scoff in disdain, not taking it to heart at all.
They happened to run into Shitou on the road at this very mont.
Lu Yun blinked several tis as she looked at the skinny Shitou, who seed like a tender sprout of a teenager being called over by Lu Aiguo.
Indeed, people change dramatically as they grow.
Was this shy little boy in front of her mother really the sa person as that cold, chilling man who seed to make people shiver just by looking at him, the tall and imposing figure with an eternally cool and indifferent expression?
Thinking about the grown-up Lu Aijun, Lu Yun pursed her lips; this one couldn’t be the sa person as that other one. There was more than one person nicknad Shitou in the village, so it had to be soone else.
“I was just looking for you, Shitou. Do you have anything else to do? If not, co to the mountain with us. I’m worried I can’t protect these two by myself,” Lu Aiguo patted Shitou’s shoulder and pulled him towards the house, “and later your sister-in-law has sothing to say to you.”
“Sure, I don’t have anything else on. I’ll put the hoe back and then co to find you,” Shitou nodded, gave Xia Yuan an embarrassed smile, and ran off.
“Hurry up, don’t stick around for their al, co to our house to eat. We’re short on ti,” Lu Aiguo said as he hurried Shitou.
It was probably his last phrase “We’re short on ti,” that did the trick; Shitou’s voice could be heard carried on the wind, “…Okay.”
“This kid.”
Lu Aiguo shook his head with a smile towards Xia Yuan, “You’ll understand after spending more ti with him. This kid might seem shy around you, but he’s actually the most reliable and dynamic. Without him, our house wouldn’t be able to secure the funds for renovations so quickly. He’s a real talent. It’s a sha his uncle doesn’t know his worth, treating a pearl as if it were a re fish’s eye.”
“Dad, why do you have Shitou call Mom ‘sister-in-law’? Doesn’t that an I should call him ‘uncle’?” Lu Yun listened with a full face of confusion. Although Lu Aijun also had the surna Lu, his branch of the family seed very distant from her father’s, weren’t they too distant to be considered relatives?
Lu Yun truly resented suddenly gaining an uncle, especially one who was hardly older than herself.
“He and I are friends despite the age difference, do you understand? If he doesn’t call your mom ‘sister-in-law’, should he call her ‘auntie’? Is your mom that old?”
Lu Aiguo himself actually had a headache over this form of address too. He and Shitou weren’t exactly like brothers, nor like an uncle and nephew, but after so many years together, he had gotten used to him calling him ‘bro’.
“I don’t care, I’m not calling him ‘uncle.’ I’ll just call him Shitou.” Lu Yun didn’t even know why she resisted calling Shitou ‘uncle.’ In her previous life, she didn’t dare to defy her father, so she would only reluctantly mutter a mosquito-like ‘Uncle Shitou’ when absolutely necessary. After uttering ‘uncle,’ she would feel all twisted up and uncomfortable for a long ti.
“Fine, fine, call him whatever you want. He’s only fourteen this year, just eight years older than you. It is a bit unfair to make you call him ‘uncle,'” Lu Aiguo gave it so thought and didn’t insist further. After all, in his heart, Shitou was almost like a son to him, so he swiftly accepted Lu Yun’s request.
“That’s better.”
Lu Yun nodded in satisfaction. In her previous life, you showed disdain to this miss, this life I will reclaim what’s mine, with interest, and then share your surna. Soone secretly snickered and danced a little triumphant claw dance in her heart.
By this ti, she had forgotten, and had not yet realized that in this life, she was actually about to change her surna on the household registration, though reluctantly, and take his surna after all.
Lu Yun didn’t know that her earnest, adult-like “That’s better” had touched the soft spot in both Lu Aiguo and Xia Yuan, making them both burst into laughter.
“You’re just spoiling her. What will you do if she gets so spoiled she starts climbing onto your head?” Xia Yuan began to worry.
“Then from now on, I suppose I’ll have to enforce a good beating three tis a day,” Lu Aiguo said teasingly.
“I’m being serious with you, you… never mind, I can’t be bothered with you,” Xia Yuan said, giving up in exasperation.
Upon reaching ho, Xia Yuan imdiately busied herself with boiling water. Once the water boiled, she cracked precisely three eggs into it. The eggs were only slightly stirred, allowing them to form into large curds. She then added salt and sprinkled finely chopped green onions on top. The soup, with its tender appearance, looked very inviting.
Xia Yuan also served up six plump at buns in a coarse porcelain bowl and brought them to the main room.
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