CHAPTER 33
“I’m back.” Xie Jingming greeted them gently, pretending not to see the ‘Three Sessions Trial’ at home.
Lin Chuxia remembered the scene when the three little cubs were squeezed into her arms and wanted to protect her. She could feel the embarrassment just now, so she chose not to speak.
Xie Jingming watched Lin Chuxia look left and right, but did not dare to look at him, not knowing what happened to them. However, the three little cubs had already rushed over angrily and wanted to hit him with their little fists.
While beating, they also scolded ‘bad dad’. Although it didn’t hurt, but…he didn’t admit what he had never done, “Ouch, ouch, it hurts, why are you hitting daddy?”
He followed the tone taught by Lin Chuxia, a little exaggerated, then he picked up one of the cubs and sat on the sofa over there.
Surrounded by three little cuties, Xie Jingming asked in a low voice, “What did I do to you to hit daddy like this?”
“Dad is bad, he hit mommy.” The cool big boy taught Xie Jingming a lesson with a stern face, and listened. Hearing Dazai’s milky voice, Lin Chuxia could guess what would happen next, and stood up pretending to be busy while she went to cook.
When Xie Jingming saw Lin Chuxia getting up and leaving at this time, he raised his head and looked in the direction she was leaving as if he felt something, and then looked down at his three cubs and said, “I’ll never hit Mom; I hitting her is nonsense!”
“Daddy lied; we all heard it.” As soon as their dad said he didn’t hit her, the three cubs stared at Xie Jingming angrily, with their little fat hands on their little waist. They yelled at Xie Jingming angrily.
Xie Jingming still didn’t understand. He looked at the children with slightly raised eyebrows and let them go. “Oh, when did dad beat mom? Tell me.”
Xie Jingming didn’t even know what his son’s ears and brain were. How could they possibly think he beat Lin Chuxia?
Could it be that Lin Chuxia was talking nonsense in front of the children? Otherwise, she looked guilty and angry when he saw her just now, and now she ran into the kitchen out of shame.
“We all heard that you beat Mother to tears. ”
“It’s too much. Mom even begged for mercy, but you still beat her!”
“Dad is bad!”
Xie Jingming, who was accused by three children, didn’t even know about this matter. He thought about it in his mind for a long time. When did he beat her up and cry?
“You guys, were you dreaming?” Xie Jingming still didn’t understand this question. He had a serious look on his face, touched the little heads of the three children, and coaxed them, “It must be a dream. You can’t regard dreams as reality, understand?”
“No, at noon, you hit mom, and mom cried. I, we, all heard it at that time.” At that time, they were woken up in a daze, thinking they had heard wrongly. When they woke up, their father had already gone out.
Sure enough, after asking Lin Chuxia, they knew that what they heard when they were sleepy was not fake at all!
And Lin Chuxia didn’t ask them when they heard it. At that time, she was just shy and angry. Now…
After Jingming thought for a few seconds, his eyes widened as if he had realized something. He was slightly ashamed, but with a very serious face, he stopped their random thoughts and said, “Nonsense, you heard wrong. We’re all here; how could we not come over to protect mom? It must be a dream!!”
Xie Jingming looked very serious, with a serious look on his serious face, which made the three little cuties who were doubting tilt their heads and look at him, blinking. Dazai’s eyes were twitching, and he was doubting himself.
“Nonsense, mommy said it was you who hit her.” The eldest son felt that he had to make the decision for his mommy, and he couldn’t let his daddy go so easily. “How could you be so bad?”
“That’s right, Daddy did it. It’s hard for mom to take care of us at home, but you bully mom like this.” Erzai also stared at him angrily, and his soft and gentle voice turned into an angry glare at Xie Jingming.
In the hearts of the three little children, although they had hoped that their father would come back to protect them, during that time, Lin Chuxia warmed them like a hot spring. Although they were young, they could still distinguish clearly between Lin Chuxia and that bad woman.
Now, in their hearts, it was Lin Chuxia who was closer to them.
Therefore, when they found out that Xie Jingming had done such a bad thing, how could the three children not be angry?
Bad Dad!
“Dad, we don’t like you anymore.” Dazai shook his head in great disappointment, his eyes full of tears. He looked as if he wanted to break up with Xie Jingming.
Xie Jingming, who was scolded and accused, simply sighed helplessly, raised his head, and shouted towards the kitchen: “Chuxia, come out quickly; I have something to ask you!”
Now, he could only let the children watch. Looking at the situation after he inquired, he didn’t believe that Lin Chuxia would really let them continue to misunderstand!
“I’m cooking, so I have no time.” A very faint voice came from inside, as if she really didn’t care about this matter and was pretending to not know anything.
“If you don’t come out, they will really misunderstand. Then they may talk nonsense outside.” Xie Jingming also understood the meaning of Lin Chuxia’s words just now and immediately reminded her aloud.
As soon as he said this, Lin Chuxia, who was still cooking in the kitchen, came out immediately with a slight blush on her face. Really! How should she fool such a young child with such a thing?
“Chuxia, come here, tell the children, did I hit you at noon today? Aren’t they dreaming?” Xie Jingming looked at Lin Chuxia’s seemingly calm inquiry, but in fact his eyes flickered with teasing.
“Yes, that’s right.” How dare Lin Chuxia say no at this moment? Her beautiful face was full of smiles, and she said softly, looking at the three little cubs with eyes full of doting on them.
As soon as Lin Chuxia’s voice fell, the three children looked at Lin Chuxia in shock, seeming to ask, Mom, what are you talking about?
“Mom, didn’t you just say that it was dad who hit you?” They looked confused. Looking at Lin Chuxia, it seemed as if they didn’t know why Lin Chuxia suddenly changed her tune and said,
“Mom, is Daddy threatening you?” The eldest son was very smart and learned to use the word ‘threat’.
It’s a pity that Lin Chuxia sat on the other end of the sofa, coaxing the little children gently and sweetly. “You were just dreaming, but mother was so moved when she heard you protecting her that she forgot to clarify. ”
First of all, none of us are at fault. You protected me. I was so touched. We are both emotional and cute.
“Did you have a nightmare at noon?” She quickly changed the subject, as Xie Jingming just said right. Children are ignorant. If they really talk about this matter, it will really make people laugh.
She quickly coaxed the three children, “Our eldest, second, and third cubs must have been too hot at noon. I heard that if you get too much sun, you will easily have nightmares if you get heat stroke, and you will be chased by the big bad wolf. !”
The three little cubs listened to Lin Chuxia’s gentle voice coaxing them. For a moment, they couldn’t distinguish the truth from the lies. They really thought that it was just like Lin Chuxia said, with big, bright eyes looking at them.
“Really?” They said in a milky voice, already starting to believe this. Could it be that they really had a nightmare? Then they stretched out their short, fat hands and hugged her mother tightly. It must have been because of the nightmare.
Woo woo woo…
Xie Jingming listened to Lin Chuxia’s words of fooling and coaxing his sons. In his opinion, her speaking skills were not superb at all, and it was not reasonable at all to fool the children so easily.
” Mommy likes our eldest, second, and third cubs the most. Mommy must give you a super big wave candy tonight.” Lin Chuxia’s topic changed again to make them quickly forget this matter.
Indeed, the three children have no resistance to sugar, and they still remember that the wave candy their mother mentioned is the candy bigger than their own palms. Can they still be unhappy?
“Oh yeah!!!” joyfully Their whole person was so excited that the three plump cubs were almost hanging on Lin Chuxia’s body. They were clinging to Lin Chuxia’s body and saying good things, fearing that Lin Chuxia would not them.
“Mom, candy.” Sanzai, who had not seen wave candy for a long time, looked at her with big innocent eyes. I have said so many soft words; why don’t you give me candy?
“Eat after eating!” Lin Chuxia warned with a half-smile as she pinched Sanzai’s little glutton’s nose, “Only children who eat obediently can be rewarded with wave candy.”
The children who were coaxed had their eyes rounded. Why did we have to eat obediently? Didn’t you just say that you gave us candy because you liked us?
Lin Chuxia could see clearly what was expressed in her round eyes. and would find it extremely funny: “Mom only likes children who eat obediently.”
Xie Jingming, who was sitting next to her and listened to how they got along, was ready to learn and listened to their conversation, oh… They could also be tempted with food. However, when he returned home, he also brought big and small bags of food to them. Why didn’t he see them so happy?
As everyone knows, there is still a difference between snacks. How can the jerky candies of today be different from those of later generations? Those various snacks are imcomparable, and Lin Chuxia has a supermarket itself.
“What is wave candy?” Xie Jingming’s attention turned to another place. Why didn’t he know there was this kind of candy? Is it particularly sweet or sour that all three children like it so much?
“It is a big sweet candy, so children like it and can eat it for a long time.” Lin Chuxia didn’t know how to explain it, so she only answered this sentence in the end.
As soon as she said this, Xie Jingming nodded understandingly. Oh, I understand. The candy is just a little bigger than usual, and it tastes good.
However, Xie Jingming’s idea was finally shattered after dinner. Only then did he understand why the children liked the candies given by Lin Chuxia so much but not the dried meat and candies they bought themselves.
The so-called ‘wave candy’ was as big as a child’s palm. Just looking at it made people think that they would be able to eat it for a long time. It would be strange if they didn’t like it!
He asked Lin Chuxia, “Where did you buy this candy?” ” Why haven’t I seen it?”
“Of course you haven’t seen it. You have been staying in the military camp and haven’t gone anywhere. It took a lot of effort to buy this.” Lin Chuxia smiled proudly. I am the best and you are the most stupid.
Xie Jingming no longer wanted to argue with Lin Chuxia about this. He could only restrain all his emotions and shook his head helplessly. Finally, he turned his head and looked at the three cubs and said, “Don’t eat sweets at night. It’s easy for tooth decay. There can be worms growing in your mouth!”
Xie Jingming was afraid that the three little ones didn’t know what tooth decay was, so he explained it to them.
After the last sentence, the eyes of the three little children were widened, and they looked at Xie Jingming with some shortness of breath, as if they were asking Xie Jingming, Is it true, can tooth decay really happen? They don’t believe it!!
“Dad! That’s a lie.” Sanzai immediately covered the candy in his hand, hiding the candy in his short and chubby hands in front of his chest, for fear of being snatched away by his father.
Dad must have wanted to eat his wave candy, so he deliberately coaxed him like this. Huh, don’t think that he is ignorant just because he is just a little kid!
See the cute little Fatty, Sanzai (Xie Xingrong), with wary eyes. Staring at himself, still holding his big wave candy in his hand, Xie Jingming was silent for three seconds. It is nonsense that he seems to be such a greedy man.
and would steal candy from a child.
“Daddy doesn’t want your candy.” Xie Jingming felt that his sighs were about to be used up in this life, and he was very helpless whether he was dealing with his wife or his children.
“Humph, if Dad wants it, he can ask Mom for it.” Sanzai pouted with a bulging face. Someone snatched the last candy before he could even eat it. Fortunately, his mother gave him a new one later. Otherwise, he would have cried to death.
Now, after so long, there is another one. This is his big treasure.
After Sanzai finished speaking, Erzai knew that he had misunderstood his father this afternoon, so he decided to give his father some advice as compensation. He walked over and lowered his voice quietly. “Dad, as long as you behave coquettishly with Mommy, Mommy will definitely give it to you.”
“Yes, if you say something nice, mommy would love to hear it.” The big kid next to him heard it and nodded in agreement.
In fact, they thought they were whispering, but the whole family could hear them since they were so close.
After Xie Jingming heard what his son said, his ears turned red with embarrassment, acting like a spoiled child… As a grown man, how could he be suitable?
Lin Chuxia, on the other hand, heard what her son said. After that, she glanced at Xie Jingming with a slightly raised, teasing smile, as if telling him, You can act like a spoiled child with me; I don’t mind; I will definitely give you a big wave candy.
After Xie Jingming saw it, he no longer wanted to pay attention to Lin Chuxia but turned his attention to his son: “Dad is not letting you eat, but he is asking you to eat again tomorrow; otherwise your teeth will get worms; oh, then everyone will dislike you and don’t want to play with you anymore.”
Xie Jingming also learned Lin Chuxia’s trick on how to persuade and treat the three brats, but when he said this, he felt that he was in trouble. A little childish, his face was slightly red with shame.
After hearing Xie Jingming’s words, the three little children wrinkled their faces as if they were convinced. They looked at the candy in their hands in distress and then looked up at Lin Chuxia with confusion and worry.
“Mom, are we really not allowed to eat sweets at night?” They suspected that what their father said was false. When their mother gave them sweets before, she never told them not to eat them.
But they forgot that when she gave them candy before, it was not late at night.
Moreover, Lin Chuxia also expected that they would be reluctant to eat and would sleep together at night. She would be the one who dares to eat sweets at night.
“Well… it will indeed happen, but if the tooth is really decayed, it will be very ugly. Mom also doesn’t like it.” Lin Chuxia showed a thoughtful expression before answering seriously.
After hearing what their mother said, the three little cuties subconsciously covered their mouths. They couldn’t let their mother see their cavities; otherwise, they would be ugly and their mother wouldn’t like them.
After successfully coaxing the three little children, she let them take a bath and go to bed.
When Lin Chuxia was taking a bath, she remembered what happened at noon. Lin Chuxia rolled her eyes at Xie Jingming, took her clothes, and immediately locked them after entering the bathroom. But she was very naughty and winked at him.
When Lin Chuxia gave him a wink, Xie Jingming immediately understood what Lin Chuxia meant.
Wasn’t she quite resisting before asking him to go to the bathroom?
However, his wife had already made an appointment. If he didn’t go, wouldn’t he be complying with what the outsiders said? He couldn’t do it, so he took out a pair of pants and headed towards the bathroom.
When he pushed the door to open, he found that it was locked.
Xie Jingming:………
Didn’t she invite me to the bathroom? Why did she lock the door? Isn’t this just playing with him?
However, when Lin Chuxia inside heard the sound of the doorknob twisting, she understood in her heart that Xie Jingming wanted to cause trouble again. She had just struggled all day at noon today, and now she is afraid of exhaustion and death!
Listening to the sound of water falling inside, Xie Jingming felt that he needed to talk to Lin Chuxia about this kind of thing, knowing that she wanted it too, and he knows that she likes a little fun and romance, but his little thing may not understand it.
Don’t tease me, okay?
Lin Chuxia came out of the shower and saw Xie Jingming sitting in front of the bedside table in the room, with a face full of contemplation and not knowing what he was thinking.
She twitched the corners of her mouth speechlessly and urged him angrily, “Go take a shower and prepare for bed.”
Go away quickly and give me the small stool. I want to sit in front of the electric fan and blow my hair. There is no way. There is no such thing as a hairdryer in this era. If your hair is wet and you don’t even have an electric fan, you can only wait for it to dry naturally.
Xie Jingming felt that he needed to have a good chat with Lin Chuxia. He looked serious, as if some major national disaster had happened.
“Chuxia, I know you want it, and I know you like a little fun and romance, but my body may not understand this. If you have anything to say, just say it and stop playing tease, okay? ”
When Lin Chuxia listened to Xie Jingming’s words, she looked confused. The crow was still flying over her head. Xie Jingming said that
She wanted a little fun and romance.
She didn’t seem to have said such a thing. Why could Xie Jingming have such strange thoughts in his mind?
“Jingming, tell me, besides training, do you do anything else?” She thought Xie Jingming is just a somewhat sullen man; he can be wild once in a while, but why is he still so imaginative now?
Xie Jingming didn’t know why Lin Chuxia changed the topic, thinking that she didn’t want to talk about what he just said and that what he said was not nice enough, which annoyed her, so she said this.
“No, I usually train, then go home, and don’t go anywhere.” Although he didn’t know why Lin Chuxia asked this, he still answered Lin Chuxia’s question seriously.
Lin Chuxia: Oh.
So, why are you so imaginative and so good at thinking about it? It seems that he didn’t behave like what he said, right? Or is she… thinking too much?
“Go take a shower quickly; you are covered in stinky sweat.” Urging Xie Jingming to take a shower quickly. She sat down to dry her hair. If you have anything to say, wait until you come back from the shower.
It’s a pity that Lin Chuxia’s subtext was not known to Xie Jingming. At this time, Xie Jingming was still depressed and thinking about what Lin Chuxia’s words just meant.
Romance ?
He didn’t understand this stuff either. He had only heard it from the storytellers on the radio. Moreover, it was a capitalist petty bourgeois sentiment, and they couldn’t touch it!
He didn’t know where Lin Chuxia heard it from; maybe she feels that he has wronged her, and he wants to make up for it. He married her but ran away on the wedding night, leaving three children for her to take care of while his aunt and others were troubling her day and night.
Before leaving, Xie Jingming also took away the wages and allowances stolen by his family. They hid them very secretly. Fortunately, he had the ability to find hidden things, which was a lesson to them.
Then… he handed everything when he got back to Lin Chuxia. As for how much money he had at home now, he
was thinking about it in his mind while taking a shower. When he came out of the shower, he sat in front of the electric fan to dry his hair.
“I’ll have someone come to our house tomorrow to install the landline.” Xie Jingming ignored the conversation they had before taking the shower and brought up what he wanted to say.
“Okay.” Lin Chuxia nodded. Although she had no one, she can contact them by phone now, but they can say whether it will be needed or not in the future. It is always more convenient to have a phone.
“If you have anything to say, you can tell me directly.” After failing to change the topic, Xie Jingming sat there in silence for a few seconds. The atmosphere was a bit quiet. He was not used to it, so he brought up the previous topic again.
Husband and wife should have more heart-to-heart talks so that they can live together in harmony.
On this point, he agrees to the advice given by the political commissar.
“Okay.” Lin Chuxia felt that her hair was almost dry and she could sleep. When she heard Xie Jingming’s words, she raised her head in confusion, as if she had nothing to say.
“By the way, we had intimate time during noon. So I won’t do it anymore at night. If you do it too much, it will run out of energy. You need to conserve your energy.” Lin Chuxia rubbed her waist, which was still sore.
“Also, if you don’t mind, please rub my waist and thighs. I’m sore and in pain. Really, I’m not the one doing the hard work. Why am I much more tired than you?”
Lin Chuxia slept on the bed. She was mumbling complaints while giving instructions, but to Xie Jingming’s ears, these words sounded like a compliment to him.
While the roots of his ears were flush, there was a little more pride in his heart, and he reached out to rub Lin Chuxia’s waist and thighs.
As for the problem Lin Chuxia complained about later, he couldn’t explain why. He was not a doctor, so how could he understand?
Although he felt the skin underneath was slightly hot when he was rubbing it, he remembered what Lin Chuxia had just said. Xie Jingming didn’t do anything inappropriate. Instead, he massaged her in a serious manner.
……..
After Xie Jingming’s family joined the army compound, leaving this small village was not a big deal to most people in the village because it had little to do with them.
The children were a little nostalgic for the three little brothers’ because they were still running behind them, as if they had three little brothers.
Now that school has started again, they are so busy that they have almost forgotten about the three little brothers who used to play with them.
Xie Jingming took his wife and children with him to join the army. The people in the Xie family could most do was mutter a few words and angrily tell the villagers about the unfilial piety of Xie Jingming.
However, how could the people in the village not know who the Xie family was?
They didn’t listen to their nonsense. So gradually, the Xie family stopped talking about it, as if they had forgotten Xie Jingming and others.
Originally, even if he was not a relative, the most unbearable thing was that they lost the income from Xie Jingming’s return from the military camp and could only eat his previous income. So, of course, they were very angry.
Even more angry was Aunt Luo Tang, who found out that the salary allowances she had robbed from Xie Jingming and Lin Chuxia had been lost!! They had been stolen!!!
Aunt Luo Tang didn’t care much about whether the money she had hidden was there or not. She usually hides it very secretly, so she shouldn’t lose it. Hence, she didn’t think about it.
It has been almost half a month since Xie Jingming and the others left the village. Her husband accidentally broke his foot, and when she needed to get money for medical treatment, she rummaged through the boxes and found that the money was gone.
Aunt Luo Tang yelled angrily, “Who stole my money!!”
When the rest of the Xie family heard that the money was missing, everyone became very nervous, wondering if the other had stolen it.
“Mom, how could the money be stolen? Did you not put it away properly?” Under the brainwashing of his wife, the second son has already concluded that he will inherit the Xie family in the future because he is the only one who has a son, so now he is very nervous.
When he said this, he still looked at the eldest brother with a vague look, wondering if the eldest brother had taken it. When the eldest son saw the second brother looking at him with that look, he immediately became unhappy. The eldest daughter-in-law and the second daughter-in-law also quarreled with each other. Aunt Luo Tang also suspected that either the eldest daughter-in-law or the second daughter-in-law had taken it. There was a big search in the house, as it was over a hundred yuan!
However, no matter whether it was searching her own room, the eldest daughter-in-law’s room, or the second daughter-in-law’s room, nothing was found, and she was crying and shouting there !!! More than a hundred yuan was obtained from that bastard Xie Jingming and Lin Chuxia. Her future pension money was all gone ah ah ah ah ah ah.
Regardless of whether it was Aunt Luo Tang or Xie Wang, or whether it was the eldest daughter-in-law or the second daughter-in-law, no one suspected that Xie Jingming took it away before leaving. They all wondered if one of them had stolen it and hid it somewhere outside the house.
Therefore, everyone must go with someone, whether they are going to or from work. The eldest daughter-in-law and the second daughter-in-law go together, and the eldest son and the second son also go together… They have been on guard against each other, i.e., I will be on guard against you, and you will be on guard against me.
However, more than a month has passed, and no one has shown any clues. On the contrary, when the people in the village discovered this behavior of the Xie family, one or two people in the village pointed and gossiped behind their backs. They didn’t know what happened in the Xie family. But something was definitely wrong at the root.
The Xie family turned a deaf ear to other people’s gossip, as it was nothing compared to the more than 100 yuan that had been stolen from their family. It was not that they didn’t suspect that someone in the village had stolen it.
However, if there is no evidence, can the police comrades search every house? Impossible. Even if more than a hundred are found, they may not be yours.
Occasionally, they would stare at everyone with the look of “suspicious neighbors stealing axes,” thinking that everyone has this possibility. But when the neighbors found out that the Xie family looked at them like this, they almost got angry, thinking that the Xie family was mentally sick. They all avoided the Xie family and left.
Oh my god, the Xie family must have no one to bully and are ready to fight with them? Haha, how dare the Xie family look suspiciously at them? Are they dissatisfied with the people in the village now, but what can they do?
The Xie family didn’t want to, but the thief they should have found hadn’t been found yet.
The two brothers were on guard against each other. Even if it turned out later that the thief had really stolen the goods, the rift would still remain between the two brothers, and it would not show on their faces.
However, under the forced oppression of Aunt Luo Tang, the brothers stayed respectfully…
