Deng Xingming did not come back until very late. He had been sitting alone by the canal, looking at the water, puzzled.
Why didn't Aunt Qian recognize him? Is he really that bad
But no matter how hard he thought, he couldn't figure it out.
He looked up at the sky, touched his rumbling stomach, and returned home in dismay.
Seeing that he had nothing in his hands, Chen Xuanxuan was furious. "Where's the chicken? Didn't you say your mother promised to give it to you?"
Deng Xingming frowned and said firmly, "She is not my mother." She doesn't even recognize me.
Chen Xuanxuan was a little confused, "You haven't recognized her yet?"
Deng Xingming's face froze immediately. He turned away awkwardly and glanced outside. "It's getting dark. I'll go cook some sweet potatoes for you."
Chen Xuanxuan no longer had the heart to eat sweet potatoes. She suddenly grabbed his arm, her eyes blazing with anger, "Explain it to me clearly. What's going on?"
Deng Xingming rubbed his palms awkwardly, not daring to look at Chen Xuanxuan. Under her repeated questioning, he finally said in a desperate voice, "She refuses to recognize me!"
Now it was Chen Xuanxuan's turn to be dumbfounded. She never expected that the old woman would be so cruel that she would not even acknowledge her own son.
Her face turned pale and she took several steps back. When her knees touched the edge of the kang, she sat down on it, completely stunned.
Seeing that something was wrong with her, Deng Xingming no longer cared about being ashamed. He quickly sat next to her, held her hand, and said with a worried look on his face, "Xuanxuan, are you okay?"
How could it be alright? She had thought hard enough to come up with a solution, but she didn't expect the other party to not respond at all.
Why doesn't the old woman care about Deng Xingming
Deng Xingming hurriedly said, "Xuanxuan, if she doesn't recognize you, then don't worry. I can support you and the child. The team has distributed a lot of sweet potatoes."
It would have been fine if he hadn't said anything. As soon as she mentioned sweet potatoes, Chen Xuanxuan felt sick. She glared at him with red eyes, "Do you want our son to grow up eating sweet potatoes?"
Deng Xingming shook his head. "No. I heard that this production team will give out more than 100 yuan in dividends every year. It will definitely be enough to support the children."
Chen Xuanxuan didn't expect him to be so naive. The production team would distribute dividends, but how could they give them, the educated youth
Just like the food distribution this time, although each person had 180 kilograms, they could only get coarse grains while others could get fine grains.
This is the difference. In the eyes of the members, these educated youth are outsiders.
Deng Xingming saw that her face was getting worse and worse, and his mood became very complicated. "I don't know why she doesn't want to recognize me. Maybe it's because she has many sons and doesn't care about me."
Upon hearing this speculation, Chen Xuanxuan was completely stunned. She had never expected that there would be someone who had so many free sons.
"But it doesn't seem so. She is very nice to Yun Ping. She even makes clothes for Yun Ping." He said in a low voice, "Maybe she really doesn't like me."
Chen Xuanxuan immediately put down her hands that were covering her face, "Then go find Yun Ping and ask her to ask her mother for it."
Deng Xingming raised his head and looked at her, his eyes wide as copper bells, "Do you still have any shame? Yun Ping doesn't owe us anything. You are not ashamed to say that, but I am too embarrassed to listen."
Neither this nor that worked. Chen Xuanxuan was already angry. She stood up from the kang in anger and hit him on the head.
Deng Xingming reacted quickly. He grabbed her wrist and stared at her. "Sweet potatoes can be eaten anyway. If you don't like them, you'll just starve." After saying that, he walked directly to the wall to get the sweet potatoes.
Now it was Chen Xuanxuan's turn to be dumbfounded. Seeing him about to walk out the door, she shouted in desperation, "Are you so harsh to your son?"
Deng Xingming's body stiffened, but he said nothing and plunged into the night.
Chen Xuanxuan was so angry that she cursed in her heart, what a coward.
Half an hour later, Deng Xingming came in with cooked sweet potatoes.
After taking a look at Chen Xuanxuan who was lying on her side on the bed, he didn't call her. He picked up a sweet potato, peeled it and put it into his mouth.
Chen Xuanxuan, who had been waiting for him to give in, closed her eyes and pricked up her ears to listen. Seeing that he ignored her, she felt angry and resentful, and a look of grievance appeared on her face. She suddenly got up from the kang and glared at him with wide eyes, "You are so selfish that you don't even call me for dinner?"
Deng Xingming ate sweet potatoes expressionlessly, without even raising his head, and said indifferently, "No matter how much you make a fuss, it's useless. This is the only condition here."
Hearing him say that, Chen Xuanxuan was so angry. Can't you just go and ask your own mother for help? She just didn't believe it. How could she not be soft-hearted when you kneel in front of her
Unfortunately, she could only think about it. Deng Xingming considered himself a scholar and would never do such a shameless thing.
She sighed heavily, walked to the table dejectedly and sat down, picked up the sweet potatoes from the bamboo basket, and ate while breathing heavily.
Deng Xingming had given up, but Chen Xuanxuan had not.
She knew how much Qian Shulan disliked her, so she took advantage of Qian Shulan's absence and found an opportunity to get close to Deng Yunping.
She touched her belly and looked at Deng Yunping pitifully, "Little sister, look at my belly, it's already big, can you give your little nephew something delicious?"
Deng Yunping had never seen such a shameless person. She knew how much she disliked her, but she still rushed to get close to her. She was a scholar, but she had no shame at all.
Deng Yunping stared at her coldly and sneered, "If you have the ability, just do it yourself." Then she lowered her head to look at her belly and said, "Don't worry, the baby in your belly is my nephew after all. When it is born, I will definitely fulfill my responsibilities."
Chen Xuanxuan was so angry that her teeth were itching, but she couldn't do anything about the other party.
She sighed, and suddenly heard the sound of a car behind her, and she immediately became happy.
Turning around to look, she saw Xu Wenhou getting out of the car. She rolled her eyes, turned around and stomped her feet at Deng Yunping, saying angrily, "If you don't buy it for me, I'll ask someone to buy it for me."
Deng Yunping ignored her and continued to feed the chickens.
Chen Xuanxuan strode towards Xu Wenhou and said, "Chief Xu, I would like to ask you to help me buy something. Is that okay with you?"
Xu Wenhou felt excited when he saw her touching her belly. He looked around subconsciously and saw Chen Xuanxuan, behind others' back, winking at him desperately.
Xu Wenhou immediately restrained himself and said loudly, "Okay, what do you want?"
"Is there any meat?"
Xu Wenhou was stunned for a moment, then shook his head in annoyance, "Now, the supply of meat in our county is getting less and less, and I can't get it."
Ever since the higher-ups came down every day to cut off capitalist tails, members were not allowed to raise more than three chickens at home. The number had decreased, and every household kept them for laying eggs; they would not be willing to sell them.
As for pigs, that is even more impossible. The mission pigs can only be raised to a sufficient weight by the end of the year. It is not even September yet, so how can they be killed and eaten
Therefore, each person in the county can only have two taels of meat coupons per month. Even so, some people cannot buy them, and they will be invalidated next month.
However, as a section chief, Xu Wenhou naturally couldn't afford to buy meat. As soon as the meat coupons were issued, he asked someone to help him exchange them for meat. But the weather was so hot that he couldn't keep any meat.
Unfortunately, Chen Xuanxuan didn't know this. She was so greedy now. Seeing that Xu Wenhou couldn't get it, she had to settle for the next best thing, "Where are the cookies?"
Xu Wenhou agreed immediately, "Okay, I'll come and help you bring it next time!"
Only then did Chen Xuanxuan breathe a sigh of relief.
But when she got the cookies and paid for them in front of others, she felt so distressed, but in order to distance herself from Xu Wenhou, she had no choice but to bite the bullet and give the money. Of course, this is all later.
When Deng Yunping returned home for dinner, she told her about Chen Xuanxuan's visit.
Qian Shulan shook her head after hearing this. This was totally unrelated and she couldn't stand it.
"Mom, why don't you recognize my brother?" Deng Yunping couldn't understand why her mother, who loved her children so much, didn't want to recognize her brother.
Qian Shulan put down her chopsticks and looked at her. "Your brother has a lot of problems. If mother recognizes him now, he will probably rely on me. He is already 25 years old. It's time for him to grow up. He is not the sun. How can everyone revolve around him?"
This is so true! Her brother is like this. He has been the sun in the family since he was a child. He always feels that he is shining on others, giving them light and warmth, and enjoying the kindness of others, but he has never thought about why others are kind to him. To put it bluntly, he is a bit self-righteous. Deng Yunping no longer has any doubts about her mother's behavior.
Qian Shulan told Deng Yunping again about how Chen Xuanxuan had ruined her goddaughter's marriage. At the end, she sighed heavily, "I think your brother's eyes are not very good. Chen Xuanxuan is so vicious, but he actually fell in love with her. Oh!"
Deng Yunping opened her mouth in surprise. She had never thought that Chen Xuanxuan could do such a vicious thing. Ruining a marriage is punishable by lightning.
"In order to help your brother grow up sooner, I think you should stay away from them in the future."
"Mom, you're right!" I had originally thought of buying something for my nephew after he was born, but now I have given up the idea.
Qian Shulan not only told Deng Yunping not to pay attention to Deng Xingming and Chen Xuanxuan, but also told her family, "I don't want to recognize them for the time being, and you are not allowed to get close to them."
Sun Daqin was a little surprised, "Why?"
Li Chunhua also looked puzzled.
Zhou Xuemei was smarter and guessed that it might be because of Chen Xuanxuan's affair. But her mother-in-law didn't allow her to say anything, so she had to shut up and obey.
Qian Shulan made up an excuse, "He was not very nice to Yun Ping before and always bullied Yun Ping. I want him to learn his lesson!"
Hearing what the mother-in-law said, everyone nodded in agreement.
So when Chen Xuanxuan came over to try to get close to them, they all looked at her indifferently, and even though Chen Xuanxuan was thick-skinned enough, she couldn't hold it back.
After she came back and thought about it for a moment, she guessed that it must be the old woman's doing. Chen Xuanxuan was so angry that she almost vomited blood.
Time passed in the blink of an eye, and soon it was the spring of 1968.
It was seven days past Chen Xuanxuan's due date.
But her stomach was still not moving.
There was no other way, so Deng Xingming had to ask Wang Shouquan for help to get a letter of introduction to send Chen Xuanxuan to the hospital for delivery.
The author has something to say: I have started a new story about a man who traveled back in time in the 1970s and became the father of a supporting character, helping his adopted children become winners in life.
It is from the same series as this one. If you like it, please remember to collect it.