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During half a year of getting along with each other, Qi Chen had already turned Song Cheng into his own person. Although Song Cheng's face was a little dark, but after all, he was not a child, and he restrained a lot. Qi Chen didn't notice it because of his big heart. He smiled and said: "Song Cheng, your uncle seems to have a good temper."

Song Cheng glanced at Qi Chen, he stretched out his hand and patted the smiling face of Qi Chen aside, lowered his head, pulled the shoes under his feet and kicked the pebbles away: "You know what, shut up, you're so noisy .”

Qi Chen screamed strangely: "Hey, how can you do this, I'm going to talk to you nicely."

Qi Yue followed behind Qi Chen, raised his foot and kicked Qi Chen's butt: "What are you arguing about, shut up!"

Qi Chen made a face towards Qi Yue and Song Cheng and said, "I'm going back first."

Qi Yue frowned and waved his hands again and again: "Go, go back quickly, don't stand in front of you and be annoying." After saying that, he walked back on Song Cheng's footsteps like a shadow.As soon as Song Cheng remained silent, Qi Yue had no choice but to go home and ask his wife.

Lady Qi is a straightforward person, when she heard Qi Yue tell the story of Song Cheng and what happened after seeing Song Cheng's father today, Lady Qi spat and called a coward.

Qi Yue held his face, and the chopsticks in his hands kept messing with the rice. Mrs. Qi pinched the chopsticks and gave Qi Yue a chopstick. Qi Yue clasped his hands and screamed a few times when he hit her. He glared at Mrs. Qi and said angrily: "Mom, why are you hitting me!"

"Can food be ruined like this? If you don't eat well, let me see you poking and poking and not eating, and see if I don't eat your hands!" Lady Qi stared at Qi Yue angrily and said, Qi Yue bowed his head He took two mouthfuls of food and said, "Mom, what should we do now?"

Mrs. Qi stretched out her chopsticks for Qi Yue and said, "What else can I do? I'm not Chengzi's mother, how can I beat his father?"

"Slap me up..." Qi Yue lowered his head and smiled when he heard the key words.When Miss Qi saw that her son hadn't made up his mind, she stretched out her hand and slapped her across the face: "Don't let your little thoughts move, if you get into trouble, be careful with me!"

"I got it, I got it," Qi Yue agreed wholeheartedly, that was a joy, but what he thought in his heart, that's another story.

Song Cheng was well-behaved on weekdays, and went to study after dinner, so although the conversation was a little less than usual, the Xu couple didn't notice anything wrong.

Let's say that Song You went back with Song's father, and it was almost dark when he got home.Song You's mother is Song's father's continuation, called Song Wang's, she looks very smart, she was wearing an apron and cooking in the kitchen at this time, when she heard someone coming back, she hurriedly wiped her hands and went out.

"You'er is back?" Song Wang smiled and led Song You, who had gone out for the first time, to her side, looked him up and down for a long while and said with a smile, "I haven't lost weight, but I've become more energetic. How are you doing in school? Master taught me Are you ready?"

Song You stretched out his hand to take off his book case from Song's father, and said to Song Wang while looking for the papers: "The school is very good, the master can teach everything, and I got second in this exam!"

Song Wang looked at Song's father happily and said, "My son is promising."

As soon as Song You took out the paper, Mr. Song also came out of the room. He smiled and touched Song You's head, but he didn't know how many words he could read. Anyway, he took Song You's paper and looked at it for a while. He smiled and said, "Yes, my grandson is an official."

Song You smiled and called grandpa, over there Song Xiaomei also walked out with the youngest, the youngest could talk now, when she saw Song You, she called her brother, and Song You hugged the youngest.

After a while, Mrs. Song brought out the prepared meals, and the whole family ate around the table in the room. Mrs. Song sat on a small bench beside her with a small bowl to feed the youngest.Father Song ate a few chopsticks, then stopped suddenly, he hesitated and said, "Father, I saw Cheng'er today."

As soon as Song's father said this, the dinner table fell silent. Even Song Xiaomei took back the sticking chopsticks and looked at her father quietly.Mr. Song seemed to choke for a moment, his face froze, but he quickly changed into a calm and breezy look.

"Where did you meet?" he asked.

"Cheng'er is also studying at Deyuan Academy." Father Song said while pinching the chopsticks.

"Oh, that's right." Mr. Song seemed to pause for a moment, then he turned to Song You and asked, "Did you often see You in school? Did Song Cheng say anything to you?"

Song You paused, and Song Cheng's paper that was circulated as a template flashed in front of his eyes. The master was full of praise when he mentioned Song Cheng, and he held his chopsticks and said, "It's not very common, Song Cheng doesn't talk to me. "

Old Master Song nodded and said, "It's fine if you don't talk, Song Cheng is no longer part of our family, and he will stay away from us in the future." As he spoke, he looked around, "Do you understand?"

"Understood." Up to Song's father, Song Wang's family, down to Song You and Song Xiaomei all responded.

Mr. Song picked up the chopsticks to pick up a mouthful of food, and ate with the bowl: "Eat all, the food is getting cold."

After dinner, Mr. Song still called Father Song into his room to reason with him: "I know you still can't bear it. After all, Cheng is your first child, and his mother left too early. It's pitiful. But think about it. When our family was leaning last year, the rice vat at home was bottoming out every day. Where can we feed it? During the famine years, there were people who ate children. Cheng was just selling it. Now that he can go to school, it means that he is living now. It’s better than being at home, so don’t worry about it.”

Father Song didn't dare to disobey his father, but he felt uncomfortable after all, he bowed his head and said: "Cheng is my child after all, my son feels uncomfortable seeing him today." His eyes were red as he spoke.

Seeing his son like this, Mr. Song also sighed. He patted Father Song on the shoulder and said, "Son, we were forced to do so at that time. You also know that Cheng has been dull and stupid since he was a child, and he still can't speak. , How do you ask for a wife in the future? If you are still like this when you get old, don’t you want to raise him? You don’t want to live? You are willing to raise him, so what about his wife? tour."

Father Song covered his face in pain and said, "Cheng is not stupid, I saw you today."

"Then who do you want to sell? Sell you? Sell the youngest? Can you agree?" The old man was a little sad when he said that, and he patted his son on the shoulder and his voice lowered, "This is a last resort. , if it wasn't for the accident that year, his mother Cheng was still alive, and our family was fine, these things wouldn't have happened."

While speaking, the old man glanced out of the window, seeing his daughter-in-law seemed to be passing by, he immediately shut his mouth, these words cannot be said in front of his daughter-in-law.

Father Song finally couldn't help crying, he wiped away his tears and said, "It's useless to be a son."

Mr. Song patted his son on the shoulder in fear and said: "A man does not flick his tears easily. Why cry? You are useless! Go back to your house to see your wife and son. Cheng has already been sold, and you will have to rely on him for the rest of your life." , Don’t think about those useless things.”

Father Song got up, said Ann, and went back.

Things have come to this, what else?It was very cold outside at night, Father Song wrapped himself in a cotton jacket and went into his room.In the room, Song You and his younger sister, the youngest, were still playing around, with childish voices and loud laughter.Father Song sighed, he stretched out his arms to hug the youngest who was running around with two short legs, and said, "I'm all sleeping, it's late at night."

Song Wang was mending Song You's clothes under the lamp. She didn't look up, and said to the children: "Go to sleep!"

The children were so obedient that they didn't dare to speak at once, and went back to sleep lightly one by one. Mrs. Song put the needle and thread at hand aside, and didn't see Father Song turn around and hugged the younger sister to sleep.Father Song stood on the ground with the youngest in his arms, sighed, and then went to sleep.

Seeing her father coming up to sleep, Song Xiaomei blew out the lamp in one go. After a while, she couldn't hear any movement, only the sound of shallow breathing in the night.