To make He Yu regret - Chapter 9

Xu Meiyin bought a set of new shoes and new clothes for He Yu. They were branded. Aunt Fan led the child to say thank you and bow. The next day, He Yu saw Jiang Mingzhen in the toy room. She made clothes for her Barbie doll with some clothes. Those clothes were still new, and they were cut. The fabrics were thrown all over the floor. After a while she was tired of playing and left a mess, to play with other things. Those pieces of rubbish-like cloth had exactly the same trademark as his new clothes.

There was no water heater for taking a bath in the country. The hot water for He Yu’s bath was mixed after his father boiled the water, which was very limited. Now living in Jiang’s house, the bath water had always been warm, so He Yu couldn’t understand why Jiang Mingzhen didn’t like bathing. It was so comfortable. One night before going to bed, He Yu whispered to his mother looking at the quiet sky outside the window.

“Mom, when can we go home?”

“You want to go back to the village?” Aunt Fan was puzzled that she asked him, “What’s the matter? Isn’t it good to live here?”

He Yu thought for a while and couldn’t deny, “It’s good here.” Jiang’s house was very large and beautiful, with hot water in the bath, and delicious food every day. However, when Jiang Mingzhen yelled at him many times, “This is my thing,” He Yu thought in his heart. Jiang Mingzhen’s things were not so good, and he was unwilling to take them. He didn’t want to eat small cakes and big crabs, he didn’t want to wear new clothes and shoes, or even take a bath with warm water from the tap. He wanted to go back to his own home.

He didn’t had the time to speak all that,

“But..”

“Of course it’s the best here,” Aunt Fan laughed after his words, “This is the city, and it’s not comparable to the village. Besides, we live in a rich man’s house.” Like her son, she looked out the window.

From the location of the nanny room, one could see the door of the neighboring house. Like the Jiang family, their doors were tall and elegant, beautiful azure blue, and there were two lamps.  The exterior wall of the villa had drawn posts at the entrance. The lights in their house were really bright. It seemed to be much brighter than the moon in the sky.

“You should be good and please Uncle Jiang. In a few years, we will ask him to let you go to school in the city.” She stroked the little boy’s head with a soft voice, as if she was floating in a dream with him in a big boat.

“When my Ah Yu finishes school, finds a good job in the city, becomes a rich man, and lives in such a beautiful house, then I won’t have to work so hard every day.” He Yu heard his mother say something similar to his father.

“You work more and save some money. When our life gets better in the future, I won’t have to work so hard and work in the city all day long.” He Yu retracted his gaze and stopped looking at the sky outside. His father was gone, only his mother and him were left at home. He swallowed everything he wanted to say, and closed his eyes quietly.

He Yu hoped to coexist peacefully with Jiang Mingzhen without disturbing each other, but Jiang Mingzhen obviously had no such plans. In the days when she was struggling with He Yu, her enthusiasm continued to increase, and she even found strange pleasure in it. No matter how she made things difficult or made fun of He Yu, he always had a friendly smile. Occasionally, that fleshy bun face would become wrinkled when He Yu was really wronged. Even then, he wouldn’t fight back against her. He was as good as a puppy. So she provoked him time and time again and saw his aggrieved expression to gain happiness.

Bed time was the most comfortable time for He Yu in Jiang’s family. He thought that Jiang Mingzhen would at least not rob him of his sleep… which was strange. Jiang Mingzhen was there again. Xu Meiyin praised Jiang Mingzhen all day about how well-behaved He Yu was, how self-consciously independent, and helped adults. Jiang Mingzhen was not convinced. When she investigated carefully she finally found that he was a little inferior than her.

He slept with Aunt Fan! Xu Meiyin obviously had a room available for He Yu, but he slept in Aunt Fan’s nanny room every night. She was not squeamish. She could sleep with her parents in separate rooms, but He Yu couldn’t. When Jiang Mingzhen discovered that, she was so proud that her chin was about to rise to the sky.

“Do you know?! He Yu is ashamed, he asks Aunt Fan to sleep with him every night.” She told everyone about He Yu’s embarrassment and wanted everyone to laugh at him. Jiang Yuan was reading the newspaper and didn’t look up after hearing her words.

“It’s normal to sleep with his mother in a new environment.”

“Huh,” the audience didn’t give her the expected response. Jiang Mingzhen was very dissatisfied, “I can sleep by myself but he dare not sleep by himself when he is five years old, so timid.”

Her words didn’t get any reply, and there was only a normal atmosphere in the living room. That night, Jiang Mingzhen suffered from insomnia. She loved to provoke He Yu.

“Aunt Fan, I want to sleep by your side today.”

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