amaotonovel Chapter 1052: The Alley
Chapter 1052: The Alley
Chapter 1052: The Alley
The next day, Song Ying went out early in the morning humming a tune and happened to meet Huang Ling who was about to go to work next door. The two smiled at each other, and naturally held each other's hands and walked out of the yard.
"How was it? Did you sleep last night? Did you wake up laughing in the middle of the night due to a dream?" Huang Ling teased with her hands covering her mouth.
Song Ying smiled a little embarrassedly and said, "Sister Ling, did you hear everything last night?"
"How can we not hear it? There is only a wall between our two houses. If you two talk loudly, we can hear it."
Seeing this, Song Ying stopped pretending and leaned close to Huang Ling's ear: "Sister Ling, let me tell you the truth. I didn't fall asleep until the middle of the night last night. You know, I never dreamed that Haozi could win the national championship."
Huang Ling was also amused when she heard this: "In fact, Chaoying and I didn't sleep for half the night last night, especially Chaoying, who kept mumbling, how could he be the champion?"
Huang Ling was afraid that Song Ying might misunderstand, so she quickly explained, "What Chaoying meant was that he heard that the participants of the National Children's Go Competition were all talented teenagers from all over the country, and many of them had family inheritance. Haozi had never received any systematic training, so he found it incredible how he defeated so many talented teenagers and won the championship."
"Sister Ling, I know what Teacher Zhuang means. In fact, not only you, but even Wu Feng and I find it unbelievable. If Director He from the Children's Palace hadn't told us last night, we wouldn't have believed it." Song Ying patted Huang Ling's hand and comforted her.
Soon after they walked out of the door, they ran into Aunt Li from next door, who said to Song Ying with a smile on her face.
"Song Ying, congratulations! Haozi won the national championship this time, which brought honor to Suzhou. It's amazing."
Song Ying and Huang Ling looked at each other, somewhat surprised: "Aunt Li, how did you know that Haozi won the championship?"
"Hi, Director He from the Children's Palace didn't know where your house was last night, and I happened to meet him on the road, so I gave him directions."
Song Ying thought to herself: So that's how it is.
Aunt Li held Song Ying's hand and said, "It's such a big happy event. When Haozi comes back, we have to celebrate it, right?"
"Don't worry, I will definitely invite you to my house for dinner when the time comes." Song Ying said a few perfunctorily and finally got rid of Aunt Li's entanglement.
After leaving the alley, Song Ying couldn't help but complain to Huang Ling: "This is troublesome. Aunt Li knows about it. In less than two days, the whole cotton mill will probably know about it."
In fact, Song Ying still underestimated Aunt Li. In just one afternoon, all the employees in the cotton mill knew that Qin Hao had won the national championship.
No matter where Song Ying went, people would congratulate her, so Song Ying had no choice but to put on a smile. After one day of work, her face was so dull that she couldn't even smile anymore.
When she got off work and went home, passing through the alley, a bunch of neighbors greeted her and congratulated her, asking her in some implicit way when she would treat them to a meal, which made Song Ying very annoyed.
Back in the courtyard, Song Ying complained to Huang Ling weakly.
In response, Huang Ling just smiled and said, "Why don't we ask Haozi to come to our house in the future, and I'll treat everyone to a feast."
"That won't work." Song Ying was instantly defeated.
The two smiled at each other. Huang Ling scratched Song Ying's face with her hand and said, "Your family now has a national champion child, so just be happy."
"I can't hide anything from Sister Ling." Song Ying felt a little embarrassed and smiled with her hands covering her face.
Although treating everyone to a banquet costs money, Song Ying is still very happy in the face of everyone's compliments, and she is also proud of Qin Hao. He is the national champion, Scorpion Poop - one of a kind.
Just as the two were cooking, Lin Dongzhe rushed in and hugged Song Ying's thighs.
"Mom, did Brother Hao win the championship?"
Song Ying laughed: "How did you know?"
"It's spread all over the alley, Mom, please tell me, is it true?" Lin Dongzhe asked with an eager look on his face.
"It's true, Haozi is the champion." Song Ying smiled and rubbed Lin Dongzhe's head.
Upon hearing this, Lin Dongzhe ran out, shouting as he ran: "Oh, Brother Hao is the champion, Brother Hao won the national championship."
Song Ying looked at Lin Dongzhe's back, shook her head lovingly and smiled, "If you don't know, you would have thought that it was him, Lin Dongzhe, who won the championship."
Huang Ling was also amused when she heard this: "Your Lin Dongzhe is quite interesting."
"He is just heartless. Alas, God must have seen that I gave birth to Lin Dongzhe, a naughty boy, and was afraid that I would be angered to death by him and die young, so he let Haozi come to our house so that I can feel a little more balanced." Song Ying rolled her eyes.
"Haha~~~"
There was a burst of cheerful laughter from the kitchen.
Zhuang Tunan, who was doing his homework next door, paused and said to himself in confusion: "After moving, my mother seems to be much happier than before."
"Well, Mom and Aunt Song Ying always have endless things to talk about, unlike before when she was always alone." Zhuang Xiaoting said with her head tilted.
……
There was great joy in the courtyard, but it was a completely different scene at the Qin family.
The old couple of the Qin family rarely complained about Qin Jianjun and his wife.
"If you hadn't abused Haozi and forced him away, he wouldn't have become someone else's child!"
Qin Jianjun's wife complained, "How could we abuse him? The child is disobedient and cannot be educated. It's fine if outsiders say that about us, but you saw the whole thing. Why didn't you stop it at the beginning? Now you are blaming us. Are you really trying to wrong us to death?"
Qin Jianjun was also unhappy and said, "If you hadn't stood up to testify for us, that bitch Song Ying wouldn't have taken advantage of us. Now you're blaming us?"
These words left the old couple of the Qin family speechless.
After a while, Qin Jiye considered that he would have to rely on his second son and his wife for support in the future, and did not dare to make the relationship too awkward, so he made the proposal.
"Haozi is a child of our Qin family after all. We are all his closest relatives. We cannot watch him wandering around outside. We must find a way to get him home."
These words hit the nail on the head for Qin Jianjun and his wife.
Before, Qin Hao was a complete burden to them, so naturally they looked down on him. But now it is different. Qin Hao won the National Children's Go Championship and there is a high possibility that he will join the national team in the future. The level is completely different now. From now on, they will be the family members of a national player, and they will have face when they tell others about it.
"But, Haozi is a very stubborn kid. It may not be easy to get him to go home," Qin Jianjun's wife said quietly.
One sentence directly pulled Qin Jiye and his son Qin Jianjun out of their beautiful dream and into reality.
Qin Jianjun cleared his throat and said, "Humph, Dad is right. No matter what, we are all Haozi's close relatives. We just had a small conflict before. We can't kill someone with one stick. Let's go to Song Ying's house to make trouble. If that doesn't work, we can go to the cotton mill. I don't believe that no one can make the decision for us ordinary people."
Qin Jiye's eyes lit up and he slapped his thigh: "That's right, if it doesn't work, I'll go to the city hall with your mother to appeal for justice. I don't believe that no one can deal with Song Ying, who is bullying our lonely old man and old lady."
The family of four hit it off immediately.
……
The next day, Song Ying's family was having dinner when they heard a commotion outside the alley.
Immediately afterwards, the gate of the courtyard was kicked open.
Qin Jianjun and his wife pointed at Song Ying's nose and cursed, "Song Ying, you are so calculating, why don't you return our Qin family's child to us!"
Song Ying was so angry that her chest heaved violently when she heard this: "If you two want to go crazy, go home and vent your anger. What do you mean your child? Haozi has long severed ties with your Qin family."
"Humph, breaking off relations was also your instigation."
Qin Jianjun's wife turned around and said with tears in her eyes to the neighbors who were watching the fun outside the yard.
"This Song Ying had long seen that our Haozi had a talent for playing Go, and she urged him to break off relations with our family. What could a child under ten years old understand? It's a pity that he was deceived by her."
Song Ying blurted out: "You fart!"
Lin Dongzhe also shouted at Qin Jianjun and his wife: "You are talking nonsense, my mother is not that kind of person."
However, the neighbors gathered outside were talking about it.
"I was wondering why Song Ying was so kind, so this is the case."
"I didn't expect Song Ying to be such a person."
"That shouldn't be the case, right? Song Ying doesn't seem like someone who would do such a thing."
"Of course not. If there were no benefits, who would adopt a child who has nothing to do with them?"
Wang Yong from next door had been holding a grudge against Song Ying for blocking the hole in the wall and flooding the yard. Seeing such a good opportunity to take advantage of someone's misfortune, how could he let it go? He climbed up the wall and shouted.
"I was wondering why Song Ying, a notorious troublemaker, could be so kind. Turns out she was harboring evil intentions."
Lin Wufeng was so angry that he threw the bowl in his hand over: "Wang Yong, if you have the guts, try saying that again!"
In order to avoid the bowl, Wang Yong fell off the wall and screamed in pain, which made the neighbors who were watching the fun laugh.
Seeing that he had the upper hand, Qin Jianjun became even more unreasonable and yelled at Song Ying.
"Song Ying, let me ask you again, do you agree to return Haozi to our family?"
Huang Ling was about to stand up for Song Ying, but Zhuang Chaoying stopped her: "Don't you see that the neighbors are all on Qin Jianjun's side? What good will it do if you go up alone?"
"They...how could they do this!" Huang Ling muttered to herself as she looked at the faces outside the courtyard that were both familiar and unfamiliar.
Zhuang Chaoying sighed and whispered, "If you want to blame someone, blame Song Ying for being too flamboyant. She didn't have a very good relationship with people to begin with, and suddenly a national champion appeared in her family. Normally, everyone is about the same, but she insisted on standing out. She must be envied."
"But, it wasn't Song Ying who publicized it with drums and gongs. It was clearly Aunt Li..."
"No matter who spread the word, everyone just sees that Song Ying gets all the good things. What's worrying is not the lack of things but the inequality of the people!"
With red eyes and tears in her eyes, Song Ying argued with Qin Jianjun and his wife, but she was immediately disappointed when she found that most of the neighbors who had previously said in a friendly manner that they wanted to go to her house for a banquet to celebrate for Qin Hao now stood on Qin Jianjun's side.
Just when Song Ying was at a loss, Qin Jianjun and his wife saw that the situation was very good. They pointed at Song Ying's nose and cursed her. Suddenly, Qin Jianjun and his wife both fell down and landed on their faces.
"Who, which bastard attacked me?"
The scene was dead silent until Song Ying called out in confusion: "Haozi?"
"Haozi is back."
"Yo, the national champion is back."
Qin Hao ignored the various looks from the neighbors, walked up to Song Ying, and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes.
"Aunt Song, I'm back."
"It's good that you're back, it's good that you're back." Song Ying's tears fell even harder.
Lin Dongzhe pointed at Qin Jianjun and his wife and said to Qin Hao: "Brother Hao, they slandered my mother because they knew you were good at Go, so they brought you home. They are all bad people!"
Qin Hao turned around and looked at Qin Jianjun and his wife coldly.
Qin Jianjun and his wife, who had been so arrogant at first, suddenly changed their expressions and spoke to Qin Hao with flattering smiles on their faces.
"Haozi, your last name is Qin, and we are a family. Even if our bones are broken, our tendons are still connected. It was Second Uncle who was wrong before. You should give Second Uncle a chance to reform. Come home, your father and grandmother are waiting for you at home."
Qin Hao was so angry that he laughed at these words. He had seen shameless people before, but he had never seen anyone so shameless. He was really lying with his eyes open.
"Qin Jianjun, I have severed all ties with your family. The reason why I still have the last name Qin is because my father's last name is Qin. It has nothing to do with you. From the day you abused me, you never treated me as a relative. If Aunt Song hadn't taken me in, I might have died in your hands. Now you're still running to Aunt Song's house and barking wildly. Do you really think I can't do anything to you?"
Lin Dongzhe tugged at the sleeve of Zhuang Tunan beside him: "Brother Tunan, what do you mean by barking?"
Zhuang Tunan was also tireless in teaching others, and answered seriously: "This is an idiom, which describes a person barking like a dog."
"Pfft~~~"
"Haha~~~"
There was a sudden burst of laughter around the courtyard.
Qin Jianjun and his wife immediately lost their temper and spoke viciously to Qin Hao.
"Don't worry about adults' affairs. Today, Song Ying will give up your custody and let you go home no matter what she says."
Song Ying was about to speak, but Qin Hao spoke first: "This is my home, Aunt Song Ying is my relative, don't be delusional, you just saw me win the championship and thought I could be useful to you, so you came to ruin Aunt Song Ying's reputation, since you are so shameless, don't blame me for being rude."
As he spoke, Qin Hao handed the luggage and a large cardboard box behind him to Lin Wufeng.
"Uncle Lin, this is my championship prize. Please take it into the house first."
Then he whispered to Song Ying, "Aunt Song, are the photos and injury reports that I asked you to keep still there?"
"here I am."
"Then please help me get it out."
"This..." Song Ying hesitated when she heard this. When she and Qin Hao went to the police station to register the change of guardianship that day, Qin Hao also made a request to the police station: take photos and examine the injuries. She heard from the public security comrades that according to Qin Hao's injuries, if the case was reported, the perpetrator would be sentenced.
"Aunt Song, I've already given them a chance. People like them who are obsessed with profit will never be able to get rid of it once they get soft-hearted. If they only affect me, I don't care, but I will never allow them to hurt you, Uncle Lin, and Lin Dongzhe. You are my family."
Song Ying felt a lump in her throat and she sobbed silently while hugging Qin Hao.