Chapter 54: 90: A Family by the Spring Chapter 54: You Ungrateful Little Thing, Forgetting All Kindness

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Protagonist:

Lin Xiyu

"What? What did you say?"

Guben didn't hear clearly, leaned forward, and pressed his ear to her mouth.

"Xiyu, is there soup left in the pot? Save a bowl for your uncle."

Chen Xiulan couldn't stand it anymore, deliberately coughed twice, and interrupted their joking.

"I feel like your mom doesn't seem to like me very much?"

Guben sensitively sensed something was off, and stood up straight feeling somewhat aggrieved.

"Remove the two words 'I feel'."

Lin Xiyu's mouth corners curled slightly, teasing him as she smiled: "It's just that she doesn't like you."

"Hey, you..."

Guben laughed in exasperation, and since her family was present, he rubbed her cheek with his fingertip a few times, forcibly suppressing the urge to pinch her face.

"Let's go, hurry up."

Lin Xiyu snatched the rice bowl from his hand, laughing as she shooed him away: "It's pitch black outside; if you don't leave now, your grandfather will get anxious, and I don't want to see a bunch of police cars making a scene again, coming to my house to look for someone."

"Oh, so you're chasing me away?"

Guben laughed helplessly: "You're something, I've finally seen through you, you ungrateful little thing, forgetting all kindness..."

"Stop the nonsense, hurry up and go."

Lin Xiyu didn't let him finish, shoved him hard, and pushed him out of the yard.

Chen Xiulan watched silently, lips pressed tight, her mood irritable and uneasy.

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"Xiyu, tell your mom the truth, do you like that classmate of yours? When did you two start? How far have you developed? Have you......."

After filming ended and the program group was sent off, she could no longer suppress her anxious mood, and impatiently dragged her daughter into the inner room.

"Mom, what are you thinking?"

Lin Xiyu didn't want to listen to the nagging, and decisively denied: "There's nothing between him and me, just classmates, no other relationship."

"What you're saying......."

Chen Xiulan didn't believe her, eyeing her doubtfully: "Mom feels that it's just so unbelievable."

"Why is it unbelievable?"

To dispel her mother's doubts, Lin Xiyu told her everything about how Guben had helped her get the ten thousand yuan reward.

"Ten thousand?!"

Upon learning the truth, Chen Xiulan was so shocked she couldn't come back to her senses for a long while.

"Fortunately, he helped me."

Lin Xiyu thought for a moment, then added: "Otherwise I wouldn't have dared to think about it; filming a documentary could actually earn money, so this time, I really should thank him."

"Xiyu."

Chen Xiulan didn't listen carefully to what she was saying, her heart and eyes filled entirely with the ten thousand yuan: "Can you tell Director Du to give you the money early? Our family has an urgent need......."

Lin Xiyu's dense, long eyelashes fluttered, and her complexion changed slightly.

"It's like this......."

Seeing her daughter's troubled expression, Chen Xiulan hurriedly explained and told her about the dispute when the whole family discussed buying a house that afternoon.

"Sister Leilei wants to quit her job?"

Lin Xiyu was shocked: "Who did she go to borrow money from?"

"According to what your cousin said, it was one of her high school classmates whose family runs a clothing wholesale business."

Chen Xiulan didn't hide anything: "Your Aunt Da wasn't reassured; after receiving a phone call, she went out with your Da Yifu to find those two siblings."

"Would Grandmother agree to sell the bed? That was the only keepsake Grandfather left him."

Lin Xiyu felt somewhat relieved, but thinking of the big bed being sold, a surge of indescribable heartache welled up.

"Your grandmother said......."

Chen Xiulan's eyes flickered slightly, avoiding her daughter's gaze: "As long as she can get a good price, she has no objection."

"I don't believe it."

Lin Xiyu saw through her guilt, and stood up from the bed as if in a huff: "I'll go ask Grandmother......."

"You're not allowed to go."

Chen Xiulan grabbed her arm in one motion: "Mom also knows Grandmother feels bad in her heart, so don't go and add to the trouble."