Chapter 139: Public Opinion

Chapter 139: Chapter 139: Public Opinion

Fu Xiaoxiao had been tossing and turning in the room for a long time before her wildly beating heart finally calmed a little.

She took a deep breath and tiptoed to the door, resting her fingers lightly on the doorknob, slowly pushing it open in an attempt to minimize the range of her movements, and the sound it made was as soft as a mosquito buzzing. The door opened a crack, and her eyes were glued to it, like a cautious little beast, carefully observing the outside through the gap.

Lu Feng was leaning against his own door, and when he heard the faint sound of the lock turning on Fu Xiaoxiao’s room door, his actions paused for a moment, and a slight smile appeared on his lips.

Fu Xiaoxiao gradually pushed open the door, and when the gap was wide enough to let half her body through, she stepped out with one foot. At that moment, she inadvertently looked up and met Lu Feng’s gaze.

"Finally willing to come out?" Lu Feng smiled and looked at her directly.

Fu Xiaoxiao’s face instantly flushed red.

"You... you, you..." Fu Xiaoxiao stammered, her voice changing due to nervousness.

"Alright, stop avoiding me, I won’t tease you anymore." Lu Feng walked up to Fu Xiaoxiao and said with a smile.

"Hmph." Hearing Lu Feng’s apology, Fu Xiaoxiao snorted softly, turned her head proudly, and walked out.

Lu Lin and Lu Chen saw that Fu Xiaoxiao had finally appeared, and smiled, "Mom, what are we eating today? We’re hungry."

"Hungry? Well... let me see!" Hearing that the two children were hungry, Fu Xiaoxiao hurried to the kitchen to check and think about what delicious food to make today.

Suddenly, a sharp clamor broke the tranquility, and the sound was coming from next door.

"Aren’t you two done yet!" Li Si’s angry voice penetrated the wall, reaching everyone’s ears.

Li Si stood in front of his two sons, his face flushed red, his brows knit into a "川" shape, and the veins on his forehead slightly protruding.

His eyes were glaring wide, staring fixedly at the two little guys who were fighting, his eyes full of fury.

"From morning till now, not a moment of peace! The house is almost turned upside down by you!" he shouted angrily, pointing at the mess they made in the house, with things thrown everywhere and the bedding pulled down onto the floor.

"We were just playing..." Li Lei said in a low voice.

"Playing? Playing until the house is turned upside down! Look at what you’ve done, the bedding is on the floor." Li Si’s voice suddenly rose, he stepped forward, his fists clenched tightly, seemingly trying hard to control his emotions.

"When mom was here, we played like this at home!" Li Sen was so frightened by his father’s demeanor that he cried out, and this sentence seemed to be the last straw that ignited Li Si’s anger.

"Still crying! Still daring to mention your mother who abandoned her husband and children? She doesn’t even want you! Making the house such a mess, and you think you have a point?" Li Si slammed the table, and the items on it shook.

"From now on, go back to your rooms and reflect! You come out when you realize your mistakes!" Li Si commanded loudly, pointing in the direction of the room.

"But we’re hungry!" Li Lei pursed his lips and pointed to his stomach.

The veins on Li Si’s forehead twitched, and he quickly walked out of the house.

He slammed the door shut with a "bang" and angrily headed toward the military canteen.

After Li Si left, Fu Xiaoxiao slowly poked her head out, looking at the mess in the yard, and seeing the disorderly home that Li Lei and Li Sen had created; she couldn’t help but twitch her mouth.

"If I saw this messy house, I would really break down." Standing from Chen Xiu’s perspective, looking at such a scene, Fu Xiaoxiao really felt her blood pressure shoot up to 180.

"I completely understand." Lu Feng came to stand beside Fu Xiaoxiao, following her gaze. Seeing the once neat and tidy house across the way now turned into a mess, he could understand Li Si’s current mood.

However, he deserved it.

A good wife lost because of his neglect.

Fu Xiaoxiao snorted softly, agreeing with Lu Feng’s thoughts.

Li Si acted superior in front of his wife, playing the old-fashioned male chauvinist role, and now it’s only fitting he has no wife and must endure this suffocating scene.

You have to know that it’s just one day for him, but it was a whole ten years for Chen Xiu! Every day having to clean up the mess created by him and the two kids, following them around to tidy up.

This is just the beginning! Let him crumble for a few more days.

As Fu Xiaoxiao expected, Li Si initially put on the act of a good father for a few days, but after that, except for bringing food back, he directly stayed at the barracks and didn’t come home to sleep, nor did he tidy the house or care for the kids.

Had it not been for Fu Xiaoxiao allowing the two kids to come over at night to sleep with Lu Lin and Lu Chen, who knows how terrified the two kids would have been in such dark nights.

During the day, Lu Lin went to school with Li Lei and Li Sen, and after school, the three kids went home together. Whenever in front of others, Li Sen and Li Lei always looked pitiful, wearing dirty clothes that hadn’t been washed for days, with dirt on their faces and bodies.

Fu Xiaoxiao let the two children act for a few days, and the entire family compound saw how the two kids turned from having a mom to not having one, becoming dirty from once being clean, which made everyone who saw them sigh.

In the family housing area, several military families gathered with small stools under an old locust tree, and seeing the time was right, Fu Xiaoxiao joined them with some sunflower seeds.

"Hey, Xiaoxiao, you finally came. You’re living next door, you must have overheard something. Why are the two kids like this now? Did Chen Xiu really divorce Li Si?" Granny Wang saw Fu Xiaoxiao and finally had the chance to ask all the questions she had been holding in, starting the conversation.

"Yes! After the divorce, are the two kids really just left unattended like this? It’s too pitiful. What will these motherless children do in the future? Li Si doesn’t come back either. I went to see it, the house is such a mess it doesn’t even look like a home. Besides bringing food for the kids, he doesn’t care about anything else. How is that acceptable?" Aunt Liu also thought Li Si was too much.

"Isn’t it so! Who wouldn’t feel sorry for the two kids? They’re about the same age as Xiao Lin; look at Xiao Lin before, wasn’t he just as pitiful? And now, these kids are like stones and wood without a mom!" Zhang Xiaomei shook her head.

Fu Xiaoxiao sighed, gave them a look, hesitated to speak.

"Xiaoxiao, just tell us! What exactly happened, how did it end up in divorce? We can’t very well go to Chen Xiu’s door and ask, it wouldn’t be right to reopen her wounds..." Granny Wang looked at Fu Xiaoxiao, knowing that she surely knew the details.

"Ah, there’s no harm in telling you now, Sister Chen Xiu was driven away in anger." Fu Xiaoxiao sighed and said slowly, "Isn’t it just that Li Si was too excessive, every day coming home acting like a lord, discontented with this and that about Sister Chen Xiu, saying nothing was done right, the food wasn’t cooked right, the house wasn’t tidy, the kids weren’t managed well, nothing was ever good enough, making Sister Chen Xiu feel alienated..."

As soon as Fu Xiaoxiao spoke, Aunt Liu frowned tightly. "This Li Si is really something, putting on airs in front of his own wife!"