Chapter 409 Missed

Jiang Zhizhi plans to talk to Jin Huaiying tomorrow to confirm that the two Chinese medicines are indeed not toxic before going to see Jiang Zhenhua.

The two children complained that their parents were chatting and pushing the stroller too slowly.

Little Zhou was already very dissatisfied, glaring and slapping the car seat while making loud noises.

Shang Shang was also unhappy: "Dad, let's go home and have dinner."

Jiang Zhizhi smiled and stroked her daughter's little braids: "You two are such little troublemakers."

...

When I got home, the food was already laid out, and Sister Chen was busy cooking noodles in the kitchen.

Fang Hua smiled and said, "You're back just in time. We'll have noodles with soybean paste for dinner, and I also steamed some egg custard for Shang Shang and Xiao Zhou."

Jiang Zhizhi smiled and agreed, then she and Zhou Xiye took the two children to wash their hands, and after washing their hands, they sat down.

Fang Hua let Zhou Xiye and Jiang Zhizhi eat first. She and Zhou Chengyu fed the two children egg custard, but the two children preferred to eat by themselves, so they had to watch them to prevent the children from getting egg custard all over their hair, clothes, and even inside their clothes.

In the end, Shang Shang compromised and insisted that her father feed her.

Jiang Zhizhi ate her noodles with a smile, watching Zhou Xiye clumsily feed the two children egg custard. In the end, he even knew to scrape the egg custard residue from the corners of the children's mouths with a spoon, as if he were scraping putty on a wall.

While the family was enjoying a happy dinner, Song Man suddenly ran over, carrying her daughter Tian Tian.

Song Man still had tears on her face, and the child in her arms was also sobbing, clutching her clothes tightly.

Fang Hua was startled when he saw this: "Song Man? What happened? Why is Tian Tian crying? What's wrong with you?"

As she spoke, she helped Song Man to sit down on the sofa and called to Sister Chen to bring her a towel.

Song Man, without her glasses and looking haggard, hugged her daughter with tears in her eyes: "Auntie, I'm sorry to bother you. Could you use your phone to call my brother and ask him to come and pick me up?"

Seeing Song Man's sadness, Fang Hua quickly nodded, "Okay, okay, I'll go make a call right now. Don't cry or worry."

Jiang Zhizhi also came over and took a handkerchief to wipe the tears of the child in Song Man's arms. The little girl was obviously very shy. Before Jiang Zhizhi's hand even touched the child's face, the child had already struggled to hide in her mother's arms.

Song Man choked with emotion: "I just had a fight with my mother and came out with my child. Even if I have to beg for food outside with my child, I will never come back."

Jiang Zhizhi didn't dare to ask why, but simply stuffed the handkerchief into Song Man's hand: "Sister, don't worry, there will always be a way."

Song Man looked disappointed: "I really didn't expect that my own mother would abuse my daughter. I just got home from get off work and saw my mother stuffing a piece of meat into my daughter's mouth, saying, 'Here, eat it, you're so greedy, you little glutton...'"

"The child was crying, and she kept stuffing food into her mouth while hurling all sorts of nasty insults. I was just..."

"She's only a year old! How could she treat her like that?"

Song Man was trembling with anger. She rushed in and started arguing with Chen Limin. In the end, she left the house carrying her daughter.

Once outside, they found they had nowhere to go, so they went to the Zhou family's house to ask them to help them call Song Dong.

Fang Hua was shocked to hear this: "How could you treat a child like this? This child is so young, at an age where they're still putting poop in their mouths, how can they be a glutton?"

Jiang Zhizhi also frowned. She had previously worried that if Song Man went out to find a nanny, what if she abused the child?

Chen Limin is the child's maternal grandmother, so how could she possibly abuse the child? Who would have thought that she would abuse the child even more cruelly?

Song Man wiped away her tears: "I never expected that I would give her a month's salary and food coupons. I also bought the baby formula. Every night when I came home, the baby would hold my hand and ask for food, pointing to the formula can and wanting to drink it."

She had previously thought her daughter simply had a large appetite, but now it seems that she was likely hungry during the day and wanted to eat when she came home at night.

Chen Limin said that her daughter was difficult to take care of and cried a lot, which was because she was not getting enough to eat.

Fang Hua sighed repeatedly, but knowing Chen Limin's character, he didn't say too much, lest they later think that they were the ones sowing discord between them.

Zhou Xiye called Song Dong, and Song Dong arrived quickly.

He walked in, his forehead still sweaty, and seeing Song Man crying, he already guessed what had happened: "Did you quarrel with Mom?"

When Song Man saw Song Dong, she couldn't hold back her emotions any longer and burst into tears again.

Song Dong quickly went over to comfort her: "Don't cry, calm down first."

Song Man knew they were at the Zhou family's house, and she couldn't stop crying. She tried her best to hold back her emotions, and finally calmed down. She and Song Dong then left with the child in their arms.

After seeing them off, Fang Hua returned and sighed, "This Chen Limin must have lost her mind. She's pushing away her perfectly good son and daughter. I wonder what she'll do in the future? Song Man's daughter is quite pretty, but she really cries a lot."

“When we took Shangshang and the others to the square, we ran into Chen Limin with her child a few times. Every time we saw her, the child was crying.”

Zhou Chengyu, standing nearby, said indignantly, "Who knows if she secretly pinched the child? Anyway, this Chen Limin is no good. Do you remember when she came to our house and made sarcastic remarks before?"

When she mentioned it, Jiang Zhizhi and Fang Hua both remembered that when they were airing out their quilts, Chen Limin, who hadn't visited in a long time, came over, made a sarcastic remark, and left.

Not long after, news came that Zhou Xiye had sacrificed his life.

Fang Hua immediately snorted: "Serves her right that no one will take care of her when she gets old."

While they were talking about Chen Limin, Shang Shiying and Bian Suxi came over, followed by Li Simin.

It's been a few years since I last saw Li Simin. He has matured a lot. Perhaps it's because he spends all his time doing research in the lab. He has fair skin and is slender and refined.

With a touch of aloofness and refinement, in today's terms, he was clearly a highly educated intellectual.

Fang Hua exclaimed, "Si Min is back? When did she get back?"

Li Simin smiled slightly: "Auntie, I just came in a little while ago when my mother told me to come and see. I heard that Brother Zhou also just came back."

Fang Hua looked Si Min up and down, praising him repeatedly: "Great, Si Min looks just like a scientist now."

Shang Shiying laughed heartily, "Don't praise him too much. What scientist? At home, he's just our child."

Li Simin greeted Zhou Xiye again: "Brother Zhou, it's been a long time."

While the two shook hands and exchanged pleasantries, Bian Suxi went to see the two children.

Looking at the now radiant Li Simin, and then thinking of the haggard Song Man who had just looked like a stranger, Jiang Zhizhi wondered if the two of them would ever meet...

Fang Hua then asked Sister Chen to make tea. After Li Simin and Zhou Xiye finished exchanging pleasantries, Fang Hua asked, "Simin is twenty-eight this year, right? Has he settled his personal life yet?"