Chapter 115 Family Matters

Han looked at Aunt Zhao. She had never heard Gu Ningwei talk about his parents, and she was a little curious in her heart.

After all, Gu Ningwei's attitude towards love is different from that of most rich second-generation playboys. He takes love very seriously, even more seriously than young people like Lu Xiaoping who are not very worldly-wise.

She once guessed that Gu Ningwei's personality might be related to his growing environment. Today, when she heard Aunt Zhao talk about Gu Ningwei's mother, she couldn't help but feel very curious.

"Auntie, did Gu Ningwei's mother die a long time ago?"

"Yes," Aunt Zhao sighed. "His mother died of cancer. Oh, I think it's purely because of the anger they caused him to have this disease."

"What's going on?"

Aunt Zhao paused, lowered her head to make wontons, and did not answer.

Han waited for a while, wanting to ask but feeling embarrassed to do so.

After all, she would never take the initiative to inquire about such private matters unless others told her, even if it was Gu Ningwei's family.

"Awei's mother is very beautiful. You can tell from Awei's appearance," said Aunt Zhao.

Han nodded. Gu Ningwei was indeed very handsome, especially his eyebrows, which were deep and affectionate, and his nose was high and angular. It was obvious that he had good genes.

"Ah Wei looks like his mother, and so does his personality. His mother is very smart and capable. When the Gu family started from scratch, it was his mother who helped make decisions. Not only did his mother have to manage the logistics of so many people, but she also had to work during the day. In addition, when they encountered problems in starting the company, his mother would also help with advice... She might have done it."

Aunt Zhao said this with admiration in her eyes.

"I've never seen a woman who can handle everything like Awei's mother, big or small." Aunt Zhao sighed and said doubtfully, "I don't understand. Is it because women are too capable that men don't like them? Awei's father, although not as capable as Awei's mother, doesn't like her. After he got rich, he even liked to flirt with other women outside..."

"Oh, then can Awei's mother tolerate it?" Han Que asked. She knew intuitively that Gu Ningwei's mother was definitely not the kind of woman who could tolerate a man's infidelity.

"No," Aunt Zhao said matter-of-factly. "It would have been fine if she hadn't discovered it, but think about how smart she is. How could she not have discovered it..."

Han nodded after hearing this. She is a smart person.

"But I remember she didn't get angry at the time. She probably kept her composure. She told Awei's father that the business was growing bigger now and that the company had introduced some laws."

"Company law," Han interrupted.

"Yes, that's right, it's the Company Law." Aunt Zhao nodded repeatedly. "Awei's mother said that we can no longer be self-employed and must set up a formal company. Awei's father always listens to her on these matters. The second son of the Gu family also thinks what she said makes sense, so they set up a company. Awei's mother also said that the company must have at least two shareholders. Since they are partnering with my brother's family, both families have shares, and no one can take advantage of the other. Both couples have shares..."

Han listened and thought to himself, this is really a rational person who knows how to protect himself and his children.

"What happened next? When did they divorce?"

Aunt Zhao sighed. "Actually, Awei's mother later told me that she was giving the child's father a chance to reform. As long as he stopped associating with those women, she would let it go and pretend that none of this had happened. She still wanted to consider Awei and didn't want him to know about his father's affairs. But..."

Aunt Zhao shook her head and sighed softly, "Men never repent. Once they have money, they become even more ignorant of the limitations of heaven and earth. They become even more reckless in their extramarital affairs."

Han said, "Maybe he was just gambling, betting that women in that era wouldn't divorce easily..."

"Yes, he was gambling." Aunt Zhao sneered. "How could he have known that Awei's mother was such a tough person? When she caught them in the act, she was determined to divorce him and went straight to court to sue. Awei's father panicked and begged and pleaded. I heard he even knelt down, but it was all in vain..."

Han breathed a sigh of relief, feeling admiration. Gu Ningwei's mother was truly courageous and resourceful, able to bend and stretch. She was not an ordinary person. How could a child raised by such a mother be bad? He could only be better than her.

If it weren't for her mother's tolerance, Gu Ningwei would not have shares in "Chengguang" and he would not be financially independent.

"Awei's mother is really smart and capable." Han admires her from the bottom of his heart.

"Yes, she is strong-willed. Even though she never talks about it or complains in front of outsiders, she is actually suffering inside. Otherwise, she wouldn't be sick. In fact, she is just angry." Aunt Zhao said affirmatively.

Han disagreed in her heart, but did not refute it. She knew that Aunt Zhao just felt sorry for his mother.

"Ah Wei is just like his mother. They both have things on their mind but never complain on the surface. This isn't a good character..." Aunt Zhao looked at Han Que and said, "When you have time, you should talk him down. I've noticed he's been smoking a lot lately. The ashtray on the balcony is full of cigarette butts."

"He's smoking again?" Han frowned, taken aback. "Didn't he tell me he had quit? He even said he quit smoking to avoid affecting the next generation... I thought he really had."

"Ah..." Aunt Zhao didn't expect that Gu Ningwei would pretend to obey Han Que in order to please him, and she had inadvertently exposed him.

"No, I have to go and settle the score with him. How could he cheat me like this?" Han deliberately frowned and said angrily.

"Oh...then don't say that I told you." Aunt Zhao said quickly.

"What are you two talking about, whispering and being mysterious?"

Gu Ningwei was changing his shoes at the entrance when he saw Han Que and Aunt Zhao whispering in the kitchen. He walked into the kitchen with a smile, looked at the Wuxi wontons on the counter, and said happily, "Oh, I'm in for a treat today! I'm going to eat Wuxi wontons. What's the filling?"

He washed his hands in the sink, shook off the water, and said, "I just like eating big wontons with shepherd's purse and meat filling."

"Where did you get shepherd's purse in this hot weather? You know how to eat it. This is stuffed with vegetables and meat." Aunt Zhao smiled and rolled her eyes at him, then reached out and tapped his hand. "Don't touch it. It's just been wrapped. If you touch it, it will fall apart before you put it in the pot."

Gu Ningwei laughed and made a face at Aunt Zhao. Turning around, he saw Han Que walking out of the kitchen with his lips pouted. He raised his eyebrows and asked Aunt Zhao in confusion, whispering, "Hey, I just heard you two talking and laughing, why are you so unhappy when you see me?"

Aunt Zhao gave him a sidelong look, blinked, and smiled, "You've done a good deed yourself, don't you know it?"

Gu Ningwei frowned, thinking, "What do I know? I just came back and haven't even said a word to her, how did I offend her?"

Aunt Zhao reminded him, "Not just now."

Gu Ningwei was even more confused: "I left home this morning, and she and I were fine before I left."

Aunt Zhao said again, "Hey, not today." Then she made a smoking gesture and asked, "Do you understand?"

Gu Ningwei frowned and rolled his eyes for a long time before shaking his head, puzzled. "No, I haven't provoked her in the past few days. How could I dare to provoke her in her current state? She does whatever she wants. I'm really afraid it will melt if I put it in my mouth."

Seeing that he didn't understand anything, Aunt Zhao looked at him regretfully and said, "Forget it, I won't get involved. Go ask her yourself." After that, she lit the fire to boil water and prepared to cook the wontons.

Gu Ningwei stood in the kitchen for a while. Seeing that Aunt Zhao ignored him, he had to walk out of the kitchen and go to the living room to find Han Que, thinking about how to make her happy.

He walked over to Han Que and sat down. Seeing that she was concentrating on reading the research and development documents on the computer, he said with a smile, "Hey, stop looking at it. Looking at the computer too much is bad for your eyes. You should take a rest."

"I'm not tired. I just rested." Han didn't look at him, but studied the research and development report sent by Tang Zifeng without raising his head.

Gu Ningwei leaned over to her computer, looking at the rows of formulas and symbols on the screen, as well as those unfamiliar biological terms, and asked, "What does this mean? What does CRISPR mean?"

"The system was originally discovered in bacteria as an immune mechanism used to defend against foreign viruses and plasmids... CRISPR, which stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is a series of repeated DNA sequences separated by unique spacer sequences. These spacer sequences are fragments of viral DNA acquired by bacteria during previous viral invasions. Cas9 (CRISPR-associated protein 9) is a nuclease that can cut double-stranded DNA at specific DNA sequences..."

Han explained as usual. She glanced at Gu Ningwei's bewildered face and shook her head. "Forget it. I can't explain it to you. You'd better not worry about it. Anyway, we want to use this gene editing technology to develop products..."

Gu Ningwei had a confused and impressive expression on his face, staring at her with his charming peach blossom eyes in admiration: "Wife, you are really amazing. You know such advanced technology. I don't even understand it..."

"Stop it." Han rolled his eyes at him, put down the mouse, turned around, and said to Gu Ningwei, "Come on, open your mouth and breathe out."

Gu Ningwei was stunned, not understanding what was going on: "What is this for?"

"I told you to open your mouth, so you opened it. Why are you talking so much nonsense?" Han glared at him.

Gu Ningwei opened his mouth wide and said with a playful smile, "Wife, are you looking at my teeth? I'm fine."

Han came close to him and sniffed hard, but did not smell any smoke, only a cool minty scent.

She rolled her eyes, smiled slyly, and asked, "Do you like mints? I want some, too."

Gu Ningwei frowned slightly, recalling that Aunt Zhao had just made a smoking gesture, and immediately realized that he had been caught smoking secretly, so he changed his expression to a flattering and innocent one, pretending to be calm: "Oh, what a coincidence, I ate it all, I'll buy you another tomorrow."

"No, I want to eat it now." Han said coquettishly, "I want to eat mint candy now." She paused and then added to her acting: "Well, it's not me who wants to eat it, it's the baby in my belly who wants to eat it. Hurry up and get it out for me... And I want to eat your flavor."

Gu Ningwei sighed silently in his heart. This was not a mint candy at all. This was clearly the mint-flavored cigarette he had just smoked downstairs. There was no way it could taste like this.

He decided to get away with it and said with a laugh, "Hey, I really don't have any left. I'll buy it for you tomorrow. It's getting dark now and the shops are all closed..."

Han deliberately asked, "What brand of mint candy is this? It's so expensive. Isn't it sold in convenience stores or supermarkets? Do you want to buy it tomorrow?"

She wrapped her arms around Gu Ningwei's body and said, "No, I want to look for you and see if you are hiding."

As she spoke, she began to rummage in Gu Ningwei's trouser pockets, and immediately felt the shapes of a lighter and a cigarette box. She asked with a smile, "Huh? What is this? Let me take it out and have a look..."

Gu Ningwei held down her troublesome hand, smiled pleadingly, and prepared to kiss her lips: "Hey, Han Que, stop touching me... Really, you can't touch me randomly... If you touch me again, I'll react... Aunt Zhao is still here, she'll hear it..."

Han continued to touch her relentlessly, "I don't care whether you react or not, it has nothing to do with me..."

Gu Ningwei looked at her delicate, rosy face and sparkling eyes, his heart surged. He couldn't help but hug her and kiss her hard on the lips.

As they kissed, their hearts beat faster and they were in a frenzy. However, Han pushed him away, panting heavily and said angrily, "No..."

Gu Ningwei finally let her go and kissed her hard on the lips: "You knew it was wrong, but you still provoked me. You did it on purpose..."