Chapter 132 Forgotten Everything

Jiang Jianni was completely captivated by the secrets of this large family and couldn't help but ask, "But what?"

Lu Xiangyang smiled and said, "It's just that we share the same surname, Song, so I'm deliberately trying to claim kinship with them."

Jiang Jianni stared wide-eyed in disbelief: "Claiming kinship?"

Lu Xiangyang said, "What's wrong? Isn't this normal?"

"Aren't you a history major?"

"Historically, weren't there many famous emperors who, just to save face, found a famous person to be their ancestor?"

There is no concrete evidence that Liu Bei claimed to be a descendant of Liu Sheng, the King of Zhongshan. He simply said so himself, which can be considered as loyalty to the Liu Han imperial family, so everyone assumed that he was a descendant of Liu Sheng.

In other war-torn eras, emperors rose and fell, and countless others claimed ancestral lineage.

Even Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, considered recognizing Zhu Xi as his ancestor, but he was principled and proud, and after thinking it over, he refused.

This was when he was the emperor.

Others who become high-ranking officials, who were originally just a few cats and dogs, can suddenly become a huge family that even the high-ranking official himself doesn't know about.

It is evident that the practice of finding a famous ancestor to bring glory to one's family after achieving success has existed since ancient times.

That's why they say even the wealthiest people in remote mountains have distant relatives.

The Song family were just businessmen.

Although they weren't exactly without a strong foundation, they were clearly no match for the Song family, one of the four great families.

Anyway, since everyone has the surname Song, we must have been one family hundreds of years ago. If people don't object, we can shamelessly tell others that we are real relatives. It's that simple.

For businessmen, the concepts of face and integrity are meaningless.

Lu Xiangyang heard about this from his mother when he was thirteen or fourteen years old, and at that time he hated his maternal grandparents' house.

But as I grew older, I gradually came to understand.

To put it bluntly, the Song family was simply seeking refuge during a time of war when they were afraid of disaster.

Jiang Jianni pressed on, "Did you make it?"

Lu Xiangyang was speechless: "If we get involved, what chance will we brothers have?"

The Song family's threshold is exceptionally high. Grandpa Song's family were just ordinary merchants; it wasn't something that could be easily climbed up to them.

However, they did not acknowledge their kinship, but they did not refuse their gifts.

So the Song family shamelessly used the Song family's reputation to add some insurance for themselves.

Otherwise, before the liberation, Grandpa Song would have already led his whole family to run away with the Song family.

Lu's mother would never have had the chance to meet Lu's father, marry him, and have Lu Xiangyang and his three brothers.

Lu Xiangyang didn't know what had become of the Song family.

Grandpa Song's family fled in the 1950s and haven't returned since.

The little bit of information that Lu Xiangyang knew came from his mother.

Even Lu Ma herself couldn't say for sure who else was in the Song family.

Jiang Jianni: "...Should I say thankfully?"

Lu Xiangyang laughed: "That's right! Luckily, they didn't like Grandpa and his family, otherwise neither of us would have had a chance to get married."

The next day, Jiang Jianni experienced firsthand what it meant to be a professional.

As soon as she opened her eyes, warm water for washing her face and a towel for drying her face were already prepared. Even the cup for brushing her teeth was filled with water at the right temperature, and toothpaste was already squeezed onto the toothbrush.

Aunt Liu even planned to help her comb her hair.

Stunned, Jiang Jiani quickly refused.

joke.

She was pregnant, not paralyzed, nor did she have a broken arm. What Aunt Liu did was already astonishing enough. Asking someone to help her comb her hair made her wonder if she had traveled back to ancient times or the Republic of China era, rather than the 1990s.

—Who has a nanny who still takes care of serving others?

Moreover, when she comes home from get off work, Aunt Liu will put her slippers out the door and massage her legs.

Putting everything else aside, ever since I found out I was pregnant, I've been experiencing all sorts of physical discomfort.

Even though Lu Xiangyang had followed the doctor's advice and tried his best to relieve her pain, he was not a professional after all, and there were some uncomfortable areas that he couldn't take care of.

When Liu Sao, a professional, spoke to Jiang Jianni, she suddenly felt that pregnancy was nothing.

Despite gaining about ten pounds, I feel refreshed both physically and mentally.

This made her start to wonder if she should give the person a raise—otherwise, she really felt like she was doing a disservice to their skills.

What nanny would give you a massage or kneading? — The key is that they are very professional and useful.

She was so comfortable that she almost forgot about the mess at school.

It wasn't until one school meeting, when the principal criticized certain teachers without naming them, for not focusing on their duties and for forming cliques and factions all day, and Gao Haoren wasn't on the list of outstanding teachers, that she realized there was such a thing.

As for Gao Haoren, perhaps because he had something to hide, he became much quieter after that and started teaching honestly, which even improved his reputation among the students.

But at this point, she didn't care about that at all.

Life is so comfortable now, I don't want to deal with these annoying people and things at all.

Not long after the conference, it was time for final exams and summer vacation.

Jiang Jianni is already finding it hard to stand the summer heat, and the arrival of summer vacation is exactly what she's looking forward to.

Every day, she would think about how to get Aunt Liu to make her something cold to satisfy her cravings, but she was always refused—because pregnant women can't eat cold food.

Then, she waited for Jiang Haiyang and Jiang Yanni to come to her door.

Jiang Yanni complained to her as soon as she saw her: "Sister, you used to say that a married daughter is like water spilled from a cup because her family is too sexist."

"Look at yourself, look at yourself."

“Our mom doesn’t treat you like water spilled from a bowl; she still comes to see you often.”

"And yet, you've turned around and treated yourself like water that's been spilled?"

"How long has it been since you last came back to our home since you got married?"

“My third brother and I took the middle school entrance exam and the college entrance exam respectively, and you didn’t even care.”

The little girl stared at her belly with a sour face and loudly accused, "Tell me, are you going to disown us, your younger brother and sister, now that you have a baby?"

Even Jiang Haiyang stared at her with a stiff face and didn't say anything.

Jiang Jianni slapped her forehead, looking annoyed: "Ah, I knew I forgot something, but I just couldn't remember. Turns out I forgot you guys have an exam!"

She remembered telling her two younger children that she would take them to the exam venue.

Jiang Haiyang shook his head and sighed: "Sister, you said you would send me to university if I got into university."

He looked at Jiang Jiani's belly with a pessimistic expression: "Are you really going to be able to take me there? Maybe we should just forget about it."

"I heard that the train was packed with people, people were crammed together and trampling on each other, people were everywhere, a real sea of ​​people."

“You’re pregnant with my nephew, don’t give birth on the train, or I won’t be able to explain it to my brother-in-law and our parents.”

Jiang Jianni raised her hand and slapped him: "What nonsense are you talking about? You're the one who was born on the train."

"By the way, are you really that confident you can get into university?"