Chapter 156: Overhaul and rewatch with red envelopes. Overhaul and rewatch with double red envelopes...

Chapter 156

As soon as these words fell, the narrow room suddenly became quiet.

"What did you say?" Jiang Meishu was a little confused. She even thought she had misheard and asked again, "What did you say?"

Some things seem easier to say once you've opened your mouth. Zhu Xiaoju took a deep breath, tears streaming down her pretty face. "I'm saying, please give Liang Rui back to me."

Jiang Meishu finally heard the sentence clearly, or rather, she finally understood the sentence.

She looked at her with a complicated expression and a cold voice, "You've got the wrong person."

"Liang Rui is a person, not an object, so there's no point in returning him to you."

"If you want him to come back to you, go ask Liang Rui, ask the person involved, ask him if he is willing to come back to you."

When asked this question, Zhu Xiaoju's face turned pale instantly. She turned around and looked at Liang Rui hopefully, with the look of a mother expecting her son.

She hoped Liang Rui would agree.

It was a pity that Liang Rui avoided her gaze. He asked in a low voice, "Why didn't you come to see me before?"

She could come when he was three, five, or ten, but not when he was seventeen.

Seventeen-year-old Liang Rui is still one year away from adulthood. Strictly speaking, he is already a member of the labor force.

He could support his family and contribute to it, but at this moment, his biological mother came looking for him.

She could have come earlier, but she came so late.

When Liang Rui asked this, Zhu Xiaoju suddenly fell silent. She couldn't answer the reason and could only apologize repeatedly, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it's my fault, it's my fault."

"I'm late." She tried to get Liang Rui's forgiveness. She rushed over and grabbed Liang Rui's hand. This time Liang Rui did not refuse, but let her hold it.

"Xiao Rui, can you forgive your mother? I really didn't mean to come so late."

Liang Rui looked down at the other person's hand holding her hand. Her hands were covered with calluses and felt a little prickly. In fact, you can tell whether a person is living a good life or not by looking at their hands.

Her finger joints are thick and her skin is obviously wrinkled. She is not having a good life.

"Why?"

Liang Rui looked up and blankly looked at Zhu Xiaoju who had been crying. "Why didn't you come earlier?"

He had also longed for a mother. When he was young, he asked Liang Qiurun repeatedly for his mother. He had also been scolded as a motherless child.

He also cried himself to sleep all night long because he had no mother.

She didn't show up when he needed her the most, but now that he doesn't need her anymore, she's here.

Liang Rui didn't understand. There was a puzzlement in his eyes. "Why? Why didn't you come earlier?"

Zhu Xiaoju couldn't answer, she just kept apologizing and crying.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Meishu frowned slightly, "Comrade Zhu, right? Liang Rui asked you questions, and you couldn't answer them. Similarly, he couldn't answer the questions you asked him. So now, as Liang Rui's stepmother, I'll ask a few questions on his behalf that you can answer, okay?"

Her attitude couldn't be described as good or bad; she just looked at him with scrutiny, as if trying to figure out her true purpose.

Zhu Xiaoju was a little uncomfortable with her scrutinizing gaze. She just lowered her head and sobbed softly, "Just ask."

"Well, you want Liang Rui to recognize you, but you won't tell me why you haven't come to him for so many years. Okay, I'll assume that Liang Rui is willing to recognize you. What then? Let Liang Rui follow you back to Harbin? How will you support him?

Liang Rui is now in the second year of junior high school and is about to enter high school. After he follows you, will you arrange a high school for him? After he graduates from the second year of high school, will you be able to support him to go to college? If so, have you thought about what school and major he will study in the future? If not, will you let him go back with you to suffer and then support you in the process?

This series of questions was somewhat pointed, but each one was a fact, a fact that Liang Rui would have to face if he recognized Zhu Xiaoju.

Zhu Xiaoju was stunned by Jiang Meishu's question. Tears were still on her face, and the fine lines at the corners of her eyes revealed her age.

She murmured, "I haven't thought about it."

Jiang Meishu looked at her. Her face was still so gentle, but now she stood in front of Liang Rui with a solemn look. "You don't want to think about anything, and you don't want to be responsible for him. You just want to acknowledge him, right?"

Zhu Xiaoju opened her mouth. She really thought so. Since she had met Liang Qiurun, she naturally wanted to recognize her son.

She just murmured, "Xiao Rui is my son, the son I gave birth to after ten months of pregnancy."

Jiang Meishu hummed, "No one denies that you are his mother, but what is a mother? It's not just about giving birth, it's also about raising someone."

"Since you knew where Liang Rui was, why didn't you come to find him before?"

"Why didn't you come to see him before?"

"Or, what have you done for him during his growth?"

"Comrade Zhu," Jiang Meishu said calmly, her tone of voice making a statement. "Although I'm not a mother, I've had children. Being a parent isn't just about giving birth. More important than giving birth is raising a child. If you don't raise a child, you can pay it back by cutting off a finger. But if you raise a child before he's born, you'll never be able to repay him in a hundred lifetimes."

"This is the difference between you and Liang Qiurun."

Liang Qiurun is a grown man who raised Liang Rui from childhood to adulthood, so he can naturally see the difficulties involved.

Zhu Xiaoju looked miserable, lowering her head and crying, "It's not that I don't want to support him, it's that my man is gone."

Her voice was filled with despair, tears welling up in her eyes, "My man died trying to save Liang Qiurun!"

"I want to raise him, and I want to keep the child by my side. We can live happily together as a family of three and watch the child grow up. But my husband is gone, he's sacrificed, and everyone wants to take my child away. I have no choice. I really have no choice."

Zhu Xiaoju turned to look at Liang Qiurun. Her eyes were no longer soft, but red and sharp. "Liang Qiurun! When you took Xiaorui away, you said that I would always be his mother."

"What now?"

Now his Xiao Rui doesn't recognize her.

I don't recognize her anymore.

Liang Qiurun was not at all misled by her, but calmly stated, "Comrade Zhu, Liang Rui doesn't recognize you because you gave up on him."

"It's not that I won't let him disown you."

"You have to understand the point here. In the sixteen years he was growing up, you never visited him once. You gave up your responsibilities as a mother, so he doesn't recognize you."

“Instead of coming to us with your problems, you should ask yourself why you didn’t come?”

Why not come?

Why don’t you come and see Liang Rui? Liang Rui was adopted by someone, he is not dead.

Zhu Xiaoju couldn't answer this question.

She couldn't answer either.

"Look, you can't answer that."

Liang Qiurun frowned, "You want to recognize Liang Rui."

"Have you asked Liang Rui?"

He looked up at Liang Rui and asked, "Do you want to recognize her?"

Liang Rui looked at her with a complicated expression, and a little aggrieved, "I don't even know her, why should I recognize her?"

After hearing this, Zhu Xiaoju suddenly became unsteady, "Xiao Rui, I am your mother, your mother."

Liang Rui, "It's you who doesn't want me."

"We haven't seen each other for sixteen years. Don't you think it's ridiculous that you want me to recognize you as my mother now?"

Zhu Xiaoju's tears kept streaming down her face.

"Xiao Rui, Mom has her own reasons. Really, Mom has her own reasons."

"What's the reason?"

Liang Rui's voice was hoarse. "It's because you remarried and had a new child, right?"

"Then you threw me out like a burden."

As soon as these words fell, the air in the room instantly became quiet.

Everyone looked over.

Including Zhu Xiaoju.

The expression on Zhu Xiaoju's face was one of astonishment, shock, fear, and guilt.

"What are you talking about, Xiao Rui? You are my only child."

Liang Rui said coldly, "You still want to lie to me, right?"

"I once asked my dad, 'Why don't you come to see me?'"

"He took me to see you once, from a distance." Liang Rui lowered his eyes, not wanting Zhu Xiaoju to see the expression on his face. "You were carrying a child at the time." He gestured, "As high as my knees, you smiled happily."

There was no him in her happiness.

As soon as Liang Rui finished speaking, Zhu Xiaoju knew that the fact she wanted to cover up could no longer be concealed.

She opened her mouth and said, "I didn't mean to hide it from you, Xiao Rui. I really didn't mean to hide it from you."

"I just wanted to come and see you. When I saw Liang Qiurun, I thought of you."

Liang Rui, "If you didn't see my dad, would you remember me?"

He asked.

"You won't," he answered himself. "You haven't thought of me in the past sixteen years."

"Not once, you never looked at me once."

When Liang Rui said this, his eyes were red, and he pushed Zhu Xiaoju out with anger, "Then why do you want to disturb my life?"

"Why?"

"Get out."

"Get out."

He pushed Zhu Xiaoju outside as if to vent his anger. The boy was very strong and Zhu Xiaoju was no match for him. She said in panic, "Xiao Rui, listen to me, listen to me, mom really misses you."

Liang Rui pushed her out the door before he stopped.

He stood inside the high threshold and Zhu Xiaoju stood outside. The threshold seemed like a boundary between the two of them.

"You're not thinking about me."

Liang Rui's eyes were sharper than ever before. "You are thinking about the Liang family's property and the Liang family's house."

He didn't know why, but he could understand her.

I can see the greed and secret joy hidden deep in her eyes.

It’s as if seeing the son whom he had casually abandoned living a good life now, he wants to come and have a share of the pie.

Zhu Xiaoju didn't expect that he would think of her like this.

She froze in place, "I didn't, Xiao Rui, I really didn't."

"I just want to see you, really. I want to see if you've grown up and what you look like now."

Liang Rui, "You saw it."

He stood at the door, arms folded across his chest in a defensive posture, "Now that you've seen it, can you leave now?"

The overly straightforward words made Zhu Xiaoju feel a little embarrassed.

She looked at Liang Qiurun for help.

Liang Qiurun was silent for a moment. "Comrade Zhu, Liang Rui is right. You've seen him, and you can leave now."

"Since you have a family, you can live your own lives."

"Don't bother me."

Zhu Xiaoju paused, her face a little embarrassed. She could no longer pretend to be patient and missing him. "My son is doing well, shouldn't I come?"

This is what she really wants to say.

Liang Qiurun frowned, obviously not expecting Zhu Xiaoju to be such a person.

"He is my son. Is it wrong for me to go to him?"

This is what she really thinks deep down in her heart.

The surroundings suddenly became quiet.

"If you don't raise a child, what's the point of living? If Liang Qiurun hadn't raised Liang Rui for over a decade, he would have died somewhere long ago. If that were the case, would you still come looking for him?"

"If Liang Rui was not doing well, was poor, and needed your subsidy, would you come?"

Jiang Meishu suddenly asked.

Zhu Xiaoju couldn't answer this question. Could it be?

Of course not.

Otherwise, she would have come sixteen years ago. If she hadn't come, she would have forgotten about this son. Her first husband died, and she remarried and had three more children.

It's just that life is hard now, so she has come up with the idea of ​​coming to live with her eldest son. No matter how much, as long as the other party gives her some, or if the eldest son can recognize her, her and her child's life will not be so difficult in the future.

Zhu Xiaoju's silence meant she agreed.

This made Liang Rui feel a little disappointed. Although he had never had any illusions about his mother from the beginning, he still felt sad when the reality came.

It will be really sad.

Because he was living well, his mother wanted to come over and suck his blood to feed his half-siblings.

When he thought of this, Liang Rui's blood rushed back to his body. He walked forward like an angry tiger and pushed Zhu Xiaoju out.

"Don't even think about it."

"Don't even think about it!"

"Even I'm just a poor wretch who relies on my father to support me, and you want me to support you and the children you'll have later?"

"Why?"

"Why?"

Zhu Xiaoju staggered after being pushed. She wanted to explain, "He's also your brother from the same mother."

"no."

Liang Rui sneered, "I don't have any brothers, Zhu Xiaoju, and I don't have any sisters either."

"I follow my dad. He loves me and cares for me. He is just like my stepmother. For my sake, they would rather not have children. They are afraid that I will feel disappointed and that my younger brothers and sisters will take away their love for me in the future."

"Zhu Xiaoju." At this point, Liang Rui didn't even want to call his mother. "Why do you do that? Why do you ask me to take care of those strange bastards?"

At this moment, Liang Rui realized more clearly than ever that his biological mother had never loved him.

Not even a minute or a second has passed.

Zhu Xiaoju didn't expect Liang Rui to be so violent all of a sudden. She was stunned for a long time. "You are really spoiled, kid. What brother in this world would stop his parents from having children? They are your siblings, your blood relatives."

It would have been better if she didn't mention it.

The more he mentioned it, the angrier Liang Rui became. "I don't need it."

"I don't need it!"

"roll!"

"Get out!"

He was furious at Zhu Xiaoju, and seeing Liang Rui's emotions becoming increasingly uncontrollable, Jiang Meishu frowned. She pulled Liang Rui and signaled to Liang Qiurun, "Take him away."

If Zhu Xiaoju were to stay here, Liang Rui would probably be driven crazy.

Liang Qiurun nodded, and asked Comrade Wang and Uncle Lin to come over and take Zhu Xiaoju away together.

Zhu Xiaoju was unwilling.

Liang Qiurun said calmly, "You came here as a migrant worker. The capital is cracking down on migrant workers. If you don't want to go to jail and don't want your future children to lose their mother, I advise you to go back as soon as possible."

"Comrade Zhu Xiaoju."

"For Datou's sake, I don't want to be violent with you. Since you took Datou's martyr's allowance and married another man, you used his martyr's allowance to support other children."

"From that moment on, you and Liang Rui have no relationship."

Liang Rui never spent a penny of the martyr's allowance.

And all that money was spent by Zhu Xiaoju.

Zhu Xiaoju looked stunned, "Liang Qiurun."

She was like crazy, "You can't kill me like this, my man died to save you."

Liang Qiurun watched her go crazy. Just like before, Zhu Xiaoju, who suddenly lost her husband, soon went looking for a second spring.

In fact, Liang Qiurun has always known it.

Liang Qiurun said calmly, "Zhu Xiaoju, ask yourself, have I ever been completely ruthless towards you?"

"Big Head sacrificed himself, you didn't want Liang Rui, and remarried alone. I never said a word against you to Liang Rui. The only time he saw you, he cried for a month. I said I would take him to see you from a distance, but at that time, you already had two children."

"That means you gave birth to two children in three years after remarrying."

"At that time, Datou's body was still warm." Liang Qiurun's voice became increasingly rapid. "I thought you had lost your husband, and that it was impossible for you to make a living as a woman. Remarrying was normal. I, and even everyone stationed at the garrison, didn't try to stop you. After you remarried, you used Datou's martyr's allowance to raise another man's child. I never reported you to the garrison, and I let you take the money and live your life as you do now."

"Because I feel like I owe you this. Datou owes you this. If Datou hadn't left, you wouldn't be living this kind of life."

“But what I didn’t know was that human nature is insatiable.”

Liang Qiurun's tone was already disappointed. "Zhu Xiaoju, Liang Rui has already forgotten you. His life is already on track. Why do you want to interrupt his life for that little money?"

"You kept saying you wanted to see him, and now that you've seen him and he's letting you go, why don't you leave?"

Zhu Xiaoju was completely stunned by these questions.

She stood there, trying to show weakness and play the emotional card, but she started to make unreasonable demands, "I won't leave. My son lives a good life, why should I leave?"

Liang Qiurun gave her a chance, but unfortunately, she didn't cherish it.

He said to Uncle Lin, "Uncle Lin, please notify the street office for me and have them contact the Harbin breeding farm to have her current husband come and pick her up."

As soon as these words fell.

Uncle Lin turned around and was about to do it.

Unfortunately, Zhu Xiaoju was hysterical. "Liang Qiurun, you are not a good person. You are so heartless. My man died to save you. You treat me like this. Aren't you afraid that he will crawl out from the ground to find you?"

Liang Qiurun's eyes were silent. "I'm not afraid of Big Head coming to see me. I raised his flesh and blood. Liang Rui was well-fed. Just for this reason, I have the face to see him."

"What about you? Do you dare to see it?"

Does Zhu Xiaoju dare?

Zhu Xiaoju naturally didn't dare to do that.

Liang Qiurun didn't look at her and said to Uncle Lin, "Have the people from the street office come over and arrest her first. Also, have Director Zhu from the farm come over as well."

"Also, he's with a man."

Zhu Xiaoju knew that if Director Zhu also came along, both she and her husband would be finished. Her husband, relying on his background as a farm employee, carved an official seal out of a radish.

This is how she got her fake travel certificate.

Once this matter is exposed, even if it is not her fault, her husband will lose his job, and she still has three children to support.

Thinking of this, Zhu Xiaoju suddenly panicked. She went to pull Liang Qiurun's arm and said, "Liang Qiurun, I'm leaving. I'm leaving by myself. I won't come back again. Don't let the farm director come."

She pleaded in a low voice.

Liang Qiurun closed his eyes. The person he once called sister-in-law had finally become a different person at this moment.

His heart was as hard as stone. "Uncle Lin, go find someone."

"Comrade Wang, look at her."

A series of instructions came down.

Zhu Xiaoju had no chance to resist and was suppressed. She came with a purpose, seeking benefits and also wanted to see the child, but seeking benefits was more important than seeing the child.

But at this moment she was really scared.

Zhu Xiaoju burst into tears, "Liang Qiurun, I shouldn't have gone to Liang Rui. Please forgive me this time, I will never go to Liang Rui again. Don't worry, I really beg you."

Liang Qiurun listened to her words quietly without saying a word, just waiting silently.

Seeing that begging was no use, Zhu Xiaoju began to curse loudly, her beautiful face now ferocious. "Liang Qiurun, you are not a human being. You will suffer retribution for treating the families of martyrs like this!"

"You will be punished!"

Liang Qiurun looked at her with a stern expression, "I deserve retribution. I shouldn't have kept it a secret from the beginning, letting you take the lion's share of the martyr's allowance and raise another man's child."

"Zhu Xiaoju, I have received many retributions, but your retribution came first."

Liang Qiurun, who has always had a mild temper, got so angry for the first time.

"The big martyr's subsidy shouldn't have fallen on you from the beginning. It belonged to Liang Rui!"

Zhu Xiaoju was stunned and asked in a sharp voice, "What do you mean?"

Liang Qiurun said each word with emphasis, "Literally, the money Datou sacrificed should be spent on his only flesh and blood."

Zhu Xiaoju exploded instantly, almost jumping up and down, "Liang Qiurun, you can't!"

"I can."

Liang Qiurun's tone was cold, like a sharp sword drawn from its sheath, "Zhu Xiaoju, I shouldn't have been soft-hearted from the beginning."

His soft-heartedness was enough for Liang Rui.

Zhu Xiaoju was really scared. The farm needed to reduce staff, and her husband was most likely on the list. They still had three children to raise, otherwise they would not have paid attention to Liang Rui who was sent out.

But now, not only did she not gain any advantage, but she also had to give up all her past gains.

This is simply unacceptable to Zhu Xiaoju.

"That's my money. It's the allowance the garrison gave me after my husband died."

“It’s my money.”

"Liang Qiurun, you can't do this."

Liang Qiurun didn't waste time talking to her, just looked at her indifferently until he saw Uncle Lin coming over. Liang Qiurun walked over and asked him in front of Zhu Xiaoju, "Uncle Lin, have you contacted the people in Harbin?"

Uncle Lin nodded. "We've made contact. The subdistrict office takes migrant workers very seriously. They said they'll be here to arrest them right away."

"As for the Harbin breeding farm, Director Zhu said he would bring Chen Shi, who forged the official seal and issued the fake certificate, over here. As for Zhu Xiaoju, he told us to keep an eye on her and not let her go."

As soon as these words fell, Zhu Xiaoju instantly collapsed to the ground. It was over, she was finished.