Shen Zhishu went to the cadre ward to visit Mrs. Huo in the name of Professor Huo's student.
Shen Zhishu also brought some fruits, which was very thoughtful.
Of course, he had already told Huo Yan before coming to the hospital that since the elder was sick, Huo Yan could be considered half of his teacher now, plus he and Shengsheng were childhood sweethearts.
It's not strange to visit Mr. and Mrs. Huo.
Mrs. Huo did not feel disturbed by the polite visit of her brother's student.
I heard that he used to live next door to Shengsheng, and suddenly I felt a lot closer to him.
Mrs. Huo's stomach problem was caused by emotional excitement, and her stomach problem was also an old one.
I have taken a lot of medicine in the past two years and the disease has rarely recurred.
"Xiao Shen... I heard from my brother that you and Shengsheng were childhood sweethearts?"
Mrs. Huo couldn't help herself and started asking about her daughter right after the greetings.
They don't know that much.
They actually don't know enough about their daughter's life in the country.
Since Shen Zhishu is her neighbor, he must...must know more.
Shen Zhishu smiled and said, "Well, Mrs. Huo, Shengsheng and I grew up together."
Mrs. Huo clenched the bed sheet tightly, her joints turned white, "Was she very cute when she was little? Was she naughty? She..."
Mrs. Huo had a lot to ask, but she said a few words and then stopped talking. After all, he was an outsider, and it would be inappropriate to ask too many questions.
Shen Zhishu peeled an apple for Mrs. Huo. "Shengsheng was very obedient when he was little, not naughty at all, and very cute, just like the New Year dolls that are posted on the door during the Chinese New Year."
Mrs. Huo felt much better after hearing this, and she couldn't help but smile when she thought of that scene.
Shen Zhishu saw that Mrs. Huo seemed to want to hear more, so he smiled and decided to stop there and not say any more.
Mrs. Huo endured for a few seconds, but she lost her temper and asked, "Are her adoptive parents good to her? Will they beat her?"
Shen Zhishu seemed to be hesitant to speak, seeming to be in a difficult situation.
"Not very good."
He said this with a look of distress on his face, "I was often beaten."
When Mrs. Huo heard this, her heart sank into a knot and her face turned pale.
Shen Zhishu had a purpose for saying this.
He continued slowly, "So she often hides in my house, in my room."
"Cry when you are scared, and go to sleep when you are tired of crying."
Shen Zhishu's face showed no expression when he talked about this, but he actually felt a little nostalgic in his heart.
I miss the time when Song Shengsheng could only rely on him.
Shen Zhishu continued, "It's a bit pitiful, but it will feel better after eating the candy."
As he said this, Mrs. Huo felt distressed and her impression of him improved a lot.
It seems that Shengsheng received a lot of care from him when he was young.
Mrs. Huo felt a little more grateful to him.
Shen Zhishu calmly changed the subject: "She hasn't even finished high school yet, but her parents want her to get married. They've been dragging it on for two or three years, but they can't drag it on any longer—"
After a short pause, Shen Zhishu said nonchalantly, "She didn't want to marry the man her parents had chosen, so she married her current husband."
In short.
Her current marriage was a choice she made unwillingly, and was not a free marriage based on free love.
After hearing this, Mrs. Huo felt even more distressed and became more determined to take her daughter away.
"Is Fu Cheng good to her?"
Mrs. Huo's voice trembled and she was a little afraid to ask.
Shen Zhishu was silent for a moment: "Mrs. Huo, you have to ask about this."
After hearing this, Mrs. Huo felt that her question was a bit abrupt, as outsiders would not know the details of matters between husband and wife.
Just by looking at Shen Zhishu's hesitant look, Mrs. Huo knew what was going on.
Most likely it won’t be very good.
Mrs. Huo already had a prejudice against Fu Cheng, and now the prejudice was like a mountain, heavy and could not be moved.
Shen Zhishu was very sensible. He stopped at the right time and did not show any sign of trying to sow discord. He said what he needed to say, looked at his watch, and left the hospital at the appointed time.
Mrs. Huo had a very good impression of him.
He is academically successful, mature, stable, modest and gentle, and respectful to his elders.
The most important thing is that he took good care of Shengsheng when he was a child.
She even felt a little regretful that her daughter would have married Shen Zhishu at that time.
*
Shen Zhishu returned to school after leaving the hospital.
He has his own dormitory at school and doesn't have to live in the same room with other people.
The dormitory he lived in was not big. He kept the small room clean and there was a bookshelf on the wall next to the window.
Shen Zhishu found several original English books from the bottom layer.
These books were the ones that slipped through the net back then and are rare books that were not burned.
In fact, the content is nothing special, just a few books that are the carriers of novels.
Shen Zhishu sorted the books and prepared to send them to Song Shengsheng tomorrow. Given her half-hearted personality, Shen Zhishu was indeed worried that she would not be able to hold on for long before giving up.
What Song Shengsheng is best at is giving up.
No one can compare to her in this respect.
Shen Zhishu had to make more preparations.
He also went to the Academic Affairs Office in the afternoon and met classmates on the way.
When classmates saw Shen Zhishu, they generally didn't dare to say hello, especially when Shen had a blank expression on his face, which made people stay away from him.
They had never seen Student Shen smiling, and they had no idea how word got out that he had a good temper and was easy to talk to.
There are also brave and enthusiastic female classmates in the school.
I took the initiative to write him love letters, but without exception, none of them were accepted.
He seemed to have no interest in even looking at it, no curiosity to open it, and no concern for the disappointed and sad looks of his female classmates.
After this happened so many times, no one dared to send love letters to his seat.
There had only been sporadic rumors before that Student Shen had a childhood sweetheart fiancée in his hometown, which was why he coldly rejected other people's advances.
Originally, few people believed this rumor.
If he really had a fiancée, shouldn't he have been married a long time ago?
Why wait until now to get the certificate? You can't be a hooligan who doesn't want to take responsibility.
When the rumor was spreading like wildfire, some people even went to ask Shen if he really had a fiancée in his hometown.
The usually serious student Shen's expression became very gentle, with a faint smile at the corners of his eyes, as if he recalled something interesting. He had no intention of hiding it and admitted it generously, "Yes. Yes."
"I heard that you two were childhood sweethearts? Is that true?"
"Really, we grew up together."
You could also say that he raised her.
At least that's what Shen Zhishu thought. Song Shengsheng was raised by him, and it was he who deliberately accustomed her temper without making a sound.
Shen Zhishu still remembered that when she was little, she got into trouble and hid in his room until night. She didn't dare to leave even when it was dark. She thought she would slowly crawl into his bed when no one noticed.
Use your hands and feet to climb up.
She altered her quilt, wrapped herself up tightly like a silkworm pupa, and covered her head, as if no one would be able to discover her this way.
Shen Zhishu pretended not to notice that she had sneaked into bed. After he finished his farm chores at home, he took a shower, thought about it, and then took out the quilt from the closet, spread it out next to her, and lay down beside her.
Shen Zhishu seemed to feel that the people around him breathed a sigh of relief, and after a while, he heard a rustling sound in his ears.
He kept his eyes closed, then slowly turned his head and looked at her.
She seemed to be unable to hold it in any longer and felt uncomfortable with the stuffiness inside the quilt, so she quietly poked her head out, her little face rosy and her complexion particularly good.
Suddenly meeting his gaze, she was a little flustered, but calmed down after a moment. She rolled her eyes and said, "I just fell asleep, brother. It's so dark outside. I'll sleep here tonight!"
Her tone was brisk and certain, as if she was certain that he would not refuse.
In fact, Shen Zhishu would not refuse, and was very good at playing dumb, as if he really believed her lies. "Okay."
Two half-grown children sleeping in the same bed is not too crowded.
The chirping of cicadas in midsummer lingers.
The door creaked twice, and Shen Zhishu's father pushed the door open, "Xiaoshu, have you finished your homework?"
Shen's father treated Song Shengsheng as his half-daughter. The Shen and Song families happened to be neighbors, so it was not strange for the children of the two families to call each other brother and sister.
Little Shen Zhishu was able to say calmly, "My sister is asleep."
Father Shen walked into the inner room, took a look at the bulging mattress on the bed, and thought something was wrong.
He quickly turned around and said to the Song couple who had come to visit him, "The child is so tired that she has fallen asleep. Why don't you pick her up tomorrow? Let Shengsheng sleep at my house tonight so as not to wake the child up."
Both Father and Mother Song disagreed, and Mother Song insisted on going into the house to take a look.
She was very angry at the time, holding a cane in her hand, and looked really fierce.
Father Shen advised again: "Why bother so late at night?"
He glanced at the cane in her hand again, and snatched it from her palm when she wasn't paying attention. "Besides, they are just children, it's not good for you to hit them all the time."
Mother Song said, "I don't hit her. I carry her back to sleep."
Mother Song was so determined that even Father Shen couldn't stop her.
Shen Zhishu had already pulled back her quilt and lay down next to her, quietly telling her that as long as she pretended to be asleep she wouldn't be caught and beaten or criticized.
She was very obedient, maybe she was scared of being beaten.
I tightly closed my trembling eyelashes and pretended to fall asleep.
Mother Song entered the room and saw the two children sleeping together, holding hands very closely.
She couldn't tear it apart by force for fear of waking up the child from the Shen family.
She thought Song Shengsheng was afraid of being beaten when she returned home, so she pretended to sleep at Shen's house.
Father Shen sent her to the door and said, "I will take care of the two children going to school tomorrow. Shengsheng's mother, you don't have to worry about them."
Song's mother could only nod and said, "Thank you for your help."
The little girl, who was about five or six years old, escaped the disaster by pretending to be asleep.
Later, such things happened too many times, and gradually, whenever something happened, Song Shengsheng would hide in Shen Zhishu's small and simple bedroom.
Song Shengsheng envied and was extremely jealous of Shen Zhishu, but she also looked forward to staying at his house during every winter and summer vacation.
She didn't have to endure hunger, her parents' harsh words, or harsh meals three times a day.
Shen Zhishu spent all the New Year's gift money he saved every year on her, feeding her from childhood to adulthood, and he was not exaggerating.
Shen Zhishu recalled these past events and still felt a little unsatisfied.
He recalled that after he said he had a fiancée, many of his classmates curiously asked him:
"When are you going to get married and get your marriage certificate? To be honest, we are now at the age to get married, and there are many classmates in school who are married and have children!"
Getting married is not such a strange thing.
Shen Zhishu said two words at that time: "Soon."
Therefore, the students in the school actually believed in the existence of Shen's fiancée who had never shown up.
*
the other side.
When Mrs. Huo's stomach trouble got better, she went to visit the Fu family.
Shengsheng happened to be at school, and the elders from both families sat together, so some things could be made clear at once.
Mrs. Huo is also an independent businesswoman abroad, so she has a strong style. Compared with her, Ye Jing is not a soft person either.
Even if you have been a director for so many years, you still can't manage things well without some skills.
Mrs. Huo got straight to the point and said, "I came back this time to take Shengsheng away with me."
Ye Jing poured her some tea calmly, "Mrs. Huo, whether Shengsheng wants to stay or go back with you, you have to ask her if she is willing."
Mrs. Huo never thought that her daughter would be unwilling.
The conditions in China are vastly different from those abroad.
She subconsciously felt that her daughter would be willing to go with her. Apart from other factors, the material conditions she could enjoy abroad were far better than those in her home country, which had just begun its reform and development.
Mrs. Huo pursed her lips and said, "I'll ask her."
Ye Jing could sense that Mrs. Huo still had a very strong attitude, and had an uncomfortable desire to control everything, wanting to take control of everything herself.
However, even though she has been in business for many years, she would not be able to gain a firm foothold if she is not strong enough.
But using this kind of force on Shengsheng will only backfire.
Shengsheng is a kid who absolutely doesn't like to be forced.
Ye Jing sat down and asked calmly, "Mrs. Huo, you insist on taking Shengsheng away. Is it because of the feud between the two families or do you really just want to take her back, even though she has already started a family and has children here?"
Mrs. Huo is over 40 years old and is in very good condition.
The skin is smooth with few wrinkles.
Her expression was somewhat cold at the moment. "The past grievances between the two families have been in the past for many years. There is no need to talk about it anymore."
"I also know that the marriage between two children is not a matter of mutual consent."
"It's over now. It's good for everyone."
Ye Jing found this ridiculous, "What about their children?"
Mrs. Huo said: "We in the Huo family can afford it and we can take good care of it."
She was somewhat rational: "But we won't force you. If you don't want to, the child can stay. I just want to take my daughter away."
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