Shen Jichuan gently apologized, while Wen Qiao smiled faintly.
“I don’t look down on you. We’re husband and wife. You fall asleep after drinking, and it doesn’t bother me at all.”
He always apologized to her.
But Wen Qiao didn't realize that Shen Jichuan had never apologized to anyone.
Shen Jichuan gave a soft "hmm," and then said:
"Xiao Qiao, Mom told me that Shen Xiao is looking for the doctor you mentioned. I will contact him."
"Whether there's a chance or not, you want to try, and I want to try too. Lianlian is your daughter, and she's also my daughter."
Wen Qiao was stunned for a moment. She didn't expect that her mother would tell Shen Jichuan everything before she could even speak.
That's fine, since we'd have to talk about it sooner or later anyway.
He then chuckled and said, "My mom really talks fast. I was planning to tell you when I was about to go."
“You don’t like Shen Xiao being close to me, and I’m afraid if I tell you, you’ll get angry again.”
Shen Jichuan rose through the ranks in the military and possessed an imposing presence without needing to be angry.
Whenever Shen Jichuan had a serious, stern face, Wen Qiao would subconsciously assume that he was angry.
Wen Qiao was genuinely afraid of making him angry.
It's like a naive young girl who's most afraid of a serious and aloof big boss.
Shen Jichuan replied, "I've reflected on myself. It must be because I'm too serious with you that you're always afraid I'll get angry."
"I'm a rather old-fashioned and boring person, maybe it's because I'm getting old. When I look at you kids, I feel..."
How childish!
His speech and actions are childish.
But he didn't dislike it.
Instead, they simply observed from the perspective of an outsider.
Wen Qiao pursed her lips and frowned slightly, her curved eyebrows showing a hint of seriousness.
He said to him, "You're wrong to think like that. I'm your wife. How can you still see me as a child?"
Shen Jichuan chuckled lightly, "Little friend, that's quite good too."
Wen Qiao didn't try to correct it excessively.
However, once the conversation was out in the open, Wen Qiao no longer needed to worry about Shen Xiao's words.
Since Shen Jichuan had spoken up, she naturally entrusted the matter to him.
She is the children's mother, but sometimes she is too caught up in the situation to think clearly, and she tries to take on everything to take care of the children.
They thus forgot that Shen Jichuan was also the children's father.
***
Shen Jichuan quickly contacted Shen Xiao privately.
He didn't ask any further questions, but went straight to the point and asked Shen Xiao.
“Shen Xiao, you should know what I want to ask you. Lianlian is my and Wen Qiao’s daughter. What you said to Wen Qiao, she told me that same day.”
She also said that your nephew is a good person and cares a lot about his little cousin.
Shen Xiao, on the other end of the phone, was feeling extremely frustrated.
"Uncle, you know what I mean. Wen Qiao's marriage to you might not have been without her being forced. She might have wanted to leave you, but just hadn't found a good opportunity."
"Shen Xiao," Shen Jichuan said sternly, "You must remember one thing: Wen Qiao and I are married, and we have a marriage certificate."
"As a soldier, don't you understand that your actions are undermining a military marriage?"
Shen Xiao knew better than anyone that the man on the other end of the phone was his uncle, whom he had respected and admired since childhood.
Before Shen Xiao could speak.
Shen Jichuan said coldly, "You need to remember clearly that I helped you a lot to get to where you are today. Do you think you're all grown up now? I, Shen Jichuan, am from the Northwest, but I can still prevent you from rising any higher."
"You can go home and ask your father why I came to the Northwest."
“Shen Xiao, you are the one I brought up. I don’t want your career to end here.”
"If you don't want a career that's on the rise, I can help you make the choice."
"Uncle!" Upon hearing Shen Jichuan's words, Shen Xiao panicked. "Uncle, I was wrong. I shouldn't have coveted people and feelings that didn't belong to me."
“I will help contact the mother of my comrade in Shanghai. If Wen Qiao goes to Shanghai, I can help make the arrangements in advance.”
"I will pay more attention to work matters."
Shen Xiao's workplace is the same workplace that Shen Jichuan worked at in Beicheng, and Shen Jichuan happens to be Shen Xiao's superior.
Shen Xiao was quite capable. At that time, the relationship between Shen Jichuan and the Shen family's old residence was at a strange point of equilibrium.
In addition, Shen Xiao respected his uncle very much, and Shen Jichuan was willing to help him.
Otherwise, no matter how outstanding Shen Xiao's abilities are, he wouldn't be able to advance so quickly.
Even after hanging up the phone, Shen Xiao's heart was still filled with unease.
He returned from the Northwest and had already been promoted to the rank of battalion commander.
You should know that nowadays, every officer in the military is a one-person-one-position job.
At such a young age, he had already reached the rank of battalion commander, which made him one of the best in the military.
Then look at Shen Haiyang, he spent money privately and has now been promoted to deputy company commander.
Although he was called the deputy company commander, he was actually just doing odd jobs next to the company commander.
Shen Xiao felt that Shen Haiyang's current predicament was most likely due to offending his uncle, Shen Jichuan.
His uncle rose to his position entirely through his own hard work and skill.
Shen Xiao dared not act impulsively for love, and in the end, he ended up like Shen Haiyang, becoming his uncle's abandoned child.
There's something else he's not quite sure about.
My uncle just said that he went to the Northwest, and that my father did it?
With doubts lingering in his mind, Shen Xiao returned to the Shen family's old house that very night, only to find that his parents and sister were not home.
Shen Xiao then realized that his parents had taken his younger sister to the Yang family.
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