Chapter 90: Original Family "Mom said, you are not allowed to ask a man for money...
Jiang Zongye was still planning all these things step by step, and planned to talk to Yingying in detail after the plan was successful and the contract was ready to be signed.
Compared to before, Qiao Ruoying now felt completely satisfied with his support and could more readily enjoy the benefits he provided. Her only concern was that she didn't know how to explain to her mother that the money she used to buy the house was given by Jiang Zongye, and she was also worried that her mother would not accept such an expensive house.
"The house prices in Jiayu Mansion are very high. I don't think my mother would accept us buying such an expensive house for her."
The old man said, "Then I'll talk to the sales department and have them find an excuse to give you an internal price."
"good."
Qiao Ruoying agreed.
Before falling asleep, she lay in the soft quilt, smelling the warm and dry fragrance of the quilt that had been dried in the sun.
Although her quality of life has been improved by Jiang Zongye and she is used to sleeping on soft mulberry silk, she still feels comfortable sleeping on the quilt that her mother has carefully washed and dried.
The girl's heart was in turmoil, like fifteen buckets of water being drawn, up and down in anxiety.
She wanted to talk to her mother directly about Jiang Zongye's matter early in the morning, but she was worried that her mother would not believe her if she only talked about Jiang Zongye's kindness to her.
But if I buy a house for my mother first, and then tell her that Jiang Zongye paid a large sum of money after the house is bought, I am worried that my mother will think that I am taking advantage of the man before they get married?
More likely, because of the bad impression left by the Jiang family's previous investigation into their family, her mother would be extremely wary of her accepting the money from Jiang Zongye?
After much thought, I couldn't come up with a good solution.
She wasn't nervous or anxious before, but now that Jiang Zongye's meeting with her mother was on the agenda, she started to worry:
What should I do if my mother doesn’t accept the Jiang family’s apology and is not satisfied with Jiang Zong?
That feeling of worrying about gains and losses, feeling empty and not knowing where to fall, came back again.
She loves her mother very much, and she likes Jiang Zongye very much. She hopes that the two most important people in her life can accept and recognize each other.
After struggling for so long, she finally waited for Zhou Gong and fell into a deep sleep.
The next morning, at 7:30 a.m., the alarm clock rang on time. Qiao Ruoying yawned, turned over and got up, slipped her fair feet into her furry slippers, and got up to wash up.
The house was quiet. Mom's door was wide open. The double-faced cotton quilt with a white background and green branches and small flowers was neatly folded. I guess she had gone out to buy groceries.
The door of my sister Qiao Ruoqi's room was closed, she must still be sleeping.
She was in the bathroom, filling a small cup with water and preparing to brush her teeth when a strange phone call came in. Qiao Ruoying thought it was a work call, so she picked up the phone and said "Hello".
A deep, middle-aged man's voice rang out: "Hello, Xiaoying."
The deep and rich voice, which also carried a hint of honesty, made Qiao Ruoying's back stiffen. The toothbrush in her hand fell to the sink with a "clang", making a crisp sound.
This was the voice of her scumbag father Cen Guangsheng. She was absolutely sure that she would not admit her mistake.
While she was stunned, Cen Guangsheng started talking to himself:
"Xiaoying, I heard you're back from Luocheng? Are you free to come over to Dad's place for dinner tonight? Bring your sister along. Grandma and your brother haven't seen you two for a long time..."
Hearing her father's tone of pretending to be a good person, Qiao Ruoying's fingers were shaking, and her tone was firm and quick:
"Don't call me anymore, I won't recognize you."
After saying that, she immediately hung up the phone. Qiao Ruoying could guess that she must have bumped into Aunt Cen Shuang at the convenience store yesterday, and Aunt Cen Shuang casually revealed the news of her return to her scumbag father, so the scumbag father knew about her return and also learned about her promotion from other connections.
She hadn't eaten breakfast, but her stomach felt like something was blocking it and her throat was tight.
Uncontrollably, her mind raced back to many childhood memories. In fact, two years after Qiao Li and Cen Guangsheng divorced, she was still known as "Cen Ruoying," and the two families still interacted with each other.
Mom had to go to work, so her grandparents asked the driver to pick her and her sister up to play in the compound.
It was then that she learned that she had a younger brother named Cen Chang, who was born to her father and his second wife. He was only ten months younger than Qiao Ruoqi.
The little brother had a beautiful little wolf tail, and he had left a long lock of hair at the back of his head, which was braided into a pigtail. He wore a brand new striped sweater with an elephant pattern on it, and was chewing on an ice cream in his hand.
Grandpa and grandma watched their orthodox grandson chewing ice cream with a smile, and from time to time called out "Good boy Changchang, don't get your clothes dirty" and "Good boy Changchang is so smart";
She and her sister, wearing old dark red sweaters discarded by their grandmother's cousins, huddled in a corner, staring at the ice cream in their brother's hand. They were like forgotten moss, stubbornly clinging to the corner of the courtyard, damp and silent.
"These two girls are really no good. They always hide in the corner and are not generous at all, unlike Changchang, who is such a smart and clever child." The grandparents pointed at them and used them as stepping stones to show off their grandchildren to the guests who came to visit their home.
Little Qiao Ruoying could feel that her grandparents disliked them.
But she still held a glimmer of hope in her little head: At least Dad wouldn't dislike them so much, right?
Until one day, she and her sister were taken to the compound again. Across the swaying green shade of the sycamore tree, she heard the little boy's unbridled laughter and screams. Looking under the sycamore tree, she saw a small swing hanging down from the long branches of the sycamore tree. A tall and straight man was pushing the little brother high and far, and the little brother was happily shouting "Dad——"
Cen Chang was very possessive of the swing and glared at them, threatening them: "This is my swing, no one of you is allowed to sit on it."
She and her sister never once rode on the swing. And although their father never openly disliked them, he never once carried them on the swing.
It's as if they are invisible people who don't exist.
Later, Ms. Qiao Li saw that they always looked sad every time they came back from there, so she stopped letting them go to their grandparents' house; later, Ms. Qiao Li changed their surname from "Cen" to "Qiao", and the two families had a huge quarrel and cut off all contact.
But the pain of not having a father didn't disappear just because she lost contact with him. In elementary school, there was always a topic called "My Dad." Asked to write about our lives, Qiao Ruoying began making up stories, writing about her father buying her and her sister ice cream, pushing her and her sister on the swings...
When the composition book was handed out, it had a big red hook on it. The teacher asked those who wrote well to go up and read their compositions. She went up and read it. As she read, her nose felt sore and tears began to fall.
A drop of cold tear fell on the sink.
These are the tears shed by the grown-up Qiao Ruoying for her childhood self.
Qiao Ruoying opened her eyes and warned herself "Don't cry", wiping away her tears with the back of her hand.
Qiao Ruoqi woke up and told her sister about her father calling her. Only then did she learn that Xiaoqi had also received a call from Cen Guangsheng some time ago.
"Sister, it must be that your scumbag dad saw that you became the administrative director and wanted you to find a job for his son, who is a shining example of his family. Now the Cen family is in decline, you deserve it." Qiao Ruoqi said unhappily.
It turned out that Hua County had severely investigated corruption and rectified discipline in the past few years, and the Discipline Inspection Commission had caught the Cen family. Old man Cen was thrown into prison, and Cen Guangsheng, who originally held a sinecure in the government, was also removed from his post.
Cen Chang was spoiled since childhood and was uneducated. The Cen family always relied on their power and wanted him to use the backdoor to get a job in the government in the future. However, this vision was shattered with the fall of Mr. Cen, and they started to have other ideas.
"Even if Yaozu kowtows to me, I won't find him a job." Qiao Ruoying said. Although she has a good temper, she is not so easy to mess with.
For so many years, this scumbag father has never given them a penny to spend. Now that their lives are getting better, the scumbag father wants to take advantage of the situation. He is really calculating.
"Don't let mom know that Cen Zha called." Qiao Ruoying warned her sister.
However, what the two sisters didn't know was that Cen Guangsheng was hung up by his daughter and turned around to call his ex-wife.
Cen Guangsheng had already torn his face with his ex-wife, so there was nothing to hide, and his face was direct and ugly:
"Talk to your eldest daughter. Cen Chang is still her brother after all. What's wrong with giving him some help? It won't cost her anything. If I hadn't been there, would she have been born into this world?"
This undisguised intention almost made Qiao Li's lungs explode, and she couldn't help but shout:
"Don't bother with my daughter. She has nothing to do with you. I worked so hard to raise my daughter, and you want to take advantage of her? No way!"
What makes Qiao Li even more worried is that Cen Guangsheng is becoming more and more shameless as he gets older. Will he go directly to Qiao Ruoying's house?
Now she only regretted that she had been deceived by Cen Guangsheng's handsome appearance and failed to judge him, which led to such a great disaster.
Xiaoying's career has just started, so she must not let him ruin it...
Qiao Li didn't know that Cen Guangsheng had already called Qiao Ruoying. She calmed down before going home and was determined not to let her two daughters find out.
At noon, the mother and her two daughters had a hearty lunch. Qiao Ruoying took the opportunity to talk to her mother about buying a new house.
Qiao Li thought about the fact that they had lived in this old community for more than 20 years and Cen Guangsheng knew their address, which made her feel very unsafe and she wanted to move to a new house.
But she was worried about money, so she said to her eldest daughter, "You can buy a house. Sell the one we live in first. It can fetch 400,000 or 500,000 yuan. You can use that as a down payment."
Qiao Ruoying bit her chopsticks and spoke carefully:
"Mom, we don't need to sell the house we live in now. I have money and I can use it to buy a new one."
Qiao Li took a closer look at the pajamas her daughter was wearing. The print was exquisite, and the bear pattern on it was particularly stylish. The fabric had the unique pearly color of silk.
In fact, when her eldest daughter came back from the New Year's Day holiday, she had a distinct feeling that she was different. Her hair was shinier, her clothes had a better shape and texture, and her whole demeanor and generous manners were a real eye-opener.
Not to mention, the money my eldest daughter sent home was getting bigger and bigger each time...
All of these require money to nourish.
Considering the previous investigation, Qiao Li vaguely guessed the general outline: Is Xiaoying in love with a rich young man?
Is this wealthy young man really good to her? Does he look down on her because of her background? Will his parents accept Xiaoying?
Coupled with Cen Guangsheng's threat this morning, Qiao Li unconsciously fell into a state of pessimism about love and marriage. When Cen Guangsheng was pursuing her, he was willing to spend a lot of money, talking on the phone for two hours every day in a phone booth, writing her love letters, and always bringing her imported goods and local specialties when he went on sightseeing trips.
But what happened after marriage? Wasn't it still a mess? Wasn't it because of a few words from Cen's parents, "Your family background is not suitable, you can't give birth to a boy," that they alienated her and forcibly broke up the family?
The past is too painful to recall. Ms. Qiao Li is worried that her daughter will fall into her situation and repeat her old path.
She took a deep breath and tried to keep her voice calm when she spoke again: "Yingying, tell me honestly, where did the money on you come from?"
As soon as these words were spoken, Qiao Ruoqi, who was eating with big mouthfuls of rice, stopped and looked at her sister uneasily.
Although their mother is usually very kind to them, she is very strict when educating them. When the two sisters do something wrong, their mother will first question them in this calm tone, but under this calm tone, it seems that there is a bottomless abyss hidden.
Qiao Ruoying's eyelashes trembled, but she still spoke: "The money...he gave it to me."
"Is it the rich young man who investigated our family before? His last name is Jiang, right?" Ms. Qiao Li raised her eyebrows, and her impression of this "rich young man" was a bit bad.
"Well, his last name is Jiang, Jiang Zongye, and he's the president of our group." Qiao Ruoying mustered up the courage and finally said it, but she quickly defended Jiang Zongye:
"Mom, it was his parents who investigated our family before. He has already apologized to me, and his parents know that what they did was wrong..."
"Xiaoqi, go back to your room first." Ms. Qiao Li interrupted her eldest daughter.
Qiao Ruoqi moved her mouth twice, wanting to speak for her sister, but was afraid of "adding fuel to the fire", so she had no choice but to rub the corners of her clothes, go back to her room, close the bedroom door, and leave the living room to her mother and sister.
This is also one of the "house rules" of the Qiao family. Usually, when Ms. Qiao Li wants to teach one of her daughters, she will let the other one stay away to avoid embarrassing the one being taught.
Now, she felt it was time for her to teach her eldest daughter a lesson.
When Qiao Ruoying saw her mother telling Xiaoqi to leave, her head couldn't help but buzz. It seemed that her using Jiang Zongye's money was definitely a serious mistake in her mother's eyes.
The more this happened, the more she had to speak up to avoid further misunderstandings.
"...Mom, Jiang Zongye's family really admits their mistake. He wants to come and apologize sincerely this time. He and I broke up once before..."
She wanted to tell her mother the whole story, how sad Jiang Zongye was after the breakup, and how she had been so persistent in trying to get him back.
She wanted her mother to know how kind Jiang Zongye was to her, even worrying about her being bullied at work and giving her a jade carving worth hundreds of millions to appease her; how he rushed to finish his official duties just so he could come to Huaxian to see her on the eve of Spring Festival...
But before she could tell them the details, her mother interrupted her again.
Ms. Qiao Li looked at her with a straight lip. Her usually gentle eyes were now a little stern. "Yingying, tell your mother first. Didn't your mother teach you and Xiaoqi not to ask for men's things?"
"Especially, you're not allowed to ask men for money?"
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The author has something to say: Xiaoying faced her mother today: [poor][poor][burst into tears][burst into tears] Mom, he is really good, he is really different from other men [burst into tears][burst into tears]
In Mama's eyes, Jiang's son-in-law: a yellow-haired man, a pig trying to steal cabbage, a rich second-generation man bound by his family, and a man who changed his mind after marriage. [Cracked][Cracked]
The atmosphere in this chapter is a bit heavy, don't worry, it will be a surprise soon. [pat head][pat head] I heard you guys want to eat, I'll cook delicious food after I finish writing about Lao Jiang dealing with his mother-in-law [eat][eat]
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