167 Peaceful Meeting with Father
Ping An was startled: "Do you want my mother to go home? Or the mistress?"
Chang Chunfeng was a little embarrassed, but still looked straight into his son's eyes: "I am willing to take her home, but I can't let her continue to be the mistress of the Chang family. Dad is an official, and if she does this, she will be looked down upon."
"Ha, ha, ha." Ping An couldn't help laughing strangely, "Do you think my mother cares? No, she doesn't care. She just wants to live a life without worrying about three meals a day and a life without being called a nemesis by others to collect debts.
What Madam? I will earn all these honors for her when I am your son, why should she go back to be your concubine?"
The young boy suddenly became cold, and Chang Chunfeng was dumbfounded. The Dashun in front of him looked exactly like the boy in his dream, and his eyes were so cold.
"Da Shun"
"Do you want to know how we lived? It was only a month after your accident that my grandfather couldn't hold on any longer. The family had no money, and all the money was spent on finding someone, so my mother had to sell the fields and land.
Soon, the money was gone, my grandfather passed away, and my grandmother fell ill again. She was ill for two years. By then I could already remember things. I gave all the better food to my grandmother, and I borrowed a lot of money from abroad to pay for her medical treatment.
When my grandmother was feeling better, she would just look at me and cry. When she was not feeling well, she would curse my mother as a disaster star and me as a nemesis and ask us to get out.
Do you know how it feels to have a family member who is seriously ill and has no one to turn to for help? I can't say that the people in Changjia Village are bad, and they have no obligation or conditions to help you all the time.
But the days of isolation were very difficult. No one wanted to talk to us. Since the women in the family couldn't do things, only my uncle and grandfather came to help.
During the most difficult times, my mother and I ate only wild vegetables. When I was five years old, I went up the mountain alone to collect firewood because my mother was busy farming. We endured this kind of life for five years.
If possible, if there was even a slight possibility, my mother would not remarry. But the debt collectors kept coming one after another and there was no way to avoid them. My maternal grandfather’s family was not well off and could only send some food and daily necessities every year. I didn’t dare tell them about the foreign debt.
Under such circumstances, my mother accepted to remarry. If I stayed, I would have to live with my cousin Chang Chunlai at home, at least until I was fifteen or sixteen years old. I didn't want to leave my mother, and the woman in his family was not a good person.
My stepfather is a nice person. I went to talk to him before getting married. He didn't treat me like a child and talked to me very seriously. I told him that my family had a house and an acre of good farmland, but I wanted to stay so that there would be someone to take care of my grandparents, so that the dowry would be much higher.
He agreed immediately. I heard from my uncle that he spent more than twenty taels of silver, which was enough to marry two girls in the countryside.
I am a stepson. No one wants to raise a child with a different surname, especially a son, so I agreed to change my surname. Dad, my mother has suffered a lot for the Chang family. You can say nothing good about her, but you can't humiliate her. My mother doesn't want to be a concubine."
Chang Chunfeng was even more confused.
Is this still a child?
The old patriarch trembled in fear and trepidation in front of him, as if his son was an official who had been in the officialdom for decades, and he scolded him so hard that he couldn't say a word in return.
"Dad, I've told you clearly that I don't want to leave my mother in this life. You are still young, you will get married soon, and you will have other children. You don't care about me alone."
This time Chang Chunfeng woke up in shock: "Dashun, how can you say that I don't care about you? Even if I have more children in the future, you are my eldest son, the one I care about the most. Your mother can't live without you, but can I? You are my only relative in this world."
The handsome man started to cry, and Ping An couldn't say anything.
"I didn't say I didn't recognize you. Didn't the master give you some advice? Besides, haven't you already found a fiancée? You will have other relatives soon."
Chang Chunfeng blushed: "Your master is really, how can he say this to a child?"
It really wasn't the master who said that. It was the master who wrote to the gentleman. He just saw it, but so what? After all, he had already found a new partner before he was sure whether he had a wife.
This dad is somewhat of a scumbag.
Ping An raised his chin and said, "My master never treats me as a child. You haven't even confirmed whether we will be there yet, but you have already decided on the next home. It's really disheartening, hum."
Chang Chunfeng was speechless. He couldn't just put the blame entirely on the eldest son. In fact, it was the eldest son who asked him to do this, but the eldest son also had good intentions and had helped him a lot.
"Dashun, Dad did this just to get an official post. Dad has no money and no backing, but he also made an agreement with the man. If I had been married before, this matter would be forgotten. Just consider it as Dad owing the man a big favor. Really, believe me."
"Dad, your time is limited. I have invited my stepfather to come tomorrow. You two can discuss my matter together. I will make my attitude clear first. I will not leave my mother. Also, my mother will not see you. She is in poor health and has never thought that you are still alive. It will scare her."
Chang Chunfeng had never thought about seeing Mei Niang again. What would happen if he saw her? As soon as he said he could take her back, his son was furious. In fact, he was right. He had already been with someone else's ex-wife, so how could he still be the mistress?
If possible, he didn't want to see that person, not at all.
His son is only eight years old. How could he not want such a smart child?
Just meet them. You definitely want a son. Don't take children's words seriously. They will understand when they grow up. What is the difference between the eldest son of an official family and the son of an ordinary countryman? The difference is huge.
He is only twenty-seven. In ten or twenty years, his future will not be bad. His son has a smart son like him, so his future will naturally not be bad either.
Even the eldest son would discuss with him when he had free time that his son still could not study medicine and had to take the imperial examination.
"Okay, let's talk here. It's not convenient to go anywhere else."
"Okay, I'll go back first. My teacher has assigned me a lot of homework, and I have to study medicine in the afternoon. I'm busy."
"Dashun, is your teacher Mr. Sun? Did he teach you to read?"
"Yes, he is my teacher, and he has taught me the Four Books and Five Classics."
"You've already finished the Four Books? Isn't that a bit too fast? Dashun, leave a little later, dad will test you." Chang Chunfeng became excited and quickly asked the question regardless of whether his son was annoyed or not.
One question and one answer, half an hour passed unknowingly. Chang Chunfeng's heart was pounding, and Ping'an was getting more and more annoyed as he asked more questions.
"Dad, I really have to go."
"Go ahead, go ahead. Is there really someone to accompany you downstairs? Do you not need dad to send you off?"
"No need, we have Da Wu and Xiao Wu here, Dad, see you later."
Soon his son's little figure disappeared beyond the stairs. Chang Chunfeng closed the door, smiled foolishly for a long time, and then began to cry silently.
If it weren't for fate, he would have a pair of parents who loved him the most, a most gentle wife, and a most intelligent and lovely son. Everything would be so perfect. He might even have several children now.
He couldn't imagine such beauty, which was within reach before but now could only be expected in the next life.
Son, dad can't live without you. No matter how many children I have in the future, they won't be you.
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