Chapter 112 Your dad is dead
Shuzhou and his friends had a lot of fun, and it didn’t end until 10 o’clock in the evening.
It was already half past ten when Shen Changnian returned home.
The lights in the living room were not turned off, and the cheap incandescent lamps gave off a dim light.
Shen’s mother was sitting in the living room. She was very thin due to years of illness, like a dead tree, and even more exhausted than before he left, as if half of her life had been taken away at once.
Shen Changnian’s heart skipped a beat, “Mom.”
He paused, and then said, “I ordered a meal from Aunt Li and asked her to bring it up to you.”
There was a meal on the table, but it was cold and had not been touched.
Shen Changnian suddenly felt a little confused about what Shen’s mother meant.
He hesitated for a moment, and was about to say something else when Shen's mother spoke. The look she gave Shen Changnian was as lifeless as death, but the words she spoke froze Shen Changnian in his tracks.
"Your father is dead."
Shen Changnian raised his head suddenly.
Seeing his reaction, Shen's mother felt an indescribable sense of pleasure in her heart. "Five hours ago, the prison called and said your father was dead."
The doctor said that Shen's father only had three months to live, but Shen's father survived until the end of the Chinese New Year before he died.
Shen Changnian would visit him every once in a while, and he hadn't had this sign the last time he visited him.
"Why, why didn't you call and tell me?" Shen Changnian was stunned for a long time before he found his voice again.
The expression on Shen's mother's face became distorted again, "Do you listen to me? I told you not to go out, but you went out anyway. Do you still have me and your father in your eyes? I think you only have people outside in your eyes. Do you still care about us? I don't think you care whether your father is dead or not."
"Just because of this?" Shen Changnian looked at Shen's mother in disbelief.
He couldn't believe it. Shen's mother, who was always gentle, didn't tell him about his father's death just because he went out to meet friends. She told him in a retaliatory way after he came back from playing all day.
"Changnian, your father loved you the most when he was alive. How sad would he be if he knew that you missed the news of his death because you went out to play with your friends? I've said it before, people outside are not sincere to you. People in a family like ours will not be sincere to you, and you will not have real friends. I'm just educating you. I'm doing this for your own good." Shen's mother said earnestly.
Shen Changnian moved his lips.
He found that he suddenly couldn't say anything.
Shen's mother curled her lips and regained her motherly look, saying: "Go pack up and pick up your father."
Shen Changnian walked back to the bedroom like a zombie.
Seeing his distraught look, Shen's mother curled her lips. She could only do this. She had to keep Shen Changnian by her side by any means. There were too many temptations outside. Changnian was so outstanding. Under such temptations, how long could he stay by her side?
One year? Two years? Even biological children could not bear to take care of a patient for a long time.
What's more...
Shen Changnian was not her biological child.
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month passed, and the New Year was over.
Shen Changnian asked the Shu family for a long vacation, saying that he had something to deal with. Grandpa Lin's crew started work, and Shu Fengjian deservedly became the male lead of the movie.
The recruitment of Master Yan will begin in June next year.
Shu Zhouxing is studying overtime.
The Xijiao project is also halfway through.
And Shu Yue, Shu Yue is trying every means to persuade her third brother to take her to Qinglai Mountain. She wants to take Qinglai Mountain and stabilize the fortune of the family!
During this time, Shu Yue either kept talking about it in front of Shu Zhouxing, or in front of Shu Yunyan, or in front of Shen Minghua.
Shen Minghua really couldn't bear the little girl to keep talking about it, so he found an opportunity and took Shu Yue, Shu Yunyan, Shu Zhouxing, Lin Anyun and Lin Zhi to live in Qinglai Mountain for a while.
They rented a farmer's yard on Qinglai Mountain.
Shu Yunyan knew the purpose of his younger sister's visit, so he asked his secretary to arrange the residence near the person who was unwilling to sell his private house.
The scenery on Qinglai Mountain is very beautiful, and there are many fruits and vegetables planted in the farmer's yard.
Zhou's mother had lived in the countryside before, so she was very good at growing vegetables and cooking.
She picked the vegetables in the yard, washed them, and fried them directly. She washed cucumbers and tomatoes and ate them directly, which were sweet and refreshing.
"I saw a private house not far from us, covering a large area. I don't know who it belongs to. I heard from the villagers nearby that an old lady lives here alone. She goes down the mountain to buy vegetables from time to time, and stays here the rest of the time. She never goes out of the front door or the back door."
Lin Anyun told Shen Minghua what he had found out, and then said, "This house is so big, it must have cost at least eight figures to build, right? How could someone who lives in a place like this live alone?" "
There are servants inside, but not many, and they don't go out often." Shu Yunyan told what the secretary had found out, "They moved here seven or eight years ago, and it has been like this for the past seven or eight years."
"How do you know?" Lin Anyun asked puzzledly.
Shu Yunyan's expression remained unchanged. "I wanted to buy this place before, but the owner was unwilling to sell it, so I learned a little bit about it.
Shu Yunyan pondered for a while and said, "Maybe there is something here that he can't give up."
Otherwise, he really couldn't imagine why a person who has no worries about food and clothing and a wealthy family would live in a place like this.
If it's for leisure, it's quite leisurely here, but why do they live such a poor life?
[Second brother, let's find a chance to get to know that family?]
[I know why she lives here. 】
Little sister, you know?
Shu Yunyan almost asked this question.
Counting the days, it's time for that family to go shopping.
Shu Yue and his party had only stayed here for two days. The door of the closed house finally opened, and an old woman in simple clothes walked out.
She carried a cloth bag on her arm, which looked like it was used to hold vegetables. She wore a string of Buddhist beads on her right wrist, which extended all the way to her hand. She twisted the beads with her fingers and walked down the mountain step by step.
When passing by Shu Yue and her family's residence, the old woman stopped.
Has a new tenant moved in here?
The old woman looked inside, but she didn't see anyone, but she could smell the aroma of food. The food was fried over a high fire and the aroma was very tempting. When she moved here, she didn't bring a chef with her. She usually cooked her own meals or had her servants cook them.
But she didn't allow her servants to use meat and vegetables, because her servants were not professional cooks, and the vegetarian dishes they cooked were tasteless.
It's been a long time since I smelled such a delicious smell.
Humph, they must have used meat and vegetables!
She won't touch anything that smells like meat and vegetables!