Du Family Old House

Du Yuanzhe drove back to the old house.

Chen Rongshan, who hadn't seen her son for a long time, looked him over and said, "Luckily you didn't lose weight due to hunger, otherwise I wouldn't have spared your director."

Du Yuanzhe laughed and said, "My mom asked Aunt Wu to cook for me. With Aunt Wu's cooking skills, how could I possibly lose weight due to hunger?"

Chen Rongshan snorted, "You were reluctant at first."

Du Yuanzhe took Chen Rongshan in his arms and sat down, saying, "Mom is still far-sighted. I am ashamed of myself."

Chen Rongshan was delighted to hear this and said proudly, "Of course. Mom eats more salt than you eat rice. You should listen to her more."

Du Yuanzhe nodded repeatedly: "I will definitely listen to my mother."

After coaxing Chen Rongshan, Du Yuanzhe looked at Zhao Zhimeng. Her belly was already very big, which affected her walking. He asked, "When is the due date, sister-in-law?"

Du Yuanwen said, "About half a month."

Du Yuanzhe should have been on the set at that time, and said, "Brother, remember to call me when the time comes. I will definitely come back."

Zhao Zhimeng smiled and said, "It's just giving birth. There are so many people accompanying you. You don't have to run back and forth."

Du Yuanzhe shook his head: "That won't do. I have to watch my niece being born."

Du Yuanzhe knew the plot and was very clear whether Zhao Zhimeng was carrying a boy or a girl.

But until now, everyone in the family still thinks that Zhao Zhimeng will definitely give birth to a daughter. They have no plans to check the gender in advance, and Du Yuanzhe certainly doesn't dare to spoil everyone's fun.

Chen Rongshan heard this and said, "Yuanzhe should come back. Filming is not as important as family."

Zhao Zhimeng didn't say anything else. She was naturally happy that Du Yuanzhe was willing to come back specially.

Du Yuanwen reminded: "Remember to prepare a gift for my daughter."

"Of course, I will definitely give a gift that will satisfy my niece."

Seeing how happy the family is now, Chen Rongshan's face is all smiles. When their granddaughter is born, their family will be even more complete.

Du Yuanzhe still remembered the time he had tested Chen Rongshan. He rolled his eyes and sighed deliberately, "My eldest brother is about to have a daughter, and I'm still a long way from getting married."

Du Yuanwen's eyes flickered, and he sensitively sensed that there was something else behind this boy's words.

Chen Rongshan smiled and said, "Are you jealous now? Mom wanted to introduce you to a girlfriend before, but you were not happy?"

Du Yuanzhe curled his lips and said, "What era is it now? Who still goes on blind dates? If I want to find a girlfriend, I will definitely go after her myself."

Chen Rongshan asked curiously: "What kind of girlfriend do you want?"

Du Yuanzhe said without hesitation: "Beautiful."

Zhao Zhimeng smiled and said, "Your request is really simple."

"I'm so handsome. If I don't find someone pretty, won't my offspring's genes become worse? I must find someone pretty."

Du Yuanzhe deliberately emphasized beauty several times. Beauty is the most common requirement. If he made other requirements, his family would probably notice that he had ulterior motives. After all, his eldest brother was no pushover and was very shrewd.

Chen Rongshan agreed: "You should find a pretty one. Our Yuanzhe is so outstanding, shouldn't it be easy to find a pretty one?"

Du Yuanzhe said, "Alas, Mom, it's easy to say, but it's not that easy to find."

Du Yuanwen raised his eyebrows. He probably understood Du Yuanzhe's thoughts. Du Yuanzhe was trying to test their attitudes by constantly leading the conversation towards his girlfriend.

If he guessed correctly, Du Yuanzhe would find an excuse to mention Xia Ningmi in a while.

Du Yuanwen decided to help him and asked, "How pretty do you want to find?"

Du Yuanzhe deliberately thought for a while and said, "No matter what, she can't be worse than Yang Shiyao from our company."

Chen Rongsan frowned slightly, she thought Du Yuanzhe still wanted to find a female celebrity as his girlfriend.

Du Yuanwen said casually: "Isn't CEO Xia from your company pretty? If you have the guts, chase her and make her your wife."

Zhao Zhimeng glanced at him subconsciously, not understanding why he suddenly mentioned Xia Ningmi.

Du Yuanzhe was delighted. He was just trying to find an excuse to mention Xia Ningmi, but he didn't expect Du Yuanwen to be so cooperative. He was about to agree to it, but was interrupted by Chen Rongsan.

When Chen Rongshan heard what Du Yuanwen said, she immediately shouted, "No, absolutely not!"

Du Yuanzhe subconsciously asked: "Why not?"

Chen Rongshan frowned, "Xia Ningmi only cares about work. Let's not talk about whether you can catch up with her. If you really catch up with her, do you think she will care about you or will she be indifferent to you and pretend you don't exist? I'm afraid that if you don't go home for a month, she won't even call you to ask about you."

Du Yuanzhe said, "Mom, this is all your own speculation. President Xia is a little cold, but that's only towards outsiders. How do you know she's like this towards people close to her?"

Chen Rongshan snorted coldly: "How could I not know? The news has spread in the circle a long time ago. When Xia Yiyao went to the company to look for her, she actually asked Xia Yiyao to make an appointment first. She is so cold even to her own mother. What do you think you have the ability to make her make an exception for you?"

Du Yuanzhe looked unhappy and said, "Mom, don't you know about the Xia family's troubles? Is Xia Yiyao qualified to be a mother? She only gave birth to the child but didn't raise him. Why should she ask President Xia to be filial to her? Giving her money every year is already kind enough!"

Chen Rongshan also knew that Xia Yiyao was not a good person, and pursed her lips and said, "If Xia Yiyao cannot be mentioned, then we can always mention Old Master Xia, right? Old Master Xia handed over the entire Xia family to Xia Ningmi. How much importance did he place on her! But she didn't shed a single tear at Old Master Xia's funeral. Let's not talk about whether she was filial or not. How could she not know that others would talk about her being unfilial behind her back? But she was too lazy to even act, she didn't even take us seriously at all."

"Yancheng produced two amazingly talented young people, one is arrogant and the other is cold. Jiang Chelin is arrogant, but at least he has the emotions that a human being should have. But Xia Ningmi is different. She doesn't care about anything. Outsiders are like dead people in her eyes. Apart from work, she is like a walking corpse..."

“That’s enough!”

Du Yuanzhe growled.

Chen Rongshan's body trembled unconsciously, and she was startled by him.

Du Yuanzhe suppressed his distress, took a deep breath and said, "Mom, since you can see all this, why don't you tell me why she has such a personality?"

"Does she have a choice? Both her biological father and mother are selfish. Neither of them has ever given her fatherly or motherly love. Grandpa Xia raised her and taught her only in the hope that there would be a qualified heir to inherit the Xia family, so that his good-for-nothing daughter could be rich and powerful for the rest of her life. Did he ever really love his only granddaughter?"

Chen Rongshan moved her lips and sighed, "Mom knows that the child has a pitiful life experience. Mom has never made up stories about her in front of outsiders, but this does not mean that Mom wants a daughter-in-law like this. Mom only hopes that you marry someone who understands your feelings. Xia Ningmi is not suitable for you."

Du Yuanzhe retorted: "Only I know whether it is suitable or not."

Chen Rongshan thought that Du Yuanzhe had become rebellious because of what she said, so she said earnestly: "Yuanzhe, Xia Ningmi is really not suitable for you. If you two are together, then only you will care about her. Don't expect her to care about you."

Du Yuanzhe said: "Isn't it natural for me to care about my girlfriend?"

"You know clearly that's not what mom meant. Relationships are a matter between two people. If only one person is making the commitment, it's doomed to fail."

"Since it won't last long, why is Mom still encouraging me to do it?"

Chen Rongshan was silent.

She only discovered today how eloquent her youngest son is.

Du Yuanzhe said with a firm face: "I have decided, I want to pursue President Xia and make her my daughter-in-law."

Chen Rongshan held her forehead, she said so much in vain.

Du Yuanwen already knew Du Yuanzhe's purpose, but after seeing Chen Rongsan's attitude, he knew that Du Yuanzhe still had a long way to go.

Du Yongliang had been listening to their conversation and glanced at Du Yuanzhe thoughtfully.

......

Because of Du Yuanzhe's recent ambition, Chen Rongsan was in no mood to celebrate the New Year. On New Year's Eve, she did not ask Du Yuanzhe to put up Spring Festival couplets, nor did she tell the nannies what dishes to cook. She just sat in the living room and sighed.

Du Yuanwen glared at Du Yuanzhe and said, "Can't you wait until after the Chinese New Year to discuss this?"

Du Yuanzhe was also upset and said depressedly, "How could I know that my mother had such a big prejudice against President Xia? She completely denied President Xia. She is such an outstanding person, and I was worried that she would look down on me. Why is it that in my mother's mouth, I am only flawed?"

Zhao Zhimeng knew a little about Chen Rongshan's thoughts, and reminded her, "Mom wants you to find someone with a gentle personality. President Xia is too strong-willed. Who will make the decisions at home in the future, you or her? Mom is afraid that you will be controlled by your daughter-in-law in the future."

Xia Ningmi's personality is secondary. Chen Rongshan just doesn't want a strong daughter-in-law.

Du Yuanzhe frowned: "We are all family, it doesn't matter who makes the decision, she won't hurt me."

Zhao Zhimeng said, "Mom is worried that she will harm you, and if you are too obedient to her, what if she asks you to distance yourself from mom and dad?"

Marry a wife and forget your mother!

This is what Chen Rongshan is most wary of.

Du Yuanzhe affirmed: "Absolutely impossible."

Although Xia Ningmi had no intention of getting close to the Du family, she never asked Du Yuanzhe to distance himself from them.

But she knew Du Yuanzhe's intentions. If she wanted to persuade Du Yuanzhe to stay away from the Du family, she had plenty of ways to do it.

Du Yuanwen said: "It's no use for you to tell us, you have to make mom believe it."

There is an essential difference between Du Yuanzhe and Du Yuanwen.

Du Yuanwen is the eldest son, and he and his wife will always live with Chen Rongshan and her husband, right under her nose. Chen Rongshan doesn't worry that Zhao Zhimeng has any bad intentions, and although the eldest son seems to have a good temper, he actually has very positive ideas.

But Du Yuanzhe is different. He will have his own small family, and his wife will be the closest person to him in the future. They will be together day and night, and this close relationship will be a little bit closer than that between family members.

If his wife is not close to the Du family, Du Yuanzhe will probably follow her and gradually distance himself from the Du family.

Will Xia Ningmi get close to the Du family?

Chen Rongshan thought of the woman who couldn't see the existence of anyone in her eyes, and gave a negative answer in her heart.

Du Yongliang listened to her sighing and said, "What's the point of you sighing here? Children and grandchildren have their own blessings. Your granddaughter will be born soon. Isn't it good for us to enjoy our grandchildren in the future?"

How could Chen Rongshan be willing to accept this? She said, "Since Yuanzhe was born, I have taken better care of him than my eldest son. When he cried when he was little, I felt so distressed. When he learned to call me mom, I was so happy. He is not as stable as Yuanwen, but I dote on him the most. Even when he wanted to be a star, I gave in to him. When it was late at night, I always worried about who would take care of him if we were gone."

"Is Xia Ningmi's personality capable of taking care of others? It's okay for Yuanzhe to take care of her, but if he really marries her, he's not marrying a daughter-in-law, he's marrying an ancestor."

The more Chen Rongshan thought about it, the more worried she became. She even thought that instead of marrying Xia Ningmi, she might as well choose the female star.

Du Yongliang said, "You overestimate your son, don't you? Xia Ningmi may not be interested in him."

"Yuanzhe is so good, why does she look down on him?"

Chen Rongshan subconsciously retorted, and then added: "I hope she doesn't like it."

"You are right, old man. Xia Ningmi may not be attracted to Yuanzhe. Yuanzhe is always out of tune. Someone as serious as Xia Ningmi probably won't like him."

Chen Rongsan grumbled to herself for a while, then decided that she was worrying too much and that now was not the time to worry. She immediately came back to full health and began to arrange various things.

Du Yongliang glanced at Du Yuanzhe in the distance and shook his head silently.

He had a feeling that Chen Rongshan would be disappointed.

......

Jiang's Old House

Since Wang Lianxuan moved in, Jiang Chelin has never eaten in the old house. If Mr. Jiang wants to have dinner with him, he has to go to the company to find him.

But now it is Chinese New Year, and Jiang Chelin has to come back even if he doesn't want to.

night

Mr. Jiang, Jiang Chelin and Wang Lianxuan sat together to eat the New Year's Eve dinner.

Mr. Jiang sighed: "Only on New Year's Eve can this family be more lively."

Jiang Chelin said, "I would like to bring one more person back. Who can stop you from agreeing?"

Wang Lianxuan's eyes were dim and she lowered her head slightly.

Mr. Jiang frowned and said, "Don't say such things in front of Lianxuan."

Jiang Chelin snorted coldly and didn't talk back.

On New Year’s Eve, we must always give our grandfather some face.

Wang Lianxuan's mind was not on Jiang Chelin. After eating the New Year's Eve dinner, she returned to her room on the pretext of not disturbing the time spent together as a grandparent.

Mr. Jiang sighed: "Lianxuan is so sensible, why don't you like her?"

Jiang Chelin sneered: "Lingling is also very sensible, why don't you like her?"

Mr. Jiang glanced at him and said, "If I remember correctly, you two seem to have broken up."

Jiang Chelin remained calm: "We will get back together sooner or later. Don't expect me to consider Wang Lianxuan."

This unfilial grandson!

Mr. Jiang was so angry that he didn't want to pay any attention to him.

In the room

Wang Lianxuan's face was very ugly: "I found that woman, she said that she did not come into contact with Du Yuanwen that day, Du Yuanwen left the hotel after the social event, and did not stay in the hotel at all."

The plot is wrong again!

[It’s the butterfly effect again. Du Yuanzhe happened to be filming in Lincheng. We didn’t expect Du Yuanwen to live directly with Du Yuanzhe.]

"What should we do next?"

[We can only find another way to test Du Yuanzhe. You continue to investigate the other people around Wei Lingling.]

Wang Lianxuan was annoyed for a moment: "What a good opportunity, I just missed it."

According to the original plot, Du Yuanwen would be photographed having intimate photos with other women while he was on a business trip in Lincheng. At that time, his wife was about to give birth. After the Yancheng media exposed this news, his wife went into premature labor and the baby was almost lost.

Wang Lianxuan originally wanted to use this incident to see if Du Yuanzhe would prevent the news from coming out in advance or warn Du Yuanwen in advance.

But she never expected that Du Yuanwen was not staying in the hotel at all, and was accompanied by an assistant the whole time, so there was no chance to take intimate photos.

[Could it be that Du Yuanzhe deliberately invited Du Yuanwen to live with him? ]

The Luck Plundering System suddenly raised this question.

Wang Lianxuan shook her head and said, "I also thought of this possibility, and specially asked someone to investigate this matter. There is a nanny named Wu in his family. After Du Yuanwen contacted her and learned Du Yuanzhe's address, he decided to live there. At that time, Du Yuanzhe was still filming and didn't know about Du Yuanwen's affair with Lin Cheng."

Because the system kept saying that confirming Du Yuanzhe's identity was very important, Wang Lianxuan spent a lot of money to find out Du Yuanwen's mobile phone calls, but unfortunately there was no gain.

[In this case, Du Yuanzhe is most likely not the person I am looking for]

From the perspective of the Luck Plundering System, if Du Yuanzhe wanted to stop this from happening, he would definitely contact Du Yuanwen in advance and would not do nothing like he is doing now.

In fact, Du Yuanzhe didn't know about this at all.

Wang Lianxuan wanted to test Du Yuanzhe, so she read the novel from beginning to end and paid special attention to the plot of the Du family.

But when Du Yuanzhe read the novel, he only focused on the male and female protagonists. In addition, Zhao Zhimeng's child was fine, so he didn't notice this episode at all. In his impression, he had no impression of this incident at all, so how could he have arranged it in advance?

Such a coincidence dispelled the suspicion of the Luck Plundering System towards Du Yuanzhe.