"Please judge for yourself, my daughter..."
Just as Mrs. Yang started to speak, she was splashed with oil all over her face. She subconsciously smacked her lips, and when she realized what was on her body, her eyebrows immediately stood up. However, before she could say anything, she heard what Yang Si said and saw the lighter in Yang Si's hand.
She took a half step back, covered her chest, slapped her thighs and wailed, "Oh my God! Listen to what she said! What a sin I have committed! Not only does my daughter want to kill my son, she also wants to kill us both!"
Yang Si said expressionlessly: "You are right, I want Yang Tianci to die. I wish he would be shot immediately, let alone go to jail."
Mr. Yang wiped his face, and the oil on his beard slid into his mouth. He coughed twice and pointed at Yang Si and said in a low voice: "Look at what you said and what you did! Even a beast wouldn't do such a thing as you!"
Yang Si gritted his teeth and said, "Even a beast can't do what Yang Tianci did. He kidnapped his nephew to blackmail his sister, and instigated his parents to come to his sister's house to make trouble. He is not a beast, he is worse than a beast!"
Seeing her cold expression, Old Lady Yang sat down on the ground with a determined heart, pounding the ground and crying, "What sin have I committed? Why is my life so miserable? My daughters are more cruel than each other. I finally have a filial son, but you killed him. Tianci is my life. If you want him to go to jail, you want me, your mother, to die!"
Yang Si tightly grasped the lighter in his hand, his eyes red with anger: "Yang Tianci kidnapped Chenchen to kill me! He is a man and he is more valuable than me in your eyes. I accept that I have been treated like a slave for so many years. But he shouldn't touch my son! If anyone dares to touch my son, I will fight him with my life!"
Jiang Zhuo walked over to Yang Si, put his arm around her trembling shoulders and patted them gently, then said to the two elders in a cold voice: "Father and mother-in-law, it's no use for you to come to us about this matter. Yang Tianci broke the law, the police arrested him, and the sentence is decided by the court, not us. Even if you cry here for three days, the sentence will still be what it is."
Mr. Yang said in a deep voice: "Tianci is Yang Si's younger brother, that is, your brother-in-law, Jiang Chen's uncle. How can it be considered kidnapping if an uncle asks someone to take his nephew out? As long as you still recognize me as your father-in-law, go and tell the police immediately that everything is a misunderstanding and ask them to release your brother."
Old Mrs. Yang also stood up and said, "Yes, yes, go to the police station and release your brother."
Yang Si sneered, "Have you forgotten that I am no longer your daughter? There is no room for negotiation on this matter. Yang Tianci has never treated me as a sister or Chenchen as a nephew, otherwise he would not have done such a beastly thing. You can make a scene at my doorstep, it doesn't matter. When the time comes to go to court, I will definitely ask the judge to deal with you severely. I will never forgive you. The longer you make a scene, the more days your son will spend in jail."
The noise here has already attracted the neighbors upstairs and downstairs. Some of them are standing in the corridor, peeking and whispering.
The sound of discussion entered his ears. Mr. Yang's face darkened greatly, and his wrinkled face trembled with anger: "You are such a heartless person, such an ungrateful person! Your mother and I have raised you for so many years, and you can actually say such things!"
"You want me to die, don't you?" Old Madam Yang turned and rushed up the stairs, pushing through the crowd and climbing toward the window. As she climbed, she said, "If you don't agree to let your brother go, I will die at your doorstep!"
Yang Si turned on the lighter with a click, walked upstairs, stood beside Old Lady Yang and said, "Okay, I'll die with you. Your son wants my son's life, but I can't give it to him. But I'm your son. If you want my life, I'll give it to you."
Old Mrs. Yang shrank back, looking at the lighter getting closer and closer, she felt as if her whole body was about to burn. Thinking of what Yang Si had just said and her regard for Jiang Chen, and thinking that she might really burn her to death, Old Mrs. Yang quickly let go of the window and leaned back repeatedly, her hunched back against the wall, trying her best to tilt her neck back, trying to get away from the fire. She was so scared that she couldn't utter a word.
Mr. Yang felt extremely ashamed. He raised his cane while shaking his legs and tried to hit Jiang Zhuo at the door: "Why don't you stop your wife? You are committing treason! You are trying to piss us off to death!"
Jiang Zhuo grabbed Mr. Yang's cane and said in a deep voice, "If Yang Si doesn't recognize you, I won't call you father-in-law. I've seen how you two have treated Yang Si over the years. She's filial and tolerant, and she's always been sincere to you. But I can't do that. I feel sorry for my wife, and I feel bad when she's upset. But for her sake, I can at least be polite to you guys."
Mr. Yang tried hard to pull back the crutch, but Jiang Zhuo let go. He took a few steps back holding the crutch and almost fell.
Jiang Zhuo's legs began to hurt due to his emotional ups and downs and excessive force. He propped himself against the wall with one hand and said, "But from today on, I will beat Yang Tianci every time I see him. You'd better pray that he stays in jail and doesn't come out, otherwise I won't let him off easily if he does. And the two of you, you have to rely on your age to get some mercy from the other party, but you can't show any mercy to me, so before I take action, I advise you to leave on your own and don't make things too ugly."
Mr. Yang was so angry that his beard trembled for a long time without uttering a word.
Once it was quiet, the neighbors' whispers became louder. Someone going upstairs saw that the corridor was blocked and asked quietly, "What's going on?"
The neighbor downstairs shook his head: "The people from Xiao Yang's parents are here to make trouble again!"
The people who went upstairs were also old neighbors and knew a thing or two about the Jiang family. The most famous one was the time about ten years ago when Yang Tianci asked Yang Si to give Jiang Chen's school place to his son. The five members of the Yang family blocked the door of the Jiang family, one by one begging and one by one yelling and cursing, making it so noisy that the whole building couldn't sleep. Some people couldn't stand it and said a few words on behalf of the Jiang family, but were scolded by Old Lady Yang.
So upon hearing this, the people who went upstairs immediately showed sympathy: "What's going on this time? Xiao Yang's family is too unreliable. They make trouble here all day long. Aren't they ashamed?"
"I heard..." The neighbor downstairs whispered something in his ear.
The man's eyes widened in disbelief: "Is this true?"
The neighbor downstairs nodded and motioned for him to look up, and he saw Jiang Chen appear at the door.
"Mom." Jiang Chen walked up the stairs in two or three steps, held Yang Si's hand which was holding the lighter and had turned white, and said gently: "Put down the lighter, it's too dangerous."
Yang Si's stiff and tense arms softened, and the lighter fell to the ground. She turned around helplessly and said, "Chenchen, why did you come out?"
Jiang Chen picked up the lighter on the ground and said helplessly: "Aren't you going to the police station? They just called."
Yang Si then remembered that she had forgotten something important. Just as she was about to speak, Old Lady Yang grabbed Jiang Chen and said, "Jiang Chen, I am your grandmother, and Tianci is your uncle. You must not put your uncle in jail! Otherwise, you will suffer retribution and be struck by lightning!"
Yang Si's expression changed, and he pulled away Old Lady Yang's hand, standing in front of Jiang Chen like a hen protecting her chicks. "What do you mean by causing Yang Tianci to go to jail? Yang Tianci should have thought about this day when he kidnapped Jiang Chen. This is his retribution! He is the one who will be struck by lightning!"
The lighter in Yang Si's hand was gone, and Old Lady Yang felt more confident. She looked at Jiang Chen and said, "I see nothing has happened to you. Since you are not injured, why should your uncle go to jail? He already knows he was wrong. Grandma knows that you have always been a good child. You will definitely forgive your uncle, right?"
"Chenchen, you go back first. This matter is between us adults. You..."
"mom."
Jiang Chen interrupted Yang Si, smiled at her to tell her not to worry, and walked out from behind her.
"Mrs. Yang, I remember this March, when my father was bedridden due to a car accident, she begged you to return part of the money she had lent you so that she could use it for emergency use. Because the conversation broke down and you insulted me and my father, my mother severed ties with me at the time." Jiang Chen glanced at Mr. Yang downstairs and said indifferently, "You don't forget this, do you?"
"What do you mean by severing ties?" Old Madam Yang frowned and said, "I never said that! Yang Si is my daughter, how could we sever ties with her!"
"You are old and may not remember it, but fortunately the recording is here."
Jiang Chen smiled faintly, took out his phone from his pocket and clicked on the play button.
A recording with some noise sounded, and the corridor suddenly became quiet. Everyone pricked up their ears to listen. After hearing the content of the recording, most people's expressions were indescribable, and the expressions they looked at the old couple of the Yang family were even more subtle.
Mr. Yang's expression became uglier as the recording played. By the end of the recording, the wrinkles on his face seemed to have deepened, and his whole body was shaking slightly.
"You! You! You!" Old Mr. Yang raised his hand and pointed at Jiang Chen. He was so angry that his chest heaved and he couldn't utter a word.
Jiang Chen glanced over him and continued, "A few days ago, Yang Tianci sent someone to tie me up and take me to a place where abandoned containers were piled up in the suburbs of Xing City. The people who tied me up had been covering my eyes, but later I saw their faces. Before the police came, they were going to kill me because the location was exposed. They didn't plan to let me go home from the beginning. So, if the police hadn't arrived in time, you wouldn't see me standing here."
Yang Si was stunned and immediately took a breath. She had never heard Jiang Chen say these things and didn't know there would be such dangerous twists and turns in the middle.
Others were also terrified. They didn't expect that this kind of kidnapping scene, which they thought only happened in TV dramas or in rich families, would actually happen around them. Moreover, Yang Tianci was Jiang Chen's uncle, and he actually planned to kill him. What Yang Si said at the beginning was right. This kind of person is worse than a beast!
"You're talking nonsense!" Old Madam Yang pointed at Jiang Chen's nose and said, "He kidnapped you just to ask your mother for money. How could he really kill you? He's not stupid!"
Jiang Chen's eyes flickered, and he said calmly: "This is what I heard and saw, and I told the police the same thing when I was taking the statement. I just didn't expect that you seemed to have known about his kidnapping of me. It seems that this matter..."
"You're talking nonsense!" Old Mr. Yang shouted angrily, interrupting Jiang Chen. He slammed the ground with his cane and shouted, "If you don't agree to let Tianci go, there's nothing else we can say! Old woman! Let's go!"
Old Mrs. Yang also realized that she had let the cat out of the bag, so she hurried downstairs, helped Old Mr. Yang out of the crowd, and walked away quickly in shame.
Yang Si grabbed Jiang Chen's hand tightly: "Chenchen..."
Jiang Chen held her hand and smiled, "I'm fine, don't worry, the police are still waiting, let's go to the police station first."
He Family
Yang Yun brought the Tremella and lotus seed soup that she had cooked overnight to the table.
He Qianyu was waiting at the table. She couldn't wait to taste the porridge and said with a blink of her eyes, "It tastes so good!"
"Little greedy cat." Yang Yun stroked her hair and said with a smile, "Your two lazy brothers haven't woken up yet. Go up and call them down and tell them to have breakfast."
He Qianyu paused while holding the spoon, and muttered, "Big brother doesn't stay in bed. If he doesn't come down, there must be something wrong. Only second brother would stay in bed. I'll go call him!"
Seeing you, she ran upstairs. Yang Yun smiled, then suddenly frowned and asked He Yanfeng who was reading a newspaper: "Old He, do you think your daughter has been a little strange recently?"
"What's so strange about that?" He Yanfeng turned a page of the newspaper and asked.
"It's a little strange to get along with Qian Jian and Qian Min." Yang Yun said thoughtfully: "Before, Xiao Bao liked to find Da Bao more than Er Bao, but now she seems to like to play with Er Bao more."
"Girls are like this, changing over and over again." He Yanfeng read the newspaper attentively: "Both of them are her brothers. She likes this one sometimes and that one sometimes. It may just be a matter of a piece of candy or a piece of cake. There's nothing strange about it."
Yang Yun thought about it and felt that she might have thought too much. She shook her head and looked up to see He Qianmin being dragged downstairs by He Qianyu with a reluctant look on his face. She couldn't help laughing and said, "You haven't woken up yet?"
"She's so noisy." He Qianmin frowned and said, "She's jumping on me like a megaphone."
He Qianyu turned around and made a face at him: "Who told you to stay in bed!"
"Do you know how much you weigh?" He Qianmin grabbed her hand and pulled it back to pinch her face: "Your teacher won't let you run even though you're this fat!"
He Qianyu snorted, jumped onto He Qianmin, hugged his neck tightly and said, "I'm not heavy! You bad guy!"
He Yanfeng raised his eyebrows when he saw this. Usually at this time, He Qianyu would come and complain immediately, but today she was even acting coquettishly with He Qianmin. This was indeed different from before.
Yang Yun waved upstairs and said, "Dabao, come down quickly. Mommy has prepared your favorite sandwich for you."
He Qianyu's arms around He Qianmin froze, and He Qianmin patted her hand behind her back: "I'll put you on the stool, sit tight."
He Qianmin took big steps, and He Qianyu was so scared that she hugged him tighter, but she couldn't help giggling.
After everyone was seated, the He family's breakfast officially began.
He Yanfeng put down the newspaper, drank a mouthful of porridge, and suddenly said, "Why do you suddenly want to go to No. 1 Middle School to study in high school?"
"Go if you want to." He Qianmin took a bite of the fried dough stick, with no expression on his face.
"Your mother and I fully respect your wishes." He Yanfeng said, "But No. 1 Middle School is farther from home. Do you plan to ride a bicycle in the future, or will dad arrange for someone to take you there?"
He Qianmin paused, looked up and said, "I want to move to live near No. 1 Middle School, or live directly on campus."
The table fell silent. Yang Yun and He Yanfeng looked at each other. He Yanfeng asked, "What's your reason?"
He Qianmin: "No. 1 Middle School is too far from my home, and it's inconvenient for me to commute. I can study better with the time I save on the road."
He Yanfeng: "Anything else?"
He Qianmin said calmly: "Also, I have never experienced the life of living on campus, I want to give it a try."
Yang Yun couldn't help but interrupt: "Although No. 1 Middle School is far away, Mom and Dad can arrange for someone to pick you up and drop you off at school every day. Also, if you want to experience the life of living on campus, you can also experience it in college. Studying in high school is hard enough, so it's more comfortable to live at home, and it's better for your studies, isn't it?"
He Qianmin opened his mouth, and seeing the sadness in his mother's eyes, he swallowed the words that were on the tip of his mouth. He pursed his lips, lowered his eyes and said, "No. 1 Middle School is a public school. When I was in Chenghua, I didn't like taking the bus to and from school. After going to No. 1 Middle School, it became like this, which would affect my relationship with my classmates."
Yang Yun pulled up the corners of his mouth and smiled: "Is that so, if that's the case..."
She was halfway through her words when a cell phone rang, interrupting her.
He Qianjian glanced at the incoming call, his eyes twinkled, he put down the knife and fork in his hand and said with a smile: "Mom and Dad, my classmate is looking for me, I'm going to answer the phone."
"Go ahead." Yang Yun nodded and said with a smile, "Come back early to eat after you answer the phone. You haven't had the lotus seed soup that mom made yet."
He Qianjian left the table and the restaurant fell silent again.
After a long while, He Yanfeng said calmly: "I accept all the reasons you mentioned, but I still want to know if there are any other reasons."
He Qianmin nodded and said directly: "There is more."
"What's the reason?"
"I want to move closer to my brother's house." He Qianmin said, "This way I can have him tutor me. I was able to rank second in the final exam this semester because of his tutoring some time ago."
"Your brother?"
He Yanfeng and Yang Yun looked at each other and became unprecedentedly curious about the brother He Qianmin mentioned.
"It's Brother Jiang Chen!" He Qianyu raised her hand and said, "I know, Brother Jiang Chen is super awesome, has excellent grades and is super gentle!"
Yang Yun was stunned, and the young man he had just caught a glimpse of suddenly appeared in his mind: "Jiang Chen?"
He Yanfeng also thought of the boy who looked very similar to He Qianyang. He laughed and said, "Speaking of which, our family has a good relationship with him. Not only you, but your mother, your sister and I have all met him. He is indeed a good boy. Before, I invited him to our house to play, but your sister interrupted me. I thought she didn't like him, but it turns out she doesn't."
He Qianyu blushed at the teasing and pouted, "I'm not interrupting you, I just think you talk too much! Mom does the same. Last time, I just saw Brother Jiang Chen's profile and you pulled Sister Liu Yi to ask questions. I don't usually see you treat others like this. It's so embarrassing for Brother Jiang Chen to be asked questions like this!"
He Yanfeng smiled: "Oh, it seems that my little princess likes Jiang Chen very much. She has never been so protective of her two brothers before."
Yang Yun was stunned for a moment when she heard He Qianyu's words. She didn't know why, but she inexplicably cared about the boy. When it was not mentioned before, she could ignore this feeling, but when it was mentioned again, and when she heard her daughter say that she had never treated anyone else like this, she realized that her feelings for the child were really different. She couldn't tell what was different, but she had a strange and inexplicable feeling towards him, different from that of everyone else.
"Mother!"
Yang Yun came back to his senses, looked at He Qianyu, and asked, "What's wrong?"
"What were you thinking about just now?" He Qianyu asked curiously: "We called you several times, but you didn't say anything."
Yang Yun smiled and shook his head, "Where were you talking about?"
"We talked about inviting brother Jiang Chen to our house to play!" He Qianyu laughed immediately: "Dad told us to pick a time. I think brother Qian Yang's birthday is a good time. Brother Qian Yang will have a party at our house. Then we can invite him to the party under the pretext of inviting him to the party. How about it?"
"Not so good." He Qianmin pouted: "My brother doesn't know Brother Qianyang, what is he doing here? Besides, Brother Qianyang's friends are boring and like to yell. My brother likes quietness, he definitely doesn't like that."
"Then when do you say it is?"
He Qianmin crossed his arms and said, "Any time, as long as He Qianjian is not around, my brother is ranked first in the final exam again, I'm afraid He Qianjian will be too jealous when he sees him and won't be able to control his emotions."
Yang Yun said helplessly: "You!"
He Yanfeng thought for a moment and said, "Qian Yang's birthday is indeed not appropriate, and they don't know him either, so let's pick a time according to your wishes."
He Qianmin curled his lips, stood up and said, "I'll go make an appointment with my brother now."
He Yanfeng looked at his brisk back and said with a smile: "I really want to know more about Jiang Chen. It's rare to see this guy so convinced of someone."
Yang Yun smiled and nodded, and said gently: "Qian Min likes it so much, he must be a good boy."
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