Looking at the bowl of rice handed to him, Gu Tingyan took it with an expressionless face.
"Just this one bowl a day. You have to taste the suffering I've endured over the years, otherwise you'll be letting me down as your son."
Gu Tingyan's attitude chilled Gu Zhengshan's heart. He knew that his son was seeking revenge on him. He still remembered that he had starved him for three days! He was speechless at this moment. In fact, he regretted it. He had never expected that his son would remember this matter until now.
Gu Tingyan stood up and went out with his bowl, completely ignoring his old father's expectant and apologetic look.
In Beijing, the Chinese New Year is coming soon. Sun Yuqi and Mu Jingran left their children at home and are rushing to buy New Year's goods. It is now 1985, and the time when various tickets were needed to buy things has not completely passed. Sometimes you still need some tickets to buy things.
Carrying New Year's goods, the couple was walking home. Mu Jingran talked about Gu Zhengshan, and Sun Yuqi just listened to it as a story. After hearing about Gu Tingyan's secret mistreatment of Gu Zhengshan, Sun Yuqi just smiled.
"Wife, why don't you feel incredible? After all, Gu Tingyan used to give people the impression of being as gentle as jade. It's hard for me to imagine that he is actually such a person."
Sun Yuqi glanced at Mu Jingran and asked, "Are you trying to say that there are no wrong parents in the world?"
Mu Jingran was stunned for a moment, then immediately shook his head. "No, you also know who my father is, but I don't. My uncle has always given me fatherly warmth since I was a child. If it weren't for my uncle, I would have probably gone to extremes when I was a child, because at that time my classmates said I was a fatherless illegitimate child, and they even scolded my mother."
When Sun Yuqi heard him say this, she knew that he was also thinking about his childhood, so she comforted him, "You know about me too. You don't know who your father is, so you have no way to hate him. But as for me, I knew my father when I was living in the Shen family. When Shen Qingrou sent me to the Gu family, the Gu family didn't recognize me as a member of the Gu family and didn't let me in at all. When I returned to the Shen family, the two old people in the Shen family kept cursing me and told me to die. Because their family was going overseas, they sent me directly to my adoptive mother. In fact, the happiest time of my life in the past twenty years was from when I was eight years old until now. In the first eight years, I can be said to have lived in all kinds of dislike from both families."
"So now I just treat these two families as strangers I know. I don't care whether their lives are good or bad."
Mu Jingran understood the implication of Sun Yuqi's words and promised repeatedly, "I'll remember that, wife, let's not mention their affairs so easily in the future."
Sun Yuqi shifted the object from her right hand to her left and said, "It seems that Gu Tingyan is also a hypocrite and a bit weak and can be bullied. Before the old man had the stroke, he was very submissive. Now that his father is paralyzed in bed, he is jumping up and down, ready to retaliate."
Mu Jingran smiled and said, "I really didn't expect that the Gu Tingyan I knew before would be completely different from the Gu Tingyan of today."
Sun Yuqi chuckled twice. "A few years ago, she and that Gu Xueyuan came to Northeast China to see me and wanted to recognize me. How could I fulfill their wish? I ignored them. Now it seems that I was right to ignore them. That family is basically not a good person."
Mu Jingran smiled bitterly after hearing this. "You can't say that. That Gu Xueyuan is not bad. He has been very concerned about you over the years. It's just that you don't want to get close to them, so it's not good for him to come to our place too often. Before we got married, he came to me and asked me to treat you well. If I don't treat you well, he won't forgive me then!"
Sun Yuqi was quite surprised to hear Mu Jingran say this, and then she looked at Mu Jingran.
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"How can I tell you? I know you don't like them, but I thought I would treat you well anyway, and I didn't need him to supervise me, so I didn't say anything."
The two chatted as they walked towards home. Just as they entered the alley of Mu's grandpa's house, they saw sister-in-law Qin Xiuzhi running out with Mu Qingzhou in her arms. Sun Yuqi and Mu Jingran were also startled and hurried forward to say something.
"What's wrong with sister-in-law?" Qin Xiuzhi's face turned pale, and she cried when she saw Sun Yuqi and Mu Jingran.
"Xiao Zhou is stuck with something. I'm taking him to the hospital now."
After hearing this, Mu Jingran took the child from Qin Xiuzhi's arms and ran to the street. Sun Yuqi was also a little panicked. After all, the matter of the child could be a big deal or a small one, and she didn't know what the consequences would be. So she stopped Grandma Mu who came out, gave her the things she bought, and followed after them.
When she ran out of the alley, she happened to see Mu Jingran and Chen Hao standing aside. Lin Muren was holding the child and moving around. She walked forward with some confusion. As soon as she got close, she heard Mu Qingzhou crying. She immediately felt relieved and walked over.
Mu Jingran looked at Lin Muran and saw that he had actually saved the child. He breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Lin Muran and said, "Thank you so much for today, you two. Are you coming back to Beijing for the New Year?"
Chen Hao patted Mu Jingran on the shoulder and said with a smile, "Yes, we haven't been able to come back for the past two years in the south. The elderly at home miss us a little, so we came back to stay for a few days."
Who knew that just as Chen Hao finished speaking, he heard Lin Muren say, "Okay, it's not that I miss you, it's that I miss the child. I haven't seen him since he was born. This forces us to come back for the New Year this winter."
While they were talking, Sun Yuqi took Mu Qingzhou from Lin Muran's arms. The little guy was frightened and cried for a few times before lying in Sun Yuqi's arms without saying a word. However, tears were still hanging on his aggrieved little face, which made Qin Xiuzhi, who was chasing him from behind, feel distressed.
Qin Xiuzhi's health was not very good to begin with, so how could she compare with Sun Yuqi and his wife? So when she tried her best to catch up, everything should have been over.
After handing the child over to Qin Xiuzhi, he asked the mother and daughter to go back quickly. They had just come out in a hurry and Qin Xiuzhi was not wearing thick clothes. If they continued to get cold, the mother and daughter would probably get sick.
Lin Muran took out a few bags of clothes from the car and handed them to Sun Yuqi.
"Since we met on the street, let's take these clothes back! I don't need to send them in again. There are some for my sister-in-law, so she can just wear them. There are also some for the children."
After Lin Muren finished speaking, he took out a large bag from the car, opened it, looked at the clothes that were going to be given to Qin Xiuzhi and the children, and picked them out.
"Put it on quickly!"
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