Chapter 36: Tie the bloodline back and lock it up
He Jinze finally found out.
His face turned pale and he asked the man in front of him, "Really?"
Meng Yuzhi raised his eyes, and He Jinze paused in lighting his cigarette.
"That child, is it my father's?"
What a scandal! As a junior, He Jinze had never heard anyone in the family mention it. Incest between siblings, pregnancy and childbirth, He Jinze's father having an affair with his sister, caught by Old Man He. Soon after, those who were married were married, those who were missing disappeared, and everyone was happy.
If the He family didn't have only He Jinze as the heir now.
Because the family was so small, Mr. He didn't want to look for this child in a high-profile manner.
I could only ask Meng Yuzhi to worry about it, but I didn't expect that this child would have a clue so quickly.
"You're crazy, a bunch of lunatics." He Jinze sneered, "What a deviant family."
He really doesn't care about his own father and grandfather, and even scolds himself.
Meng Yuzhi laughed. Outside the floor-to-ceiling window, there were tall buildings.
He withdrew his gaze and admired He Jinze's innocence.
Who wouldn’t feel disgusted?
The thought of his brother and sister being together was absurd to Meng Yuzhi.
He couldn't help but worry about Chi Liuai. Even if he didn't pay attention, the two of them would be more involved. Look, Lin Zhun evaded the surveillance of the bodyguards and disappeared in Hangzhou. He was afraid that he would slip through the net and the news would leak out. The news in the newspaper that the Chi family had severed ties was suppressed by Meng Yuzhi. Some thieving cats would show their claws when they smelled the scent.
Now there are twice as many people looking after Chi Liuai.
In the blink of an eye, the New Year is almost coming to an end.
Chi Liuai loves to buy new clothes, and she is even busier. There are models and managers of major brand areas coming and going in Meng's house now. She has never even spent time trying on clothes. Even if it is something that Liuai likes, something that Meng Yuzhi says matches her, or something that he has casually mentioned, all of them will appear in Liuai's treasure house.
Life was quite comfortable, but Chi Liuai did not forget to calculate his own little accounts.
She knew that if she lived with her brother, these clothes and luxury goods would become a hassle in life, and the converted money would be more practical.
Seeing the small amounts of money in his account gradually piling up, Chi Liuai would hold his phone every day, so happy that he couldn't sleep.
The original plan was to have the wedding at the end of the year.
Chi Liuai's hesitation and reluctance to get the marriage certificate too early surprised the servants. Meng Yuzhi stared at her wandering eyes, but he didn't care and just followed Chi Liuai's wishes.
However, I couldn't refuse to show up at the Meng family to wish them a happy new year.
She was Meng Yuzhi's contracted wife, and they had a contract. She couldn't just enjoy the rights without fulfilling her obligations. Chi Liuai was not that kind of person.
Outside the car window, lights flickered. Chi Liuai's attention was drawn to the red waves and green forests that formed lines of lights. She hadn't expected things to change so quickly. When she first arrived at the Meng family compound, the courtyard and the landscape were so long that Chi Liuai couldn't finish walking them. Later, when she was replaying the grievances in her mind every day, it suddenly came to her mind. Meng Ran was bullying her. She really couldn't tolerate it.
At this time, Chi Liuai was respectfully invited by the Meng family with eighteen congratulatory invitations and a gift.
Her task was to play the role of Brother Yuzhi's wife. When she saw the place, she was actually a little at a loss. After all, she was afraid of her elders.
Especially the unfathomable Meng family. Sister Xuewei once mentioned the open and secret struggles in the Meng family, which made her eyes blur with tears.
Chi Liuai's hand was still in Meng Yuzhi's palm.
The man noticed her discomfort and was concerned, telling her to go home if she didn't want to go.
Chi Liuai answered the question irrelevantly: "I just don't know what kind of wife I will be in the future."
Pretty and virtuous? Gentle and considerate? Or graceful and elegant? Chi Liuai couldn't really decide, after all, he had already achieved that.
This wasn't Chi Liuai bragging. Meng Yuzhi couldn't help but squeeze the little one in his arms until it hurt, praising her with a smile, "A good child, a good girl, smart..."
The praise made the sensitive Liu Ai so happy that she covered her rosy little face with her hands and buried it in Meng Yuzhi's arms.
She said angrily, "Stop praising me!"
The car stopped and turned off. The servants and children from the concubines were all around, greeting and greeting her. Hangzhou's climate wasn't exactly cold, but more damp and chilly. Although the temperature inside the courtyard was constant, Chi Liuai felt a chill on her head as she left the warm embrace. Then, Meng Yuzhi's hand touched the top of her head.
Chi Liuai raised his eyes and looked at him.
Meng Yuzhi stroked her, giving Chi Liuai enough time to think about her question, and then said, "Be more aggressive."
No matter how noisy the Meng family was, they dared not dance in front of Meng Yuzhi. They waited for someone to come, and then walked through the dozen or so people, all of whom were from the main branch, the side branch, and even more distant relatives. All of them had representatives who came to pay New Year's greetings. Meng Yuzhi and Chi Liuai did not stop. During the whole process, only Liuai secretly poked his head in to look at them a few times. He met their faces with warm smiles, polite waves or nods.
At the beginning, her feet were sore from walking, and she stumbled to a strange place, to everyone's surprise.
Two different scenes.
Chi Liuaiyun gently tugged at Meng Yuzhi's sleeve while looking around and disappearing.
Meng Yuzhi followed the force and looked down. After saying "Hmm?", he helped Liuai adjust her beret. Suddenly, a piece of red rope was revealed from the plush high collar, and Meng Yuzhi hooked it out.
It was a wooden sign with the words - Peace and success written on it.
It was the "stolen goods" that Chi Liuai claimed from Meng Yuzhi.
Meng Yuzhi calmly stuffed the wooden sign into Chi Liuai's collar, restoring it to its original shape. There was still the residual wood fragrance here, which was a smell Meng Yuzhi really disliked. After all, this smell had remained in Chi Liuai's palm, in the elevator, and in her memory for too long. He patted the girl's shoulder to comfort her.
Question: "Feeling uncomfortable?"
Chi Liuai shook her head, and she confirmed it again, and took the initiative to put Meng Yuzhi's large palm in her own palm. She couldn't hold it, and it wasn't warm, but Meng Yuzhi provided her with warmth.
"Happy New Year." He said for no reason, "I'll talk to you from now on."
Meng Yuzhi paused, a sudden realization dawning on him. He understood. The little girl had been bothered by Fang Cong's entrance. All the polite people who had exchanged New Year's greetings had only given the quietest responses after the two of them reached the hallway. She felt a little uncomfortable, feeling that no one had offered Meng Yuzhi a blessing. This was the Meng family, and Meng Yuzhi couldn't be treated like this.
She also told Meng Yuzhi in her own way that you will have it too.
"Madam He said dinner will be served soon. Young Master Meng Ran is still abroad. She called back to wish Mr. Meng a happy new year."
Meng Yuzhi nodded.
Chi Liuai sat in the seat reserved for Madam Meng. Under the gaze of everyone, he subconsciously covered his chest with his palm, with the wooden sign pressed against his heartbeat.
He looked at Madam He's position cautiously in the most obvious way.
She still thought of it.
Wooden sign, congratulations.
My brother wanted the He family to see the wooden plaque. Ever since Chi Liuai learned that a young master from the He family had visited Meng Yuzhi, who was the great-nephew of Madam He, she knew that she should meet Madam He.
At that time, her breathing was slightly choked.
Old Madam He was pushed in in a wheelchair, and with the help of a crutch, she sat tremblingly with the help of a nurse. She said softly, "Let's eat." Then someone started eating, but no one was allowed to speak. Chi Liuai was really confused. Her stomach was sour from all the speculation and doubt, and she really couldn't eat. She couldn't show the wooden sign to everyone in a high-profile manner. What's more, Old Madam He was a bit fierce. When she sat down and started eating, she looked at Chi Liuai for a long time, intentionally or unintentionally.
Chi Liuai's chopsticks were put away when she looked at them and moved when she moved.
In just that moment, Chi Liuai was truly unable to move.
While she was hesitating, Chi Liuai felt a little sweetness on her lips. She took a sip out of habit. After being moistened by the sweet soup, she became greedy again.
Everyone put down their chopsticks.
After wondering why everyone stopped eating, I realized and turned around.
Meng Yuzhi, who was standing next to him, had not picked up his chopsticks from beginning to end. He twisted the white jade spoon with his fingers and fed Chi Liuai a bowl of sweet water using his own cutlery.
Her eyes were fixed on Madam He.
Meng Yuzhi also gave her his full attention.
Then, he stroked the girl's hand. Madam He coughed a few times and, using excuses like feeling unwell, dizzy, sleepy, and old, asked Meng Yuzhi to leave and go upstairs. Meng Yuzhi slowly stood up and whispered to the girl to eat more. After leaving his seat, he gently patted her shoulder where the red string was exposed.
He became the person who scared Chi Liuai the most in the whole building.
In the dark temple, only Madam He and Meng Yuzhi were left.
"Well, this is the sweetheart you've kept in your hands for so long, the one you wouldn't let anyone even glance at?" Madam He said calmly, "She's good-looking, and has a simple temperament."
Meng Yuzhi lit the incense and walked behind He Wanbai.
"You scared her."
The tone was dissatisfied.
He Wanbai: "I don't like her very much. Since you like her, it must make sense. Have you checked? If she doesn't behave herself, the Meng family will not allow such a woman."
The sandalwood was thick, and Meng Yuzhi raised his hand to disperse it. He did not answer.
He Wanbai sighed and tapped his cane a few times.
"Light a stick of incense for your father."
They both raised their eyes at the same time, following the candle in front of them that was dimmed by the wind from the crack. It was a sacrificial hall set up in the dark, and three words were clearly written on the tablet - Meng Tianxi.
In He Wanbai's eyes, Meng Yuzhi inherited eighty percent of his mother, Chen Yajun, but his eyes were identical to his father, his son, and the rest of the He family: calm and composed, dark and profound, with a touch of undisguised cruelty. Yet, he loved to smile, and the kindness that barely reached his eyes became a disguise. If it weren't for those eyes, He Wanbai wouldn't have dared to admit that this child was actually Tianxi's offspring.
If her son hadn't been so unlucky and fallen in love with a fickle woman, and if Chen Yajun hadn't fallen in love with someone else and arbitrarily demanded the cancellation of the engagement, her son wouldn't have died in a car accident, leaving her, a widow, to languish in the Meng family's thrall, adopting a loser to replace her son, taking advantage of her son's fortune and becoming a candidate for the Meng family.
She wanted to punish Chen Yajun, so she used the power of the He family and the marriage contract of the Meng family to force this woman to continue to marry into the Meng family.
Let her get pregnant and give birth to a child, let her lover eventually part ways with her, let her serve that loser and feel guilty for the rest of her life.
The ancestral hall was quiet. Meng Yuzhi remained motionless, just staring at the tablet, not knowing what he was thinking.
He Wanbai also regretted it.
She had never expected that Chen Yajun had already given birth to a posthumous child of her own son. In that struggle and conspiracy, Chen Yajun and the infant Meng Yuzhi became the wives of the Chen and Meng families.
Exiled to Hong Kong City, Chen Yajun died of illness, and Meng Yuzhi became a wanderer.
A few years later, a young man with no trace of childishness on his face and a pair of calm black eyes, covered in blood, made a way to survive in the port city.
When He Wanbai rushed over, he saw those eyes that he was all too familiar with, and in his hand was a paternity test.
Fourteen-year-old Meng Yuzhi smiled faintly and called her grandma.
What she held in her hands was a jar of ashes, engraved with the words - Mother, Chen Yajun.
He Wanbai felt a gust of wind by her ears. When she came to her senses, Meng Yuzhi brushed past her and bowed deeply three times with the incense in his hand.
Then, He Wanbai's face changed slightly. There was only one tablet filled with incense and sandalwood, and Bai Aijing's tablet was the only one.
Chen Yajun.
Meng Yuzhi smiled softly and said, "You scared her."
The attitude is clear.
He, Meng Yuzhi, had been so powerful at the age of fourteen that he had invaded the Meng family, causing such unrest that the Hong Kong branch sent three letters of apology, and the police and the secret passages were busy telling the Meng family to withdraw while they were ahead. He had been so powerful since he entered the Meng family that even the largest families now relied on him for sacrifices. Besides He Wanbai, a relative who could make him restrain himself, who else could he control? Now, that nominal father, "Meng Tianxi," was dreaming, and Meng Ran had become a useless son.
Such a person has no interest in the Meng family's business at all.
He only does one thing.
He Wanbai looked ahead with red eyes. After a long time, she felt sad about Chen Yajun's good fortune and that her son was not as good as her.
Meng Yuzhi originally only worshipped his mother's tablet, and all the people in the Meng family, including his grandparents, uncles and father, lived and burned incense under his mother's tablet.
Now there is one more person, Meng Yuzhi read out Chi Liuai's name in front of his mother.
I have too many extravagant expectations. Just be a little more obedient.
"Forget it, just as you wish."
If He Wanbai really wanted to obstruct the marriage, it would be because of the bad consequences of the past. She had the means to do so, but she couldn't do it again.
She and Meng Yuzhi, grandmother and grandchild, were connected by blood, but separated by heart.
In the corridor leading to the main hall, He Wanbai was supported by Meng Yuzhi and said, "We've found a clue about the He family's child. The police station sent us a letter, and it's said it's a girl."
Meng Yuzhi hummed softly. He was not interested in hearing any rumors about "brother and sister" now.
"Back then, when Miss He Lin left home, she only took a few things with her. I've met her a few times, so I have some feelings for her." He Wanbai thought of her niece, He Lin. She was gentle and polite, but it was a pity that she caused such a scandal and left home pregnant. But after all, this child was He family blood, so she had to find it. "The He family wrote to me, saying that the old man took away a few pieces of jewelry and a protective amulet, which was engraved by Mr. He himself. It says--"
Meng Yuzhi and He Wanbai walked a long way until they reached the courtyard. The girl was bending over to hand out New Year's red envelopes to several children. Her eyes softened, but when she heard her grandmother's words, she paused, glanced back, and followed her grandmother's gaze.
Suddenly, light snow fell, but the bamboo forest in the cold weather did not look the least bit damaged by the cold. This was a landscape courtyard replicated according to the layout of the He family's ancestral home to ease the grandmother's homesickness. There were bamboos transplanted from the He family here. Meng Yuzhi knew that Chi Liuai liked to plant trees. The saplings and famous species in the flower garden a few days ago were similar to these. It was not surprising that the Meng family had the He family, the He family bamboo, and the He family's feelings. The bamboo leaves rustled, and Meng Yuzhi heard He Wanbai's deep breaths and coughs in his ears, and heard the last word she uttered.
"Peace, success, and elimination of disasters and difficulties!"
Peace and prosperity! Eliminate disasters and difficulties!
Meng Yuzhi's pupils constricted.
Chi Liuai and the child were playing and running, and the wooden sign hanging from a bright red rope was swinging on his chest, dazzling.
He Wanbai is in a coma.
Meng Yuzhi stayed in the hospital to take care of him, while Chi Liuai was detained at home.
The hospital and Meng's house are not accessible to anyone.
Tonight, there is a blizzard.
He Wanbai had a dream.
In the dream, when He Lin was still young and crying, the elders in the family were saying that she was possessed by evil spirits. She had to ask for a consecrated wooden plaque from the Taoist temple, and her brother personally wrote the inscription on it. The best carver made a pair of protective amulets.
One is He Lin and the other is He Zhiyuan.
Her dream was full of strangeness and she felt dizzy. Just when she was dealing with the mess of mud and stinky shrimps in the Meng family, she was urgently called back to the He family.
At this time, He Lin was pregnant, and He Zhiyuan knelt on the ground.
The scandal between the two was exposed, and Mr. He cruelly drove He Lin away and arranged for He Zhiyuan to marry him.
Later, He Zhiyuan had a son, He Jinze. In the same year, she also learned that her son had a posthumous child, Meng Yuzhi.
The shaky red line on the wooden sign suddenly retracted, and He Wanbai took a deep breath and opened his eyes.
Sure enough, Meng Yuzhi was there, and the lights in the ward were not on yet. He Wanbai listened to the man's breathing, which was unstable, disorderly, heavy and chaotic.
My heart is in chaos, everything is in chaos, and even more ridiculous things are happening. This is retribution.
"Separate." He Wanbai no longer compromised, "Unless I die."
After a long time, Meng Yuzhi stood up and went out of the ward.
He Wanbai saw him holding his phone and talking on it, so she paid attention. Of course, the man also wanted her to hear it.
It was Chen Hui's call, and he said briefly, "Miss Chi has returned to the Chi family. Someone leaked the information that the Chi family had published in the newspaper."
After Meng Yuzhi stopped smoking, he lit a cigarette for the first time outside the ward and said, "Take it back."
"If Miss Chi doesn't want to, then..." Chen Hui hesitated.
Meng Yuzhi tried to light the cigarette again and again, but he couldn't get the flame to come out. The cigarette stick that was already stuck in his lips was destined to be spit out.
"Then tie it up."
Then, after a moment of silence, he finally added, "Trick it back and close it tightly."
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