Chapter 19 Chapter 19 The marriage between the two families came to an end...
Liang Xin remained calm, "What do you want to say in secret?"
"Liang Xin, I know your feelings for our Yuan Yang very well. To be honest, I have liked you since the first time I saw you. What mother-in-law would not like a daughter-in-law like you who loves her son wholeheartedly? If Yuan Yang really marries you, I won't have to worry about the rest of my life at all."
Wang Hongyan sighed, "But you also know that Yuanyang is very ambitious. He has great aspirations just like his biological father. As a parent, even if I can't help, I can't hold him back. If I can help a little, I will definitely do my best to help. Don't you think this is the truth?"
Liang Xin listened quietly without responding.
Wang Hongyan paused for a moment and continued, "I know you are angry and resentful, so even though you were cruel enough to send Yuanyang to the police station a few days ago, I also advised Yuanyang not to bother with you. After all, even clay figures have tempers, and even rabbits bite when they are angry. Liangxin, I came to you today to apologize to you on behalf of Yuanyang. Let the past be the past."
"Then I'm leaving."
"Hey? Liang Xin!"
Wang Hongyan stepped forward and grabbed Liang Xin who was not playing by the rules. "I haven't finished what I'm saying yet, Liang Xin. I never thought you would marry into the Lu family. You and Yuan Yang are really destined to be together."
"Not necessarily." Liang Xin waved her hand away, "Now it's just you who want to get married to the Lu family unilaterally."
Wang Hongyan's affectionate expression suddenly froze, "That's because our family is now in decline. If it were back then, who knows who would cling to whom. By the way, if our family was still the same as it was back then, I would definitely let Yuanyang marry you right away. Liang Xin, I actually approve of you the most in my heart."
Liang Xin raised her eyebrows slightly, "Really?"
"Yes, of course!" Wang Hongyan wanted to grab Liang Xin's hand, but when she reached out, she found that there was no place to grab. Liang Xin's hands were in the pockets of her cotton-padded jacket. "Liang Xin, I won't beat around the bush with you. Let me be frank. Yuanyang is completely obsessed with you now. He is absent-minded every day, and all he thinks about is you."
Liang Xin showed the right expression at the right time, seeming surprised, happy, and shy.
Wang Hongyan was overjoyed, she hooked Liang Xin's arm, and said in a low voice: "Since it has come to this, how about this, when I go to the Lu family to formally propose marriage, you can say a few more good words to promote this marriage..."
Liang Xin turned her arm away at the right time, looking angry.
"Liang Xin~"
Wang Hongyan lured Liang Xin back, "Actually, my plan is for your sake. If you marry into the Lu family, you will have to stay at the Lu family every day to take care of Chong Feng, the sickly one, and you won't be able to go out. Even if Yuan Yang wants to find you, he won't have the chance to see you. However, if Yuan Yang marries Yue Ji and becomes the son-in-law of the Lu family, he can often appear at the Lu family openly, and even live in the Lu family."
Liang Xin was surprised, "What do you mean?"
"You kid... I get it, I understand." Wang Hongyan leaned closer and said, "Chong Chong hasn't consummated his marriage with you yet, right?"
Liang Xin blushed and lowered her head.
Pretended very well.
Wang Hongyan smiled with satisfaction, "That's even better. This way you'll still be worthy of our Yuanyang, Liangxin. Life is actually very short. Chongfeng might be gone one day. We can't let ourselves be depressed and widowed for him, suffering for the rest of our lives. If we want to live, we must live with pride. Be with whoever we like, and don't put so many shackles on ourselves."
Liang Xin said nothing, a hint of bitterness flashed across her face.
Wang Hongyan felt that she had touched Liang Xin's heart. "As long as you help Yuanyang to get married, I have no objection to your relationship. Yuanyang, Yuanyang must be eager to do so. After he saw you at the Lu family that day, he said that he was more concerned about the marriage with the Lu family and must make it happen for you."
Liang Xin tried to hold back her nausea, but she couldn't bear to listen any longer.
"You guys, are you really capable of dreaming and treating everyone as fools?"
Wang Hongyan, who was speaking excitedly, paused, looked at Liang Xin's face, and suddenly pulled out her hand that had been hooked on Liang Xin's arm.
"Liang Xin, I'm speaking to you politely. If you cooperate, it will be good for you, Yuanyang, and everyone else. If you don't cooperate... I've told you everything today. If you have second thoughts, don't blame us for tearing the fishing net."
"The net is broken and the fish is dead."
“........”
Wang Hongyan waved her hand. "That's what I mean. It's fine as long as you understand it. Liang Xin, if the Lu family knew how you treated Yuan Yang in the past, do you think they would still want you? I know your mother-in-law best. When our old Wei died, she came to persuade me to stay in the garrison every day. On the surface, she said it in a nice way so that they could take care of me more conveniently. In fact, she just wanted me to remain a widow. It would be best if she could erect a chastity arch in the garrison!"
Wang Hongyan was angry and lost her patience. "Also, you secretly cut off the capitalist tail in your hometown. Your commune kept you as a child in order to get you married. If your father-in-law, who can't tolerate any sand in his eyes, knew about it, not only would you not be able to stay in the Lu family, but your commune and your father would also be in trouble. Choose a good day or a bad day. I believe you are a smart person."
Liang Xin didn't say anything.
Wang Hongyan knew that she had scared her, so she returned to her previous affectionate face, hugged Liang Xin and said a lot of soft and nice things.
Wei Yuanyang came back from the military service center after buying things. When he saw the intimate scene between his mother and Liang Xin, he said nothing.
His eyes seemed to be glued to Liang Xin, never leaving her for a moment.
Both mother and son thought they had Liang Xin under control.
The three of them walked into the Lu family's small building one after the other.
Hu Fenglian was just coming out of the kitchen carrying steamed buns. "Liang Xin, who's looking for you?"
Liang Xin: "Wei Yuanyang and his mother."
Wei Yuanyang and Wang Hongyan, who had just smiled, felt their hearts skip a beat at the same time. Their smiles froze on their faces, and they looked at Liang Xin nervously.
Hu Fenglian put down the buns and asked, "Hongyan, what do you want to do with Liangxin?"
Liang Xin walked towards the dining table and said, "You want me to help you put in a good word."
"right!"
Wang Hongyan suddenly raised her voice and answered, successfully drawing everyone's attention to herself, "I heard that Fenglian personally selected her daughter-in-law and was very satisfied with her, so I thought of asking the new daughter-in-law to say something good for us. Yes, to say something good for us."
Hu Fenglian looked unhappy as she looked at Wang Hongyan.
Chief Lu's expression was not very good either. "Come in and sit down."
Wang Hongyan just breathed a sigh of relief, secretly gave Liang Xin a threatening look, and walked to the sofa and sat down.
As soon as I sat down, I heard Hu Fenglian say, "What good words do you want Liang Xin to say?"
"Aren't the two families going to get engaged..."
"She wanted me to help facilitate the marriage between Wei Yuanyang and Yueji, so that Wei Yuanyang could live in the Lu family openly and take care of me instead of Chongfeng. Then I would speak well of Wei Yuanyang and help him with everything."
The living room instantly fell into deathly silence.
Wang Hongyan stared at Liang Xin with her eyes wide open, her smile still frozen on her face, oblivious to the changes.
Wei Yuanyang was so surprised that his lips slightly opened, as if he had met Liang Xin for the first time. Soon panic appeared in his eyes and he hurriedly looked at Chief Lu.
Chief Lu's face was so gloomy that ink could drip out of it.
Hu Fenglian stood up suddenly and pointed at Wang Hongyan with a trembling finger, "Old Wang, how come you have become so filthy now!"
After being startled, Wang Hongyan finally reacted. Her face turned pale and red. She opened her mouth several times, but it seemed as if her mouth was anesthetized and she couldn't utter a word.
“Oh my god.”
Lu Yueji covered her red lips with her hands, and looked back and forth at Wei Yuanyang and his mother with her almond-shaped eyes, "Are you trying to treat our whole family as fools?"
Wang Hong's face suddenly changed. She stood up quickly and shook her head like a rattle. "Don't believe her nonsense. Fenglian, don't you know who I am? We are old sisters. It's you, my daughter-in-law, who is blaming me. I am really wronged! Commander Lu!"
"Who are you? I can see it very clearly!"
Hu Fenglian was so angry that her fingers were shaking. "Wang Hongyan, back in the camp, I treated you with all my heart, without any false feelings. You insisted on remarrying, and we, Old Lu, did our best to help you, just so that you and Yuanyang could live a stable life. Now our family members have died gloriously, and Chongfeng is sick, and you have never shown any concern when you came to our house, and you are actually targeting Yueji and Chongfeng's family members at the same time. Why can you be so ungrateful?!"
"I...I didn't mean that. I really didn't mean that!"
Wang Hongyan watched the wealth she had obtained slipping away from her hands like sand. She was sweating and her face was red with anxiety as she said, "Fenglian, you are simple, honest, and kind-hearted. You have been deceived by this scheming and vicious daughter-in-law. She is full of nonsense and is throwing dirty water on us. I don't know what she is up to. You must not believe her!"
Liang Xin suddenly said, "I didn't explain it clearly just now."
The angry atmosphere suddenly stopped.
Everyone in the living room looked at Liang Xin.
Wei Yuanyang and Wang Hongyan, who were panicking and didn't know what to do, had a glimmer of hope in their eyes.
"She means that Chong Feng will have a short life and won't live for more than a few days. When he dies, Wei Yuanyang will be able to enjoy the beauty of Qi and the Lu family's connections at the same time."
Wei Yuanyang and Wang Hongyan: "......."
"You farted!"
Wang Hongyan collapsed. She didn't expect Liang Xin to not only tell her everything they had just said, but also to exaggerate and make it even more direct and unpleasant. "You..."
"You black-hearted, ungrateful wolf!"
After hearing this, Hu Fenglian's eyes instantly turned red, "What did Chong Feng do to you? Why did you curse him to death behind his back?"
"Aunt Hu, there must be some misunderstanding here."
Wei Yuanyang had to speak up. "I just went to the service center to buy something. I didn't hear my mother and... I didn't hear their conversation. My mother is uneducated, so it's common for her to talk incoherently. It must be a misunderstanding."
"What misunderstanding? I believe in my second sister-in-law!"
Lu Yueji looked indignant.
"Yueji, how can you be so ungrateful!" Wang Hongyan, who had long regarded Lu Yueji as her own daughter-in-law, said angrily, "She has only been married to your family for a few days, and our two families have been related for many years. You are the daughter-in-law that we have chosen since we were young. We, Yuanyang, have a clean record for you..."
"Bah!"
Hu Fenglian was so angry that she pouted at Wang Hongyan without caring about her image. "Old Wang, I feel like I have never known you before. Even now, you are still full of lies. You are really a poisonous snake. You wish you could suck our family's blood dry and bite us to death. You are so hateful!"
Wang Hongyan was stunned and subconsciously looked at Liang Xin with disbelief in her eyes.
"I forgot to tell you." Liang Xin said, "After we first met at the Lu family, I told the two elders about Wei Yuanyang and I."
Wang Hongyan was suddenly struck by lightning and looked at Liang Xin with her mouth open.
She didn't expect that there would be such people in the world who were either honest or stupid.
Having acquired wealth, he actually had the courage to give it away!
Wei Yuanyang's eyes were filled with shock, complexity, and a hint of regret.
Such a good Liang Xin has become someone else's.
Just thinking about it, Wei Yuanyang felt like his heart was cracked and his whole body was numb with pain.
In the pain, there emerges a strong desire for money, power and kindness.
"Fenglian, your wife was so unclean before marriage, and you still want her?"
Wang Hongyan hated Liang Xin to death, and when things came to this point, she decided not to let Liang Xin have an easy time. She guessed that Liang Xin would definitely not tell her everything in detail, and must have said something unclear and ambiguous in order to benefit herself.
"Captain Lu, do you know how your daughter-in-law treated our Yuanyang before? According to her second sister-in-law, she wanted to pour all the blood in her veins for Yuanyang to drink. Her heart was filled with Yuanyang. She threw herself into Yuanyang's arms countless times in the countryside. If it weren't for Yuanyang's integrity, she would have been dirty long ago! Even so, your family still wants her?!"
"Just shut your stinky mouth!"
Before Liang Xin could speak, Hu Fenglian cursed, "Look at how you look now, you are simply disgusting. Old Lu transferred Xiao Li to the military academy for the sake of Old Wei and Yuan Yang, so that Yuan Yang could live a worry-free life. But you left Yuan Yang without food and clothes. In that situation, a girl treated your son wholeheartedly, but you didn't show any gratitude at all. You lied to us and shamelessly came to our house to cheat. After the truth was revealed, you turned the tables and threw dirty water on the girl, trying to completely ruin the most important reputation of the girl's family. To say that you are a black-hearted ungrateful wolf is a compliment to you. You are simply a black-hearted, ungrateful snake!"
Hu Fenglian usually doesn't curse people, so she created her own words when she couldn't think of any other words.
After listening to this, Liang Xin smiled and noticed someone standing on the stairs out of the corner of her eye.
I wasn't that nervous.
The more Wei Yuanyang and his mother said, the more the two elders of the Lu family and Lu Yueji knew the character of this mother and son. It was impossible for them to be completely defenseless against them as in the original book. Family members died or became sick, and after setting up the ladder for Wei Yuanyang, the family was left broken and devastated.
Just when Wang Hongyan's attempt to sow discord failed and she was scolded so harshly that she was speechless.
Chief Lu looked at Wei Yuanyang, and there was no more intimacy in his eyes.
It seemed that this marriage was on the verge of failure, with no chance of recovery.
Wei Yuanyang suddenly stood up and said, "Uncle Lu, Aunt Hu, my mother was wrong in this matter. I apologize to you on her behalf."
Liang Xin raised her long eyelashes and looked at him.
"What do you mean?"
Hu Fenglian has always been very close to Wei Yuanyang. After all, she was the first person to hold him when he was born. But now, because of Wang Hongyan's shamelessness and Wei Yuanyang's silence, she has lost her original closeness to him.
"Yuanyang, do you want to put all the blame on your mother? Your mother is hateful, but haven't you always been behind her and supported her, and never exposed her? The last time I came here, I clearly asked you specifically if you really had no contact with other girls, and you answered yes."
Lu Yueji slammed the table: "How abominable!"
"After my father died, my mother remarried very quickly and gave birth to my younger brother a few years later. Many times, I felt that they were the family and I was just an outsider living under their roof."
Wei Yuanyang lowered his eyelashes, looking distressed. "Since I was a child, I had to be obedient, sensible, quiet, and give in to my younger brother in everything, so that I could get a compliment from my mother. The habit I developed over a long period of time made me passively please my mother when encountering things, and I didn't know how to refuse. Even if she said something wrong, I had to do it, otherwise... I would be beaten and scolded and punished."
Wang Hongyan turned around in shock. She did scold the child, but she never hit the child.
But when she saw Chief Lu and Hu Fenglian frowning at the same time and conveying accusations to her, she immediately chose to shut up.
Commander Lu frowned but still said nothing.
"After I answered Aunt Hu's question last time, I couldn't sleep the whole time. I had a big fight with my mom, and we hadn't spoken to each other since before I came to the Lu family today."
Wei Yuanyang looked at Chief Lu, "Two days ago, I wrote a letter to Uncle Lu. The letter explained my relationship with Liang Xin after I went to the countryside, and also explained that the marriage between the two families was one-sided and my mother deceived both sides. I didn't know the inside story of this marriage at the time. I only knew that I had a marriage since I was a child. Therefore, even though I received a lot of help from Liang Xin in the countryside, I still kept myself clean and kept my distance from Liang Xin. There was nothing between Liang Xin and me. She didn't throw herself into my arms like my mother said. That was all slander from my mother. Liang Xin is a good girl, and I am very grateful to her. Before coming to the Lu family to propose marriage, I did my best to compensate her and gave her a TV ticket and a hundred yuan."
Chief Lu's brows relaxed slightly.
Hu Fenglian's complexion also improved slightly.
At least this kid didn't completely confuse right and wrong like his mother did, throwing dirty water on Liang Xin without any bottom line. Instead, he stood up to clear his mother's name for destroying Liang Xin's reputation.
The money, TV and air tickets are the same as Liang Xin said.
Lu Yueji looked at Liang Xin, "Second sister-in-law, is this true?"
"Don't try to deny it!" Wang Hongyan said hurriedly: "Yuanyang did compensate her, and the TV tickets and plane tickets came from my pocket!"
Regarding Wei Yuanyang's sudden letter, and the ambiguous thing she asked for at that time, as if he was willing to give compensation, Liang Xin said: "That's what happened."
Wei Yuanyang's fingers, which had turned white from exerting force, loosened slightly.
Wang Hongyan also secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Just as she was about to help her son speak again, she heard Liang Xin say:
"In addition to the TV ticket and 100 yuan, it was agreed that I would be compensated with five years' salary. When I get married, the money for the TV ticket will be reimbursed to me as my dowry. Now that I'm married, when will I be reimbursed for the TV?"
Wei Yuanyang looked like he had eaten a toad. His face turned red as he looked at Liang Xin. Not only was he unable to speak for a long time, he even almost couldn't breathe.
Liang Xin's greed once again refreshed his cognition.
He suddenly had only one thought in his mind: he might have to make a lot of money.
You have to earn a lot of money to win back Liang Xin.
Wang Hongyan was so angry that she was shaking all over: "You, you, you are shameless!"
"That's right."
Wei Yuanyang gritted his teeth and admitted, "The relationship between Liang Xin and I was already settled on that day. I am grateful to Liang Xin for taking care of me in the past, which was far beyond my ability to compensate. So when my mother and I came to the Lu family to discuss the marriage, although I concealed something, it was indeed innocent. In addition, in the letter I sent, I told Uncle Lu that the marriage between the two families was cancelled. From now on, Yueji is my sister."
Wang Hongyan turned her head and looked at her son. "What nonsense are you talking about!"
Chief Lu and Hu Fenglian finally showed some emotions on their faces and looked at Wei Yuanyang in surprise.
There was a hint of surprise in Liang Xin's calm eyes.
Chief Lu: "I didn't receive your letter."
"The letter I sent the day before yesterday had the address of the headquarters office." Wei Yuanyang looked apologetic, "Uncle Lu, Aunt Hu, I'm really sorry for causing you trouble."
Hu Fenglian didn't know what to say about the turn of events. She felt relieved, but also more defensive.
Commander Lu called the guard over and said, "The letter from the day before yesterday should have been delivered to the headquarters today. Go to the mail room and take a look."
Suddenly, there was a noise on the stairs.
Everyone in the living room turned to look over.
Lu Zewei was dressed in a green military uniform. He was thin but not frail. His face was as cold as the winter snow outside the window. There was no emotion in his black eyes. He walked down the stairs step by step with his long legs.
When Wang Hongyan saw the grown-up Lu Chongfeng for the first time, she subconsciously held her breath and wanted to look, but she kept avoiding his gaze because she felt guilty. When she was swept by the emotionless gaze, her body immediately shook like a sieve.
The emotionless eyes quickly moved from Wang Hongyan to Wei Yuanyang.
Wei Yuanyang was looking at the other person.
The two eyes met.
Wei Yuanyang was ultimately unable to withstand the sharpness that came from killing countless enemies on the battlefield and the medals he received. After only looking at each other for a few seconds, he began to feel his heart pounding.
When he averted his sight, he saw Liang Xin, and a surge of energy suddenly rose in his heart. With a look of unwillingness to admit defeat, he faced her again, fully prepared to never retreat. However, Lu Zewei's eyes were replaced with lazy mockery.
Wei Yuanyang's heart sank and his breathing became slightly heavier.
Lost again.
Lu Zewei walked up to Liang Xin and handed her a bottle of vanishing cream.
Liang Xin raised her hand to take it, but he unscrewed the cap, picked up a small piece of cream from the bottle with his bony fingers, and applied it to her face, gently smearing it.
Everyone in the living room watched the two people's little movements.
Liang Xin's cheeks turned slightly red and she turned her head away, but his hand followed her and never left her side.
Wei Yuanyang felt like he had eaten a lemon in his heart. When he twisted it lightly, it was full of sourness.
Wang Hongyan looked at Lu Chongfeng's actions in surprise. She didn't expect that except for his pale face and unhealthy lip color, Lu Chongfeng didn't look as sickly as she imagined. What she didn't expect was that Lu Chongfeng was so close to Liang Xin.
She thought that Lu Chongfeng must have heard what she had just said.
Don’t you mind this?
"charge......."
Wang Hongyan had just opened her mouth when her throat was choked by the dark eyes.
She dared to bully Hu Fenglian, dared to frame Liang Xin, and even dared to act shamelessly by making demands on Chief Lu, but she did not dare to say a single word to Lu Chongfeng's heartless face.
"I'm frozen."
Lu Chongfeng applied a coin-sized amount of cream on Liang Xin's snowy cheeks, "Because of them, your face is frozen."
Liang Xin: “….”
Wang Hongyan listened to the eerie muttering and suddenly felt a chill on her back. She slowly hid behind Wei Yuanyang.
Just when Wei Yuanyang was about to be corroded by the sourness in his heart and was about to collapse, the guard came in with a letter.
Everyone's eyes were on the letter.
Watching Chief Lu open the letter, read it carefully, he sighed.
For a moment, all kinds of expressions changed in the reception room.
Chief Lu walked up to Wei Yuanyang, raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder, "You still have the blood of old Wei in you."
Wei Yuanyang's eyes instantly turned red.
Chief Lu: "The marriage between the two families never existed, so don't mention it again."
Liang Xin breathed a sigh of relief.
Chief Lu glanced at Wang Hongyan and said, "Your mother, it's not easy to raise you alone. As a man, it's time for you to make a living for yourself. Now that you're back in Jiangjing, please come to our house often."
Wei Yuanyang's eyes became even redder.
Wang Hongyan looked delighted.
Hu Fenglian wanted to open her mouth when suddenly a shadow passed by.
Lu Zewei raised his hand and took the letter from Chief Lu's hand.
The living room fell silent again.
Lu Zewei read the letter in his hand word by word, snorted coldly, and threw the letter in Wei Yuanyang's face.
Wei Yuanyang felt insulted and let the letter fall at his feet.
Lu Zewei looked down at him and said, "I just got married, and you wrote a letter like this to my father, gossiping about my family. What were you thinking?"
Liang Xin frowned slightly, looking at Lu Zewei's thin back. Under his broad shoulders, his narrow waist was covered by the military uniform without a belt. Standing there, he reminded people of the pine and cypress trees that can withstand the cold and provide shelter for all living things.
Wei Yuanyang once again found an opportunity to look Lu Chongfeng in the eye, but was once again at a disadvantage because of his questioning, ".......Liang Xin and I are innocent......"
"Innocent? You are innocent."
Lu Zewei took a step forward and said, "If I were narrow-minded today, would Liang Xin be able to clear her name?"
Wei Yuanyang clenched his fists and met Lu Chongfeng's gaze. Hearing these words, he pursed his lips and did not open his mouth.
"What is innocence between men and women? Not talking alone, not looking at each other more than once, and if there is something, asking the brigade leader for approval, and talking face to face in the presence of the brigade leader. This is called innocence."
Lu Zewei looked at Wei Yuanyang's appearance from a close distance, "Is this how you prove your innocence?"
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