Meng Suqin remained silent for a while before speaking.
"All I know is that he comes from a very good family but is a complicated person. I don't dare to gamble on anything else, but you two only have one life."
Meng Fuyan held her hand and comforted her, "I know, Mom, you're trying to believe me too. I believe everything I've seen. If he still has a heart, he'll definitely take action."
"You only see him as a workaholic, but perhaps he's also very protective of his own? Once he has his own children, he might be very protective of them too, at least that's how he is when I'm with him."
"You two broke up not long after you got together, and you didn't even tell him the situation. Logically, he should hate you, or at least dislike you. But years later, when you were in danger, he still helped you. This shows that he is actually a very loyal person, right?"
Meng Suqin remained silent, sitting there with her head down, saying nothing.
Lu Guozhong certainly has his merits; otherwise, she wouldn't have liked him when she was young and impetuous.
But so what?
She would never gamble her child's life on a man's conscience. If he failed, he would at most lose a pair of children; he could find another woman and still have children. But her child, once lost, would never come back.
Love is nothing compared to life.
Even now, she doesn't regret her choice back then.
The Meng family was the best environment for the child to grow up in, but then an accident happened. She never expected that Wu Guozhu would be involved with enemy agents.
Even so, a few years ago when she was still in China, her two children lived happily and carefree lives. But if they were in the Lu family, those two eccentric old people would definitely not allow her children to have a happy childhood.
Her daughter may not have the opportunity to learn how to be strong and independent, but will instead be constantly disliked, criticized, and tamed, and forced to be a so-called virtuous wife and loving mother.
If Wu Guozhu wasn't an enemy agent, and if her parents could live a few more years like normal elderly people, both she and her children would be very happy.
But if she marries Lu Guozhong, then everything will be beyond her control.
Those two old people in the Lu family are too difficult to deal with. She's the eldest daughter-in-law after she married into the family, and there's such a traditional daughter-in-law before her. Just thinking about it makes me feel suffocated.
But she had to admit that Lu Guozhong was indeed easier to talk to than she had imagined. Back then, she was unwilling to die like that, so she shamelessly went to beg him. She thought she would suffer his wrath, but she didn't expect him to help her so easily.
Meng Suqin turned to look at her daughter and said uncertainly, "Yanyan, I've always told you to be bold and not to have any worries, but am I being too hesitant?"
Meng Fuyan slowly smiled and sincerely told her, "No, Mom is just worried about my and Yunji's safety. In Mom's eyes, her children's safety is the most important thing, and she can't tolerate the slightest mishap. That's why you're like this. As your daughter, I'm very grateful for everything Mom has created for me. You're a very good mother, and Yunji and I love you very much!"
"So, I hope Mom gets everything you want. As for that man, if you still like him and want him, then go and take him. If he were an ordinary woman, and she and Dad were a normal couple, then of course you can't take someone else's husband. But the key is that she's not. She's a spy, an enemy, someone we need to eliminate. You don't need to feel guilty at all."
"Besides, maybe you won't even have to fight for her; Dad will take care of her himself."
Meng Suqin thought for a while, and seemed to have figured it out. She asked Meng Fuyan, "If I go back, what about you?"
Meng Fuyan laughed and shrugged. "If you go back, Yunji won't be alone anymore. Staying in China is fine. I want to stay here. If Tingzhi really stays here for a few years, I can just go to university and learn something useful. By the time he finishes his job, I'll have graduated from university. What do you think?"
Meng Suqin didn't object to your studying at all. "It's good that you stay here to study. Anyway, there's not much to do in China. You're still so young. If you go back, you won't be able to go to university. You'll just have to work and earn a few dozen yuan a month. It won't mean much to our family. It's better to stay here and learn more. If the situation in China changes in the future, it will come in handy."
Meng Fuyan raised an eyebrow. "Does Mom think the situation in China will change?"
Meng Suqin shook her head. "Mom doesn't know either, but we've been doing this for thousands of years. The country was too poor, and the government definitely wanted to make it rich. For thousands of years, the only way to get rich was to do business. Without an open market, it's hard to get rich."
"It's difficult to follow the plan completely in such a large country with so many people. What we're doing now is just a drastic measure to eliminate some hostile forces in the country in the shortest possible time."
Meng Fuyan nodded. It seems that intelligent people can see the major trends in history.
"Well, it's settled then. We'll continue as planned, dealing with the Su family and the Meng family's branch here. We still need to save the Meng family in China. Then we'll see how things go on Dad's side. Anyway, I'm definitely going back to China. If Dad does well, then Mom, you can go back and I'll stay here for a few years. If things don't go well on Dad's side, then the three of us will all go abroad."
Meng Suqin nodded, "Okay!"
Gu Tingzhi has been very busy these past two days, leaving early and returning late, and sometimes not even coming home at night. This time, he finally came back with injuries on his body.
Meng Fuyan was startled. "Where have you been?"
The wound was in his abdomen, but thankfully it wasn't deep. The manor had a doctor who bandaged him up, and then Gu Tingzhi sent the injured man back.
With only two people left in the room, Gu Tingzhi finally spoke, "It's nothing serious, just a minor injury. We encountered robbers outside."
Meng Fuyan said coldly, "Are you trying to fool a child? Do you think a robber could hurt you? Where's Chaosheng?"
"I'm off on business."
"A very important mission?"
Gu Tingzhi nodded.
Seeing her worry, he reached out and pulled her to sit next to him. "Alright, don't worry. It was just protecting a few important people. They wanted to go back to China, but they wouldn't let them. Those who resisted were even secretly dealt with. I was trying to find a way to get them out of here, and that's when the fight broke out."
Meng Fuyan was terrified. "You...you fought with the military? Did they see your face?"
Gu Tingzhi shook his head. "It is those people, but they are not out in the open. These kinds of things are not made public. Even those who are dealt with will only be suicides, robbers, or accidental deaths. Don't worry, the other party does not know who I am."
Meng Fuyan breathed a sigh of relief. "That's good. Then... were those people saved? Were they researchers?"
Gu Tingzhi nodded, "Yes, one of them has passed away, and the rest are still alive."
Meng Fuyan felt a pang of sadness. Competition between great powers is truly brutal. Decades later, whenever people mention scientists who gave up high salaries abroad to return home when the country was in trouble, they will be praised. But who knows that some people never even had the chance to return home?
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