Chapter 57 Kneel
"Mom, you still have me!"
Jiang Cha knew that Ye Surong was sad.
"The more times you are disappointed, the less painful it becomes."
As a military family member, it was not appropriate for her to wear jewelry. Therefore, when Ye Surong was packing up her things in the Ye family's western-style building, she locked all her jewelry, along with the antique calligraphy and paintings, gold bars and silver coins in the house, in the basement under the warehouse.
In the entire Ye family, only Ye Guanlan and Ye Surong knew about this basement.
Even Jiang Cha only found out about it on the night they decided to move.
All the locks inside and outside the house were replaced with new ones, and no one could get in.
Therefore, there were only a few sets of simple pearl jewelry in Ye Surong's jewelry box, and the remaining space was all used to store money.
What Jiang Cheng didn't know was that all the money he brought out from the Ye family was in Jiang Cha's hands.
Ye Surong had no concept of money because she had never lacked it since she was a child.
Jiang Cha is different. In her previous life, she had lived a hard life for too long. Her concept of money is that only with money can one have confidence.
She feels most at ease when she holds the money in her own hands.
Therefore, whenever Ye Surong needed money, she would get it from Jiang Cha.
Jiang Cheng knew that Ye Surong was a person who had no concept of money.
She never counts how much money is in her wallet.
However, Jiang Cheng could never have imagined that Ye Surong would count the money in her hand clearly this time.
"What about the tickets? Are there any missing?"
The next drawer of Ye Surong's jewelry box, "a five-jin grain coupon and a cloth coupon are missing."
Thirty yuan, a grain coupon, and a cloth coupon.
For Ye Surong, it was not much.
In the past, Ye Surong wouldn't have noticed even if she was missing three hundred yuan, ten food coupons, or ten cloth coupons.
"Cha Cha, do you think he will give the things he stole from us to Jiang Guodong?"
Ye Surong closed the drawer again.
"If he did that, I could still praise him for being filial."
It's obvious that this is impossible. No one knows what kind of person Jiang Cheng is better than Jiang Cha.
"He still thinks we are as stupid as before and wants to imitate Jiang Guodong and secretly put the money in our hands into his own pocket bit by bit."
Jiang Cha said earnestly, "Mom, you really can't trust him. You can't believe a single word he says."
Ye Surong finally made a decision.
"I'll let him go. He can't stay here any longer."
Jiang Cha finally breathed a sigh of relief.
It was the first time for Jiang Cheng to do something like this, and he was extremely nervous.
He had just finished taking a shower, washed and hung his clothes, and then lay down on the bed. The money and tickets he had stolen were hidden under the bed.
Here, only under his own bed is the place where he feels most at ease.
Unexpectedly, the Huo family came back before he fell asleep.
Jiang Cha had appeared beside his bed at some point, and when Jiang Cheng opened his eyes, he saw Jiang Cha's face with a sinister smile.
He was frightened.
"Jiang Cha, are you crazy? Standing by my bed in the middle of the night, are you trying to scare me to death?"
He yelled at Jiang Cha subconsciously. Before Jiang Cha could say anything, Huo Jingchuan casually threw an enamel pot at him, hitting him accurately in the chest with a muffled sound.
“Ouch!”
Huo Jingchuan's grip was incredibly strong. Jiang Cheng was hit so hard that he covered his chest, unable to recover from the pain for a long time.
"If you dare to speak rudely to Cha Cha again, next time, this cup will smash your head."
Jiang Cha finally gave Huo Jingchuan the first look she had given him tonight.
A pair of deer eyes sparkled, emitting admiration.
Huo Jingchuan enjoyed it very much, but on the surface he pretended to be indifferent, as if he didn't notice that Jiang Cha was looking at him at all.
Jiang Cheng held his breath and said, "Jiang Cha, what do you want to do?"
"I don't want to do anything, just, Mom is looking for you."
After Jiang Cha finished speaking, he turned around and left without staying here for a moment.
Jiang Cheng's heart skipped a beat. Why was his mother looking for him so late at night?
She wouldn't have discovered...
As soon as Jiang Cheng walked into Room 305, Ye Surong spat out two words coldly.
"Kneel down."
Her jewelry box was placed on the empty coffee table. At that moment, what was there that Jiang Cheng didn't understand?
He knelt down in front of Ye Surong and said, "Mom, I was wrong. I really know I was wrong!"
Jiang Cha sat next to him, watching a show, his eyes full of provocation.
Ever since he shot Jiang Cheng, she found that she was really not afraid of Jiang Cheng at all.
"How can you say you know you're wrong? You've been caught, and knowing your excuses are useless, you're still hoping for leniency by confessing!"
Her sarcastic words immediately aroused Jiang Cheng's anger.
"Ginger Tea, shut up."
"Shut up."
Ye Surong stood up suddenly, her chest heaving violently.
"I'll take you in for one last night. Tomorrow morning, you'll have to get out of here. From now on, you and I are no longer mother and son. We're just strangers, and we have nothing to do with each other anymore."
"Mom, you can't do this to me. I didn't mean to do anything else. I just didn't have a change of clothes. I wanted to use the money to buy myself some clothes. Really, I didn't lie to you."
"Taking something without asking is considered stealing. You always make me realize so easily that all the effort I put into you was just a joke of my wishful thinking. Jiang Cheng, you have no character or morals, no talent or ability. I am truly disappointed in you."
Ye Surong gave him an ultimatum, and before Jiang Cha returned to her room, she made a face at him.
“Serves you right!”
Huo Tingkun was the only one left in the living room.
Jiang Cheng knelt on the ground, looking at Huo Tingkun as if he had lost his soul.
"You're happy to see me making fun of you, right?"
Huo Tingkun took a sip of herbal tea and asked, "Do you think I'm Jiang Guodong? Why am I so idle every day?"
Not only do you have nothing to do but you plot against your partner, your family members, and your father-in-law, and now you are plotting against your son and daughter?
Jiang Cheng choked, "I know, you definitely don't like me. You'd be annoyed if I stayed here, right?"
"Do you want to hear me tell the truth or a lie?"
Jiang Cheng gritted his teeth, and the hatred in his heart spread to his face, which could not be hidden at all.
"Honestly, to me, you're just a kid whose hair hasn't even grown out yet. Two sons or three sons, to me, it makes no difference at all."
"Stop talking nonsense here. It only makes me feel that you are more hypocritical."
"Hypocrisy?" Huo Tingkun laughed. "I don't like you in the first place. You know that yourself, don't you?"
"You finally admitted it!"
"What am I afraid to admit? Jiang Cheng, ask yourself, when you were blindly calculating against us, did you ever consider us your family? You clearly hate every one of us, yet you still shamelessly insist on staying here. Aren't you hypocritical?"
"When you want to ask for something from us, have you ever thought about what you have done for us? You shouldn't use your mother's kindness as a bargaining chip. Any affection cannot withstand calculation."
He leaned back on the sofa, halfway through a cup of herbal tea.
"Go back and stop learning those messy things from your father. It's not pleasing at all. Your mother doesn't like that."
Jiang Cheng must be crazy to hear the meaning of showing off in Huo Tingkun's expression and tone.
He got up from the ground, his neck stiff and his face stern, "Go and tell my mom for me, I don't want to leave."
"no!"
Huo Tingkun shook his head without thinking: "In our family, your mother is the boss. I am just the executor of the orders and cannot make any decisions."
"you……"
Jiang Cheng risked his life, "If you don't find a way to keep me here, I'll go out and ruin your reputation."
Huo Tingkun looked at him without expressing his opinion.
He was anxious. "I told you that you destroyed my parents' family and abused me, your stepson. I will make sure you can't stay in the Spring City Military Region."
"what ever!"
With just this little skill, you still want to threaten him?
Compared with Jiang Cha, Jiang Cheng is indeed far inferior.
"If I go back to the countryside, I will die."
Jiang Cheng was at his wit's end. He spread out his hands and said, "Look at me. I've only been in the countryside for a few days, and I've already got blisters all over my hands and feet. I can't even get enough to eat every day. The moment I open my eyes, I'm working in the fields. You don't know me now. When I hear the horn signaling it's time to go to work, I get scared."
"What does this have to do with me?"
Huo Tingkun was unmoved. "You don't like me, you treat me as your enemy. Why do you think I should be so kind as to help my enemy?"
On the battlefield, the most taboo thing is to be soft-hearted, because you never know what your enemy will look like when he appears in front of you.
It could be your comrade-in-arms, an elderly person, a sick woman or child, or an innocent child.
Once you believe the enemy's lies, the bullet in the gun chamber will hit your chest in the next second.
"Jiang Cheng, those who respect others will always be respected by others. What is your status in making such a request to me? Do I look like a kind and generous person?"
Those who respect others will always be respected by others.
His mother also taught him this sentence when he was young.
His mother taught him many principles like these, but he didn't remember any of them.
Later, Wang Guifang came and told him that he was the only child in the Ye family, a boy, and everything in the Ye family should have belonged to him.
All the delicious food and fun things should rightfully be his.
But, why is it his?
Did he make any effort?
"I'll give you a chance to mend your ways."
"What?"
Jiang Cheng looked up suddenly, a glimmer of hope in his eyes.
"Join the army and experience the hardships that our predecessors have endured. Only then will you know where you went wrong."
Go home to farm, or join the army.
Jiang Cheng chose the second option without thinking.
"Okay, I promise."
As long as you don't go back to the countryside, you can do anything.
A cunning light flashed in Huo Tingkun's eyes.
"That's great! Apart from anything else, you're quite conscious!"
Let him think about it, where should Jiang Cheng be assigned to serve in the army where the conditions would be the most difficult?
Also, who says that you don’t have to farm if you’re a soldier?
Tsk, this is such a headache!
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