Chapter 288 No one has a happy ending
Shi Yamin paused with her hands holding the dishes after hearing what Su Xiangdong said. She never expected Xia Qingxi to not come.
Although the contrast in Xia Qingxi surprised her, in her heart she was a girl from the countryside after all. She originally thought that letting Su Man invite her was giving her a chance, but she didn't expect that this fourth brother's wife was so bad-tempered that she didn't even give him face.
At this time everyone's eyes were focused on Shi Yamin. Shi Yamin, who was being stared at by everyone, knew that she was in the wrong and her face was filled with embarrassment that she could not hide. Just as she was hesitating about what to do, Su Man suddenly came up to her, took the dishes from her, and said,
"Sister-in-law, you go, I'll set the table."
Shi Yamin hesitated for a moment, but still handed the dishes to Su Man, took off her apron, and walked out with Su Xiangdong.
Su Xiangdong walked in front with a sullen face, while Shi Yamin followed silently behind. Halfway through the walk, Su Xiangdong deliberately slowed down his pace, and after Shi Yamin caught up with him, he began to remind her:
"Our fourth brother's wife is our family's benefactor and also our noble person. When you go over there later, be nicer and don't say anything you shouldn't say, which will make others unhappy." He
originally thought that his wife would remain silent or refute after hearing what he said, but what Su Xiangdong didn't expect was that Shi Yamin was surprisingly cooperative. She nodded and said:
"Don't worry, I won't. I'll remember her kindness in my heart."
Hearing this, Su Xiangdong was obviously a little surprised, and he couldn't help but look at his wife beside him a few more times. This was one of the few times she spoke nicely to him in the past year.
"What are you looking at?" Shi Yamin smiled faintly and asked jokingly:
"Don't you recognize your own daughter-in-law?"
In fact, Shi Yamin was very grateful to Xia Qingxi from the bottom of her heart. She also knew
that if it weren't for Xia Qingxi, she might not be able to see her daughter in this life. In the afternoon, she checked and found that her daughter had many scars on her body, some of which were burned by cigarette butts and some were beaten
. Even if she didn't want to think about it, she knew how her daughter had been abused in the past year. If she couldn't find her again, her daughter was so outstanding in appearance. As she grew older, she would suffer more in the future. She might be beaten, scolded, or even abused.
When she thought of this and saw her daughter standing in front of her with her body intact, Shi Yamin was grateful to Xia Qingqing from the bottom of her heart. Xia Qingqing saved her daughter, saved herself, and saved their family.
It had been a long time since he heard his wife talk to him so intimately. For a while, Su Xiangdong was still a little uncomfortable, and his heart was full of emotions. After a long silence, he looked at his wife and said,
"Yamin, now that our daughter is back, let's forget the unhappiness of this year and go back to the way we were before, okay?"
Unexpectedly, her husband was still willing to reconcile with her. Shi Yamin couldn't help but shed tears. These were tears of sadness, tears of repentance, and tears of gratitude.
Now we are still on the road, and being seen crying is not good after all. Shi Yamin quickly raised her hand to wipe away her tears, with a comfortable smile on her face that she had never seen in the past year, and said to Su Xiangdong in a sonorous voice:
"Good!"
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After the commendation meeting, Xia Qingqing knew that the mute little girl she rescued on the train was Shi Yamin's daughter "Su Xin" who was lost a year ago.
She realized that the reason why the information did not match the original book was because the name "Su Xin" should have been changed by Shi Yamin after she found her daughter, and the reason why the little girl's arm was still there was because she met her in advance, and now her arm has not been cut off.
After sorting out all this, she was actually quite happy. If it was according to the original book, it would take another year for Mo Xiaoxiao to find Su Na. By then, her arm had been chopped off and her spirit was destroyed to the point of being a little stupid.
In the whole thing, the one who suffered the most was Su Yang. In the book, he gradually became depressed because of guilt and died early.
In fact, the endings of the Su family in the book were not good. In the eldest uncle's family: Su Yang died early, Su Xin was stupid, Su Xiangnan died in battle, the person Su Man liked died during a mission, and she never married. In the
second uncle's family: Su Xiangxi betrayed the party and was finally shot, Su Xiangbei was killed by Su Xiangxi, and Su Wan couldn't accept these and became a monk.
Xia Qingying knew that the reason why Mo Chunxiao set up the story this way was to make the Su family have no descendants in the end, so that all the connections and resources of the Su family would be used on the five or six children she gave birth to.
At the end of the book, some of her children became senior officers in the army, some were engaged in scientific research, and some worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs... Every child was very promising.
The irony is that the Su family had so many people, but not a single descendant.
Although she is now married to Lu Jingzhen, Xia Qingying doesn't want the next generation of the Su family to have the same ending as in the book.
She hopes that the Su family will be safe and that good people can have a good ending, even if the children she gives birth to in the future are mediocre in qualifications and do not achieve outstanding results.
After all, there are not so many genius babies. Mediocrity is the true portrayal of most people's lives.
When Xia Qingying changed her clothes and came out, Su Man had already left. She had already guessed that Su Man came to invite them to her house for dinner. She had told Lu Jingchen last time that she didn't want to go to Su's house again unless there was something important.
Xia Qingying didn't know how Lu Jingchen answered her, and asked hesitantly:
"Su Man left?"
"Yes, she just left."
"She came to invite us to dinner, right?" Xia Qingying continued to ask.
"Yes." Lu Jingxie did not hide anything and told the truth. As smart as he was, how could he not know what Xia Qingxi wanted to ask, so he said directly to Xia Qingxi:
"I told her that you are not feeling well and will not go."
Looking at the man in front of him who always thinks of himself and does not want to suffer any grievances, Xia Qingxi felt a little guilty and asked:
"Will my behavior make it difficult for you?"