Xing Zhaoming was taken aback.
The brother and sister, who had relied on each other since childhood, seemed to have developed a distance between them, though he didn't know when it started. He had always thought it was because his sister had grown up and gotten married...
A dark glint flashed in Xing Zhaoming's eyes. He sniffed, his nose slightly sore, and patted her head affectionately, saying, "You're married now, why are you still acting like a child?"
Xing Zhaozhao looked up at him: "What? Brother, you're disgusted with me?"
Xing Zhaoming chuckled and glanced at Gao Mingcheng, who was walking over: "You're my sister. Even if Mingcheng starts to dislike you one day, I, as his older brother, will never dislike you."
Gao Mingcheng rolled his eyes at Xing Zhaoming: "You come here and immediately try to sow discord between my husband and me. Is that something a human being does?"
Xing Zhaoming retorted, "I'm just worried that you'll make my sister suffer."
Gao Mingcheng snorted: "You may not know who wronged whom, but I certainly do."
Xing Zhaoming's smile froze for a moment.
Gao Mingcheng raised an eyebrow slightly. So, they finally realized it belatedly? That's quite an achievement. No wonder one person was missing.
"Slap!" Xing Zhaoming was suddenly slapped across the face.
He looked down in surprise and met Xiao Hongling's curious, dark eyes.
Seeing the little girl's face, which looked exactly like Xing Zhaozhao when she was a child, Xing Zhaoming was overjoyed and reached out to hug her: "This is my little niece? She looks just like you when you were little."
"Really?" Xing Zhaozhao couldn't remember what she looked like when she was a child.
“Absolutely, especially those big eyes,” Xing Zhaoming said.
Little Hongling wasn't shy at all. She nestled in Xing Zhaoming's arms and stared at him intently.
Xing Zhaoming liked it even more: "Call me Uncle, Little Hongling, I'm your uncle."
Little Hongling turned to look at her mother, asking a question.
Xing Zhaozhao nodded with a smile: "That's right, this is my uncle."
Little Hongling then spoke up, calling out, "Uncle."
Xing Zhaoming was both happy and surprised: "Our little Hongling is already so smart at such a young age?" As he spoke, he proudly puffed out his chest, "She's like me in that respect, unlike your mother, who at this age can only blow bubbles and looks clumsy."
Xing Zhaozhao: "..." This sibling relationship is impossible.
Nearby, Xiao Jiashu and Xiao Jiaping also ran over excitedly to see their little sister, as they didn't have one at home yet.
"Is this your little sister? I'm your brother, call me brother." Xiao Jiashu said, taking Xiao Hongling's little hand.
Little Jiaping was small, and after squeezing through the crowd with great difficulty, he said, "I want one too, I want a little sister too." As he spoke, he took out a toy from his pocket and stuffed it into Little Hongling's hands; it was a wind-up little hen.
Little Red Ridge loved brightly colored things, so she grabbed it and obediently called out, "Brother..."
Little Jiaping grabbed his little sister's soft hand, his eyes crinkling with laughter, and asked his father, "My little sister is so nice, Dad. Can we take her home and raise her?"
Before Xing Zhaoming could say anything, Hongyu retorted unhappily, "No, my sister is from our family. If you want a sister, have your mother give birth to one for you."
Little Jiaping, who had been quite happy, pouted and looked like she was about to cry when she heard the word "Mom".
Hongyu was instantly stunned, his little face full of bewilderment. He hadn't said anything, so why was his little cousin about to cry?
Xing Zhaozhao also sensed something was wrong and looked at Xing Zhaoming in surprise.
Xing Zhaoming shook his head bitterly and said nothing.
Xing Zhaozhao picked up Xiao Jiaping and patted his head reassuringly: "Since our Jiaping likes his little sister so much, why don't you stay at Auntie's house for a few more days, okay?"
Xiao Jiaping felt a little better after receiving comfort from her aunt.
By then, it was getting late. After opening the door and returning home, the Gao family of five were covered in mud, and the Xing family of three, father and sons, had also been sweating profusely after squeezing onto the train. They quickly boiled water and washed themselves clean, then made dinner. After eating, the children were so tired that they could barely keep their eyes open, so they were carried to bed and fell asleep immediately.
Xing Zhaozhao then had a chance to ask Xing Zhaoming, "Why did you suddenly come here, brother?"
Xing Zhaoming knew she would ask, and was waiting for her to say: "Of course I came to see you. You were heavily pregnant when Mingcheng suddenly sent you back to your hometown. Although I knew he would make proper arrangements, I've met the Gao family before, and I know their ways. How can I be at ease?" As it turned out, his worries were not unfounded.
Thinking about what he had found out on his way here, Xing Zhaoming couldn't help but feel angry and glared at Gao Mingcheng.
Even if it was just a glare, or a beating, Gao Mingcheng would accept it. It was indeed his fault for not arranging things properly. Thinking of what Xing Zhaozhao had experienced in her dream, his heart trembled involuntarily, and he gripped Xing Zhaozhao's hand tightly.
"It's a good thing you didn't let those two old guys from the Gao family cause trouble, otherwise I was really afraid you would have lost your life." Xing Zhaoming said worriedly, especially after knowing how much she had tolerated Chen Wei before. During the days he took the train here, he couldn't eat or sleep well, and he was really afraid that when he finally arrived, he would hear bad news about her.
Xing Zhaozhao gave a stiff, forced smile. He wasn't wrong about his worries; in his previous life, he certainly was.
“The fighting on the front lines has finally ended. I heard that Mingcheng is being transferred to the capital. I won’t be moving for the time being. We’re in the north and south, and I figured it would be hard to see each other again. So I went to the capital to pick up your sister-in-law and two nephews. I’ll come see you first, and then I’ll go back to my unit in the south,” Xing Zhaoming said.
"Then what about your sister-in-law..." Xing Zhaozhao asked curiously.
Xing Zhaoming looked at Xing Zhaozhao reproachfully: "Why didn't you tell me sooner?"
Xing Zhaozhao was taken aback: "What?"
"Your relationship with your sister-in-law has never been as good as it seems on the surface, has it?" Xing Zhaoming asked.
Xing Zhaozhao pursed her lips and remained silent, which was taken as tacit agreement.
Gao Mingcheng couldn't bear to see his wife suffer, so he glared at Xing Zhaoming with disdain: "Zhaozhao and your wife's relationship has never been good, even on the surface, okay?"
Xing Zhaoming: "..."
Xing Zhaoming smiled bitterly: "That's right, I was blind and stupid, and I've been fooled until now."
"How did you find out? I thought you'd be fooled by Chen Wei your whole life," Gao Mingcheng asked curiously.
Xing Zhaoming: "..." That's a harsh way to put it. How could he be so stupid as to be fooled for the rest of his life?
"As soon as I arrived at the Chen family home, I told Chen Wei that I was coming to see Zhao Zhao and asked her to prepare as soon as possible. She agreed verbally, but every time I asked her, she made up all sorts of excuses to postpone it. Seeing that I was about to miss my return to the team if I didn't leave soon, I went to talk to her again. Unexpectedly, I ran into her brother talking to her..."
Xing Zhaoming recalled that when he found out, he realized that Chen Wei had been lying to him in person and in person. In front of him, she acted as if she cared about Zhaozhao a lot, but behind his back, she often looked at Zhaozhao with disdain, causing the siblings to become estranged. He was disappointed and shocked, and he couldn't help but feel disgusted. It was like eating his favorite braised duck and accidentally eating a rat's head, and being told that it was a duck neck. He actually believed her and took a bite.
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