Chapter 3: Reunion
Huguo Temple.
There was a perpetual lamp in front of the Buddha statue. Su knelt on the cushion and Tan chanted scriptures for nearly five hours. When he stood up, he found that his legs and feet were numb.
In the extremely cold weather, she was wearing thin clothes and standing alone in front of the Buddha statue, looking like a green bamboo facing the wind and snow alone.
"Su Tan?"
Song Tingchen's cold voice sounded, Su Tan turned around and saw the frail Liu Qingyin standing beside him.
Her son Song Xiao held Liu Qingyin's hand affectionately.
Standing together, they really looked like a happy family of three.
They have been married for five years and divorced for three years. Now they meet unexpectedly, and this is the scene.
Song Tingchen stood beside Liu Qingyin, looking at Su Tan with a cold and complicated look, and it seemed to be mixed with other inexplicable emotions. "You left without saying goodbye for three years, and now you finally decided to come back?"
Song Xiao was a little surprised to see his biological mother, but when he thought about the fact that she had abandoned him three years ago, his mouth flattened and he snorted.
"Bad woman!"
Su Tan looked at the father and son with indifference. Now, seeing Song Tingchen's cold eyes and hearing Song Xiao's words "bad woman", she didn't feel as heartbroken as before. She just felt it was ridiculous. "What are you doing here?"
And Liu Qingyin was also brought along.
Song Tingchen felt that it was not enough that he humiliated her three years ago, and now he wanted to humiliate her parents?
Liu Qingyin shuddered, tears welling in her eyes. "Su Tan, you misunderstood. It's not that Brother Tingchen insisted on bringing me here. It's that Xiaoxiao is young and can't leave me alone right now."
Su Tan watched her acting quietly, "So you're showing off to me, my ex-husband and my son love you now?"
Song Tingchen frowned, and a low pressure emanated from his body.
"Su Tan, do you really have to talk like this?"
She always likes to assume the worst of others.
It was like this three years ago, and it is like this now.
"Qingyin has been helping you take care of Xiaoxiao for the past three years since you left without saying goodbye. Even if you don't feel grateful to her, there's no need to be so sarcastic!"
Su Tan looked at Song Tingchen with a cold face, not knowing whether to feel ironic.
I should still feel sad.
She just said one sentence to Liu Qingyin.
He couldn't wait to protect it.
She had been married to him for five years, and he had never defended her in front of others like this.
When she was trapped in a situation in the past, she always thought it was just his personality.
Now that she has escaped from the predicament, she realized that it was not due to her personality at all. It was just that in Song Tingchen's eyes, she, Su Tan, was not worthy of his protection.
Liu Qingyin raised the corners of her mouth imperceptibly.
Her face showed weakness, but her eyes were filled with mockery.
"Su Tan, you really misunderstood me."
Liu Qingyin was about to cry. She walked forward holding up the hem of her skirt, with a hint of anxiety in her eyes, wanting to explain something.
"ah!"
Liu Qingyin took a few steps, and her feet suddenly went weak. She fell forward and knocked over the eternal lamp that Su Tan had offered for his family.
Her face suddenly turned pale, "I'm... I'm sorry, I didn't mean it..."
Liu Qingyin squatted down and tried to put the broken eternal lamp back together, but accidentally cut her palm.
Song Tingchen frowned and hurriedly helped her up, "Don't pick it up, you are injured, can't you see?"
Liu Qingyin gently pushed him, her expression growing more guilty. She bit her lip as she approached Su Tan, tears streaming down her face. "I'm... I'm sorry, Su Tan. I... I didn't mean it."
"I didn't know it would be like this. I'm really sorry..."
She was crying and her slender body was shaking.
Su Tan stared at her coldly with deep eyes.
The next moment, she stretched out her hand and slapped Liu Qingyin three times in the face without any hesitation.
"ah!"
Liu Qingyin raised her head in astonishment, her pretty face extremely red and swollen. She never expected that Su Tan would actually hit someone.
Su Tan wiped his hands clean with a handkerchief and said, "Have you had enough of the show? Go away."
"Su Tan!"
Song Tingchen was covered in the cold air of frost and snow. He supported Liu Qingyin, who only dared to cry silently even after being beaten by her. He felt tired and angry at Su Tan's unreasonableness.
"Don't you think you've gone too far?"
"Qingyin accidentally knocked over the eternal lamp. It was her fault, but she has sincerely apologized to you and she herself was injured. How could you still hit her?"
Even if a daughter of a prominent family is a little arrogant, she should not be so domineering and unreasonable.
Liu Qingyin wiped her tears delicately, her smile forced. "Brother Song, don't blame Su Tan. I was not at fault first. I deserve all the beatings and scoldings she has."
Song Xiao immediately stood in front of her like a calf, glaring at Su Tan angrily, "Aunt Qing! You are not wrong!"
"It's all the bad woman's fault!"
"You are a bad woman. As soon as you came back, you bullied Aunt Qing. I hate you!"
Song Xiao's eyes were red as he rushed over and pushed Su Tan away.
He is fat now, and although he is young, he is quite strong. Su Tan staggered after being knocked by him.
My elbow accidentally hit the pillar, and the piercing pain gathered densely in that area.
For a moment, Su Tan felt that his arm had lost feeling.
But she didn't even frown.
"Song Xiao!" Song Tingchen frowned, looking at Su Tan's expressionless face as he pressed his elbow. A suffocating feeling suddenly surged in his heart. "Apologize to your mother!"
Song Xiao's eyes turned red with grievance, "She is not my mother!"
"I hate her!"
Song Xiao ran over and wanted to grab the eternal lamp that was not affected and throw it on the ground.
The world of children is very simple. Su Tan beat someone up because Liu Qingyin accidentally broke the eternal lamp, so he wanted to smash all the remaining ones to vent his anger for Liu Qingyin.
But before he could touch them, Su Tan pushed him away with a cold face.
Song Xiao was caught off guard and his spherical body fell to the ground, staring at her blankly.
"Xiaoxiao!"
Liu Qingyin shed tears and reached out to pick up Song Xiao from the ground, but as soon as she touched his arm, she gasped in pain.
"Sister Su Tan, if you want to hit or scold me, you can come to me. Why are you bullying Xiaoxiao?"
The suffocating feeling in Song Tingchen's heart became stronger and stronger. His face was as cold as iron. He picked up Song Xiao from the ground, not forgetting to cast a worried look at Liu Qingyin.
When his eyes fell on Su Tan, there was a hint of blame in his eyes. "Su Tan, no matter how angry you are, you can't push the child."
In fact, when Su Tan saw Song Xiao fall to the ground, his heart felt like being pricked by a needle, and he subconsciously wanted to go forward and pick him up.
But when she thought that he was going to smash the Su family's eternal lamp for Liu Qingyin, her heart sank.
Su Tan looked at Song Tingchen and his son, "No one can offend my parents, not Liu Qingyin, and not you either."
"Su Tan! He's just a child!" Song Tingchen felt like a huge stone was piled up in his heart.
He knew that Song Xiao was wrong, but she had not been home for three years, and when she came back her attitude was so cold, and she even pushed Song Xiao down.
Has she ever thought about what her children would think?
Su Tan raised his lips and said, "Yes, he is still a child."
"Three years ago, he gave up his mother for Liu Qingyin, and now he wants to smash his grandfather's eternal lamp for Liu Qingyin. What a good child, it's a pity that he didn't crawl out of Liu Qingyin's belly."
"Su Tan!"
Song Tingchen exuded a low pressure. In three years, he thought she should have made some progress. "Qingyin is still an unmarried girl. Can you be more careful in what you say and do? Don't tarnish her reputation!"
Liu Qingyin's face turned pale and she burst into tears. "Sister Su Tan, whether you believe it or not, what happened between Brother Song and me has been innocent from the beginning to the end."
"What happened three years ago was a misunderstanding. Brother Song, from the beginning to the end, just wanted to give me a way out."
Su Tan couldn't help but find it funny.
There was a hint of sarcasm in her eyes as she looked at the two beautiful couples. "Song Tingchen, you were so eager to marry Liu Qingyin back then, and I divorced you out of kindness to make room for you. How come this marriage didn't happen?"
Song Tingchen's expression turned completely cold.
"Su Tan, I can't explain it to you clearly!"
From the beginning to the end, she always liked to assume the greatest malice towards him, it was like this three years ago and it was still like this three years later.
He said coldly: "Apologize to Qingyin, otherwise this matter will not be resolved."
Su Tan looked at him calmly, but his fingers tightened little by little, "What did you say?"
Song Tingchen's face was still stern, his eyes cold, "Xiaoxiao offended you first, I can let it go without you pushing him."
"But Qingyin has already apologized to you, yet you still assaulted her. Su Tan, if you don't want the Su family to be humiliated because of you, you should apologize for your domineering behavior today."
Su Tan laughed angrily.
"Bring shame to the Su family?"
She raised her wrist, exuding coldness from her whole body, and slapped him five times, three for her parents and the other two for herself.
Seeing blood oozing from the corner of Song Tingchen's mouth due to the beating, she remained indifferent.
"If the world knew that I, Su Tan, had to apologize to the culprit who broke my family's eternal lamp, it would be the greatest humiliation to the Su family."
She drew the soft sword from her waist, and the silver-white tip of the sword pointed directly at Song Tingchen's eyes.
"Take your son and Liu Qingyin and get out of my sight, otherwise, don't blame me for killing you."
Look at the murderous aura on her, as if she would really kill him if he took a step forward.
Song Tingchen smiled suddenly, holding the child, his brows covered with frost.
"Su Tan, you are still the same as you were three years ago."
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