"Xiaoyang, besides you, who else knows about this?"
"My sister-in-law and Tingting, we all know about it. I think everyone else in the courtyard knows about it too. Only my eldest brother doesn't know. Mom, we didn't mean to hide it from you."
"I know you're worried that I'll be sad and heartbroken. Your eldest brother will definitely know as soon as he meets that person."
"Um."
"I don't think my eldest brother will be sad about this, and he won't expect his father to suddenly appear. Mom, we've all let it go, but I'm afraid you still can't let her go, so I didn't dare tell you."
Mei Xiangcao thought for a while and said, "Since your eldest brother doesn't know yet, let's go and tell him so that he won't be kept in the dark anymore."
"Okay, Mom."
They went to Xu Nuannuan's room together. The three children were not asleep. They were lying on the bed obediently, not crying or making a fuss. They were very well behaved.
Mrs. Guan wasn't in the room; she must have gone back to her room to rest. Fang Suyun and Jiang Ting were guarding Xu Nuannuan and the child's bedside, along with Jiang Ye.
"Mom." Jiang Ye saw that Mei Xiangcao looked unhappy, so he quickly walked over and asked, "Mom, what's wrong with you? Did something happen?"
"There is something I want to tell you." Mei Xiangcao said, and then she looked at Xu Nuannuan and Fang Suyun, "You should already know about this matter. It's about Jiang Ye's father."
Xu Nuannuan realized something was wrong when she saw Mei Xiangcao come in.
When her mother-in-law was young, she raised three children alone in an environment where she was bullied by many people. Just thinking about it makes you realize how difficult it was and how strong she was.
She usually has a smiling face and rarely looks pessimistic. It is difficult for ordinary people to make her sad.
She saw that her eyes were red and thought that something serious must have happened.
They were all fine here, so what made her so sad and upset was that she met that person again?
She could imagine that her mother-in-law must have known about Jiang Dongcheng's infidelity, which was why she was so sad.
Mei Xiangcao raised her eyes and glanced at Jiang Ye. Her eldest son looked exactly like that man. She felt even more uncomfortable looking at him.
"Aye, Mom wants to tell you something. Your brothers and sisters all know about this, but you are the only one who has been kept in the dark. Mom thinks I should tell you."
"Mom, what's going on?"
He helped Mei Xiangcao sit down, and looking at his haggard mother, he couldn't help feeling distressed.
Fang Suyun was afraid that she was going to say something that she couldn't listen to, "I'll go out, you guys talk."
"No need." Mei Xiangcao stopped her. "Since I came to this room to say this, I'm not afraid that you might overhear. Maybe you already know about this, but after listening to what I'm going to say next, don't laugh at me."
Fang Suyun knew how difficult it had been for this in-law. "Vanilla, even though we are in-laws, we've been together for so long that we're almost like sisters. If you encounter any difficulties, just tell me. I can't say I can help you, but if I can, I will definitely try my best."
"Suyun, thank you."
She looked at Jiang Ye again: "Aye, actually your father is not dead. I have seen him."
Hearing this, Jiang Ye's expression seemed calm, but rather gloomy.
"Mom, you're in a bad mood because you saw him."
"Yeah." She looked at her son's worried face and said, "Aye, are you unhappy because you know he's not dead?"
"Mom, whether he's dead or not is no longer important to me. But Mom, I don't want you to be sad because of him."
"You, you really don't want to recognize him?"
"No." Jiang Ye was actually thinking that if that person had not betrayed his mother, and his mother asked him to acknowledge him, he would acknowledge him as long as his mother was happy.
But now my mother is obviously very sad, probably because she met that man.
That man betrayed his mother.
"Mom, where did you see him? What happened between you and him? You might as well tell me."
Mei Xiangcao hesitated for a moment, then heard Xu Nuannuan say to Jiang Ye apologetically, "Aye, I was actually the first to know that your father was not dead. Years ago, I went to the Jiang family here to see Old Man Jiang, and I found that his son Jiang Dongcheng looked exactly like you. Judging from his age, he could be your father. I thought he must be the missing father-in-law.
However, he has already settled down here and has a son and a daughter, who are almost as old as Jiang Ting and Jiang Yang. When he disappeared that year, he actually returned here. Ah Ye, please forgive me for concealing the truth.
"Nuannuan, you don't have to apologize. I know you are doing this for our own good."
If his mother didn't know about this, she would never be hurt.
"Brother, I already knew this," Jiang Ting said. "I saw a girl who looked like you in the hospital the other day. She's the child of our unfaithful father and another woman."
Jiang Yang said, "I've known about this for a long time. My coworker Jiang Yiming is the father of that woman. Brother, we didn't mean to hide it from you."
"I know, you don't have to feel guilty."
The most important thing now is not whether he feels uncomfortable or not, nor whether he should recognize Jiang Dongcheng, but his mother.
He held his mother's hand tightly in his own: "Mom, I know that in our family, the one who can't let him go the most is you. Although he already has a family here, I can't persuade you to let go all of a sudden, but we have to face the facts.
You don't have him, but you still have us. Let's just pretend he doesn't exist, okay?"
Mei Xiangcao nodded, then shook her head.
"Mom knows that I'm old and this wouldn't be very satisfying. But I'm really sad and can't accept this fact. Back then, he said that no matter what happened, he would never leave me."
Jiang Ye thought for a moment and said, "Although you haven't mentioned him much in these years, we all know how much you care about him. I've seen you secretly looking at his photos in your room countless times, and every time you shed tears it was because of him. Tell us about his past, and maybe you'll feel better after you tell us."
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