"Have you left?" Grandma Shen opened the door and walked out to look. Grandpa Shen followed behind.
"She's gone. Grandma, you don't want to care about her?"
"I didn't like her in the first place. The world was still a bit chaotic back then. Your parents felt sorry for her and were afraid that she wouldn't be able to survive without her parents, so they insisted on adopting her.
This child has a bad heart. Your parents can't see it, but your grandfather and I can. Haven't you seen that we haven't been very warm to her over the years?
Your dad even said I was biased! Look, I almost ended up raising a tiger that would harm you.”
Grandma Shen has been elegant and dignified all her life, and she rarely really hates someone. She couldn't like that little girl at first sight, and it has been like that for all these years, and she still can't like her now!
"Okay, now that everyone has left, let's stop talking about it. Don't talk about people behind their backs."
Grandpa Shen followed etiquette throughout his life.
"I just heard you talking about breaking off the relationship. Is that boy also your family member?" Old Master Shen asked Meng Xiao.
"He is the child of my third uncle, but the relationship has indeed been severed." Meng Xiao answered respectfully.
"Well, I won't ask too much about your family affairs. Just don't let Qingqing be bullied by them in the future."
Shen Qingli was speechless. Why was everyone so afraid that she would be bullied? Did she look like someone who was easy to be bullied?
"Don't worry, Grandpa. No one can bully Qingqing while I'm here."
He actually felt a little guilty when he said this. In his own home, he had let his wife be bullied by the third wife just two days ago.
"Meng Xiao, what is your current military rank? I'm getting older and my memory is getting worse."
Mr. Shen increasingly felt that he could no longer refuse to accept his old age.
"He holds the rank of Colonel and currently serves as the regimental commander."
"Yes, you are young and promising. You are only in your twenties and there is still a lot of room for promotion. Now there is no need to fight, and we old guys are slowly retiring. In the future, it will be you young people who will rule the world." Old Master Shen said with some emotion.
"Without your generation and thousands of martyrs, we wouldn't have the life we have today," Meng Xiao said seriously.
"One generation fought three generations' worth of wars, one generation suffered three generations' worth of hardships. The older generation risked their lives to defend their country, to free the next generation from suffering and war. Their efforts were not in vain."
Our country is no longer at war, but each generation has its own mission and long march. Although much remains to be done, our motherland will continue to improve in the future."
"yes."
Mr. Shen's words made everyone's eyes well up with tears and their noses felt sore.
Those years were so difficult!
Shen Qingli couldn't help but sit up straight from the sofa he was leaning on.
"Oh! When you get older, you tend to reminisce about the good times. Meng Xiao, you two shouldn't stay here with us. Go back to the house with Qingqing and take a nap. Your grandma and I need to sleep too. We're a little tired right now."
"Help you back to the house first."
"No need for help, I can still walk." Old Master Shen waved his hand and walked towards the room on his own.
Grandma Shen also gave them instructions and followed them.
"Go to the kitchen and tell Mom and Dad. I'll go upstairs first."
Shen Qingli was indeed sleepy. She hadn't woken up naturally that morning, and she was tired from the car ride, so she had already started yawning. By the time Meng Xiao came into the room, her consciousness was a little fuzzy. She mumbled something in a daze and fell asleep completely.
Meng Xiao was not sleepy at all, so he sat down in front of Shen Qingli's desk. There was a photo album on the desk. He guessed that his father-in-law and mother-in-law often looked through it and that's why they put it there.
In the past, and even now, taking photos in a photo studio is relatively expensive for most people.
This photo album contains many photos of Shen Qingli from birth to 100 days old, one year old and every year thereafter.
Meng Xiao looked at the chubby baby in the photo and smiled. His little girl was so cute.
From the age of one to over five, his little girl was carefree and looked like a little princess who was held in the palm of his hand.
In the photos taken after the age of six, there was a timid figure in the photos. He recognized the girl in the photo, Shen Jiayao.
Pursing her lips, she continued to look back. Almost all the photos behind her were of two people, and there were very few photos of Shen Qingli alone.
He saw that Shen Jiayao's eyes gradually became more confident from her initial timidity in not daring to look directly into the camera, and the smile on her face became wider and wider.
But his little girl's smile in the photos became smaller and smaller every year, and she became more reserved.
He had a feeling until the end. He seemed to feel that the person in the photo was a little different from the girl he knew. From the temperament, eyes, and feeling, it seemed as if they were not the same person.
Not as bright and dazzling as the girls today.
He shook his head and suppressed the strangeness in his heart. A person will change in different environments.
He repeatedly looked at the photos of Shen Qingli from childhood to adulthood, imagining what his child would look like in the future.
Suddenly he realized a problem. When he met Shen Qingli, he was 26 and the girl was 19. It didn't sound like a big deal.
But when I think about it carefully, when I was eighteen, the little girl...
Eleven years old!?
This is awkward...
Damn! This is the first time I feel like I’m really old! I’m not even human anymore!
Ye's house at night
"Mom! I don't want to find a partner right now. If you keep pushing me, I'll just live in the dorm and never come back!"
Ye Mingchuan lost his temper and felt helpless because of his mother's nagging.
"I'm doing this for your own good. Look at other people like you who are still single and in their twenties. Do you want to be a bachelor?"
Ye's mother, He Yu, pinched her waist with one hand and pointed a finger at Ye Mingchuan with the other hand.
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