"It's okay. Dad still has the strength to lift our Dabao up." Shen Xiangzhi saw his struggle and teased him with a smile.
Time flies. The little kids who used to hum in his arms can now run on their own.
While Shen Xiangzhi was pleased, he also felt a little regretful.
Although my children are growing up by my side, I always feel that I don’t spend enough time with them.
Or perhaps, his father has never been there for him as he expected, so he is particularly afraid that he will not play this role well and may accidentally become a bad father in the eyes of his children.
Sometimes, Shen Xiangzhi wanted them to grow up all at once so that he could worry less, but sometimes, he hoped that they could grow up slowly so that he could have more opportunities to accompany them.
The three little guys still felt sorry for him and said that he could only play once, as if playing more than once would tire him out.
Shen Xiangzhi smiled with great satisfaction, and was able to save face, chatting, laughing, and playing with the children.
Not long after I walked out of the house, I met Zhao Peng who was riding a bicycle.
His car belongs to his father's unit and he borrows it occasionally. Even if he sees him every day, he doesn't have the ability to do that.
When I went to pick up Chen Xiangzhi that time, I heard that he had married and had three big fat boys, so I made a special application to his father.
Usually, he rides his own 28-inch bicycle.
"Hey, where are you going? I was just planning to visit you at your house." Zhao Peng said, "The matter you asked me to investigate has come to light. Want to talk about it?"
Shen Xiangzhi had not expected such a fast speed.
After saying goodbye to An Hongdou and letting them go on their own, he leaned on the back seat of Zhao Peng's bicycle and let him take him home.
Sitting in the living room, Shen Xiangzhi poured him a cup of tea before asking, “What’s the situation?”
Zhao Peng was not in a hurry. He was almost dying of thirst after riding all the way, so he quickly took a sip of tea.
Then, his eyes lit up, "Old Shen, you are so unkind, why haven't you taken out such good tea before?"
He had a good relationship with Shen Xiangzhi and they were very close. Sometimes he would come to their house to visit when he had nothing to do in the evening.
But the tea he had used to entertain him before was obviously not of the same quality as this one.
Looking down, the tea leaves are still fresh in color after being brewed, the tea water is clear with a green hue, and a faint fragrance rushes into the nose, which makes people feel refreshed when drinking it.
"I just got it. I haven't drunk it many times myself." Shen Xiangzhi said perfunctorily.
In fact, this tea was picked from the two tea trees in the yard.
He brought back two tea trees in the spring and planted them in the yard. Some time ago, I heard that he could roast tea, so his wife used that ability to make the tea trees produce many young leaves, which he roasted himself.
I haven't done it for a long time. Some leaves were wasted the first time. Although I was successful later, the quantity was not much. I gave some to my grandpa and grandfather, and he didn't get much himself.
Fortunately, he has an all-powerful wife, so he can get her whenever he wants.
"I don't care. You have to share some of this good stuff with me." Zhao Peng said stubbornly.
"Okay, I only have two leaves, but I have to give you one, okay?" Chen Xiangzhi urged him, "Hurry up and tell me what's going on."
He guessed that no matter what the problem was, he wouldn't have to come here in person.
As expected, as soon as he said this, Zhao Peng asked him mysteriously, "Old Shen, don't keep me in suspense. Tell me the truth, do you really have no impression of that woman at all?"
Shen Xiangzhi suddenly felt a little panicked.
He pretended to pick up the teacup and took a sip before saying, "Just say it if you have something to say."
"Do you remember that a few years ago, your grandfather accidentally saw Li Er having an affair with someone, and Li Er brought people to retaliate against him." Zhao Peng's eyes lit up when he talked about this gossip. "The widow with Li Er was Teacher Mo's mother."
Of course Shen Xiangzhi would never forget this incident, and because of this incident, grandma and grandpa had to leave Jiangcheng for refuge.
He was only fourteen or fifteen years old at that time and was not very mature.
That was his last year of junior high school. He did not attend this place because he had a bad relationship with Shen Wanhua and was in his rebellious teenage period. He deliberately chose a school farther away to live on campus.
He only found out about this after his grandparents had decided to leave Jiangcheng and asked him to come back, and handed over the Su family's assets to him.
But by then, it was a done deal.
He was so angry that time that he hit Li Er with a brick. If his grandfather had not been worried about him and asked Zhao Peng to keep an eye on him, he might have beaten Li Er to death. Similarly, his own life would have been over.
Shen Xiangzhi was very rebellious when he was young, especially towards Shen Wanhua. He only listened to the words of the three elders. I talked to him a lot on the day my grandfather passed away, and it was from that time that he suddenly matured.
He refused the job that Shen Wanhua arranged for him, which was also a disguised form of resistance. He chose the same career as Grandpa Su, but in fact he missed the old man more.
Rather than following in his father's footsteps, he is obviously closer to his grandparents who have given him the most since his childhood.
"What happened to that widow later?" Although he was impulsive at the time, he was only trying to take revenge on Li Er. In addition, he was immersed in the sadness of Grandpa Su's departure and had no time to pay attention to others.
And Grandpa Su was never a nosy person. It was just an accident that he discovered the affair between Li Er and the widow. He did not tell anyone afterwards. It was Li Er who was narrow-minded and thought that Grandpa Su would definitely use this incident to take revenge on their family, so he took the initiative to harm Grandpa Su.
"It's nothing serious. After Li Er was beaten by you, he lived peacefully with the widow for a while. But later they seemed to have hooked up again. I guess if Li Er hadn't been arrested, they might still not have broken up." Zhao Peng's words were a little ironic. After all, any normal person would think that such a pair of dogs deserved retribution.
However, this is not the case.
Li Er has received the retribution he deserved, but Teacher Mo's mother is still safe and sound. At most, she just lost her lover, but her daughter has a pretty good job, and she has probably made a lot from Li Er over the years.
If nothing unexpected happens, I should be able to live a worry-free life for the rest of my life.
Things like committing adultery are moral offenses, and people haven't come to trouble him, so Shen Xiangzhi won't go to such lengths to deal with an old woman.
It was the Li family's grievances that were mixed in, and Teacher Mo was Dabao's kindergarten teacher, which made Shen Xiangzhi feel uneasy.
However, the person did nothing wrong at work, and Shen Xiangzhi couldn't just make him lose his job because of this.
"Oh, I forgot to tell you that this teacher Mo and you have a lot more connections than just this." Zhao Peng said with a hint of sarcasm in his eyes.
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