Chapter 143 Your sister has someone to support her, but you don’t
Chen Zhan told all these things in one breath. There was nothing to hide. They would know it sooner or later anyway.
Chen Jiaohua's slightly cloudy eyes flashed with pain when she heard this, and she sighed again. She glanced towards the kitchen, led the man into her bedroom, closed the door, and said, "Don't tell your mother about this yet. Let's talk about it after the New Year. It's not nice to quarrel during the New Year, especially in someone else's house."
Chen Zhan lowered his eyelashes and hummed softly, "I know, grandma."
Chen Jiaohua also thought carefully before saying, "Zhanzhan, you are an adult now. Your mother and I can no longer control you as strictly as before. We can't just say you can't go to the capital and not let you go. But the waters there are too deep, and they are in high positions. They have been enjoying the glory for many years. If they fail like your grandfather one day, there will be many people who will step on them."
"Let's not talk about the distant past, nor your grandfather. Let's just talk about the Wei family in Rongchuan. They were so prosperous, but it collapsed overnight. Their descendants fled abroad but still couldn't escape death. Life was not that easy. Grandma just hopes that you are safe and sound."
Chen Zhan also explained seriously: "Grandma, I always thought that there is a difference between being an official and serving as an official. Besides, I didn't go to the capital for Zhou Jingyu. I really want to find a career that I love."
"Back when I was in college, I had the idea of going to Beijing for graduate school and then participating in the targeted training program of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Then, after all those things happened, Mom asked me to go abroad, and I listened to her. I'll be 26 next year, and you also said that I'm an adult, and you and Mom can't control me all the time. Just let me make my own choice this time, okay?"
After hearing this, Chen Jiaohua's eyes became moist again.
Chen Zhan couldn't help but reach out to wipe it, chuckling and saying, "Grandma, you always said that your name sounds delicate but you're not. Why do you cry at the slightest provocation now?"
Chen Jiaohua clapped her hands and glared at her, "You're so disrespectful! I'm just worried about you. Then why did Xie Xu look for you? Did he want to take you back?"
After that, she cursed angrily, "How can he have the nerve to do that? He harmed my daughter in the first place, and then turned around and arranged a marriage. He didn't even know the child was born. Now that we're divorced and childless, he wants to take you back. How can such a good thing happen in this world?"
Chen Zhan scratched his neck and said, "Don't worry, grandma. As long as you and mom don't forgive him, I won't forgive him either, and I won't go to the Xie family. How about that?"
Chen Jiaohua felt a little better now, "That's more like it."
"But you and Zhou Jingyu, I heard his mother passed away early and his family was complicated. I know the old lady is loyal and kind. I'm not sure about his father and stepmother, I'm just worried that you'll be bullied if you marry into their family."
Chen Zhan was so embarrassed that he didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He quickly explained helplessly, "Grandma, he and I haven't reconciled yet. Aren't you thinking too far ahead?"
Chen Jiaohua looked at her suspiciously: "Really?"
She was extremely serious. "I can swear."
After he finished speaking, Gu Sangyu poked his head out from the crack of the door and asked, "Why are you hiding in the house?"
Chen Jiaohua teased her: "Because grandma wants to have a secret conversation with my sister."
Gu Sangyu: "Grandma, you can't whisper, play with me."
Chen Jiaohua: "Okay, grandma, I'll play with you."
As he spoke, the old man took the little girl to the children's toy area and patiently played with toy blocks with her.
Chen Zhan went to the kitchen to help while the nanny prepared dinner for the family. Gu Wenjun originally wanted Chen Zhan to just sit in the living room, but Xu Jing asked him to leave and asked Chen Zhan to stay and help.
Gu Wenjun: "The girl just came back today, and you're already keeping her busy."
Xu Jing glanced at him, and Gu Wenjun put down his things and went out. Xu Jing asked Chen Zhan to peel a white radish. Gu Sangyu was sick and couldn't eat the adults' food, so she had to make white radish and pork ribs porridge separately.
Chen Zhan took a paring knife to peel the fruit. Xu Jing asked her to put on gloves. "Have you met your sister?"
She hummed lightly.
Xu Jing added, "When you come back this time, spend more time with her, otherwise she won't even know she has a sister like you.
Chen Zhan paused and asked calmly, "I heard you've stepped down as the orchestra's chief conductor?"
Xu Jing: "Your Uncle Gu is in the hospital performing surgeries every day. I'm worried about leaving Sang Yu in the care of Auntie. Your grandmother is old, so she can occasionally help look after the child, but I have to do everything else myself. Retiring from the command position is something I discussed with your Uncle Gu when I was pregnant."
"Returning to your family?" Chen Zan recalled how he was either left in the kindergarten or the orchestra's lounge after school when he was a child. He nodded and said, "That's great. What direction do you plan to train Sang Yu in?"
Xu Jing put the ribs into the pot. "She's still young, in the kindergarten class, so there's no specific direction for her development. Your Uncle Gu said that we should wait until she's older and see what she likes. She doesn't necessarily need to learn a talent. As long as she studies well and grows up safely and happily, that's all that's needed. I have a similar idea to him now."
Chen Zhan handed her the peeled radish, raised his eyes to look at the woman, and finally couldn't help asking: "Mom, what about me?"
She has been strict with her since she was a child. If she didn't learn a musical instrument well, she would scold her. If it weren't for her good academic performance, Xu Jing would probably be even more disappointed in her.
Xu Jing cut the radish in half with a knife. "Are you blaming me?"
Chen Zhan: “No.”
This is true, but it makes me feel a little sad to see that the woman who used to be the chief conductor of an orchestra and worked hard for her career is now willing to give up her proud career for her little daughter and become a half-full-time housewife. She also gave Gu Sangyu all the maternal love that she had never enjoyed.
The nanny went out discreetly.
Xu Jing looked at her and had to tell the cruel truth: "When I gave birth to you, I had just graduated from college. I was too young and didn't know how to be a mother. I placed high hopes on you in a strict way. It was Gu Wenjun who told me that there is another way to educate people. I have low expectations for Gu Sangyu because she has someone to support her, but you, Chen Zhan, don't have that."
Gu Sangyu has Gu Wenjun as her father, and a bunch of relatives from her grandmother's family. Even if she grows up in an ordinary way, there will be a lot of people taking care of her.
Chen Zan came from a single-parent family back then. She had no father, only a mother who had just graduated and was unemployed, and a grandmother. Xu Jing could only urge her on and be as strict with her as possible.
She had no choice but to confess to Chen Zhan with a cold face: "I also want to treat you the same way I treat Sang Yu, but Chen Zhan, I tell you, I can't do it."
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