Su Ruo was extremely embarrassed, and also felt as if ants were crawling on her bones.
To be honest, when she came back from losing her memory four years ago, although she knew what Su Jianzhou had done and was heartless to him, she still had a little affection for him deep in her heart.
But after regaining my memory...it turns out that knowing that he did those things and actually seeing him do those things and experiencing them again, the disbelief, despair, and fear are really different.
After these three years.
The person in front of her was more unfamiliar to her than a stranger.
Su Ruo was about to ask the person to leave when someone held her hand.
It was Han Zecheng on his left.
And her grandfather Xia Xiangbo on her right also spoke first.
Xia Xiangbo said, "Sir, please step aside first. If you have anything to say, please wait in the reception room outside. Please respect our ancestors and don't lose face in front of them."
"well."
Su Jianzhou knew their identities and of course wanted to stay and accompany them in paying homage, but seeing the indifference in his daughter's eyes, he sighed in his heart, called Su Zhen, and left with him who kept looking back.
However, after arriving at the reception room of the cemetery, Su Jianzhou suddenly remembered to ask his son, "Ah Zhen, how do you know...your second sister's grandpa and grandma?"
Su Zhen was still in a state of unusual excitement and anxiety. Although he had returned, his mind was still at the cemetery.
He came back to his senses when he heard his father's question and said, "I... I was just guessing. Dad, do you think grandpa and grandma will be influenced by my second sister and ignore us?"
Su Jianzhou frowned.
He really regrets it now.
He has been in school management for many years and is certainly not stupid.
At that time, he felt guilty and his daughter was a sharp-tempered person, so he gave her university place to Su Jia and asked her to go to the countryside. After that, he was afraid to face her and was unwilling to face her.
So all the subsequent matters were left to Lin Wanhua to handle.
And because of Lin Wanhua's selfishness...her daughter resents him so much.
If he had paid more attention back then.
No matter how she blamed him, he still tried his best to take care of her instead of ignoring her. Even if she didn't listen, he would explain it to her and arrange a place for her to go to the countryside... Thinking of this, he felt regretful and uncomfortable.
He smiled bitterly and said, "Let's just ignore it. We'll just live a good life in the countryside."
Thinking of the appearance of Xia Lan's parents whom he had just met...he suddenly flinched.
His love with Xia Lan is the only pure land in his heart.
He just called their parents on impulse.
But when he thought about it too much, he started to shrink back... He had been abandoned by his daughter, and he didn't want to be despised by Xia Lan's parents again, and didn't want them to deny him and tell him nakedly with that kind of eyes why their daughter found such a man...
His life has become like this. He has long lost any fighting spirit and only has this little bit of face left.
Thinking of this, he suddenly stood up again and said, "Ah Zhen, let's go."
Su Zhen was stunned.
He was stunned and asked, "Dad, why are we leaving? Didn't grandpa and grandma tell us to wait for them here?"
Su Jianzhou looked at his son.
Of course I saw the hope in his eyes.
Only then did he realize that he called Su Ruo's grandparents "Grandpa and Grandma", and what he called Xia Lan at the grave before... "Auntie"?
For a moment, I felt a mixture of emotions.
He said, "Ah Zhen, those are not your grandparents, they won't recognize you... Let's go, Ah Zhen."
He is not his son with Alan...he is his son with that woman Lin Wanhua.
He thought to himself, how great it would be if this son was his and Alan's.
Su Zhen's face suddenly turned red.
He said, "Dad, I've been having some dreams recently. Although they're not very clear, they're also about my second sister's grandparents coming back. We all live in a very nice house, eat food that others can't afford, and wear the latest and best clothes... Everyone envies us. Later, I even went abroad to study..."
Su Jianzhou was stunned.
He felt uncomfortable and said dejectedly, "Let's go."
"Dad, those are real,"
Su Zhen said, "Although it's just some unclear dreams, I feel it's real, really real... Dad..."
******
cemetery.
Su Jianzhou and Su Zhen left.
Su Ruo let out a light breath, not knowing what to say for a moment.
At this time, the old man next to her patted her on the shoulder and said, "Ruoruo, we already know what happened in the past... You have been wronged."
The last sentence, "You have been wronged," was said with great difficulty.
Because the word "wronged" was too light and made him feel uncomfortable... What she had suffered was not as simple as a simple injustice?
But no matter how painful it is, he has to speak out.
It's better to say it than to say nothing.
Su Ruo shook her head.
She didn't have any feelings towards Su Jianzhou, but when she heard her grandfather's words, her eyes felt sore and she wanted to cry.
She sniffed, forced back her tears, and said, "It's okay, it's all over. Besides,"
She smiled, leaned closer to Han Zecheng, and whispered, "Grandpa, I didn't have to suffer for long, because I had Brother Han here."
Xia Xiangbo glanced at Han Zecheng, his nose a little bit upset, and said, "Okay."
After paying homage to Su Ruo's mother, everyone felt empty.
Because of the appearance of Su Jianzhou and Su Zhen, everyone's mood became even more depressed.
They went to the reception room and Su Jianzhou and Su Zhen were still there.
Su Jianzhou wanted to leave, but in the end he couldn't resist Su Zhen's pleading... He didn't hold out any hope, but thinking that this was the end of his life, and his son's life couldn't be ruined, he finally agreed to let him stay.
Looking at the people inside through the glass, Xia Xiangbo turned to look at Su Ruo and said, "Ruoruo, do you want to stay outside? I'll go get rid of him. They will never appear in front of you again."
Su Ruo shook her head.
She said softly, "There is nothing that cannot be told to others. He broke off relations with me because he was afraid that my background would affect him. He has been making a living by selling my mother's belongings over the years. I have nothing to feel sorry for him, and there is nothing I cannot face in front of him."
And her mother's belongings are now in her hands.
In fact, she spent money to buy those relics and left.
Old Madam Xia hugged her granddaughter.
To be honest, she didn't even want to face what was inside.
When she thought about her daughter marrying such a man and what her granddaughter had suffered, she really wanted to skin that man alive.
Su Ruo saw that Old Madam Xia was upset, patted her and said with a smile: "I'm fine, really, grandma, you don't have to be too upset... Mom died of illness. When she was alive, Mr. Su did not do anything to let her down. He was just weak, but he was not that bad. Let's go in."
Everyone went inside.
Su Jianzhou stammered "Mom and Dad" again, and Su Zhen followed suit and called out "Grandpa and Grandma".
Xia Xiangbo waved his hand.
He looked at Su Zhen and asked, "What do you want?"
Su Zhen was stunned.
He murmured: "Grandpa..."
"Your father is Su Jianzhou and your mother is Lin Wanhua. They have nothing to do with our Xia family, so don't call me grandpa."
He said, "Even Aruo has severed ties with your Su family. In fact, you no longer have any relationship with our Xia family... I believe you are also very clear about what your mother and your sister did to Aruo, but you still call them 'grandpa and grandma'. You must be asking for something, right? Tell me, tell me."
Su Zhen: ...
He did have a request, but even if he wasn't very smart, he knew that he shouldn't say it out loud under these circumstances, right?
Su Jianzhou sighed.
He said: "Dad..."
"Don't call me that,"
Xia Xiangbo interrupted him and said, "Mr. Su may not know that I have not only your letter of severance of relations with Aruo, but also your handwritten letter of self-defense. Although it has been many years, Mr. Su wrote it down and defended himself many times in person to many people, so I believe he should still remember it."
"I, Su Jianzhou, married Xia Lan, but her parents disappeared at that time. I have never met Xia Xiangbo and his wife or anyone else in the Xia family, and I have never seen a penny of the Xia family's wealth. Xia Lan died less than three years after marrying me, and later married Lin Wanhua, who was of a good family background. Now, I have even cut off all ties with Xia Lan's daughter, and have no connection with the Xia family... If you have no connection with them, why are you taking this attitude now, Mr. Su?"
Xia Xiangbo spoke slowly and without any emotion.
But he didn't say a word, and Su Jianzhou's waist seemed to become more hunched, until it could no longer straighten up.
He wanted to say that it was forced by the circumstances at the time.
But he could explain this to Su Ruo four years ago, but now he can't say it to Xia Xiangbo and his wife... It can be said that it is forced by the times, but in fact, it can also be said that adversity reveals a person's true character...
Before leaving, he kowtowed to Xia Xiangbo and Old Madam Xia.
He said: "It was indeed my weakness and incompetence back then, and I was too guilty to face what I had done, which led to an irreparable mistake... But I was sincere to A-Lan."
After saying this, he got up, tremblingly dragging Su Zhen, who was still unwilling to give up, away.
******
On the way back, Su Ruo took Nan Nan to accompany Xia Xiangbo and Old Madam Xia in a car.
The others took a car.
There was some silence along the way.
Even Nan Nan didn't say much, just snuggled in Old Madam Xia's arms and played with the toys in her hands.
Watching the mountains and forests on both sides rapidly receding, Xia Xiangbo suddenly said to Su Ruo: "I was the one who let your mother down back then. If we hadn't left on our own and abandoned her, the things that happened later wouldn't have happened."
Su Ruo was stunned.
She felt a little disappointed, but quickly shook her head and said, "I've heard about what happened back then. There was a war going on and Mom was in school. You didn't have enough time to go to school to take her away... and you left in a hurry. You didn't know what the future would be like. Mom would have been safer in school."
The Xia family is a big tree that attracts the wind, and has long been regarded as a fat sheep in the eyes of others.
If we don't act quickly, no one will be able to leave, not to mention that they may have other tasks to do.
If he went to the school and took her mother away, it would be obvious that she was not "missing".
She thought for a moment and said, "Grandpa and grandma, you don't have to blame yourselves for these past events. Grandma avoided the war at school and lived a good life afterwards... As for me, you see, am I not doing well now? I will be doing well in the future, too."
Old Madam Xia held Nannan with one hand and Su Ruo with the other. After a while, she said, "Ruoruo, we want to take Guoguo to live abroad for a while. Is that okay?"
Nan Nan was playing with toys, but when he heard this, he sat up straight.
What does "take Guoguo to live abroad for a while" mean... She is not particularly clear about what place abroad is, but it is probably that his great-grandparents want to take him away.
Although her brother sometimes bullied her, she couldn't let her great-grandparents ask him to leave.
The days without her brother... it's hard to even think about it.
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