Chapter 106

Du Liang fell suddenly, and Du Jiang and Shen Ai didn't react.

Lu Yu had a cold face and didn't say anything, but Jiang Nian couldn't sit still first, picked up the still hot milk tea and splashed it on Du Liang's face, watching Du Liang scream, and then watching Shen Ai hurriedly stand up to wipe the salty milk tea off Du Liang's face. Jiang Nian calmly put down the bowl, stared at Shen Ai with a sarcastic look, and said: "Auntie, are you worried about Du Liang?"

Shen Ai paused while wiping Du Liang's face, turned her head to look at Jiang Nian, and then subconsciously looked at Lu Yu's reaction. Lu Yu's eyebrows were lowered, his face was indifferent and calm, and it was really hard to tell what he was thinking. Instead, the mockery on Jiang Nian's face made her eyes hurt.

She clearly did nothing, why did Lu Yu's wife look at her like that?

Shen Ai frowned and whispered, "Du Liang is still young and ignorant. The chopsticks didn't hurt Lu Yu. It was the milk tea that had just been poured out of the pot, so it was a little hot."

"What if the chopsticks hurt Lu Yu? Would you feel bad if he had blinded his eyes? No! You wouldn't feel bad. If you felt bad for him, you wouldn't have abandoned him and left eighteen years ago!"

Jiang Nian looked coldly at Shen Ai's frozen face, and continued to point out the facts that she didn't want to face word by word: "If he hadn't met the Xu family eighteen years ago, "It's another family that is selfish and full of bad intentions. Have you ever thought about how his life will be ruined? You have never thought about how a ten-year-old child will live in the future. You only think about yourself!"

Lu Yu remained silent and did not say anything, nor did he stop Jiang Nian.

The table suddenly fell into a deathly silence. Du Jiang rubbed his face and wanted to interrupt, but was blocked by Jiang Nian's words: "Lu Yu told me when he came here, he came here just to ask you a question in person, why did you abandon him, but he doesn't want to ask now, because it's no longer necessary!"

Shen Ai's face changed, looking at the indifferent Lu Yu, sobbing and crying. She thought that Xiao Yu would recognize her as his mother and reconcile with her this time, but she didn't expect that he came here just to ask this sentence: "Xiao Yu, mother is sorry for you, mother is wrong."

Du Liang His face felt a little uncomfortable after being burned by the salty milk tea. He just washed it with cold water and it was also swollen. He was full of anger and ran over to yell at Jiang Nian: "Even if my mother is wrong, it is not your turn to teach her a lesson. Who do you think you are to say to her--" Before he could finish his words, he was knocked to the ground by a punch. Lu Yu stood beside Jiang Nian, holding her hand, staring coldly at Du Liang who was wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth, and said in a cold voice: "She is my, Lu Yu's, wife. Who do you think you are to give her orders!"

Jiang Nian felt much better in an instant.

Du Liang was beaten, Shen Ai felt distressed, she ran over to help Du Liang up. Du Liang was a little dazed from the beating, and when he came to his senses he wanted to settle the score with Lu Yu, but was slapped by Du Jiang who suddenly stood up. Du Liang covered his face and said angrily, "Dad, why did you hit me? He was the one who hit me first!"

He shouted at the top of his voice, pointing at Lu Yu with shaking hands. The teenage boy at this time fully demonstrated what childishness was.

"You are the one who started it, you deserve to be beaten!"

Du Jiang kicked the stool away and slapped Du Liang hard on the back of his neck: "It's none of your business, you little kid, to interfere. Get out and reflect on yourself!"

After that, he grabbed Du Liang's collar and dragged him out. Shen Ai wanted to intervene, but Du Jiang stopped her: "Don't bother with him."

"Xiao Yu."

Shen Ai's eyes were red from crying, and tears were still hanging from the corners of her eyes. She looked at Lu Yu and opened her mouth, not knowing what to say.

Lu Yu looked away and said coldly: "I'm full."

After that, he took Jiang Nian's hand and walked out. Before Jiang Nian went out, he glanced at Shen Ai. She pinched her sleeves to wipe her tears, looking pitiful and abandoned by everyone. If someone who didn't know saw this scene, they would think that she and Lu Yu bullied her.

When the two passed by the door of the house, they saw Du Jiang kicking Du Liang several times, leaving footprints on his buttocks and back. Du Jiang stopped when he saw Lu Yu and Jiang Nian coming out and asked them, "Where are you going?"

Lu Yu said, "Going out for a walk."

Jiang Nian looked at Du Jiang's sad face and said, "Uncle Du, we'll be back soon."

Du Jiang said, "Don't go too far. It's windy in the afternoon."

Jiang Nian said, "Okay."

She and Lu Yu walked around outside for an hour before returning. When they met Shen Ai outside the house, neither of them spoke.

Du Liang didn't come back until that evening, and Du Jiang didn't mention him. There was a fish on the dinner table. Shen Ai must have cried for the whole afternoon, her eyes were red. Jiang Nian ate by himself and never looked up at her. But Shen Ai looked up at Lu Yu several times. Seeing Lu Yu eating quietly with his eyes lowered, she hesitated for a while before reaching out her chopsticks to pick up a piece of fish for Lu Yu and Jiang Nian respectively. Facing the gazes of the two, she said in a hoarse voice: "Eat some fish."

"Thank you, auntie."

Jiang Nian bit her teeth very hard when she called her 'auntie'. Noticing Lu Yu's gaze looking at her, she pursed her lips and smiled.

Du Jiang smiled and said, "Eat more. The fish in Xinjiang is delicious."

Shen Ai felt a little uncomfortable when she heard Jiang Nian's call. She glanced at Jiang Nian, opened her mouth but didn't say anything, then looked at Lu Yu. In her expectant eyes, Lu Yu picked up the fish: "I don't eat fish." The

expectation in Shen Ai's eyes shattered at once. She lowered her head with a stiff face. Du Jiang said, "It's okay. I also fried two dishes. If you don't eat fish, eat something else."

After breakfast the next morning, Du Jiang went to the brigade to borrow a carriage. Jiang Nian took out a hundred yuan from her bag and put it under the thermos. She said to Lu Yu, "This is to repay Uncle Du for entertaining us. From now on, we don't owe him anything." What did you say?"

Lu Yu nodded: "Yeah."

After a while, Du Jiang came back in the carriage. Shen Ai spread some clean and warm bedding on the carriage board and said to Lu Yu and Jiang Nian: "You guys lie down here to keep warm." After that, she handed the cloth bag in her hand to Lu Yu: "I made a cotton coat for you, take it back and wear it."

Jiang Nian took the cloth bag from Shen Ai's hand first, met Shen Ai's eyes, and said: "Auntie hasn't seen Lu Yu for eighteen years, so she must not know Lu Yu's height and size. You can keep this clothes for Du Liang. I made a cabinet for Lu Yu's clothes, enough for him to change every day."

After that, she stuffed the cloth bag into Shen Ai's hand again.

Shen Ai's face froze, and she stared at the cloth bag in her hand in a daze. She looked up at Jiang Nian, and finally looked at Lu Yu with red eyes. Lu Yu looked away and said coldly, "I have clothes."

Du Jiang glanced at Shen Ai and said to Lu Yu, "Let's go."

"Okay."

Lu Yu helped Jiang Nian get on the carriage. When the carriage started to move slowly, he turned around to look at Shen Ai who was standing outside the door. From the time he came to the time he left, he never called out "mother". Eighteen years ago, he was the one standing outside the door, watching her figure getting farther and farther away. Eighteen years later, their identities had been reversed.

Shen Ai kept looking at the figure in the carriage. She didn't hear the expected call until the carriage disappeared around the corner. She stood outside the door for a long time. Du Liang came back from the brigade and persuaded her to go in. She shook her head and wanted to stand outside for a while. Du Liang sighed and said he would go into the house first. After a while, he ran out of the house again, holding a hundred yuan in his hand, with a complicated expression on his face: "Mother, This is what they left behind."

Shen Ai's eyes widened in shock when she saw the money in Du Liang's hand, her eyes reddened with tears in disbelief. She took the money, feeling so uncomfortable that she couldn't speak. It took her a while to come to her senses. With trembling lips, she said to Du Liang: "Hurry, chase your father and return the money to your brother."

Du Liang clutched the money and quickly chased after him. The carriage was running very fast, and by the time Du Liang caught up, he could no longer see any trace of him.

Because

they had to catch the 7pm train, Du Jiang drove the carriage very fast and arrived at the train station at 6pm. Jiang Nian was shaken all the way and felt uncomfortable. Lu Yu carried her out of the carriage and said to Du Jiang, "Uncle Du, we are leaving."

Jiang Nian also waved her hand and said, "Uncle Du, you have worked hard all the way. We will go back first."

Du Jiang smiled and said, "It's not hard. You can go in quickly." "Well, otherwise we will miss the train."

Lu Yu nodded and led Jiang Nian towards the train station. Du Jiang led the carriage and watched their backs as they walked away. After they went in, he lowered his head, wiped the sand off his face, sat on the carriage, lit a cigarette and took two puffs. No one knew what he was thinking, but they just saw a middle-aged man with a sense of sadness and loneliness.

There were not many people in the train station. Lu Yu quickly bought the tickets and led Jiang Nian to the waiting room. When they passed the glass window, they saw Du Jiang still sitting outside. Jiang Nian saw Du Jiang finish one cigarette and light up another. Lu Yu's slightly hoarse voice came to his ears: "She kept it a secret from Uncle Du for eighteen years."

Jiang Nian was stunned. She looked up at Lu Yu in surprise. It took her a while to react: "You..." She paused in disbelief: "Uncle Du didn't know of your existence for eighteen years?!"

Lu Yu retracted his gaze and said "hmm" calmly.

Jiang Nian: ...

Thinking back to the time when Lu Yu asked Uncle Du in the carriage, did she know of Shen Ai's existence when she was with him? Uncle Du said he knew. At that time, she actually felt bad for Lu Yu and resented them for Lu Yu. The two of them abandoned him when he was young in order to be together, and they didn't know who came to find him for so many years. Not to mention Uncle Du's position, Shen Ai was a failure as a mother.

After hearing what Lu Yu said, Jiang Nian felt that Shen Ai was even less worthy of being Lu Yu's mother.

Thinking of the guilt and regret Shen Ai had felt when facing Lu Yu these two days, she suddenly felt that Shen Ai was extremely hypocritical. She had let down three men in her life. The first was Lu Yu's biological father. She used him to survive and abandoned him after giving birth to his child. The second was Du Jiang, who concealed her past. I don't know what kind of heart she had when she lived with Du Jiang for more than ten years. I don't know if she thought about the helpless Lu Yu when she faced Du Liang?

The third was that she was sorry for Lu Yu, giving birth to him but not raising him, abandoning him for more than ten years, and when he grew up, she wanted Lu Yu to call her mother.

What did she have the right to do so?

If Lu Yu had met someone other than Xu Cheng and his son, if he... had died at that time, had Shen Ai ever thought about these things?

Jiang Nian felt that she must not have thought about it. Such a selfish person would only think about herself.

After getting on the train, Jiang Nian was afraid at night, so Lu Yu held her to sleep. The two of them squeezed into a narrow berth. Jiang Nian rested her head on Lu Yu's crooked arm, hugged the man's thin and strong waist tightly, and her voice was full of heartache: "Lu Yu, what do you want to eat? When we get home, I'll make it for you."

Lu Yu rubbed the back of Jiang Nian's neck and kissed her hair: "Still mixed noodles."

Jiang Nian smiled and said, "Okay, I'll go home and give it to you. You make a big pot."

After saying that, she couldn't help laughing first. Hearing the low laughter coming from above her head, Jiang Nian raised her head and bumped into Lu Yu's smiling eyes. She hadn't seen Lu Yu show a sincere smile in the past two days here. Lu Yu rubbed Jiang Nian's smooth forehead with his chin: "Are you stupid?"

Jiang Nian's eyes turned red and tears flowed uncontrollably. She pursed her lips and choked: "I feel sorry for you."

"Lu Yu, I feel sorry for you."

Jiang Nian said her feelings directly. She was glad that the author of this book arranged the Xu family for Lu Yu to face the loyal and kind-hearted Xu father and son.

Lu Yu kissed the corner of Jiang Nian's eyes and whispered, "It's okay, it's all over."

Seeing Jiang Nian crying even harder, Lu Yu smiled again, pinched the soft flesh on the back of her neck, and said in her ear, "I have you now, and we will have our children in the future."

Jiang Nian nodded repeatedly, "Yeah."

The train took four days to arrive in Yuan City. The two got on the car and rushed back to the army. Lu Yu used all his vacation this year during the New Year. He couldn't rest on Sunday this year. As soon as he arrived at the army, he had to report to the regiment. He first sent Jiang Nian home and put her luggage away before turning around and leaving.

He Yue lived opposite. She ran out when she heard the noise and bumped into Lu Yu. Lu Yu nodded and said, "Sister-in-law He."

He Yue smiled and said, "Just came back?"

Lu Yu: "Yeah," and continued, "Jiang Nian is at home."

He Yue happily went into the house to find Jiang Nian and told her about the interesting things that happened in the family building in the past few days, which were all trivial gossip. After a while, Fang Xia and Fang Guo came back and He Yue hurried home to cook. In the afternoon, Guan Lu and Yue Qiao came over. Guan Lu was thin and had a small belly, but Yue Qiao was a little exaggerated. Her belly was very big and she had to hold her belly when she walked. Jiang Nian was a little scared, but Yue Qiao said that she was quite good at going up and down the stairs. If she didn't believe it, she would show her around.

Jiang Nian: …

She stopped Yue Qiao: “I believe it.”

She was afraid that if she said it a step too late, Yue Qiao would really go around.

Yue Qiao said that Sister Lan and Sister Tian both said that she was pregnant with two babies, but they didn’t know whether they were twins or a duo.

The two sat at Jiang Nian’s place for an entire afternoon. When it was getting dark, Captain Lei knocked on the door. He greeted Jiang Nian and then said, “I’m here to pick up Xiao Qiao.”

Jiang Nian and Guan Lu smiled in tacit understanding. Yue Qiao was still a little embarrassed and cursed Captain Lei. Yue Qiao left, and Guan Lu went back a while later. Jiang Nian made noodles with mixed sauce in the evening, but Lu Yu didn’t come back until very late. The next morning, when Jiang Nian woke up, he touched the bedside and it was cold.

Could it be that he didn’t come back all night?

Jiang Nian got dressed and walked out. She saw food on the table outside and a note under the plate.

- I'll go do my work first. I'll get up and have breakfast.

Jiang Nian smiled, washed up, sat at the table and had breakfast. Just as she was about to go to the kitchen to wash the pots and bowls, she heard a knock on the door. It was a security guard outside the army. He said, "Comrade Jiang, someone is looking for you outside. They say it's Director Ge from the state-owned embroidery factory. They want to see you urgently."

This was the first time that Ge Mei came to the army to look for her so anxiously. Jiang Nian put down the bowl and ran out with the security guard.