Chapter 75

"Nanchen, you guys are here? Sit down first. Your father is still in the study. I'll go call him." The woman stood up with a smile and said to the nanny, "Pour them some water."

"I'll go right ahead."

The nanny left too.

There were only six of them left in the living room.

Jing Xian raised her eyebrows and whispered, "Your stepmother looks very young!"

"She has never suffered any hardship following the old man, so how can she not be young? Moreover, she is nine years younger than the old man and is only forty this year. Her son is twenty-one and is said to have got married last year, and the child is only three months old." Shang Nanchen said this as if he was not talking about his own business.

Jing Xian was stunned.

"Have you been paying attention to this?" Jing Xian looked at Shang Nanchen and felt particularly sorry for him.

Shang Nanchen is twenty-eight this year, and his stepmother is only twelve years older than him.

Think about it again, Shang Nanchen's father was in a high position, and after marrying his current wife, it was as if he didn't have a son before. Now he called someone over for no reason, and I don't know what he wants to do.

No matter what he wants to do, she will not let anyone bully Shang Nanchen.

Shang Nanchen said with a dark face: "Why should I care about what they do? Song Zheng told me that last time he came over."

Song Zheng really treated Shang Nanchen as a brother, and he also knew what was going on in Shang Nanchen's family. Therefore, if there was any movement there, he would tell Shang Nanchen as soon as he knew about it.

In Song Zheng's words: "You can stop contacting them, but you can't be even more ignorant of what's going on there. This is called knowing yourself and knowing your enemy."

Shang Nanchen thought it made sense.

For example, this time, the old man suddenly called him over, and he came over stupidly, but he really didn't know anything.

"Song Zheng is a good person to get along with." Jing Xian opened her mouth and only said this.

Shang Nanchen raised his eyebrows and said nothing more because the door of the study was finally opened.

Jing Xian sneered in her heart.

His own son came to visit for the first time in so many years, and he was not active at all. It was obvious that he had no feelings for this son. Jing Xian could see that if there is a stepfather, there must be a stepmother. This saying was true.

Shang Yongchang glanced at his eldest son, frowned, and said, "Everyone, sit down. What are you standing for?"

This tone and attitude are really annoying.

Jing Xian couldn't bear it anymore and said directly, "It's not good for guests to sit down without permission when the host is not here, right?"

Shang Yongchang looked at Jing Xian with sharp eyes, frowned unhappily, and then angrily scolded Shang Nanchen: "Is this the wife you found for yourself?"

"I think it's good." Shang Nanchen is no pushover.

Xu Xiuying reached out and pulled the angry Shang Yongchang, and smiled to smooth things over: "Nanchen, this is your own home. How sad does your father feel when you say this?"

She didn't pay any attention to Jing Xian in her words, but she kept saying bad things about Jing Xian.

Shang Nanchen said coldly: "Jing Xian is right. This is the first time I've come here since I was a child. This is not my home."

"Are you blaming me for abandoning you in your hometown? Didn't I take you here at the beginning? It was you who didn't come here, and you wanted to stay with your grandparents." Shang Yongchang was furious when he looked at his eldest son.

He had hardly seen the child in these years and had no idea where the child had gone.

If he hadn't heard his name last time, he would have asked someone to check and found out that his son was actually in Li City.

"So I said this is not my home, am I wrong?" Shang Nanchen had a bad temper and made his father furious as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Yongchang, haven't you been thinking about Nanchen all the time? Now that Nanchen is finally here, you should have a good talk with him. I'll go to the kitchen to see what we're going to have for lunch today." After persuading Shang Yongchang, Zheng Xiuying smiled friendly at Jingxian and walked towards the kitchen.

If it were any other young wife, seeing Zheng Xiuying's hint, she would probably follow Zheng Xiuying.

But Jingxian was not like other young wives, and she didn't want to cook for others on her first visit. A proper mother-in-law would be fine, but a woman who had never raised Shang Nanchen for a day and had made Shang Nanchen suffer so much and endured so many grievances, what qualifications did she have to let her go to the kitchen to cook.

Want to tame her and make her a obedient daughter-in-law?

What a wild idea.

She sat on the sofa with a clear conscience, watching the father and son confront each other with gloomy faces and no words.

Just when Jing Xian thought Shang Yongchang would not speak again, he spoke.

"Are these four children born to you by your wife?"

As soon as these words came out, Jing Xian looked at Shang Yongchang with a strange look in her eyes.

Shang Nanchen was about to speak when Jing Xian pretended to be surprised and asked, "Doesn't your father know that you are getting married for the second time?"

With just one sentence, the relaxed atmosphere was ruined.

"Shang Nanchen, control your wife. Does she have the right to speak here?" Shang Yongchang's forehead was throbbing with veins. He would not confront his daughter-in-law, but he would scold his own son.

You should feel sorry for your own man.

Jing Xian felt that her life was hard, but Shang Nanchen's life was not much better either.

They really are a perfect match, a match made in heaven!

"Why are you yelling at him? Am I wrong? You don't even know when your son got married. You don't know why he got divorced, or why he got married again. You can't even recognize your own grandson. Who gave you the face to scold him? What qualifications do you have to scold him? Just because he has your blood in his body, does he deserve to be scolded by you? Then have you ever asked him if he wants to have a father like you?"

Jing Xian didn't give Shang Yongchang any face at all.

She said aggressively, "You married a second wife immediately after your wife died, which is true. But you married a second wife for yourself. Shang Nanchen remarried after divorce for the sake of the children. She married me to take care of the children. Now that you have a new home, have you ever thought about him? Why doesn't he live with you? Have you ever thought about why? From the time you entered the door until now, you haven't even had a sip of water. When you saw us coming, you went into the study for a long time after saying a word. You are so hypocritical."

"If you intend to use this blood relationship to control Shang Nanchen, I'm sorry, you're making a wrong decision."

Jing Xian picked up the wrapped rice dumplings and fish, pulled Shang Nanchen and said, "Let's go. This is not your home. We don't welcome you."

Several children immediately headed for the door.

Shang Nanchen took the things and carried them, then followed Jing Xian out.

When has Shang Yongchang ever been pointed at and scolded like this?

His eyes were blazing with anger: "Shang Nanchen, if you dare to step out of this door today, I will pretend that I don't have a son like you."

"You talk as if you have a son like him in your heart?" After Jing Xian finished mocking, she pulled Shang Nanchen outside.

There are some things Shang Nanchen cannot say, but Jing Xian can.

A filial son has a heavy burden on his head. Even if his parents have many faults, he cannot say anything. He can only bear it silently.

Jingxian has had enough of this kind of suffering.

Even if she came back from the end of the world, she only wanted to escape from that family and stay away from them.

She didn't want to be neither human nor ghost because of those people.

People cannot live in hatred and cannot destroy themselves because of hatred.

She just needs to know that those people are not having a good life.

Besides, it's not like she didn't want revenge.

But when it came to Shang Nanchen, she just felt distressed.

She just wanted to speak out about the grievances Shang Nanchen had suffered, so that he wouldn't always be oppressed by this little family affection.

She didn't leave anything for them.

Why should they give away things they worked so hard to irrelevant people?

Even if you feed it to dogs, dogs still know how to guard the house.

If you give it to them, they will definitely complain that the things are not good.

After leaving the compound, the children sat in the back seat of the car without saying a word.

Jing Xian whispered to Shang Nanchen: "Do you think what I just said was too much? After all, this is not what a daughter-in-law should say."

It's too unorthodox nowadays.

"No." Shang Nanchen reached out his hand and grabbed hers, "That's good."

He saw the way she protected him and felt warm in his heart.

"real?"

Jing Xian actually regretted what she said.

She was afraid that Shang Nanchen would blame her when he remembered what happened today.

Shang Nanchen seemed to sense her uneasiness and said with a smile: "Actually I didn't plan to come. But he called me, and if I didn't go, it would be bad if it got out. So I came. I thought he would let the children call me grandpa and give me some greetings. He would ask if I was doing well. But I didn't expect that he would scold me as soon as he opened his mouth."

"Shang Nanchen."

Jing Xian looked at him worriedly.

"I'm fine. The kids must be hungry. Let's go get something to eat and then take them for a walk. We'll stay at the guesthouse tonight, go out for a good day tomorrow, and then drive back in the evening."

Shang Nanchen arranged everything.

Jing Xian saw that he was fine, so she said, "Let's go and have dinner."

In the compound, Xu Xiuying heard the noise and came out of the kitchen. The corners of her mouth slightly raised, and then she walked towards the sofa with a worried look.

"You said you were looking forward to his coming, but you made him angry. There is no barrier between father and son. Why don't you just talk it out?" Xu Xiuying said softly.

Shang Yongchang said angrily: "What's the name of the girl he married? She doesn't greet people when she comes home, doesn't talk to people when she meets them, and just bumps into people when she opens her mouth. I don't know where he found this woman from, she's really embarrassing."

Apart from her good looks, Shang Yongchang really couldn't see any good points in that woman.

"At the beginning, I said to introduce him to a girl from Li City, but you insisted that there was no rush for children. A virtuous wife brings prosperity to three generations, and a virtuous wife brings few troubles to her husband. These words are not without reason." Xu Xiuying looked at Shang Yongchang's increasingly ugly face, and her mouth curled up higher and higher, "You, don't be angry. Anyway, it's not impossible to get a divorce now. When the time comes, you can let him get a divorce and marry the sister-in-law of the director of the Revolutionary Committee. That girl is working in the art troupe now, she is also very pretty and nice. Even if she doesn't have a relationship with the director of the Revolutionary Committee, she is still a good girl."

Shang Yongchang said angrily: "Don't bother with him! He chose his wife himself. I will ask him to come to me crying someday."

Jing Xian had no idea that someone was waiting to see her and Shang Nanchen's joke.

Their family of six has arrived at the hotel.

The portions at the restaurant are large, so one dish is enough for two people.

But they have a large family, and except her, everyone else is a good-for-nothing.

Jing Xian ordered six dishes.

They are all pickled mustard greens.

It's rare to get out to eat, how can I not eat meat?

The whole family ate with their mouths full, even Shang Nanchen was particularly full.

After dinner, go to the guesthouse and find a place to stay.

Shang Nanchen drove the kids out for a walk, and first went to a department store. There were many people in the family, and they were driving, so they could buy a lot of things. Jingxian bought whatever she needed, since it was a rare opportunity for them to go to the city.

With Song Zheng's help, he went to the factory and bought a lot of fertilizer.

As for why Shang Nanchen bought fertilizers, Jing Xian didn't understand at first, but later she found out that Shang Nanchen always bought the best fertilizers, and they were newly developed fertilizers. A light bulb went off in her head, and she seemed to understand something.

She looked at Shang Nanchen with a complicated expression.

Song Zheng treated us to dinner in the evening, and after dinner we returned to the guesthouse.

The children slept in one room, and they slept in the next room. After the children fell asleep, they went back to their room.

Jing Xian was lying on the bed, wanting to ask him if he knew everything.

But at the end of the conversation, she still didn't have the courage to ask.

"You don't have to take today's incident to heart. Although I won't say those words, I won't keep them there either. You explain it to me and take me away. It will be better than me getting into a fight with him directly." Shang Nanchen came back after washing up and said the first sentence while sitting on the bed.

Jing Xian turned her head and looked at him for a long while, pursed her lips and said, "Just don't blame me for standing up today in the future."

"Why should I blame you?" Shang Nanchen asked back, "What you said are all facts, or embellished facts, what's wrong with that?"

Even if he was wrong, it was his father who was wrong. What does it have to do with her?

He rubbed her head and held her in his arms.

He took a bite and said hoarsely, "Go to sleep. Aren't you tired after running all day?"

Not tired.

This is much easier than the end of the world.

"Don't you have anything to ask me?" Jing Xian leaned in his arms and suddenly mustered up the courage to ask.

I noticed his body stiffen for a moment, then returned to normal.

Then his deep voice came from above: "If you want to say it, say it. If you don't want to say it, don't say it. That's your secret. I won't force you to ask anything just because you have a secret."

"Aren't you curious?" she asked.

He said, "Curiosity."

"Then why don't you ask?" She was curious why he didn't ask.

"You can tell me when you want to." Shang Nanchen closed his eyes, but he didn't let go of her hand and threatened, "If you don't sleep, I don't mind doing something else."

Jing Xian immediately closed her eyes, but said, "Aren't you afraid that I might do something bad to you?"

"Can you?" he asked.

She said, “No.”

She would never hurt him.

"That's it. What are you thinking about? No matter what secrets you have, don't tell them if you don't want to. But be careful in the future. We have so much land. Even if we use fertilizers, it won't be as exaggerated as it is now."

Jing Xian: “…”

He didn't ask.

But I have said everything that needs to be said.

I guess I have a rough idea of ​​it in my mind.

At most, I have no idea of ​​the specific reasons, and I don’t know why it happened, but at least I’m not completely in the dark.

Jing Xian was still angry about the last time she was suspected, but not that angry. She just felt a little uncomfortable.

She deliberately said, "You weren't like this last time."

"We were not familiar with each other last time. Your skills are too good, you don't look like a country girl at all. Even if you know medical skills, your skills may not be good. Moreover, your reaction speed and strength show that you are definitely not an ordinary person."

It's okay for him to doubt her.

After all, the situation is tense and we have to be on guard.

Jing Xian was speechless for a while.

There is still a sweet feeling in my heart.

The next day, Shang Nanchen got up early and went out to buy breakfast.

He came back with the buns and saw the car parked outside the guesthouse. Just as he was about to go around it, a man blocked his way.

Shang Nanchen saw the person sitting in the car, thought about it and walked over.

The driver opened the car door and motioned Shang Nanchen to get in.

Shang Nanchen said coldly: "No need, just say whatever you want to say, the children are still waiting for dinner."

Shang Yongchang said solemnly, "You divorce her, and I'll find you a new wife. She works in a cultural troupe, and her family conditions are good, which will also help you in your work."

Shang Nanchen found it funny.

His father asked him to divorce because he didn't like Jing Xian, without even asking for his opinion.

"Why do you want a divorce?" Shang Nanchen deliberately poked his father's wound, "She told you some truth and you got so angry that you want me to divorce? Since you also know that those are true, why do you think I will listen to you? I will not get a divorce. You can announce in the newspaper that you are no longer my father and son."

Having said that, he turned and left.

Shang Yongchang's face turned ashen with anger.

Shang Nanchen returned to the room with his things. Jing Xian noticed that he was in a bad mood and asked suspiciously, "Did you bump into someone just now?"

"Very obvious?" Shang Nanchen asked unexpectedly.

"Not obvious, just like usual." Jing Xian said casually, "But I can sense that you are unhappy."

Shang Nanchen thought she saw it.

"The old man just came over."

Jing Xian raised her eyebrows: "It seems that he didn't say anything good."

“That’s not a nice thing to say.”

Shang Nanchen didn't plan to tell Jingxian what his father said, and she didn't need to know these words. Knowing them would affect her mood.

Jing Xian didn't ask either.

After breakfast, Shang Nanchen drove Jingxian and the children around to have a look.

wait

When I got home at night, it was already midnight.

The children had already fallen asleep in the car.

Shang Nanchen took the children back one by one and boiled water for Jingxian to take a bath.

Jing Xian didn't sleep in the car and stayed with Shang Nanchen the whole time.

She felt a little sleepy at the moment.

As soon as she closed her eyes, Shang Nanchen got on the kang, still damp, and hugged her from behind.

Jing Xian thought he was just going to sleep like this, but who knew he moved his hand.

She held his hand and said softly, "I'm sleepy."

"It's okay, just go to sleep." Shang Nanchen kissed her, his hands moving not slow at all.

Jing Xian actually fell asleep.

But she only slept for a few minutes before he woke her up.

Jing Xian was so overwhelmed by him that she couldn't move up or down. She held her breath in her heart: "You either hurry up or get out. Who are you torturing?"

"you."

"Um?"

Before the last note faded away, Jing Xian was greeted by a sudden downpour.

Damn it, she thought, she shouldn't have said anything.

Anyway, the next day was a holiday, so Jing Xian didn’t have to go to work, otherwise she would definitely embarrass herself in public.

The children didn't go to school either.

At noon, they ate the late-arrived rice dumplings, put brown sugar in the bowl, sprinkled a little water, and let the children eat the rice dumplings with the brown sugar water to avoid burning the heart. She also fried a lot of vegetables to prevent the children from eating too much rice dumplings and getting upset.

Jing Xian was just about to go to the private plot behind the field to check out their vegetables, so Shang Nanchen naturally went along with her.

When the two of them were chatting, Jing Xian asked him, "Is your brother's wife's family well off?"

"In the compound."

That must be a good background.

Jing Xian asked again: "Who is your stepmother?"

"I heard that she was a female student and worked in the library after graduation." Shang Nanchen told Jing Xian everything he knew.

"Our mother is also very pretty." Jing Xian said in confusion.

Shang Nanchen scoffed: "It doesn't matter how pretty she is. Mom has no feelings for him, but his family has arranged a marriage, so he has to marry her. Even if they have a child, he doesn't like it."

"You're really not a very good dad." Jing Xian felt very irresponsible and looked down on him even more.

If you don't like her, just resist her completely. What kind of man is he if you marry her and don't treat her well?

Shang Nanchen looked at her angry expression, and his heart warmed. He said, "Another letter came a few days ago. Did you read it?"

"Why should I read your letter?" Jing Xian subconsciously thought it was a letter from Shang Nanchen.

"It's not for me, it's for you."

"Hmm? Is there one? Where is it?"

"On the counter."

Jing Xian turned around and walked home. When she got home, she saw two letters on the cabinet, one of which seemed to be the letter Shang Nanchen received last time.

He had almost guessed her secret and had no intention of sending her to the research institute. Subconsciously, her trust in Shang Nanchen reached a new level.

She took out the letter and opened it, reading it quickly. Then she looked at the end and her eyes suddenly narrowed.

"Is this a letter from your ex-wife?"

"Um."

“You still keep it?”

"I'll keep it for you to see."

Jing Xian: “…”

She yelled, "Are you sick? Why are you showing me this? Tell me that you two have a good relationship and that what happened was just a misunderstanding, so I plan to make peace with you?"

She was about to explode.

Shang Nanchen curled his lips instead: "She is not having a good life, and that man is unlucky because he is with her."

"So you want to come back?" Jing Xian said in a bad tone, "She is so shameless!"

After Jing Xian finished cursing, she stared at Shang Nanchen.

Shang Nanchen knew that his answer at this moment was very important, and if he was not careful he might even lose his wife.

"Yes, very shameless."

His look almost made Jing Xian laugh.

Jing Xian was no longer angry.

She continued to read on, sneering as she read: "She still wants to come and see the child? How shameless! She hasn't even paid back the money!"

When talking about money, Jing Xian glared at Shang Nanchen.

"Why were you so stupid at that time? Couldn't you just expose her directly?" Jing Xian said, "Could it be that you still have her in your heart? That's why you showed mercy to her?"

"Of course not. I did it for the child's sake. Wasn't the child being taken care of by his grandmother at the time? If this matter were to be exposed, how would the children be able to hold their heads up?" Shang Nanchen considered many aspects before deciding to let the woman go.

But I didn't expect her to go further.

He's so thick-skinned that even bullets can't penetrate him.

"Have you replied?" Jing Xian asked with a dark face.

Shang Nanchen asked as a matter of course: "Why should she reply? If she really wants to see her son, she can just transfer the money. It doesn't matter whether she comes or not."

"You'd better keep thinking this way." Jing Xian didn't say anything more about this matter. She threw the letter on the table and started reading her own letter.

The letter was written by Liu Lijuan.

It talks about some trivial things.

Suddenly, Jing Xian's eyes fixed and her brows wrinkled.

"What's wrong?" Shang Nanchen came over, read the content at the bottom, and hugged the person in his arms, "Don't be afraid if they really have the guts to find you, I'm here."