Chapter 99
"Hello."
There was confusion in Jing Xian's eyes, but she didn't show it. She greeted the other party politely, knowing that the other party might be Shang Nanchen's ex, so she was very polite.
The other party nodded slightly: "Hello."
Shang Nanchen obviously had something to say to him. Jing Xian stood beside him, secretly observing Jing Feng.
This man's name is exactly the same as my second uncle's.
Jing Xian had never seen her second uncle, and she didn't know what he looked like. All the photos of her second uncle at home were burned by Jing Daming as if he had gone crazy.
Every year on my second uncle’s death anniversary, my grandmother would go up the mountain alone and sit in front of his grave and cry.
That was her only memory of her second uncle.
One year later, she wanted to go to school, but her grandmother had no money, so she went to her father for help.
His father cursed her very harshly, and added: "Isn't your own son dead? This dead girl will be inherited by Jingfeng from now on. Her affairs have nothing to do with me in the future. You should thank me for leaving incense for your short-lived son."
Grandma held her hand and walked more than ten miles back from the town.
When she got home, grandma fell ill.
She went to ask the master to save her grandmother, but from then on, her grandmother's health was not very good and she was sick for several years every year.
"Let's go."
Shang Nanchen took the child from Jingxian's arms, opened the car door, and helped her get in with one hand. After Jingxian was seated, he handed the child to her.
Seeing Jing Xian's unhappy face, Shang Nanchen asked in a low voice: "Are you feeling unwell somewhere? How about I take you to the hospital first?"
Jing Xian was startled, then realized that he had misunderstood her, and said, "It's nothing, I just thought of my second uncle."
"What's wrong with my second uncle?" Shang Nanchen asked puzzledly.
Jing Xian said softly, "My second uncle was also called Jing Feng, but he died nineteen years ago."
Shang Nanchen held her hand. Jing Xian looked up and saw the worry in his eyes. She smiled and said, "I'm fine. It's been many years. Besides, I've never met my second uncle."
She was just thinking about her grandmother, so she was a little depressed.
"Sometimes I think, if my second uncle were still alive, grandma might still be alive now. She must be very happy to see the children." Jing Xian said with tears in her eyes.
Shang Nanchen leaned forward and let her head rest on his shoulder.
He patted her back gently and kissed her hair lovingly: "You still have me. I will love you in the future."
Jing Xian's tears couldn't stop in an instant and fell down with a crackling sound.
She was worried that it might fall on the child, so she wanted to wipe her tears, and there was a handkerchief in front of her. She tilted her head back and looked at Shang Nanchen with tearful eyes.
Shang Nanchen was heartbroken.
He sighed and said deliberately, "The children are watching!"
As he spoke, he wiped her tears gently.
After wiping her, he whispered in her ear: "If you want to cry, wait until we are alone, and cry as much as you want."
Shang Nanchen gave the two children a warning look, and the two children turned their backs to Jing Xian tacitly, not wanting to embarrass her.
The guard was also a very smart guy. He stood at a distance and wrapped Xiaowu in his cotton coat to prevent Xiaowu from feeling any cold wind.
"Find a place to stay first. Didn't you say you wouldn't go home tonight?" Jing Xian felt a little embarrassed. She lowered her head and didn't look at Shang Nanchen.
Shang Nanchen was completely relieved when he saw that she had stopped crying.
God knows how heartbroken he was just now.
"Well, let's go to where we live first."
The guard handed the child to Shang Nanchen, got in the car and drove directly into the yard.
Jing Xian had been looking outside, and now she asked in surprise: "Aren't we going to our accommodation? Why are we driving in?"
Shang Nanchen did not keep us in suspense: "This is the residence arranged by the higher-ups. Comrade Jingfeng is a comrade from the higher-ups. He came here mainly to visit the military region. He will go with us tomorrow. He will stay here for one night. He knew that our family was coming, so he specially arranged for one night. Speaking of which, it was thanks to you.
Only those who are blessed can live here. "
Jing Xian didn't believe what he said.
It's all thanks to her.
It's obviously his own ability.
He has gone through so many life and death situations to gain all the merits, and just because he knows how to farm, he is being reused?
Anyone who knows a little bit knows that this is impossible.
It can only be said that under the same conditions, when Shang Nanchen has competitors, her existence may be regarded as a consideration, but it will definitely not be a critical factor.
He said that just to coax her.
As we were talking, the car had stopped.
"We live on the second floor."
Shang Nanchen took out his key and opened the door. He pushed it open and walked in. The room was tidy inside.
The heater was on and it felt hot as soon as I entered the room.
Tiedan was very hot and wanted to take off his cotton shirt, but Jingxian said quickly, "Don't take it off yet, wait a while, or you'll catch a cold."
After hearing this, several children stopped taking off their clothes.
Only Shang Nanchen took off his military coat. He pushed open the door of a room and saw army green sheets and neatly folded quilts inside. He went to see another room with satisfaction.
He looked around and pushed out the crib: "Put the baby in first. If they want to sleep, they can sleep here. There are four rooms here. The master bedroom is the largest, so we will stay there. The rest will be divided among them."
Jing Xian put the baby in the crib and went into the room. It was very clean and the bedding was new.
Every room has heating, which is warmer than home in the military area.
Shang Nanchen followed her in, put his arm around her waist, and whispered, "If you don't like it, we can stay at the guesthouse."
“Isn’t this better than a guest house?”
Jingxian didn't want to stay in a guesthouse.
It's inconvenient to do anything in the guesthouse. Living here, even if it's just for one night, is really convenient. I can even buy food and cook my own meals.
Jing Xian thought of Jing Feng who lived here, and pretended to be indifferent and said, "Comrade Jing Feng is alone, how about we ask him to come over and have dinner together? Do you think it's convenient?"
"What's so inconvenient about this? It's New Year's Day, and there's no one to take care of Comrade Jingfeng. He's a grown man, and he can't cook, so he must be making do with what he eats. We'll cook in the evening and ask him to come over to eat with us. But at noon today, our family will go to a state-owned restaurant to have something good. The children haven't been there yet."
"Then let's go."
Jing Xian was about to leave, but Shang Nanchen pulled her back, pressed her against the wall and kissed her hard for a while.
"The kids are outside, and there are guards!"
The door was not closed. Jing Xian was afraid that the children would suddenly rush in and see this scene. She would then be unable to live her life.
Shang Nanchen chuckled in her ear: "Then let's talk about it tonight."
Jing Xian recalled that at the end of the world, those people were extremely nervous and under great pressure every day. When they got to a safe place, they would look for opportunities to vent.
She could often hear the bed next door creaking.
Every time I hate myself for having such good hearing.
"Not at night!"
Jing Xian didn't want anyone to eavesdrop. Even if people knew that the couple did that kind of thing at night, it couldn't be heard by others.
"Really?" Shang Nanchen asked with some regret.
Jing Xian said righteously, "No means no, there is no room for negotiation. Let's go to the state-owned hotel and have dinner!"
She pushed Shang Nanchen away, straightened her clothes, and patted her cheeks to make herself look normal before walking out. Shang Nanchen leaned against the wall and looked at her. He rolled his eyes at her, touched his chin, and followed her out.
Jing Xian said seriously, "Put on your clothes, and I'll take you to the state-owned hotel for dinner."
"Let's go eat!"
Fusheng was so happy that he covered his mouth right after shouting and secretly looked into the stroller, fearing that he would wake up his younger brother and sister. Seeing that the two babies were still sleeping, Fusheng breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's okay, it's okay!"
If I wake up my younger brother and sister, I will be in real trouble.
My younger brother has a bad temper that is definitely not something that ordinary people can handle. Don’t be fooled by how cute he usually is. If you really make him angry, he will cry so hard that he will pass out.
When the younger brother cries, the younger sister will cry too.
If there's a duet then, it'll be completely over.
Then it's not just the younger brother crying, they all have to cry along with him.
Jing Xian came over with a smile and rubbed Fu Sheng's head: "Don't be afraid, if they wake up their brother and sister, I won't take them out."
"Are you still planning to take them both with you?" Shang Nanchen originally intended to let the guards wait here.
Song Zheng had just dropped off Damao and Tiedan, and drove home before even getting in. If the guards were to go, the car wouldn't be big enough.
If I take these two kids with me, I'll need another car.
I looked for another car, but I couldn't find anyone to drive it.
When they come back from eating, they can bring back a meal for the guards.
Just then, someone knocked on the door.
Shang Nanchen walked over and opened the door. Seeing the man standing outside, he quickly leaned over and said, "Come in."
Jingfeng stood at the door, took a look inside, and asked shyly, "Are you going out? Then I won't disturb you."
"It doesn't matter a little bit of time. If you have something to say, come in and tell me." Shang Nanchen let the person in. The guard came over with a kettle and made a pot of tea.
Jing Xian asked the children to go back to the house and she planned to push the crib in as well.
She wanted to see Jingfeng more, actually she wanted to ask where Jingfeng was from.
Jingfeng happened to look at the stroller and said, "You have quite a lot of children."
Shang Nanchen smiled and said, "There are many children in my family."
"That's great." Jingfeng suddenly looked at Jingxian and asked her, "From your accent, you don't sound like a Lishi person."
Jing Xian paused and said with a smile, "I'm from Longcheng."
"Where is Dragon City?"
"From Yi County, Longcheng."
"Your name is Jing Xian, which Jing?" Jing Xian's heart skipped a beat when she heard Jing Feng's words.
She observed Jingfeng carefully and said, "The scenery is beautiful."
"Jing in scenery? What's your father's name?" Jingfeng's brows wrinkled instantly.
Jing Xian's heart skipped a beat.
I couldn't help but wonder, could Jingfeng be my second uncle?
"My father's name is Jing Daming, my mother's name is Zhou Huifang. My grandmother's name is Guizhi, and I have an uncle named Jingfeng." Jing Xian listed the names of everyone in her family in one breath.
Jingfeng stood up suddenly, his voice became colder: "Is Jing Daming's well the well of water?"
"yes."
Jing Xian subconsciously held her breath and tried to calm herself down.
But her eyes betrayed her.
"Why don't you have the same surname as Jing Daming?" Jing Feng looked unhappy.
Jing Xian said honestly, "Zhou Huifang had a difficult birth and thought I was a doomed child, so she left me to be raised by my grandmother. She also didn't allow me to have the same last name as Jing Daming. My grandmother's last name happened to be Jing, so she let me have her last name. The year I went to school, my grandmother had no money, so she went to ask Jing Daming for it. Jing Daming said that he would pass me on to my second uncle and that I had nothing to do with him from then on. Because of this, my grandmother even fell ill."
Jingfeng clenched his fist and slammed it on the table: "Great job."
"You...are you my second uncle?" Jing Xian asked in disbelief.
Jing Feng's eyes were fierce, and he cursed: "Bullshit, I'm not your second uncle, I'm your biological father!"
"What?"
Now it wasn't just Jing Xian who was dumbfounded.
Even Shang Nanchen looked at Jingfeng in shock.
He looked at Jing Xian, then at Jing Feng, and found that their eyebrows and eyes were indeed somewhat similar. But it was only a little similar, and if you didn't tell them that they were father and daughter, you wouldn't be able to tell at all.
Jing Xian suddenly understood a lot of things.
No wonder Jing Daming never said anything when he saw Zhou Huifang bullying her. No wonder they were only nice to Jing Mingyang and Jing Mingyue. She really thought Zhou Huifang didn't like her because of her difficult birth, but it turned out that she was not their child at all.
In my previous life, Zhou Huifang
They sold her to the Zhou family just to gain more benefits, without caring about her life or death. Until this moment, she also found the answer.
It is said that even a tiger will not eat its own cubs.
She is not their child, so they certainly won't be soft-hearted towards her.
Jingfeng looked at Jingxian nervously, realizing that his tone was too rough. He calmed down the next second and even said cautiously, "Back then, your mother left after giving birth to you. I had to go to the battlefield and couldn't take you with me. I didn't know if I could survive, so I had to send you back home. The situation was urgent at the time, so I sent you to your Jing Daming and asked Jing Daming to send you to your grandmother. I also left a letter and 500 yuan for your grandmother."
Jing Xian's voice was cold: "Grandma only received a dead baby and a suicide note."
"Jing Daming is such a bastard!"
Jingfeng wanted to pick up his gun and kill the man.
"A few days later, Jing Daming left me to my grandmother and never took care of me again."
Jing Xian didn't hate Jing Feng before, because in her heart Jing Feng was just a dead man. But now this dead man is still alive and is not dead at all, so all the resentment in her heart came out.
She even wondered why Jingfeng didn't die.
If he were dead, she wouldn't hate him so much.
"I just came back last month." Jingfeng was very sharp.
The daughter he had been thinking about for nineteen years was now standing in front of him. His heart was filled with hatred towards himself. How stupid he was to not realize it.
Jingfeng was very smart. He didn't flatter the victim, but stated a fact: "I couldn't come back in the past few years. If something hadn't happened a while ago and I hadn't contacted the people here, I don't know when I could come back. I know Jing Daming is unreliable. It's okay if I'm alive, but if I die, he will definitely not treat your grandma well. So I asked someone to take care of you and your grandma."
But he didn't expect Jing Daming to be so cruel.
There was murderous intent in Jingfeng's eyes.
"I'm not saying this to make excuses. I just want to tell you, Jingxian, you shouldn't have been called this name. The name your father gave you... Never mind, let's not talk about this. Dad is very happy to see that you're doing well now. I can't go back this time. After I finish the mission, I want to go back and see your grandma." And by the way, go and deal with Jing Daming.
Jing Xian remained calm throughout the whole process. She said, "Second Uncle, it's your responsibility to go and see grandma. Jing Daming..."
"I'll take care of it. You don't have to worry about it." Jing Feng said coldly, and then he looked at Shang Nanchen with a strange look in his eyes. "I know your age. You are several years older than Jing Xian. Besides, those four children just now were not born by Jing Xian. You..."
"I'm married for the second time." Shang Nanchen explained immediately, "Two of the children are born to me and my ex-wife. The other two are our adopted children. These two are the children born to Jing Xian and me."
Jing Xian: “…”
Jingfeng: “…”
Jingfeng turned to look at Jingxian and asked with bloodshot eyes: "Jing Daming married you to an old man who was married twice?"
Ever since he found out that Jing Xian was his daughter, he has been like a volcano about to erupt and is in an extremely unstable state.
Jing Xian said calmly, "What's wrong with a second marriage? What's wrong with an old man? It's better than a fool. You don't have to be beaten by a fool, locked up in a dark place, without even a meal."
Jingfeng: “!!!”
Shang Nanchen: “!!!”
Both men exploded.
They said in unison: "Jing Daming wants to marry you to a fool, lock you up in a dark place, and not give you food to eat?"
"Jing Mingyue pushed me down, and my head hit the table. When I was unconscious, I heard Zhou Huifang say that she wanted to give me to a fool in the countryside as a daughter-in-law. The old lady in the Zhou family was not a good person. I heard that their previous daughter-in-law was locked in the vegetable cellar by her and starved to death."
Yes, that fool from the Zhou family is also a second marriage.
Mrs. Zhou had bought a daughter-in-law for the fool before, but that daughter-in-law didn't give birth to a child. In a rage, Mrs. Zhou threw the fool into the vegetable cellar and locked him up.
The previous daughter-in-law died, so Mrs. Zhou could give her son
Marry a new bride.
She heard all this when Old Lady Zhou scolded her.
"These are unconscionable things."
Jingfeng walked out directly: "I will be back the day after tomorrow, you guys wait for me here. Don't go anywhere!"
"Do you just want to go over and kill that person like this?" Jing Xian yelled angrily.
Jingfeng was very angry, but he didn't dare to vent his anger on his daughter, so he said, "I won't joke with my own life. I finally came back, and I plan to support you in the future and not let those blind people bully you."
"Then don't go anywhere." Jing Xian knew that he wanted to take revenge and vent his anger.
She will get rid of the anger herself.
"Okay, after the New Year, when you're done with your work here, we'll go back." Jing Feng carefully observed Jing Xian's expression and said cautiously, "The people above wanted me to go to Sheng City to be the provincial secretary. I originally planned to refuse. But Sheng City is too far away from you."
Jing Xian said expressionlessly: "Just take the job if you have one, follow the organization, and do practical things for the country and the people. Don't you understand these basic principles?"
"I understand. I understand it very well." Jingfeng straightened his back. "I don't understand other things, but I understand this very well."
Jingfeng was very tall, a full meter tall, very white, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and very handsome. Although he was already forty years old, he looked about the same age as Shang Nanchen.
At this time, he was wearing a white shirt, which made him look younger.
Jing Xian wants to ask, are you married now?
The words came to my lips but I swallowed them back.
Shang Nanchen saw that the atmosphere had eased a little, and tentatively said, "It's getting late, why don't we go have a meal first? The children must be hungry."
"Let's go and have dinner."
Jing Xian turned around and called the other kids, "Come out, get dressed and have dinner."
Jingfeng was suddenly at a loss.
He looked at Jing Xian, but Jing Xian didn't look at him either, so he looked at Shang Nanchen. Shang Nanchen thought to himself that Jing Xian could offend Jing Feng, but he couldn't. Jing Xian was the daughter-in-law, and he was the son-in-law.
If he dares to ignore his father-in-law, wouldn't that be seeking death?
Shang Nanchen took the initiative to say, "Dad, Jingxian, we are planning to take the children to a state-owned hotel for dinner. We were just worried about not being able to go there. You must have a car, why don't you drive one and we can go there for dinner together?"
"Okay, I'll ask someone to drive the car over now. I'll wait for you downstairs." Jingfeng said and went downstairs.
As soon as he left, Jing Xian glared at Shang Nanchen: "Why did you let him go with you?"
"What else? That's your father." Shang Nanchen coaxed her in a low voice, "Your father is still alive, aren't you happy? Jing Daming's family is not your relatives, and you don't have to care about that family in the future. We can go back to see grandma openly in the future. When I go back this time, I will take a leave and go back with you then."
Jing Xian rolled her eyes at him in annoyance: "Dad, Dad, Dad! You call him so affectionately. I'm not sure if he's my dad! What if he's an imposter?"
Jing Xian calmed down now and realized what if she had recognized the wrong person?
She had never seen what her second uncle looked like.
I can't go back to find Jing Daming now!
She didn't want to see Jing Daming's family at all. No matter whether what Jing Feng said was true or false, she wanted to beat Jing Daming's family to death when she saw them.
"No need. There is a way from above. If you don't believe it, I can help you investigate it." Shang Nanchen said this and planned to do so.
There happened to be a phone in the room, so Shang Nanchen called Song Zheng.
Make an appointment to meet Song Zheng later.
Jing Xian nodded with a heavy heart.
"Come on, let's go eat first. Don't let the kids go hungry." Jing Xian looked at the curious little guys who had no problem with anything and let them go first.
She held the sixth child, Shang Nanchen held the fifth child, and the guard was responsible for locking the door.
The family came downstairs and Jingfeng's car had already arrived.
Shang Nanchen said: "The four of you take this car."
He took Jingxian to Jingfeng's car.
Seeing this, Jingfeng looked at Shang Nanchen a little more favorably.
After Jingxian sat down, Jingfeng said, "Drive directly to the state-owned hotel."
The driver drove and the two cars drove towards the state-owned hotel.
When they arrived at the hotel, Jingfeng was also very nice to the other four children: "You can order whatever you want to eat, but the premise is that you don't waste it."
After saying that, Jingfeng sat next to Jingxian, took out a photo and handed it to Jingxian: "This is a photo of you when you were a child."
Jing Xian took a look and found that it was exactly the same as the child in her arms.
He took out another photo and said, "This is a photo of me when I was young. I think you have one at home. Have you seen it?"
He looked at Jing Xian expectantly, and Jing Xian said, "No, they're all burnt!"
Jingfeng: “…”
He took out another photo and said, "Look at this!"