Chapter 38 Xiao Jingyan’s Past
"No trouble, no trouble." He Tianyu waved his hands happily in response.
"It's winter vacation now, and I've been at home with nothing to do. You can come to me if you have any problems. You are our sister, and we are all family. No need to be so polite." He said.
Other elders of the He family were also talking on the side.
"Nuan Nuan, if you need anything, just trouble these two brats. As brothers, they should help their sister more."
"They are both at home during the winter break and have nothing to do. When you have rested well, let them take you around Beijing."
"Although your second brother is a little unreliable, your eldest brother is still quite reliable. If you want to play, go to your second brother. If you have any problems, go to your eldest brother. If they can't solve it, come to us."
"Yes, we will support you when the time comes. The daughter of our He family cannot be bullied."
Wang Xiaoli had been watching from the side, and she felt very happy to see her daughter being so loved by the He family.
You have to know that very few in-laws of a second marriage can be so loving to the children they bring along.
She thought to herself that she must live a good life with He Yunzhou in the future, get along well with the He family, and respect the elderly.
He Yunzhou held Wang Xiaoli's hand under the table and squeezed it gently. The two looked at each other and smiled. Everything was said without words.
No one else knows about their little actions.
Lin Nuan happily agreed and thanked him again.
The dining table was filled with laughter. After dinner, the nanny brought out some fruit and everyone sat in the living room chatting.
Lin Nuan was pulled by Tan Xiuwan to sit together and talked about trivial matters at home. She also took out the family photo album and talked about the origin of each photo. The family portrait taken before was also in the album, together with the family portraits taken by the He family before.
Tan Xiuwan stroked the photo with a smile on her face, "After the New Year, our family will take a family photo together and hang it in the living room."
There is a new member in the family, and it feels festive just to see them living in harmony and happiness.
When the others heard this, they quickly agreed.
Anyway, we take a few family photos every few years. If my brother-in-law hadn't been transferred to another province, we would take a family photo every year.
Lin Nuan was also looking at the photos carefully, and his eyes fell on a photo that was quite old.
There were three boys in the photo. He knew all three of them, but they all looked very immature at that time. They must have been quite young when the photo was taken.
Tan Xiuwan saw Lin Nuan’s eyes fall on the photo, and worried that she might not recognize it, she kindly introduced it to her.
"The three people in this photo are your eldest brother, second brother and Jing Yan's son. I haven't seen the boys for five or six years. They used to live in our family compound. The three of them were about the same age, so they often played together. On that day, we happened to have hired a photographer to take pictures, and I took a picture of the three of them. I remember that Jing Yan was ten years old, Tian Xiang was nine years old, and Tian Yu was seven years old."
As she spoke, the old lady's face showed a trace of sadness, and she looked at He Yunzhou, "I remember you said before that you would bring Jing Yan back with you when you came, so you asked Xiao Yuanshan to pick him up, hoping to help them copy and ease the relationship. How come I didn't see that boy?"
He Yunzhou sighed and told what happened at the train station. This opened up the conversation and some past events were brought up again.
Only then did Lin Nuan know.
Xiao Yuanshan and He Yunzhou grew up together in a staff housing compound and were good brothers. Later, they served in the army together and were in the same unit.
Xiao Yuanshan got married early under the arrangement of his family, but his parents were old and in poor health, so his wife Shen Bijun stayed at home to take care of his parents and did not follow him to join the army. Later, as time went by, the feelings between the two became increasingly distant, leaving only family affection and responsibility.
The two were separated for a long time. Xiao Yuanshan later fell in love with a female nurse in their military hospital, but due to their responsibilities, the two did not get together.
Shen Bijun was also a person who could not tolerate any grain of sand in her eyes. As a wife, she was the first to feel that her husband had someone else in his heart. The two of them always parted on bad terms every time they met.
Finally, the two divorced when Xiao Jingyan was ten years old. Not long after that photo was taken, Xiao Jingyan left with Shen Bijun.
Xiao Jingyan had some resentment towards Xiao Yuanshan. Never think that children are young, in fact, they are the most sensitive.
Later, Shen Bijun died of illness when Xiao Jingyan was 16 years old, and was taken home by Xiao Yuanshan.
But the father and son had long since become estranged from each other. Xiao Jingyan was very rebellious at that time. Not only did he not go to school well, but he also spent every day hanging out in the streets with some people of similar age. Xiao Yuanshan was worried that he would end up becoming a street urchin, so he had no choice but to send him to the army, hoping that he could be well trained in the army and correct his bad habits.
However, Xiao Yuanshan had already retired from the army at that time, so he handed Xiao Jingyan over to He Yunzhou.
But what was unexpected was that after leaving that time, Xiao Jingyan joined the army and did not grow up as a bad person. However, it has been almost five years since he left that time and he has never returned once.
Xiao Jingyan believed that Shen Bijun's death was due to Xiao Yuanshan's infidelity to the family, even though she was later taken back home by Xiao Yuanshan.
At that time, Xiao Yuanshan had already moved out of the military compound. His stepmother gave birth to a son who was 12 years younger than him. Looking at the three of them living happily together every day, and thinking about his mother who died from overwork, the resentment in his heart turned into hatred.
At first, he wanted to take revenge on Xiao Yuanshan and made the house a mess. Xiao Yuanshan and his wife Bai Ling quarreled every day.
The four-year-old brother Xiao Jingxuan said the most to him:
"Why did you come to our house?"
"You are not my brother, you are a bad person."
"It's all because of your parents that we're fighting. Get out of my house."
Xiao Jingyan felt happy at that time.
Because of Bai Ling's interference and Xiao Yuanshan's fickleness, he was just like Xiao Jingxuan back then, except that they were in different circles. Xiao Jingxuan hated him, but he hated Xiao Yuanshan and the white-collar workers who interfered with Xiao Yuanshan's family even though they knew he had one.
He felt sorry for his mother. Shen Bijun helped Xiao Yuanshan take care of his elderly parents and took care of everything tirelessly for ten years, until the two elders of the Xiao family passed away. She thought that the family could finally be reunited, but she didn't expect that her husband fell in love with someone else and ended up getting divorced.
Originally, Lin Nuan felt a little sorry for Xiao Yuanshan when she saw his lonely look at the train station, but now she just felt that he deserved it.
The back of that person who left resolutely is always in my mind.