Jiang Shiyue lowered his head and listened quietly.
"Your father and I were able to abandon you and your brother back then. While that proves we were selfish enough, it also proves we were prepared to sacrifice our family and our careers." Ye Wenjun gritted his teeth and said, "Of course, I can't come out and testify for you just because of a few words from him."
Jiang Shiyue frowned slightly.
"He knelt down before us and begged us."
Jiang Shiyue suddenly raised her head and looked at Ye Wenjun in surprise, as if judging the truthfulness of her words.
"It's hard to believe, isn't it?" Ye Wenjun shook her head. "Don't even mention that you're a married couple who spend every day together. We don't believe someone like him would kneel down and beg easily. Your father... and Old Jiang and I knew the first time we met him that you could kill someone like Chen Shanhe, but it's hard to make him bend his back, let alone his knees. Especially since he clearly doesn't like us."
Jiang Shiyue felt that she might have cried too much, her brain was deprived of oxygen, and she was a little unable to react.
She knew every word Ye Wenjun said, but she had no idea what they meant when they were put together.
Chen Shanhe knelt down in front of his parents to save her?
It sounds surprising at first, but it makes sense when you think about it. After all, it is reasonable to kowtow to your father-in-law and mother-in-law.
But he doesn't like them?
Why?
Jiang Shiyue was busy thinking and couldn't control the expression on her face.
Ye Wenjun saw her doubts clearly and took the initiative to explain them to her: "He hates us because he loves you. He may also think that we are not worthy of being mothers?!"
Ye Wenjun smiled self-deprecatingly.
"You said you would go in, and he personally sent you there. I don't know his reasons, but child, I still remember exactly how your father and I felt when we decided to separate from you and your siblings." Ye Wenjun patted his chest, "For so many years, this place has been in pain and regret.
It's okay when I'm busy, but when I'm not, I always wonder if you're doing well. Are you adjusting to life on the farm? Are you being bullied? What's the weather like when I think of you on rainy days? Is it clear and sunny, or like me? When I'm sick, I think about you, how frail you were as a child, and how it must have been for you to be alone in a foreign land..."
Ye Wenjun suddenly stopped talking and patted his lips twice. "Look at my mouth! I've gone off topic and it seems like I'm trying to make you feel sorry for me. What I want to say is that no matter how entangled or painful it is, I have decided to separate from you and your siblings. Your brother is okay, he is a grown man after all, and you were not even an adult at the time! But, Yueyue, I know the pain of separation, and I know that your life on the farm will not be easy. But at least you are safe!"
Lao Jiang and I have experienced times when we were passively attacked and bullied because of our backwardness. Our experiments could make a certain technology world-class. At least in this field, our country will have a say. Then, when our people go abroad, they will have to speak with more confidence.
So, Yueyue, if it were you, what would you choose? "
Jiang Shiyue didn't speak in a hurry.
Although Ye Wenjun's words were vague, one can imagine how difficult it would be to carry out an experimental project spanning more than a decade. At least for our country, it was difficult enough.
And it seems that the final result of this project will enable us to break free from the shackles of powerful countries.
As a daughter abandoned by her parents when she was still a teenager, Jiang Shiyue should obviously say, "Of course I choose my family."
But as a time traveler, as a Chinese who has witnessed our country grow stronger little by little, and as a Chinese who has experienced the boycott of a certain technology, Jiang Shiyue naturally chose the project.
Jiang Shiyue had a choice in her mind but did not speak out.
This was her choice, not the original owner's.
Don’t advise others to do good without experiencing their suffering.
Moreover, the original owner is gone.
Disappointment gradually covered Ye Wenjun's face, and he gave another bitter smile, "Anyway, it's your father and I who are sorry for you. But, Yueyue, we as parents have failed in our duty, you can still grow up on your own. But you and Shanhe..."
Ye Wenjun frowned, hesitated for a moment, and finally spoke: "You two are different. We are your parents and brought you into this world without your permission. It is our fault that we did not fulfill our obligation to educate you. But you came together and formed a family of your own accord. Can the feelings between you just disappear? If you torture him, you are also torturing yourself, not to mention that you have a child.
I know we live in a new society now, advocating freedom of marriage. If you get divorced, can the child still exist?
Not to mention the child, you and Chen Shanhe really have no feelings for each other?"
Jiang Shiyue opened her mouth but no words came out.
Feelings are the most unreasonable thing.
It comes and goes as it pleases.
But when it comes and when it disappears may not be what people want.
"I owe you something. I've only met Chen Shanhe once or twice, so there's no reason for me to speak for him. It's just that we're both women, and I can see that you still like him. The more you like him, the more aggrieved you feel."
***
Jiang Shiyue leaned on the head of the bed, looking at the night view outside the window.
There is not much night view. In the era of national frugality, the street lights are turned off at 10 o'clock in the evening.
It doesn’t matter to Jiang Shiyue. Her eyes are empty and her thoughts have drifted away.
As a fairly successful investor, Jiang Shiyue has followed various projects.
It’s not like she hasn’t encountered projects that lost money before, but no matter how much she lost money, it never made her as sad as it does now.
She admitted that she was shaken by Ye Wenjun.
It felt like a scale was set up in my heart.
Chen Shanhe's good and bad are on the two ends of the scale, swinging left and right.
What made Jiang Shiyue despise herself even more was that she always tended to be on the good side.
It was at this time that Chen Shanhe came in.
Jiang Shiyue immediately took out her anger and threw a pillow at him, "Get out!"
In fact, Chen Shanhe could no longer control his limbs very well, but he still grabbed the pillow in his hand.
He looked at Jiang Shiyue with burning eyes.
"Yueyue, can we talk?"
Jiang Shiyue took back the other pillow she was about to throw at him and said in a hard tone, "I have nothing to say to you."
Chen Shanhe was obviously hurt by these words, and his eyes darkened.
Under normal circumstances, he would probably leave the room in silence.
Perhaps the alcohol emboldened him, and instead of retreating, Chen Shanhe advanced, placing the pillow beside Jiang Shiyue and imitating her by sitting on the headboard with her long legs hanging down.
Jiang Shiyue pushed him away, "Chen Shanhe, don't push your luck! There's no place for you on this bed."
Her little strength was of no use to Chen Shanhe. He remained motionless, just turning his head and looking straight at Jiang Shiyue: "There's no place for me on the bed. What about you? Is there still a place for me in your heart?"
Jiang Shiyue paused in her pushing. She knew alcohol could make a coward bolder. She also knew it could turn a mute into a chatterbox. But she had no idea it could actually make someone say sweet nothings.
Then, he said stiffly, "No! Get out! I don't want to see you."
"But I miss you! I miss you so much." Chen Shanhe said as he turned sideways and hugged Jiang Shiyue.
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