When Qiu Yan returned upstairs, he found that Chen Tingting was not there and Yang Xue had also left.
"How about them?"
Lin Yue said: "Let's go."
"Leaving? Then..."
Yesterday, Chen Tingting went to the chamber of commerce with an attitude of asking for justice. Today, she was summoned here by Wang Xu. She was mentally prepared to deal with the shock wave. She sent Wang Xu away as soon as possible and went back upstairs to see that nothing had happened. ?
While she breathed a sigh of relief, she was also curious, what happened just now? Why did those two people leave without saying a word?
Lin Yue deliberately ignored her and walked to the kitchen with the crumbly fried noodles. He said with a regretful expression on his face: "What a pity for this bowl of noodles."
"sorry……"
Qiu Yan was very sad. A good meal and a good time for two people were interrupted by Wang Xu. In the final analysis, it was because she failed to handle the relationship with Luo Yuzhu and her son well, which ruined Lin Yue's happiness.
"It's okay. If you want to eat it someday, I'll make it for you."
"Um."
She nodded and agreed crisply, but there was still a flash of sadness in her eyes, because he was very busy, why did he turn off his phone before frying the sauce? Because I had answered four or five phone calls in the past half hour, and with this attitude, there was no time to cook for them.
Jingle Bell……
Just when she was debating whether to ask more about Chen Tingting, a familiar cell phone ringtone rang in her jacket pocket.
She took it out and looked at it, and was stunned.
"It's grandma."
Lin Yue said: "Didn't you tell her not to go back for lunch?"
"Maybe it's because I'm worried..."
As she spoke, she pressed the connect button.
"Grandma."
"..."
"Here, here."
"..."
"alright, I got it."
"..."
"well."
Soon, she hung up the phone, looked at Lin Yue and said, "Grandma turned off your cell phone and called me. She said that Director Chang came to see her and knew that you were back. She said she missed you. I want to meet you and talk for a while.”
"Director Chang? I haven't seen him for almost a year since he handed over the factory to his son." He said as he went to get his coat: "Let's go home."
Hearing the word "go home", Qiu Yan felt warm in his heart.
In the past, Qiu Yingjie was busy with work and couldn't take care of her most of the time. As a little girl, she had a lot to do and would often get angry over trivial matters. Her classmates would also laugh at her for being a motherless child, especially during the crackdown on holiday in the city. , she was often bullied by the children of merchants, so she took her anger out on Qiu Yingjie, thinking that it was not her father who was so meddlesome, how could she have been wronged like this. In order to be angry with him, she often deliberately did not go home after school. , Lin Yue found her every time, coaxed her up and took her home.
After ten years, hearing these words again, in addition to a long-lost feeling, there was also a bit of... indescribable joy.
…
at dusk.
Lin Yue parked his car in front of a shop selling plumbing fittings on Jiangnan Road and glanced outside.
"Why did you stop?"
Qiu Yan didn't know why he stopped here. He had originally planned to go to Fotang Town to visit Shuangwu Meat Products Factory, but who knew that the car stopped before it was halfway through the distance.
When she followed his gaze and saw the primary school students swarming out from the side and the words "Yiwu Experimental Primary School" on the school gate, a feeling of nostalgia filled her heart.
She studied in this primary school before going abroad. In the past ten years, many things have changed. The surrounding buildings, the appearance of pedestrians, the green trees on the roadside, and the primary school has completely changed compared to what she remembered.
At this time Lin Yue said: "Just right."
Qiu Yan looked puzzled: "Just right? What's just right."
He pursed his lips diagonally across the street: "Do the people over there look familiar?"
Qiu Yan looked slightly sideways and saw a woman who was a little over forty years old walking over holding the hands of a little boy and a little girl, smiling and asking about this and that.
"She is... Aunt Qiao?"
"That's right, it's Qiao Gu."
Lin Yue said as he got out of the car, walked to the back of the car and opened the trunk: "Chang Xiyun went to Hangzhou a few days ago to visit his former co-worker. He was from Yinzhou, Ningbo. He gave him a lot of pickled mustard. No, let's get it today. I gave some to my mother, and my mother remembered that Qiaogu loved this, so she gave me a portion and asked me to bring it to her."
Qiu Yan remembered that when she went to Chen Yulian's place before, she often saw Qiaogu bringing white rice porridge for breakfast. This was the side dish. She could eat it every day for thirty days a month without getting tired of it.
"Grandma is so considerate."
"I'm usually not at home. During the holidays, Qiaogu will go over to buy some things. Occasionally she will help with washing and washing when she is free. These are good. My mother sees it and keeps it in her heart. As for Chen Daguang, I don't want to see him. If you go to her house, you might run into..."
"So you drove here and waited?"
"When you were a child, you walked to school by yourself and went home by yourself after school. Children today are different. Money is precious."
Qiu Yan thought to himself that it would be okay if he didn't want to do this. Qiu Yingjie was so busy at work, how could he have time to pick him up from school like other parents?
Seeing Lin Yue walking over with a transparent jar with a capacity of two to three liters, she opened the passenger door and followed him towards Chen Qiaogu and the two cute children with a smile.
"Dongdong, I heard from the teacher that you secretly talked to Liu Zihang in Chinese class today and even pulled Han Meimei's pigtails. You are already in third grade and should be sensible. You can't do this again in the future."
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"Mom, Mom, I know it was Han Meimei who reported to the teacher first that he was helping Liu Zihang with his homework, and then his brother pulled her pigtails." It was the little girl who explained to the little boy.
Qiaogu said: "Sissi, why didn't you stop me when you saw it? No matter what conflicts there are between classmates, fighting is wrong."
"Qiaogu."
She didn't wait for Chen Qian's answer. What penetrated her ears was a voice that was so familiar that half of her body softened. She looked up quickly and saw that it was the man she loved and hated at the same time.
"You...you're back?"
"Well, she came back yesterday." Lin Yue agreed and looked back at Qiu Yan: "Look who she is, do you still recognize her?"
"She..." Qiaogu looked carefully at the smiling girl next to her. The confusion on her face lasted for about ten seconds. She suddenly remembered something Chen Jianghe said by chance: "Are you Qiu Yan?"
"Yes, it's me, Aunt Qiaogu, are you okay?"
"Okay, okay, okay, I'm fine."
"This is your child, he's already so old."
Qiaogu was pregnant before Qiu Yan went abroad. Her impression of Chen Dong and Chen Qian was still the slightly protruding belly. At that time, she heard that there was a little brother or sister living in them. She gave birth to a pair of twins, and she had touched them with her hands ten years ago.
At this time, Lin Yue patted the transparent plastic jar in his hand and interjected: "My mother knows that you like to eat porridge, so she asked me to bring you some."
The two children looked at him with confused eyes.
It's not that they don't know him, it's mainly because Chen Daguang and Chen Qiaogu have completely opposite descriptions of this person. One says he is a great evil person, and the other says he is a very good person. He was the one who helped my mother many times when she was in the most difficult time.
Chen Daguang said he was bad, and Chen Qiaogu said he was good. Who should they believe?
"I didn't expect Aunt Yulian to still remember that I like to eat this." Qiaogu pulled her son and daughter forward: "Chen Dong, Chen Qian, why don't you call me uncle."
Chen Qian blinked and called out uncle.
Chen Dong also shouted softly and looked up at his mother again, seemingly still troubled.
Unfortunately, his mother couldn't answer this question. She didn't even notice the child's expression, which was as frivolous as an ugly daughter-in-law who met her parents-in-law for the first time.
Only Qiaogu herself knew why. In the past ten years, they had to "see" each other every time Lin Yue came home. Sometimes in the car, sometimes in the apartment next to Guomao Avenue, sometimes in a high-end hotel in Jinhua. , he always used a commanding tone, and did not care whether Chen Daguang was by her side. What was even more outrageous was that he would force her to answer Chen Daguang's call at that time.
This was too much, really too much. Every time it ended, she made up her mind to say no, but every time she dressed up beautifully to see him, even if she had to take an hour or two by car to meet him in Jinhua.
She didn't know what was wrong with her, which was why every time she received his call or heard his voice, she couldn't calm down.
"Hey, you're so good." Lin Yue agreed, took out his wallet from his pocket and gave five hundred yuan to each of the two children: "Uncle came back in a hurry and didn't prepare any gifts. How about buying the toys you like?" "
The two little ones didn't dare to pick it up and looked up at their mother.
When Lin Yue glanced at him with a bit of compulsion, Qiao Gu quickly said: "Uncle Lin gave it to you, just keep it."
"Thank you, uncle." Chen Dong boldly took the 500 yuan.
In 2004, even if Yiwu's economy was very good, 500 yuan was not a small amount for a child.
Chen Qian saw her brother holding the money in his hand, and when she was about to do so, a loud shout suddenly came from behind: "Dongdong, give it back to him, don't touch his dirty money!"
This howl alarmed the children and parents walking around, and they all looked at the source of the sound, wondering who was so incompetent as to yell on the road.
Qiaogu looked back and her expression changed.
I saw Chen Daguang approaching with a straight face, followed by Chen Jinshui with a cane in his hand. Judging from his expression, he seemed to be dissatisfied with her accepting Lin Yue's favor.
"Dongdong! Didn't you hear what I said?"
Chen Daguang walked over and took away the money from Chen Dong's hand and threw it to the ground.
Chen Qian was so frightened that she quickly retracted her hand and took two steps back.
"Is the family short of food or clothing for you, so we need his money? What did I tell you before?"
Chen Dong felt aggrieved and looked at his mother.
She obviously asked him to take the money.
Qiaogu noticed that many people were watching, including the parents of two of her children's classmates. Teacher Zheng, who taught mathematics, also noticed what was going on here and came over. There were also people pointing and talking about them with mocking faces. They didn't know they recognized Chen Daguang. As the former richest man in Chenjia Village, he laughed at his self-defeating wedding and was imprisoned a few days later, leaving behind a "good story" about father and son sharing the joys and sorrows, or other ridiculous things.
She is a person who doesn't like to be in the limelight. Had it not been for Chen Daguang's insistence, she would not have agreed to hold a replacement wedding. As a result, the scandal of the old mayor's family in Chenjiacun spread throughout the city, and now she sees the parents of her children's classmates nearby. When she whispers in a low voice, she will draw a question mark in her heart, wondering if the other party recognizes her.
"Daguang, I asked Dongdong to take it. Can we go back and talk to him about anything? In front of so many students, parents and teachers... it's not good." After she finished speaking, she looked at Chen for help. Jin Shui glanced at him.
"You also know, don't you? Why did I tell you at home, telling you not to associate with Chen Yulian and her son, but you turned a deaf ear." After Chen Daguang said this as if to vent, he saw Qiao Gu holding Qiao Gu in his arms. I suddenly understood the plastic jar and the mustard seeds inside, walked over and grabbed it.
"Daguang, Daguang, what are you doing?"
"Give it to me, give it to me."
Chen Daguang gave Qiaogu a shove, snatched the plastic jar from her arms, raised it high and threw it to the ground.
Bang, the lid shattered and the mustard seeds spilled all over the floor.
"I'll let you eat it!" After saying that, he looked at Lin Yue: "Whoever cares about your things should go back and tell Chen Yulian not to give it away in the future."
The onlookers were in an uproar, not expecting that he could do such a thing.
People who understand the conflict between the two families shake their heads and sigh frequently. Ever since that anticlimactic wedding, the two sides have developed a grudge. Chen Jintu framed Chen Yulian for selling fake goods, and Lin Yue sent the old man to prison to reunite their father and son. As for Chen Qiaogu, she had a good relationship with Chen Yulian. When the old lady was here, Under the guise of seeing the old lady, I would go to Chen Yulian's place every three days. Later, the old lady disappeared, and Chen Jintu and his son were released after serving their sentences, so they went less often. However, they would still buy some supplements and sneak away during the holidays, so I guess. Chen Jinshui and Lin Yue were not close to each other, so you can imagine how uncomfortable it was for her to be caught in the middle.
Seeing Chen Daguang almost pushing his mother down, Chen Dong, as a boy, could still hold his emotions, but Chen Qian was timid and burst into tears.
Lin Yue's eyes became colder and colder. He broke away from Qiu Yan's hand holding his sleeve, looked at Chen Jinshui and said, "It doesn't matter, right? Just pretend you didn't see it, right?"
After saying this, he put a foot on Chen Daguang's chest.
Thump thump thump…
This guy took several steps back, covering the place where he was hit with a look of pain on his face, feeling like his ribs were about to be broken.
"Aren't you convinced? Come and fight me. What kind of man is he who bullies women and children?"
Lin Yue curled his lips: "Now do you think that you have been in prison? Are you afraid that if you go in again, you will be severely punished? What do you mean by not accepting my kindness? When you were in prison, if I didn't help you find someone, Chen Dong and Chen Can Qian go to experimental primary school?"
Back then, it was not easy to convert an agricultural household registration to a non-agricultural household registration. Children in Chenjia Village were not qualified to attend experimental primary schools.
Chen Daguang looked at Qiaogu and shouted, "Didn't you say that Chen Jianghe helped find the child to go to school?"
"me……"
Qiao Gu hesitated and looked embarrassed.
It was indeed Chen Jianghe who was looking for a relationship back then. However, when the school leaders heard that Chen Jintu and his son had all entered, the originally promised matter was changed to further study. Now Chen Jianghe had no choice. After hearing about it, Chen Tingting gave her advice and asked her to go To find Chen Yulian, as long as Lin Yue was willing to come forward, not to mention the principal of the experimental primary school and the head of the Education Bureau would have to give him some face, so she could only go to that person for help.
Da da da……
Chen Jinshui walked over with a cane.
"Qiaogu, Qiaogu, why didn't you tell me when your child had difficulties going to school? Even if Dad shows his face, he still has to help you with your child's schooling. Go and beg him... you... you... …You…sigh!”
He had been the mayor of the town, and he thought that with a few acquaintances in the city, it wouldn't be impossible if he had a trusting relationship.
"dad……"
Qiaogu thought Chen Jinshui would speak for her, but she didn't expect that she would also be dissatisfied and go to Lin Yue.
