Ling Yi, who was sitting in the room eating, couldn't help but froze when he heard this.
Although he quickly regained his composure, this scene still caught Ji Lanying's eyes.
Ji Lanying had actually guessed something from the time Ling Yi appeared alone at the bridge, but she had not dared to ask.
At least not asking means there is still hope; but if you ask, if Ling Yi tells the truth, everything will be a foregone conclusion and it will be difficult to change.
But now looking at Ling Yi's reaction, she was basically sure that the couple was probably divorced. Otherwise, with the filial piety of her daughter-in-law Qi Shiyun, she would never not come back to celebrate the New Year.
But what Ji Lanying never expected was that the reason why Ling Yi was stunned was not because of what happened between him and Qi Shiyun, but because of the voice outside the courtyard gate, which he had not heard for a hundred thousand years.
Now that he heard this voice again, Ling Yi felt as if he had been separated for hundreds of lifetimes.
After seeing his mother, Ling Yi thought that his mentality would be much more stable, but what he never expected was that just by hearing that voice, he almost broke his guard.
Memories from the past came flooding back like a flood. No matter how advanced his cultivation level was, he could not resist the intrusion of this flood of memories:
He still remembers the scene when his father took him to school when he was a child. He would always carry him on his shoulders and walk from the village to the town, and then from the town back to the village.
When his peers were still playing, his father would ask him to write a diary and read ten pages of classics every day - although he didn't know many words, his father always insisted on doing this.
In this way, in Longzhai Town, a place where few people can get into the county middle school, I was admitted to the provincial key middle school in the county with the first score in the county.
It can be said that it was his father who sent him to the provincial key middle school step by step.
After I entered junior high school, I saw less of my father, but my father always cared about my grades.
So after graduating from junior high school, almost all his peers in the village would not go to high school again, but would go out to work one after another. However, he once again entered high school with the highest score in the district and county.
Ling Yi remembers that at that time, people in the village said that his father was stupid. He didn’t know how much land he would have to farm to earn back the tuition fees for three years of high school. He might as well send his children to work and subsidize the family income.
But every time the villagers talked about it like this, the honest father would grin and say: "My Yiwazi can read. Even if I die from exhaustion, I have to send him out of this ravine."
So when the university admission notice arrived home, Ling Yi clearly remembered that his father sat on the threshold of the courtyard with a cigarette in his mouth and read the notice over and over again.
And when cigarette ashes accidentally fell on the envelope of the notice, he would take his sleeve and wipe it carefully over and over again.
Ling Yi still remembered that after seeing that scene, he smiled and said to his mother that his father was stunned.
As a result, his mother shook her head and told him: "Your father has also been able to study before, but his family had no money, so it was delayed. So no matter what the folks say about him, he must send you to college.
He is not crazy, he has pinned his hopes on you. But he never dared to tell you, fearing that you would be under great pressure. Now that he is well, his son is promising, and he, the father, can take a break. "
He remembered that on the day when his family held a college entrance banquet, the villagers took the initiative to set off countless firecrackers to celebrate the emergence of the first college student in the village, and his father was extremely drunk that night.
Later, after graduating from college, getting married and having children, he has always been what the villagers call other people's children, and he is also the pride of his parents.
But two or three years ago, his temperament suddenly changed, and all the good things about him changed.
He still can't forget the desperate look in his parents' eyes when they left after they came all the way to pay off his debt.
Even though his parents didn't say anything, Ling Yi knew very well that in recent years, the villagers would more or less point fingers at his father behind his back:
Said that he worked hard to give his son away, but turned out to be a bad gambler;
He said that if he had known this, he might as well have let his son go to work;
It is said that he has worked hard for most of his life, but it has come to an end, and the bamboo basket has been empty...
He didn't need to think about it to know how heartbroken his father would be when he heard these voices. But in the past few years, his father never said this to him. Instead, he carried it silently and continued to work hard in the fields, just to pay off the loan sharks as soon as possible.
Father's love is like a mountain, without words or words, that's it.
All the past events and today's events flashed through Ling Yi's mind like thousands of arrows piercing his heart, making him worse off than alive.
So even before he saw his father, the corners of his eyes were already moist.
So he put down the bowl and chopsticks, stood up, pushed open the door and walked out. Then he saw his old father walking into the yard in a hurry. His temples were gray and his body was stooped.
When Ling Guozhong saw Ling Yi, he looked startled, but he didn't say anything. Instead, he walked straight past him, then went into the house to look around, and asked, "Where is my granddaughter? Where is my daughter-in-law?"
Hearing this, Ji Lanying shook her head at him with a sad face.
Seeing this, Ling Guozhong immediately trembled slightly, his eyes full of disappointment that could not be concealed.
But he quickly adjusted his mentality, then pulled himself together, returned to the door, and asked Ling Yi, "They didn't come back?"
Ling Yi remembered that when he left Jiangzhou, Qi Shiyun specially sent a message to explain his affairs, asking him not to tell the old couple that they were divorced after he returned home. She was afraid that the old couple would not be able to accept it for a while.
Not only that, she even thought up an excuse for Ling Yi to cover up the past.
"Shiyun was promoted to the director of the design department not long ago and is very busy at work, so I won't be coming back this year." Ling Yi blurted out without hesitation according to Qi Shiyun's pre-planned rhetoric.
Hearing this, Ling Guozhong turned around and looked at Ji Lanying in the room, and they both saw expressions of "Sure enough, this is what he said" in each other's eyes.
Obviously, Zhizi's parents didn't believe Ling Yi's lies at all.
But they didn't expose it, and even deliberately pretended to believe it and cooperated with Ling Yi's acting.
"Look at me, how you have tortured me in the past few years, and you are still promoted. Look at you... I don't know what makes you worthy of me. Even if she divorces you now, I It's not surprising at all!" Ling Guozhong said angrily.
Hearing this, Ling Yi's heart skipped a beat, and he thought to himself: "The old man is hiding something behind his words. He is trying to step down for himself." '
Thinking of this, Ling Yi's expression couldn't help but darken a bit.
He didn't expect that he was so bad that his father, who had always wanted to be strong, would take the initiative to find a way out for him.
Fortunately, he woke up, otherwise he really wouldn't know how to repay his two elders for their kindness in raising him.
'Dad, Mom, don't worry, I will make a good change, marry Qi Shiyun again, and let her continue to be your daughter-in-law! 'Ling Yi secretly made up his mind.
"Okay, okay, your son has just come back, so don't criticize him." Ji Lanying hurriedly stood up to smooth things over.
"You, you know how to spoil him. The evil behavior he has developed in the past few years is all because of you!" Ling Guozhong snorted coldly, then looked at Ling Yi fiercely and asked: "Have you eaten yet? ?”
have you eaten?
Although there were only four simple words, Ling Yi knew that this was the iconic sentence of parents of their generation to forgive and show kindness to their children.
He originally thought that when his father knew that he came back alone, he would definitely beat him with a belt. If it didn't work, he would drive him out of the house with a broom, and then chase him two miles away...
But none of this happened. He just asked himself one question and swallowed all the hardships he had suffered in the past few years.
Perhaps this is what parents do. For the sake of their children, they will always be able to wrong themselves.
Thinking of this, Ling Yi felt extremely depressed.
He would rather his parents would give him a mixed doubles game like they did when he was a child. At least that way, he would feel better.
However, in order to prevent his parents from worrying about him, Ling Yi also hid this depression and discomfort in his heart, and then grinned: "Eat some, but I'm not full yet!"
"Why don't you go and eat? Wait for someone to feed you?" Ling Guozhong scolded angrily and kicked Ling Yi on the butt. The latter immediately covered his butt and ran into the house.
Seeing Ling Yi's clumsy running posture, Ling Guozhong, who was still full of anger, suddenly raised the corners of his mouth.
He turned to look at the sky outside the courtyard. Although it was covered with dark clouds, his eyes seemed to see streaks of colorful lights falling from the sky.
Although this light is gorgeous and colorful, it is a bit dazzling...
Ling Guozhong wiped the moisture from the corner of his eyes with his sleeve, then turned his head and shouted into the room: "Lanying, take out the bottle of good wine I collected. I will drink some with my son tonight."
