Chapter 56

Slate Road, grey walls, green grass, golden sunshine, a row of straight purple bamboo under the corner and a Wisteria flower rack in the center of the yard. Everything is the mark left by the old time. It also has a strong historical atmosphere, but it is more unique than other buildings in the old house.

Under the wisteria flower rack, a complete set of tea sets for making tea are placed on the stone table, and several cups of strong tea are poured. The fragrance of Longjing floats into the tip of the nose along the mist flowing out of the tea cup, refreshing.

Under the bright and shadowy flowers and vines, Xu nianyi sat on the stone bench and looked at the old man who was over seventy years old. With a charitable expression and a kind voice, he told her the story of Shaojun's childhood.

The old man said it gently, but Xu nianyi could still see Shaojun's shadow through the lines.

Only then did she know why Shao Jun changed his last name. Why did he change his temper. Why is his relationship with his brother and father so rigid.

It turned out that Shaojun and Yan Kuan were only half brothers. Ji Zhen, the current head mother of the Yan family, is not Shaojun's biological mother.

Shao Jun's biological mother died in an accident more than ten years ago.

In the second year after Shaojun's mother died, Zhengqing married Ji Zhen and had a second son, Yan Kuan.

The old man is a kind man. Although he speaks slowly, he always has a loving smile on his face. Especially when it comes to things related to Shao Jun, his eyes will become particularly soft.

She could see that the old man loved Shaojun very much. About the whole Yan family, the old man was Shaojun's most worried person.

She can now understand why Shao Jun's temperament has changed greatly. One year after his mother's death, his father made a new love the next year. Before the grief of his mother's death passed, he had to let his young son accept a new stepmother.

In this kind of thing, everyone's temperament will change greatly.

In the old man's narration, Shaojun was a very sensible and obedient child before his mother had an accident. He respected his teachers and elders. Before he went to kindergarten, he had learned to be three character classics. After school, his academic performance was also among the best.

When the school made a home visit, almost all teachers agreed that Shaojun was a smart and capable child.

However, when his mother died unexpectedly, the "good child" praised by all teachers and relatives died.

Since then, Shao Jun's character has changed greatly. Originally lively and enthusiastic, he has become silent and distrustful of the people around him since then. Resist contact with anyone. At a young age, people's eyes are like dormant cheetahs on the grassland. They are sharp and cold. They rarely see a smile on their face, especially hate the new stepmother.

This situation lasted for a long time. Until he went to junior high school, he still had that cold face. Deep black eyes seem to live in a desert. Flying sand and stones block out the sky and block out the sun. There is no vitality in the desolate.

At that time, she was attracted by his cool appearance. She just thought he was such a character, but she never thought he would be like this because of family changes.

Listening to the old man's story, Xu nianyi's heart is mixed, sour and astringent. If Shao Jun's grandfather hadn't told her this, perhaps she would never have thought of the root cause of Shao Jun's great change in temperament.

After drinking a cup of tea, Shaojun has come out of the room, and the old man has changed the topic.

Xu Nian can see that the old man has said so much about many things in the past. Many things are not directly explained.

"Ah Jun, have you delayed a lot of things in the company these two days?"

As soon as Shao Jun sat down on the stone bench, Yan Qingshan asked with concern.

"It doesn't matter, it's all trivial matters. The company has senior management in charge, but in some projects, you need to call me for filing." Shaojun put down a plate of cloud cake in his hand and answered in a warm voice like spring.

Seeing that the tea lamp in front of Grandpa was empty, he personally picked up the purple sand teapot and went back to a Longjing for Grandpa.

The old man's face was full of kind smiles and said happily, "when you entered the house just now, you read and said a lot of words with me. You brought back a girlfriend this time. It's really the biggest birthday gift for me."

"I just think it's time to bring Nian back for you to meet." Shao junyang raised his mouth and showed a gentle smile on his white face, smiling softly and gentlemanly.

Looking at his smiling face, Xu nianyi couldn't help sighing in his heart. It's just like having a lunch at noon.

"Ah Jun, you've passed your thirties. It's time to find someone you like and get married." when the old man said these words again, his eyes kept staring at Shaojun's face, observing his face and seeing that he didn't show an expression of disgust, he continued, "you can do whoever you like, and grandpa supports you."

"I know, I will do things according to my own ideas." Shao Jun leaned back in his chair and looked at his grandfather with white temples. In a low tone, he was a little obedient. "I have grown up and will take care of myself. You can rest assured to keep your body in the old house now, and I will come back to see you when you have time."

"Ah Jun..." Yan Qingshan's eyes were deep and looked at Shaojun with hope. There seemed to be a hint of supplication in his old voice, "Let go of the past. You wanted to leave home and study abroad, and grandpa promised you. Now you have become famous and started a company based on your own ability. You have proved your strength, so don't be angry with your family."

"Grandpa, I'm not angry with anyone. I start a company, not just to prove myself. It's really a long time ago, but this can't be a reason for me to forgive him. After all these years, has he said sorry once? Has he seriously confessed in front of my mother's grave?" Shao junduan sat in his chair, his smile still hanging on his face, but his face lines were much tighter, and his tone of voice was colder than before, "Not once. He still doesn't think he has done anything wrong. But what about my mother? He died in the hospital and couldn't even close his eyes. He didn't say an apology. He turned his face and made a new love. Now that things are over, he wants me to forgive him? Impossible."

"He..." Yan Qingshan immediately stopped talking. Some turbid eyes looked straight at him. Grief flashed in his eyes. After a long time, he bowed his head, "In the final analysis, it's my fault. If I hadn't insisted on matching them and tying them together according to the ideas of the older generation, I wouldn't have happened later. Your father knew Ji Zhen when he was in college. I just broke them up. A Jun, blame grandpa if you want to blame..."

"Grandpa, it has nothing to do with you." Shaojun's smile has faded a lot, and his eyes have become colder. "Some people are cold-blooded and ruthless people. Even if they don't like my mother, does he fulfill his responsibility as a husband after marriage? Does he have half a bit of marital affection for me and my mother?" Shao Jun said this, as if he couldn't help it. The corners of his mouth gently pulled and drew a sneer, "if he had a little human nature, he wouldn't even look at my mother at the last glance. How much regret and pain did my mother leave with? But he was like nothing."

"Ah Jun, your father was young at that time, so he did a lot of things wrong. These years, he also knew that he had gone too far and had been trying to change." Yan Qingshan frowned and his tone was helpless. "You also saw that he was so arrogant before, but now he is bowing his head when he sees you?"

"Grandpa, don't you think it's too late to change now?" Shaojun seemed to be telling a story that had nothing to do with himself. He smiled and looked at the bamboo forest at the foot of the gray wall and whispered, "what I want is not for him to bow his head to me. What I want most will never get."

"Ah Jun......"

The old man's face was stiff and his eyes turned red.

"Shao Jun, you shouldn't have told grandpa that we are going to be engaged next month?"

Seeing the old man sitting next to him burst into tears, Xu nianyi quickly opened his mouth and opened the topic.

When the old man told her about those things just now, she only knew that there was a misunderstanding between Shaojun and her father. But she didn't expect that the contradiction between their father and son was so deep!

Through the conversation between Shaojun and the old man just now, she has probably figured out the context of the matter. However, as an outsider, she can't interrupt and say anything at all, and she is not qualified to talk about serious right and wrong.

You can only regard yourself as transparent air and listen silently.

But now the old man is obviously excited. If she doesn't open her mouth again, it is estimated that the old man will cry.

"Well, Grandpa, I'm going to be engaged to nianyi next month. This time I came back to specially inform you about it." Shaojun's black eyes turned and his eyes fell back on the old man again. The chill at the bottom of his eyes had disappeared.

Yan Qingshan immediately rejoiced. The loss in his eyes disappeared without a trace. He looked at Shaojun with a smile: "good, good engagement. When a man is married, you should get married with someone you like. If you are engaged, grandpa has wrapped the red envelope for a long time and will wait for this day."

Seeing that the atmosphere finally returned to normal, Xu nianyi was relieved.

From this point of view, it's not unreasonable that Shaojun hates Yan Kuan. No wonder he doesn't allow himself to get close to Yan Kuan.

Yan Kuan is not a good man. He said this only because he hates the Yan family too much.

Because no matter how you look at it, Yan Kuan is a gentle, simple, kind and harmless person.

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Back garden.

Under the pavilion in the center of the French garden, a woman's earth shaking scream broke out: "ah - insects, insects! Kaikai, there are insects!"

Listening to the harsh scream, Xu Nian took out his ear with his little finger.

Wei shaokai turned directly, jumped out of the pavilion a few steps, stood on the lawn and looked up at the woman standing in the pavilion: "what's your ghost name? My ears are going to be deaf by you!"

"She, she threw a caterpillar in my collar!"

In the pavilion, Luo Yuanyuan, wearing a * * bra skirt, pointed to Xu Nian and screamed, jumping in place, pulling her collar and shaking her body.

Her full chest surged up and down like a wave because of her movements.

Xu Nian glanced at the woman's chest and said in his heart: this chest is good.

"Isn't it just a caterpillar? It doesn't bite." Wei shaokai looked at Luo Yuanyuan mockingly and smiled. "Besides, who told you to wear so little. If you wear a higher collar, you'll be fine."

"This woman threw it in! She did it on purpose!" Luo Yuanyuan blushed angrily and shook her collar for a long time before shaking out the soft light green caterpillar that fell into her chest.

"Well, I did it on purpose." Xu nianyi freely admitted, holding his hands on his chest and looking at her with high momentum. "Who told you to speak ill of me in front of Wei shaokai just now? Did you forget to get slapped in the mall?"

"You..."

Luo Yuanyuan was about to speak angrily, but was directly interrupted by Xu nianyi: "you are also interesting. Wei shaokai doesn't like you. If he failed, just walk with his tail. Why do you still rely on him to speak ill of me? You're out of your mind?"

"I... you heard what I just said?" Luo Yuanyuan looked at her in surprise.

"Of course." Xu Nian nodded proudly. A look of 'what can you do to me'.

Luo Yuanyuan's face became more ugly, red and white. Finally, she stamped her feet angrily and turned away from the garden.

Wei shaokai went back to the pavilion and asked with a smile, "aren't girls afraid of caterpillars? How dare you hold them in your hand?"

"It's just a bug, and that bug doesn't sting." Xu nianyi put away his smile and explained faintly, "You also know that you have been in prison for three years. Do you know that people will change greatly under the condition of long-term confinement? They feel strange about all life. Even a small grass grows in the crack of the brick. In the prison area, many people will keep cockroaches as pets. I have lived with these people for a long time, so I am invincible."

"Cockroaches?" Wei shaokai raised his eyebrows in surprise, looking unbelievable. "Some people keep cockroaches as pets. Shit, don't tease me."

"Why should I make fun of you with this?" Xu Nian looked up at his peach blossom eyes and said solemnly, "In that case, people are not normal. Especially those who have been locked up for more than five years. You can't understand their thinking from a normal perspective. That's why some people can't adapt to the normal society after they get out of prison and break the law and go to prison."

"What about you?" Wei shaokai asked coldly. As soon as he said it, he regretted it.

"Me?" Xu nianyi hesitated a little, then suddenly smiled. "I should be a normal person. But compared with before, I'm really abnormal."

Yes, how can a normal person agree to sign such a contract with Shaojun?

If it's someone else, I don't dare to think about it.

……

In the pavilion, Wei shaokai marveled at Xu nianyi's words, exaggerated his arms, and looked like "goose bumps fell to the ground".

On the other side, behind the green tree wall opposite the pavilion, Shao Jungang saw what had just happened in the pavilion.

Through the gap between the branches and leaves, he saw that Xu nianyi teased Luo Yuanyuan with caterpillars. The expression on her face was so vivid. The look of pride with a trace of cunning was the look she had never shown in front of her.

Seeing her smile, he couldn't help bending the corners of his mouth and drawing an arc that he didn't even notice.

She is getting better and better recently. She is much better than when she first met her, and the expression on her face is becoming more and more vivid. She is no longer as alert and indifferent as when she first met.

Seeing the bright smile on her face under the orange sunset, he smiled unconsciously.

Unfortunately, Shao Jun's smile on his lips had no time to collect, so he suddenly frozen in the corner of his mouth.

Because he suddenly saw Yan Kuan standing behind a tree wall not far away, peering at Wei shaokai and Xu nianyi who were talking in the pavilion.

It was like changing a mask in an instant. The expression on Shaojun's face was already another look. There was no smile on his white face. There was no expression on his handsome face. Step by step, he walked slowly and steadily to Yan Kuan.

"Say, how long have you been here?"