Chapter 357: Front Edge (26)
Chapter 357: Front Edge (26)
The boy bit his lip slightly and apologized humbly: "Grandma, I didn't handle this properly."
"It's not inappropriate, it's just wrong. How can marriage be a joke? Do you know what those people will say about you once you end this relationship? What kind of dilemma will you face?"
Her tone was quite serious, but what she said was all about her concern for the boy's future.
"I know grandma. I have thought about all of what you said, but I still don't want to. I still don't want to get married." The young man said in a firm tone.
"And they can say whatever they want. As long as I live better than them, they can only envy and be jealous."
Seeing him so stubborn, as if he couldn't be pulled back even by ten oxen, Liu Zheng's wife closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and asked, "How long are you going to pretend? Can Yan Hai explain it clearly to the Yan family? And the money, you go back."
Damn, two more fatal problems.
Ling Chuan, who was watching from the side, couldn't help but break into a cold sweat for the young man.
"Just one month..."
"A month? That's just a few days ago!"
Liu Zheng's wife's face became even uglier, and her frown seemed to be able to kill a fly.
"So, he has made it clear?"
"Yan Hai's father and father knew about it after I helped him send Man Ge'er away, which was before we got married. As for the rest of his family, they should know about it now, but we agreed not to tell anyone about it."
"…So, you're just keeping it a secret from us?"
Her cloudy eyes widened and stared at the boy without blinking, filled with disbelief, disappointment and heartache.
The young man said in a muffled voice: "It's my fault, but if I tell you, you will definitely not agree."
"..."
Liu Zheng's wife was speechless. Under the young man's gaze, she moved her lips a few times but couldn't give him a negative answer.
The young man was right, there was no way they would allow him to do this.
Because in their view, this approach is extreme and is tantamount to destroying one's future.
"Grandma, I know you always think about me and hope that I will be fine in the future. I remember it in my heart." The little boy spoke softly.
"Remember you still... Oh, forget it, it's a done deal, there's no point in me saying anything more, you still live with him now?" Speaking of living together, Liu Zheng's wife frowned again, "Since you are a fake husband and wife, has he ever crossed the line?"
The boy shook his head faster than Xiao Jinbao's rattle, "No, no, I now live in a small courtyard on Linshui Street in the county town. Yan Hai used his connections to find a house for me. The environment is good. I sold the ginseng and kept the money myself. I just moved in a few days ago."
After knowing that Yan Hai did not embezzle the young man's money and even helped him find a place to live, Liu Zheng's wife's expression eased a little.
"The second boy from the Yan family is a pretty good person. Since your marriage is fake, return the money to me." After saying that, she clicked her tongue and gave the boy a reproachful look.
"You said you don't like such a trustworthy and ambitious man, then what kind of man do you like? How about a fairy?"
Ling Chuan, who has nothing to do with the celestial being: ...I'm sorry to disappoint you.
Seeing that she had softened, the little boy started to tease her, "Grandma, whether I like you or not is not something I can say with my mouth, but something that my heart can tell."
"Well, I can't argue with you... When your grandfather comes back, have you figured out how to talk to him? He's not as easy to talk to as I am."
When she talks about her husband, she is also worried.
The young man blinked and looked at her with a soft gaze. It was obvious that he wanted her to be his lobbyist.
"You, you are getting more and more refined."
"Haha, grandma is the best."
"Ah... thick?"
Xiao Jinbao crawled over, tugged at the corner of the little boy's clothes, and tilted his head to look at him.
The little brother picked him up and said, "Oh, it turns out that little Jinbao also knows that grandma is the best. Come on, say 'good' to your brother again, so that grandma can calm down..."
Little Jinbao kept whining and babbling, and the little brother tried to teach him several times, but he just laughed out loud and didn't give the little brother any face.
The boy was discouraged and pouted.
Seeing that one of them looked like a smiling face and the other looked like a depressed face, Liu Zheng's wife smiled.
When she smiled, the boy also smiled...
And Ling Chuan...looks like he has nothing to lose?
When Liu Zheng and the others came back, they were quite surprised to see the young man, after all, Yan Hai said that the young man had returned to Yunshan Village.
Then he found something even more unusual, that is, the atmosphere was a little subtle when his wife was with the young man, and he was often distracted. He called her several times, but she was stunned and didn't respond at all.
Unable to bear it any longer, Liu Zheng asked her directly what was wrong, and she looked like she was in trouble.
In the end, she just raised her eyes to look at him quietly, and then sighed to herself.
This made Liu Zheng furious: "What's the point of just sighing? If you have something to say, just say it."
She turned her head: "You want to hear it?"
Liu Zheng: "Tell me, tell me, is it the relationship between Yan Hai and Ze Ge'er? Although I didn't get anything out of him this time, his brother and sister-in-law and the girl's reactions were quite strange."
"...Then I told you not to get excited and not to lose your temper at others."
"Okay, okay, I promise."
So Liu Zheng's wife organized her words and told him everything about her brother's fake marriage to avoid being forced to marry someone by the government.
He said he was not angry, but when he heard these, he immediately became so angry that his eyebrows and beard stood up, and he didn't even remember the promise he had just made.
"Nonsense! This is just too much nonsense! Go and call Ze Ge'er over to me..."
"No, we agreed not to get angry easily. What do you want to do? Call him over and scold him?"
Liu Zheng glared at him with his eyes wide open. "He is extremely wrong. Can't I, as his elder, say anything? If you don't go, I will." After saying that, he was about to go out, but was stopped by his wife.
"Just because of what you said, I can't do it now!"
As she spoke, she sighed again and advised, "Calm down first. Ze'er had a hard life before, and he has indeed gone too far. But he is doing this for himself. He can find a job for himself, which means he is finally no longer so cautious and is finally going to step out of his closed world... Zheng, this is not all a bad thing. Whether it is good or bad, a blessing or a curse, we cannot predict."
Liu Zheng still had his jaw clenched, with anger in his eyes, but he didn't try to go out, so he was stopped.
"Come on, have a drink of water, and let's talk. Do you think you're the only one holding your breath?"
Liu Zheng sat down angrily and took two sips of water: "I said a lot, and I thought you didn't care at all."
"How is that possible? But things have come to this, what else can we do but accept it? Don't say that Ze Ge'er doesn't care about you as his elder. He even gave you a ginseng that is over a hundred years old as a gift." His wife retorted unconvinced.
Liu Zheng: “…”
He is really soft-hearted when he receives favors from others.
He had nothing to say.
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