Chapter 453: , developing in an uncontrollable direction

Chen family.

How did the phone call with Shanghai end?

Listening to the "beep-beep-beep" sound from the red receiver, Chen Zijin's brain was a mess, and she put the receiver on the sofa in a daze, then sat there in a daze.

At this very moment, her mind was full of the word "husband."

Has this Yu Laoshi also entered the fray?

Did he seduce Yu Laoshi?

Or did Yu Laoshi fall in love with him?

With Song Yu and Xiao Han in front, Yu Shuheng behind, and a Mai Sui who is unclear, dear husband, what exactly are you trying to do?

Husband, how greedy can you be?

At this instant, Chen Zijin's eyes were filled with tears, but she endured them strongly, not daring to cry out. Because her mother was cooking in the kitchen, and her father and grandfather were playing chess in the study, she didn't want her family to hear.

Seeing her eldest niece like this, Chen Xiaomi wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, then hugged her with her right arm, pulling her into her arms: "Do you think Yu Shuheng likes Li Heng?"

"Mm." A woman's intuition told her this was true.

"Who was the person who shouted 'Shuheng, someone is looking for your husband'? Do you know her?"

"I don't know, it might be Yu Shuheng's elder."

Chen Xiaomi wondered: "Since this Yu Shuheng also likes Li Heng, why would she allow him to come to the capital to find you?"

Chen Zijin said painfully with her eyes closed: "He went to find Xiao Han."

Chen Xiaomi was shocked: "Who is Xiao Han?"

Chen Zijin said: "Aunt, you know her."

Chen Xiaomi searched her memory and suddenly remembered someone: "Your junior high school best friend? The daughter of Secretary Xiao in town?"

Chen Zijin said in a low voice: "It's her."

Chen Xiaomi frowned: "If I remember correctly, on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year this year, Xiao Han even came to Shangwan Village, and you and the other party chatted for a while near the intersection. When did you become love rivals?"

Chen Zijin said: "She came deliberately, to show me, to show Li Heng."

Chen Xiaomi's voice couldn't help but increase a few decibels: "Demonstrating to you?"

Chen Zijin nodded and shook her head: "Sort of. Maybe it was the news that I stayed overnight at his house during the Chinese New Year that reached Xiao Han's ears, so she came up specially."

Chen Xiaomi understood. No wonder on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, her eldest niece didn't call Xiao Han into the house for a cup of tea. It turned out the relationship had already become this tense. She hadn't been able to figure it out before and had been puzzled, but now she finally got the answer.

Recalling Xiao Han's appearance, Chen Xiaomi asked: "Tell Aunt, about you two being love rivals."

Chen Zijin felt very uncomfortable. After catching her breath, she told her aunt: "We have always been love rivals, since the first year of junior high. It's just that I was in the light and she was in the dark. When I didn't leave Shaoshi, I defended tightly, and she never had a chance.

The scandal that happened the summer before last forced me to leave Shaoshi, which gave her a chance and gave other women a chance."

"Other women?" Chen Xiaomi asked keenly: "Is there anyone else?"

"Yes."

"Tell Aunt, who is it?"

Chen Zijin finally said a name: "Song Yu."

Chen Xiaomi asked anxiously, "Song Yu? Is it the one I know? The woman who is beautiful beyond words?"

Chen Zijin said: "It's her. It's because she is too beautiful and has the best temperament that Li Heng was fascinated by her."

Chen Xiaomi had always thought Li Heng was a very good man. Seeing that he and Zijin had a stable relationship, she thought Zijin was his only confidante. She didn't expect!

It was truly unexpected. Now Xiao Han and Song Yu have popped up, and there's a Yu Shuheng.

Although she felt that a man as excellent as Li Heng would definitely have countless women flocking to him, she didn't expect that in just two years, Li Heng would have been defeated and corrupted by beauty.

It took a long time to digest this shocking news, and Chen Xiaomi gradually came back to her senses and asked: "Xiao Han and Song Yu are both friends you used to be closest to, your best friends. Does he like best friends the most? Eating grass near the nest?"

Chen Zijin lost her voice, not knowing how to answer this question. She wanted to deny it, but this was an indisputable fact.

Seeing her eldest niece's tears gathering more and more, Chen Xiaomi felt heartache and felt sad too. After a long time, she asked: "When did you know?"

Chen Zijin looked listless, and after a while reacted: "I knew about Xiao Han in the first year of junior high. We often quarreled and had conflicts because of him. As for Song Yu, I vaguely noticed in the first semester of the first year of high school. I noticed he was different toward Song Yu, but because I was there, he restrained himself quite well."

Chen Xiaomi asked: "Then that is to say, Li Heng pursued Song Yu actively?"

Chen Zijin said yes.

Chen Xiaomi asked: "Where has the relationship between the two reached now?"

Chen Zijin shook her head: "I don't know."

Chen Xiaomi asked: "You don't have a count in your heart?"

Chen Zijin continued to shake her head: "Aunt, don't ask, I really don't know."

Chen Xiaomi sighed, "Then tell Aunt, how do you know Li Heng went to find Xiao Han?"

Chen Zijin said: "Yingwen told me a while ago. Xiao Han and Yingwen are inseparable friends. Yingwen said Xiao Han was at Xiehe Hospital with a tutor during the summer vacation."

Chen Xiaomi comforted her: "Then you can't prove Li Heng went to find Xiao Han, right? Maybe he is still on his way to the capital?"

Chen Zijin was silent for a while before opening her mouth: "Aunt, how long does it take to fly from Shanghai to the capital?"

Chen Xiaomi answered: "About two and a half hours."

Chen Zijin's tone was low, "It's almost 10 o'clock now. When Yu Laoshi returned to Lushan Village at 8 o'clock, he had already left. And every time he came to the capital before, he would call me in advance.

If he couldn't contact me, he would call the Drum Tower. But today I didn't receive a call, and Second Sister also said no..."

At this point, she bit her lower lip with her white teeth and didn't continue.

Chen Xiaomi asked in confusion: "You mean, either Li Heng went to find Xiao Han and didn't contact you; or Li Lan is helping her brother lie?"

Chen Zijin defaulted, that was what she meant.

Chen Xiaomi took a deep breath and reached out to grab the landline on the table, "I'll make a call and ask."

Chen Zijin reached out to stop her: "Aunt, don't, Second Sister is also doing it for my own good."

Chen Xiaomi didn't understand: "She is clearly protecting her own, how is it for your own good?"

Chen Zijin opened her mouth to speak, but there was movement from the kitchen. The two women turned their heads together and happened to see Zhong Lan carrying a white porcelain basin of soup over.

Seeing this, Chen Zijin was so scared that she hurriedly lowered her head and wiped the corners of her eyes with her sleeves without a trace.

Zhong Lan placed the corn and pork rib soup on the table, then tilted her head and stared at her eldest daughter for a while, asking suspiciously: "Zijin, why are your eyes red?"

"Ah? Are they really red?" Chen Zijin tried to smile, smiling and raising her head.

Chen Xiaomi pretended to look at her eldest niece, then smiled and said to her sister-in-law: "Oh, sister-in-law, you mean this eyelid? Just now we went to the courtyard outside, the wind was strong, and a grain of sand blew in."

Zhong Lan looked out the window. There was indeed a strong wind, and the treetops in the courtyard were shaking violently, so she didn't say anything more and ordered: "Xiaomi, help me serve the dishes, it's time to eat. Zijin, you go to the study and call people."

The two women moved upon hearing this.

Before long, the Chen family was neatly at the dining table.

While eating, Zhong Lan suddenly asked her eldest daughter coldly: "The summer vacation is almost over, and that little thing hasn't come to find you yet?"

Chen Gaoyuan was dumbfounded and gave his wife a piece of chicken leg meat: "Li Heng's reputation is in full swing now, don't call him little thing, it sounds bad."

Chen Zitong spoke up on the side, "That is, brother-in-law is amazing now. In Chinese class, my teacher even asked us to recite fragments of 'Cultural Bitter Travel,' saying the writing is particularly elegant."

Chen Zitong was a chatterbox, and then said: "Besides, brother-in-law is recording a pure music album. Mom, you are literate, have you read the 'People's Daily'? They all praise him as a legendary musician. Whoa, whoa, wait for this album to come out, maybe this title will be implemented."

Zhong Lan sneered: "Hmph, I haven't just read the 'People's Daily,' I've also read 'Seven Heroes and Five Gallants.' Don't let him be another Chen Shimei, who can share bitterness but not sweetness. Staying with those two women from the Spring Festival Gala every day to record an album, I'm afraid his heart has gone wild long ago."

If it were before, hearing her sister-in-law say this, Chen Xiaomi would definitely be the first to come out to smooth things over. But today, after learning about Xiao Han, Song Yu, and Yu Shuheng, she didn't know how to refute it for a while.

Instead, Chen Zitong jumped up and down, "Oh roar! I think Mom, you are just jealous, purely unable to see my sister doing well, wishing my sister's brother-in-law would become a bad person, and then highlight how great your vision is. I tell you, if brother-in-law really becomes bad, it's also because you are holding him back. Don't you see that brother-in-law doesn't want to come to our house every time he comes to the capital? It's because your mouth was too poisonous before."

After speaking, Chen Zitong first glanced at her grandfather, then didn't forget to look at Chen Xiaomi and Chen Zijin as if asking for credit, indicating: This girl doesn't take your 30 yuan for nothing. I'll say what you dare not say, I'll talk back what you dare not talk back. As long as the money is in place, it's fine.

Hearing this, Zhong Lan was furious, and the tip of her chopsticks slammed into her younger daughter's arm.

Doing this kind of thing wasn't once or twice. Chen Zitong was prepared, dodged with a fast retreat, and then hid behind Chen Laoyezi and said: "Grandpa, Grandpa, your daughter-in-law is beating your precious granddaughter, hurry up and protect me. My sister will marry into the Li family in the future, so I'll be the one to continue the incense for our Chen family. I can't be beaten up."

Zhong Lan was even angrier. This dead girl didn't say anything else, but specifically said this. You know she doesn't want to give birth to a son for the Chen family? It's not that the third child, a son, didn't survive, and the fourth child, a son, was deformed and she didn't dare to keep it. Can you blame her?

People who look at horoscopes also said that this generation of the Chen family has no son in their fate and can only rely on the son-in-law to continue the incense.

Chen Laoyezi, who had been as calm as water before, had to put down his chopsticks at this time and said to Zhong Lan: "You should also calm down, don't always take it out on Zijin. Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river, it's not the same as the past."

Chen Laoyezi's words, although a bit biased toward the eldest granddaughter, were still gentle in tone.

Hearing this, Zhong Lan, who was fighting against everyone, didn't fight with her father-in-law, glared at her younger daughter, and picked up her chopsticks to eat again.

Chen Gaoyuan was afraid his wife's anger wouldn't subside, so he poured half a glass of wine himself, "Come, the dishes today are good, let's drink some."

Drinking a few sips of wine with her husband, Zhong Lan still couldn't help but say to her eldest daughter: "I had a dream recently. I dreamed that Tian Rune took her son to slap my face, pointing at my forehead and saying that she married a daughter from a prominent family, and the bride isn't you. You run to the Drum Tower every day, don't run so diligently, and in the end, people don't marry you."

Chen Gaoyuan smiled bitterly, "Lanlan, this is a heart demon. Dreams are the opposite, don't take them seriously."

Chen Zijin didn't talk back for the first time, put the bowl and chopsticks in her hand on the table, and left. At the moment of turning around, her eyes were full of tears, flowing down her cheeks silently.

She still didn't cry, enduring not to make a sound, not wanting to be laughed at.

"Sigh, sister-in-law, say less in the future." Chen Xiaomi sighed and put down her bowl and chopsticks to chase after her.

Chen Zitong muttered: "Only know how to be fierce at home, only know how to be snobbish, no ability at all. Whoa, whoa, if I were Li Heng, having a mother-in-law like you, I would play around even if I succeeded..."

Before she finished speaking, Chen Zitong bent down to dodge a big hand, and immediately shouted: "Grandpa! Grandpa! Your daughter-in-law is beating someone! Your daughter-in-law is beating someone to death!"

Chen Laoyezi sat there without moving.

Seeing this, Chen Zitong glanced at Chen Gaoyuan with the whites of her eyes, running around the table, and asked for help: "Dad, my dear Dad! Save your daughter, if you beat me to death, you'll have one less daughter."

Chen Gaoyuan tried to mediate, but Zhong Lan, who was completely angered, couldn't be stopped, chasing her with gritted teeth.

Running around the table a few times, Chen Zitong saw that her father was useless, and immediately ran out the door, complaining while running: "Cowardly Dad, you are really useless, managed by your wife all your life, can't you be tough once? Why keep such a wife, divorce her, divorce her!... Ah! It hurts me to death, you actually took off your shoe to hit me..!"

The voice got further and further away. Chen Zitong finally held her head with both hands and ran out the courtyard gate in a slip.

Leaving the Chen family, leaving the alley, looking at the few pedestrians and bicycles on the street, Chen Zijin was lost.

In the huge capital, she didn't know where to go?

Fortunately, Chen Xiaomi chased after her in time, reaching out from behind to hold her eldest niece, "How about going to Aunt's house, we'll buy some marinated food and drink some wine?"

Chen Xiaomi had a separate house, not far away. It's just that she wasn't married, was quite busy at work, and rarely stayed overnight at her own house, mostly staying at her brother and sister-in-law's house, one to accompany Chen Laoyezi more, and two to have a place to eat hot food.

Don't look at Zhong Lan's bad attitude toward Li Heng and the Li family, but she was quite good to the three sisters-in-law, which was also the reason why Chen Xiaomi could stay all along.

Chen Zijin shook her head, unconsciously walking toward the Drum Tower.

Following for about 150 meters, Chen Xiaomi asked: "Do you want to go to the Li family?"

Chen Zijin stopped, only then realizing that she had walked toward the Drum Tower unconsciously. Looking left and right for a while, she fell into a trance.

Seeing this, Chen Xiaomi took out the car key from her bag and said: "Let's go, Aunt will drive you over."

Usually, she sent her eldest niece over there, and since Chen Zijin went there many times, Chen Xiaomi didn't think much about it and didn't feel anything was wrong, saying it naturally.

Chen Zijin hesitated: "It's so late, is it good?"

Chen Xiaomi comforted: "It's okay, your parents-in-law are reasonable people and think highly of you. Aunt won't come back tonight, I'll just stay there for a night with you."

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Chen Xiaomi comforted her, saying: "It's fine, your parents-in-law are reasonable people and they think highly of you. Your sister-in-law won't be coming back tonight; just stay there with her for the night."

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