Chapter 137: The Truth About the Infertility of That Year

Si Rong:...

She snatched the umbrella to hold it herself, ignoring him.

To actually dare to say she was fat! And while she was at it, comparing her to Yang Yuhuan!

It was truly annoying.

Jiang Cheng realized belatedly that his wife was angry; his instep had even been stepped on.

But he hadn't said anything wrong; his wife was indeed a bit fatter than before, and she used to be so thin that sometimes holding her while sleeping was uncomfortable.

Jiang Zhi:...

Her uncle and her younger uncle were truly two extremes.

If it were her younger uncle, he might have already started shifting the blame by now.

Yet the poor uncle could only clumsily try to coax his wife.

"Rongrong, being a little chubby is actually quite good! I like it!"

"Look! I've always wanted to gain weight, but no matter how much I eat, I don't."

"What can I do to make you stop being angry? How about you pinch me again?"

Jiang Zhi:...

The College Entrance Examination scores came down, within Jiang Zhi's expectations.

Si Rong, however, was very excited: 690 points!

Their region currently used a standard score system with a total of 900, and although she missed out on Tsinghua or Peking University, getting into a key university was no problem.

"Xiao Zhi is too amazing! What gift do you want? Aunt will buy it for you!"

Si Rong's generation hadn't seen the restoration of the College Entrance Examination yet, so she had attended a Gongnongbing University and had never taken the exam.

"Aunt, I'm not that amazing," Jiang Zhi said with a shy smile.

In the eyes of Shen Yuan, who was standing far away, this was nothing but naked showing off.

She had scored 590 points.

It was only enough for a second-tier university; she didn't know how the graders had marked the papers, when clearly her grades had been better than Jiang Zhi's before!

"Didn't you say your goal this time was Tsinghua University?" Li Xuan hadn't expected that after she had painstakingly boiled pear water every day, her daughter would end up with such a score—a full one hundred points less than Si Rong's stepdaughter!

It was one thing that she couldn't compare to Si Rong, but could it be that her daughter couldn't even compare to Si Rong's daughter?

It seemed that as long as anything involved Si Rong, she would be compared and found completely worthless!

"If you're so capable, you go take it!" Shen Yuan retorted, "I'm going to repeat the year!"

Her true level was definitely higher than this score.

It should have been over seven hundred points; perhaps it was the grader's bias. After she reviewed for another year, she would definitely be able to get into Tsinghua University steadily next year!

Li Xuan looked at Shen Lan, wanting to discuss it with him.

But she saw Shen Lan staring at Si Rong in the distance; Si Rong was flirting with her military officer husband, pinching him one moment and hitting him the next.

At forty years old, she managed to act like an eighteen-year-old.

She really didn't know how to be ashamed.

Li Xuan couldn't help but roll her eyes.

Yet Shen Lan watched with extreme focus; Si Rong seemed different in front of Jiang Cheng than she did in front of him.

In the past, they had also been a loving couple in everyone's eyes.

But only he knew that he had never seen Si Rong smile at him like that.

It was filled with a young girl's coquettishness and carried a sense of abandon.

Her pregnant belly was slightly rounded, and although she was a bit fuller, she was still beautiful.

Her whole person was glowing white.

She was truly going to bear children for another man.

In the moment they brushed past each other, Si Rong was holding Jiang Cheng's arm, her gaze only sweeping over them slightly, as if they were inconspicuous weeds by the roadside, or perhaps trash.

Not worth her attention in the slightest.

However, Shen Lan felt that Si Rong probably didn't know what he had done in the past, otherwise she would likely hate him!

Shen Lan hoped for Si Rong to hate him; having hate meant Si Rong had once loved him, which was better than this utter indifference.

Jiang Zhi was happy the entire way back.

Today, the Jiang Family had prepared a large table of delicacies at home, just waiting to celebrate for them.

She held her uncle with her left hand and her aunt with her right, feeling that her life was complete, and today's happiness was also complete.

Until she saw the woman standing at the door.

Perhaps the most terrifying thing about blood ties is that even after many years, your body still has a memory of her.

Almost immediately, Jiang Zhi realized that this woman was the one who had abandoned her and gone abroad all those years ago.

With permed, yellowish long hair and exaggerated earrings, the makeup on her face was a bit thick, giving off a very fake feeling under the sunlight.

Jiang Zhi remembered the Journey to the West she had watched; this woman gave her the feeling of the White Bone Spirit who was beaten up by Sun Wukong in the story.

However, in reality, a righteous Sun Wukong wouldn't suddenly appear, which was truly a pity.

Jiang Zhi's expression turned cold.

Her hands remained tightly clutching Jiang Cheng and Si Rong.

"Dad, Mom, let's go eat quickly! I'm hungry."

Actually, this child was quite sensible; Si Rong knew that she had used such a direct address of "Dad" and "Mom" because she had suddenly seen Jiang Qi.

The eldest daughter of the Jiang Family had returned today.

"Sister," Jiang Cheng took the initiative to greet her, and Si Rong followed suit and called her sister.

Jiang Qi nodded slightly at them.

Her gaze fell on Jiang Zhi, but her daughter would not look at her.

Instead, she held tightly onto the arms of her younger brother and sister-in-law, which made her feel a bit jealous.

It was the same during the meal; Jiang Zhi sensibly served food to her uncle and aunt, as well as her grandmother, but ignored her the entire time.

Jiang Qi felt a bitter taste in her heart.

Especially when she heard her daughter call her sister-in-law "Mom," that feeling became uncomfortable to the extreme.

There was a reason for her leaving back then.

All these years, she had missed her daughter very much.

"Qiqi, are you leaving again after coming back this time?"

Grandmother Jiang stared at her granddaughter and asked; she had never been able to stand this granddaughter.

"I plan to stay in the country for a while for now." Jiang Qi hated her Nainai; it was said that when she was just born, her Nainai had almost thrown her into the small river behind the village to drown.

"You haven't come home for so many years, abandoning your father, mother, and daughter; do you plan to spend your whole life out there?"

"What do foreign men have more of than our Huaguo men, that you couldn't just find a good one in the country?"

Jiang Qi frowned, and in an instant, she lost the desire to eat.

The old lady had lived her whole life and been annoying her whole life; she didn't know how her mother had been able to stand it.

Abroad, mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law did not live together, so naturally, there were no such mother-in-law and daughter-in-law conflicts as in Huaguo.

This was the thing she liked most about being abroad.

"Xiao Zhi, after we finish eating later, how about Mom takes you to the amusement park to play?"

Jiang Qi ignored her Nainai and softened her voice to ask Jiang Zhi.

Jiang Zhi, just like Jiang Qi's attitude toward Grandmother Jiang, did not respond at all and only urged Jiang Cheng, "Uncle, let's go home after we finish eating! I still want to read."

Jiang Qi understood that she could not force it; she could only slowly obtain her daughter's forgiveness, and could only stand at the doorway watching Xiao Zhi leave together with her younger brother and sister-in-law.

It seemed as if they were the family of three.

It appeared that if she wanted to cultivate a relationship with her daughter, she should go on a trip to Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand as soon as possible; when it was just the two of them, mother and daughter, her daughter would definitely forgive her.

Upon returning home, Jiang Zhi locked herself in her room.

Si Rong wanted to comfort her but didn't know where to start; others couldn't help with this kind of matter, and she could only wait for time to slowly heal it.

Just as she lay on the bed preparing to rest for a while, the phone rang.

It was Ming Zi. "Rongrong, Sun Qiang has found out about what happened back then!"

"We are at that coffee shop we often go to; come over."

Si Rong put down the phone and prepared to rush over; it seemed Sun Qiang had found something, and she was desperate to know what exactly was going on with her infertility all these years.