Chapter 180: Jiang Zhi's Boyfriend

The members of the Kong Family, including the nanny, were very satisfied with Lin Meixi.

Especially the nanny; this Lin Meixi was smarter and more tactful than the previous Li Xuan.

Every day, she would also coax Kong Yue into being very happy.

The only downside was that this Lin Meixi and the previous Li Xuan were mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

A pair of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law marrying the same old man one after another directly became the laughingstock of the Junshuyuan.

However, Lin Meixi did not care about any of this.

Shen Chi was going to be in prison for seven years; there was no way she could keep waiting for him forever.

If that were the case, wouldn't her youth, her prime years, and all her various excellent qualities be completely wasted?

Moreover, marrying Kong Yue was actually truly being with Kong Lingdong; he was a capable man.

He could provide her with a good life and money; the only flaw was that he had psychological issues and only liked his Little Mother.

Lin Meixi even guessed that he was unable to have normal marital relations with his wife.

Regarding this point, she did not mind either.

If you do not enter the tiger's den, how can you get the tiger's cub? If you do not pay, where will the returns come from?

As long as she could win Kong Lingdong's favor, there would naturally be many benefits in the future.

Furthermore, she needed Kong Lingdong's help.

After sending the child away, she regretted it.

Although the daughter was mentally disabled, she was, after all, a piece of flesh that had fallen from her own body.

She still could not manage to be as cold-blooded as that grandmother, Li Xuan.

At the beginning, she was very conflicted, thinking that once she finished her postpartum recovery, she would go and bring the child back.

In any case, it was just a mentally disabled child; it shouldn't be that easy to be adopted.

Who would have thought that when she rushed to the Fuliyuan after her postpartum recovery, she discovered that her daughter was already gone.

The staff at the Fuliyuan explained that the child was too young and had been adopted by a couple from out of town the day after she was sent there.

But no matter how she asked, the staff at the Fuliyuan simply refused to tell her the information about the couple who had adopted her daughter.

It was only later, after finding Kong Lingdong, that she finally obtained an address, but after taking a train to rush there, she discovered it was a fake address.

Her daughter had completely lost all trace.

However, Kong Lingdong promised he would help her look, which was also the reason Lin Meixi was willing to stay at the Kong Family.

No matter what, life was still going on.

When Jiang Siyu and Jiang Sinian were five months old, it was the beginning of summer.

Si Rong planned to take advantage of Jiang Cheng having a one-week vacation to take the children on a trip to Jing Shi.

It was also just right to find someone to do a simple renovation on the two courtyard houses she had bought, keeping one for herself to live in and renting the other out.

Yet, she did not expect that on the day before they were set to leave, Ju Zi would suddenly fall ill.

After waking up from a nap, he started coughing, and two hours later, Jiang Sinian also started coughing along with him.

The two little ones coughed one after another, and every sound seemed to be tugging at Si Rong's heart.

She wished she could be the one sick in their place.

Jiang Cheng drove the car, and Si Rong and Wang Ma went to the hospital together holding the children.

The doctor diagnosed it as pneumonia and said they needed to be hospitalized.

Father Jiang, Mother Jiang, Father Si, and Mother Si were all alarmed.

This was the first time the two little ones had been sick.

By evening, both children had developed high fevers, heading straight for thirty-nine degrees.

The doctor said they needed an IV drip.

The first step of an IV drip was to do a skin test; Si Rong was someone who was extremely afraid of pain, and she thought the treasures she gave birth to must be the same.

She didn't even dare to look; when the doctor picked up the needle toward those chubby little hands, she walked out of the ward with red eyes and followed suit by crying after hearing a loud wail.

At this moment, she finally understood why people often said that children are best when they are one's own.

In the past, she had taken care of Shen Lan and Shen Yuan, and when they were sick, she would also worry, but she would never have this feeling of heartache.

"It's okay, it's okay," Jiang Cheng held her in his arms and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with his fingertips, "You're crying even harder than them; in a moment, the nurse won't be able to tell who is getting the shot."

Si Rong glared at him, "You don't understand."

He didn't understand her heart as a mother, why there had to be such hateful things as pain and illness in the world to come and torment her children.

Mother Jiang and Mother Si each held a child for the IV drip; Jiang Sinian was a bit better and stopped after crying for a few moments, while Jiang Siyu was clearly much more delicate—crying until tired, sleeping, and then needing to cry again before her eyes were even open upon waking.

Si Rong did not sleep all night, watching over the children.

Mother Jiang and Mother Si originally refused to leave, but they were brought home to rest by the people Si Rong called over.

She leaned on Jiang Cheng's shoulder, looked at the children who were sleeping and whose fevers had broken, and said softly, "Only now do I know how difficult it was for Mom and Dad to raise us."

Only upon becoming a mother does one know the hardship involved.

"I feel very indebted to them," Si Rong felt very guilty in her heart; for the first forty years, she had made them worry a lot, and now that she could understand the difficulty of parents, they were already old.

"It's fine, their bodies are still healthy; we will just be filial slowly in the future."

Si Rong nodded, "You are right, but we couldn't go to Jing Shi this time, and I don't know how Xiao Zhi is doing over there."

"Summer vacation is coming soon; she will be back then."

Jiang Cheng helped her cover herself with the quilt and kissed her eyes, "Go to sleep early."

The two little treasures stayed in the hospital for over a week due to pneumonia.

During this period, Fang Ting and Jiang Dacheng came by once and brought some toys for the little ones.

Ming Zi took time out to come to the hospital to keep the little ones company for a day.

When they were discharged from the hospital, Ju Zi's little face seemed to have shrunk by a circle, and Si Nian's change was even more obvious; his chin had even become pointed.

Wang Ma and Wu Ma were researching how to make more nutritious meals for Si Rong so that her breast milk would be more nourishing.

Si Rong:...

Her breast milk was indeed very plentiful; it was not only enough for the two children to eat, but also enough to...

Summer arrived with light, brisk steps, and the colors on Si Rong's flower rack in the small courtyard became even more rich and varied; quite a few people passing by their house would take out their cameras to photograph this beautiful flower rack.

The two little ones could already sit and stand; Wu Ma had specially laid out a blanket in the courtyard, and the two little ones could crawl around and play on the blanket every day.

When Jiang Zhi walked to the doorway, she saw the interesting scene of the two cute little ones playing.

"Aunt!"

Hearing this long-lost, familiar voice, Si Rong's mouth responded faster than her brain.

"Hey!"

She had never really felt how pleasant the title "Aunt" was before, but when it was called out from Jiang Zhi's mouth, Si Rong felt it was very sweet.

It was a tone overflowing with youth.

She thought to herself that she really had grown old.

"Xiao Zhi is back, come in quickly!"

Si Rong opened the door herself and saw a boy standing beside Jiang Zhi.

The boy was very tall, extremely thin, and dark; he looked like a telephone pole and also like a monkey.

"Aunt, this is... my friend." When Jiang Zhi introduced him to her, her face even turned a little red.

Si Rong roughly guessed the relationship between these two in her heart, but at the same time, she hoped she had guessed wrong.

She welcomed the two into her home with a calm expression.

Without waiting for her to ask, Jiang Zhi went into her room and took the initiative to admit their romantic relationship, and also mentioned some basic information about this boy.

The boy was named Xu Hu, born into a poor family in Daliang Shan; it had not been easy for him to get into a university in Jing Shi, and it was said he was even the top scorer in the College Entrance Examination for his city.

But Si Rong did not quite like the look in Xu Hu's eyes when he looked at this house; it seemed to carry surprise and also a certain complexity she couldn't describe, which inexplicably reminded her of the scene when Shen Lan first went to the Si Family.