Chapter 862: Something will happen sooner or later

After hanging up the phone, Shen Jingjing exhaled heavily, letting herself calm down.

However, she didn't control her voice just now, and the old man had heard some things vaguely.

"What's wrong, Jingjing?"

The old man's voice suddenly sounded from behind. Shen Jingjing was startled and hurriedly turned back: "It's nothing, Dad, family matters."

The old man's eyes were extremely sharp, staring at Shen Jingjing: "It doesn't look like nothing at all. If you have something to do, go busy yourself. I'll let Old Feng send me home."

"I said I would accompany you today, so I will definitely accompany you." Shen Jingjing simply didn't hide it, and felt there was no need to hide it: "But let me make a call to my sister. My useless younger brother in my hometown stole away to Longcheng behind my mother's back. He is at the airport now, so I have to let my sister pick him up, otherwise my mother will be anxious."

The old man originally thought it was a very big deal. After hearing it, he couldn't help but laugh lightly: "Just this?"

"Mm." Shen Jingjing nodded and hesitated, whispering, "Dad, I haven't had a chance to tell you in detail about my family situation. When I have time in the future, I will talk to you properly."

Perhaps influenced by the living environment and family atmosphere since childhood, Shen Jingjing actually carried a bit of secret inferiority about her original family in her bones. After working hard outside for so many years, she rarely mentioned family matters to others.

When life was hard before, she had also complained about the injustice brought by her original family and complained about the bias of fate.

But now it was different, not just material abundance, but more importantly, spiritual fulfillment.

When a person's spiritual level is completely fulfilled, most things in this world will become light and insignificant in her heart.

So after returning to her hometown last time, Shen Jingjing's inner depths had already reconciled with her original family.

Who knew the old man would say: "Talk about what? I think seeing is believing. I'll go to the airport with you to pick up your brother."

"Ah?" Shen Jingjing was completely stunned, doubting if she had misheard.

The old man had already lifted his feet and walked out the door, muttering to himself: "I haven't taken a plane for many years. I guess the airport now is long different from what I saw back then. Just go and see something fresh."

Shen Jingjing: "..."

Unable to refuse the old man, Shen Jingjing had to follow him into the car, but her heart was uncontrollably nervous.

She knew how unreliable her younger brother was.

"There is still more than an hour on the road, say whatever you want to say." The old man looked at her and said.

Shen Jingjing looked at the old man, her lips moved, but she didn't know where to start for a while.

Seeing her wanting to speak but stopping, and seemingly having nothing to say, the old man smiled: "Alright, if you don't want to say it, don't say it, but he is your biological brother after all, you have to show your face."

Shen Jingjing nodded lightly, but felt a bit sorry in her heart: "But letting you follow me to pick him up, I feel weird. You are an elder."

The old man laughed and shook his head indifferently, then pointed at each other: "Today we are just companions. Just take me to see what the Longcheng airport looks like now."

These words also made Shen Jingjing laugh. She slowed down and took the initiative to talk about her brother's affairs.

She didn't say anything else, just talked about what happened at home after returning to her hometown this time.

The old man listened, and whenever the matter reached a turning point, his expression would have feedback.

In the end, the old man snorted: "He is also a useless one. He's not young anymore, right?"

"He's forty."

"This is typical, life controlled by nature." The old man's tone was calm, but every word was sharp, "In your brother's nature, there is laziness, greed, and vanity. These desires are actually possessed by everyone, but most people can control them. Even if a sign occasionally appears, it won't affect the general direction of life."

"But your brother is different. He is completely led by his nature and desires, not resisting, not covering up, and even less thinking about resisting. On him, there is no awareness of self-reliance at all."

"His mother and wife have always been supporting him behind his back, otherwise, with his situation, he would starve to death not long after being thrown into society."

"Now he is divorced, and there is one less person supporting him behind his back. Your mother is also old and can't protect him for a lifetime. If he doesn't learn to change and still expects someone to continue to lift him up in the future, your brother will have something big happen sooner or later."

The old man had seen all kinds of people in his life and had dealt with all walks of life. Saying these words was definitely not alarmist.

A forty-year-old man, achieving nothing, wife and children separated, and unable to control his nature, is an extremely dangerous existence in this high-pressure society.

Dark temptations, the pressure of life, just need to push him lightly, and it is enough to make this man collapse completely, and then do some crazy things.

"Dad, then... what should we do?" Shen Jingjing felt more and more frightened as she listened, feeling that every word the old man said was reasonable, but facing such a brother, she was truly helpless.

"I know you want to send him back, but don't be in a hurry to force him." The old man pointed out, "Speaking and doing things must pay attention to methods. Be gentle in everything, don't let him feel that the whole world doesn't care about him and force him to a dead end."

Shen Jingjing nodded hesitantly, but couldn't help but wonder if her brother's situation was as serious as the old man said.

But when she saw Shen Chengcheng at the airport, Shen Jingjing believed it one hundred percent in her heart; the old man's words were not exaggerated at all.

Looking from afar, that thin and withered figure almost made Shen Jingjing unable to recognize him.

It had only been two months, and Shen Chengcheng had actually worn himself into this appearance. Clearly, when she returned to her hometown last time, he was still full of spirit and didn't know what worry was.

"Chengcheng!"

Shen Jingjing called out. Shen Chengcheng, who was sitting behind the stone pillar, raised his head upon hearing the sound and slowly turned his head. His eye sockets were black and blue, as if he hadn't closed his eyes for several nights, his lips were dry and cracked with a layer of white skin, and the flesh on both cheeks had collapsed, his whole person looking thin and out of shape.

His hair, which hadn't been trimmed for a long time, was piled messily on his head. If it weren't for the fact that his clothes were still neat, his appearance would be exactly like a beggar wandering the streets.

However, the moment he saw his sister, a glimmer of light shone in his eyes, and he hurriedly climbed up from the ground: "Sister, why are you here? Didn't you say let Second Sister pick me up?"

Shen Jingjing didn't hear what Shen Chengcheng said at all, just looked at him with shock. All the questioning words she had thought of were blocked in her throat, and she couldn't ask a single one.

He was her biological brother after all. Seeing him in such a state, Shen Jingjing only felt unbearable in her heart.

Even more unbearable to ask.

So she just said: "Did you call Mom back?"

"I did. The old lady thought something happened to me and cried endlessly. I comforted her a few words and it was fine."

Shen Jingjing nodded, turned her head and looked into the distance, only to see the old man standing by the car, smoking slowly, his gaze falling lightly over here.

So she instructed her brother: "I didn't come by myself. I'll introduce someone to you in a while. Don't talk nonsense when you see him, you know?"

Shen Chengcheng looked in the direction of her gaze and indeed saw an old man with a spirited look standing not far away looking over here.

So he frowned and blurted out: "Sister, is this your rich big boss fiancé? Why did you find an old man? Want to inherit the legacy?" ===== CHAPTER 863 =====