Chapter 1328: One Cannot Whittle One's Own Handle

Shi Youxuan was speechless.

Her husband was no fool.

A very shrewd man, he could speak with great reason when admonishing others, so why was it different when it came to himself?

Shi Youxuan said to her husband very seriously: "You have been clever for half your life, how have you become muddled now? Do you not know the principle that one should worry about inequality rather than scarcity?"

"I know."

Sheng Hanyu said: "You are talking about other people; our children will not be like that."

Shi Youxuan was speechless.

Perhaps this was the classic case of having a mouth to lecture others, but no mouth to lecture oneself.

"Why wouldn't our children be like that? It is because we have always strived for fairness; if there is no fairness, anything can happen."

Shi Youxuan gave two more examples.

Some were from other families, and some were from their own.

Back then, Sheng Yukai's ability was not too bad; the reason he walked down a path of no return, besides Bai Xue's doting, also had to do with the old man's unfairness toward his brothers since they were young.

Sheng Hanyu disagreed: "Don't use him as an example; he is an exception. Ze Rong was even less valued by Grandfather, yet Ze Rong did not end up like him."

"Ze Rong is the exception, okay?"

Shi Youxuan patiently said to her husband, a dragon gives birth to nine sons, each different; our children are not all perfect either, and the reason they are united is because we are fair.

Have you forgotten about the matter with Rui a while ago?

Sheng Hanyu shuddered.

That was true.

He now admitted that his wife was right, so he dismissed the idea of drawing up a will.

Even if he did, it would be an equal distribution.

Children and grandchildren have their own fortunes; favoritism makes a family unfair.

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The Yun Family.

Ma Ling'er sat on the sofa wiping away tears, crying incessantly.

"Can you stop crying? My brain is about to turn into mush from your crying." Yun Zhe Hao was dissatisfied.

"Your brain is already mush. I wanted to go to Qi Tian's house, why didn't you try to persuade me? Now it's fine, I've driven both children away, what do I do?"

"Do you think they won't come back? Will they be depressed? Will they commit suicide..."

The more Ma Ling'er thought about it, the more terrifying it became, and she trembled all over with fear!

She regretted it immensely; if she had known that pressuring them to have children would make the young couple hide far away, she would rather die than pressure them.

"It's my fault, my mouth was loose. If it weren't for me, they wouldn't have run away from home. How am I supposed to answer to Xuanxuan?"

Seeing his wife like this, Yun Zhe Hao could not bring himself to say any words of blame.

"Alright, stop blaming yourself. This matter cannot be blamed on you either. Who could have guessed that just by saying a few words, these two children would leave without saying goodbye?"

Indeed, no one had guessed it.

Yun Zhe Hao asked himself, he and his wife had been quite tolerant toward the young couple.

Most families would have pressured them to have children long ago; the two had been married for so long, and they had not given the young couple any pressure, yet they ran away from home after being told just once?

These two children were spoiled and willful.

His comfort did not have any effect on his wife.

Ma Ling'er was still blaming herself, and she didn't even sleep all night.

One feels heartache for one's own wife.

The next morning, Yun Zhe Hao sent out all the manpower he could mobilize to find his son!

The son was out having a good time, while his mother was worried sick at home.

The second thing was to find Sheng Hanyu and ask him if he knew where they had gone.

Sheng Hanyu shook his head: "I don't know. Let them go wherever they want; they are both adults, there is no need to be nervous."

Yun Zhe Hao was furious: "Let them go wherever they want? You say it lightly. It's easy for you since you have many children and don't care, but our family only has Qi Tian as our one and only seedling. He left without a word, and his mother didn't sleep all night, crying the whole night."

Sheng Hanyu:...

Speechless.

He felt Ma Ling'er was making a mountain out of a molehill.

Was it really necessary?

It was just the young couple not wanting to listen to their parents' nagging and hiding away.

Although he was dissatisfied that his daughter and son-in-law left a resignation letter and ran off, he wouldn't be so worried that he couldn't sleep all night, because there was no need.

This had nothing to do with how many children one had at home.

Regardless of how many children there are, children are the apple of their parents' eyes, and anyone would be concerned if something happened to them.

But the problem was, what could happen?

The two had stated clearly that they wanted to go out and start a business, to go to a new place and venture out.

"If you are worried, go ask Lao Qi; he should know where they are."

Shi Ran was particularly interested in that kind of knife-proof clothing and had wanted to go into that business more than once.

Yun Zhe Hao found Lao Qi. At first, Lao Qi wouldn't say; that place was confidential, and the fewer people who knew, the better.

But he couldn't withstand Yun Zhe Hao's combination of pleading and intimidation, so he told him.

When Yun Zhe Hao found his son, they had only just gone abroad and hadn't reached their destination yet!

"No, I'm not going back."

Qi Tian flatly refused his father's demand for him to return.

"I am not a child anymore; I have grown up, I am married now, and I want to have my own life. I will make my own decisions about my life; there is no need for you to interfere."

Yun Zhe Hao raged: "Kid, you've grown up and your wings have hardened, haven't they? Fine, if I can't control you, then I won't, but you should also know the gravity of the situation. Your mother has already fallen ill; decide for yourself whether to come back or not."

"Beep, beep, beep..."

A busy signal came from the phone.

Shi Ran said: "Qi Tian, let's go back. If Mom really gets sick from worry, you will feel guilty for the rest of your life."

She knew that her father-in-law was not lying.

Her mother-in-law really might have worried herself sick.

When they were young, they were busy with work and took little care of their son; Yun Qitian grew up almost entirely at his grandparents' house.

But after he grew up, Ma Ling'er did not know what she was thinking, and suddenly wanted to make up for the maternal love missing from his youth.

Starting from high school, she took care of him as if he were a small child.

At that time, Yun Qitian no longer needed his mother to take care of him like that; he had protested, but it was useless.

It was the same for university.

He wanted to attend a university in A Country, but his mother disagreed, using tears, tantrums, and threats of suicide to finally make him compromise!

Fortunately, he attended the best university in Jiangzhou, which made up for some of the regret.

Later, when Shi Ran also returned to Jiangzhou for university, that bit of regret was completely gone.

The older Ma Ling'er got, the stricter her control over her son became.

When he was pursuing Shi Ran, he was so worried, worried that his mother would scare away the goddess of his heart like this.

Luck descended upon him once again; his mother restrained herself at that time and did not interfere too much, and after he and Shi Ran married, his mother did not interfere too much in the couple's private life either.

Gradually, Yun Qitian lowered his guard.

He thought his mother had changed, but it turned out she hadn't!

She had only hidden it, and now it was exposed once again.

"I'm not going back."

He steeled his heart and made a decision: "We cannot compromise. You don't know my mother; if we compromise this time, she will only become even worse next time."

"Look at what you're saying, that's impossible. I've known Mom since I was little, how could I not understand..."

Shi Ran made a wrong decision, one she would regret for a very long time afterward.

Sheng Family.

Ma Ling'er complained to Shi Youxuan: "Xuanxuan, it's all my fault. If I hadn't urged them to have children, they wouldn't have run away from home..."

Shi Youxuan covered her ears with both hands: "Not listening, not listening, the tortoise is chanting scriptures. That's enough, can you change to a fresh topic?"