Chapter 870: Missing the Children Too Much

"Dad, I will seriously consider it, you go eat."

He held his notebook and left.

"Old partner, are there any noodles left? Quickly bring them to me, I'm starving to death..."

At Jian Yixin's home.

The two best friends were curled up on the sofa, and Jian Yixin peeled a mandarin orange and handed it to her: "Try it, it's very sweet."

"I don't want to eat, I have no appetite."

No matter how sweet the orange is, it's useless; when the heart is bitter, everything one eats is bitter.

During the time she has been living at her parents' home, her brother-in-law has been trying all sorts of ways to make delicious food, but despite the good food and drink, she has lost a whole circle in size, and her chin has even become pointed.

Shi Youxuan has been struggling in her heart, struggling with whether what she is insisting on is truly right.

In the past, she didn't struggle; she was certain that what she did was definitely right.

But after seeing him lying in the arms of the "mother" drawn in chalk in Xiao Fei's room last time, she began to struggle.

That scene keeps spinning in her mind, unable to be waved away or dispersed!

Jian Yixin doesn't know what she is thinking, and while eating the orange, she chatters on: "Hanyu is really something, why must he listen to that woman? Xuanxuan, I support you, no matter when, I will support you. You just wear him down to the end and see who can outlast whom."

Shi Youxuan did not lie in front of her best friend; she told her best friend about what happened two days ago, and Jian Yixin fell silent.

"That is also a pitiful child."

Both are mothers, and they cannot bear to see a pitiful little child.

At the Shi Family.

Sheng Hanyu came to see the children.

Shi Yucheng was unwilling to let him see them and wanted to block him from entering the door, but Shi Youxuan let him pass: "Go see them, Zichen and his sister are doing homework, the two little ones just fell asleep after eating."

After saying this, she turned and went to the kitchen.

Sheng Hanyu wanted to say a few words to his wife, but she didn't give him the chance.

"Dad!"

Shi Ran rushed over, holding her father's hand happily: "Dad, I missed you, I even dreamed of you yesterday."

Sheng Zichen: "I didn't go into the kitchen."

Sheng Hanyu:...

The son looks at him like a mouse looking at a cat; is he really that scary?

Are you all doing well here? Do you miss your grandparents? Why don't you persuade Mom to go back?

These were all his inner thoughts, but he didn't say them out loud.

The Shi Family has limited rooms; Shi Ran and her younger brother live in one room, and the siblings don't have a dedicated Study to do their homework, so they are together when doing homework.

Although the conditions are a bit "hard," the benefits are also obvious.

Sheng Zichen's handwriting is clearly better, and his homework is much neater.

Moreover, influenced by his sister, the time he spends reading has also increased, and it's not the kind of perfunctory reading, but truly being able to get into it.

He stayed for a while, and left in less than ten minutes in total.

But the next day, he came again.

This time he brought a lot of food and daily necessities; the five people in the family all live here, and the expenses for food and clothing are not a small amount.

Just like yesterday, he said nothing and just watched the children.

From that day on, he came every day; at first, he didn't eat at the Shi Family, but Gu Zhihao was very enthusiastic, preparing bowls and chopsticks at mealtime, or packing food for him if it wasn't mealtime.

With the number of visits increasing, Shi Yucheng also began to waver, and even took the initiative to persuade his second daughter to go back; it is always easy to say but hard to hear when a family lives apart.

Shi Youxuan's face darkened: "If you dislike us, we will move out." Thus, her father dared not mention it again.

This day, Sheng Hanyu came over, and Sheng Zichen took out a box of drawing pens and handed them to him: "Dad, please give this box of drawing pens to that child."

"Which child?" He asked, knowing the answer.

"The child who lives in my house; he likes to draw. Please give this to him and thank him for me; he saved my life last time."

"I don't care, it's your own business, go give it to him yourselves."

"But I'm not going back, how can I give it to him?"

Sheng Zichen is young and doesn't understand his father's meaning.

But Shi Ran understands; she blinked her big eyes and said to her father: "It's useless, the one who tied the bell must untie it. You have to show sincerity before Mom can agree."

"If we say we want to move back, Mom will send us back, but she herself will still want to live here."

Sheng Hanyu blushed a little; he wasn't even as clear-sighted as his daughter.

He finally found an opportunity to talk to his wife.

"Wife, I was wrong."

"Wrong where?"

"These days I have also been constantly reflecting on myself; I shouldn't have brought Xiao Fei back without discussing it with you."

"Hmm, the attitude is not bad, what else?"

Sheng Hanyu:...

"Also, I shouldn't have agreed to Yafei's request without discussing it with you, but at that time, I had absolutely no reason to refuse."

Before Yafei died, she was thin as a skeleton.

Her only wish was to have Sheng Aifei be Sheng Hanyu's son; if this wish could be fulfilled, she would be able to die with a smile.

Shi Youxuan didn't want to continue arguing over this issue.

Perhaps from Yafei's perspective, she is right.

But life cannot be viewed solely from her perspective; this obsession, to put it nicely, is called obsession, and to put it bluntly, it is selfishness and paranoia.

Life is not just about her; it is composed of many people. Why should Shi Youxuan choose to submit just because Yafei's personal regrets need to be compensated for at the expense of disrupting others' lives?

Because of this matter, neither husband nor wife could convince the other, and continuing to argue had no meaning.

So she skipped over it directly and replied indifferently: "Oh, are you finished?"

Sheng Hanyu: "No."

Shi Youxuan: "Anything else?"

Sheng Hanyu: "Yes, I hope you can take the children back; Mom and Dad miss the children very much."

Shi Youxuan: "I haven't stopped Mom and Dad from coming to see the children; I haven't even stopped you from seeing the children, so I certainly wouldn't stop them."

Sheng Hanyu: "That's different, Xuanxuan. The big house is cold and desolate; without the children, there isn't even any warmth."

Shi Youxuan: "Heh, if the children are willing to go back, I won't stop them. You can ask Ranran and Zichen. Are you finished now? If you're finished, then go back."

It really was just as her daughter had predicted.

The conversation had no result, and in the end, it broke up on bad terms again.

Shi Youxuan's request was very simple; it wasn't that she didn't want to raise Yafei's child, but she had one condition: it must be made clear to the child and the outside world that the child was adopted, not her husband's illegitimate child.

Sheng Hanyu refused to mention this matter, only speaking about the circumstances of the promise at the time and how pitiful the child was.

He demanded that his wife empathize, yet in reality, he had not managed to stand in his wife's shoes and empathize himself!

The next day.

Shi Youxuan suddenly made a decision: she decided to take the children back.

Jian Yixin objected: "Xuanxuan, don't be foolish. If you go back now, won't all your previous efforts be wasted? You've held out for so long, just hold on a little longer."

She smiled slightly: "I've changed my mind. Why should I always be the one passively accepting things? Avoiding the issue is not a way to solve it; I'm prepared to use a different method."

With the daughter-in-law bringing the children back, the old couple was overjoyed.

"Xuanxuan, you've finally come back, that's wonderful. If you hadn't come back, your father-in-law would have cried his eyes blind missing his grandchildren."

"Don't exaggerate, that's not true."