The Age of Rebirth: The Stepmother of the Sick Beauty Just Wants to Salt Fish

After all, young people are most likely to act impulsively. After failing to get together with Xiao Shen, it is not impossible for Feng Lu to use Xiao Jin as a substitute.

Mr. Xi's mind was a little active at the moment, and like a young man he couldn't help but think about the story between Feng Lu and the Xiao brothers.

"Although I don't know much about Comrade Jiang and her lover, I also know that their cultural level is very high. Naturally, I believe what you said. Having parents like them is a blessing to the children in the family. I also believe that in Comrade Jiang and his wife, With their training, their children will become pillars of the country just like you said."

Father Xiao said these words very sincerely.

When Mr. Xi heard this, a look of satisfaction flashed in his eyes.

It's not that he is nosy, it's that he doesn't want to see a good family and a good child, because the Xiao family's actions out of nowhere will be affected.

"You are a sensible person and can see things through. There is absolutely no harm in it, no matter who it is."

After hearing what Mr. Xi said, Father Xiao smiled and nodded: "That's what you said."

……

More than ten minutes later, Xiao's father said goodbye to Mr. Xi and returned to Xiao's house.

"You and the boss are hiding something from me."

Xiao's mother was sitting in the living room. When she saw Xiao's father come in, she immediately said something.

Rather than asking, she used a declarative tone.

"How do you say that?"

Standing in the center of the living room, Father Xiao stared at Mother Xiao.

"Not long after you went to Xi's house, the boss called and said he had good news. But when he learned that you were not at home, he immediately dismissed me. I don't believe that there is nothing fishy here."

Since it is good news, there is no reason not to let her know.

"You think too much."

Xiao's father said lightly, and then went to the study. Seeing this, Xiao's mother got up and followed.

"The boss asked you to call him back. You should call him now."

Xiao's mother followed into the study, she closed the door and looked at Xiao's father with a keen eye, as if if Xiao's father didn't make this call in front of her, she would just stand and wait, and she wouldn't leave anyway.

"you……"

Xiao's father had a headache and didn't know what to do with Xiao's mother.

"Old Xiao, you and I are already an old couple. Is there anything that you and the boss need to hide from me?"

Xiao's mother was obviously in a low mood. She said, "We are a family. Shouldn't we solve problems through discussion? Could it be that you two think that I will hold you back?"

Seeing that Mother Xiao was not in a good mood, Mother Xiao sighed, and he sat down on the chair behind the desk: "You can sit down too."

Hearing this, Xiao's mother sat on the sofa nearby. She knew that Xiao's father was planning to tell what he had hidden from her.

"You have to promise not to get excited after listening to what I said, let alone do anything behind my back."

Father Xiao had a serious look on his face, his eyes locked on Mother Xiao, and he said: "If you can't do it, it will most likely cause changes in the boss's marriage, and it will also affect another family, and it will also affect an outstanding person. children."

"so serious?"

Mother Xiao's expression became serious.

Father Xiao nodded.

Xiao’s mother: “Just tell me, I promise to listen to you.”

"Sure?"

Father Xiao asked.

Mother Xiao glared: "You and I have been married for many years, can't you still not trust me?"

"It's not that I don't believe you. It's just that once I said this, I was worried that you would forget all my words under impulse."

Father Xiao said this, but he still told what happened between Xiao Jin and Feng Lu. After hearing what he said, Mother Xiao was stunned. After a while, she came back to her senses, looked at Father Xiao steadily and asked: " What's interesting to you is that the child Feng Lu had in her first marriage is our eldest child?"

Xiao's mother was shocked, and when Xiao's father nodded, she added: "Feng Lu was deeply shocked because our second son followed the Qin family's girl to the countryside. She drank too much, and then she lay on the same bed with our eldest son. , then she found out that she was pregnant, and married her first husband with the child in her belly. Is this what happened? "

Father Xiao said "Yeah".

"How could she do this?"

Xiao's mother looked angry and said: "She likes our second child, but she wants to sleep with our eldest child. Since she is pregnant with our eldest child, why didn't she tell our family clearly and chose to carry it with her?" Her child marries another man? What does she think of our boss?"

Father Xiao was silent.

Xiao's mother gritted her teeth: "The reason why the boss wanted to be transferred out was because of what Feng Lu did, right?"

Father Xiao: "I only heard about it from the boss later."

Mother Xiao: "Then when did you two know that Feng Lu's first child was the eldest child?"

"That's when she followed the boss to our house..."

Before Xiao's father finished speaking, Xiao's mother laughed angrily: "You guys are so capable. Did she use what happened back then as an excuse to ask the boss for money to shut her mouth? Tell me, how much did you guys give her? "

Father Xiao: "The money was indeed given to the Feng family girl, but when Lao Feng found out, he took the money and personally gave it to the child's adoptive mother, but she didn't take it."

"No, who has the money now?"

Mother Xiao asked.

"Old Feng saved it and said he would hand it over to him directly when the child goes to college."

After a slight pause, Xiao's father continued: "I went to the old leader today because I wanted him to help inquire about the child's college entrance examination situation. The boss called home, presumably to tell me about this."

Mother Xiao did not answer, but she said: "I heard someone in the compound say that there is a young man who looks very similar to our eldest son. I remember that I told you this when I got home that day. , but you told me not to listen to the wind and rain, and you also said that I like to think about things, but now it’s better, I don’t think too much, it’s obvious that what others say is the truth.”

Father Xiao said in a deep voice: "Do you think it would be nice for the boss and the Feng family's girl to be spread out? Do you think it will be good for the boss, our family, and the child if the child's life experience is made known to everyone?"

Hearing this, Xiao's mother was speechless for a moment.

"The girl from the Feng family was not honest in what she did. She was sorry for her first husband. But after the gay man knew the truth of the matter, he did not get angry at the child. He still raised the child as his own. The gay man later married her. My wife also treated the child as her own and raised her from a young age to an adult, which shows that she is really good to her child.

Therefore, after I heard about the child, I agreed with the boss and decided not to tell you about it, lest you act impulsively behind our backs and make everything messy. "

Father Xiao looked serious: "Do you know what the child's adoptive parents do? One is a scientific researcher, the other is a well-known national athlete, and was the top scorer in the national college entrance examination with perfect scores a few years ago, and is now a professor at Shuimu University. The couple has six children in total, but each child is well-educated and belongs to someone else's family in their compound."

After a long silence, Mother Xiao said, "Can't we recognize our eldest grandson?"

"The boss promised the child that he would maintain the current relationship."

Xiao Jin came to visit Xiao's father and Xiao's mother two days ago. When chatting with Xiao's father alone, he told Xiao's father about the conversation between him and Mingrui in the hospital ward. At that time, Xiao's father didn't say anything.

"what relationship?"

Mother Xiao frowned, looking puzzled.

Father Xiao: "What the child means is that the boss will always be 'Uncle Xiao' in front of him. He is also indirectly telling us that he will not recognize his relatives as the Xiao family."

Xiao's mother was surprised: "Does the child know?"

Father Xiao nodded: "Yes."

Xiao's mother was confused: "Why didn't his adoptive parents hide it?"

"Some things can't be hidden from each other, not to mention that the child is very smart and lives in the same compound with the boss's family. He looks down without looking up. Just from the looks of the child and the boss, don't you think he can guess something? "

"If he doesn't recognize us, it seems he was raised well by his adoptive parents!"

"What are you talking about?"

Father Xiao's face was very ugly: "We say that Comrade Jiang and his wife are the adoptive parents of the child, but in the child's heart, Comrade Jiang and his wife are his biological parents. This is not what you call "nurturing". , Comrade Jiang and his wife are really good to their children, and the children can understand this sincerity, and they regard Comrade Jiang and his wife as their biological parents from the bottom of their hearts. Besides, is blood relationship really important? In my opinion Come on, it’s nothing at all.”

"Why isn't it important? If we are related by blood, we are a family!"

Mother Xiao retorted.

"That's because you don't know much!"

Father Xiao looked at Mother Xiao and said, "Some parents have several children, but in the end none of them can be relied upon. So what do you mean?"

Xiao’s mother: “I can only blame the parents for not raising their children well.”

"What you say makes sense, but equally, as adoptive parents, if you carefully educate children who are not of your own blood, the children will naturally be close to their adoptive parents and will not pursue the so-called blood relationship. In short, I will tell you about the matter now. Make it very clear, if you don’t want to mess everything up, just maintain the status quo and don’t do anything unnecessary.”

"Our eldest grandson is the top scorer in the national college entrance examination!"

"Don't talk about our eldest grandson! Besides, my child is the top scorer in the college entrance examination. Does it have anything to do with us?"

"..."

"Except for blood ties, what have you done for that child? Have you cared about clothing and food, or cared about his education? Or when he was sick or bullied, you stayed by your side as a relative and helped the child out. ?”

"We didn't know about that child's existence earlier!"

"Don't make excuses for yourself. Neither you, me, nor the boss have done anything for that child, so don't think about saying anything in front of the child today. The only thing we can do is All we can do is not cause him any trouble."

"Okay, okay, stop preaching, I understand what you mean!"

He was obviously his grandson, but he couldn't recognize him. Mother Xiao felt aggrieved, but at the same time, he knew very well that Father Xiao was right.

A few days passed in the blink of an eye, and Mingrui received the admission notice from Beijing Foreign Studies University, and the day before Jiang Li hosted a banquet for Mingrui to celebrate.

"Can't I go?"

Xiao Jin came to the compound where Xiao's father and Xiao's mother lived after get off work. At this moment, he was sitting in the living room, frowning slightly, looking at Xiao's father and Xiao's mother sitting opposite him: "Why?"

"Does the kid look a lot like you?"

This is Father Xiao's voice.

"It's just that the eyebrows and eyes are half or sixty percent similar, but what does it matter?"

Xiao Jin was puzzled and said: "Mingrui knows about the relationship between me and him, Comrade Jiang should also know about it, and their family lives in the same compound as mine. Although they don't meet each other often, they don't meet often." Young Master, others didn’t say anything when they saw it, Dad, I don’t understand what worries you have!”

"Your father is worried that the child looks too much like you. If you show up at the hotel tomorrow, you will attract other people's attention..."

Before Xiao's mother finished speaking, Xiao Jin said, "What's this?"

Obviously, after Xiao's mother's explanation, Xiao Jin understood the meaning of Xiao's father's words. He said: "There are many people who look alike in this world. Could it be that just because they look alike, they are said to be incomparable?" Are people related by blood?"

Father Xiao was silent for a moment, and then said, "I'm overthinking it. Since you're going tomorrow, have you thought about how much gift money you'll take?"

Xiao Jin: "It's obviously a hundred, but I will give you another red envelope."

"Shall we also prepare another red envelope?"

Xiao's mother looked at Xiao's father. "That's it."

Father Xiao nodded.

At the same time, the Feng family.

"They didn't notify us. If this goes... wouldn't it be bad?"

Feng Wei was called over by Mr. Feng. The two fathers and sons were in the study at the moment. Mr. Feng told him that Mingrui had been admitted to university and was the top scorer in the national college entrance examination. He then said that Jiang Li had hosted a banquet in the hotel to celebrate Mingrui. , asking Feng Wei to go with him to the hotel to congratulate Jiang Li.

However, Feng Wei felt that showing up without receiving an invitation was a bit embarrassing and inappropriate.

"Do you care about your face?"

Mr. Feng looked directly into Feng Wei's eyes: "I don't care, so why do you care? Besides, who knew we weren't invited? Don't forget, no matter what, the Feng family is that child's wife. Home!"

"But we haven't interacted with anyone in more than ten years, and we haven't paid much attention to other people's children. If we suddenly show up at someone else's celebration banquet, we are bound to be gossiped about!"

Feng Wei expressed his concerns.

"Can someone lose a few points by saying a few words?"

Mr. Feng disagreed: "That's it. Don't go back tonight. Push me to the hotel at noon tomorrow."

Mr. Feng made the final decision.

"……Fine."

After hesitating for a moment, Feng Wei nodded, and then asked: "But Lulu, do you want to say something?"

"What did you say to her?"

Mr. Feng's face was dark, and he glanced at his eldest son: "Or are you saying that you have nothing to do and want to make trouble and let others have a good celebration party because something went wrong with your sister?"

"Dad, who do you think I am?!"

Feng Wei felt that he had been wronged. He said: "I just thought that Lulu was the biological mother of the child..."

Before the words could be spoken, he was cut off by Mr. Feng: "What about the biological mother? What she did back then was what a biological mother should do? Since she chose to leave the child alone, she is no longer qualified to claim to be a mother."

Feng Wei: "..." There is nothing to say.

"She has done embarrassing things time and time again, taking Comrade Luo Yanqing as her victim. How can she have the face to appear in front of the man she has hurt again?"

As soon as Feng Lu was mentioned, Mr. Feng became angry and wanted to slap himself in the face. How could he raise such a despicable and shameless daughter!

"Dad! No matter what Lulu did wrong, she is also your daughter and my sister. As family members, we cannot be like others..."

Feng Wei's words were once again interrupted by Mr. Feng: "What did I say about that evil girl? She doesn't know how to behave, she acts without thinking, and her temper comes. If I had known that she was such a virtuous person, I shouldn't have had your mother back then. Give birth to her!”

"Lulu can do wrong things again and again. In the final analysis, it's because we didn't teach her well."

After listening to Feng Wei's words, Mr. Feng looked at him quietly for a moment, then waved his hand to chase him away: "Okay, you can go out, I will be alone for a while."

"Dad, what Lulu did is in the past. There is really no need to bring it up whenever we talk about her!"

When he reached the door of the study, Feng Wei turned to look at Mr. Feng: "This way you can be less angry and it won't do any harm to your health."

Mr. Feng didn't answer. He lowered his eyelids and didn't know what he was thinking.

The next day, it was around [-] noon.

Jiang Li didn't choose the hotel where he held the banquet at random. Well, to be more precise, he didn't choose the hotel at all and just booked it at his own hotel.

Why do you say that?
This is because Jiang Li has not forgotten his promise to the old lady, her grandmother in this body, to regain the glory of Yujia Restaurant at the right time.

With the advent of reform and opening up, the restaurants belonging to the Yu family in Beicheng and several other big cities returned to Jiang Li's hands one after another. Jiang Li began to renovate them, revealing the Yu family's recipes and inheritance in the form of a large hotel. .

After all, we have to keep pace with the times!

Under Jiang Li's careful operation, the hotel that was renovated from Yujia Restaurant was fortunate enough to be among the first batch of five-star hotels in the country, and it has an extremely good reputation.

"Godfather...why are you here?"

At the entrance of the hotel, Jiang Guoan and Mingrui accompanied Jiang Li to receive guests. Suddenly a jeep drove over and stopped slowly. Jiang Li was a little surprised to see that the people getting out of the car were Luo Yanqing and Director Song. The smile on his face became particularly bright in an instant.

"Today is a good day for Rui Rui. Can Yan Qing and I not attend?"

Director Song's eyes were filled with smiles. He patted Mingrui's shoulder lightly: "Well done, your parents will be proud of you!"

Mingrui stood next to Jiang Li, he just smiled.

"Dad, please go in and take a seat first. We have to continue to receive visitors here."

Jiang Li said and looked at Jiang Guoan. The next moment, Jiang Guoan led Director Song into the lobby.

"dad."

Mingrui called Luo Yanqing at this time.

"Ah."

Luo Yanqing responded, and then he said: "It's amazing!"

Jiang Li smiled and said, "Your father is praising you!"

Mingrui was a little embarrassed: "My dad praised me the day the scores came out."

"Happy?"

Jiang Li asked.

Mingrui understood what Jiang Li meant, and he nodded "Yeah".

He was naturally happy to be praised by his father.

At this time, Jiang Li turned his eyes to Luo Yanqing: "Why don't you go inside and rest?"

"Need not."

Luo Yanqing shook his head and said, "As a father, I should be here with you to receive visitors."

Jiang Li: "Wouldn't it delay your work?"

Luo Yanqing: "No problem."

"Grandpa Xi, you are here, come in quickly!"

Seeing Mr. Xi and his wife Xi Guobang, as well as Xi Jingyu and Xi Chenyu getting off a car, Jiang Li hurriedly stepped forward to greet them.

"Aren't we late?"

Mr. Xi asked with a smile.

"It's not too late."

Jiang Li said with a smile that when Jiang Guoan came over, without waiting for her to speak, Jiang Guoan took two quick steps and led Mr. Xi and his party to the banquet living room on the second floor with a smile on his face.

Because many guests had already arrived, Brother Jiang and his wife, Jiang Guosheng (Second Brother Jiang), were upstairs helping Jiang Li greet the guests.

"You are here, please come in!"

"Congratulations!"

Xiao Jin came here with her daughter Xiao Tong and her youngest son Xiao Xuan, along with Xiao's father and Xiao's mother.

Mingrui called "Uncle Xiao", and then Jiang Yilin led Xiao Jin and his party to the banquet room on the second floor.

Just now, Jiang Yihong, Jiang Yilin, Jiang Yikai, and Jiang Yihao came down from the second floor and went to the hotel door to help usher guests up to the second floor.

Speaking of which, there are several banquet rooms on the second floor, which are quite large and can accommodate many tables for banquets.

Originally, Jiang Li held a banquet to celebrate Mingrui, and only invited people close to him and Mingrui's substitute teachers from various subjects to gather. Who knows, many people came to congratulate him after hearing the news.

Fortunately, the hotel is in-house and the kitchen is well stocked with ingredients, so you don’t have to worry about too many guests and not enough banquets.

"Congratulations!"

This was the voice of Mr. Feng, and he was accompanied by not only Feng Wei, but also Fang Su.

Jiang Li looked natural and greeted the three of them with a smile.

Although the Feng family was unexpectedly coming, they had already appeared in front of him, so there was no reason to turn them away. Besides, the Feng family was Mingrui's maternal family after all, so Jiang Li was not so cautious that he didn't want to see the Feng family come to express their congratulations.

Mingrui was introduced, but Mingrui's expression was indifferent and he politely greeted Mr. Feng and the other three.

He didn't call Mr. Feng grandpa, nor uncle Feng Wei. Similarly, he didn't call grandma Fang Su, only a simple greeting of "hello" and "thank you."

"Not happy?"

After Jiang Yihao and Mr. Feng left, Jiang Li couldn't help but ask when he saw Mingrui standing beside her with a sullen face and not saying a word.

"No."

Ming Rui shook his head.

Luo Yanqing remained silent, but his eyes fell on Mingrui.

Jiang Li: "The visitors are guests. Besides, no matter what, they are related to you by blood. What's more, they are here to congratulate us. You can't act unhappy, do you understand?"

"Ah."

Ming Rui nodded slightly.

"You can understand."

Jiang Li's eyes showed relief, and she said: "Joining the workforce in the future means that you have integrated into society. It means that you will meet all kinds of people and may have to deal with these people. If you get emotional because of trivial things, If you don’t want to see the other person, it will most likely affect your work.”

Luo Yanqing: "You are right to listen to your mother."

Mingrui: "I'm listening."

"Oops! We're late!"

Wu Yue's family came by taxi. When she saw Jiang Li, Wu Yue looked embarrassed. She smiled and said, "It's all my fault, Xiaoran's father. He was obviously ready to go out, but he was called to help by his neighbor." I’m busy, and when I’m done, time will be a little tight!”

Jiang Li said with a smile: "It's not too late at all!"

"It's better if you don't come late."

Wu Yue smiled and congratulated Jiang Li and Luo Yanqing with her lover. When her eyes fell on Mingrui, Wu Yue said, "Young man is very powerful!"

Mingrui smiled: "Thank you!"

"What are you thanking for? You are really amazing. Auntie praises you without any hint of water!" (End of Chapter)