Garden of Time and Space

Chapter 180 The Third Time and Space 26
On the opposite side, Zeng Li nodded, he agreed with Xie Jiao's idea.

Xie Jiao: "So now, we have gotten to know Zhang Xiao, and the rest is Chen Ming, but you know the relationship between me and Chen Ming, we can't talk about this, let me ask him, he must be trying to please Xie Ting and I said something nice, but it may not be true, but you are different, you are his own son, so, I thought..."

Seeing Xie Jiao looking at him expectantly, Zeng Li smiled, "So, you just want me to talk to Chen Ming?"

The corners of Xie Jiao's lips rose, "Yes, you are really smart." After boasting, she immediately asked Zeng Li, "So, can you do it?"

Seeing that Zeng Li just looked at her and didn't answer, Xie Jiao leaned over and shook Zeng Li's arm coquettishly, "Is it okay?"

Zeng Li smiled, "What if I say no?"

Xie Jiao immediately dropped Zeng Li's arm, "It's okay if you can't."

Seeing this, Zeng Li's smile grew stronger, he raised the corner of his lips and glanced away, then suddenly pulled Xie Jiao's chair, letting her approach him.

Then, he leaned towards Xie Jiao and looked at her face to face, "If you know, ask." After speaking, he distanced himself from Xie Jiao and leaned back in the chair again. After that, he took the calendar on the desk I flipped through it, "The 6th of next month is Chen Ming's birthday, the 11th of the next month is Chen Shuo's birthday, and the 24th of the next two months is the death day of Chen Shuo's grandma." Zeng Li didn't look any further. , but put the desk calendar back on the table, "Do you think it would be better for me to have a drink with him someday?"

Xie Jiao said without hesitation, "It's your birthday, it's coming soon. We need to solve the problem quickly and get out of here."

Zeng Li nodded, "Okay."

After that, Xie Jiao and Zeng Li sat there staring at each other for a while, and then reluctantly went back to her room.

In the days that followed, everything went step by step. Xie Jiao seriously became a high school student to make up for the regrets of her previous life. She listened hard to the lectures every day in class, sat on her seat to do homework after class, and took physical education classes well. Just like in the previous life, if you have nothing to do, you can take a leave of absence and sit in the class and don’t go out. When you encounter questions that you don’t know, you will ask the teacher during the day and Zeng Li at night. Mathematics, which was a nightmare with shadows, is doing very well now. This time, she passed the most hated math, solid geometry, even though the exam questions were too difficult.

Xie Jiao is very happy, and she no longer has the nightmare of going back to high school and failing the exam.

Soon, it was the night before the 6th of the next month that Zeng Li said.In the evening, Xie Jiao went to Zeng Li's room after finishing her homework, and discussed with him about eating tomorrow. It happened that God was helping her. Xie Jiao's grandma was sick, and Xie Ting went to nurse her as the only daughter. Yes, before leaving yesterday, Xie Ting hugged Chen Ming apologetically at the door, saying that she felt guilty for not being able to celebrate his birthday with him, and she cried while talking.

Upstairs, Xie Jiao eavesdropped on the conversation between the two, and Chen Ming comforted Xie Ting distressedly, "Don't cry dear, it's the same with the two children staying with me. You have worked hard to take care of mom, and you have to do it yourself." Take good care of yourself."

While Zhang Xiao was taking care of his parents, he also helped Chen Ming take care of his parents. In the end, he didn't see him say a word of hard work in distress. Now that he knew it was hard work, Xie Jiao pouted and went back to her room.

In Zeng Li's room, Xie Jiao and Zeng Li agreed that tomorrow night will be the same as the last time we celebrated Zhang Xiao's wedding anniversary. Zeng Li bought food and wine and ordered a cake to go home. Tell Chen Ming that Xie Jiao's class will have an open class at school tomorrow, and the teacher will leave a few important students to make arrangements. It may be late, so Xie Jiao will go back to the school's temporary dormitory.

After discussing everything, I will call Xie Jiao tomorrow when Zeng Li will have a talk with Chen Ming.

The next night, everything went according to plan. Zeng Li and the driver went back to Chen Ming's house, while Xie Jiao went back to her and Xie Ting's house.

After arriving home, Xie Jiao first sent a text message to Zeng Li to report that he was safe, and then began to clean the house. She didn't come back for a while, and there was dust everywhere in the house.

After cleaning, she went back to her original room. As soon as she took out the remaining two homework and put them on the table, Zeng Li called.

Xie Jiao immediately pressed answer, then turned on the speakerphone, put the phone on the table, and began to listen to their chat while doing homework.

At first they didn't talk about any substantive issues. On the other side of the phone, Chen Shuo first wished Chen Ming a happy birthday and asked him to blow out candles to make a wish. After a while of silence, Chen Ming should have finished his wish, and he happily said thank you son After that, he began to praise Chen Shuo for growing up and being sensible, knowing that he took the initiative to celebrate his father's birthday. Then, he sincerely thanked Chen Shuo for understanding him, did not object to him being with Xie Ting, and accepted Xie Ting to live in the house.Afterwards, Chen Ming sighed with emotion, and Xie Jiao heard the sound of glasses clinking.

This should be the start of drinking.

There was no sound on the other side of the phone, Xie Jiao glanced at the screen of the phone, the phone was still on, and it was not hung up by accident, it should be that the two were eating food, Xie Jiao opened the Chinese exercise book and started to do the questions.

After about five or six minutes, the conversation on the phone started again. It was Chen Ming who was asking about Chen Shuo's studies, which city and university he wanted to take for the college entrance examination, and whether he had any specific plans for the future.

The two chatted for a while, and Zeng Li started to get to the point: "Dad, I want to ask you something. Is it really impossible for you and my mother?"

Then, there was a silence.Chen Ming didn't answer, and Xie Jiao couldn't see his expression at this time, and then she heard Zeng Li's voice again: "I know, you want to be with Aunt Xie Ting, Aunt Xie Ting is indeed younger and more beautiful than my mother , I admit this, but I still really hope that you will be with my mother in my heart."

Chen Ming sighed, "You are still young and haven't experienced many things, so you don't understand things between adults."

Zeng Li: "But I'm not young anymore, I'm already 18, an adult, not a child anymore. Of course, maybe you are right, I don't understand many things, but you can treat me as an adult and tell me, I just can't understand what's wrong with you and my mother. You think, my mother has worked so hard for this family and for us, why do you have to divorce her? Since you separated from her, She is really sad. Although you may not have feelings anymore, you have been husband and wife for so many years, and you still have family affection. Are you really willing to part with her? And as a man, I think you abandon her like this, don’t you? It's kind of irresponsible."

I don't know if it was Zeng Li's words that stimulated Chen Ming, or Chen Ming started to defend himself in order not to leave a bad impression on his son. He started to follow Zeng Li's guidance and got to the point, and started talking about him and Zhang Xiao. once upon a time.

Chen Ming: "Chen Shuo, it is too heavy to say that Dad is not responsible. You are still young, and what you see is only the surface. In these years, many things are not what you see on the surface. Dad also has his own difficulties."

Chen Ming paused, probably took a sip of wine, and after a short silence, he continued, "Yes, your mother takes care of you more at home than I do, and you see her efforts, so you naturally feel wronged by her." , but my father paid a lot. Outside, my father also worked very hard. I didn’t start the business so smoothly and make money. At the beginning, my father also had to look at other people’s faces. But my father is a man, and the grievances outside will naturally not Come back and tell you and your mother, I think this is the responsibility of a man. So what you see, I behave in front of you is good, happy, because my father is very good outside, and our family at home is happy together. But What about the fact..."

After a question, there was no voice on the other side of the phone, but I also knew that Chen Ming must have shook his head at Chen Shuo.

Later, Xie Jiao heard Zeng Li's voice, "I can understand your grievances outside. Although I didn't see it, I also know that your difficulties are not easy, but what does this have to do with your divorce from my mother? Just because your business is doing well, you have money, and your life is better, do you want to change your wife? If so, I would rather we live an ordinary life, at least that way, our family is still complete family."

Chen Ming: "Xiao Shuo, why can't you understand, your mother and I have no relationship now, and you also said that you have grown up, yes, you are not young, and you are 18 years old, which can be regarded as the age of first love, although Dad doesn't want you to fall in love early and delay your studies, but you must have met a girl you like, right? So think about it, how painful it is to tie two people who have no feelings together."

Chen Shuo: "But when you were young, you also had feelings. I remember that when I was young, your relationship was still very good, and I heard from my mother that you were the one who pursued her actively at that time. You worked so hard at that time. To impress her, you insist on being together despite the objections of grandma and grandpa. You finally got together, why are you separated now? Yes, after a long time, maybe you really have no love. What about Aunt Xie Ting, you love now She, just like you loved your mother at the beginning, can you guarantee that you will always love Aunt Xie Ting in the future? What if you don’t love her anymore? Are you going to abandon her again and find a third one for me? Stepmother?"

Chen Ming seemed to be irritated by Chen Shuo's words. On the phone, Xie Jiao heard a crisp sound of a cup hitting the table, and after that, Chen Ming spoke excitedly, "Chen Shuo, do you know what you are talking about? It's your old man."

Then, Xie Jiao heard that Zeng Li smiled, it was a presumptuous and contemptuous smile, thinking of Zeng Li's good-looking face, and how he looked down upon in his previous life, Xie Jiao couldn't bear it. I stopped laughing, laughing at Zeng Li for not holding back, laughing at Chen Ming for revealing his true nature.

(End of this chapter)