Waiting for you to fall a flower

Ye Guoxian sighed softly and asked inquiringly, "Did North city go out again?"

"No, he's in the study..."

At the mention of Ye Beicheng, her voice became much softer.

"Then why? Because of your mother-in-law?" He continued to probe.

"No... It's actually..." Jing Ya didn't know what to say. In fact, she had no intention of hiding anything from her father-in-law.

"What's the matter?"

Facing her father-in-law's repeated inquiry, she finally told him what happened at the dinner table that night.

"Dad, I'm telling you, but I just hope you can persuade your mother-in-law. After all, North city is very angry about her going out to play cards at night. If you don't stop her, I'm really worried that their mother and son will go too far."

Master ye listened to his daughter-in-law and fell into a strange silence. The expression on his face had never been serious before, and even gradually became a little pale...

"Dad? What's wrong with you? What I just said... Did you hear me?"

Jing Ya looked at her father-in-law nervously. She didn't know if she had said something that she shouldn't have said. In fact, she regretted it after she had said it. Now that her father-in-law was not in good health and could not be stimulated, she was not sure if what she had just said would irritate him. Seeing that his face was not good, she became more and more nervous.

"I heard it." Master ye looked up at her and suddenly said, "Jing Ya, can you help me keep a secret?"

"Ah? What secret?" Jing Ya asked in shock and curiosity.

"Actually..." He paused, "North city is not your mother-in-law's biological son."

"Ah!!" This time, she was completely stunned, and she could not even react.

"Dad, did I hear it right? You said North city wasn't her mother-in-law's son? Did you pick him up? Or is he your illegitimate child?"

This secret was really unacceptable. Although her mother-in-law had a lot of problems, she never thought that Ye Beicheng would not be her son.

"You heard right. He's not the son of your mother-in-law, but he's my son. He's not an illegitimate child, because... Your mother-in-law is the woman I married later, which is commonly known as the mistress."

Jing Ya covered her mouth and tried to suppress her shock, "Is her mother-in-law a mistress? So, what about the original?"

"My first wife, the wife of a famous family, is Shangguan Ziyu. She is also the daughter of a rich family. We got married because of a business alliance, so my feelings for her have always been flat and unenthusiastic. We were married for five years, and she gave me three children. In the sixth year, I met..."

"Stop! Stop! Stop!" Jing Ya stopped in a hurry and asked in surprise, "Did she give birth to three children for you? So Meng Yao and eldest sister are also your parents?"

Ye Guoxian shook his head, "Meng Yao isn't. Meng Yao was born to me and your mother-in-law."

"Stop! Stop! Stop!" Jing Ya stopped again, "Dad, since Meng Yao wasn't born to you and yuan pei, which three children did you and yuan pei have?"

Her little heart suddenly heard such a complicated secret. It was no longer a word to describe shock.

"This is about me and your mother-in-law. When I met her at a nightclub, I was completely attracted to her. She was so beautiful and moving, so intelligent and talkative. She danced well and was very understanding. I fell in love with her almost immediately. She never pestered me, never got a place, never got money. She was my blind lover for two years. At that time, my first wife had just given birth to her first son. She did not know that I had an affair. It was only when the second son was born that the secret relationship between your mother-in-law and I was exposed. At that time, ziyu was not as excited as I thought. She did not cry or make a scene or even ask a single question. She was such a woman. She was as indifferent as a cup of water."

He paused, his eyes misty, and continued, "I wanted to divorce her, because I couldn't leave your mother-in-law at that time. But before I told her, she took her little son away one morning, who had just been born less than two months ago. No one knew where she went. I secretly searched for more than twenty years, and there's no news yet."

Jing Ya was still confused when she heard this. She guessed in a daze, "Dad, you mean North city has a younger brother?"

"Yes, he has a younger brother, one and a half years younger than him."

Now she finally understood that Ye Beicheng and eldest sister were not mother-in-law's children at all. No wonder their attitude towards mengyao and the two children who were not their own were so different. She was a stepmother at all!

Suddenly, I remembered a long time ago, when my grandfather was alive, he said, "Maybe I should have taken care of you..."

At that time, he didn't care about the meaning of this sentence at all. Now that he remembers it, it turns out to be the same thing.

"Then you had an affair with your mother-in-law, and grandpa and grandma didn't care about you at that time?"

Master ye lowered his head gloomily, "It's not that we don't care. There's no other way. No one in the family knew about your mother-in-law and me before. By the time everyone knew about it, North city's biological mother had already left with a child. We couldn't find her anywhere in many ways at that time. Her mother's family didn't know where she was going either. It had been a deadlock for more than a year. In the end, your grandfather and grandmother had to accept their fate and compromise. Let me marry your mother-in-law into the house."

Jing Ya could not understand what his grandparents were doing. After all, the yuan's wife had just left, not divorced. How could she promise her son to marry a dancer?

The doubts on her face were all in master ye's eyes. He explained softly, "At first, the two of them didn't agree, but I insisted. I said I didn't love Shangguan. The person I loved was your mother-in-law. If I didn't get married, I wouldn't be happy for the rest of my life. North city's grandparents were also free to fall in love, so they were quite reasonable in their marriage. They finally agreed, and I married your mother-in-law. It's only five years from now, because only then can my marriage with the yuan's long-term separation be annulled."

Jing Ya nodded suddenly and finally asked a serious question, "Does North city know that her mother-in-law is not his biological mother?"

"I don't know." Almost without pause, the father-in-law blurted out.

"He doesn't know?" This surprised Jing Ya.

"Yes, he doesn't know, because he was less than two years old at that time, and he couldn't remember who his mother was, but Meng Xin knew, but unfortunately my poor daughter was crazy."

Ye Guoxian said this, handed Jing Ya a key, asked her to go to his study, opened the third drawer, there was a black brocade box, let her take it for him.

Jing Ya took the key and went to the study. In the third drawer, she saw the square brocade box that her father-in-law said. Instead of opening it to see what was inside, she handed the brocade to him.

"Dad, what is it?" She asked Nuonuo.

Master ye opened the box. There was a ring inside. It didn't look very gorgeous either. He raised it and handed it to Jing Ya, "Look, can you find anything?"

Jing Ya took it and examined it carefully. It was a bronze ring. It must have been around for some years, and from the workmanship, it didn't look like a modern craft, but it wasn't a very ordinary ring, like...

She thought for a moment, "I think this ring should be passed down from the family, and it has been around for some time."

"Yes, you guessed right. This is a family ring. Look again. Have you found anything else?"

"And?"

Jing Ya took it again in surprise, wondering why there was so much trouble with a small ring.

She lowered her head and looked at the ring over and over again. She was surprised to find that there was a small word "Yu" carved on the inner layer of the ring.

"Is this North city's mother's name?"

Master ye nodded, "Yes, this is the most important discovery. In fact, this ring is a mandarin duck ring. There is also a ring of the same type with a" zi "Engraved on it. These two rings are the rings passed down from my yuan family. She gave me one of them. I kept this ring very closely all these years so that one day, I could find my lost son with this ring."

"Dad, why didn't you tell North city that his mother-in-law wasn't his real mother?"

Jing Ya frowned doubtfully. Now that she remembered the image of her mother-in-law slapping him, she was furious. If she had known that her mother-in-law was not the real mother-in-law, she would have prevented North city from being treated like this.

"I only have one son. Your grandparents can compromise with me. That doesn't mean your children will compromise with me. If North city knew that my betrayal back then forced his own mother away, according to his character, he would definitely leave this family. I already lost one son, and I can't lose another. So from the day your mother-in-law entered the house, we had an agreement that my child had only one mother. That's Dou Huayue."

It made sense, but she was indignant, "I don't think it's fair to North city."

"Jing Ya, I know it's not fair to North city, but please understand a father's heart. It's not wrong to love anyone. I was wrong not to insist on not marrying because of love. It's been more than 20 years. Those who should have forgotten have forgotten. Those who shouldn't have. I tell you today, I hope you don't tell anyone, especially North city, can you?"

Ye Guoxian looked at her eagerly. For the first time, Jing Ya felt that he cared so much about his son.

"Dad, if you don't want me to tell you, then why did you tell me that you can't..."

"I'm telling you, there's something I want to trouble you with."

"Ah? What is it?" She frowned nervously, wondering if she wasn't going to find him a real mother-in-law.