The call was from Tang Xinyi's brother, telling her that her mother was seriously ill and asking her to go back as soon as possible.
Tang Xinyi is from Jiangsu Province and comes from a scholarly family. Her father is a professor at a university in Jinling, and her mother was originally a teacher at a local key high school. Later, she voluntarily resigned because of the childbirth problem and opened an off-campus tutoring class. She has been working in the education and training industry for more than 20 years.
, from the original tutoring class with just her, it later developed into a relatively well-known local off-campus tutoring institution, and became a veritable female entrepreneur with a high net worth.
Coming from such a family, her academic performance has never been very good since childhood, so she came to Xiuzhou to study at an art school. Not long after graduation, she was spotted by the director of "Strategy of the Qing Palace"
, I played an N-number supporting role in it, but I didn’t expect it to become an instant hit.
In the next few years, she took on many roles and made a lot of money, but she was not very popular.
Her personal reputation is between the first and second tier, neither above nor below, which makes her very depressed.
Later, when she partnered with someone to start a micro-business, she actually invested some money into her partner. Unexpectedly, because she caught up with the good times, she made more money in just two years than she had in several years of filming.
So, she decided not to act at all and planned to focus on micro-business with her partners.
As a result, the micro-business business suddenly stopped working. There was too much competition in the same category, coupled with policy controls, the result was that they didn’t make much money in a year.
Her original partner immediately announced that they were breaking up with her.
Fortunately, Tang Xinyi had already made a lot of money before, but she did not lose any money.
Because she has money and savings, since it is difficult to start a micro-business, she plans to do what she considers her professional counterpart, open a film and television media company, be her own boss, produce and invest in films.
As a result, over the past few years, although it was not a loss, it was still far less than the money she made from investing in micro-business.
The relationship between Tang Xinyi and her family is not bad, but it cannot be said to be very good, otherwise she would not choose to settle down and live alone in Xiuzhou.
The main reason is that her parents have been strict with her brother and sister since they were young, and their tutoring is rigorous.
Her brother's academic performance has always been very good. He has been a top student since he was a child. He was admitted to the best local university in their area - Jinling University. After graduation, he successfully stayed in school. Now he is forty years old and is already an associate professor.
Already.
Tang Xinyi's academic performance has been poor since she was a child. Even though her parents tried all kinds of methods, including personally tutoring in turns, including beating and scolding, punishing them to stand, not being allowed to eat, etc., they could not improve her academic performance much.
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This undoubtedly severely damaged her parents' self-esteem and made her parents lose face in their circle of friends and relatives. It was especially a huge blow to her mother, who had always been strong. In her mother's eyes, Tang Xinyi could not be helped by the mud.
If you go to the wall, you don't expect her to have any future prospects.
Because her mother decided to give birth to her, she had to lose her iron job and change her career to teach and train. For her mother's generation, the sacrifice was huge.
As a result, she sacrificed so many to give birth to a daughter, but she was born with such a thing, unable to read, and in the eyes of her generation, there would be no future in the future. Of course, she was very angry and disappointed.
Therefore, before entering junior high school, Tang Xinyi was not very popular at home and was often sarcastically spoken to by her mother. Her father was slightly kinder to her, but as long as her mother was around, her father could not act too good to her.
As for her brother, he is 6 years older than her, so there is an age difference. When she was older, her brother had been living in school and had a somewhat nerdy personality. He rarely communicated in daily life, so naturally there was no deep brother-sister relationship.
Especially after her father passed away due to illness a few years ago, she no longer cared much about her family.
She usually has very little contact with her mother, let alone her brother.
Now she suddenly received a call from her brother informing her that her mother was seriously ill. After a brief moment of shock, she calmly stated that she would go back as soon as possible. After the brother and sister said this, they did not talk much and hung up with each other in a tacit understanding.
Telephone.
But as soon as the call was hung up, Tang Xinyi's tears flowed down unsatisfactorily, and she hugged Chen Feng and cried for a while.
After Chen Feng comforted her for a while, she slowly stopped crying, but her tears had already wet Chen Feng's collar.
Following Tang Xinyi, she revealed the situation of her original family to Chen Feng.
After hearing this, Chen Feng couldn't help but feel embarrassed. No wonder Tang Xinyi hardly talked about her family with her before. This was obviously the reason.
"Do you think I'm bad? No matter how bad my parents are, they raised me up after all. But since I graduated from college and became financially independent, I rarely go back to my hometown to see them. At most, I only go back during the Chinese New Year.
Stay for two days. Since my father passed away, I haven’t been back much during the Chinese New Year. Do you think I’m being unfilial?”
Tang Xinyi asked Chen Feng in tears.
To be honest, after listening to her narration, Chen Feng felt that she was somewhat unfilial.
She had been strictly disciplined by her parents when she was a child, especially some of her mother's actions that could be considered domestic violence, but as she said herself, her parents raised her up after all, and they continued to do so until she became financially independent.
She had less food and less clothing, and she had never been treated badly in terms of material life.
As a result, she took the initiative to leave her parents' life as soon as she became financially independent.
Just because of this cannot be said that she is unfilial. The main reason why she is unfilial is that after living independently, she doesn't care much about her parents in her hometown. She only goes back to stay for two days during the Chinese New Year, and she doesn't have much contact with them at ordinary times. This is a bit
It's too much. It makes people feel that she has some attributes of a white-eyed wolf.
Therefore, Chen Feng was really unsure how to answer her for a while.
On this matter, Chen Feng didn't want to speak out of conscience. But she was sad now. If she told the truth, wouldn't it make her even more sad? She could only respond with silence.
Seeing Chen Feng's delay in answering, Tang Xinyi understood what was going on and couldn't help but cover her mouth and cry again.
Chen Feng was a little helpless, so he hugged her again and comforted her: "There is something wrong with you not caring much about your parents all these years. But I can also understand the reason why you are like this. It's just that you had a very troubled life at home when you were a child.
Depression is very unhappy. As you said, your mother often beat and scolded you, and also cynicized you, which cast a deep shadow on your childhood. Your mother reaped the benefits of sowing melons, and you were alone here.
After living in Xiuzhou, I didn't contact her much and didn't care much about her, which is understandable. Most of the responsibility for this lies with your mother herself."
After hearing what Chen Feng said, Tang Xinyi finally felt a little better. She sobbed softly and said, "Don't comfort me. I know that the main responsibility still lies with me. In fact, I have always hated my parents and my mother.
They favored boys over girls. They only loved my brother but not me. They hated their harsh discipline when I was a child, which caused a lot of harm to my body and mind. It wasn't until I entered junior high school that when I grew up, they may have given up on me.
He was kinder to me. Especially my dad, who has always felt guilty about me. He has been very good to me since junior high school, but I still can't completely let go of him.
I feel that as my father, he watched me being abused by my mother when I was a child, and did not help, and sometimes became an accomplice. It is difficult for me to forgive him. Until he died of a heart attack a few years ago, I felt that
I really forgave him. After that, I also wanted to forgive my mother, but I tried hard but really couldn’t. As her daughter, I didn’t take the initiative to contact her a few times throughout the year. But as for her, as my mother,
She hasn't contacted me even once throughout the year. Do you think I can't be disappointed?
As long as she can take the initiative to contact me and express her concern for me, I will not only contact her during the holidays. I am wrong, but she is also wrong. I have wanted to truly reconcile with her many times.
But it failed many times, and this is not only because of me, but also because of her. She has always been a strong person in her life, and she never takes the initiative to admit her mistakes and apologize, and she never takes the initiative to give in."
After hearing her words, Chen Feng really understood her "unfilial piety" in his heart.
As many people have said, you cannot only blame the children for their unfilial piety, most of the responsibility lies with the parents themselves.
"Your mother is seriously ill now, so you should be more open-minded. It is a lifelong pain for many people to have a child who wants to support her but does not care for her. No matter how unlucky you were when you were a child, now that your mother is seriously ill, you have to change the way you treated her in the past.
Let go of all the hatred in your heart. After all, she is your biological mother, who gave you life and raised you up. You can never change this. Only by letting go of the hatred in your heart can your life truly be happy and complete."
After hearing what Chen Feng said, Tang Xinyi was certainly touched in her heart, and she cried again while hugging him.
Chen Feng lost his temper because of her crying. After she cried for a while, he reminded her loudly: "You'd better stop crying now. Clean up and go back to see your mother as soon as possible. I hope she can survive it."
Tang Xinyi then let go of Chen Feng, sat up straight, nodded and said with sobs: "Thank you, my mother...she is so strong, she will definitely get through it this time. I'll go and clean it up right now."
After saying that, Tang Xinyi wiped her tears and went to pack her luggage.
Chen Feng felt a little uncomfortable when he saw her wiping away tears and looking sad.
Isn't it that Tang Xinyi is just like her mother, she has always been strong? It was only when she was pressed hard by him that she showed her weak side.
Tang Xinyi moved very quickly. It only took five minutes to pack her things and push a suitcase out of the bedroom.
"I'll take you to the train station."
Chen Feng said proactively.
Tang Xinyi nodded with red eyes: "Thank you."
"How can I say thank you?"
As he spoke, Chen Feng stepped forward and took her suitcase, turned around and walked out.
Her mother is seriously ill, and she doesn't know if she can get through it. As a daughter, Tang Xinyi must get over it as soon as possible.
The two of them quickly went downstairs, and Chen Feng drove her to the train station.
It only takes more than an hour by train from Xiuzhou to Jinling, which is not very far.
The result was like this. Tang Xinyi didn't go back much throughout the year, which was really unjustifiable.
Along the way, after Tang Xinyi booked the train ticket on her mobile phone, she kept wiping her tears with a tissue. This undoubtedly shows that she still has feelings for her mother.
About twenty minutes later, the car arrived at the train station. Before getting off the bus, Chen Feng couldn't help but persuade her again: "Xinyi, you should reconcile with your mother when you go back this time. Otherwise, you will definitely regret it in the future.
While your mother is still alive, choose to forgive her and reconcile with her, so that you can let go of the burden of the past, move lightly towards the future, and make your life and mood easier."
After Tang Xinyi was silent for a while, she nodded slightly and said, "I understand. I don't want to live in the shadow of my childhood and heal my childhood."
"It's good that you know, but I hope you do it even more."
"Well, thank you."
"Okay, don't say thank you, get out of the car. I'll get your luggage."
The two got out of the car together. Chen Feng quickly took out her luggage from the trunk and waved goodbye to her.
After leaving the train station, Chen Feng drove to Bibo Garden to see his two children.
This time Chen Feng went to Liu Ying to see his daughter first.
It just happened that when he came over, his daughter happened to be sleeping.
After Chen Feng looked around for a while, he came out of the bedroom.
In the living room, Liu Ying had already made wolfberry and chrysanthemum tea for him.
Chen Feng was not polite. After sitting down, he picked up the teacup and drank. The water temperature was just right.
"Is the water temperature still suitable? I bought a health pot to make tea. I knew you might come over today, so I made it for you in the morning and adjusted the water temperature to 50 degrees."
Liu Ying said this obviously because she wanted to please Chen Feng.
It's a pity that Chen Feng just hummed after hearing this and continued drinking tea.
Seeing this, Liu Ying felt helpless and had to continue: "Chen Feng, I've been thinking about it these days and feel that I can't stay at home like this. After all, I also went to college and studied abroad, and I'm not too old..."
Chen Feng interrupted: "Do you want to go out to work or start your own business?"
Chen Feng didn't ask her if she wanted to return to Fengmang Film and Television, because it was impossible. Liu Ying was ostracized by Wu Mengting and Lu Sijia at the beginning, and she would be equally ostracized when she returned. As long as Liu Ying had some brains, she would not be stupid enough to go back.
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"I want to be your personal assistant." Liu Ying pointedly stated, "Didn't Jin Xinyan stop doing it? I just made up for it."
Chen Feng couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this. He really didn't expect Liu Ying to make such a request.
After thinking about it for a moment, it seems that Liu Ying would be a good choice as his personal assistant.
First of all, Liu Ying's ability to do things is still good, at least not worse than Jin Xinyan. Secondly, as his woman and her daughter's biological mother, Liu Ying is undoubtedly trustworthy.
In addition, Liu Ying, like Jin Xinyan, is a native of Xiuzhou and has certain social connections. If she is asked to do some things for him, run errands, deal with some interpersonal relationships, etc., she is completely competent.
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It's just that Chen Feng has to avoid her and not let her know some of the more private things. From this point of view, Liu Ying is not suitable.
Also, my precious daughter is still breastfeeding. If she comes to work for him, wouldn’t my daughter have to stop breastfeeding?
Compared to her daughter's breastfeeding, the matter of Chen Feng's personal assistant is not very important, at least not very important at the moment, and can still be put off for a while.
So, Chen Feng shook his head slightly and said: "You still have to breastfeed the child. Besides, you are not short of money now, so there is no need to go out to work. Also, I already have a candidate here, you said it is too late."