But... but... the next second, the sound of the tea cup was heard. After Jiang Zheng dropped so many things, he slowly held the tea cup in one hand, lightly lifted the lid of the cup with the other, and blew the tea cup carefully.
The heat and fragrance overflowed, and he was only concentrating on tasting the tea from beginning to end.
The dust has been settled, the victory or defeat has been decided.
Eight huge words were superimposed on An Ning's heart one after another.
It turns out that the situation of ‘silence is better than sound at this time’ can still be interpreted in this way.
Although Jiang Zheng said nothing more, he had already said everything.
——Do you know what two parallel lines are?
——Do you know the difference between clouds and mud?
——Do you know what the consequences of overestimating your capabilities are?
——You know...if you take something that originally belongs to you...you have to pay double the price?
——You are just like a speck of dust in this world. If you are more, you are not more, and if you are less, your existence has no substantive meaning.
——His future is prosperous, what about you? Can you add luster to his journey? No, you can’t, you are no different from the rat excrement with a pot of delicious soup in his arms, you will harm him
Him, you will harm him...
…
Voices roared wildly in An Ning's mind, and even the things she had buried deep in her heart and never wanted to touch were pulled out together.
——Ouch! Xiaofeng, his sister-in-law, what are you talking about? The reason why you are here today is not because your eldest brother dropped out of school? Now that he is gone, An Ning is left alone without anyone to rely on. Can you bear it?
——I really can’t bear it, but what can I do? After all, I am a married daughter, so I want to throw water away, but my husband’s family must also be willing! Besides, the money that my eldest brother earned when he dropped out of school was not just
Didn't the second brother spend nothing for supporting me alone?
——Your second brother is stupid. He didn’t even finish high school. He’s not as good as you. Why is he just a bachelor’s degree? He has spent so many more years studying and I don’t know how much money he spent.
——No matter how much money I spent on studying, I can’t compare to the amount of betrothal gifts, deposits, and three gold you asked my second brother to ask for when you got married. The house you live in was built by your eldest brother, so it’s much more valuable. I am
It's more than enough to go to another university.
——In the final analysis, isn’t it just because your eldest brother doesn’t have much money left and you won’t get much benefit from it that you don’t want to raise Ning Ning? Just make it clear.
——Second sister-in-law, are you talking about yourself? The relationship between the second brother and the eldest brother has always been good. You can’t represent him in this matter, right? It’s better to let the second brother do it.
——That’s right, second sister-in-law, you’d better ask second brother to come!
——Why is he here? He is the only fool in your entire family, Lao An. He is the only one who stays up all night with his elder brother. Now that he has finally been buried, he is still not allowed to rest?
——That's enough, you are not willing, what should we do? Should Ning Ning be thrown into the orphanage?
——This is what you said, Third Sister!
——She is almost 18, and the orphanage doesn’t know whether she will be accepted or not.
——The point of the problem now is not this. After all, the eldest brother died in the line of duty, so the matter cannot be left alone.
…
That was the sound of discussion among An Zhiguo's family the night he was buried.
None of them wanted her, and she was just pushed around by them one by one, as if she was something... that they didn't want to touch.
And after arriving at Lu's house, Lu Manman once pulled her hair and cursed loudly, and even more brilliantly filled in the adjective that she had been unwilling to admit.
Unlucky, what unlucky thing.
——Do you think you are a lucky person? No, you are not, you are simply a broom star. If you hadn’t made a fuss about going to the city, your mother would not have died. If you hadn’t said you wanted a mobile phone, your father would have died too.
Nothing will happen, it’s you, you killed your parents! You have known it for a long time, but you just didn’t dare to admit it! You are simply a broom star! It’s not enough to kill your parents, you have to kill our Lu family!
…
Although she has no memory of what happened before the car accident, An Ning has heard a lot.
For example, the reason why she got on that bus was because she insisted on going to the city that day to buy a red floral skirt.
For this reason, An Ning did not dare to wear a skirt in summer for a long time. She always felt that it was not a skirt, and the flowers on the skirt were not flowers, but human blood.
When she told Lu Zhandong this, the girl who would hand her the lollipop, Lu Manman, was still saying to her seriously, "That's a flower, it's really not human blood. Don't be afraid."
And many years later, when An Zhiguo died and she walked into the Lu family alone, she never dreamed that her heartfelt confession would one day become a knife piercing her heart.
…
"So be it!"
Another crisp sound of clinking porcelain rang in An Ning's ears, interrupting her thoughts.
Jiang Zheng had already closed the tea cup, and on the side, the turtle slowly poked its head out from the coffee table at some point, turned around, and looked at An Ning, with a kind of lonely arrogance.
"I won't treat you badly."
Jiang Zheng's tone and expression seemed to be saying - you should be content, with a family like yours and a background like yours.
Suddenly, An Ning wanted to laugh.
"I don't know if anyone has ever said that you and Jiang Lichuan are indeed father and son. At first glance, the elegant and arrogant look in your eyes when you look at others is very similar."
Same... makes you want to slap him!
Jiang Zheng didn't speak, but his eyebrows furrowed slightly, as if to warn him.
But An Ning continued indifferently: "But it's just 'at first glance' that Jiang Lichuan is different from you, so he could obviously take a more beautiful and prosperous road, but he chose to embark on another one."
Jiang Zheng's eyes narrowed slightly, and the fingertips holding the tea cup were faintly turning white.
Although An Ning didn't know the specific things between the father and son, he could make some guesses from what Jiang Lichuan and Zhou Lu had said in peacetime. It must have happened between the father and son when Jiang Lichuan left the army and left country A.
The conflict is not small, and it has become one of Jiang Zheng's heart knots. Otherwise, he would not have let his anger tear apart the nobility and elegance he has always maintained.
At this moment, An Ning was actually trembling slightly in her heart.
Even if a tiger gets older, he is still a tiger.
If Jiang Zheng smashed the tea cup at her head in the next second, she would not be surprised at all.
But perhaps it’s because in the human world, people at the top of the pyramid have a bad habit—to always maintain elegance that matches their status.
What's more, for a big figure like Jiang Zheng, who is a powerful figure in the political arena of Country A, to be able to climb to the position he is today, his endurance is definitely not comparable to ordinary people.
But An Ning also understands the truth that nothing can be overturned.
"As you can see, I have a lot of relatives, I lost my mother and my father, I was divorced, I am definitely not a good family, but so what? Jiang Lichuan is already over thirty, he can think for himself, I
What it's like, he knows better than you."
"What do you want?" Jiang Zheng asked simply.
This was the most sincere and direct statement she had heard since she entered the house. It could be seen that the other party no longer had much patience.
An Ning smiled sarcastically.
"Even if the daughter-in-law of my Jiang family is not named Bai or Bai Jinyu, there will be someone else. As for you, Lu Zhandong, and Bai Jinyu, you have to resolve the matters between you yourself." Jiang Zheng said again.
"I seem to have heard the first half somewhere, but the second half... do you think I deliberately approached Jiang Lichuan in order to take revenge on Lu Zhandong and Bai Jinyu?"
An Ning said, as if he heard a joke, "I'm sorry, I really don't want to sacrifice my whole life for a scumbag. I haven't completely lost my brain yet, so I really can't do it.
It is absolutely impossible to take revenge on someone without giving anything."
Jiang Zheng said nothing, his sly eyes seemed to be searching for evidence of her lies.
But An Ning just greeted him calmly and smiled, no longer nervous, flustered, pale and fearless at the beginning.
Jiang Zheng's face turned stern and his eyes were cold.
"Li Chuan, a kid, knows what he wants and what he doesn't want from a very young age. He is very purposeful."
This sounds like he is saying - I am also doing this for your own good.
There has always been such a trick in negotiation skills, which is to put yourself in someone else's shoes and use advance as a retreat.
"Many times, I can't figure it out, why me? I've been alone for a long time. What does this big, mercenary capitalist want from me? But where are there so many whys in the world? If everything has to have an answer,
Even God will be asked to go crazy. People's hearts are complicated. If you live with a mask for too long, you will start to doubt something. In fact, sometimes, some things may be that simple."
Jiang Zheng stared at her for a while, and then finally showed his first smile after An Ning walked in. He said, "Then I hope you can still say this so confidently."
That was definitely not a friendly smile, and those words were definitely not a blessing, they even contained some foresight and a curse.
"We had dinner together before your father's accident. He drank a lot of wine for Lu Zhensheng. Finally, he remembered that he hadn't bought you a mobile phone yet. Secretary Xun drove him to buy it."
The topic suddenly changed, and it was Jiang Zheng who mentioned her father. This made An Ning feel very strange. There seemed to be something pulling her to an unknown place, especially when Jiang Zheng
Under that profound gaze, An Ning finally couldn't help but asked, "What do you want to say?"
Jiang Zheng just reached out and picked up the turtle on the coffee table, and concentrated on feeding it without answering.
After a short period of death-like silence, suddenly a quarrel came from outside the door.
"You can't go in, the chief is waiting for guests!"
"Step aside!"
It was the guard outside the door and Jiang Lichuan. The argument lasted for a while. The door was opened. The moment Jiang Lichuan appeared, An Ning stood up reflexively. Before she could meet him, he rushed over and pulled her away.
Moving behind him, he showed an absolutely protective posture.