latelenovela Chapter 203 Meeting the parents-in-law
Chapter 203 Meeting the parents-in-law
The New Year's Eve arrives as expected.
Sheng Tunan and Zhan Xinyue got up early and went to pick up Shen Peifeng, Shen Zhixian and Hong Xing after breakfast.
Dong Wushuang and his group will arrive in Shanghai this morning. Zhan Xinyue and her grandfather have agreed to take Shen Peifeng, Shen Zhixian and Hong Xing to the mansion to celebrate the New Year.
Ouyang Zhenting loves the hustle and bustle and expresses his welcome to Sheng Tunan's family.
Sheng Tunan and his group left Huanyu Island and went to the base to pick up Shen Min'e.
"Dad, this is my lover Hong Chen." Shen Zhixian led Hong Xing out of the car. He didn't want his parents to worry, so he didn't tell Shen Min'e that Hong Xing and Hong Chen had swapped identities. He just added, "You can just call her Xingxing."
Shen Min'e's expression was stunned for a moment. What did the fourth brother say?
"spouse"?
"When did you get married? How come I didn't know? Does your mother know?" Shen Min'e took a long time to come back to his senses and asked hurriedly.
Sheng Tunan, Zhan Xinyue and Shen Peifeng stayed in the car and did not get out. They only found out today that the fourth brother had obtained a marriage certificate with Hong Xing.
"Brother, the fourth brother is really brave. He did such a big thing in secret." Shen Peifeng approached Sheng Tunan and sighed.
When he and Shen Zhixian came to the army, they brought their household registration pages with them because they needed to transfer their food supply. When Shen Zhixian got his marriage certificate, he didn't even have to go home to get his household registration booklet.
Not to mention Hong Xing. She was holding Hong Chen's household registration book. Hong Chen's mother had long since stopped caring about her. After Hong Chen went to the bodyguard's office, she set up a separate household registration.
In 1977, there were no ID cards and the bodyguard job was dangerous. In case someone died beyond recognition, Hong Chen would carry his household registration booklet with him wherever he went.
"Indeed Yong. Dad is okay, but when Mom finds out that he got the marriage certificate without telling the family, I'm afraid she will nag me." Sheng Tunan said, looking at the shocked Shen Min'e outside the window.
"Dad, Mom doesn't know yet. I'll tell her later. Xingxing is a very good person, and I only recognize her as my wife." Shen Zhixian was afraid that his father would break up the couple, so he firmly stated his position first.
"Dad, it's cold, why don't we get in the car first?" Hong Xing said at the right time. The sun was very strong today, the ice and snow began to melt, and the temperature was relatively low.
"Fourth brother," Shen Min'e said sternly, "You have the right to decide your marriage. As long as you can live a good life in the future, Dad will not object. But your approach of acting first and asking for permission later is really inappropriate. It's easy to get past me, but your mother's..."
Dong Wushuang is not old-fashioned, he can even be said to be open-minded.
But she is also a teacher who pays the most attention to rules and etiquette. Shen Zhixian solved the major event in his life quietly without informing his parents. How could she not be angry? !
"Dad, I know. When we meet mom later, can you please say something nice to me? I have just been married to Xingxing for a short time. We can't get divorced right away, right?"
"Fourth Brother, are you married?" Dong Wushuang jumped out of another car and ran over in a hurry.
"Mom, why are you here?" Shen Zhixian was so shocked that he spoke without thinking.
"I can't come? If I don't come, I won't know that my eldest son has obtained the marriage certificate."
Dong Wushuang and his group arrived in Shanghai. Thinking that it was not yet noon, they came to the base to pick up Shen Min'e first. Unexpectedly, they heard what Shen Zhixian said.
"Mom, I didn't mean to hide it from you. I just thought it would be better to tell you in person." Shen Zhixian explained weakly.
He and Hong Xing were in a hurry to get married because Hong Chen said that as long as she got married, she would not have to go back to Lan Hai Bodyguard. Shen Zhixian was afraid that Hong Xing would be exposed when she went back, so he got the marriage certificate first.
Hong Xing lowered her head and said nothing. Looking at Dong Wushuang's furious attitude, she knew that whatever she said at this time would only add fuel to the fire.
"Wushuang, if you have anything to say, just say it in the car." Dong Guochang knew his daughter's temper. When she got angry, her voice would be particularly loud. It would not look good to shout about this in the street, so he got out of the passenger seat and persuaded his daughter in a kind way.
The three people in the other car also got out. Sheng Tunan said to Shen Zhixian, "You, Hong Chen, and your parents go to my car. Drive to a deserted place and then talk it over."
Shen Zhixian nodded and took Hong Xing to the car.
Dong Wushuang walked behind with Shen Min'e with a gloomy face, complaining to her husband, "Look at you, you live in Shanghai, not far from Huanyu Island, but you don't care about your son. Now, your son got married secretly. I think the girl is older than the fourth son. Do you think this is reasonable?"
In order to cover up her sickness, Hong Xing always wears heavy makeup and perfume. Dong Wushuang doesn't like this style. He thinks that natural and healthy beauty is the best for lesbians. Even if they want to wear makeup, light makeup is fine.
How can this fourth son's wife have her lips painted like a monkey's butt? And the perfume on her body can be smelled from two or three meters away, which is too attractive.
Her eldest daughter-in-law is still the best. She is a beauty even without makeup, and there is only a faint medicinal scent on her body, which is soothing and refreshing.
The four of them got in the car, Shen Zhixian started the car, and Shen Fuyao also started the ignition and followed behind.
"Grandma, Grandpa." Zhan Xinyue was sitting in the passenger seat and turned around to greet Grandma Sheng and Dong Guochang.
"Are you tired? Do you want to go eat something first?"
"I've had it this morning." Grandma Sheng replied with a smile. After not seeing her for a few months, her complexion had become much rosier. She asked Xinyue with a smile how she was doing recently.
Sheng Tunan said first, "Grandma, Xinyue will definitely live well with me here. Don't worry."
Dong Guochang nodded, "Xinyue looks good, she should be doing well."
"Sister-in-law, I brought you some olive oil. I heard from colleagues who have given birth that applying it on the belly can prevent stretch marks." Shen Fuyao said while driving.
"Thank you Fuyao, why didn't Zhiyan come?"
"Yaqin is an only child. Commander He has already asked Lao Wu to spend the New Year with them. He has to accompany his fiancée this year."
After Shen Fuyao finished answering, he glanced at Shen Peifeng, who was curled up in the back seat with his long legs bent and looking a little depressed, through the rearview mirror. "Second brother, you and I are the only ones in our family who are not married. When are you going to bring your second sister-in-law home? You won't give our mother a big scare like the fourth brother did, will you?"
No one knows a mother better than her daughter. Shen Fuyao knew that Dong Wushuang was angry today.
"I won't. But the fourth brother also has his own difficulties. You should try to persuade mom when the time comes." Shen Peifeng was not biased towards Shen Zhixian. If he had not kept the marriage certificate a secret from his family and told them the truth, Dong Wushuang would definitely not agree to his son marrying a woman with advanced uremia.
"What's the reason?" Shen Fuyao was curious.
Dong Guochang also pricked up his ears to listen. He was the grandfather, and the old man had no other wishes now, but only hoped that his children and grandchildren would be safe and happy.
"This is the matter between the fourth brother and his wife. I can't say anything about it." Shen Peifeng pretended to be asleep with his eyes closed.
"Tunan, tell me." Dong Dongchang couldn't help but speak.
"Maybe Zhixian's lover is three years older than him. The fourth child is afraid that his parents will not agree. Hehe. I am not too sure." Sheng Tunan said this selectively. It was rare for the family to get together, and it was the Little New Year, so there was no need to tell the truth and make things worse.
The car in front stopped beside a woods, and Shen Zhixian didn't mention anything about uremia.
"Dad, Mom, Xingxing is a little older than me. I was afraid you wouldn't agree, so I thought of doing it first and reporting to you later. This is all my idea, don't blame Xingxing." Shen Zhixian looked at Dong Wushuang pleadingly.
In this family, Dad listens to Mom, as long as Dong Wushuang has no objection.
"How much older?" Dong Wushuang asked.
"Three years old." Shen Zhixian answered honestly.
"Oh." Dong Wushuang looked at her son's worthless appearance and tried to calm down. They had already obtained the marriage certificate, and there was a faint red mark on the neck of that Xingxing. Dong Wushuang, who had given birth to five children, of course knew what that was. The two of them had already done what they wanted.
As a mother-in-law, does she want to break up the couple and force them to divorce?
"Xingxing, right? Where do you live? Who are your family members? What do you and your family do?"
After asking, Dong Wushuang added, "Don't blame me for checking your household registration. You and Zhixian have already obtained your marriage certificate. We are a family. I want to know more about the situation. Do you understand?"
"Mom, my parents are both in Beijing. I used to be a bodyguard for Lanhai. Because we have a rule that you have to resign after getting married, so I don't have a job for the time being." Hong Xing answered softly.
Dong Wushuang nodded. Lan Hai's bodyguards were good at martial arts. Among her children, except Shen Peifeng and Shen Zhixian, the other three knew martial arts. Sheng Tunan and Shen Zhiyan were both military masters. Shen Fuyao worked in the army and also knew some martial arts.
Now that the fourth child, who has no martial arts skills, has found a bodyguard, that's good. Mothers are always worried about their children's safety, especially high-tech talents like the fourth child who need more protection.
"Well, it's not bad. You have kung fu. In the future, you can stay with Zhixian, and Mom will feel more at ease. So what do your parents do?"
"My parents divorced a long time ago, and I haven't had any contact with my father for a long time." Hong Xing lowered her head and didn't look into Dong Wushuang's eyes. She lied to her lover's mother and felt very guilty.
"My stepfather is the director of the Beijing Steel Plant, and my mother is a writer and is now the chairman of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles."
"Is your mother's name Shu Wen?" Dong Wushuang asked.
"Yes, do you know her?" Hong Xing looked up.
"More than knowing each other." Dong Wushuang sneered, "We are old acquaintances."
This "old acquaintance" said this with gnashing teeth.
Hong Xing saw that her mother-in-law had a grudge against Shu Wen, so she quickly said, "I moved out after my mother remarried. I haven't seen her for more than five or six years. She and her later husband had a boy, so she ignored me even more. I didn't tell them about my marriage this time. I can make my own decisions about my own affairs, and I don't have to associate with their family in the future."
Hong Xing expressed her loyalty in front of her mother-in-law, and almost said that she would break off the engagement if necessary.
Dong Wushuang didn't say anything. Shen Zhixian asked blankly, "Mom, do you have any problems with Xingxing's mother?"
"Tsk," Shen Min'e looked at his son with disdain. Why is this fourth son's brain sometimes good and sometimes bad? Even if he wanted to ask, there was no need to ask in front of his daughter.
Dong Wushuang didn't care and said directly, "It's nothing serious. It's just that one of her essays was included in the elementary school Chinese textbook. I felt that the content was not suitable for elementary school students, so I reported it to the Education Bureau. Shu Wen happened to be there that day, so I chatted with her for a few words."
They said they had a brief chat, but in reality the two of them were arguing with each other and both felt that their views were correct.
By the end of the argument, both of them were hoarse.
Later, the Education Bureau held a meeting to study the issue, and most people agreed that this article was not suitable for elementary school textbooks. However, the Chinese textbooks had already been printed, and if all of them were recalled and reprinted, it would cost a lot of manpower and financial resources. At that time, the country was extremely poor, so where could there be extra resources to waste?
The Education Bureau had no choice but to make the best of it.
Neither Dong Wushuang nor Shu Wen understood the real reason, they only saw the result of the continued requisition of the article.
Therefore, every time Shu Wen saw Dong Wushuang, he would look down on her and sometimes even mock her.
"It's just a small matter. The past is all in the past. Let's move on." Shen Min'e tried to smooth things over. "Wushuang, you see the children have all received their marriage certificates. Let's happily accept this fact."
Dong Wushuang glanced at her husband. Marriage is not just about two people, but about two families. Shu Wen is arrogant and ruthless. Maybe it's because he often writes novels and uses his brain too much. In addition, he has to create frequently and imagine some twists and turns in the plot. Over time, Shu Wen is more sensitive and irritable than ordinary people.
Even if the fourth daughter-in-law doesn't want to have any contact with Shu Wen's family anymore, she is her biological mother after all, so there is no reason to cut off ties with her just like that.
Dong Wushuang was afraid that this somewhat neurotic Shu Wen would find various ways to torture Shen Zhixian in the future.
"Xingxing, you and Zhixian have already obtained a marriage certificate. You are now legally married and protected by state law. I cannot and will not separate you. But I have a question, and I hope you can answer it truthfully."
"Mom, please ask." Hong Xing clenched his fists imperceptibly to hide his uneasiness.
Did the mother-in-law know that she was a fake Hong Chen?
After all, she knew Shu Wen, and maybe she had seen her sister, the real Hong Chen. They were twins, but their expressions were not alike at all, and it was easy to tell who was the older sister and who was the younger sister.
"If your mother or your half brother and Zhixian were in danger at the same time, and you could only save one, who would you save?"
"Save Zhixian. No matter what the problem is, as long as Zhixian is there, I will choose him." Hong Xing said loudly without hesitation and without thinking.
Dong Wushuang asked again: "If your mother thinks you have married well in the future and asks you for help, it will harm......"
"I won't help her, not at all. And I won't help my stepfather's family either. I don't have any messy relatives, mom, don't worry, I'm already married to Zhixian, and I'll only focus on our small family in the future."
"Of course, I will also honor you and my father. Shu Wen gave birth to me. But she only took care of me for a few days. I was raised by my grandmother. My grandmother has passed away. As for Shu Wen, I gave her some money two years ago, and I have repaid her for giving birth to me."
Before Dong Wushuang could finish speaking, Hong Xing answered first.
The expression is extremely sincere and the tone is very sincere!