Jiang Boya would feel heartbroken every time he talked about the past or recalled the past.
Mr. Jiang had a sullen face. After a long while, he said: "You haven't gotten married these years, but you have been thinking about that girl? If so, you'd better give up this idea. She is just a servant of our family and has a low status. How can you do that?" Enter my Jiang family and become my Jiang Hongfa’s daughter-in-law?”
Jiang Boya: "You have feudal thinking! Everyone is equal at home and abroad. What's more, Uncle Fang followed you out and is loyal to you. How can you still look at Uncle Fang's family with old eyes?"
Mr. Jiang: "No matter what kind of society you are in, you have to pay attention to being well-matched! Also, listen to me, even if I, Jiang Hongfa, are cut off from you, I will not recognize a thing born from a maid as my grandson!" "
Jiang Boya's eyes were red: "You just look down on my child so much?"
Mr. Jiang: "I look down on the woman who gave birth to your child. She has a low status and the child she gave birth to has half of her blood in her body. These are not the children and grandchildren I want!"
"My mother-in-law has a good family background, good looks, and good character. Why didn't you have a child with my mother? And why did you have me with my mother's sister and my mother?"
"Marrying your mother was arranged by the elders in the family. It was a marriage between two families. I don't have much affection for your mother. And your mother didn't give birth to a son and a half. It's not that I didn't let her give birth. It was your mother that she couldn't get pregnant at all. . As for...as for what happened between me and your mother, I have nothing to say."
Leaning on the back of the chair, Mr. Jiang raised his head and slowly closed his eyes. His thoughts drifted to decades ago, as if he saw the graceful figure standing under the peach blossom tree in an instant...
"Are you worthy of my mother and my mother when you say this?" Jiang Boya didn't know what Mr. Jiang was thinking. He clenched his fist hanging by his side and said solemnly: "I will find a way to return to China as soon as possible."
Mr. Jiang suddenly opened his eyes and sat up straight: "Do you want me to die in front of you?"
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Jiang Boya pursed his lips tightly and remained silent for a long time.
"Whether I took you out of the country back then or I don't allow you to go back now, I am doing this all for your own good." After saying this, Mr. Jiang seemed to have aged a lot for a moment. He sighed and waved his hand: "You can go out. ”
Jiang Boya turned around, and when he walked to the door of the study, he stopped: "The person who saved Afeng and I was a girl, she..." He did not look back at Mr. Jiang, and when the words came to his lips, he finally said Regret in the throat.
The study door opened and closed, leaving Mr. Jiang alone sitting inside.
“Wanqiu, have you been complaining and hating me all these years?”
Mr. Jiang looked out the window at the sky, his eyes filled with despair. He murmured: "...Yun'er, do you also blame me and hate me? You blame me for leaving your sisters in the country, and you hate me for taking Boya away from your sister?"
Outside the study door, Jiang Boya had a dejected look on his face. He stood at the door for a moment and then walked towards his own study room. After sitting on the chair behind the desk, Jiang Boya opened the drawer and took out a yellowed black and white photo from a black hard-cover notebook.
Looking at the photo, his eyes gradually became watery.
“Mom, are you okay? You go to see your mother every year, right? Are you angry that I haven’t gone back for so many years?”
There are two people in the photo. One of them is wearing a bun and is dressed as a young woman. The other is wearing two braids. She is wearing a light blue top with a slanted lapel and a black knee-length skirt. These are two sisters. They are standing intimately. together,