Chapter 1446：

“I’ll go out for a while, and you can have a good conversation with Xiaoran.”

Wu Yue picked up the thermos and walked out of the ward, closing the door behind her. Speaking of which, there was actually a lot of hot water in the thermos, so there was no need to go to the water room to get another one now. However, in order to make it easier for Qiao Zheng and Song Xiaoran to talk, Wu Yue had to find an excuse to avoid it.

“Have you applied any ointment?”

Turning the wheelchair on its own, Qiao Zheng came to the bedside. He looked at Song Xiaoran's face and asked softly.

However, Song Xiaoran did not make a sound.

However, Qiao Zheng turned her eyes and saw the anti-swelling ointment on the bedside table next to the hospital bed. From this, it was not difficult to know that Song Xiaoran had already undergone facial treatment.

“It was my fault that I left the hospital this morning. Even though my mother pushed me to leave, as a husband, it’s my fault that I couldn’t stay with you and the children.”

 Qiao Zheng's tone was filled with guilt, and he spoke seriously. However, Song Xiaoran did not look at him and had no reaction to his words.

Pursing her lips, Qiao Zheng continued after a moment: "But it's a bit extreme for you to change the children now... Xiaoran, for me, no matter whether you give birth to a boy or a girl, he (she) They are all my children, our children, and it is impossible for me not to like my own flesh and blood.”

After a moment of silence, Qiao Zheng added: "If you are worried about my mother's attitude towards our daughter, you can live outside immediately after you are discharged from the hospital."

“Can your mother allow it?”

Song Xiaoran finally spoke out. She was skeptical about what Qiao Zheng said.

“I am already an adult, and my mother has no control over what I want to do. To say the least, even if she doesn’t allow it, I want to have an independent space for our family of three, and she has no reason to stop it.”

Hearing what Qiao Zheng said, Song Xiaoran asked: "If we move out... who will take care of the children?" She doesn't know how to be a housewife!

“You don’t want to take care of our daughter at home?”

With a slight frown on his face, Qiao Zheng's face didn't show any signs of abnormality. He said, "I know you are thinking about filming, and it's not like we can't afford a nanny, but have you ever thought about safety?"

"What do you mean? You want me to take care of the children at home and be a yellow-faced woman?"

Song Xiaoran was immediately unhappy.

Qiao Zheng: "I just want you to think more about our daughter. At least before she goes to kindergarten, it is best for you to take care of her personally. It will only be two or three years. At that time, we will send the child to kindergarten and let my mother Help us pick you up, it shouldn't be a problem, if you are worried about my mother, we can ask your mother to help."

Song Xiaoran: "Why is it not safe for a nanny to take care of children?"

Qiao Zheng: "I have heard people mention that some nannies have no patience in taking care of children, and even beat or scold the children when the owner is away. In short, such nannies will cause great psychological problems to the children. What's more, when you are out of confinement, our daughter will not be more than one month old. What should you do if she is abused by the nanny? "

Hearing this, Song Xiaoran fell silent.

Qiao Zheng: “Below one year old, children cannot speak at all, and between one and two years old, although children can speak short sentences, it is undoubtedly impossible to express one thing clearly.

 In addition, nannies tend to be more covert when abusing children, so it is difficult for us to find out that there is something wrong with the child. As a result, by the time we find out, the child will probably already have psychological shadow. "

“Is it as serious as you said?”

Song Xiaoran didn’t believe it.

However, Qiao Zheng did not answer. He said: "Abusing the child is only one possibility. Another possibility is that the nanny secretly took the child away after getting familiar with the child while the owner was not at home."

Song Xiaoran glared: "In order to keep me at home to take care of the children, are you thinking too badly about people's hearts?"

“It’s not that I want to make people think in a bad direction, it’s that the two possibilities I mentioned have really happened in other families.”

Sighing softly, Qiao Zheng tapped the armrest of the wheelchair with his finger. After a moment, he said: "If you really don't want to take care of the child at home, then... then we will continue to live with your parents, so that you can go to film after confinement. With my mother watching, I believe the nanny will not do anything to our daughter."

It is impossible for Mother Qiao to take care of her granddaughter now that she is retired at home. However, Qiao Zheng believes that Mother Qiao will definitely help her if she needs to pay more attention to the nanny to prevent the nanny from harming his and Song Xiaoran's daughter.

“You go back on your word!”

Song Xiaoran raised her voice instantly: "A moment ago you said that you would take me and my child to live outside as soon as I was discharged from the hospital. Now you said that you would continue to live with your parents. How could you do this?"

"Is that what I want? Or did you not hear what I said clearly?"

Qiao Zheng felt a headache at Song Xiaoran's reaction. He rubbed his forehead and said, "If you don't want to take care of your child at home, I can't rest assured if you ask a nanny to take care of you. In this case, I came up with the method I just mentioned."

“Then I don’t want to stay under the same roof as your mother.”

Song Xiaoran muttered.

"If you don't want to, come up with an idea. If you don't have one, then you have to do it. Otherwise, you can only take care of the child at home until the age of kindergarten." Qiao Zheng's tone left no room for negotiation at this time. After listening to what he said, , Song Xiaoran's eyes were filled with tears: "You are bullying me! You know that I like filming, but you insist on leaving me at home to take care of the children. Is there any husband like you?"

“Does the child call you mom? If you think she is a trouble, you can ignore my advice and get rid of her after she is diagnosed at the hospital that day!”

At this moment, Qiao Zheng was obviously impatient: "Now that I have given birth, you have to leave the child alone. Song Xiaoran, are you worthy of being a mother?"

“Then are you worthy of being a father?”

Song Xiaoran asked rhetorically.

“You mean you want me to put down work and look after the children at home?” Qiao Zheng’s dark eyes half-squinted: “With my current physical condition, do you think it’s appropriate for me to take care of the children at home?”

Hearing this, Song Xiaoran was speechless.

"Song Xiaoran, you have to remember clearly that it was you who wanted to be good with me and insisted on marrying me after I repeatedly confirmed that this is how we got married." Looking at Song Xiaoran intently, Qiao Zheng said expressionlessly: " If you really regard your children as a burden, you can choose to divorce me."

Seeing that Qiao Zheng didn't seem to be joking, Song Xiaoran's heart tightened and she couldn't help crying.

"What's going on here?"

The door to the ward was pushed open, and Wu Yue walked in carrying a thermos. She listened outside the door for a while, but at this time she could only pretend to be confused.

 Qiao Zheng did not save face for Song Xiaoran, he directly stated his next plan for the child.

“Xiao Ran, Xiao Qiao is right.”

After listening to what Qiao Zheng said, Wu Yue advised her daughter: "Either you take care of the children by yourself, so that your family of three can live outside; or you and your family continue to live with your parents-in-law, and let your mother-in-law keep an eye on them at home to ensure that the nanny does not Will abuse children."

“Can’t there be a third option?”

Song Xiaoran looked at Wu Yue: "Qiao Zheng and I will give you the money for the nanny. If you help us take care of the children, won't all the problems be solved?"

"I'm not retired, how can I take care of myself?" Wu Yue will be able to retire and go home in two years, but if possible, Wu Yue doesn't want to retire from her job early.

She likes her job and feels that she is in good spirits. It will definitely be no problem to work for another seven or eight years.

Of course, the employer has set the retirement age very hard, and it is very difficult not to retire when the age is reached.

"Okay, okay, I'll listen to you and I won't stay outside."

Song Xiaoran said something with resentment, then pulled the quilt over her head and stopped talking.

The ward opposite the door.

“Have you really thought about it?”

Jiang Li asked Mingwei.

 Xu Dan and Xi Jingyu also focused their attention on Mingwei. Neither mother nor son expected that in order to take care of their children, Mingwei chose to study directing at home instead of continuing to film.

“It’s not that I will never stop filming, I just want to spend more time with An An and Tangtang when they are still young, and learn more skills at the same time.”

Ming Wei looked at Jiang Li with a smile, then moved her eyes to Xu Dan and Xi Jingyu. She said, "Children grow up very fast. If I join the filming team as soon as I am out of confinement, I am afraid it will be difficult for me to be free again."

“What can An An and Tangtang know?”

 Xu Dan knows that Ming Wei likes filming, but she doesn’t want Ming Wei to give up her dream because of her two children.

"Mom~" Mingwei called her mother-in-law Xu Dan. She smiled and said: "I don't give up filming completely. I just want to spend more time with An An and Tangtang. When they go to kindergarten, I will The focus has turned back to work, and during the three years that I have been with my children, I have not completely given up on joining the group.”

If she has a good book, she wouldn’t mind making a guest appearance.

In other words, in the next three years, her focus will be on her children and she will study directing courses on her own.

She didn’t want to be an actress in the future, and she gained a certain amount of experience by studying with various directors on the set. At that time, she started acting on her own and completely became a behind-the-scenes worker.

Jiang Li: "In-laws, now that Weiwei has made a decision, we respect her wishes as long as she doesn't regret it!"

Mingwei: “I promise I won’t regret it!”

 Xi Jingyu: "No matter what you do, I will support you." His wife will never do something on a whim. Based on this, as a husband, he must stand up for her.

Besides, he knew that the reason why his wife made such a decision was because she was worried about her two young children.

…

Because it was a natural birth, but because she gave birth to two children, Mingwei originally stayed in the hospital for three days and had to go home. However, Xi Jingyu disagreed. Jiang Li and Xu Dan also objected, and they had no choice. Mingwei had a check-up a week later and was told by the doctor that her body was recovering well, so she returned to Xi's house for confinement.

“Mom, you can just go about your business in peace, there is no shortage of people around me to take care of you.”

The second floor is the bedroom where Ming Wei and Xi Jingyu live. Ming Wei persuades Jiang Li to return to the mansion without worries.

“Are you sending me away? Do you think I’m an eyesore to you?” Jiang Li deliberately misinterpreted Mingwei’s meaning. Upon hearing this, Mingwei’s eyes were full of grievance: “Mom, you wronged me, I just don’t want you to suffer.”

 Xu Dan has not yet retired and cannot take care of Mingwei during her confinement at home, but she has hired two confinement sisters to take care of Mingwei’s diet and physical recovery, as well as taking care of her two babies.

Furthermore, the Xi family has a live-in nanny, so Mingwei will not suffer any injustice during the confinement period.

“Are you sure you won’t cry if I really want to go back?”

Jiang Li asked with a smile.

“Mom, how old am I, how can I cry all the time?”

Ming Wei's cheeks were slightly red, and she said: "If my memory is correct, I haven't cried since I was a child."

"Yeah?"

Jiang Li raised his eyebrows: "Think about it more carefully."

Just Jiang Li and Ming Wei are in the room. As for the two children, they are in the nursery!

“It’s true!”

Mingwei was certain that she had never cried.

“I remember very clearly that there was a girl who cried profusely and called ‘Mom’ over and over again. She was crying very sadly at that time, and it would be an exaggeration to say that anyone who heard it would shed tears!”

After Jiang Li reminded Mingwei, she remembered it. Immediately, her cheeks turned red, but she said: "That time doesn't count. I...I was worried that you would leave me. I couldn't control my emotions, and my tears were coming on my own." Click down, it’s...” ˆ ˆ ˆ “Okay, okay, no need to explain, Mom knows why you’re crying.”

Carefully tucking Ming Wei's broken hair hanging in front of her forehead behind her ears, Jiang Li said with loving eyes and a soft voice: "If you don't let me stay here to take care of your confinement, then I will really go back, but I will come here every now and then." Look at you and the kids, if you want anything to eat, call me and I’ll bring it to you.”

Ming Wei nodded with a smile on her face: "Thank you, Mom!"

“Silly! What do you say thank you to your own mother?!”

Tapping Ming Wei's forehead, Jiang Li stood up: "You should have a good rest during the confinement period, don't strain your eyes, and move around appropriately, you know?"

“Well, I remember everything you said, Mom.”

Mingwei responded.

“That’s good.”

Jiang Li said, picking up the bag: "I'm going back now."

“Goodbye, Mom!”

Mingwei waved.

"goodbye."

Jiang Li smiled, turned around and left the bedroom.

Driving out of the compound where the Xi family lived, Jiang Li inadvertently saw a familiar face at the door of the compound.

Xu Chunxia? !

That's right, Jiang Li saw Xu Chunxia's figure.

But she did not stop.

Frowning his brows slightly, Jiang Li wondered why Xu Chunxia appeared there.

Soon she thought that Xu Chunxia was most likely looking for the child she gave birth to to the Hu family, that is, her son.

After being sent to the Gobi Desert for many years to blow wind and sand, he actually managed to come out of there and wander around in Beicheng. It seems... he has good perseverance!

At that time, Hu's father interfered and Xu Chunxia was sentenced to more than ten years in prison. At that time, Jiang Li was thinking about how long Xu Chunxia could hold out when she reached the Gobi Desert.

What he saw now really surprised Jiang Li!

Mingwei was discharged from the hospital at nine noon, which was about half past ten.

Thinking that it would be okay to return to the mansion, Jiang Li drove directly to the second courtyard where Captain Jiang and his wife lived.

I need to mention here that Lao Jiang’s family, to be more precise, Brother Jiang spent more than 20,000 yuan to buy a house on the same land as the Yu family’s old house in 1983 in order to make it easier for the whole family to live together. A house of about the same size.

After renovation, the house looks full of ancient charm.

However, headed by Captain Jiang and his wife, as long as the Jiang family gathers together in Beicheng, they still prefer to live in a compact, but not too crowded, two-in-a-square courtyard.

“Dad! Mom! Big brother and sister-in-law, I’m here to see you!”

After parking the car, Jiang Li walked into the yard carrying his bag and raised his voice to call Captain Jiang and his wife, Brother Jiang and his wife.

“Here it is!”

Cai Xiufang's voice came from the living room. She, Captain Jiang, and her eldest brother were sitting on the sofa watching an opera show.

“Dad, mother, eldest brother, sister-in-law!”

Walking into the living room, Jiang Li looked at Cai Xiufang and the others and called out again with a smile.

“You’re not taking care of Weiweiniang and the others in the hospital, so why come here when you have time?”

Jiang Li sat on the sofa and heard her mother asking. She couldn't help but answer with a smile on her face: "Weiwei was discharged from the hospital at noon. I thought it would be okay to go back, so I came over to see you."

“We are not monkeys, what is there to see?!” Cai Xiufang said this, but her eyes couldn’t hide her distress: “Don’t you feel tired after taking care of Weiwei in the hospital for six or seven days?”

Without waiting for Jiang Li's voice, Cai Xiufang said: "Since Wei Wei is discharged from the hospital, you should go back to the home and take a good rest and use so hurriedly here?"

“Li Bao, my mother is right. You have been in poor health since you were a child, so you can’t make yourself tired.”

Sister-in-law Jiang said with a smile.

"My health will be fine by the time I give birth to dumplings. Sister-in-law, you don't have to worry." Jiang Li said and asked Sister-in-law Jiang: "Have you received any calls from your hometown recently?"

“What’s wrong?”

Sister-in-law Jiang asked.

“I saw Xu Chunxia before coming here.”

Jiang Li said: "She had gray hair, her back was a bit curved, and her face had many wrinkles, but I still recognized her at a glance."

Sister-in-law Jiang: “Didn’t my mother and I tell you?”

"What?"

After being startled for a moment, Jiang Li reacted: "Sister-in-law, are you referring to Xu Chunxia's matter?"

Sister-in-law Jiang nodded and said "Yes".

"No, I haven't heard you mention it to your mother."

Jiang Li shook his head.

"Not long ago, the lobby sister-in-law from my hometown called home. I heard her mention on the phone that Chunxia was released two years early due to her good behavior during the reform period. However, she did not go back to our village directly, but followed others. I went to a city in the south to work to earn money. Unexpectedly, my health was not good. All the money I earned from working for more than a year was sent to the hospital. Later, I couldn't stay in that city anymore, so I had to return to Zan Village.

As a result, she married an old bachelor from Shi Nian Village next door to our village within two days, thinking that she would be taken care of without doing any work. Unexpectedly, she was kicked out of the house by her husband within three days, saying that Chunxia was sick. body, wanting to take him for granted. She couldn't go back home, and then the villagers discovered that Chunxia was missing. Now it seems that Chunxia ran from the village to Beicheng, planning to find the son she gave birth to for medical treatment. "

When Mrs. Jiang said this, Cai Xiufang said, "You didn't talk to Chunxia?" She was asking Jiang Li.

"No."

Jiang Li shook his head: "I drove out of the gate and accidentally saw her standing on the side of the gate looking straight into the courtyard."

“It’s better if you don’t say anything, so as not to get entangled with her.”

Cai Xiufang's expression was not so good: "She is very clever, but has no ability. Since I married someone in Beicheng and gave birth to a son, what's wrong with living a good life with him? But I want to get divorced. How can I go through such trouble? I think she's just going crazy."

"I think so. If she doesn't go crazy, she won't get divorced. If she doesn't get divorced, she won't kidnap her biological son back to our village behind her ex-law's family's back..." Sister-in-law Jiang recounted what Xu Chunxia had done stupidly, and finally , she said: "If you don't do it, you will die. Chunxia is in the situation she is in now, and it is all her fault!"

“I agree with what my sister-in-law said.”

Jiang Li nodded and then said: "If she had not kidnapped her biological son back to our village behind her ex-law's back, she would not have been arrested and sentenced and sent to the Gobi Desert for rehabilitation." After a brief pause, Jiang Li asked Sister-in-law Jiang again: " Is there anything else going on in the village?"

Sister-in-law Jiang: "Yes. The hall sister-in-law said that Zhou Weimin returned to the village, but the daughter-in-law brought back to the village was not Su Zhiqing, but the daughter-in-law brought back to the village by Zhou Weimin was also named Su."

“He didn’t open a company in Beicheng, so why did he suddenly return to the village?”

Jiang Li looked at Sister-in-law Jiang with a gossipy face.

“It was said that the company could not be opened and he owed a lot of debt, so the man he married before filed for divorce. Then Zhou Weimin completed the formalities, and then he and his current wife obtained the divorce certificate.”

Sister-in-law Jiang said: "The hall's sister-in-law also said that Zhou Weimin was very lazy when he returned to the village. He didn't do anything and relied on the wife he brought home to support him."

“-The wife ran away.”

Cai Xiufang said something fiercely.

"Ran?"

Sister-in-law Jiang was surprised.

Jiang Li: "..." Why did you run away?

Cai Xiufang: "Yesterday, your hall sister-in-law called home again. It was she who told me."

Jiang Li: "What did the hall sister-in-law say specifically?"

“Your hall sister-in-law said that Zhou Weimin and his wife quarreled every day. If they couldn’t argue, his wife would use her fists. Maybe she was often beaten. That woman left our village in the middle of the night while Zhou Weimin was sleeping.”

As Cai Xiufang's voice fell, Sister-in-law Jiang said: "Zhou Weimin is nothing. Fortunately, our Li Bao's marriage with him did not happen."

“Dear Duan Duan, why are you bringing up the old sesame and rotten millet matter?”

Brother Jiang looked at Sister Jiang with disapproval, worried that Sister Jiang would make Jiang Li feel uncomfortable if she brought up the incident between Jiang Li and Zhou Weimin in their early years. But Brother Jiang found that there was nothing strange about Jiang Li's face at all.

“I just said it casually.”

Sister-in-law Jiang came to her senses and couldn't help but apologize to Jiang Li: "Li Bao, it's my sister-in-law's fault. I shouldn't put you and that **** Zhou Weimin together."

"What's the point?" Jiang Li smiled and said, "My eldest brother is the one who made the fuss. Sister-in-law, you are not wrong. In fact, I am quite grateful to Zhou Weimin for breaking off the engagement. Otherwise, I would not have walked out with your brother-in-law." Let’s have a happy life together.”

Seeing that Jiang Li was indeed not unhappy, Sister-in-law Jiang couldn't help but secretly breathed a sigh of relief. She had not forgotten how much damage she had done to her sister-in-law when the Zhou family came to break off the engagement.

Captain Jiang did not participate in the chat. He was always watching the opera program.

“My wife ran away and Zhou Weimin didn’t look for her?”

Jiang Li asked Sister Jiang.

“The day after his wife ran away, Zhou Weimin also left the village, probably to find his wife!”

Sister-in-law Jiang suddenly clapped her hands and said, "I remembered. The hall sister-in-law really wanted to say that the daughter-in-law Zhou Weimin brought back to the village is called Suman, Li Bao. Could this Suman be Su Zhiqing's sister?"

Sister-in-law Jiang knows something about the affairs between the two sisters Su Qing and Su Man. After all, Sister-in-law Jiang once had a fight with Su Man because she said bad things about Jiang Li.

…“…80% yes.”

After a moment of silence, Jiang Li replied to Sister-in-law Jiang.

“If this were true, wouldn’t the parents of Su Zhiqing’s two sisters be so angry?!”

The younger sister destroyed her sister's family, caused her sister to divorce, and married her brother-in-law. If this kind of behavior was known to the villagers, they would definitely spit on her!

Then catch the insects