The woman's words were loud. The banquet hall was quiet for a few seconds, and the guests were in an uproar.
"She, is she Tang Shiyu?"
"Tang Shiyu? Ah, the daughter of the Tang family who was married out of the country for more than ten years and never came back to show her face?"
"Did you hear, she just said that Tang Ran is her daughter."
"How is that possible? Isn't Tang Ran Tang Shixin's illegitimate daughter?"
"Wait. According to Tang Ran's age and Tang Shiyu's time to go abroad, it seems really possible!"
"So Tang Ran is not an illegitimate daughter, but a daughter born before Tang Shiyu went abroad? God..."
In the chatter, old Mrs. Hang's face was ashen.
Stepping on those voices and eyes, Tang Shiyu, who was dressed in bright red, walked in front of them without squinting, and then stopped.
"I haven't seen you for nearly 20 years, mother." Tang Shiyu showed a sharp smile, "In terms of intimidating the younger generation, your aura is still the same as before."
Hang Wei's complexion changed a few times, but she was still complicated when she finally stopped: "so you came back today to find me Xuehen?"
"Haha, how could that be? If I really want to waste this kind of time, I won't go back to China for so many years to see you again."
"Then you must pick this occasion—"
"I didn't know the etiquette and the number of occasions since I was a child, you should know." Tang Shiyu interrupted lightly, "What's more, you are unscrupulous and unscrupulous for the interests of your family, even at the expense of exchanging a dead baby for my biological daughter and deceiving my heart. The matter of going abroad in the dark, but now you are asking me to be appropriate in the occasion - don't you feel that your face is a little shameless?"
"Tang Shiyu," Mrs. Hang's voice sank, "pay attention to the way you talk to me, do you still remember that I am your mother!"
"Mother? Hahaha..." Tang Shiyu laughed, "This is the funniest joke I've heard this year."
"You are presumptuous!"
The crutches in Hang Wei's hand knocked heavily.
The banquet hall was suddenly quiet.
Tang Shiyu restrained his smile. She lowered her eyes lightly, looking at the old lady in front of her who was no longer old. After staring like this for a long time, she lowered her eyes and chuckled softly.
"I shouted like that when I first came in, because I was afraid that I would be gone for so long that they would have forgotten who I was. But in fact, our mother-daughter bond - if there was any - was already ten years ago. broken."
"… "
Old Mrs. Hang's body froze, and her hand holding the crutches trembled slightly.
After saying that sentence, Tang Shiyu seemed to have no interest in talking any more. She tilted her head shyly and glanced at Luo Zhan and Tang Ran, who were surrounded by the Tang family's bodyguards.
After stopping for two seconds, Tang Shiyu waved his hand: "please make way and let my daughter and my prospective son-in-law out."
The bodyguard team looked at Hang Wei with a stiff figure in embarrassment.
Tang Shiyu smiled: "It's useless to look at her, you are surrounded by my daughter - if you don't let anyone go, I will call the police. The speed of our people's police is not a joke."
The bodyguard team was shocked by the woman's smiling eyes hiding the knife, and they hesitated to let out.
Luo Zhan, who was in the encirclement, had calmed down from the accident at this time. He didn't say much, and immediately walked out of the door to protect Tang Ran.
Tang Ran stared blankly at the woman with a strong aura who was similar to him, and wanted to stop and say something.
Luo Zhan noticed, and after hesitating, he rubbed the girl's hair while walking, then lowered his head and approached her ear: "It's not suitable here, let's go out first, okay?"
"... Hmm." Tang Ran returned to her senses and nodded lightly.
Seeing Tang Ran and Luo Zhan walking quickly by her side, Hang Wei came back to her senses, she clutched her cane tightly, and her voice was hoarse: "Tang Shiyu, what a terrible price the Tang family will have to pay for taking her like this now. "Have you considered it?"
Tang Shiyu smiled and asked lightly, "Why should I think about that kind of thing?"
Hang Wei froze.
Tang Shiyu lazily swept across the large banquet hall and the guests with complicated expressions: "Of course I know that it won't be long before all the negative news related to the Tang family will spread, causing a lot of trouble. The Luo family withdraws their capital, their dependent forces I won't stay; the ship is going to sink, and the neutrals will also leave the field; there are even more enemies secretly coveting the cake occupied by the Tang family..."
"You know all this, so you still have to do it!" Hang Wei asked with gritted teeth. "The Tang family is where you were born and raised, so you don't have the slightest sympathy?!"
"… "
The last smile on Tang Shiyu's face was completely frozen after this sentence.
She looked at Hang Wei coldly: "when you forced Lan Jingqian away and lied to me with a dead baby, if you had the slightest sympathy, you would not end up in the field today."
"You still hate that thing after all."
"Shouldn't I hold grudges? Or, Ms. Hang, do you expect all the people you hurt to become saints who can easily forgive? "
"Even if you hate me, do you really want to do things like this and drive the Tang family to death?"
Tang Shiyu laughed lightly: "Is this the best? But I haven't done the best yet."
Hang Wei frowned: "what do you mean?"
"… "
Tang Shiyu buttoned up his sunglasses and leaned forward lazily.
When he got to Hang Wei's gray hair, Tang Shiyu stopped, his red lips parted slightly, and he said a word slowly.
"!"
Hang Wei's figure trembled fiercely.
The next second, she raised her eyes in horror and looked at Tang Shiyu in disbelief, her lips trembling uncontrollably: "You, when did you know?"
"That's too long," Tang Shiyu Shi Shiran put the sunglasses back on his face, and his voice was cool, "Mother."
Tang Shiyu turned around and lifted the hand that took off the leather glove lazily: "Don't send it, and don't disturb my daughter again. Otherwise... I may not be able to keep this secret for so many years."
Looking at the tall and sharp red back, the last bit of blood on Hang Wei's face faded away.
With the help of "people with a heart", the rumors about the years of entanglement between the Luo and Tang families and the truth of the year spread like wildfire.
After the Tang family scandal came out, the Luo family and their affiliated forces completely withdrew their capital from all the Tang family companies and sold their shares.
Overnight, the stock price of Tangjia Group plummeted.
Although Lan Jingqian, who was far abroad, rushed back overnight as soon as he heard the news of domestic changes, but due to the long voyage, when he arrived in the country, the highest tide seemed to have passed.
Lan Jingqian fluttered in Tang Ran's sanatorium, so he had to take a special car to the Luo family in K City.
It was the first time that his life assistant who stayed in China saw their cold and warm temperament, Mr. Lan, with such a cold face, and tremblingly reported the earth-shaking changes in the country in the past two days.
Lan Jingqian listened impatiently, frowned and interrupted: "We'll talk about the ins and outs later, tell me first, Xiao Ran is indeed at Luo's house now, right?"
"Yes, Mr. Lan."
"How did she get out of the Tang family?"
"The young master of the Luo family went to the Tang family to hold a birthday party for Xiaoran and made a scene..."
"Hang Wei's character, willing to let people go so easily?"
"The Tang family didn't let it go," the assistant hesitated and looked up at Lan Jingqian cautiously, "However, Tang Shiyu of the Tang family suddenly showed up, claiming to be Xiaoran's mother, and picked him up."
Lan Jingqian froze suddenly.
I don't know how long it took before the man turned his head back in shock and complexity: "You said, who?"
"Tang Shiyu." The assistant's voice was even lighter.
"..." Lan Jingqian slowly squeezed his fingers on the knee of his trousers, "What about her?"
"Hey?"
"Where is she now?"
The little assistant hesitated and scratched his neck: "Also at Luo's house."
Lan Jingqian froze for a few seconds, and his eyes showed a complex and sullen look that he had never seen before. He leaned into the seat, lowered his eyes, and said nothing.
four hours later. Luo family.
The atmosphere in the restaurant in the main building was very strange.
The main seat of the long table was empty—Luo Jingyuan said that he wanted to force his unfilial son who had finally returned to China to be filial. Ignoring his daughter-in-law's strong desire to meet the prospective family, he took Luo Qingtang and Bi Qingyan to the next door to save Luo home resort.
As the culprit who caused all the "trouble", Young Master Luo was naturally thrown at Luo's house alone.
But Luo Zhan himself was obviously happy with the result.
At the long dining table, Lan Jingqian and Tang Shiyu looked at each other from the air. Tang Ran, who had been familiar with her mother for a whole day, sat by Tang Shiyu's hand. The first time she ate at the same table with her parents, she was still a little nervous, and she was very careful when cutting the steak.
On the other side of her, Luo Zhan was not at all affected by the eye contact.
He neatly cut the steak on his side into cubes, then took the plate and replaced the one in front of Tang Ran.
Tang Ran was originally listening to the movement beside her, and by the way, she wandered into the sky.
"If you cut it like this absent-mindedly, it's time to cut it into beef sauce." Luo Zhan lazily put Tang Ran's original steak plate in front of him, and then raised his eyes with a half-smile, "Eat well first, don't Half-hearted, be careful to choke again."
Tang Ran blushed at Luo Zhan's teasing, and nodded obediently: "Okay."
Being distracted by the voice, Tang Shiyu held his cheek and turned his eyes to watch this scene.
After staring for two seconds, she propped her face up, her eyes falling lazily on the opposite Lan Jingqian: "Hello."
The knife and fork in Lan Jingqian's hand stopped.
After a second or two, he raised his eyes silently: "?"
Tang Shiyu tilted his head to the side: "Xiao Ran's personality is nothing like me, so quiet and obedient, it's easy to blush - does it look like you?"
Lan Jingqian: "."
Tang Shiyu looked at Tang Ran regretfully: "What's so good about being like such a stuffy gourd? Don't be like him anymore. Mom will accompany you in the future."
Tang Ran raised her head and glanced at Lan Jingqian embarrassedly, but agreed softly, "Okay."
Tang Shiyu's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help reaching out to squeeze the little girl's cheek: "Our little dye is so cute."
Unfortunately, before she succeeded, the little girl in front of her suddenly moved five centimeters away from her with a chair.
Tang Shiyu: "..."
Tang Shiyu raised his head unhappily, and met the dark eyes of a young man who was even more unhappy behind the chair.
After looking at each other for a second or two, Tang Shiyu said, "Don't think that when I admitted you were my prospective son-in-law, you really are."
Luo Zhan lowered his eyes, moved the dinner plate to Tang Ran again, and put the knife and fork back in the girl's hands: "I don't need you or him to admit it."
Tang Shiyu narrowed his eyes.
"Also," Luo Zhan lifted his eyelids lazily, "it doesn't matter if you have a fight, but don't delay the little girl's dinner."
"… "
Tang Shiyu was silent for a few seconds, then laughed angrily.
She turned her face back and looked at Lan Jingqian opposite: "On the flight back to China, I heard a lot of things from the housekeeper surnamed Lin from the Luo family - this young master seems to be still your friend?"
Lan Jingqian was silent.
Tang Shiyu: "Then what is the relationship between the two of you now?"
Lan Jingqian continued to be silent.
Tang Shiyu frowned after waiting for a while, and muttered impatiently: "I can't wait for you for ten sentences, and it's still that stuffy gourd's temperament."
After Tang Shiyu finished speaking, the mobile phone she kept on the small storage shelf next to her vibrated. Tang Shiyu glanced at it, and after two seconds of staring, she raised her hand and hung up.
Tang Shiyu turned around. After being quiet for a few seconds, she suddenly thought of something, looked back at Tang Ran and asked, "Xiao Ran, why don't my mother take you to travel around the world, live in each country for a year or two, see different scenery and meet different people - how? Sample?"
"Can't."
"no."
Two male voices spoke at the same time, one was cold and the other was lazy.
Tang Shiyu looked at the two dog men unhappily: "Why not?"
Lan Jingqian fell silent after speaking.
Luo Zhan didn't care about anything, and handed Tang Ran a small iced drink to accompany the steak: "Ran Ran wants to go to college, so I don't have time."
Tang Ran nodded in agreement.
Tang Shiyu asked unexpectedly: "Are you going to take the university entrance exam next year? I heard that the domestic college entrance examination is difficult, are you okay?"
Tang Ran said softly: "When I was blind, I also took Braille lessons every day. Luo Luo will help me with the lost knowledge."
Tang Shiyu looked at Luo Zhan distrustfully: "He? Can he give you tutoring?"
Tang Ran hurriedly said, "Luo Luo is very good. He entered the K University Junior Class at the age of 14. The store manager and the others all said he was a genius, very, very smart!"
Tang Shiyu was stunned.
Tang Ran thought she didn't believe it: "What I said is true!"
"...Understood," Tang Shiyu recovered and smiled, "Why do you protect him so much? Girls need to be more reserved."
As soon as these words fell, Luo Zhan raised his eyes suspiciously.
Lan Jingqian across the table seemed to be choking, looking at Tang Shiyu with complicated eyes.
Tang Shiyu was stared at by two dog men with a guilty conscience for two seconds, raised his hand and rubbed the tip of his nose: "It's okay to not be reserved."
Tang Ran, who blushed, couldn't help but lower her eyes.
Seeing that the atmosphere was rarely harmonious, Tang Shiyu's cell phone suddenly vibrated again.
Tang Shiyu glanced over.
After two seconds of silence, the smile on her face faded.
The atmosphere fell into an eerie silence again.
Opposite the long table, Lan Jingqian picked up the napkin and wiped the corner of his mouth. After putting it down, he seemed to ask unintentionally, "In such a hurry, your husband's phone number?"
Tang Shiyu's mouth moved slightly, and after a few seconds she sneered: "Sister is single."
"—" Lan Jingqian's fingers on the tablecloth twitched abruptly. The calm mask on his face shattered, and he raised his eyes in amazement.
Tang Shiyu didn't look at him.
She stretched out her hand and connected the phone. She wanted to get the ear, but after hesitating, she pressed the speakerphone.
A male voice familiar to the other three quickly rang out on the phone: "Xiaoyu."
"I remember I said," Tang Shiyu interrupted lazily, "I don't want anyone from the Tang family to contact me again."
"… "
After a long silence on the phone, Tang Shixin sighed: "I know, you still blame me."
"Don't snap your hats, brother." Tang Shiyu smiled coldly, "I never said I would blame you."
"Then why don't you even see me?"
"Don't blame you and Ken to see you, is there any necessary connection? I just don't think there is any need for us to meet. After all, we haven't seen each other for more than ten years. Don't you and I both live well?"
Tang Shixin was silent again.
This time, Tang Shiyu was impatient to wait for him: "If there is nothing else, then I will hang up."
"Wait." Tang Shixin stopped her, "Mother is ill, very ill... Did you know about this?"
Tang Shiyu's eyes moved.
After a while, she chuckled lightly: "Now that I know, so what?"
"You, aren't you going to come back and see her?"
"Why should I see her?"
"No matter what she has done, she has raised us for more than 20 years and has taken care of this family for so many years."
Tang Shiyu was silent for two seconds, then sneered abruptly: "So you already knew it. You already knew that you could still treat her like your own mother... You are really a dutiful son."
"!"
As soon as these words came out, the other three people in the restaurant were shocked, showing varying degrees of surprise and surprise.
Tang Shiyu didn't seem to care what bomb she just threw, she leaned back on the soft leather back of the chair: "I broke up with the Tang family, I said this more than ten years ago. You don't need it now. Find me again."
Tang Shixin sighed: "She is so angry this time, the doctor said that she might not be able to survive, so you won't see her again?"
"What to do when we meet again? Speed up her anger?"
This mockery made Tang Shixin say in a low voice: "Xiaoyu."
"You don't need to persuade me any more." Tang Shiyu also said coldly, "I'm not a saint. I haven't been able to see my daughter for more than ten years. It's all thanks to her. righteous."
"… "
"Also, if the purpose of you calling me repeatedly like this is to follow my relationship with Xiaoran and ask Lan Jingqian or Luo Zhan for help, then there is no need for a tree like the Tang family to rot to its roots. It's long overdue. I don't think anyone saw this more urgently than they did."
"… "
After a long silence, Tang Shixin sighed again: "I see."
"Well, then hang up."
"I happened to leave that night and couldn't see you. I'm sorry, Xiaoyu. You are my only sister, and Tang Ran is my only niece. Although I have been forced by my mother over the years, I have never felt sad. She—so take her out to see me again, okay?"
"… "
Tang Shiyu hesitated for the first time.
She and Tang Shixin are close relatives, and they once had too many deep feelings that no one can understand. Hearing Tang Shixin speak to her in such a low voice, it was difficult for her to refute or sneer.
But she also knew that if she agreed, it would be too unfair to Tang Ran.
Just when Tang Shiyu rarely hesitated, a footstep sounded in the quiet restaurant—
Luo Zhan accompanied Tang Ran'an to finish the dinner quietly, got up at this time, walked around the table and chairs slowly, and stopped beside Tang Shiyu.
He lowered his hand, and his slender knuckles evoked Tang Shiyu's mobile phone.
About to hear the movement, Tang Shixin wondered: "Xiaoyu, are you in Luo's house now, have you turned on the speakerphone? The voice is a little empty."
"Uncle Tang is very calculating." Luo Zhan said coldly.
The opposite side was stunned: "Luo Zhan?"
Luo Zhan sneered lightly, "Yeah."
"How do you..."
"You know that Ranran is the most soft-hearted. You know that she will understand the embarrassment of her mother. As long as she is overcome, the Luo family behind me and I will only listen to her words - that's why you deliberately made such a request."
Tang Shiyu suddenly returned to his senses, his expression tightened.
The voice in the phone was a little annoyed after the silence: "How can you be so suspicious of me, Luo Zhan, I have treated Tang Ran for so many years—"
"You really didn't take the initiative to do any harm to Ranran, I know that."
Luo Zhan interrupted him lazily.
"You're just watching, right?"
Tang Shixin defended: "I don't have the right to question my mother's words in the Tang family. I want to help with some things, but I can't."
Luo Zhan laughed, his eyes cold: "Really. But I listen, why are you so hypocritical."
"… "
"Since you couldn't do it at the beginning, don't try your best now, Uncle Tang."
"Luo Zhan, you—"
"Because you haven't hurt Ran Ran, this is the last time I call you that. If you have anything in the future, don't ask Tang Shi..." Luo Zhan paused, looked at Tang Ran hesitantly, and changed his mouth, "Don't Find Aunt Tang, and don't disturb Ranran."
After Luo Zhan finished speaking, he raised his hand and rubbed his shoulders and neck.
When he bowed his head, there was an extremely cold emotion in his eyes: "The Luo family is just leaving the venue now - don't force it to stand opposite you."
Tang Shixin froze and asked unwillingly for a long time, "You really don't care about the relationship between the two families for nearly 20 years?"
"From the very beginning, it wasn't a relationship, it was a debt." Luo Zhan lowered his eyes and said in a deep voice, "You Tang family, this is just the beginning of paying her back."
"… "
Luo Zhan was no longer interested, put down his mobile phone, and turned around lazily with his eyelids drooping, preparing to return to Tang Ran.
Just a step or two out, he stopped again and turned back. With one hand resting on the edge of the long table, Luo Zhan looked at the mobile phone interface and leaned down.
"I almost forgot to mention it. Hang Wei is unforgivable for what she has experienced over the years, so she doesn't deserve to be forgiven or sympathized with. As for you. "
The young man's face is sharp, his eyes are cold and cold-
"Bystanders may be innocent, but they are never innocent."