"I have nothing to be sorry for you. Over the years, I have been short of you to eat or drink. I let you go to the best school and let you live in the biggest house. You have everything your classmates have. , what your classmates don’t have, you also have, I think I’m still a competent father, but what about you, are you a good son? Have you ever done something that makes me proud?”
Seeing his son's change, Yan Chaozong was very happy in his heart, but seeing his son's eyes that seemed to be looking at a stranger, he couldn't restrain the anger in his heart immediately, and slapped the table and roared.
Last night, he lay on the bed tossing and turning, unable to sleep. From the wrinkled appearance of his son who was just born, he thought of how he was when he was kicked out of the house by himself half a year ago. Only at this time did he realize that it seemed that his wife After his death, less and less attention was paid to this son.
At that time, it was not easy to do business, and he was overwhelmed by the company's affairs. Fortunately, the wife he remarried later was kind-hearted and helped him take care of the children properly.
At the very beginning, he was still worried, and would ask the nanny about his son from time to time, and from time to time, he would also communicate with his son's teacher on the phone, but gradually, the business became more and more busy, and Baiyin, the Stepmother, people can't find any faults in everything, even the young son at that time praised her, Yan Chaozong naturally felt relieved, and gradually, he paid less attention to this, until later, this kind of neglect, It has also become a habit.
Yan Chaozong thought about it all night, trying to understand that as a father, he might really be lacking in this point, but he didn't think it was an important issue.
In their generation, there were many brothers and sisters, and if parents were dual-employees, they would work in three shifts, and they would have less time to see each other every day, let alone take care of them personally.
As parents, as long as they don't let their children starve to death, and let them have a house to live in, food to eat, and books to read, that's the most responsible thing. Yan Chaozong himself came here like this, and he doesn't think there is any problem with this education method.
It's like his father, Yan Chu's grandfather, usually doesn't care about the children in the family, because he thinks it's a woman's business, that is, Yan Chaozong's fucking business. Said to beat him first, this is the best way for a father to show his authority.
Yan Chaozong was afraid of being beaten by his father when he was a child, so he didn't advocate violence. But other than that, he really didn't think there was anything more to be a father.
He thought, he has paid enough for this family, but he has lost a little bit of care. Is it still an unforgivable problem.
This night, he pondered over and over again, feeling remorse and anger at the same time. Such mixed emotions reached their peak when he saw Yan Chu, his son.
"Yes, you think I've embarrassed you, and you think it's embarrassing to have a son like me who can't study and look bad, but did I embarrass you like that from the beginning?"
Yan Chu looked at the angry man on the opposite side, he may not not love the son of the original body, but his love was too selfish, he disciplined the original body in the way he thought was right, he didn't put in enough effort, he just entrusted him to Is this kind of love for a reliable woman he thinks really what Yuanshen wanted
Yan Chaozong was stunned by Yan Chu's words, yes, he still remembered that when his son was very young, Yuxue was cute, as beautiful as a doll, and had a sweet and polite mouth, she was the backbone of literature and art in the school, regardless of Whether it's hosting or performing, he is the number one candidate.
Because of this son, he was envied by many people. At that time, Yan Chaozong was proud of his family and had a gentle and virtuous wife. The company's business was on the right track again, but since when he thought of this son, he only felt a headache What
It seems that since he started to gain weight, he no longer had the cute and beautiful appearance when he was a child. Because of the change in appearance, his son's temperament began to feel inferior and sensitive. He still remembers that one day, his son sneaked into his room and said to him, I don't want to study anymore, because the classmates in the class bully him.
How did he do it
Yan Chaozong sat down on the chair weakly and began to recall.
At that time, he was negotiating a big business, so he entrusted the matter to Baiyin. Baiyin was very concerned about Yan Chu, and went to school with the child the next day, but she found out what happened in the school. He came back and told him that it was a small conflict of some children, because Ah Chu was too sensitive and took the kindness of his classmates as malice, so he was rejected by his classmates.
But fortunately, the students in their class are not the kind of bad kids who won't bully him or tease him.
At that time, Yan Chaozong believed it. In his opinion, this is not a big deal. As long as it does not rise to the point of fighting, it is just cold violence. Is this considered violence
Yan Chaozong had never experienced these things himself, so naturally he couldn't imagine the feeling of falling from heaven to hell because of getting fat and leaving friends around him one by one.
Yes, those classmates didn't beat him or scold him, but the kind of being encouraged by the crowd, living with strange, sarcastic, and indifferent eyes, is enough to drive an immature child crazy.
Yan Chaozong remembered that after that, his son cried and complained to him again, saying that he wanted to transfer to another school. On that day, because the previous business deal failed, he was already in a bad mood and scolded his son severely.
After that, he still called the teacher and communicated about his son's problem. The teacher also said that he would deal with it. After that, he never heard his son complain again. Forget it.
"you-"
Yan Chaozong's voice was a little tight, and he didn't know how to argue.
"I told you to lose weight."
Yan Chaozong didn't dislike moderate fatness. In his old-fashioned eyes, the bone-like body that is now being admired is not what he likes, but his son is really too fat, and he has already become fat beyond the normal body shape. In addition, such a figure not only affects others' impression of you, but also affects your health.
"Hehe, do you think I can lose weight by staying in that home?"
Yan Chu looked at Yan Chaozong and sneered.
This man was able to go to university at his time, become a university lecturer, and then go into business at the most suitable time, which is enough to show that his intelligence is far above ordinary people, but such a smart man has never He has never doubted the person next to him, probably until now, in his heart, Baiyin is a good stepmother who is competent and responsible.
After Yan Chu successfully lost weight, he began to wonder why the original body couldn't lose weight, but he lost weight so easily.
In several worlds, Yan Chu had worked as a doctor, so he knew that there were several methods that could make a normal person suddenly gain weight, and it was difficult to lose weight. One of the methods was hormones.
The side effects of obesity caused by taking hormones, there are several specific manifestations, full moon face, buffalo back, central obesity, what a coincidence, these points, the body of the original body matches, during the period of taking hormones, if you want to lose weight, it is It's very difficult, but after getting rid of hormones, the body's metabolism and secretion are restored to balance. At this time, it is relatively easy to lose weight again.
When Yan Chu came over, it had been more than half a year since the original body left home. During this period, he had no contact with that family member. Baiyin, who was most likely to attack him, would not be so powerful enough to use other methods to feed him. Adding hormones to things, and at that time, in Baiyin's heart, the original body would have already been useless, so it was not worth her to spend too much thought, and because of this, the body that had been off hormones for half a year gradually broke away from the control of hormones. Yan Chu's weight loss was so smooth.
These are just Yan Chu's guesses for the time being, but this guess, he has basically been able to make Kendy.
"What do you mean by that?" Yan Chaozong frowned, not thinking of this for the time being.
"Don't you think it's strange, why when I was at home, I couldn't lose weight no matter what, but when I left that home, I lost so much all of a sudden. In your heart, there is really a woman who is willing Be good to the stepson, especially the stepson, who may have taken the property that originally belonged to her son."
Yan Chu looked at the man opposite with a sudden change of expression: "I'm not mistaken, just like the rumors outside, the one she brought is your illegitimate child, right?"
Baiyin is not an idiot, if what she brought to Yan's house was really a oil bottle, then the most important thing she should do is to coax Yuanshen into a child who treats her as his own mother when he was still very young.
A business tycoon like Yan Chaozong is not a fool. If something goes wrong with his original body, the huge wealth behind him will never be inherited by a stepson who has no blood relationship with him. After all, after Yan Chu, he There are also many nephews and nieces, as well as many nephews and nieces. These are still related to him. For people like Yan Chaozong, blood relationship is the most important thing.
But it would be different if the child brought by Baiyin was born to Yan Chaozong himself. If Yan Chu was abolished, he should turn to raise his other son instead of focusing on his nephews and nephews.
"Nonsense."
Yan Chaozong was a little weak, but in front of his son, how could he admit that he had betrayed his marriage and his dead wife.
Immediately, Yan Chaozong couldn't hold back anymore, and even became angry from embarrassment.
That's right, the child brought by Baiyin, who was only three years younger than Yan Chu, was indeed his and Baiyin's illegitimate child, but to Yan Chaozong, this was all an accident, and both he and Baiyin were accidental victims.
Speaking of it, it has to involve a period of old past.
When Yan Chaozong was still a university lecturer, he once supervised a class of students. Baiyin was the most beautiful girl in that class. At that time, the two had little contact. In addition to that class, he resigned after teaching for a year. Later, when Baiyin came to his company to apply for a job, he remembered that he had such a student.
Because of the relationship between teachers and students, Yan Chaozong treated Baiyin a little special. He kept her and let her be his secretary. At that time, his wife was pregnant and couldn't accompany him to some occasions. Baiyin Just made up for this vacancy.
But Yan Chaozong thinks that the relationship between the two is very pure. He still regards the other party as his student, and the other party only regards him as a teacher who needs to be respected. He introduces Baiyin's existence to everyone frankly, including The wife at home, in order to prevent her from thinking wildly, Yan Chaozong also explained everything clearly. After all, the secretary's reputation was not good at that time, and Yan Chaozong was also afraid that his wife's thinking would be misunderstood.
In the business field, it is inevitable that there will be times when it is necessary to act on the spot. Because of the existence of Baiyin, Yan Chaozong has saved a lot of trouble. He thinks this is also very good. Don't bother Baiyin to accompany him on those social occasions after work, but who would have imagined that an accident broke the original calm.
That time, both he and Baiyin drank too much, his friend thought that Baiyin was his mistress outside, so he simply opened a room for them, in the middle of the night in a daze, he took Baiyin as his wife, Naturally, a relationship that shouldn't have happened happened.
That was Baiyin's first time. At that time, she had a stable partner. After the two of them woke up, Baiyin even had the urge to die. In remorse, Yan Chaozong had no choice but to stop her. He blurted out what he was willing to take responsibility for, lost his innocent white tone, and gradually regained his composure under his curse and oath.
On the one hand was his beloved wife, and on the other was the poor woman who had suffered an innocent disaster. Yan Chaozong was in a bad mood during that time. Fortunately, after Baiyin regained his composure, he thought about it and didn't make a fuss for him to divorce. He just resigned from him and planned to Travel to calm down the mood.
Yan Chaozong was grateful for Baiyin's tolerance and understanding, gave her a sum of money, and then treated it as a thing of the past, but Baiyin's nature was noble, and before leaving, he returned the money to the financial department, and then left quietly .
A man's inferiority root is always somewhat different to his own woman. After Baiyin left, he began to miss him from time to time, recalling their previous scenes. Yan Chaozong knew that this was wrong, but he still couldn't restrain himself .
Fortunately, three months later, Baiyin came back again, because she found out that she was pregnant, and the child belonged to Yan Chaozong.
Everyone knew what happened after that. He raised Baiyin outside and let her give birth to the illegitimate child. Because of his guilty conscience, he treated his original wife even better. Until his son was six years old, and the illegitimate child was three years old. Only after his mother passed away due to illness did he restore Baiyin to his right.
In Yan Chaozong's heart, Baiyin has always been uncontested. This trust allows him to safely hand over his son to her, and he also sees the other party's sacrifices over the years. From Yan Chaozong's point of view, the reason why the eldest son refused to accept this stepmother was only because of outsiders' instigation and his own ignorance, and it had nothing to do with Baiyin.
"Bullshit—bullshit—"
Yan Chaozong repeated this sentence, he didn't want to doubt the wife who had been sleeping with him for more than ten years, and he didn't want to admit that for so many years, he was negligent and he was wrong.
"You are always like this, you always feel that what you think is right is right."
Yan Chu's voice was a little hoarse, and he lowered his eyes, his eyelashes trembling, expressing the unrest in his heart.
"When I was in the second year of junior high school, I was crying and clamoring to transfer schools. You believed that woman's words and thought that the problems I encountered were just small fights among classmates, and then let them go. Do you know the kind of people who surround me? You are talking and joking together, but when you walk over, they immediately stop discussing, and then boo meaningfully, do you know that when you are in a group activity in the class, but everyone treats you like a plague god, the feeling of being isolated and sad? You do not know."
"When I couldn't stand such a blow and chose to lose weight, have you seen my efforts? I only eat two meals a day. I control my food intake. I get up early and go for a run at night. How many times, I'm hungry Stars in my eyes, I pouted my head when I almost didn't walk on the road, you don't know, you just dislike me for not doing enough, dislike me for embarrassing you, do you know that at that time I was just an idiot Son, I lost my mother, and the only one I can rely on is you, my father. However, you pushed me to a woman with malicious intentions without thinking. At that time, I felt that I was abandoned by the whole world, no You feel ashamed that I am fat, okay, I will eat fatter, and you praise the son she brought for good grades, okay, I will let it go, let my grades rot to the bone, anyway, the person who cared about me the most is dead, Everyone hates me, so no matter how good I do, what good is it?"
Yan Chu's nasal voice became more and more intense, and when he raised his head, his eyes were red. Yan Chaozong looked at him, his heart was tightly grasped, and he opened his mouth, feeling a pain of suffocation.
"On the day I was driven away by you, I sat on the bridge all night and drank wine all night. Before I fell asleep in a daze, I wanted to jump off with the strength of alcohol. Drowning, it’s all over, but after waking up, I regretted it, I dreamed about my mother, she was exactly the same as in the photo.”
Speaking of his mother, Yan Chu's expression inevitably softened a lot, his whole body lost his hostility, and returned to the purity of a child.
"My mother hugged me and said, everyone doesn't want me, she will want me, haha, look, I'm still alive, I'm still valuable, I'm not a child that no one loves."
Yan Chu grinned: "I am also a child of my mother. If she is still alive, I will be the happiest child in the world, so I will live a good life, for her, for myself, but I won't do it for you anymore." alive."
Looking up to prevent the tears from streaming down, Yan Chu stood up and took a deep look at the man across from him: "I just want to return those things my mother left behind, because you are not worthy to keep those things."
After that, he turned and left.
"No, no."
Yan Chaozong clutched his chest, and after Yan Chu left, he couldn't help but burst into tears, his face was full of fatigue, and the man who had been well-maintained finally showed some of the old lady he should be at his age.
*****
"Chaozong, where did you go today? Someone from the company called home and said they couldn't get through to your mobile phone, but it made me anxious."
Yan Chaozong sat in the coffee shop for a day, his phone kept ringing, but he didn't have the urge to answer it, he sat for a day, and also thought about it for a day.
"It's nothing, it was delayed by some things."
Yan Chaozong glanced at his wife, thinking about what his son said during the day, and suddenly felt that this woman was a little strange.
She is gentle, she is virtuous, but is what he sees really the real her? Perhaps, as the son said, are there really stepmothers in this world who devote themselves wholeheartedly to other people's children, based on those huge properties
"Tonight, I have a lot of business to deal with, so I'll sleep in the study, and I'm not hungry, so don't call me for dinner."
Yan Chaozong waved to Baiyin weakly, then walked upstairs.
"Lawyer Lin, come to the company tomorrow, and I want to talk to you about the will."
"Zhang Cheng, come over here tomorrow. There are some things I want you to look into."
Yan Chaozong made two phone calls one after another. He opened the drawer on the side of the table. Inside were several family photos of his family, including those of him and his late wife, and those of him and Baiyin, mother and son.
Looking at the smiling bright wife in one of the old and yellowed photos, and the handsome and cute son at the time, Yan Chaozong felt mixed feelings in his heart.
If he hadn't made that mistake at the beginning, wouldn't everything have happened? If, in these years, he could devote some energy to the eldest son, wouldn't there be the ending of the father and son breaking up now
If everything is wrong, there is no chance of redemption.
Yan Chaozong closed his eyes, today is destined to be another sleepless night.
Outside the study, Baiyin frowned and thought.
The husband disappeared for a long time, and the first thing he came back was to talk to lawyer Lin about his will. Could it be that something happened during this half day that she didn't know about
Baiyin left quietly, she must figure this out.