Zheng Ruonan just drove the car to the school gate, and saw Jiang Ning jumping out of a rather expensive luxury car with her schoolbag on her back. But there were more than a dozen cars moving forward slowly, and Jiang Ning disappeared into the traffic in a flash. Zheng Ruonan lowered the window and turned around to look around, but he couldn't find Jiang Ning's figure. Is it just because I read it wrong.
After a while, Jiang Ning walked around to his car with his schoolbag on his back, and knocked on the window of the passenger seat: "Mom."
Zheng Ruonan drove the car, asked Jiang Ning to come up, and said, "I have to find a place to park the car, why hasn't Jiang Fan come out yet? Can you call him?"
"Okay." Jiang Ning took out his phone.
Zheng Ruonan has been busy with the company's business recently, and it has been a long time since she came to pick up the siblings in person. While turning the steering wheel, she looked at Jiang Ning's phone case—well, it's not a couple's phone case, and there is no couple on her schoolbag. Hanging ornaments, it doesn't look like a puppy love.
Then who got out of that car just now? Could it be that I read it wrong
Compared with other parents, Zheng Ruonan is more open-minded.
Jiang Fan has been moaning at home every day recently, and even asked for pocket money. It seems that she has a crush on a girl, but she doesn't care much.
For teenagers, as long as their thoughts are healthy and positive, it is normal for adolescents to have a good impression of the opposite sex.
Moreover, the current Jiang Fan is much better than the Jiang Fan three years ago, and now he is more like what a boy of his age should be.
So if the siblings fell in love early, she wouldn't criticize it.
But as a mother, she has to check and not let them delay their studies. Especially since Jiang Ning is a girl, Zheng Ruonan is more worried about her being bullied.
If it was a puppy love with Xu Mingyi, she might not be worried, the two families knew each other well.
But the problem is - I don't know why, since the age of fourteen, Jiang Ning and Xiao Xu seem to have had a big fight, and the relationship has become much colder. Now the two children will visit each other during the Chinese New Year, and they don't have much contact with each other.
Both Zheng Ruonan and Xu Mingyi's mothers were helpless.
Thinking of this, Zheng Ruonan said sideways: "Ning Ning, if you have a boy you like, you have to tell mom. You know that mom treats you as a friend, and she will only do it for your own good, and maybe even give you advice."
Can Jiang Ning not understand her own mother? Now that she speaks nicely, if she really knows that she has a boyfriend, then she has to examine her from head to toe.
Jiang Ning always felt that... Zheng Ruonan might have a hard time accepting Yan Yixie.
From the perspective of a mother, she doesn't care how much money the person entrusts her daughter to, let alone looks and other things. What she cares about may be that the other party must treat Jiang Ning well, and that she is in good health.
This is also the reason why Jiang Ning did not dare to introduce Yan Yixie to Zheng Ruonan. He was worried that Zheng Ruonan would worry about his own affairs, and also worried that Zheng Ruonan's attitude would hurt Yan Yixie's self-esteem.
She decided to bite the bullet and drag it back: "What are you talking about, where is the boy I like? I can't finish my homework all day, so I won't take the college entrance examination? I just passed the fifth grade exam, What if falling in love drags down my grades?"
Zheng Ruonan was laughed at by Jiang Ning's reply, and said, "Forget it, let's not talk about you, let's go over there and wait for your brother."
After a while, Zheng Ruonan turned around and left the school after picking up Jiang Fan, who was sweaty after playing basketball.
Jiang Ning and Jiang Fan chatted for a while in the car.
Jiang Ning turned her head and winked at Jiang Fan.
Jiang Fan also began to gossip, sitting on the back seat, pulling the back of the front seat, and asked excitedly: "Mom, you came to pick us up today, is there any uncle you like who wants to have dinner with you?"
Zheng Ruonan smiled: "So you want to have a stepdad?"
Jiang Ning put his hands on his head: "Anyway, Jiang Fan and I don't mind."
Zheng Ruonan said, "It's not for this to pick you up from school today. Your father came over and said he wanted to see you. I've booked a restaurant, let's have dinner together."
Jiang Ning and Jiang Fan's expressions changed, and they subconsciously looked at Zheng Ruonan for the first time, but Zheng Ruonan's expression was calm, as if he had completely let go.
Zheng Ruonan: "Although the court sentenced you to me, but given him visitation rights, I can't stop him from seeing you all the time. Let's go after this meal."
Jiang Fan said angrily: "I don't want to see him. It's been three years. What's the point? Didn't he take Jiang Rourou to another place? Why are you still here?"
While talking, the car stopped in the parking lot of a hotel. Before the parking officer came to help park the car, a middle-aged man who was looking around quickly stepped forward and opened the car door expectantly.
... Then I heard what Jiang Fan said.
Father Jiang and Jiang Fan looked at each other, and both of them froze.
Father Jiang was wearing an old jacket that had been washed white. Although his beard had been shaved clean, he still looked haggard. He looked ten years older than Zheng Ruonan of the same age, which showed that the past few years had been a mess.
After the divorce, he continued to look for a job in Haishi at the beginning. He had some friends who could provide him with some resources. Although the salary was not very high and he had to start from scratch, it was enough to support him, Jiang Rourou and others. There are three old ladies.
But when Jiang Rourou was transferred from Hengchu to a poorer school, the students in the new school got the news from somewhere that Jiang Rourou was Xiaosan's daughter and began to exclude her.
Jiang Rourou cried and made noises when she went back, begging Father Jiang to transfer her to another school.
But how can it be so easy? It was difficult for Haishi to transfer schools, but she was able to transfer successfully for the first time, and she was transferred from a good school to a poor school. Because her grades were always among the best, poor schools were willing to accept her.
But if you transfer a second time in a short period of time, the formalities will not be completed at all.
What's more, no matter where you transfer to, there will always be students who know each other in the school. If you don't know about it for a month or two, it will always leak out over time.
Being quarreled all day long by the elder and the younger, Jiang's father was unbearable. Half a year after the divorce, he finally took the elder and the younger to another city, and borrowed Jiang Rourou for school while working.
But his registered permanent residence is not in that city, and he cannot buy a house. He has been renting a house for three years and has no fixed place to live.
Recently, thinking that things have passed, he took Jiang Rourou and the old lady back to Haishi, only to find that the prices of houses in Haishi had risen to the point that he couldn't even afford them.
For three years, Jiang's father has really become a pauper since he went out of the house.
It was Zheng Ruonan who broke the embarrassment and said to Jiang's father: "I brought you the two children, you go in and eat. I have ordered the dishes, and the bill has already been settled."
Father Jiang felt as if he had been slapped on the face again, and said with embarrassment, "Ruo Nan, what about you?"
Zheng Ruonan said to Jiang Ning and Jiang Fan: "I won't go in, you come out after eating, I'll wait for you here."
"I don't want to eat either." Jiang Ning glanced at Father Jiang, then got back into the car.
Jiang Fan also immediately returned to the car and said, "Let's go home and eat."
Father Jiang stood there in embarrassment, couldn't help knocking on the car window, and said to Jiang Fan: "Fanfan, I ordered your favorite food, why don't you go in and try it?"
Jiang Fan hesitated for a moment, then glanced at Father Jiang.
Zheng Ruonan glanced at him in the rearview mirror, and said, "You can go if you want, he is still your father."
"I won't go, I won't go." Jiang Fan said distractedly, "I'm doing pretty well without my dad."
Jiang Fan originally thought that after his parents divorced, he would be ridiculed at school for being a child without a father or a child from a single-parent family, but he didn't expect that... none of this happened. In the past few years without his father, he has lived happily. He doesn't know what Jiang's father is doing when he comes back now, just to find him and his sister for dinner every now and then
But seeing Father Jiang aged so much in just over three years, he felt quite pitiful. But Jiang's father did it on his own. For a normal person, it would be difficult for Jiang Rourou and the old lady to be young.
In the past, the old lady and Jiang Rourou made Jiang Ning suffer, but now that Jiang Ning is gone, wouldn't Jiang's father be quarreled with each other
Jiang Fan was thinking in a daze, wondering what Jiang's father said to Zheng Ruonan again. After a while, Zheng Ruonan returned to the driver's seat and left the restaurant with his siblings.
But Father Jiang stood alone, watching them leave.
After the car drove home, Jiang Ning said, "Mom, he didn't come to you just to find me and Jiang Fan for dinner, right?"
Zheng Ruonan was silent for a while before saying, "Your father came to ask me to borrow money."
Jiang Fan was shocked when he heard this, and said, "Borrowing money? How dare you? He didn't know that the old lady—"
Before he finished speaking, Jiang Fan stopped in time, and didn't tell Jiang Ning and Zheng Ruonan about the old lady who came to the yard every day to scold the bitch when his parents just divorced, otherwise he would follow his sister's temper. Why don't you fight with the old lady again
"Old lady what?" Jiang Ning turned around and asked.
"It's nothing." Jiang Fan found a topic and changed the subject: "I just thought of the old lady bullying you every day. Let's borrow money, Mom, how much did he ask you to borrow?"
If these things were put forward three years ago, Zheng Ruonan would not have planned to tell the siblings, but now the two of them are seventeen years old and almost adult, and the other sixteen years old, they are not too young. She let them make their own choices.
"One million," she said.
Before Jiang Ning could speak, Jiang Fan gasped and said angrily, "One million?!"
Zheng Ruonan has made money in the past few years, several houses and various real estates are added together, there are tens of millions, but it is not something that can be casually lent to a person who has cheated.
Jiang Fan felt that Jiang's father would not be so thick-skinned, the old lady must have come up with this idea.
"I didn't lend it to him, will you blame me?" Zheng Ruonan said, looking at Jiang Ning and Jiang Fan.
"No." Jiang Ning immediately said: "You have earned it all through hard work, and you have every reason to control it yourself."
Jiang Fan also said: "No, Mom."
Zheng Ruonan felt relieved, and tried to ease the atmosphere: "Okay, let's not talk about it, let's not go home and eat, let's find another restaurant to eat."
Jiang's father didn't have the contact information of Jiang Ning and Jiang Fan, let alone go to their school to stop them. This is the end of the day.
When the old lady called again, Zheng Ruonan directly asked her assistant to tell her that it was impossible to lend them money, and it was impossible for them to live back in the old house in the alley.
The old lady's hair was all gray, and she was so angry that she cursed on the phone, but she had already hung up the phone.
Yes, for the past three years, they have lived with Jiang's father and have no fixed place, so they can only live in a rented house.
I thought that Zheng Ruonan would wash her face with tears, and would beg her son to go back soon. After all, Zheng Ruonan was so in love that he wanted to marry her son—but who would have thought that, in the past three years, Zheng Ruonan not only ruined his career The wind and water flourished, and she bought a house for Jiang Ning and Jiang Fan in the name of her guardian, and she was surrounded by a few cheesy faces who pursued her, never thinking about the hard life they would have outside.
The old lady hates it, if she knew that today would happen, she didn't want to think of a way to eat inside and outside, and offended Jiang Ning.
If Jiang Rourou wasn't brought home early in the morning, wouldn't there be so many troubles
But it was too late.
The old lady went to the old alley to quarrel several times, and the old neighbors all wanted to call the police, and she couldn't go in again. She doesn't know where Jiang Ning's family's new home is, and Zheng Ruonan's company has five big and three rough bodyguards.
The old lady was completely desperate, and she couldn't survive this hard life.
She hated Jiang Ning and Zheng Ruonan, mother and daughter, and felt that it was them who ruined her son's life.
Unable to get into Zheng Ruonan's company, she thought of Jiang Ning's school.
After self-study that night, Jiang Ning pushed Yan Yixie's wheelchair towards the car parked not far from the teaching building.
It was winter, and both of them were wearing scarves, the same style of black knitting, which made the skin of the boy and girl white.
The two bright yellow lights in front of the car were on, the students around were walking towards the outside of the school in twos and threes, and the guard in the distance was yawning.
Seeing Jiang Ning and the young master coming down from the teaching building, the butler hurriedly got out of the car, opened the door, and put down the wheelchair to slide the pedals.
Jiang Ning was talking to Yan Yixie about what happened at his home a few days ago.
Yan Yixie frowned, feeling something was wrong: "Why did you say that, and then what?"
An old voice from behind called out, "Jiang Ning."
After three years, Jiang Ning almost forgot the old lady's voice.
When she heard someone calling herself, she turned her head, and the old lady was holding a boiled water bottle in her hand, with an angry expression on her face, she suddenly unscrewed the cap of the bottle and splashed it on her lap.