But then the door to the ward was opened, and this little bit of warmth was gone, Gu Biqing and Shan Qiyuan appeared together.
The two must have made an appointment, Gu Biqing has a natural trust in her eldest son, Shan Qiyuan.
The smile on Shan Tianfeng’s face diminished when he saw the visitor’s face.
Shen Yuhan gave up his chair to Gu Biqing, turned on the movie-watching mode again, and quietly stood back.
Gu Biqing sat down directly without even saying thank you, and took the lead in saying: “Shan Tianfeng, never expected that we would meet again in the hospital, I wish you hadn’t come out alive.”
“Then it’s a pity, the heavens didn’t accept me, and failed to do what you wanted.” Shan Tianfeng was also tough.
Gu Biqing looked at him with hatred on her face: “Do you know why I came back?”
Shan Tianfeng leaned back and closed his eyes: “I don’t care if you come back or not.”
Gu Biqing didn’t play along with him either, and only expressed her own request: “Give me back the Shan family, your mistresses don’t deserve anything from our Gu family.”
Shan Tianfeng laughed instead of being angry: “When did the Shan family become part of your Gu family?”
Gu Biqing began to bring up the old story again: “Without the help of my parents back then, could the Shan family get back on its feet again?”
Shan Tianfeng couldn’t help but find it funny, the stitches on his wound had been removed, so he laughed out loud: “Gu Biqing, I don’t think you have Alzheimer’s disease. Today, several children are also present, we might as well make things clear, so as not to create unnecessary misunderstandings about us. Let me ask you, did your parents really help me? Back then, you asked them to lend me a hand, and they said okay, but at that time, they lent me the money privately based on the bank interest rate at that time, after the Shan family came back to power, I had already paid back the money and settled everything with them.”
Gu Biqing angrily rebutted: “It’s obviously the money my parents gave you, you’re just being unreasonable1胡攪蠻纏 (hú jiǎo mán chán): to pester somebody endlessly (idiom); to be unreasonable; to plague somebody with unreasonable demands; to argue tediously and vexatiously; harass sb with unreasonable demands; unreasonable and persistent., and talking nonsense!”
Shan Tianfeng gestured to the housekeeper: “Madam, this is true, we still have the photocopy of the IOU from that year, the original has been burnt by the gentleman, I can go home and get it if you need it.”
Gu Biqing seemed to have heard some terrible news: “Will I believe the IOU you made out of thin air?”
The housekeeper said: “I was also present at that time, and there is Old Master Gu’s signature on the IOU, you can compare it to Old Master Gu’s handwriting.”
Gu Biqing still doesn’t believe it: “Why didn’t you say it all these years, why didn’t you say it until now?”
Shan Tianfeng said: “Because I wanted to make things easier for myself, anyway, I don’t have a few good years to live.”
Shan Qihuan and the others were silent, wondering what else they would say, what Gu Biqing loved to talk about most was that the Shan family made a fortune from the Gu family!
And now there is actually this reversal.
Gu Biqing didn’t know how to recognize it for a while: “In any case, without this amount of money, your Shan family wouldn’t be where it is today.”
“Do you know how to do business? Gu Biqing, everything requires more than just empty talk, I can admit that your Gu family lent me money, helping the Shan family go through the most difficult period, but I also sacrificed my marriage to marry you. Of course, I could have chosen not to marry you, and not to rely on the Gu family for money, but don’t forget what you did to me, do you really think I don’t know anything? I was thinking that since you became a nun twenty years ago, I would no longer care about these matters anymore, but since you are back again, there are some things that need to be addressed to avoid misunderstandings after my passing.”
Shan Qihuan and the others: “…” Shan Tianfeng sacrificed his marriage? What does this mean?
Compared with the surprise of Shan Qihuan and the others, Gu Biqing was completely unable to accept Shan Tianfeng’s statement: “Sacrificing your marriage? Do you mean you didn’t want to marry me at all?”
“Whether I’m willing or not, don’t you know this?” Shan Tianfeng chuckled, “I think no one knows how Qiyuan came to be better than you.”
Shan Qiyuan, who was suddenly named, couldn’t help but frown slightly and looked at Gu Biqing: “Mom, what are you talking about?”
Are they now fighting over old issues, and arguing about who is right and who is wrong?
Gu Biqing seemed to have thought of something, her face changed slightly, and she suddenly stood up: “Shan Tianfeng, what do you mean!”
“I don’t mean anything, don’t you want the Shan family? I just want to figure out with you how much you participated, and let the children evaluate whether it is worth it for me to give you the Shan family.”
Gu Biqing said: “The property of the husband and wife, it is half for each person.”
Shan Tianfeng asked her a question that Gu Biqing had not yet decided on: “I will give you half of the property for the divorce, do you want to divorce me?”
If Gu Biqing was willing to divorce Shan Tianfeng, why would she do this, she just didn’t want to divorce!
“Why should I divorce you!”
“Then on what basis are you talking to me about the Shan Group? At this point in time, you still won’t let me go, I, Shan Tianfeng, have never wronged you, on the contrary, it’s you, if you hadn’t interfered back then, would I have married you?” Shan Tianfeng brought up their marriage once again, “Now it’s me who wants to divorce you, please let me go.”
Gu Biqing’s face changed drastically, and she shrilled: “It’s impossible for me to divorce you, not in this life!”
She staggered slightly when she got up, she couldn’t talk about the matter anymore, so she had no choice but to leave!
Shan Qiyuan glanced at Shan Qihuan, then helped Gu Biqing leave.
Shen Yuhan, who was standing in the front line, eating melons, held Shan Qihuan’s hand, although he was not mentioned in this, it seemed to contain the grievances and resentments between Gu Biqing and Shan Tianfeng.
Shan Tianfeng said to them: “Let you see the jokes of the elders, if you have nothing to do, go back first, is Yuhan free to come here tomorrow to accompany me out of the hospital?”
Shen Yuhan nodded: “Yes, what time will you go home tomorrow morning?”
Shan Tianfeng completely lost his composure just now, almost making Gu Biqing look as if she was about to cough up blood out of anger: “Just arrive at nine in the morning.”
Shan Qihuan and Shen Yuhan left the hospital.
Today, Gu Biqing was busy enough with her own affairs2自顧不暇 (zì gù bù xiá): to have too much on one’s plate; to have trouble even in dealing with one’s own affairs, let alone taking care of others’; be busy enough with one’s own affairs; be unable even to fend for oneself (much less look after others); no longer have the strength to take care of others., her past has also been heard by the younger generation, naturally, she was not in the mood to focus on Shan Qihuan and Shen Yuhan’s matters, in fact, she hated Shan Tianfeng, and her dealing with Shen Yuhan was probably 90% out of misplaced anger, it was intentional.
Instead of taking Shen Yuhan home directly, Shan Qihuan took him to dinner.
“Do you want to eat barbecue?”
“Yes.” Shen Yuhan had eaten barbecue before, but he hadn’t gone out for barbecue with his husband.
The two of them ate Japanese-style barbecue, with oil smoking on the grill pan.
Thinking of the misty rain today, Shan Qihuan asked Shen Yuhan: “The Qingming Festival3清明節 (Qīng míng jié): The Qingming Festival or Ching Ming Festival, also known as Tomb-Sweeping Day in English (sometimes also called Chinese Memorial Day, Ancestors’ Day, the Clear Brightness Festival, or the Pure Brightness Festival), is a traditional Chinese festival observed by ethnic Chinese. A celebration of spring, it falls on the first day of the fifth solar term (also called Qingming) of the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar. This makes it the 15th day after the Spring Equinox, either 4, 5 or 6 April in a given year. During Qingming, Chinese families visit the tombs of their ancestors to clean the gravesites and make ritual offerings to their ancestors. Offerings would typically include traditional food dishes and the burning of joss sticks and joss paper. The holiday recognizes the traditional reverence of one’s ancestors in Chinese culture. is coming up soon, when do you plan to go to your parents and grandfather to sweep their graves, do you want to go before or after the festival?”
Grave sweeping?
Shen Yuhan was slightly stunned, he almost forgot about this matter, he didn’t know where the tombs of ‘Shen Yuhan’s’ parents and grandfather were.
“I can go by myself, Husband, you are busy, so you don’t need to accompany me.”
“That won’t work, after all, it’s our father and mother, I still have to thank them for sending such a wonderful you to me, definitely have to go.”
“Then let me think about it again, I’ve been a bit unfilial these past two years, grandpa asked me to go but I didn’t even go.” Shen Yuhan lowered his head and said, “I’m afraid they will scold me.”
Shan Qihuan thought he had touched his sad spot: “Okay, I’ll grill you a beef tongue, it’s delicious.”
“Um.” Shen Yuhan breathed a sigh of relief, he now knew how to deal with Shan Qihuan when it came to ‘Shen Yuhan’s’ family affairs, and successfully changed the topic, “Husband, your parents didn’t get married in freedom of love as you said.”
“I don’t know either, I heard it from others when I was a child, but now it seems that things are not that simple.” He is a person who wants to watch bad movies until the end, when he first hears his parents’ gossip, he also wants to know the follow-up, “It’s quite dog blood4狗血 (gǒu xiě): dog’s blood; melodramatic; contrived; absurd; exaggerated; ridiculous; In ancient Chinese culture, (black) dog blood was considered the antidote of black magic. In a modern context, 狗血 (dog blood) means something unbelievably cliche/embarrassing/maladroit/exaggerating that needs to be neutralized with dog blood. An alternative explanation is that it is developed from an old saying 洒狗血 (spray dog blood) in the old time for the actors of Peking Opera. It’s quite a humiliating way to criticize an actor for acting in a contrived and theatrical way on the stage in order to draw attention. It originally meant someone who intentionally put dog blood on his/her body or spill it on the ground to fake bleeding. just thinking about it.”
“Since they’ve become an unhappy couple, why not get a divorce? Your dad just mentioned it.” Gu Biqing was willing to leave home for twenty years, and would rather give up reuniting with her children than divorce Shan Tianfeng, why?
“It’s possible that it’s for the sake of the Shan Group, for her face, as well as the love she had when she was young.” Shan Qihuan wasn’t sure, he was still young when Gu Biqing left, and his knowledge of the inside story was quite limited, today is also an eye-opener, it turns out that the feelings of his parents’ generation are also full of dog blood.
He dipped the roasted beef tongue in the sauce, blew it to cool it down a bit, and put it to Shen Yuhan’s mouth: “Open your mouth, the meat is cooked.”
Shen Yuhan was very cooperative with his feeding habits: “Ah.”
The two of them chatted as they ate, and speculated about Shan Tianfeng and Gu Biqing’s past, but they were not affected by them at all.
The only person affected now should be Shan Qiyuan, it seems that he is not the crystallization of his parents’ love.
But it’s not important anymore, it has nothing to do with them.
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The next day, Shen Yuhan went to the hospital to accompany Shan Tianfeng to be discharged.
He and Shan Tianfeng were sitting in the car, and Shan Tianfeng pulled down the window.
“It’s spring, it’s time to sweep the grave.” He added, “Housekeeper, change the route, I want to go to the cemetery to have a look.”
Shen Yuhan didn’t know who he wanted to see in the cemetery, so he didn’t ask, thinking that Shan Tianfeng might not want to talk about it right now.
They arrived at the cemetery.
At first glance, Shen Yuhan felt that the current cemeteries were exactly the same as the buildings in the city, they are all quite crowded, but the city has a large population, and it is impossible for the dead to compete with the living for land, so the dead have to give in.
The two of them walked towards the cemetery each holding an umbrella, and finally stopped next to a woman’s grave.
Shen Yuhan didn’t ask any questions, but he could tell the identity of the other person from the tombstone.
There is a photo on the tombstone, which shows a smiling woman, with an upright appearance, and a natural beauty.
The monument reads: Wife, Yang Jiao.
He wasn’t curious, but Shan Tianfeng couldn’t hold it back: “When I was a rash young man, I had a fiancée, my parents arranged it for me.”
“Later, our Shan family went bankrupt, and her parents felt that our family was not good enough, so they wanted to cancel the marriage. I was initially very resistant to my fiancée, but after something happened in our family, I discovered that I had actually fallen in love with this girl, who was lively and full of smiles, for a long time, and she didn’t agree to break off the engagement.”
Shen Yuhan acted as a qualified listener at the right time: “Why not together later?”
Shan Tianfeng looked at the tombstone and presented the chrysanthemums he had just bought, he sighed and said: “Because of Qihuan’s mother, she and Yang Jiao were very close friends back then.”
There was a crashing sound in Shen Yuhan’s heart: It turned out to be a story of three people.
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Shen Yuhan: Husband, I want to hear a story.
Shan Qihuan: Forty years ago, my mother was my father’s fiancée’s best friend…
Shen Yuhan: …
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