Translator: SJade, Editor: Dj22031
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Shen Qinglan and Shen Junyu were waiting for Mr. Shen at the foot of the mountain. The old man was in good health and walking down the mountain would not be a problem. The brother and sister had nothing to worry about.
“Brother, how are you and Sister Xiyao doing?” Shen Qinglan asked.
Shen Junyu glanced at her with a smile, “When did you start meddling in my affairs?”
“Can’t I ask?” Shen Qinglan raised an eyebrow?
“She and I are very good.” Shen Junyu smiled, thinking of Wen Xiyao, a smile flashed in his eyes, “She is a good woman.”
“Then do you like her?” Shen Qinglan looked at Shen Junyu with a trace of inquiry. Shen Junyu reached out and patted her head, and couldn’t help but laugh, “If I didn’t like her, would I date her?”
“I thought you would like Fang Tong.” After all, Shen Junyu was really a little different towards Fang Tong at the beginning.
Shen Junyu looked at her speechlessly, “She is your friend. I have always regarded her as my sister. If there is really a little difference, it is probably because I love the house and its crow[1].”
Shen Qinglan nodded noncommittally, and it is what it is.
“By the way, how is Fang Tong in the company recently?”
“Not bad. She takes her work very seriously. Some time ago, there were some rumours about her and me in the company, which had some bad effects on her, but she didn’t give up which has allowed me to see some of her strengths. She has abilities, but they still need to be polished.”
Shen Junyu didn’t want to hide Shen Qinglan’s intention, and talked about Fang Tong’s performance in the company, “It’s just that she is not decisive enough. It is said that her boyfriend cheated on her?”
“You still pay attention to such gossip?” Shen Qinglan teased him.
Shen Junyu glanced at her angrily, “Why am I paying so much attention to her?”
“Fang Tong can do whatever she wants at work, you don’t need to take care of her for me.” Shen Qinglan said lightly, whether it was for Xiaoxuan or Fang Tong, she did not advocate excessive help. Their life was their own, and it was up to them to choose how to go about it.
Shen Junyu nodded to express his understanding, “You are also the company’s major shareholder after all. Are you really planning to let go of the company?”
“I can give you all the shares I hold, or I can give you the shares when you get married to Sister Xiyao as a wedding gift from me.” Shen Qinglan said slowly.
Shen Junyu was helpless. Others wanted to hold power, but his sister was different. He shook his head and said, “I know, you are just lazy.”
Just then Mr. Shen came down from the mountain, so the two of them said nothing more. At this time, there was also a crowd at the door of Shen family house. An unexpected guest had come.
“Whose car is this?” Shen Junyu asked suspiciously, looking at the strange vehicle parked outside his home.
“We have a guest at home.” Shen Qinglan said, opened the car door, and entered the house with Mr. Shen.
It was Aunt Song who opened the door, “Sister-in-law Song, are there guests at home?”
“Yes…” Aunt Song glanced at the old man and hesitated, “You’ll know when the old man goes in and takes a look.”
Shen Qinglan looked at her suspiciously. A glance at Mrs. Song revealed that she had never been such a talkative person. Why was she hesitant in speaking today? She followed Mr. Shen into the house. When he saw the person in the living room, the smile on Mr. Shen’s face suddenly disappeared.
“What are you doing here?” Mr. Shen yelled angrily. He had always been a gentle-tempered old man. He rarely looked so angry. Shen Qinglan couldn’t help but look at the people in the living room.
There were two men and one woman sitting in the living room. They seemed to be a family of three. The middle-aged man’s face was slightly similar to her father. Thinking of what she had learned about the Shen family, Shen Qinglan had a vague suspicion in her heart.
“Dad.” The middle-aged man spoke, confirming Shen Qinglan’s suspicion.
“Don’t call me dad. I’m not your dad. Get out of here.” Mr. Shen pointed at the door, his chest heaving violently. Shen Qinglan stepped forward quickly, “Grandpa, don’t get excited. The doctor said you can’t get angry.”
A few days ago, Mr. Shen was diagnosed with high blood pressure. The doctor said that the old man should not be too excited. When Shen Junyu entered the door, he heard the old man yelling angrily and quickened his pace. When he saw the people in the living room, he was still a little confused. When he went to the man’s exit and called him “old man”, Shen Junyu suddenly remembered that this man turned out to be his second uncle who had been away from home for many years – Shen Rang.
When Shen Rang left the Shen family, Shen Qinglan was not yet born, and even Shen Junyu was still very young, so his memory of him was very vague.
“Dad, I just wanted to come back and see you and my mother. Are you okay?” Shen Rang said at a loss. After being away from home for so many years, the people who he felt most ashamed towards were his parents.
Mr. Shen’s breathing, which had just calmed down, immediately became hurried because of Shen Rang’s words, “Your mother has died a long time ago. What are you looking for when you came back, her ashes?”
Shen Rang looked at Mr. Shen in disbelief, sitting on the sofa. The woman sitting there had been anxious and uneasy since Mr. Shen entered the house. Shen Rang left the Shen family just for her, and had not even come back for more than 20 years. When she heard the old man’s words, she looked very shocked.
“Dad, what did you say? You said my mother is dead?” Shen Rang’s voice trembled.
Mr. Shen looked at him indifferently.
“Dad, tell me, what happened to my mother?” Shen Rang didn’t believe it. His mother had always been in good health, so how could he just say she was gone?
But he forgot that it had been more than twenty years since he left the Shen family. How could he judge the vicissitudes of life for more than twenty years based on his initial impression.
Mr. Shen pointed at the door, “Shen Rang, you are no longer a member of the Shen family. The affairs of our Shen family have nothing to do with you. Now take your wife and children and get out of here.”
“Dad, even if I am not a part of the Shen family, but I am still my mother’s son. Can you tell me where my mother is buried and let me go see her?” Shen Rang prayed.
Mr. Shen looked at him coldly and said nothing, but his meaning was very obvious.
“Second uncle.” Shen Junyu said, “Grandpa has been in poor health recently. You should leave first.”
“Who told you to call him second uncle? He is not your second uncle.” Mr. Shen interrupted Shen Junyu.
“I said what’s going on with you old man? My dad brought us back to see you. Just accept it. Why are you being pretentious here now?” The young man who had not spoken until now spoke. But just as he spoke, the expressions of the people present changed.
The woman on the sofa was embarrassed. Mr. Shen’s face was livid, “Okay, okay, Shen Rang, you taught your son quite nicely. You are really a good father.”
The woman pulled the boy and said, “Hurry up and apologize to your grandfather.”
The boy looked confused, and was stubborn, “He just said that my father is not his son, so he is certainly not my grandfather, and I am not wrong, so why should I apologize.”
“Shen Junze, apologize.” Shen Rang said with a heavy face.
Seeing that his father was angry, Shen Junze reluctantly said sorry to Mr. Shen, his tone was perfunctory, due to which Shen Qinglan’s eyes turned cold.
“Dad, don’t be angry. This kid Junze has been spoiled by us since he was a child. He doesn’t care about the importance of his words. Don’t argue with him.” The woman said with a flattering look on her face.
“If the upper beam is not straight then the lower beam would be crooked as well[2].” Mr. Shen said without even looking at her. If it hadn’t been for this woman, his best son would not have run away from home for so many years and never come back. Even his mother died without him catching up to her last moment.
“Dad.” Shen Rang shouted, but didn’t say anything else. He had already expected such a scene when he decided to come back. The only thing he didn’t expect was the death of his mother.
“Lanlan, grandpa is tired. Help grandpa up to rest.” Mr. Shen said.
Shen Qinglan stepped forward to help the old man go upstairs, and took a look at Shen Rang’s family of three before leaving.
Before returning to the Shen family, she had checked the Shen family’s information and naturally knew that she had a second uncle. However, the information showed that this second uncle broke off the relationship with the Shen family more than 20 years ago because of a woman and left. There had been no news about him since then.
“Grandpa, are you okay?” Shen Qinglan asked worriedly, looking at Mr. Shen’s unhappy expression.
Mr. Shen waved his hand, “Bring the medicine over there to Grandpa.”
Shen Qinglan walked over, picked up the medicine and took a look. It was the medicine that the old man was taking recently to lower blood pressure. She poured out two pills, “Grandpa, here it is.”
Mr. Shen took the medicine and sat for a while before his expression calmed down. “Okay, grandpa is fine. Don’t worry. He was just too excited.”
Seeing Shen Qinglan looking at him with worry, Mr. Shen smiled gently.
“Grandpa, you have a good rest first. I’ll go down and take a look.”
Mr. Shen nodded and lay down on the bed.
Downstairs, Shen Rang’s family of three had not left yet, and Shen Junyu was accompanying them, “You must be Junyu. We haven’t seen each other for so many years, and you are already so old.” Shen Rang looked at Shen Junyu in front of him with a lot of emotion.
Shen Junyu smiled slightly, “Second uncle has not changed much.”
Shen Rang shook his head, “No big deal, I am also old, and even my hair has grown white.” Looking at Shen Junyu, he stopped talking.
“Second uncle wants to ask about grandma, right?” Shen Junyu took the initiative.
Shen Rang nodded, “Your grandma…”
Shen Junyu said, “Grandma passed away last August. She had terminal gastric cancer.”
Shen Rang’s heart was shaken, “How could it be possible? Why haven’t I received any news at all?”
“Have you ever cared about the news about the Shen family?” Shen Qinglan’s clear voice came from the direction of the stairs. After a while, the thin figure appeared. She appeared in the living room, her eyes sweeping over Shen Rang’s family of three.
Shen Rang’s face turned pale and his eyes were empty. He didn’t hear Shen Qinglan’s words at all. Shen Junze, on the other hand, looked at Shen Qinglan with a somewhat unhappy look, “Who are you? This is our Shen family’s business. You are an outsider here. What a mouthful!” He thought Shen Qinglan was Shen Junyu’s girlfriend or wife.
Shen Qinglan smiled, her smile was very beautiful, but there was a coldness in her smile, “I am Shen Qian’s daughter, who do you think is the outsider?”
“Oh, so you are the youngest daughter of the uncle’s family, my father is your second uncle, is this how you talk to your elders? Do you know how to respect people?”
Shen Junyu’s face darkened, but before he could speak, the woman grabbed him and winked at him, preventing him from speaking. “Well, that’s not what Junze meant. He has just returned from abroad and is not very accustomed to the national conditions here. Don’t argue with him.”
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[1] When you love someone, you also care about everything and everyone connected to him/her.
[2] If parents have bad behavior, their son/daughter will have bad behavior too.