Chapter 139 Parents
The dying street lamps gave a gasping sound, the dim lights flickered a few times and then went out, and the forest fell into complete darkness. On summer nights, the cicadas kept chirping, and only human eyes shone in the darkness.
There was a slight friction sound from the surrounding grass, and a dry branch was broken by someone. The "crackling" sound was amplified dozens of times by the darkness, and several people couldn't help but move their ears.
In the sparsely populated grove, several dark shadows appeared and surrounded us silently.
Rong Yuan moved his fingers and took out a fruit knife as long as his finger from the key chain.
In the darkness, his eyes no longer had the usual subtle warmth and tenderness. He looked indifferent, as if nothing in this world mattered to him.
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"It's so slow..." Zhou Yuan ran to the door for the fifth time to look around but failed. He walked back disappointed and said dejectedly .
"There must be a lot of things to pack, right?" Jin Yang said uncertainly. He put away the last document he had just read and rubbed his wrist. Although he felt that Rong Yuan would be fine, Zhou Yuan's worry seemed to have spread to him. He picked up his phone and said, "Let me make a call and see!"
Zhou Yuan had been waiting for this sentence for a long time. Hearing it, he immediately ran over and looked at his...cell phone with shining eyes.
Jin Yang was dazzled by Youruo's real gaze and said helplessly, "It's not like you don't have Xiaoyuan's number, can't you just call him yourself?"
When it comes to Rong Yuan, Zhou Yuan subconsciously flinched. The impact of deserting the battlefield lasted longer than she expected. Jin Yang didn't mind, but Rong Yuan had never given her a good face until now, not to mention occasionally smiling at her like before. Zhou Yuan had been working twice as hard during this period, hoping that Rong Yuan would forgive her for her efforts to reform. At the same time, Zhou Yuan was determined that next time, let alone a mere interview, she would definitely do it without blinking an eye, even if it meant going through a mountain of swords and a pot of oil.
During the final exam, her grades soared to third in the class and 49th in the grade at a rocket-like speed, which impressed all the teachers and classmates. After school, Zhou Yuan deliberately put her test paper and transcript in a place where she could see them as soon as she entered the door. As a result...
Rong Yuan took a glance and walked away. Zhou Yuan swore that he saw a look of contempt in his eyes as if to say "what is this garbage".
Zhou Yuan burst into tears... She shouldn't have forgotten... In Rong Yuan's eyes, the 49th place was probably no different from the 940th place... Anyway, to him, they were all the same and not worth paying attention to...
Jin Yang praised her and even bought her a small gift as a reward. But by then, Zhou Yuan had been so devastated that she almost died...
So when Jin Yang asked Zhou Yuan to make the call herself, she just laughed dryly and hid her hands behind her back, swearing that she would never dial that number.
"You..." Jin Yang shook his head and sighed. He didn't force her and dialed the number himself. Zhou Yuan immediately put his ear close to it.
“Beep…beep…beep…”
The phone rang for a long time and no one answered.
"What's going on?" Jin Yang frowned.
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Rong Yuanyuan sat on the thick carpet, and the pure white Samoyed came over, humming affectionately, rubbing its big head against his chest. The fat boy touched its neck, but he was not in high spirits, and did not roll into a ball with the dog as usual.
"What's wrong?" Rong Licheng came over and sat cross-legged, patting his head like a puppy, and asked, "Didn't you want to go to the aquarium? Why are you still unhappy? Is there something on your mind?"
Rong Yuanyuan pouted and said nothing. He wanted to go to the aquarium just as an excuse to be alone with his father, but he didn't expect his mother, who usually didn't like to go to crowded places, to go with him. He couldn't refuse, so he dealt with it in a sullen manner for the whole day. It was strange that he was in a good mood.
"Honey, I made an appointment with a friend to go to Flower Country to buy some clothes. I booked a flight tonight and will be back next Wednesday... Honey, listen to your dad at home."
As they were talking, Rong Yuanyuan's mother Du Qiaoxin came down from upstairs carrying a handbag, knelt on the carpet and kissed the two men, one big and one small, one after another, with a relaxed tone as if she was going to the store opposite to buy a bottle of vinegar.
Rong Licheng was already used to her style of leaving without saying anything, so he nodded and said, "Have a good trip."
Rong Yuanyuan did not show any dependence or reluctance as before. Instead, she said impatiently, "Goodbye, Mom! Buy me a present! I want the latest version of Phantom Chariot!"
"I know, I know. You are indispensable!"
Du Qiaoxin hugged his head and kissed him again, then left briskly with her bag. Rong Yuanyuan immediately got up from the carpet, leaned against the window and watched the car lights gradually fade away. She turned around and immediately drove away the nanny who was standing by, and sat cross-legged opposite him like his father, saying seriously, "Dad, I have something to talk to you about."
"Well, you say." Rong Licheng put his hands on his knees and said seriously, but his eyes were completely different from his expression.
"I want to know about my brother." Rong Yuanyuan tried to act mature and said, "Is everything written in the newspaper true?"
Rong Licheng's eyes, which were originally meeting with his son's, shifted subconsciously. He didn't know which newspaper Rong Yuanyuan asked about. Different media outlets had different emphases and versions of Rong Yuan's life experience, but the same thing was that Rong Licheng would not play a glorious role in them. As a father who wanted to establish an omnipotent and reliable father in his son's heart, that was the past he least wanted Rong Yuanyuan to know. However, no matter how much he tried, he couldn't stop Rong Yuan from rising much faster than he had imagined, and he couldn't stop the overwhelming news about Rong Yuan.
In other words, ever since Rong Yuanyuan sneaked out of the house on her own to go to City A last time, even though the child refused to say anything after coming back and got angry when asked, Rong Licheng knew at that time that this conversation was inevitable.
It is difficult for adults to tell all the truth to children, either for protection, or to cover up, or just like Rong Licheng - he himself finds it difficult to face the past in his memories, let alone tell it to others in person.
But he couldn't lie to Rong Yuanyuan who was staring at him, this was the person he loved most in the world. Maybe it would be better for him to tell her the truth in person instead of letting Yuanyuan collect some messy information on her own.
"Oh...it's a long story..."
Rong Licheng sighed and was about to tell Yuanyuan about the past when his cell phone suddenly rang - it was his personal cell phone, known only to a very limited number of people, and he had used the number for many years.
"I'll tell you later."
Rong Licheng first said something to his son, then took out his mobile phone and looked at it. His expression immediately turned cold and he walked to the study before answering the call.
"Lu Yao, I didn't expect you to call me again!"
The moment the door was closed, Rong Licheng's words floated out, with an uncontrollable coldness in his tone.
Rong Yuanyuan, who had been sitting obediently on the carpet, looked around, ran to his bedroom, pulled out a box from under the bed, poured the toys inside onto the floor, found a toy receiver, and ran out of the study, pressed the receiver against the door, and put her ear close to it.
"Yes, you gave birth to him, but he is my son!"
"Ha! I'm not qualified to say that, but are you qualified? From the time he was born to now, have you ever fulfilled your responsibilities as a mother? What's the point of calling me again after all these years!"
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"That being said..." Lu Yao was lying on a beach chair in her swimsuit, her face looking only the size of her palm in her dark purple sunglasses . She stretched out her hand, and a girl in a maid outfit next to her immediately handed her a crystal blue cocktail. Lu Yao held the glass tightly and said slowly, "After all these years, you still knew it was me as soon as I answered the phone! Do you still have my number saved in your phone, or do you have it stored in your mind?"
Rong Licheng's hands tightened, and he almost crushed the phone. He gritted his teeth and asked, "I want to know, you suddenly asked about your son who you abandoned for so many years. Are you asking for yourself or for your husband's consortium?"
"Ma~ My husband doesn't know he's my son yet. If he knew, he would definitely ask about it, right?" Lu Yao shook the wine glass, squinted his eyes and looked at the blurry colors in the glass, and said, "Speaking of which, I have to thank you. You can't even protect yourself, but you can still hide my affairs in China... Does the child know? I am his mother's business."
"Humph!" Rong Licheng snorted coldly and said, "Is it necessary?"
Lu Yao took a sip of wine, swallowed it, and then said, "Isn't that too cruel? After all, I carried you for ten months and gave birth to you with great difficulty. Because of him, I have even lost the ability to continue to have children! It's not too much to ask for a little reward, right?"
"Continue to have children, will you care about such a small matter?" Rong Licheng said sarcastically.
"That's true. It doesn't matter." Lu Yao agreed, and then said, "But, if that kid can invent cotton candy, he can naturally invent fruit candy, milk candy, chocolate candy and so on in the future. Don't be so short-sighted. The benefits that the consortium can give him will definitely not be less than if he works hard on his own, and it will be much easier! Think about it for him. It won't be a loss for me either!"
"You can give it a try." Rong Licheng's voice was as cold as ice chips falling off. "Your consortium may be a Tyrannosaurus Rex, but I am the local tyrant in Sugar Country. If you dare to stick your claws in, I will chop off as many as you can!"
"How horrible, so scary." Lu Yao said calmly, "You are so nervous , are you trying to monopolize the benefits? Your eating habits are too ugly."
Rong Licheng was silent for a long time. His tense expression suddenly became very tired, and his voice slowed down a lot: "I can't control others, but Lu Yao... we haven't given him anything in all these years, so... don't take anything away from him, okay?"
The relaxed, playful smile on Lu Yao's face disappeared completely. After a while, she sneered and said, "Don't you know what will happen to a three-year-old boy who takes gold to the market? Do you think you are virtuous if you don't take action? How naive!"
Lu Yao hung up the phone directly, looking somewhat bewildered, and muttered: "The evil spirits must have come to our house, right? My son... I thought I had forgotten him a long time ago... What kind of child is he?"
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Rong Yuanyuan didn't hear any more noises for a while, so she carefully pushed the door open a crack and peeked in. Rong Licheng tried to throw his phone to the ground several times, but he finally took it back. The man's hands were shaking slightly, and his expression was more complicated than he had ever seen before, a mixture of indescribable disgust, pain... and love.
