Chapter 1338 Can’t I Go?

After all, young people are most likely to act impulsively. After failing to get together with Xiao Shen, it is not impossible for Feng Lu to use Xiao Jin as a substitute.

Mr. Xi's mind was a little active at the moment, and like a young man he couldn't help but think about the story between Feng Lu and the Xiao brothers.

"Although I don't know much about Comrade Jiang and her lover, I also know that their cultural level is very high. Naturally, I believe what you said. Having parents like them is a blessing to the children in the family. I also believe that in Comrade Jiang and his wife, With their training, their children will become pillars of the country, just like you said.”

Father Xiao said these words very sincerely.

When Mr. Xi heard this, a look of satisfaction flashed in his eyes.

It's not that he is nosy, it's that he doesn't want to see a good family and a good child, because the Xiao family's actions out of nowhere will be affected.

"You are a sensible person and can see things through. There is absolutely no harm in it, no matter who it is."

After hearing what Mr. Xi said, Father Xiao smiled and nodded: "That's what you said."

…

More than ten minutes later, Xiao's father said goodbye to Mr. Xi and returned to Xiao's house.

"You and the boss are hiding something from me."

Xiao's mother was sitting in the living room. When she saw Xiao's father come in, she immediately said something.

Rather than asking, she used a declarative tone.

"How do you say this?"

Standing in the center of the living room, Father Xiao stared at Mother Xiao.

"Not long after you went to Xi's house, the boss called and said he had good news. But when he learned that you were not at home, he immediately dismissed me. I don't believe that there is nothing fishy here."

Since it is good news, there is no reason not to let her know.

"You think too much."

Xiao's father said lightly, and then went to the study. Seeing this, Xiao's mother got up and followed.

"The boss asked you to call him back. You should call him now."

Xiao's mother followed into the study, she closed the door and looked at Xiao's father with a keen eye, as if if Xiao's father didn't make this call in front of her, then she would just stand and wait, and she wouldn't leave anyway.

"you……"

Xiao's father had a headache and didn't know what to do with Xiao's mother.

"Old Xiao, you and I are already an old couple. Is there anything that you and the boss need to hide from me?"

Xiao's mother was obviously in a low mood. She said, "We are a family. Shouldn't we solve problems through discussion? Could it be that you two think that I will hold you back?"

Seeing that Xiao's mother was not feeling well, Xiao's mother sighed, and he sat down on the chair behind the desk: "You can sit down too."

Hearing this, Xiao's mother sat on the sofa nearby. She knew that Xiao's father was planning to tell what he had hidden from her.

"You have to promise not to get excited after listening to what I said, let alone do anything behind my back."

Father Xiao looked solemn, his eyes locked on Mother Xiao, and he said: "If you can't do it, it will most likely cause changes in the boss's marriage, and it will also affect another family, and it will also affect an outstanding person. "

"so serious?"

Mother Xiao's expression became serious.

Father Xiao nodded.

Xiao’s mother: “Just tell me, I promise to listen to you.”

"Sure?"

Father Xiao asked.

Mother Xiao glared: "You and I have been married for many years, can't you still not trust me?"

"It's not that I don't believe you. It's just that once I said this, I was worried that you would forget all my words under impulse."

Father Xiao said this, but he still told what happened between Xiao Jin and Feng Lu. After hearing what he said, Mother Xiao was stunned. After a while, she came back to her senses, looked at Father Xiao steadily and asked: " What’s interesting to you is that the child Feng Lu had from her first marriage is our eldest child?”

Xiao's mother was shocked. When Xiao's father nodded, she added: "Feng Lu was shocked because our second son followed the Qin family's girl to the countryside. She drank too much, and then she lay on the same bed with our eldest son. , then she found out she was pregnant and married her first husband with the child in her belly. Is this what happened? "

Father Xiao said "Yeah".

"How could she do this?"

Xiao's mother looked angry and said: "She likes our second child, but she wants to sleep with our eldest child. Since she is pregnant with our eldest child, why didn't she tell our family clearly and chose to carry it with her?" What does she think of our eldest child marrying another man? "

Father Xiao was silent.

Xiao's mother gritted her teeth: "The reason why the boss wanted to be transferred out was because of what Feng Lu did, right?"

Father Xiao: "I only heard about it from the boss later."

Mother Xiao: "Then when did you two know that Feng Lu's first child was the eldest child?"

"That's when she followed the boss to our house..."

Before Xiao's father finished speaking, Xiao's mother laughed angrily: "You guys are so capable. Did she use what happened back then as an excuse to ask the boss for money to shut her mouth? Tell me, how much did you two give her? "

Father Xiao: "The money was indeed given to the Feng family girl, but when Lao Feng found out, he took the money and personally gave it to the child's adoptive mother, but she didn't take it."

"No, who has the money now?"

Xiao's mother asked.

"Old Feng saved it and said he would hand it over to him directly when the child goes to college."

After a slight pause, Xiao's father continued: "I went to see the old leader today because I wanted him to help inquire about the child's college entrance examination. The boss called home, presumably to tell me about this."

Mother Xiao didn’t answer, but she said: “I heard someone in the compound say that there was a boy who looked like our eldest son. I remember that I told you about it when I went home that day, but you told me not to believe everything I heard, and said that I like to think too much. Now it’s good, it’s not that I think too much, it’s obviously the fact.”

Father Xiao said in a deep voice: “Do you think it’s good for the eldest son and the girl from the Feng family to spread? Do you think that if everyone knows the child’s background, it will be good for the eldest son, our family, and the child?”

Hearing this, Mother Xiao was speechless for a while.

"The girl from the Feng family did something dishonest. She was sorry for her first husband, but after the man knew the truth, he did not vent his anger on the child. He still raised the child as his own. Even the wife the man married later taught the child as her own, raising him from childhood to adulthood. It can be seen that he really treats the child well. So, after hearing about the child, I agreed with the eldest brother not to tell you about it, so that you would not act impulsively behind our backs and mess everything up." Father Xiao looked serious: "Do you know what the child's adoptive parents do? ? One of them is a scientific researcher, and the other is a nationally renowned athlete. He was the top scorer in the national college entrance examination several years ago, and is now a professor at Shuimu University. The couple has six children, but each child is well-educated and is the child of other people in their compound. "

After a long silence, Xiao's mother said: "Can't we recognize our eldest grandson?"

"The eldest brother promised that the child will always maintain the current relationship."

Xiao Jin came to visit Xiao's father and mother two days ago. When chatting with Xiao's father alone, he told Xiao's father about the conversation between him and Mingrui in the hospital ward. At that time, Xiao's father did not say anything after listening.

"What relationship?"

Xiao's mother frowned, looking puzzled.

Father Xiao: "The child means that the eldest brother will only be 'Uncle Xiao' in front of him for the rest of his life, and is indirectly telling us that he will not recognize the Xiao family as his relative."

Mother Xiao was surprised: "The child knows?"

Father Xiao nodded: "Yes."

Mother Xiao was puzzled: "Why didn't his adoptive parents hide it?"

"Some things can't be hidden, not to mention that the child is very smart, and he lives in the same compound with the eldest brother's family. They see each other every day. Just based on the appearance of the child and the eldest brother, do you think he can't guess anything?"

"He doesn't recognize us, it seems that he has been raised by his adoptive parents! "

"What are you talking about?"

Father Xiao's face was not good: "We say that Comrade Jiang and his wife are the child's adoptive parents, but in the child's heart, Comrade Jiang and his wife are his biological parents. This is not what you call "raising the child well". Comrade Jiang and his wife are really good to the child, and the child can feel this sincerity, so he regards Comrade Jiang and his wife as his own parents from the bottom of his heart. Besides, is blood relationship really important? In my opinion, it is nothing at all. "

"Why is it not important? If there is a blood relationship, then we are a family!"

Mother Xiao retorted. "That's because you don't have enough experience!"

Father Xiao looked at Mother Xiao and said, "Some parents give birth to several children, but when they grow old, none of their children can be relied on. What do you say?"

Mother Xiao: "We can only blame the parents for not educating their children well."

"What you said makes sense, but in the same way, as adoptive parents, if you carefully educate children who are not your own blood, the children will naturally be close to their adoptive parents and will not pursue the so-called blood relationship. In short, I have made things very clear to you now. If you don't want to mess everything up, just maintain the status quo and don't do anything unnecessary."

"Our eldest grandson is the top scorer in the national college entrance examination!"

"Don't call him our eldest grandson all the time! Besides, the fact that someone else's child is the top scorer in the college entrance examination has nothing to do with us ? "

"..."

"Besides blood relationship, what have you done for that child? Have you cared about his clothes and food, or his education, or when he was sick or bullied, did you stay by his side as a relative and help him out? "

"We didn't know about the existence of that child before!"

"Don't make excuses for yourself. No matter you, me, or the eldest brother, we haven't done anything for that child, so don't think about saying something nonsense in front of the child today. What we can do, and the only thing we can do, is not to bring trouble to him. "

"Okay, okay, don't preach, I understand what you mean!"

It's obviously her grandson, but she can't recognize him. Xiao's mother felt aggrieved, but she also knew that what Xiao's father said was reasonable.

In the blink of an eye, many days passed, Mingrui received the admission letter from Beijing Foreign Studies University, and then it was the day before Jiang Li held a banquet for Mingrui to celebrate.

"Can't I go?"

After get off work, Xiao Jin came to the compound where Xiao's parents lived. At this moment, he sat in the living room, frowning slightly, looking at Xiao's parents sitting opposite him: "Why?"

"Does the child look a lot like you?"

This is Xiao's father's voice.

"Just the eyebrows and eyes are 50% similar, but what does it matter?"

Xiao Jin was puzzled, he said: "Mingrui knows the relationship between him and me, and Comrade Jiang should also know it. Their family and I live in the same compound. Although we don't see each other often, we have met many times. Others didn't say anything when they saw it. Dad, I don't understand what you are worried about!"

"Your dad is worried that the child looks too much like you, and you will attract other people's attention when you show up at the hotel tomorrow..."

Before Xiao's mother finished speaking, Xiao Jin spoke up: "What's wrong with that?"

Obviously, after Xiao's mother's explanation, Xiao Jin understood what Xiao's father meant. He said: "There are many people who look alike in this world. Just because they look alike, can we say that two people who have nothing in common have a blood relationship?"

Xiao's father was silent for a moment, and then said: "I thought too much. Since you are going tomorrow, have you thought about how much gift money to bring?"

Xiao Jin: "On the surface, it's one hundred, but I will give you another red envelope."

"Let's prepare another red envelope?"

Xiao's mother looked at Xiao's father.

"Let's do it."

Xiao's father nodded.

At the same time, at Feng's house.

"They didn't notify us. If we go...will it be bad?"

Feng Wei was called by Mr. Feng. At this moment, the father and son were in the study. Mr. Feng said that Mingrui was admitted to university and was the top scorer in the national college entrance examination. Then he said that Jiang Li was holding a banquet at the hotel to celebrate Mingrui, and asked Feng Wei to go to the hotel with him to congratulate Jiang Li.

Of course, Feng Wei felt that it was embarrassing and inappropriate to show up without an invitation.

"Do you care about your face?"

Old Master Feng looked Feng Wei in the eye: "I don't care, so why should you? Besides, who knows we weren't invited? Don't forget, no matter what, the Feng family is the child's in-laws!"

"But we haven't interacted with them for more than ten years, and we haven't cared much about their children. If we suddenly show up at their celebration banquet, people will definitely gossip about us!"

Feng Wei expressed his concerns.

"Will you lose two taels of meat if someone says a few words to you?"

Old Master Feng disagreed: "It's settled. Don't go back tonight. Push me to the hotel tomorrow afternoon."

Old Master Feng made the final decision.

"...Okay."

After hesitating for a moment, Feng Wei nodded, and then he asked: "But should I tell Lulu?"

"What to tell her?"

Old Master Feng's face was dark, and he glanced at his eldest son: "Or are you looking for trouble, so that the celebration party tomorrow will go wrong because of your sister?"

"Dad, what do you think of me?!"

Feng Wei felt wronged, and said: "I just thought that Lulu was the child's biological mother..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Old Master Feng: "What about the biological mother? What she did back then, is what a biological mother should do? Since she chose to abandon the child, she is no longer qualified to be a mother."

Feng Wei: "..." Nothing to say.

"She has done shameful things again and again, and treated Comrade Luo Yanqing as a fool. How can she have the face to appear in front of the man she has hurt?"

When talking about Feng Lu, Old Master Feng got angry and wanted to slap himself in the face. How could he raise such a despicable and shameless daughter!

"Dad! No matter how wrong Lulu is, she is still your daughter and my sister. As a family, we can't be like others..."

Feng Wei's words were interrupted by Grandpa Feng again: "What's wrong with me saying a few words to that evil girl? She doesn't know how to behave, she doesn't think before she acts, and she follows her temper. If I had known that she would be like this, I shouldn't have asked your mother to give birth to her!"

"Lulu can do wrong things again and again. In the final analysis, it's because we didn't teach her well."

After listening to Feng Wei's words, Grandpa Feng looked at him quietly for a moment, and then waved his hand to drive him away: "Okay, you go out, I'll be alone for a while."

"Dad, those things Lulu did are in the past, there's really no need to mention them every time you talk about her!"

Walking to the door of the study, Feng Wei turned his head and looked at Grandpa Feng: "This way you can get less angry, it won't hurt your health."

Grandpa Feng didn't respond, his eyelids drooped, and I don't know what he was thinking.

The next day, it was a little after eleven in the afternoon.

Jiang Li did not choose the hotel for the banquet at random. Well, to be more precise, he did not choose it at all. He directly booked it in his own hotel.

Why do you say that?

It is because Jiang Li did not forget the promise to the old lady, that is, her grandmother in this body, to restore the glory of Yu's Restaurant at the right time.

With the advent of reform and opening up, the moment when the restaurants belonging to Yu's family in Beicheng and several other big cities returned to Jiang Li's hands one after another, Jiang Li began to renovate them and display the Yu's family recipes and heritage in the form of a big hotel.

After all, we have to keep pace with the times!

And under Jiang Li's careful operation, the big hotel renovated from Yu's restaurant was fortunate to be among the first batch of five-star hotels in the country, and it has an extremely good reputation.

"Godfather... why are you here?"

At the entrance of the hotel, Jiang Guoan and Mingrui accompanied Jiang Li to receive guests. Suddenly, a jeep drove over and slowly stopped. Seeing that the people getting off the car were Luo Yanqing and Director Song, Jiang Li was a little surprised, but the smile on his face became particularly bright in an instant.

"Today is a good day for Ruirui. How can Yanqing and I not attend?"

Director Song's eyes were full of smiles. He patted Mingrui on the shoulder and said, "Good job. You made your parents proud!"

Mingrui stood beside Jiang Li. He just smiled.

"Godfather, please go in and sit down first. We still have to continue to receive guests here."

Jiang Li said, looking at Jiang Guoan. The next moment, Jiang Guoan led Director Song into the lobby.

"Dad."

Mingrui called Luo Yanqing at this time.

"Yeah."

Luo Yanqing responded, and then he said, "Very good!"

Jiang Li smiled and said, "Your father is praising you!"

Mingrui was a little embarrassed: "My father praised me on the day the scores came out."

"Are you happy?"

Jiang Li asked.

Mingrui understood what Jiang Li meant, and he nodded and said "yeah".

He was naturally happy to be praised by his father.

At this time, Jiang Li moved his eyes to Luo Yanqing: "Why don't you go inside and rest?"

"No need."

Luo Yanqing shook his head and said: "As a father, I should be here with you to receive guests."

Jiang Li: "Will it not delay your work?"

Luo Yanqing: "No problem."

"Grandpa Xi, you are here, please come in!"

Seeing the old couple Xi and Xi Guobang and his wife, as well as Xi Jingyu and Xi Chenyu getting off a car, Jiang Li hurried forward to greet them.

"Are we not late?"

Grandpa Xi asked with a smile.

"Not late, not late."

Jiang Li said with a smile, and when she saw Jiang Guoan coming over, Jiang Guoan took two quick steps and took Grandpa Xi and his party to the banquet hall on the second floor with a smile on his face.

Because many guests had already arrived, the couple of Jiang's elder brother and his wife and Jiang Guosheng (Jiang's second brother) and his wife were upstairs helping Jiang Li greet the guests.

"You are here, please come in!"

"Congratulations!"

Xiao Jin brought his daughter Xiao Tong and his younger son Xiao Xuan, along with Xiao's father and mother.

Ming Rui called "Uncle Xiao", and then Jiang Yilin led Xiao Jin and his party to the banquet room on the second floor.

Just now, Jiang Yihong, Jiang Yilin, Jiang Yikai, and Jiang Yihao came down from the second floor and helped lead the guests to the second floor at the entrance of the hotel.

Speaking of which, there are several banquet rooms on the second floor, and the area is not small, which can accommodate many tables of banquets.

Originally, Jiang Li held a banquet to celebrate Ming Rui this time, and only invited people who were close to him and Ming Rui's substitute teachers of various subjects to gather together. Unexpectedly, many people came to congratulate him after hearing the news.

Fortunately, the hotel is owned by the family, and the kitchen is well stocked with ingredients, so there is no need to worry about too many guests and not enough banquets.

"Congratulations!"

This was the voice of Mr. Feng. Not only Feng Wei but also Fang Su came with him.

Jiang Li looked natural and greeted the three people with a smile.

Although he was surprised that the Feng family would come, since they had already appeared in front of him, there was no reason to refuse them. Moreover, the Feng family was Mingrui's maternal family after all, and Jiang Li was not so petty as to not welcome the Feng family to come and congratulate him.

He introduced Mingrui, but Mingrui's expression was indifferent, and he politely greeted Mr. Feng and the other two.

He did not call Mr. Feng grandpa, nor did he call Feng Wei uncle. Similarly, he did not call Fang Su grandma, but simply greeted "Hello" and "Thank you".

"Unhappy?"

After Jiang Yihao took Mr. Feng and the other two away, Jiang Li saw Mingrui standing beside her with a stern face and not saying a word, and couldn't help asking.

"No."

Mingrui shook his head.

Luo Yanqing did not say anything, but his eyes fell on Mingrui.

Jiang Li: "Guests are welcome. Besides, no matter what, they are related to you by blood. Besides, they are here to congratulate us. You can't show that you are unhappy. Do you understand?"

"Yes."

Ming Rui nodded.

"I'm glad you understand."

Jiang Li's eyes showed relief. She said: "Joining work in the future means that you have integrated into society, which means that you will meet all kinds of people and may have to deal with them. If you get emotional because of a small matter and don't like them, it is very likely to affect your work."

Luo Yanqing: "You can listen to your mother."

Ming Rui: "I am listening."

"Oh! We are late!"

Wu Yue's family came by taxi. When she saw Jiang Li, Wu Yue's face was Lu was embarrassed, she said with a smile: "It's all my Xiaoran's dad's fault. He was about to go out, but he was asked by the neighbor to help. When he was done, time was a bit tight!"

Jiang Li smiled and said: "Not late at all!"

"It's good that you're not late."

Wu Yue smiled, and congratulated Jiang Li and Luo Yanqing with her lover. When her eyes fell on Mingrui, Wu Yue said: "The young man is very good!"

Mingrui smiled: "Thank you!"

"What are you thanking me for? You are really good, and Auntie's praise for you is not exaggerated!" (End of this chapter)