Chapter 72: Jiang Zhu’s Decision
In fact, Wu Qingyuan’s treatment of Lin Shugen’s legs was not really as painful despite his cries, in ancient times there was no anesthetic and there were only anesthetic herbs, when applying medicinal herbs, Wu Qingyuan secretly replaced them with modern anesthetics, Lin Shugen was crying so miserably, purely because of the psychological effect.
Wu Qingyuan also couldn’t help but laugh, he didn’t expect that Lin Shugen, who was usually a tough guy, was so afraid of pain, it seems that he wasn’t faking it.
And Amo looked at his father’s series of changes, and finally this leg treatment he insisted on and had some guesses.
“Dad, do you want to find a partner?”
Amo asked very directly, he is now also a grown-up, seeing his father going this far to change his image and to cure his own lame leg, except for his father wanting to marry again, he can’t think of any other reason, the female or the ger would want to present themselves neatly and the man is the same, like his father, who has never paid attention to the image, suddenly attaching importance to his appearance.
“Nope!”
But while Lin Shugen shook his head and vetoed it all of a sudden, his flushed face betrayed him.
Seeing his face like this, Amo knew that he guessed correctly, and he was immediately happy, “Dad, who do you fancy?”
He has no objection at all to his father marrying another one, his father has never lived well for himself in his life, he worked for the family when he was a child, and when he became married, it was also a wife arranged by the family, and after the wife ran away, he worked hard to raise them both, until now, his father has lived alone.
His father is not too old, and there is still most of his life to live in the future, it is impossible to be single all his life, it was not that no one told his father to find a new partner before, but his father was not willing, why did he suddenly want to find one now? He doesn’t know which ‘aunt’ is so charming, and he has to open up his father’s stubborn mouth.
“Dad, tell me who your new wife is?”
Amo is a little excited, although his father looks honest, in fact, his eyes are very picky, and his father will definitely not like one with a bad temperament.
“No, who would want to see your father, don’t talk nonsense, I can’t walk around so then Dad is going to sleep, this foot hurts Dad…..”
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Lin Shugen’s expression dodged his ger’s questions, and he pulled the quilt to cover his head and chased people out.
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Recuperating is a very boring thing, but Lin Shugen does not feel bored, during the period of staying in the town to recuperate from his foot injury, someone plays with him, that is, Jiang Zhu’s son- Xiao Shi.
Since the end of the Qian family’s spying matter, Jiang Zhu has taken the initiative to move out very self-consciously, anyway, since he took over the Qian family’s spying transaction in the first place, then for Wu Qingyuan, he is not a person worth putting around to help, he is a little self-conscious.
So the day after the crusade against the Qian family, he moved out of Wu Qingyuan’s house, given that although he had a miserable life since he was a child, he had always been good in terms of life, and he was accustomed to life in the town, and he finally decided not to find a village to settle in according to the original plan, but rented a house in the town, right next door to the Wu family.
Renting the house so close to Wu Qingyuan’s house is not that he still has any thoughts, but he was considering his son and the old woman he invited to help take care of each other’s needs, one was old and one was weak- what will happen when he went out to earn money, when he was not at home, and someone familiar with him could help call him and because he didn’t have other more familiar people in the town other than the workers and the Wu family. He also now has a feud with the Qian family, what if he lives too remote and the Qian family finds someone to take revenge on him? Living next to the Wu family can at least let him borrow their power to protect him and his family.
Because they are close to one another, every day when the old woman in Jiang Zhu’s family takes the child to play at the door, Lin Shugen can see it, and when he sees that the child is well-behaved and polite enough to greet him, he likes him very much and moves the stool to the door to tease the child.
When he sees the goods passing by, he will also generously buy sugar for the child or a windmill to play with, his action makes Lin Tianbao a bit jealous, didn’t his father say that eating too much sugar will cause a toothache, why does his father buy so much sugar and play things for other people’s children!?
“Smelly boy, you know the type of children Dad like, the ones who are well-behaved, Dad also bought you something, your favorite sugar gourds, Xiao Shi’s Dad helps you with your homework every day for free, and you are still stingy when I buy two pieces of candy for Xiao Shi.”
In fact, Lin Shugen still loves his son very much., and when he buys things for Xiao Shi, he does not forget to buy good food for his son as well.
“Brother Tianbao, doll, doll for you…”
Because Xiao Shi has never played with other children since childhood, he is very shy with strangers, especially Lin Tianbao’s appearance is the same as his father, and he is very tough to look at, the child looks jealous and angry and stares at him which makes Xiao Shi a little scared, so he handed out his favorite little stick man to him.
“I don’t want such things, that’s what children play with!”
Lin Tianbao wanted to act like a badass, and he didn’t like the small boy that snatched his father’s attention, so he took what Lin Shugen bought for himself and turned around, and left.
Liu Shugen, who was ill-tempered but not angry, and Xiao Shi with a lonely look and bowed head were left behind…
These changes in Lin Shugen- Wu Qingyuan naturally found out, and Jiang Zhu naturally also saw it, because every day when he came back from outside, he could see Lin Shugen taking his son to have fun in the Wu family’s yard, and also bought his son a lot of things to play with and sugar cubes.
“Brother Shugen, don’t worry, I was just talking nonsense to scare you before, you don’t have to buy so many things for my Xiao Shu…..”
Jiang Zhu thought that Lin Shugen was fawning over his son because of his previous fooling around and scaring him, he was a little embarrassed, why was this Lin Shugen so dumb and gullible that even he was afraid.
“No, no, Xiao Shu is more likable than my smelly boy, by the way, Jiang Zhu, I, I have a new name, the epigram that my family’s Tianbao gave me, Yishan, you can call me this in the future, now everyone calls me like this, do you think this name sounds good?”
Lin Shugen felt a little nervous and expectant when he spoke.
Jiang Zhu stared at him for a while without answering, looking at him for a long time before nodding, “Well, it’s very good.”
As soon as his words fell, Lin Shugen’s eyes were as bright as a light bulb with 100,000 volts.
Looking at his expression, Jiang Zhu pursed his lips, and his mood was a little complicated.
After this day, the changes in Lin Shugen’s actions were even greater, and when he was in the yard to raise his foot injury, he also specially asked Lin Tianbao to lend him the three-character scripture, and he was going to learn to read.
But even when he says he can learn to read, Lin Shugen has a problem. No matter how many times Wu Qingyuan, Amo, and Lin Tianbao have taught him, he still can’t learn it, it’s just that every day when Jiang Zhu comes to pick up Xiao Shu, he will only tell him once and he will learn it, and it’s maddening to the teachers in the family!
At this time, Wu Qingyuan and Amo would be really stupid if they couldn’t see that he had taken a fancy to Jiang Zhu, and every time Jiang Zhu came to the door, their brother’s/father’s eyes were too obvious.
It’s just that they really didn’t expect Lin Shugen to actually fancy Jiang Zhu, and they didn’t know what to do for a while, they can’t just say that Jiang Zhu is not good, people also have good traits despite their pasts, they can’t also say that Jiang Zhu is good, this little guy is too slippery, and Lin Shugen is already an adult who makes his own decisions, he is their father/ father-in-law- and if he wants to marry a wife, can they still stop it?
However, without waiting for the two to worry for too long, Jiang Zhu consciously made a decision.
Jiang Zhu is not stupid, he stayed in a brothel for so long, he was a person who knew the most about the nature of men, and he could easily see what Lin Laogen was thinking about regarding himself.
He didn’t expect that Lin Shugen would really like him, and he saw the changes in Lin Shugen these days.
Jiang Zhu can’t say what kind of mood he is in, he doesn’t dislike Lin Shugen, although Lin Shugen is bigger than him, but how much better can he be?
He is a small man, a small man who has sold his body for half his life in the flower building, there is no lower person under the sky than him, he also has a son, how many men will be willing to marry him? Even if he can marry, how long will they like him? He is not a teenager either, once a ger reaches the age of thirty, he will age faster than a woman, he has no years to earn capital, and he can’t hold a man for too long.
So his first reaction was not to look down on Lin Shugen but to feel that he was not worthy of Lin Shugen and he was afraid- afraid of meeting a man who will just abandon him again.
It’s not that he doesn’t want to find someone to live with, he also wants to have someone to rely on, someone to care about himself, he has been too tired of living over the years, but he is really too scared.
Although Lin Shugen’s character is absolutely reliable, he dares not guarantee anything. The long-term worker who was so honest at the beginning, and the handsome and gentle big businessman all made him feel reliable at the beginning, but in the end, they ruthlessly tore their faces, he has seen too many men over the years, all kinds of things, and it can be summed up in one sentence, men are unreliable!
Therefore, after seeing Lin Shugen’s intentions, Jiang Zhu did not dare to accept the attempt easily, and before Lin Shugen explained, he chose to leave.
Quietly, he packed his luggage, silently in the early morning before dawn, Jiang Zhu took his son and the lonely old woman who had helped him bring up his children for several years, hired an ox cart, and left Shiqiao Town.
“Dad, where are we going? When will we come back?”
“I don’t know, maybe….. Not anymore.”
“But Uncle Lin said that he would make grasshoppers for me today, Brother Tianbao also said that he would play with me today, he doesn’t hate Xiao Shu anymore, and Uncle Wu said that I could go to study when his school is opened next year, Amo-fulang said that I could go to their house every day to play, Xiao Shu really liked them…”
Leaning in his Dad’s arms, Xiao Shu’s face is lonely.
Jiang Zhu didn’t speak, he looked back at the outline of Shiqiao Town getting smaller and smaller for a while, and then he withdrew his gaze and hugged his son tightly, lowered his eyes, and choked on his throat slightly.
Love is in the air ~ But JZ’s worries are understandable…
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Oh, my heart broke a little bit. Thanks for the chapter!
+1 😭💔💯
Jiang Zhu’s thinking is logical but this still makes my heart ache😔 if not for those scummy mfcking human trash bags, cancer on earth, would this still happen!?😒
I can understand why JZ leave….being in a relationship twice and betrayed both times plus wasting a decade for this “so called love” we develop fear, not falling in love but being abandoned again…..I hope he will get his peace and try to accept the new love without any worries
Thank you!!❤❤
LS, no, LY, chase your wife! Chase your wife!
Damn, that hurts but valid. But I feel like he wil l end up going back for his son. Who else will pay for schooling? And parents always sacrificed the most for their child. So maybe that will lead to the happy ending for them.
Very sad! ;_;
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING AWESOME!!
Noo baby comeback!!😭 ahhh I’m so sad now..
Not too messy but not smooth either.