nucmednet Chapter 439 Cause and Effect
Chapter 439 Cause and Effect
Seeing that the old man wanted to drag him into this mess, Sheng Ronghua quickly leaned over to take a look at the photo, his expression shifting from blank to complicated...
In this stiff-tongued hall, three generations of the Sheng family sat together for the first time.
Sheng Jingyao glanced at the old man, then at Sheng Ronghua, and said coldly, "Tell me the truth."
Under his icy gaze, Sheng Ronghua suddenly stood up: "I have something to attend to, I'll be leaving for a bit."
He walked away very quickly, as if he wanted to escape.
Watching his retreating figure, Old Master Sheng sighed softly.
"Xiao Dian, no matter what happens, Grandpa only has one precious grandson, and everything in the Sheng family can only be yours."
Sheng Jingyao guessed what was going on from his father and grandfather's reactions and sat silently in his chair.
In his memory, his parents were childhood sweethearts, deeply in love, and a model couple that everyone envied.
However, in Grandpa's account, there is another version.
A rebellious rich young master, unwilling to follow his family's arrangements, embarks on a passionate romance with an orphan girl who has no parents.
But after the passion faded, everything became dull, and the two broke up peacefully.
Several years later, his parents finally got married, with the expectations of both sets of elders.
After the mother became pregnant, the father changed all his bad habits and looked forward to his arrival with her.
Unexpectedly, the woman showed up with a child.
So many years have passed that Old Master Sheng's memory of what that woman looked like has become hazy.
I only remember that she was fairly pretty, but her cheeks were thin and her face was pale.
Holding a thick stack of medical records, she knelt on the floor and pushed a thin little boy in front of everyone.
"This is your Sheng family's child. I don't ask for anything else, I just hope you can give him a bite to eat and raise him to adulthood."
The boy was timid, and after being pushed out, he quickly ran behind the woman.
Everything happened so suddenly that the daughter-in-law, who was eight months pregnant, was shocked and rushed to the hospital, almost losing both her life and her unborn child.
The scoundrel son slapped the woman hard, resolutely refusing to acknowledge this bastard child that had appeared out of nowhere, and kicked the mother and son out.
I saw that boy again three months later.
He braved the heavy rain and knelt on the muddy road.
If the driver hadn't been sharp-eyed, he would have been run over.
Grandpa Sheng sat in the back seat, holding his chubby grandson in his arms, looking expressionlessly at the boy kneeling in front of him.
He tearfully begged the Sheng family for money to treat his mother's illness...
But Old Master Sheng remained unmoved and ordered the driver to go around it.
He never saw that boy again after that.
Of course, he never asked about it.
After hearing the whole truth, Sheng Jingyao became even more silent.
After a long silence, he slowly spoke: "Why didn't Grandpa help him?"
With the power and status of the Sheng family, helping someone is a piece of cake.
Moreover, the Sheng family is small, and he has the blood of the Sheng family flowing in his veins.
Grandpa Sheng sighed again: "Xiao Dian, people's hearts are always biased. If I help him, it won't be fair to your mother, and it won't be fair to you either."
“They are pitiful, but it wasn’t my fault. That woman could have chosen to tell me she was pregnant. If she didn’t want to keep the baby, I would have given her a large sum of money. If she wanted to keep the baby, I would have acknowledged the child and given them a large sum of money as well.”
"But... the premise is that it cannot be built on your mother's suffering."
"If that woman chooses to hide everything and give birth to the child, then she must bear the consequences of her choice."
"She's pitiful, but isn't your mother just as innocent?"
Sheng Jingyao pictured his mother's face in his mind; in his fragmented memories, she was always lying in a hospital bed with a pale face.
A warm smile only appeared on her face when she saw him.
"I thought that during those years, her marriage was at least happy."
"Even when her father complained that she shouldn't have been born, she wondered if she would have lived a long and healthy life if she hadn't existed?"
"But I only know now..."
"It's not my fault."
Even after learning the truth, he couldn't blame the other party, after all... they hadn't done anything wrong.
She was just a seriously ill mother who was making plans for her child before she died.
Just like his mother, even as she lay dying in her hospital bed, she was still embroidering a cool robot pattern on the collar of his school uniform.
Sheng Jingyao suddenly understood the cause and effect cycle that the old monk had spoken of.
Indeed, everything is cause and effect.
"Grandpa, I will handle this matter."
He stood up, turned and left.
……
Jiang Zhouzhou, wrapped in a thick down jacket, stood tentatively in front of the villa's gate.
With his feet inside the door, the guards at the entrance remained unmoved.
But as soon as they lifted their feet to stretch out, the two men's expressions immediately turned serious.
This is how she spends her boring mornings.
A black car gradually approached from a distance; Chaomu had finally returned.
Jiang Zhouzhou stared at him longingly, and after he got out of the car, she threw herself into his arms.
"Brother Chaomu, you're finally back."
Her cheeks were cool, and her hands were cold; it was obvious she had been outside for a long time.
Chao Mu's hands were warm. He held her hand and transferred the warmth of his palm to her.
Why have you been staying outside the whole time?
The weather cleared up today, but it was even colder than when it was snowing.
Jiang Zhouzhou smiled at him: "Because I don't have a phone to contact you, I don't know when you will come back, so I've been waiting outside."
After she finished speaking, she pointed to the snowman in the yard.
"Look, these are the snowmen I built this morning. One is you, and the other is me."
Chao Mu looked in the direction she pointed and saw two adorable snowmen in the yard. The gems he gave her were used to decorate the snowmen's eyes.
And the snowman that represents him has two bright red rubies added to the place where the ears are.
He unconsciously tightened his grip on her hand, and as he looked down at her, he saw a bright smile on her face, which suddenly made him feel somewhat bewildered.
He seems unable to distinguish between genuine feelings and insincerity.
What is feigned sincerity?