Chapter 172: Painstaking and Lonely
"You... Are you threatening your mother?"
Zhang stared at Cheng Xuan, who was upright in front of him, in disbelief, nervously walked to the outhouse and looked at it a few times, and after confirming that there were no outsiders, he dragged his heavy steps and sat down with one hand on the back of the chair on the side, as if he had been stabbed hard, not only painful, but also sour and powerless. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
At the same time, she felt a sense of exhaustion in her body and mind, which made her lower her eyes and sigh heavily.
Although Cheng Xuan overheard her and Cheng Sujin's conversation at the beginning, Zhang thought that Cheng Xuan was still filial to him, and even if he was dissatisfied with her approach in his heart, he would not tell Cheng Yan ruthlessly.
After all, if Cheng Xuan, the son, personally came forward to say his mother's unknown sinister thoughts, Cheng Yanxin would definitely be believed to be true. And no matter what the Liu family will think, I am afraid that when the time comes, my status in Cheng Yan's mind will definitely plummet.
Therefore, at this moment, although Zhang pretended to be fearless on the surface, a heavy worry rose in his heart.
"Okay, you go and say, my mother won't stop you. Zhang's face sank, and his hand pointing to the door was trembling slightly, "I didn't expect that I have been thinking about you all these years, trying my best to plan for you, and constantly complaining about your father because of your failure, and now... And now you're saying that to me?"
"Mother, is it very uncomfortable to be persecuted?"
However, Cheng Xuan didn't pay attention to Zhang's heartfelt words, but tightened his pupils and stared at her, with a dull gloom in his eyes.
"But that's how you persecute me. ”
After finishing speaking, he withdrew his gaze from Zhang's face, and his gaze stayed on the pot of phoenix tail bamboo in the house that was withering day by day because he couldn't stand the cold, and was silent for a long time, and Fang said lightly.
Although Cheng Xuan's tone was not light or heavy, and even a little fluttery, it couldn't help but make Zhang's heart tighten, and the hand hidden in the cuff gradually clenched his fist, and suddenly relaxed with the long sigh in his heart.
Leaving aside her to outsiders, at least as a mother, how could she hope to use all means to persecute her son, and even go to great lengths to control his life?
She sometimes thinks that if she were an ordinary woman in a common people's family, Cheng Xuan might be much happier than she is now.
But she was in a prestigious Houmen family in the dynasty, and there were people around her who threatened her and her son's status in the Cheng family at any time.
Especially when I thought of Cheng Jinzhi, who was obviously trampled under her feet and arbitrarily called, now she also jumped up to become a princess and became the source of her daughter's pain.
She couldn't swallow it even more.
All of this turned into the jealousy and hatred that had accumulated in her heart, forcing her to go further and further on this uphill road, even if she was ruthless and unscrupulous, she must move forward.
"Manly husband, which one has three wives and four concubines, and a group of children? Now I don't just want you to marry a wife, and I don't want your life, if you don't like it, you can put it on the table, why do you have to make the family restless? Do you have to make me and your father angry like this?"
Zhang said as he tucked the handkerchief into his sleeve, flicked his sleeves angrily, and stood up again from the red sandalwood chair.
"So that's what my father thought when he married Sanniang?"
Cheng Xuan held the already cold tea in his hand, the expression on his face was still indifferent and silent, but his tone had already increased a little.
In fact, for so many years, he has been so-called heartless and heartless in front of people, and he has not taken it seriously, and many times he has pretended to be.
It's not that he is unmotivated, nor does he like to rebel against Cheng Yan all day long, and he doesn't want to hear his criticism and scolding from time to time.
It's just that he knows that his mind is not in the officialdom, not in the struggle for power, and not in the intrigue of deceit.
However, in this family, no one really understands his mind, and no one wants to know.
If there is a real one, only Cheng Jinzhi, who has now walked out of the Cheng family and successfully escaped from the cage.
Since in their eyes he was already a useless man who did not seek progress and could not be carved on rotten wood, why did he bother to explain more? In this way, he broke the jar in front of others, and saved a lot of trouble.
And the third aunt mentioned by Cheng Xuan is naturally Cheng Jinzhi's mother Qin.
From the time he could remember, he only remembered that Cheng Yan was indifferent to the Qin clan and had a cold attitude, which was not as good as a stranger who accidentally passed by on the road.
It is precisely because of Cheng Yan's attitude that the Zhang family and the Liu family no longer take the Qin family in their eyes, and suppress and exclude everywhere.
came and went, Cheng Sujin and Cheng Xiuning also called the young Cheng Jinzhi around, bullied her in every way, and regarded her as a more humble existence than those subordinates in Cheng Mansion.
"What's wrong with you lately, you always have that broom star on your mouth. And now you still talk about that unfortunate woman who has passed away?"
Zhang's eyebrows frowned suddenly, and the sporadic sparks scattered around in his heart turned into anger in an instant.
"What bad things did that Cheng Jinzhi say to you, what kind of rhetoric did he say, so that you don't even believe me, my mother, but keep saying that you want to believe her!"
"If it were her, at least she would know what was going on in my heart, and she would not join you in forcing me to marry a woman I don't like. ”
Cheng Xuan slapped the case hard, looked at Zhang's aggressive eyes, stared for a moment, but finally swallowed a breath of great disappointment and sat down again.
"Maybe it's because she's different from you that she can't survive in this family, right?"
"Hmph, of course this woman doesn't want you to marry the Lord of Lingrong, she ......"
Zhang sneered, his chest rose and fell violently a few times, and he originally wanted to say more, but suddenly he seemed to realize something and stopped talking, and after barely adjusting his breathing, even the tone of his voice was much lower.
"Anyway, you can't listen to anything I say to you now, and no matter how much my mother says, it's a waste of lips and tongues. ”
Zhang pursed his lips that were a little dry, raised his hand and took a sip of the tea on the table, and then eased his emotions and said: "Actually, my mother came here to ask you, what does it mean that you said to your father in the study at that time, that even your beloved son can be framed and imprisoned?"
Cheng Xuan was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Zhang to suddenly ask this question, and between the waves of his eyes, he realized that he was impulsive at that time, and he actually shouted such a sentence.
"I don't remember saying that. ”
The corners of Cheng Xuan's eyes twitched twice, and he turned sideways not to look at Zhang's sharp eyes, but he unconsciously felt uneasy in his heart.
"You don't remember, but I do, your father remembers. ”
Zhang's tone was aggravated, he stopped in front of Cheng Xuan, his eyes locked on him inch by inch, looking at his eyes that although he pretended to be calm, he still flickered a little, as if he already knew it.
After a while, Fang said in a heavy tone.
"Xuan'er, sometimes knowing too much is definitely not a good thing. ”