Chapter 152: Father's Suffering
"Summer." Su Mohan's face is always the same, but in the face of the frivolous tone of summer, he does not show the slightest anger, today his father and his sister came to congratulate Sunan, the heavyweight old man Xia, on his birthday, and the old man Su is old and in poor health, so he did not run in person. "How is Old Man Xia lately?"
"The body is still strong." Summer greeted Su Mo with a blank face, although he looked at each other extremely unpleasantly, but he would not be sneering on such an occasion. Summer always felt uncomfortable looking at the seemingly undisturbed look on Su Mohan's face.
"What about Xia Ruxuan, why didn't you see him?" Su Mohan obviously knew that he and Xia couldn't communicate well, so he asked. In the Xia family's generation, he was probably able to say a few words to Xia Ruxuan.
Summer smiled and pointed to the house, "The old man left him to talk in the room." β
"Oh?" Su Mohan raised his eyebrows and chuckled, before coming here, he had heard his father mention the pillar of the Xia family. I heard that he is an extremely old-fashioned and unsmiling old man. Although the fact that he left Xia Ruxuan to talk is a very ordinary grandfather and grandson conversation for ordinary people, it will have a completely different meaning in this kind of family.
I heard my father say that Xia Ruxuan can be regarded as a big outlier among these sons, and said that it has something to do with Xia Yunbai's situation. It's just that he didn't mention it more, and Su Mohan naturally didn't ask more. Like this kind of relationship between the previous generations, what he needs to know Su Guoqiang will naturally say, since he doesn't say it, it means that it makes no difference to him whether he knows it or not.
It's just that Xia Ruxuan is obviously not a mediocre person, even if he doesn't have too much family atmosphere, he has begun to show his brilliance and head. To be able to get that guy Mougins to bury all his mind in his company is obviously a great thing.
But this kind of thing is obviously not qualified enough to let Old Man Xia talk to him alone, Su Mohan doesn't believe that the conversation between them is serious, and the greetings between ordinary grandparents and grandchildren. Thinking of this, Su Mohan felt more and more that he couldn't see through the ordinary boy he thought was just very simple.
"Brother." Su Jingya pulled Su Mohan from behind, "Let's go to the lake." β
Su Mohan came back to his senses and looked at this little girl who seemed to be having a little temper, and touched her head helplessly, "Let's go." Turning around, he said with a slight apology, "Then I'll leave first." β
"Please." Raised his eyebrows in the summer and was dumbfounded, this kind of son-in-law who grew up in an excellent family atmosphere since he was a child made him extremely uncomfortable. This feeling is like the ancient generals' sourness towards the literati and ink writers, and it is a truth. If he wanted to leave and leave directly, how could he be so polite and greeting.
At the edge of the lake, the breeze blows through the water, and there is a refreshing humidity on the face. The villas in Xianghu Park are completely different from the residential areas in the city, just like the taste of being in nature. The smell of grass mixed with the fragrance of unknown flowers came into his nose for a while, which made Su Mohan's mood inevitably relax a little.
"Brother, why do you think so highly of him." Su Jingya said that she wanted to go to the lake for a walk, obviously she didn't have the same relaxed mood as Su Mohan, she just wanted to find a separate opportunity to talk to her brother in order to express her dissatisfaction.
"Who?" Su Mohan was indulging in the beautiful scenery of the good day, and when he heard his sister's slightly blamed tone, he didn't ease up for a while, but when he turned his head and saw Su Jingya's pouted mouth and an unhappy look, he reacted, "You mean Xia Ruxuan?" β
"Otherwise, who else." Su Jingya bent down and grabbed a piece of grass, then lowered her head and fiddled between her fingers.
Su Mohan calmed down, but he didn't know how to talk to his sister about the interests involved. To be honest, from his point of view, he hasn't seen too much temperament in Xia Ruxuan that would make him feel uncomfortable, at least in terms of current contact, Su Mohan's opinion of Xia Ruxuan is still based on appreciation, "Jingya, you don't know him, why are you always so disgusted with him?" β
Usually at home, Su Jingya never wanted to talk to him about these things, and he would not take the initiative to discuss this issue with Su Jingya, to put it bluntly, Su Jingya is still just an adolescent little girl, and the rebellious energy in her heart is strong.
In addition, she is the focus of everyone's attention and a little princess in school, and she is influenced by modern society, so she will naturally show her dissatisfaction with it. There's no way to change that.
"I don't know." Su Jingya looked aggrieved, "I just don't like this feeling of suddenly appearing with someone I don't know at all, especially if this person is still engaged to me, I hate it to death." β
"In other words, you don't actually hate him as a person, but you just dislike it?" Hearing Su Jingya's words, Su Mohan asked with interest. If Su Jingya didn't hate Xia Ruxuan herself, it would actually be easy to do.
"Does it matter?" Su Jingya blinked at those beautiful eyes that were almost breathtaking.
"At least you can try to get along with each other, in fact, Xia Ruxuan is still okay." Su Mohan said softly.
"Brother!" Su Jingya said coquettishly.
"Jingya, actually, I think you can find a chance to talk to him." Su Mohan's expression became serious, "After all, there will definitely be problems with the application of the previous generation to our generation, and I don't think Xia Ruxuan himself has a way to recognize this matter." Otherwise, he wouldn't have made a vow to postpone this for so long. Know that the longer the time, the more variables there are. Maybe he's trying to find some variables. β
"Really?" Su Jingya pointed her finger at her lips, "I haven't thought about this problem. "Besides, it's not good for Dad to go against Grandpa's will directly. The main thing is to let you get along. If he's really bad, or if you don't want to, I don't think there's going to be a way to book it, you know. Dad just wants to put on a post, even if it's like a show and nothing happens in the end. That's the end of it. Su Mohan helped his sister to open his mouth and analyze, but the more he said it, the more he felt that it made sense.
According to his understanding of Xia Ruxuan, Xia Ruxuan will definitely not be the kind of thing that will only be such a new thing as the Shaolin abbot standing after the 80s.
"Well, you have a point." Su Jingya tilted her head and thought for a while, then nodded. "And you know what he's been up to lately."
Su Mohan looked at Su Jingya's worried look, and smiled gently, her eyes flashing with boundless pampering and gentleness, "Jingya, don't worry about these things." You have to believe in my brother. I will definitely let you find your own happiness. If you are not satisfied in the end, even if it is against your father's will, I will be on your side. β
β¦β¦ Xia Ruxuan sat quietly on the sofa, holding his chin with his hands, but he was completely surprised by what his grandfather had just said. It's just that Grandpa didn't say much, and he planned to ask his father later. This is the first time he has seen his grandfather smile so gently at him, in this kind of big family, it is destined that it is difficult for grandparents and grandchildren to get along with ordinary people.
If it weren't for the four grandchildren coming together to greet grandpa today, there would have been few opportunities to talk to grandpa. Even when I came to visit, I just sat quietly with my grandfather, who was not smiling, and then left at about the same time.
Unless grandpa really wants to talk about something, he will have the opportunity to talk, but for grandchildren, this is really rare. After the death of his grandmother in the past few years, Xia Ruxuan remembered that when he was a child, his grandfather's majesty and seriousness were almost deep in the memory of the bone marrow, and today, the unprecedented Xia Ruxuan heard a lot of words of appreciation.
"Ruxuan." Xia Mingrong stood up tremblingly and walked to the window on crutches. When Xia Ruxuan saw it, he quickly stood up and supported the old man, "Grandpa, you said." β
"I've been in this villa for many years." The old man looked out the window, and Xia Ruxuan noticed for the first time that the light in the old man's cloudy eyes was bright and terrifying, "But I have never forgotten when I was young, I used to have nothing." His face was covered with the wind and frost carved by the years, but at this moment, Xia Ruxuan had a strange feeling in his heart, he opened his mouth to say and stopped, just looked at the green elephant lake outside the window, as if he had never seen these scenery here, as if he wanted to imprint them deeply into his mind and never forget them, and finally spoke after a while, "Have you ever blamed Yunbai in your heart for not teaching you too much?" Resent the childhood and adolescence he let you spend like the most ordinary of people? β
"I don't understand what you mean." Xia Ruxuan frowned, not knowing what Grandpa meant by mentioning this. When he was younger, he did feel that his father didn't pay enough attention to him and made his life a mess. But so whatβthat's his father.
Of course, he also wondered why all his brothers had their own huge circle of nobles, but he didn't. So much so that now everything has to be carefully managed by oneself, so that one can gradually enter this level, instead of being like in the previous life, red lights and wine. It's just that...... Xia Ruxuan didn't think about what these had to do with his father.
He always felt that he was just not good at running these ...... However, hearing his grandfather's words today, he suddenly had a strange thought--could it be that all this was deliberately done by his father?
"You're better than your father thought you would." Xia Mingrong suddenly said without a clue, "The starting point of his idea is certainly good, but he was too young at that time, and he also had his own hardships......"
The silence in the room lasted for a long time, and then Xia Mingrong turned around and said, "It's almost, let's go downstairs." β
(To be continued)