At the same time that Liu Yunxi was accused of "cheating" for no reason, Qiao Yi'an was also facing pressure from his father and the Yuan family.

The Qiao and Yuan families have been friends since their grandfathers.

In the early forties of the last century, eighteen-year-old Grandpa Qiao and Grandpa Yuan met at a dock in Shanghai, when the two worked as porters under the same boss, they were of the same age, and they were fellow villagers, and soon established a simple and loyal friendship. Later, the two went to work in a shipyard in Ningbo, when there were almost no female workers in the shipyard, and the two of them saw that they were of marriage age, but the object was not a word. The parents of the two families urged them to go home on a blind date for three days. As a result, on the eve of Chinese New Year's Eve, when they were thirty years old, God arranged a very strange marriage for them.

The weather was gloomy that day, and the people on the dock were shoulder to shoulder, and most of them were outsiders rushing home for the New Year. They had already bought the ferry tickets, but temporarily Grandpa Yuan had diarrhea and squatted in the toilet and couldn't get out, Grandpa Qiao watched the boat go away, and was so anxious that he stomped his feet. I had no choice but to go back to a small hotel closest to the pier for the night and take the boat the next morning. The weather was already gloomy, and by the time they arrived at the inn, it was completely dark, and the area around the inn was so dark that they could not see their fingers.

On such a night, in such a small hotel, Grandpa Qiao's bride was tied up in the firewood room of the hotel.

It was found by Grandpa Yuan when he got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet, when he was squatting on the thatched pit, he vaguely heard a slight movement coming from the firewood room, thinking it was a mouse or a cat stealing food, and he didn't care. But gradually, he found that the sound never stopped, and when he listened carefully, it was a bit like the sound of people struggling, and the sound of "hmm" in his throat became more and more real. At this moment, Grandpa Yuan was shocked into a cold sweat, his stomach didn't hurt anymore, he wiped his buttocks indiscriminately, stumbled back to the room with his pants in one hand and a lantern in the other.

Grandpa Qiao, who was awakened by him, heard him say that someone was tied up in the firewood room, and got up as soon as he got up, walked to the window to carefully observe the movement, and it was quiet outside, only to hear the sound of the river wind whistling by, in this dark night, it looked particularly hideous and terrifying.

"Let's go, let's go save people." Grandpa Qiao neatly dressed and picked up his baggage.

The two briefly discussed the countermeasures, and then went out to the firewood room. This time, they didn't light the lantern.

As a result, they rescued a rich lady, and when they sent her home, they learned that she was the only daughter of their shipyard owner.

In the spring of the second year, Grandpa Qiao and Grandpa Yuan married the boss's daughter and niece respectively.

Later, the shipyard gradually declined after several rounds, and closed for dissolution in 1964.

In the mid-eighties, with the help of his father-in-law, Grandpa Qiao opened another shipyard, with Grandpa Qiao as chairman and Grandpa Yuan as general manager.

In the mid-90s, private schools sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and they invested in Shaoxing to set up a private school, and then every three years to run a branch school, there are now six branches in Guangzhou, Shaoguan, Zhuhai, Wenzhou, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Shenzhen branch is just opened this year.

Grandpa Qiao and Grandpa Yuan were originally good brothers who worshiped their sons, and they married a pair of cousins as wives, and they became close to each other, and the two families almost became one. Later, Grandma Qiao and Grandma Yuan became pregnant in the same month, and the two grandfathers were so happy that they immediately made a marriage contract, but both families gave birth to sons, which made the two grandfathers regret it for a long time. pinned the hope of cohesion between Qiao and Yuan's two families on Qiao's father and Yuan's father, as a result, the first two families were sons, the second were daughters, the third was Qiao Yi'an, and the other was Yuan Xiangzhu. If it weren't for the accident that took away the eldest son and second daughter of the Qiao family, the wish of the Qiao and Yuan families to marry again would have been realized.

Now the only hope for the marriage of the Qiao and Yuan families falls on Qiao Yi'an and Yuan Xiangzhu.

When Qiao Yi'an was born, Yuan Xiangzhu did not exist, and the two families had already broken off the idea of marriage, but when Qiao Yi'an was four years old, Yuan's mother was pregnant, and Grandpa Yuan was so happy that he went to the temple every day to pray to God and Buddha, and prayed that God would give the Yuan family another daughter, which fulfilled the dream of their two marriages. I don't know if Grandpa Yuan's sincerity touched the gods, or if Qiao Yi'an should have a love affair in his life, in short, Yuan Xiangzhu came in the day and night of Qiao and Yuan's two families. Her birth was like a fire across the night sky, illuminating the dream of Qiao Yuan's marriage that had been extinguished for many years.

However, Qiao Yi'an, who is rebellious and stubborn by nature, did not accept the marriage arranged by others from the beginning, his attitude was very obvious and resolute, and no one could change him. If it weren't for the accident that took his brother and sister, and the fragility and despair he witnessed when his father lost his children, he would not have compromised.

When the bad news of my brother and sister in Shaoguan came, the family was eating, Qiao's mother fainted immediately, Qiao's father's body shook, and the dishes and chopsticks in his hand fell to the ground at the same time, and the whole person became a sculpture......

When Qiao Yi'an walked into his father's room with food on the third day, he saw his father's eyes on the bed dull and expressionless, and even maintained the sleeping position of yesterday, he was sad for a while, his eyes were red, and he choked out: "Father! Father Qiao didn't react.

Qiao Yi'an put down the meal, sat on the edge of the bed, held his father's hand, and the pain in his heart could no longer be held back, turning into tears gushing out.

"Father! Eat something, I promise you, marry Xiangzhu. I don't know how long I struggled, how long I weighed, how long I thought about it, he still said that he personally broke his vow not to marry Xiangzhu, despite the difficulty, despite the heartache, despite the helplessness, between himself and his father, he still chose his father.

Father's eyes blinked, and a large cloudy tear rolled down. He happily picked up the bird's nest porridge and scooped a spoonful to his father's mouth, who slowly opened his mouth and ate the first, second, and third mouthfuls with great effort......

The father finally opened his mouth to eat, after hearing that he was going to marry Xiangzhu as his wife.

He made such a promise to his father, on the one hand, he knew that the only thing that could pull his father out of his pain and despair was this marriage that two generations of the two families had been waiting for for decades, and on the other hand, he was not sure whether the marriage object he had opposed from the beginning was whether he really didn't love it or the unruliness in his bones. So, for this marriage, he decided to revisit and reconsider. However, while promising his father, he still left himself some time and space.

Just when his father was able to go to the field, Qiao Yi'an made a verbal agreement with his father: if he didn't find a girlfriend at the age of thirty, he would marry Yuan Xiangzhu.

He was twenty-six years old at the time of the agreement.

From then on, Qiao Yi'an's biggest fear was to see the pain and despair in his father's eyes, he changed his unruly nature, everything was done according to his father's will, as long as his father showed a trace of dissatisfaction, he would immediately adjust and change until his father was satisfied.