Chapter 2: The cannibalistic Xia family
Looking at the magnificent gate in front of him, Gu Zhaoyan felt a little sudden, and his hand, which had become pale because of the cold, still pressed the high doorbell.
Ten years, she hadn't been in this place full of humiliating memories for ten years.
The tall door opened mechanically, Gu Zhaoyan walked in in a daze, and walked directly into the hall, but saw the people sitting elegantly at the dinner table, as well as the contempt in everyone's eyes and the shame in his mother's eyes.
Without looking at it again, she walked straight towards her own house.
"Yo~ I said who is this~ It turned out to be a small oil bottle brought by my sister-in-law~ Why is there no tutor so much? Don't you see that the hall is full of people? I can't even say hello?" Xia Qingqing opened her mouth coolly, and put the fork of beef in her mouth, and a pair of bewitching eyes swept around Gu Zhaoyan's body, full of contempt.
"Qingqing!" Although Xia Zhengchun said Xia Qingqing, his brows furrowed when his eyes swept over Gu Zhaoyan, "Go change your clothes and come over for dinner." ”
"Yes. With his head slightly lowered, Gu Zhaoyan replied in a low voice, and when he turned around, he saw his mother's nervous eyes, and the corners of his mouth pulled up a touch of temperature.
Entering this room that he hadn't seen for more than ten years, Gu Zhaoyan first threw his schoolbag on the bed, then took out clean clothes from the cabinet and changed them, and slowly arranged his hair in an orderly manner.
If it was in the previous life, I'm afraid Gu Zhaoyan would have already changed his clothes and gone to the hall at this time, right? At that time, Gu Zhaoyan was timid and cowardly, and he was very afraid of Xia Zhengchun, his mother's provider, and he was always inferior when facing him.
After getting dressed, Gu Zhaoyan sat in front of the only mirror in the room, stroked the hair on his forehead, revealing his fair forehead, and suddenly remembered the man's gentle smile in his mind, as well as the temperature of touching her forehead.
'Xiao Yan~ Do you know that every time I call you Xiao Yan, I shout a smile? I am so beautiful but I have to be so wronged by myself, even if I encounter something painful, I have to face it with a smile, because I know that Xiao Yan's smile is the most beautiful and is the motivation for me to survive. ’
The gentle man who always laughs, the man who told him to face with a smile even if his legs are crippled, the man who said that he wanted to live for Gu Zhaoyan.
Tears unconsciously slid down her cheeks, and finally disappeared to her lips, and the crying girl in the mirror suddenly raised a big smile, as if comparable to the rising sun.
Put down the bangs that I wanted to comb up, take out a pair of scissors in the drawer, and cut the excessively long bangs short with a click, revealing those bright eyes with a dazzling light.
When she habitually coiled her hair, Gu Zhaoyan remembered that she was no longer the one who married a woman, and now she was just a fifteen-year-old flower girl! Combed the bangs in front of her straight, leaving two handfuls of broken hair between her ears on both sides, and the hair that was originally scattered on her shoulders was tied high above her head, and she took out a rubber band in the drawer, and between wrapping and winding, the originally straight long hair was made into a bud shape and placed on the top of her head.
I always felt that something was missing, and opened the drawer that belonged to her, trying to find a more acceptable hairpin, but the answer I was looking for was no! There was only a well-preserved notebook in the empty drawer, as well as a few vertical cards, and a few rubber bands.
Looking at the energetic girl in the mirror, with thick bangs, fair cheeks, big eyes, and ruddy lips, she couldn't put it together with Gu Zhaoyan before. Pouting in the mirror, I felt that my head was too empty except for the buds, and my eyes turned left and right to see a touch of pink in the mirror!
Immediately turned his head and saw the moon flower swaying in the wind on the windowsill, Gu Zhaoyan's fair and flawless face showed a delicate smile and walked towards the pink moon flower.
"Eh~ I said sister-in-law, your little oil bottle is really big~ Let so many people wait for her to eat alone?"
Although he said so, he still held a spoon in his hand and gently flicked the shark fin, Xia Qingqing spoke to Wang Qiuying, who was eating with his head down, with a strange face.
Nervously glancing at Xia Zhengchun next to him, Wang Qiuying grabbed the sleeve hidden under the table, her eyes were already full of tears, and she glanced at her daughter's door aggrievedly, and wanted to say something.
"Auntie~ Don't you know?Our Xia family is a famous nobleman, how can we be as knowledgeable as these poor people?Come late, come late, anyway, if you come early, you can only eat leftovers, these poor children in the family are very fond of our leftovers~" Xia Min pouted, and the delicate voice filled the entire hall, although the mouth felt soft, but the words were prickly.
Xia Zhengchun received Wang Qiuying's tearful eyes, turned his head impatiently, and did not refute Xia Min's words.
"Don't eat if you don't come. ”
Putting down the fork that had been used, Xia Ming opened his mouth coldly, but he couldn't take his eyes off the moment he looked up.
Xia Min, who wanted to say something, also noticed Xia Ming's stunnedness, and turned his head to look in the direction of Zero Xia Ming's stunned.
The girl was wearing a very casual white printed T-shirt, a relatively tight pants underneath, and a pair of washed white canvas shoes on her feet. But the first thing everyone saw was indeed the girl's incredibly bright eyes, the long bangs were gone, revealing those bright brown eyes, and the hair was tied up high and turned into a black bud. What people can see at a glance is the pink moon flower that has bloomed brilliantly in the middle of the bright black bud, which makes the girl more youthful.
When Wang Qiuying raised her head, she also saw the girl walking slowly, so elegant, as if she was going to a grand banquet instead of eating.
She had never seen such an eye-catching daughter.
In her memory, her daughter always had bangs that covered her eyes, and she kept her head down when she walked, as if she was afraid of something under her feet and afraid of being stepped on.
It's still the T-shirt that hasn't changed for 10,000 years, or the pair of white canvas shoes I wear, and when I look at my daughter coming over like this, it's like seeing another person, proud, confident, elegant, all the beautiful words can't describe the temperament that my daughter exudes at this time.
Of course, when everyone saw Gu Zhaoyan, Xia Zhengchun also saw the small oil bottle brought by his stepwife. I didn't say it before, but in fact, I still hated this oil bottle in my heart, but in the request left by the master's family, he said that he must marry this mistress he had kept for ten years, and the mistress cried and cried so that he had to bring this little oil bottle back.
It's like a different person!
He watched Gu Zhaoyan grow from three years old to fifteen years old, twelve years, and when he saw this girl again, he found that he had never understood her, the daughter of this mistress.
With rhythmic steps, seemingly random but regular swings of hands, confident and arrogant light in his eyes, and the inadvertent but perfect arc at the corners of his lips, will such a person be the stepdaughter of the oil bottle who has been raised by himself for twelve years and is now bringing back to the Xia family?
The hall was silent for a while, and after Xia Min saw the surprise in his father's eyes, a strong jealousy immediately surged into his heart.
"Gu Zhaoyan! Don't you see that everyone is waiting for you alone? You are still dressing up slowly in the room? Who do you want to seduce when you dress up so beautifully? You are just like your mother, you are all fox spirits! You can only seduce men! Your mother is a mistress, and you will be a mistress when you grow up!"
The sharp voice mixed with sarcasm was particularly abrupt in the hall, Xia Zhengchun frowned, but did not say a word, just stared at the girl who was still smiling elegantly to see her reaction.
"This young lady, the lady should speak softly and slowly, don't you know that you are now behaving like a shrew scolding the street in the vegetable market?"
Still with a faint smile, Gu Zhaoyan walked in front of Xia Min with elegant steps, and said sarcastic sentences in a soft and slow voice, as if he was reading poetry.
didn't sit down, just stood in front of the table with a straight posture, Gu Zhaoyan looked at the few people in front of him, his eyes were deeper, but the curvature of the corners of his mouth was more elegant.
"You little oil bottle! You have eaten leopard gall! You actually scolded my niece at my house! You don't want to stay in the Xia family anymore, do you? Be careful if I'm not upset, find someone to blow you out!" In a sharper voice, Xia Qingqing suddenly stood up from the chair, and her fingers covered with red nail polish pointed at Gu Zhaoyan, who was smiling lightly.
"I said Miss Xia of the Xia family, your brother is still sitting here, do you think you are qualified to speak?"
Glancing at Xia Qingqing sarcastically, the face that seemed to outsiders to be smiling like a flower was still as elegant as ever, but the voice changed from the original soft and slow to righteous words.
"You said yes, right?
With a smile in her eyes, the moment Gu Zhaoyan came back from rebirth, she decided to leave the Xia family, even if she couldn't take her mother to leave the Xia family, she had to leave the Xia family first, only by leaving the Xia family could she start her real life!
Xia Zhengchun frowned and looked at Gu Zhaoyan who was smiling, but he still didn't speak, but his brows furrowed deeper.
"Xiao Yan, how can you talk to your father!Don't sit down to eat yet!" The eyes that were originally full of tears became extremely strong, and when they looked at Gu Zhaoyan, they also began to become cold.
Hehe, Gu Zhaoyan smiled secretly in his heart, but his eyes were cold.
Again, whether in the previous life or in this life, it is the same, when she was bullied by the Xia family, this mother, who has always been cowardly in front of the Xia family, will always reprimand her harshly, and then get the status in the Xia family from the reprimand, after really marrying into the Xia family, after living a habit of wearing gold and silver, this mother, who has always loved her since she was a child, finally became a philistine, and pushed her daughter into the fire pit in order to stay in the Xia family.
"I'm sorry, my surname is Gu, his surname is Xia, I still know what my father's name is, and my mother reminded me. ”
glanced coldly at her mother, who was stunned when she heard her rebuttal, a trace of pain flashed in her eyes, but it was immediately covered up by coldness.
"Zhaoyan, is there something going on?Who bullied you at school?" With a slightly warm tone, Xia Zhengchun's face suddenly showed a kind smile, as if a real father was caring about his daughter.
Several people present were stunned, only Gu Zhaoyan, who had a smile on his face, smiled coldly in his heart, and it was like this, pretending to be a loving father, when he wanted her to marry Nuan Yang, it was like this, if it was Gu Zhaoyan before, I am afraid that he would have been happy a long time ago, but now, that cowardly Gu Zhaoyan would have died a long time ago.
"Young Master Xia, I wasn't bullied by anyone, I just wanted to inform my mother of something, after saying this, you don't have to look like this. Raising his eyebrows, Gu Zhaoyan's elegant smile turned into mockery, "What do you look like...... I'm nauseous. ”
"You!"
Although Xia Zhengchun felt that this daughter was different, he didn't expect this little oil bottle to be so arrogant!
"My dear Mother, I now inform you of one thing, one thing that will make you no longer ostracized in this Xia family. He didn't pay attention to Xia Zhengchun's words, nor did he look at the faces of the people around him, but just looked at Wang Qiuying, who was still in a daze.
"From today onwards, I will leave here, without taking a penny from here, and I will be left to fend for myself. This time, my dear mother, you will be able to sit back and relax, and you will not be ridiculed by the ladies for carrying oil bottles, just ...... The only reward you have given you for raising me for so many years......"
After saying these words softly, Gu Zhaoyan turned around and walked out of the hall without looking back, the petite figure disappeared into the Xia family before the Xia family reacted, and when the Xia family reacted to look for it, Gu Zhaoyan was already no longer outside the door.
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