In the room, the Ye family father and son seemed to be really eating quietly.

Outside the door, Xu Zhimu Ye Luojia and Aunt Song came to the kitchen to wait.

Aunt Song handed over a bowl of chicken soup to Ye Luojia.

"Jiajia, drink some soup to warm up."

Just now when I was just about to eat, these things suddenly appeared, and everyone didn't eat well.

Ye Luojia looked at Aunt Song, she stretched out her hand and took the small bowl: "Thank you." ”

"Yes, I'll copy two more side dishes for you, your father and your grandfather are estimated to come out in a while, let's eat in the kitchen."

Aunt Song turned around with a smile, tied her apron and began to stir-fry skillfully.

Ye Luojia looked at her back a little distractedly.

Aunt Song is a member of the Song family in Kyoto.

Although the Song family is only a second-rate family in Kyoto, it is also much higher than Ye Luojia's mother's status.

I remember that after her mother died, Aunt Song came to the house the next year, and if there was no accident, she was Ye Luojia's stepmother.

But when Ye Luojia was a child, she had a natural resistance to terms like stepmother.

Every time Aunt Song came, although Ye Luojia would not make a big noise, she would always sit quietly at the door of the backyard alone.

Guarding and not letting anyone in, not even Ye Qinghai.

Later, after contact again and again, Aunt Song also knew that this little girl might have some misunderstandings about her.

So I took the initiative to discuss with Ye Qinghai whether to get married first, and when Ye Luojia grew up, maybe she would always slowly let go and accept her.

That's nearly ten years.

The relationship between Ye Qinghai and Ye Luojia, the father and daughter, has not eased, but has directly caused some old and dead relations.

Aunt Song has never had an official identity, and she is by Ye Qinghai's side, and every time Ye Luojia comes home, she will always greet her warmly.

Ye Luojia knows that she really wants to have a good relationship with herself, and maybe sometimes she has automatically taken on the role of a mother.

However, Ye Luojia's heart always couldn't let go.

After all, this originally belonged to her mother, and no matter how good others were to her...... But it's not a mother after all.

She looked at Aunt Song, who was cooking at the moment, and she noticed that the food on the table today was actually what her mother was good at back then.

Perhaps subconsciously, she also wants to give Ye Luojia a mother-like feeling, ten years of getting along.

Maybe she doesn't ask for any identity anymore, but her concern for Ye Luojia has been increasing.

"Aunt Song, can you tell me about my grandmother?"

Ye Luojia suddenly opened his mouth to ask this question, and what Ye Bei said just now always echoed in his mind.

Aunt Song paused in chopping vegetables, she looked at Ye Luojia, this is still Ye Luojia's rarely take the initiative to chat with herself.

With some memories in her eyes, she spoke: "I heard your father and the people in the family say that your old man also experienced a lot of ups and downs when he was young.

The Ye family was just a small shop a long time ago, doing a little business, and finally slowly became a little scale, starting from a textile factory, when the old man participated in a chamber of commerce for entrepreneurs, he met the daughter of a local banker, and the two developed very quickly, and soon got married, that is, your grandmother. ”

The old man has three wives, the first of which is Ye Rong and Ye Bei's mother.

Aunt Song then spoke: "Later, due to some competitive reasons, the family's weaving factory was taken away by the opponent, and the old man almost lost his life, and the old man fled alone for the safety of his family.

Lost his soul and hid in a poor fishing village by the sea, almost starved to death when he was rescued by a fisherman, the fisherman's daughter took care of him when the two gradually fell in love with each other, and then the opponent also failed to manage well, the old man went home, and the fisherman's daughter was married home with a sedan chair, that is, your own grandmother. ”

Ye Luojia was stunned, this is the first time she has known about this, this is a secret that belongs to the older generation, and she has never heard her father mention it.

I only remember that my grandmother was an old lady who loved to laugh, was very kind, and was very good at making fish soup for her to drink.

When Aunt Song said this, she suddenly sighed softly: "Although the old man loves your grandmother very much, the Ye family has become a well-known enterprise in Kyoto at that time.

The identity gap between the two people always provokes some criticism in the family, especially ...... Your grandmother, after all, is from a bank family, and it is inevitable that she will have a grudge against your grandmother's appearance, and there will always be some exclusion in the family. ”

When Aunt Song said this, the voice behind her slowly became softer.

Ye Luojia listened silently, this kind of encounter was the same as her mother at that time.

"However, later your grandmother gave birth to your father, and in that era, mothers and sons were still expensive, and life after that was better, but openly and secretly, it was inevitable to be excluded.

Today's situation, in fact, has been buried for a long time, the more big families are between them, the more fierce the struggle between these half-brothers, your father can only work hard in order to make his family better, since your father took away the identity of the Ye family in charge of the Ye family in the hands of the second brother, the contradiction between them is already irreconcilable. ”

Aunt Song said with a faint sigh in her tone.

Ye Luojia listened, but her eyes were a little distracted, she seemed to be talking to herself: "If that's the case, then why did he leave us ...... in the first place?"

Since he knew what it was like to be ostracized, why, he became such a person himself.

Aunt Song said softly while chopping vegetables: "Everyone doesn't want to be a bad guy at the beginning, but reality will always treat everyone indiscriminately, and unconsciously, we have become the person we once hated the most......"

……

In the room, the Ye family and the grandfather sat facing each other.

Ye Qinghai poured a glass of wine for the old man, and filled it himself, with a long voice.

"For as long as I can remember, I have felt that I am incompatible with the Ye family, and that feeling cannot be eliminated by one or two people being nice to you.

It was a disdain from different classes.

My mother is a very optimistic person, but I have also seen my mother looking at the sky alone in the middle of the night, guarding a bowl of fish soup that has been cooled, waiting for you to come back, although it is always delayed to wait for you to come back. ”

Ye Qinghai looked at his father, and the old man's old eyes also showed a complicated look.

"I used to not understand you, and even resented you, but my mother always told me.

Your dad is for this family, he also has his own things to do, he is just busy......

But I really don't know what you're up to, and you're so busy that you can't even take care of your family. ”

The old man's hands trembled, although everything was rehabilitated back then, the Ye family's industry had also been hollowed out.

There are so many people up and down the Ye family, so many mouths to eat, the old man can only start all over again.

Moreover, only by relying on the relationship between his eldest wife, that is, the banker's daughter, can he quickly lead the Ye family to rise again.

But after all, he is controlled by others, even between husband and wife, but the old man has to pay more attention to his words as a big wife.

Many shares of the family business are also in her hands.

And he knew that the eldest lady had some bitterness about Ye Qinghai's mother.

The old man had to deliberately snub her, which was also to protect her, after all, in this kind of big family, sometimes being snubbed may be able to avoid a lot of power struggles.

Of course, these are all wishful thinking on the part of the old man, although he does so to ensure their safety.

But the gap in his heart is something he has never had time to fill in his life.

The old man looked at his son, he chose Ye Qinghai to take charge of the Ye family many years ago, and he also had his willingness to compensate.

Otherwise, in the family dispute, no matter how strong Ye Qinghai's ability is, it will be difficult to take away the inheritance in the hands of the deep-rooted Ye Rong and Ye Bei's forces.

These are these, and the old man can't explain it to Ye Qinghai.

He sighed slightly.

Ye Qinghai opened his mouth and said: "In the past, I really couldn't figure it out, but when I reached this position, I suddenly understood the reason why you should become like this."

Back then, the reason why I married Jiajia and her mother despite your opposition may be that subtly, when I saw her pitiful appearance, I remembered my old lady back then.

I loved her very much and wanted to spend my life with her, but it was also the first time I felt the chain of oppression and contempt between my family.

Back then, no matter how much my mother was wronged, she would always tell me tactfully that she was fine, and she would always silently resist the pressure from the outside world.

But when I grew up, all these pressures came to me, and I realized that there is something far more terrible in this world than poverty, and that is the prejudice in people's hearts. ”

Ye Qinghai took a sip of wine and showed a bitter smile: "I originally thought that it would be enough for me to be good to her."

However, the family will always be rejected by the people, especially since my wife and I have been married for several years, and Jiajia only has one child.

In a family like ours, if you don't have a son, you're always inferior, but her body has been found to be problematic, and she can't conceive a child for a long time, and even if she can conceive, her body doesn't support her to give birth to a second child.

This made some of the cynicism in the family even worse.

Once I saw with my own eyes that my wife was secretly wiping tears in the kitchen.

From that day on, I decided that I wanted to give them the best life, but this road was not easy, and perhaps it was also the root of men's inferiority.

I was obsessed with what I had accomplished, and I was obsessed with the way I stepped into a high position, calling the wind and rain, and making those who once looked down on me grovel to me.

However, I forgot my original intention, and even more forgotten, what I fought all this for.

By the time I woke up, she didn't have much time for me to regret it. ”

When Ye Qinghai said this, some tears even appeared in his eyes: "Just like when my mother left, she was already lying in the hospital bed at that time and couldn't get up, but she still said to me with a weak smile, she doesn't blame me, but she just pity Jiajia, let me take care of her in the future, if I can, it's good to find Jiajia a stepmother who can hurt her......

But for so long, my incompetent father has been too far apart from my only daughter.

I remember her mother's last wish, I want to see Jiajia one day, be able to marry someone who is good to her, be able to have a happy family, and she can feel at ease under the nine springs.

Therefore, I always wanted to introduce young talents in Kyoto to Kaga, and I never wanted to force Kaga to marry anyone for the sake of profit.

But I knew too well that it was really difficult for different classes to achieve the same happiness, so I also took a tougher approach, which made my relationship with Jiajia worse......"

Ye Qinghai shook his head and looked at his father, a man who was always calm and calm in the face of his family's rebellion, like a child at the moment.

"Dad, we are successful entrepreneurs in our careers, but we are all failures in our families.

We all only care about our careers, and we always think that with our careers, we have everything.

But in the end, it seems to be empty.

This tragedy has already happened to us twice, and I don't want Jiajia to repeat our mistakes. ”

After Ye Qinghai finished speaking, there was a long silence in the room.

The old man looked at this cottage that looked a little "shabby" compared to the palatial manor next to it.

He also remembered that in the years when he was down, when he was in that small fishing village by the sea, when the living environment was not as good as here.

I can't even guarantee three meals a day every day, so I can only eat some simply stewed sauerkraut and sea fish.

However, when was life so easy and comfortable, it was the most depressed but pure and happy years in his ups and downs of life.

Moreover, he fought for the foundation of his life, thinking that he could make the people of the family have no worries.

But today's scene of contention, watching his sons turn against each other, made him can't help but think.

What is this life for?

I didn't cherish it when I was young, and I regretted it again and again in my old age.

However, Jiajia's matter is still difficult to accept in the old man's heart.

He thought for a long time and looked at his son: "Do you think that one named Xu Zhimu can bring Jiajia what she wants?" ”

Ye Qinghai's eyes looked out of the door, and he spoke: "I still know my daughter."

Since her mother left, Jiajia has been sealed, she has no shortage of good life, but she lacks someone who can care about her. ”

Ye Qinghai's eyes looked at the most inconspicuous bowl of tomato egg noodles on the table.

"I used to think that I could compensate her for giving her a worry-free life, but I never remembered to make her a bowl of egg noodles with tomatoes and tomatoes.

When we were having dinner together just now, Jiajia looked at that kid with a proud expression on her face, as if to say to me, I chose him, and I will marry him.

I really haven't seen that kind of expression in a long time.

I don't know if we made the right choice, but we have followed the path that others think is right all our lives, and now we know better than anyone whether we are winners or losers. ”

"However, in case this Xu Zhimu also changes in the future..."The old man always has the worst in his mind.

After all, Xu Zhimu is already young and proud, and he is even more divided than when they were young.

There must be no limit to his future achievements, he can choose almost anything, and at that time, will he change his appearance for the sake of higher power and money.

"No, I've met him twice before, he's not like us."

Ye Qinghai shook his head, and his tone was a little meaningful: "Although he is young, I always feel that he is more thorough than we think about many things, he is a greedy person, but if a man is not greedy, he will not be able to become an atmosphere."

Moreover, he was so greedy and arrogant, knowing that we might be unfavorable to him, he still came to the Ye family alone.

Compared to him, we are more like hypocrites. ”

Ye Qinghai looked at his father, he sighed deeply, shook his head and smiled: "Dad, we can't help ourselves in this life, and when we come to Jiajia's generation, let them choose the life they want." ”

The old man also looked at the simple and warm meal on the table, he looked up and sighed, did not indicate anything, just picked up the wine glass and drank it.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door.

"Enter."

At the door, Aunt Song opened the door.

Ye Luojia was holding a pot of milky white soup, and the fragrance permeated the house.

It's a pot of fish soup.

Simple sea fish, nothing expensive side dishes, just some ordinary pickle gnocchi.

But it wafts out the most appetizing fragrance.

The old man was stunned for a moment, looking at this pot of fish soup, his lips trembled slightly.

"This is the fish soup that Jiajia and Zhimu boiled together, you can taste it while it's hot."

Aunt Song smiled and spoke.

The fish soup was put down, Xu Zhimu took the initiative to shoulder the work of serving the soup, handed it to the old man first, and said as he spoke.

"Grandpa Ye, it happened suddenly just now, I haven't had time to introduce myself, my name is Xu Zhimu, Jiajia's boyfriend, we met for the first time, I boiled some soup, you drink something to warm up."

Xu Zhimu was very natural when he said this, in his eyes, it didn't matter whether the old man was the old head of the Ye family who could call the wind and rain in Kyoto.

In his eyes, more importantly, she is Jiajia's grandfather, and she will also be his own relative in the future.

Jiajia's boyfriend......

This title made Ye Luojia a little swayed, her delicate face was slightly ruddy, and she looked at her grandfather.

To her surprise, Grandpa didn't have much of a look of surprise or atmosphere.

It's a bit complicated, but it's hard to get that kind of attitude.

The old man looked at Xu Zhimu for a moment, and looked at the fish soup sent by him in his hand, and he moved his lips.

didn't speak, but still stretched out his hand to take the bowl in his hand and nodded at Xu Zhimu.

……

Dinner.

This meal was a little silent, but such an atmosphere was very rare for this complex family.

The old man didn't say a few words from beginning to end, but when he finally left, he looked at Xu Zhimu and Ye Luojia again.

"The affairs of the Ye family have not been settled yet, next time ...... Let's have a chance to eat together again. ”

"And Jiajia, grandpa knows that you have been wronged before, but this is still your home, and the family's property that originally belonged to you will also be under your name in the next few days, I still hope that you can come back and have a good time."

After the old man finished speaking, he took a deep look at the two of them, and the old butler who followed him helped him to leave.

This sentence also shows some of his attitudes, and the matter of Xu Zhimu and Ye Luojia remains to be investigated.

However, it is rare to let the old man relax to this extent.

Ye Qinghai drank a little too much, he was a little staggering, and after the old man left, he motioned for the two of them to sit down.

"Jiajia, the company under your second uncle's name originally had some plans for you, this is something that belongs to you, and I still hope you can take over."

Ye Qinghai looked at his daughter, and now he knew that his daughter had found someone who could be trusted.

What he can do now is to prepare enough capital for his daughter, whether it is a dowry, he must always make his daughter beautiful.

He was sorry for Ye Luojia too much, and now this is what he can best make up for Ye Luojia.

Ye Luojia looked at her father, she thought for a long time, and finally nodded slightly.

She agreed not for any property, but because of what her mother once said.

Ye Qinghai smiled with relief, his eyes were a little red, and he looked at Xu Zhimu again: "The matter between you and Jiajia, in fact, what you want to prove is not to show me, but to Jiajia and her mother, what her mother hoped for the most back then was to see that Jiajia could be recognized by everyone in the family."

I'm a dad and I didn't do it, so I hope you can do it. ”

Ye Luojia's eyes flickered, looking at his father, today's Ye Qinghai was extremely sentimental, and it was the first time he had said such a thing.

A man's, especially a man who stands up to the sky and the earth, can make it difficult for many people to sleep and eat when he stomps his feet.

When such a person utters such a request one day, it proves that he is really old and has someone to care about.

Ye Luojia's heart didn't know what to think.

Yes, my mother is a person who doesn't have much culture, she always thinks that if she can treat others well, others can treat them well.

It's a pity that the reality is cruel, but the mother still retains some innocence, she still hopes to see her baby daughter can be recognized by the family.

The corners of her eyes were also slightly red, and a warm hand gently took her hand under the table and held it gently in the palm of her hand.

Xu Zhimu looked at her, he showed a warm smile, and his eyes were deep and serious: "I promised Jiajia a long time ago, and today I also promised you, this is a promise between men." ”

Ye Qinghai sighed a few times and nodded.

It was late at night, Ye Qinghai drank a lot, and his heart was also very complicated, after this night, the Ye family was about to change.

"Let's go back, I'm tired from so many things today, so take a good rest."

Ye Qinghai stood up slowly, and Aunt Song wanted to help him in the past, but she hesitated and withdrew her hand.

It's like a tacit understanding, as long as it's in front of Ye Luojia, they will keep some distance.

Ye Luojia had already seen all this, her eyes moved, and she remembered the last words that Aunt Song said to her in the kitchen.

She and Xu Zhimu walked to the door, and finally turned around, looking at her father and Aunt Song, she pursed her lips.

In the end, he said softly: "It's dark, don't run around when you're drinking, Aunt Song, please take care of my dad." ”

A simple sentence made Aunt Song and Ye Qinghai stunned for a long time.

Ye Qinghai's breathing also accelerated slightly, and Aunt Song couldn't help but feel a little sour in her eyes.

She looked at Ye Luojia: "Don't worry, Jiajia, you guys should slow down on the road." ”

"Hmm."

Ye Luojia pulled Xu Zhimu and left.

Inside the house, Ye Qinghai looked at the direction where the two people left for a long time.

He opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but he didn't know how to say it.

"Brother Ye... I'll help you back to rest. ”

Aunt Song said softly.

Ye Qinghai's gaze slowly retracted, the drunkenness in his eyes dissipated a little, and he looked up at the luxurious manor in front of him.

"The Ye family is going to change tomorrow, my stupid second brother, after all, he was just pushed to the stage, and the people behind him probably won't be able to sit still."

Ye Qinghai's eyes flashed with countless essences: "Whether I guess right or not, no matter what happens to the Ye family in the future, the part that belongs to Jiajia, I will guard it for her." ”

Just wait. ,Yesterday didn't increase the addition of CU today,。

Continued tomorrow.