Chapter 269: Chapter 269: She Won’t Let Us Sit at the Sa Table with the Si Family
“I’m not blaming you for this, it was my own choice. I just saw a lot clearer after what happened with Fu Xing.”
Su Nuanying struggled, attempting to free her arm from her mother’s grip.
“If you’re not blaming us, then why show us that face? We’ve worked ourselves to death raising you, have we offended you in so way? Why can’t you ever act sensibly? Look at how terrible Sang Qiao’s relatives are, yet she’s still clever and shrewd, and now she’s going to marry Mr. Si.”
Mrs. Su was truly angry. They had called Nuanying countless tis recently, but she never answered.
Even when they managed to spare so ti out of their busy lives to visit her, she would just avoid them!
“If you like Sang Qiao so much, go make her your daughter. Why tell about it? Why is Sang Qiao clever and shrewd? That’s because you only see her as she is now. When she was hurt and nearly dying, why didn’t you call her stupid for trying to please those brothers?”
Nuanying’s eyes brimd red as she clenched her teeth unconsciously. She had always been compared to others since she was little.
They could only see the goodness in others, never considering that others have their faults too!
The argunt outside drew the attention of the three people chatting inside. As soon as Grandma Su ca out, she saw the scene unfolding, “What’s going on here? Xingxing, you’re back. Why didn’t you co in? And you all, picking a fight as soon as you see each other.”
“I have things to do at the company, I’m leaving now.” Nuanying wiped the tears from her eyes and turned her face away, intending to leave.
Grandma Su stepped forward to hold her granddaughter, “Xingxing, now that you’re back, let’s have a al together. Call your boss and ask for leave.”
“Don’t keep her. Let her go. I’d like to see just how capable she is. It would suit fine if she never ca ho and lived on her own,” Mrs. Su said with a face full of mortification.
Frustrated with Nuanying for talking back and embarrassed about not being able to discipline her child in front of others.
Nuanying held her ground, not mincing her words, and turned to leave.
“Xingxing!” Grandma Su couldn’t call her back no matter how much she shouted.
“Mr. Si, sorry to make you witness such a scene,” Mrs. Su said with a forced laugh.
“Let’s go inside and have a seat to chat,” Mr. Su also invited them in.
Only Grandma Su stood there with a worried face. Before, Qiaoqiao had been at ho to help look after Xingxing, but now she really didn’t know what to do.
She didn’t know when Xingxing would grow up and stop worrying her.
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The Si Family and Sang Family had their dinner planned for the next day. Si Chenli’s urgency made Old Sir Si snort in disdain, “How disgraceful! Can’t even wait a day or two.”
“You talk about disgrace, but wasn’t it you who proposed to in the rain with a grand gesture of kneeling and not getting up?” Old Madam Si gave his thigh a pinch. It was a good thing that their grandson could get married at all, and they couldn’t care less about losing face! They were simply anxious, what of it!
Considering Si Jing’s impotence hadn’t been cured yet, she had no idea how he would ever get married. She was practically worried sick.
“You also better behave and put on your best and most presentable suit,” Mrs. Si gently reminded the listless Father Si.
“I know, don’t worry, wife.” Father Si forced a smile.
The Si Family brought a pile of gifts to discuss with the Sang Family. It was a marriage that both families had agreed upon, so there was hardly any friction. A brief chat as a formality was all that was needed to conclude the matter.
Sang Nanfeng and the other three brothers along with Mrs. Sang squatted in a corner outside the door. Since Sang Qiao and the others were in a private room, they couldn’t see anything.
Even without saying it aloud, they could feel the discomfort in their hearts. Qiaoqiao was discussing marriage, and both sets of parents were dining together, yet they couldn’t even appear at the dining table.
“I’m going back first,” Sang Nanfeng said as he stood up and strode away. He knew all too well that even if he squatted there until death, Sang Qiao wouldn’t let them in.
Instead of continuing to wait uselessly by the door, it was better to think of so solution.
The remaining three brothers and Mrs. Sang did not speak to retain him. They also knew waiting wasn’t a solution, but being so close yet separated by a wall made them feel as if they were part of the al between the two families.
“Will I never be able to help Qiaoqiao again, never have anything I can do for her, not even a chance to make ands?” Mrs. Sang’s eyes were red with tears.
She had utterly failed as a mother. At the ti when she was most able to cherish her daughter, she gave all her maternal love to an outsider.
Now that she had co to her senses, it was too late. She had nothing to give Qiaoqiao.
“She hasn’t needed us for a long ti…” Sang Shen lowered his head, his voice hoarse to the extre. He had had too much good fortune in his life, much more than others.
He had always been the darling of the family from birth, his oldest brother holding him high, and everything had gone smoothly for him.
But that luck seed to have drained the good fortune from the second half of his life. There would always be a crack between him and Qiaoqiao that could never be nded.
“What should I do…” Mrs. Sang wept, unable to control her tears. All her helplessness and despair beca clear after facing reality. Sotis she even selfishly thought it would be better to be ntally ill than to be so painfully lucid now.
She couldn’t win back Qiaoqiao. All she could do was suffer.
Perhaps the sight of a mother squatting at the entrance of the restaurant with her three sons looking so wretched aroused pity.
People who ca to the restaurant and saw this scene couldn’t bear it. A woman took out the only hundred yuan she had from her bag and placed it at their feet.
“The love of parents is pitiful. It must be hard to beg with three children—take this and buy so food.”
“Here, take this bowl too, don’t cry.” A child next to the woman also put his blue plastic bowl down.
He had seen on TV that beggars sitting by the roadside all had bowls, that’s how people would give them money. These big brothers and their mother must not have gotten any money because they didn’t have a bowl.
“Are you blind? Can’t you see what we’re wearing? Who is begging?”
Sang Shen pointed at his own clothes, feeling as if the sight of that hundred yuan note was an insult.
“If you’re not begging, then what are you doing squatting at the entrance of the restaurant?” the woman retorted as she took back her money.
“You…”
“Second brother, don’t argue with her. She ant well,” Sang Siyang pulled on his brother’s hand, not wanting the second brother to start a scene with the woman at the entrance. Qiaoqiao and the Si Family were still dining inside.
“Who needs her good intentions,” Sang Shen muttered under his breath and squatted down again.
“We’ve been squatting here for quite a while. Shouldn’t we go back now?” Sang Qingran looked up at the blue sky and white clouds, forcefully holding back the tears that threatened to spill from his eyes.
He had never agreed with those who labeled him as aloof, but at that mont, he truly felt that he was both proud and unable to swallow his pride.
As for his relationship with Qiaoqiao, he couldn’t even take the first step, and he truly felt helpless.
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