“Remember this ginkgo tree? When you were a child, you liked me to fetch the ginkgo fruit on the tree. And this well and big iron cover, I worried that since you were too young to fall into the well when you were playing cacophonously, so I specially asked the blacksmith to create it.”
Yan Xun looked at his son who had grown up to be a talented person. He didn’t know what to say, he was so excited. He could only took him back to remember his childhood. This part of memory was a happy memory that Yan Xun had been remembered in his years as farm labor reformer. It played back over and over again and had been integrated into his body.
Yan Chu looked at the familiar courtyard and shocked a few seconds. If he wasn’t mistaken, this courtyard frequently appeared in the original body’s memory, but not in those blurry childhood memories. Instead in his past life, it was after he passing the college entrance examination and returned to the capital, his stepfather whole family moved to a brand new house.
It was this magnificent courtyard before his eyes.
He remembered the statement of his biological mother, Gao Yaqin, at that time. This courtyard was bought by them later. Now he thought about it, there were something suspicious about this.
His stepfather, Jiang Cheng, was a government-level cadre. He had little right in the capital’s political center, but he definitely wasn’t a powerful person.
His biological mother, Gao Yaqin, was born in good family, but unfortunately Gao Jia[1] already declined as early as those war several years ago. Her family background was far inferior to Yan Jia. At that time, Yan Xun was willing to abide by the marriage contract to marry her, even praised by everyone for his affable and even-tempered. That time, Gao Yaqin was a logistics professor in the university, the couple’s salary was good, however it absolutely wasn’t in the situation to be able to buy the courtyard house.
At that time, the original body overlooked too many things, such as when he lived on a rural community in those a few years, the family suddenly appeared had many house. After the reformed and opened to the outside world[2], his stepfather came to the sea to get a large sum of money from merchants. He afraid that everything was closely bound up[3] to the original body.
If he wasn’t mistaken, it was probable that after the death of the man currently standing in front of him who ushered in political rehabilitation in past life and like this life in general, the country returned some of the financial affairs that were confiscated at the time, which should had been handed over to Yan Xun’s only heir, the original body. Except that his so-called biological mother and stepfather coveted properties that belonged to him and exploited the money as foundation, which became the first initial fund for the Jiang Jia to become rich afterwards.
At this time, Yan Chu had to sympathize with the original body. At first coveting Jiang Jia’s wealth wasn’t reasonable at all, but now it was good. It turned out that all of those properties had been stolen from him without his consent, but in the end he had a reputation for breaking faith and abandoning right[4], forgetting favors and violate justice[5], and couldn’t had a good end.
Thinking of it, the original body hated those poisonous family, it was completely excusable.
However, Yan Chu looked at the end of his hand, a little shy and cautious wife. In the past life, he abandoned his wife and son, the original body was still a scum man, who didn’t give any explanation.
The father and son both met again after a long period of separation, and learned that in his daughter-in-law’s belly had a bun in the oven[6]with Yan Jia’s third generation. In the days leading up to the start of a new term, Yan Jia was filled with cheerful talks fo joy every day.
Especially Father Yan, the country didn’t only returned some of properties that was confiscated at the beginning, but also made up for his years of labor reformed itself as the salary of an university professor should had. The sum of the money alone add up to 30,000. Yan Xun seemed to be trying to make up for the years he owed to his son, new clothes and new shoes were the most basic, but also jewelries and watches. He couldn’t wait to arm his son and daughter-in-law from the tiptoes to the end of their hair with the best of everything all delivered to their hands.
In contrast, Jiang Jia‘s days hadn’t been so happy.
“Do you know about your ex-husband coming back?”
When Jiang Cheng went home, he threw a briefcase on the sofa and asked the woman sitting on the sofa watching TV.
“What? Yan Xun is back? Isn’t he went to be a labor reformer?” Gao Yaqin frowned and asked inexplicably. She hadn’t thought of her ex-husband for a long time, and recalled the scene when she first saw each other, she somewhat became absent-minded.
The man was too dazzling and the dazzling made people felt inferior. When Gao Yaqin knew that such a man would became her future husband, her heart was really happy, but gradually, these happiness became unsatisfactory.
For that man, she seemed to be a hand-held decorative item that could be disposed of. He was very good to her, and he never ambiguous with his female students. Gao Yaqin always felt that something was missing. He loved books and time for reading was much more than time for keeping her company. Especially after having a child, more of his attention had been transferred to the child.
In the matter of sexual intercourse, he wasn’t enthusiastic, twice a week was sorta mere formality. Even at the climax, his expression was very restrained and the original frequency was maintained until the end. Gao Yaqin was fed up with that lukewarm sex. In an accident, she and the man before her eyes were got onto the bed. Jiang Cheng was very overbearing and awfully crude in the bed, however he made Gao Yaqin scrupulously experienced the taste of being as a woman ought to.
For the first time, she had some guilt and fear. But with the first time there was a second, gradually, there wasn’t any guilt. Under the instigation of the other party, she reported her husband anonymously, in order to be able to stay together with the man she loved.
That Yan Xun was also stupid. He secretly gave her a box of gold bars before the accident, coupled with her hoarding from managing the household and some money she hid from selling antiques from Yan Jia’s storehouse in advance, these years had been comfortably off. In addition to the eldest son left by Jiang Cheng’s ex-wife and Yan Chu, there was hardly any trouble, especially later she gave birth to the dragon and phoenix twins for Jiang Cheng, which was her pride and she could gave everything for them too.
From what Jiang Cheng just said, Yan Xun was back. Thinking about the things she did to her eldest son, Gao Yaqin couldn’t help but feel a little guilty.
At this time, they still didn’t know that Yan Chu was going to go to college. They didn’t know that Yan Chu had been in contact with Yan Xun. In their view, Yan Chu was still staying in the gully ditch. When someone came to find Yan Chu, just said that child voluntarily went to the countryside to live on a rural community would do!
“You don’t know that yet.” Jiang Cheng rubbed his hair and sat his butt on the sofa, the bottom of his eye flashed a hint of deep jealousy: “Not only did Yan Xun come back, but most of the confiscated properties were returned to him. A set of Huangchenggen[7] Courtyard and Xiaoyang[8] Building on Tonghua[9] Road. Don’t mention these two properties, other suites reportedly also good, big and spacious. There are also some antiques that were confiscated at the beginning, except for some part I don’t know what it is. When the animal hides was destroyed or given down by the people, it was returned to a small part. When I heard that Yan Xun was picking up things, he carried two whole boxes out.”
Jiang Cheng was a bit annoyed. Originally he could achieve this position, he was relied on □□ people to come up all the way. Over the years with the continuously political rehabilitation of those people, his life was very difficult and he always anxious that this position would be rolled out at any time.
Why did Yan Xun must to come back alive? If only he was dead after political rehabilitation back then, weren’t those things all his?
Jiang Cheng couldn’t help sighing with sorrow. He didn’t know, according to the original trajectory, everything really developed as he imagined.
“Why? Are you also regretted being with me at that time, or else you are still Madam Yan at this moment?”
Jiang Cheng himself could regret it, but he couldn’t see his woman showing a melancholy shocked appearance. His most self-satisfied estimate in this life was to use a rebel faction of junior high school diploma to pry open a educated person, the big professor’s wife. So long as remembered Gao Yaqin’s former man who was set up on high[10] like that and every time he was doing that woman, he had a special sense of accomplishment when he looked at him as he was obsessed with his own feelings.
This was the reason why he had other women who were younger and more beautiful than Gao Yaqin all these years. To known as a small ringleader of the capital rebels, in the early years of Jiang Cheng still in a very good position in this area. That was in these years he had no choice to clamp his tail and behaved with integrity, honestly living in seclusion.
“What are you talking about? You don’t know how I feel about you. If it wasn’t for you, I couldn’t write a letter to get him out of the way, and send my own son to the countryside for that son of yours.”
Gao Yaqin was smart person. She understood thoroughly if Yan Xun knew what she really wanted and how she confronted that child Yan Chu these years, he absolutely wouldn’t forgive her. Now if she shows a little of regret, she was afraid that both ends wouldn’t get the desired outcome.
“I know that you are good to me, I remember all of this.”
Women were all to be coaxed. Jiang Cheng holds Gao Yaqin’s well-maintained but no longer young hands, exploited an opportunity to kiss his dear one, and irritated Gao Yaqin for a while.
“By the way, have you been in contact with that child Yan Chu recently? That child is afraid of have not an easy time in countryside. You should send him some food to eat and some clothes to wear, let that child know that you are still a mother who care about him.”
Jiang Cheng’s eyes flickering, and that child Yan Chu still had a bit of affection for Gao Yaqin, this biological mother. Even when he went to the countryside angrily, at this time, his anger should be disappeared too. At this moment, Gao Yaqin selling another point well and that blockhead wasn’t watching, like a dog saw the meat bones, it spit out its tongue and catch up.
“I knew that it was necessary to send that child to the countryside. He came out of my belly and I loved him more than anyone.”
Gao Yaqin heard one and know ten[11] and suddenly understood the small abacus[12] that her husband played.
Yan Xun wasn’t young, if there wasn’t any accident, Yan Chu might be his only son.
The couple smiled at each other and were full of calculations.
[1] family; household
[2] refers to Deng Xiaoping’s policies from around 1980
[3] intimately related
[4] to betray; treachery; perfidy
[5] ingratitude to a friend; to kick a benefactor in the teeth
[6] to be pregnant
[7] 皇城根, Huangchenggen: Imperial City Roots
[8] 小洋, Xiaoyang: Little Ocean
[9] 桐华, Tonghua: Magnificent Tree (variously Paulownia, Firmiana or Aleurites)
[10] aloof and remote; not in touch with reality
[11] explain one thing and (she/he) understands everything; a word to the wise
[12] selfish calculations; bean-counting
“Remember this ginkgo tree? When you were a child, you liked me to fetch the ginkgo fruit on the tree. And this well and big iron cover, I worried that since you were too young to fall into the well when you were playing cacophonously, so I specially asked the blacksmith to create it.”
Yan Xun looked at his son who had grown up to be a talented person. He didn’t know what to say, he was so excited. He could only took him back to remember his childhood. This part of memory was a happy memory that Yan Xun had been remembered in his years as farm labor reformer. It played back over and over again and had been integrated into his body.
Yan Chu looked at the familiar courtyard and shocked a few seconds. If he wasn’t mistaken, this courtyard frequently appeared in the original body’s memory, but not in those blurry childhood memories. Instead in his past life, it was after he passing the college entrance examination and returned to the capital, his stepfather whole family moved to a brand new house.
It was this magnificent courtyard before his eyes.
He remembered the statement of his biological mother, Gao Yaqin, at that time. This courtyard was bought by them later. Now he thought about it, there were something suspicious about this.
His stepfather, Jiang Cheng, was a government-level cadre. He had little right in the capital’s political center, but he definitely wasn’t a powerful person.
His biological mother, Gao Yaqin, was born in good family, but unfortunately Gao Jia[1] already declined as early as those war several years ago. Her family background was far inferior to Yan Jia. At that time, Yan Xun was willing to abide by the marriage contract to marry her, even praised by everyone for his affable and even-tempered. That time, Gao Yaqin was a logistics professor in the university, the couple’s salary was good, however it absolutely wasn’t in the situation to be able to buy the courtyard house.
At that time, the original body overlooked too many things, such as when he lived on a rural community in those a few years, the family suddenly appeared had many house. After the reformed and opened to the outside world[2], his stepfather came to the sea to get a large sum of money from merchants. He afraid that everything was closely bound up[3] to the original body.
If he wasn’t mistaken, it was probable that after the death of the man currently standing in front of him who ushered in political rehabilitation in past life and like this life in general, the country returned some of the financial affairs that were confiscated at the time, which should had been handed over to Yan Xun’s only heir, the original body. Except that his so-called biological mother and stepfather coveted properties that belonged to him and exploited the money as foundation, which became the first initial fund for the Jiang Jia to become rich afterwards.
At this time, Yan Chu had to sympathize with the original body. At first coveting Jiang Jia’s wealth wasn’t reasonable at all, but now it was good. It turned out that all of those properties had been stolen from him without his consent, but in the end he had a reputation for breaking faith and abandoning right[4], forgetting favors and violate justice[5], and couldn’t had a good end.
Thinking of it, the original body hated those poisonous family, it was completely excusable.
However, Yan Chu looked at the end of his hand, a little shy and cautious wife. In the past life, he abandoned his wife and son, the original body was still a scum man, who didn’t give any explanation.
The father and son both met again after a long period of separation, and learned that in his daughter-in-law’s belly had a bun in the oven[6]with Yan Jia’s third generation. In the days leading up to the start of a new term, Yan Jia was filled with cheerful talks fo joy every day.
Especially Father Yan, the country didn’t only returned some of properties that was confiscated at the beginning, but also made up for his years of labor reformed itself as the salary of an university professor should had. The sum of the money alone add up to 30,000. Yan Xun seemed to be trying to make up for the years he owed to his son, new clothes and new shoes were the most basic, but also jewelries and watches. He couldn’t wait to arm his son and daughter-in-law from the tiptoes to the end of their hair with the best of everything all delivered to their hands.
In contrast, Jiang Jia‘s days hadn’t been so happy.
“Do you know about your ex-husband coming back?”
When Jiang Cheng went home, he threw a briefcase on the sofa and asked the woman sitting on the sofa watching TV.
“What? Yan Xun is back? Isn’t he went to be a labor reformer?” Gao Yaqin frowned and asked inexplicably. She hadn’t thought of her ex-husband for a long time, and recalled the scene when she first saw each other, she somewhat became absent-minded.
The man was too dazzling and the dazzling made people felt inferior. When Gao Yaqin knew that such a man would became her future husband, her heart was really happy, but gradually, these happiness became unsatisfactory.
For that man, she seemed to be a hand-held decorative item that could be disposed of. He was very good to her, and he never ambiguous with his female students. Gao Yaqin always felt that something was missing. He loved books and time for reading was much more than time for keeping her company. Especially after having a child, more of his attention had been transferred to the child.
In the matter of sexual intercourse, he wasn’t enthusiastic, twice a week was sorta mere formality. Even at the climax, his expression was very restrained and the original frequency was maintained until the end. Gao Yaqin was fed up with that lukewarm sex. In an accident, she and the man before her eyes were got onto the bed. Jiang Cheng was very overbearing and awfully crude in the bed, however he made Gao Yaqin scrupulously experienced the taste of being as a woman ought to.
For the first time, she had some guilt and fear. But with the first time there was a second, gradually, there wasn’t any guilt. Under the instigation of the other party, she reported her husband anonymously, in order to be able to stay together with the man she loved.
That Yan Xun was also stupid. He secretly gave her a box of gold bars before the accident, coupled with her hoarding from managing the household and some money she hid from selling antiques from Yan Jia’s storehouse in advance, these years had been comfortably off. In addition to the eldest son left by Jiang Cheng’s ex-wife and Yan Chu, there was hardly any trouble, especially later she gave birth to the dragon and phoenix twins for Jiang Cheng, which was her pride and she could gave everything for them too.
From what Jiang Cheng just said, Yan Xun was back. Thinking about the things she did to her eldest son, Gao Yaqin couldn’t help but feel a little guilty.
At this time, they still didn’t know that Yan Chu was going to go to college. They didn’t know that Yan Chu had been in contact with Yan Xun. In their view, Yan Chu was still staying in the gully ditch. When someone came to find Yan Chu, just said that child voluntarily went to the countryside to live on a rural community would do!
“You don’t know that yet.” Jiang Cheng rubbed his hair and sat his butt on the sofa, the bottom of his eye flashed a hint of deep jealousy: “Not only did Yan Xun come back, but most of the confiscated properties were returned to him. A set of Huangchenggen[7] Courtyard and Xiaoyang[8] Building on Tonghua[9] Road. Don’t mention these two properties, other suites reportedly also good, big and spacious. There are also some antiques that were confiscated at the beginning, except for some part I don’t know what it is. When the animal hides was destroyed or given down by the people, it was returned to a small part. When I heard that Yan Xun was picking up things, he carried two whole boxes out.”
Jiang Cheng was a bit annoyed. Originally he could achieve this position, he was relied on □□ people to come up all the way. Over the years with the continuously political rehabilitation of those people, his life was very difficult and he always anxious that this position would be rolled out at any time.
Why did Yan Xun must to come back alive? If only he was dead after political rehabilitation back then, weren’t those things all his?
Jiang Cheng couldn’t help sighing with sorrow. He didn’t know, according to the original trajectory, everything really developed as he imagined.
“Why? Are you also regretted being with me at that time, or else you are still Madam Yan at this moment?”
Jiang Cheng himself could regret it, but he couldn’t see his woman showing a melancholy shocked appearance. His most self-satisfied estimate in this life was to use a rebel faction of junior high school diploma to pry open a educated person, the big professor’s wife. So long as remembered Gao Yaqin’s former man who was set up on high[10] like that and every time he was doing that woman, he had a special sense of accomplishment when he looked at him as he was obsessed with his own feelings.
This was the reason why he had other women who were younger and more beautiful than Gao Yaqin all these years. To known as a small ringleader of the capital rebels, in the early years of Jiang Cheng still in a very good position in this area. That was in these years he had no choice to clamp his tail and behaved with integrity, honestly living in seclusion.
“What are you talking about? You don’t know how I feel about you. If it wasn’t for you, I couldn’t write a letter to get him out of the way, and send my own son to the countryside for that son of yours.”
Gao Yaqin was smart person. She understood thoroughly if Yan Xun knew what she really wanted and how she confronted that child Yan Chu these years, he absolutely wouldn’t forgive her. Now if she shows a little of regret, she was afraid that both ends wouldn’t get the desired outcome.
“I know that you are good to me, I remember all of this.”
Women were all to be coaxed. Jiang Cheng holds Gao Yaqin’s well-maintained but no longer young hands, exploited an opportunity to kiss his dear one, and irritated Gao Yaqin for a while.
“By the way, have you been in contact with that child Yan Chu recently? That child is afraid of have not an easy time in countryside. You should send him some food to eat and some clothes to wear, let that child know that you are still a mother who care about him.”
Jiang Cheng’s eyes flickering, and that child Yan Chu still had a bit of affection for Gao Yaqin, this biological mother. Even when he went to the countryside angrily, at this time, his anger should be disappeared too. At this moment, Gao Yaqin selling another point well and that blockhead wasn’t watching, like a dog saw the meat bones, it spit out its tongue and catch up.
“I knew that it was necessary to send that child to the countryside. He came out of my belly and I loved him more than anyone.”
Gao Yaqin heard one and know ten[11] and suddenly understood the small abacus[12] that her husband played.
Yan Xun wasn’t young, if there wasn’t any accident, Yan Chu might be his only son.
The couple smiled at each other and were full of calculations.
[1] family; household
[2] refers to Deng Xiaoping’s policies from around 1980
[3] intimately related
[4] to betray; treachery; perfidy
[5] ingratitude to a friend; to kick a benefactor in the teeth
[6] to be pregnant
[7] 皇城根, Huangchenggen: Imperial City Roots
[8] 小洋, Xiaoyang: Little Ocean
[9] 桐华, Tonghua: Magnificent Tree (variously Paulownia, Firmiana or Aleurites)
[10] aloof and remote; not in touch with reality
[11] explain one thing and (she/he) understands everything; a word to the wise
[12] selfish calculations; bean-counting
