Chapter 48: Lineage (1)

  Feng Yannan was rebuked by Fang Lao, his face turned bright red, and he stared incredulously at the old man sitting at the top, who actually protected Old Three's family to this extent!

  "What's the big deal? Second sister just wants money, right? Last time Ziying didn't even do anything major, and she got a free set of sapphire jewelry just for being scared. What a great deal! No wonder she's causing another scene as soon as she returned to the country. Are we ATMs or something?" Zhang Yun said with a smug expression, her eyes revealing her true intentions without any disguise. This Feng Yannan always acts so noble, but in reality, he's just calculating how to get his hands on that 3% share of stock. He's really something else, isn't he?

  "Zhang Yun, don't be too arrogant!" Fang Jianxin looked at his wife's face, which had turned from bright red to pale white, and he couldn't help but want to go forward and tear Zhang Yun's mouth apart. "Old Three, can't you also control him?"

  "Her mouth is on her face, I think it's hard to control." Fang Jianlin said with a smile, although he didn't care about his wife and children, when he calculated the shares at first, he also got involved, but today the old man was openly angry, so naturally he wouldn't help others find fault with his own family, anyway in the eyes of his second brother's family, he was just a scoundrel.

  Although Zhang Yun's words were unpleasant, Master Fang did not scold her, and instead implicitly acknowledged that Feng Yannan was causing trouble for money, which made the Fang family even more embarrassed.

  It was actually Mrs. Fang and her sons who calculated the equity, not Feng Yannan. The wall fell and everyone pushed it. At this moment, this dirty trick naturally had to be pinned on Feng Yannan.

  Everyone had a schadenfreude expression, Feng Yannan always kept a distance and didn't want to associate with the Fang family's relatives, as if they were all tainted with the smell of copper. She was the most noble, so it was natural that the men in the Fang family couldn't open their mouths. The other wives-in-law were delighted to see her being pulled down from the pedestal and stripped of her holy mother image.

  "We don't care about your money! You Fang family only have money left!" Feng Yannan raised her head, trying to control her emotions. "Don't insult us with your money! Since you grandparents can't even recognize your own granddaughter, Ziying doesn't need to call you Grandpa and Grandma anymore. From now on, we don't want a single penny from the Fang family! We won't set foot in the Fang house again! As for that sapphire jewelry, I'll have someone return it to you tomorrow. Whoever wants it can take it!"

  "Let's go south!" Fang Jianxin was shocked, his wife wanted to cut off all ties with the Fang family! He grasped her hand tightly, his face filled with terror and pleading.

  "Fang Jianxin, you and I have been husband and wife for many years. I'm grateful for your maintenance of me, but I can no longer bear the Fang family's repeated humiliation of me and my children. If you're reluctant to leave the Fang family, then our marriage ends here." Feng Yannan said coldly.

  "Yan Nan!" Fang Jianxin panicked, still tightly grasping Feng Yannan's hand and refusing to let go, a big man almost on the verge of tears.

  "Feng Yannan," Old Lady Fang shouted, "You're from a family of scholars and yet you forced your husband to cut ties with his parents. Do you still have any filial piety? How did your family teach you?"

  Mrs. Fang was furious, her chest heaving violently.

  "If parents are not kind, don't blame the children for being unfilial!" Feng Yannan didn't back down.

  "Second brother and sister, calm down, after all, today is Mother's birthday." Fang Jianping saw that Old Lady Fang's face was not right, so he hurried out to ease the atmosphere.

  Su Yang and Chen Ge hastily sat down on either side of Mrs. Fang to help her catch her breath, but Feng Yannan coldly laughed and pulled her daughter away without hesitation.

  Fang Ziqian hesitated, dragging her feet for a few steps, looking back at her father and grandparents with reluctance. However, she was startled by her mother's fierce glare and was pulled forward with great force, quickly lowering her head in fright.

  "Yan Nan, wait for me!" Fang Jianxin seemed to have made up his mind, and knelt down in front of his parents. "Father, Mother, please forgive your unfilial son!"

  "Unfilial son!" Mr. Fang was also furious, smashing the teacup on the tea table fiercely, "If you dare to walk out of this door, don't come back again!"

  Fang Jianxin just paused for a moment and then quickened his pace to follow Feng Yannan.

  Watching her son's back, Mrs. Fang suddenly felt short of breath and fainted on the spot.

  "Mom, mom—"

  The entire Fang family's old house was in a mess, but Fang Jianxin and his family never looked back, determined to cut off all ties with the Fang family that night.

  Fang Zixuan leaned against the hospital's long bench, her expression still a bit dazed. Fang Lao Furen was in the emergency room, fighting for her life. All of the Fang family members except for Fang Jianxin and his family were diligently keeping watch. Fang Zipeng sat next to her, his eyelids drooping as he leaned against her, but she remained stiff, her eyes losing focus, her consciousness hazy and confused, drifting back to years ago, like a dream that felt so real.

  "That little kid is a bastard, her mom messed around with someone else, and that person was even younger than her. They didn't acknowledge her, she gave birth to her and then ran away..."

  "There's such a mother, and this kid isn't anything good either, who knows what he'll end up doing in the future..."

  "How many times have I told you, don't mess with that Chen family's bastard..."

  "Isn't Old Chen a scholar? How did he end up with such a daughter?"

  "I reckon he's no good to the bone, it's all retribution. His son is an idiot, his daughter is a slut, his daughter-in-law is mute... who knows what's wrong with this kid..."

  "Stay away from the Chens, be careful not to catch some dirty disease."

  "Shut up! You're not allowed to talk about my parents!" The small body, dressed in patched-up old clothes, had a fierce and icy gaze, with a clump of dirt still clutched in his hand.

  "He's a wild kid!"

  "Typical of someone who's uncouth and uneducated!"

  "Chen Zheng, kneel down for me! Who allowed you to fight with others?" The old man in the main room was thin as a skeleton, but his voice was stern and pierced her heart.

  "They say I'm a wild seed." The little girl knelt on the cold, damp ground, her knees aching, but she bit her lip tightly and refused to let the tears in her eyes fall. She didn't understand why her father, who was a kind-hearted man, and her mother, who couldn't speak but had a warm smile, would have a wild seed like her.

  She couldn't understand why they were so hostile towards her family and what she had done wrong.

  "Kneel down in front of the ancestors' tablets, no dinner tonight, and copy the Four Books for Women three times tomorrow! If you don't finish copying, you won't be allowed to eat or sleep!" The old man glared at her fiercely, his eyes still sharp despite his advanced age, but the hatred emanating from his bones seemed to want to tear her apart.

  Her home wasn't big, the ancestral tablet was just on one side of the main room, outside the main room was her father and mother's bicycle repair shop, her grandfather's books were piled up in the main room, the old man sat behind her staring at her straight back, cold air crept from her knees to her heart.

  Wish you all a happy New Year! Wish you all good luck and prosperity in the year of horse, everything goes as you wish!