Restarting 16 Years Old, the Champion is Tiger and Tea

Wen Xin sat down beside Mu Mingzhen's bed and gently held her hand.

"Mom, just tell me what's wrong. Tan Mu and I are here. We can solve it together. But please speak slowly and don't get excited."

Mu Mingzhen put her other hand on Wen Xin's hand, feeling very relieved.

Although I haven't been with this daughter-in-law for a long time, I get along very well with her. Every time I chat with her, I feel very happy.

"I know, Mom is not in a hurry."

Mu Mingzhen sighed and began to speak.

"I was walking back from my brisk walking practice in the small square tonight, and I saw a man standing under the locust tree diagonally opposite our house, staring blankly at our door."

"I walked over and asked her who she was looking for. When she saw me, she ran away in a panic. But I could tell that she...she was Xia Qing, Tan Ming's high school classmate."

"Why does this rotten thing haunt me? It's here again. Will it harm Tan Ming again?"

Wen Xin and Tan Mu looked at each other in shock.

Kao, half a lifetime has passed, how come this rotten scumbag woman is back to life?

Wen Xin couldn't help but swear in his inner complaints.

In these two lives, she felt itchy when she thought of this rotten guy.

Wen Xin could feel Mu Mingzhen's hands were cold and trembling, so she held them tighter and comforted them patiently.

"Mom, it's dark, you might have seen it wrong. Besides, even if you didn't see it wrong, don't worry, Tan Mu and I are here, we can handle it."

Mu Mingzhen felt a little comforted, but her brows were still furrowed with worry.

"Alas, what can you do about this kind of thing?"

Wen Xin continued to pat Mu Mingzhen's hands.

"Mom, don't worry, I'm retired now and have time. I just dealt with my cousin's first love with my cousin's wife a while ago."

"Mom, I have a lot of experience fighting demons. Don't worry, if a fox spirit passes by me, I will definitely pull off her tail and make you a fox fur scarf."

Mu Mingzhen was amused by her, and the Tan family father and son finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The old couple began to rest. Wen Xin and Tan Mu walked out of the yard and came under the locust tree.

Wen Xin looked at the time. It was already eleven o'clock. Tan Mu next to him was holding his phone, looking a little hesitant.

"You want to call your brother, right?"

Tan Mu nodded: "Well, the key is that we don't know if it's true. If the old things are brought up again and it's a false alarm, that wouldn't be good."

Wen Xin pondered for a moment.

"Go ahead. Even if you're wrong, it's good to give Big Brother a shot of prevention and keep him on his toes."

Tan Mu took a deep breath and called Tan Ming.

The ringing lasted for a long time, and just when they thought the person on the other end was asleep and wouldn't answer the call, it was connected.

"Tan Mu, why are you calling me so late? What's the matter?" Tan Ming lowered his voice.

"Brother, go outside and make the call, don't disturb sister-in-law's sleep."

There was a pause on the other end of the phone, and then Tan Ming's voice sounded again.

"Tan Mu, what's going on?"

"Brother, I'm at the military academy. Mom suddenly had a heart rate and blood pressure problem tonight, so Xinxin and I rushed back."

Tan Ming immediately became anxious: "Is it serious? What's the situation now? Why didn't you tell me?"

"I'm feeling better now. I've taken some medicine and gone to bed. Brother, our parents didn't call you because our mom suddenly got sick tonight... It's related to you."

Wen Xin's eyebrows jumped and he looked up at Tan Mu.

She thought he would make an appointment with Tan Ming to talk about it tomorrow, after all, it was already the middle of the night. But she didn't expect this guy to go straight to the point.

"What...what has this got to do with me?" Tan Ming's voice sounded a little confused.

"Brother, have you contacted Xia Qing during this period?"

Tan Ming was even more confused: "No, why are you asking this suddenly? This has been a long time ago, who would still..."

He seemed to react suddenly.

"You mean, our mother saw her tonight?"

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Tan Ming put away his phone and stood on the balcony for a long time.

After returning to the bedroom and quietly getting into bed, Zhang Hui turned over and asked, "What happened to Tan Mu? Why did he call me in the middle of the night?"

Tan Ming knew that she had heard it from the beginning.

He simply sat up, leaned against the head of the bed and said, "Huihui, are you sleepy? I have something to tell you."

Zhang Hui reached out and turned on the bedside lamp, then sat up.

"What's wrong? Did something happen?"

Tan Ming lowered his head, and the expression on his face could not be seen in the shadows.

"Huihui, you know I had a first love girlfriend before."

Zhang Hui raised her eyelids: "I know, my mother told me."

After all these years of marriage, the couple had never mentioned Xia Qing's name. But Zhang Hui had heard of this unavoidable hurdle from Mu Mingzhen.

In Mu Mingzhen's opinion, this is not a secret anyway, and her daughter-in-law has the right to know.

If you cover up an abscess, it will be more likely to fester and stink. It is better to open it, which may help it heal better.

But in front of Tan Ming, everyone tacitly kept silent about that name.

"She caused a lot of trouble back then, and our mother hates her to the core. Tan Mu called just now and said that our mother suddenly felt unwell because she met Xia Qing tonight."

Zhang Hui sat up straight and asked anxiously, "How is our mother? Is she okay?"

Tan Ming looked at her deeply and shook his head: "He said there was no serious problem. He took the medicine and fell asleep."

Zhang Hui breathed a sigh of relief:

"Let's go see mom tomorrow morning. Go on, what did you say just now? Oh, first love. Oh, mom was scared and I forgot everything."

Tan Mu lowered his eyelids:

"Our mother said she saw Xia Qing tonight, under the locust tree opposite the military compound."

"Oh... then what?" Zhang Hui yawned and asked as a routine, without any ups and downs in her voice.

Tan Ming couldn't help but ask, "Huihui, why don't you have any reaction at all?"

Zhang Hui glanced at him with amusement:

"What kind of reaction should I have? I'm already over 50 years old, and my first love is probably half buried in the earth. What else should I react to?"

"Aren't you afraid that I'll be snatched away?"

Zhang Hui looked at Tan Ming in surprise.

"Tan Ming, this is a rare joke you make. Snatch it away? I'm not really afraid."

Seeing Tan Ming raised his eyebrows, Zhang Hui waved her hand nonchalantly.

"First of all, anything that can be taken away is not a good thing. I really don't want it."

"Secondly, if a woman starts to get older and is financially independent and can take care of herself, wouldn't it be a great relief to no longer have a partner who is not so satisfactory to her?"

Tan Ming blinked his eyes when he heard this: "How...how come you are so happy about this?"

"You don't have to serve an annoying old man anymore. You get rid of the burden. The children are grown up and the old man is gone. No one will meddle in your affairs or talk too much. You can do whatever you want freely. Isn't it a great pleasure?"

"Just think about it, after they retire, the two of them will stare at each other all day long. If the old man makes people angry, it will be very annoying."

"And he's getting older and older, looking more and more like an old man. He's becoming more and more of a burden. Don't you think it's better to have nothing?"

These remarks silenced Tan Minggan.

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