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The two of them had no emotional foundation and were together only because of the circumstances.

After the initial novelty wore off, Song's father began to get impatient with Zheng's mother, who had never done housework and was always crying because of her concern for the well-being of her parents and family.

Although he coveted Zheng's mother's beauty, he married her for the purpose of living a good life. However, Zheng's mother was well-read, proficient in piano and dancing, but she couldn't do housework.

After washing clothes several times, there is still detergent on them, and they are very prickly when worn. Steamed buns are as hard as rocks, and can make a dog cry if you throw them on its head.

Song's father worked in a steel factory. He had to carry a lot of things every day and was baked by the boiler until he was covered in sweat. When he came home at night, not only could he not have a hot meal, but he also had to drag his exhausted body to boil the pot and carry the spoon.

If it was just physical fatigue, it would be fine, as he had gone through the same thing alone before he got married. But he had to endure the psychological pressure from Zheng's mother.

Although Zheng's mother had never openly expressed her dislike for him, her resisting attitude when they were in the same room, her hesitant look when she saw Song's father sweating and about to lie down on the bed, and her long sigh when she heard Song's father treat the book "How the Steel Was Tempered" in her hand as a technical manual, all made Song's father feel like a thorn in his throat.

Dissension arises and conflicts arise.

After several quarrels of varying degrees, the two began to drift apart. Song's father would rather move to the factory and share a dormitory with his co-workers than go home. Zheng's mother, who had never wanted to be with Song's father, was unwilling to beg him to go home.

This situation continued until Zheng's mother discovered that she was pregnant, and the relationship between the two gradually improved. The arrival of this child also eased a lot.

I thought everything was fine, but unfortunately things happen unexpectedly, and the knife that had been hanging over the Zheng family's heads for a long time finally fell.

Mr. Zheng and his two sons were taken away for criticism. Mr. Zheng had been a soldier all his life and could not bear such humiliation. That night he left a message "A gentleman can be killed but not humiliated" and then hit his head against the wall and died. Although his two sons survived, they were also sent to a remote farm for reform. They had endless work to do every day but could only sleep in the cowshed.

Upon hearing the sad news, Mr. Zheng's first wife fainted on the spot. She barely held on for half a month but finally passed away. His two daughters-in-law and children were distraught. Their families did not dare to get involved in this mess and kept their doors closed to them.

So, except for Zheng's mother who married Song's father, all the members of the Zheng family died, went crazy, disappeared, and gradually there was no news of them.

When the news reached Zheng's mother, the baby in her belly was already more than seven months old, and she would give birth in more than a month. When she suddenly heard the tragic situation of her family, she fainted immediately and bleeding came from her body.

After a full rescue, both mother and child survived, but Zheng's mother's body was completely damaged by heavy bleeding. When Song Guanwen was one year old, she finally died of exhaustion and followed Zheng's parents who had loved her for twenty years.

From then on, Song Guanwen became a child without a mother, and he also bore the reputation of "bad background" of his maternal family since he was a child.

Song's father had not had much affection for Zheng's mother to begin with, and now seeing that she had abandoned her body for the sake of her mother's family's affairs and passed away without caring about both of them, he became even more heartless. After reluctantly staying with her for a year, he married Hu Yun, who had just lost her husband and lived with her a few streets away, and they started living together.

Hu Yun was not a vicious stepmother, nor had she done anything to deliberately torture her stepson, but human nature is biased. She had a daughter of her own, and later gave birth to a son with Song's father, so naturally she put the son left by the original wife last.

Although they would not often beat or scold their children on a daily basis, it was not uncommon for them to do things like always putting meat and vegetables on their children's side during meals, and secretly putting eggs in their children's hands when they went to school in the morning.

Song Guanwen grew up in such an environment with a partial stepmother and indifferent biological father until he graduated from high school.

The wave of "educated youth going to the countryside to build the rural areas" swept across the country. The Song family had three children, and at least one had to be sent to the countryside.

Logically speaking, as the eldest son of a family with a rich family background, Song Guanwen had always had excellent grades and was well-liked by school teachers, who were even willing to write recommendation letters for him.

It just so happened that at that time there was a rumor that the school would be recruiting soon. If Song's father was willing to help him, then Song Guanwen would almost certainly stay in the city.

But Hu Yun didn't want to do that. If Song Guanwen stayed in the city, then one of her children would have to go to the countryside. Life there would be so hard. The two children had never washed dishes at home, so how could they endure the hardship of farm work?

Thinking of this, her heart tightened and she naturally turned her attention to Song Guanwen.

But she was smart. Although she wanted to make Song Guanwen a scapegoat, she did not mention it directly. Instead, she sighed and groaned at home all day long. She didn't cook or wash clothes.

Song's father, who had been taken care of by her for so many years that he was exhausted and didn't know the difference between grains, could not stand the cold stove in the house every day. He was about to lose his temper without knowing why, but Hu Yun had already burst into tears and started to sob.

First, she talked about how hard it was to go to the countryside, and how a child had gone there for several years and could not come back, and almost died there; then she talked about how spoiled and delicate her two children were, and how they were afraid of farm work; finally, she talked about how sensible the two children were, and how much they loved their father, and even small things like her daughter pouring a glass of water for Song's father when she was a child were glorified by her into evidence of the children's filial piety.

After this series of combined attacks, Song's father was so overwhelmed with paternal love that he wished he could go to the countryside instead of his children.

Although Hu Yun never mentioned Song Guanwen in his words, he was always criticizing Song Guanwen.

Her two spoiled children are delicate and not suitable for going to the countryside. Then wouldn't Song Guanwen, who has been used to doing rough labor since childhood and worked in a steel factory with his father for a period of time, be a perfect fit?

The daughter who has no blood relationship with Song's father is very filial to him, then isn't Song Guanwen, who grew up spending Song's father's hard-earned money but is distant to him and barely says a few words to him all year round, an ungrateful person?

At first, Song's father didn't come to his senses, but under Hu Yun's deliberate guidance, he gradually felt that Song Guanwen was as ungrateful as his mother who died early, and gradually he began to think of letting Song Guanwen go to the countryside.

But he was still a little hesitant at first. After all, Song Guanwen had good grades and had a great chance of being admitted to a school as a teacher, and would soon be able to start earning money for the family.

But Hu Yun's next words scared him so much that he broke out in a cold sweat and made him completely determined.