Autistic genius, a flourishing era of scientific research

Chapter 296 Flaws

[Xiao Ci, do you know what's going on?] My parents are getting a divorce.

【I just heard the news from Uncle Jiang! 】

Jiang Yan was going to the research institute at the end of her vacation. Si Ci Zhan had already packed his luggage and decided to go with Jiang Yan.

Although he is not a researcher, it is not impossible for him to have been one in the past.

This matter has also been made clear to my parents, Song Yuwei and Huo Xiao.

Who knew that two messages from sister Si Qing plus a terminal communication would make Si Ci Zhan look solemn and confused.

Si Qing was in the car, taking her little daughter to the Civil Affairs Bureau, when she saw Jiang Yan's figure on the communication video:

"You and Jiang Yan are together? Don't worry, I'll go to the Civil Affairs Bureau now to see what's going on. If something really happened, it's useless for you to come. If nothing happened, you don't have to come either. Just stay with your partner first."

"Uncle Jiang said they had a big fight and went straight there."

"What's wrong with Dad? How could he be willing to divorce Mom?"

Si Qing couldn't understand it at all.

After closing the communication, Jiang Yan looked at Si Cizhan. He smiled with some helplessness and regret: "I may not be able to go with you today. You go to work first, I'll go home and see what's going on."

"Okay?"

"Go ahead." Jiang Yan nodded and got into the car. Pei Hengyin gestured to Si Cizhan, wishing him good luck.

It sounds like something big happened in the Si family.

Aren’t Si Cizhan’s parents a famous loving couple? They’ve had arguments and conflicts before, but now they just go to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get a divorce after a fight?

This is a big problem.

"Yanyan, be careful on the road. Give me a call when you get there. I'll let you know once I figure out what's going on at home." Si Cizhan said goodbye to Jiang Yan while standing by the car window.

"Okay." Jiang Yan nodded, then thought for a moment before continuing, "Be careful on the road. If you have any questions, you can ask me. Scientific research can solve many problems."

Si Cizhan smiled and nodded. Although he didn't know what kind of research results she thought could solve family conflicts, he was very happy to hear Jiang Yan say so.

"Don't work too hard. Get some rest. I'll try to find you soon."

……

A truth that has been hidden for over thirty years.

Song Yuwei's mind was in a mess all day and she couldn't figure things out at all.

From the moment a document was transferred to her terminal, it was as if the gears of fate had started turning again, rewriting the facts she had once believed.

The files included a recorded portrait video, specially taken photos of scars, information records and recordings of terminal communications, a video of the on-site excavation, a blood test report, and the transfer and remittance records that she had once been extremely concerned about.

She thought her ex-husband Xia Zhang was a traitor. When the iron box buried deep in the ground was sent to her without even being wiped clean of the dirt, it contained the seeds she had planted in her youth.

When they were still young, just in their teens, they buried their own treasures under the tree in the Xia family yard, and played a little game of the glory of labor just like the adults who were enthusiastically participating in labor and national construction at that time.

Together they dug up the yard and planted the "treasure". Even though they knew the treasure would never really take root and sprout, it felt like a unique ritual that satisfied the teenagers' playful nature and also embodied their youthful expectations.

Song Yuwei put in a pen, and Xia Zhang put in a handwritten collection of quotations.

But when Song Yuwei struggled to open the rusty iron box again, what she saw was a red boutonniere with the words "Bride and Groom" written on it from their wedding. The ink on it had faded and it no longer looked like what she remembered, but she could still make it out.

There were two small bracelets, which were obviously for children, and each had a name engraved on it: Xia Weifeng and Xia Hanyu.

Xia Zhang has always been the one who worries about naming the child. Song Yuwei still remembers that one day Xia Zhang suddenly said that the name had already been decided, and there was no need to worry whether it was a boy or a girl.

There is also the love letter written by Xia Zhang.

The Xia family is engaged in business, and Xia Zhang is a real intellectual. As the only son, Xia Zhang was raised very well, and his temperament and abilities are impeccable.

Song Yuwei was in a daze watching the video of the aunt who took care of her during her confinement and the chat messages between Aierian and Xia Zhang, as if she had returned to that year.

She felt that she was very strange that year. In the short period of time after giving birth, she seemed to be controlled by her emotions and had almost no ability to distinguish right from wrong.

After hearing the news that Xia Zhang was cheating on her, she believed it without a doubt and didn't even care about her own body. She wanted to catch him in the act herself, and she collapsed to another extreme when she saw the scene with her own eyes.

She handled the matter calmly, divorced quickly, and stayed away from Xia Zhang and the Xia family.

But as if in revenge, she accepted the matchmaker's matchmaking between her and Si Xiao, the most outstanding young man in the Si family, without hesitation.

She was once angry and shocked that a man like Xia Zhang would cheat.

Now that Song Yuwei has returned to her memories of that year, she has endless questions in her mind: why didn't she choose to believe Xia Zhang for a moment that year?

Was it that the evidence was too real, or was it that what she saw was too stimulating for her?

The evidence in her hands now is more complete and more real than before.

The cheating was fake. The aunt who took care of her during her confinement period admitted that it was arranged by Si Xiao and deliberately told her about the man's cheating during pregnancy and confinement.

Xia Zhang and the woman beside him, who were caught by her on the spot, were also arranged and planned by Si Xiao.

There is never a shortage of people in the world who want to get rich by taking shortcuts. Si Xiao took advantage of this and seduced the woman into joining him in plotting against Xia Zhang, putting on a wonderful show for her.

She thought that the remittances were due to Si Xiao's infidelity, but in fact they were benefits that Xia Zhang gained by holding evidence against him.

The two men completed their exchange of interests after the situation completely changed.

If it were just that, Song Yuwei wouldn't have gotten to this point.

After all, although she changed her husband, but looking back over the years, Si Xiao has always been obedient to her. She has both a son and a daughter. Now her daughter has given birth to two grandchildren, a boy and a girl. Her eldest son Si Cifeng is also married, and the family lives in harmony.

The original suspicion that Si Xiao was cheating on his wife did not exist.

She was the beneficiary of this conspiracy and struggle that she had never known about. Even if she could stand on the moral high ground and scold Si Xiao, and even curse and beat him, there was no need for her to completely break up.

She chose to divorce Xia Zhang decisively when he cheated on her, but she thought she could endure it when Si Xiao cheated on her. As time passed, even Song Yuwei couldn't really tell whether her personality had changed over time or her feelings for Si Xiao far surpassed her feelings for Xia Zhang.

Since there is love, there is no need to delve into such matters.

but……

But there was a victim in all this.

A pure victim.

Aierian, Xia Weifeng, that was also her child, her first child.

In his photo, his chest was covered with dense scars, even more than those of a well-trained soldier. Song Yuwei didn't dare to imagine how he spent his childhood abroad, let alone ask him how Xia Zhang treated him.

"After growing up, I seem to have everything I need: money and status. But I still envy many people, especially your youngest son, Si Cizhan."

[I want the love I want, but why does he always get it so easily? Should I have never been born? Even after returning home, you didn't seem to like me much.]

These were the two messages Arian replied to her after she contacted him.

No reply afterwards.

Song Yuwei held the terminal screen tightly. Her eyes turned red just by looking at Xia Weifeng's message, and she felt regret in her heart countless times.

She should have kept her child with her.

She felt boundless guilt. Xia Weifeng's existence made her deeply aware that all this was wrong. It was Si Xiao's selfish conspiracy and trap that broke up her original family.

She was also incredibly wrong.

Nothing can be made up again.

After taking out these things and questioning Si Xiao, Song Yuwei slapped him hard after Si Xiao nodded in agreement.

After being married for decades, her hands were shaking. She suppressed her sobs and anger, closed her eyes, and filed for divorce with her last bit of dignity.

The divorce was proposed in the morning, and Si Xiao agreed in the afternoon.

The moment she received the divorce certificate, Song Yuwei hugged her daughter Si Qing and cried out loud.

Zhidao: "Mom is sorry for you."

Si Cizhan, who rushed over, looked at his father. At this moment, he seemed to suddenly realize that his father was really old.

Si Qing comforted Song Yuwei, and was also somewhat infected by her mother's emotions, her eyes turned red and her voice became hoarse.

The three-year-old girl was holding onto her mother and grandmother's trouser legs. She was so cute, she looked up at them and said in a childish voice, "Grandma, don't cry."

Then he looked around again, ran over, hugged Si Xiao's legs and patted them: "Grandpa, don't cry."

Si Cizhan looked calm as he bent down and picked up his young niece.

The little guy didn't feel sad. He was so happy to be held by Si Cizhan that he waved his hands and patted Si Cizhan's shoulders: "Uncle, dear!"

Then he gave Si Cizhan a kiss on the face.

Si Cizhan patted her on the back and said to his parents, "Let's go home and talk. What's going on?"

"Divorce can't solve the problem, it can only solve the person with the problem. You two are not young anymore, and you can't just divorce me at this age. Are you still treating marriage and divorce as a game?"

He really felt that there was something wrong with the way his parents handled the situation, and his tone couldn't help but turn cold.

"My brothers and sisters, including me, are not young anymore, but my parents are divorced, and we have to be given an explanation. Let's all go home and stop blocking the entrance of the Civil Affairs Bureau."

Brother Si Cifeng was not there, sister Si Qing and mother were crying together, and father was more silent than ever in his memory. He became the only support for the family.