Stealing the moonlight into my arms

Fu Runing only saw Xiao Jingting coming back from outside when she woke up in the morning.

She just glanced at him indifferently, and didn't ask where he went at night. She just said as usual, "Good morning."

She has long been accustomed to this kind of life and should learn to be indifferent.

Outside of this room, they are a loving couple again, and Fu Runing will still play her role well in front of the Xiao family.

At the appointed time, Xiao Jingting went out to work. Perhaps in front of his grandparents, Fu Runing took the initiative to adjust his tie.

The woman's white fingers lingered on the man's dark tie.

Xiao Jingting lowered his eyebrows and looked at her face so close to him.

He knew clearly that she was acting, pretending, but he couldn't help but take it seriously.

When the two of them got closer, Fu Runing lowered his voice and said, "Take some time to go see my dad. Let's be fair. I'm here to help you coax your grandparents, and you also have to go to my dad and be a good son-in-law. Don't forget what we said."

She was clearly smiling, and to outsiders it looked like a young couple whispering in each other's ears.

But what she said was clearly based on interests and was not tainted with any emotion.

Xiao Jingting looked away and responded without any emotion: "Yeah."

The two separated outside the East Garden Gate.

Fu Runing watched the car disappear from her sight. She composed herself and stepped into the courtyard of the East Garden.

The old lady was preparing a list of names for ancestor worship in the yard. She wore reading glasses and used both a mobile phone and a tablet, which she used very smoothly.

Seeing her come in, Song Huizhen waved to her, "Ningning, come over and help grandma check the list."

Fu Runing sat down next to the old lady.

The morning light shines through the transparent roof of the sunroom. A big tree in the yard penetrates the roof, and the sunlight shines through the leaves and falls on the wooden coffee table, creating mottled light and shadow.

Fu Runing thought about what happened yesterday and couldn't help but say, "Grandma, what Auntie said is right. Ruirui is in her twenties now, and she can help with things at home. You always side with us, so Auntie and Ruirui are bound to feel unfair."

The two of them were unhappy, so they decided to find a way to make trouble.

It's not a big deal, but it's annoying.

If this kind of trivial and annoying thing happens a few times, you will inevitably feel tired.

It was normal for Weng Yuqing to make things difficult for her, and it was also not surprising for Xiao Qinrui to find trouble with her in various ways.

In fact, I have been going through the past three years like this. I don’t know why, but now I am finding it increasingly exhausting to cope with it.

Maybe the anger at the beginning has really dissipated.

Song Huizhen looked at her granddaughter-in-law who was sitting in front of her in an orderly manner. She was still the same as usual, not asking too many questions, not saying too much, just the right amount. She wouldn't even glance at the lists in front of her.

"Ruirui is still too childish and needs to be tempered. Her mother only plays mahjong and hangs out with the ladies all day long, but she has made her family members all slick and frivolous. I don't have any hope for these two."

When Fu Runing heard the old lady complaining about Weng Yuqing, she didn't say anything, just listened.

To be honest, no matter what happened to Weng Yuqing or Xiao Qinrui, it would soon have nothing to do with her.

Song Huizhen noticed that Fu Runing was unusually quiet today. She put down her phone and asked with concern, "What's wrong? Are you still upset about what happened a few days ago?"

Fu Runing met the old lady's eyes and could only smile and shake her head.

"No, it was just something harmless."

Even if he knew that it was Weng Yuqing who fanned the flames, what could he do? He would just say a few words to make her feel aggrieved for a while, but there would be no loss.

After all, the real source of the trouble was her family. No, that might not be the case now.

Song Huizhen knew that she was sensible, so she slowed down her tone and said, "You have been married for three years now, and you can slowly get familiar with the people in the Xiao family. You will be the one accompanying Jing Ting in the future, and you can get to know more of the younger cousins. This ancestor worship is also an opportunity. Husband and wife should support each other. While the man is working hard outside, you can guard the back for him."

Fu Runing rolled her eyes and said, "Grandma, how could I understand these things?"

She didn't know what was wrong with the old lady recently, and she actually intended to bring her into the Xiao family's circle.

In the past three years, she was like a transparent person in the Xiao family.

Everyone knows that Xiao Jingting is married, but not many people know who his wife is or what her identity is.

Apart from her second uncle's business partners, who knew that her family had a close relationship with the Xiao family, no one knew exactly how.

Perhaps the prince of the Xiao family had been living away from home for many years, and after returning he was forced to marry the daughter of his benefactor. It would be shameful to tell this story to others.

Song Huizhen smiled. The way she knelt down in the ancestral hall when she was told to do so did not show that she did not understand.

The old lady didn't expose her, but said earnestly: "Ningning, Jingting doesn't feel like he belongs in this family. He will be different when you are around. You two must be well."

Fu Runing was completely confused.

what?

Could it be that Xiao Jingting is a better actor than her, and could even give the old lady such an illusion?

But she still had to follow the old lady's words and comfort her, saying: "Grandma, you look so serious. This is Jingting's own home. How could he have such an idea?"

Song Huizhen sighed, "When Jing Ting first came back, he hardly spoke to us and he didn't stay in Shengzhou all year round. He went wherever the hardship was. He had no systematic management training, and no one taught him, but he was able to keep those old hands in the branch office in line."

"Jingting's growth rate is terrifying, and he has offended many people. Even Jingting won't come back to complain to adults like other children. He seems to always be alone, as if he has never considered this place his home, and there is no one or thing worth his concern."

At this point, Song Huizhen held Fu Runing's hand and said, "It wasn't until you got married that Jingting seemed to change slowly. Grandpa and grandma didn't think highly of Jingting before, and we were sorry for him. Now we just hope that you two will be well. As for children, you will have them in the future, so don't put so much pressure on yourself."

Fu Runing knew that the old lady loved her grandson and that this kind of love was real.

But what the old lady didn't know was that she and Xiao Jingting didn't have as good a relationship as she thought.

During the years that Xiao Jingting stayed in her house, she bullied him a lot.

Isn't it the turn of events now?

Fu Runing responded vaguely to the old lady's words, "Grandma, I know."

……

After Fu Runing left Dongyuan, the old man came back from morning exercise.

Looking at the cold tea on the coffee table, the old man asked casually, "Is my granddaughter-in-law gone?"

"gone."

Song Huizhen still felt something was wrong and muttered to herself, "I always feel like there's something wrong with them lately, but I can't put my finger on what it is."

Old Master Xiao scolded, "Your eldest grandson had a sterilization three years ago without saying a word. Otherwise, the child would be so old now. Why would you be thinking about all this?"

The old man gets angry whenever he mentions this matter. If he hadn't undergone a cannulation reversal surgery half a year ago, and if it hadn't been known to a friend of the old man, and the matter was quietly passed back, they would have known that the boy had undergone a vasectomy three years ago.

The guy even ran far away and did it in another place, thinking that no one would know about it.

I just can't figure out why I'm racking my brains.

The old man couldn't figure it out and didn't understand it, and he still feels shocked.

You can't ask in person.

Whether you are being asked or asking, it is inevitable to feel awkward.

So as to avoid being accused of being frivolous and paying too much attention to the lives of young people.

The old man was still muttering, "You said Jingting went to have the surgery done by himself back then. I bet your granddaughter-in-law didn't know about this. No matter how much tonic he drinks, it won't help."

Although this sterilization operation is reversible, it is risky after all. People who undergo this operation have already had children and have decided not to have any more children.

His eldest grandson, on the other hand, had a vasectomy without a word. Does that mean he doesn't want to have children? Then why did he get a vasectomy before?

Song Huizhen thought about what happened two days ago and said, "Ningning's mother died of a severe hemorrhage when giving birth to her, and Jingting and Ningning lost their first child. Is he afraid?"

The old man said angrily, "Who knows him? He can't even make a sound with two slaps. His personality is not like his father, nor like his mother, and certainly not like me."

When Xiao Jingting's mother was suddenly mentioned, Song Huizhen was silent for a moment.

"Okay, stop nagging. He's doing much better now than when he first came home eight years ago."

Song Huizhen recalled that when Xiao Jingting first returned to the Xiao family five years ago, he looked normal, as if he had just moved to a new place to live, but he was like a lifeless walking corpse.

To put it more bluntly, it's like... being kicked out by its owner and becoming a stray dog.

Seeing him like that, the old couple almost wanted to send him back to the Fu family.

But suddenly one day, Xiao Jingting came back from a trip and took the initiative to suggest that he did not plan to continue his postgraduate studies and wanted to join the company directly.

In the next five years, he rotated between branches in various places and rarely returned to Shengzhou.

It was not until he married Fu Runing that he began to become more humane.

Those subtle things happened imperceptibly, and the old couple noticed it all.

Song Huizhen rolled her eyes at the old man and complained, "You can blame it all, it's all your good son's fault. He created three children with two mothers. None of these children are worry-free."

The old man sneered, "What's wrong with me? So your son isn't yours? I was wondering if that bastard Xiao Hongshen was your son with someone else, the one who's been cheating on me for decades? How does that look like my own child? There's no such thing in the Xiao family."

The old lady retorted, "Yes, you ten-thousand-year-old bastard turtle, I'm talking about you."