CH 11

Chapter 11: Later

The young lady originally had deep facial features, and she was born with neat eyebrows and piercing eyes. But because of her youthfulness, her skin was as white as a boiled egg that was peeled off, and her body was slender, weakening her look.

But when her eyebrows were full of hostility at this time, the delicate girlish feeling on her body faded, and her sharpness was aggressive.

Everyone in the house was shocked, and no one dared to step forward.

But Liang Yingying watched as she rolled her eyes and stuck her tongue out, as if she was going to die. Zhang Yansheng’s appearance was too scary. As the head of the family, Zhang Huan finally opened his mouth and shouted: “Yanyan! Yanyan! Let go first!”

Zhang Yansheng also saw Liang Yingying’s dying appearance, so she retracted her hand and stood up.

The peak of her anger passed and her calmness was restored. She just stood there watching coldly, not as excited and noisy as before, but the pressure onto people is much greater than before.

Liang Yingying clutched her throat and inhaled vigorously, but was choked by the large amount of air entering her trachea, and coughed “Ahem, ahem, ahem, ahem”.

Zhang Shuocheng was scared a long time ago. Zhang Huan and Zhang Heling helped her sit up. One of the high heels on her foot fell off, her hair style was messed up, making her embarrassed.

She tremblingly pointed at Zhang Yansheng, and finally managed to calm down. She cried out and yelled at Zhang Huan: “Your daughter! Your daughter wants to kill me! She wants to kill me!”

Zhang Huan said angrily: “Who told you to talk nonsense!”

After all, she is the person who shares his bed, who is so charming and fascinating, whom he married and took home, and did a good job of supporting and following him.

Liang Yingying almost spit out a mouthful of old blood, crying and trembling: “I almost died…”

“You can’t die.” Zhang Yansheng said, “For you, it is not worth it if you lose your life.”

“It’s just that in the future, I don’t want to hear people always making noise in this house.” She glanced over Zhang Shuocheng, and said coldly, “In the future, you have to be honest with me.”

Zhang Shuocheng shuddered.

His ‘three views’1 were really affected today.

In his world, as long as his parents are there, he can be lawless, so he has never been afraid of Zhang Yansheng. But today, Zhang Yansheng broke his world, and for the first time he had the idea that his parents were unreliable.

Zhang Yansheng’s cold eyes swept over Liang Yingying again: “If you don’t know how to speak well, then just shut your mouth! If you let me hear something bad again, you’ll be responsible for the consequences.”

After Zhang Yansheng finished speaking, she didn’t look at these people again, she turned around to go upstairs.

Zhang Heling hesitated, caught up, ran a few steps, then turned around, and said, “Dad, since you took and locked Shuoshuo’s game console, he came to grab mine and broke it. Then while my sister was eating lunch, he went to my sister’s room and stole her game console, but she caught him on the spot. He has already confessed it all himself. He had already admitted his mistake with elder sister. Now, he’s denying that he stole from her!

Liang Yingying grabbed her high-heeled shoe on the ground and threw it: “Shut up!”

Zhang Heling was frightened and avoided the shoe.

If Liang Yingying had yelled at her like this, she would have been sad and wronged. But today, her emotions don’t seem to be that strong anymore. Her mother didn’t seem to be that powerful in her heart.

She turned around and ran upstairs.

Liang Yingying cried again and dragged Zhang Huan: “You have to say something, look at how arrogant your daughter is. Does she have to treat her elders like this? Why can’t I scold her as a stepmother? A stepmother is also a mother!”

Zhang Huan who was not in a good mood said: “Just shut up for me. Don’t mention this in the future, you are poking Yanyan’s heart. If you really dare to say that she strangled you, then don’t come crying to me. She has trained a lot and holds a black belt now.

He pointed to Zhang Shuocheng again: “Go and return to your room. Where is Aunt Wang? Aunt Wang!”

Aunt Wang hid in the corridor and kept watching. After hearing him shout, she hurriedly ran out: “Sir, I’m here.”

Zhang Huan said, “Take him back to his room and monitor him! How much homework did he do during the summer vacation? You make sure to attentively watch him write!”

Zhang Shuocheng’s face collapsed when he heard about his summer homework. Aunt Wang went over and dragged him, tugged him and dragged him upstairs.

“Go up, wash your face, and clean up.” Zhang Huan said, “Don’t let people see you making a fool out of yourself.”

Liang Yingying’s skirt was also wrinkled, her hair was messy, she only had one shoe on her feet, and her face was full of makeup, which looks terrible now.

Liang Yingying’s face turned pale with anger: “You really don’t care?”

“What do I have to care about? If you take care of your own mouth, I won’t have to worry about anything. How old is Yanyan and how old are you? Why do you have to fight and get angry with a child all day long?” Zhang Huan said impatiently.

Liang Yingying was startled. She is a type of person who relies on men to eat, and she is keenly aware of the subtle change in Zhang Huan’s attitude.

She felt a little bitter in her heart and began to reflect on what she had been doing as Mrs. Zhang for a few years, and she was a little bit floating. She hurriedly adjusted her attitude, and said softly and aggrieved: “Then she can’t do it either. Take a look, take a look, are there a red marks on my neck?”

Pouting her mouth and acting like a baby, his attitude obviously softened.

Zhang Huan bought her trick and really looked at it and said, “Nothing, there’s nothing, how strong can Yanyan be? There is no trace at all.”

In fact, there are really red marks, and the traces of the hand strangulation that can be seen are a bit shocking. Zhang Huan was unwilling to say it. After all, didn’t he set up a ladder for Liang Yingying to let her climb up? So, he just need to coax her.

Liang Yingying was relieved when his attitude softened.

The reason why Liang Yingying dared to provoke and secretly bully Zhang Yansheng in the past was because Zhang Huan didn’t particularly defend Zhang Yansheng, so she became more and more courageous.

Now that Zhang Huan’s attitude suddenly became subtle, Liang Yingying instinctively restraint herself.

She sobbed intermittently while going upstairs.

Zhang Huan breathed a sigh of relief. He circled around the hall and went to the second floor.

Both daughters live on the second floor, and the only son lives on the third floor with the couple. Zhang Huan came up and saw that the doors of his daughters’ rooms were tightly closed. He went over and knocked on Zhang Yansheng’s door: “Yanyan, it’s Dad. Yanyan?”

Soon, Zhang Yansheng came over and opened the door. But she stood at the door and didn’t mean to invite Zhang Huan in.

“If you’re here to speak for your little wife, it’s not necessary.” She said coldly.

Zhang Huan was once again surprised by Zhang Yansheng’s attitude.

In the past, Zhang Yansheng was always full of resentment and grudges. As long as the topic involves Liang Yingying, she can easily get angry and agitated. He couldn’t talk to her properly at all.

But she just graduated from middle school, so why did she suddenly seem to have grown into a big girl?

Although her expression was a little colder, the intense emotions that were always ready to erupt seemed to be gone. This was a relief for Zhang Huan.

He kept a woman outside before his wife died, and gave birth to illegitimate children, which was done unorthodoxly. He is not completely unscrupulous, and feels a little guilty for his daughter. Zhang Yansheng’s emotions will activate this kind of guilt.

But who wants to tremble in conscience every day? Of course, Zhang Huan didn’t want to live in guilt every day. He is nearly half a hundred years old, and he just wants to live easily.

Zhang Yansheng is an adolescent child, she is angry, she resents, she abhors. Adolescence has doubled and magnified these emotions, and Zhang Huan has felt that Zhang Yansheng has become more and more difficult to communicate in the past two years.

Now that she has grown up and figured it out by herself, it couldn’t be better.

“No.” Zhang Huan said with a smile, “She has a loudmouth, so she deserves it. I won’t speak for her. Hey, let Dad in, let’s have a chat between a father and a daughter.”

Zhang Huan was surprised by Zhang Yansheng’s changes, and Zhang Yansheng was also surprised by Zhang Huan’s attitude.

In her memory, Zhang Huan had never actively communicated with her at this stage. He always looked like he had a headache when he sees her, so he always wanted to escape.

Zhang Yansheng was silent for a while, then turned around and let Zhang Huan in.

Zhang Huan and Zhang Yansheng sat down on the sofa.

“Why are you a little bit grumpy today?” Zhang Huan said, “Although your Aunt Liang is young, she is an elder anyway, so you can’t do anything to your elders.”

Zhang Yansheng raised her eyebrows: “Liang Yingying wants to be my elder? In her next life. You heard what she said as well, she asked for it, so I strangled her.”

Zhang Huan coughed: “She is just an outspoken person…”

“If she can’t speak well, then shut her up.” Zhang Yansheng’s eyebrows were hostile again. “My mother passed away. Does a mistress like her deserve to mention it? She has a big face. Since she doesn’t want a face, then don’t blame me for not giving her any face.”

This is not only to not give Liang Yingying a face, as this doesn’t give Zhang Huan a face as well.

Zhang Huan cleared his throat and asked again, “What happened to Shuoshuo today? Hehe said he took your game console.”

“That’s why I beat him up.”

“He is still young…”

When Zhang Huan said this, he suddenly saw Zhang Yansheng glanced at him. Those dark eyes, with faint eyes, seemed to be full of ridicule.

Zhang Huan became inexplicably uncomfortable.

“Do you know that he is much taller than his peers?” Zhang Yansheng asked.

This is something Zhang Huan is proud of, and said, “His mother is tall.”

“I guess he will be taller than me when he reaches middle school.” Zhang Yansheng said, “He’ll be tall and strong, just like an adult.”

Zhang Huan was happy: “I predict that he will have to grow to more than 1.85 meters in the future.”

Zhang Yansheng said: “Then have you ever thought about what he will look like in the future?”

Zhang Huan said, “He must be like me. There are no ugly people in our family, and your brother will definitely be handsome in the future.”

Zhang Yansheng held back her breath and said, “He is only in the first grade now, but he already dares to steal things.”

“Hey, how can you say you’re stealing in your own home?”

“If you don’t ask and just take it, then it’s stealing. I learned it in Chinese studies when I was in elementary school!” Zhang Yansheng said angrily, “Besides, can he enter my room?”

The topic of the room involved the sensitive territorial consciousness of adolescent girls, and Zhang Huan talked to her again: “I’ll scold him later.”

Zhang Yansheng declared that Zhang Huan didn’t listen to her words at all. He is a middle-aged man and has a son, and he really spoils Zhang Shuocheng a bit.

He is actually a father who doesn’t like to participate in parenting. In the past, Zhang Yansheng’s childhood was full of her mother’s figure. Zhang Huan only took her to show her face after she was dressed up, or when relatives and friends talked about their children, mentioning her academic performance and various awards to show off.

He is a widowed parenting puppet.

However, not every wife can raise her children as carefully as Zhang Yansheng’s mother.

Zhang Yansheng once heard Liang Yingying point to the tip of her children’s noses and said, “I found a rich father for you, who let you live in a big house, let you go to a private school, and let you be picked up by a car. It’s really worth it.”

For Liang Yingying, the struggle to become ‘Mrs. Zhang’ has come to an end. There is no need to work hard. The next thing about life is enjoyment.

As for the children? Isn’t there a nanny? There is no need to worry about them if someone takes care of them.

With such a pair of parents, it is a miracle that Zhang Heling did not grow crooked.

But what about Zhang Shuocheng?

Adolescent boys have the same height and weight as adults.

When he lifted the female teacher’s skirt, Zhang Huan said that he is still young.

When he blocked a female classmate outside the school to harass her, Zhang Huan said that he is still young.

When he finally became a rapist later, Zhang Huan could no longer say the words ‘he is still young’.

1

Three views generally refer to the world, life outlook, and values, which is perceived by most as people’s Three Views. Their dialectical unity, interaction, lofty sublime are Three Views pursuit of goals.