Thirty-six unavoidable nights
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That night, after Song Yanran arranged their residences, Liu Ce and Jiang Ruoyan were called to their rooms by Jiang Xun and Shi Yunlan respectively.
Jiang Xun believes that some things should be faced, and it is time for these two children to know their own background. Maybe they will find it difficult to accept it in the future, but the two elders believe that they will identify with their identities over time.
In Shi Yunlan's room...
"Mom, are you not resting so late?"
"Yan'er, close the door and ask your mother to tell you something big, you must be mentally prepared..."
Seeing her mother's solemn expression, Jiang Ruoyan took the door with her as she spoke and followed her into the inner room.
Suddenly, she saw a woman sitting in the room, the Gu family she saw during the day, and couldn't help but show a solemn look on her face.
Shi Yunlan took Jiang Ruoyan's hand and came to the trembling Gu family. He stepped back to the side and said seriously: "Yan'er, kneel down and pay homage to your mother..."
When Jiang Ruoyan heard this, she looked at Shi Yunlan in shock: "Mom, what did you say just now?"
Shi Yunlan said: "Yan'er, the woman Gu sitting in front of you is your biological mother, and I am just your adoptive mother. Today, you mother and daughter are reunited, so hurry up and kowtow to your mother."
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At this time, Liu Ce’s study room...
Jiang Xun arranged the tablets of several celebrities from the Jiang family neatly, while Liu Ce was standing by the side without any intention of coming forward to help.
When Jiang Xun was almost finished, he turned around and pointed to Liu Ce and said, "These are all very famous tribe members of my Jiang family. Their tablets were originally enshrined on the ancestral hall.
This time I specially invited them here. I want you to kowtow to these elders and kneel down..."
After listening to Jiang Xun's description, Liu Ce was still unmoved. He just glanced at the tablets and said to Jiang Xun: "My father-in-law, you don't know the temperament of your son-in-law. You won't kneel down easily. Please take your life back..."
A joke, let yourself kneel down? That's impossible. Not to mention these tablets, even if they invite their souls, they will never kneel down.
Unexpectedly, Liu Ce's words aroused Jiang Xun's extreme dissatisfaction. He twitched his lips and said to Liu Ce: "Listen, these ancestors of the Jiang family are qualified to be worthy of your knees. I'll order you to kneel down immediately!"
"It's not possible!" Liu Ce immediately refused, "My father-in-law, the son-in-law will not kneel down for no reason, let alone a few tablets. Of course, the dead are gone, and it's not impossible to worship them. But if you let the son-in-law kneel down in the name of your ancestors, you will never be able to do it!"
"I didn't joke with you, a little brat!" Jiang Xun's eyes suddenly became extremely strict, "The ancestors of the Jiang family are also your ancestors, and you must kneel down for them today!"
Liu Ce frowned: "Please tell me a suitable reason, otherwise the son-in-law would never kneel down. If the father-in-law is unwilling to tell him, please put away the tablets of the Jiang family again."
Jiang Xun sighed and said slowly: "I originally didn't plan to tell you about this, but the matter has come to this point, but it's time to say it..."
After saying that, Jiang Xun knelt down at these Jiang family’s ancestral tablets and said to himself: “The ancestors of Jiang family are above, God is sympathetic. Let me, Jiang Xun, be able to find my fourth son Jiang Rui in my lifetime. Today, Jiang Xun, the unfilial son Jiang Xun, let Silang Jiang Rui recognize his ancestors and return to his hometown…”
Liu Ce behind him heard Jiang Xun say a bunch of things he couldn't understand, and his expression suddenly became heavier.
After a long time, Jiang Xun turned around and said to Liu Ce: "Liu Ce, today I will tell you the truth. You are the child who has been missing for many years in my life. Silang Jiang Rui..."
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"No, I don't accept it. Mom, are you lying to me, right?"
In Shi Yunlan's room, Jiang Ruoyan, who learned the truth, obviously could not accept this fact. She grabbed Shi Yunlan's hand and asked repeatedly.
But Gu had already cried into tears, and she was extremely sad for her outstanding daughter like her.
Shi Yunlan patted Jiang Ruoyan's hand and said, "Yan'er, Gu is really your biological mother. You must be filial to her in the future, do you know?"
Jiang Ruoyan shook her head and said like a rattle: "Mom, what did your daughter do wrong? You want to abandon your daughter and refuse to recognize her? Can't I change it?"
Shi Yunlan's nose felt sour and she said with a sob: "Yan'er, how come Mom doesn't recognize you anymore? But Gu is your biological mother. If you recognize her, Mom still treats you as her daughter..."
Jiang Ruoyan looked at Gu, then looked at Shi Yunlan, and suddenly pushed Shi Yunlan away, and said while retreating: "I don't accept this fact, that is, Liu Ce is my mother's biological flesh and blood, and I am the wild child that others don't want?
Everything I enjoyed over the past twenty years should have belonged to Liu Ce? Oh my god, mom, do you know what you are talking about?"
Gu raised up straight from the chair and said to Jiang Ruoyan: "Bingyan, you..."
"Shut up! My name is not Bingyan, I am from the Jiang family, my name is Jiang Ruoyan!" Jiang Ruoyan asked Gu to shut up angrily and stopped him from talking.
Upon hearing this, Gu covered his face and cried, and suddenly knelt in front of Jiang Ruoyan: "I know, I am not worthy of being your mother, Bingyan, I don't beg you to forgive me. As long as you see you live well, you will be content..."
Jiang Ruoyan sat weakly on the chair at the round table, looking at Gu who was kneeling on the ground, not knowing what to say.
She finally hoped to reunite with her family, but she didn't expect that it would be the result. She was not from the Jiang family, but just a bargaining chip for exchange of interests. The difference is that Liu Ce's fate is not good, and he tastes all the warmth and coldness of the world, but he has taken over everything that should belong to him with peace of mind. How can he accept this?
"Mrs. Gu, get up quickly, don't kneel! Ruoyan, help your mother get up quickly, how could her mother kneel down to her daughter?"
Shi Yunlan went up to support Gu, but couldn't help but persuade Jiang Ruoyan, but neither Gu nor Jiang Ruoyan were still motionless.
Gu shook his head and refused Shi Yunlan's support, and said to Jiang Ruoyan: "Bingyan, I know I'm sorry for you. Now, I can only apologize to you..."
As he said that, Gu kept kowtowing to Jiang Ruoyan and complaining. Jiang Ruoyan could only cry when she saw this scene, and looked coldly at her without any intention of stopping her.
This made Shi Yunlan suffer. She tried hard to help Gu up from the ground and said sobbingly: "No, Mrs. Gu, get up, let's talk about it, you are Yan'er's biological mother. Yan'er, don't be stunned. Help your mother up quickly. She is in poor health..."
Jiang Ruoyan wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, stood up and came to Gu, shook her left hand and put her arms behind her back, and said to her: "Get up, I will never recognize you as my mother. My mother's name is Shi Yunlan. I don't have a mother like you who abandons her children!"
"Yan'er, why did you talk to your mother?" Seeing that the scene seemed to be out of control, Jiang Ruoyan actually said such cold and bitter words, and couldn't help but increase her tone and blame, "Your mother was too uncontrollable back then, how could she blame her?"
Jiang Ruoyan said to Shi Yunlan: "Mom, you have been raising me and loving me all these years. I only recognize you as my mother. I am the child of the Jiang family. I would never accept such a strange woman who wants to recognize her relatives!"
After saying that, Jiang Ruoyan glanced at Gu, turned around and left without looking back. It was too late for Shi Yunlan to stop him.
"It's all my fault, it's all my fault. This is the retribution given to me by God..." Gu was crying in a panic and kept blaming himself.
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"My father-in-law, your story is over?"
"This is not a story. You are really the son of my Jiang Xun who has been separated for many years. Otherwise, why did the tribe members mobilize to come to the Far East to see you, and then let you blame the past for your occupation of the seven Far East provinces? Silang, please recognize your ancestors and return to your hometown and restore the Jiang surname!"
In the study, Liu Ce was unexpected and listened to Jiang Xun's words calmly, and finally he just smiled lightly. The expression on his face did not change at all. Jiang Xun was so anxious that he almost jumped.
After hearing this, Liu Ce came to the tablet in front of the desk and sneered: "If I had known this truth five or six years ago, I might have accepted it happily.
But now, I just think this is a very ridiculous story. How did you determine that I am Jiang Rui?"
Jiang Xun said: "There is a plum blossom birthmark on your left shoulder blade. There is also the blood fusion between you and me. I concluded that you are the Silang that I, Jiang Xun, have been looking for. By the way, there is this..."
I saw Jiang Xun take out a baby cloth from his arms, with a red character "Rui" embroidered on it.
"This is what I found from the temple you have been to outside Suzhou City. You are my son Jiang Rui, Silang..."
Liu Ce waved his hand to stop Jiang Xun and said, "Sorry, my father-in-law, maybe everything is a coincidence, there are many people with the same birthmark on his body.
The cloth on your hand can only mean that your son may have been in the same temple as me. Apart from that, there is no unnecessary explanation, it can only be said to be a coincidence..."
Jiang Xun said anxiously: "At this point, are you still unwilling to admit it? Silang, recognize the reality, what you shed is the blood of my Jiang family..."
When Liu Ce heard this, he closed his eyes and clenched his fists, and took a deep breath...
When he opened his eyes again, he walked out the door and said to him as he passed by Jiang Xun: "My father-in-law, it's getting late, so let's take a break soon..."
"Rui'er..."
Seeing that Liu Ce refused to admit his identity, Jiang Xun couldn't help calling him.
Liu Ce stopped and shouted, his eyes became extremely firm: "My father-in-law, I can only reply to you in one sentence,
Jiang Rui is Liu Ce, but Liu Ce is not Jiang Rui, they are not the same person at all!"
After saying that, Liu Ce stepped out of the study gate, leaving Jiang Xun stunned in place with a look of distress...
As soon as he left the study door, he saw Jiang Ruoyan running from the corridor with her face covering her face. When Liu Ce saw it, he knew that she must have learned the truth at this moment, and immediately accelerated her pace and followed.
"Liu Ce..."
When Liu Ce intercepted Jiang Ruoyan in the corridor, she threw herself into his arms regardless of everything and sobbed.
Liu Ce quietly caressed the crying of his wife in his arms, sighed silently, looking at the half-black moon hanging in the air, and thought to himself: It seems that tonight is destined to be an inevitable night. This blow is probably unprecedented for Ruoyan?
After all, Liu Ce's soul does not belong to this world, but it only occupies the original owner who was scared to death on the battlefield. Compared to Jiang Ruoyan, his spiritual will is naturally much more tough, and such absurd thing will not have much impact on him.
Liu Ce has only one, unique, no one can change him!
Chapter completed!