Fall in love with your enemy

Continuing from the last time, I talked to Chengcheng about the principles of selecting people for the old house.

I have never thought about the considerations behind this before, and I have never thought about being a housekeeper. If I have any grievances or resentments, I will not think about improving myself to convince the managers or be afraid. I will always go to the old man to cry, make trouble, and hang myself. , he would take it out on me anyway, but because of this, I am destined to live a mediocre life.

Now that I think about it, I actually had a pretty good life in my last life. I don’t know how many people dream of it. I had an older brother when I was a child, a father when I was an adolescent, and Gao Xinci when I got married. I didn’t read much, and I didn’t even attend class for a day. However, I can take care of things at home as much as I want or not. Most of the time, even if I want to take care of it, it only lasts for three minutes. My daily routine is to eat, sleep, and pass the time. When I’m unhappy, I go out and spend money like crazy, but no one cares about me. The saddest thing is It was also the time when I was sick, when I first got married, and when I was having trouble with Gao Xinci.

But, even if I sometimes receive unfair treatment, at least I have never been beaten since I was a child, and I only got scolded once or twice. The rest of the time I was accommodated, and there is marriage, and there is nothing in this world. There are a few people whose marriages are happy from the beginning. Fortunately, I am very lucky. Even if I resisted it at first, it got better and better later on.

After resurrecting my life, I look at Chengcheng from the perspective of a person who has experienced it, as if I was looking at the ignorant me at the beginning. However, he is much better than me. At least he is not as unreasonable and troublesome as I was at the beginning. He just holds everything back. In my heart, I finally sighed deeply, as dull as a deflated ball.

I smiled and opened the curtains, and the dazzling sunlight poured into the room instantly. I turned my back. Chengcheng raised his hand to block his eyes, and moved away after a while.

"It's good for your health to get more sun. Don't make the room gray all the time. I didn't choose a room with such a big floor-to-ceiling window for you so you can keep the curtains open all day." I walked over and took a picture with a smile. Patting Chengcheng's head, I suddenly realized that he had grown a lot taller. I couldn't help but sigh that boys of seventeen or eighteen years old grow very fast, but why can't I grow one centimeter a year...

Well, this is a serious problem. It seems that I am still malnourished. Three meals a day are not enough, so I have to change it to five meals.

Chengcheng was depressed for a while before he smiled bitterly and sat down on the sofa in the room with me: "My mother said that the curtains were open and it was dazzling, so I couldn't see the projector clearly."

"Your mother is not here now, do you still want me to teach you about being lazy and fishing?" I waved my hand in disgust.

And this kid probably has too much CPU in his heart right now. He can't even answer my jokes. After being bored for a while, he turned around and asked me, "Do you think I'm stupid?"

As soon as these words came out, I immediately felt that my IQ was insulted. A pair of wise "Eagle Eyes" was directly in front of his face, pointed at my head and asked sincerely: "Brother, you will test 700. If you are stupid, then I will." What is it?"

"I mean I don't know how to manage the house." Chengcheng took my hand away angrily.

"Hey, no one is born knowing everything. It seems that I could reason with the people in my old house when I first started. I just did whatever I wanted just because I was the daughter of my old master."

"But it was just once. They bullied you first. You deserve to be punished. You are really good now. No, you have always been good." Chengcheng said with a chuckle.

"Well, the young master is very wise and knows how to deal with people and the world." I raised my eyebrows and leaned on the sofa. After thinking for a while, I concluded the last sentence. I turned back to Chengcheng and said word by word. : "In short, you just need to remember that everything has its advantages and disadvantages no matter how you arrange it. You want to make your family more peaceful, so you need to hire people with diplomas and reasonableness. I can understand it, but you also need to know that our family This method is not applicable. To put it mildly, in Jinhai, our family is the savior. We have made a small third- and fourth-tier fishing village that was not wealthy to develop into what it is today. We donated money and efforts. The old man was nicknamed back then. As a grocery store owner, it is because he is omnipotent in everything and has allowed more than 30 industries in Jinhai to stand up and go out. Can you say it is ugly? Local snakes and local emperors, it is not that no one has said that standing in this kind of situation may collapse at any time. In this situation, we must grasp a balance. The first thing is that our reputation cannot be damaged, and the method is to use both soft and hard tactics."

"What should we do?" Chengcheng asked.

"Hardness means being ruthless when faced with a desperate situation. As long as you can save your family, you will do whatever it takes. Now our family has the right to speak and even the right to dominate in front of aristocratic families like the Zhao family and the Gao family, because Our family is ruthless enough. Under normal circumstances, no one would choose to fight to the death with our family, because we always have a way out and that is the old house in Jinhai. Even if we are forced to do one thing and can't do it, there are still more than 30 things waiting for us in the future. And the power of our family is not in the hands of one person."

"Just like my father is in the entertainment real estate plantation, my second uncle is in construction, catering and clothing, and my brother-in-law is in tourism, electronics, technology and investment. Each person has three major categories, but there are also many smaller categories underneath, which is to leave a way out for himself. ." Chengcheng roughly understood and smiled slightly.

"Yes." I gave him a thumbs up and then secretly leaned into his ear: "Just like the old man secretly gave us the overseas mines two days ago, no one knows about it."

"If you speak louder, everyone will know..." Chengcheng said and quickly covered my mouth.

I pushed his hand away in disgust, and said angrily, "I don't have such a big mouth."

"Actually, you can hint to me, why don't we create a gesture that only we can understand, so that it will be more convenient to speak!" Chengcheng thought hard for a while, and finally when he came up with gestures, he put a gun to my forehead, The eyes are bright.

I still slapped it away in disgust. There is a saying that is really good. A man will be a boy until he dies. A child of such a big age is still so childish. I snorted coldly and said: "Brother, are you inheriting the family property or are you planning to become an agent?" Huh? Just create a gesture, okay?"

"It's fun." Chengcheng lowered his head in frustration.

"Okay, let's get down to business." I waved my hand and continued: "As for softness, it's what I just told you. Our family needs a good reputation with a clean family tradition. As the children of the head of the family, even if we can control ourselves His words and deeds are decent, but what about the many collateral descendants behind him? Can we keep an eye on them all? In Journey to the West, the gods cannot control their own horses, just like Fu Yunqin, who was kicked out of his home last year. Although there will definitely be people plotting against him. The reason was, but ultimately it was because he couldn't control his lower body. In order to solve this problem, our family took action that night, but what we had to do was not just beat him up and throw it to the police. During this period, I also did a very important thing, which was to seal the mouths of the whole family. As the head of the family, we would definitely not do such a thing that would destroy our future, but what about the stewards who were hired to do things? They also always We kept silent precisely because it was our family that gave them a place to live in the first place. On the one hand, there will always be people who are grateful to us, but on the other hand, we are afraid of losing the shelter of the Fu family, because what we initially recruited was a bunch of leftovers except for their hands and feet. They are useless guys, they have to consider whether they can bear the life after leaving the Fu family if they really offend us.

"But what if outsiders want to bring us down and are willing to pay a very high price to get the words out of the stewards? Isn't there someone who is itchy? You just said that ordinary people in the old house will just live with their bosses for the rest of their lives. The salary is eight to nine thousand, if someone is willing to pay one hundred thousand or one million, no one dares to say it?" Chengcheng asked very puzzled.

"Chengcheng, if you were asked to choose, which one do you think is more important, the money or the safety of your family?" I asked with a smile.

My innocent and cute brother thought my question was very strange, and he knitted his brows in confusion, but he still said with absolute certainty: "Of course they are my family."

"Yeah, that's where the brilliance lies." I shrugged: "These people we recruited have no background and no means. When they first entered the door, they were happy and felt that they had food and shelter. Part of the day can only be spent in the house, so in the end 90% of people will choose to get married and have children in the house. Gradually, when the children grow up, they can go to the school run by our family for free. The elderly can no longer work, and our family Giving a sum of money or sending them to a nursing home to die, they are immersed in the golden nest. When something happens, it will be too late to regret. They will find that even if they want to make a lot of money through betrayal, they can live happily ever after. , but he can walk alone, and his family is still in the house. But how can anyone with a little conscience walk far? You must know that our family has a strict family tradition, and we are willing to break our legs cruelly even if we treat our own family members. , let alone outsiders.”

After hearing this, Chengcheng suddenly realized, he was surprised and a little scared, and he had a better understanding of "cruel heart".

"What about the remaining 10%?" Chengcheng thought for a while before choosing to ask.

I smiled helplessly and counted him with my fingers: "The last 10% is just fifty people. Either they are too short to enter and know that there are not many things to do, and it is useless to try to provoke them, or they are alone and have no parents. Those who are not married and have no children. Such people are indeed alone and seem to have no fear. However, the Heavenly Eye in our family is not a breadwinner. There are only twenty or thirty people at most. How can we still look down on it? And the person who manages the Heavenly Eye in our family They were all selected from the selection process. I grew up in the Fu family and had little contact with the outside world. We know all the details, so there is nothing to worry about."

"So in the eyes of outsiders, our family's provision of a way to live for these homeless people is naturally a good deed that will last forever. But in fact, we did give them a way to live, but we also trapped them for life. As long as they enter the Fu family's door, I will never be able to get out again." Chengcheng said bitterly, taking a breath.

"We don't want to trap anyone. Our actions are just to make them show their conscience. As long as they don't become traitors, how has the Fu family ever wronged them? Only those with greed will think that the Fu family is a prison. , we are benevolent from beginning to end." I corrected, then patted Chengcheng on the shoulder: "Understood?"

"Understood." Chengcheng nodded.

I was relieved. Fortunately, this little kid didn't make as much noise as I did back then. Otherwise, my second uncle knew how to coax me, but I didn't know how to coax Chengcheng well.

Probably in order to reassure him a little, I stood up and added with an analogy: "It's actually not good to hire people with too high diplomas. If there are too many small ways in the mind, it will be difficult to control. No matter how chaotic our family is, it is just a small conflict between the stewards, which will not affect the family. But if you look at the Gao family, they like to deal with smart people. The Gao family is indeed very disciplined, and most of the time their actions are more... Our family is efficient, but if something goes wrong, the top floor will be endangered, and that’s not a good thing.”

"Don't worry, I understand." Chengcheng nodded, imitated me and stood up and stretched. Suddenly he turned around and made a "one" sign, which made me tremble. He smiled quite gloatingly and said, "One last question."

"If you want to ask, just ask and don't scare me! Your sister, I have a bad heart!" I said angrily.

"Oh, I want to ask that the stewards are not just bullying each other. Didn't Yang Yue, Yang Bin and the others bully brother Yun Jin before? They all died! Now sister Yun Yan is still in the old house. This What should I do?" Chengcheng asked very worriedly.

"You're such an idiot! You can't call me brother or sister, that's your nephew!" I interrupted with a sullen face.

"what?"

"I mean, Yun Jin is a few years older than us, but he is a generation younger than us. He wants to call me aunt and call you uncle! Don't you dare call me brother instead? That's a bad generation. Got it!"

"Oh!" Chengcheng patted his forehead as if he had just woken up from a dream, looking like he had suffered a great loss.

Looking at my stupid brother's appearance, I was angry and distressed. In the end, I could only pat his head and give him a sideways blow in a playful way: "I'll pour out the water in your head. Have you never read a genealogy before?”

"Hey, okay, when we are focusing on human life, we don't have time to think about seniority."

"Yeah - that's true." I let go of my hand and thought seriously about the question Chengcheng asked me. Finally, I stopped and felt helpless. I sighed and smiled bitterly: "Because, at first, I wanted to hurt Yun Jin and Yun Yan. Theirs is not the stewards. After all, the stewards still call them young master and miss, so they are still the master’s family, but there are also people with higher power above the master’s family.”

"Second Grandma and Third Grandma." Chengcheng knew the answer instantly and felt as helpless as me.

I smiled wryly and made a "shh" gesture to my mouth: "Don't be so direct in the future, and always remember these eight words: Walls have ears, and trouble comes from the mouth."

"I understand." Chengcheng said. He didn't know what happened today. He suddenly felt so clingy. The hug that had just been loosened in the morning was extended now, and it was even tighter than the one in the morning.

I still remember what Lao Fu just said to me. Even if I don’t agree with it, I still think about it, so I wanted to give him a gentle hug to comfort me and then separate, but this time he held my shoulder with one hand and made a look of disapproval. I could only hold on to her wishful appearance, but fortunately I soon found out the reason.

The person who has been serious since he was a child finally looked like a child now. He whispered pitifully in my ear: "You haven't been home for a long time. When you are not here, I don't know who I can follow." Talk, I...I only have you..."

It would be a lie to say that I am not touched. To be honest, I can intuitively understand Chengcheng’s feelings. In my last life, I returned home halfway and was very helpless at home alone. I also felt that it was very embarrassing to get along with strangers and relatives. This is still Although everyone doted on me and loved me, Chengcheng only had very little love, and it was only reflected in the public hope that Lao Fu had for him. He really only had me.

He was kind to me when I was helpless, so I should pay back this debt in this life.

I patted his shoulder gently: "I will come back often in the future."

"Okay." Chengcheng was satisfied and then let me go.

In fact, his smile is much cuter than when we first met when he was dressed in black and had a fishy face. When I looked at him, it was not difficult to understand why the old man would gradually love this child more than me. After all, who wouldn't? I like children like this, who are impeccable except for their background.

Just as I was thinking about it, there was a sudden knock on the door. I opened the door, and it was Liang Sen who came to look for me, but he was holding a strange envelope in his hand. It didn't look like it was his. He was also twisting the envelope. He looked through it with a frown, and pressed the button first when he saw me opening the door.

"Are you done? I have something else to do after that." Liang Sen pushed up his glasses and said.

"Oh, we're done." I quickly packed up and went out, signaling to Chengcheng and pulling Liang Sen away.

Turning a corner to my room, Liang Sen checked to make sure no one was passing by outside. He opened the window in the room and then walked with me to the small sofa by the window. However, the first thing he did was not sit down on the sofa. On his own seat, he rushed over to me again and gave me a few blows!

"Little, little, little ancestor! You are so brave! Didn't you know to delete the surveillance after talking to Cheng Ling? I just took a look when I came back and had nothing to do, but I didn't expect that you really didn't delete it! What if? When Director Fu found out that you had protected Cheng Ling and added an illegitimate child to his otherwise innocent life, he had to hang you up and beat you up! How could you get this title? Marry Cheng Ling after you divorced Lu Yinyin? How could you? It's really his 'caring' little cotton-padded jacket! It's a gift for his children and his wife."

I covered my head and ran away. Really, who in my family would understand! This "hateful" man in front of me dares to bully me at home! The key point is that it would be very miserable if I had to pay him wages in turn. I can’t offend him yet! I have to take a step back to say that he really wanted me to be more cautious for my own good, but he couldn’t just play me indiscriminately! How dare he be sure that I don't have my own considerations in this matter?

I hid on the bed and grabbed the big bear doll my brother bought for me and held it in front of me as a shield. I grabbed my evil-proof mahogany sword with the other hand and made it into a fighting stance. Liang Sen's eyes lit up when he saw it!

"Huh? You kid, you want to spar with me? If you lose in a while, I won't beat your ass until it's bloody! If you admit defeat now, I can still spare you." Liang Sen narrowed his eyes and did a "Mantis Punch" gesture.

After listening to his words, I thought about it several times, and finally decided to put down the butcher knife and become a Buddha immediately - no, beg for mercy!

Clearly aware of the principle that a good man will never suffer the consequences of his immediate loss, I squatted down on the spot and held my head, shouting for my life, hero!

"That's pretty much it." Liang Sen smiled proudly, sighed and sat down on the sofa.

"You're an old man who bullies people too much..." I muttered secretly, rolled my eyes, and then sat down opposite him angrily and explained: "You should ask me what's going on, I'm I don’t think it’s necessary to delete those things. It’s not because I forgot. Think about it, Cheng Ling’s belly looks like it’s five or six months old. I don’t believe it if the person beside me, Lao Fu, doesn’t know about it. Even if the work in Xincheng District has happened recently To wrap things up, I’m a little busy, but if you say I’ve never had sex even once, I wouldn’t believe it…”

Liang Sen paused, and after a while, he took a deep breath and showed surprise. He put his head in and said, "Oh my god, then I have wronged you!"

I pursed my lips angrily: "Your apology doesn't seem sincere at all, but I've always been generous and don't argue with you. Next time, please ask clearly before taking action. I'm not a fool."

"Okay, okay, you are a smart man. A smart man gave himself an illegitimate brother. To be honest, I still don't understand. I also listened to what you said to Chengcheng, but I still can't figure it out. You said you were just malnourished. You are weak but not terminally ill, so why are you cursing yourself so much? Ang, if something happens to you, will you be able to keep your eldest son by leaving a younger brother behind?" Liang Sen looked at me with anger and pity.

"But if I say, Cheng Ling coming to me is a test by the old man." I lowered my head and said helplessly: "As I said just now, the old man couldn't tell that Cheng Ling was pregnant. He didn't call Cheng Ling I went to abort Cheng Ling, but we didn’t ask Cheng Ling to hide from us. Cheng Ling’s belly was so big that she couldn’t hide it, and she dared to appear in front of me easily. Doesn’t it mean that the old man wanted this child from the bottom of his heart? Well, but he didn’t want to destroy the peace at home, so he could only bet on my will and that I wouldn’t bear it. Once I compromised, Chengcheng had always listened to me and agreed. Then there would be other people in this family. Who can prevent this child from being born."

Liang Sen became even more depressed after hearing what I said. He paused for a long time before speaking again: "So, you agreed to him so easily?"

"That's not true. There are probably other ideas." I shook my head: "Didn't Lan Xuanyun offend my uncle when we were dealing with Zhou Xia? Since then, she has been mentioning it to me intentionally or unintentionally. , I hope I can find a supporter for her to spend the rest of her life. Who else can suppress her brother-in-law? It’s Lao Fu and her second uncle. But her second uncle hasn’t looked for her since her second aunt left. She’s sure If you don't want to be unhappy, then it can only be Lao Fu. What I think is that Lao Fu just needs a woman, whether it is Cheng Ling or Lan Xuanyun. If I were asked to choose, then there is no reason for me to choose the second one. Lan Xuanyun, who is still young and beautiful in her early ten years, I can't do anything like give someone to my own father's bed, so I might as well let Cheng Ling stay like this, when she is in her twenties and in her prime. I haven't seen her seducing Lao Fu to death. Now she is over thirty, can she go to heaven after giving birth to a child? Whether it is a fact or to comfort myself, I can only think this way. "

"So it's because of this..." Liang Sen sighed, suddenly tapped my forehead and said, "Since Lan Xuanyun is dishonest, I'll find an opportunity to deal with her."

"Oh, forget it, we don't have any leverage with her anyway. Even if we have plotted against each other before, the whole family knows it now. If she is willing to let herself go, just let her go. We can't blame her anyway. "I waved my hand.

"Okay." Liang Sen nodded. In the end, all he could do was to punch my poor bear doll.

"Oh, by the way, what is the envelope you just took?" I suddenly remembered and looked up and asked. At this moment, the pile was lying quietly on the table, with an inexplicable smell.

Liang Sen also remembered it, and then pushed the thing to me: "I don't know, don't I have a habit of looking at the mailbox in your courtyard every day? Originally, that thing was just for decoration, just for fun. Yes, I didn’t expect that there was actually an envelope inside today, so I took it back, and I haven’t looked at it yet, so I don’t know who gave it to you.”

My face was filled with doubts, thinking that in this day and age, there are still people writing letters and delivering news? When I opened it, I guessed it correctly. It was indeed not a letter from someone, but a few printed B-ultrasound sheets. I spread those things out on the table and looked at them with Liang Sen.

"Is this... someone secretly sent you a message to tell you that Cheng Ling is pregnant? Then it's too late. We all know it." Liang Sen couldn't help laughing.

I could only sigh together. I thought it was just a useless thing, but suddenly I caught a glimpse of an important piece of information. My pupils immediately dilated and I quickly grabbed one of the sheets and put it in front of my eyes.

These lists do show pregnancy, but the name is wrong! Although someone splashed ink on the handwriting and smeared it, it was obvious that the name was definitely not Cheng Ling!

Guan——Wood——任

This is Zheng Lin pretending!