Siheyuan: Returning from studying abroad, with extraordinary understanding

Ma Xiulan's expression changes could not escape Yi Zhonghai's eyes, but in fact he didn't want it to be like this.

But this was the best solution he could come up with.

"Boss, if you accept Dongxu as your apprentice, the Jia family will not agree! Didn't you say that Jia Dafu's skills are better than yours? It's impossible for Jia Dongxu to take you as his master."

"If he takes you as his master, isn't that telling others that Jia Dafu is not as good as you in teaching his disciples? How can Jia Dafu put his face?"

"Jia Dafu is Jia Dongxu's biological father. He is also a smart man. How could he not see what you are thinking?"

Ma Xiulan expressed her concerns. She felt that as long as Jia Dafu was still around, Jia Dongxu would sooner or later know about her husband's plan.

"I understand this, but it's just an idea of ​​mine. It will take some time before I can accept a disciple. I still need to investigate Jia Dongxu's character."

Yi Zhonghai said this with a smile, but in his heart he was thinking about how to eliminate the hidden dangers.

"That's right. We are not even forty yet, we are still young. As long as I am cured, we will have children. It's all my fault. I have been sick all the time and have not given you a child."

Ma Xiulan fell into deep self-blame. She also longed to have a child of her own! But God was playing a joke on her, making her inexplicably sick and unable to be cured after so long of treatment.

"Xiu Lan, I don't blame you. If you hadn't stayed with me, I wouldn't know what I would have done. Without you, there would be no family!"

Yi Zhonghai was also somewhat touched. For more than a decade, Ma Xiulan had done very well in everything except not giving birth to a child for him. The family could not do without her.

Ma Xiulan was very touched that she was not rejected. If it were an ordinary family, they would have driven her away long ago.

A woman who cannot give birth to a child not only has her reputation ruined, but she will also have no place to stay in either the city or the countryside.

But Yi Zhonghai has never left her side for more than ten years. It would be a lie to say that she was not touched.

Even if Yi Zhonghai pretended to be nice to her for the sake of his own reputation, she would not blame Yi Zhonghai.

If Yi Zhonghai hadn't stayed with her forever, she didn't know whether she could be alive today.

So, over the years, when Yi Zhonghai sneaked into the Eight Great Hutongs, the place of brothels, she turned a blind eye.

She had not been pregnant for so many years, and there had been no reports of any pregnant women visiting Yi Zhonghai after he went to the place of seclusion and willows, so Ma Xiulan became suspicious.

Maybe Yi Zhonghai himself has problems, otherwise there wouldn't be no rumors at all.

But she asked Yi Zhonghai to see a doctor, but he refused.

Ma Xiulan did not force Yi Zhonghai to see a doctor because Yi Zhonghai did not despise her.

She was already ill and had health problems, which was a well-known fact. If she pushed Yi Zhonghai into a corner and asked her to divorce, it would be a waste of time and effort.

After the divorce, Ma Xiulan didn’t know if she could survive.

"Master, we watched Jia Dongxu grow up. His mother, Jia Zhang, has a very strict control over him. I'm afraid there is no hope for him to take care of us in our old age!"

"How about we adopt one? If we adopt one now, we can raise it ourselves. There shouldn't be any problem."

"No!" Yi Zhonghai rejected the proposal without a second thought. "What if we adopt an ungrateful child? If we adopt someone else's child, when he grows up and knows his own life story, how can he take care of us in our old age? We are not his biological parents."

"What if you get better in the future and we have our own child? What should we do with the adopted one?"

"Are you going to abandon the adopted one? If you do that, the reputation of our Yi family will be ruined. How can we survive here in the future? Don't mention the adoption anymore."

Yi Zhonghai felt very disgusted with the idea of ​​adopting a child. He was still young now, and if it was really as he said, it would be difficult for him to handle the situation.

It would be fine if the adopted child is filial, but if he is an ungrateful person, when the two elderly people are bedridden and the ungrateful person runs away, there will be no one to collect their bodies.

He has already thought about his miserable end when he gets old.

"Okay, I won't mention it." Ma Xiulan's eyes dimmed. If her illness could be cured, she should have been cured long ago, and Yi Zhonghai would have had his own children long ago.

She proposed to adopt a child because she knew that her illness might not be cured, and Yi Zhonghai might not be cured either.

She had noticed Yi Zhonghai's abnormal behavior very early on, and at that time she thought Yi Zhonghai was cheating on her and didn't want her anymore.

Later it was discovered that Yi Zhonghai secretly boiled some medicine and drank it. Although he felt stronger at night, there was no apparent effect.

He went out to find women, and no one came to his house to cause trouble for him. Ma Xiulan knew that the medicine was ineffective.

At that time, she was really afraid that one day a woman would come to her house with a child and drive her out.

At that time, she would have no way to survive.

Ma Xiulan was very conflicted. She wanted a child, but was afraid that Yi Zhonghai would have a child with another woman and end up driving her away.

The safest thing is that your illness can be cured and you can have your own children.

The hope was so slim that Ma Xiulan had no confidence at all.

"Okay, don't think too much!" Yi Zhonghai saw that Ma Xiulan was silent and thought she was sad, so he comforted her, "Xiulan, don't worry, I will never divorce you, just be at ease. If there is really no child, I will find a way, I will never let you down."

In fact, Yi Zhonghai had no confidence. He knew that he could not have children and had health problems.

I went to see a doctor, but he didn't know how many medicines I had taken, but they didn't work at all.

He had worked so hard for so long over the years, but there was no news at all, and he was in despair.

If he were not still young, he would be thinking about training his own retirement staff as soon as possible.

The child has become a knot in the hearts of both of them. If they had a child, he wouldn't be so calculating every day.

He couldn't tell Ma Xiulan about his plan yet. After all, it was only a part of his plan. If he had his own children, he wouldn't scheme against others.

Ma Xiulan knew that talking about children like this would lead to no results. She had talked about it many times but to no avail.

Seeing Yi Zhonghai's persuasion, she let it go.

Just then, there was a noisy sound outside the house.

"Get out of the way, what are you doing here?"

"We don't have any meat for you. Go back to your parents and ask them to buy you some meat!"

The two who heard the voice looked at each other, and Ma Xiulan spoke first:

"That's Dongxu's voice. Could it be that those kids are coming to ask for meat?"

Yi Zhonghai immediately knew what had happened.