The entertainment tycoon of the Republic of China

When Xie Yan hurried back to Wen's house, Qi Xiuji and old doctor Qi were invited over. Mrs. Wen was half lying on the bed in the master bedroom, and An Yujing was sitting at the head of the bed holding her hand.

Hearing the movement at the door, Mrs. Wen turned her head to see Xie Yan, smiled and sighed.

"I just said that Ayan is too tired these days, don't disturb him, this child is back. Since you come back, let's have a good meal first, I have nothing serious, but the sudden dizziness scared the people below, everyone is anxious Like something."

The clothes on Mrs. Wen's body have been changed into plain clothes, without a trace of makeup.In just a few days, this all-powerful legendary woman seemed to have aged ten years. Although her brows and eyes were still sharp and decisive, the bruises under her eyes and the fineness of her forehead could not deceive anyone.

Seeing Mrs. Wen like this, Xie Yan's nose felt a little sore.

In his previous life, Xie Yan was a lonely guest who had no chance to enjoy family affection. After traveling to this world, among the older women he has come into contact with, Mu Xiuxiu feels more teacher-like care, and he admires and respects Young Mistress Xie. Respect, but pity and sorrow to Zhou's mother, only Mrs. Wen made him feel the warmth of a family member.

I will give you a haven of rest when you are tired, and will preach when you insist on going your own way. I will love your experience and protect your shortcomings... After getting along these days, Xie Yan can feel the warmth Madam almost raised him as an extra son, and with Wen Heng's relationship, Madam Wen had already played a part of the mother's role in Xie Yan's heart.

Mrs. Wen saw Xie Yan's red eyes and guessed what the child was thinking, and her heart ached.The whereabouts of the second son is unknown, life and death are uncertain, she almost counted the seconds to get through these few days, it's a pity for such a good child, A Yan, it's a pity for this pair of hard-working little lovers.

"Ma'am, drink the medicine." An Yujing took the boiled soup from the maid, blew it on his lips, and fed it to Mrs. Wen with his own hands, "The Wen family still depends on you, you must cheer up ah."

"well."

Mrs. Wen suppressed the nausea, raised her head and downed a large bowl of medicine.

Xie Yan looked at old doctor Qi who gave Mrs. Wen another pulse check, "Old doctor Qi, how is Madam's health?"

"It's hard to say." The old doctor Qi stroked his beard, "Madam has traveled all over the world these years. Although she has never been seriously ill, she still has a whole body of illness. This time, she was in a hurry and her illness was violent. She can only take medicine to support her. Pay more attention on weekdays. , It’s just that the heart disease still needs a heart medicine doctor... Sigh!”

Thinking of what happened to Wen's family, Old Doctor Qi stopped talking. Healing heart disease with heart medicine is easy to say, but easier said than done?Unless Wen Ershao had to return to Wen's house completely, Mrs. Wen's knot might be difficult to solve.

Xie Yan looked at Qi Xiuji again, who shook his head at him, "Grandpa is getting old and his legs and feet are inconvenient, so I personally sent him here. I really don't know how to treat this type of disease, I can only listen to Grandpa It's gone."

"Okay, don't embarrass Dr. Qi." Mrs. Wen shook her head, "Old Doctor Qi has treated the Wen family for so many years, I can trust his medical skills the most. Some diseases are hard to cure, no wonder the doctor is so hard Old Doctor Qi made a special trip for me."

"Madam's words make Qi feel ashamed." Mr. Qi sighed, "If it weren't for Madam, Qi's family would have froze to death in the cold wind, so where did it come from today. Qi is not good at medicine and cannot For Madam's illness, I can only advise Madam to take care of herself, if Second Young Master is here, I can't bear to see you in such a weak state."

"Don't worry, old doctor Qi, I understand."

After drinking the medicine, old doctor Qi prescribed several more prescriptions and said some precautions. Xilian wrote them down one by one. Mrs. Wen asked the housekeeper to drive old Mr. Qi and Qi Xiuji back to the clinic, and at the same time screened all As servants, only An Yujing and Xie Yan are left.

"Ma'am, what is this?"

"Don't be nervous, it's not the time when you can't walk." Mrs. Wen waved her hand and moved from the bed to the single sofa by the window.

Xie Yan and An Yujing looked at each other, and the latter took the tiger-skin cloak on the hanger beside him, and covered it for Madam Wen.

Mrs. Wen did not refuse, "I haven't seen this cloak for many years, and it was discovered by Xilian when vacating the warehouse a while ago."

An Yujing wanted to make Mrs. Wen happy, "Why don't you say that Madam is well-informed, I have never seen such a good leather material, Madam can put it in the warehouse and forget it."

"You clever ghost, when we first met, I thought you were a bold and serious lady, but who knows that you are full of heart and eyes, like a rogue." Mrs. Wen really smiled.

"Is this madam despising me?"

"Who said, the more I like this, the more I like it. Anyway, my things will be in the future-" Mrs. Wen glanced at Xie Yan, and changed the phrase, "In the future, I will share them with you."

An Yujing knew that Mrs. Wen was talking about herself and Wen Rui, but she was still young after all, so she lowered her head and blushed.

Xie Yan looked at them from the side, and the torment in her heart was relieved a little.

Maybe this is the feeling of home, just the person who brought him this home, will he come back?

……

Madam Wen looked at An Yujing's shy and yearning expression, as if she had been awakened from a long time ago, she gently stroked the tiger-skin cloak on her body.

"This kind of leather is really rare. It takes a tiger in its prime of life to insert a knife through the neck without damaging the body, and kill it with one blow, so that the ground can be stripped so completely. It cannot be bought outside."

Mrs. Wen sighed, "At the beginning, when Wen Jiulou asked me to propose marriage, I said that I would only marry men who were stronger than me, and I created a problem for him. tiger."

"I thought he would retreat in the face of difficulties, but I didn't expect that three days later, in the middle of the night, he suddenly knocked on the door of my house. I opened the door and saw that he was pulling the tiger's body with a bamboo raft. Half of his body was soaked in blood, and he was still laughing. So stupid, saying that I remember that I am afraid of the cold in winter, and the tiger skin can be saved for me to make a cloak."

"Later, this cloak became my dowry."

"..."

Neither Xie Yan nor An Yujing answered. They had more or less heard of the love-hate relationship between Mrs. Wen and Ship King Wen, and knew what kind of thorn in Mrs. Wen's heart.

An Yujing felt a little regretful, why is this cloak hiding such a past behind it?

However, for Mrs. Wen, she said that she didn't want to gain approval or comfort from her juniors, it was just that there were some things that had been hidden in her heart for many years, and she suddenly wanted to say it.

"Look at me, when people get old, they like to look up the old almanac. It's been half of their life, and what are they talking about."

"Madam, you are not old at all."

"My son is about to get married. I'm not old yet, so I've become an old monster." Mrs. Wen smiled and shook her head, not caring about it.

"It's just that Heng'er's life or death is still uncertain, and Yan girl has disappeared, so I can't let go of it all the time."

Xie Yan heard Mrs. Wen mention Wen Yanhui, and understood that Mrs. Wen's sudden recollection of the past might also be why she thought of Wen Yanhui.

Mrs. Wen's feelings for Wen Yanhui are too complicated, including anger, dissatisfaction, and the care and responsibility formed by so many years of upbringing.But Xie Yan believed that Mrs. Wen wanted Wen Yan to regret it.

"There is no news about Yan Hui?" Xie Yan's heart sank, and with Mrs. Wen's means and power, she searched for several days with all her strength, but there was no clue. Wen Yanhui probably had something serious happen.

"I asked Xunxu for help, and I searched the whole Hankou, but there is still no news."

Xie Yan heard that there was something in Madam Wen's words, "What does Madam mean?"

"If Yan Hui left by herself, or was robbed by ordinary people, it is impossible for us to find a clue. Now that she has disappeared completely, it can only show that there is a powerful force hidden in the dark that is behind us. Before that, all relevant clues were erased."

"In the current situation, the good news is that Yan girl should be fine, otherwise the other party wouldn't spend so much effort to conceal her orientation; but the bad news..."

Mrs. Wen lowered her eyes, "The debts from many years ago have finally come to you."

Xie Yan guessed that Mrs. Wen was referring to Wen Yanhui's biological mother, Aunt Tao.When he first heard about those things, he had deduced about Aunt Tao's real identity, but he was still not sure. He didn't expect Mrs. Wen to bring it up.

"What does madam mean?" An Yujing didn't know as much as Xie Yan, and was still at a loss.

"It's just a family scandal. If something like this hadn't happened, I wouldn't bring it up again, but it's okay to tell you."

Mrs. Wen propped herself up and looked out the window. At some time, fine snowflakes floated in the deserted air again.

"Seven years ago, when Aunt Tao left, it was also such a light snow day."

Aunt Tao was Wen Yanhui's biological mother, the woman who appeared next to Wen Jiulou when Mrs. Wen took the child to Shanghai for refuge.But her real identity is more complicated.

Xie Yan and An Yujing listened quietly to Mrs. Wen's story.

"She left very suddenly. At that time, there was something strange on the Wen family's pier. Many workers were poisoned when they delivered a large amount of goods. Fortunately, Rui'er was there at the time, and the turmoil was quelled. After the old doctor Qi checked, he found that the poisoning was Because there is a problem with the food provided by Wen’s family, and all the clues of poisoning point to Aunt Tao’s people.”

"When Aunt Tao was first brought back, she arranged to cook in the workshop. Later, when she became an aunt, she entrusted her work to a little girl she rescued. I didn't want to contend with these trivial matters, so I left them alone. Afterwards, she was always honest, and I gradually forgot about it.”

An Yujing was confused, "Aunt Tao's backer is the Wen family, why...why did she do this?"

"That was also the first time for Rui'er and Heng'er to take on the task. The people who arranged the layout probably didn't expect that two half-old children would have the ability to disrupt the entire chess game. Those people's attention was on us and the Wen family's ability Let the two brothers seize the opportunity to find out the details of Aunt Tao and the poisoned little girl."

"They are Japanese."

An Yujing exclaimed, Wen Yanhui's life experience still has such a big secret!

"Aunt Tao is an orphan left by the Japanese in China. In the beginning, she was really helpless. After being rescued by Wen Jiulou, she did everything possible to return to Hankou with him, seeking a job of asylum and earning a living."

"However, as the days get better, people's hearts will change. It may be because she is greedy for wealth and status and wants to go to a higher level, or it may be that a beauty loves a hero since ancient times. In short, she has other thoughts."

"After an accident, she met a Japanese man at the pier who had not been lost by her biological parents. The other party also confirmed her identity through her appearance and birthmark. Coincidentally, that man belonged to the Japanese intelligence agency in Hankou Organization, Aunt Tao's identity and ambition at this time, naturally became the best pawn in his eyes."

"You should have guessed the following story. With the help of the Japanese, she successfully planned to conceive Wen Jiulou's child with medicine, and avoided the contraceptive decoction. She didn't spread the news about her pregnancy until she could get the happy pulse. , to prevent me from blocking the news and attacking secretly."

"...What is their purpose?"

"If it succeeds, there will be an extra chess piece inserted into the Wen family; if it fails, it can also drive a wedge between me and Wen Jiulou, and then take advantage of the chaos to erode the power of the Wen family." I never expected that I could endure everything and never let Aunt Tao enter Wen's house. The pawns they arranged so hard only played a negligible role in the end."

Although Xie Yan had speculated before, hearing Mrs. Wen's personal account of the past, she was still terrified.

"However, in those few years, Aunt Tao still used her identity to do a lot of things for the Japanese, and many of them indirectly caused tragedies that caused people to be destroyed." Mrs. Wen looked at the snow falling outside the window, and suddenly asked for no reason, "You guys?" Do you know who named Yan girl?"

"It's Aunt Tao herself."

"She... regretted it?"

"Aunt Tao's Japanese parents were just ordinary businessmen, and they didn't teach her any harmful skills. She was still young when she was left in the countryside of China, and she had been adopted for a long time. Sometimes I couldn't tell whether I was Japanese or Chinese. people."

"At least when Wen Jiulou rescued her, she treated herself more like a Chinese person, and she was truly resentful towards the foreigners who killed her adoptive parents' family, otherwise Wen Jiulou would not have sympathized with her."

"However, after being recognized as a relative by the Japanese, her inflated ambition and desire made her agree to the invitation without much thought. However, seeking skin from a tiger would only lead to her own destruction. Later, what the Japanese asked her to do became more and more cruel, but she Being caught and unable to refuse. Trapped in a private house, pregnant with an unexpected child, she must have regretted it."

"It's a pity that there is no arrow back when you shoot the bow, and no one has one."

……

Mrs. Wen didn't go on, she was tired.

Xie Yan finally fully understood Mrs. Wen's complicated feelings on these matters over the years.

In fact, she doesn't hate Aunt Tao. For this simple and stupid woman who is neither good nor evil, Mrs. Wen only has the unspeakable pity of Xia Chong.What really made her unable to get out was Wen Jiulou.

In the final analysis, Wen Jiulou did not make a particularly serious mistake subjectively in this matter. The bureau was set up by the Japanese and the medicine was given by Aunt Tao. At most, he softened his heart and hesitated to deal with the matter.

However, for Mrs. Wen, no matter what, the man she loved with all her life had a child with another woman and decided to take responsibility.This kind of tepid mistake, it is better to make the mistake to the end, so that she can hate it as fast as she can.It's not like now, wishing it hard, loving it, the thorn in my heart will always be stuck in the flesh and blood, and the pain will be unbearable every second.

Maybe if Mrs. Wen loves Wen Jiulou less, she can feel better, but she can't do it, so she can only torture each other like this.

……

The room fell into an eerie silence, the three of them silently looked out of the snowy window, Mrs. Wen was recalling an old friend, Xie Yan had already thought of something else, and An Yujing was thinking of something else.

In the end, it was Xie Yan who broke the silence, "Madam, do you want to say that the disappearance of Yanhui was done by the Japanese?"

Mrs. Wen nodded, "There are not many forces that can make people disappear under our noses. Before Yan girl left, she met the Hong family, and the patrol has found out that the Hong family has interests with the Japanese. Except for the Japanese who intend to Repeat the old trick, I can't think of any other possibility."

"Madam, do you think Yan Hui will be like Aunt Tao?"

"I hope not." Mrs. Wen sighed. She has always been a temperamental person. If she has no family affection for this well-behaved and sensible girl who has been raised by her side for many years, even she herself will not.

"But I don't know what the Japanese would say to her, and in what method, so I can't be sure."

Madam Wen looked at Xie Yan and An Yujing, "I'm telling you these secrets in the hope that you will pay more attention when doing business in the future; if you find that Yan Hui is trapped, try your best to rescue her back."

"Then if..."

"If she has defected to the Japanese and done something irreparable, bring her back and I will clean up the house myself."

……

Mrs. Wen had just woken up from a coma, and she couldn't bear it anymore after explaining so many things in one breath. She coughed violently, and the tiger-skin cloak on her body fell off. Before An Yujing reached out to cover it, a series of hurried The sound of footsteps first attracted the attention of the three of them.

The man who rushed into the bedroom was covered in cold air, with unmelted snowflakes on his shoulders, and a rare anxious expression on his face.He rushed to the window in a few steps, and he was relieved to see that Mrs. Wen was fine, and then he backed up a few words, afraid of passing the cold to Mrs. Wen.

"Shuang Xia, how are you? What did old doctor Qi say? I'm really going to be scared to death by you." Wen Jiulou's eyes fell on the cloak at Mrs. Wen's feet, "This is..."

Mrs. Wen kicked the cloak aside, with a cold expression, "Yu Jing doesn't know her, she took it wrong."

"..."

Xie Yan and An Yujing looked at each other, and planned to leave, leaving space for the husband and wife to avoid embarrassment. Just after hearing Mrs. Wen finish talking about the old things between them, Xie Yan and An Yujing didn't want to get caught up in their parents' relationship. In the emotional vortex of the older generation.

However, Mrs. Wen did not give them a chance to leave.

"You made a special trip to come back, there must be something urgent, there are no outsiders here, A Yan and Yu Jing should listen together."

Wen Jiulou sneered, "Look at what you said, isn't it important to hear that you fainted? Even if there is nothing else, I will be right back."

Mrs. Wen didn't answer, but Xie Yan noticed that her complexion seemed to be a little better.

"I do have something to say here. Ayan and Yujing are both here, so I don't need to bother to invite them." Wen Jiulou said and sat on the ground directly. Mrs. Wen glanced at it, and Xie Yan found a bench with interest. he.

"Thank you." Wen Jiulou said while sitting, "I sorted out Hankou's intelligence system in the past few days and found a lot of things. The plan requires everyone's cooperation."

"what?"

Wen Jiulou observed Mrs. Wen's expression, and after deliberating for a long time, she said, "Hold Heng'er... a funeral."

"..."