Chapter 10 Having dinner with Mom
Chapter 10 Having dinner with Mom
Song Qiao left him with those words, turned and left, leaving Lu Mingxuan bewildered in the wind for a long time.
Even after she had walked away, Lu Mingxuan was still standing there watching.
After that, Lu Mingxuan's personality changed. He acted like a spoiled brat, often bullying girls, sometimes spending money to treat his classmates to meals, and being extravagant, making no attempt to hide the fact that his family was rich.
The biggest change is that he studies more diligently than before. Every time there is an exam, the teacher will look at his test paper, half questioning and half praising him.
But none of that mattered to Song Qiao at the time, because Jiang Ming was her true love.
Jiang Ming would occasionally surprise her with little gifts. He would creatively turn the flowers and plants on campus into small gifts to please her. Because of this, Lu Mingxuan even made sarcastic remarks about him in class.
But the more this happened, the closer Jiang Ming became to her, using the excuse of studying together to sit together during evening self-study.
"Qiaoqiao, what are you thinking about? The crab has run away."
Song Qiao was awakened by her mother's calls. The crab, which had been washed, was crawling out of the sink and sideways toward another place.
Song Qiao quickly grabbed its two pincers, put it in the basin, and covered it with a pot lid.
Crabs crawled in the basin, their large pincers making a rustling sound. Tao Meiling looked at her daughter and teased, "You've gotten bolder, daring to even touch crabs? I remember before you got married, you wouldn't dare touch these things, and you would run far away in fear every time you saw them."
Song Qiao smiled when she heard this: "Everyone grows up, and I have to grow up too. In the future, I will protect you and my dad."
Let alone killing crabs, she would dare to kill someone right now, but wasn't she forced into it by Jiang Ming?
"Mom, how can a person survive in this society if they never grow up?"
Tao Yuling looked at Song Qiao and felt something was off. She glanced at her and asked, "Why do you suddenly have so many insights? Did Jiang Ming bully you?"
Song Qiao looked up at Tao Yuling and smiled: "No, how could he dare to bully me?"
It wasn't just bullying; her dear mother didn't know that less than three years after her death, she was driven to suicide by Jiang Ming and his daughter.
After washing the crabs, Song Qiao steamed them in a pot. While she was steaming, she made some dipping sauce, ginger juice and minced garlic, which her mother loved.
"Qiaoqiao, take some back with you when you're done cooking. Your dad and I can't eat it all, but Jiang Ming and Ranran will enjoy it when they get home."
"No need! Jiang Ming took Ranran to a restaurant tonight and asked me to go, but I didn't go."
Even if I cook the crabs, I won't give them to that heartless father and daughter, even if I throw them away.
Tao Meiling is a model of a virtuous wife and loving mother in China. She has devoted half her life to her husband and daughter, saving every penny and working hard without complaint. When her parents-in-law were alive, she was even more frugal, saving the best food for the elderly and children.
After her parents-in-law died, her husband and daughter occupied her whole heart.
The crabs were cooked, and Song Qiao picked them out and brought them to the table with the seasonings: "Mom, when is Dad coming back?"
"Your dad won't be back for a while. Why don't you eat first and then go home? Otherwise, the child might cry and fuss if they can't find you."
Song Qiao checked the time. If she finished eating and went home, Jiang Ming would be off work just then. Some things didn't need explaining.
"Okay! I'll eat first. I'll leave my dad's in the pot and he can eat it when it's reheated."
Song Qiao's father, Song Jianguo, was a soldier who retired from the military. He initially worked in the administrative bureau, but later went into business and founded Jiangcheng Urban Construction Company.
In the past two years, the company has been on the right track, and Song Qiao knows that these achievements are inseparable from her father's hard work.
My mother was very supportive. She never complained when my father quit his job to start his own business. When he was short of money, she would find ways to borrow money. She could not help with anything else, but she took good care of her husband in his daily life.
This was the couple who, in their previous life, were not only killed one after another by the devil Jiang Ming, but also had their house sold in less than three days.
Thinking about all this, Song Qiao wanted to slap herself twice. In her regret, she realized that it was good that she could make amends. When she was reborn, it was not her parents who died, but Jiang Ming and Zhao Xiaoya, as well as her wicked daughter Jiang Xiaoran.
"Mom! I've finished eating."
The crabs were very fat. If it were in her previous life, she would have separated these crabs, distinguishing which ones belonged to Jiang Ming and which ones to Jiang Xiaoran, and then she would have tasted them herself. In this life, she wouldn't let that father and daughter have them so easily.
"Take a few home after you finish eating."
Tao Meiling ate several, with ginger juice still on her lips. Song Qiao reached out to wipe it off for her: "No need, these things don't taste good when they're cold. Jiang Ming said they're going to the seafood market tonight too."
This reason was enough to make Tao Meiling give up her plan to bring her crabs.
Sure enough, she didn't insist anymore: "Alright then, you should go now."
"I'm leaving!"
Watching her daughter put on her shoes at the door, Tao Meiling suddenly asked, "How did you get here? Did you drive or ride a bike?"
Hearing this, Song Qiao felt a pang of sadness. When she got married, she didn't want to buy that BMW, but her mother said to her father, "Our daughter can come to our house often in the future, so she won't suffer in wind and rain. I still suggest you buy her a car."
They eventually bought a car, but it became the best mode of transportation for Jiang Ming and Zhao Xiaoya to take their child on trips.
"Mom, there's always traffic in the city. I saw the weather was nice, so I rode my bike here. Don't worry, I'll be home in less than half an hour."
After saying goodbye to Tao Meiling, Song Qiao went downstairs and rode her bicycle home.
Tomorrow, she will take Jiang Xiaoran's hair to the hospital for a paternity test.
Although she knew that Jiang Xiaoran was not her biological daughter, she still had to do the paternity test, as it would be her reason for making Jiang Ming leave with nothing in the future divorce.
As for how Jiang Ming should die, she wouldn't risk going to jail to kill him. She wanted to make his death as he had treated her in her previous life, so it would be a matter of course.
When Song Qiao arrived home, Jiang Ming was still not home, and Jiang Xiaoran was still asleep in her room. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth – losing one's virginity is the law of survival. She made Jiang Xiaoran try the sleeping pills she took every day.
Otherwise, it would be a disservice to the tragic situation she endured in her previous life, where she was meticulously plotted to die and be violated.
"Ranran, wake up!"
After entering the room, Song Qiao shook Jiang Xiaoran vigorously.
She opened her eyes and looked at Song Qiao: "Don't bother me!"
"Ranran, guess what I bought for you?"
Song Qiao wasn't angry at her words. Instead, she took out a diamond-studded hair clip from behind her back and said, "Mom will put this on you!"
Jiang Xiaoran perked up as expected, because she had loved dressing up since she was a child, and extravagance was her favorite thing. She had everything that her classmates had.
After Song Qiao's father, Jiang Xiaoran, helped her up, he combed her hair and deliberately took two strands from her hair, then pinned them to her head with hair clips before she could sit up: "Go take a picture, you're so beautiful."
Jiang Xiaoran got out of bed and ran to the mirror in the bathroom to admire the hair clip on her head.
Song Qiao carefully wrapped up the two strands of hair and went to the kitchen to cook.
She took the vegetables out of the refrigerator. Tonight, she was going to cook two dishes that Jiang Ming liked. Of course, she would add some seasoning to the dishes. Tonight, she wanted to check the things stored on his phone and get some evidence.
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