At noon, Aunt Xu cooked a lot of food for Cheng Xiran. Cheng Xiran also enjoyed the meal and asked Chu Shang if he had time in the afternoon. She needed to buy some clothes and shoes.
Chu Shang had nothing to do in the afternoon. He couldn't get involved in Chu's father's funeral, and Hu Xiuru and the others wouldn't let him get involved. He just had to wait until the day of the funeral to show up.
So the two made an appointment with Chu Shang to take Cheng Xiran shopping for clothes in the afternoon.
Cheng Xiran got up too early in the morning and had to take a nap at noon. After dinner, she went upstairs to her room. Aunt Xu packed the dishes into the kitchen and then made a cup of fruit tea and sent it upstairs to Cheng Xiran.
After knocking on the door and getting permission, Aunt Xu came in with a tea tray.
Cheng Xiran had just washed his face and came out of the bathroom. He smelled the fragrance of fruit tea and inhaled. The sweet and sour smell was very tempting.
"I'm afraid you'll be tired of lunch, so I made some refreshing fruit tea."
Aunt Xu explained.
"Thank you Aunt Xu."
Cheng Xiran walked over with a smile, picked up the tea cup and took a sip.
Aunt Xu had already heard her son talk about Cheng Xiran's identity and the reason for coming to Jiangcheng this time when she was cooking at noon. She was very grateful to Cheng Xiran: "I am the one who should say thank you, Miss Cheng, thank you for your willingness to help the small businessman."
"You're welcome, I'll provide you with paid help."
Cheng Xiran didn't dare to accept Aunt Xu's gratitude. She also had a purpose. In total, it was an equal exchange with Chu Shang.
Naturally, Aunt Xu heard her son talk about Cheng Xiran's request and couldn't help but smile: "It is a blessing for a small businessman to have a girlfriend like Miss Cheng. If his mother knew about it, she would definitely be very happy."
Cheng Xiran was even more embarrassed. Her purpose was not just to let Chu Shang be her boyfriend, she wanted to enslave Chu Shang.
"Ms. Cheng, are you surprised that Mr. Chu is gone and we are not very sad?"
Aunt Xu changed the subject and suddenly brought up Cheng Xiran's doubts.
Cheng Xiran nodded. She was confused, but she couldn't take the initiative to ask. But if Aunt Xu was willing to talk, she still wanted to hear it. After all, it would be more beneficial for her to "fight" if the affairs of the Chu family were clearer.
"This matter started decades ago. If you are not sleepy, can I tell you about it?"
Aunt Xu asked.
"Sure, tell me."
Cheng Xiran picked up a pillow and stuffed it into his arms, leaning against the back of the sofa, as if listening to a story.
Aunt Xu smiled kindly and began to tell her a story from the past.
The story begins more than thirty years ago. At that time, Chu's father was just a poor boy in his twenties, but Chu's mother was the daughter of a small factory owner.
As soon as Cheng Xiran heard the beginning, he vaguely guessed that this would be a story between a poor boy and a rich girl.
The facts are similar to what Cheng Xiran guessed, but there are still big differences in the storyline.
Chu Shang's grandfather started his business as a cannery. It was just a small processing factory at first. It gradually grew bigger, registered a trademark, and opened a large factory. There were thousands of workers and other employees in the factory.
Chu's father was a salesman in the factory's marketing department at that time. Because his business was getting better and better, he won the favor of Chu's grandfather, who gradually promoted him and gradually made him the manager of the marketing department.
Father Chu is indeed very talented in business. Grandpa Chu Shang has no son, only a daughter. He has been looking for a son-in-law for his daughter who can succeed him. He thinks Father Chu is good, and after observing him for several years, he feels even more good.
Chu's mother was gentle, obedient and quiet. Her father said that Chu's father was a good person, so she obediently started a relationship with Chu's father. Chu's father was eloquent and good to Chu's mother. It didn't take long for Chu's mother to fall in love with him.
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Grandpa Chu Shang saw that his daughter also liked Chu's father, so he made the decision for them to get married. The life after marriage was quite sweet. In the first two years, the couple did not have children. Chu's father said that he would put his career first and put his family's affairs first.
As the factory becomes bigger and stronger, it is not too late to have children.
Later, when the factory became bigger and stronger, Grandpa Chu, a businessman, also fell ill and passed away in less than half a year. The family business was inherited by Chu's father and Chu's mother, but how could Chu's mother know how to do business as a married woman?
At first, she would follow her father's instructions before he died to learn how to manage the company. But later, when she became pregnant and had a child, she became obsessed with the child, and the factory and company were all handed over to Chu's father.
After Chu's father took over the factory and the company, he arranged for his family to come in and led his younger brothers and sisters to run the company better and better step by step.
After Chu's mother gave birth to Chu Shang, she was even more focused on her husband and children. She lived a smooth life and had no idea that her husband had raised a woman outside.
The woman Chu's father raised outside was Hu Xiuru. She did not meet him after he became rich, but was his childhood sweetheart. The wife he married in his hometown in the countryside was just that she was young when they got married and was not old enough to apply for a marriage certificate, so legally
We are not husband and wife yet, but we had a wedding reception in our hometown.
After Chu's father and Hu Xiuru got married, they went out to work, and finally got in touch with Chu Shang's grandfather. At that time, Chu's mother had an idea, so she kept Hu Xiuru a secret. No one knew that he had a daughter-in-law in his hometown.
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Hu Xiuru endured it for the sake of a better life in the future and lived in her hometown until Grandpa Chu Shang passed away and Chu's father took over the company, then took Hu Xiuru to Jiangcheng and raised her outside.
But how could Hu Xiuru be willing to be a mistress? She was obviously the first woman Chu's father married, and Chu's father didn't want his child to become an illegitimate child, so he refused to have a child with her. She was even more worried every day if she didn't have a child.
After enduring it for several years, when Chu's mother was about to give birth to her second child, Hu Xiuru went to find Chu's mother and revealed everything, tearing apart Chu's father's scam and letting Chu's mother see a bloody reality.
Chu's mother was so angry that she fainted. She also fell and gave birth prematurely. After being sent to the hospital, she suffered from severe bleeding. Both the adult and the child were not saved, and they both died on the operating table.
Chu Shang was only four years old that year. Not long after his mother died, Chu's father married Hu Xiuru. Because Hu Xiuru was pregnant, Chu's father took the child out of Chu's mother's body in the same year to prevent her from being an illegitimate child.
Hu Xiuru gave birth to another son the following year.
Naturally, Hu Xiuru would not be a good stepmother. Chu's father also took this into consideration. After marrying Hu Xiuru, he bought another house and left his and Chu's mother's original home to Chu Shang, and asked Aunt Xu to take care of and raise Chu Shang.
It also prevented him from being abused by his stepmother.
Perhaps out of guilt for Chu Shang’s grandfather and mother, Chu Shang loved Chu Shang the most. Chu Shang could learn whatever he liked and do whatever he wanted. In the beginning, Chu Shang’s scientific research funds were all given by Chu’s father.
, Hu Xiuru and her son and daughter were very jealous for this reason.
Because Chu's father always loved Chu Shang very much, Chu Shang couldn't hate him, but he didn't have a deep father-son feeling.
If it weren't for the fact that the current property of the Chu family was obtained with the lives of his grandfather and mother, Chu Shang wouldn't want to fight for it at all, and he himself was not short of money.