CH 140 Jiang Chen's Fault

"Is it time?"

"There is still one minute."

There were two computers side by side on the computer desk, and there was a page on the screen, on which the account number and password had been entered.

Yang Si was standing by the computer, bending over to look at the computer screen. Yang Yun, who was sitting by the computer desk, was also staring at the change of the second hand on the clock with a nervous expression.

He Yanfeng looked at the two women amusedly, and raised his eyebrows at Jiang Zhuo and Jiang Chen. Jiang Zhuo shook his head, Jiang Chen was also a little exasperated when he saw this, but even more he felt moved.

He hadn't thought that his two families would gather together on the day when the score was posted. Yesterday, when he received a call from his parents while in the research institute asking him to go directly to the He family that night, he was still a little surprised. After careful questioning, he found out that during this time, Yang Yun often went to the Jiang's house to talk to Yang Si.

Because of family reasons, Yang Si didn’t have many friends from childhood, and even fewer friends after marrying Jiang Zhuo, having put all her energy on their small family. Later, when Jiang Chen was in elementary school, she was let go from her job. So she just focus on their small family, and gradually lost contact with her former friends, and became not much different from a full-time mother.

Yang Yun's situation was actually very similar to Yang Si's. Although she was born in a well-off family, her family was also patriarchal. She didn't get much care and love except for money, but different from Yang Si was that she left her family completely on the day she became legal, and never contacted her family again.

She made money by herself to go to college, met He Yanfeng at school, and they broke up and got back together many times before they eventually married. When they finally got together, her family came to her because they coveted the power and interests of the He family. She drove away her family without hesitation, and because of this, old Mr. He, who happened to see that scene, had a very bad impression of her.

So much so that her marriage to He Yanfeng was not approved by the He family. It was not until He Qianjian was born that the situation gradually improved. But because of the hard-won happiness of this family, she cherished it even more and wanted to maintain the harmony of the whole family.

After He Qianmin and He Qianyu were born, she swore that she would not be partial to any child like her original family. She tried her best to be as fair as possible, and gave all that she didn't get to her three children.

She thought she had done a good job, but she didn't expect that it might be because she was too afraid that this rare peace of happiness would be broken, and she was too dependent on the satisfaction given to her by her husband and children, resulting in an indecisiveness that only caused her to miss out on more.

Yang Si never had the courage to muster up when she was young, but after she became an adult and had her own family, she had the courage to break the status quo. On the other hand, Yang Yun was decisive and assertive as a young woman, but after being pampered and living a peaceful life for 20 years, on the contrary, she lost the vigor of her youth.

The two mothers had the same circumstances, but their later lives changed greatly due to some small deviations.

These memories were opened little by little in their chats, and they learned about each other's pasts, which made them understand each other's difficulties better, and gradually let go of their prejudice against each other. And because of this, the scene in front of them now came about.

This was the most harmonious and happiest way Jiang Chen could think of to get along with each other. Before the parents of the two families met for the first time, Jiang Chen had a plan to work hard for acceptance and harmony, but he had been too busy recently, and he also wanted to give the two families time to cool off, so what he thought was to wait for a while, then slowly ease the relationship between the two.

He had thought a long time ago that if he wanted to have the two families completely let go of their estrangement and get closer to each other, he would have to make more efforts, spend more time and exert subtle influence to achieve it. Unexpectedly, before all his plans even began, his two mothers solved his problems by themselves.

Jiang Chen knew very well whose sake it was for that Yang Yun would visit again and again when she knew that Yang Si didn't want to see her at all, and tried to open up conversations with her. He was even more clear for whose sake Yang Si did the many things she did despite not being in a good mood, when sometimes she didn't even want to see him and Jiang Zhuo either, locking herself in the room alone. Yet she let Yang Yun come into the house to chat with her, and in the end they were even willing to gradually become less defensive and sad, and have a good heart-to-heart with her.

It was all for him, and maybe some of it was also for He Qianjian, but Jiang Chen didn't care, he didn't know how to express how moved he was and how grateful, so he could only say thank you countless times from the bottom of his heart, thankful for having such two mothers, for having such adoptive parents and biological parents, as well as for being their child.

Thinking back on this, Jiang Chen lowered his eyes to hide the softness in them, and the faint smile on the corner of his mouth was pure and warm.

He Yanfeng glanced at the time as if casually, sat up straight and said, "Only twenty seconds left."

Jiang Zhuo also sat up straight immediately, and turned his head to look at the computer desk. Yang Yun and Yang Si were already sitting in front of the computer, staring at the time without blinking, their expressions hard to hide their nervousness.

"Brother, what's your estimated score?" He Qianmin appeared even more anxious than the two mothers. He glanced at his watch from time to time, feeling that every minute and every second was extremely long, so he couldn't help asking Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen came back to his senses: "Seven hundred and four or more."

After each exam, Jiang Chen's estimate of his grades for several subjects other than Chinese were generally very accurate, but the variable of Chinese composition was difficult to estimate accurately, and sometimes the teacher's personal preference would also play a big role. Fortunately, the subject matter of this composition was quite favorable to Jiang Chen, but he was not sure that his composition could get a high score.

"Wow!" He Qianmin exclaimed, his eyes lighting up immediately.

He Qianyu immediately rushed over and hugged Jiang Chen and asked, "Is that number one?"

Jiang Chen grinned slightly, on this he was sure of.

"Of course."

He Qianyu hugged Jiang Chen tightly, with a look of pride on her face: "Then my brother is the top scorer in the sciences! I will be the top scorer in the future too! Second Brother, you must be the top scorer too!"

Jiang Chen saw that she had set a goal by herself and didn't forget to spur He Qianmin on the side. He couldn't help being a little amused. He tapped her nose and said, "If you want to be the top scorer, you have to work hard."

"Of course!" He Qianyu raised her chin as a matter of course and said, "Anything in return must be paid, and I will definitely work as hard as you, Brother!"

The girl's adult-like tone caused the several adults in the room to smile. Even Yang Si couldn't hold back a slight smile. Glancing at the soundly sleeping babe on the side, her smile became more gentle, and she hoped her daughter could be like this when she grew up, generous and lively.

Amidst the laughter, only He Qianjian who was sitting on the other side looked dazed, lost in unknown thoughts.

He Qianmin noticed his expression and narrowed his eyes slightly, feeling a little strange.

He Qianjian's expression now seemed to be a little flustered, but it shouldn't be. Even if his score was not comparable to his brother's it should not be that much less, was it because he might be less than his brother's score that he was unhappy?

Before He Qianmin had time to think about it, he heard Yang Yun's voice: "Time's up!"

Twenty seconds flew by. Yang Yun logged into the interface immediately, and at the same time reminded Yang Si who was looking somewhere else.

He Qianmin immediately came back to his senses, and saw Yang Si and Yang Yun performing the same operation.

The two fathers, who were sitting on the sofa not far away and watching the web pages jump, were sitting calmly at first. At this time, one inadvertently stretched his neck, and the other pretended that his legs and feet were uncomfortable after sitting for a long time, and stood up and moved around the computer desk.

Jiang Zhuo approached his wife, staring at the screen: "How is it?"

Yang Si didn't have the mind to pay attention to him at all. She stared at the interface that kept loading but couldn't load at all, and said in a bad mood: "You don't know how to see for yourself?"

Jiang Zhuo wasn't upset at the sarcastic shot, he just touched his nose sheepishly and moved closer.

He Yanfeng also coughed and stood up, not forgetting to tell Jiang Chen and He Qianjian: "You two's college entrance examination results, why aren't you more concerned yourselves, let's go, come with me to have a look."

Jiang Chen was pulled to stand up by He Qianyu. Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at He Qianjian who had been expressionless from beginning to end. Recalling that he seemed to have not spoken to the System since last night, he was a little surprised, but he didn't think much about it. Surrounded by his younger siblings, he walked forward.

"Here it comes!" Jiang Zhuo craned his neck, and the web pages on the screen were being displayed layer by layer like a venetian blind.

The candidate's name was displayed first. Jiang Chen's name appeared on the computer screen in front of Yang Si. Within a few seconds, He Qianjian's name was also displayed on the computer screen in front of Yang Yun.

Then there was the candidate number and the exam admission ticket number. The four parents waited anxiously. They only felt that the internet speed of this computer was too slow, and the page was also frozen, which practically dragged their hearts out of their throats.

"Chinese! 148!"

He Qianmin yelled, Jiang Chen was not surprised by the score, and now he also knew his final score, but the others didn't. On He Qianjian's side, don't know whether it was a problem with the web page or the speed of the network but the page was running very slowly, and the candidate number didn't appear until now. It seemed that it would take a while for the score to appear, so the two pairs of parents kept their eyes on the computer with Jiang Chen's score, waiting for the next subject.

"Mathematics is out!" He Qianyu squeezed to Yang Si's side because of her small stature. She pressed close to Yang Si and when she saw the result, she immediately hugged the people next to her. She excitedly turned her head to look for Jiang Chen, not forgetting to announce: "150! Brother, your math score is perfect!"

Jiang Chen smiled and nodded to her.

"Qian Jian's score is also out!" Yang Yun smiled and said, "Chinese is also 148, the same as Chen Chen."

Jiang Zhuo turned his head, glanced at He Qianjian behind him, and praised him, "Very good."

From the time when the scores were refreshed, He Qianjian's hands beside him trembled more and more, and finally he put them in his pockets nervously. When he saw Jiang Zhuo turn towards him, he managed to force a smile. The smile fell immediately.

He knew that his Chinese and math scores would definitely not be bad, but no matter how good he was on these exams, there was no help from the System in the latter two exams, and it was all up to him to guess. So he knew just how absolutely horrible the total score would be.

And all of this——was Jiang Chen's fault!