She is charming

Chapter 83 There are parasol trees in the courtyard

This is the oldest and most sophisticated old town in the capital. The buildings in this block are listed as cultural reserves, so the earliest wealthy people in the capital live here.

At that time, they had style, taste, and were particular about their houses.

Most of the residents at that time were "superior people". Unfortunately, many people were involved in the ups and downs of the development of the times, and most of them were lonely.

At the beginning, everyone put their hopes on the demolition policy, waiting to make a fortune after the demolition, but unfortunately it was later listed as a protected area, and there was no hope for demolition.

The most primitive appearance of life is preserved here, the roads are narrow, and the houses are crowded. Even the people who live here, those who can afford to buy a house, have moved away long ago, leaving an old house as an ancestral home, which is rented out to those in need. young man earning extra money.

Nanyang Street, the most famous urban village in Beijing.

Every household guards the sky-high price of real estate, but they can only rent it out and not sell it.

After getting off the car, Ren Qiaoan carried her bag and walked in step by step. She passed many crowded people and passed the old man who was drinking and eating crabs at the door, and finally stopped at a wooden door inside.

The wooden door is not big but it is old, the black paint has faded away, exposing the color of the wood inside. On both sides of the door, the color of the Spring Festival couplets pasted during the Spring Festival has faded, making the whole door look more dilapidated.

This is her home, the home she once envied.

But now, the door is bolted from the inside. If she wants to go in, she needs to knock on the door and get permission from the person inside.

Ren Qiao stood quietly at the door for a while, and then raised her hand to knock on the door when she heard a voice inside, indicating that someone was in the yard.

"Come on, please wait."

Inside the door, a steady male voice sounded, and then a door opened from the inside, and a middle-aged man in a suit stood at the door.

Seeing Ren Qiaoan outside the door, he was first surprised, then happy, and said: "Miss, you are back."

Ren Qiaoan smiled politely and said hello: "Uncle Wang, good evening."

Uncle Wang's name is Wang Peng, and he turned out to be her father's driver.

After her father was in a car accident and her mother died, Uncle Wang changed from driving for her father to being her father's full-time life assistant. He has been with his father for almost 20 years. He can be regarded as an old employee of their family. Ren Qiaoan also needs to respect him. a bit.

Ren Qiaoan was introverted and autistic when he was a child. Ren Qiaoan respected him but was also distant from him. He was not familiar or friendly to him.

But Wang Peng was different. Seeing Ren Qiaoan coming home, he excitedly opened another door and said, "Master misses you very much at home. You finally came back today. You must talk to Master more."

Ren Qiaoan turned her head and looked at the home she had lived in for more than ten years through the gap between Wang Peng and the door. In the yard, there was a sycamore tree that had been planted for nearly 20 years, and her father was sitting on a rocking chair under the tree. A pot of tea stands nearby, and meat is roasted on a small clay oven.

When he was young, he looked like a handsome young man. Now that he has passed middle age, he still stands out from other people of the same age. He is a handsome guy on the screen who has accumulated over the years.

Probably, no one would have imagined that in this dilapidated old street, the houses looked like they were about to collapse, and the traffic conditions were so poor that even people with a little ability would move out, and there were still people who could call the wind and rain in the capital.

Her father, the chairman of the board of directors of Joan Group, Ren Hongchen.

He sat on the deck chair and swayed leisurely, enjoying the coolness and leisureliness under the trees at dusk. His only flaw was that the trouser leg of his left leg was empty.

There is a ray of agarwood on the coffee table, and the rare treasure and gloomy wooden walking stick is leaning against the table, with delicate dragon head patterns carved on it, showing the extraordinary wealth of the owner at all times.

Opposite him sits another woman. She behaves elegantly and calmly, and has a fragrant jade seal between her eyebrows. Even though she is a little older, she can't hide the beauty that people can't take away from her when she was young.

She is the kind of beauty who can make a man fall head over heels and abandon his wife and children.

A teapot, two teacups, and two pairs of chopsticks each hold a piece of roasted meat. After each other eats, they pick up the teacups and touch each other before drinking.

With such a beautiful picture, Qiao An suddenly didn't want to go in.

Just because the man is her father and the woman is Zhao Wangsheng's mother.

The two of them enjoyed the cool air and drank under the plane tree planted when her mother died.

There is a phoenix tree in the courtyard, which was planted when my wife died, and now it is as graceful as a cover.

The year her mother died, her father planted a sycamore tree in memory of her mother, but now other women were sitting under the tree.

"Miss, go in quickly, the master must be very happy to know that you are here." Uncle Wang warmly greeted her to go in, Ren Qiaoan remembered the call he made to herself, and now she has to go in if she doesn't go in.

Zhou Chu answered the call, and with how much her father loves Zhao Wangsheng, if she doesn't come back, she will know that sooner or later she will have to check with Zhou Chu, and then the trouble will be serious.

Ren Qiaoan walked in, Wang Peng moved a stool for her, put it beside her father specially, and said, "You sit first, I will add chopsticks for you."

Ren Qiaoan stepped forward, nodded to her father, and said hello: "Dad, good evening."

She hadn't come back for a long time, the environment in this courtyard had already changed, and the strangeness made her uncomfortable.

There are flowers in the yard, but her mother didn't like to grow flowers before, and she couldn't keep a pot of flowers alive.

"Ah."

Ren Hongchen only raised his head to glance at her, then lowered his head to pour himself a cup of tea. He didn't say to let her sit down, nor did he say to let her go.

Ren Qiaoan is the most stubborn person. Ever since she left here, she has regarded this home as someone else's, and her father is just a benefactor who once raised her.

If you are a benefactor, you must repay.

Zhao Wangsheng's mother was named Yin Ruwei, and Ren Qiaoan really had nothing to say to her at the moment, so he could only nod to her as a greeting.

Seeing the stalemate between the two father and daughter, Yin Ruwei immediately stood up and said to Dad Ren: "When will you change your bad temper? I called the child in the morning and said that you are not feeling well and your legs are hurting. Qiao Qiao came back to see you today. You Who are you showing your cold face to?"

After saying that, she came over and placed Ren Qiaoan on the seat and asked, "Have you had dinner tonight? Auntie will make you something to eat? What do you want to eat?"

Her words rationalized Ren Qiaoan's sudden return home, and also attributed all the credit for her return home to herself.

It was she who called and said that her father was not feeling well, so Ren Qiaoan "took the initiative" to come back and "care" about his father's health.

How nice, how understanding.

But she didn't know that Ren Qiaoan was called back by him himself.

However, Qiao An knew that her father liked Zhao Wangsheng's mother very much.

Sure enough, Ren's father was angry that Ren Qiaoan was rude. He walked in without calling anyone, and said to Zhao Wangsheng's mother with a cold face: "Don't take care of her like this. She is an adult now. Not only must she be able to take care of herself, but she must also take care of Wangsheng." Sheng, you are her future mother-in-law and an elder, so she should take care of you."

"What nonsense are you talking about? Even if my daughter marries Wangsheng, she will still be the child raised by me. Can't I feel sorry for the child?" Zhao Wangsheng's mother retorted to Ren's father: "You don't feel sorry for the child yourself, and you don't want me to feel sorry for the future child. Wife-in-law?!"

"You will get used to her being disrespectful to her elders. She won't even call her elders when she enters the door, and she won't answer a single hello." Dad Ren argued hard and refused to give in.

Ren Qiaoan has been silent all the time, listening to their "flirtatious" conversations. She has not been at home these years, and the harmony between the two has developed to an unimaginable level of harmony. There is no gap for her daughter to intervene. .

In other words, there is no place for her here at all.

She had already been driven out of the house by him.

"Wang Sheng is so good and obedient. If Qiao An can't tolerate and take care of Wang Sheng, I don't think this marriage will work out. Let Wang Sheng find a better girl to get married, so that he can save himself from facing her cold face every day. I feel uncomfortable." Dad Ren glanced at Ren Qiao'an in a warning manner, saying these words was a slap in the face of Ren Qiao'an.

The biological father beat his biological daughter by asking his son-in-law to find another wife.

This may be the only one in this world.

Ren Qiao suddenly had the idea that he was Zhao Wangsheng's father. He had been very fond of Zhao Wangsheng since he was a child. When the two of them were together, Zhao Wangsheng received more compliments than her.

Her father always said that she admired Zhao Wangsheng, and she thought so at first, but when she thought about it, the harmony between him and Zhao Wangsheng's mother under the tree just now didn't seem to be the case.

Ren Qiaoan initially thought that her father was simply patriarchal. He had always liked Zhao Wangsheng. After Zhao Wangsheng got together with her, he just suited his liking, and even she could be changed by her father.

But now it seems that maybe it is just a simple love of the house, he still belittles her, even though she is his only daughter, the rich lady who looks expensive to outsiders, in his eyes, he is still not as good as Zhao Wangsheng.

He will really love a woman and pamper her children. It doesn't matter whether his biological children are good or bad.

This kind of example is no longer uncommon in today's marriages.

(End of this chapter)