Chapter 340 Reconciliation
People who are trapped in love are likely to become monks.

In the 1990s, it was relatively easy to be a monk. No high level of education was required, and most monks lived a frugal life.

Jiang Cheng once thought that all the troubles were caused by his inability to control his lower body. He decided to stop touching women and become a monk.

But Jiang Cheng is not a person who has attained enlightenment. Even if he only abstains from sex, it is because of his inner guilt. It is impossible for him to stop eating meat and cut off relations with his children.

Jiang Cheng originally thought that he was only in his forties and would not be able to touch women anymore. But when he called his children together, they were not so righteous. At most, they criticized him for being so philandering.

Even his children planned to help Jiang Cheng persuade Zhou Lingying to forgive him. In fact, it was easy to forgive him, but it was difficult to get Zhou Lingying to accept the woman Jiang Cheng had outside.

Jiang Zhaozhao also knew that it would be difficult for Jiang Cheng to cut off contact with that side, so the best thing to do at the moment was to let Jiang Cheng have contact with both sides. Thinking of living in the same room together was really too much.

Also, just everyone should know about this matter. Jiang Cheng really can’t go so far as to bring back the woman and child outside, because Jiang Zhaozhao is already in a relationship, and the second brother Jiang Panpan will also get along with the right person if he meets one.

If the people my daughters are dating knew that their father is such a promiscuous person, they would probably be embarrassed.

The six children took turns to persuade Zhou Lingying in various ways. Zhou Lingying was just simple, not stupid. After more than half a year, the children suddenly came to speak well of their father. On the second day, they speculated that Jiang Cheng might have returned and instigated the children behind their backs.

Women, marry a man to have clothes and food. All you want is someone to rely on. If you marry the wrong man, it’s your fate.

When Zhou Lingying learned that Jiang Cheng had a woman and a child outside, she just thought that life was unbearable. But she never had the slightest thought of divorcing and remarrying.

He has cried and made a fuss, and all he needs to do is hang himself.

Now Jiang Cheng was a bit unrepentant and couldn’t break up. Zhou Lingying was not so chaste that she could not threaten to die, so she gave in and made an appointment with Jiang Cheng to meet at the Oriental Hotel.

Jiang Cheng brought some ingredients to the Oriental Hotel and asked the kitchen staff to help him process them. Even in 1995, it was still difficult to eat fresh seafood in inland cities. Only some large hotels had it, and it had to be booked in advance, and the price was expensive.

Jiang Cheng waited for a long time in the hotel’s private room. When he saw Zhou Lingying appear, he was really at a loss. He didn’t know whether he should approach her affectionately or keep a distance to avoid offending her.

Counting the days, the two hadn’t seen each other for more than seven months. Zhou Lingying didn’t expect to see Jiang Cheng again. He had become darker and thinner. It would be a lie to say that she didn’t feel sorry for him, but it was impossible to say that she didn’t hate him at all.

“Lingying, please sit down. Here are our favorite shrimps and fish. The ingredients are fresh. I got them and asked the kitchen staff to prepare them.” Jiang Cheng said attentively.

Zhou Lingying sat on the chair in the private room, but didn’t say anything. As the victim, how could she easily ask for forgiveness? Although she came here alone to meet him, she had already expressed a lot of attitudes. If she really didn’t forgive him, why did she come here? But she had to be careful when it was time to do it, and she couldn’t let the man know that she was easy to bully.

“Lingying, you are so beautiful. I’ll peel a shrimp for you.” Seeing that Zhou Lingying didn’t say anything, Jiang Cheng still said in a flattering manner.

Zhou Lingying is already 40 years old, but because she is well-fed, she is definitely not as good-looking as a young girl. But she is really feminine. Jiang Cheng is a straight man. He hasn’t told Zhou Lingying that she is really beautiful for a long time. He said it shamelessly many times when he was young.

“We really can’t cut off contact with them?” Zhou Lingying finally asked.

“Lingying, I know I’m very sorry to you. If you refuse to forgive me, I can promise not to touch you and other women outside. But you are also a mother, how can you sever the relationship with your child?” Jiang Cheng said very sincerely.

Zhou Lingying rolled her eyes at Jiang Cheng. What kind of words are these? What do you mean by not touching her and other women outside? She is going to be a widow at the age of 40. If she is really a widow, what’s the point of forgiving her?

The two women Jiang Cheng had outside didn’t come here to make compromises at the end of last year just to avoid being widowed or remarrying. Then, they made many concessions when dividing Jiang Cheng’s property.

“Alas, if it weren’t for the child, I would definitely not live with you anymore. Zhao Zhao already has a boyfriend, and the boy’s family was going to come to propose marriage before the end of last year, but because you were not here, the proposal was delayed.” Zhou Lingying sighed and found a way out.

When Jiang Cheng heard Zhou Lingying’s words, he felt as if he had been pardoned. He was so happy. He had finally gotten rid of the secret that had been hidden for more than 20 years.

However, Jiang Cheng had a plan in mind for not telling Zhou Lingying until she was old enough to remarry.

A 40-year-old woman, divorced, with so many children. In this era, it cannot be said that no one wants her, but if there are men who want her, then the men must be extremely poor. In that case, it is better not to remarry.

This is not the future, where divorced, left-over women with several children will be married by Arab princes with hundreds of billions of assets. Some overbearing CEOs like such women and think they are attractive.

The overbearing CEO falls in love with you who is in menopause, but he has a child already, so he becomes a winner in life by marrying you. When you get old, you can live in a luxurious bridge hole, because only the bridge hole can accommodate the overbearing CEO’s unruly soul.

Jiang Cheng happily served Zhou Lingying meal, peeled shrimps and picked up vegetables for her, and stayed around her, smelling her feminine scent.

For more than half a year, Jiang Cheng couldn’t stand the smell of women. It wasn’t that he was disgusted by the smell of women, but whenever a woman who he felt was beautiful approached, he would instinctively warn himself not to provoke her, and then deliberately avoid her.

Just like Tang Seng often said to the female demon, “Female donor, you can’t do that.” In fact, Tang Seng was also avoiding it. It’s not that he didn’t have any thoughts in his heart. If he really didn’t have any thoughts, he should have been like the monkey and directly shouted, “Demon, die.”

After lunch, Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying reconciled, but they hadn’t done anything intimate yet. Jiang Cheng was still a little worried, afraid of being disliked.

Jiang Cheng prepared a lot of dishes for lunch, and packed them up to take home without wasting them. Although the Jiang family is rich now, they spend tens of thousands of yuan on food every day, which is only three or four million yuan a year.

But Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying were both born in the 1950s, and Jiang Zhaozhao and the others were born in the 1970s. They don’t have the habit of wasting food, and even if they can’t finish it themselves, they will take care of their neighbors.

In Hong Kong, Jiang Fei and her friends were not very wasteful when eating. When eating out, each person might order several dishes, but they would usually ask others to give smaller portions.

When eating at home, the ladies and the young master would eat first, and the unfinished food would be given to the servants. Don’t think that the food given to the servants is leftovers, because the food of ordinary families is not as good as that of the servants of the Jiang family.

At least the servants of the Jiang family have the opportunity to eat high-end steaks, soups made from high-end ingredients, imported high-quality rice, lobster, abalone and so on.

As long as it was cooked, the Jiang family would not keep it overnight to eat the next day. Only important servants of the Jiang family could eat the leftovers. Ordinary servants had no chance.

Ordinary people can’t even imagine the life of rich people. Jiang Cheng is rich, but he doesn’t spend as much as his daughter Jiang Fei. The real rich people enjoy life in wealthy families. They have to be the second, third or even more generations of rich people. Now Jiang Cheng really won’t spend trillions of dollars.

Old Xu in later generations knew how to organize a singing and dancing troupe, but Jiang Cheng has two women outside and now has to please Zhou Lingying.

In terms of enjoyment, Jiang Cheng has to learn from his daughter Jiang Fei. He has a cruise ship worth tens of millions, which is already very luxurious in the eyes of ordinary people. But Jiang Fei said that a real luxury cruise ship must have a gym, swimming pool, cinema, etc., with all the facilities inside.

It’s not a cruise ship worth tens of millions. It’s okay to have a party, but it’s just a buffet party on the ship window.

For this purpose, Jiang Cheng has actually asked someone to build it. He really doesn’t know how to spend money.

But Jiang Cheng is better than the character in the movie “The Richest Tomato”, who didn’t even know how he lost 1 billion yuan. It’s simply a joke.

Many movies are made for poor people. For rich people, they just watch them for fun and they are dismissive of many plots.

For example, in the 1980s and 1990s, there were millionaire-type movies abroad. One million was an astronomical figure for ordinary people of that era.

But in fact, there are many families in the world that have possessed huge wealth at an earlier time.

Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying brought a lot of vegetables home, kept some, and gave the rest to the neighbors. When the neighbors saw Jiang Cheng coming back, they had the nerve to ask Zhou Lingying, who brought them the vegetables, what had happened to Jiang Cheng, who they hadn’t seen for half a year.

When Zhou Lingying was questioned by her neighbors, she could only find an excuse to get away with it. She said Jiang Cheng wanted to invest and do business abroad, and the two of them just had a little disagreement.

Now, except for the fifth and sixth brothers who usually eat at home, the Jiang family is no longer as lively as before.

After Jiang Zhaozhao started working at the soy sauce factory, she didn’t go home for lunch at first. But now she has a boyfriend and often eats dinner with him.

In addition, the soy sauce factory and bottled water business were handed over to Jiang Zhaozhao. She and her team were spread across the country and occasionally had to go on business trips, which meant they had even less time to eat at home.

Because of the housing problem at home, Jiang Zhaozhao even built some buildings near the soy sauce factory and allocated houses to the senior executives and himself. He rarely lived in the courtyard.

The second brother, Jiang Panpan, still lives here, but he has to travel around to develop a tourism project.

The third sister, Jiang Nian Nian, is now a wealthy woman and has bought a house near the company. The reason she didn’t come to live here is that she wanted to have a private life.

For Jiang Niannian’s so-called private life, Zhou Lingying also said that she lived separately from her parents before she got married. What kind of private life does a girl have?

As for the fourth child, he is currently studying at a university and lives in a school dormitory. He only goes home on weekends. Although he is studying at a university in Changcheng, it is not difficult for him to go home after school in the afternoon, but it is too tiring to get up early to go to school the next day, so he lives in the school.

Therefore, the only ones who actually lived with Zhou Lingying were the fifth and sixth children. The fifth child, Jiang Ping, was a boy and now lived in a separate room.

If other people want to live here, they must at least sleep with Jiang Mengmeng. Even though the Jiang family has three rooms in the yard, it is indeed inconvenient.

But other neighbors also have many children, and they don’t have as many houses as the Jiang family, so they still have to live together.

However, today is the day when Jiang Zhaozhao and her family’s parents reconciled. Except for Jiang Sisi who was in college, everyone else went home to have dinner obediently.

Zhou Lingying was busy in the kitchen happily for the whole afternoon. She couldn’t help being unhappy. She had been separated from Jiang Cheng for more than seven months. If the quarrel continued, would Jiang Cheng be away for more than half a year before coming back?

After dinner, Jiang Zhaozhao and the others helped clean up the dishes, and then she and the third child drove away. Jiang Panpan lived in the same room with Jiang Mengmeng.

In fact, whether it was the eldest Jiang Zhaozhao’s place or the third Jiang Nian Nian’s place, there were many rooms. Jiang Panpan wanted a separate room and could stay at their place anytime. She even wanted to have her own house, which was just a matter of asking.

Moreover, the eldest and third sons gave Jiang Panpan a lot of money, so she could buy a house without asking for permission.

After cleaning up the kitchen, the children who still lived in the courtyard no longer went to their parents’ room to watch TV as they did when they were young. In the past, even if they had a TV in their own room, they liked to watch it together.

Now that I am getting older, my thinking has become more and more independent, and I am no longer willing to tell my parents all about some things.

But Jiang Cheng was happy that they didn’t go to their parents’ room to watch TV. He and Zhou Lingying had reconciled, but he was still worried that Zhou Lingying would ask him to sleep in a separate room and let him sleep in his son’s room.

In the room, Jiang Cheng sat on the sofa and watched TV. It was February now, and the temperature difference between morning and evening was large, so it was still quite cold.

“Hey, you~.” Zhou Lingying sighed and shook her head as she looked at Jiang Cheng. What could she do about her man? She still had to feel sorry for him. After pouring the water for washing her face, she continued, “It’s cold, wash up early. If you want to watch TV, you can lie on the sofa and watch it after washing your feet.”

“Oh, I got it.” Jiang Cheng said obediently.

They washed their faces in one basin of water, and washed together, just like before, saving trouble. Zhou Lingying used her own face towel.

Then Zhou Lingying did not avoid Jiang Cheng, and after washing her face, she started to wash her butt. According to the order, she washed her face, butt, and then her feet.

After washing up, Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying sat on the sofa, covered with blankets and watched TV for a while. Zhou Lingying felt sleepy first and went to bed.

Jiang Cheng looked at Zhou Lingying lying on the bed and became absent-minded while watching TV.

He hadn’t touched a woman for more than half a year. Although he didn’t find a sow pretty, after letting go of his guilt, Jiang Cheng now wanted to eat Zhou Lingying from head to toe without leaving a single place untouched.

(End of this chapter)