Traveling through books in the 70s: The group favors the Wang family’s little koi carp

Facing Shen Jin's confused eyes, Old Shen explained: "Didn't I just say that I had two dreams about the future?"

"The first one is what I just said, and it doesn't end well."

"But the second one is quite different from reality. From the moment the family was separated, you stood up and protected the four families. Later, the children in your family became more successful than the other."

"I have met some important people that my old man could not even imagine. Each one of them has started a family and started a career, and has become a decent person. In my dream, I watched you get better and better, and your mother also enjoyed countless blessings with you..."

Speaking of this, Old Shen couldn't hide his low tone.

To him, this second dream was diametrically opposed to the first.

He watched his youngest son's family getting better and better in the second dream, and he felt happy and sad at the same time.

He felt vaguely in his heart that that was the reality. Even if he woke up from the dream, his youngest son's family would live as well in the future as they did in his second dream.

But such a good and happy future did not have a place for him as a father, so he couldn't distinguish between reality and dreams.

In the dream, he saw how filial his youngest son's family was to Cai Guixian, and how nourishing Cai Guixian's life was in his later years.

But when he woke up from the dream, he looked at himself... Actually, there was no need to wake up. Even in the dream, he, Shen Honglin, had never experienced filial piety to his children.

To him, it was the same in and out of dreams.

How ironic.

He has been calculating for his whole life, and in the end, no one can let him live a good life, whether in his dream or outside his dream, and no one will care about him wholeheartedly and be filial to his descendants.

But Cai Guixian, who had been despised by him all his life, could live a life that he could not even imagine.

With children and grandchildren around our knees, we are carefree.

Old Shen's tone was somewhat sour: "Your grandma is a person who will have good fortune in the future. Even though your grandma had a hard life in the past, she is not like me. She has a good life, but all her good fortune lies behind."

Shen Jin smiled, without saving any face for him: "Old man, have you ever thought that the reason why my mother has a good future does not depend on whether her own life is good or not."

"It's about whether she is a good person and whether the choices she has made in her life are good."

If Mrs. Cai is not a good person, then their descendants will never be so filial to Mrs. Cai.

After all, there is an old saying that goes like this: Only when a mother is kind can a son be filial.

Precisely because Mrs. Cai is so kind, even if she is a person who has traveled through time and has no relationship with her original relatives, she is still willing to be filial to Mrs. Cai.

On the other hand, Old Shen asked her to fulfill her filial piety... it would be impossible even in her dreams.

And what Shen Jin calls it - Old Mrs. Cai's choice determines whether Old Mrs. Cai will have a good future.

The meaning here is even more obvious.

It was precisely because Mrs. Cai stood up resolutely when the family was separated. She would rather break up with Old Shen than with the Shen family that she relied on to make a living.

She would rather be kicked out with her son and his family. Even though she knew what she would face and the consequences after being kicked out, she did not choose to be submissive and live with her head down.

It was precisely because of her choice and her love for her son that she gained what Old Shen called the blessing in the future.

Shen Jin heard how sour Old Shen's tone was, and could probably guess what Old Shen was thinking.

It's nothing more than feeling unwilling to give up, saying that Old Lady Cai has a good life.

But is it really just fate?

Shen Jin sneered: "To be honest, if my grandma had a good life, she wouldn't have married you in the first place."

"Which old lady with a good fortune has to live a hard life for most of her life? The reason why my grandma can survive is because she has virtue."

"And you, old man, the reason why you have ended up like this is because you have been virtuous throughout your life."

This is equivalent to pointing at Old Shen and scolding him.

Old Shen's face turned green and red. He murmured for a long time but could not reply a word.

After a while, he closed his eyes dejectedly: "You are right, you will reap what you sow. The reason why I ended up like this cannot be blamed on fate. I should blame myself for not planting the 'flower' well."

He smiled bitterly: "You don't know. When I was dreaming, I was thinking that if my preference was your father all the time, would I be able to be as dependent as your mother?"

"Your father is loyal and filial. You and your brothers are also kind and grateful, unlike Shen Youyu, that little bastard who wants to kill me."

Thinking of the deceased, Old Shen coughed dryly and stopped mentioning it.

He just stubbornly said to Shen Jin: "If I had been nicer to you, I would have been nicer to your breasts. At home, I protect your four bedrooms the most, and I block the other bedrooms from letting them suck your father's breasts." Blood……"

His somewhat cloudy old eyes looked at Shen Jin with pleading: "Does that mean I can have a good future..."

Shen Jin looked at him with pity. If the original person were here today, he might be soft-hearted due to his character.

But I'm sorry, it's Shen Jin who is standing here today. Thinking of the plot of the original book, she thought of how tragic the ending of the fate of everyone in the four houses in Old Shen's first 'dream' would have been.

Shen Jin couldn't be soft-hearted.

She directly opened her mouth to expose Old Shen's fantasy, her tone cold.

Shen Jin: "But old man, there is no regret in this world. The reality is that you have treated us badly. You almost killed us one by one, directly or indirectly."

"I won't forgive you, and neither will your loyal and kind little son who you want to rely on. Old man, God is watching what you do."

"Just like you said yourself, you will reap what you sow. The end you have ended up in is all your own choice. Time will not go back and things will not happen again."

She looked pitifully: "This is reality."

The reality that there is no point in regretting.

In an instant, Old Shen burst into tears.

He was crying so hard that he was trembling with regret and unwillingness. Even after he had such a frank chat with his little granddaughter, he knew clearly that no matter how much he said or repented, his little son's family would never forgive him.

He had said he regretted it before, but he had never felt so unwilling and desperate as now.

Originally, he had a chance to enjoy his old age like Cai Guixian...

Isn't that how people are? If he hadn't seen how happy Cai Guixian was in his later years, he wouldn't have had such deep jealousy and regret. But precisely because he saw such a real future in his dream, Old Shen realized for the first time what it means to Regret's intestines are blue.

Shen Jin completely ignored his pain. Now that he knew he should regret it, why did he go there earlier?

To be honest, for a person like Old Shen, every word he confessed today, including the so-called gratitude and support for Mr. He and his wife, seemed to Shen Jin to be a show.

Perhaps like Shen Cao'er, he was worried that no one would pay homage to him after his death, so he tried to ease the relationship between them. Who made his eccentric sons more unreliable than the other.

At this time, I think of how good my younger son is. Oh, don’t you think it’s too late?

Weirdly ironic.

Shen Jin stood up with a cold face and was about to walk out. After taking two steps, he stopped as if he had thought of something: "Old man, since you regret it, then let's do some human things before it's too late."

"Your youngest son and daughter, who you are most ashamed of, are getting married today. You have already done enough sorry to them in the first half of your life. In the second half of your life, don't let them bear the reputation of killing their own father when they get married."

She said this and never looked back until she left the main room.

……

A month later, Old Shen couldn't hold on anymore and breathed his last.

When Shen Jin came back to express his condolences, he heard from Doctor Xu that Old Shen had specifically asked for the tiger wolf medicine prescribed by Doctor Xu during this difficult month.

What do you mean?

Even if I take Tiger Wolf Medicine to hold on for a while, I have to endure the huge side effects and physical pain to hold on to this last breath.

I kept hanging until I couldn't hold it anymore, and then I swallowed it. After all, I missed the big day of my son and daughter.

No one knew why Old Shen tortured herself like this. After hearing this, Shen Jin took her father and seriously offered three sticks of incense to the old man.