I am the only one who practices magic: I practice magic in the city

Chapter 390 I Don’t Need Others’ Pity (4207)

"Do you want to go home with Mom?" After talking with Fang Yu, Zhao Wenjing had no intention of staying at Youzi Technology. Seeing her daughter hiding behind Fang Yu with her neck shrunk like a quail, she felt both angry and amused.

"No, no." Lu Jiayan shook his head fiercely, "Brother... Fang Yu will take me back later."

Zhao Wenjing sighed: "Okay, but don't go too late, so your dad won't nag you. I have something to ask you when you get back."

After that, he looked around and asked, "Where's the girl surnamed Shen? Why isn't she here? Did she go to work?"

When Lu Jiayan saw that her mother didn't want to take her home, she was extremely happy. When she heard her mother asking Shen Shuyao, she said a little unnaturally: "It's her birthday tomorrow, and she wants to spend it with her family, so I'm going home first."

"We were celebrating her birthday in advance just before you came."

Zhao Wenjing was a little surprised: "Oh, I'm really sorry. I just wanted to say goodbye to her. This girl looks very likable. I'm not saying anything bad about you, but you should learn from her. She is about your age. Look at her attitude when she talks and does things."

Lu Jiayan curled his lips inwardly.

Seeing her daughter's expression, Zhao Wenjing sighed, turned to Fang Yu and said, "Xiao... Fang, since this is the case, I won't say much. Jia Jia is young, and you are also young. You must be sensible when doing things and must consider the consequences clearly. This is your aunt's advice to you, okay?"

Lu Jiayan was confused, but Fang Yu immediately understood what Zhao Wenjing meant and blinked: "Don't worry, Jiayan's health is the most important."

Zhao Wenjing smiled half relieved and half worried: "Okay, then I'll go home first. Jiajia, you must go home before nine o'clock every night during the summer vacation, understand?"

Lu Jiayan pouted for a long time without saying anything. It was Fang Yu who smoothed things over and promised Zhao Wenjing that she would send Lu Jiayan back before ten o'clock every day.

"It's hard to get a taxi here. I'll ask the company car to take you back." Fang Yu sent a GL8, watched Zhao Wenjing get in the car and waved, and then watched the GL8 drive away before returning to the office with Lu Jiayan.

"Brother, what did you just say to my mom? She didn't make things difficult for you, did she?" Lu Jiayan asked hurriedly as the door closed.

Seeing the nervous expression on Lu Jiayan's little face, Fang Yu's expression was sad.

"Your mother said she would never agree to the two of us being together."

Lu Jiayan was horrified.

Gu Man, Qiao Jingjing, Shi Yi, Jiang Sheng... many examples of ancestors appeared in Lu Jiayan's mind like flowing water.

"Why!?" Lu Jiayan's face was pale and his lips were trembling.

"Because...you really are my long lost cousin! I really am your cousin!"

"So... we can't... forget about me..."

Fang Yu used a water shaping technique, his eyes were filled with tears and his expression was sincere.

!!!

Lu Jiayan's expression changed again and again, and he rushed over and bit Fang Yu hard on the shoulder.

"Bad brother! You lied to me again!"

Fang Yu laughed and held Lu Jiayan's little fist that was hitting his chest.

Eh? My stupid cousin has become smart?

Lu Jiayan lay on Fang Yu's chest, and soon Fang Yu felt a warmth on his T-shirt.

"Okay, okay, I'm just kidding." Fang Yu patted Lu Jiayan's back gently, "Auntie didn't know that your illness had been cured, but she was worried that you were not in good health. Don't cry."

"I really thought my mom said she disagreed. She was so fierce, wuwuwu." Lu Jiayan sobbed softly, raised her head, her nose was red from crying, and she looked pitiful and tearful.

Fang Yu smiled and said, "How can your mother be as vicious as you say? Auntie is a very nice person."

In the past, Lu Jiayan often said bad things about her mother in front of Fang Yu. In her mouth, her mother was comparable to Snow White's stepmother, Cinderella's stepmother, Gone with the Wind's stepmother, Harry Potter's aunt, Jane Eyre's aunt, Lady Macbeth, Minglan's stepmother, Zhang Kaili in Let's Get Married, and Tao Hong in Little Joy...

"Brother, wipe my tears." Lu Jiayan looked at Fang Yu with tears in his eyes.

Fang Yu casually pulled out a tissue.

Lu Jiayan bit her lip: "No tissue..."

Fang Yu's heart moved, and she gently pecked away the tears on Lu Jiayan's face with her lips.

Lu Jiayan hummed, and his body went limp.

Lu Jiayan stayed in Fang Yu's arms for a while, then she sat up with a red face, took out her makeup bag, and started to touch up her makeup.

"That bad... uh, Shen Shuyao seems a little weird, brother, have you noticed?" Lu Jiayan suddenly remembered Shen Shuyao's abnormality just now, "She's so mysterious."

If it were a few days ago, Lu Jiayan would definitely take the opportunity to say bad things about Shen Shuyao, but today she really couldn't say it.

Fang Yu thought for a moment and said, "Maybe it's due to family reasons. Everyone has their own difficulties."

Fang Yu couldn't help but think of the magic wand of Sakura, the card magician that Shen Shuyao particularly wanted when they were playing ring toss with each other last year.

Lu Jiayan blinked and said, "I heard her talking to a man on the phone today. The place they agreed to meet seemed to be Fulou on Fuxing Road. Should we go over and take a look?"

Fang Yu was righteous and stern, and patted Lu Jiayan's drum: "When two people are in a relationship, the most important thing is trust. I trust Shu Yao."
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On the second floor of Fu Building, a two-person table at the corner was occupied by two furtive young men and women. They only ordered two glasses of lemonade and a plate of vegetable salad. The girl opened a bag of soda crackers and took a bite of the crackers and lettuce, making a crunching sound.

"Hush, that man is coming!"

Fang Yu lowered his voice and gestured to Lu Jiayan to keep quiet.

Lu Jiayan rolled his eyes and said that the most important thing in a relationship is trust. Ugh!
This is neither a relationship between two people nor a relationship of trust!

"What do you know? I'm afraid Shu Yao will be cheated." Fang Yu remained calm.

The two of them couldn't see half of Shen Shuyao from their position, but they could just see half of the table opposite Shen Shuyao. Seeing the man sitting opposite Shen Shuyao, Lu Jiayan's eyes lit up: "What a handsome uncle."

Then, he turned around and said to Fang Yu: "Brother, you are in danger."

Fang Yu curled his lips and ignored her.

He is indeed very handsome. The man looks very similar to Adam Cheng when he was in his forties or fifties. He is tall, about 1.8 meters, which is not short for his age.

The man had an elegant temperament, wore a pair of metal-framed glasses, and held a cake in his hand.

The only problem was that the suit looked a little too big and didn't fit him well.

Seeing the middle-aged man's appearance, Fang Yu couldn't help but think deeply.

Judging from his appearance, this person should be...

"dad."

Shen Shuyao's voice came to their ears.

Dad? Lu Jiayan blinked. Is this Shen Shuyao's dad?

What happened today? First, my mother came to the company, and my brother and I came to follow her, and then we saw Shen Shuyao's father?

"Yaoyao, happy birthday. Dad bought you your favorite strawberry cake from Haolilai. Open it and try it." The middle-aged man's voice was very gentle, even sounding a little weak. Strawberry cake? Fang Yu and Lu Jiayan looked at each other.

Doesn't Shen Shuyao dislike strawberry cake the most? She usually eats dark chocolate desserts.

"Thanks, Dad. Mmmm, it's delicious."

Shen Shuyao's voice seemed a little distant.

It seems that there is indeed a problem between father and daughter.

Fang Yu had never taken the initiative to inquire about Shen Shuyao's family situation before, just as he had never told Lu Jiayan and Shen Shuyao that his mother was gone.

Judging from the way the father and daughter get along, her father and her mother should not be living together. I don't know if they are divorced or something else.

"How is your mother...now?" the middle-aged man hesitated and asked weakly, "She should be in a much better mood now, right?"

After a moment of silence, Shen Shuyao's voice was heard: "Let's keep it that way. Now that you are separated, I usually live in the school, so she has no one to quarrel with even if she wants to. Dad, you should also consider your future life. If there is a suitable one, I don't object to you remarrying."

Oh, it's a divorce.

Fang Yu calculated himself and the people around him and found that a high proportion of them had dysfunctional families.

His mother died, but most of the others had their parents divorced.

After Fang Yu finished his college entrance examination, the parents of eleven of his classmates got divorced at this time.

Including transfer students, there are 52 people in their class, and after the college entrance examination, the divorce rate of their parents is over 20 percent.

The divorce rate is really damn high and the marriage rate is low. If this continues, the marriage system will be completely destroyed.

But there is no way around it. Whether it is monogamy, polygamy or polyandry, the longest history of all marriage systems is only about ten thousand years.

Compared with the biological history of Homo sapiens of more than two million years, it is less than one percent of the time.

In essence, the marriage system was formed along with agricultural civilization.

In the tribal era of gathering society before the formation of agricultural civilization, there was no such thing as stable marriage.

The so-called primitive matriarchal society does not mean that the status of women in the tribe is very high, but that everyone only knows who his mother is and has no idea who his father is.

All staff members.

For the first time, farming restricted humans to a piece of land and stopped their migration for gathering. This was the first time that a stable family structure was formed and there was a need for division of labor within the family.

If humans want to survive, they cannot do without food, clothing, housing and transportation. Cultivating land and planting crops solves the food problem, building houses solves the housing problem, taming livestock, cutting wood and building vehicles solves the transportation problem, and weaving and tailoring solves the clothing problem.

Heavy physical labor such as farming, hunting, logging, and construction are more suitable for men, while women, due to their physical weakness, can only do relatively less important work such as cutting and weeding in exchange for their own living supplies.

When men and women are together, not only can they ensure reproduction, they can also meet the basic survival needs within their own small family.

Land is a means of production, while women's weaving ability is only a productive force. Therefore, men who control the means of production have an absolutely dominant position under the marriage system of agricultural civilization.

Marriage, from the very beginning, is not a product of love, but a need for survival.

In this way, the first marriage was born and has continued along with agricultural civilization until modern times.

Human society's agricultural civilization, which has lasted for tens of thousands of years, has kept the marriage system in an extremely stable state.

But modern industrial civilization has once again liberated humans from the land, humans have resumed migration and mobility, and the productivity gap between women and men has been narrowed to an unprecedented level.

Moreover, the refinement of social division of labor has made it so that human beings no longer rely on marriage. As long as they have a job, they can also obtain stable living materials in society.

As a result, marriage suddenly loses the hard link of survival needs, leaving only soft bonds such as emotional maintenance, social habits, and religious customs. Naturally, its stability is far less than before.

This is an inevitable result of the development of productivity.

While Fang Yu lamented the collapse of the family ethical structure of human society, he winked at Lu Jiayan.

withdraw.

Fang Yu had previously agreed to go with Lu Jiayan to see who Shen Shuyao was meeting. It wasn’t that Fang Yu suspected Shen Shuyao had other thoughts. He still had confidence in himself.

Mainly, I felt that Shen Shuyao's condition was a little off, and I was a little worried.

Since the other party was celebrating his birthday with his biological father, it was obvious that his family had some secrets that were not to be told to outsiders. If he continued listening, it would be like deliberately eavesdropping on Shen Shuyao's privacy.

but……

With Fang Yu's deliberate cover-up, there would naturally not be a bloody plot like suddenly making some noise that would cause Shen Shuyao's parents to find out about their mother's misfortune. The two of them paid the bill and left Fulou smoothly.

"Shu Yao...seems pretty pitiful."

After coming out of Fulou, Lu Jiayan was silent for a long time.

She found that compared with Shen Shuyao and many people, although she had suffered from chronic illness before, she at least had a happy family.

In contrast, many people may be physically healthy, but their lives have long been shattered.

"Shu Yao doesn't need other people's pity." Fang Yu shook his head first, then rolled his eyes, "Since you also feel pity for her, then you can call her sister from now on."

"Pooh!"
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At 8: in the evening, Shen Shuyao drove the company's GL and stopped the car downstairs of her house. She looked at the half-eaten box of cake, hesitated for a moment, and still did not bring the cake upstairs.

Shen Shuyao used the plastic cake knife and disposable plates that came with the cake to divide the cake into several portions, and placed them at the place where stray cats often appeared outside her house. She wiped her hands with a wet wipe and walked into the doorway of her house.

Her family lives in a residential building in the center of Haixi City. Judging from the living conditions, Shen Shuyao's family is not good but not bad either.

Although the house is old, it was an internal staff building built by the Haixi Finance Bureau more than ten years ago. The area was not small at that time. It has two households per elevator and a three-bedroom apartment with a construction area of ​​80 square meters, but the usable area is as large as 120 square meters. It is also a school district, and the second-hand house price is nearly 80,000 yuan per square meter. As long as the house is sold, you can guarantee that you will never have to worry about food and clothing for the rest of your life.

When she arrived at the door of her house, Shen Shuyao coughed and found that the voice-controlled light at the door was broken.

Shen Shuyao sighed, took out the key, opened the door, and the room was dark.

Even after turning on the lights, the living room did not become very bright. The whole room looked extremely tidy, but empty. Apart from the necessary furniture and appliances, there seemed to be no decorations at all.

"Why are you back so late?"

A middle-aged female voice full of resentment came from the sofa.

Shen Shuyao took a deep breath and adjusted her expression, then looked at the middle-aged woman who was wearing pajamas and had her hair combed meticulously on the sofa: "Mom, why aren't you asleep yet?"

"I fell asleep so you can reunite with your shameless father, right? Are you hoping that I will fall asleep and never wake up again?" The middle-aged woman sneered, "Are you going to see him again?"

"No, I'm working overtime at the company today. I'm too busy."

Shen Shuyao pursed her lips, lowered her head, and put on slippers: "Mom, I'm too tired from working overtime today. Let's talk about it tomorrow. I'm going to bed first, and you should go to bed early too."

(End of this chapter)