My thoughts at the beginning: Is the cold female professor a love-brained person?

Chapter 268 The dusty past

Zhou Ruohan had many words of rejection on her lips, but in the end she was unable to say them.

Looking at the gentle smile on Professor Lin's face, she really couldn't say no.

She knew what this meant.

Jiang Huan has it, and Jiang Lin’s wife also has it.

This means that Zhou Ruohan is truly a member of this family.

Finally she smiled and said, "Thank you, Mom."

Then he accepted the bracelet without any hesitation.

Finally, I watched the two professors get in the car and leave.

Zhou Ruohan let out a breath, turned around and saw Jiang Lin standing at the gate and looking at her.

Zhou Ruohan was stunned for a moment, then walked over with a smile, "Why did you come out?"

Jiang Lin watched her approach, and because she hadn't come in, he had actually come out a long time ago.

As she held the box in her hand and was negotiating with his mother.

At this time, Jiang Lin reached out and hugged the man, "I saw that you haven't come back, so I came to see you."

Zhou Ruohan shook the box in her hand like a child showing off a toy, "My mom gave it to me."

Jiang Lin deliberately made an exaggerated and envious expression, "Isn't it the kind of heirloom that is specially given to the daughter-in-law?"

Zhou Ruohan was amused by his exaggerated expression, "What's wrong with you?"

Her voice was soft, "I don't know either, but mom said my sister has one and I have one."

Jiang Lin held her in his arms and sat down on the sofa in the living room, then reached out and took the box.

Then it opened.

Professor Lin’s family used to be very wealthy and they were in business.

She was also a young lady, so she was able to study abroad in that era.

But after some things happened, things didn't go well at home.

"My mother's family was well off before, but it was a sensitive period, so there was nothing left. When my mother married my father, my grandfather was gone, and only one of my three uncles was left. These are the things my grandmother secretly left behind, and she gave them all to my mother."

Jiang Lin picked up the mutton-fat jade bracelet in the box and said, "I haven't had it appraised, but it's probably not cheap."

He gently put the bracelet onto Zhou Ruohan's wrist.

The mutton-fat jade bracelet fits the slender white wrist very well and looks good.

In fact, Zhou Ruohan could guess that it should be a bracelet or something like that.

But I didn't expect it to be so valuable and meaningful.

At this time, she reached out to take off the bracelet, "Then mom should keep this, it is too meaningful, I can't have it"

Jiang Lin stopped her from doing so and said with a smile, "Keep it. My mother has never worn it, which proves that she may not like it."

Jiang Lin took Zhou Ruohan's hand and kissed her, "I have never met my grandmother. My parents were already quite old when I was born."

He smiled helplessly, "But I have met my uncle who is still alive. My parents' story didn't start out well."

The eldest daughter who returned from studying abroad had her family broken up.

My father is dead and my three brothers are still in prison.

There is nothing left at home.

Only a sick mother was left.

Professor Lin was very young at that time, less than twenty years old.

Looking at her mother kneeling on the ground begging her to marry, she seemed to have no other choice.

Her mother told her that the family had raised her for more than ten or twenty years, and begged her to save her brothers.
Professor Lin's first decade was a happy one. She was the only one who was waiting for her.

Her parents and brothers love her very much and give her everything she wants.

Even when I was fourteen or fifteen years old and wanted to study abroad to learn more, my family didn't object.

She hired a group of servants to take care of her, and she never lacked money.

So at that time, Professor Lin could not refuse his seriously ill mother.

She went to see her brothers who were imprisoned.

The young men who were once full of vigor and vitality now have broken legs, are blind, or even gone crazy.

But they still remember that this is their sister.

They scolded her and told her not to come and to get out.

Professor Lin was unwilling to accept this, but everything she had learned was useless in that chaotic world.

She has nothing left at home.

She was the only one left, a little girl who had been raised in luxury.

She became the only thing in the family that could be "sold" and "exchanged for money."

The only thing to be thankful for is that her mother does love her and she still has a choice.

Professor Lin is an expensive "commodity", so he attracts many "buyers".

"My dad wasn't my mom's blind date." Jiang Lin played with Zhou Ruohan's fingers. "When they met, my mom was on a blind date with a dude who hadn't received much education but whose family had some money. My mom didn't like him, and the other party probably saw it, so he stood up and insulted my mom, saying that she was just a high-priced commodity. It must have been quite unpleasant to hear."

It was so unpleasant to hear. Even now, when Professor Lin mentions it, tears of humiliation flash in his eyes.

Professor Jiang was also in the teahouse that day with a few friends.

A few passionate scholars rushed out and started cursing at each other.

And he took action.

"Although my dad is tall, he is a real bookworm and won't fight. He said he was beaten and grimaced in pain. When he turned around, he saw my mom sitting on the side with a blank expression, neither sad nor happy. She looked like a soulless doll, but she was very pretty."

Jiang Lin couldn't help laughing, "I just said that our family is all about appearance."

It can’t be said to be love at first sight, but Professor Jiang did remember her.

Zhou Ruohan asked curiously, "So what happened next is that Dad's family was very rich, and he saved Mom, and after they spent some time together, they got married?"

This is how the story should start, go through some twists and turns, and then have a perfect ending.

But Jiang Lin shook his head, "No, stories all have perfect endings, but there are not so many coincidences in reality. My dad is just a poor student with no money. He rents a house."

Zhou Ruohan showed a surprised expression, "Then how did my parents get together?"

Jiang Lin exhaled, "Only one of my three uncles was left, and he was released. My mother was not married at that time."

His smile was somewhat bitter. "The one who came out was the crazy one. The two uncles I had never met committed suicide. They confessed before committing suicide. They told me where the remaining money in the house was."

After all, they just couldn't bear to see their sister being insulted and marrying someone they didn't like.

My eldest uncle and second uncle protected their family in their own way.

"My mother didn't get married, and my uncle came back. But my grandmother cried until she went blind, and they have nothing left."

Just from these few sentences, Zhou Ruohan seemed to be able to feel the difficulties they had faced back then.

If it were her, she would collapse.

Zhou Ruohan thought of Professor Lin’s smiling, kind and intellectual appearance, and couldn’t imagine how she had managed to survive.

Just thinking about it makes me feel desperate.

(End of this chapter)