Chapter 151: Dog Dad

To be precise, Zhao Jiaxing told Hu Yao about it. He said that Jiang Han had a girl he was engaged to a long time ago. It was an arranged marriage set up by Jiang Han’s father when he was alive.

Zhao Jiaxing said that Jiang Han and the girl were childhood sweethearts.

Zhao Jiaxing also said…

He said quite a lot.

Grandma Liu also mentioned it a few times. It was indeed true. Back then, Jiang Han’s father even exchanged tokens with the girl’s family. However, it seemed that something happened later, and the engagement was cancelled. The tokens were also exchanged back.

Hu Yao actually didn’t know if this red string was the so-called token, but when she asked him yesterday, he was so evasive and seemed reluctant to talk about it. She couldn’t help but think of this matter.

This morning when she woke up, she found a small longevity lock on the red string. She didn’t know when he put it on.

The small longevity lock was made of silver and looked very old. It was definitely quite old.

“What are you talking about?” Jiang Han didn’t understand what she was saying for a moment.

“What the hell are you talking about, an engagement token? Who the hell am I engaged to?” He was probably engaged to a dog!

Jiang Han was speechless.

“Who are you listening to? Are you just bored? You spend all day listening to gossiping old women and then repeating it! Are you trying to ruin my reputation? … Which old woman told you this?” He angrily put the red string back in her hand.

“… Jiaxing said it.” Hu Yao looked at him, hesitantly repeating what Zhao Jiaxing had told her. She also mentioned that Grandma Liu had said it too.

Grandma Liu had said it herself, so how could it be false? She wasn’t the kind of person who would make things up.

“Zhao Jiaxing?” Jiang Han sneered: “He’s only a few years old! He doesn’t even have any hair yet, what does he know!”

That guy is a real jerk, even worse than Tang Haofei! He’s always hanging around Hu Yao like a long-tongued woman, calling her “sister” all the time. Why doesn’t he just become a woman!

“I was just a kid back then. What kind of engagement? It was just a game.”

“That gossipy two-faced bastard calls that childhood sweethearts? You should just knock out his teeth!” Isn’t that jerk Zhao Jiaxing trying to stir up trouble between him and Hu Yao? He’s always gossiping and telling Hu Yao all sorts of nonsense.

“This was given to me by my mother. What’s going on in your head all day?” Jiang Han glared at her: “If you take it off again, I’ll beat you up!”

He went out early this morning and found Jiang Fuchao’s longevity lock to put on her. Now she’s telling him this nonsense.

If there really was some childhood sweetheart engagement, what would she have to do with it?

Hu Yao didn’t say anything. She looked down at him as he tied the red string back on her wrist.

He seemed to be scolding her, but also seemed to be explaining to her.

He always despised lying to her. He was always straightforward about everything. If it was true, he wouldn’t deny it just because he was talking to her.

“I understand.” Hu Yao met his deep, penetrating gaze. After a few seconds, she nodded softly: “I won’t take it off.”

Just now, she had a bit of a coquettish and questioning attitude. Now, after hearing his words, she calmed down. She became noticeably more obedient and let him fix her clothes.

Jiang Han looked at her and his heart softened a little.

After a while, Hu Yao suddenly thought of something. She looked up: “Yesterday, you said you gave it to a dog.”

Liar.

“So what if I gave it to a dog? Didn’t I wear it? What are you complaining about? It carried you home when you were crying your eyes out. What else do you want?” Jiang Han paused, then patted her palm lightly.

“It carried me home? When…” Hu Yao was confused.

Suddenly, something flashed through her mind. She looked at him in shock, speechless for a while.

When she was a little girl, Hu Guifen abandoned her on the mountain. She was scared and crying, and a big dog came to her. It was the dog that led her to the old hunter’s place. And Jiang Han… that was Jiang Han…

Hu Yao’s eyes flickered. She couldn’t describe how she felt at that moment.

“If it wasn’t for it, you would have died on the mountain. You wouldn’t have grown up to be this big.” Jiang Han calmly told her about what happened back then. He didn’t need to hide anything.

“Don’t thank it. There are so many dogs in the village. Why did you have to pick on its dog? You’re ungrateful. You deserve to be bitten!”

She was abandoned on the mountain when she was just a little girl, and she was probably just as crazy back then. She probably didn’t even remember the dog.

Hu Yao: “…”

She had no idea about this before. She was crazy back then.

After she recovered, she often heard Jiang Han and his father talking about the dog he used to have. Jiang Xiaochao had never seen the dog. It died a long time ago.

But they still had its things at home. Jiang Han often compared it to her and Jiang Xiaochao.

Every time Hu Yao heard him say that, she felt a little unhappy. She thought it was wrong for him to always compare Jiang Xiaochao to a dog.

But now, after knowing all this, her feelings became complicated.

“Where did you bury it?” Hu Yao asked softly.

“With my parents. They’ll have company, right? What, do you want to go and kowtow to it?” Jiang Han smoothed down her hair, which was being blown by the wind.

“Let Jiang Fuchao go for you. He’s its dog dad anyway.”

He said it casually, but he actually valued the dog he had raised for over ten years. Even to Song Sikai and Tang Haofei, he had never acknowledged Jiang Xiaochao as his godson.

The dog he raised had accompanied him through all his difficult years. When he was young and alone, he even considered it family.

If he didn’t value the dog, he wouldn’t have put the red string that his mother gave him on it.

They went from talking about Zhong Jinghuai to the engagement, and finally to the dog. The atmosphere was much more harmonious.

Jiang Xiaochao looked at one then the other. He felt like this scene was familiar. Jiang Han and Hu Yao always argued in strange ways, and then they would reconcile and cling to each other in strange ways.

His father had gone to his room early this morning to find his small longevity lock. He told him–>>

He said to let him “borrow” it to Hu Yao first, without specifying how long.

Jiang Xiaochao didn’t really have any objections. He had taken off the small longevity lock a long time ago and hadn’t worn it. He ran around everywhere, and once almost lost it. After that, he took it off and kept it in his little pillow, buried in the pillow core.

Since it was just being borrowed by Hu Yao, he was very generous. As soon as Jiang Han said it, he immediately rummaged through his pillow and found it. Even if Hu Yao didn’t return it, it wouldn’t matter.

Jiang Xiaochao had no idea that Hu Yao had once fought with him over the longevity lock when he was even younger. He gave it away very readily.

Hu Yao didn’t know either.

Only Jiang Han, who had endured their mother and son’s many troubles, remembered them.

“Mom, are you still dizzy? I don’t need your help, okay?” He was very considerate.

He actually knew he was doing something wrong. He had dirtied the entire courtyard with mud, and after being scolded by Jiang Han, he obediently cleaned it up bit by bit.

“Mom is fine.” Hu Yao looked at him, her eyes filled with a smile.