“I’ve visited her after I have grown up.” Feng Zeyu turned and smiled at Shu Yan. “She married a widower who was a neighbor. He lost his wife during complication from a childbirth and the lost the child as well. She didn’t need to be a stepmother. She had given birth to two sons after she married him. The older one is one year younger than me. He was tall and stocky built. I heard that he did quite well in school as well. The younger one was naughtier and refused to go to school. His dad sent him to become an apprentice in carpentry after he graduated junior high school. It all worked out.”

Shu Yan felt her heart ached when Feng Zeyu said that his half brother was just one year younger than him.

“I never regrated about helping out the girl but… I feel regretful that I could not see my grandparents one last time.” Feng Zeyu’s eyes reddened and moistened when he brought up his grandparents. “They would not have passed away so early if they weren’t worried about me. They were both of good health.”

The aunty took the two children back to school and Shu Yan and Feng Zeyu were left by themselves.

The two hadn’t sat around and chatted for a long time. Shu Yan looked at Feng Zeyu and looked for subjects to talk about. “How come that girl just came to apologize out of the blue?”

Shu Yan wasn’t going to buy that she would do that out of her own consciousness. It was too overly dramatic.

“A buddy of mine located her.”

Feng Zeyu wondered about that as well. He found out later on that Mao Weiping looked for her and made her an offer that he would give her a sum of money if she would apologize to Feng Zeyu publicly and, the bigger the scene, the better. Yin Xueqin, who was at the end of her rope, accepted his offer. Apologizing could alleviate some of her guilt and made her a sum of money. She had no reason to turn it down.

“Maybe we can have Uncle Feng help us dig?” Shu Yan asked the two children.

JingJing didn’t say anything but Tianbao happily handed the hoe over. “Sure. Sure. Dig deeper, Uncle Feng. We don’t want our flowers to die.”

“Alright.” Feng Zeyu rubbed his hands, take the hoe from Tianbao and made the holes deeper. “Ready. Drop them in now.”

Feng Zeyu had done farm work in the past and had experience in this area. He told them tips and tricks on growing as he planted the seedlings and also how to better water and weed. Shu Yan only handed them stuff now and then. She spent most of the time watching the interactions between Feng Zeyu and her children.

JingJing, who felt a little resentful toward him initially had gotten much closer to him. She would even ask him a question from time to time.

“I am not young any more and had been through a lot. I had always thought that I would remain single for life but, somehow, I’ve ran into someone that I like. I would have left her alone if she is still married but she’s divorced. We are both single. That’s heaven wanting us to be with each other. Both of her children are very well behaved and I truly like them. I will grow on them eventually.”

“Being a stepfather is not easy.” At the old lady’s age, she had experienced a lot of people and incidents. It wasn’t easy being either a stepfather or a stepmother. If he was too strict. People would say that he was mean because he was the stepfather. If he was too lenient. Others would say that he didn’t care because he was the stepfather.

And those were nothing. There would always be conflicts in life. When he had conflicts with the children, the mother would, of course, side with her children.