Good Man Operation Guide

Through the bead curtain, someone close to Mother Fang said to her, “Brother Heng is here.” Mother Fang, who was holding the needle and thread in her hand, woke up as if from a dream and hurriedly raised her head. Putting down the embroidered items in her hands, she said, “Call him in.”

Lin Shiheng went in. “Greetings, Aunt.”

“Good boy, get up quickly. How many times have I told you, it’s not like the past outside. Don’t greet me like this.”

Lin Shiheng, dressed in robes, smiled and said, “What doesn’t work outside is an outside matter. I have always been taught this courtesy since I was a child, and I have always been told that greeting is a filial duty. If I lose this courtesy, won’t I also be throwing away my filial duty?”

“You’ve always had more sense.” Mother Fang smiled as she scolded him, her eyes full of love. She told him to sit down before asking, “Don’t you always like to read in your room? What good occasion brought you to my place?”

“With the happy news of my sister in mind, how could I keep reading?”

“Women should worry about these things. You are a boy. Study hard, and you will be fine.” That being said, when the child she raised remembered her daughter, the smile on Mother Fang’s face still grew wider. Although her husband passed away early, and the family also seemed to be in decline, it was a good thing that both of her children were extremely filial. Her heart felt a little relief.

“Aunt Fang also said, now it’s a new China. There are a lot of girls who are starting to make their mark, so why is it still necessary to only care about their own parts?” Lin Shiheng sat in the chair and smiled. When a girl brought tea, he took it, and nodded slightly, “Thank you, Sister Xiaozhi.” He lowered his head and took a sip of tea, with slow but elegant movements. He raised his eyes and smiled at Mother Fang, but actually made the little maid that brought the tea next to him blush.

Madam Fang suddenly discovered that the child she had raised herself, had grown into such an outstanding man. It dawned on her that he was about that age right now, and it was time to find him a marriage partner. When he has a soulmate by his side, and her daughter has a child over there, she could breathe a sigh of relief. Even if something suddenly happened to her like her husband, she didn’t have to worry about these two children.

While she was trying to figure out what kind of girl to look for, Lin Shiheng had put down the tea and smiled, “I was busy studying in the morning, and I didn’t eat much breakfast. I heard that Aunt didn’t eat either. So, why not eat together with your nephew?”

Mother Fang knew that this child had always been reluctant to cause trouble for others, so why would he come to her place and ask her to accompany him to eat? She immediately knew his true intentions. Her heart felt comforted as she affectionately looked at Lin Shiheng. “You should just straightforwardly persuade me to eat. Why beat around the bush and say I should accompany you? How could Zhang momo not tell me what time you ate? Eating two meals? Aren’t you afraid of getting a stomach ache?”

Lin Shiheng wasn’t flustered upon being exposed. He merely sat there calmly as he replied, “Nephew is grown up, and I’m not afraid of anything. I’m not afraid of eating one more meal. But Aunt is weak and needs to nourish your vitality after not eating all night. If you don’t eat breakfast again, how can you stand it?”

This remark was somewhat justified. After all, Mother Fang’s symptoms belonged to people who were suffering from hypoglycemia and she shouldn’t do sudden physical exertions. If she hadn’t had breakfast, once she exerts herself, she would faint on the spot.

Mother Fang didn’t know what Lin Shiheng was thinking. She loves him as much as she loves her daughter. In addition, in the end, she was a woman who grew up with a feudal education. Even though Lin Shiheng was only 15 years old, in her heart, his words were better than her, a woman. Fearing that he would grow worried, she responded and asked someone to go get some food from the kitchen.

Soon, food was served, and both of them sat down and began to eat. Nowadays, although many of the old rules have been abolished, in many large families, eating without speaking was still the daily routine, so the meal was silent yet peaceful.

Mother Fang had just filled her stomach, and she felt a little spirited. When she was going to fill a bowl of soup for Lin Shiheng, a girl suddenly rushed into the yard. She couldn’t be bothered to pass on the message before barging right into the room.

“Madam, help!!!”

She couldn’t care anymore right now. As soon as she entered the door, she knelt down and kowtowed, crying with tears all over her face, choking her voice and begging, “Madam, please go and save our Young Lady!!”

The bowl in Mother Fang’s hand fell to the ground, making a lot of noise, and the peaceful atmosphere in the room was immediately destroyed. She recognized that this was the little girl who went with her daughter to take care of her. When she saw her face full of panic, her heart immediately felt cold. She wanted to stand up, but she almost fell down. Fortunately, Lin Shiheng was quick, and he quickly went up to hold her. Mother Fang couldn’t care about who was holding her right now. Enduring a burst of blackness in front of her eyes and dizziness in her head, she barely opened her mouth, “What happened to Sister Cheng’er… Cheng’er? Did she have a hard time giving birth?”

“No, no… The Young… Young Lady…”

The little girl also ran out of breath as she ran to the Fang family. She was now kneeling on the ground, crying all over, and her body shaking. She couldn’t say a single sentence for a while. The more she was like this, the more Mother Fang was worried about what happened to her daughter. She couldn’t see clearly in front of her eyes, but her mind was imagining the appearance of her daughter, lying in bed with a pale face covered in blood. Mother Fang’s legs went weak. If it wasn’t for Lin Shiheng holding her, she would even fall directly to the ground.

Mother Fang shivered and tried to say something, but she couldn’t speak. Lin Shiheng stabilized the person with a frown, and urgently said to the girl on the ground, “Take a breather and tell me straight out what happened to my sister! Is it because the fetus in my Sister’s womb might be in danger?!”

The little girl tried to swallow several mouthfuls of saliva, but she barely recovered. She shook her head, with a trembling voice she said, “The Young Lady gave birth to the little Young Master safely…”

Knowing that her daughter and little grandson were all right, Mother Fang was slightly relieved and breathed a small sigh of relief. When the darkness was gone from her eyes, she realized that she had been scared to tears.

Lin Shiheng, who held her, also breathed a sigh of relief, “What happened, say it quickly!”

“Yes, yes Young Master…” The little girl sobbed and said, “When the Young Master came home, he said he was going to divorce the Young Lady as soon as he came back. The Old Master and Madam refused to let him. He actually ran to the Young Lady’s room and told her, who had just given birth, that he wanted a divorce. She was so shocked that she fainted. I saw that the situation wasn’t right, so I rushed her to find Madam.”

“Please, Madam. Save the Young Lady. It looks like if the Young Master doesn’t get a divorce, he wouldn’t return for life. I think the Old Master and Old Madam are going to agree to his request…”

“What… What did you say…?”

Mother Fang had just put down her worried heart, and it was suddenly burdened with more trouble again. Another swath of darkness blackened her vision, and she felt that her body was light and floating.

“Aunt! Aunt, settle down first!”

Lin Shiheng quickly helped her to sit, “First, don’t panic. I’ll go to the Shen family to seek justice for my Sister. Sister has always been filial. If something happens to you because of this incident, what if her physical condition gets worse?”

Madam Fang’s eyes were dark, but her ears could still hear his words. She immediately found a reason to hold on, clutching her stuffy chest and gasping for air.

“Yes, I can’t have an accident. If I have an accident, Cheng’er won’t be able to stand it.” However, even if her mouth said so, her tears wouldn’t stop falling. The sadness on her face couldn’t be concealed. “How can this be?! How can this happen?!”

Lin Shiheng patted her on the back to placate her while facing the girls in the room who had been scared silly by this sudden change. He said, “Go out, call out all the men who work in the Fang residence. Tell them to wait for me in the garden, and then ask someone to buy 30 brooms outside. Remove the leaves from them, and give one man each. Tell them that those who go with me to the Shen family today to seek justice will get a month’s wages for one day today. There is no need to force those who don’t want to go. All right, you all go down. I will talk to my Aunt. Come and call me when the people and things are ready.”

“Yes.”

This group of girls quickly went out with their heads down. Before going out, under Lin Shiheng’s gesture, they didn’t forget to drag out the girl who ran out of the Shen family out together.

At this time, only Mother Fang and Lin Shiheng were left in the room.

“Aunt, don’t cry.” Lin Shiheng squatted down and took out a handkerchief to gently wipe her face. “I’ll go and pick up my Sister. She had just finished giving birth. If she saw you feeling sorry for her, I didn’t know how bad she would feel in her heart.”

Mother Fang understood this. Still, her beloved daughter had become a divorced woman. How could she bear this? She grabbed Lin Shiheng’s hand like a life-saving straw and asked with red eyes, “Brother Heng, the Shen family has always had strict rules. The head of the family was a close friend to my husband. They will definitely not let Cheng’er get divorced, right?”

Lin Shiheng smiled bitterly. He didn’t intend to use some false words to comfort, lest she get even more stimulated after learning the truth. “Aunt missed the point. Uncle Shen has been cold to Sister since Uncle’s death. You must also see his attitude clearly. Although Elder Sister gets along well with Aunt Shen, what mother doesn’t love their children? If Young Master Shen truly doesn’t return home for life, the Shen family will be the ones to bow their heads first.”

Mother Fang’s expression looked shocked. A moment later, after wiping her tears, she cried again, “How can there be such a thing in this world? My Cheng’er was asked by their family at first. Now that my husband is gone, they bullied my family. How dare they trample on my Cheng’er like this…”

“Aunt, Uncle has gone, but the Fang family still has me.” Lin Shiheng firmly grabbed Mother Fang’s cold hand as he looked into her eyes earnestly and reassured her, “It was the Fang family that saved my life. Now that Uncle is gone, I will take good care of Aunt and Sister for him. Aunt can rest assured that the Shen family did such a disrespectful thing. It makes no sense for only our Fang family to worry and feel sad. In a while, I’ll take some people to the Shen family and get my Sister and little nephew out in a dignified manner! I need to let the whole city know well, what kind of beast this Shen family has raised!”

Mother Fang gritted her teeth. She obviously hated Young Master Sheng to death, but still tried to keep herself awake, “But if this happens, there’s no turning back for your sister and the Shen’s son. She has a child, what will she do in the future?!”

“Since that beast has proposed to divorce sister, if we force him to continue to live with sister, he would be unhappy, and even hold a grudge against sister. What would such a husband do?”

Mother Fang also knew this. But she, who had always been taught to put her husband first, couldn’t accept her daughter being abandoned and returned home just like that. She would like to raise her daughter for life. But a woman without a husband, how difficult would her life be …?

“It might be better for her to return home. But, what would she do later…”

“Aunt.” Lin Shiheng let go of her hand, knelt on the ground, kowtowed heavily, and performed a great salute. He looked up, his handsome face was full of determination.

“Aunt, you don’t have to worry that Sister has no one to rely on. When Sister comes back, I would like to marry her and take good care of her all my life!”