novelraw Chapter 18 [8]
Chapter 18 [8]
【XVIII】
In the utopian empire where the average human life expectancy has reached 150 years, as a man, Qiao Sheng in his 50s is definitely not old, and he is just in the golden age of a man.
But Qiao Ying felt that her father's heart was old.He had no intention of looking for a second love, but devoted himself to bringing up Qiao Ying; he was always unsmiling, and after Qiao Ying got married, he gradually withdrew from work, and finally retired when his political career was in full swing, fading out of everything. People's eyesight, leaving the imperial capital to travel, and returning rarely once a year.
So although I don't understand why my long-lost father appeared here as the chief judge of the Interstellar Military Tribunal Empire, but it was my father, not someone else, who came to monitor this military exercise. The good mood of "my father is xx" can only be secretly shared with Xuan Xiao.
"The general left us a detailed military deployment map before he left... We have already made relevant deployments, and we have sent people to closely monitor here, here, and several places here. If they really take this opportunity to mobilize soldiers or increase Ship weapons, we have sufficient reasons at any time - and the ability to take them down for armed rebellion!"
In the middle of the night, Qiao Ying whispered to Qiao Sheng in the room where he was resting, about the actions planned by himself, Xuan Xiao and others; Qiao Sheng read the whole plan twice, and carefully marked out points to discuss with Qiao Ying one by one.In the end, he patted his son on the shoulder in relief, and said with a smile: "Before I saw it, you have grown into a more responsible and courageous man."
Hearing this, Qiao Ying was a little ashamed, but more excited about being praised by her father, and she couldn't help worrying: "This time, my father came in person... Is the situation really serious?"
Qiao Sheng suppressed his smile, and sighed slightly: "That's not true....Actually, I came here to tell you another thing by the way, so that you... know someone. I kept this matter from someone. It's my fault that you took a long time."
Qiao Ying couldn't help being a little surprised when he heard the words, and then he thought, could it be that my father has someone who wants to spend the rest of his life with him, but it's because of me that he doesn't stay with him?However, he quickly concealed his surprise and said with a subtle smile: "No matter what, I believe that my father always thinks about me, and everything he does is for my own good."
Qiao Sheng raised his hand and touched his son's head, somewhat relieved and somewhat sighed, and finally took out his optical brain, and said to Qiao Ying, "Sit down, and you will understand after reading this."
Qiao Ying watched as Qiao Sheng opened something that looked like a video, and watched it intently. The scene in the video looked a bit like a hospital, but it wasn't much like it. Qiao Ying didn't realize it until a familiar figure appeared in the camera. This is Cousin Xu Xu's Institute of Life Sciences.
The camera followed Xu Xu's figure in a white coat and entered a room. There was a sign "Observation Room" at the door, and there was a huge instrument inside. A small transparent glass box was attached to the instrument, which was hidden by Xu Xu's back Stopped, Qiao Ying couldn't see what was inside, so when Xu Xu suddenly turned around, Qiao Ying was dumbfounded.
Xu Xu was holding a little baby wrapped in a towel carved with powder and jade in his arms. Behind him was an open glass box with only clear liquid left. He smiled brightly at the zoomed-in camera: "Today is our baby who came into this world." On the first day, baby, I am uncle, and the person opposite is taking pictures of you is aunt..." The person who wanted to take the picture was undoubtedly Xuan Zheng, probably he said something depressingly, which made Xu Xu laugh out loud, with gentle fingers He held up the little guy's face to face the camera, "Come on, let's let dad and grandpa see clearly, okay, the handsome guy shows his face, opens his eyes, and smiles—"
The little baby had a pink, white and tender bun face, a small but upright nose, wet and slightly curly hair, and a small mouth like a bright red cherry.Like all artificially bred children, he opened his eyes on the first day of his life, looked at the camera lazily, and turned his black eyeballs elsewhere—this lovely and delicate face, in Joe's eyes But Yingyanli broke his mind and made him almost unable to stand still; it brought back his memories, the time that although he had been buried in the depths of his memory, he never forgot all the time - the childhood Fu Yunze has a face exactly like this child's.
Could it be... Could it be that...
Qiao Sheng looked at his son's dazed face and the two lines of tears unconsciously shed, sighed in his heart, took a tissue to wipe his tears, and said, "I know you may not believe it, but it's true. It was the child that was almost lost back then."
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Qiao Sheng told Qiao Ying a lot that night, some things he knew, and some things he didn't know.
The Qiao family and the Xu family are related by marriage for generations, and Xu Xu, the eldest son of the head of the Xu family, has a marriage contract with Xuan Zheng, the heir of the Xuan family.
The term of the Prime Minister of the Empire is every six years, and it was already the last year of the previous Prime Minister's term of office. The uncle who announced the recruitment was aiming at that position, and at the same time, there were two other two who were bound to take that position.Among them, the Xuan family has a deep political background, the Galen family has strong economic strength, and the Mai family started from the army and controlled the Second Army—and Fu Yunze's mother's surname is Mai.
Also in that year, Fu Yunze's father, the Marshal of the Empire at the time, was prosecuted for corruption and murder and sent to a military court.It was shocking when this matter was involved in detail, and the reason why Qiao's father thought of getting Qiao Ying and Fu Yunze to marry at that time was due to many complicated considerations.Selfishness, hoping that his son will not lose his love is certainly one aspect, but he also considered Uncle Xuan's official career - I am afraid that the other party's next target will be the Xuan family, if he does not take the opportunity to unite with the Fu family and other military families to save him. The decline, the outcome is really unpredictable.And after marrying the Fu family, not only can he give his opponent a beautiful counterattack, but he can also slowly cultivate his own influence in the military.This is also the plan of the three families all the time. Originally, when the relationship with the Fu family was not yet clear, the marriage candidate that Qiao's father preferred was Zepa, who was brilliant that year and had no complicated background. He was arrogant and unruly but extremely smart. , but he has always been very clear about his son's thoughts, so he suppressed it and didn't mention it for a long time.
And these complicated considerations, when facing Fu Yunze, became "chips" for Qiao's father to ask him to treat Qiao Ying well, especially after Xuan Zheng's uncle was successfully elected as the prime minister of the empire.
As far as Fu Yunze is concerned, perhaps at the beginning, he was really not used to the identity change from brother to lover.He only had girlfriends, and never had the slightest desire for any man, so in the first few years, he didn't know how to face Qiao Ying's love and the family with Qiao Ying.But those were also his busiest years. He had to work hard in the army, prove his strength, and take back what his father had lost bit by bit, so he never found a chance to correct his relationship with Qiao Ying.
However, when he was most tired, when he opened the communication, there would always be a message of concern from someone; when he was tossing and turning in bed alone in the middle of the night, he couldn't help but think of some trivial things that Qiao Ying mentioned in the communication. The food is good, what awards Fu Yunxi won in school, and the laboratory project has made significant progress, but I can't tell him what progress it is... Maybe this is how his heart gradually softens and shakes.It seems that it happened so naturally, the real and substantial partnership, and the deep-rooted emotion and lingering.
However, Fu Yunze did not forget those people and those things that turned his whole family upside down overnight.After marrying Qiao Ying, he took the initiative to take over part of the affairs of the Qiao family. At the same time, he and his father-in-law slowly sorted out and investigated, and what gradually unfolded in front of them was a huge network—a long-planned, planned, and planned network. The power to gather the entire imperial capital, subvert the empire, dethrone the royal family, and establish a new political power.
In the eighth year after marriage, the serious injury Fu Yunze suffered in that military operation was quite related to this matter.He exposed a conspiracy of that part of the military department, and he paid a considerable price. If he hadn't forcibly stopped the power system of the mecha at the last moment, and used his strength to eject the safety cabin at the right time, he was also killed by Jian Rong and others. People desperately rescued him back, I am afraid that Qiao Ying has already become a family member of a martyr.
But the opponent's crazy and reckless counterattack was also unexpected by Fu Yunze.During that time, while recuperating from his injuries, he had to deal with these disturbing things, and was always on guard against the opponent's revenge.After a year passed, he felt relieved and agreed to have a child with Qiao Ying.
But despite all their precautions, it was no accident that one of the embryos died.
Fu Yunze was heartbroken when he learned the truth, but he and Qiao's father kept everything from Qiao Ying.It doesn't matter if it's the male chauvinism of the husband and father, at that time they still wanted Qiao Ying not to be restrained and to do what he liked.
Later, Fu's father suggested that it was just a flash of thought to transfer the remaining embryo to Fu's family, but Qiao's father thought that this was a good opportunity to lure the enemy into the bait.What he asked Fu Yunze to take away was a fake incubator, while the real incubator was still protected at Qiao's house.
On the way to pick up the incubator that day, Fu Yunze encountered an obstacle—an invitation from his ex-girlfriend Lin Zhixia.Apart from his admiration back then, he has no special affection for Lin Zhixia.And he knew that the Lin family was also on that list, but to get the information so quickly and accurately, the Lin family's top line is indispensable.So he pretended to go to the appointment.Send another suspect, Lieutenant Cambray, to get that fake incubator.
Everything should have been planned, but they didn't expect that one of the people brought by Adjutant Camberley left behind a hidden time bomb.
If it wasn't for Xu Xu's whim that day to see how his future little nephew was developing, this embryo might really be lost.Xu Xu calmly protected the incubator in the chaos and survived until Xuan Zheng brought people to rescue, but the developing embryos still suffered some inevitable damage, and their growth stagnated.After research and discussion, Xu Xu and the elites of the entire Life Science Institute finally made a decision to temporarily freeze the embryos, and then study the method of reactivating the unstable life tissues of the embryos before thawing.
The process was difficult, but it finally worked out at the beginning of this year.And all of this, Qiao Sheng forcefully asked Xu Xu to hide it from Qiao Ying and Fu Yunze.He was afraid that the embryo rescue plan would not be successful, and let his son look forward to it in vain. Short-term pain is worse than long-term pain. At the same time, he was also angry at Fu Yunze's performance.
Qiao Sheng thought that his son would be happy with his beloved, so he handed Qiao Ying over to him, but after this incident, he deeply felt that the twisted melon was not sweet, and Fu Yunze obviously didn't care enough for his son.After Fu Yunze learned the bad news, he took all the responsibility on himself and watched Qiao Ying leave their home and his life helplessly.In the past three years, Xu Xu has often treated him like a guinea pig, and he might have his blood drawn and his marrow drawn at any time, but he never asked a word, and he didn't know if he really believed Xu Xu's "examination of the body." Potential development limit" excuse, or because of something else.