Chapter 17

“He Mei, you left your bag on the stool, I put it on the front desk for you, if you can’t find the time to come and get it later, I’ll have to deliver it to you at eight o’clock at night.”

“Wait, I’ll find a new parking space, I’ll come get it myself.”

At that time, Wen Ning was talking to He Mei on the phone, He Mei’s habit of losing things didn’t change easily, but her friend Wen Ning reacted in time.

Zhou Yinchu, who was unaware of this, was going crazy with jealousy.

Who was she talking to?

Her husband was dead, so there wasn’t another man shamelessly occupying her time, was there?

He couldn’t bear to mock her vision. Who else but himself had the right to stand by her side? No one had ever been recognized by Zhou Yinchu.

No one has ever been recognized by Zhou Yinchu, much less had the right to invade her all the time.

Even her child was no exception.

Thinking about Li Che’s matter, Zhou Yinchu, who had not been able to get what he wanted tonight, personally dialed Dr. Qiu’s number.

Dr. Qiu was familiar with Zhou Yinchu and had met him before.

“I’ve already reserved a time for you. I’ll make it a point to have the last shift from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. every Sunday, as well as the off-duty hours afterward.”

Qiu Chen gave enough face, for the sacrifice of time outside of work, he couldn’t help but ask, “You don’t take the initiative to explain your situation?”

“What?”

“Actually, I have a few moments of curiosity, that child wouldn’t be your illegitimate child, right?” Qiu Chen did not shy away from this topic, “I knew that this matter was not simple when you knew someone else’s information so meticulously.”

Zhou Yinchu let out a laugh to himself, “I wish it was, but we haven’t interacted with each other for many years.”

“Then why do you care about your first love’s child?”

“It’s not like I haven’t said anything to advise you, the past is not traceable,” Qiu Chen leaned back on the sofa, “As for the relevant psychological terms and concepts, you should be more familiar with them than I am.”

The words were said, but this kind of tangled, impermanent thing happened to Zhou Yinchu was not incongruous.

“Her husband died.”

There was no emotion in Cho Inchu’s voice.

No cynicism about the man’s life could be heard, and no celebration of his death could be seen.

Qiu Chen snorted, “No. You don’t still think you have a chance, do you?”

“Or else,” Zhou Yinchu didn’t deny it, never bothering to hide his ambitiousness, “Have to end up alone like you?”

Qiu Chen sighed, reinserting the ballpoint pen that recorded the information back into his breast pocket, not without returning sarcasm, “Your ability to exasperate people is also one of the best, I thought that you didn’t go to Lin Wei’s place to do counseling because you’ve already forgotten about her ……”

“I didn’t realize that you were thinking that your chances were starting again.”

Zhou Yinchu insomnia is very serious, in that particular period of time after returning to China almost can not sleep, even if you fall asleep, sleep time is not long and is not considered deep sleep.

At that time, he studied psychology on his own and had almost non-stop weekly counseling.

“Psychology says that everyone is sick, I think I’m not too sick,” Zhou Yinchu did not shy away from admitting it, blurted out, “Besides, I’m different from others, I was given the chance to be saved.”

As she lay in his arms, he had to admit that the feeling was as if he was alive again.

Revived from the dead.

Selfish people were always more likely to fulfill their selfish desires.

Zhou Yinchu had a sobering knowledge of himself and never considered it to be any kind of hard truth.

“Zhou Yinchu, a good lover is indeed a healing medicine, beyond the reach of psychiatrists like us,” Qiu Chen nodded, “Bless you then.”

He did not continue to comment on his “lost and found” emotions.

About because of this special almost narrow-minded obsession, Qiu Chen in the time completely loose, “As for that child, wherever in my off-duty detention office free time, welcome at any time to find me.”

Zhou Yinchu didn’t make much of a polite gesture, “Thanks.”

Wen Ning didn’t notice the occupied phone call.

She was worried about Li Che all the time. Li Che was alone on the upper floor of the store after he came back from learning chess, and looked like he was still learning how to clean up the mess.

He was holding a “bishop” piece in his hand, debating where to fly the bishop.

The fixed landing spot is both limiting and challenging.

On the chess table, the only remaining bishop protected his precarious general.

Wenning could not bear to interrupt him.

However, she realized that the depth in Li Che’s eyes was something that most people would only have as adults, probably because of these common traumatic memories, the child’s heart had been more or less hyped up to be overly mature.

“Cheol, do you want to see a psychiatrist?”

She took the lead and patiently asked Li Che what he really thought, so that the child wouldn’t be stimulated by not being able to accept going to a psychiatrist.

Li Che swept his afterglow over the center of the Chu Han River boundary while he dropped his stones, and shook his head firmly again.

Wen Ning explained to her child the reason she was planning to do so, “But, mommy is worried that Che Che is more or less affected after not having a father ……”

“If mommy wants to go see a psychiatrist, I’m willing to accompany you there, I’ll skip it,” he assured as he put on a look of complete disinterest that adults could easily see through, “Mommy, I’m fine.”

A light childish smile spread across the face of the pretendedly powerful child as he faced the broken mess.

However, soon Li Che changed his mind, and he seemed to be acutely aware that the only way to put his mother’s mind at ease was to see a psychiatrist himself, “Mom, I can go see one.”

Only, Li Che couldn’t help but feel sorry for his mom’s expenses, “It’s going to cost mom a fortune again.”

Mom’s hard work was all in the bottom of this nine-year-old boy’s eyes, there was no way for him to turn a blind eye, he knew the sky-high tuition fees of Xin’an International, and he also knew that it was not easy to support this hundun restaurant.

He quickly cleaned up his own chessboard and went down the stairs in his slippers to wipe the table for her.

The thin figure accompanied by the yell of “start the pot”, everything went back to the busyness of their family, Xiao Yang’s surface fierce to drive him away, his grandmother also advised him to go back to study homework, but Li Che persistently stayed in the same place, wishing to take over all the work within his ability.

A new customer teases him about illegal child labor, but the child laborer doesn’t show the slightest reluctance and offers to sell small wontons that can be taken home and frozen in the freezer.

There were always people who took care of her family’s business.

Wen Ning rarely feel lucky, how many Internet videos are children’s parents “hate iron can not not be steel”, checking homework long and short sigh, but her child as others say was born to return the favor.

But Wenning as a parent, and how would not understand, excessive understanding and strong may not be all a good thing.

The understanding in the bottom of other people’s eyes caused the heartache of being a mother.

If she could, she would like her child to play in the playground to his heart’s content, instead of taking on responsibilities that do not belong to him in the first place.

That kind of premature maturity and suppression of one’s inner thoughts could easily lead to psychological problems when one grows up.

Good thing, even said the psychiatrist’s consultation, Che Che is also willing to accept her ideas, which makes Wen Ning a little bit more at ease, hoping that a few times of counseling can open the door of Che Che’s heart, to be able to enter the new school in a better state.

In half a month, the approval from the Education Bureau should also come down.

There was also another matter that caused Wenning a headache –

Fan Yijin was getting married, but no matter what, she couldn’t convince her to accept the gift money she had prepared.

She politely declined her goodwill many times, “It’s fine if you come, I don’t have any relatives or friends here, I just want to have a good time, don’t be reluctant.”

Sunday.

Wen Ning took the well-dressed Xiao Yang and Li Che together to an old-school hotel that had been located in Jiangcheng for many years.

This four-star hotel was mediocre compared to the countless high-grade five-star hotels in Jiangcheng, but in the end, the year and location were here, and the price wasn’t cheap, so it was already considered to be what the better families in Jiangcheng were able to book, and it was the best within the reach of ordinary people.

Everyone’s face is rare giddy.

Xiao Yang is a young girl out of curiosity about weddings, she because of the relationship between her parents by association, it has been many years since relatives and friends invited her to attend a decent dinner occasions; and Li Che once heard that sister Fan is very caring for her mother, hoping that her mother will come out of the haze earlier, so also have an unprecedented enthusiasm for this wedding.

And so they came to the entrance of someone else’s hotel.

Wen Ning drove nothing more than a Polo, and she was too embarrassed to let the already busy little brother at the entrance park the car, so she simply went to the basement to park the car herself, and just let the party down first.

Xiao Yang in the hotel’s garden from which to capture a number of photos, Li Che sometimes take the initiative to cooperate with her photography.

But from the basement up, Wen Ning realized that Xiao Fan is a lie, today there is simply no favor to help, or rather, the things that should be done, she has long been set up in advance.

Balloons, ribbons, everything is carefully prepared.

Fan Yijin still refused to accept the money, she turned to her new husband, but I do not know where to get the instructions, this family no matter how not to be persuaded, bent on refusing to accept.

Wenning, who had originally said she would go to help, became more and more embarrassed, for Fan wanted her to take on more than the duties of a common friend.

Xiao Fan took a white cheongsam and shoved it into her arms without saying a word, and although the slit of the cheongsam wasn’t considered too high in consideration of her status, Wen Ning couldn’t find it in herself to accept the gown.

“Don’t you have bridesmaids?”

“Do you understand that bridesmaids should be in pairs?”

Anyway, Wen Ning had never heard such a “decent” reasoning before.

However, the traditional concepts of binding people’s hearts and minds were hidden, and Wen Ning, who had only acquiesced to help out, had never thought that Xiao Fan would unashamedly allow her to be the bridesmaid of the day.

“But if others know about my marital status ……”

“My mother-in-law and I have already discussed this,” Fan Yijin emphasized with extraordinarily clear organization, “Ningning, haven’t I told you this before?”

“I’m getting married because I’m passing on my happiness to you.”

She trailed off again in a deliberately sullen manner, “Unless it’s because you can’t look at my wedding and think I’m bad luck-”

“I don’t.”

Wen Ning’s voice was suppressed so low that it couldn’t withstand any cross-examination, and her attitude softened again, her eyebrows arched, “I just don’t want you to be talked about by others because of me as a bridesmaid.”

Having a widow whose husband died as a bridesmaid was shocking to the ears of the older generation.

“Who dares?” The bride said in a domineering manner, “I’ll chew her out at the wedding!”

“Moreover, I think you must look very good in this silk cheongsam,” Fan Yijin had a bad smile on her face, “Your body is so dimpled, it’s impossible for you not to look good, and it’s a blessing for everyone here to take one more look at you.”

Fan urged, “Hurry up and get changed, so that this bride can feast her eyes on you.”

Wen Ning hesitated, but she didn’t want to spoil the fun.

Some people had eliminated all difficulties for her as a bridesmaid, so it would be ungrateful for her to continue to refuse.

She was originally a soft-spoken person, and Fan Yijin, her new friend, had done this for her, so how could she have the nerve to push back?

Just to think, this cheongsam wasn’t cheap.

The perfect embroidery and the silky feel of it all showed that it was definitely not a cheongsam on the market for a hundred dollars.

Wen Ning secretly stuffed a few more into the red envelope, which instantly became heavy.

The banquet hall on the first floor does not have a dressing room, was convinced Wen Ning took Fan Yijin’s room card to the hotel room to change bridesmaid dresses. The cheongsam fit unexpectedly, as if it was customized to her size, she took a look at herself in the glasses, the same white color, the last time she only remembered wearing it at her wedding.

She couldn’t help but recall that time.

Already can’t remember what she had a falling out with Li Yuanzhe over, in short, a whole lot of trivialities were laid out between the newlyweds.

Li Yuanzhe always coaxed her, and this had not changed until the time of his death. It is often said that a man always changes after marriage. But Li Yuanzhe not only did not change, he may be more than before marriage to pay more, even Wenning sometimes will be unreasonable to test his bottom line, but the fact proved that the good old man will only be as good as ever to her.

She would sometimes tease him provocatively about his “dullness” and “uninterestingness,” but Li Yuanzhe didn’t think so, and would always try to please her in a stupid and clumsy way.

If he were alive, he would have complimented her on her beauty today by repeating a few boring phrases that a science student would only know.

And Zhou Yinchu was very different from that, he was an extremely tactful person.

Wen Ning had absolutely no idea why she had to think of Zhou Yinchu, this man no longer had half a hair’s breadth of relationship with her, and the way he ended up pulling the strings with himself was nothing more than throwing her yet another pair of bait that was cheap to him.

But now that she had remembered, she could only look at the two men longitudinally and come up with a final assessment.

In short, Zhou Yinchu was never a good person, he didn’t look at all like a man who would compliment her on this gentle white cheongsam, he would only start plundering the scenery underneath after an easy three words. This was also a comment made with the utmost regard for him, as there was a high probability that there wouldn’t even be a conversation of three words between them.

There would only be a scramble to get straight to the point.

With such a “lofty” judgment of Zhou Yinchu, Wen Ning and another young bridesmaid met outside the dressing room, and the two of them agreed to save the people at the bottom from carrying the wedding candies and tossing them back and forth again, so it was easier for them to be the two bridesmaids to carry them down. The other bridesmaid Fan Yijin chose was her childhood sweetheart, who had traveled all the way from Liao Province, and told her many interesting stories about their childhood, and her eyes reddened as she talked about them.

“How do you feel that we have not grown up yet, she married, and also married far away ……”

Wen Ning softly relieved her.

And took the initiative to share more of the joyful candies that were carried. In the past few years, she hadn’t contributed much in order to open the store, and it was no big deal to move a few boxes of wedding candies in the district.

She thought of sharing more for the other sentimental bridesmaid, who was just as eager to help her carry more due to her size advantage.

Realizing that the arrangements for welcoming guests were imminent.

The two of them descended the stairs one after the other.

With Fan Yijin’s sloppy bouquet in her hand, and dragging a cart full of red-hot candies, Wen Ning almost had an illusion, which was deepened by the gazes cast at her from the sidelines – as if the person getting married today is the one who is getting married, and the one who is getting married is the one who is getting married.

As if the person getting married today, was her.

There is no coincidence.

In the next second, someone else made the same judgment.

Zhou Yinchu Sunday’s schedule is relatively easier than usual some, but not much easier, to be really high and low, on their own relationships do not half a heart, may be in the future there is no foothold in the circle of capital, he and a coastal province of Mr. Zhang know some years.

Mr. Zhang also studied in Jiangcheng before, had to say in front of this has been eliminated Jiangcheng Hotel was the most famous.

At least, it was considered to be at his stage of study.

Zhou Yinchu obviously had a generation gap with that generation, and he never liked old-school hotels that looked dead. He would never bring Wen Ning here to get a room.

But it was obvious that after so many years of hanging around, he wasn’t so far gone that he would not be able to utter such a tirade without a second thought.

Arriving at this hotel that had been on Mr. Zhang’s mind for a long time, he still accompanied his business partner to this hotel, despite the fact that his face showed complete tedium and fatigue.

“Inside the braised pork fat but not greasy, you do not know how delicious Oh, when my goddess first brought me here,” Mr. Zhang rubbed his round belly, rather comically exaggerated with the old-fashioned words between men, “you may not believe it, I have not slept for a whole night. ”

Mr. Zhang tells the story of that year with pure emotion.

And eyeballing his own looks, he didn’t quite look like the type to be treated. A few sentences were nothing more than self-aggrandizement, either true or false. During this time, there was no lack of people following them to follow, and the slips of the tongue were endless.

“If the goddess of the past knew what our Mr. Zhang has accomplished today, I don’t know how much she would regret it.”

“Ai, don’t say that, the goddess and I were destined for each other,” General Manager Zhang waved his hand, acting especially at ease amidst the sound of boasting, “After all, I was a penniless country bumpkin back then.”

“Yinchu, what about you?”

Mr. Zhang walked side by side with him, a head shorter, but Mr. Zhang’s wealth made him not mind his “petite” at the moment, and smiled with Zhou Yinchu and said, “Growing up in Jiangcheng, it’s not so bad that you haven’t been to this hotel before, right?”

I don’t know when this topic came to me.

Zhou Yinchu did not deny that he was a stranger to this place: “You guessed it, Mr. Zhang, I really haven’t been here.”

“Mr. Zhang, you are a nobleman who forgets many things, when the business of Jiangcheng Grand Hotel was booming, Mr. Zhou was still a half-grown child, and when Mr. Zhou grew up, this place would not be popular anymore.”

In the circle, there are always people who take age to say things, there are also people who think they can according to the age of their respective seniority, seniority.

General Manager Zhang sighed, “That’s also true, it’s no longer in line with the trend of young people.”

Zhou Yinchu coldly swept a glance at the man who spoke, “The family is strict, when I was studying, I was not so bad that I came to the hotel for nothing.”

On the age of that set to his end, can not swing.

He did not want the difference in age to be deliberately magnified by people, thus affecting the relationship between him and the negotiation and cooperation suppliers.

That person was afraid of offending him, and hurriedly courted Zhou Yinchu: “Mr. Zhou looks like a proud son of heaven, not like a person who is greedy for enjoyment.”

Zhou Yinchu laughed coldly, not commenting.

His mind is not here, although in the high-rise Jiangcheng CBD, the major hotels are countless, he really can’t look at the buildings in front of his eyes, but if as a teenager, she is willing to come over, he has no reason to refuse. Perhaps, the young himself is always repressed, do not see than the eyes of the madness.

Stunned, he found that he couldn’t keep his mind from thinking about the woman all the time.

Even if he was inferior in her eyes.

General Manager Zhang and the circle of people surrounding him went to the private room on the second floor, the old-fashioned Mitsubishi elevator could not accommodate enough people at once.

Zhou Yinchu held himself to be young and did not want to fight for time with a few old guys, so he waited for the next elevator to arrive.

There were already a few moments of impatience between his eyebrows.

Unknown to him, the huge Jiangcheng is terribly small at some times, he saw the face that he had longed for, and her face that was out of innocence, but still seductive floated in front of the elevator of the aluminum alloy, as if it came from his imagination, and it didn’t take long for it to be disillusioned.

He rubbed his eyes drowsily, confirming that the woman in front of him was not a figment of his imagination, but none other than Wen Ning herself.

The white cheongsam outlined her flawless, delicate figure, and Zhou Yinchu couldn’t help but think of her lying on his side at night, but an uncontrollable thought bubbled up.

At this moment, how could she appear here in the white color often worn during weddings, holding a hand bouquet belonging to the bride and dragging boxes of wedding candies?

Unless it was–

His heart felt unprecedented anger one step ahead of his brain:

“Wen Ning, who are you marrying this time!?”