Chapter 19
There was no room for her to think, to refute, to question.
The converging traffic didn’t allow anyone to stay too long, and Wen Ning knew that if she didn’t get in the car for a moment, the congested lanes wouldn’t be clear for a moment.
In full view of everyone, Wen Ning felt ashamed of herself in front of her children.
However, Zhou Yinchu’s destination was very different from what she had imagined, and he had even included her child in this rare drive:
“Call Li Che to get into my car with me, I’ll take him to see a friend of mine who does psychological counseling.”
Wen Ning hesitantly pulled open the car door and stammered out, “Will it trouble you?”
Inside the car.
The cold scent of cedar greeted her.
She was walking on thin ice, after all, she hadn’t even agreed to the conditions he offered, and naturally, there was no reason to accept this equal exchange of payment.
Zhou Yinchu watched as she took her seat in his co-pilot’s seat, his eyelids not lifting, “No.”
He said so clearly, as if the evil thoughts from before never existed.
“Li Che, I should have a child seat in the back that I haven’t had time to assemble yet,” the car door closes, Zhou Yinchu directs the seated child without explaining much on the matter, “Try it yourself, how do you sit in it.”
Zhou Yinchu was prepared.
Wen Ning was confused by his excessive kindness, as if she might fall into the trap he had set at any time.
Zhou Yinchu saw that sad but overwhelmed little face in his front mirror and couldn’t help but laugh softly. He knows he’s shameless, but he also doesn’t know that he’s already lost his humanity in her heart.
“Purely passing through and being kind.”
The moment the words came out of his mouth, they were no longer convincing.
Having tasted the fruits of sin, no one would associate the man in front of him with a good man who did not ask for anything in return in the secular sense.
Wen Ning tried to touch his eyes, coincidentally, he was also looking at himself.
The man staring ahead coldly said, “Wen Ning, your son is not as nervous as you are.”
Li Che, who was going to see a psychiatrist for the first time, showed fearless courage, unknowingly encouraging his mother, “Mom, I’m fine, you don’t have to worry about me, maybe the doctor’s uncle will say that I’m fine when he understands my situation.”
Her son thought she was still fretting about the outcome of his doctor’s visit.
God damn it, so what if he could tell she was nervous, did he have to say it out in the open?
Wenning struggled to squeeze a small smile from her face.
She hated to cover her son’s ears, and while his words weren’t so much as gossip, they were ultimately evocative.
In order to sit on his good intentions with her words, Wen Ning politely and distantly said, “Then thank you, Mr. Zhou.”
Zhou Yinchu hit the steering wheel with one hand and spoke without any inhibitions, “You’ve forgotten that Li Che and I also said that we used to be especially ‘good’ friends.”
Wen Ning hated how Zhou Yinchu had once again described the relationship between them.
It sounded like a call to relax, but in essence every word was a reminder about the fruitless relationship from her middle school days.
Zhou Yinchu didn’t know what colorful drink to take out from the fridge in his car, and tossed it to Li Che in passing as he waited at the next intersection.
“Thank you Uncle Zhou.”
Sweeping another glance at the safety seat that the kids had installed themselves, he commented, “Hands-on skills aren’t bad.”
“Does Uncle Zhou have little kids too?” Wen Ning couldn’t dissuade him in time, and Chuchu’s curiosity was instantly tugged out, “That’s why he asked me to help assemble this safety seat?”
In the face of an innocent child, Zhou Yinchu’s answer was not hastened by a stiff “kids don’t mind their own business”.
Just when Wen Ning thought that Zhou Yinchu wouldn’t say anything more, her peace of mind seemed to have come too soon.
Zhou Yinchu’s gaze paused on her, and as it flowed, he said slowly and methodically, “Not yet, but it depends on the situation, maybe in a while.”
Wen Ning’s face suddenly turned green and white.
It was as if although these words were a reply to her son, they were actually addressed to her.
How could he have the nerve to mention this kind of saying on this kind of occasion, wasn’t this tantamount to the bottomless words of explicitly implying that she, a widowed and shameless woman, should willingly give birth to one for him as well?
Although the first time she heard him say it nakedly after their reunion, but now in this way, through the child’s inquiry out of the mouth, Wen Ning still feel overwhelmed, she would like to immediately digress from this topic, but her son sent a sheepish blessing to someone’s spitting image of a child.
“Then Uncle Zhou, I have to teach you how to use this seat, there’s actually elasticity that can be adjusted by going through the belt ……”
“Chuchu, you don’t have to explain.”
Wen Ning did her best to stop her son’s excess kindness, “There’s nothing your Uncle Zhou isn’t proficient at.”
“Wen Ning, you flatter me,” Zhou Yinchu yet still lazily and wantonly vocalized, but he nevertheless raised his eyes slightly, seemingly unintentionally, always reminiscent of intentional waiting before a beastly buildup, such as in the present moment, when he appeared unreservedly willing to listen to a child’s cursory sharing of parenting knowledge, and “I think it’s quite nice that your son is willing to share this with me, I’m actually quite short on knowledge when it comes to parenting and so on, after all, I don’t have any practical experience.”
He said it with such sincerity that if he hadn’t seen the aggressiveness underneath the man’s skin, even he would have been as gullible as a child.
It wasn’t long before they had appeared on the side of the road near the second hospital.
Hobbes had said that wealth was actually a right, but for the rich who did not make an early appointment, it was equally difficult to park in a spot close to the clinic.
On several occasions, Zhou Yinchu had been short-changed and hadn’t been able to get the parking spot he wanted.
With that, he let out a low curse.
Wen Ning was unwilling to clash with Zhou Yinchu over such trivial matters, but still did not want him to teach his child this too early, and stopped his cursing.
Even though Zhou Yinchu had many so-called temperaments that were different from ordinary people, when it came to the small matter of parking, he was no different from ordinary men, easily chagrined by a moment of impatience, like he wouldn’t allow anyone to covet the parking space he saw.
As if it were a silent challenge to them.
The tough man refused to stop: “Wenning, I’m not doing this for you, for your child, how can you afford to scold me?”
“Let me help you park the car.”
The woman whispered, “You take Chuchu there first, I’ll go around the outside of the flowerbed, maybe I’ll find a suitable spot.”
Zhou Yinchu: “You’re so put out now?”
Where his gaze traveled, he revealed a meaningful smile.
Delivering Chuchu to him was indeed not the scenario Wen Ning had envisioned from the start, but right now, she didn’t think Zhou Yinchu had enough patience to go looking for a parking spot in the parking lot of a tertiary hospital packed with patients from all over the country, most of the people were here to see the doctor just as they were, with their cars capable of the hospital’s entrances and exits being a little bit closer, and also hoping that their own patients would be able to walk a few less steps.
Zhou Yinchu got out of the car, Wen Ning sat in the seat that originally belonged to him.
He quickly lowered his waist and fastened her seatbelt for her, his movements not dragging, nor did he ever touch the rest of the sensitive places, and his language was rare and not frivolous: “I’ll first take Chuchu to see the doctor.”
Simple couldn’t be simpler to inform, without carrying too much personal emotional coloring.
For a moment, Wen Ning had the trance-like illusion that today’s arrival was like a family of three of them.
She forced herself to wake up.
Although found a parking near the hospital B building is not bad location, but saw someone else’s trunk out of the wheelchair, she naturally chose to give way to others, and will be parked all the way across the park entrance, for a few extra parking fees, earn money is not easy to Wen Ning did not feel anything.
Despite the fact that fate had blown the wind and frost mercilessly on the woman, the woman still retained an unusual kindness.
Hurriedly crossing the street again, by the time she entered the Second Hospital, Zhou Yinchu had already registered Li Che, and he logically entered Dr. Qiu’s private office, where Dr. Qiu was doing a few of the most common psychological tests on him.
Wen Ning’s heartbeat slowed down a few beats.
“Don’t be nervous.”
Zhou Yinchu personally took out another bottle of water from the hospital’s automatic cargo rack.
“Wen Ning, relax.”
Wen Ning herself probably didn’t realize how tightly her brow was locked, and the gaze she looked at the child was always worried.
“I’m not a good mother.”
There were too many things distracting her before, her husband’s funeral, the seventh day of the first month, and the worship before the New Year, and that …… criminal prosecution lawsuit, in short, she was dominated by her life and had no time to pay attention to her son’s psychological condition, and by the time Wen Ning really realized that something was wrong, it was already half a year later.
Those words that she had no way to say, she didn’t know why they came out so easily in front of Zhou Yinchu at this moment when she felt hospitalized.
Obviously, Zhou Yinchu was not a good person to climb into conversation with.
Zhou Yinchu had gazed into her eyes, deliberated for a long time, and told her plainly, “You are.”
“I am not good enough, there is always negligence in taking care of his growth ……”
“Why should you be so hard on yourself,” Zhou Yinchu rarely put it in such a humane way, “Where in the world can you find so much perfection, and besides, you didn’t find out too late, did you?”
“Thank you, Chou Yinchu.”
It wasn’t that things couldn’t be done if the matter was left in her hands, but the effort it took to find the right heavyweight specialist wasn’t exactly insignificant.
Add to that, the time it took to make an appointment, wait and register would be enough to make the average person lose a large degree of patience.
“You’ve already said ‘thank you’ to me twice today.”
No longer able to collect himself, the man revealed his nature, “If you insist on saying it a third time, I don’t mind if you ‘thank’ me in a different way.”
“You can really …… This is a hospital.”
Guarding the promenade outside the specialist’s clinic, she leaned against the railing, melancholy not diminishing the beauty of such a woman, but amplifying the profound sadness at the bottom of her eyes, untouchable yet coveted and coveted.
Soft, covered, bright and dark, but people can not leave the line of sight inch by inch.
Gorgeous cheongsam matches her exceptionally well, no longer deliberately blocking the grace of her body, more set off by the whiteness and softness of her skin.
A big hand just like that can not be inhibited to pull up her waist, support her soft abdomen to.