Chapter 26

When my mother came back, she had a different look on her face, and she treated the neighbors with more dignity than before.

“Mom.”

Wen Ning tugged at her mother, understanding how difficult it had been for her over the years, but never wanting her to pin her hopes on any man.

She thought that her mother knew this well, and would definitely be gloomy.

But who in their right mind would not want to change the sad face of the old gray head, step into the clouds, and live an enviable new life?

Even her mother, who has always been tough and simple in her eyes.

Last night blocked his mother instantly changed position: “Your mom I see that Xiao Zhou this time is sincere ……”.

“Maybe if you follow him, you can also live a good life, you don’t have to get up so early every day and work hard to set up a wonton store,” her mother’s hands are not listening to a moment of work, but her voice is more and more excited, “You know, in Jiangcheng, this small business is not easy to do. ”

She understood her mother’s longing, fantasy.

In her mother’s tone, her own flight to the top of the branch is just around the corner.

It’s not that she’s selfishly trying to pour cold water on others, but the crossing of classes is a dream, and Wen Ning is really not active in love.

She is a person whose heart is as dead as ashes.

What’s more, Wen Ning is difficult to abandon the inherent notion of class in her heart, although not so much as a sigh, but in the end, the words out of the pessimistic: “Mom, Zhou Yinchu and I will most likely just play around, and when the enthusiasm wanes, he’ll leave faster than anyone else.”

I knew it was a bummer, but I had to say it.

“Ningning.”

“So Zhou Yinchu told you that he would marry me?”

This question caught Wen Ning’s mother off guard, and originally she hadn’t even dared to think about it. Of course, she had presumptuously recognized her daughter’s unusual charms, but there was no guarantee that Zhou Yinchu would marry her.

Wen Ning’s face was more composed than ever: “Mom, we still have Chuchu, so we had to be a bit more sober than all the others.”

“Mom was just having a momentary brain frenzy,” her mother hurriedly wiped her hands with her apron repeatedly, “Ningning, you’ve had your own ideas since you were a child, and anyway, mom isn’t going to interfere with you guys.”

The excited mother suddenly looked like a frosted cabbage.

In the end, they were all commoners.

Letting her gray-haired mother be feudal and conservative, knowing the not-so-small gap between herself and Zhou Yinchu, unable to withstand a few seemingly heartfelt words from Zhou Yinchu, she assumed that their relationship was destined for a good end.

I don’t know how they were separated last time.

Wen Ning how to make things difficult for his mother, only, there is one thing she had to tell her, this relationship is difficult to end well.

He Mei did not know the company’s quarterly investment meeting more than a few self-service meal coupons.

Part of the policy of foreign enterprises is very loose, more hospitality coupons can be used for business contacts, personal relations invited guests to the same to not refuse.

Her first thought was naturally no one else but Wen Ning.

She made her words extremely considerate of Wen Ning’s self-esteem, fearing that she would refuse: “Baby, it’s a shame to have more of these vouchers, I’ve contacted a lot of people, and they all said that they had something to do and couldn’t get away.”

First, the excuse that can not find people, and then logically guided: “You say, now the country is also vigorously advocating green environmental protection, we waste like this is not good?”

Then again, is to call on Wen Ning together with the meaning, Wen Ning and why can not hear He Mei’s words.

“But you, have helped me a lot.”

Wen Ning looked soft, but her stance was firm, and she was never too embarrassed to shamelessly rub people’s noses in it, so it was usually hard to be convinced.

“It’s me who needs you-”

He Mei originally did not want to mention this layer of relationship at all, after all, and Lu Chen has long been eight hundred years ago, turning the page.

However, after spending so many years with Wen Ning, she had long mastered the way to pin down Wen Ning, if she directly called out to someone to come over for a meal, according to Wen Ning’s personality, she absolutely refused to do so, but if she had an excuse that she needed her help, then people like Wen Ning would definitely rule out all the difficulties and find a way to come over.

Wen Ning was this kind of promiscuous person who was not willing to take advantage of others, yet would not abandon others in disregard.

“I haven’t seen Lu Chen for a long time, and he’s also involved in this company-related investment,” He Mei, who knew this well, played this technique to perfection, bitterly mentioning the one in her youth who had long since moved on, “I’m afraid that I’ll meet him again at the cold dinner, and it’s definitely going to be …… awkward.”

She said twisted and embarrassed, as if it is difficult to face the heart of the young girl.

As expected, Wen Ning said what big noon also want to rush over, she swore, “You first don’t worry, I will go over to accompany you later.”

His own emotional affairs were a mess.

This, however, did not prevent Wen Ning from wanting to take care of her best friend’s mentality, and she decisively let Xiao Yang pull up the store door early before the lunch break to take a short break.

Xiao Yang wait for her to go, immediately pull open the store door, a little bit do not give up slack, can not wait to do two more bowls of wonton business.

The specifications of this investment level are of a higher standard than the Jin Mao that He Mei pulled her to last time.

Cloud top of this CBD building, the word as its name, sitting in the center of Jiangcheng City, the best view, and in this weather, straight into the clouds.

Above the white clouds, Wen Ning didn’t rush to pick up her dinner plate, but wanted to meet up with He Mei.

However, the meeting was different from what she had imagined. He Mei was at ease, not at all like she was trapped in love. She graciously clinked glasses with her suppliers, and promptly introduced them to her friend with a special bond.

Privately, Wen Ning inevitably detected something fishy, more or less doubtful about the fact that he was called: “I see you are not nervous at all, since there is no need for my place–”

He Mei wry smile, her face expression has betrayed her: “In fact, my heart can be nervous to come, this is not on the surface we do not move it?”

Wen Ning instantly understood.

He Mei teasing means or pinpointed so accurately, but also, she should have clearly understood, like He Mei, as early as in the environment of the foreign enterprises heard so long, it is not possible in the interpersonal relationship will be a workplace white, face up to her so-called first love is far more than she lifted the weight of the too much light.

Mostly, He Mei was bent on giving her a good meal again.

In her barren and joyless life, He Mei had been the friend who had given her unlimited fun.

As things stood, Wen Ning saw no need to be polite: “Then I’ll go get a piece of cheesecake.”

As the Chinese always say, if you’re here, you’re here, and that’s what it means anyway, Wen Ning was no longer formal, and didn’t have her friend’s upcoming relationship problems bothering her.

All she could do was enjoy the noon.

“Go go go, the quality control of the pastry this time is controlled by your marvelous friend, that is, me,” He Mei gloated in front of her friend, “It’s guaranteed to be delicious.”

Just when Wen Ning thought that Lu Chen was just a false excuse in He Mei’s mouth, she really saw Lu Chen’s figure in the lobby, the man wandering in front of a few running water turntables.

The man was wandering in front of several water tables. His lean and straight posture was the same as it was back then.

Under the crystal light, Lu Chen enthusiastically met with her and He Mei in turn.

Of course, it was mainly with He Mei. Lu Chen did not awkwardly pull out his business card, nor did he rush to introduce the company’s related business dealings, but settled down to talk to them about recent developments.

None of their old classmates got to the bottom of the matter.

It was Lu Chen who took the initiative to explain, “Ye Shu and I didn’t make it to the end.”

It was a pity.

The thin-faced Lu Chen did not hide his financial embarrassment compared to the Ye family: “It’s normal that her parents can’t see me.”

The large Jiangcheng, everywhere is the gateway to see.

Wen Ning was silent.

He Mei lamented, “First love is often difficult to come to fruition.”

But never mention about her first love, she to Lu Chen, the youthful sizzling emotion seems to have been familiar to be covered up without leaving a trace.

Wen Ning didn’t think she saw the slightest bit of embarrassment or embarrassment from her sister’s face.

There was only the calmness and ease left by years of wear and tear.

She realized that her presence was somewhat superfluous.

Wen Ning left the rare moments of solitude to them and crossed the row of western-style dining tables with a light demeanor: “I still want to fetch a glass of rum, so I’ll take my leave first.”

She rarely drank, especially in the middle of the day, but when Wenning drifted back to her senses, she was already standing by default in front of the mountain of glasses.

A crisp, bubbling mint leaf, bubbles rising slowly from the bottom of the white rum alcohol, lemon tart.

Seeking a percentage of alcohol that wasn’t considered too high and could pretty much only be categorized as a carbonated beverage, Wenning slammed down half the glass.

Reaching the tipping point of her alcohol, she mentally put down the glass.

Unexpectedly, she was a bit light-headed, and for a while there was a heavy black shadow in front of her eyes, she thought that perhaps she had underestimated the proportion of alcohol, or overestimated her own alcohol consumption from the beginning.

The inept woman soon realized that the heavy dark shadows in front of her were not an illusion she had created because of her drinking.

Rather, the man was really close at hand.

The reflection formed by the broad shoulders and thin waist, the proportions and structure of the figure were exactly as she had portrayed them earlier that morning.

Unlike before, there was more than a hint of intoxication when she was slightly intoxicated, and only she knew how likely she was to get lost in such showmanship.

“Cho Inchu?”

“It’s me.”

The few moments of inauthenticity in front of her eyes suddenly fell into place.

Zhou Yinchu’s temper, however, was not as good as the one he had seen in the morning, and he lost all patience at once: “Was there someone who poured alcohol into you?”

Wen Ning shook her head repeatedly, afraid that some people would cause trouble.

“No one dunked me, just curious about the flavor of this cup of wine,” Wen Ning propped up her forehead, intentionally maintaining her sobriety, the last thing she wanted was to fall into the eyes of the man in front of her at the time of the woeful situation, she slowly explained, “so I tasted more than a couple of mouthfuls.”

“But you don’t look like a woman without moderation.”

There were some words that Wen Ning almost blurted out: how could a woman with moderation fool around with him?

Wen Ning had already frowned, she would never allow Zhou Yinchu to talk nonsense outside, and even more so, she didn’t want outsiders to see through their relationship prematurely.

Therefore, when Zhou Yinchu pulled to go to a balcony with better privacy, she did not refuse.

Especially since it was where He Mei worked, she didn’t want her best friend to be disappointed and watch herself go astray by indulging in a story with an unpredictable ending.

Drunk Wenning’s ears were red as if they were dripping blood, but she still bit back a deadpan emphasis, “Let’s do it quietly.”

“Good.”

Zhou Yinchu rarely cooperated with tacit understanding, just guiding her towards another secluded alleyway, walking through the top floor’s lushly flowered and perfectly manicured garden, they arrived at that balcony in turn.

When she was slightly drunk, Wen Ning raised her eyes and looked at the top floor, there were many many similarly structured balconies, not like overlapping phantoms, three-dimensional and technological sense.

Rich people always know how to live, even in the most commercialized convention center, one side contains the venue for holding the conference, and the other side also has a private and quiet place.

As she stood on the balcony, it was obvious that there was a human pull, a hold behind her.

He intervened forcefully, “Don’t get too close to the railing.”

“I won’t, just looking.”

The risk of falling from a height was everywhere, and no one in the world would be more vigilant than Wenning, whose husband had died in just such an accident before.

She just watched the sea of clouds in silence, the reflex arc of alcohol becoming long, her reactions gradually slowing down, her thoughts no longer occupied by all sorts of trivialities, her gaze gradually emptying.

However, Zhou Yinchu did not let up, always standing sternly, restraining her arms.

“Why are you here?”

Wen Ning still couldn’t hold back and burst out with the biggest doubt of the day.

“It can’t be that you’ve installed some kind of locator on me, right?”

Zhou Yinchu tried to carry it off in one sentence, “Happened to be passing by.”

Wen Ning shook her head, she wasn’t an uninitiated little girl, “I don’t believe it.”

“Xue Zhengyao,” Zhou Yinchu accurately called him by name, “He told me that he saw you at He Mei’s company’s investment promotion meeting.”

Regardless of whether it was against the law to betray someone, Zhou Yinchu could betray his friend anytime as long as he could pick himself off.

“He came too?”

Wen Ning wondered, her gaze a little dizzy, “How come I didn’t see him?”

“Who knows?”

It was as if it didn’t matter at all to Zhou Yinchu whether some people were unattended or not.

He was always mindful of whether she was within the confines of the safety zone, and solemnly looked into her eyes, “The person you should be concerned about, is me.”

Wen Ning was by and large drunk, or maybe she didn’t want to admit that she was just using her drunkenness to cup Zhou Yinchu’s face, but the next moment she saw that angular face again immediately timidly let go of that face.

She shouldn’t have said the silly thing about her actually being a little concerned about him and wanting to ask if he’d eaten.

Or how the car was on the way over to meet her.

Had there been any traffic jams.

But even drunk, she didn’t forget to remind herself that she shouldn’t have overstepped the bounds of what was covered by their particular male-female relationship.

He grabbed her hand and resurfaced it to where he’d shaved off his beard but was still rough.

The feel of the hand was yet somewhat subtle.

I thought that the rough, beard growing place was destined to be a hard to touch area, but gradually realized that when the soft fingertips touched those as if there was an electric current slipping through, itchy but addictive.

Zhou Yinchu did not seem to think that she had offended him, but quietly indulged the sharpening and rubbing of her fingertips, as if enjoying it.

Ungrudgingly giving her the freedom to explore to a greater extent.

Her slender fingertips tweaked his chin, and unlike before, it was as if they had easily switched their respective roles between them.

It began to gradually sink into this moment of tracing the shape of his features.

Suddenly, Wen Ning coldly saw He Mei’s figure from a short distance away.

She did not know when her friend had also come in this direction. She clearly remembered that she and Lu Chen were climbing in the hall, and she knew He Mei’s excuse for finding herself here, and she didn’t see that the cloudy He Mei would have anything to do with Lu Chen, and had to run to this balcony.

Wen Ning realized her own narrow-mindedness at the moment, originally, to come to the balcony is also all her friend’s freedom.

But the staggered design of the balcony, the field of vision is open and unrestricted, which means that if you are not careful, you will be seen clearly.

She was nervous beyond words.

If the “excitement” in the text message was just a metaphysical term, in reality, she had to hide her heart more anxious and uneasy than ever.

Seeing that the balcony has no shelter to speak of, Wenning realized that she has nowhere to go but his embrace.

Inside the black, tightly wrapped, solidly muscled shirt were clearly the lines she’d long ago sketched out, an area she was overly familiar with from this morning’s warm-ups –

But she was still blushing from throwing herself into the embrace, desperate to hide in a more secluded corner.

“I don’t want to be seen by He Mei.”

As soon as her words left her mouth, he, who was also deep in the embrace but pretended to be ready to walk away, said, “Beg me.”