Chapter 28

It was Li Che’s last day at Center Street Elementary School.

The sunlight at 3:30 in the afternoon was very nice, it would have that kind of early summer’s restrained openness and warmth, and would not be blinding due to burning.

Wen Ning was frustrated, she did not remember the first time she came to this school to wait for Li Yuanzhe, Li Che had not yet been born at that time, she occasionally passed by the school where he worked, saw him running towards her from the playground in a hurry, and thought that life with him would not be too bad.

At least, the chances of a man like Zhou Yinchu reappearing were slim, and she wouldn’t be stuck in a lifelong relationship that she’d voluntarily given up.

Li Yuanzhe’s image is not too bad, wearing a pair of half-rimmed glasses, always a gentlemanly look, teaching for many years he looks rigid, straight, but for her pursuit is not ambiguous.

He went to great lengths to find all kinds of food on the streets of Jiangcheng, just to make her smile.

He would pick clean cutlery and seats; he wouldn’t push the relationship forward, but would always consider her feelings; he would respect her family, and would exchange all the shopping cards issued by the school during the holidays for food, rice, oil, and salt and send them to her mother’s kitchen.

Wenning became attached to that kind of person, and like most women who don’t seriously think about it, she entered into a marriage – a marriage that can’t be a deep relationship.

Marriage could not be the result of careful thought, and in Wen Ning’s opinion, no one who had thought long and hard about the details would easily choose the path of marriage.

It was necessarily a judgment made by human beings in a blind and irrational spirit.

She was no exception.

Without a proposal, a romantic ceremony might exist, but for many ordinary people it was unnecessary.

He handed her his paycheck card, the moment she received the card, Wenning acquiesced to the outcome of the relationship towards marriage, as for the ordinary wedding that would not cost too much, the officiant-driven wedding, the link to ask “yes or no” is very superfluous.

“If you don’t want to do it, you’ll have to leave on the spot, and you’ll be a joke to all the relatives on both sides.

The young and inexperienced woman rippled a light smile:

“I am willing.”

Thus, they had a home in Jiangcheng.

Wen Ning’s feelings towards the school in front of her were slightly complicated.

It was the symbol of the official start of their relationship, but it was the root cause of the complete destruction of that relationship.

Personal grudges aside, Wenning found that she couldn’t leave them behind, and even if she tried her best to do so, her husband’s sudden and tragic death was only because of the school.

And the way they’d made peace with it afterward, and Wenning’s disdain for it– how to reconcile it?

How do you reconcile that?

It was a matter of life and death that couldn’t be reconciled, and just because it didn’t happen at the school, it had nothing to do with the school.

The only thing she hoped for now was that Che Che hadn’t been affected in this incident.

But in truth, she knew how Lee Cheol, who attended the same institution every day as the one where her father had worked before he was born, did not have a layer of the old haze over his heart.

However, it was good to know that they were about to leave this place and would never return for the rest of their lives.

“Mom.”

He stood in his grade line, waving eagerly towards himself, while Teacher Guo, who was holding up a class sign, similarly saw her and went forward to greet her, “Che Che’s mom.”

The two of them looked at each other without words and said “goodbye” to each other in silence as they personally escorted the child into their hands.

Handling the complicated procedures for transferring to another school, during which, Che Che’s homeroom teacher, Mr. Guo, didn’t shirk once, and was quite conscientious and responsible, and did his best in handling some of the procedures, and the other party and her husband, Li Yuanzhe, weren’t at all familiar with each other, for which Wen Ning was very grateful.

“Che Che is a very good student and deserves to stand in a better place.” Teacher Guo said as such as well.

But when Wen Ning rushed back to her car, before she had the chance to take out the Qingti cake she had prepared earlier, she saw a Buick behind her coldly honking its horn several times towards her.

The car was brand new and shiny, but the gesture it displayed was not friendly.

Her car was clearly and accurately parked in a fixed parking space, but the cacophonous honking was unrelenting.

Wen Ning could only turn around in a hurry, and she happened to turn her head to see that the owner of the vehicle that drove her away was not someone else, but none other than Mr. Wang.

By the time Wen Ning drifted back to her senses, Wang Xueqing had already occupied her original parking space and glanced at her with dark eyes.

Based on the last conversation, Wen Ning was at war with it, yet she still felt a few moments of uncertainty.

A normal person should never look like this when they are in debt, as if the help she received from Li Yuanzhe, as well as the fate she caused him to fall into, were all deserved.

Her lawyer had already urged her more than once, but Mr. Wang was always indifferent.

It seems that in this society, most people will only toss and turn for their own future, and for other people’s affairs can numbly choose to turn a blind eye, even if this matter is related to life and death.

Wen Ning thought that today’s unhappiness ended here.

The flow of the year was unfavorable.

The occurrence of another misfortune annoyed her.

Her second-hand Polo may have been soaked in the rain for a while some days ago, the engine’s rattling has been different from the past for the past two days, she thought that after a while it would be back to the original, who knows that the rattling sound has never stopped.

When Wen Ning drove from the school neighborhood but two or three hundred meters, the car completely rested.

Early not scrapped, late not need repair, but at this time out of order, causing Wen Ning a time at his wits’ end.

The road from work was already quite congested, and the main road where she stopped could easily cause traffic to gather, more than that, when she called the insurance company, this small insurance company always found a suitable inconvenient excuse, so she could only call a towing company from the advertisement that she had collected by hand earlier.

The problem was that this forklift was definitely not cheap either, adding insult to injury to Wenning’s already bad economy.

She buried her head, but it was Chul who unhurriedly comforted her frustrated mother.

Li Che was similarly trapped on the side of the road as herself.

“Mom, I ate a lot of lunch today, I’m not hungry at all now, and I’m not in a hurry to go back …… Big deal, mom and I will wait together.”

He himself carrying the last day all packed together destined not too light schoolbag, in the shade of the tree waving in the hands of the kraft box: “I still have cupcakes in my hands.”

Wen Ning, however, heard her own child say this, but more and more heartbroken Li Che’s situation.

He grew up in such a single-parent family, repeatedly facing the hardships of life, but never complaining. Most boys are impatient. Blocked in the middle of the road, even into adulthood, they will still make a fuss over the road conditions, but Li Che is not, he acted superb and mature, as if it is enough to be by her side.

But Wen Ning was unwilling to tolerate his aggression.

The trunk of the folding stool can not be found, Li Che can only quietly stand with her dry.

The wait is more difficult than imagined.

The forklift company indicated that they had a bigger accident on the highway to deal with, there is no way to arrive first time, and there is always an uninformed vehicle behind their car and did not immediately change lanes, the congestion of off-duty makes part of the people very unpleasant, cursing.

Because of the identity of this female driver, and can not help but be even more questioned.

Wen Ning held back for a moment not to think of relying on or resorting to Zhou Yinchu’s power to solve this matter, because she knew that once a relationship to a period of expectations that should not have existed, then the person who pays the price for it is bound to be the one who relies on this relationship.

Therefore, from the very beginning, she did not allow herself to have that kind of unrealistic delusion.

However, Che Che ghostly mentioned this person, “Why don’t we ask Uncle Zhou to help?”

When he spoke of the Uncle Zhou he spoke of, it was as if Wen Ning felt as if perhaps it was because of Li Che’s overly innocent eyes that she had almost thought that the Zhou Yinchu they knew wasn’t the same person at all.

“That day, Uncle Zhou left his phone number in my phone watch ……”

Wen Ning hesitated briefly, “Don’t look for him.”

Before the words fell, the Little Genius Phone Watch, however, utilized its fast call function to dial the phone directly, one step ahead of Wen Ning’s resistance.

Wen Ning did not know whether this was a convenience or a disadvantage of technology.

Even if she had to explain that “your Uncle Zhou is going on a business trip today”, it would have been too late.

She realized that the call was irrevocably made, and the thing she least wanted to happen finally happened.

To be fair, she didn’t know how Zhou Yinchu saw her in this instance.

All she knew was that it was an unconscionable thing for a woman to trouble someone else without knowing that the man had his own business to attend to.

And the bad thing about this was that she was a parent who never bothered to scold her children.

Even if Li Che did seek out Zhou Yinchu, there was no way for her to reprimand her own child, which only meant that Zhou Yinchu was perhaps a reliable adult in Li Che’s mind.

At that moment, the man picked up her child’s phone.

“Uncle Zhou …… my mom’s car was scrapped, for a while we can’t go back, can you have any way to help us?”

Wen Ning simply could not face Li Che’s tone of asking for help, and she was afraid that people would misunderstand that it was she who dominated and taught her own child to say so.

Zhou Yinchu was succinct: “Where are you and your mom, send me an exact location.”

“By the way, give your phone watch to your mom, I have something to say to her.”

Wen Ning realized that there were some things that seemed destined to happen that she couldn’t circumvent, so she could only take the watch that Chelsea had taken off and accept it with a stiff upper hand.

She didn’t know how to explain that she would have the intention of contacting him at this moment, not to mention that she didn’t understand what Zhou Yinchu wanted to say to her.

Avoiding the ambiguous words again, she takes off Che Che’s watch and walks away a few steps in the direction of the flower beds, instructing Che Che to “pay attention to safety” while having to deal with the man on the other side of the phone, “What’s the matter, is there something you have to say to me? ”

“Don’t worry,” the man, however, didn’t utter a single boundary-less word, and laughed softly in the moment of silence, as if he had already predicted her reaction, he promptly gave his answer, “I’ll be right there.”

It was as if this sentence was purely to appease her, to tell her brightly that there was no need to be afraid, he would come.

It would be a lie to say that she wasn’t moved.

But if she was easily moved by words of this caliber, Wen Ning would not be the Wen Ning of today.

She did not have the fear and anxiety of her teenage years, but instead bought cigarettes and water for the forklift master early from the roadside convenience store.

And he did come a step ahead of the road crew, reacting surprisingly quickly.

The man didn’t say a word about the fact that he had been at the highway station the previous second, but instead asked them to see if there were any valuables that needed to be taken down, after which they went straight to his car.

As for her original vehicle that might have been reported damaged, the people behind Zhou Yinchu and those related to road conditions were already dealing with it in a timely manner.

Wen Ning was instantly free of worries and breathed a sigh of relief.

But see a forklift slowly appeared in the traffic, also thought that he found on the Internet master has come over, the results of the call, people do not want to come to the intention.

Perhaps it is the road ahead of other people’s vehicles out of the problem shouted to it.

Wen Ning didn’t dwell on such a small matter for too long, she only knew that Zhou Yinchu’s life trajectory on this day overlapped with hers countless times, and right in front of her, he was pulling open the passenger side door for her in a rather gentlemanly manner.

Li Che, on the other hand, was clearly no stranger to this 16C Galibier, and had very quickly gotten into her own installed seat.

There was more than a little more room in this rear row than in her car.

It was obvious that Li Che also loved this car of Zhou Yinchu’s. If this ordinary mother of hers had the same favorable living conditions as Zhou Yinchu, then she might not necessarily not have bought such a decent car for her family.

At that time, Wen Ning actually did not have much of a concept of the price of the car, thinking that it was just a one or two million dollar car like the AMG, and did not realize that this car was one step higher than Cullinan’s price point, and the previous black and gold divo was directly comparable to Pagani’s God of the Winds, which was worth half a billion dollars.

“Last day at this school, how does it feel?”

Zhou Yinchu might have been willing to express some closeness, but to Wen Ning’s ears, Zhou Yinchu’s method of asking wasn’t much different from him hyping up the financial statements in the company.

It was inherently raw and unforgiving.

Li Che looked like he was still facing the Director of Instruction’s questioning after school, as he respectfully explained, “I revised the arithmetic problems of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, and I also wrote a small composition of three hundred words.”

“What was the content of the composition written about, why don’t you read it to everyone?”

Wen Ning stopped him, “Kids are weirdly tired after a long day of school, you don’t want to keep making him talk about east and west, there’s no need for that.”

“Li Che, did I embarrass you?”

“No, Uncle Zhou.”

Zhou Yinchu spun the steering wheel with one hand, “Then you’re reluctant to read the essays you’ve written with Uncle Zhou?”

Li Che’s face instantly became awkward as well.

As if he was caught between his mother, who was unwilling to let him mention a word more, and Uncle Zhou, who demanded a report every now and then, it was very difficult to behave.

On the face of Zhou Yinchu abandoning the business he was negotiating and rushing here to lend a hand, Wen Ning compromised.

It was rare to hear the heart of a small child was actually irrelevant.

On the small matter of reading the composition is not so uptight, she doesn’t feel that there is half a bit of unseemly in Chuchu, nor does she feel that the words of a child are unseemly anywhere: “If you are willing to read it to Uncle Zhou, mom doesn’t have a problem with that either.”

On the way home, twilight gradually thickened, but they were as if they were ready to set aside the cover of this layer of fog and look straight at the last sun of the day.

Later on, Wenning understood that Che Che’s hesitation and entanglement did not only lie in his own attitude.

“This is a look at the picture essay, there is a hospital in the picture.”

Initially everything was fairly normal, this was a picture reading essay question that had actually been trained since the lower grades.

Next, Li Che’s expression became more hesitant, “So I wrote about the last time Uncle Zhou sent me to the hospital ……”

Wen Ning had already felt something was wrong from this time.

How could an ordinary essay still involve Zhou Yinchu, who didn’t have much interaction with them?

She turned to remember what happened on that day in the hospital, in fact, there were quite a lot of trivial things that happened throughout that day, but Wen Ning would always associate the man’s hand that was overstretched behind her waist, that kind of feeling laced with shame and unspeakable feelings, which could not be dispersed.

In the end, the direction of this composition eventually became unbelievable.

Li Che carefully scrutinized the theme of this essay and emotionally read aloud, “That day, my mom thought I was unhappy and insisted that I go to the hospital to ask a doctor, but we didn’t know many doctors. So Uncle Zhou, who was upright and kind, took the initiative to help ……”

It was also at this moment that Li Che heard his mother break out into a light bell-like laughter in a rare moment after his father’s death.

It had been a long time since he had heard his mother laugh in such a reckless, unburdened manner-

Wen Ning had never imagined in her life that one day, “upright and kind” would be a word that could be used to describe Zhou Yinchu.