Chapter 52
“This can be given every month?” Li’s father was using his brain, using a lot of heart.
“Yes, the man will not give me money,” Wen Ning is no longer stuck in the previous role of a good wife and mother, “my small store income only a total of a few thousand ah, this is not intended to give you a thousand a month?”
“I thought, you should have enough for your expenses.”
Li’s father’s eyes were glowing, his deep recessed eye sockets were filled with a burst of joy: “You can buy several barrels of wine.”
Wen Ning didn’t care about this use, she slowly said her real purpose: “However, I have a condition.”
Li’s father eagerly said, “Tell me!”
He looked like he was going to beat his chest and make a promise in the next second.
Wen Ning didn’t make any harsh demands, “You can’t let Li Yuanzhe’s mom find me again.”
“That’s negotiable!” Li’s father immediately agreed, “What’s not to like?”
“This bitch, before hooking up with wild men in the same village, I have long seen her unhappy,” Seeing Li father does not miss the years of conjugal love, nonchalantly on his side, “How do you want me to control, I’ll sleep under the bed of the two of them is not a bad idea.”
To be honest, before Li’s father in order to cuckold things nagging for many years, Wen Ning in the eve of the wedding, but also listened to the two people for this big fight.
Wen Ning was momentarily lost in thought, and returned to speak to Li’s father, “It doesn’t have to be so exaggerated.”
“You sure she will not go to Jiangcheng to find me on the line,” Wen Ning for the money to make the request very clear, “if you can not do it, then you this thousand of money, I have no way to continue to give.”
“I’ll do it, I’ll take orders.”
Wen Ning used to disdain this kind of way, according to her nature, must be a lot of bitter persuasion, perhaps, Zhou Yinchu has already caused her influence –
Perhaps Zhou Yinchu had already had an effect on her – once one realizes that money can solve most problems, that’s how people tend to solve them.
“Don’t take it all to the bar, either.” She still couldn’t help but open her mouth, redundant with those good intentions.
The father-in-law immediately signed the letter, asked Wenning if she wanted a stamp, and only after he finally got his wish to sign and stamp, knowing that the money would surely fall into his pocket, did he begin to lecture the young daughter-in-law again: “You don’t know what you’re talking about, but all men have to drink.”
In short, she also understood that she could never seem to change their way of being, so let him continue to observe Li Yuanzhe’s mother and hold each other back.
As expected, when Lee’s mother’s phone call came after a while, it was to greet Lee’s father.
The two argued inextricably, but also from the dejected Li’s father heard that he got more than a thousand dollars a month this alive, trying to find ways to take this money over, she also does not look for Wen Ning’s business, just single-mindedly staring at her ex-husband, but also to make him inevitably will eat in to spit out.
There are times when Wen Ning thinks about Li Yuanzhe’s journey, it’s really not easy.
While lamenting, Wen Ning realized that Zhou Yinchu’s silence today was not quite right.
He hadn’t asked himself how he was doing for three whole hours.
In the past, he had always pursued her every step of the way, so much so that the feeling of strong pressure had seeped into her bones, and after a short period of separation, the person who was not used to this had instead become her.
She thought that with Zhou Yinchu’s level of intellect, he could hear the meaning of her words and distinguish between truth and falsehood.
Between the truth and the falsehood, he stood in her position and rounded up the words that were so false that they couldn’t be more false for her.
In fact, it is not necessary to deceive him.
Regret can’t be talked about, in the way Zhou Yinchu gave her impression, not all positive, and she also has her own selfishness, does not want to participate in it, to see even more do not want to because of Che Che Che’s grandparents, and therefore treat Che Che differently.
Perhaps, in her bones, she was still worried about the difference in status between them, fearing that he would look at people through colored glasses.
That concern would not subside for a while, and as to whether it would stay with her for the rest of her life, she did not have full knowledge of it.
Between “cheating and not cheating”, what seems to be straddling the line is no longer how to benefit themselves, the way to preserve their reputation, but also this period of time she can not part with the feelings.
Wen Ning did not take the high-speed train again, but directly took a taxi.
The cab driver saw that a big business had come, although he might have to stay up all night, he did not refuse, life is like this, no one does not want to make more money, no one is an exception.
“Take the highway, I’ll pay the highway toll.” Wen Ning pulled her seatbelt tighter.
She wanted to see him as soon as possible.
She wanted to explain with him if she could.
On the highway, next to a lane accident rear-end, her heart tightened, some fear, but she held back, did not share with anyone their same concern for fate, looked at the damaged when the front of the car, the personnel have been freed, in the arrangements for the evacuation of the, turned around Wenning also similarly relieved.
“So anxious to see who ah?”
“My husband.”
“You young couples love is good ah, this day or two days can not not meet, the night also rushed back?”
Wen Ning did not deny, resting her cheeks remembered Zhou Yinchu’s old face, which was like a reflection on the fuzzy car window: “Yes.”
Seeing that Wen Ning did not want to reveal too much, the driver did not pursue the question, but drove the car at ease. By the time they saw the landmarks of Jiangcheng, they were about to get off the highway, and it was already 2:30 in the morning.
“I guarantee I can get you home in a quarter of an hour.”
Wen Ning transferred money early, “Tough on you, master, one hundred is the highway fee, and the other hundred counts as a small token of appreciation.”
She didn’t know why she was in such a hurry to get to his house, and she didn’t know why she couldn’t stay one more night in Peixian, even she herself didn’t understand her obsession-
Perhaps, as the driving master had said, they were still on good terms.
She was thinking about him, I guess.
The woman who was ashamed to admit this understood that she appeared to have made a small, painless mistake, but for this she had to suffer inner torture.
She didn’t want to lie.
If he wanted to be open and honest at all times, then she didn’t really have a cover-up to hide or see.
However, the woman who had come to this strange home, even with her last experience, had absolutely no idea how to deal with the rest of the family.
At midnight, she would never understand how the servants who were not present that day were still silently keeping watch for the night.
Was it because she hadn’t seen it before?
Did it mean that all her attention had been drawn to the men before?
How she should introduce herself and identify herself was another dilemma. It was a good thing that the marriage license, which she had not been able to find a place to store, had rested casually in the small bag she carried.
Now, it had been pulled out again in this twisted fashion.
Even though she wanted to appear generous enough, at this point in time, in the dead of night, it was inherently presumptuous for yet another woman to suddenly emerge from the villa and hold up a marriage license in one hand.
But Wenning did it anyway.
Otherwise, she didn’t know how she would open the door to this one.
The door of the downtown villa was open as expected, but the little sister who opened it had an awkward smile on her face, “Mr. has already introduced Mrs.’s identity to us.”
“You don’t need to ……”
Wen Ning even put her marriage certificate away, she didn’t know when Zhou Yinchu had informed this group of people, nor did she know how they all recognized her face.
As she was changing her slippers, she didn’t hold back and asked, “How do you guys know what I look like?”
The slightly older housekeeper walked out, “Ma’am, the headshots you and Mr. took in high school are still hanging on the wall.”
Wen Ning hadn’t paid attention to this detail, after all, she had come that late that day as well, and the night was so late that she was guided directly into the study-
After that, there was no energy left to discern anything else.
“Can you show me where the picture is?” It hadn’t really occurred to her that the home had left her mark so long ago.
The elderly housekeeper was full of joy as she led her to the photos of yesteryear:
“Ma’am, there is finally a mistress in this home.”
“From the time that photo appeared, we never thought that there would be another mistress, even with the pressure from the old lady, no one dared to touch that photo that had been rolled up and yellowed.”
Wenning’s eyes lingered longingly on the aisle entrance, at the picture of them together between the antique picture frames-
Thinking back to the light of many years ago.
That set of headshots was a product of the popularity of that period, and it might seem a bit non-mainstream now, but at that time it seemed that people were always happy to be loyal to that kind of commemorative mode.
She selected several frames, the problem came again, she selected the frame, that is, the background of the pattern of the photo mask is not small, so only a blurred shot of the face of the two of them, while the body movements are completely unable to see, gestures can not show, for this reason, fiddling with two movements of the heart of the fruitless Wen Ning full of resentment.
“Why didn’t you say anything just now when you were choosing the photo backdrop?”
“If I said it, would you listen?”
“Whether or not I’ll listen is one thing, but whether or not you’re willing to remind me is another.”
“Wen Ning, can you be reasonable, big deal, let’s finish this set and re-shoot it again.”
“Snort, I forgot how rich the big young master is,” she got angry and went to stab him in the side, “If you accidentally shoot too much, if you change to a new girlfriend in the future, you won’t be able to tear it up in time, how can you show your loyalty to your new girlfriend?”
“Where’s the new girlfriend, are you crazy?”
Youth is always accompanied by arguments, quarrels, and chatter.
They met, fell in love, and parted at that age.
If only pictures of themselves had appeared in this home, and not another woman, then did it also mean that they had misunderstood what Zhou Yinchu had done over the years for a time.
People always associated money with men and women, and she had presumed that Zhou Yinchu had at least had more emotional experiences than her over the years.
However, there had only ever been pictures of them together in this home.
There seemed to be inexplicable warm currents in her heart that washed over the hard reef.
“You guys take an early rest.”
She said “good night” to the housekeeper and maid who hadn’t slept, and went to find him in his master bedroom; it was Wenning’s first time in their home, incredulous at the bizarre, even impractical, new discovery, yet pondering how to treat the man in front of her.
Tiptoeing, she closed the door.
The man seemed to be asleep, but not quite, and rolled over, his afterglow more than likely having recognized her.
She took the initiative and wrapped her arms around his firm, strong waist and stomach, “I’m sorry, Yin.”
“I lied to you, in fact, I wanted to settle the matter of Li Yuanzhe and their family through and through tonight ……,” probably because it was too late in the night, people’s thinking reaction would be slowed down, Wen Ning said as an afterthought, “I forgot again, I shouldn’t have mentioned his name of him.”
“Wen Ning, don’t think you can coax me with just these three words.” Zhou Yinchu said with his heart in his mouth.
How could he afford to blame her.