Chapter 60
If she had known, why would she have refused?
Default the results of the established delivery, only, she felt the difference this time, the night clearly began to cover the whole earth, the blank night is thin and cool, is the head of the most simple and cheap light bulb, emitting warm light, in addition, there is no other light, but also makes Wen Ning long time to revisit the longing for the lost and regained the warmth.
The circuit was pulled in by the workers for temporary renovation.
Therefore, the overhead light source is also oval, not energy-saving old-fashioned incandescent lamp.
It was the same light through which she could see into her lover’s eyes, and deeper into his posture.
Perhaps it was a bad contact, or the original circuitry had been pulled from the outside, so that it was sometimes bright and sometimes dim, just as they sometimes engulfed each other and sometimes let go of their distance.
But wrapped up in the feeling of being pulled by fate, drawn closer, never farther away, she couldn’t care less about the flickering bulb.
It occurred to her that maybe it was her explanation, the words, the physical sensation of having said it and not having said it that was different, that she had felt the need to numb the unpleasant past as quickly as possible, but the moment she actually said it, she was relieved all the same.
There was no need to suffer from guilt.
Even in the face of pain, there would be someone who would feel the same pain as you at the same moment.
“Wenning.”
Their memories were completely ignited in this moment for emotions, senses, and together they stepped into the forbidden past again.
“If I could do it all over again, I’d say that the reasons you’ve stated, I don’t accept, and there’s absolutely no reason for us to break up.”
He revisits his request for a breakup, and in this moment, the arrogant Zhou Yinchu, in his middle age, solemnly tells her another version of the answer.
Without the high-minded, chagrined, obsessive desire to gain the upper hand, he no longer wanted to win the battle that would not be won.
He could be the loser.
Losing was affordable.
For this belated answer, Wenning didn’t know how to respond the way he wanted to, and perhaps physical feedback was always the most intuitive expression.
She kissed him, slightly twisted waist, lotus root color like a mist like skirt tail in the flickering light, soft bright, with the evening wind dance, but Wen Ning did not think that the final kiss will be heavenly.
Until finally, barely replying to a bit of the last situation, she stated, “It’s better not to use this place as a study.”
He asked knowingly, “Then as what?”
She didn’t want to be reminded of today’s charming images as soon as she stepped into Chulchu’s study, and the woman who leaned into his embrace and breathed steadily had to say it in full, “Then consider it as …… a place for our usual activities.”
“What counts as a place for ‘activities’?”
Zhou Yinchu’s tone was still teasing, but the bottom of his eyes were strewn with the insatiable greed after his initial desire had been satiated.
Wen Ning’s cheeks rolled, and she intentionally skipped over this question that was well known to each other, “The study, perhaps the small room on the second floor against the south.”
“Good, all listen to my wife’s arrangement.”
After tossing and turning for a good while, the hanging high heels finally landed on the ground.
But today’s Wen Ning can’t blame Zhou Yinchu, this is all something that she can walk away from, but stops and folds back.
That night, they still finally chose to return to Wen Ning’s home, after all, Wen Ning also thought that they should do have been in this day have experienced, do not have to harbor excess worry, the two of them the probability of movement will not affect the entire residential building.
It was a one-meter-five bed, stretching out the space was not big.
When the man lay down, he had taken up most of it.
For the first time, she had accepted his presence, his intrusion into her real life, and he had attributed the progress to that one piece of workwear, “Our Ning doesn’t look like she likes that type very much.”
“Not at all.”
“Then it’s the only one who likes me in it.”
Yes, he was the exception to the rule, and there had only ever been one exception like that.
“Go to sleep.”
She thought she must have been overly gullible in her faith in a man’s self-control and the empathy that came with familiarity with each other’s bodies, as once again, bit by bit, he urgently moved closer to him.
“No,” the woman pushed him away and rolled over self-consciously again, almost leaning over the edge of the bed, “You should be well aware of the soundproofing in here as well.”
Seeing that she might fall off at any moment, he casually tugged her over, “Then if you keep your voice down, I guess no one will know.”
“Zhou Yinchu.”
This time the call was no longer as intimate as it had been on the boardwalk.
“Good.”
The man who had failed to get what he wanted didn’t continue to tease . Teasing the woman, he let her go, enduring the whole night for the sake of her so-called non-embarrassment, her face, her reputation.
In order to put her at ease, he was even willing to sleep on his back, Zhou Yinchu thought himself not to be a short-sighted man.
Waking up in the morning.
Everything was so organized that one could get a glimpse of the future of married life.
Zhou Yinchu ate a bowl of small wontons, sitting squarely in Wen Ning’s store, and then took the initiative to send Li Che to school, while Li Che had long yearned for Uncle Zhou’s cool car, and even though he didn’t show it outwardly, when he learned that Uncle Zhou was going to send it in person, the leap in the bottom of the child’s eyes was always not fooling anyone.
Then, not long after Zhou Yinchu left, Wen Ning received a call from Jiang Cheng.
Without much hesitation, she answered it.
“Hello, is this Ms. Wen?”
After receiving her affirmation, the other party informed in a dutiful tone, “I’m here at the People’s Hospital, and I’d like to speak to you about the current stage of the situation regarding the girl who fell and was injured.”
“She’s awake.”
Wen Ning remembered the head nurse who had kindly left her phone number, and instantly eased her mind, “Yes, I see, thank you for being willing to inform me.”
Once again, she held up a bouquet of eustoma flowers.
Wen Ning knew full well that this matter already had Zhou Yinchu’s involvement, in fact, she had all but lost the helplessness she felt at that initial meeting.
But the little girl’s awakening still had a significance to the case that could not be replaced.
In other words, the person in question and the eyewitness woke up.
She had understood the structure and atmosphere of that family, and according to reason, it was enough for her to hand over her peace of mind to the legal team behind Zhou Yinchu, but she couldn’t pretend not to hear, stay out of it, and insensitively act as her own broad wife.
Wen Ning’s first reaction was still to go to the hospital.
When she arrived at the nurse’s station, Wen Ning finally realized that the girl’s situation had turned critical and she had finally been transferred from the intensive care unit to a general ward.
According to reason, this time still can not relax or take it lightly.
But the girl’s mother relentlessly demanded the hospital as soon as possible for discharge procedures, this kind of spending money, especially spend the money belongs to her son’s hospitalization very reluctant.
The police had also arrived at the scene.
Wenning at first only mildly inquired, “Can I go meet her?”
The girl’s mother suddenly rushed out from the middle of the crowd, and this time, the eldest daughter who stopped her looked like she was also distraught, “You pest, why are you everywhere?”
“Trying to teach my daughter what to say, is it hard to tell her to cause her father to go to jail?”
The woman who is a nuisance cursed: “Your son has no man to raise, so you want to come to harm my son?”
Wen Ning really can’t understand this kind of a “son” people, the crowd saw this, also advised Wen Ning to come back at another time.
Wen Ning did not avoid, she thought of a number of ways to let herself in.
But the only thing she hadn’t thought of was that the person who helped her was Zhou Yinchu’s mother. She only remembered a brief glimpse of her in the second courtyard, but she hadn’t thought that she would meet again today.
And long before she understood the situation, Zhou mother’s reaction was different from what she had imagined.
Thought such as Zhou mother a kind of high eyed people will not be able to participate in this nature of the quarrel, however, she preferred to participate in it, also do not ask the cause, first to the girl’s mother accused a pass.
“You’re the only unqualified person in the entire building street, don’t you think the hospital needs to be quiet?”
And under Mother Zhou’s intimidation, that middle-aged woman instantly didn’t dare to yell out loud, while Mother Zhou came with an aura of grace and elegance, looking graceful, with an extraordinary aura, and naturally, it wasn’t something that ordinary people could afford to infringe upon.
Under Wen Ning’s dismay, she spoke nonchalantly, “Wen Ning, which ward do you want to enter?”
“If I can’t get in, I’ll call the dean to come over.”
Wen Ning pointed to the ward not far away, “This one.”
“Then you go in, I’ll stand guard outside the door to see who dares to raise their voices?”
Undoubtedly, under Mother Zhou’s maneuvering, she smoothly entered the student ward related to her ex-husband’s case, while Mother Zhou, standing outside the door with her back straight, closed the door for her with her own hands.
“Auntie, I’m sorry.”
Long before Wen Ning opened her mouth to inquire, the girl opened her mouth first, her ventilator still functioning, but she clumsily removed her oxygen mask, “These days, I can actually hear you, my sister has told me all about it, and you should have been here before.”
“I’m the one that screwed up Mr. Lee.”
“Dad was originally prepared to beat me, it was Mr. Li who kindly crotched for me, and even tried to protect me from harm when he was about to fall ……”
And when really touching on the details about his death, Wenning couldn’t really keep from shedding tears.
The image of Li Yuanzhe’s final fall from a high altitude before he was born stung her once again.
Seeing the frail girl, Wen Ning couldn’t bear to see her, but she still stiffened her heart and made her intentions clear: “Then are you willing to testify for Mr. Li after your body recovers?”
“I don’t know,” the girl’s body was trembling, “I’m scared, if I tell the truth, my mom may never forgive me for the rest of my life.”
“Count on Auntie to beg you, as long as you’re willing to tell the truth, I can provide you with tuition fees and support you all the way to university, I can help you settle your hospitalization expenses,” Wen Ning was no longer afraid of the little ups and downs within her heart, Zhou Yinchu’s presence invariably gave her the backbone to propose other solutions at any time, “I will also arrange a new job for your sister.”
“Really?”
The girl always empathized for the females in her family, and upon hearing that she was willing to help her sister, it was clear that the girl seemed to be somewhat convinced.
She appeased, but didn’t force the issue, “I won’t lie to you, just rest well in the hospital for now.”
“It’s not too late to give auntie an answer afterward,” Wen Ning wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and wiped them away together, “What auntie wants isn’t much, for your Mr. Li, I only hope that after his death he can rest in peace, and that he can be treated fairly by the law.”
The door of the hospital room was re-covered again.
“I let you see the joke.”
Wen Ning had seen Mother Zhou again within the week, never expecting it to be on such an occasion.
Thinking about the illness on Mother Zhou’s body, coming to the hospital often was actually not difficult to understand.
It was just that she hadn’t expected the sickly Mother Zhou to be out supporting her.
“How could that be, I always thought you were a soft and timid woman, I never thought there would be a side of reasoned argument.”
Mother Zhou probably already had her own understanding of the circumstances outside the hospital room.
“It hasn’t been easy for you these past few years.”
Wen Ning did not mention the hardships of these years as she guffawed, “Thank you for being willing to help me today.”
“Even if I have a bad relationship with you,” Mother Zhou was no longer holding on to her strong aura at this time, like a mother-in-law who could chat and talk in an ordinary household, “Wen Ning, we should always be on the same page, and in the future, if there is a need for me, you can talk to me about it.”
“This kind of thing, it’s not good for you to leave it up to Zhou Yinchu to step in, how strong his jealousy is, it’s not like I, as a mother, don’t know it well.” She picked up her tea, and had a deep recognition of her son.
“He is …… okay now.” It was much more liberalized than before, and it seemed that it was no longer so entangled in Li Yuanzhe’s affairs.
Wen Ning cared, “You come over for?”
“First floor, to do an enhanced CT.”
Wen Ning had done this checkup with her own mother before, and she usually had to take a shot first, after which fifteen minutes passed before she could go to the CT machine for a body scan.
“Then I’ll accompany you there?”
Mother Zhou instantly became serious: “No.”
Wen Ning turned to remember that this specialized equipment would affect a person’s fertility, and this time, Mother Zhou did not push for a baby on her lips, but made her stance clear with her practical actions.