Chapter 61
Chaos of the case, the cocoon, finally about to officially enter the trial process.
Wen Ning immediately relaxed a lot.
Being in the hospital, she didn’t feel the cramped and depressing environment. She quietly sat next to the public water fountain, and looked at the patients and family members who came back and forth for examination.
“Why haven’t you left yet?”
Wen Ning froze, she was getting up to make way for the public chairs for the children who were doing cta, and hurriedly replied, “It’s not like I’m going into the radiology room, it doesn’t affect it.”
Mrs. Zhou was particularly meticulous: “The radiation here is always more than outside, it’s okay for you not to wait here again.”
“Good.”
Strong mother-in-law on behalf of her daughter-in-law, understanding daughter-in-law patiently waiting for her mother-in-law, this is just an ordinary family’s daily small things, but Zhou mother touched.
“I’ll take you to a place.”
Wen Ning had no reason to refuse: “Then when I’ve been to the place you mentioned, I’ll treat you to a meal afterward.”
Three meals should always be regular.
“Good.”
The woman who had been sitting in the car all the way opened her mouth at some point.
“Zhou Yinchu’s father and I were in a business marriage, how should I put it, more precisely, it was me who begged their family,” Zhou’s mother’s mood remained smooth when she mentioned the old story, “so I married and had Yinchu.”
“There was a relatively happy time for the newlyweds, but when Zhou Yinchu’s father found out what I was up to, he was very resentful of me, thinking that I was trying to annex the family’s property and embezzle his personal assets, and that I was nostalgic for my first love.”
“So, he did some outrageous things every day, often causing trouble at home and at work.”
“Over time, we lost patience with each other, and no one would have known how to run our marriage at such a young age.”
Mother Zhou leaned back on the back seat, her examination report was idly set aside and she didn’t seem to intend to give it a second glance, she then explained without any distractions, “But his father wasn’t too bad of a person by nature, and he also brought Zhou Yinchu around a lot, and was very close to his son.”
“But we ushered in the biggest point of disagreement, our distribution of shareholders’ rights and interests is always unable to communicate, he always suspected me of favoring some of my original family, but also includes my first love their emerging capitalist,” she seemed to sigh, stubborn and powerful women also always have a side of powerlessness, “but I Doing so is just to adapt to the changing times and accelerate the reform.”
“One day we quarreled so much that he made a self-destructive move.”
There are moments of heartache in the quietest of frowns: “He jumped into the family pool and tried to drown himself.”
“I saved him and talked it all out with him, telling him that I was all about our family, making it straight and clear that there was no other man in my heart at all.”
Her gaze gradually became softer, but her tone became sad: “Our relationship eased up for a while, and just when everything was getting better, he drove his car and bought flowers to celebrate the listing of our Hong Kong stock-”
“He had an accident.”
Mother Zhou pondered her situation, “So I can very much understand what happened to you today, my husband was taken away by an unwarranted disaster just like your ex-husband.”
Wen Ning had no time to sigh, and Mother Zhou seemed to look at it more openly than she did, “Since the past is over, there’s no need for any of us to live in the past.”
Wen Ning was suddenly curious about this question, “Perhaps it is a bit presumptuous to ask about you and your first love.”
“Perhaps, I wasn’t as lucky as you and Zhou Yinchu,” some would walk away from the past, but others might not, Zhou mother looked like she had really been consumed in her newly established family, she seemed to have no worthwhile memory points for the deceased, and was unresponsive in mentioning the man, “He’s in the United States. I’m not sure about his marital status, I don’t dare to go looking for him, and odds are he’s not waiting for me either.”
“I hear he’s doing quite well in his field.”
She collected the checkup with one hand on the small tabletop propped open, “But we’ve had all our feelings sapped by the long hours, and I don’t see the need for a do-over.”
“It was rather hard for you to keep the company and protect Yin at that time, wasn’t it?”
“I’ll be honest, the company caused me far less distress than the negative impact your husband brought to me.”
Mother Zhou was unafraid to use “your husband” to set aside her own relationship with her biological son in favor of pushing him towards herself in his entirety, “It’s true that I interfered with your free love affairs, my own marriage itself was a product of gatekeeper’s views, and I wouldn’t have completely disregarded the other party’s birth and rank, but at the time, I hoped more that Zhou Yinchu to concentrate on his studies, and if he had the ability to be free from the interference and influence of capital, in time, such as today, I would have no need to somehow apportion my energies and bother about his personal and private feelings.”
Part of her thought was very westernized, “People should always have their own uninvaded private lives when they’re adults.”
“Actually, come to think of it, it’s also that menopause that can be so controlling that even if you took that money and walked away in a heartbeat, I’d have no reason to cut him off and tell him you were in it for the money.”
She reflects somewhat, “Zhou Yinchu is right on this point, we shouldn’t test human nature with money.”
And then she breaks off to talk about what happened after she and Zhou Yinchu broke up that year, “At that moment, his reaction was bigger than I thought.”
“He didn’t look like he had any way of accepting this fact, and then in retrospect, suppressing the child and letting him live a routine life according to my whims, he may not have gotten where he is today.”
At this point, Zhou’s mother is still proud of Zhou Yinchu’s accomplishments.
Mother Zhou still had reservations, “Don’t tell him these words, I’m afraid he’s too confident, too sure of himself, which may not be a truly good thing.”
“Okay, I won’t say anything.” Wen Ning promised.
“Wenning, we’re here.”
Wen Ning saw Si and took the initiative to help her open this door as well, she politely declined and got out of the car alone, not forgetting the parasol propping up another person.
If there is no mistake in recognizing the scene in front of her, this is a piece of wasteland that is being developed, and in front of her at this time is moving, Mother Zhou did not slow down because of her body, got out of the car, conveniently landed in the temporary housing that was suggested to be erected, that looks like the base’s office.
Mother Zhou guided her, “You sit down first, there are a few points of the document you can look at carefully, see clearly before signing.”
Wen Ning suddenly had an additional A4 printed contract in her hand, she half understood, “This is?”
“Originally, I wanted to wait for you to give birth before transferring the increase to you, but now it seems that there is no need to delay it for so long.”
Mother Zhou took out the same weight she had found difficult to reach as when they first met, only this time the gesture was very different from fifteen years ago, “Since you explained clearly the use of that one hundred thousand dollars, there is no reason for me to question your character anymore. If you don’t find it burdensome, then the ownership of this land is yours afterward.”
“I can’t afford it.”
Wen Ning was faced with such a large amount of huge property, it was not that she was not moved by it, the mentality of anyone who tends to rush for wealth would have been something she herself would have experienced, but she did not think she was a reasonable candidate to accept this asset, “Even if you want to give it, you should give it to Zhou Yinchu.”
“The location of this land, he may not be able to see it, because of the alleged kinship and land relationship between mother and son, we still have to do all sorts of supporting documents, if we wait until we die, it will be even more troublesome to pay the tax in terms of the inheritance,” Zhou mother’s topic easily crosses over between life and death, “My suggestion is that you’d better accept it now. ”
“Auntie, you may not be able to examine it for a while longer?”
Wen Ning counted the amount of the contract subject to the original shot, generally large she has also seen, so much a string of 0’s unheard of: “In case I really solicited, in order to covet Zhou Yinchu’s money ……”
The older woman seems to say another thing very understandable: “Then you will not come all the way over for your ex-husband.”
“I have my own judgment in my heart.”
She looked calm, “Think of it as a gift for you.”
“But this gift is too expensive, I need to call and ask Zhou Yinchu what he means.”
After Zhou Yinchu was informed of this, his reply was brief and concise: “You can accept it.”
“But pay some attention to the terms of the contract, lest you step on a pit.” He also issued a warning shot, as if he still had an innate guard against his own mother.
Instead, it was Mother Zhou’s reaction that was incredible, and she didn’t need to hear it to realize the mind’s eye her son had left behind.
“Wen Ning, if you’re not sure, you can always take it back and let your lawyer friend help look at it.”
“I ……”
“When it’s time to actually go through the notary registration, you can look for me again,” Mother Zhou didn’t rush the process, this wasn’t some intentionally sought after ordeal, even if it was a hint of compensation for her giving the pair so much time for the ups and downs, her eyes slowed down and she didn’t rush it, “I’ll give you my contact information. ”
In the midst of the hospitality, Wen Ning did not know how to rebuff, “Let’s go eat.”
Wen Ning all the way on the cell phone softphone to see the local Jiangsu and Zhejiang cuisine, it is not easy to find a family in the old city, out of this empty construction site, their return trip back to the original district.
Four Seasons home cooking, always refreshing, clean.
The two leaned against the window and sat down, and outside the huge floor-to-ceiling windows were passing stumbling passersby.
Wen Ning set out the dishes for Zhou’s mother, “You’ll have to make do for now.”
“After all, we have to consider your health, I think it’s always better to eat lighter.”
“The doctor said that it’s genetics,” Mother Zhou wasn’t too particular, and reassured her, “It doesn’t have much effect on what I eat, so you don’t have to be so worried.”
“How can I not be concerned?”
Before seeing his person, he first heard his voice.
The man was wearing an ordinary black shirt, listening to Wen Ning’s arrangement, all the way to the buttons near the knot of the throat, after sitting down, clearly some discomfort like loosening the collar.
He said bluntly, “Almost also Wen Ning did not sleep well all night.”
Wen Ning smoothly also gave him hot dishes: “How did you take the time to come over at noon?”
The man smoothly dumped the hot water from the shabu-shabu pot on the countertop into the trash can, picking out the cleanest dishes within his sights and giving them to Wen Ning, “I heard Assistant Lin say that you guys were here, and I wasn’t worried that you’d be embarrassed by her.”
There were some words that Wen Ning never understood, how Zhou Yinchu had the audacity to open his mouth directly in front of his mother.
“Which piece of land in Jiuhe, I remember quite a few people asking you for it, how can you spare it for our Ning Ning?”
Wen Ning tugged at her new husband, “Don’t you talk nonsense.”
Mother Zhou uttered, “If I don’t give it to her, can’t I give it to you who pissed me off?”
“What, you don’t dare to do the surgery, and you’ve already started arranging for the aftermath?”
Wen Ning stopped him from saying these unlucky ones, “Zhou Yinchu.”
“No harm, I know in my own heart what kind of goods my son is.” Zhou mother’s face didn’t change as she explored the truly horrific effects of the surgery, “It’s not that I won’t do the surgery, the current stage involves cutting out the complete stomach, which means that even if I survive by chance, I’ll only be able to eat fluids for the rest of my life, can you understand that now?”
“Is it that hard to drink congee every day?”
Wen Ning knew that Zhou Yinchu meant well, but she was also not used to hearing his cold words, “Yes, Auntie, you don’t look like a person who is heavy on food and drink, and I think the reason why Zhou Yinchu said that before was most likely because he wanted to motivate you to have the surgery early.”
“Don’t want to go under the knife.”
Zhou’s mother was excessively sober: “At this age, there’s no need to hold out in a hospital bed.”
His mother wasn’t easy to convince, she was stubbornly adamant, no half-creases on her elegant navy blue set of clusters, and it was indeed hard to imagine the picture if she were to be wet with all kinds of fluids afterward.
“It’s none of your business, Winning, just take care of your little family as well as my unintelligent son, no need for extra burdens.”