Chapter 66

The night in Boston was dotted with stars, and as she gathered up the trivial things on her desktop, Wen Ning raised her eyes and saw Zhou Yinchu’s document page.

For the specific details of the program, she half-understood, but the word “public relations” always understand the basic meaning of the word.

She and he did not understand each other, and simply asked, “When will you go back?”

Zhou Yinchu has already made changes to the established schedule, he leaned over, in a consultative tone: “Tomorrow morning to go to Silicon Valley, after which we will return to China?”

The light on his computer screen instantly went out.

Wenning answered, “Yes.”

“Is there someone important in Silicon Valley,” but Wen Ning was equally curious about another matter, “Will it make our Mr. Zhou’s heart want to take a trip there?”

“It won’t take long,” Zhou Yinchu didn’t talk about whether it was important or not, “After meeting the person, we’ll go.”

From the northeastern Atlantic Yan’an to California, almost across the entire U.S. mainland, the airplane is still the most convenient and fastest tool.

“A friend from your start-up days?” Taking advantage of the flight journey, the woman asked.

“Sort of.”

Wen Ning once thought that Zhou Yinchu had never been a single person: “You have a good relationship with them?”

Zhou Yinchu faintly said: “I can’t talk about it, most of them don’t have much contact with each other anymore, you should know that I’m not good at managing ordinary relationships.”

Yet he singled out their relationship as if he was extremely good at it.

“I did things too utilitarian before, in short, owed some favors, I think since I’m here, passing by, treating them to a meal, it’s reasonable.”

Wen Ning did not pursue more details, she said with bated breath, “I’ll accompany you.”

“This is the sister-in-law?”

The industrial style of the initial design, cold, hard and straightforward, extremely functional, as if it was really in line with Zhou Yinchu’s aesthetics, this place is densely covered with signs that he has lived.

“Sister-in-law, we used to bunk here, your husband is the most sophisticated and buys the highest grade sleeping bags.” The man who opened the door to introduce him was from the southern part of Fujian, and spoke with a soft local accent.

His Vietnamese colleague chimed in, “Chau is the best man I know in every aspect of life.”

Wen Ning naturally felt the goodwill released by others, but as for the “utilitarian” in Zhou Yinchu’s words, Wen Ning had no idea.

She didn’t have to make a long detour from the private tarmac in Silicon Valley to Zhou Yinchu’s familiar office.

The dinner table was the same old conference table that they had abandoned in their office, and a few enlarged Fletcher round tables were also put to use, cobbled together on one side, and everything was set up like a haystack.

Winning also tried to fit in with the group he had lived with, they were tolerant, no one would talk over a woman’s past history of marriage.

“But we knew what you looked like ages ago, sister-in-law.”

Someone leaked out and betrayed Zhou Yinchu’s previous bits and pieces, “He took your headshots, and when he was in a daze, he just stared there like a demented man.”

It is hard to imagine Zhou Yinchu as a demented man, followed by Zhou Yinchu did not blame in person, but coughed, sniffing, this group of people can not have the habit of seeing the good, but rather hate to dig into the ground, Zhou Yinchu in the beginning of the venture of the embarrassing things happened one by one to say out.

Zhou Yinchu hastily ended, “Time is running out, when you guys make it, my original shares are still there, relying on that money, I should also retire.”

“Zhou, we have witnessed your talent, you should have worked hard on your own, don’t count on us.”

The Hokkien who initially greeted towards Wen Ning talked about the rest, still not free from emotion, “Yes, Zhou Yinchu, it’s no exaggeration to say that you’re the most outstanding person amongst my academic career and entrepreneurial partners.”

Zhou Yinchu drank one more rum: “But I didn’t care about you guys at that time.”

Regrets abound.

This is probably the beginning and end of the “utilitarian” in Zhou Yinchu’s mouth, Zhou Yinchu this person on the surface to treat others cold heartedly cold lungs, do not see the others, in fact, it is not that he is not a rational decision maker in economics, can not do consistently the interests of the supreme; not so much as those who are smiling tigers, the surface is not the same as the face with the face of the people and the colorful, behind the scenes can not be said to be more vicious, venomous. The most important thing is that they are not the same as those smiling tigers, they are not the same as those smiling tigers.

His old friends don’t seem to care as much about what happened as Zhou Yinchu himself: “How can I blame you?”

“Let bygones be bygones, turn the page, don’t bring it up again in front of your sister-in-law.”

“Come, let’s toast sister-in-law.”

The crowd raised their glasses in unison and drank it all in accordance with the traditional Chinese way.

She did not push or pursue the question.

But it was as if she already knew the answer, understood the reason why he became eager to get things done even if he disobeyed his own heart.

Getting up from the table, she approached him, “Do you want to return home early?”

He said neither “yes” nor “no”.

“No regrets?”

“You left your most valued friends in the middle of your business, and I should have been planning my wedding by the time you returned home.” That was more than a little realistic and cruel.

Even though he had abandoned his joint venture with them, sold his technology patents, and rushed and hurried back home.

Everything has also been changed beyond recognition.

Wen Ning: “You can blame me.”

“Why blame you?”

The past trauma, the gap seems to be because of this trip to the counterparts to get his unexpected remedy, countless times in his mind to envision the scene that should have appeared, but also has been in Harvard’s red building in front of the lawn to be realized, as expected, the man will be the past culpability of the blame all to himself: “Only because I still go back too late.”

River City, private hospital.

No one harbors any thoughts of going home, the next stop the plane arrives at is the hospital where Zhou’s mother is.

“Mom.”

Li Che jumped into Wen Ning’s arms, and it was only now that Wen Ning had a real touch, but the kind and righteous child in her arms was once taken out of context and twisted by internet culture.

The video was reprinted several times, and even though the back couldn’t have been more disembodied, it was still a huge injustice to her child.

Li Che, however, acted like nothing was wrong: “Grandma is already asleep.”

Zhou Yinchu arranges for the butler to send the luggage home, which causes a slight delay, arriving right behind him, “Isn’t there any other caretaker here, why do you need a child?”

Wen Ning was afraid that Zhou Yinchu’s tone of voice would be too impulsive: “Your Uncle Zhou doesn’t want you to work too hard as a little kid.”

“Che Che, why aren’t you gone at this hour?”

Li Che pursed his lips and said, “I said hello to Sister Xiao Yang, and when she pulls up the store door, she’ll come over to look for me.”

Wen Ning’s heart even more gave birth to an unwarranted heartache, “It’s almost nine o’clock, and Xiao Yang hasn’t closed the store yet?”

“Mom, don’t talk about her, Xiao Yang’s sister thinks that you are now with Uncle Zhou, Uncle Zhou is a very rich man, if you don’t have enough money, you will become bottomless.”

Li Che lowered his head, unable to bear the fact that Xiao Yang had been suffering day in and day out for so many days, so he took matters into his own hands this time and didn’t continue to keep her secret for Sister Xiao Yang, “She said that she wants to earn more for you.”

Xiao Yang came late.

Downstairs at the hospital, there was an extra young woman who had trouble parking her car.

“Xiao Yang, all these gifts were originally yours, but I’m not sure I want to give them to you now.”

Wen Ning said angry words on her lips, but her eyes fell back to the trunk of this car, thinking about whether or not it could accommodate these gifts from her.

She finally spoke bitterly, “You have to understand one thing, your body is always more important than money, can you understand that?”

Xiao Yang repeatedly promised, “Okay, I’ll close the door earlier in the future.”

Wen Ning, however, didn’t believe her verbal promises, “Since I’m back, it’s up to me to close the store.”

“Then these gifts?” Xiao Yang was extraordinarily content at this moment, originally thinking that Sister Ning had formed her own new little family and could no longer care about herself, it was evident that she was still unique in Sister Ning’s heart.

Wen Ning will be one of them did not go through the consignment, but the fear of folding the outside of the kraft paper bag, this is a piece of clothing that has always been held at the side of the: “or to give you, think it is very youthful, should be very suitable for you.”

“Sister Ning, this should also be very expensive, I’ve seen this brand,” Xiao Yang is again delighted and distressed, “And, you spend or American knife.”

Wenning moved: “Work, you are all rush to do; money, and have to save for me.”

“Xiao Yang, I would rather you learn to be selfish.”

Xiao Yang shook her head, in the empty downstairs of the hospital, always feel that Zhou Yinchu may appear at any time, she never knew how to deal with Ning’s current husband, without saying a word, immediately took Chuchu away.

The human heart is like this, being loved will always be nourished by new, looking back at the back of Xiaoyang, but also much more sunny and cheerful than when we first met.

This is the middle of the night.

I did not expect that the single room in the hospital would also usher in a quarrel.

“Wouldn’t it be better for you to stay in the United States?” Mother Zhou spoke out of turn, her tone disgusted, “Why do you have to rush back, I remember that the subject you studied is also not related to medicine.”

She waved her hand, seeming to drive people away, “You are not needed here for the time being.”

“Are you going to sleep again?”

“Tired from hanging up saline, people squint,” Zhou mother, however, propped herself up and sat up, “Not yet as tired as eighty or ninety people who sleep at this point.”

“Also, Zhou Yinchu, let me remind you of one thing, I don’t need you to meddle in my affairs.”

“It just so happens that I don’t have that intention either.” Zhou Yinchu, who had clearly prepared several public relations programs, was denying it at this moment.

Maintaining his established face in front of his own mother.

“Don’t think that with this wave of the Internet, I’ll be ashamed of myself and lose out to that group of young people, if someone dares to move on my head-” Mother Zhou’s tone was still not small, with a few pounds of haughty, disdainful air.

“You don’t defy old age; you can play Daji too.”

Mother Zhou was outright furious, and if not for the needle still buried in her hand, she probably would have jumped up and cursed.

She vocally rebuked, “Zhou Yinchu, you are at least a family man now, have you ever thought about how negatively some of your words and actions will affect your child?”

“I owe this speech and behavior to your words and teachings.”

“There’s no hurry, anyway, I won’t be going back to the villa by the sanatorium these days, no one dares to disturb my purity.”

Anyway, Mother Zhou was bound to just not want Zhou Yinchu meddling in her private affairs, and the storm it caused, her intensity was tough: “When I’ve had my surgery, I’ll naturally urge my lawyer to resolve it as soon as possible.”

“You are not needed here at the moment.”

The reason why she didn’t want to blame her son for the internet fermentation was not because she was accustomed to being independent and autonomous, but because she thought that her son didn’t instrumentalize her resources to get by, and there was no need for her to force her son to solve such a scourge for himself.

“Surgery, and don’t want me to do it?”

“You can completely arrange it according to your own work schedule,” Mother Zhou adhered to a businesslike tone, as if she was an elderly person who still had no need for affection in her old age, “I don’t want my business to affect your lives.”

“Auntie, do you want to draw blood tomorrow morning?”

“Can I have breakfast?”

Wen Ning emerged from outside the door, she saw a needle in the eye and tried to quell the strong smell of flames in this room, “Why don’t you try the small wontons I made?”

“I don’t want to bother any of you.”

Wen Ning commiserated, “Auntie, there are times when you can accept the good intentions of our juniors, and it’s not much of a conversation about filial piety, so Yin and I are happy too.”

“Then you do it.”

Mother Zhou turned out to be a “soft eater, not a hard eater”.

She was still quite attached to seniority and generation.

Wen Ning didn’t know what kind of trouble Zhou Yinchu would create if he continued to stay here, and even pulled away, “Yin, let’s go, let’s not disturb your mom’s sleep.”

The surgery was just three days later.

After returning to China, Zhou Yinchu was naturally very busy, with a long backlog of documents waiting for his review.

As for matters related to Zhou’s mother, he didn’t simply stand by and watch, nor did he immediately and impatiently push through his public relations enforcement program.

Together, they stood outside Old Lady Zhou’s operating room.

But she seemed to have underestimated the old lady’s level of independence; she didn’t even need someone else’s approval for the surgery, asking to sign it herself.

Aggressive treatment was what they thought was best for her, but it wasn’t what the old lady was willing to accept at first.

But at that moment, she was literally lying on the bed in the operating room, facing the high-intensity surgical lights, as if she didn’t have a single fear of common patients.

Before inserting the gastric tube, she also didn’t urge anyone to say a single superfluous word, and what she put in the palm of Chulch’s hand was also a piece of malt candy that was only popular in the nineties.

She said that she had already made a distribution of her property, and that in case of misfortune, the destination of her estate would also be announced by her lawyer.

Wenning watched the strong old lady accept her fate.

The man who knew humanity well sat on the cold chair and stool outside the operating room, he seemed to be uploading something.

“This is?”

Li Che realized, no longer staring left and right at the lights of the operating room, “It’s the surveillance from that day that I accessed, I sent it to Uncle Zhou long before he came back.”

The operation lasted for a whole morning, finally waiting for the expert doctor’s “successful operation”, and the part removed was not the complete stomach, but left a quarter of it; at that time, the network public opinion also changed abruptly.