Qu Jingyun stood there as if frozen, her face turning red and then white, then white and then red again, changing dramatically in just a few seconds.
She never imagined that these gifts would actually be the dowry left by Qi Shengzhi's mother. It was natural for people to leave the dowry to their sons to marry. It seemed that she was meddling in other people's affairs, being stingy and petty.
Moreover, when Qi Mingyuan mentioned her dowry, she felt ashamed.
When she first met Qi Mingyuan, she was a young woman who came from another place to live with her relatives. Because she was quite pretty, she was targeted by a group of hooligans at the train station as soon as she got off the train.
At the critical moment, Qi Mingyuan appeared in time to rescue her.
At that time, she looked at Qi Mingyuan, who was wearing a tweed coat and a top hat. He exuded a temperament she had never felt before, and she immediately stared at him and couldn't take her eyes off him.
Seeing that the weather was cold and Qu Jingyun was thinly dressed, Qi Mingyuan kindly put his woolen coat on her. This gentlemanly gesture made her heart beat wildly.
In that era of material scarcity, Qi Mingyuan's dress was undoubtedly outstanding. Qu Jingyun, who knew exactly what he wanted, immediately locked on his target.
She behaved as gentle as water in front of Qi Mingyuan, spoke softly, and looked lovable.
Afterwards, she found an excuse to come to return the clothes. When she saw Qi Shengzhi, who was only three years old, she suppressed her surprise and instead acted like she loved the child very much. She patiently and gently talked and played games with him, which moved Qi Mingyuan.
Later, she got her wish and entered the Qi family. She had always concealed her feelings very well. Even after giving birth to Qi Guangyao, she at least pretended to be a good wife and mother in front of Qi Mingyuan.
In this marriage, after all, she was using her beauty to please him, and Qi Mingyuan was attracted by her beauty. Both of them had their own motives and neither of them could be considered innocent.
But when she married into the Qi family, she came naked, with no dowry except a few pieces of clothes. Now that Qi Mingyuan deliberately mentioned her dowry, it was like tearing her face off and throwing it on the ground!
Qu Jingyun felt as if a date pit was stuffed in his throat. He couldn't speak or breathe, and his face was hot and his chest was stuffy.
Qi Mingyuan didn't want to see her hypocritical look anymore, so he frowned and said:
"You've looked at the gift list. If you have nothing else to do, go back to your room and sleep. I still have some official business to attend to."
This is an order to expel her.
Qu Jingyun's face flushed instantly, and her eyes were filled with tears. She looked like she had suffered great injustice, but after things came to this point, she didn't dare to pester Qi Mingyuan anymore, and turned around and left in a huff.
Qi Mingyuan looked at her back as she walked in high heels, her brows furrowed tighter and tighter, and he couldn't help shaking his head.
He looked down at the gift list in his hand again, and the lines of black words on a red background slowly outlined the image of the thin and gentle woman in his mind.
Sheng Rusi.
He hadn't actively thought about what she looked like in years.
In his memory, she had two long braids and wore a student uniform of a blue shirt and black skirt. She trotted in with a soft laugh and bumped into his arms unexpectedly at the corner of the Sheng family's corridor.
She looked up with a red face. She had fair skin and a pretty face, but her eyes dazzled him. It was as if he was looking into a pool of peach blossom water, so clear and transparent, with his reflection all over the water.
When he came to propose marriage, she hid behind the archway and peeked at him, her watery peach eyes full of shyness and joy.
With the support of the Sheng family, Qi Mingyuan's business grew bigger and bigger, but Sheng Rusi's health became worse and worse. After giving birth to Qi Shengzhi with heavy bleeding, although Qi Mingyuan collected various expensive supplements for her and took them every day, she still became thinner day by day.
I still remember the last day she was sober, it was an afternoon with a gentle breeze.
Qi Mingyuan took time out to visit her in the hospital. He was too busy during that time and she stayed in the hospital for a month. This was only his second time to see her.
Qi Mingyuan felt distressed and guilty as he looked at his wife lying on the hospital bed, looking extremely thin.
Sheng Rusi had a faint smile on her face and blinked at him weakly, as if to comfort him that it was okay.
Before entering the room, the doctor called him to the office and told him that Sheng Rusi's condition was not optimistic and the worst case scenario might be within a few days.
At that moment, even though he had been preparing himself mentally for almost a year, he was almost defeated.
But then he could only walk into the ward with a smile, put her favorite bluebells in the vase on her bedside, and teased her by saying who's wall he had climbed over to pick this bunch of bluebells. Seeing the smile in her eyes, he also smiled and swallowed his tears.
He stayed with her for half an hour, and the driver downstairs came to see her several times. She knew that he must have something important waiting to be done, so she shook her head gently at him.
Seeing that she was in good spirits today, Qi Mingyuan whispered to her that he would come to see her again tomorrow.
Sheng Rusi's pale face was briefly stunned for a moment, and then a faint smile appeared on his face. His usually weak and absent-minded eyes lit up, as if full of anticipation.
Qi Mingyuan couldn't help himself, he lowered his head and kissed the eyes that moved him at first sight, and heard her say in a barely audible voice:
"Shengzhi..."
He promised her that he would bring Qi Shengzhi, who had just turned one year old, to the hospital to see her tomorrow. Sheng Rusi hadn't seen little Qi Shengzhi for a month because she was worried that the hospital environment would be bad for the child. Suddenly, tears of happiness welled up in her peach blossom eyes.
But things don’t always go as planned…
The next morning, Qi Mingyuan received a call from the hospital at home. When the nurse was making rounds at seven in the morning, she found that his wife had stopped breathing.
She was fine when the nurse came to make rounds at six o'clock. At half past six, the nurse went to buy her breakfast. Because she could only eat a few bites of lily porridge sold at a stall three blocks away from the hospital, the nurse went there to buy it for her every day. But today, before the nurse came back, she quietly left alone.
Just as she bumped into Qi Mingyuan's arms so casually, she also caught Qi Mingyuan off guard when she left...
At that moment, Qi Mingyuan felt like the sky had fallen on him. But the funny thing was that he had never felt that Sheng Rusi's frail body had supported his sky before. It was only when the sky fell that he realized it belatedly!
He dared not think back to how he had spent that time in a daze. His relatives, friends and business partners said so many words of comfort and encouragement, but in the end, it was Qi Shengzhi's childish face and the pair of eyes that were exactly the same as his mother's that made him breathe again.
Qi Mingyuan covered the bright red gift list and closed his eyes tightly, but no matter how hard he tried, he could not stop the hot tears from sliding down his old cheeks.
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