Chapter 158: Make up "Yingzi, I'm sorry for you, but I'm also grateful to you. ...
Director Zhao was the first to ask, "What case is it that requires your assistance for so long and your constant presence at the Public Security Bureau?"
Wang Ying didn't know what stage the case was at and whether he could speak publicly. However, Yang Xia had told him it would be best not to discuss the matter after returning home. So, he simply said, "I was falsely accused of a crime, and the police pretended to arrest me to confuse the real criminal."
"Who framed you? Has the real criminal been caught?" Director Zhao asked again.
"They caught him," Wang Ying said. "I don't know who framed me yet, but I came back right after they caught him. I can't say much about the case."
"It's good that everyone is okay." Wang Yongren said.
"Yeah, it's okay." Wang Ying smiled. "It happened suddenly, so I couldn't tell you the truth. I'm sorry to have worried you."
"It's okay. Catching the criminal is more important," Director Zhao said. "By the way, did you see your sister-in-law Yanfen at the police station? She was also arrested for arson."
It turned out that they had announced that she had been arrested for arson. Wang Ying thought for a moment and said, "I didn't see it."
Wang Ying said she didn't see it, and Director Zhao didn't ask any further questions.
Chen Xiuqin quickly brought over a pot of boiled noodles.
"Just have a simple meal. Those who need to go to work still have to go to work. After eating, hurry up and go to work. It's getting late." Chen Xiuqin said.
Chen Xiuqin ran to the kitchen again, brought bowls and chopsticks, and also brought a plate of salted duck eggs and a plate of pickled radishes.
Wang Yongren stood up and took it, saying, "My mother-in-law is busy this morning."
"Don't be polite, we are all family. Come sit down and eat. You will be late for work." Chen Xiuqin said.
Zhao Yunsheng really didn't want to go to work. These days, he'd been getting a lot of flak at work. He'd published a book and frequently published articles in newspapers and magazines, using his real name. Everyone at work knew him. His wife had gotten into trouble, and many at work wanted to see him off. Some weren't particularly bad, but simply felt it was unfair. Why did Zhao Yunsheng have such a good life? Seeing him suffer misfortune made some feel better.
After breakfast, it was already past 8:30. Wang Yongren and Director Zhao went to work first, while Zhao Yunsheng was still sitting there.
"Hurry up and go to work," Wang Ying urged Zhao Yunsheng, holding Yueyue in her arms. Wang Ying was willing to go to work, but after being away for so long, she decided to stay home and spend the next day with her daughter.
Zhao Yunsheng glanced at Wang Ying with a hint of resentment. Wang Ying smiled at him and said, "Go quickly. We can talk when you come back tonight."
Chen Xiuqin also came over to urge him, and even Yueyue urged her father to go to work. Only then did Zhao Yunsheng slowly get up and go to work reluctantly.
Wang Ying, her two children, her mother-in-law and her mother were left at home.
Chen Xiuqin noticed early on that something was wrong with Li Fengju. She had been about to leave when she first arrived, but later she stayed without saying a word. She was even a little afraid to look at Wang Ying. No matter how she looked at her, she felt something was wrong.
"Yingzi, my dear relatives, I'm taking Dongbao to school and buying some vegetables. What do you want to eat?" Chen Xiuqin thought about going out to give the mother and daughter space to talk.
"You can buy whatever you like. I eat well at the Public Security Bureau," said Wang Ying.
"Okay, Yueyue, can you help grandma send your sister to school and then go buy groceries?" Chen Xiuqin said.
Usually Yueyue was happy to go shopping for groceries with her grandma, but today her mother came back and she hugged Wang Ying and was reluctant to let go.
"Go with grandma and pick out some delicious food for mom. Mom will be waiting for you at home." Wang Ying coaxed her daughter.
When Yueyue heard that she was going to choose delicious food for her mother, she agreed to leave with her grandmother.
Now only Wang Ying and her daughter were left in the Zhao family. Li Fengju sat on the sofa with her head down, motionless, and she didn't even dare to look at Wang Ying.
Wang Ying sent Chen Xiuqin and the others out. When they returned to the main room, Li Fengju was still sitting there like a sculpture.
Wang Ying sighed and said, "Mom, let's go upstairs and talk."
Li Fengju then looked up at Wang Ying, and waited two seconds before standing up and following Wang Ying upstairs.
Wang Ying returned to the room she hadn't been away from for more than ten days. She looked around and found it was no different from when she left. Perhaps the only difference was that there was an extra photo frame on Zhao Yunsheng's desk, with a photo of her in it.
Li Fengju stood at the doorway nervously. Wang Ying said, "Mom, what are you doing standing at the doorway? Come in."
"Yingzi..." Li Fengju stammered and took small steps into the room.
Seeing that she looked dazed, Wang Ying stepped forward, helped her up, helped her sit on the chair in front of the desk, and then closed the door.
Wang Ying returned to sit next to Li Fengju and looked at her. She had lost a lot of weight and looked very haggard, her eyes were red and swollen, and her body seemed to be shaking uncontrollably.
"Mom, you know everything?" Wang Ying asked straight to the point.
Li Fengju had held onto a ten-thousandth of hope that it was all just a dream, that everything in the dream was fake. When Wang Ying said this, Li Fengju felt like she had fallen into an ice cave. It was a hot day, but she was freezing cold. She didn't dare look at Wang Ying and nodded with difficulty.
Wang Ying asked curiously, "How did you know?"
Li Fengju's throat tightened. She tried to speak, but couldn't utter the first word. She coughed twice before whispering, "I had a dream."
Dream... Wang Ying remembered that Zhao Yunsheng also had a dream related to his previous life.
"What did you dream about?" Wang Ying asked again.
"I dreamed..." Li Fengju didn't want to recall the past. She looked up at Wang Ying and said, "Yingzi, is that all true? Am I really that confused?"
Wang Ying looked at her mother and saw pain, regret and a hint of pleading in her eyes.
"Mom, you can treat it as a dream." Wang Ying said.
Li Fengju understood that it was not a dream, it was her previous life. She had done such foolish things in her previous life.
Li Fengju shook her head: "Yingzi, Mom knows that it wasn't a dream. Mom was wrong, very wrong."
Wang Ying looked at Li Fengju at this moment. In fact, her mother in this life was different from her previous life. Even if she did not dream about her previous life, she had realized her mistakes and was making amends. Wang Ying no longer hated them in her heart, but she just could not be close to them.
"Mom, it's all in the past," Wang Ying said. If her mother had had this dream earlier, like when she was just reborn, Wang Ying might have felt happy and ridiculed her, but now there was no need for that.
Li Fengju wanted to ask Wang Ying if she could forgive her, but she couldn't bring herself to ask. She finally understood why her eldest daughter wasn't close to her. No matter what she did, there was always a barrier between mother and daughter. Yingzi was still willing to call her "Mom" and interact with her, which was already a generous gesture, considering the kindness of raising her and the mother-daughter bond.
Seeing that Li Fengju was silent and looked painful, Wang Ying continued, "It's no use regretting what happened in your past life. God gave me a second chance to make amends to me, and probably to give Mom another chance. You've done better in this life than in your last, so don't worry about it anymore."
Li Fengju looked at Wang Ying. Wang Ying looked relaxed, his eyes clear, and a slight smile on his lips. He really didn't care. But Li Fengju's heart ached. How had Yingzi managed to survive from her past life to this one? She still couldn't believe she had been so foolish as to be fooled by Wang Hui, such a brainless and heartless person.
"Yingzi, I'm sorry, but I'm grateful to you." Li Fengju had a thousand words in her heart, and she wanted to say them with a lot of apologies, but after hearing what Yingzi had just said, she could only say these. If she kept talking, it would seem like she was forcing her daughter to say things like "forgive her" and that it was fine as it is now. Li Fengju was determined in her heart that she would make up for the mistakes of her previous life in this life no matter what, and treat Yingzi with all her heart.
"Mom, what did you dream about? Why do you feel that it was real and not a dream?" Wang Ying was really curious. Zhao Yunsheng had also dreamed about it, but he just thought it was a dream, a nightmare!
"Because it's so real, coupled with the performance of you two sisters, by the way, is your sister also..." Li Fengju asked.
Wang Ying nodded: "Yes."
"So when she wanted to marry someone else, she knew what would happen later?" Li Fengju asked again.
"Yes, she thought that by marrying Du Jianguo, she could snatch away my past life," said Wang Ying.
"We are both old and confused, and she is even more..." Li Fengju couldn't think of any words to describe Wang Hui.
"You won't blame me for not stopping her from marrying Du Jianguo, right?" Wang Ying asked.
Li Fengju quickly waved her hands: "No, no, she has lived two lives herself. She insisted on snatching it from you, so you can't blame anyone else. No matter how much suffering she endures, she deserves it."
"However, you are indeed responsible for what she did," said Wang Ying.
"We didn't teach her well enough, and it's probably too late to teach her now." Li Fengju recalled Wang Hui visiting her at home a few days ago. Her older sister was detained at the Public Security Bureau, but instead of worrying about her, she acted arrogantly in front of them, saying they would still have to rely on her in the future, that their older sister was unreliable, and that they shouldn't treat her better...
Although Wang Hui said those words jokingly, she still angered Li Fengju and kicked her out of the house.
"Whether to teach or not is up to you. If you are willing to take the trouble, then take the trouble. Not for her, but for Huanhuan," said Wang Ying.
Thinking of Huanhuan, Li Fengju felt reluctant to leave, and she nodded slightly.
The mother and daughter fell silent for a moment. After a while, Wang Ying heard someone knocking on the gate.
"Mom, just treat this as a dream and don't mention it again. You rest here for a while, I'll go downstairs to open the door." Wang Ying said and went downstairs.
Li Fengju stood up and saw Wang Ying out, then followed her a few steps and said, "I'll do whatever you say."
Wang Ying nodded and went downstairs.
When I opened the gate, I saw Gu Mei and her sister and Xiang Huaimin.
"Yingzi!" Gu Mei rushed over and hugged Wang Ying, "You really came out."
"I'm out, I'm out. Are you coming to see me again?" Wang Ying patted Gu Mei on the back.
Gu Xuan patted Gu Mei on the head and said, "Don't make trouble in front of someone else's door."
Gu Mei let go of Wang Ying and glared at her brother.
Wang Ying invited them into the courtyard and asked them to sit down. She looked at Director Xiang and said jokingly, "Director, is it because you're teaching too many students that you seem to have gray hair?"
Xiang Huaimin snorted, "A whole class of students can't catch up to the effort you put in alone."
"Then I'm really awesome!" Wang Ying smiled and led them to the main room. Li Fengju had already come down from upstairs and said she would make tea and asked Wang Ying to entertain the guests.
As soon as Gu Mei sat down, she said, "You have no idea how worried I am about you. As soon as I returned home from Beijing, my mother told me you were arrested! She even asked me if I knew what crime you committed! She almost suspected I was an accomplice."
"I'm so sorry for worrying you." Wang Ying felt truly sorry. She hadn't thought much about it at the time; she was only focused on catching the spy. That was her top priority. She hadn't expected Gu Xuan and Director Xiang to rush back.
"I'm glad that everyone is okay." Gu Xuan said.
"Hehe, it's okay. Later we met Zhao Yunsheng and we weren't so worried anymore. My brother said that since Zhao Yunsheng was so calm, Yingzi must be fine."
"Oh, he's calm? Then his acting is bad!" Wang Ying laughed. "I even assured the public security comrades that his acting is good enough."
"It's okay to lie to me. I didn't notice it, but my brother is a professional directing student! Nothing can escape his eyes." Gu Mei said with a smile.
"Will it delay your work? I remember you said you wouldn't come back in the summer." Wang Ying asked Gu Xuan, a top student in the directing department.
"It won't delay me. I'm just a student. What can happen to me?" Gu Xuan said.
Li Fengju brought tea to the group. Wang Ying said, "Mom, go buy two young chickens and a big bluefish. I'll cook for lunch."
"Hey!" Li Fengju was particularly happy to hear Wang Ying tell her to do something. She responded crisply, and even became more energetic. She asked, "What seasoning do you want?"
"Let's buy some dried chili peppers and Sichuan peppercorns," said Wang Ying.
"Okay." Li Fengju agreed and went to buy vegetables happily.
Several people continued to chat. After not seeing each other for a long time, it seemed that they had endless things to talk about. However, Gu Mei and the others tacitly did not ask what case Wang Ying was involved in.
"Actually, I came back this time just to talk to Yunsheng about something." Gu Xuan said.
"Oh? What's the matter? Could it be that they are going to shoot a movie?" Wang Ying's eyes lit up.
"It is going to be filmed, but it's not going to be shot by me, nor is it going to be the two books I bought. My teacher took a fancy to one of his novellas and wants to make it into a movie." Gu Xuan said.
"Which one?" Wang Ying asked.
"Are you familiar with every one of Yunsheng's novels?" Gu Xuan asked.
Wang Ying laughed and said, "I am the first reader of every one of his novels."
"Tsk tsk tsk, I'm so jealous now that I know you two are in a good relationship!" Gu Mei said with a wink.
"It's a novella set in the Republic of China, called 'Late Autumn'. It tells the story of a student who has returned from studying abroad and an old man who pursues a revolutionary young woman."
"I like this one too," said Wang Ying.
"A love triangle? Who is the heroine dating?" Gu Mei asked.
"It's a secret. You can either read a book or watch a movie when the time comes." Wang Ying said with a smile.
"Yingzi, do you have any books at home? I'm quite interested and want to read them now." Gu Mei said.
"Yes, I'll show it to you when I cook."
As they were talking, Li Fengju and Chen Xiuqin returned together. In addition to the chicken and fish Wang Ying had ordered, they also bought some cold dishes, vegetables, and a watermelon. After they arrived home, Li Fengju and Chen Xiuqin prepared the food together, letting Wang Ying continue to entertain the guests while she cooked after the food was ready.
When Yueyue got home, she saw that there were guests at home and looked at everyone's face curiously.
Gu Mei picked her up and asked, "Yueyue, do you still remember me? Who am I?"
Yueyue stared at Gu Mei's face again and again, and finally called out, "Godmother!"
"Oh! You really remember him!" Gu Mei exclaimed in surprise. She pointed at Gu Xuan and asked, "Do you remember him?"
"Uncle!" Yueyue said, reaching out to Gu Xuan.
"You want your uncle to hold you? Then go ahead." Gu Mei handed Yueyue to Gu Xuan. Gu Xuan held Yueyue in one hand, walked to the sofa, picked up his bag, and took out a wad of money for Yueyue.
Gu Mei finally realized that Yueyue was reaching out to Gu Xuan not to ask him to hug her, but to ask for money. She burst into laughter.
Wang Ying also noticed it when the girl stretched out her hand. She pinched Yueyue's little face and said, "Comrade Zhao Xinyue, this is not a good habit. Return the money to your uncle quickly. I'm sorry, Gu Xuan, she is not usually like this."
Gu Mei was very happy: "Who said my uncle is generous? I've chosen him and only asked him for it."
Gu Xuan was also happy: "If the child wants it, why wouldn't I give it to him?"
"Don't give it to me. It's not good to develop bad habits," said Wang Ying.
"No, didn't you say that she is not like this usually? She only wants it from me." Gu Xuan gave him a stack of money as usual. He was quite happy after receiving the money.
Wang Ying was at a loss for words at the moment, so he planned to educate Yueyue privately later.
Xiang Huaimin sat at the table drinking tea and looking at Wang Ying and Yueyue.
Wang Ying said to Yueyue, "Yueyue, this is Grandpa Xiang. He bought you a flowery dress and a toy."
"Grandpa Xiang." Yueyue called out obediently.
Gu Xuan walked over and placed Yueyue on Xiang Huaimin's lap, asking him to hug her as well. Xiang Huaimin was alone, with no younger generations in his family, and he didn't dare move a muscle with Yueyue in his arms.
Yueyue soon lost interest in these adults, not even in the money. She threw the money on the table, raised her legs, slid off Xiang Huaimin's legs to the ground, and crawled out from under the table to play.
Wang Ying and the others continued talking for a while. Seeing that it was almost time to cook, she went upstairs and brought down a few books. Two of them were books Wang Ying had never seen before. They must have been brought back by him during the time she was away from home.
Wang Ying found the magazine that published the short story and handed it to Gu Mei.
"It's in this book, there are three issues in total, consecutively." Wang Ying said.
Gu Xuan and Xiang Huaimin also took a magazine to read each, and Wang Ying tied an apron and went to cook.
With the help of Chen Xiuqin and Li Fengju, Wang Ying quickly prepared a delicious meal.
Xiang Huaimin recalled that before he left for Shanghai, Wang Ying had prepared a delicious meal for him. He had been in Shanghai for a year and had eaten many delicious dishes, but somehow, he always remembered the meal he had at Wang Ying's house.
After lunch, the three of them didn’t stay long and left without even eating the watermelon.
Gu Mei borrowed the magazines, and Gu Xuan said they would come back to discuss the copyright issue tomorrow night.
Everyone felt a little sleepy after the meal, so Chen Xiuqin arranged for Li Fengju to take a nap, and Wang Ying also took Yueyue upstairs for a nap.
Yueyue was so sleepy downstairs that she squinted her eyes. After going upstairs, she hugged Wang Ying's neck and fell asleep. Before falling asleep, she was still mumbling, "Mom, Mom..."
Wang Ying patted Yueyue gently, and Yueyue soon fell asleep peacefully. Wang Ying himself felt sleepy and fell asleep with the wind from the electric fan.
Both mother and daughter were sleeping soundly. Wang Ying woke up and looked at her watch. It was already past three o'clock. Wang Ying looked at her daughter beside her. She had turned over for some reason and was still sleeping with her back to her.
"Yueyue, wake up." Wang Ying called her daughter gently twice.
Yueyue was woken up by Wang Ying. When she opened her eyes and saw her, she was stunned for a moment, then called out sweetly, "Mom." Then she came over and hugged Wang Ying's neck.
The mother and daughter played on the bed for a while when they heard Chen Xiuqin calling them downstairs to eat watermelon. Wang Ying put on Yueyue's shoes and let her go downstairs first.
Wang Ying was making her bed and found a photo of herself under the tilted pillow.
Wang Ying pinched the photo and couldn't help but laugh. Zhao Yunsheng was truly… not satisfied with just one photo on his desk, he even kept one under his pillow. Little did Wang Ying know, he had another photo tucked away in his work notebook!
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