Chapter 50
Chen Meiyu looked a little unhappy when she came back from outside, only Zhou Zifang was as noisy as usual.
"Damn, this hospital is really outrageous. There are so many people in the middle of the day, and there are only three elevators working, and they actually stopped one."
"Do you know how long I waited downstairs for the elevator?"
"If I hadn't eaten too much Shaxian snacks at noon and was afraid of vomiting in the stairwell, I would have climbed up by myself."
"By the way, where's Lu Jiyu?"
Zhou Zifang was mumbling to himself for a long time before he realized that there was one person missing in the ward. He took a few sheets of tissue paper from the bedside table and wiped the sweat from his forehead, looking around as he wiped.
Jiang Wan was lying on the hospital bed, looking at his phone: "He went to see the doctor. Please ask about my discharge."
Chen Meiyu sat down in the chair beside her bed without saying a word.
Jiang Wan looked at Zhou Zifang at the end of the bed and asked: What's wrong?
Zhou Zifang was also very open-minded and spoke directly without avoiding others: "I just met Wei Lin at the hospital gate, and then we went to have a meal together. Halfway through the meal, he received a phone call and ran away, and then she was unhappy."
Chen Meiyun glared at him and said, "Zhou Zifang, no one will think you're dumb if you don't speak."
"Okay, then I'll shut up." Zhou Zifang made a goodbye gesture and said to Jiang Wan, "I'll go outside to look for Lu Jiyu."
Chen Meiyu stared at the man until he walked away, then she slumped down on the chair like a deflated beer, her head raised: "Wanzi.
She stared up at the ceiling and wailed.
"A wise man does not fall in love. It is true that I am not deceived."
"What happened again?"
Jiang Wan felt that Chen Meiyun's current relationship was different from her previous ones. In the past, she was quick to get high and even quicker to get low. She had been in a number of relationships, big and small, since junior high, but none of them lasted more than a month. Although she and Wei Lin had just started dating, Chen Meiyun's emotions were like a roller coaster, with huge ups and downs.
Is this the lethality of Bai Yueguang?
"It's all Zhou Zifang's fault!"
Chen Meiyu complained.
Today, they were having dinner together in Shaxian County. Everything was going well until Zhou Zifang, being a bit naive, asked Wei Lin where he bought the shoes he was wearing. He claimed they were a rare, limited-edition model and he wanted one too. Wei Lin initially hesitated, but Zhou Zifang, unwilling to give up, asked again. Wei Lin knew he was the son of the owner of the law firm where he was interning, so he couldn't ignore the situation any longer and confessed that the shoes he bought were knockoffs.
Then all three people at the table were silent for three seconds, as if in silence.
But Zhou Zifang, who was so clueless, had to add another sentence: "It's a good imitation, but it's really expensive, not worth the price at all."
"Do you think he did this just to mock Wei Lin?"
There was a half-eaten orange on the bedside table. Jiang Wan picked it up and ate two halves: "Maybe he just wanted to ease the awkwardness."
Chen Meiyun didn't believe it: "How could someone like him be so kind?"
Jiang Wan didn't quite understand why Chen Meiyun always had a natural hostility towards Zhou Zifang: "Zhou Zifang is a good person, but he is a bit outspoken. You should stop thinking of him as a dark person."
"You are speaking for him again!" Chen Meiyu was speechless.
Jiang Wan shook his head: "I'm telling the truth. Why did Wei Lin appear in the hospital?"
At this point, Chen Meiyun finally calmed down: "His mother was sick, and he was called back in the middle of his meal."
Zhou Zi found Lu Jiyu with the Rosen that he had left downstairs in the inpatient department.
He stood at a simple dining table behind a glass wall, a cup of oden in one hand, a wooden skewer between his lips, his head bowed as he answered a message on his phone. It was midday, and the entire glass wall of the convenience store faced the southern sunlight, tinting Lu Jiyu's features with a golden hue. He stood close to the door, and the wind from the customers entering and exiting lifted the hem of his T-shirt slightly, revealing his youthful, lush figure.
Zhou Zifang stood at the doorway, gazing at the people for ten seconds. When Lu Jiyu looked up, he casually threw the leftovers into the trash can. As he pushed the door open, he even held it open for an elderly woman.
Before the person even came up to him, Zhou Zifang couldn't help but burst out with sarcasm: "Lu Jiyu, you are really scheming."
After Lu Jiyu sent the text message, he put his phone back into his pocket. When he passed by Zhou Zifang, he didn't stop for even a second and walked straight to the hospital gate.
Zhou Zifang chased after him: "Are you going back now?"
Lu Jiyu barely slept yesterday and got up very early today. He wasn't in the best of spirits. "Lu Lin is looking for me. I need to go back and take a shower and change clothes."
Zhou Zifang clicked his tongue twice. "You knew you were going to meet Jiang Wan's father today, so you dressed up like an innocent high school boy. You're quite something."
"What else?" Lu Jiyu stood half a body closer to him. "A guy like you dressed like a street kid would be instantly rejected. Do you even know what a first impression is?"
Zhou Zifang looked down at his outfit today and said, "What do you know? This is called maximalism. And for those who believe in first impressions, I tell you, you'll be dumped at least eight times in love."
He was dumped eight times. Lu Jiyu thought that it was not even once, so he had no chance of being dumped.
"Well, you don't believe in first impressions, so why did that Chen Meiyu get so angry when she saw you?" Lu Jiyu is very clever and he likes to rub salt into people's wounds.
Zhou Zifang muttered unwillingly: "You know it again."
"I really don't want to talk about his boyfriend."
"Then don't say it." Lu Jiyu didn't give anyone any way out. When he thought about meeting Lu Lin in the afternoon, he was in no good mood at all.
They were almost at the hospital entrance. Seeing that Lu Jiyu was still acting like a calm and composed old man, Zhou Zifang resigned himself to his fate and pulled out his phone to hail a taxi. "Dan Ming called me. He said you didn't reply to his message?"
Lu Jiyu found a shady spot that was only big enough for one person and said in a flat voice, "I'm too lazy to go back."
Hearing this, Zhou Zifang knew that Lu Jiyu and Shan Ming's relationship was basically over. But thinking about it, their relationship wasn't that great either. They were just two young men, good-looking and playful, so it was natural for them to get together. But Lu Jiyu had a clear distinction between friends and playmates. Zhou Zifang wasn't sure if it was the trauma left by the Xu Junfeng incident, or if he was just that way.
Lu Jiyu seemed to be able to play well with anyone, but once he turned around and turned off his phone, he couldn't remember anyone.
In addition to a few childhood friends who grew up with him, there was also Gao Zhuo.
"Dan Ming is quite a shrewd person. It wouldn't be bad if we had less contact."
The sun was too strong, Lu Jiyu stood in the shade of a tree, frowning as he looked at the road in the distance.
Seeing that Lu Jiyu looked uninterested, Zhou Zifang stopped talking about it. "Were you just with Chen Meiyu? She told me something about Jiang Wan."
Lu Jiyu paused for a few seconds before asking, "What's the matter?"
"This year, they had originally planned to invite Jiang Wan to give a speech at Jiayuan's graduation ceremony as a student representative, but the day before Jiang Wan's accident, she was inexplicably replaced by a girl she didn't get along with."
"Chen Meiyun told me that the girl was related to a school leader. She thought Jiang Wan must have been affected by this incident, so when they were skiing the next day—"
Lu Jiyu interrupted him: "I've checked the surveillance footage at the ski resort. Jiang Wan had nothing to do with this accident. She was skiing normally by the side, and that man rushed out and knocked her over. Don't give me that victim-blaming theory."
Zhou Zifan smiled awkwardly: "That's not what I meant. I just feel that her experience is a bit similar to yours. Weren't you also tricked by Chen Wulin in the past?"
"Didn't she mention this to you when you were together just now?"
What the hell.
Zhou Zifang was curious: "So what did you talk about during your time together? When I returned to the ward, Jiang Wan looked fine, so I thought you had a good chat."
Lu Jiyu thought, she was not just talking about beauty, she was just playing with beauty.
"Nothing."
"I was busy helping the old lady cross the street."
Zhou Zifang: ...
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After Jiang Wan stayed in the hospital for a few days and was confirmed to be fine, he was finally allowed to be discharged.
Jiang Huainan came to pick her up on the day of discharge. Li Wan, who had been on a business trip abroad, also rushed to the hospital after hearing the news.
Jiang Wan didn't want them to meet; the two would always argue if they did. She still remembered their first meeting after their divorce, which was for Jiang Wan's birthday. They had been acting nice from the moment they met to the end of the meal, but when it came time to blow out the candles, the waiter brought the cake Jiang Huainan had prepared long ago to the table. Li Wan took one look and snorted in disbelief.
"Jiang Huainan, are you kidding me? You bought this cake from this shop again? Don't you know that this shop uses vegetable cream?"
Jiang Huainan has always lived a frugal life since he was a child. Anyway, he doesn't know the difference between animal cream and vegetable cream. He just thinks that they taste almost the same, but the latter is much cheaper than the former.
"Jiang Wan has been eating cakes from this family for her birthdays since she was a child. I see she's doing well and hasn't had any problems. Why do you think this and that are unacceptable when it comes to her? I'm telling you, my daughter, Jiang Huainan, is definitely not a flower grown in a greenhouse. She's a wild lily growing on a cliff. Even in difficult circumstances, she will still bloom the most brilliant white flowers."
Lily Jiang: ...
Thank you so much, Comrade Jiang Huainan. If I hadn't held Ms. Li Wan's arm, the glass of juice on the table would have been poured onto you, the old lily.
Li Wan sneered twice and gently slapped Jiang Wan's hand away. Jiang Wan had already prepared to close his eyes, not wanting to see Old Jiang in such a state of disgrace, but Li Wan simply raised his hand and elegantly shook the orange juice in the tall glass, sneering, "You've said so much nonsense, isn't it just because you're poor?"
This is no longer a realm of hitting the mark with one needle, this is clearly a torrential rain of pear blossom needles, each one of which is fatal.
Li Wan clearly wasn't going to leave him any chance of survival: "Hipster men are all shit. I was absolutely right in calling you that."
Jiang Huainan was so angry that his face turned red, and he slammed the table and stood up: "Li Wan, what are you talking about? If you have the guts, tell me again, I'm telling you, I'm not done with you! If you have the guts, say it again!"
But Li Wan knew him very well, so she just didn't say anything, just to make him angry to death, and let him jump around.
In the end, Jiang Wan couldn't stand it anymore. It's just a sentence. It doesn't matter who says it.
"Arty guys are all shit."
Jiang Wan raised his head and looked at the two elders seriously: "Are you done arguing? Or why don't you take a break first? I haven't blown out the candle yet."
Later, Jiang Wan celebrated her birthday one day at a time and then the other, and Jiang Huainan never bought the plant-based cream cake from that shop again.
When Jiang Huainan entered the ward, Li Wan's butt had been on the hospital bench for no more than three seconds.
She looked at Jiang Wan who was sitting on the edge of the bed with a serious face: "Why did you hide it from me?"
Jiang Wan changed into the clothes she brought with her, and let her hair down without a tie. At first glance, she looked a bit like a child: "You are abroad, out of reach, and I am really fine."
Li Wan reached out and touched her head, then moved his hand down to touch her arm, as if to confirm whether the person in front of him was really well.
Jiang Wan just sat there and let her check him.
Even Jiang Huainan rarely fell silent.
"I'm telling you, don't mention skiing again when you get home."
"Jiang Huainan, did you hear that?"
Seeing Li Wan change the subject and prepare to turn his attention to Jiang Huainan, Jiang Wan tried to smooth things over for Jiang Huainan: "This has nothing to do with my dad. I didn't tell him about skiing. I lied to him that I was going to learn dancing, so he let me do it."
Li Wan then turned around and gave her a deep look. "You're quite good at cheating, then why haven't you tricked your dad's bank card password out yet?"
"Even though it's just a few dollars, we can't let others take advantage of it."
The hidden meaning in these words clearly indicated that he was going to start a fight again. Jiang Wan rubbed his head and pretended to be dizzy: "Okay, okay, I won't say anymore, otherwise I will faint again."
After leaving the hospital, Li Wan insisted on taking Jiang Wan to her home. Jiang Wan was still trying to figure out an excuse to refuse her when Li Wan received a phone call. Jiang Wan heard from the leaked phone that it was probably about something at her company, and it sounded quite urgent.
As expected, Li Wan hung up the phone with a much uglier expression on her face: "Wanzi, Mom has something urgent at the company, I——"
The three of them parted ways at the hospital gate. Jiang Wan got into Jiang Huainan's second-hand Volkswagen, while Li Wan drove away in her black Mercedes-Benz.
Jiang Huainan took the steering wheel and slowly drove out of the hospital parking lot.
The road conditions were not very good today, with frequent stops and starts, and even the music on the radio was particularly loud. Jiang Wan turned off the radio, and the car suddenly became quiet with only the sound of their breathing being heard.
"I heard from Xiaoyun that you guys are planning to go to Xinjiang during the summer vacation?"
Jiang Wan lowered his head and was messaging Chen Meiyu, and said "hmm" out of distraction.
Jiang Huainan picked up the water cup on the shelf, unscrewed the lid and took a sip to moisten his throat. "Yesterday I ran into the landlord and we chatted for a while. She mentioned a few things about the boy who lives upstairs in our studio."
Jiang Wan paused while typing.
"What did you say?"
"That boy was German. He was terrible at studying and always brought different girls home. It was said that one time when it was raining, a girl waited for him at his door crying for a long time. Finally, he reluctantly opened the door, but he refused to let her in."
"Do you think this guy is a scumbag?"
Jiang Wan (the girl waiting in the rain): It turns out that the clown is actually herself.
"You know the most important thing, he didn't even take the college entrance examination! Do you think this child is hopeless?" As the cornerstone of China's education, the former people's teacher lamented this.
"How does this landlord know everything? Did she install surveillance cameras in the house?"
Jiang Huainan waved his hand. "Of course not. I heard from the landlord that when she originally rented the house to this guy, she thought he was good-looking and polite. She also happened to have a daughter about her age, so she planned to introduce her daughter to him. But after secretly observing him, she found that this boy was not very reliable."
"By the way, the landlord also said that this boy is quite playful. She was there the day he moved in. She said that he had three or four computers and several skis. He couldn't put them in the bedroom, so he stuffed them into the living room."
"Later, the landlord secretly went back to check the price of the snowboard and said it cost 10,000 to 20,000 yuan. Kids these days really know how to spend money."
"Hey, speaking of skis—"
Yes, speaking of snowboards.
The green light ahead flashed yellow in the final seconds, and an unbelievable yet somewhat reasonable thought flashed through Jiang Huainan's mind. He slammed on the brakes, and the inertia of the car and himself pitched forward before bouncing back.
"Jiang Wan." Jiang Huainan swallowed and cautiously turned his head to look at her: "Tell Daddy, um, why do you suddenly want to learn skiing?"
"It can't be, it can't be--." Combined with the "sweet girl guides" that Jiang Wan had looked up on the computer before, the answer was actually obvious, but Jiang Huainan still couldn't say the words that were on his lips.
Jiang Wan put down his phone and thoughtfully completed Jiang Huainan's unfinished words: "That's right, it was because of him that I learned to ski."
Ahhhhh. Jiang Huainan roared in his heart in helplessness.
As expected, Huangmao will not be absent, he will just be late!!!
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