Chapter 81
Lu Jiyu's birthday fell on Sunday this year, so Zhou Zifang flew to Nanyuan a day in advance to celebrate his birthday.
There were also several mysterious guests who came from afar.
Jiang Wan received Chen Hong's call just after the last class on Friday. As she listened to Chen Hong's hesitant voice on the other end of the line, she unknowingly reached the school gate. She glanced around briefly and saw Lu Jiyu waiting under a large sycamore tree near the entrance, his back to her, looking at his phone. He was unclear what he was looking at, his brows slightly furrowed.
Jiang Wan felt that Chen Hong had said enough, so she replied, "How is my dad now?"
"He is still in the hospital. He has woken up, but the doctor said he needs to be observed for a while."
"Jiang Wan, your dad asked me not to tell you, but I know he misses you very much. As the saying goes, there's no such thing as an overnight grudge between a father and a daughter. If you have time, give him a call. Ever since your last fight, he's been staring at his phone in a daze. Sigh."
"I see. Thank you, Auntie. You've worked hard taking care of him these days."
Chen Hong on the other end of the phone was stunned for a moment before she reacted: "It's not hard. What's hard about it? Your father treats me very well. This is mutual. It's what I should do."
After Jiang Wan finished her call, Lu Jiyu turned around and looked at her. Seeing Jiang Wan's serious expression, he put away the phone and asked softly, "What's wrong?"
Jiang Wan walked up to him and thought for a moment: "Am I sometimes quite mean?"
Lu Jiyu: How should I answer this?
Lu Jiyu: "Are you hungry during class? I asked Zhou Zifang to go to the second cafeteria to queue up for casserole. You can have some when you get there."
Jiang Wan glanced at him sideways. "So what do you mean by talking about other things? Do you think so too?"
Lu Jiyu suddenly understood Lu Lin's intention of letting him watch all kinds of melodramatic idol dramas since he was a child. Isn't this just a good use for him? "Of course not. Who said you were mean? This person is really tasteless."
“No one said anything to me, I just felt it myself.”
Lu Jiyu: ...Okay, I'd better not say anything.
At this moment, Jiang Wan suddenly felt that having Chen Hong by Jiang Huainan's side was a good choice.
Jiang Huainan was driving when he had a minor collision with someone. It turned out to be a minor accident, but then, for some reason, the two of them started a fight. Jiang Huainan was hit on the back of the head by the other person and fainted on the spot. Fortunately, he was sent to the hospital and was not seriously injured.
When Chen Hong called Jiang Wan, three days had passed.
After having dinner with Lu Jiyu and others, Jiang Wan bought a plane ticket back to Nanyuan that night.
Before leaving, she planned to go back to the dormitory to pack her luggage, but just as she was about to push the door open, Zhang Yang's indignant voice leaked out through the gap in the door.
"Haha, those guys in the Department of Economics and Management are so fucking mean. I should have used my phone to record their conversation and sent it to their counselor. See if they can still frame the girls."
Cao Qing's voice lit up slowly: "What did they say? Jiang Wan?"
Zhang Yang snorted coldly: "Isn't it just making Huang Yao for girls? It's just a few sentences back and forth."
What's the saying about managing the belle of the courtyard and knowing the third person as the third person? Let's not talk about whether Lu Jiyu has a girlfriend or not. If he does have one, he was the first to get close to her. Why doesn't he scold men for not being able to control their lower body? It seems that all love affairs in this world are women's fault, right?
"Don't you usually get along with Jiang Wan? Why are you fighting for him now?" Cao Qing asked her curiously.
Zhang Yang was silent for a few seconds. "I'm not fighting for her. I just can't stand seeing guys spreading rumors about girls. They're all sour grapes. I just can't stand them. That's it."
When Jiang Wan heard this, she was about to push the door open and go in, but Qian Huan appeared behind her with a washbasin in his hand and called her name first: "Jiang Wan!"
When the people in the room heard this, they stopped talking.
After a few seconds, someone came to open the door. It was none other than Zhang Yang. Seeing that it was really Jiang Wan behind the door, she showed a rare bit of embarrassment on her face: "Why are you back?"
Zhang Yang clearly heard from Cao Qing that Jiang Wan had something to do at home and had to go back today.
"I came back to pack some things." When Jiang Wan said he was packing, he actually just took the cell phone charger and a backpack.
Seeing her take her things and about to leave, Zhang Yang couldn't help but chase after her and said a few words: "I didn't say those things for you, don't misunderstand."
Jiang Wan looked at her sideways and nodded to show that he understood.
Zhang Yang paused and continued, his expression a bit unconvinced and a bit convinced: "But I think what you said last time does make some sense."
Jiang Wan was puzzled: "Which sentence?"
This question completely wiped out Zhang Yang's remaining desire to communicate: "If you forget it, forget it."
"Okay. I'll try to think about it." Jiang Wan also noticed it, but she really had forgotten.
Jiang Wan came out of the dormitory and took a taxi directly to the airport. She didn't let Lu Jiyu send her off because she knew that he was busy with the competition recently and had been working day and night, and the cold he caught in the rain last time had not yet fully healed.
Before boarding the plane, Jiang Wan suddenly received a WeChat message from Lu Jiyu.
gazer: Will we forget one thing?
Wanzai Wharf: What’s the matter?
gazer: Official announcement——
Jiang Wan also stared at the two words on the screen in confusion for a while before realizing what he was referring to: "Didn't you always say you had a girlfriend?"
Lu Jiyu: "But is there a possibility that we were in a cold war at that time, and I didn't explicitly say that this person was you?"
Jiang Wan corrected him: "It's not a cold war, it's a breakup."
She thought about what Zhang Yang had said in the dormitory just now, and thought it was because of this matter. She replied, "It's okay, let them keep guessing. It will kill them with curiosity."
Lu Jiyu: "Okay, let's not talk about this for now. Be careful on the road and call me if anything happens."
Lu Jiyu put down his phone and turned to look at Fang Cheng who was looking at him apologetically. He rubbed his eyes and said speechlessly: "Anything else?"
Fang Cheng immediately raised his hands in surrender: "I swear I didn't spread this."
Lu Jiyu has been so busy with competitions lately that he's practically on the edge of his seat. Even during this time, he still has to keep an eye on Jiang Wan's schedule and ask her out for dinner. The two of them are actually a very low-key couple; they rarely even hold hands when out and about, just eat and chat together. So Lu Jiyu hadn't really paid attention to the rumors about them, unless Fang Cheng had mentioned it to him today.
"It's okay." Lu Jiyu found that his mentality was now very Buddhist. He didn't know whether it was because Jiang Wan led him or because Zhou Zifang said that he had really matured again.
Seeing that he really didn't seem to care, Fang Cheng came over and started to talk nonsense: "According to the method of calculating age in our hometown, does that mean you have had two girlfriends?"
Ever since Fang Cheng knew that Jiang Wan was Lu Jiyu's first love, he finally understood what Lu Jiyu meant by the look in his eyes when they were in the bar last time.
What else could it be?
It's pure worship.
Fang Cheng patted Lu Jiyu on the shoulder and said, "Although it's still a little behind my performance, it's still pretty good. Keep up the good work."
Lu Jiyu looked up at him curiously and said, "Why don't you and Zhou Zifang do a paternity test when you have time?"
This extremely cheap taste is simply the same.
It was already ten o'clock in the evening when Jiang Wan arrived at Nanyuan. She did not go to the hospital, but rested at home for one night and went to the hospital at noon the next day.
When she left, Chen Hong specifically called and told her not to bring anything, saying that there was nothing missing here.
Jiang Wan thought about it and decided to take a taxi to the old dim sum restaurant that Jiang Huainan often went to and buy some dim sum for him.
The hospital's inpatient building was bustling with people. Jiang Wan was waiting for the elevator in the lobby, holding a snack in her hand. It was probably peak visiting hours, so she waited for a while before the elevator came down.
A group of people rushed out. Jiang Wan was about to step inside when she looked up and her eyes met the person standing at the innermost part of the elevator, a person she had never imagined meeting here.
Lu Lin.
Lu Lin was dressed casually today, and there was no assistant with her. She followed the crowd out and stood in front of Jiang Wan: "Are you here to see your dad?"
Jiang Wan nodded: "Yes, hello, Auntie." She didn't ask why Lu Lin appeared here, but she had guessed a little.
Lu Lin smiled. When she smiled, she looked very similar to Lu Jiyu. Her sharp eyes narrowed slightly into a line. The former had a bit more kindness, while the latter had the feeling of a young man who was still unsettled.
Jiang Wan pointed to the elevator door: "Then I'll go up first."
Lu Lin looked at her, as if he was about to say something, but finally said, "Goodbye."
Jiang Wan saw through her subtext, and before leaving, she added, "Lu Jiyu has been doing well lately. He will be back during the winter vacation." After she finished speaking, she didn't have time to look at Lu Lin's expression, and followed the crowd into the elevator.
Jiang Huainan's ward is on the twelfth floor.
When Jiang Wan entered, Jiang Ying was chatting with Jiang Huainan. They were both stunned when they saw Jiang Wan suddenly appear: "Jiang Wan, why are you back?"
Jiang Huainan retracted his initial surprised look and turned his head to the side, deliberately avoiding looking at her.
Jiang Ying also felt the unusual atmosphere between the two of them. She stood up and asked the person in the next bed to borrow a chair and placed it at the head of the bed, asking Jiang Wan to sit down quickly.
Jiang Wan said thank you and sat down beside the bed. She glanced at the overly gorgeous fruit basket on the bedside table and asked, "Who sent this?"
Hearing this, Jiang Huainan turned his head to look at her, without saying anything, but the expression on his face seemed to be saying, why are you pretending.
Jiang Ying was surprised. "The courier brought this fruit basket early this morning, saying it was from you, and he also gave you a lot of health supplements." She bent down and was about to rummage under the bed to show Jiang Wan the health supplements. Jiang Huainan gave her a disapproving look, and Jiang Ying stopped.
After hearing what they said, Jiang Wan became a little curious. She picked up the card hanging on the fruit basket, took a look at it, and instantly knew what was going on.
It turned out to be a road snail.
But she didn't expose it.
Seeing that she was silent, Jiang Huainan thought she agreed, and then he seemed to have finally found an outlet to vent his anger: "Why did you buy these things? They are expensive and useless."
Jiang Wan had no idea what Lu Jiyu had bought, so he could only casually agree: "It's okay, my mom will reimburse you."
The person on the hospital bed was speechless.
"Jiang Wan." Jiang Ying looked at Jiang Wan disapprovingly from the side.
Jiang Huainan sneered: "Did you come here just to piss me off to death?"
Jiang Wan didn't answer, but just carelessly put the bag of shoe-soles cakes he brought with him on the fruit basket. As expected, Jiang Huainan rolled his eyes, but Jiang Wan pretended not to see it: "The gift is small, but the thought is great. This is your favorite snack. Don't worry, I spent my own money."
She took a piece of shoe sole cake from her bag and sat there eating it by herself: "Why are you fighting? You are old and you are trying to show off."
No response received.
After Jiang Wan finished one piece, she was about to take the second one. Jiang Huainan finally couldn't bear it anymore and reached out to hold her down: "Is this for me or for you?"
Jiang Wan then withdrew his hand and took a few tissues to wipe his hands: "I just saw Lu Lin downstairs."
Jiang Huainan fell silent again.
Jiang Ying suddenly stood up: "I remembered the doctor still wants to see me, I'll go check it out."
Jiang Huainan didn't keep her. After everyone left, he looked at Jiang Wan again. He had indeed lost some weight recently, and with a lot of white hair on his temples, he looked several years older.
"What did she tell you?" Jiang Wan asked.
Jiang Huainan snorted coldly: "You don't care about your uncle, but now you are curious?"
The overly bright midday sunlight climbed up the windowsill into the room, and Jiang Wan was half bathed in the light. She looked at Jiang Huainan seriously: "Dad, you should know now that what happened between them was not what you suspected, but why are you still so aggressive towards Lu Lin? Just because she is still alive and seems to be doing well?"
"You know, she and her uncle once had a child."
"But then she lost the child and she lost her fertility."
Jiang Huainan's cold face flashed with shock and confusion, and he asked in disbelief, "What did you say?"
Jiang Wan knew that Lu Lin would not say this himself, so she sat there and continued, saying for him: "Uncle broke up with her because he was disabled and didn't want to bring trouble to her."
In short, Lu Lin also understood the impossibility between the two of them, so she agreed to break up. However, she was still worried about Jiang Sheng, so she came to his city and quietly watched him from the side. Later, she met Chen Wulin's father and pretended to be single to pursue him. She didn't want to agree at first, but he promised to give her a monthly salary. This made Lu Lin waver.
She had no use for any of the money, as it was all donated to Jiang Sheng by anonymous kind-hearted people.
Later, perhaps Jiang Sheng found out about this, and coupled with the long-term inconvenience and pain brought by living with a disability, Jiang Sheng finally chose to end his own life.
"Who told you that? These are just one-sided accounts from that woman." Jiang Huainan was so excited that he sat up from the bed.
"Is it all one-sided?"
Jiang Wan took out a stack of papers from his bag: "But at least the transfer records are real, right?"
Jiang Huainan stared at the papers without moving.
Jiang Wan stood up and said, "Dad, your uncle won't be happy if you do this. You have to let go of yourself and others. There is no right or wrong in this story. Stop looking for a scapegoat."
Just like when Jiang Wan insisted on finding Jiang Sheng’s girlfriend in order to divert his guilt.
But she later discovered that all the shackles were put on by herself and had nothing to do with others.
She came out, and now it was Jiang Huainan's turn.
After all, if people want to go further, they must learn to free themselves.
Fate has given you a pair of skillful hands, not to see you trapped in your own cocoon, but to expect you to tie a beautiful bow for yourself when you are completing yourself.
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