Chapter 94 Two people, a dog, and an unborn child.
The sun was setting, and night was about to fall.
On a beautiful and tender evening, my phone kept ringing.
Lu Jinyuan turned on the warm light of the wall lamp and glanced at the woman in his arms who was sleeping restlessly. She was disturbed by the phone and was about to explode with morning grumpiness. He coaxed her softly, "It's not too late yet, sleep a little longer. I'll take this call and come back."
Jiang Qingying mumbled an "Mmm" in her sleep, then turned over and went back to sleep.
Lu Jinyuan took his phone and walked out of the bedroom, quietly closing the door before answering the call, "What is it?"
Qin Shiming was used to the way the man always sounded like he owed him money when he answered the phone, but today he heard a different kind of hoarseness, like someone who had just woken up and hadn't warmed up their voice yet. He glanced at his watch in confusion to make sure he was on the right time.
"No, don't tell me you just woke up."
What's wrong with taking a nap?
"Holy crap!" Qin Shiming jumped up and yelled into the microphone, "What's wrong? You have the nerve to ask me what's wrong? Open your dog eyes and see what time it is."
Lu Jinyuan's ears rang from the loud voice, and he glanced at the time on his phone with displeasure. "Sixty, what's wrong?"
As if on purpose, he asked again what was wrong.
How disgusting.
That's disgusting.
Qin Shiming mentally drew a circle around him and harshly criticized him.
"What's wrong!" Qin Shiming gritted his teeth, his face turning purple with anger. "You dumped all the work from the business trips on me, leaving me to brave the elements outside. Meanwhile, you're at home taking a nice nap with your wife until evening. How can you do this to me?"
"You're crazy. What have I done to deserve this?" Lu Jinyuan coldly cursed him. "You can do this when you have a wife."
"Nonsense." Qin Shiming retorted, then launched a barrage of attacks, "Does it matter whether I have a wife or not? You'll definitely have other excuses later, like, 'Ah... my wife gave birth, I need to be with her. Ah... my daughter was born, I need to be with her. Ah... I'm planning to have a second child, I need to be with my wife and kids.'"
"So?" Lu Jinyuan asked calmly, "Is there a problem?"
Indeed...it seems there's no problem.
Isn't this how single people are described?
Qin Shiming's face turned ashen. "Let's talk about work!"
Lu Jinyuan turned and went to his study to start working.
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An hour later, after work was finished, before Lu Jinyuan hung up the phone, Qin Shiming, for some reason, wanted to chat with him a little longer.
Lu Jinyuan coldly refused, "Is there anything else?"
Qin Shiming heard the urgency in his impatient tone and asked, "What's the matter?"
"Wake up and feed your wife."
"...goodbye!"
Qin Shiming awkwardly hung up the phone first.
Lu Jinyuan was in a great mood. He entered the bedroom, walked to the bedside, and looked down at Jiang Qingying, who was still fast asleep. His slightly red fingertips caressed her face.
A moment later, Jiang Qingying was woken up and glared at him with displeasure.
"Get up and eat," Lu Jinyuan said gently.
Jiang Qingying propped herself up, her voice soft and weak: "Is it that late?"
Lu Jinyuan picked her up and took her to the bathroom to wash her face. "How about we go shopping after dinner?"
"Do you need to buy something?" Jiang Qingying sat on the washbasin, took the towel he handed her, wiped her face and muttered, "Why don't you just have someone deliver it?"
Lu Jinyuan braced his arms on either side of her legs, bent down, and gazed at her with a smile in his eyes. "It seems we haven't prepared anything for the baby yet. Don't you want to go to a baby store to take a look?"
Upon hearing this, Jiang Qingying paused in her movements. Only after he said that did she realize that the two of them had indeed overlooked this matter before.
"Okay, let's go shopping together after we eat." She paused, looking a little lost. "Do you know what you want to buy? How do you choose?"
Lu Jinyuan gave a soft "hmm," and said, "I've already checked."
After washing her face, Jiang Qingying handed the towel back to him. Seeing that he didn't make any further moves after taking it, she asked, "Is there something you need to say?"
Lu Jinyuan looked at her, his eyelids slowly scanning up and down, his expression serious, his voice becoming heavy: "About Lu Yichuan."
Jiang Qingying's expression also turned serious, and she gave a vague "hmm".
"Lu Yichuan was sentenced to several years for intentional assault." His voice was cold, like the biting wind howling on the edge of a cliff in winter, quiet yet fierce, each blow cold and deadly.
Jiang Qingying lowered her eyes, pondered for a moment, and then looked up with some confusion, "That's it?"
Lu Yichuan hadn't offended Jiang Qingying. The only possible reason was that he hit Lu Jinyuan with his car, but that was a setup by Lu Jinyuan, and she wouldn't hate him for it. She asked the question because she felt Lu Jinyuan had shown mercy.
That was unexpected.
Given Lu Jinyuan's style of doing things, she thought that Lu Jinyuan would use this as a breakthrough to expose all the shameful things Lu Yichuan had done before, so that Lu Yichuan wouldn't have only been sentenced to a few years for intentional injury.
Lu Jinyuan picked her up, and since the journey downstairs to eat was short, he briefly explained the reason.
“Lu Yunsong is going crazy. He was just short of rushing over to me in the countryside and stabbing me in the back. It was only because my grandfather and I held him back that we didn’t see him in Nanzhou.” Lu Jinyuan looked down at her with gentle eyes and a smile on his face. “I promised you that I wouldn’t gamble with my own life.”
So he stopped.
Even though he had never worried about what Lu Yunsong could do to him, and with his surveillance, the probability of Lu Yunsong appearing in Nanzhou was very small, he was now concerned about even the almost nonexistent probability, because he wanted to give Jiang Qingying peace of mind.
“I used to be fearless, not afraid of danger, not even afraid of death. But not now. I’m afraid of getting hurt, afraid of dying, and even more afraid of hurting you.”
Jiang Qingying was deeply moved, her eyelashes trembling slightly. She sat down at the dining table and asked, "What happened after Lu Yichuan came out?"
"Throw him abroad." Lu Jinyuan poured her a glass of water. "I'll have someone keep an eye on him then, don't worry."
“Let me ask you,” Jiang Qingying tugged at his collar and said, “If we hadn’t argued, how far would you have gone? Keeping an eye on Lu Yunsong’s family, even going against Grandpa.”
Lu Jinyuan's eyes remained unchanged as he spoke calmly, "I don't know, but you're right, I am a madman. I didn't have any ulterior motives for doing those things, whether it was money or power, I didn't think about getting anything. Now it seems there's no need to continue, you are the most important."
Jiang Qingying raised her eyebrows slightly, but did not continue the topic.
After dinner, Lu Jinyuan took out a cake from the refrigerator, cut a piece, and placed it in front of Jiang Qingying.
Jiang Qingying looked at the exquisite cake in front of her and inexplicably remembered something he had said that afternoon.
- It would taste much better if you smeared cream on yourself.
Help!
This is really inexplicable!
Of course, this "inexplicable" was an insult directed at Lu Jinyuan. Why make a cake for no reason? Why say such perverted things for no reason?!
Seeing her increasingly contorted expression, Lu Jinyuan quickly remembered the reason and, suppressing a laugh, asked her, "So, are you still going to eat?"
Jiang Qingying tried to calm herself down and said expressionlessly, "You eat! I'll watch you eat!"
Lu Jinyuan couldn't suppress his laughter and burst out laughing.
"If you laugh again, get out!" Jiang Qingying pointed at his nose and yelled.
Lu Jinyuan immediately suppressed his laughter, his voice trembling as he moved the cake in front of her to his own. "Okay, I'll eat it."
Jiang Qingying didn't want to pay attention to him, but seeing him eat cake made her a little envious; after all, it was the first cake they had made together. In the end, she cut herself a piece.
"Not awkward anymore?" Lu Jinyuan teased.
Jiang Qingying gave him a look that seemed to say, "Will you die if you don't talk?"
Gou Dan smelled the aroma of the cake and ran over eagerly, squatting at Lu Jinyuan's feet and barking at him.
Lu Jinyuan lowered his eyes and said coldly, "Dogs can't eat cake."
Dog Egg wouldn't let go of his trouser leg, and Lu Jinyuan resisted the urge to kick it away.
"It probably doesn't necessarily want the cake; it just seems to be craving something when it sees you eating." Jiang Qingying glanced at it and ruffled Gou Dan's hair. "Mom will get you some snacks."
Jiang Qingying went to the doghouse to get its treats. In a sudden burst of ritual, she put the treats on a plate and placed it in the seat opposite her.
Lu Jinyuan knew what she was going to do, so he got up and found a small stool to elevate her position, and then lifted Gou Dan onto it.
Thus, a heartwarming scene unfolded in the restaurant. Lu Jinyuan sat at one end of the long table, with Jiang Qingying on his left and Gou Dan on his right.
Two people, a dog, and an unborn child.
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