Chapter 290: Chun'e Deserves the Best
After Lu Chun'e and Zhou Mingli left, Wen Wan realized that Lu Chun'e had made an appointment with Zhou Mingli to play ball today. She took Dandan to play ball in a corner of the playground, watching Lu Chun'e and Zhou Mingli from a distance.
Although Lu Chun'e could serve, she still couldn't hit the ball. She either couldn't catch it or it flew out. The two of them kept picking up the ball. Zhou Mingli, however, was so patient and enjoyed it that even Wen Wan, who couldn't play, found it a bit embarrassing to watch.
She couldn't play, but she could watch. She'd seen the intensity of Zhou Mingli and Xu Qingming's table tennis matches, how they'd be itching to slap each other in the face with their rackets at every turn. If they met someone who wasn't as skilled, they'd be beaten repeatedly, and it would be exhausting.
For such a person, suddenly changing his personality, could it be that he has grown older and become more sensible?
No, from the perspective of someone who has experienced this, this is definitely not the case.
The gentle look in Zhou Mingli's eyes when he looked at Chun'e was so familiar, just like the one Lu Dongping gave her when she went to the countryside.
It's just that she was in the game at that time, and now she is outside it. She feels that Zhou Mingli's eyes are like a vicious dog seeing a bone, ah, ugh! It's like a bee seeing a flower, so eager.
After returning home, she asked Lu Chun'e: "When did you become so familiar with Zhou Mingli?" They clearly didn't speak when they met on the road yesterday.
Lu Chun'e said, "We've known each other before. Yesterday evening after dinner, I went out for a walk and happened to run into each other. We played for a while and learned how to play. I happened to have nothing else to do today, so we made an appointment to play again. I thought it was quite interesting. Maybe it's because I just started playing, so it's quite fresh and interesting."
Wen Wan asked her, "Are you still going in the evening?"
"Go! He said he'll be back with the team tomorrow. I don't know many people here in the compound, and if he leaves, there'll be no one to practice with me. Sister-in-law, do you know how to play table tennis?"
Wen Wan really didn't know how to do this. She glanced at Lu Chun'e. The girl in front of her had a frank look in her eyes. Only when she talked about playing table tennis did her eyes show excitement about something new. Nothing else.
But she still couldn't help but think about it.
Even though they hadn't seen each other in the past seven or eight years, she knew Zhou Mingli's character very well. He wasn't a kindhearted person, and he actually taught Chun'e how to play ball. She couldn't blame her for being mean-spirited; she truly felt that Zhou Mingli had ill intentions.
However, she also thought it was quite good to see Lu Chun'e unconsciously learning to play table tennis. If Zhou Mingli really had some thoughts on this, it would be fun.
As for the question of whether she was worthy or not, she had never thought about it at all.
The Zhou family was well-off, and Zhou Mingli was excellent; otherwise, the old lady wouldn't have been so persistent in dragging her to her. But so what? In her eyes, Chun'e was also a top-notch girl: kind, hardworking, generous, and well-mannered. She was also a medical student with a bright future ahead of her. She deserved the best.
If Zhou Mingli really likes her, it means he has good taste, not that Lu Chun'e is trying to climb above her station.
Lu Chun'e is already twenty years old and an adult. She knows how to handle her own affairs. There is no need for her to ask about everything. She can just watch.
Not to mention that Zhou Mingli returned to the team and left the compound early the next day, Wen Wan went to Xu's house again on Sunday, stayed with her cousin Xu for a whole afternoon, entrusted the matter to her, and then after the nanny came back from vacation, she took Lu Chun'e to the department store.
The capital is different from Xinxi County, there is more than one department store.
After two days of running, my fair face had turned a different color due to the sun. I had finally covered most of the places I wanted to run, and I had a general idea of the styles of clothes sold in each building.
Men's clothing is relatively simple, with only a red, white, and blue off-the-shoulder cotton vest and a shirt. There's only one style, and if you really want to distinguish them, you can distinguish between long-sleeved and short-sleeved ones.
As for pants, the popular colors on the market are military green, navy blue, dark blue, and black.
In comparison, there are more varieties of women's clothing. Just for summer, just for young people, there are several kinds of shirts with different styles and colors. Dacron fabric accounts for 70%, and there are also braids. Oh, many people don’t call them that now, they call them skirts. They are in short supply. Any one of them costs more than 20 yuan, and there are no ones that cost more than ten yuan.
In addition to looking at these things on the market, the two of them never came back empty-handed. They brought back a lot of cloth, some of which were bought with cloth coupons and some of which were picked up at bargain prices.
If they want to cooperate with the department store, these cloths definitely cannot be used. If they want to cooperate, they have to get the cloths from the department store or find ways to get them from other channels. This is simply a joke.
But before that, we must first make samples and design a few clothes carefully, and then we can talk about it.
Wen Wan plans to make a serious plan.
However, before it even started, Lu Dongping arrived.
I haven't seen you for a few days and you've become very tanned.
When Wen Wan and Lu Chun'e arrived home, he was sitting on the sofa with Dandan in his arms, teaching him to read, but the little guy was obviously unhappy and was very uncooperative.
As soon as Wen Wan and Lu Chun'e entered the door, Dandan excitedly twisted his butt and ran away under Lu Dongping's deliberate carelessness. When he reached the door, he hugged Wen Wan's legs and refused to let go.
"Are you done?"
Lu Dongping nodded and stepped forward to help take the things from her and Lu Chun'e.
"Just take it upstairs on the way. I'll need to sort it out later."
As she said this, she reached out to grab Dandan: "Little boy, what's wrong with you? Why do you always like to hug other people's legs?" A four-year-old child is very strong. If Wen Wan didn't have experience, she would have made him stumble.
Dandan giggled and took her hand to the sofa, then sat down and rubbed against her arms: "Mom, I don't want to write, I want to play ball."
The sun is scorching outside and the cicadas are chirping hysterically. How can we play ball at this time?
I'm afraid he wants to be beaten.
"It's okay if you don't write. You can go play in the yard, but you're not allowed to run under the sun."
She looked very meticulous in taking care of the children in the eyes of others, but in fact, she was not particularly meticulous. Dandan was absolutely not allowed to go out under the scorching sun. In this kind of weather, adults would get sunburned, let alone children.
No need to write, no matter whether playing with the ball or not, I feel happy and run outside.
The door was locked and he couldn't get out, so Wen Wan ignored him.
The nanny came out of the kitchen and asked her, "I've made some cold mung bean soup. Would Wanwan and Chun'e like some?"
Wen Wan waved her hand: "See if Chun'e wants to, I have to go take a shower, I'm all sweaty."
Lu Chun'e ordered a bowl of mung bean soup chilled with well water, added sugar and drank two sips. Then she thought of Dandan playing outside and planned to give him some. When she went out, she saw him holding a stick, standing on the Taiping jar in the corner of the yard, stirring it diligently.
"Dandan, what are you doing? Do you want some soup, sweet soup?"
Dandan sighed, let go and turned around, with a large wet area in front of him. He looked at her eagerly and pointed at the big vat and said, "Auntie, fish, catch some fish!"
Lu Chun'e laughed: "You can't catch him. Grandpa will be angry if you catch him."
Wen Shihua didn't know where he got the two water lilies from, so he asked someone to buy a large tank for it. Then he felt that the two water lilies were lonely in it, so he put some fish in it to feed them.
It's easy to feed, just add some noodles and rice grains from time to time.
Dandan was not tall enough at the moment and could only stand on tiptoe to reach the tank.
When he was crying before, Wen Shihua held him and watched the fish, and coaxed him a few times, so he remembered it.
Then, after going fishing and eating fish twice, I was completely addicted to it. From time to time, I wanted to use a bamboo stick to poke the water tank a few times to get the fish out and cook them.
Dandan couldn't be coaxed by her words. He drank two mouthfuls of soup, then turned around and continued to dig into the water tank with a stick, poking holes in the lotus leaves floating on the water.
Lu Chun'e went into the house to put down the bowl, then came out and carried him inside: "Okay, let's go and have some rest. If you want to eat fish, go fishing with grandpa on Sunday and catch big fish. The fish in the tank are too small and not tasty."
"Delicious!" Dandan, who was obsessed with fish, would not be fooled easily.
Wen Wan didn't know that her beloved son had coveted Old Wen's fish. She took a shower, changed her clothes, and then leaned back in a chair. Lu Dongping helped her wipe her hair and told her what had happened in the past few days.
"Human traffickers? Are they so bold? They've even reached into the capital?"
"Yes, a few have gone missing. Although they're not from the same area, we can confirm that it was done by a gang. We only managed to bring back two children, and the rest haven't been found yet. They've already left the city and are fleeing to other places. We've sent people to hunt them down, and we've also notified everyone else to cooperate with our people. We'll definitely catch this gang in one fell swoop."
That being said, the actual situation is not that easy. If we can catch the person and get the child back along the way, that would be the best. But if we can't find the child along the way and the traffickers have entered the mountains, then the mission will be quite troublesome.
Lu Dongping was supposed to go to other places with the police, but this time people from the military district were dispatched, so he did not go.
Even if he hadn't gone, this city-wide manhunt would have made him stand out.
Wen Wan was drowsy from his gentle movements. She yawned and said, "So, will we go back to work as usual?"
Lu Dongping hummed, "We have half a day off today, and we'll go as usual tomorrow."
"Aren't you going to night school this afternoon?"
Lu Dongping reached out and touched her half-dried hair, then picked her up and placed her on his lap. He rested his chin on her shoulder and said, "I'm not going today. I want to rest. Will you give me extra lessons when you return?"
"Are you done here? Can I go home now?"
As soon as he finished and his tone slowed down, something felt off.
The house is empty and I don’t feel any sense of belonging.
So he changed his clothes and ran over here.
What's the point of being alone? You still have to take your wife back home.
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