Chapter 19: Is a promising son a perfect son?
On the day he flew back from Shanghai, Wang Shu went to the airport to pick up Shen Qingqing.
I just saw her at the airport. Wang Shu waved at her, and she nodded gently. She looked sick and didn't even look at him the whole way. When Wang Shu walked over to her and took her bag, Shen Qingqing asked, "What is the parking lot of the car?"
After knowing that the car was at level two, she walked forward alone. They walked one in front of the other and did not speak to each other.
Wang Shu drove an Alphard by himself, without a driver. When he got in the car, Shen Qingqing took the initiative to sit in the back seat. Wang Shu's intention to accompany her was obvious. The seats in the back seat were adjusted, and Shen Qingqing saw Dang Ni in the back seat as soon as she got in the car.
The stupid little dog wagged its tail at her. Being a dog was good. It was completely unaware of the undercurrent in the atmosphere of the people in the car. Shen Qingqing called out "Dang Ni" and put her on her lap.
On Dang Ni's head was a small braid that Wang Shu had clumsily tied for her. Layers of rubber bands held a few strands of dog hair, and it looked very clumsy. Shen Qingqing lowered her head and gently untied Dang Ni's braid layer by layer, for fear of hurting it.
Wang Shu also chatted with Shen Qingqing like he was coaxing a puppy. "How was your trip to Shanghai?"
“Very good.” Shen Qingqing didn’t want to talk much, her tone was stiff, and she spoke while dismantling it.
"Where have you all gone?" Wang Shu looked at her in the rearview mirror with a rather flattering tone.
"I went to the Lin residence." Shen Qingqing also looked back. She was waiting for Wang Shu to lose his temper and wanted to have a quarrel with him.
Wang Shu thought about it for a moment and said calmly, "I think the Lin residence sent me an invitation. The owner of the Lin residence, Ruan Siwei, is an investor in our family. He often drinks with Jiang Yong."
"Really? I don't know anything about your work." The car drove out of the underground parking lot. Shen Qingqing concentrated on undoing Dang Ni's braids and no longer looked into his eyes.
Wang Shu then asked, "Didn't Jiang Yong go?"
“I didn’t see it.” Shen Qingqing said coldly.
Wang Shu laughed, "He doesn't even go to these kinds of events. Jiang Yong is too old to play around anymore. I heard last time he went to dinner with Ruan Siwei, and there was a girl at the table serving food. She even asked for Jiang Yong's contact information and told him she was paying 5,000 yuan per order."
Shen Qingqing was a little puzzled as to why Wang Shu was talking to her about this. "Fa Cai? Waiter? Waiters can also take private orders."
"Fa Cai is used to help rich men find beautiful girls." Wang Shu smiled.
Chen Qingqing didn't understand what he meant and said, "Ah? There is such a profession?"
Ruan Siwei is 45 years old. The girl left after drinking. Ruan Siwei and Jiang Yong said that the young girl was a bridge for him to communicate with the younger world.
Shen Qingqing rolled her eyes, “Old pervert, you sound pretty damn cultured.”
Shen Qingqing recalled what her father had said to her about Jiang Yong being a diamond bachelor. She said to Wang Shu, "Why is Jiang Yong so gossipy? He can talk to anyone."
"That's Jiang Yong's ability. He just seems cunning, but he's actually very principled. Cunning people can throw people off guard and make them think they're easy to manipulate. That's why so many big investments were made by Jiang Yong. Without him, with my social skills, could we have made so much money?"
Shen Qingqing nodded and asked again, "So, what do you want to tell me?"
Wang Shu looked at her with a look of disappointment and said, "Can you guarantee that you will raise your child to be a decent person?"
Chen Qingqing said speechlessly, "Can you not be so cautious? You're already worried about problems with your child's growth before they're even born?"
Wang Shu said, "Shen Yanyan, people are very complicated. Many people suffer setbacks on their growth path and then become ordinary people."
Shen Qingqing suddenly leaned over, looked at his profile, and asked, "Do you think that a person who has no future and does not become a dragon or a phoenix does not deserve to live?"
"I'm a housewife. If I were not your wife but your daughter, would you dislike me?" Shen Qingqing said seriously.
"Don't bring this onto us," Wang Shu said.
Chen Qingqing continued, "Wang Meng is very promising. He's a Peking University graduate and tall, but how many words has Wang Meng spoken to me? Is he the kind of child you want in the future?"
"And then there's Jiang Yong, who's in his early thirties, earns millions a year, owns a luxury car, but isn't married. When he goes out to eat, he even has waiters. Is Jiang Yong the perfect son in your mind?"
Shen Qingqing undid Dang Ni's braids and gently placed her on the left seat. Dang Ni called out twice again.
"I don't mean to argue with you. I just think that if we're going to have a baby, I should tell you about my concerns in advance."
"When you are not at home, I feel that the house is empty, only when Danni calls out occasionally. Maybe we really need a child," said Wang Shu.
Shen Qingqing looked out the window and said, "You weren't so timid when you were doing business. Maybe we really didn't communicate enough."
"You know, we receive refund applications every day. The identity verification applications are all from elderly grandparents, who say that their grandchildren used their mobile phones to operate them." Wang Shu said sincerely.
"There's so much social news going on, and I feel like I might not be ready for it."
Shen Qingqing hummed and said, "No one is urging you to prepare. You can decide your own life."
Wang Shu didn't answer, but continued, "Qingqing, I always feel like you're still a child. When you speak, you always try to gain the upper hand rather than stick to the facts."
As Danni watched the streetlights flash by outside, Chen Qingqing placed both hands on the handles of the back seat, like a boss about to scrutinize his subordinates. "You forgot, I'm thirty years old too. At thirty, I'm not a child in anyone's eyes."
Wang Shu said, "I didn't think it through, but I've thought about it. Let's just give birth to him, and I will educate him wholeheartedly."
Shen Qingqing's eyes suddenly turned red, and she didn't say anything. Wang Shu saw it, and when they reached a red light, he took a cup of oden and handed it to her in the back seat to coax her to eat. "Warm your hands."
Shen Qingqing didn't take it and started to cry. Wang Shu handed her a tissue and then frantically started to cheer her up. "If you don't take it, it will fall to the ground. Then it will dirty the seat and we will have to go to the car wash. Beijing is so congested that we won't be home until three o'clock."
Shen Qingqing had no choice but to take it, holding the hot soup cup and began to eat the crab bun inside.
Wang Shu half-turned to look at her. "Wang Meng isn't busy lately. Have him come over for dinner in a few days. You're pregnant, and this is good news that you should let your family know."
Shen Qingqing's hand trembled, and the crab meat dumpling she had picked up fell back into the soup, splashing a few drops.
Wang Shu said, "You'll be a mother in the future, so you need to be more careful. Oh, and yesterday I asked my assistant to check with some housekeeping companies. There are a few good aunties who are about to change their homes. You can pick them out in the next few days. If you like them, we can schedule an appointment quickly."
Shen Qingqing felt that she had been conquered by Wang Shu again. She handed the cup of oden back to him and said, "No thanks."
Wang Shu frowned and said, "Why not?"
He took it, hummed, and waited for her to speak.
Shen Qingqing said awkwardly, “The pregnancy test was wrong before, I’m not pregnant.”
Wang Shu was stunned for a moment. If his eyes could speak, he would definitely sigh and be secretly delighted. His own reaction to Shen Qingqing's pregnancy was very conflicted - in his life plan, he should indeed have a pair of children, but not now, because he was not ready to be a parent.
During the two days that Chen Qingqing was away, he had slowly been preparing to accept the child who had come to him. Thinking of the child's shivering, wrinkled little hand, even someone as cold and indifferent as Wang Shu couldn't bear to stop his child from coming into this world. But now, with a single word from Chen Qingqing, the shivering little hand had completely withdrawn.
This way of playing cards is really the rule of life.
The green light came on and the cars behind started honking their horns. Wang Shu came to his senses and started the car.
Wang Shu came to his senses and said, "Then we can also find a live-in aunt. We've already made an appointment. Let's go and take a look together some other day."
Shen Qingqing hummed, resting her head on the passenger seat, and asked a little unsurely, "You haven't told Wang Meng about your pregnancy, have you? He doesn't like me. If he knew that I could get this information wrong, he would definitely be even more hostile to me."
Wang Shu seemed to be distracted. Coincidentally, the car turned a corner, and he had a reason to remain silent for a few seconds. After turning the corner, he said, "You are his sister-in-law. There is no need to think so much. Whether she is pregnant or not is a matter between our two families. They have no right to interfere."
Shen Qingqing asked again, "Is Wang Mang coming?"
"Come on, why not come?"
Shen Qingqing sat in the back seat and looked at Wang Shu. The light flickered past his face. Wang Shu was obviously older than when they were in love. His eyelids drooped a little, his jaw was rounder, and he looked more stable.
They seemed to rarely communicate. When she had no money, she would ask for it and Wang Shu would transfer her some pocket money. She rarely went to Wang Shu's office and didn't know the name of the receptionist. She didn't know how many people were in the public relations department, who his assistant was, or how much his company's annual rent was. She even forgot to ask who the big boss he was gambling with was.
During the month she stayed with him in Shanghai, she just lay in the hotel waiting for him, not asking what happened that day. She only checked Xiaohongshu and explored stores, and would pull him over when he was done.
She had been obscured by society for a long time, so she could only chat with her husband about gossip and her daily life. She seemed to rarely listen to his ideas because she had forgotten that being understanding had never been a question in her life exercise book because she had been brought up in a pampered environment.
Shen Qingqing has always admitted that she loves Wang Shu, at least she must have gotten used to him over the years.
Wang Shu called, he picked up the phone to talk about work, and Shen Qingqing looked out the window.
After getting off the airport expressway and driving into the city, we saw the Moma building and the Guomao building.
SKP and SKPS are both barriers that separate ordinary people from the upper class. They are very cold. They look decent, but they are just a drop in the ocean in the steel forest.
Wang Shu hung up the phone, and Shen Qingqing suddenly said, "Husband, can we communicate more in the future?"
"Yes, of course."
"Is there anything else you want to tell me?" Shen Qingqing asked.
Wang Shu thought about it, then shook his head, and she didn't ask any more questions.
At least in Beijing, she and Wang Shu have a home, their own home.
There are thousands of obstacles in the world, and it is rare to sleep together in this world.
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