"Don't come over here. Take a shower and go to bed early. People here go to bed early and the lights are turned off at nine o'clock." Grandma Xie reminded her.
"Oh, okay, good night, grandmas."
"Goodnight, Wanwan."
After entering the Zen room, Su Ruowan took a shower and then washed clothes. Before washing clothes, she called Huo Shengnian and asked him if he needed her help with washing clothes.
Huo Shengnian declined, saying he could do it himself.
Su Ruowan didn't feel comfortable going to their room to find him. After all, he was staying with Mo Youwei tonight.
There was a clothesline under the eaves outside the Zen room, and Su Ruowan went out to hang the clothes after washing them.
Not long after, Huo Shengnian also came out. He was wearing pajamas and holding a basin with his freshly washed underwear in it.
He held the basin in one hand and leaned on a crutch in the other. Just as he opened the door, Su Ruowan heard the sound, turned and walked towards him, took the basin from his hand, and wanted to help him hang the clothes.
"I'll help you dry it." Su Ruowan said.
"I can do it myself." Huo Shengnian's earlobes turned slightly red. That was his underwear. Su Ruowan had touched it, so how could he put it on again?
"It's okay, it's just a piece of cake." Su Ruowan took it.
When she hung it up to hang, she seemed to notice that it was Huo Shengnian's underwear.
So, was he shy and refused to let her help just now?
Su Ruowan didn't expect that Huo Shengnian had such an innocent side?
Could it be that he has never been in a relationship?
That shouldn't be the case. How could he, a man who is almost thirty years old, have never been in love?
besides……
She said this as if she was very experienced. She did have an unreliable ex, but her experience in love was not necessarily that rich.
Between the two of them, an undercurrent of awkwardness was quietly surging.
Fortunately, Su Ruowan's cell phone rang in the room at the right time. In this quiet mountain stream, the ringtone seemed particularly loud.
"Your phone is ringing." Huo Shengnian thought Su Ruowan didn't hear it, so he reminded her.
"Well, I'll go check it out. You and Lawyer Mo should go to bed early. Grandma Xie said the lights are turned off here at nine o'clock in the evening."
"It doesn't matter to me whether the lights are turned off or not. It's all the same anyway."
“…”
Su Ruowan felt as if something stabbed her heart and turned to go into the house.
Huo Shengnian stood there for a while and then went into the house.
Mo Youwei was talking about work on the phone and it hadn't finished yet. Huo Shengnian was speechless and said that he used to be a workaholic, and he thought he was even worse than before.
After entering the meditation room, Su Ruowan picked up her cell phone and saw that the call was from Xie Qinghui's sister Xie Qingling.
Su Ruowan's bright eyes flickered slightly, and her fingers rubbed unconsciously before she picked up the phone, "Hello, Xiaoling."
"Sister-in-law... no, Sister Ruowan, are you free now? I want to go to your house to find you." Xie Qingling thought Su Ruowan lived in Maoer Hutong.
Right now, it was 8:20 and there were still 40 minutes before lights out. It wasn't too late, but she was not in the center of Fengcheng.
Fengxian Mountain is under the management of Fengcheng City, but it is nearly two hours' drive from the city center and is located in the suburbs.
"I'm sorry, Xiaoling, I'm on a business trip and I'm not sure when I'll be back in Fengcheng. I'll contact you when I get back, okay?" Su Ruowan asked softly.
Although Xie Qinghui's family did things that were excessive, Xie Qingling was a good person. Su Ruowan knew it, and Grandma Xie knew it too.
In the Xie family, there are actually two people who treat her well, one is Grandma Xie and the other is Xie Qingling.
Xie Qingling doesn't like her original family. First of all, the Xie couple favors boys over girls. Among the two children in the family, they have always favored Xie Qinghui.
Xie Qingling wanted to go to college, but her mother disagreed, saying that girls should just find a good man to marry when they grow up, and there was no point in reading so many books.
Xie Qingling worked very hard, but could only barely get into college.
Despite this, she still wanted to go to college, so Su Ruowan supported her. In addition to the student loan, all the college expenses, living expenses and other expenses were sponsored by Su Ruowan.
Grandma Xie also secretly gave her some money.
Like Grandma Xie, Xie Qingling only recognizes Su Ruowan as her sister-in-law in this life.
In order to escape from her original family, Xie Qingling applied for a normal university in another place, not Fengcheng.
This summer vacation, her plan is to work near the school to save some tuition.
If her elder brother hadn't returned home this year, she wouldn't have planned to come back.
However, less than two days after she returned home, she learned about the bad things that had happened at home.
She couldn't believe that her elder brother actually gave up such a good woman like Su Ruowan for another woman.
Because of this, she even had a fight with her elder brother.
Now that grandma is missing and the house is in a mess, her eldest brother only knows how to eat and drink with that woman in this situation.
It’s a shame that grandma loved him so much in the past.
The reason why she couldn't help but call Su Ruowan tonight was that she wanted Su Ruowan to go with her to find her grandmother, but Su Ruowan was on a business trip, so she had to find another way.
In order not to affect Su Ruowan's work, Xie Qingling didn't say a word else.
I also didn't want Su Ruowan to worry about me while I was away.
"Okay, Sister Ruowan, then we'll contact each other when you come back?"
"Um."
Not long after Xie Qingling hung up the phone, Xie Qinghui came home tonight. He was a little drunk and stumbled into the house, making a lot of noise.
"Qingling, Qingling, come out and make some sobering soup for your elder brother. You are such a sensible girl that you don't even know how to help at home when you get home." Xie's mother was outside supporting her son while shouting at her daughter.
A typical mother who treasures her son and treats her daughter like trash.
Xie Qingling missed her grandmother. When her grandmother lived at home, she could chat with her, which made the days at home easier to pass.
Now that her grandmother has passed away, she wants to go back to school and continue working.
However, she still didn't know whether her grandmother was safe, so she couldn't just leave.
Xie Qingling wiped her tears and walked out of the room. There was a strong and disgusting smell of alcohol. Xie Qingling covered her mouth and nose and buried her head in the kitchen.
"No, kid, your brother is in this state, and you don't even come over to check on him. Go get him a basin of hot water. Your dad's legs aren't working well, so why don't you help us share the burden?"
“…”
Xie Qingling looked at her mother speechlessly. One moment she was asked to make hangover soup, the next she was asked to fetch hot water. How many hands did they give her? How could she be so capable as to do so many things at once?
With a slap, Xie's father came over and slapped Xie Qingling. Today, he was angry about the bullying done by Old Zhang in Maoer Hutong and was worried that he had no place to vent his anger, so Xie Qingling came over and asked for a slap.
Then he naturally didn't need to be polite to her.
She is a money-losing girl. She eats and drinks at home every day. Her husband and wife worked hard to raise her, but she still has such a deadpan face?
Who was she glaring at just now?
Don’t you know that his wife is his mother?
"Xie Qingling, you are so rebellious. How dare you glare at your mother like that?" Xie's father vented his anger under the pretext of standing up for his wife.
“…”
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