Listen to your wife and you will be rich
That day, Lin Shanglu almost fled back to City B. As soon as he got off the plane, he rushed to their once happy home.
Now the house is already deserted. It has been two months since Chen Nanxing left.
Lin Shanglu opened the door and started coughing because of the stench from the long period of lack of ventilation in the room and the dust on the floor.
But he just fanned himself with his hands and went straight to the bedroom.
Just as Chen Nanxing said, Lin Shanglu found a medical examination report issued by a private hospital in City B in the bedside table on the left side of the bedroom. He read the report over and over again for more than ten times.
The results of the report will not change because of the number of times he sees it. Chen Nanxing really has cancer, advanced gastric cancer.
He still didn't give up and called Qi Feng as if he was grabbing the last straw.
"Hello, Mr. Lin."
It was still working hours, so Qi Feng quickly answered the phone. Lin Shanglu sat down on the dusty ground, clutching the report that symbolized his doom, his Adam's apple rolling several times.
"On January 20th, when you accompanied your wife to the hospital, what was the doctor's diagnosis?"
After asking this question, his heart was in his throat, and his tense nerves made him unable to help but dry heave a few times.
Qi Feng heard the loud noise on the phone.
"Boss Lin, what's wrong with you? Are you okay?"
"Ahem, I'm fine. What's the diagnosis?"
Lin Shanglu took out a handkerchief and wiped his mouth, asking Qi Feng to get back to the point.
As a man who is emotionally loyal, Qi Feng has always been disgusted by Lin Shanglu's behavior of having a red flag flying at home while having colorful flags flying outside. He feels sorry for Chen Nanxing. Just ask yourself, who would leave his seriously ill wife alone to accompany his mistress to a pregnancy checkup?
So he remembers what happened that day very clearly:
"I was the one who got my wife's medical report. The doctor said she had advanced, poorly differentiated gastric cancer and recommended hospitalization."
Thinking that he was about to resign, Qi Feng became more outspoken and tried his best to rub salt into Lin Shanglu's wounds.
"Mr. Lin, you just found out? Didn't your wife tell you?"
"No." Lin Shanglu's heart skipped a beat, as if he felt a real pain. He took a deep breath and changed the subject, accusing Qi Feng instead:
"Why didn't you tell me such a big thing?"
Qi Feng said he was innocent: "That day was my wife's birthday, and also your wedding anniversary. I thought my wife would tell you when you got home that evening, Mr. Lin."
Besides, this is not a big happy event. If the boss doesn't ask, and he, an employee, goes up and tells about it, wouldn't that bring bad luck to the boss?
Is January 20th actually their wedding anniversary?
Lin Shanglu's heart tightened. He turned two pages of the calendar on the bedside table and was shocked to see that under January 20th, Chen Nanxing had drawn two stick figures and a heart with a marker.
What was he doing that day? Lin Shanglu had a vague impression.
During the day, he spent the whole morning accompanying Su Qiao to the hospital for a prenatal check-up. After get off work in the afternoon, he went to the place of a lover he had just met a few days ago. In the evening, Chen Nanxing seemed to have called him, and the general meaning seemed to be asking him to go home for dinner. What did he say?
He was in a good mood at that time and hung up the phone impatiently before he even finished listening to Chen Nanxing's words.
All his energy was drained away in an instant, and Lin Shanglu's eyes turned red. He untied his tie and gasped for breath, but the air seemed to be mixed with glass shards, and even a simple breath made him breathless.
If I had gone back then, if I had been more patient, would this not have happened?
Lin Shanglu rubbed his chest hard, as if trying to release the blocked air.
But that’s not all. Although Lin Shanglu suffered a setback in love, he is also about to face some setbacks in his career.
Lin Shanglu's head buzzed. Chen Nanxing's diagnosis was still hot in his hand. Another blow came one after another, and he was almost numb.
Qi Feng quickly informed Lin Shanglu of his resignation before he hung up the phone:
"By the way, Mr. Lin, I submitted my resignation to the Human Resources Department this afternoon. I'll need Mr. Lin's approval tomorrow."
Why didn't he realize that Qi Feng was so tactless before, and had to resign at this time?
"reason?"
People shouldn't show off their full stomachs while others are starving, except for capitalists who are about to become their former bosses.
"It's my personal reason, Mr. Lin. You know my girlfriend. We've been dating since freshman year. We're not young anymore, so we're planning to get married."
“…”
Qi Feng's girlfriend often comes to the company to accompany Qi Feng to work overtime. Lin Shanglu has seen her several times and has also chatted with Qi Feng. Knowing that they have been in love for many years, it is not surprising that they are getting married now. But is there any necessary connection between this and his resignation?
Lin Shanglu pinched the bridge of his nose and said, "Do you think I won't give you a gift when you get married?"
Marriage was one reason, but another deeper reason was that the owner of the B&B in Licheng found him last night. Also coming with him were the owner of Boyuan Group and Chu Zhenghe, who was working in the Internet industry in Country M.
Thanks to the investigation of the boss Lin Shanglu, Qi Feng vaguely knew the secret that the owner of the B&B was a member of the Qin family. This time, Qin Encheng, the boss of Boyuan Group, came with her, and Qi Feng was even more certain.
Just as he was sitting nervously opposite the two siblings, the two great gods suddenly asked him if he was interested in changing jobs. It was also yesterday that Qi Feng understood that the owner of the B&B, Boyuan Group and Chu Zhenghe wanted to deal with his boss.
Two companies with family backgrounds have to deal with a developing company that is not very upright. This multiple-choice question is not difficult to answer. Qi Feng and his girlfriend wrote down the answer in just half an hour.
However, he certainly couldn't tell the truth to Lin Shanglu, who was still his boss. Qi Feng had already made an excuse with his girlfriend at home last night.
"Boss Lin, you're joking. My girlfriend is an only child, and her parents are both from S City. So she means that she hopes I can stay in S City to develop after we get married."
“…”
Lin Shanglu wanted to say that Qi Feng was useless, but then he remembered that he had done even more selfless things for Chen Nanxing in the past and he had nothing to say.
Qi Feng is a very qualified assistant. He had just joined Star for an internship when Chen Nanxing retired from the workplace and returned to his family. He has been staying at Star ever since, so Lin Shanglu doesn't really want him to leave.
"Have you made up your mind?"
Qi Feng's decision couldn't be better:
"Well, don't they say that if you listen to your wife, you will become rich?"
His words contained some elements of sarcasm towards Lin Shanglu, because no one understood the authority of this sentence better than Lin Shanglu.
It can be said that if there were no Chen Nanxing, there would definitely be no stars today.
"Ask me to sign a confidentiality agreement before leaving."
Lin Shanglu didn't know if he had thought of this as well. He tilted his head back and grabbed his well-groomed hair, then hung up the phone after leaving a few words.
The conversation on the phone stopped, and he was the only one left in the empty house. Lin Shanglu stood up with the help of the bed, but felt dust on his hands.
Lin Shanglu looked up and looked around. Chen Nanxing's clothes and bags were still neatly arranged in the open wardrobe, their re-taken wedding photos were still hanging on the wall, and even in a corner of the bedroom, there were still traces of Chen Nanxing's hair on the comb on the dressing table.
Everything was still the same, except that everything was covered with a layer of dust.
This was the first house they bought. It seems very small now, but it was a symbol of their happiness at that time, so Chen Nanxing took good care of it. Even though he was busy with work, he would keep the house tidy.
Today, only two months have passed since Chen Nanxing left. In just two months, the once warm home has become so lonely.
The loneliness made him feel overwhelmed and scared.
Do you feel lonely when you are alone at home?
This question suddenly popped up in Lin Shanglu's mind. He was startled, but he couldn't help but imagine that during the eight years since he retired from the workplace, in a home without him, did Chen Nanxing often feel lonely?
Unable to think any further, Lin Shanglu felt as if he had been stung by a poisonous bee, and the pain in his heart was unbearable. He finally fell powerlessly on the dusty bed, tightly clutching the diagnosis in his hand, tears and sobs still flowing from between his fingers.
What on earth has he done all these years?
Another day passed. In Zhaofeng, G City, which has a subtropical humid monsoon climate, a drizzle had just stopped. Chen Nanxing put on a red cotton-padded jacket and sat in front of the bright floor-to-ceiling window all night.
She had just finished taking medicine, and the dull pain in her stomach was temporarily suppressed, but her physical weakness reminded her all the time that she had very little time left.
The photos used to question her were not taken away by Lin Shanglu. They were now placed next to her. Chen Nanxing took a sip of warm water and stared at the stack of photos in a trance.
After a moment, the transparent glass was put down. Chen Nanxing found the hotel's stationery and pen in the drawer and wrote the familiar words "Xiao Ji".
A journey through mountains and rivers will eventually end.
Chen Nanxing wrote very quickly. After finishing the last word, Chen Nanxing folded the letter paper and put it into the envelope, and solemnly wrote the four words "From Ji Chuan" on it.
She thought about it, then took out the card that she had given to Ji Chuan last time but he had confiscated from her bag, put them together in the envelope, folded it and sealed it.
After doing all this, Chen Nanxing looked out the window. The sky was gray after the winter rain, just like the little life she had left.
Chen Nanxing released her strength and closed her calm and tired eyes.
Not long after, two strong middle-aged men knocked on Chen Nanxing's door. Chen Nanxing turned her wheelchair to open the door. When she came out, a man was pushing her wheelchair and another man was holding her luggage.
Chen Nanxing directed the middle-aged man to push the wheelchair to the door of Ji Chuan's hotel. After putting the envelope away personally, Chen Nanxing took a last look at it.
"Let's go."
Chen Nanxing withdrew his gaze and lowered his eyes to look at the delicate patterns on the carpet, unable to figure out the meaning of life.
She had been displaced throughout her life, experiencing both glory and loneliness, and had gone through both good and bad times. When she was about to die, she realized that in such a big world, there was no clean place that belonged to her.
After sitting there all night, her most urgent thought was to go back, to the place she had desperately escaped from, to her hometown.
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