Chapter 59 Opportunity I am An An's father
After Chen Lianxiu finished washing up, she opened the door and splashed the basin of water for washing her face outside with a "splash", without caring whether there was anyone standing there.
As soon as Zhou Linjin saw Chen Lianxiu coming out, his mind was focused on her, and he didn't pay any attention to her splashing water, so naturally some of it splashed.
He didn't care at all. Instead, he took a few steps forward and called out to her eagerly, "Yuan, I'm here."
Chen Lianxiu didn't even look at it and went to the kitchen to boil water and cook.
Zhou Linjin said to Bi Cha, "Go and take good care of An An."
He wanted to follow him to the kitchen immediately, but Bi Cha didn't respond or move. He just held him back, seeming to hesitate and saying, "My dear..."
"What's wrong?" Zhou Linjin frowned. "What do you want to say?"
Bi Cha mustered up his courage and said, "After you left yesterday, my wife said something to me. She said she would never speak to you again in her life and asked you to give up."
Zhou Linjin almost choked on his breath and said in a deep voice, "Go on."
"She said that as long as she doesn't talk nonsense, you won't recognize her at all, so you are just strangers. She spoke to you before only because she had to. After this, she won't speak to you anymore. She wants to continue to be a stranger to you." Bi Cha finished speaking quickly and looked at Zhou Linjin's expression cautiously.
Not surprisingly, Zhou Linjin's face looked even uglier after not sleeping all night.
"My dear, why don't you go to the carriage and take a nap? Let's take it easy first," Bi Cha advised. "This won't happen overnight..."
"You want me to sleep in the carriage?" Zhou Linjin interrupted him with gritted teeth, "You're sleeping at her house?"
Bi Cha pursed his lips and dared not say anything else.
Zhou Linjin stood outside for a while, and finally went into the kitchen.
The porridge cooking on the stove has started to boil, bubbling with white bubbles, and the faint aroma of rice slowly spreads.
Chen Lianxiu was adding eggs to the flour paste, preparing to make an omelet.
"Ayuan," Zhou Linjin walked over to her and watched the egg fall into the snow-white flour paste. "Pei Qian already accepted it last night."
Chen Lianxiu looked nonchalant, but in fact it was impossible for her ears not to listen to him. Upon hearing his words, her hand holding the chopsticks paused imperceptibly, but she quickly started stirring the flour paste again.
Once Pei Qian admitted it, it would be time for Zhou Linjin to return to Beijing. Those matters were of great importance, and Zhou Linjin could not stay in Chenzhou any longer.
Zhou Linjin looked at the signs of relaxation between her brows and felt a bitter feeling in his heart.
"I want to go back. You and An An should come with me." He spoke with some difficulty.
Chen Lianxiu was stirring the flour paste. There was only the sound of chopsticks gently scraping against the flour paste and the wall of the bowl. There was no other sound.
Zhou Linjin was silent for a moment, naturally not waiting for her to speak, so he couldn't help but say, "Ayuan, how could we be strangers? I don't believe you've forgotten what we did in the past. Besides, we also have An'an. How could her parents be strangers?"
With two "pa pa" sounds, Shen Lianxiu stirred the flour paste and egg liquid, knocked the chopsticks on the edge of the bowl to shake off the remaining flour paste stuck on the chopsticks, then took it to the stove and poured a little oil into the pot.
"You can't not give me any chance."
The pan was hot, the oil was hot too, making a sizzling sound. Chen Lianxiu scooped a large spoonful of flour paste into the pan, and spread the flour paste a little more, making a small circle half the size of a palm.
So she put two more of the same ones in the pot, concentrating on it, not caring at all about the other people around her.
The aroma of the egg pancakes wafted out, blending with the aroma of the porridge on the side, constantly stimulating Zhou Linjin's body and mind.
"A Yuan, I haven't eaten since I left yesterday. Can you invite me to have a meal?" Zhou Linjin asked.
She was so soft-hearted that she let Bi Cha come in to sleep, so she might be soft-hearted towards him as well.
Chen Lianxiu continued to make pancakes until the flour paste was used up. She had made eight or nine small round pancakes without saying a word to him.
Zhou Linjin watched her cut some side dishes and served out the porridge that had already been boiled into popcorn. There were only two bowls of porridge.
Chen Lianxiu placed a dish of side dishes, a plate of egg pancakes, and two bowls of porridge on a faded tray and took it out.
Zhou Linjin's legs felt stiff and he didn't have the energy to follow her anymore.
In this situation, he felt uncomfortable and at the same time felt that it was all his own fault.
After a while, Zhou Linjin slowly walked out.
Chen Lianxiu took An An, who had already gotten up, to rinse her mouth and wash her face in the yard. When they saw someone coming out, An An looked over here, then pointed with his finger and mumbled something. Then Chen Lianxiu frowned.
"After washing up, I'll go eat." she said.
His heart did not cool down, but instead felt like it was burning on fire.
Zhou Linjin said to Bi Cha, "You will do what I told you to do yesterday."
Bi Cha was stunned for a moment, then he remembered that it was Zhou Linjin who asked him to go to the Wang family at the entrance of the village and knock on the door. When he was about to respond, Zhou Linjin had already walked towards the carriage.
Bi Cha sighed heavily.
Chen Lianxiu was inside the house keeping an eye on the outside. As soon as Zhou Linjin left, she called Bi Cha in.
"Take some pancakes and eat them. I made extra, and we can't eat that much." Chen Lianxiu put another egg pancake into each of her and An An's bowls, leaving five. She handed the plate to Bi Cha, "There's porridge left in the kitchen. You can go and have some."
Bi Cha was a little touched and quickly took it.
He thought of Zhou Linjin outside, and wanted to ask Chen Lianxiu if he could let Zhou Linjin have a few too, but he finally held back. Chen Lianxiu said she would ignore Zhou Linjin, and she really didn't say another word. What if she said no, then should he give her the cake or not?
Furthermore, what if she was soft-hearted and used me as an excuse to help Zhou Linjin? If she asked this question, she would feel embarrassed. How could she answer?
Just think that she also wanted to give it to Zhou Linjin!
Bi Cha took the egg pancakes to the kitchen and ate two of them with porridge. There were still three pancakes left. He quietly came out of the kitchen, walked to the carriage and knocked on it.
Zhou Linjin was taking a nap with his eyes closed, but he wasn't asleep. He knew it was Bi Cha when he heard the voice, so he asked in a cold voice, "What's the matter?"
Bi Cha stretched out a hand from outside, holding three cakes in his hand: "My dear, have some cakes."
"Did she give this to me?" Zhou Linjin sat up straight.
"I guess so," Bi Cha said vaguely, "Hurry up and eat it, it's still hot!"
Zhou Linjin didn't hesitate any longer. Maybe it was because he was hungry or something else, but for the first time in his life, he was so hungry that he almost snatched the three cakes away.
He remembered the look of Chen Lianxiu standing by the stove just now, and smelled the fragrance of the cakes. The faint sourness that had been lingering in his heart was suddenly diluted.
Zhou Linjin ate the three pancakes very slowly.
When I went out again, Bi Cha was gone. I guess he went to Wang's house at the entrance of the village.
There was some cold tea in the carriage, which Zhou Linjin used to wash up.
At this time, there were already people coming and going in Shen Lianxiu's house, all of whom came to see her for medical treatment.
The kid next door came over and called An An to come out and play. An An ran out with his short legs, and when he saw Zhou Linjin was still there, he stopped beside him, blinked his eyes and said "Huh".
Zhou Linjin smiled at his daughter and called her softly, "An An."
"Why don't you go home yet?" An An asked him with her little head tilted.
Zhou Linjin couldn't answer.
If he doesn't take them back, how can he have a home?
Looking at An An's upturned little face, Zhou Linjin had an urge to tell her that he was her father, but he restrained himself.
An An has never known him since she was born, let alone seen him. If you say all this all of a sudden, it will probably scare her.
Moreover, he had no right to say this, and if anyone was to say it, it could only be Shen Lianxiu.
"Uncle has something to do and can't go home for the time being," Zhou Linjin could only say, "You better be careful when playing."
An An nodded: "Okay, then you should go home soon, your mother will miss you."
Zhou Linjin was about to go up and touch her little head, but she heard her friend say, "An An, why are you talking to him so much? My mother said he is not a good person!"
An An didn't say anything after hearing this. She looked at Zhou Linjin confusedly, then at her friends.
Her friends were one or two years older than her, and there were two or three of them. Seeing that she didn't say anything, they pulled her away to play.
Zhou Linjin kept looking at An An's small back until she disappeared from his sight. Then his face immediately turned cold and he turned around and walked towards Luo Wu Niang's house.
He had just seen those children. They came from Luo Wu Niang's house and should be her children.
Luo Wuniang was working in the yard. When she saw Zhou Linjin coming, she immediately widened her eyes and looked at him warily.
"What are you doing?" she asked.
Zhou Linjin stood in front of her, still as charming and charming as ever, standing out from the crowd.
"Is it your child who asked An An to go out and play?"
Luo Wuniang was a little nervous. Ever since Zhou Linjin appeared, she had disliked him, especially yesterday, when Shen Lianxiu returned home. Seeing that Zhou Linjin was still following her, she scolded Zhou Linjin at home, and the children naturally heard it.
Although she was not afraid of this person, he was from the capital after all. He looked obviously rich or noble, and they could not afford to offend him. Helping Chen Lianxiu was one thing, but doing things on their own was another.
Luo Wuniang softened her tone slightly and said, "Yes."
"Don't teach your children to alienate An An and me anymore." Zhou Linjin raised his eyebrows.
He spoke calmly, but inexplicably there was a compelling aura in his voice, as if he were interrogating a criminal.
If someone else had said this, Luo Wuniang would have probably scolded the person to death. However, looking at the person in front of her, although Luo Wuniang did not respond, she could only utter one sentence: "Why?"
"Because," Zhou Linjin paused, his voice a little low, but loud enough for people to hear clearly, "I am An An's father."
Luo Wuniang was stunned for a moment, then laughed awkwardly a few times. She didn't really want to offend the person in front of her by saying unpleasant words to his face, but she still couldn't help it.
"I told you she doesn't want to, but you can't force her. You're clamoring to be her daughter's father before they've even started dating. How are you going to let this orphan and her widow live their lives in the future?" Luo Wuniang was straightforward and couldn't hold back once she spoke. "It's only because her family has no one. If there were anyone in her family, her husband's or hers, they would definitely break your legs!"
Zhou Linjin chuckled.
He didn't say anything more, and only left one sentence before leaving: "I mean, she is my biological daughter."
Luo Wuniang was stunned for a long while, with an unpredictable expression on her face. When she wanted to say something, Zhou Linjin had already walked away. Luo Wuniang didn't feel comfortable going over to ask.
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