Zou Yan didn't react at once, he was stunned for a long time, and wanted to call again, but before he could dial, an unfamiliar number came in.

"Hello," she answered.

"Hello. ”

The voice sounded familiar, "Are you?"

"I'm Jiang Ren. ”

Zou Yan sneered and was about to hang up, but Jiang Ren said unhurriedly a moment before she hung up: "Cousin Zou Yan, I have a question for you, about you and your mother." ”

Her hand stopped, "Who do you think you are?"

"Sheng Xiao is now strained with his father, is it because of Yuan Lu? Yuan Lu is a relative of you, and their father-son relationship is not good, I don't know if it will implicate you?"

Zou Yan snorted, "Your question is really interesting. ”

Jiang Ren sat in the car, took a cigarette and took out a dot, and took a puff, "I thought you didn't want to see the two of them together, so I'll give you a little gossip." ”

Zou Yan pursed his lower lip and did not answer.

Jiang Ren: "Yuan Lu is in the hospital now, she should be sick and needs to be taken care of." I think at this time, your cousin should know how to take care of her sister, and only you can take good care of her. ”

"It's not easy to enter the door of the Sheng family, I know that it won't work, so why bother to break the relationship, and it will be difficult to protect the position of even your mother when the time comes. After all, it is also a disgraceful means to ascend to the top. ”

The expression on Zou Yan's face cooled, and he hung up the phone without saying a word.

After a while, this unfamiliar number sent her the address of the hospital and the location of the ward.

Zou Yan sat in the house for a while, and stayed up until dawn, when she got up, washed up, took a day off from the company, and went to the hospital.

When she arrived at the hospital, the news given by Jiang Ren was very accurate, she came too early, and the people inside hadn't woken up yet. She lingered at the door for a moment, and when she saw a nurse coming this way, she walked away, and simply went up one floor, found a smoking room, and smoked two cigarettes.

When the time approached eight o'clock, she tidied up a little.

At this time, I met Uncle Qin at the door, he was carrying breakfast in his hand, as well as toiletries sent to Sheng Xiao, and a change of clothes.

Uncle Qin: "Miss Zou." ”

She chuckled, nodded slightly, and followed him inside.

This time, Sheng Xiao was in the bathroom, Yuan Lu still fell asleep and didn't wake up, Zou Yan walked to the bed, put the handbag on the cabinet in front of the windowsill, turned on the heating in the room, she took off her coat and hung it on the shelf, and then sat down and asked a few simple questions.

Uncle Qin also explained simply.

After a while, there was a noise in the bathroom, followed by Sheng Xiao and came out, he had just woken up, his hair was slightly messy, his clothes were untidy, and the collar of his shirt collapsed and was wrinkled. His eyebrows were furrowed, and his chin was stubble.

Even though they had lived under the same roof, she had rarely seen him look so untouched now.

He raised his eyes to see her, his brows furrowed even tighter, coughed, and said, "You don't have to go to work?"

Zou Yan was sitting in danger and said: "When I went out, I heard that the property said that an ambulance came last night, and I asked a few more words, and the matter was here in Lulu." I looked for the property manager and found out that someone was here. She said, her eyes fell on Yuan Lu's body, "I've been busy these days, working overtime for two days in a row, I have to thank you this time, otherwise, I don't know what will happen to Lulu." No wonder, my aunt repeatedly told me to live with her, she really doesn't know how to take care of herself, which makes people worry. ”

"I've taken a leave of absence, so leave it to me. I know you're busy, so I won't bother you. ”

Yuan Lu's fever hadn't subsided yet, and Sheng Xiao was in no mood to go around with her and go around the corner.

He stood in front of the coffee table, bent down to pick up his watch, looked at it, and said, "It's almost time, it's time for you to go to work." ”

Zou Yan didn't move, and he didn't speak.

Sheng Xiao took Uncle Qin's hand over a change of clothes, and before entering the bathroom, he glanced at her again, the information revealed in his eyes was very clear, Zou Yan could see it clearly, but she pretended not to understand.

Fortunately, when Sheng Xiao was changing clothes, Yuan Lu woke up. She was still uncomfortable, and when she opened her eyes and saw Zou Yan, she only reacted for a while, and she came to the hospital last night.

Zou Yan handed over warm water, "Why do you have a high fever?" ”

"I accidentally caught a cold. At first, I didn't take it seriously, I didn't take the medicine in time, and then I took the medicine, and it didn't work. She took a sip of water and wanted to go to the bathroom.

Zou Yan reminded, "My brother is changing clothes inside." ”

She called her brother, Yuan Lu didn't react at first, and subconsciously asked who her brother was.

Then it suddenly dawned that it was Sheng Xiao.

Then I remembered that it was Sheng Xiao who brought her to the hospital last night, and he really accompanied her all night.

After she fell asleep, she woke up once and got up to go to the bathroom.

Before she got out of bed, he picked her up and sent her to the bathroom.

After going to the toilet and returning to the bed, she felt dizzy for a while, feeling someone touch the back of her hand, she opened her eyes, and saw him standing by the bed, staring at her hand, where her fingers rubbed repeatedly, was the place where she had the needle.

It was covered with bruises.

Yuan Lu didn't feel how delicate she was before, and at that moment, she felt like a piece of tender tofu and couldn't afford to toss.

Thinking of this, Yuan Lu was in a trance for a moment, quickly came back to his senses, and explained: "I called 120 yesterday. ”

Zou Yan: "I know, the property owner told me. ”

Yuan Lu rubbed his forehead, "You go to work, it's just a cold, I don't need you to ask for leave to take care of me." ”

"I've asked for leave and can't take it back, so today you can be a patient with peace of mind, I will serve you all the way, and I also have a day off, and I have been working overtime for the past few days, and I am almost exhausted. If you want me to go to work, you might as well stay here and take care of you. ”

Yuan Lu smiled and didn't say much.

At this time, there was movement in the bathroom, Sheng Xiao changed his clothes and came out, Zou Yan was immediately silent, took the cup in Yuan Lu's hand, and went to refill the hot water for her.

Sheng Xiao straightened her sleeves while coming over, took the ear temperature gun, and didn't speak, directly pinched her ear, measured it, and there was still thirty-eight degrees.

"After eating breakfast for a while, after hanging up the bottle, and the fever still does not go away, I called the doctor to come and do a specific examination. ”

Yuan Lu licked his dry lips, nodded, and didn't say much.

Sheng Xiao knew what she was thinking, and for the sake of her illness, he didn't care about her.

Zou Yan had no intention of leaving, she sat there, fed Yuan Lu porridge, and ate a little herself, she came in a hurry, and she didn't eat breakfast on the way, so she rubbed a little.

At nine o'clock, the nurse came in to give Yuan Lu a hanging bottle.

When the needle was pricked, Sheng Xiao instructed beside him, "Prick carefully, her hand is bruised." ”

Yuan Lu's heart fluttered, his eyes drooped, and he pretended to be calm.

The nurse smiled and said, "Well, there will be a little bit of this." When you remove the needle, remember to press it for a while. ”

Yuan Lu wanted to say that she was not so squeamish, but in the current atmosphere, she still didn't say it.

After Sheng Xiao answered a few phone calls, he left first not long after, letting Uncle Qin stay here to take care of her, and call her if there was any situation.

After the man left, both of them breathed a sigh of relief.

Yuan Lu didn't have the energy, Zou Yan didn't say much, only lowered his head to play with his mobile phone, and Sanwu handed her water from time to time and asked her to drink more hot water.

After Yuan Lu hung up, the fever subsided, and his spirit recovered a lot.

When it was time to leave, Cheng Jiangli ran over and bought a bag of fruit and lunch.

I don't know who told him.

Zou Yan said: "Since it's all sent here, let's eat it and leave?"

Yuan Lu: "The hospital is not a good place, so let's go back and eat." ”

"Yes. ”

Afterwards, Cheng Jiangli followed them home.

On the way, Yuan Lu and Zou Yan took a car, Zou Yan drove, and Uncle Qin was sent back to Sheng Xiao by her.

"Did you say that?"

Zou Yan looked ahead and said with a smile: "I posted a circle of friends, and he came to ask, and when I finished speaking, I remembered." ”

"When did you two add WeChat. ”

"On the day of the meal. Are you angry?"

"It's not enough to be angry, that is, you know that he has other plans, and if you do this, isn't it equivalent to giving him a chance? I don't want him to mistakenly think he has a chance. ”

"Don't be too absolute, you're single right now anyway. ”

"I'm just like you, I'm not interested in emotional matters right now, and I just want to make money. ”

This can be regarded as a statement of position.

Zou Yan: "Although you are not interested, I see that he is quite persistent, unless you have a boyfriend by your side, otherwise, I don't think he will give up." ”

Yuan Lu: "No, even if I have a boyfriend by my side, he never gave up." When he was with Yu Nuo before, he didn't get involved less. ”

Zou Yan smiled faintly, was silent for a while, and said, "It doesn't have to be just Cheng Jiangli." ”

Yuan Lu was stunned for a few seconds, and then understood.

She didn't respond, just closed her eyes and gently rubbed her forehead with one hand, pretending to be uncomfortable.

Zou Yan didn't say anything more.

Back at home, the lunch that Cheng Jiangli bought was mainly light, and there was a cup of nutritious soup, which was specially for Yuan Lu's body.

After the meal, Zou Yan sent people away, and she picked up and washed the clothes that Yuan Lu had changed.

When Yuan Lu came in, he saw her squatting in front of the washing machine in a daze, not knowing what she was thinking.

She walked over, patted her on the shoulder, bent down, looked inside, and asked, "What are you looking at?"

Zou Yan came back to his senses, "No." She looked at her, thought about it for a while, and said, "No, just yesterday my mother called me and complained." Sheng Taoguang didn't go back for two days. She wanted me to go back, and to have me in her heart. ”

Yuan Lu was silent.

"Actually, I don't want to get involved in their affairs, and I can't get involved, I just want to say that if I can't go on, I won't pass, so why embarrass myself. Either be selfish or be free, and as a result, she is biased to embarrass herself. I said, if you're so selfless, you might as well get a divorce. Anyway, if she gave birth to a son, she will get divorced, Sheng Taoguang will not treat her badly, and she will definitely be able to give her a lot of benefits, and she will have no worries about food and clothing in the future. Moreover, this son is his son Sheng Taoguang, and he will not ignore it. In this way, she will always be able to fulfill the person she wants to fulfill. ”

Zou Yan said as he stood up with his knees, "Anyway, it's not that I haven't left, Sheng Taoguang is better than my own father, and when she gets divorced, she won't be careful, let her go out of the house." I think it's better to do this, so that she doesn't have to suffer from gains and losses in the future. It's better to take the money, go out and travel the world, and be happy. People are past middle age, and there is nothing that can not be thought through. ”

Yuan Lu turned around, sighed, and said, "Don't tell your second aunt this, she will be sad if you say it." She just gave birth to a child, and you ask her to divorce, you don't want her life. She paid a lot for this paragraph, so let her end it, and no one was willing to change it. If you can divorce so easily, you won't get married again in the first place. ”

Zou Yan was still not angry, "But I'm annoyed with her like that, and I feel uncomfortable looking at her." ”

"I see what you mean. ”

Yuan Lu looked at her with a light smile in his eyes, and after staring at her for a few seconds, he left the laundry room and went back to the room to rest.

In the evening, Sheng Xiao came to the door.

Yuan Lu rested in the room and let Zou Yan deal with it.

She was lying on the bed with her eyes open, her phone vibrating, it was a message from Sheng Xiao, [Sleep?]

She didn't reply, only pricked up her ears to listen to the movement outside.

She couldn't hear them, but it wasn't long before she heard the door closing.

......

Jiang Ren's engagement banquet was originally planned to be arranged in Beicheng, but since his current focus is on Haishi, he is going to hold it on both sides.

It was originally finalized like this, and then the Jing family said that it would be enough to hold one directly in the sea market.

The timing is set for the end of March.

For a while, Jing Fei was preparing for her engagement banquet every day, and she prepared three sets of clothes, one to wear when welcoming guests, one to wear when she went on stage, and the other to wear when eating, which was no less exquisite than getting married.

Jiang Ren started the construction of two projects in his hand, and he was busy, so he couldn't take care of these for a while, so he asked Yan Yan to help prepare the engagement banquet together.

Recently, the company has expanded, the business scope has expanded, and the company continues to recruit people, which is actually quite busy. However, Jiang Ren now has three right-hand men around him, led by Meng Zheng, all of whom are capable people. These three were brought by himself, and one of them was in charge of human resources, so basically the people who came in from him could be said to be Jiang Ren's people directly.

On the pretext of helping, the Jing family arranged for several senior managers to come over, and also placed two assistants on Jiang Ren's side.

As a result, Yan Yan's workload has plummeted, and she was originally in charge of finance, but now she has even arranged finance to others.

Her position has been promoted, but she is actually marginalized, and basically she can't control anything.

So, she has more time. Jiang Ren asked her to help arrange the engagement banquet.

This engagement banquet is of great significance, and it may be Jiang Ren's first public appearance with him as the main one when he stepped into this circle.

So be careful in everything.

On this day, she accompanied Jing Fei to try on clothes, which she specially asked people to order in Paris and spent a lot of money to design.

It took many days to repair and alter this dress.

Today, the finished product finally arrived, and she went over to try it on as soon as possible to see if there was anything that needed to be modified, and there were not many days left.

On the way, Jing Fei said, "Siwen stumbled on you?"

"What?" Yan Yan pretended not to understand.

"You don't have to hide it from me, her affair with my brother was discovered by her, she used to be easy to do things impulsively, and now when she meets someone she likes, she is even more impulsive. I'm in prison, and I don't know how to remember it for a long time, so I still use this set. Fortunately, I found out and arranged for someone to rescue you in time. Otherwise, I don't even know how to explain to Jiang Ren. After all, you're so close. ”

Yan Yan smiled and said: "Our family has always had a good relationship with theirs, my mother was asked to take care of him more, and I also received my mother's instructions to take more care of him." You know what happened a few years ago. ”

"I know, of course I do. So you're such a good sister, Siwen really went too far. What did my brother say?"

Yan Yan: "I didn't say much. ”

"There are some things that I can't do, after all, she is very good to me and has helped me a lot. But I don't think she's a good fit to stay here right now, and I've helped her find a good match, but I can't do that. ”

Yan Yan raised her eyebrows, "But if I do it, I'm afraid it's not appropriate." ”

Jing Fei smiled, "You are naturally suitable, just rush at your current brother and my brother." Although my brother is a flowery person, he is really good to women, at least when the relationship exists, he is an absolute favorite, and he gives whatever he wants. ”

Yan Yan smiled lowly, and said that she had a misunderstanding of her brother.

Otherwise, it is very bad for her, and it is a special favor for other women.

But obviously, Jing Fei wanted to borrow her hand to get rid of someone she didn't want to see again.

Yan Yan didn't agree, but in the evening, Jing Fei still arranged for someone to come over to contact her and deal with the matter.

The way can be said to be crude and simple, similar to selling.

Anyway, Xiang Siwen also grew up with her, and he did a lot of things for her at the beginning, and even sat in prison for her, but he still didn't end well, and he had to sell to a wealthy foreign businessman with a quirk.

This was scheduled after the engagement feast.

......

Jiang Ren took the time to deliver the invitations, and several of them needed to be delivered in person.

Among them is Sheng Xiao.

He is now working in a project under his hands, and the two have a bit of an intersection, so it is not abrupt to send this invitation, if Sheng Xiao comes, it will support him on the occasion.

He asked Meng Zheng to make an appointment a few times, and then went to Hesheng in person.

I waited for three or four hours before I entered the office.

The secretary made tea.

Sheng Xiao didn't look at him, lowered his eyes and looked at the documents in his hand, and waited for the secretary to go out before he said, "I won't go to your engagement banquet." In fact, you sent it over with such fanfare, for fear that others would not know that I was related to you?"

Jiang Ren smiled and said, "I heard some rumors recently, so I thought about coming over to see if you were okay, Mr. Sheng." The main thing is that we are afraid that it will ruin our plans. ”

Sheng Xiao's movements in his hand stopped, and he snorted, "That's my private matter, you are not qualified to ask more, you just need to do what you should do." ”

Jiang Ren got up, put the pink invitation on the table, and supported the table with both hands, "It's an extraordinary time now, I don't think you should make a choice." ”

Sheng Xiao raised his eyes, glanced at him with a smile, and said, "Put your heart in your stomach." I can't take care of this little thing, can I still have today? It's you, you should put away the thoughts that shouldn't be, Zou Yan came to the hospital that day, it was the news you gave, right?"

"If you want to use my strength, don't make trouble for me. ”

The two looked at each other, Jiang Ren hooked his lower lip, sat down with a smile, took out a cigarette from his pocket, and handed it to him. Sheng Xiao didn't answer, and he didn't plan to smoke.

Jiang Ren waited for a while, then put the cigarette on the table and took another one and lit it himself.