Chapter 33: Impotence to Others
It didn't take long for the news that Lu Nansheng and Gu Beihuai were going to get married spread all over the company, and everyone secretly spread gossip tacitly.
When she first joined the company, it was actually because the president wanted to keep her in the company to take care of her, in order to cultivate an excellent Mrs. Gu.
There are all kinds of topics, only Wang Ke's seat is vacant, and he is also disturbed by the news.
On her desk was a bouquet of flower-scented jasmine and a box of chocolates, with a business card stuck in it.
When she came over, the crowd blocked her even more.
"Lu Nansheng, open it and take a look, what is written on the card, we are more curious than sending flowers and chocolates......", all the curious little eyes fell meaningfully on the paper.
They also want to know what kind of gentle French style President Gu has, they have heard scandals from him before, and it can be said that they cannot be blasphemed from a distance. Now that they are far away in the sky, close at hand, it takes no effort to get them, how can they leave if they can't get a satisfactory result?
When she opened the note embarrassedly, it was unexpectedly written: Baby, do you still like the gift you received?
They didn't expect the famous President Gu to have such a gentlemanly side! It turns out that in front of true love, there are all floating clouds!
The mobile phone rang twice, and it was actually a text message from her stepmother, and she hesitated to read it twice before she was sure of the truth! Dad was discharged from the hospital today, and she has been busy forgetting it for the past few days.
If she hadn't reminded her, it would have been more or less gratifying to see the words that Dad was fine.
According to the stepmother's meaning, she hopes that she can return to the Lu family regardless of her previous suspicions, which is not only the meaning of the stepmother, but also the meaning of her father himself. She couldn't help but laugh to herself,
Can the water that has been spilled be taken back? After the hurtful words are spoken, it is like a ruthless sword sharply picking into the flesh and skin of the other party, even if the scar is healed, the wound is always there.
She couldn't calmly act as if nothing had happened, but she was relieved.
That day, I heard Zheng Mingyao occasionally mention that it was a mother and daughter who donated kidneys, and presumably Gu Beihuai had already appeased their subsequent lives.
But she is her father's daughter, and she should have come to thank her in person, and she also asked for the address through Zheng Mingyao and found the community where the mother and daughter lived.
She was not very familiar with the nearby road conditions, so she asked an uncle from the gate of the community to ask for directions, "Hello, I am a new person here, do you know where Yin Shulan and they live?......
When the uncle heard her words, he had obviously known her for a long time, but his expression showed casual disgust.
The tone of his voice was a little heavier, and he looked her up and down, "Go in, turn right on the second floor, and get to the ...... When you ask someone again, you ......"
He glanced at her again and again, "Do you know that person ......?" , she saw the unspeakable hidden in the uncle's face, thought about it, and replied, "I am...... Her creditor, the ...... who asks for the debt."
Why did the uncle just now have such an expression, he should have known him, but he didn't want to mention half a word. What's going on?
When I got to the second floor, I met the lady who was holding a trash can to take out the garbage and was going down. Because she didn't know her, she looked at her twice, and she stepped forward and asked, "Hello, I want to ask, do you know where Yin Shulan lives?"
Obviously, when the name was mentioned, the eldest lady sighed, and her face became solemn, so that she was not as disgusted as the uncle just now.
"Hey, in 204, my house and her house are opposite the door, hey, it's ...... evil", the eldest mother also enthusiastically instructed her more, "When you pass, persuade her more...... After all, it's also his own child......", and then he didn't say anything more,
"Ahh......h
She hesitated as she stood in the doorway, and stopped. She even wanted to turn back as if she had never been there, but her hand pushed the door open.
Everything was as calm as if nothing had happened, and all the sounds stopped abruptly the moment she pushed the door open.
A quiet and peaceful picture, the mother is watching TV on the sofa, and the child is drawing on the side, as if everything is her illusion.
The whole room was covered in gray, like an old artist doing pale art. Everything around is intertwined with gray and white, and there is an unobstructed desolation, and a portrait of a woman who has been blinded by a poke of eyes is pasted on the entire white wall.
Yin Shulan spoke first, her voice was a little hoarse, as if she had experienced a lot of hoarseness before, "You are ......,
She placed the gift on the corner of the table and smiled at the man, "I'm here to thank you for saving my father......",
Her expression immediately stiffened a little, revealing a hideous side, but she still tried her best to suppress it, and replaced it with a tolerant smile.
Lu Nansheng stood on the ground a little embarrassed, and she said tentatively, "I don't know if I can ...... Sit for a while, leave ...... later", the man didn't speak, and she took it as the man's acquiescence.
I sat next to the child's drawing, and the child was about six or seven years old.
The hand holding the brush trembled and drew the corners of a crooked smile on the corner of his mouth, and some tears were attached to the paper, which had been dried by the wind.
Drawing on paper...... , it turned out to be a clown! But why are there tears? Still laughing?
The corners of her mouth were painted with a red paintbrush all over her face, revealing a bloody and smiling clown, and she was terrified.
She turned her face sideways and pointed to the clown on the painting and asked, "Little friend, why do you draw such a ......" terrifying picture,
The girl's pen froze at the corner of her mouth, and she apparently hesitated for a moment, and then sped up moving the pen.
The girl glanced at her mother, who did not look this way. She twitched her slightly swollen little hand and wrote a few crooked words, "How much I look like that clown......
She frowned, her eyes widening to recognize the words!
Because the girl's head was pressed so low that she couldn't see her appearance clearly, the girl's messy hair hanging down seemed to be deliberately covering something.
And before she could erase it, her mother had already snatched the paper! The girl sprang up almost from the ground, begging to watch in despair as her mother tore a hole in her paper, tearing the clown's head and body apart.
The girl looked at her mother, more like a weak person who hated and did not dare to resist.
The paper was torn to pieces and thrown into the trash, along with the bloody corners of her mouth, and she was kicked out.
Before being kicked out, the girl actually stretched out her hand to a person she met for the first time...
The sun fell on the child's hand, and the child's little hand gently tugged at the corner of her shirt, as if hoping that she could take her with her.
I vaguely saw the girl shed a few tears, looking at her eyes like a bottomless black hole.
He even told her a signal: You know everything, why can't you take me away?
You have seen everything, so how can you act as if you have not seen anything?
Inexplicably, at the last glance when the door closed, the clown in her mind looked like the girl herself?
Sluggish tears, with a revealing smile on the corner of his mouth, the smile is about to tear away...
A complex emotion tugged at her in her heart, repentant, hesitant, sad, and desperate, filling her inner world with mixed tastes.
She remembered how she was locked in the firewood room by her stepmother when she thought about it, and wept at the light coming out of the small glass window
When I looked at the time now, I realized that I had just missed Gu Beihuai's appointment!
How could she have forgotten this, and if nothing else, he had been impatient to wait.
Sure enough, on the other side, Gu Beihuai watched the food gradually become colder, and it was like his heart was getting cold little by little. He originally hid his wedding ring in the cake so that he could propose to her as soon as possible, but it seems that now that she is not here, he doesn't need it...
Originally, it was Xia Xingchen who knew the news today, and it was Xia Xingchen who should have seen him!
But Xia Xingchen never disdained to take advantage of other people's loopholes, that was unworthy of her personality, her noble personality did not allow her to do so, but she gave Wang Ke such an opportunity.
Seeing that the person who came was Wang Ke, she instantly understood something, but unexpectedly left without seeing Wang Ke, as if waiting for an answer, and sure enough, the first thing she said was "Lu Nansheng asked me to come......"
Gu Beihuai approached Wang Ke's body with some anger, the slightest smile on the corner of her mouth hooked, and she was about to lean up a little excitedly,
He leaned into her ear and said, "Maybe this meal is for you today...... Enjoy, though, I'm not fit to sit across from you......"
Lu Nansheng walked a few steps before she watched the headlights sweep in her direction, and then the car stopped.
She poked her head out in confusion, and the cold wind of the night passed through her shirt and skimmed over her palms, and she rubbed her hands unconsciously. The person who came out of the car was Gu Beihuai, and he took off his coat and wrapped it around her without hesitation.
The moonlight shining on his back was particularly moving, and the slight folds of the blue shirt showed the outline of his back clearly in front of her.
She tightened the coat she had put on, put it on, and spread her arms towards the back in front of her, and spoke with some sadness
"Can you ...... Hold me tight for no reason...... , I need your ......", as soon as the words came out,
What is waiting for is not the next words, but a warm and thick embrace, like a harbor.
I'm behind you whenever you need me......
He clasped her head to his chest and wrapped her tightly from the wind and rain.
"It seems like for the first time today I can't do anything about anyone......" she said weakly.