Chapter 167: I Can't Redeem Myself
Gao Liping and the aunt on her right gossiped, "What's the matter?"
My cousin-in-law frowned and sighed, "That day, I accompanied my friend to the beauty salon to sit on massage, and guess what? I saw Hong Shilian walk out of there with my own eyes, holding hands with a little white face!"
"Ahh
Gao Liping and her aunt were so shocked that their eyes were about to fall out, Jian Wenyun was not interested in these at all, and only felt a headache when she heard it.
The aunt lowered her voice, "Cousin, have you read it wrong, it's impossible!
My cousin sneered and glanced at her, "Can I admit my mistake? I recognize her for her virtue of wanting to decorate herself into a Christmas tree, turning to ashes!"
Suddenly, there was a crackling sound, and several people all looked at Jian Wenyun, only to see that she was holding the eighty thousand yuan in her hand heavily on the table.
"I can't fight yet!" Jian Wenyun's tone was a little rushed.
The other three looked at each other, stuck out their tongues, and stopped talking about the gossip that they didn't have enough to eat.
Before eating, Chi Wan and Gu Yanran were both upstairs chatting with their grandfather.
Gu Yanran held her chin with both hands and asked Gu Guozhen, "Grandpa, you are old and strong, I think you can find a beautiful mother-in-law to fall in love, what do you think?"
Gu Guozhen pointed at himself, and his old face couldn't be hung up: "Do I look like such a lonely old man?"
Gu Yanran hurriedly shook her head, "Not lonely, not lonely, not lonely at all." ”
Squeezing his eyes towards Chi Guan, Chi Wan didn't know what to say, so he had to talk nonsense, "Oh, Yanran may just think that although you are old, grandpa, you are still handsome and handsome, and your appearance is so high, you can kill all ages when you go out." ”
"That's what it means, haha, Aguan, you're better than me!"
“……”
Chi Wan took a breath and almost wanted to slap her to death.
Gu Guozhen slapped Gu Yanran's face a few times, "I think you're angry with me!"
Gu Yanran yawned: "Old man, you should be content, with an invincible beautiful girl in the universe like me with you, you can wake up laughing even if you fall asleep!"
Gu Guozhen pointed to the door with a cane, "Then you can go now, I don't want to sleep, and I don't want to wake up smiling in my dreams." ”
"Then I'll go to sleep and call me for dinner!"
Gu Yanran was already a little sleepy, but her grandfather asked her to go, and she really left.
When the door closed, Gu Guozhen turned around and looked at Chi Wan lovingly, "It's better to be Aguan, my granddaughter is really used to being sick by her parents." ”
"No, Yanran has a very good personality and is very cute. ”
"Don't talk to her, I'll be angry when I talk about her!"
Gu Guozhen snorted, "After finishing a good graduate school, shouldn't you work hard, you are idle all day long, and you have completely inherited her mother, which is like her father?"
Gu Yanran's father Gu Yayuan is quite prestigious in the academic world, and he is a professor in the world-renowned dental specialty of A University, with very high personal ideals, and is not greedy for fame and fortune, so he does not participate in anything in Jingshi Group.
But her mother Gao Liping, in the eyes of the old man, is a little difficult to explain, born in a government and business family, Liuyang came back and did not do any work, and later gave birth to a child and was idle at home, either shopping or playing cards, or making an appointment with three or five friends to say right and wrong. It's just a three-eight.
Hearing what his grandfather said, Chi Guan, who originally planned to teach her husband and children at home after she became pregnant, did not dare to have the idea of resigning.
But what grandpa said also makes sense, women should still have their own careers, otherwise one day they will be out of touch with this society and become housewives like Yanran's mother.
"Anyway, Aguan, you and Yanzhi have been married for more than a year, why don't you have any children?
This topic was brought up again, and Chi Wan didn't know how to answer.
He hesitated, but said, "We ...... We have an effort, but the child doesn't come...... There is no way to ......"
Gu Guozhen stared at her: "You have a problem?!"
Chi Wan was shocked: "No, I'm normal." ”
By the way, he also said, "He's also normal." ”
"Then why don't you have children? Do you do less? Or does he spend more time on business trips? You two don't spend a lot of time together?"
“……”
Chi Wan turned around and held her head, how could she answer, the old man now spoke too directly.
Just when Chi Wan was dealing with his grandfather, in the next room, when Gu Linan went upstairs to change into comfortable home clothes, Jian Wenyun came up to him.
As soon as Gu Linan took a white sweater to wear, he heard a knock on the door, "Yanzhi, it's Mom." ”
With a pause in his hand, his tone was very cold, "What's the matter?"
"Is the door locked, Mom wants to come in and talk to you. ”
"I don't think it's necessary. ”
"Yan Zhi ......"
Jian Wenyun stood at the door a little dejected, her hand still on the door, feeling that her son would not give her a chance to say more than half a word, and her hand slowly slid down.
Just as she was about to give up, the door opened.
Gu Linan stood in front of her with a calm expression, his hands in his trouser pockets, "I heard that I haven't been in good spirits lately?"
Hearing that her son was caring about her, Jian Wenyun couldn't help but redden, but there was a smile on her face, "No, your father is making a big fuss." ”
Gu Li turned down to the south, "Come in." ”
The mother and son went in, and Jian Wenyun closed the door behind her.
A few minutes later, Chi Wan came out of his grandfather's room, went down to look for Gu Linan, and heard that he had gone upstairs to change his clothes, so he went upstairs again.
As soon as I walked to the door of the room, I didn't have time to put my hand on the doorknob, and I heard the emotional female voice inside crying, "Yanzhi, forgive my mother, if I give my mother another chance, I don't want you to be Gu Yakai's son......"
Chi Wan's whole person froze, her throat and eyes seemed to be pinched, and she even thought that she was hallucinating, she just stood there like that, her feet were filled with lead, even if she didn't want to listen anymore, she couldn't move half a step.
I don't know how long she stood there, and when she heard the footsteps inside and wanted to turn around and leave, it was too late, Jian Wenyun's eyes were red, and as soon as she opened the door, she saw her there.
"Mom's ......"
Chi Wan trembled his lips and shouted, but seeing that Jian Wenyun's eyes were moist and deeper, he glanced at Chi Wan and left in embarrassment.
Gu Linan was inside, leaning against the floor-to-ceiling window with a blank face, and the consternation and panic in Chi Wan's eyes were seen through by him at a glance.
He said, "Come in." ”
Chi Wan met the pair of cold and detached eyes and nodded.
……
The well-lit room doesn't seem to be able to block out the darkness in any corner.
Chi Wan sat on the edge of the bed, Gu Linan quietly pillowed her legs, and the two of them stayed like this for a long, long time.
"Why didn't you ask me once?"
He finally spoke, his tone was gentle but indifferent, and he held Chi Wan's hand in his palm and pressed it against his chest.
Chi Wan looked at the blue sky and white clouds outside the window, and his peaceful mood was like a mountain stream, "If you don't say it, I naturally won't ask." ”
"No one can stop their curiosity. ”
"But if it's someone I care about, someone I want to protect, that's a different story. ”
From the time when he was drunk and brought home by Su Muhua, to the time when he heard the clues from Gu Weiche's mouth in Shenzhen, Chi Guan has gradually understood in his heart that in Gu Linan's parents' generation, there must be many unknown pasts, and it is precisely because of knowing those pasts that he is embarrassed, he is entangled, and he can't suppress anything in his heart. It's not understood, it's not on the table, it's dark, it's dirty, it's like a bacterium, and people can't avoid it.
It was precisely because of this that even if Chi Wan couldn't help but want to know something and share something with him, she didn't ask half a sentence before he took the initiative to speak.
Because he loves him, he chooses to protect him silently, and he doesn't want to know the things that are not honorable for him, and she doesn't know.
"At that time, I didn't understand why you felt so uncomfortable that you would rather go out and borrow wine to drown your sorrows than go home and share it with me. But I know you, and if you don't want to say it, no matter how much I ask, you won't say anything to me. ”
"I'm not the kind of woman who just wants to share the joys and sorrows with you, from the initial resistance to marrying you, to the later willingly loving you and liking you, they are all following the truest emotions in their hearts. So no matter what happens, unless you push me away with your own hands, I will never leave you for the rest of my life. ”
She said these heartfelt words, looked down at the man in her arms, and said in a gentle and cautious tone, "Yanzhi, I am your wife, no matter which one you are by my side, good or bad, I want it." So all the embarrassment, all the embarrassment, all the things that might be laughed at mean nothing to me. Because, all I want is you. ”
The man looked at the ceiling and chuckled, "How filthy is that." ”
When he married his father, he was pregnant with the child of his father's eldest brother.
's father is kind-hearted, tolerates her and loves her, even if it is not his own flesh and blood, if he finds out that the man is his own big brother in the end, will he be like a slap in the face, just like the shame of being cuckolded - after all, he thought that the years were quiet, in the eyes of others, he was just a cheap father.
After more than 30 years of keeping this secret, he thought that if he didn't say it, there would be no third person in the world who would know, but one day, his eldest brother stood up and told him as a victor: Thank you for helping me raise my son for more than 30 years.
He is proud, noble, and the excessively privileged environment of his original family has created his innate excessive conceit, so he will not try to imagine his unbearable life experience, when all the reality is in front of him, his dignity collapses, and his pride and loftiness collapse.
I don't know how to face Chi Wan, I don't know how to tell her these things, I'm afraid that she will feel that she is not good enough, just like a tanuki for a prince, he is not a real prince, so he is not worthy of a real princess.
He told her, "I don't want to hear her say anything about those days, I don't want to hear a word." Regarding Gu Yakai, there is only zero space left for him in my heart. ”
"My father is Gu Yachen, whether he is good or bad, he is the one who raised me after all. For me, kindness is always greater than blood. ”
"She wanted to ask for my forgiveness, and in fact, I didn't want to see her. ”
"I don't want to live day after day in such a chaotic relationship, but every day when I open my eyes, someone seems to remind me that I am not Gu Yachen's son. I can't redeem myself. ”
"Gu Weiche said that I was cold-blooded because I had the same blood as him, and every time I realized this fact, I couldn't help but want to escape, escape from everything in front of me. ”