Chapter 283: I Should Have Come Back Sooner
Chang An put away his mobile phone and walked to the door, not opening the door first, but opening the video phone and taking a look.
Liu Shulan's face appeared on the video.
Chang An gasped hard.
Why did she come over suddenly, and how should she deal with it?
Chang An's mind was completely confused at that time.
The doorbell continued to ring, as if she was not persevering and would not give up, Chang An was ruthless, thinking that she should not hear it at all, and she should have left after ringing for a while, or considering whether to call Zhou Wei, in this case he might be a little better present, but halfway through the number, Chang An suddenly withdrew his hand.
Why bother? She didn't steal or rob, she was above board, not to mention that if she couldn't even face Liu Shulan, how would she face the surging crowd in the future.
Chang An instantly seemed to have found confidence and direction, brushed his hair, straightened his waist, and slowly opened the door after making sure that his emotions were cleaned up......
……
Zhou Wei made an appointment in the morning and wanted to go out, Xiao Zhao had already received a notice in advance and was waiting in the parking lot, and when he saw the boss coming over and holding the car door first, the mobile phone rang after a while.
Zhou Wei made a waiting gesture with Xiao Zhao, and walked to the side to connect.
"Hey, Mom..."
Xiao Zhao had no intention of snooping on the boss's privacy, and continued to hold on to the car door without distraction, but within half a minute, Zhou Wei came back with a calm face.
"Let's go back to the river first. ”
Xiao Zhao was stunned, "Back to Changhe?"
"Yes, hurry up!" said the other man who had already gotten into the car.
……
The car was under low pressure all the way, Xiao Zhao glanced at the boss in the back seat from time to time, seeing that he was silent but his face continued to sink, Xiao Zhao didn't dare to ask more, so he had to step on the accelerator and strive to send people to their destination in the shortest possible time.
More than half an hour later, the car stopped at the door of the villa, and a black Audi was parked at the door, which was the car that Liu Shulan often used to travel.
The courtyard door was open, and Zhou Wei strode in with long legs.
The door of the main building was ajar, he pushed it open, the room was completely quiet, and he didn't bother to change his shoes, so he turned a corner and entered the living room......
The room is bright and sunshine shines through the large floor-to-ceiling windows.
Liu Shulan leaned back on the sofa, one arm on her forehead, and a glass of water on the coffee table in front of her, Chang An was sitting on a single leather stool diagonally opposite, still wearing the coral velvet pajamas she wore last night, and also holding a bone china cup in her hand, there was nothing unusual on her face, and she even looked a little innocent and ignorant.
Chang An heard the footsteps, first turned around and saw Zhou Wei, the two made eye contact for a short time, and then she glanced at the sofa and signaled to Zhou Wei.
Zhou Wei walked over, Liu Shulan didn't react, still leaning back, her eyes didn't open, and her chest was still flowing out.
He was silent for a while, then asked, "What's wrong?"
Chang An laughed embarrassedly: "Mom said that the brain hurts." ”
Zhou Wei: "......"
Liu Shulan, who originally didn't know whether she was sleeping or resting, heard the movement and sat up from the sofa suddenly, her face was still white, but her eyes were murderous, and her eyes swept over Zhou Wei's face.
Zhou Wei shouted Mom.
She stood up directly, "You still know that I'm your mother, ah, tell me about you...... Tell me about you, such a big thing, if Jiaqi hadn't told me yesterday that you had a woman outside, if I hadn't come over to take a look, how long would you plan to hide it from me? Ah, tell me about it......"
Liu Shulan was really angry, or was stimulated, and people trembled a little when they stood there.
On the way back, Zhou Wei basically understood the process of the whole thing.
Yesterday, he and Chang An had an intimate move in the parking lot, and they happened to be bumped into by Tian Jiaqi, but Tian Jiaqi didn't know the real relationship between Chang An and him at all, Chang An was still Zheng Qiuzhen in her heart, so she called Liu Shulan to "cry", which roughly means that Zhou Wei has secretly had a relationship outside, and the other party is still a woman living in Yigang.
Liu Shulan was naturally nervous when she heard this.
Zhou Wei has been single for three years, and she has hardly been close to women in the past three years, and now she has come out with a woman, and the two of them hugged and hugged in public, she was surprised and happy, worried and curious, and stayed up all night until the next day, and did not dare to call Zhou Meng directly, just wanted to run to try her luck first.
Liu Shulan first went to Yihe, but unfortunately there was no one there, and the property housekeeper said that he had not lived there for several days, so he thought of coming to Changhe to see.
Originally, Liu Shulan just wanted to find out what a woman looks like, what type of woman, and what is so special that her son who has been single for three years can be tempted, so she came to the door with more curiosity, but as soon as the door opened, she saw Chang An in pajamas and barefoot, so she stood there with a smile and a soft voice: "Mom......"
Ouch, hey, Liu Shulan still has aftershocks when she thinks about it now.
"If it weren't for my heart and no high blood pressure, I would probably be scared to death!" She couldn't help but cover the position of her heart, her face was bloodless, you can imagine how badly scared she was just now.
Zhou Wei couldn't help laughing and glanced at Chang An again.
Chang An grinded her lips, "Mom, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to!" She looked like she was pleasing to her eyes, even if Liu Shulan was angry, she couldn't tell it, so she could only point the finger at Zhou Xian.
"Tell me why you have to hide such a big thing from your family?"
Zhou Wei scratched his eyebrows with his fingers, "I didn't hide it, I originally planned to take her back in a few days." ”
"In a few days?"
"I'm also afraid that you won't be able to accept it for a while, and I want to find an opportunity to give you a little psychological preparation first, but I didn't expect you to come over first. Zhou Wei explained, it is also the truth, and it is not a lie to Liu Shulan.
Chang An also helped beside him, "Yes, I'm afraid of scaring you." ”
Zhou Wei: "And I'm also busy these days, so I can't spare time. ”
Chang An: "Well, Ah Yan is really busy, working overtime every day!"
The two sang and harmonized, and cooperated tacitly, so that Liu Shulan had nothing to say.
She eased her emotions a little, and then asked, "So what are you going to do now?"
"What's the plan?" replied.
Liu Shulan glanced at Chang An, who was still wearing the half-worn pajamas brought from the rental house, without makeup, with short hair, although his facial features had not changed, there was a strangeness all over his body.
This is someone who has been "dead" for three years and suddenly appeared!
The more Liu Shulan looked at it, the more she had a headache, and even her chest began to feel stuffy.
"Forget it!" she shook her head, probably feeling indescribable, "I'm too lazy to ask, I know that asking is also in vain, after so many years, I can't take care of your affairs anyway, let alone manage it, just let me go with you, and wait for your grandfather to clean it up!"
She picked up her bag and left in a fit of rage.
Zhou Yan didn't stop her, but Chang An helped her behind her, "Mom, don't be angry, why don't you have lunch together before leaving?"
Liu Shulan didn't have a good face, and sneered: "What kind of lunch are you eating?
The face is not good, and the air pressure is low.
Zhou Wei motioned to Chang An not to say much.
Liu Shulan snorted very slightly, staggered Chang An and walked out by herself, Chang An followed behind her and was unconsciously pushed by her.
Zhou Wei immediately held on.
Chang An was a little embarrassed, Zhou Wei just wanted to speak, she frowned and said nothing.
"Mom, do you want to let Ah Yan send you?"
It's a pity that Liu Shulan didn't appreciate it, and the person had already walked to the door.
"No, you can just be angry with me!"
After the others left, Chang An was still standing there, and Zhou Wei went over to turn her around.
"I'm sorry, my mom has such a temper. ”
Chang An shook his head and gasped, "It's okay, it's not the first time I've known her, and besides, we have a problem handling this matter." ”
"Did you embarrass you here just now?"
"Embarrassed?" Chang An laughed, "No, it's not to embarrass me, and she seems to be really scared by me, just standing ......there at the time" Chang An raised his hand and pointed to the door, "She didn't catch her breath for a long time, I was afraid that she would faint on the spot if she couldn't breathe again." ”
Zhou Wei can actually fully imagine Liu Shulan's shocked appearance, without warning, suddenly someone who has been "dead" for three years suddenly came out, standing in front of you coldly, is it alive in broad daylight?
"It's a human being who scares you. ”
"What about you, were you scared when you first saw me some time ago?" Chang An asked.
Zhou Yi thought about it, and his hand was still on Chang An's shoulder.
"Nope!"
"No, you weren't scared, and how did you feel?"
Zhou Wei recalled that night, it should have been at the Rong'an project site, it was very cold, there was a light on the side of the road, and she was wearing a hat and mask standing in front of the wall to paint.
"It's like a dream, I can't believe it, I even think it might be a hallucination, and you'll disappear in the next second, until you start running down the road, and I think you're going to chase after you're going to cross the street. ”
Not to mention that it was then, now that I think about it, Zhou Wei still feels palpitations, and even the feeling of suffocation in his chest is still there, especially the one that Chang An ran to the middle of the road, the hat on his head was blown off by the wind, revealing short furry hair and a pair of frightened eyes, everything began to become chaotic.
"I later got your mobile phone number from Tian Jiaqi and made a lot of calls to you, but it kept turning off the phone, did you deliberately avoid me?"
Chang An smiled, "What do you say, but I guess you should have gone to the business hall to check my card application records later." ”
Zhou Wei also smiled: "How do you know?"
Chang An: "I'm too familiar with your routines, and I'm always doing some things in a shadowy way, Ding Shouquan's name was found out at that time, right?"
Zhou Wei didn't deny it, "Well, but I didn't find anything other than some personal information." ”
Chang An: "You didn't find anything else, I didn't dare to use that number again, I didn't have an ID card at the time, and I spent 200 yuan to borrow Wu Feng's certificate before I went to the business hall to get another one." ”
Mentioning the name Wu Feng, Zhou Wei smiled bitterly, "You know this person very well with him?"
"It's quite familiar, he is Grandma Chen's grandson, he lived with Grandma Chen before, and I was door-to-door with him when I just moved back to Yunling. ”
Chang An unconsciously mentioned some information, this is the first time in the two days that they have been together for a few days, she has talked about her life circle in the past three years without warning.
Zhou Wei didn't rush to ask questions in other ways, but said, "This person is very greedy for money?"
"Greedy for money, do you say Wu Feng?" Chang An smiled and didn't hide it, "He is indeed like this, mainly because he is a good gambler, and he owes a lot of gambling debts outside, but he is actually not bad, he is quite righteous, right......" She suddenly remembered something, "Did you cheat the key to my rental house from him before?"
Zhou Wei scratched his forehead, "What is cheating? I am buying, reasonable and legal." ”
"Buy?"
"And it was bought at a high price, do you know how much that key cost me?"
"How much?"
Zhou Wei gestured, and Chang An stared at him in disbelief, "Eight hundred?"
"That's not right!"
"Eight thousand?"
Zhou Wei continued to shake his head, and then said a number: "Eighty thousand!"
"What?"
"Eighty thousand, cash, not a penny, just to get a key from him. ”
Chang An stared at Zhou Wei with an expression of "Are you sick" for a long time, and finally shook his head, "You must be crazy." ”
Zhou Yi burst out laughing heartily.
Isn't it crazy? Especially after the chance encounter that night, Zhou Wei felt as if he had been stunned.
"At that time, only Xu Nan and Lao Deng knew, but they didn't believe that I had really seen you. ”
Xu Nan is bitter and can't speak, and he doesn't dare to squeak when he has doubts, but Deng Shunlin is not afraid, he has said several times that Zhou Yan has fallen into evil, either because of hallucinations or dreams, or because he met a person who looks similar to Chang An, God knows that he only saw Chang An's eyes that night.
"What about you, don't you have any suspicions?"
"Suspect what?"
"Suspicion could just be someone who looks alike. Chang An recalled, "I remember that I also wore a mask that night. ”
Zhou Wei shook his head, "Don't doubt it, a pair of eyes is enough." He raised his hand and touched Chang An's eyes with his fingertips.
In fact, some feelings are difficult to express in words, but I know them in my heart.
"To put it mildly, I can recognize you at a glance when you turn to ashes. ”
Chang An was touched to close his eyes, but the touch of his fingertips was attached to his sensitive eyelids.
She took a deep breath, God knows she was just as miserable that night.
"Actually, I already knew that the construction site was a project of Rong'an before I went, and I also knew that you initiated and planned the donation activity, but I didn't expect you to suddenly come to the site. ”
"What if you had known in the morning that I was going to go? ”
Chang An thought about it around his fingertips and shook his head: "No, if I had known that I would see you there in the morning, I would definitely not go." ”
"But you went anyway, as fate would have it. ”
It was destined that she took the job, and it was also destined that he would drive there that night.
Everything is neither early nor late, like a thread in the dark, spanning time and distance, bringing her to himself little by little.
Zhou Tao said again: "I have the opportunity to thank Tian Jiaqi. ”
"Why?"
"She came to me to fund the sunflowers, otherwise I might not have seen you so soon. ”
Chang An smiled coldly, and suddenly changed his head, "I seem to have heard that you have a blind date with her?
Zhou Yan didn't hide it, "Yes, but I didn't accept it, so I refused on the spot." ”
"Why? I think she's very good, young, beautiful, it seems that her father is still the director of the Planning Bureau, what else do you have to choose from this condition?"
Chang An is serious, and the more he talks, the more energetic he becomes.
Zhou Yan hissed at the socket of his teeth, "Is this jealousy or settling accounts after the autumn?"
"How can it, everything is the truth, maybe if I don't show up, you have already put marriage on the agenda. ”
Zhou Xun sneered, his fingers bent up and suddenly scratched the bridge of Chang An's nose, "Sour, you are not settling accounts after the autumn!"
"You think too highly of yourself. ”
"Okay, I don't bother with you, anyway, you're sharp-tongued now. Zhou Wei scooped Chang An's shoulder, and suddenly sank his face, "Let's get down to business, now that my mother knows, I'm afraid I can't hide it anymore." ”
Chang An's eyes also dimmed.
"I know. ”
In fact, from the day she went to the police station to restore her identity, she knew that many people and things may no longer be able to escape.
"And what if they ask to see you?"
It was easy to meet, but the hard part was how she answered the various questions they asked, as well as the questions that followed.
In short, how can she explain where and what happened to the three years of disappearance.
"I..." Chang An lowered his head, feeling lonely and powerless, and replied after a while, "I don't know." ”
She didn't know how to state it, or even how to face it.
Zhou Wei sighed slightly, "Got it, I'll deal with it!"
……
Sure enough, within two hours, the Zhou family already knew everything.
Zhou Xin was still out on a business trip and sent a > to Zhou Xian, "Mom didn't see the wrong person?
Zhou Wei only replied with an "um".
followed by Zhou Xin's >
"Since she's fine, where has she been all these years? Why didn't she come back?"
"Amnesia, injury, explosion, disfigurement, where did you hide for plastic surgery?"
"What the hell is going on?"
When everyone encounters this kind of thing, their first reaction is shock, incredible, and the rest is bursting with curiosity, but Zhou Wei didn't answer any of these questions, only replied: "When you should know, you will naturally know, now don't get involved in this matter!"
After Zhou Fushan's phone called, although the old man was still sick in bed, he was full of energy, and there was no other nonsense, just one sentence: "Bring people back!"
Zhou Wei was already on his way back to the company.
There is no escaping this point, and he can't keep people at home all the time, but he still has to worry about Chang'an.
"I'll take her back to the house for dinner in the evening, but I declare in advance that I shouldn't ask anything else. ”
Thinking that the old man was going to send a pass again, Zhou Wei was even ready to be trained, but after waiting for a while, he laughed: "Rabbit cub, it is useless to protect your daughter-in-law and protect you like this, but I know in my heart, you don't have to worry about this leisure." ”
“……”
……
Chang An didn't go to the hospital that day, and Zhou Wei got off work early in the evening and drove back to pick her up to the house.
It was almost six o'clock, and it was getting late outside, but the lights were not turned on in the house.
Chang An sat alone on the sofa, and in the same position where Liu Shulan sat in the morning, even the cup of water on the coffee table was still there.
"Why do you sit here alone and don't turn on the lights?"
Zhou Wei walked over and turned on the switch, and the person on the sofa came back to his senses.
"I'm sorry. ”
Chang An hurriedly pinched the small cigarette butt left in his hand, and pinched it in an ashtray on the coffee table.
The ashtray is the one on Zhou's study table, although he usually doesn't have a heavy smoking addiction, but he always smokes a few when he is under great work pressure, so there is always an ashtray on the study table.
Zhou Wei glanced at it, and at this time, about four or five cigarette butts had been thrown horizontally in the ashtray, all of which were Chang An's smoked brands.
He took a faint breath and asked, "Didn't you go out in the afternoon?"
"Hmm. ”
"Where's lunch?"
"Oh, I had lunch and ordered takeout. ”
Zhou Wei couldn't help but sigh and sat down next to her, "Don't you want to go over to eat?" If you really don't want to, I'll take you out to eat." ”
Chang An hurriedly denied: "No, I don't want to, and it's already agreed." ”
"I'll be able to get back if I make an appointment, just call my grandfather. ”
Chang An shrugged his shoulders and smiled, "Don't, I haven't seen my grandfather for a long time, I miss him a lot, just go over and have a look." Although she said with a smile, her expression was not relaxed in the slightest.
Zhou Wei wanted to say something, but she had already stood up,
"It's not early, let's go out early. ”
"But ......"
"No, you should hurry up, and if the road is smooth, you can spare a little time to take me to buy something. ”
“……”
Chang An seemed to have been ready for a long time, and directly took his bag and scarf to change his shoes.
On the way, I went around to a nearby shopping mall and took Chang'an to buy some fruits and pastries.
She used to have the habit of bringing gifts when she went back to Zhou's house, but she still couldn't suppress her nervousness in the car, and her face was tense all the way.
When he was about to drive into the compound, Zhou Wei glanced at him: "I told my grandfather that they won't ask anything they shouldn't ask." ”
"Hmm. ”
Chang An lowered his head and didn't say anything more.
The car stopped at the door, Zhou Wei took something from the trunk, and went around to the co-pilot to open the door for Chang An.
Chang An was wrapped in a scarf, and his hand was about to be put into his coat pocket, but he was held by Zhou Wei.
"Let's go!"
She was stunned, and in the next second, her five fingers were already clasped by him, and she was firmly led into the house by him......
Nothing seems to have changed when you enter the house, it is still the same as it was three years ago.
Zhou Shiqing and Liu Shulan sat on a two-seater sofa, and Zhou Fushan sat in a south-facing wheelchair, followed by a nanny.
Chang An restrained his heart from bursting and called people one by one.
Liu Shulan's expression was still a little unnatural, but after all, she had already taken a photo in the morning, so there was nothing surprising.
Although Zhou Shiqing had made psychological preparations in advance, he could see that Chang An was standing at an end and still couldn't help but show shock.
The most stable is Zhou Fushan, who has fought and carried a gun, and when Chang An called him, he only beckoned.
"Grandpa..."
"Come here!"
The old man in the wheelchair had all white hair, his face was full of wrinkles, and he struggled to hold one hand in the air, and his fingers were still trembling slightly.
Before coming, Zhou Wei also told Chang An about the situation, so Chang An knew that Zhou Fushan had just come back from the hospital some time ago, had a slight stroke, and at this age, a little problem can toss people so much that they can't get out of bed, and Zhou Fushan has only improved a little in the last two days, and can barely go around at home in a wheelchair.
But in Chang An's previous impression, the old man should still be tough, and he didn't dare to associate Zhou Fushan, who was full of energy and beating Zhou Tao with a cane three years ago, with the old man in front of him, who was weak and could only walk around in a wheelchair.
"Grandpa!" Chang An walked over and half-squatted in front of the wheelchair, "I'm back!"
Zhou Fushan's eyelids were raised, and he struggled to raise an arm, his hands still trembling.
He patted Chang An on the shoulder.
"Eh, it's good to come back, it's good to come back, we don't care about the rest!"
A voice that has long been dumb, and even the words don't seem to be as clear as before, let alone hard.
Chang An only felt that his chest was swollen and his eyes were sore.
"I'm sorry, grandpa, I should have come back to see you sooner!"