148. Because I don't qualify
When I arrived at Xu Shenlin's apartment, the nanny had already prepared a meal and was waiting for me, I had always had a small appetite and put down the chopsticks in my hand after eating a few bites, the nanny was still trembling for what she said that day, and her eyes were a little evasive.
I turned on the TV for a while, and thought the echo was surprisingly loud, but I still saw that it was ten o'clock in the middle of the night, and it was raining outside.
During this time, the weather is always going back and forth, and the rain is surprisingly heavy, as if it is going to rain all the rain this autumn.
After arriving at eleven o'clock, Xu Shenlin still didn't come back, the prime time on the TV had all passed, and only some midnight files that were not very popular were being played, I got up and wanted to go to sleep, and the phone in the apartment rang at this time.
I guessed who it was, because I was worried that I would be a little embarrassed to answer the phone if I couldn't speak, after all, this was Xu Shenlin's home, and no one would call to find me.
I sat there and listened to the phone sound from sharp to calm, and I was secretly relieved.
The landline reverberated in the empty room again, and I had to get up and answer the phone, and there was no one talking when I answered, so I tapped twice on the phone microphone before the other end said, "It's me."
He said, I may not come back tonight, you rest early.
There was silence again on the phone, and he said again, remembering a small lamp.
After saying that, I hung up the phone again, and I was stunned for a long time with the phone that made a beeping sound in my hand, and I didn't know what I was thinking, but I felt that my head was empty, as if it had been moved to an empty house, and every word echoed.
I shouldn't doubt him, because I'm not qualified, even if he goes to the clubhouse today and spends all day hugging, it doesn't matter to me.
Thinking so, I put the phone back, turned around and turned off all the lights in the living room, went back to the bedroom, lay on the bed, closed my eyes and began to sleep, this night was destined to be sleepless, and the nanny had come to make breakfast in the morning.
The room was still empty, and he didn't come back.
I sat alone at the long table and ate breakfast, and after eating, the nanny cleaned up the table and I went out for a walk without informing anyone.
Actually, there is nothing to go about, my life used to be monotonous, and at that time Susie accompanied me to go shopping, but now I don't even have someone to go shopping.
I saw a very distinctive bookstore and pushed the door and walked in, early winter came, and the bare trees on the branches of the plane trees outside were exposed there, but the inside of the bookstore was very warm, and there was a strong aroma of coffee inside.
This bookstore is not big, half of the customers are white-collar workers or young girls, and the decoration style is also very Korean, with a large bichon in a plaid shirt painted on the light blue walls, the painting style is childish, but it also reveals a naïve.
I went around in it, and I didn't find what I wanted to read, and suddenly I saw a familiar cover in my mother's column, which was a must-read for mothers, and I remember that this book used to be read in Song Lian's hand every day when she was pregnant, and she refused to leave her hand even to eat.
It is written about how mothers who are twelve weeks pregnant should adjust their mentality and precautions, and Song Lian took it to my room with great interest to explain to me, saying that it was to make up for my knowledge in advance.
But now?
I subconsciously wanted to touch the book with my fingers, and suddenly a pair reached ahead of me, and I shook it, and the book was already in her hand.
I looked up, and my face was a little familiar, it was the woman I met at the cemetery that day, Lin Anhang's current fiancée.
She held the book in her hand, looked at me with warm eyes, smiled at me, "Do you like this book too?"
She looked down at me and said, "How many months is your baby?"
I moved my lips and finally cleaned up and told her that I was not pregnant, she looked at me with a frown and some puzzlement, probably not understanding, I retracted the gesture and finally gave up and shook my head at her, turned around and wanted to leave.
But at the moment of turning around, I happened to see Lin Anhang pushing the door in, and he was smiling when he saw me standing next to his fiancée, and his expression stiffened in an instant.
I have imagined countless times when Lin Anhang and I met again, but when we met in such a situation, it was somewhat embarrassing, he pushed the door there, and I stood there without moving.
The woman next to her opened a few pages of the book and suddenly ran to Lin Anhang like a happy bird, and said in a sweet tone, Anhang, why did you park the car for so long.
Lin Anhang softened his stiff face a little and faced his fiancée, and said, just now the parking lot in the basement was full, and I found a community to park.
The woman nodded, and I stood there looking at them for a long time, wanting to pretend I didn't know them, and indifferently walked past them.
After all, Lin Anhang and I are already in the past, and there is no need to say anything else, the truth is so cruel, although he will always mind in his heart, but life is his own, he doesn't plan to be with him, let him find whom.
Unexpectedly, just after taking two steps, I thought that Susie would inevitably feel a little unhappy to look at him, I don't understand whether he understands my eyes.
He didn't dare to look at me with the pregnant woman in his arms, I opened the door and walked out, walked a short distance and waited outside for a while, and when the cold wind blew, I felt that my bones were cold to the bone.
The taxis on this street have always been deserted, and after waiting for about ten minutes without stopping the car, they planned to walk along this road to another place to stop it, and they were idle anyway.
But as soon as I took two steps, I felt someone shouting to me behind me, and when I turned around, I saw Lin Anhang standing at the door of the originally closed bookstore, wearing a black coat.
The black tweed coat I bought for him many years ago, and when he saw me standing there, he opened his legs and ran quickly like me, and when he ran, he brought a mist to his mouth.
He gasped and stopped in front of me, I looked at him silently, he looked at me with a puff, and the first thing he said was, I want to talk to you.
I looked at the library behind him, and as if he saw what I was trying to express in my eyes, he explained that Wen Ning was reading a book, and I had already greeted him.
It turned out that the woman's name was Wen Ning, which was different from my name and Susie's, Wen Ning Wen Ning, it sounded like it was catchy, gentle and dignified.
It's a good name, it's really cheap Lin Anhang.
I nodded, he ran to pick up the car, and it didn't take long for the car to stop in front of me, and after a look, the car's body lines were smooth and royal blue, and the most important thing was that the front was no longer the same two stacked together, but a low-key and restrained Lexus.
Lin Anhang finally replaced his Volkswagen.
I laughed twice, Lin Anhang was a little furious by my smile, but he still didn't speak, and opened the car door for me and I should have bent over and sat in.
We were silent all the way until he pulled over in front of a Peninsula café near the side of the road.
He was still the first to get out of the car and open the car door for me, Lin Anhang was more gentleman than before, when I hadn't divorced him, he would never saddle the horse for me for these little things, what should I do, now that he has become so considerate, I can't help but sigh in my heart, Susie and I are not the one who can change him.
We entered the café and he ordered two cups of coffee and looked at me cautiously from beginning to end, and he saw that I didn't speak and thought I was angry now.
He probably didn't know I was mute.
Lin Anhang held the coffee cup in his hand, turned it around repeatedly for a long time, he raised his head and looked at me formally and said, Wen Jing, I know that I broke the appointment, the woman who was pregnant just now is called Wen Ning, and she is my current fiancée, we are.
He paused for a moment, and then said, We plan to get married next month, maybe this news will be a little surprising to you, I didn't tell you because I don't know how to tell you, the five-year appointment was my failure first, I want to say I'm sorry, but Wenjing I'm not young anymore, I can't wait that long.
After he finished speaking, his eyes lowered again, I looked at him quietly, took a pen and a tea slip from the table and wrote a sentence on it, you don't have to be surprised, I have a little problem with my voice now and I can't speak, Lin Anhang, I only ask you one word, when did you and Wen Ning meet, if I guessed correctly, the child is about three or four months old now, and at that time three or four months ago, I remember that you were still proposing to me with a ring.
He looked at my writing for a long time, and then slowly looked up at me and said, "Your voice...
I looked at him with a thorn in his eyes, he didn't worry about why I became like this, but said with a little weakness, at that time I proposed to you and you rejected me, for a long time I lived a very decadent life, basically no mood to go to work every day, you also know that Director Wen in our bureau has always taken good care of me and promoted me, last time one day he invited everyone in our bureau to dinner on his birthday, Wen Ning also came, I drank too much wine Director Wen Ning asked Wen Ning to send me back, drunk when I woke up lying next to Wen Ning, it didn't take long for Wen Ning to tell me that I was pregnant, I can't help it, you know he is my boss, and Wen Ning was pregnant with my child.
If I'm not mistaken, I rejected Lin Anhang at that time, he happened to have hooked up with Xu Shenlin, why would a director of a small deputy director let his daughter send him home in person.
What is this kind of greasy, probably he also understands in his heart.