Chen Ji received a call from Wanlan, and in a gentle tone, asked him what he was doing.

He was a little hesitant, and only after a while did he say, "At home." ”

Wanlan laughed: "If there is anything you can't say at home, you have to think about it for half a day." ”

Chen Ji was silent: "What are you doing?" ”

"It's okay," Wanlan said, "just after reading a foreign story, I thought of you, and I will give you a call." ”

Chen Ji followed her words and asked, "What story?" ”

Wanlan smiled on the other end of the phone: "I don't know if you've seen it, "The Gift of the Magi", which tells the story of a poor young couple who endure the pain and give each other Christmas gifts, is very touching, I don't know if it can be adapted into a feature film." ”

"You've got a big mouth." Chen Ji chuckled lowly, he spoke slower than usual, seemed a little depressed, and was reluctant to talk to her about these topics, "How is your body?" ”

"There's no problem," Wanlan said, "it's just very stuffy, and I always want to go out to breathe." ”

"Don't be willful." Chen Ji told her, "It's still very cold, and it's easy to catch a cold." ”

"I'm not that delicate." Wanlan smiled, "I want to go to Yangzhou to see Pingkang earlier, I don't know if you have time to accompany me." ”

"I'm ......" Chen Ji stammered, "I'm afraid I'm ......"

He took a deep breath: "I'm done with my job, let's go to Zhenjiang to accompany you for two days." ”

Wanlan didn't answer immediately, and the sound of her breathing came to Chen Ji's ears through the microphone, vague and not clear.

"Something happened to you." She said, "Don't hide it from me, just say it." ”

Now it was Chen Ji's turn to be speechless.

Wanlan continued: "Tell me directly, don't think about any words, no matter what the news is, I can stand it. ”

"I want to tell you face to face." Chen Ji said, "I'll go to Zhenjiang to see you." ”

He hung up the phone first, leaving Wanlan with a series of pale and indifferent blind voices. She held the earpiece for a long time without saying a word, and finally exhaled a breath, buckled the earpiece, and calmly instructed Lixia: "Uncle will come over tomorrow and tomorrow, you have prepared all his daily necessities, and wait for him to come." ”

Lixia looked at Wanlan's face and cautiously tested her: "Why did my uncle suddenly come over?" ”

"He's got something to tell me," Wanlan said, "and in person." ”

Lixia immediately thought of taking a concubine, and then became dissatisfied with Chen Ji: his wife had just given birth to a child, even if she wanted to take a concubine, she didn't have to rush at this time.

Wanlan looked at her expression and smiled: "Don't think about it, Hengzhi is coming soon." ”

Lixia was indignant: "Why did the young lady agree to him coming? What do you have to say, at the full moon banquet of the little young master, he said it in front of a full house of friends! ”

Wanlan comforted her in turn: "There are many important things, and the concubine is not one of them, so he will not rush over to discuss with me in person." ”

When Lixia heard this, he gasped: "Do you want to ...... Want...... It's time off...... Did you take a break from Miss? ”

Wanlan was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "What is this called!" ”

Lixia immediately slapped himself in the face and knelt down at her: "My broken mouth really deserves to be beaten!" ”

Wanlan stopped her: "Okay, complain or complain, it's not too late to continue after hearing the news, you go and get busy with yours." ”

Lixia looked at her worriedly: "Miss......"

Wanlan picked the corner of her lips again: "Go out." ”

Lixia didn't give Chen Ji a good face who came with the wind and dust, and even the tea he brought him was a good tea directly brewed with raw well water, but Chen Ji was not picky, and drank it clean in one sip.

Wanlan said: "Lixia asked the kitchen to fry ginger soup for my uncle to ward off the cold, and when I went out, I closed the door and told them that there was no need to serve here." ”

But Lixia wanted to stay in the house, so he said, "I'll go and tell a girl." ”

"You go by yourself," Wanlan said, "I have something to talk to my uncle." ”

The expression between her eyebrows and eyes was calm, and there was no fluctuation at all, this calmness seemed to comfort Chen Ji, so he also calmed down and turned his head to look at Lixia: "Listen to Miss." ”

Lixia looked at these two faces with the same expression by the door, and suddenly felt that the eyebrows and eyes of the two of them seemed to be exactly the same, and she seemed to be talking to a person.

"That'...... Then I'll step back first. She was a little panicked, and she had just made up her mind that if she was kicked out, she would secretly listen outside the door, but now she didn't even dare to stay in this room any longer, and hurried downstairs.

Wanlan put her eyes back on Chen Ji, Chen Ji opened his mouth, and what he wanted to say was drafted countless times in his heart, but in the end, he felt that none of them were appropriate.

"Say it directly," Wanlan opened her mouth first, "be blunt, don't hint or imply." ”

"Pingkang is very bad," Chen Ji made up his mind the moment her voice landed, "he suffered...... Nope. ”

There was silence in the room.

Wanlan's expression did not change, and even the corners of her eyebrows and eyes did not move.

Chen Ji continued: "Not on the afternoon of the 12th. ”

Wanlan nodded slowly and did not speak.

Chen Ji frowned slightly, got up and sat down beside her, shook her hand first, thought about it, and then went to take her shoulder: "Ah Lan." ”

He didn't say anything like "don't be sad", he just squeezed her hand hard, called her name over and over again, and said, "You still have me." ”

But Wanlan still didn't speak.

Chen Ji didn't dare to look at her expression, so he hugged her entire upper body in his arms and patted her lightly on the back.

She has experienced the loss of a child twice.

Chen Ji panicked at this time, scooped her up from the crook of his arm and shook her: "Ah Lan, you say something." ”

Wanlan rolled her eyes: "What did you say?" ”

Chen Ji breathed a sigh of relief and hugged her again: "I thought you were overly sad." ”

Wanlan sighed in his ear and asked in a low voice, "How is your mother?" ”

"I'm sick and crying all the time." Chen Ji said, "She said she was sorry for you and wanted to come to excuse you." ”

"Please sin ten thousand times, and Pingkang is gone." Wanlan said, "This is my retribution, my son is dead, but I am still or." ”

"Alan!" Chen Ji raised his voice while hugging her tighter, "It's not your fault. ”

Wanlan closed her eyes on his shoulder, her eyes were sour, but she couldn't shed tears, she only felt that her heart was empty, the air around her was cold, and all the sensory organs on her body were out of order in an instant, so that she couldn't feel the temperature of Chen Ji crossing her body at all.

She wanted to break free from Chen Ji's arms, but she didn't even have the strength to move her fingers.

The news that Chen Qian died in the Chen family in Yangzhou was quickly learned by Xie Daozhong and his wife, Chen Ji went to meet his father-in-law, and Mrs. Qin hurriedly went up to the Wanlan embroidery building. Wanlan was lying on her back on the bed, and when she heard Mrs. Qin going upstairs, she actually got out of bed and bowed her knees to greet her.

Mrs. Qin hugged her and said generously: "My poor child, my girl." ”

Wanlan handed her a handkerchief: "Mother, please mourn." ”

Mrs. Qin wiped her tears: "Ah Lan, it's not our fault this time, it's your mother-in-law who insists on going her own way, it's her own sin." ”

Wanlan didn't refute, only nodded yes. Chen Ji soon came back from the long room, and downstairs, he heard Mrs. Qin comforting Wanlan: "You and Yuji are still young, Ah Lan, there will be another child, and your mother-in-law will be very happy." ”

Wanlan smiled at her and nodded slightly: "Yes." ”

Chen Ji listened downstairs, his mind suddenly moved, at this time when both houses were sad, he suddenly had this undeserved thought, he wanted to have a child, it was best to have a child quickly, to repair his cold family.

He didn't sleep in the guest room that night, but took the initiative to stay in the Wanlan Embroidery Building: "Ah Lan, let's have another child." ”

Wanlan's brows furrowed: "What? ”

"Let's have another child," Chen Ji smiled at her, "and suddenly I really want to have a child." ”

Wanlan looked at him in disbelief, this look made Chen Ji calm down from his inexplicable excitement, and began to realize that he had lost his words and should not mention the child at this juncture. He got out of bed to drink cold tea, and came back to tuck Wanlan's quilt: "It's nothing, let's sleep." ”

Wanlan was completely sleepy: "The first time you said this to me, are you the first time you want to have a child?" ”

Chen Ji shook his head: "No." ”

Wanlan looked at him for a moment and sighed, "You want to have a child for the first time." ”

A firm tone, a declarative sentence, there is no possibility of refutation.

However, Chen Ji didn't argue anything, because she was telling the truth, and from his own point of view, this was indeed the first time he wanted to have a child.

"Why?" She asked, "Why do you suddenly want to have a child at this juncture?" ”

Chen Ji frowned, not knowing how to answer.

Wanlan didn't need him to answer, and continued to talk to herself: "Do you think that if you have a child, you can breathe a sigh of relief between me and your mother?" ”

Chen Ji didn't speak, so she laughed softly: "The first time I wanted to have a child was when you were very busy with work, and I was bored at home by myself, so I wanted to have a child to pass the time." ”

"So did you find out?" She turned her head to look at him on the pillow, "The reason why we want children has nothing to do with children, we just think that having children will be good for us." ”

She concluded: "So we can't keep our children, and no children want to follow parents like us...... To be exact, no child wants to follow a mother like me. ”

Chen Ji returned to the table, poured another cup of cold tea and drank it all: "Sleep." ”

He had lost interest in talking to Wanlan about it.

Wanlan turned her head away: "You may not want to stay here anymore, go to the guest room." ”

Chen Ji really put on his coat and prepared to leave: "You have a good rest." ”

Wanlan responded: "You too." ”

Chen Ji went down the steep and narrow staircase, and Li Xia was on the first floor, standing by the door in horror watching him. Chen Ji nodded at her, passed by her, and reached out to push the door.

Lixia suddenly grabbed his hand and knelt in front of him: "Can't my uncle stay?" ”

Chen Ji said: "You serve the young lady well, and my stay will affect her rest." ”

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