Chapter 11: The Feast of the Hung Gate
After Yu Chuan and Zhang Shuqiu broke up in the hospital parking lot, they also sat in the car and were stunned for a while, but finally sighed, found a phone number and dialed it.
"Hello Ogawa!" The voice of the middle-aged man on the other end of the phone came.
"Hello Brother Lu!" Yu Chuan hesitated and shouted, this title has not changed as it did many years ago.
"Is there something wrong? You wouldn't have called me easily. The voice on the other end of the line was soft, with a slight smile.
"Are you in the hospital? I don't know if I'm free, but I want to say a few words to you. Yu Chuan asked.
"I'm in the office right now, but I'm going to have an operation in half an hour." Lu Weicheng did not refuse.
When Yu Chuan walked into Lu Weicheng's office, he had already made tea for her. Lu Weicheng is fatter than before, wearing a light gray shirt, a middle-aged man who has achieved fame, exudes mature wisdom, and his bearing is indeed not comparable to her ex-brother-in-law.
"Sit, Xiaochuan, have you been busy lately? I've heard you're doing a good job right now. Lu Weicheng let Yu Chuan to the sofa opposite the desk.
"It's okay, it's just that I'm too busy, some things are negligent, I'm sorry, Brother Lu, I've caused you trouble." Yu Chuan simply said it in one go.
Lu Weicheng smiled disappreciatively and said, "Is it that your sister is looking for you?" β
"It's true that our Chen Jun did something wrong, and she should scold me." Yu Chuan smiled bitterly.
"Your father-in-law is old, his recovery is relatively slow, and facial surgery is indeed more complicated, and some things are said a lot, no matter how clear they are, they can't figure it out, it's normal. It's okay, let them do an appraisal to figure it out, you don't have to take it to heart, don't have conflicts with your family because of this matter. Lu Weicheng comforted Yu Chuandao in turn.
Yu Chuan's smile was even more bitter: "That being said, I shouldn't have done this, I don't have the face to see you." β
Lu Weicheng laughed and said, "You see, if this is not the case, when will you come to see my brother-in-law?" You are still as kind as when you were a child, your two sisters are now the only relatives in this world, you also know your sister's temper, I will talk about her more, it will be fine after a while, when the time comes, please come to the house for a meal to recognize the door, although your sister has a hard mouth, but I can see that she sometimes misses you, she feels in her heart, she can't live with you in the past. β
Yu Chuan's eyes suddenly reddened, and he picked up the tea on the table at just the right temperature, took a few sips, and suppressed the wetness in his eyes.
Lu Weicheng saw that Yu Chuan didn't speak, so he changed the topic and said, "But your title has to be changed." You used to shout at your brother-in-law and brother-in-law often, why are you back now? β
Yu Chuan smiled a little awkwardly and put down the cup in his hand. Lu Weicheng said with a smile: "Okay, I'm almost up to time, you don't have to mind me here, but your father-in-law, the most important thing is to let him go to the ophthalmologist now, and solve the problem of eye pain first, just anger can't cure the disease." β
Yu Chuan suddenly felt that in front of such a person, everything he said seemed very pale, so he just nodded and said, "Okay, thank you, Brother Lu, ah no, brother-in-law." β
"That's right, go ahead, go ahead, it's okay!"
When Yu Chuan returned home, his mood had completely calmed down. There is no one at home, and after the children are out of school, Chen Jun usually takes them to his parents' house for dinner and then goes home, so it is very quiet at this time. Yu Chuan changed all the sheets and quilts at home, and when he changed the autumn quilt, he found that the two silk quilts he had just bought had been taken away.
Sweating on his body and burning in his heart, Yu Chuan sat on the sofa for a long time before he felt better. I don't know how to change this situation, my home is like a vegetable garden, my in-laws can come whenever they want, take whatever they want, and don't even say hello.
Yu Chuan also tried to pretend to inadvertently ask his in-laws if something was missing at home, and his mother-in-law would immediately say that Chen Jun had taken it, and Chen Jun also replied yes. But Yu Chuan knew very well in his heart that Chen Jun didn't even know what quilt he was covering and where the sheets were covered.
Repeatedly, others will only think that it is a big fuss, but after a long time, how many people can stand it. But this unspeakable bitterness can only be swallowed by Yu Chuan himself.
Yu Chuan cheered up, placed a new order, bought another quilt, and then somewhat retaliated to put an old air-conditioning quilt on Chen Jun.
Boil the water and make a cup of hot tea, the new white tea has a slightly green fragrance, which makes Yu Chuan feel better, so he took Xiaoyao Pill with weak tea, and then took a hot bath happily, shed tears for a while, and finally returned to normal. After drying his hair in the mirror, Yu Chuan suddenly found that the spot on his cheekbones seemed to be darker in color and larger in area, and the two dry lines under his eyes could be seen clearly at a glance......
Yu Chuan cooked a bowl of instant noodles by himself, and while eating noodles, he suddenly remembered that in the past, Chen Jun and her were eating in her rental room, it was winter, and the food was cold quickly, and when she finished eating two pieces of fish, half a bowl of leftover rice in the bowl was almost cold, Chen Jun poured the rice in her bowl into his own bowl, and went to serve her a bowl of hot rice, just in that moment, that little warmth, made Yu Chuan decide to marry this man who had nothing.
But in the more than ten years since then, there has only been that little warmth. Sometimes Yu Chuan even wonders, is that an illusion? Or was it Chen Jun's mistake that time? In the next few years, she was sick and hospitalized, and he had to go on a business trip. She gave birth to a child and was hospitalized, and he complained that it was too hard to keep vigil in the hospital. She has a cold and fever, and he can play mahjong all night with his friends......
Yu Chuan looked at himself and thought about the child. A child who lacks the warmth of a family, especially a girl, is really easy to be coaxed away. She feels that all the misfortunes in her life are caused by the lack of care from her original family, so she hopes that her children will not go through everything she has experienced, fortunately, Chen Jun's only good is to be responsible for the family and children.
When the children came back, they saw their mother at home and cheered, and Yu Chuan finally sorted out his mood. The daughter was busy taking out the paper from her schoolbag: "Mom, Mom, I scored 100 points in math today, and I am the only one in my class with 100 points." β
"Awesome!" Yu Chuan took the roll in his daughter's hand and boasted.
"Mom, Mom, I told a story to the children in the kindergarten today, and the teacher praised me and gave me two little red flowers." The son also immediately offered a treasure and rubbed it into Yu Chuan's arms.
Yu Chuan hugged his son and kissed him fiercely and continued to boast: "Our Xiaobao is as good as my sister!" β
The day before Yu Chuan went out to attend the meeting, Chen Jun asked her to find a lawyer and sue Lu Weicheng. Yu Chuan refused very resolutely: "Impossible, if I do this, from now on, do I still want to be a man?" What will people say about me? β
"Is someone else important or is my dad important?" Chen Jun asked rhetorically.
"Aren't you messing around? It's not a question of who matters, it's a question of not being able to do that. Yu Chuan said.
"That's okay, I don't believe it yet, without you as a butcher, I'm going to eat hairy pigs." Chen Jun was very angry and never spoke to Yu Chuan again that day.
However, Yu Chuan has long been used to it, this is Chen Jun's regular action, for so many years, as long as he talks twice, he will definitely adopt the Cold War strategy. And no matter if he is right or wrong, he will never take the initiative to talk to Yu Chuan. At the beginning, Yu Chuan thought that this person was like a child, very funny, and would find an opportunity to talk to him. Later, Yu Chuan found out that Chen Jun had been used to something wrong with her, and from then on, Yu Chuan no longer bothered to pay attention to his cold war.
The marriage with Chen Jun often subverts Yu Chuan's three views. In the past, she thought that although Chen Jun's family was poor, at least his parents were dedicated to the good of their children and the family was harmonious, so boys from such families should not be so cold and arrogant in their hearts.
Later, Yu Chuan gradually discovered that the more this kind of phoenix man from the dick silk family, the more he was spoiled by the whole family and only had himself in his heart, no one else, as a woman, he could only bow his head to him, and it was impossible for him to bow down and be small. Chen Jun's coldness, hardness and arrogance have reached a state of twisting.
Gradually, Yu Chuan was also tired, you can do whatever it takes, love to be angry and angry, love cold war and cold war, and later, he didn't even bother to quarrel, he was in a bad mood, she automatically blocked it, and directly omitted the quarrel link to enter the cold war.
It was only recently that when Chen Jun's father was hospitalized for surgery, Yu Chuan discovered where the coldness and hardness exuded from the bottom of Chen Jun's family came from.
On the day Chen Jun's father was admitted to the hospital, Yu Chuan also said to Qu Yingying that he would rest for a few days, pick up and drop off the children at home, cook for the children, and make it convenient for his mother-in-law to go to the hospital to take care of her father-in-law.
As a result, Yu Chuan found that people didn't need it at all, because when his father-in-law was hospitalized, except for the two days when he went to the hospital for examination and surgery, Chen Jun accompanied him in the hospital, and the rest of the time, his father-in-law was alone in the hospital, and his mother-in-law and sister-in-law didn't even step into the threshold of the hospital.
Yu Chuan was once again subverted by the three views.
It turned out that the Chen family had no need for family interaction at all, so they didn't know how to love, let alone how to love a daughter-in-law who married into their family. Being a daughter-in-law in their family is a fertility machine and a faΓ§ade, and now, Yu Chuan has discovered another function of his own.
On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Yu Chuan accompanied the children to his mother-in-law's house for dinner. In the past few days, her mother-in-law has frequently called Yu Chuan and asked her to go to the festival. Yu Chuan thought that she was out of a little guilt that she had sued her brother-in-law, and in the expectant eyes of the children, she still went.
Halfway through the meal, Yu Chuan was serving vegetables to his son, and his mother-in-law suddenly called Yu Chuan and said, "Xiaochuan, tell you something." β
Yu Chuan's heart sank: "Ha, sure enough, it's not good for her mother-in-law to call for dinner." β
Seeing that Yu Chuan didn't agree, the mother-in-law simply said to herself: "Your father's business, you still have to help him find a lawyer, you know a lot of people, Chen Jun knows about computers all day long, and he doesn't know a few people outside." β
Yu Chuan glanced at Chen Jun, and saw that he was calmly dealing with the plate of beer duck on the table, as if he hadn't heard it, and his heart was suddenly extremely crooked.
"Although that Dr. Lu is your brother-in-law, isn't the relationship between you and your sister not very good! Besides, if he doesn't help his relatives, he didn't do a good job in the operation, so he should always be responsible. Mother-in-law looked like the truth of the whole world was in their house, Yu Chuan really didn't know what to say when he heard it, and suddenly felt that Lu Weicheng was very reasonable.
Seeing that Yu Chuan didn't answer, the mother-in-law had to say inch by inch: "I'll just take your promise, it's all your own family's business, and you can't be careless at all." β
Yu Chuan's lips moved, and he looked at his son and daughter who were still eating at the table, and said, "Let's eat first, eat without saying anything, and it won't be good for the children to learn to eat and talk later." β
The mother-in-law's lips pursed, and when she saw that Yu Chuan was dedicated to taking care of the child and eating, she didn't speak again. As soon as the children had finished eating, the mother-in-law took them to the living room and turned on the TV for them to see.
Yu Chuan began to eat by himself, and the mother-in-law sat down and said what she wanted to say just now but was blocked back: "Xiaochuan, there is another thing, isn't your sister doing very well in the beauty salon, there is a beauty salon next to them to be transferred, and there is a woman in your sister's store, and I want to invite your sister to partner and take down the store." Can you give her 200,000 yuan to use first? β
Yu Chuan's chopsticks in his hand paused, and he looked at the eldest sister-in-law sitting opposite, who had nothing to do with her, and suddenly felt a little angry and wanted to laugh. Is this to call her to dinner? It's just another Hongmen feast.
Yu Chuan simply put down the bowl, raised his head and said to his mother-in-law: "But I don't have any money in my hand!" β
"How can you be without money? You run such a big company. The mother-in-law laughed.
"I paid the down payment for this house with the money in hand before, and I borrowed money from someone, didn't Chen Jun tell you?" Yu Chuan asked.
"You have such a high income, and the mortgage is paid by Chen Jun, how can you have no savings at all?"
"I am not alone in this company, and I am only the smallest shareholder in it, no matter how high my income is, my children have to go to school, I have to pay off my debts when I buy a house, and my family has to live, but it has only been a year and a half, how much savings can I have?"
"Okay, even if you don't have savings, isn't your major shareholder rich! You go and borrow it. The mother-in-law said it so confidently that Yu Chuan didn't want to stay for a second.
"I'm going to lend money to my sister to do business, who will pay back the money?"
"Of course, when your sister makes money, ask her to pay it back."
"How can you be so sure that this thing must be profitable? In business, there are profits and losses. Yu Chuan asked.
"Why do you kid talk like that, expecting your sister to lose money before you even start." The mother-in-law was angry.
"I'm just telling the truth, how can there be a business that can't be profitable?" Anyway, the words were also spoken, Yu Chuan didn't bother to hide it, remembering that when his father was sick in the past, Yu Chuan wanted to borrow some money from his mother-in-law to pay the medical expenses first, and his mother-in-law said righteously: "Your father's illness is your business, what are you doing with me borrowing money, don't you have a house?" Sold it, we agreed that you sell the house, so it's your dad anyway, should you save it or save it. β