Chapter 40: Suspicion Deepens Roots
Su Xiaoran leaned against the car and took a hard puff of his cigarette. The smoke rings spread in midair, and she squinted at the sign of the central hospital, feeling a little confused.
In the years since she left Luo City, she has imagined the situation when she meets Qin Lie again countless times, but none of them are like today. She knew that in Qin Lie's eyes, she was just the sister of the egret, a willful and disobedient sister, and even embarrassed the egret everywhere and made the egret ugly. He had never really looked into her heart. Of course, he didn't have that time, and he didn't feel the need for that.
She never told Qin Lie that in fact, she met him earlier than her sister Egret, and fell in love with him earlier than her sister Egret. It's just that fate has never favored her. What she cared about, what she liked, and what she desperately wanted to fight for was finally easily obtained by her dear sister. That's why she became paranoid and so unreasonable.
But what does it matter? The sister who once made her jealous, even jealous and hateful, is no longer there, and the man who once made them both love is now the husband of another woman.
Fighting and grabbing, in the end, it is all empty.
Lin Muxue stood at the door of the hospital, looking at the woman who was smoking silently, she didn't know why she hadn't left yet, she just felt uncomfortable when she saw her, and even inexplicably thought of the way she was holding Qin Lie just now.
She subconsciously wanted to dodge, but her footsteps moved twice, and she suddenly felt a little ridiculous. She is Qin Lie's wife, a wife who is rightfully named, and she doesn't understand why she wants to hide.
Thinking of this, Lin Muxue straightened her back, pushed open the glass door and walked out.
Feeling Lin Muxue's gaze, Su Xiaoran also raised her head. She hid all her thoughts, and then greeted Lin Muxue with a smile: "Hi! Mrs. Qin. ”
With exaggerated expressions and exaggerated tones, Su Xiaoran seemed to be staging a plot in the thirties. It's just that at this time, she was wearing a well-fitting professional outfit, which made her expression and movements look extremely abrupt.
"You did it on purpose."
"Just ...... Oh, you mean I hugged Qin Lie, right? You know, how much I'm infatuated with him, so I can't help but see him. ”
"Can't help it?" Lin Muxue hooked the corners of her lips: "It's really embarrassing for this word." Su Xiaoran, I don't care how infatuated you were with Qin Lie, or how much you liked Qin Lie. Now, he's my husband, he's married, and I want you to keep your distance from him. ”
"Married? So what to do, I find myself now more interested in married men. Su Xiaoran spit out the circles in her eyes on Lin Muxue's face: "You know, I have found many unmarried men, but those men are all very sloppy." On the contrary, the married man in your family still looks so attractive. ”
"Smack!"
A slap was thrown on Su Xiaoran's face.
Su Xiaoran looked at Lin Muxue, and Lin Muxue looked at her hands.
She never thought that she would slap someone, let alone that this first slap would hit Su Xiaoran's face.
"Very good, we are clear, and I don't have to feel embarrassed to face you from now on."
"Su Xiaoran, I have never seen a woman like you."
"Really? That proves that your experience is too shallow, and you have seen too few people. ”
"Why? Why does it have to be Qin Lie? You are so good-looking, you can obviously make your life better, and have a man who is even better than Qin Lie. Su Xiaoran, don't you think you are irresponsible to yourself by doing this now? ”
"You're reminding me? Or do you care about me? Su Xiaoran shrugged his shoulders slightly: "I'm so good-looking, why can't I stand beside Qin Lie?" Perhaps, in your eyes, Qin Lie is not the most outstanding man, but Lin Muxue, he is unique in my eyes. ”
"I don't think you like Qin Lie much." Lin Muxue looked at Su Xiaoran's eyes: "Your eyes and your tone make me feel that you are angry." ”
"Maybe, maybe the day I get him, I'll kick him away mercilessly." Su Xiaoran opened the car door: "In short, Lin Muxue, try to be optimistic about your husband in the future." I was so attractive and had the means to drag him to my bed that day. ”
"You think too much, Qin Lie is not that kind of person!"
"Really?" Su Xiaoran rolled down the window: "Lin Muxue, do you really know your husband and Qin Lie?" ”
Lin Muxue opened her mouth, but found that she couldn't make any sound. She stood where she was, watching Su Xiaoran drive away.
"Hey, it's me!"
While driving, Su Xiaoran stuffed the Bluetooth headset into his ear.
"Yes, I changed my mind. You can find a way to send that video to Lin Muxue's mobile phone. Why, you ask? I think it's a very pleasant thing to ruin Qin Lie's marriage, is this reason enough? Okay, let's do it for now, I'm driving, and you can send me a message when it's done. Yes, as soon as possible. ”
Tearing off the headphones, Su Xiaoran tightened the steering wheel.
She didn't think about hurting Lin Muxue, and even before returning to Luo Cheng, she didn't think about any more entanglements with Qin Lie. But today, she changed her mind. She felt that Qin Lie was particularly dazzling when he stood with Lin Muxue, even more dazzling than when he stood with him and the egret.
Lin Muxue received an anonymous email and opened it, which was a video taken by a mobile phone. The video is very blurry, but the face of the man in the video looks very much like Qin Lie. Just when she was full of doubts, the face in front of the camera turned around, but it turned into a woman's.
The woman moans contentedly into the camera, babbling and scratching at her heart like a cat's meow. What made her even more panicked was that she actually heard the woman's voice - that woman was the mysterious person who always spoke when she took her phone.
"Lin Muxue, do you really know your husband and Qin Lie?"
Su Xiaoran's words flashed through her mind, she grabbed the phone hard, and then breathed desperately.
At eight o'clock in the evening, Qin Lie returned home, but he seemed to be more tired than before.
Lin Muxue didn't mention the things that had an argument with Su Xiaoran outside the hospital, nor did she mention the email, she just looked at Qin Lie intently, as if she wanted to see something more from his tired expression.
Qin Lie noticed it, he put down his chopsticks and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
"Oh, nothing, it just feels like you're more tired today than ever. Is the surgery complicated, or is it difficult for the patient? ”
"No matter how complicated the operation is, there is a solution." Qin Lie pushed the bowl aside: "I'm a little tired, let's sleep first." ”
No matter how complicated the operation is, there is a solution, in other words, it is not the operation in the hospital that can make Qin Lie feel tired, but a certain patient, or a certain person.
Lin Muxue wanted to ask more, her eyes fell on Qin Lie's back, and that back instantly overlapped with the man in the video. She pinched her palm hard and said, "Then you can rest first and clean up my kitchen." ”
"If you don't want to clean up, just leave it alone, and I'll be with you tomorrow."
"No, it will be cleaned up soon, you can take a shower first."
"Hmm."
Qin Lie only hummed lightly and entered the bedroom. Unlike usual, as soon as he entered the bedroom, he closed the door. Lin Muxue walked quickly to the door, and wanted to push open the door and go in to see what Qin Lie was doing, but she heard him talking to someone on the phone.
"Well, it was an operation. Nothing, I'm used to it. ”
Through the crack in the door, Lin Muxue saw Qin Lie sitting on the edge of the bed, unbuttoning his shirt with his hands. He was facing her sideways, speaking in a low voice, but very gentle, and even gentle with an element of unconsciously coquettish and dependent.
Was he talking to his mother on the phone?
No! No. After getting married, Qin Lie once talked to her mother on the phone in front of her. He seemed to be very estranged from his mother, and even when he talked on the phone, he looked like two strangers who had just met.
On the other end of the phone, is it the mysterious woman?
Lin Muxue clenched the chopsticks in her hand.
Sure enough, just like Su Xiaoran said, she didn't know Qin Lie at all, and she didn't understand this husband who shared the bed with her.
Qin Lie quickly hung up the phone, and when he opened the door and saw Lin Muxue standing at the door, he was slightly stunned and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
"Oh, it's nothing, just come over and ask if you want some sweet soup, I cooked it tonight."
Lin Muxue tugged at the corners of her mouth, but found that she couldn't laugh at all, not even a feigned smile. Fortunately, she lowered her head as she spoke. Qin Lie, he shouldn't have found it either.
"Save it until tomorrow morning. Oh, by the way, I have something to go out for, so you can go to bed as soon as you clean up. Don't wait for me. ”
Qin Lie said, without even changing his clothes, he grabbed the car keys and went out.
The door "touched", as if it was knocking on Lin Muxue's heart. In a trance, she didn't even know that the chopsticks in her hand had fallen.
Qin Lie really has a secret, and that secret must be related to a woman. If it's an emergency room in the hospital, or a party with Dr. Lee, he won't hide it.
Is she going to follow him? Does she want to know the truth of the matter?
Lin Muxue asked herself in her heart, but her legs made a decision one step earlier. She quickly picked up her mobile phone and wallet, grabbed a piece of clothing casually, followed Qin Lie's footsteps, and went out.
She doesn't know how to drive, but that's okay, the location of the neighborhood is not remote and it's easy to get a taxi. She only needed to tell the driver to follow Qin Lie closely.
The driver was a short and fat man in his forties, and when he saw Lin Muxue staring at the car in front of him with a nervous face, he asked, "That car belongs to your husband, right?" Seeing that you look nervous, shouldn't you follow your husband to catch Jian? ”