Chapter 442: Already a stranger
Liang Wei arrived in Yangcheng in the morning, and after the plane landed, she sent a message to Chen Li. Although they have broken up, there is such a child here, and there is still a connection on QQ.
Liang Wei has no relatives or friends in Yangcheng, but the former colleague who sold the house together is there, but the relationship is quite average, not to the point of picking her up at the airport.
It was indeed quite inconvenient for a woman with a child who was only a few months old, so she still sought help from Chen, hoping that he would be able to pick her up.
She has been living in the United States for so long, and she has a lot of things with her, which is really inconvenient for herself.
Chen Li didn't want to go over alone to greet him, he felt a little embarrassed, so he pulled Yan Xin up.
Alily is at work and doesn't have time to come, otherwise it would be better to call Alili over, and the atmosphere will be less awkward with her to play the round.
Gu Ru was also out of town at this time, so she had to come over. There was no choice but for the two of them to go over and pick it up.
When they arrived at the airport, Liang Wei was already waiting for them outside the airport, carrying a doll on her back and two large suitcases by her side.
No one helped, and it was really troublesome. There was also a man beside her, who was talking to her, and he didn't know what to say.
Chen Li's brows furrowed. However, Liang Wei didn't pay much attention to the man, and her eyes drifted to other places.
When she saw Chen Li and Yan Xin coming over, a smile finally appeared on her face, and then she raised an arm: "Yan Xin, I'm here!" Although her eyes mainly fell on Chen Li, she didn't call Chen Li, she just called Yan Xin.
Yan Xin was a little embarrassed, glanced at Chen Li, and then raised his hand to say hello: "Liang Wei, we're here!" The man who was pestering Liang Wei left when he saw them coming, and walked to another person.
The two walked over, and Yan Xin asked Liang Wei, "What did that man do just now?" Liang Wei glanced over there, with a look of disgust on her face: "A black car ran and pestered me to take his car, and I said that I had someone to pick me up, but he still refused to leave." I'm glad you came, otherwise I was a little worried that he would have thrown my suitcase right into the car and forced me to sit in his car. β
"That shouldn't be," Yan Xin laughed,
"It's not rampant to that point, is it? Maybe it's just watching you alone, with a child, and you need to get in the car. Liang Wei shook her head: "I don't know." "I haven't seen her for a year, Liang Wei's body shape has changed a little, or it may be because she gave birth to a child, she is a little bloated than before, her skin is much worse, and she looks a little loose.
A woman in her 20s now looks like a woman in her 30s, her face is a little haggard, and I don't know if it's because she didn't have a good rest when she was on the plane or because of something else.
is no longer as young and beautiful as before, more like a young woman at home. Yan Xin thought in his heart: "It's quite difficult for a single woman to have children. Secretly kicked Chen Li, wanting him to say a few words.
But Chen Li just didn't speak, just pulled a suitcase and walked to the car. Liang Wei pursed her lips and wanted to say something, but opened her mouth and said nothing.
smiled at Yan Xin again: "Thank you for coming to pick me up." Yan Xin sighed: "Thank you for what?" It's all friends, as it should be. Liang Wei originally carried the child behind her back, otherwise she would not have been able to free up her hands to hold her suitcase.
Now that someone is here to help, and I'm about to get in the car again, it's not suitable to continue to carry, so I took off the small backpack and held the child in my arms.
The child was asleep, but she woke up again. Yan Xin was going to pull another suitcase, and when she saw her pick up the child, she couldn't help but glance at it, and then said with a smile: "This child looks very cute." β
"Hmm......" Liang Wei coaxed the child and responded, with a smile on her face. Looks like I like this kid a lot.
Walked over to Chen Li's car with his arms. Chen Li had already put the suitcase into the trunk, and opened the doors of the front and back seats, and stood there waiting for the two of them to arrive.
Hearing the voice of the baby Yiyi, he also cast his eyes to that side, but only glanced at it, and then withdrew it.
Yan Xin also pulled the suitcase over and put it in the trunk of the car. When he was doing these things, Liang Wei had already gotten into the car and was sitting in the back seat.
Yan Xin was stunned for a moment. What he originally thought was that Chen Li would drive, Liang Wei would sit in the passenger seat, and the two of them could get closer, and he could sit in the back seat by himself.
Unexpectedly, Liang Wei sat in the back row. It's not good for him to sit in the same row as Liang Wei, after all, this is a friend's womanβeven if it's just a former woman.
There was no way, after putting the suitcase, he could only sit in the front passenger seat. Chen Li started the car.
Liang Wei sat in the back row, holding the child in her arms, coaxing the child there. When Yan Xin got in the car, the two people didn't have any communication.
The car started, but there was still no communication. The atmosphere was a little awkward. There was no way, Yan Xin could only accompany Liang Wei to talk, ask what the child's name was, how heavy it was, and ask her how she was living in the United States and what the price level was.
In fact, he already knew this, but in order to make the atmosphere less awkward, he could only ask again.
- You have to say something, right? Liang Wei ignored Chen Li, but she was still very polite to Yan Xin, why did she answer with a smile, and answered in as much detail as possible.
This time and again, time passed slowly. After asking about some things he already knew, Yan Xin asked Liang Wei what he planned to do in the future.
Liang Wei glanced at Chen Li, who was driving, with a little resentment in her eyes, and then smiled and said: "I don't have too many ideas, let's take one step at a time, now there is still a little balance on the bank card, be frugal, and you should be able to live with your children for two or three years." It's a bit inconvenient to find a job, but you can go back to your old job and continue to write online articles. After she became pregnant, she didn't write any more online articles, but she just finished the book "The Domineering President Falls in Love with Me" in the serial.
The main reason is that I am afraid that the computer will have radiation, which is not good for children. I haven't written about it for more than half a year. That book is still bringing her income, but there is a big gap with the serialization period, and the monthly manuscript fee income has gradually dropped from 100,000 yuan a month at the end of the year to 7 or 8,000 yuan a month now.
This is because her book is out of the circle in the female frequency and has a high reputation, so she can attract a lot of readers to subscribe after the completion of the book.
The manuscript fee of seven or eight thousand a month, if you can stabilize it, you can live with a child, and you can live well.
However, according to the extent of that decline, in another half a year, it may be one or two thousand yuan a month, not even one or two thousand yuan.
That's what the web article looks like. Unless it's a classic, there is still a steady stream of income after the completion of the book, and some readers can't help but look at it.
But even if it is a classic, the income will gradually decline after the end. If it can be adapted into film and television works, there will be another wave of popularity when the time comes, and the subscription can also be increased.
But the overall trend is downward. Driven by new books, the results of old books will be a little better, and the downward trend is not so fast.
But without the impetus of new books, the income will plummet. Liang Wei also understands this truth.
Chen Li is the child's father, but Chen Li has already paid a lot for this child, and the house behind him is no longer needed for him to pay, and it is a little unreasonable to ask him to pay for it.
And it is obviously not possible to raise this child by yourself, relying on the lower and lower manuscript fees.
It is also a desirable way to pick up online articles and open another book. If you can earn money by yourself, then you can live a more dignified life, which is her life experience of more than 20 years.
If she doesn't write about the Internet, with her ability, the most she can do is find a job with a monthly salary of more than 1,000, and it will not be easy to live on her own, let alone raise a child.
After thinking about it, there is only one way, continue to write online articles. But she still has some worries about whether she can write another popular book.
It's been a while since she entered this circle, and she has also read a lot of online articles, and understands that her writing is not so strong, not to mention first-class, second-rate level may not be there, that is, wandering back in the third or fourth rate.
The popularity of the last book is mainly due to Yan Xin giving her a lot of ideas, not her personal ability.
For online writing, these things are more important than writing. Speaking of this topic, she asked Yan Xin again: "You are the most knowledgeable about online texts, my last book was your idea, and you gave me a lot of paragraphs, on the new book, do you have any good suggestions?" Do you continue to write about the overbearing president, or do you write something else? Yan Xin hesitated.
He really lacks understanding of female frequency, and all the things he knows have been gathered in that book "The Domineering President Falls in Love with Me", and there are really no new ideas.
But he thought of some great god authors who kept copying themselves, so he said to her: "If you want stability, you can continue to write the boss, even if you don't have the good results of the first book, but with the foundation laid by the first book, the data should not be much worse." β
"But I don't have a new routine." Liang Wei said with some depression.
"The old routine can be written the same, as long as it is not too similar to the previous book, the core things can still be the same." Yan Xin said.
Liang Wei nodded and wrote it down. Then he asked, "What if you want to make a breakthrough?" Do you have any good ideas? Yan Xin said: "If you want to have a breakthrough, you can try to write cute baby articles, female frequency, mainly female readers, there will be some housewives here, or some who are about to be housewives, write about how to bring a baby or something, there should also be readers." You have children now, and you have experience with children, so it shouldn't be difficult to write about this. β
"But will anyone watch that?" Liang Wei was skeptical. With a child, such a trivial thing, sometimes I have a headache when I think about it, and when I take care of a child alone, I almost make her depressed.
If these things are written, will anyone really read them?
"There should be someone watching it," Yan Xin said,
"And you can also write it more excitingly, not to say that the water is daily, you can integrate it with the literature of the boss, write about a single mother who was fallen in love with by the domineering president, and then mix it with some interesting stories with a baby, someone should read it, I think." Now those cute babies are not popular in online articles, but he knows that they will become popular in a few years.
Not only will the female frequency become popular, but the male frequency will also have daddy literature popular. Write this thing a little in advance, and someone should read it.
Liang Wei was originally bottomless, but when she heard that she could be fused with the domineering president, her eyes suddenly lit up and she had confidence.
Just change the heroine's personality, it's a new story. It seems to be easy. She still believed in Yan Xin's judgment on the online article, so she said with a smile: "Thank you, Yan Xin, in a few days, when I settle down, I will write as you say." Yan Xin said: "Believe in yourself, you will definitely succeed." β
"Lend you good words." Liang Wei said. Looks like she's in a much better mood. Chen Li was driving the whole time and didn't say anything, but his eyes occasionally fell on the mother and son in the rearview mirror.
I don't know what this child who is related to him looks like. It's just that little bit of the picture in the rearview mirror, and you can't see it clearly.
Although he was quite curious, in order to avoid some unnecessary conjectures, he didn't ask Liang Wei what the child looked like, and he didn't ask for a photo of the child.
I went to pick up this mother and son today, and I had the opportunity to see it, but he didn't go to see it. If Liang Wei knew that he was interested in children, he felt that even if his life was ruined, there would be no way to get rid of such entanglements.
drove silently, listening to Yan Xin and Liang Wei say this and that. There are some topics that he actually wants to participate in, but he still feels troublesome when he thinks about it, and he doesn't say a word at the end.
Drive all the way to Park Garden. The house I bought for Liang Wei is a first-phase house, which is a second-hand house, but the house area is large enough, with more than 100 square meters.
After the original owner moved out, he did not do any damage to the decoration of the room, and even a lot of furniture was not taken away.
- Some furniture that is not very valuable, the shipping cost is more than its own value, so it is better to stay here.
In this case, Chen Li just asked the cleaner to do some cleaning, then bought a new mattress, bought a quilt, some kitchen utensils, and a TV in the living room, and then did not add anything else.
Moved in directly without any problems. After getting off in the underground garage, Liang Wei held the child, and one of the two men dragged a suitcase, found the building, and got on the elevator.
In the elevator, Yan Xin also talked about the process of Chen Li buying this house, he himself had seen that house, and talked about the layout and layout inside.
Now the house is still very empty, the three-bedroom house, with two bedrooms are empty, and it has not yet been furnished.
There is an old bed in one bedroom, and a new mattress is placed in it, which can be directly occupied. The main reason is that the time is too rushed, and I haven't figured out how to arrange it.
And this house will be for the mother and son to live in the future, how to arrange it, they still think it is better to let Liang Wei be the master.
As he spoke, Liang Wei thanked him. Obviously, Chen Li did this, and the money was also paid by him, but his thanks were directed at Yan Xin, making it seem as if Yan Xin did these things.
made Yan Xin a little embarrassed. It can also be seen that these two people have not come out of the original breakup.
When he got there, Chen Li took out the key and opened the door. After opening the door, he was stunned there with the key, and then handed the key to Yan Xin.
Yan Xin was speechless, glanced at him, then took the key, and handed it to Liang Wei with a smile: "This is the key to the door, you will be the owner of this house in the future, you can take the key." Liang Wei accepted the key and said thank you again.
The two men pulled the suitcases into the room, and the two suitcases were placed in the living room, and there were a few old sofas in the living room, which belonged to the original owner, and they didn't take them away, and they didn't bother to throw them away, so they left them there.
Although it is a little old, it is only old, and it is not broken, so it is no problem to sit. Of the three bedrooms, two of which are empty, only the master bedroom has a bed in it, and a wall closet.
"You can take a look first and see what else you need, it's inconvenient for you to buy it yourself, you can tell us and I'll buy it for you this afternoon." Yan Xin said to Liang Wei.
Liang Wei hugged the child and turned around, then returned to the living room, and said to Yan Xin: "There is nothing missing, but now with a child, it would be better if there was a stroller and a shaker for a small child to sleep on." But it's not a big problem, and it's okay to have none. Yan Xin remembered it and said to Chen Li: "Strollers and shakers, let's buy them in the afternoon." Chen Li snorted and didn't say much.
Yan Xin hesitated for a moment, and asked Liang Wei with a smile: "It's almost noon at this time, are you hungry?" If you're hungry, we'll go out for a meal together, and we'll pick you up. Liang Wei's eyes fell on Chen Li unconsciously, and when she saw Chen Li's eyes, she looked at the door, couldn't help but look dark, smiled, shook her head and said, "No need, I ate on the plane, and now I'm a little sleepy, I want to rest first." She said that she flew from the United States, not a direct flight, and also changed the plane once, which was indeed a little tired.
Looking at her face, it doesn't look like a well-rested person. So Yan Xin also understood, and said: "Okay, you can rest at noon, and we will pick up the wind and wash the dust for you in the evening." He and Chen Li walked to the door of the room, opened the door and were about to go out, when they were called by Liang Wei again
"Wait a minute". Both men stood there. Liang Wei took a piece from the string of door keys, handed it to Yan Xin, and said, "You can take this key, I'm afraid that sometimes I forget to bring the key when I go out, and I have a spare one when I go to you." If there is anything, you can also come directly. Yan Xin glanced at Chen Li, and saw that he didn't say anything, so he took it and said with a smile: "That's okay, let's go buy a stroller and a shaker in the afternoon, and it won't alarm your rest." With that, he opened the door and went out with Chen Li.
The door closed again. Liang Wei looked at the closed door, and suddenly her eyes turned red, and then tears fell.
Thinking about Chen Li's attitude towards himself along the way, he felt very sad. I thought to myself, "Is this what a stranger is called?" But even a stranger, looking at my orphans and widows, will not be so indifferent! β
"Am I really so bad that I make him so disgusted?"
"But no matter how bad I am, this child is also his flesh and blood, he is the child's biological father, is it really that there is no family affection?" The more I thought about it, the more I felt aggrieved.
Holding the child, the face was pressed to the child's face, and tears also fell on the child's face, flowing more and more.