Chapter 239: Gratitude
Wen Lan hurriedly pressed the answer button.
"I've arrived in Jiangcheng." Shen Yi's voice was full of exhaustion and sadness.
Wen Lan said "Oh" and suddenly didn't know what to say.
"If you're not busy, come to Jiangda at ten o'clock tomorrow morning. My mother's ashes-" Shen Yi choked up as he spoke.
Only then did Wen Lan realize that tomorrow was Shen's mother's birthday, and it was also the day when her ashes were scattered into Jiangda Minglun Lake.
"I will definitely go there." She agreed sadly, "Do you still need to prepare sacrifices or something like that?"
"No need. My uncle and aunt are already ready." Shen Yi said slowly, "I still have things to do, so I'll hang up first."
Wen Lan hurriedly said goodbye.
As everyone knows, Jiang Jingci's face was already covered with frost when he saw the name "Shen Yi" flashing on the screen of Wen Lan's mobile phone.
Seeing Wen Lan end the call, Jiang Jingci still asked politely: "Are you going out tomorrow?"
"I'm not going out." Wen Lan quickly changed the subject, "Thanks to you for saving me last night. It's almost dinner time, and I'm going to treat you to lunch to express my gratitude."
"Okay." Being alone with her was Jiang Jingci's dream, but when he heard "to express his gratitude", he couldn't be happy at all.
When the two of them went out, Jiang Jingci took the initiative to take Wen Lan's car.
Wen Lan chose a very stylish Western restaurant. When ordering, he noticed that the two of them had not communicated much since they came out of TT.
"Order whatever you like, don't save money for me." She forced a perfunctory smile and pushed the menu under Jiang Jingci's nose.
"Just order it, I don't care." Jiang Jingci pushed the menu over again and said quietly, "I'm going to Beijing tomorrow and won't be back for four to five days."
She said "hmm" softly. Yesterday, Jiang Jingci said that he would go to Beijing early this morning. He must have been delayed by her affairs.
"If something happens, remember to call me as soon as possible. My phone is on 24 hours a day." Jiang Jingci's eyebrows were a little lonely.
"Lao Jiang, since I met you, I have caused you too much trouble." She was full of guilt and simply confessed, "The more anxious I am to draw a clear line with you, the more entangled I become."
"Why do you have to draw a clear line? Isn't it good to continue dating?" Jiang Jingci asked.
She shook her head decisively and placed one hand on her belly, "I asked someone to tell my fortune, but my relationship and marriage are not going well at all. You are a good person, I can't drag you down."
"You are so young that you still believe in those things that are there and have nothing!" Jiang Jingci stared at her, "I never believe in fate."
"I'm already hungry, let's order the meal first." Wen Lan was eager to finish it quickly and return to TT. He lowered his head and circled the menu, then handed it to Jiang Jingci, "Let's see what else needs to be added?"
"Just place your order according to what you ordered." Jiang Jingci handed the recipe to the waiter.
The two fell into silence.
In order to avoid embarrassment, Wen Lan quickly turned her attention to her mobile phone.
"Opportunities to sit together like this are rare. Let's talk." Jiang Jingci suddenly reached out to pick up her phone and put it on the dining table.
She bit the bullet and asked, knowingly: "What are you talking about?"
"Talk about the future life of you and your unborn child." Jiang Jingci got straight to the point, "Wen Lan, I am much older than you, and I always look at problems from the most realistic perspective."
"Lao Jiang, let me be honest with you, I am already preparing to be a single mother. In order to give my child a warm family atmosphere, I am not planning to find another man." Wen Lan and Jiang Jingci had a showdown.
"A family with only mother and no father is incomplete. Children who grow up in a single-parent family will have more or less defects in their character." Jiang Jingci tried to persuade, "Jiang Guan's mother passed away early. I always feel that it is right." He has a fault. He has been treated lawlessly since he was a child, so that now he speaks freely, no matter how big or small. "
"Compared to this, I feel that the hidden contradictions in the reorganized family are more terrifying." Wen Lan took a breath.
Whether it is between children and children, or between children and adults, as long as there is no blood relationship, conflicts will definitely occur frequently if they live under the same roof for a long time.
Stepfather and stepmother are not good words in Wen Lan's eyes.
Jiang Jingci frowned and asked, "Are you afraid that Jiang Guan and I will treat your child badly in the future?"
"I would rather let my child grow up in a family lacking father's love than find him a stepfather." Wen Lan ruthlessly rejected Jiang Jingci again.
When Jiang Jingci heard this, deep despair filled his eyes.
When he didn't know that Wen Lan was pregnant, he felt inferior every time he stood in front of Wen Lan.
After learning that Wen Lan was pregnant, he was angry and angry, but later he calmly accepted the fact.
Because Wen Lan said more than once that there were two reasons for rejecting him, one was his age, and the other was that he didn't want to be a stepmother.
If Wen Lan also brought a child, wouldn't it offset his "shortcoming" of having a son?
But he never dreamed that Wen Lan would reject him again on the grounds of the child!
The woman in front of her made her hope again and again, and made him fall into despair again and again.
In his thirty-six years of life, he had only one woman, Yu Hui, and his marriage was only a few years old. He had almost zero experience in pursuing women.
He likes Wen Lan, wants to stay with Wen Lan forever, and does not want to play tricks. He only knows how to treat Wen Lan sincerely, but every time he faces the result of being trampled on...
"I'm sorry, you have helped me time and time again. I have nothing but guilt and gratitude for you." Wen Lan stared at Jiang Jingci deeply, "Old Jiang, there are many good women, please don't treat me like this again in the future." Your thoughts are wasted on me, I don’t deserve it.”
Jiang Jingci couldn't listen any more and stood up and walked away.
Wen Lan made her point clear, but she didn't feel relieved at all.
Because she felt that she owed Jiang Jingci too much.
She would slowly pay it back when she had a chance in the future!
When Wen Lan recovered and prepared to return the meal, the waiter had already served the food, so she had to pack the food and take it back to TT.
After a busy afternoon of work, before leaving get off work, Wen Lan received a call from the sales department asking her to look at a house.
Hearing that the house was in her favorite location and was a 120-square-meter fully decorated ready-to-move-in house, she happily went there.
The community is on Ping'an Street, called "Shuyuan Mansion". Opposite is a public kindergarten, and it is less than 500 meters away from Jiangcheng Experimental Primary School No. 2. It is a perfect school district house.
The house introduced to Wen Lan is on the 12th floor of Unit 1, Building 2 in the community, with three households and two elevators.
The sales lady said that a buyer had paid a deposit, but had to give up the house because of a sudden change in work.
Wen Lan looked at each room carefully. It had three bedrooms and two living rooms, facing north and south, with good lighting and ventilation. With a little addition of common furniture, it would be ready for moving in.
He walked around the community below and found that the supporting facilities and greenery were also good. Wen Lan felt that this house was tailor-made for him, and immediately paid a deposit of 50,000 yuan.