Chapter 40: Chapter 40

At the end of December, Ning Shuyue still did not go to country S. Wen Nian got divorced first, and then was robbed. No matter how Jiang Lin persuaded, she would stay at home to guard her daughter.
And Jiang Lin and Tong Junhao, from G city to S country, were accompanied by someone arranged by Lu Xingxue. If Tong Junhao had a final exam, Jiang Lin would not be happy to come back.
However, on the first day she came back, her hand was cut while cooking. She called Jiang Ci and asked Jiang Ci to come over and take away the souvenirs when she was free.
After Jiang Ci finished work in the evening, he went to Songling Road.
Aunt Wu was taking care of Tong Junhao for dinner at the dining table, and it was deserted in Nuoda's room. Jiang Ci greeted them and walked upstairs to Jiang Lin's master bedroom.
Jiang Lin was half lying on the bed, not asleep, listening to the sound on the TV.
"Why are you so careless?" Jiang Ci moved the mahogany stool and sat down by the bed.
"It's swaying." Jiang Lin moved up with her elbows: "You will contact Wen Nian later and see when it is convenient for her to send her a copy. Your Aunt Ning is not feeling well recently. I've caught a cold. I'm afraid you might get sick, so I told you not to go to Yushui Nanyuan."
Jiang Ci pulled Jiang Lin's wounded hand wrapped in gauze and checked: "I see. How is your hand?"
Jiang Lin cheered up: "It's okay. I need two stitches and change the medicine on time. I originally wanted to cook it myself and let you and Lu Xingxue come over for dinner. Tell her, in two days, wait for me. ."
Jiang Ci: "What are you polite with us, please feel free to raise your hands."
Jiang Lin pointed to her: "Emotions have to come and go, and my dear relatives are no exception. Haohao and I are going out this time, not to mention that it is more comfortable, not all the blessings of the deer? ."
Jiang Ci nodded: "Yes."
Jiang Lin: "Hmph, I know you didn't take what I said seriously. Did you eat dinner?"
Jiang Ci: "Not yet."
Jiang Lin lifted the quilt: "Let's go, don't wait for anyone, let's eat together."
Jiang Ci: "Dad won't come back to eat today?"
Jiang Lin lowered her head and put on slippers: "If I don't come, I said there is socializing, and I can't get away."
Jiang Ci ate dinner with Jiang Lin, and Jiang Lin drank a small bowl of porridge. Finally, Jiang Lin took Jiang Ci to see the gift she had prepared. A lot of bits and pieces were divided into two parts, the smaller part was given to Jiang Ci, and the other part was given to Ning Shuyue.
On the way home, Jiang Ci contacted Wen Nian, and Wen Nian asked her, "Do you have a job tomorrow afternoon?"
Jiang Ci: "You can take time out."
Wen Nian: "Then give me the location when you arrive, and we will make a simple afternoon tea."
Luxingxue Company was also busy at the end of the year, and it was not early to get home. Seeing Jiang Ci's room door was open, she knocked a few times and walked in familiarly: "Mother's hand hurt?"
Jiang Ci looked up from the desk, not surprisingly Jiang Lin would tell Lu Xingxue about this: "I've been to see her, her wound was bandaged, and she said she had two stitches."
Lu Xingxue frowned: "That must be painful."
"Well, I have no energy and no appetite." Jiang Ci pointed out the souvenir he had brought from Jiang Lin to Lu Xingxue: "She brought it back from Country S. See if you are interested Something."
Lu Xingxue opened the mouth of the bag, took a look, and took out a box of chocolates: "This is delicious."
Jiang Ci watched her unpacking: "Really?"
"Yes." Lu Xingxue took out one from it, peeling off the icing with her slender fingers: "Taste it."
She brought chocolate to Jiang Ci's mouth.
Jiang Ci: "..."
The porcelain noodles keep their mouth open without changing the color.
Lu Xingxue: "How is it?"
The sweetness of chocolate filled his mouth, Jiang Ci calmly said: "Not bad."
Lu Xingxue peeled off another one and put it into his mouth, and his black eyes with a smile swept across Jiang Ci's red ear tips.
The next afternoon, Jiang Ci carrying a big bag appeared at the coffee shop agreed with Wen Nian.
"...It's too exaggerated, why did Aunt Jiang bring us so much?" Wen Nian took the bag in surprise and put it in the empty place.
"Your mother has a cold?" Jiang Ci asked, sitting opposite her.
Wen Nian: "I had a fever intermittently a few days ago and didn't tell me. I took her to the hospital yesterday, and the fever didn't last night."
The waiter brought two desserts to this table. Jiang Ci said to Wen Nian: "I'm afraid you are worried if I don't tell you, you are busy enough."
"I'm more worried about her like this." Wen Nian thanked the waiter and motioned Jiang Ci to pick up the fork: "Assistant Zhou said that the desserts here are very famous. Sometimes they don’t come by coincidence, and they may not be available. ."
"So tight?" Jiang Ci felt that the brand logo on the tableware was a bit familiar. After tasting the taste, she remembered that when working at the Star Conservatory in the fall, Lu Xingxue brought her cakes of this brand.
"How good is yours?" Wen Nian asked Jiang Ci.
Jiang Ci: "It's delicious."
"Mine is delicious, too." Wen Nian hooked a large piece with a fork, stretched out his arm and sent it to Jiang Ci: "Well, open your mouth, try mine."
"... Judging from the original investigation, their relationship was very close at one time. There are various signs that our Mrs. Deer once liked this President Wen.... If it weren't for the marriage agreement with you, maybe they will be now. What's the situation. By the way, did Wen Nian just get divorced?"
Wan Wen was about to get off the car to pick up the pre-ordered cake, when Jiang Ci opened the door of the cafe and entered. After seeing that her date was Wen Nian, she had these words to Lu Xingxue.
She is an insider, and she drafted the marriage agreement. She is familiar with Lu Xingxue, so she speaks more directly, and she has a somewhat good mood.
Lu Xingxue didn't say a word, Wan Wen touched her nose to fetch the cake, Lu Xingxue got out of the car after her, her expression was always neither salty nor light.
Until I saw Wen Nian actively feeding Jiang Ci.
"...So much, your plate is almost digging out." Jiang Ci didn't go up to pick it up, and asked her: "The black inside is chocolate?"
Wen Nianhuang shook his hands: "Hurry up~~ It's made with black sesame seeds."
Jiang Ci: "Oh, I—"
"You are having afternoon tea?"
A familiar voice ran into his ears, Jiang Ci turned around and saw Lu Xingxue. Her eyes lit up and she was about to stand up, Lu Xingxue pressed her shoulders and told her to sit still.
Wen Nian retracted the fork, smiling unchanged: "So is President Lu? Do you want to be together?"
Lu Xingxue had already seen the bag next to Wen Nian. It was the same as the one Jiang Ci brought home from Songling Road yesterday. She knew that Jiang Ci was here to give a gift, her red lips were slightly curved, and she replied, "It's just to be with you Come to pick up the cake, I didn't expect to meet you. I have something to do next, so I won't sit down."
Wan Wen, who was not far away carrying the cake box, waved to Jiang Ci, and Jiang Ci also raised his hand and waved.
Lu Xingxue patted Jiang Ci on the shoulder: "You always sit down with Xiao Wen, Wan Wen is still waiting for me, let's go."
Jiang Ci hasn't recovered from the surprise of the first meeting, and blurted out: "Is it so urgent?"
After asking and reacting, this seemed to tell Lu Xingxue clearly how much he wanted to stay with her for a while.
Lu Xingxue smiled and said, "Remember to go home for dinner, Aunt Zhuang will come today."
Jiang Ci: "Hmm."
After Lu Xingxue left, Jiang Ci raised his wrist to check the time. There is not much free time to sit with Wen Nian slowly, and she has to hurry back to work.
Wen Nian chopped up the piece of cake on his fork and sent it into his mouth bit by bit.
Jiang Ci sits on the sofa in the living room and plays puzzles. Tongtong was riding a bicycle outside, and the crisp laughter could be heard across the building.
Aunt Zhuang wiped her hands and approached: "Miss Jiang, how long will Miss Lu be here? Ouch, this dish is cold."
Jiang Ci looked up and saw that the hour hand of the pendulum clock had already pointed to 7, and said in surprise: "It's already this point?... I'll call her."
In the long wait, Aunt Zhuang asked: "What did Miss Lu say?"
The dialing was automatically interrupted, and Lu Xingxue did not answer.
Jiang Ci: "..."
Jiang Ci: "Aunt Zhuang, you can go back first, let's warm up the food when it's cold."
Aunt Zhuang took off his apron and was about to go back. Jiang Ci turned on the TV by pressing the remote control and continued to work on the puzzle.
At half past seven, Jiang Ci rubbed his stomach and felt hungry. She went to the table, and Aunt Zhuang made a lot of dishes. Just looking at the color and lustre made her forefinger moving, but the heat was gone.
Jiang Ci lights up the screen of the phone. She has not received a reply from Lu Xingxue. She called Jiang Lin and asked if the injury on her hand was better.
"It's always painful, and it's not convenient to do anything." Jiang Lin's sick voice came from the earpiece.
Jiang Ci was a little worried: "Mom, do you have any other discomforts? The voice sounds weak."
Jiang Lin: "Maybe I have slept a lot in the past two days, the more I sleep, the less energy I get. Be prepared to go out for a night run later.
Jiang Ci opened the door of the house, and it was cold outside. She couldn't hear the sound of playing. She stepped back and said, "It's very cold outside. Don't catch the cold. Just run on the treadmill."
After finishing the call, Jiang Ci sat back on the sofa, holding the jigsaw pieces, but not as quiet as before.
After 8 o'clock, Lu Xingxue finally came back. Seeing Jiang Ci on the sofa, she nodded as a greeting: "Good evening."
"Lu Xingxue", Jiang Ci dropped the puzzle and smiled slightly: "Wait a moment, I will warm up the food."
"You haven't eaten yet?" Lu Xingxue walked two steps towards Jiang Ci, then stopped.
Jiang Ci was taken aback, didn't he say he would come back to eat together?
"..."
Lu Xingxue only said that Aunt Zhuang would come and let her go home for dinner, but did not say that she would come back to eat too.
Jiang Ci realized that he didn't know what expression to respond to Lu Xingxue.
Lu Xingxue: "You waited until now?"
Jiang Ci: "I called you, but you didn't answer it."
Lu Xingxue took out her phone and looked at it: "...Ah, sorry, there is no sound."
Jiang Ci: "...It doesn't matter, I will eat it myself."
Jiang Ci thought Lu Xingxue would say something, but Lu Xingxue nodded, and after staying in place for a few seconds, he went straight upstairs.
Jiang Ci was a little confused and heated two dishes alone, and the more he ate, the more aggrieved.
I have been wronged for so long, but I have waited so long for Lu Xingxue but did not eat with her, and even more wronged, Lu Xingxue did not even smile at her, his attitude is still unprecedentedly cold.
Obviously met in a cafe, everything is fine.
coffee shop?
The words Lu Xingxue said when Yushui Nanyuan came to Jiang Ci's mind.
I have been envious of Wennian since I saw the photos, and I can meet you so early.
Recalling the time Lu Xingxue appeared in the cafe, it was when Wen Nian fed her dessert.
Jiang Ci's heart beat,... wouldn't Lu Xingxue mind this, right?
There was footsteps behind him, and Lu Xingxue somehow came down again.
Jiang Ci observes her from the corner of the eye.
"Why do you only eat so little?" Lu Xingxue stopped at the table, frowning slightly.
Jiang Ci thoughtfully said: "...one person can't eat too much."
Lu Xingxue paused, picked up the dish and turned to heat it.
Looking at her back, Jiang Ci secretly poked the rice in the bowl, and the grievances disappeared.
Both of them were sitting at the dining table. Lu Xingxue served a little rice and ate with Jiang Ci.
Jiang Ci: "I want to see my mother tomorrow. I talk to her today. It sounds like I'm sick."
Lu Xingxue: "What time? I'll go with you."
Jiang Ci: "At night, wait for you to get off work."
Lu Xingxue: "Good."
Jiang Ci: "...Actually, I should also go to see Aunt Ning. Wen Nian said she has burned for a few days. My mother has no siblings, and Aunt Ning treats me like a pro-aunt."
As Jiang Ci said, while observing Lu Xingxue's expression, he added: "Wen Nian has always treated me as a sister."
Lu Xingxue chewed slowly, and after eating this bite, she looked at Jiang Ci. Jiang Ci stared at her calmly, Lu Xingxue finally smiled, "I see."