Chapter 867
I opened my mouth to say something, but the last words turned out to be, “Take care of yourself.”
It was night.
When Fu Shenyan came back, it was already midnight, and I was so drowsy that I felt him go to bed.
Because I was too sleepy, I didn’t ask him how things were going.
When I got up in the morning, he had gone out.
Sister Fin knocked on the door and said, “Madam, you’re awake, breakfast is cooked, and when Mister went out this morning he said I should come up and take the clothes to be washed.”
I nodded and let her into the bedroom and went to the washroom.
She was the one who washed all the clothes on weekdays, so I didn’t worry much about it and tied my hair and went into the bathroom.
Seeing her sorting through the clothes Fu Shenyan had changed yesterday, I coldly saw her freeze.
Out of instinct, I looked over and saw that a bright red lipstick mark had fallen on the collar of the white shirt she was holding, which was obvious.
“Madam, sir he might ……” Fen spoke up, a little embarra*sed for a moment.
I smiled lightly, “It’s okay, it probably rubbed on by accident, send it to be washed!”
The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who have been in the business for many years, and I know exactly what kind of person Fu Shen Yan is.
I still trust him in this matter of men and women, and I don’t doubt him because of this matter.
I was relieved that Sister Fen gathered her clothes and went out.
After a few steps, she came back and stood outside the door saying, “Madam, sir is not that kind of person, don’t think too much about it.”
I smiled lightly, “I’ve known him for eight years, I’m youthful in my heart, I still have that trust.”
She breathed a sigh of relief and went out of the bedroom.
After having breakfast, I asked Sister Fen to take care of the Four Seasons and went straight to where Hu Ya lived.
I hadn’t seen her for almost half a year, so I went to the mall on the way and picked out a jade lock and a bunch of silver bracelets. The old ancestors said that jade nourishes the heart and silver nourishes the body, so it’s always right to send a child.
When I went there, the doll, less than a year old, was crying, and Hu Ya was holding the baby and coaxing it.
When she saw me, she froze for a moment, handed the baby to the nanny and came towards me, “Why didn’t you tell me in advance, I’ll pick you up, have you eaten?”
I smiled lightly, “I ate before I went out.” My eyes fell on the child and I couldn’t help but say, “Are you hungry?”
She sighed slightly and complained instead, “It’s always the kids crying, a boy, crying about everything, I’m also convinced, more petulant than a girl.”
Looking at the happy look on her face, I couldn’t help but feel a little envious and said, “They’re always children, it’s better when they’re older.”
I couldn’t resist the urge to give her a hug, but in the end I just handed her the gift in my hand.
She chattered on for a while and dragged me to sit in the living room for a while, talking about trivial matters.
On the way back, I didn’t know where to go for a while, and when I saw an old man buying roasted corn in a roadside alley, I couldn’t help but feel familiar with the scene.
So I went up and asked for a packet of corn, and the old man smiled and said, “Girl, there are sweet potatoes and potatoes, want to bring one of each?”
Looking at his dark and kind face, I couldn’t help but nod, “Yes!”
I was a bit embarra*sed when I paid for the food, I didn’t have a wallet in my bag, only a mobile phone and a few bank cards, I hadn’t carried cash for years, so I was a bit embarra*sed at this point.
The old man seemed to see my embarra*sment and laughed, “It doesn’t matter, I’m here every day, you’ll give me the same if you pa*s by that day.”
I looked down at the nearly ten dollars in my hand and couldn’t help but give it back to the old man with some apologies, “I don’t have any cash, I’ll have to trouble you.”
Chapter 868
The old man didn’t take it and laughed, “Girl, if you don’t mind my old man being dirty, you can take it and consider it my treat for you to come back often in the future.”
There is always no way to refuse the kindness of others, and I nodded, holding the paper bag in my hand, and couldn’t help but get a little hot.
After bending down and thanking me, I carried the paper bag and found a place to sit down in the alleyway, and without haste, I ate both the sweet potatoes and the corn instead.
The potatoes, roasted to a bright yellow, were a bit too much to eat, but they brought back familiar memories from my childhood.
Every year when the spring rains fell, my grandmother would plant one or two acres of corn in the ground, turn the soil, sow the seeds, fertilise and loosen the soil. Every year before the Qingming Festival I would go with her to plant them, and when I returned I would shave some fresh potatoes and come back to cook them.
Sometimes they would be buried in the fire and roasted, and when they were cooked, the black outer layer would be scraped off with a broken tile to reveal the golden flesh of the potatoes, which smelled so good that when dipped in chilli sauce it always felt like a real delicacy on earth.
At that time, my grandmother would wipe the blackened ash from her hands onto my nose, laughing at me and telling me, “In the future, if and when our little Shu marries, grandmother will bring you dolls and bring them as black potatoes too.”
The temperature of the memory would burn, and people pa*sing by in the alley saw me in tears and moved with compa*sion to bring me tissues to soothe me.
“Girl, life is so long, no matter what difficulties we encounter, let’s persevere, make an effort and get through it, let’s cry and start all over again!”
I nodded and gave him the potato in my hand, smiling lightly, “Thank you!”
I didn’t take a taxi, I simply wanted to walk around in the sunny spot.
Fu Shen Yan called and said, “Join us for lunch?”
I raised my eyes and actually felt as if the day was starting to heat up in the capital, raising my hand to hold my fingertips in front of my eyes and looking through them at the dappled leaves.
“I want to go see my aunt.”
He gave a slight pause and said, “Sister Fen said you didn’t drive out, so take a taxi and be safe.”
I nodded and said, “Yes!”
When I hung up the phone, it was already twelve o’clock, noon, so I took a taxi to the southern suburbs.
It wasn’t too far, and when I arrived at the courtyard, Fu Qingyin was ready to eat.
When she saw me, she froze for a moment, a little surprised, but she paused and said, “You’ve caught a coincidence.”
He said, getting up and taking another set of bowls and chopsticks.
He looked at me and said, “Come along!”
I smiled lightly and sat down at the table, “Dilly-dallying is a success.”
After eating, she said she wanted to take a walk in the late afternoon to kill some food, so she dragged me around the house for a while.
There were quite a few people living nearby, and there were young women out in the sun with their dolls, which she liked so much that she was all over the place to tease the children.
When people left, she pulled me longingly and said, “You and Shen Yan should cheer up and hurry up to have one, I’m not working now, so I’m waiting to take care of the baby for you.”
I’m not working right now, I’m waiting to bring you guys a baby.” When she said that, she looked at me and thought about it again, “You and Shenyin are both so good looking, the doll that has Charley will be beautiful too, it must be even cuter than when Shenyin was little.”
She smiled at this thought.
I smiled lightly, but my heart was sour.
When I returned to the house, I saw her carrying the laundry to the backyard, so I followed her.
Seeing that she was washing her clothes by hand, I squatted down beside her and washed them with her.
She excused herself a few times, but when she saw that I didn’t respond, she sighed and said, “These clothes are all brands, they have to be hand washed or dry cleaned, it’s too far to send them to the laundry, so I just had nothing to do, so I washed them myself.”