Chapter 49
"What's on your mind?" Ling Yichen's voice tightened.
"I'm thinking about which school is better to go to, you're always bothering me, I can't even choose seriously." Xia Mo was looking through the information sent by Ling Yichen's secretary. "There are so many schools and majors, I have to choose well before I can do so."
"Then wait until I go back tonight to help you choose." Ling Yichen said, "I'll go back early this afternoon, ask Tian Ma to prepare a hot pot with mandarin ducks, and we'll eat it at home tonight after we've finished choosing."
"Sure." Xia Mo agreed.
Ling Yichen didn't rest at noon either, after finishing all the things, he went back to his flat after two o'clock in the afternoon, opened the door of his room and looked at the woman who was sleeping on the sofa, his heart was suddenly a soft mess.
He had left the door open and unlocked today, but had arranged for a number of people downstairs to keep an eye on her.
But even so, he was still worried that the woman would leave the house.
He always thought, what would he do if she still wanted to leave? Capture her back and imprison her?
Even if he could lock up her person, could he lock up her heart?
What if she went on another hunger strike? Would he be willing to do that?
All day long, his heart had been boiling in boiling water, making him feel uncomfortable in every way.
As soon as he laid his arm on the woman's body, she opened her big drowsy eyes and asked him in a nasal voice, "Why are you back so early?"
"I came back to help you choose a school." Ling Yichen put his arm around her and picked up the information he had brought back, "The information I had sent to me this morning was too general, I had another one made for me that was more detailed."
The two of them sat on the sofa and deliberately chose for half a day, finally settling on the Department of Business Administration at D City University of Finance and Economics, then Ling Yichen found a famous painting studio near his flat and enrolled Xia Mao in an art class.
Now Ling Yichen's heart was completely on the ground.
She had already started making arrangements for her future, so what was there to worry about?
The two of them had hot pot in the evening, and Ling Yichen took her downstairs for a walk around the district and went to the supermarket to buy a lot of fruit before we walked back together.
Ling Yichen was carrying the bag in one hand and holding Xia Mao in the other. The two of them were talking while walking, although most of the time it was Ling Yichen who was talking, but Xia Mao was also smiling gently and responding all the time.
When Lu Wanqiu saw the two of them talking and laughing, she almost didn't lose her temper.
"Bitch! Have you never seen a man in your eight hundred lifetimes? Paying money and letting people just bang them?" She smashed everything she could in the living room, and still by not relieved, she sat on the sofa again and kept cursing, "Lu Wanru is also a waste, like a dead person, just let them flaunt around outside like this?"
The nanny gently covered the child's mouth with her hand and carried him along the wall as she slowly brushed back to the child's room.
"Since you want to be a dead man, you might as well really die!" A trace of mischief flashed across Lu Wanqiu's eyes, her sharp voice thin as a knife, "Just in time to make room for the good guys!"
And at the old Ling family residence Lu Wanru had just sent her brother Bo Wen away.
She teased Ling Yuanqi in her arms and finally let out a long breath, she didn't even dare to misplace her eyes these days, she just couldn't keep Bowen tied to the waist of her trousers.
She was afraid that he would go to Ling Yichen on impulse, or to Xia Mao.
She knew very well that Ling Yichen was now almost looking at Xia Mao as if she were a pearl.
She also wondered how Lu Wanqiu, who could also get a letter, would react.
"Big baby, other people can toss and turn as they like, as long as our mother and son are well." Lu Wanru lifted Ling Yuanqi up and made the child giggle, the cheerful voice made people happy to hear it, "That stinky daddy of yours is busy right now."
Lu Wanqiu kissed Ling Yuanqi twice on the cheek and thought to herself: I only hope that Xia Mao will be more honest and will not really remember the past and rely on Ling Yichen's favor to steal the child from her.
Her eyes looked at the "babbling" child in her arms, who was looking at her with big eyes and smiling, and gave him a kiss on the side of her face.
She knew that she would not want to hurt this child if the day ever came.
He could already say "mummy", although he didn't know it well yet, she knew that he was saying "mummy", and he had become her lifeblood, so how could she possibly hurt him?
After a few more days, Ling Yichen wanted to take Xia Mao to school to report.
Xia Mao refused to agree to anything, so in the end, Ling Yichen had to ask his secretary Xu Yongqiang to take Xia Mao to the school, while he himself sat in the car and waited at the entrance of the school.
As he watched Xu Yongqiang and Xia Mao walk through the school gates, he pressed down the window and shouted at the two of them, "Xu Yongqiang, I'm telling you, she can't live at the school!"
Xia Mao's face was embarrassed, and she turned around and glared at him viciously.
"But a dormitory can be reserved for her, so she can rest in it if she doesn't want to go back at noon." Xia Yichen explained in a soft voice.
"Understood." Xu Yong forced a smile and took Xia Mao to the headmaster's office.
The headmaster and vice-principal were waiting in the office, and although they didn't see Ling Yichen, they treated Xia Mao with considerable respect, not only arranging the class dormitory, but also giving her a position in the student council.
Xia Mao followed Xu Yongqiang out of the school in a daze and got into the black Rolls Royce parked on the side of the road.
"What's wrong? It didn't go well?" Ling Yichen asked as he looked at Xia Mao's not-so-happy face.
"It went quite well, the school had arranged everything before we arrived." Xu Yongqiang turned back in front of him and said.
"Then what's wrong with you?" Ling Yichen reached out and gathered Xia Mao in his arms, reaching over to twist her face, "Regret it? You don't want to go to this school anymore? If you don't want to go to this school, let's change to another one."
Xia Mao shook her head, she blinked her big hairy eyes, tilted her head and looked at Ling Yichen, seriously looked around a few times, until Ling Yichen was a little bit furious by her, then she said curiously, "Are you very rich, powerful, and influential?"
"You just know?" Ling Yichen gave her a haughty kiss on the forehead, "You've found a treasure, you should cherish it."
"Then the headmaster's attitude towards me is too good, making it seem like I'm the headmaster." Xia Mao jinned his nose, "Luckily we reported a few days early, if we had waited for the start of the school year, we would have scared people."
Ling Yichen laughed and rubbed the top of her head, explaining, "Our Ling's allocates five million to the school every year to improve the school's environment, and also arranges for some students to be employed every year."
"No wonder." Summer ended up understanding.
"Would you like to join the student council as an officer?" Ling Yichen asked with a smile.
"I'm already a cadre in the Literature and Arts Department of the Student Union!" Xia Mao raised her delicate, flower-like face, full of pride.
Ling Yichen's heart trembled: this doesn't look good! If she was a cadre of the Arts Department, how could it be?
Chapter 50
Since Xia Mao started school, Ling Yichen had one more thing to do every day, and that was to take Xia Mao to school in the morning.
And this was not the most important thing.
The most important thing for Ling Yichen now is that Xia Mao always uses the excuse that she has to go to school the next day and does not allow him to have fun in the evening.
So Ling Yichen looked forward to the weekend every day, and only on the weekend would Xia Mao have no excuse and have to let him have his way.
He hopes that one day when there are rumours that he can't stop, she will stand firmly behind him and face the storms together with him.
Because he knew that sooner or later, the seemingly calm surface would be ripped away and the demons and monsters that should and should not be revealed would come out one by one, but no matter what kind of trouble or hardship he encountered, Ling Yichen hoped that she would be by his side and give him the courage and strength to fight on.
The weekend came easily, and Ling Yichen got off work early on Friday night, went to school to pick up Xia Mao, took her to a big dinner, and then hurriedly dragged her home.
"Let's go see a movie, right?" Of course Xia Mao knew the reason for his hurry, but she deliberately shook his hand behind her and asked, "I heard that the few movies pro released are quite good."
"You're not worried that I'll want you in the theatre?" Ling Yichen pressed down the gear plate between the front and back seats of the car and lowered his head to deliberately bite her earlobe, "Why don't we do it in the car first?"
"Are you crazy?" Xia Mao grabbed her collar and ducked to the side of the car seat, whimpering, "I'm not doing it!"
"Then go up to the cinema?" Ling Yichen raised his eyebrows and moved to her side, "It should be exciting in the cinema too, right? Let's go and experience it?"
"Fuck you!" Xia Mao made a move to kick him, but only when she raised her hand was he grabbed it, his big hand slowly ran up the smooth thigh, Xia Mao's body trembled and two red clouds rose on her cheeks, she sucked in a cold breath and reached out to hug Ling Yichen's neck, squealing, "Stop it, when we get home... ..."
"Then you'll have to listen to me when you get home." Ling Yichen nibbled on her ear and felt her body tremble even more, "I'll do whatever I say ...... or else I'll let the driver get off and I'll drive you to the countryside? We'll stay in the car for the night?"
"I don't!" Xia Mao raised herself from his arms with a red face and looked at him with a pout without good grace, "Annoying!"
"Annoying in the sense of? Does it mean going to the countryside?" Ling Yichen pretended to be puzzled.
"Go home!" Xia Mo knew he was saying that on purpose, but she still couldn't help but raise her head in annoyance and bite him on the lips.
Ling Yichen pulled her, who was about to shrink back, and gave her a fierce kiss before laughing out loud.
Xia Mao reached out to cover his mouth, but he still couldn't stop his joyful laughter.
The two of them went back to the flat and started to tangle up in the bathroom, lingering against each other as if the world was about to end.
When Ling Yichen came out of the bathroom with Xia Mao in his arms, he heard his mobile phone ringing in the living room, and after putting the dazed woman under the covers, he went naked to the living room and picked up the phone.
The call was from Lu Wanru.
When Ling Yichen picked up the phone in confusion, Lu Wanru's panicked voice came from inside, "Yichen, where are you? Yuan Qi has fallen and is bleeding a lot, what should we do?"
"How did you fall?" Ling Yichen was shocked and took the phone and went back to the bedroom to find his clothes, hurriedly talking to the phone, "Take him to the nearest city hospital, I'll be there soon."
He anxiously put his clothes back on, then went to the bedside and woke up Xia Mao who was sleeping soundly.
"What's wrong?" Xia Mao opened one eye and looked at him, not quite awake and pouted, "I can't do it again today, I'm a bit sore down there."
Ling Yichen kissed her twice on the mouth, "I have something to do and I have to go out first, you stay at home and sleep well, call me if you need anything."
"Mmm." Xia Mao was really upset by her, so she wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him back twice, then closed her eyes and fell asleep again.
Ling Yichen tucked the hair on her cheeks behind her ears and gave her another kiss on her forehead before he stood up and hurried away.
When he arrived at the hospital, Ling Yuanqi was already in the operating room. Lu Wanru's eyes were red and swollen, and she was leaning on Wu's mother as if she was dumb. Why did you only come? Yuan Qi fell off the table and hit her head on the floor, her face is covered in blood, what should we do?"
He patted Lu Wanru's back twice and asked Wu's mother to hold him while he ran to the dean who came from the other end.
"My son is injured, I don't know how he is doing now, can you let me in and take a look?" Ling Yichen looked at the dean with a grey face, "I'm just checking how he's hurt, I definitely won't disturb your treatment."
"You go in first and take a look." The dean finished speaking to one of the doctors behind him before looking at Ling Yichen, "I'll let Dr Li take a look inside first before deciding whether you can be let in."
Ling Yichen's eyes were red and he nodded nervously, his heart aching as he thought of the son who looked seven or eight percent like Xia Mao.
He had thought it was just a fall, but when he saw Lu Wanru, who had always been so calm, lose her composure, he couldn't help but be scared along with her.
If something happened to him, Xia Mao would hate him even if he recovered his memory.
The doctor Li went in and came out immediately, smiling at them, "The adults can go in and take a look, there is nothing wrong with the child, just a swollen mouth and bleeding capillaries in the nasal mucosa, no other injuries."
Lu Wanru and Wu's mother, who were also walking over, reacted even faster than Ling Yichen and rushed in at the first opportunity, and then the sound of crying came out from the operating room.
Ling Yichen followed him in and saw his son lying on Lu Wanru's shoulder, pursing his lips and sobbing.
He reached forward and took his son from Lu Wanru's arms, looking at his son's red nose and swollen sausage-like upper lip, he held his son in his arms in pain and looked at Lu Wanru, saying, "Let's go!"