Zhou Yanjing said: "You are not undergoing surgery today and are not staying in the hospital. What are you doing here?"
"I'm here to see grandma." Jiang Nan looked at Lin Yuxi: "Yuxi, are you here too?"
The tone seemed as if Lin Yuxi shouldn't come.
Grandma came back today, and she appeared here at the Zhou family's family dinner, as if she had entered the role of the future daughter-in-law of the Zhou family.
On the contrary, it was Lin Yuxi who seemed to be embarrassed by her current status.
Lin Yuxi's expression was indifferent: "You can come, why can't I come."
One is past tense, the other is future tense, neither is present tense anyway, who is more noble than the other.
Jiang Nan seemed a little at a loss and looked at Ling Yaqiong: "Auntie..."
Ling Yaqiong scolded Lin Yuxi with an unhappy expression: "Is this how I taught you? You have no education at all."
In the past, she was living under someone else's roof and receiving favors from the Zhou family. No matter how hard Ling Yaqiong taught her, Lin Yuxi had to endure it.
But not now. She no longer needs to look at anyone's face, so she no longer just tolerates it.
"You taught me nothing."
Zhou Yanjing raised his eyebrows and looked at Lin Yuxi with unclear meaning.
Ling Yaqiong never expected that she would talk back: "What did you say?"
Lin Yuxi was brought up by Aunt Zhao since she was a child. Ling Yaqiong was very picky about her, but never taught her what to do.
Her tone was calm and calm: "If you think I was taught by you, then when you comment on my lack of education, aren't you the one criticizing me?"
The Zhou family's family tradition is quite upright, unlike some other wealthy families, which are glamorous on the surface but full of filth underneath.
Although Zhou Qizhen is busy with work, he has never been involved in any bad habits. The two sons, Zhou Sheng'an and Zhou Yanjing, are more promising than the other and both respect Ling Yaqiong very much.
She only received some anger from her mother-in-law. The old lady lived on Putuo Mountain all year round and never went home. No one in the Zhou family dared to criticize her like this.
Ling Yaqiong's face turned ugly, but Lin Yuxi's words made her unable to refute.
Zhou Yanjing seemed to be watching the excitement and asked with great interest: "You also learned this from me? I have never contradicted my mother."
Ling Yaqiong's anger was relieved by him: "Don't you contradict me enough? You are the most stupid."
At this moment, the old lady was helped out of the room by Aunt Zhao.
"Grandma~" Jiang Nan immediately raised a smile and called out sweetly, "You are finally back."
The old lady was not happy when she saw her: "Why did you come to our house?"
"I haven't seen you for several years. I heard from aunt that you are coming back today. I originally wanted to pick you up at the airport with Yan Jing. Unfortunately, I have an operation in the afternoon and cannot go. I have been thinking about you. I will come over as soon as I finish the operation. ”
Jiang Nan knows how to please her elders. She has a cute smile. Not only is she not embarrassed at all, she is also very good at asking for credit and favor.
"What's there to see?" The old lady didn't give any face, "You have been disliked since you were a child, and I don't want to see you."
Jiang Nan couldn't help laughing.
Anyone who has a hot face but a cold butt and is mercilessly criticized like this in public will not be able to get off the stage.
Ling Yaqiong hurriedly smoothed things over: "Mom, Nan Nan is also very filial. The injury on her leg hasn't healed yet, so she came over anxiously to see you."
"If the injury is not healed, just take good care of it. I'm not a medicine. Do you think I can take care of it?"
As an elder, the old lady would not make a junior look bad in public, so she insisted on hitting the muzzle of the gun herself.
Yan Jing Yan Jing, in front of Lin Yuxi, who should he tell?
She is so old, a thousand-year-old fox, who can she play chatting with in front of her?
"Today is our family's family dinner. We are talking as a family and don't want outsiders to be present." The old lady said directly, "Send a car to take her home! Get some of my deep-sea fish oil to replenish her. Don't let people say that our Zhou family doesn't understand etiquette."
Who is it that doesn't understand etiquette? It's time to say it clearly.
At someone else's family dinner, you, an outsider, come to join in the fun. Take some fish oil to replenish your brain.
Jiang Nan had never experienced such embarrassment in her life. She was so embarrassed that she subconsciously turned to Zhou Yanjing for help.
"It's no use looking at me." Zhou Yanjing picked up his pockets indifferently, "There is no one in this family that I can afford to offend. Even the dogs on the roadside can bark at me."
"..."
In the end, Ling Yaqiong personally sent Jiang Nan out and expressed a few words of relief.
"The old lady has such a temper. I am not less angry with her. It is not directed at you. She is not in good health and she doesn't know about Yan Jing and Yu Xi. You really shouldn't come at this moment."
"I'm sorry, auntie, I didn't think carefully. I just thought that I haven't seen grandma for too long. I didn't expect that she still dislikes me so much."
No matter how unhappy Jiang Nan was, she still had to pretend that she didn't mind, and said with a wry smile, "Unlike Yuxi, I have been very good at pleasing grandma since I was a child."
Lin Yuxi planned to finish the meal with her grandma and find an opportunity to explain the matter clearly to her.
Grandma doesn't know, so if she makes Jiang Nan suffer any more, don't blame her again in the end.
She has taken the blame enough.
At the dinner table, Ling Yaqiong used serving chopsticks to pick up the food for the old lady.
The old lady's appetite was actually very bad, but she didn't show it in front of them. She tasted the soft stewed fish, nodded and said: "This fish is good, let us Xiaoxi eat some too."
Ling Yaqiong gave Lin Yuxi some.
Lin Yuxi said politely: "Thank you, Aunt Ling."
The old lady had good ears and quick response: "Why did you call me aunt?"
Several people at the dinner table were eating together, with different expressions.
The old lady looked at this and that, unhappy: "What expressions do they all have?"
Ling Yaqiong put down her chopsticks and planned to tell the truth: "Mom, actually Yan Jing and Yu Xi..."
"Cough! Cough!" The old lady suddenly coughed very hard. Lin Yuxi immediately stood up and went over to pat her back gently.
After coughing for a while, she recovered. It seemed that all her energy and energy had been coughed up, and she looked very weak.
"It's no longer possible. I'm such an old bone. I can't even eat a few mouthfuls of food. I don't know how many days I have left to live."
For humans, when it is difficult to eat, it means that the god of death is already waiting.
Lin Yuxi's eyes turned red at that time: "Don't say that. Let's eat slowly. Can I serve you some fish soup?"
The old lady couldn't even take a sip.
The atmosphere in the entire restaurant became gloomy. After a while, Zhou Qizhen said in a deep voice: "Send mom back to the room to rest first."
Several people sent the old lady back to her room, and she took Lin Yuxi's hand: "Stay here tonight and stay with grandma. I've had your and Yan Jing's rooms cleaned up."
Lin Yuxi lay beside the bed, her face pressed against the back of her old hand, and nodded: "I'll stay with you."
There are really too few people in this world who really care about her.
Lin Yuxi stayed with her grandma in the room for a while, and then quietly came out after she fell asleep.
Zhou Qizhen, Ling Yaqiong and Zhou Sheng'an were all sitting in the living room. Zhou Yanjing is not here, I don’t know where he went.
"what did the doctor say?"
Zhou Sheng'an just had a phone call with the person responsible for taking care of the old lady at Mount Putuo. He frowned and said, "Grandma had a recurrence a while ago and had an operation. She didn't tell us about it. The doctor said that her current health is good. If so, we can last another half year.”
If things go bad...
Ling Yaqiong was in a dilemma: "The matter between Yan Jing and Yu Xi can't be kept hidden from her forever."
Zhou Sheng'an was silent for a moment: "I just canceled the engagement and Yan Jing is getting divorced. It's all bad news. Telling her will only affect her mood."
Zhou Qizhen rarely smoked at home, but he lit one at this time and sat there solemnly without saying a word.
Hearing Lin Yuxi's footsteps, several people looked over.
Zhou Shengan asked: "Is grandma sleeping?"
Lin Yuxi said: "I fell asleep for a while."
Zhou Qizhen's frown never relaxed. After smoking a cigarette, he finally spoke: "Your grandma's current physical condition cannot be subjected to any more stimulation. After a while, she will be better, and then slowly mention you and her to her." It’s about Yan Jing.”
"Her body is the most important thing in everything. Other matters are not urgent at this moment."
Lin Yuxi nodded: "I understand."
Ling Yaqiong held her head up with a frown, but there was nothing she could do now and she could only sigh.
"Dad, Mom, you go back and rest first."
After Zhou Qizhen and Ling Yaqiong returned to the room, only Lin Yuxi and Zhou Sheng'an were left in the living room.
Zhou Sheng'an also looked tired, and said to Lin Yuxi apologetically: "Xiao Xi, I have to wrong you for a while longer."
Lin Yuxi didn't say anything. She wasn't sure how grandma would react if she knew the truth. Like them, she didn't dare to take the risk.
She even went to the doctor in a panic, wondering if it was because she and Zhou Yanjing were divorcing and breaking the mysterious metaphysics that her grandma's condition suddenly relapsed?
Because the time actually matched.
After a pause, she asked: "Brother, why was your engagement with Miss Bai canceled?"
"There's no particular reason," Zhou Sheng'an replied, "Everyone has their own pursuits."
"oh."
"Get some rest early." After Zhou Shengan said that, he went upstairs first.
Compared with the Jiang family, the Bai family and the Zhou family in Beijing are truly matched, and the marriage between the two families can be described as a powerful combination.
Their engagement was only concluded after Lin Yuxi and Zhou Yanjing got married. It lasted more than two years and they never got married. They didn't expect it to be canceled in the end.
It was originally a political marriage. They considered family background and interests, but did not consider feelings. I don’t know what the reason was, but the marriage fell through in the end.
Lin Yuxi thought about it for a while, but couldn't come up with any results, and it had nothing to do with her.
When he turned around to go back to the room, he saw Zhou Yanjing standing at the door of the terrace.
I don't know when I stood there, but it seemed like I had been standing there for a long time.
He seemed to have gone out for a trip, wearing a coat and feeling the coolness brought in from outside the hospital. He looked at her indifferently with his brown eyes, which were darker than the night.
