Chapter 180: Newcomers laugh, old ones cry
Chapter 180: Newcomers laugh, old ones cry
On Sunday, it was Xu Fanghua’s 49th birthday.
Because so many things happened during this period of time, Lu Xingchen took Xu Fanghua and Aunt Zhang to the mall, picked out birthday gifts, and bought them a dress each.
"Let's not buy a birthday cake, there are only three of us." Xu Fanghua felt uneasy as Lu Wenli had not been found yet.
Lu Xingchen said: "There should still be a sense of ceremony, and I have already ordered it. It's on the first floor. Let's go back and get it and leave."
The three of them took the escalator to the third floor, and Xu Fanghua remembered: "I think I left my sunglasses in the store just now."
Aunt Zhang immediately said, "I'll go back and get it."
Considering that it would be difficult for Aunt Zhang to find that store, Lu Xingchen said, "I'll go, you and my mom go to the cake shop downstairs and wait for me."
Lu Xingchen was on the third floor taking the escalator to the fourth floor when she received a call from Zhao Wenjing.
Zhao Wenjing said excitedly: "I did as you said and brought Lu Xiangxiang to Teacher Zhang's dinner party. I also pretended to have a good impression of Teacher Zhang, and then I boasted about their character and income in front of them. Guess what happened?"
"What's wrong?"
"They added each other on WeChat while I was in the bathroom, and then Mr. Zhang, who always advocated AA for everything, invited us to go karaoke. When Mr. Zhang went to pick up the car, Lv Xiangxiang told me that the watch on Mr. Zhang's wrist was worth nearly 20,000 yuan. I was stimulated because the watch was a gift from my mother, but I was also inspired, so I told Lv Xiangxiang that Mr. Zhang paid great attention to the quality of life. If he was not planning to buy a house in Yuecheng, he would not just want to buy a BMW worth more than 400,000 yuan."
Listening to Zhao Wenjing's nonstop talk, Lu Xingchen also took back Xu Fanghua's sunglasses and went downstairs.
While Keren was still on the escalator going down from the third floor, she saw Aunt Zhang helping her mother sit on a lounge chair, looking down and anxiously rummaging through her bag. Lu Xingchen guessed at a glance that she was looking for medicine, so she quickly ran over from the escalator.
There were no debt collectors around. Seeing Aunt Zhang feeding Xu Fanghua a heart-protecting pill, Lu Xingchen sat over and supported Xu Fanghua, saying as gently as possible, "Mom, it's okay. Take your breath. It's okay."
The effect of the medicine was not that fast, but it made her feel a lot more at ease after taking it. Plus, with Lu Xingchen coming back, Xu Fanghua's patient expression relaxed slightly, and then her eyes became red.
Lu Xingchen hugged her and held her chest, and said in a relaxed tone, "Can't you bear not seeing me for just a few minutes?"
She looked at Aunt Zhang when she said this.
Aunt Zhang was somewhat confused about the situation, so she told him everything from beginning to end.
"We went to the second floor, and a colorful ball rolled to your mother's feet. Then a little girl of about six or seven years old came over, and your mother smiled and picked up the ball and gave it to her. At this time, the girl's mother came over, looked at your mother for a while, and smiled and asked the child to say to your mother, "Thank you, grandma..."
"That's enough." Xu Fanghua stopped him weakly, "I'm fine."
Lu Xingchen suddenly realized something, pushed Xu Fanghua against Aunt Zhang, stood up and looked downstairs.
There was no sign of the little girl on the escalator, so she held on to the handrail and looked downstairs.
Outside the cake shop, there was a child wearing a red bow skirt, playing with a glowing ball in her hand. This child was Lu Xinyue, whom she had just met not long ago.
Then Yang Wenqi, wearing a red dress and high heels, came out of the cake shop. She gave the cake in her hand to the aunt next to her, put her arm around Lu Xinyue's shoulder and walked towards the elevator, followed by two bodyguards.
As if she noticed her gaze, Yang Wenqi suddenly raised her head and looked towards the second floor. The moment her eyes met hers, her lips painted with dark red lipstick slowly raised into a smile, and then she continued to walk forward with her daughter.
Xu Fanghua was 42 years old when she divorced Lu Dingsheng.
Yang Wenqi was 27 years old when she married Lu Dingsheng.
Xu Fanghua is now 49 years old and she is 34 years old. She lets her seven-year-old daughter call Xu Fanghua Grandma?
Lu Xingchen's eyes suddenly turned cold, and he suddenly remembered what Chen Xiaolin said, that Yang Wenqi and Chu Zeyan were childhood sweethearts, and that they were already discussing marriage.
At this time, Xu Fanghua stood up and grabbed the clothes behind Lu Xingchen, "What are you looking at? Stop looking."
Lu Xingchen's eyebrows moved, and he turned back to look at Xu Fanghua with a normal expression, "I just want to see who dares to anger our Miss Xu."
Only her daughter would say that. Xu Fanghua pulled her clothes again and said, "If you had gotten married earlier, I would have been a grandmother."
Even so, it is not the generational title that Yang Wenqi's daughter should call her, and it is not Yang Wenqi who should ask her to call her that. Lu Xingchen reached out to support Xu Fanghua, "Do you want to be a grandmother so much?"
Xu Fanghua put his hand on the back of her hand, "Of course I do, so you should find someone to marry as soon as possible..."
Before she finished speaking, she thought of Lu Wenli, and then of herself, and she felt a pain in her chest. Not only Lu Wenli, but also with her as a mother holding him back, it would be difficult for Lu Xingchen to work and live normally, let alone get married.
At first, she thought that if she agreed to Old Lady Lu, she would no longer be bound by the Lu family. With Xingchen's ability, she would be able to live the life she wanted. However, the Lu family was too cruel and would not stop until they were forced into a desperate situation.
Xu Fanghua dragged her weak body, wishing more than once that she would die of illness soon, and that Lu Wenli, who had been missing for a long time, would also die outside, so that there would be no one to tie down her child.
Thinking of her suddenly holding Lu Xingchen's hand tightly, she asked silently in her heart over and over again, you have grown up, it's okay for your mother not to be by your side, right?
But if she was gone, Lu Xingchen would not have a single relative in this world.
But my child, you will definitely live better and fly higher without your mother.
"Mom." Lu Xingchen called her suddenly. When she looked over in a daze, Lu Xingchen bent down and kissed her on the face, smiling and saying, "I love you, Mom. I will always love you."
Xu Fanghua burst into tears instantly. No matter where she was, she turned around and hugged Lu Xingchen tightly in her arms. She was unable to tell Lu Xingchen that she loved her because her love was too heavy.
She can't do anything except dancing. She is sensitive and fragile, selfish and vain. But she has a smart, beautiful, tough and strong child like Lu Xingchen. She is content with her life and she should be content.
The next day.
Lu Xingchen was flipping through the documents when she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her fingertips. She subconsciously withdrew her hand and saw a small bright red cut slowly appearing on her fingertips.
It was strange. She felt inexplicably anxious this morning. Not only did she knock over the water cup, but she could even cut her hand with an A4 paper.
She took a tissue and pressed it against her fingertips, and the blood immediately stained a small bright red spot on the soft paper. At this time, the phone on the table vibrated, and she saw that it was Aunt Zhang calling, so she immediately picked up the phone.
"Xingchen, has your mother contacted you?"
Lu Xingchen's heart skipped a beat. "No, isn't she with you?"
Aunt Zhang was obviously even more panicked. "Your mother said she wanted to eat seafood porridge. I was a little worried about leaving her alone in the hotel, so I asked her if she wanted to go to the supermarket with me. She said she wanted to sleep for a while and I would wake her up after I cooked the porridge. But now that I have cooked it, I found that she is not in the room and her phone is still at home..."
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