Jiang Ou did not expect to meet Du Cheng in this hospital.
She told Sheng Mingyang that this was her old high school classmate, and she actually had a better relationship than her classmates—Du Cheng was one of her best friends in high school.
She is the squad leader, Du Cheng is the deputy squad, sitting at the back of her desk, often complaining, "I'll do all the work, you have the biggest title, where can you find such a good buddy", and then he turned his head and continued to babble. She helps. She often felt sorry for her, so she would bring some homemade snacks to share with the two boys at the back table. At that time, her mother was a teacher, and she did not suffer from the later diseases of old age. She was clear-headed and gentle, and her craftsmanship was very good. Du Cheng often said that his tablemate could get so many delicious food by doing nothing, and it was all because of him.
His name at the same table was Ji Huanyu, who was Jiang Ou's later boyfriend, husband, and ex-husband.
Du Cheng knew that Jiang Ou liked Ji Huanyu. The young man couldn't hide his thoughts, so he always had a friend who could talk to her. Du Cheng was the friend who could talk to her about his thoughts, and even helped her to talk about Ji Huanyu's thoughts. But Du Cheng was not optimistic about them. He said that Ji Huanyu was too diabolical and not suitable for her.
So when Jiang Ou and Ji Huanyu were really together, their small group of three at the front and back tables dispersed. Ji Huanyu and Du Cheng had a good relationship at first, but after that there were frequent skirmishes and quarrels.
Jiang Ou was very puzzled for a time, how can two people collapse when they say it is good. Later, I learned that Ji Huanyu thought that Du Cheng also liked her, and regarded him as a potential rival in love, which made Jiang Ou laugh and cry and didn't know how to explain it.
When she was young, she believed that conflicts were temporary, and relationships were long-lasting. Friends were inseparable, and lovers were inseparable. Only later did I realize that time was rolling and everyone was running forward, and everything would change.
After graduation, Du Cheng went to the north and never contacted her again. He has good grades, strong popularity, and it is said that he is prosperous. On the contrary, Jiang Ou and Ji Huanyu have been entangled for more than ten years, and the last is bleak.
Jiang Ou didn't have much contact with his former classmates. In the early years, it was because everyone was busy, and then he deliberately avoided it. After the divorce, she was in a semi-closed state for a long time, maintaining a positive attitude in front of her son, and actually blocked everything related to Ji Huanyu for a long time.
Later, she learned indirectly from the circle of friends that Ji Huanyu became acquainted with high school friends again, established each other's contacts, and went abroad to develop.
Since then, apart from her regular maintenance obligations, she has never heard any new news from the other party.
Until this year, it was still the news that was indirectly seen in the circle of friends-the friend who went abroad with Ji Huanyu was ill, which was very troublesome, and I didn't know how much time was left.
That friend is Du Cheng.
Du Cheng on the hospital bed was different from the 18-year-old him. Jiang Ou would not have dared to recognize him if he hadn't met a classmate who was visiting the sick in the corridor.
When the teacher was making a joke, the scene where the front and back tables were laughing like yesterday, when they turned their heads, they were already middle-aged.
Du Cheng was surprised to see her, and sat up from the hospital bed without speaking. It was Jiang Ou who spoke first. She asked him why he suddenly returned to China. He pointed to his head and said, "If something grows, it spreads and there is no cure. One day goes by. There are just so many things abroad. It's boring to look at for a long time, so I want to come back."
He was silent for a long time, then smiled and said, "I don't want to die outside."
Because of these words, Jiang Ou couldn't stay in that ward. After chatting for a while, she went downstairs in a hurry. She has been emotionally sensitive and easy to cry in recent years. Second, she was afraid that she would meet Ji Huanyu after staying for a long time.
Du Cheng has returned to China, and Ji Huanyu must be there.
When Jiang Ou returned downstairs, Sheng Mingyang was going through the discharge procedures for the old man Ding, and Sheng Wang was carrying the old man's tinkling canvas bag to tell him a joke, making the other party lean back and forth. Her precious son, with the old man's coat pestle on his elbow, wrote "This joke is really boring" all over his face, but he couldn't help but bend the corners of his mouth a few times.
This scene calmed her down a little.
She was about to walk over when her phone suddenly vibrated and received a message from Du Cheng. Wechat was just added, and the content of the message was only a short sentence: Thank you for coming to see me.
Jiang Ou stopped his steps and replied: It should be, how many years of friends, you take a good rest, don't think too much.
The other party never returned anything after that.
This time of year is the busiest time for Sheng Mingyang. When dealing with customers in the capital account, problems are prone to occur in every link, but there are a lot of social events, dredging this and managing that.
Since the old man Ding settled down, he never put down his mobile phone, and the phone messages came one after another. Even when he entered the old yard outside Wutong, he kept one eye on his feet and the other on the screen.
Sheng Wang originally planned to find a suitable opportunity to mention to his father, saying that the schoolwork was getting heavier and heavier and the lights in the dormitory were turned off too early, so he and his brother rented a house at the gate of the school.
In fact, the contract has not been signed yet, but based on his years of experience, the only way to deal with Sheng Mingyang is to kill first and then play.
As a result, the other party really couldn't make time for small talk, so Sheng Wang had to postpone the topic.
Jiang Tian noticed Jiang Ou's unhappiness in the hospital, and finally asked, "What's wrong with you?"
"Huh?" Jiang Ou was absent-minded and almost tripped over the threshold of the kitchen. She held the door embarrassedly and explained, "It's alright, it's just that there was a problem with the return of funds recently. I didn't get a permit, and I was a little tired. I saw a former classmate in the hospital just now, and it was very uncomfortable to see."
"Which classmate?" Jiang Tian asked.
"I said you don't know it either." Jiang Ou laughed and said, "Someday I have the time to turn out the old graduation photos for you to recognize. I may not recognize it myself, and I haven't been in touch for a long time."
Jiang Tian just nodded, thinking that Ji Huanyu was still in the graduation photo, he immediately lowered his face and said, "Let's talk about it."
Jiang Ou saw his expression of eating sour rice, he hesitated, and finally patted him helplessly and said, "You play with Xiaowang for a while, and I'll go to the kitchen to get you something to eat."
"Don't be busy, order takeout." Sheng Wang stuck his head in from outside the kitchen.
"Don't believe in my craftsmanship?" Jiang Ou smiled and put on his apron.
In the end, her skill was still unsuccessful. Sheng Mingyang answered the phone and hurriedly called her out. The two had to run to the city industrial park.
The kitchen stalls were all set up, and suddenly there was no spoon, Sheng Wang and Jiang Tian looked at each other. Old man Ding rolled up his sleeves to get on himself, but was pushed back to the bed by two big boys.
"The doctor said that your blood pressure is high, you are prone to bleeding, and you are prone to thrombosis." Jiang Tian was not polite at all, he turned on the TV and wrapped a blanket and said, "Stay here."
Sheng Wang tugged at him: "You pick it up, don't scare the old man back to the hospital again."
Jiang Tian pointed at the old man and said, "Do you think he is someone who will be scared?"
Old man Ding struggled to lift the blanket: "When I was a soldier, I was not afraid of bullets flying against my scalp, but I was afraid of this little problem."
Sheng Wang: "… "
After thinking for a while, he pulled the blanket out of the old man's hand and tucked it tightly: "Grandpa, there is an old grandma next door to my house who has high blood pressure. Just sitting up and shaking from the bed like this, the person is gone."
Old Man Ding: "..."
"This problem can't be tired, let alone anxious. I also chatted with a nurse sister today, and she said that there was an elderly person with Alzheimer's disease in the next ward who had a blood clot. One day, she got angry because of something, and she became confused. —" Sheng Wang said, "Grandpa, you seem to be in a hurry just now."
Old Man Ding: "..."
The old man's bones are hard, and he is more afraid of becoming stupid than afraid of death.
Sheng Wang wanted to speak again, but Jiang Tian covered his mouth and dragged the scary bear thing back to the kitchen.
"If you talk nonsense again, you will really have to go back to the hospital." Jiang Tian said.
"Uhhh." The eldest young master was still covered by him, unable to speak, so he simply pouted and kissed the palm of his hand.
"… "
Jiang Tian was tickled by him, and withdrew his hand, Sheng Wang smirked while supporting the table.
"I didn't talk nonsense, the nurse really told me that, the exact words." Sheng Wang jumped on the table, looked at the dishes washed in the kitchen and said, "What about this big stall? Something to eat?"
Jiang Tian looked at him suspiciously: "You can cook?"
Sheng Wang said reservedly, "A little bit."
The eldest young master is a man of action, and he does what he says. He jumped off the table, washed his hands and said, "You heat the pot, I'll finish cutting the half-cut cabbage. How is Aunt Jiang going to fry it?"
"Sweet and sour." Jiang Tian said.
"Okay, wait." Sheng Wang stood by the chopping board, holding the sized cabbage in one hand, and picked up the knife in the other.
Given that someone had a murder weapon in his hand, Jiang Tian didn't dare to look away at all, and stared at him while supporting the table. Watching Sheng Wang cut two knives while walking on a high-altitude tightrope, not to mention the different widths, the third knife was directly on the finger when it was aligned.
I really believe in your evil.
Jiang Tianxin said.
He lifted someone away, drew the knife and said, "The door is there, go out."
Sheng Wang poked his head behind him: "Hey, I'm just not familiar with it, you let me try two more cuts."
"I don't want to eat cabbage and stir-fried fingers." Jiang Tian said blankly, "Stay on the side."
"Then will you?" Sheng Wang asked.
Of course Jiang Tian can do it. After all, he is used to being independent, and unlike Shengwang, who has Aunt Sun who manages food and drink, he does it by himself when he is alone, but he does not have the patience to study this, so the technology is not very good. Only to the extent of "eating".
Feeding himself is no problem, satisfying a picky eater is a problem.
After Jiang Tian finished cutting the vegetables, he was about to bite the bullet with a sullen face, when the courtyard door creaked suddenly, and Uncle Dumb rescued him with two bags of things.
Dumb just came back from Boss Xile Zhao. He bought dumpling skins, minced meat, green onions and ginger along the way. He was going to come back and make some dumplings to freeze.
Without saying a word, Jiang Tian chopped the cut cabbage, let Uncle Dumb mix it into the meat, adjusted the stuffing, and the three of them went into the kitchen to wrap dumplings.
The eldest young master is still not working, staring at Jiang Tian's movements and learning the bag, and sometimes stops the opponent's fingers to force a pause.
He either stuffed too much stuffing or stuffed too little, either missing a piece or flattened a piece, and he couldn't stand up. But she still insisted on arguing for face
Jiang Tian didn't cooperate at all and said, "We can all stick together."
"The stuffing is not obedient and always moves around."
"I'm very obedient."
"… "
While trying to make trouble for his brother, Sheng Wang worked hard to improve his skills. After wrapping a bunch of ugly things, he finally had the appearance of some dumplings. He held the finished product in the palm of his hand and said to Jiang Tian, "Help me take a photo with my son."
Jiang Tian: "…"
There were only a few dumpling wrappers left, and Dumb just washed his hands and went to boil water, and no one noticed them. Jiang Tian took a tissue and wiped his hands, took out his phone and pointed it at Shengwang, and when he pressed the camera button, he said in a low voice, "I don't recognize this kind of son."
When Dumb boiled the water and came back, he found that Sheng Wang was suddenly not poor, and he honestly made the last dumpling, carefully and earnestly as if he was making handicrafts, but his neck was a little red.
Sheng Mingyang and Jiang Ou rushed back. They planned to finish the stall left in the kitchen while it was just getting dark. Unexpectedly, they smelled vinegar and dumplings as soon as they entered the door.
Old man Ding came out of the bedroom wearing a coat and greeted them into the hall: "It's just right, the two children made dumplings with the mute."
"Two children?" Sheng Mingyang couldn't believe it, "Are you sure you have both?"
"It's over, Xiaowang has been studying for a long time." Ding old man said.
The whole family of Shengwang's descendants showed their original shape when they put the pot, and a lot of them were broken. The dumpling soup was almost turned into cabbage soup, but Dumb still happily fished them up, filled several large plates and brought them to the table.
It is rare for a small courtyard to be so lively, and it was the first time for three generations to sit together to eat a firework meal. For a moment, it had a warm meaning.
The old man pulled out the wine that had been hidden for a long time from the bottom of the bed, poured three glasses, and had a light drink with Sheng Mingyang and Dumb. After drinking it, the old man couldn't help but tease: "Xiao Wang, you have to practice this skill, otherwise you won't be able to deceive your wife in the future."
Sheng Mingyang almost choked on the wine and couldn't laugh beside him.
Sheng Wang opened his mouth to say something, but finally made a "uh" and took a bite of the dumplings. He actually wanted to say "then don't marry", but Jiang Tian touched his shoes lightly, and he instantly returned to his position rationally, and swallowed the words again.
He's not really cowardly. If it's just him, then there's no need to be afraid. He dares to come out in front of Sheng Mingyang, and it's a big deal to kill him.
But there is also Jiang Tian.
As long as Jiang Tian was involved, he suddenly became timid.
Sheng Wang's legs were against Jiang Tian under the table, he took a few mouthfuls, and played with his mobile phone for a while as if he didn't care. He didn't raise his head until the elder's jokes were over, only to find that all the broken dumplings made by his poor craftsmanship were picked and eaten by Jiang Tian.
He blinked lightly, then hurriedly lowered his head, feeling sour in his heart.
The meal wasn't great, but they took a long time. Sheng Mingyang's alcohol intake was as deep as the sea, but he was a little drunk in the end. He poured the last bit of wine in the bottle, raised the glass and touched the old man Ding and the mute. He was excited, and suddenly said, "Jiang Ou and I plan to find a time a few years ago to invite a few family members and friends to have a meal. The meals are all big and big, and it's a bit exaggerated to do big things. We discussed it and thought it would be better to keep it simple. We must come when the time comes."
Sheng Wang was full after eating and was stunned after dinner. He almost didn't understand the meaning when he heard this. It took several seconds for him to realize that Sheng Mingyang was saying that he and Jiang Ou were going to settle down.
Invite friends and family for a meal and get the certificate, they are a legal family.
Sheng Wang's face was so white that he couldn't see blood in the light. He pursed his lips and remained silent for a long time, then raised his eyes to meet Jiang Tian's gaze.