A few days later, the middle-aged couple came to visit again, and at the same time, the lawyer Sui Yi hired for her mother-in-law also arrived.
The man surnamed Sun listened to the lawyer's coherent refutation of his so-called "first inheritance". His forehead was blue with anger. He gritted his teeth for the house and swallowed his voice.
The mother-in-law was in good condition today, and she listened to it for more than ten minutes calmly. After listening, she calmly asked Ning Lan to send the person out.
Seeing that his mother-in-law was unmoved, the man finally lost his patience, turned on the harassment mode, looked at Szewen Wen alone, in order to gain points for himself, he poured dirty water on Ning Lan, tore his face and scolded: "You are just thinking about it. Don't think I don't know about that house!"
In the end, he was forced out by Sui Yi.
The man realized that he was the son of the Sui family behind the door, and immediately put away his arrogant attitude, handed him a business card with a smile on his face, and said that he could talk about business cooperation in the future.
Sui Yi didn't answer and said, "The company's affairs are not under my control."
The man persevered with a sullen face: "You can hand it over to Ling Zun, just say..."
Sui Yi sneered: "My dad is very busy, I'm afraid he doesn't have time to look at your business card."
The couple surnamed Sun left with black faces.
The mother-in-law's performance today was abnormally calm, and Ning Lan couldn't be relieved. She didn't go back to Quanxi to visit the store, and stayed in front of her mother-in-law until she fell asleep.
At night, Ning Lan was sitting by the window in a daze. Sui Yi cut a mango and handed it to him. He held it in his hand and looked at it for a while, then suddenly asked, "Do you think I'm here for the house too?"
Sui Yi's heart skipped a beat. These past few days, Ning Lan never took the initiative to bring up the past, and then created the illusion that the past events were just a passing away and a dream. Now the biggest issue between them was brought up without warning, and it was laid out naked in front of him. Sui Yi was caught off guard, and his heart almost jumped to his throat.
"No, how could I..."
Sui Yi was eager to defend herself, but she did not miss the sneer that flashed across Ning Lan's mouth.
He said, "I'm not that kind of person in your eyes?"
Sui Yi finally tasted the taste of a hundred mouths.
In the past, he didn't believe what Ning Lan said, but now the situation is the other way around, and he realized how bad it feels to not be trusted.
This is a deep-rooted ingrain that has accumulated over time, and it cannot be easily resolved by saying "I'm sorry" or "I love you" countless times.
Sui Yi was very depressed for a while, as if the feeling of helplessness that Ning Lan pretended not to know him made a comeback.
This time he didn't ask anyone for help, and this problem can only be solved slowly in the future. Even if it has no solution, you can only blame yourself.
In the blink of an eye, September is about to pass. The weather turns cooler and the rain is continuous. The old typhoid on Ning Lan's feet is inflamed by the cold, and it often hurts to sleep well at night.
Sui Yi, who was in the same room with him, noticed his discomfort and prescribed some painkillers with less side effects. The symptoms were relieved a little by continuing to apply the patch.
Arthritis is the most resistant to the wind. Sui Yi also bought thick cotton socks for Ning Lan.
On this day, Ning Lan was tired from watching the store delivery during the day. After dinner, she watched TV with her mother-in-law. She fell asleep on the sofa while watching. Sui Yi took the newly bought cartoon five-finger socks, squatted down and put them on Ning Lan's bare feet, and finally covered his ankles with his palms, causing Ning Lan to sigh comfortably in his sleep.
After doing this, Sui Yi planned to carry the person into the back room to rest, but her mother-in-law waved at him and motioned him to go over.
"You and Ningning quarreled?"
"No." Sui Yi explained a little embarrassedly, "Issues left over from history."
The mother-in-law glared at him: "That's your problem."
Sui Yi nodded and admitted, "Yes."
"My Ningning is such a good child, what did your boy do to make him sad like that?"
Sui Yi recalled the past, his eyes were full of pain, and he didn't know where to start.
My mother-in-law didn't force him, sighed, and said, "It's also fate, three years ago, he bought food in my store, and at that time I thought he was a good boy, so I gave him a few less. Qian, he turned around and found that he had to help me move the goods, and it was not too tiring to move it all afternoon. It was almost Chinese New Year, and it was freezing cold. One morning when I opened the door, I saw a person squatting at the door, and I took a closer look. , Ning Ning's face turned pale from the cold, and her lips were purple."
Hearing this, Sui Yi's heart froze. He knew that Ning Lan could not use the ID card after leaving, and it might be very difficult. Hearing these details from his mother-in-law's mouth, and the specific scene appeared in front of him, he was really distressed. Almost out of breath.
"Later, I took him in. At first, people around me said I was stupid, and it wasn't enough to be tricked once. Then I picked up such a big child and said that other people's children were not well raised. I think, I will bet this time again. Well, I bet my old woman is not blind yet, she can still look at people." The mother-in-law turned her head and glanced at Ning Lan who was sleeping on the sofa, "Look, God still treats me well, and will send it to me when I'm about to die. When such a good child comes to me, even if I can't open my eyes tomorrow, I have no regrets."
Sui Yi panicked when he heard the word "death": "Mother-in-law, don't talk nonsense, you want to live a hundred years."
The mother-in-law smiled and waved her hand: "Can I count my own body? You guys, don't bother to coax me."
Sui Yi didn't know how to comfort her. Seeing that her mother-in-law could see clearly, it seemed that everything was superfluous.
"Even if Ning Ning doesn't talk about it, I know that he has had a hard time before. Those who have suffered have vicissitudes in their eyes. I knew it when I first saw him."
The mother-in-law said that she was tired and coughed lightly. Sui Yi took the thermos cup to feed her water, she moistened her throat, looked up at Sui Yi and said, "Don't worry about the past, I guess Ning Ning is also trying to forget it. Those unhappy things, try to look forward. Promise mother-in-law, treat him better in the future, don't make him sad anymore, he is a kind child, and it is easy to be content. "
Sui Yi's throat choked, he took a deep breath, and nodded solemnly: "Okay."
Time flies, summer goes to autumn.
On the day Sui Yi went to attend the TV drama conference, Ning Lan was walking downstairs with her mother-in-law, and a half-yellow maple leaf fell on his head.
The mother-in-law squinted to help him pat the leaves off, touched his cold hand, and said, "Let's go, let's go back and watch Xiao Sui's performance on TV."
Sui Yi had previously taught her mother-in-law to watch Internet TV, and Ning Lan helped her find the live broadcast of the press conference. Her mother-in-law was happy to watch it, and from time to time she praised "this child is so handsome", "he is so tall", "no one in the audience is as good-looking as him" "And so on, Ning Lan pressed the computer with the ledger on the side, couldn't help but looked up and hummed to express jealousy.
After watching the press conference, my mother-in-law started watching "Overturning the River and Mountains", which was also recommended to her by Sui Yi, and also gave her the Ning Lan CUT version on the TV, so that she could watch it at any time. The mother-in-law was happy, but Ning Lan was so ashamed, she said, "What year is Chen Zhi's rotten millet, why do you still take it out?"
He didn't know that during the three years of separation, Sui Yi was holding on to these "Chen sesame and rotten millet".
The press conference was held locally in the capital. My mother-in-law guessed that Sui Yi was coming back soon, and asked Ning Lan to buy him a fried chicken as a reward. Ning Lan shook her head and said that she would not buy it for him. Her mother-in-law said that he was stingy. After a while, Sui Yi called.
Ning Lan was still smiling when she answered the phone, but after a few seconds, her expression changed.
After hanging up, he sat there for a while, before his mother-in-law called him several times before he recovered.
Ning Lan's throat seemed to be blocked by a stone, her face was pale, and she stammered for a long time before she could speak clearly: "I...
That afternoon, Sui Yi settled down with her mother-in-law and took Ning Lan on the plane back to her hometown.
Ning Lan hadn't left the capital for four years and was a little unfamiliar with the airport. When the plane started taxiing, he shivered violently. Sui Yi held his hand on the armrest and comforted him: "Don't be afraid, we'll be right away. almost there."
After the press conference, Sui Yi was informed by assistant Mi Jie that someone had called and said that an underground casino in G city was on fire, and a person named Zhao Jinshan was trapped inside and did not have time to escape. He died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
After getting off the plane, the two rushed to the scene of the accident. It was an ordinary private house on the outskirts of the city. In order to hide people's eyes and ears, the underground casino entered from the private house, and it was completely invisible from the outside.
The police at the scene told them that the casino had just opened, and it was understood that two people, Zhao Jinshan and Xie Tianhao, started the fire. Due to the illegal operation, the lack of basic firefighting facilities, and the lack of firefighting passages, dozens of people were blocked below and unable to get out after the fire, resulting in heavy casualties.
Until she went to the hospital morgue to see the body, Ning Lan was in a calm state. He only asked the doctor one question: "Is it really impossible to save life?"
The doctor shook his head: "When it was delivered, the carbon monoxide concentration in the body had already exceeded the lethal dose. My condolences and change."
The doctor also said that after calling all the local numbers on her mobile phone, she could not get through, or she was hung up without saying a word. Finally, she had to dial other numbers to see if anyone came to identify the body.
Ning Lan got Zhao Jinshan's mobile phone. The phone was still charged. He put his finger on the call log for a long time, and finally didn't click it.
In the morning of the next day, Sui Yi accompanied Ning Lan home to collect the belongings.
Zhao Jinshan still lives in the same building, which is even more dilapidated than when Sui Yi came three years ago. There are several cracks on the walls. It rained a few days ago, and the walls were soaked in the rain to make them uneven, like something that could collapse at any time. Dangerous house.
Looking at the almost unchanged furnishings in the house, Ning Lan thought both sarcastically and resentfully, every year they said that they would be demolished, every year they said that they would buy a new house, take so much money, and go to a casino? Your brain is only to be fooled.
Zhao Jinshan didn't have many relics. The strange thing was that she didn't wear gold and silver jewelry on her body, and she couldn't find it in her room.
Ning Lan finished sorting her clothes, pushed open the door of her room, and unexpectedly found that the room was fairly clean, there was no dust on the table, and the bedding was new. He was very afraid of the cold, and he often had to change thick quilts around the Mid-Autumn Festival. At that time, Zhao Jinshan often thought that he was squeamish and difficult to support, so he asked him to get out of the way, not to drag himself down.
Ning Lan stood at the door for a while, then walked in slowly, opened the desk drawer, the first thing that caught his eye was a small wooden box with a few words slanted on it, originally "Lan Lan's Wife Book" , the last three words were roughly crossed out and changed to "Lanlan's dowry".
Opening the box, there were a bunch of gold ornaments in a mess, and there was a passbook at the bottom. Although the amount above was not large, it was enough to buy a decent apartment in this small town of G City.
Ning Lan finally turned on Zhao Jinshan's mobile phone. In the call records, except for those dialed by the doctor yesterday, the phone number dialed by Zhao Jinshan herself was signed "Baby Son", and she dialed 7 times in total, but no one answered.
Ning Lan closed her eyes and slowly crouched down holding the box and mobile phone.
The number was changed a few years ago. What's the use of calling the police without calling 119
Really mindless.
Although no one came to offer condolences, Ning Lan still set up a mourning hall for her mother, and she was buried two days later.
He couldn't guess what Zhao Jinshan wanted to say to him at the last moment before he died, but he didn't regret not contacting her in the past few years, and he was no different from death at that time.
Most things in this world have no chance to come back. Zhao Jinshan doesn't know that he is scarred and ill, and he doesn't know that Zhao Jinshan doesn't have no love for him at all.
In the final analysis, stubbornness is the root of the error.
Back in the waiting room of the capital, Ning Lan took Sui Yi to the bathroom and bought him fried chicken at the Golden Arch next to him. After returning, Sui Yi said cautiously, "I can't eat meat during this time."
Ning Lan blinked, understood what he meant after a while, and said, "My hometown doesn't have a saying about keeping filial piety, so you can eat it."
Sui Yi was so flattered that she did not forget to take a photo before she started eating. As soon as she landed on Weibo after the shoot, she got the incredible news—Ning Lan, a former member of AOW, appeared in City G and was suspected of taking care of the funeral for her mother.
The text said that a citizen of G city recently witnessed Ning Lan in a funeral home. It is understood that her mother died in the sensational "fire case of an underground casino in G city" a few days ago. Ning Lan should return home this time to pay for her mother's funeral.
There is also an unclear photo below. In the photo, Ning Lan kneels in front of the funeral photo of the mourning hall with a blank expression.
There were different winds in the comments. Most netizens did not pay attention to Ning Lan, but were curious about the man in black clothes and black pants next to Ning Lan. Soon someone guessed that it was his former teammate Sui Yi based on his height and body shape, and even more daring passer-by Aite Sui Yi asked "is that you?"
Sui Yi didn't panic when he saw this situation, he sent a text message to Mi Jie: [What I have prepared before can be sent]
When the plane arrived in the capital, Sui Yi turned on his mobile phone again to see what some insiders revealed about Ning Lan's mother's misdeeds before her death, and that most of the money Ning Lan gave up after studying at university and working to support her family was all sent to her family, etc. There was a lot of buzz on the Internet.
After Fang Yu, a solo member of AOW, praised and expressed his acquiescence, Lu Xiaochuan and Gu Chenkai, who was studying abroad, also praised one after another, confirming the authenticity of this news.
Immediately afterwards, Zhang Fan, the former agent of AOW, reposted it, saying that Ning Lan is a kind child. She is glad that someone finally speaks for him, and also revealed that Ning Lan fought for the filming opportunity of "Overturning the River and Mountains" by herself, not the Internet. The so-called “stepping on teammates” that was uploaded, the company issued a statement to clarify, but no one believed it. Now that times have changed, I hope everyone can view this matter rationally and make Ning Lan innocent.
"Ning Lan's whitewashing" became the first blockbuster news in the October entertainment circle. However, he has been out of the circle for more than three years. Occasionally, young people passing by will ask "Who is Ning Lan?". His influence is not as good as that of other popular news. Netizens only sighed for half an afternoon. Plus one night, this news was easily suppressed by "a married actor's appointment", and no one mentioned it again.
Sui Yi started planning this incident very early, and chose to reveal it at this time. Although she was a little sorry for Ning Lan's dead mother, if she wanted everyone to know that Ning Lan didn't do those things, especially when she didn't know the truth and was reckless. To crusade his fans, he can only seize this opportunity.
To let Ning Lan get rid of the psychological shadow, the first thing to do is to give him a safe and friendly social environment.
So, in order to expand the influence of this incident, let everyone know his attitude, and pave the way for future publicity, Sui Yi not only liked it, but also retweeted it at the prime time that night to ask if the person at the funeral was In his Weibo, he answered succinctly: It's me.