Fang Wanqing didn't continue talking.
She disconnected like an unplugged electrical appliance, and her gray-brown eyes were startlingly distracted.
The next second, she pressed the cigarette butt into the ashtray, quickly took out a medicine bottle from her bag, poured out two pills, and swallowed them with tea.
"I'm getting older and I can't take too much excitement, so I won't start from the beginning. If you have any questions, please ask."
"Since it's so painful, why didn't you leave the research institute?" Yan Jin asked lightly.
"I left there in the second year. I thought I would never go back, but I didn't expect that my father was addicted to drugs. Once he died, my family was ruined. Sixteen months later, I came back again. to the lab."
Yan Jin frowned.
"Because I owe money." Fang Wanqing continued to explain: "Father owed a debt, and he is no longer here, so I can only pay it for him. Without this matter, we would never have met."
"How much do you owe?"
"I sold the house and borrowed some from my uncle and aunt, and in the end I was short of three thousand."
Yan Jin fell silent.
The 3,000 yuan in that era may be worth more than the 3,000 yuan now, but it is only 3,000 yuan, and it can push people to such a point. Perhaps it is precisely because of this experience that Fang Wanqing is here. Money shows a strong sense of possessiveness and anxiety.
"I'm not afraid of your jokes. The time given by the debt collectors is only one month away from getting my ID card as an adult. It's only one month away. I'm back there again. Three thousand yuan. I have worked under the hands of the devil for ten years. .”
Fang Wanqing coughed twice, then took the ashtray away.
"I said this not to win sympathy, but to fulfill the promise of the year."
"I know." Yan Jin nodded: "You are a respectable woman."
Fang Wanqing smiled miserably: "Respect, how ironic."
"Everything about you is worthy of respect."
"The experiment has been suspended for more than ten years, and now thinking about it, everything is like a dream."
Yan Jin's expression was a little strange.
"There is always a time to wake up from a nightmare."
"I hope so." Fang Wanqing dragged out a sigh.
"That's the end of the reminiscence. After all, it's really not a good topic for us. Today I asked you out and I have more important things to say."
A trace of surprise appeared on Fang Wanqing's face: "Oh, besides the genetic project, what else can we talk about?"
Yan Jin really wanted to say with a smile that the fate between people is really wonderful, but the next topic is too cruel for this woman who is over fifty years old, so it is inconvenient to make inappropriate jokes at this time .
"I heard that you have a son studying at H University in country m?" Yan Jin said straight to the point.
Fang Wanqing's face turned pale instantly after hearing this, and her voice began to tremble: "I know what I have done is unforgivable, no matter how I get revenge, I have no complaints, but Xiaohao is innocent, He's that man's child, he's innocent."
"Please calm down." Yan Jin said helplessly: "I have made it clear that I will not be held accountable for what happened back then. The past is over. I hope you can give me the most basic trust."
Fang Wanqing nodded her head after a long time.
Only then did Yan Jin continue: "This time I am looking for you because of my lover's entrustment."
"Lover?" Fang Wanqing was at a loss, apparently unable to guess who Yan Jin's so-called lover was.
"It's your son."
Fang Wanqing took a deep breath.
"Please don't get me wrong, it's not your biological son, it's another one." Yan Jin knew that he had made a mistake, so he quickly added: "It's your stepson, Xiao Yu."
After Yan Jin denied Xiao Zihao's denial, Fang Wanqing breathed a sigh of relief, but when she heard Xiao Yu's name, she raised her heart again.
"You mean, Xiao, Yu?" Fang Wanqing confirmed word by word.
"It's him." Mentioning her lover, Yan Jin seemed a little softer.
To Yan Jin's surprise, Fang Wanqing was not as unbelievable as she imagined. Although the expression of surprise still existed in her expression, this kind of surprise was more inclined to learn a weird and difficult to tell the truth. And the surprise of half-believing, not the kind of surprise that is completely unwilling to accept the news.
"...Did you admit the wrong person?" After being speechless for a long time, Fang Wanqing opened her mouth like a joke.
"It's true, I also got your news from him."
"So that's the case. No wonder this kid is unwilling to say anything. I'm afraid he thinks I'm an old antique abandoned by the times." Fang Wanqing's face showed a kind of cunning that belonged to those who have been there before: "Don't dream, I won't agree with the old Xiao's family. no offspring."
Yan Jin: "..." If Fang Wanqing hadn't smiled so brightly, maybe he would have believed it a little bit.
"Okay, you can make a special trip for this matter, what else can I say, you decide about the offspring, whether it's surrogacy, adoption, or adoption, it doesn't matter even if you don't want to have a child, etc. When I get down there, I will apologize to the young and old for you, and he will not blame you." Fang Wanqing smiled openly, "Besides, why do you care about my thoughts? If it is Xiaohao, then my words still have some weight , but that child, for that child, what right do I have to interfere with his decision?"
"Actually," Yan Jin tried not to sound so sad, "Xiaoyu has always been unwilling to marry me considering your feelings."
"My God, why is this?" Fang Wanqing was extremely surprised: "Could it be that in his mind I am an old antique who still looks down on homosexuality in this day and age?"
Fang Wanqing recalled the most recent communication with Xiao Yu, and then asked herself and answered: "Maybe it's because I talked too much about his marriage, but I never once mentioned that he is not allowed to be with a man. I just hope that he can be more considerate when choosing a wife. That child has inherited Lao Xiao's good qualities. I only hope that he will stop following Lao Xiao's future and marry a woman who has no conscience like me. "
Fang Wanqing's evaluation of her husband was as high as her evaluation of herself.
The fact that her husband left first was like a scar on her heart that could not heal, constantly implying that she was the best man in the world who was crushed to death by her.
After all, Fang Wanqing felt that something was wrong, and after taking a look at Yan Jin, she suddenly realized: "It seems that the child is not as good as Lao Xiao, at least Lao Xiao married me in the family, he is good, he has tossed himself out .”
Yan Jin rubbed his nose, and what he said was very routine: "I will treat him well and give him everything he wants."
Fang Wanqing, who was used to ups and downs, was not fooled at all, and said with disgust: "Don't say that to me, I can't bear your promise, you can go toss about the young people's affairs, but as that child The only elder, I still want to say something, since there is no sincerity in this, when are you going to marry?"
Yan Jin said with difficulty: "You may not understand, but equality is emphasized now, regardless of marriage or son-in-law."
"It's fine if you don't get married." Fang Wanqing fiddled with the finger wrench in her hand: "Isn't there a dowry gift that should be missing?"
Yan Jin had a very bad premonition.
He was not afraid that Fang Wanqing would ask him for money at the beginning of the lion. He also hoped that Fang Wanqing would ask for money. The things in this world that can be solved with money are really not a big deal, especially for the reporters interviewed by Liuhuo magazine. As far as Yan Jin was concerned about his specific social status, he didn't have to worry about things that could be settled with a check.
But, sure enough—
"I only have one request, only this one." Fang Wanqing's expression was very serious: "I want you to tell him the truth, tell him what a great man his father was, tell him the plan of the Nanhe family thirty years ago, tell him your own identity."
"I will." Yan Jin solemnly promised.
"If you can still love each other like this, then nothing can separate you... Just take it as the advice of someone who has experienced it. It doesn't matter if you listen to it or not. I don't have the right to care so much. By the way, the child is willing to let me Will you attend his wedding?" Fang Wanqing asked suddenly.
"nature."
"Then old Xiao Quan knows, he should feel relieved."
Yan Jin, who is good at observing words and expressions, caught Fang Wanqing's deeply moved face at this moment, and hit the rails while it was hot:
"Xiaoyu has always admired you, and he hopes that you can become his real mother."
"Polite words?" Fang Wan said with a smile, "I've squeezed him for so many years, I'm afraid it's too late to even hate me."
"He never hated you, neither do I." Yan Jin sighed deeply: "You are a respectable person, even though you were once in the dark and deep in the mud, your soul is shining with humanity all the time Guanghui, just like you saved me back then, Xiaoyu must have obtained something extremely precious from you."
Yan Jin can understand Fang Wanqing's inferiority complex and self-loathing deep in her heart. Anyone who has experienced such a terrible experience will never be able to live under the sun as if nothing had happened, but what he can't figure out is that things have passed so far Over the years, he has grown from a child who has no power to be bullied by others to a person who stands upright, but the years have not left traces in Fang Wanqing's heart. She is still the girl who was mixed with despair and hope back then. In that insensitive hell, the young girl who became a tormented herself like a victim.
"You flatter me too much. I didn't give him anything except that in the third year of high school, I helped him pass the final question of chemistry in the college entrance examination." Fang Wan said affectionately.
Yan Jin: "..."