allonlinenovel Chapter 199 I miss her
Chapter 199 I miss her
Before Lu Xingchen got off work, he received a call from Lin Huanxi, "Brother Chen, are you free tonight? Let's go have dinner together. Cousin Li Shu is treating."
"Tonight?" Today was Lu Dingsheng's fifty-fourth birthday. She wanted to pick out a gift for him, even if she didn't want to give him a present. "Not tonight."
"There's something going on again. It seems like you're too busy to finish your work, and it seems like I have nothing to do."
"How can you work in the General Engineering Department if you have nothing to do?"
"I took the back door." Lin Huanxi laughed and said to himself, "By the way, Brother Chen, do you really not want my brother anymore?"
The question was so direct and irrelevant that Lu Xingchen didn't know how to answer it appropriately.
"Did he say that?" After Lu Xingchen finished speaking, he felt that he had a hidden selfish motive and wanted to find out what Li Zhen meant.
Lin Huanxi curled her lips. "What else can a sultry and venomous guy like him say besides scolding people? It's my mom. I've been trying to arrange a blind date with him recently... Do you know the host of the Lifestyle Channel, Deng Peiling?"
Deng Peiling? Thinking of his own youthful arrogance, Lu Xingchen couldn't help but laugh.
Lin Huanxi: "She was my brother's former neighbor, and her family helped my brother's family a lot. She recently participated in a variety show in Yuecheng, and her parents came with her. My second aunt invited her to her house as a guest. My mother likes to watch her show very much, so she urged my second aunt to match her with my cousin."
Lu Xingchen couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. Can this couple be brought together?
Deng Peiling ruined her relationship with Li Zhen, and Deng Peiling's so-called first love was also ruined by her. She couldn't help but say, "Isn't this good?"
"What's good about them? The second elder of the Deng family is pretty nice, but Deng Peiling... I'm not familiar with her, but I just don't like her. She looks obedient but is actually extremely snobbish. She liked my brother at that time and kept persuading him to buy branded clothes. She also asked my brother to treat her and friends to dinner and so on. Anyway, she thought my brother was poor and didn't want to spend money. What's the point of spending money? I only have my second aunt to raise three children at home. My brother wanted to split a dollar into two. Later, it was said that she met a big boss and went to the TV station for internship in advance."
Lu Xingchen couldn't help but sigh. In less than thirty years, great changes had taken place in the east and west of the river. The poor Li Zhen back then was now able to call the wind and rain.
Lin Huanxi then asked, "Brother Chen, what did you like about my brother before?"
Lu Xingchen asked back, "What do you think is good about your brother?"
"Well...not good at all and good at all. Hahaha. My brother is pretty good except for his rigid and weird temper. If he really cares about someone, he will treat her well from the bottom of his heart."
Lu Xingchen actually agrees with this.
Lin Huanxi asked again, "Are you really not going to consider him anymore?"
"Inviting me to dinner is fake, but the flattery is real, right?" Lu Xingchen replied angrily, "This is not something that can be done just by thinking about it, and I have other things to do. Falling in love is not in my plans for the time being, so whether it's you, Li Shu or Li Wen, stop trying to flatter me. I'm hanging up now."
Lin Huanxi looked at Li Shu who was leaning over to the passenger seat to listen to the call, "She guessed that you were there too."
Li Shu leaned back in his seat, "My brother is probably in trouble."
Lin Huanxi asked, "Did my cousin really go out with Deng Peiling?"
Li Shu nodded, "Deng Peiling coaxed my mom, especially your mom, into a trance. Your mom is completely keeping the benefits to herself. If your brother hadn't gotten married, it probably wouldn't have been my brother's turn."
Lu Xingchen first called Xu Fanghua and said that she would be back later because of something. As soon as she walked out of the company, she saw a black Rolls-Royce parked on the side of the road, and she couldn't help but stop.
A man wearing a light blue short-sleeved shirt and black trousers with gray hair opened the car door and got out. He bowed slightly to her, then raised his head and smiled, "Miss."
This Lu family driver who had been picking her up all those years ago now felt familiar to her from afar. Lu Xingchen walked over and said with a smile, "Uncle Chang."
"Long time no see, is everything okay, Miss?"
"Everything is fine, how about you?"
"I'm fine too, I just miss you a lot."
Lu Xingchen smiled slightly, "Thank you."
Uncle Chang added, "Today is your birthday, I'm here to take you home for dinner."
Lu Xingchen was slightly surprised and asked, "Did the husband or the wife ask you to come?"
Uncle Chang was slightly embarrassed, but as a driver who had taken care of Lu Xingchen for more than ten years, he said truthfully: "My wife told me that my husband asked me to pick you up and take you home for dinner."
Although Lu Dingsheng said that she had too little experience in social matters, after meeting Yang Wenqi at the charity event, Lu Xingchen guessed that this day would come.
Many years ago, Mrs. Lu brought Yang Wenqi, who was two months pregnant, home. Yang Wenqi had always been obedient to the old lady, afraid of Lu Dingsheng, did not provoke her mother, and was cautious with her.
No matter in front of Lu Dingsheng or her, she always stood on their side. Even now, when she talked about Lu Dingsheng in front of her in front of others, she still called him "your dad."
But it was precisely because of her versatility that Lu Xingchen felt that she was shrewd, because back then, the old lady and other people in the Lu family were enough to deal with them mother and daughter, so she only needed to win over Lu Dingsheng.
I remember when Yang Wenqi was first brought home, she had thought about going to Lu Dingsheng to tell him that he should at least wait until he divorced her mother before bringing other women back. Then, at the door of the study, she heard Yang Wenqi crying and explaining to Lu Dingsheng:
"Yes, I have admired you since I was a child, but you have a wife and a daughter and I never dared to covet them. When the old lady came to me, she said that you were divorced because your wife was unfaithful. She said that you often drank alone and asked me to persuade you from time to time, but I didn't expect that she had tampered with the wine... If you really don't like me that much, I can go and get the child aborted and pretend that this never happened."
How precious was the child to Lu Dingsheng at that time?
Even if it wasn't at that time, Lu Dingsheng had been begging for a child for many years. Now even she, Lu Xingchen, is not his biological daughter, so the child is even more precious to him, so Yang Wenqi can be said to have a firm grasp on his weak spot.
It was also from that time that Lu Xingchen became wary of Yang Wenqi, and in that family war, she sent her out of the Lu family without any effort.
In the following years when she started her own business, she would often call her to ask about her situation and when she would go home to visit Lu Dingsheng. She would also reveal from time to time that Lu Dingsheng missed her, but occasionally she would also say that grandma was thinking about her too, but she just couldn't get over the hurdle in her heart.
If she is like this in front of her, what about Lu Dingsheng?
So, when her mother told her that the Lu family was behind the incident that year, she thought of Yang Wenqi.
Then, at the charity event, Yang Wenqi was still trying to match her up with Lu Dingsheng, calling him "dad" all the time. But when they met her mother in private, she asked her daughter to call her grandma. Now, she asked her to go home on Lu Dingsheng's birthday, even when her mother was preparing for a divorce.
Lu Xingchen smiled and said to Uncle Chang: "I didn't go in previous years, and this year is the same. Go back and tell him that I wish him a happy birthday."
She used "go" instead of "return", and addressed Lu Dingsheng as "he" instead of "dad". There was some pity and regret in Uncle Chang's eyes, but he knew that her action was not only to protect herself, but also because she didn't want to embarrass her husband.
Uncle Chang looked at her for a long time and said, "The master was ill a while ago. When he was delirious with fever, he saw me coming to the bedside and asked, 'Has Xingchen finished school? I miss her.'"