Chapter 113

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After that, Li Huairou and Jiang Wanhe didn’t meet Wang Di and Jiang Xue anymore.

Until, a few months later, Chen Qianqian gave birth, and Jiang Li and his family gathered in the hospital.

Jiang Wanhe was anxiously standing at the door of the delivery room, and Li Huairou couldn’t stand it any longer. Seeing that everyone had hurried over without eating, she picked up her cellphone and ordered takeout.

While picking up the takeout, she bumped into Wang Di, who was laying on the stretcher with a pale face. Jiang Xue hurriedly followed behind the stretcher, her face full of urgency.

“What’s wrong?” Li Huairou asked, grabbing one of the accompanying medical staff.

“He drank too much alcohol, and his intestines are perforated,” the other party said hurriedly, and then they ran off.

Li Huairou’s eyes widened. Drinking to the point of intestinal perforation? How much wine had he consumed!

Li Huairou called her older brother and asked him to come out to pick up the delivery, and then she went to follow, wanting to watch the fun.

Outside the emergency room, Li Huairou heard the doctor’s asking Jiang Xue how the patient had gotten sick. Jiang Xue explained the situation helplessly and worriedly.

Only then did Li Huairou learn that, as graduation was approaching, Wang Di may have been trying to prove himself—he didn’t want to go to work in his family company. After he’d discussed it with Jiang Xue, Jiang Xue had agreed. The two of them opened a small company. Recently, in order to run the business, he’d drunk a little too much. And Jiang Xue found that something was wrong this morning, so she quickly called 120.

Li Huairou couldn’t understand the brain circuits of these people. There were many ways to prove himself. Do you have to leave the support of the family to be independent? So you can prove yourself? What’s more, where did your start-up capital come from? Did you earn it yourself?

People who were truly strong wouldn’t care about these things. They would only use facts to prove it.

Li Huairou was just about to leave, but Jiang Xue had already seen her over there. “Li Huairou? Why are you in the hospital?”

Li Huairou had to come over. “Oh, my sister-in-law is giving birth. I was going out to get takeout, and I happened to see you, and I thought I might have seen the wrong person, so I came to see.”

“Oh, so that’s it. Congratulations!” Jiang Xue nodded. “Wang Di, he…”

Li Huairou’s cellphone rang at this moment, and Li Huairou quickly picked it up. “What? It’s born? Boy or girl? Boy? Forget it, I’m not the first to hug it. If it were a girl, the baby would look like the first one who hugged her. I’m so pretty, and only my niece needs to look good like me. As for a boy? Forget it, it doesn’t matter if it looks good or not. Got it, I’ll be right back.”

Li Huairou hung up the phone.

“Sorry? Ah, my sister-in-law gave birth, so I have to go back quickly. We’ll talk next time.”

Then she hurried away.

Jiang Xue looked at Li Huairou’s back, her expression a little sad. The nurse behind told her to sign for the hospitalization. Jiang Xue only reacted and hurried over.

When Li Huairou arrived at the door of the delivery room, everyone was there except for Li Shenglan and Jiang Ying. “Hey, where is my mother and aunt? Where is my sister-in-law and the baby?”

“Oh, they accompanied the baby to the room. Qianqian hasn’t come out!” Jiang Wanhe said absently, staring at the door of the delivery room.

Li Huairou suddenly thought about something, and she realized that she’d forgotten something! “Where are the flowers? My sister-in-law worked so hard to give birth for you. Aren’t you going to buy a bouquet of flowers to show gratitude?”

Jiang Wanhe gave Li Huairou a blank look and said, “Flowers? Qianqian is allergic to pollen!”

“Ah? A pollen allergy? Really?” Li Huairou touched her head.

Jiang Chenguang looked at the computer and looked at this side with a slight smile on his face.

“Then you didn’t prepare anything at all? How hard it is for a woman to have a baby, and my sister-in-law still gave birth naturally! How painful!” Li Huairou said.

“Children, why bother with so much!” Of course Jiang Wanhe had prepared something, but why did he need to tell Li Huairou!

“Oh, so you cross the river and demolish the bridge! Hehe, you’re not begging me to say good things to my sister-in-law and let you come to bed… woohoo.”

Jiang Wanhe covered Li Huairou’s mouth. “Grandaunt, I’m afraid of you, okay? Stop talking, okay?”

“Let go! It’s not your biological sister, so you don’t feel bad, right?” Older brother Li couldn’t stand it anymore and came over to rescue his little sister.

“I’ll tell you, I’ll tell you. I’ve prepared a gift—a bank card, which contains all my deposits. Is this gift okay?” Jiang Wanhe asked helplessly.

“That’s more like it,” Li Huairou said with a smile.

“Then have you prepared a present for my son?” Jiang Wanhe asked.

“Of course?!” Li Huairou proudly took the gift out from her bag and handed it to Jiang Wanhe.

Jiang Wanhe weighed it. “It’s quite heavy! What is this?”

“I thought it was a niece, so I wanted to give a golden brick. Now, I’ll give a golden lock! Brother, don’t be jealous; in the future, it’ll be the same for you. Boys are golden locks, and girls are golden bricks!” Li Huairou said arrogantly.

Elder brother Li and Jiang Chenguang both laughed, “Really? Then we’ll have to work hard for Huairou’s golden bricks!”

“Mm, you can do it.”

While they were joking and laughing, the door opened, and Qianqian was pushed out.

Jiang Wanhe hurried over and opened his mouth, but he couldn’t say anything. Li Huairou glared at him with disgust. “My brother was just saying, it’s hard work, sister-in-law! Where’re the goods? Take them out!”

Jiang Wanhe quickly took out his bank card, and Chen Qianqian looked at him. What did this mean? Was he taking out this money to humiliate her?

“My brother said that sister-in-law is allergic to pollen, so he didn’t buy you flowers. But this is also a flower—it’s called a You Qian flower! Sister-in-law, these are all my brother’s savings!” Li Huairou snatched the bank card from Jiang Wanhe’s hand and stuffed it into Chen Qianqian’s hands.

[You qian hua (有钱花) is a made-up name. It literally means a “rich flower”]

Chen Qianqian couldn’t help laughing. “A rich flower? This name is quite special.”

Jiang Wanhe still couldn’t say a word, so he could only nod his head.

The way Li Huairou looked at him could no longer be described as disgust.

Chen Qianqian went back to the ward, but she didn’t see the child. She was worried. Li Shenglan came back with her child in her arms. “It’s alright, the nurse asked me to take him to get an injection just now. He cried so much. Now, he’s tired and asleep. Take a look at your son.” Li Shenglan put the child next to Chen Qianqian.

Chen Qianqian looked at the child. Her eyes were a little wet. Just now, in the delivery room, the nurse had asked her to take a look. She hadn’t seen what her son looked like.

Li Shenglan saw this. “You shouldn’t cry. It’s not good for your eyes.”

Li Huairou leaned over to take a look and looked away in disgust. Just as she was about to say something, Jiang Wanhe, who was opposite her, fumed and glared at her.

Li Huairou turned her head. Bah, it’s ugly and I’m not allowed to say it!

On the other end, Wang Di was sent to the ward after the operation. Jiang Xue was worried about Wang Di’s condition, and at the same time she had to deal with the company’s affairs, and she hadn’t had time to eat.

When Wang Di woke up, it was already past one o’clock in the morning. Jiang Xue had just gone to the corridor to make a phone call. She pushed the door open and was relieved to see that Wang Di had woken up.

“Are you okay? How are you feeling? Is there any discomfort?” Jiang Xue asked quickly.

Wang Di shook his head. “I’m fine. Thank you for your hard work.”

Jiang Xue held Wang Di’s hand. “It isn’t hard!”

Wang Di took a deep breath. “Jiang Xue, I want to close the company.”

Jiang Xue raised her head to look at him; she didn’t know what to say for a while. There was definitely disappointment. She’d thought that Wang Di was a man with ambition and courage. It took a long time for her to nod her head. “Okay. I’ll make the arrangements.”

“Each employee should be paid two more months of salary. If our money isn’t enough, I’ll find a way. Where’s my cellphone? I’ll make a call,” Wang Di said.

Jiang Xue took the cellphone from her bag and gave it to Wang Di. “It’s late at night. Let’s call tomorrow morning!”

But Wang Di didn’t want to wait for a second. He shouldn’t have been fascinatedly thinking about not relying on his family to prove himself. As a result, he’d drunk and drunk until he’d suffered an intestinal perforation! When had he suffered this kind of sin since he was a child?

“I know.” Wang Di still picked up the phone and weakly called his mother.

An hour later, Wang Di’s father and mother came and surrounded Wang Di, and his mother cried in distress. His father was distressed and reprimanded him; his mother was distressed for her son and even quarreled with his father.

Jiang Xue awkwardly stood on the side, silently watching.

This went on until other patients in the same ward were woken up and made protests, and the nurse also came to knock on the door, reminding them that it was late at night, so could they please be quiet and not disturb other patients to rest.

Jiang Xue picked up her bag and silently left.

The next afternoon, when Jiang Xue came back, he found that Wang Di had changed wards. It wasn’t a big deal at first, but Wang Di hadn’t told her—Jiang Xue only learned about it from the nurse.

Jiang Xue went to the new ward, and the door was open. Jiang Xue looked into it. It was a single-person ward, and the environment was much better than the previous four-person room. Wang Di was talking to his mother, and there was a nurse beside him.

Jiang Xue didn’t know if she should go in or not for a while.

Finally, Wang Di saw her. “I swore I forgot something. I forgot to tell you about changing the ward. Come in!”

Jiang Xue had to come in.

“Mom, she is Jiang Xue, my girlfriend,” Wang Di said with a smile.

“Hello, Auntie!” Jiang Xue nodded.

How to describe Wang Di’s mother’s attitude… It wasn’t cold, but it wasn’t too affectionate. In fact, she hadn’t liked Luo Qingqing because of Luo Qingqing’s character, and Mother Wang felt that the Luo family was a little more patriarchal. But she wasn’t too satisfied with Jiang Xue; although her personality and character were good, Mother Wang wasn’t very satisfied with the fact that she had no father or mother. They were too busy last night, and she hadn’t paid attention to Jiang Xue. Looking at it today, this character was too bland, and she didn’t look capable of dealing with people.

Mother Wang nodded. “Thank you for your hard work.”

“No, I should do it all.” After Jiang Xue said this, she didn’t know what to say.

Seeing this, Wang Di had no choice but to ask, “How is the company’s business going?”

“I’ve already told everyone, and I’ve also informed the finance staff to give each person an extra two months of salary. It’s just that, on the rent side, we signed a one-year contract at the time, and the lease is not up, so the rent wasn’t refunded,” Jiang Xue said.

“If they don’t refund it, it’s also fine. Anyway, you won’t get much money,” Wang Di said. He had already made an agreement with his parents that when he got better, he would go back to work in their company. In this case, there was no need to worry about a little money like before.

Jiang Xue frowned. Not much money? It was several tens of thousands of yuan. But, looking at Wang Di like this, Jiang Xue knew that it was useless to say it. Forget it, she should find a way by herself! If it didn’t work, she could just sublease it.

The two people who, in spirit, were once in perfect harmony had gradually, unknowingly diverged.

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