Chapter 40: Her leg wasn’t as thick as his arm

Jiang Ning’s face was burning.

Even after she lay down in bed, her ears were still hot.

She deliberately squeezed herself into the corner of the bed, as far away from him as possible.

Where had she been rolling around? She had been sleeping soundly, she definitely wouldn’t have moved around.

She had to admit, hearing him say he would feel sorry for her, she felt a tremor from her ears to her heart, like a warm, comforting hand firmly grasping her.

Was it because she had said before that her cheap parents didn’t care about her, so he was deliberately saying this?

Despite this, Jiang Ning remembered the slight curve of his lips, and she still felt a little bit smitten.

His features were hard and cold, his outline exceptionally sharp, yet he was clearly suited for smiling.

A slight curve was like the first melting of snow on the river, a gentle breeze through the bamboo forest.

At night, the entire small town fell into a velvety silence, a dreamlike stillness. Under one small eaves, the two of them slept, each with their own thoughts.

Just as Jiang Ning was about to fall asleep, she vaguely realized that it was very quiet tonight, the neighbor had finally rested for a day…

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Early in the morning, birds chirped crisply outside the window lattice, the nearby bun shop started shouting out change, the corridor outside the house had the sound of slippers dragging and doors opening and closing from time to time, and the neighbor next door started their coal stove, frying eggs with a sizzling sound.

In the familiar rustling sounds, a new day began.

Lu Dingquan opened his eyes, and the first thing he saw was a leg lying across his quilt.

He closed his eyes, opened them again, and was fully awake. He sat up straight, calmly lifted the small white leg that was lying across him in a peculiar posture, and calmly threw it back to its rightful place.

After throwing it back, he took a few more seconds to look at it… well, maybe four or five seconds.

He came to the conclusion that her leg wasn’t as thick as his arm.

When Lu Dingquan got out of bed, he heard the woman on the bed grunt softly as she curled up into a ball.

They had slept in the same bed, but not the same pillow, for three days, and he had already figured out her sleeping habits.

After falling asleep, she liked to burrow under the quilt and suffocate herself.

He remembered the first morning, when he opened his eyes, he only saw a head of black hair facing his face, he couldn’t even find her head, even Lu Dingquan, who had been through a lot, was instantly jolted awake, his scalp tingling.

Besides burrowing under the quilt and suffocating herself, she also liked to move around, her limbs scattered everywhere.

The night before, Lu Dingquan was sleeping soundly when he felt a hand reach into his quilt. Before he could grab it, the hand unceremoniously pinched his waist and then withdrew as if nothing had happened.

The woman beside him was fast asleep, muttering complaints: “So hard… how do you eat it?”

Obviously, she was dreaming of roast chicken.

The next day, she woke up with a slightly damp pillow, and he noticed that she had secretly taken it to wash while he wasn’t looking.

After Lu Dingquan got up, he went to the bathroom to change into his shirt and trousers, and he noticed that a certain part of him was quite excited.

He continued brushing his teeth expressionlessly.

These three days…

Well.

It was like this, just get used to it.

Jiang Ning didn’t know that the accusations of the man last night were true. She woke up a bit late today, and when she got up, Lu Dingquan was already dressed and ready to go out.

He took out a stack of documents from the drawer, carefully looked them over, put them in his briefcase, then looked up at her and said: “There’s something going on at the factory today, there’s a technical research meeting, I might not be able to make it back tonight.”

“Oh, okay.”

He stared at her for a few seconds, enjoying her cheerful expression, his brows furrowed slightly, and suddenly asked: “Is there really nothing wrong with your father? Should I go to the hospital today?”

Jiang Ning: “You go about your business, don’t worry about it. My dad isn’t sick, he just has a heart condition, one is poverty, the other is that he can’t fly.”

Lu Dingquan looked at her smiling face silently, as if she was no longer affected by last night’s emotions, he didn’t say anything else, glanced at his watch, and turned to leave in a hurry.

Jiang Ning smiled and got up to wash up.

Last night they had finally talked things out, and from what he meant, he would still be responsible for the household expenses and living expenses.

But Jiang Ning had already decided with a sense of urgency that she had to make money as soon as possible, so that even if Lu Dingquan’s factory couldn’t sustain itself and something happened, she could still help a little.

This way, she would become the boss’s original investor, follow him, and when they got through the tough times, she wouldn’t have to worry about eating and drinking in the future!

And the first step to making money was to go to the ghost market as soon as possible and check it out.

She thought, if all else fails, she would go find Su Chanzi again and ask him to take her there.

Those people had connections, they must have a way to go together.

Jiang Ning packed up and went out, the old man at the gatehouse came back from his walk and met her downstairs, smiling: “Xiao Jiang, there’s a phone call for you, it’s been ringing two or three times.”

Jiang Ning stood downstairs, without thinking, it must be her cheap parents or her second sister.

She still dialed the number back.

This number was from Jiang Mei’s work unit, the other side picked up, and then waited for a while before Jiang Mei’s furious questioning rang out.

“Jiang Ning, do you even know how to return a call?! Where did you run off to last night? How could you just leave your parents in the hospital and ignore them? Huh?”

Jiang Ning finally moved the receiver back to her ear: “Sister, what are you saying? My signal is bad, you said Mom and Dad ran away? Where did they run to?”

Jiang Mei was so angry that she almost flipped over, she tried her best to keep her voice down because she was at work: “…Dad had surgery!! He had an operation! I stayed up all night last night, I just left for work this morning, now Mom is at the hospital taking care of him, you go to the hospital right now!”

Jiang Ning: “Ah? What surgery did Dad have?”

“Appendicitis!”

When it came to this, Jiang Mei was furious, last night was a mess.

Originally, she took Jiang Dayue to get checked, she knew her dad was just pretending, thinking to just get it over with, and then come back and say that he had a problem and needed to stay in the hospital for observation.

As a result, while Jiang Mei went to the bathroom and passed by the nurses’ station to discreetly ask the little nurse if the matter of not pulling up his pants was true, when she came back, she saw Li Songdi standing outside the operating room with a dumbfounded look on her face.

Jiang Mei asked, Where’s Dad?

Li Songdi pointed inside: “He was pushed in to be cut, cut what… I don’t know…”

She was flustered, pulling her eldest daughter’s arm: “The doctor asked me to sign, I, I, I don’t understand, so I signed, he said he had something in his belly that needed to be cut, Mei, what should we do?”

Jiang Mei was speechless: “Mom, how could you sign without thinking?! At least wait for me to come! You… hey? Where’s Jiang Ning? Wasn’t she with you?”

Li Songdi: “She went to eat, she even borrowed money from me, seven or eight yuan! When she comes back, I have to scold this dead girl, eating gold!”

But Jiang Mei stomped her little high heels, she knew that Jiang Ning must have slipped away.

This girl, she’s getting smarter!

Jiang Mei was exhausted from dealing with this farce with her parents, she also wanted to turn around and leave, but Jiang Dayue was still inside having his appendix removed!

He was fine before, just pretending to be sick, now he’s actually on the operating table having his stomach cut open.

What kind of thing is this?

Jiang Ning heard that Jiang Dayue actually had surgery, she almost burst out laughing.

Okay, this is called getting what you deserve.

She was surprised: “Yo, Dad really had appendicitis? Good thing he got it cut out in time, now it’s good, it’s gone, I’ll get some nutritional supplements for Dad to replenish himself.”

Jiang Mei’s heart moved, anyway, now Dad is legitimately hospitalized, Jiang Ning still has to pay according to the previous plan.

She was about to speak, when she heard Jiang Ning say again: “Sister, thank you for telling me, I’ll go see Dad later, I’m still busy, I’ll hang up.”

This tone was simply perfunctory.

Jiang Ning liked it.

She hung up the phone and thought for a while, then called the village secretary, asking him to help inform Jiang Jinjun, saying that his parents were now at the County People’s Hospital.

After making these two phone calls, it was already late in the morning, Jiang Ning still wanted to go to Su Chanzi’s place, she didn’t know if he was there today.

Walking out of the alley outside the tube building, she went to wait for the bus, took out some change from her pocket, and as she walked, she heard a soft female voice from the side of the road, asking someone: “…Do you know where Captain Lu lives?”

Jiang Ning slowed down and looked over.

The other person was probably a girl of seventeen or eighteen, wearing a simple floral dress, but she was very clean and delicate.

The girl asked, and walked away with the other person’s pace.

Jiang Ning then looked away.

Actually, she didn’t hear very clearly, after all, there were a lot of people on the road, and she didn’t take it too seriously after this glance, and continued to wait for the bus.