Chapter 40: There Is No Airtight Wall In The World
Chapter 40: There Is No Airtight Wall In The World
After Fang Congwen was seated, the dishes he had previously ordered were brought to the table one by one. The portions were small and light, and they were the dishes Fang Congwen would order when the two of them usually had a meal.
The mother's order came first, and she was very accurate with Congwen's taste. Guan Ning had reason to believe that the relationship between the two was not simply "please let go of my daughter—oh, okay". She boldly guessed that the two were acquainted, Or old acquaintance.
Guan Ning looked at his mother in the store and made a phone call.
Mother delayed answering the call for a while, her voice pretending to be relaxed.
Guan Ning called out to her mother, wanting to cry uncontrollably.
"Ningning, what's the matter?" The mother's worry was palpable, as was Congwen's, her eyes were always on the phone.
"Congwen, Congwen her, don't want me anymore." Without deliberately pretending to be sad, Guan Ning was really heartbroken when he said Congwen's name. "Mom, I'm broken in love."
My mother took a look at Congwen, but she didn't say that she knew Congwen, or recognized the name, and said, "It's because your fate is not enough."
Hearing this sentence, Fang Congwen covered half of his face, and his mother held her hand, as if silently comforting her.
Guan Ning gritted his teeth and was silent for a moment before telling his mother, you are right.
"Ningning..."
Following his mother's claim, Guan Ning was unavoidably lucky.The rhetoric that fate is not enough is really not like what an uninformed mother used to comfort her daughter.According to Guan Ning's understanding of Yunjin, if it were someone else, at least Yunjin would say that that person has no vision.
"Ning Ning, have you had dinner yet?"
"I can't eat it." Guan Ning said truthfully. "I want to sleep, well, it's probably a new day when I wake up."
"Don't force yourself too much." Yun Jin said.
After the phone call, Yunjin seemed to say something to Congwen, judging from their body language.Guan Ning suddenly had a bold guess. His mother and Congwen were old acquaintances. Congwen liked her, but his mother married his father.Congwen was with her because he saw the shadow of his mother in her.In other words, she——Guan Ning is a substitute for her mother.For some reason, the two of them resumed their relationship after years of separation, and as substitutes, they lost their effectiveness as substitutes.This is how the breakup happened.
The more I think about it, the more likely it is.The only doubt is how the mother thinks of Fang Congwen. She must have a very good relationship with Fang Congwen, otherwise she would not invite her to dinner to comfort her after she broke up with her daughter.But Guan Ning found it inconceivable that his mother would betray his father.Back in the dormitory, she lay down powerlessly on her bed. If it was true as she reasoned, one side was mother and the other side was Congwen, what would she do?
What can she do?
Guan Ning did not mention this guess to anyone.In the eyes of those who don't know, Guan Ning, a good student, came back. She was the first to arrive at the classroom, studied late at night and studied hard all day long. Everyone thought that she was working hard for the Ivy League graduate student.Insiders such as Chen Qingqing and Gu Ran were worried, and they had nothing to do with Guan Ning, who refused to talk and kept telling everyone that I was fine.
On weekends, Guan Ning went home as scheduled, except that sometimes when he visited his mother with a little more scrutiny, everything was as usual.Yun Jin sensitively noticed that her daughter, who had been broken in love for only a few days, kept smiling for a long time, and her appetite was obviously less.Just like facing her classmates, Guan Ning put on a gesture of not wanting to talk, Yun Jin cared but was afraid of saying something wrong, so she could only observe in secret.After dinner on Saturday, Guan Yan was watching movies in the living room with his ipad in his arms.Yun Jin was working in the study, Guan Ning secretly asked his father, did mother have any familiar little sisters?
Guan Yan felt that she was asking strangely, "Acquainted little sister, what do you mean?"
Guan Ning said that he might like girls, and wanted to know if there was a possibility of inheritance, whether it was the genetic father or the genetic mother.
Guan Yan patted himself on the chest and said, "Even if you have genetics, it depends on the person. With a man like your father, how could your mother fall in love with others."
Man, really inexplicable confidence.Guan Ning really didn't want to tell her father that her mother had the same vision as her daughter when she fell in love with a woman. "Tch, I don't believe that my mother wants you."
"Ah, you look down on your father. The relationship between your parents is obvious to all." Guan Yan had never heard from Yun Jin that his daughter was in love with Fang Congwen.Naturally, she would not know that the curious and gossiping daughter in front of her was actually heartbroken. She had just broken up with the woman she loved and suspected that the instigator was his wife, and now she was trying to trick him.But when Guan Ning mentioned Yunjin's familiar little sister, he immediately thought of Fang Congwen.After he hesitated for a moment, Guan Ning saw the problem.
"Dad, it really is."
"Hey." Guan Yan looked at his wife's closed study door, and lowered his voice to gossip to his daughter: "After I married your mother, for a while, I suspected that she and her neighbor's little sister, The relationship between these two people is unbelievable."
"Neighbor's little sister?" Neighbor?Guan Ning felt something was wrong.
"Well, the girl next door, she is a few years younger than your mother. At that time, I read books about sexual orientation, all of which were in English. Your father's English was made up at that time. Then... Well, think about it Your mother still loves me, just let it go."
Although Guan Ning was full of melancholy, she still made her father laugh, and then she wanted to ask the neighbor's little sister's name, Yun Jin opened the study door.The father and daughter silently shut up at the same time.
Yun Jin looked at the two of them strangely, and walked into the kitchen.
Guan Ning followed his mother's gaze and asked again: "Dad, do you think I look like Mom?"
"Like, of course. You are your mother's own daughter, so there's no reason why you don't look like it."
"Well, I think so too. I'm my mother's own daughter, so I don't look like it. I really look like my mother."
I always felt that there was something weird in Guan Ning's words, Guan Yan was about to ask, Yun Jin came over with water and sat on the sofa, and asked casually, "You father and daughter chat so speculatively, what are you talking about?"
"Oh, your daughter is asking me, does she look like you?" Guan Yan looked at his wife, "I told her, you two are very similar. Ah, I don't know when I think of my beautiful daughter. I feel a little unhappy to be cheated by some stinky boy. Why do you feel that if you are a stinky girl, you will feel better?"
"..."
Yun Jin glanced at Guan Ning, "Why did Ning Ning ask if she looks like me? Who said something or do you think she doesn't look like your mother?"
"No, I also think it should be very similar. My mother is so charming, it's good to be like my mother."
"Ningning..."
Guan Ning looked at his mother with an innocent expression, and Yun Jin sighed secretly.
In the evening, Guan Yan asked Yunjin if she thought her daughter was weird.Yun Jin sighed three times.
"Tell me, what's the use of sighing. Ah, isn't it because of your neighbor's little girl?"
"What my neighbor girl, Congwen is a mature woman now, writer. And what do you mean by 'yours'?"
"You really met?" Guan Yan was curious, "She knew that Ningning was the baby girl she gave birth to? So it's because of her that Ningning is so weird?"
The answer is yes, but for completely different reasons.Yunjin didn't know where to start with this absurd thing, and let out a sulky air on her husband, "Why do you have so many questions, you shit." (Note 1)
"When it comes to Congwen, you are like this, ah, no wonder my daughter asked me today..."
"What's the matter with you?"
"Ask if you have any familiar little sisters. She also said that she wants to know who she will inherit."
Yun Jin almost laughed angrily, "You father and daughter are talking about this all the time? I really admire you. Why is Ning Ning asking you this?"
"How do I know, my daughter is grown up, and my father can't figure out what's on her mind. Does her mother know?"
"Oh, I don't even know what my husband is thinking, let alone his daughter."
"so coincidental."
"Ok?"
"I can't guess what my wife is thinking recently."
Yun Jin pinched Guan Yan's arm fiercely, "It's not serious."
Guan Yan hugged her and called softly, "You murdered your husband."
"go to bed!"
When the parents were loving each other, Guan Ning tossed and turned, she thought about it, and there were always some obstacles that she couldn't figure out.
After falling asleep and then waking up, the self in the dream said to the man, "If there is a daughter like you." She broke out in a cold sweat.
Congwen has a neighbor sister who always has miscarriages. She bears the child for the neighbor sister. Oh no, to be precise, she is a surrogate for the neighbor.Seven months pregnant, a baby girl was born prematurely on December 12th. 13 years ago, Cong Wen said she was the same age as her.
My mother had a habitual miscarriage, and I was born prematurely in July, female, and my birthday was December 12, just after my 13th birthday.My mother has a neighbor who has a very good relationship with her little sister.The age of Shanghainese is sometimes counted as imaginary and sometimes as real. Except for this, everything else is a terrible coincidence.
In other words, there is a certain possibility that she was born from Wensheng?
If this is the case, it can explain why Congwen's attitude has become so strange.He obviously likes her, but he tried his best to push her away.My girlfriend was born by myself, hehe, it's ridiculous to think about it.
So what are she and Congwen?
The blood relationship is the mother - Congwen and she do not have; the legal adoption relationship is also the mother - it is impossible for Congwen and her to have one.
No matter how you look at it, she and Congwen are just two independent people.Guan Ning doesn't understand, the relationship is so clear at a glance, what else needs to be entangled?
She didn't understand why she had to break up for this reason.She could understand the shock after hearing the news, but this matter has nothing to do with ethics, but only with feelings.Is Congwen really breaking up with her just because of this reason?Or, after all, it stems from not liking enough.If you like it enough, will you let go so easily? ——At least Guan Ning would not.
Guan Ning thought, she still needs to find out whether Fang Congwen and his mother have the affection that even his father once doubted.Fang Congwen was with her, did he have anything to do with his mother?
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