Chapter 40 Section VI

I really can't admire Gu Xiaoying's "magic calculation" skills - when she found out that Xu Xin didn't go to work in the morning on a weekday, her first reaction was: "Ah! Have you got your hands on the little doctor!" "Little doctor? Get your finger?" Xu Xin was so angry that his nose turned crooked, lying on the bed and yelling at the phone, "It's your sister who got me touched by a man two years older than me, not me, understand?" "Oh——" Gu Xiaoying dragged his tongue contentedly, "So he got involved with you——"

Only then did Xu Xin realize that she had been cheated out of the truth, and was so angry that she couldn't speak. Gu Xiaoying was full of interest: "Did it succeed?" "I won't tell you." Xu Xin was annoyed. "Hey, I know it even if you don't tell me, it must have been severely injured physically and mentally, otherwise why would you not go to work?" Gu Xiaoying said with certainty. "If I had known this would be so painful, I wouldn't have tried it." Xu Xin complained. "Everything comes from the end of suffering, understand? Sweetness is the 'sweetness' that is as good as sweetness." Gu Xiaoying put on an instructive attitude.

"I really can't communicate with you, a female hooligan," Xu Xin sighed, "Is your husband coming back on weekends? Why does he trust you to give prenatal education to your children at home alone... even good children are ruined." "I won't come back." Gu Xiaoying was distressed when he mentioned this, "He said that he will have a meeting next week and work overtime on weekends. I can only ask my mother-in-law to accompany me when I go for Down's screening. She is illiterate and doesn't know Which one is the price window and which one is the medicine window... Every time I have an inspection, I run up and down by myself. I don’t know what is the use of me taking her there, or you are lucky. With the little doctor, I don’t know in the future I love you so much, I... oh..."

Gu Xiaoying wanted to cry a little while talking, but she still held back, but her nose was a little sore.Xu Xin felt uncomfortable hearing this, so she asked: "Why don't I go with you, tell me a time." "Forget it, you are all so busy," Gu Xiaoying sighed, "Fortunately, I only check once a month now, and next time I will try my best to pick up the weekend when Guan Tong goes home. In fact, it was because I didn't think carefully, I should have thought of me. Mother-in-law can't help much, so she shouldn't be dragged to the hospital, anyway, it doesn't matter if it's a few days later."

Xu Xin opened her mouth to talk about Guan Tong and Jiang Manlin, but in the end she didn't dare, so she said goodbye to Gu Xiaoying depressedly, and hung up the phone.She thought of Du Yibei, Guan Tong, and Meng Xu, Jiang Yueyang, Duan Fei, and finally had to admit that she really picked up a big pie. The next day was the weekend, Gu Xiaoying slept until ten o'clock in the morning.Woke up and didn't want to get up, so she curled up in bed and called Guan Tong.Called again, but no one answered, and then called again, but still no one answered, Gu Xiaoying was puzzled, she only said that she had to work overtime on weekends, but didn't say that there was a meeting on weekends, why didn't she answer the phone?

After much deliberation, I still called again, this time when the fifth ring rang, someone finally picked up, but the person who spoke made Gu Xiaoying jump - only heard a child's milky voice asking: "who are you?" Gu Xiaoying thought she had dialed the wrong number, so she hurriedly looked at the display on her phone—it was Guan Tong's number! After confirmation, Gu Xiaoying picked up the phone and asked, "Whose phone is this?" The child thought for a while before answering, "This is my father's cell phone." Gu Xiaoying was startled again: "Who is your father?"

"My dad is my dad." "Then who are you?" "I'm Xiangxiang." "Ah?" Gu Xiaoying was surprised at first, and then thought hard: Where did Guan Tong run out of an illegitimate child, called "Xiangxiang" or "Xiangxiang"... The child then asked: "I am Xiangxiang, who are you? " "I'm your mother." Gu Xiaoying said angrily. "Liar!" With a scream, Gu Xiaoying hurriedly moved the receiver away, "You liar! You are not my mother!" "You said that this phone belongs to your father, why can't I be your mother?" Gu Xiaoying also said loudly.

"My mother is Jiang Manlin, aren't you!" the child yelled.Gu Xiaoying was taken aback when she heard the name "Jiang Manlin". Before she could speak again, the child named Xiangxiang had already thrown away the phone.Gu Xiaoying lay in a daze on the bed—Jiang Manlin, how could it be Jiang Manlin? How could Jiang Manlin's child call Guan Tong "Father"? Could it be... Gu Xiaoying didn't dare to think about it anymore.She quickly dialed Guan Tong's number again, but this time no one answered at all.She was helpless, but suddenly remembered that Xu Xin had said that she had met Jiang Manlin, and hurriedly called Xu Xin again.

The call was connected immediately, and Gu Xiaoying asked without waiting for Xu Xin to speak, "Where is Jiang Manlin?" "Jiang Manlin?" Xu Xin's heart skipped a beat for a moment, thinking that there must be something wrong with Dong Chuang, so he quickly explained everything he knew, "Jiang Manlin is currently working as the director of the Letters and Calls Bureau in City B." Gu Xiaoying was furious: "You guys are hiding it from me?!" "We didn't dare to hide it from you," Xu Xin said bitterly, "We just don't think it's necessary... My sister said not to tell you things that you're not sure about, and I think it makes sense..."

"What's uncertain?" Gu Xiaoying was extremely sensitive and asked, "Have you discovered something? Why didn't you tell me even your sister knew about it?!" "I—" Xu Xin was tongue-tied. "Xu Xin, if you don't say anything today, we will break up our relationship!" Gu Xiaoying gritted her teeth. "I said, I said." Xu Xin was sweating anxiously, "I just saw your husband send Jiang Manlin home once, and they participated in a book fair together in City B..." "Participate in the book fair?" Gu Xiaoying's tone became colder and colder, "Does the book fair still invite people from the Letters and Calls Bureau?"

"Maybe it's the weekend, they're free, so I'll stop by to have a look..." Xu Xin felt that the more he talked, the more he would show his lies. "Free?" Gu Xiaoying snorted coldly, "He said he was so busy that he still had time to visit the book fair." "You have to take a rest even if you are busy. Maybe someone just takes a rest." "I went to rest at another woman's house!" Gu Xiaoying became angry again, repeating the phone call incident just now, and asked, "Tell me, why did Jiang Manlin's son call Guan Tong 'Daddy'?" ?” "No way..." Xu Xin felt that his brain was instantly muddled, and he didn't turn on at all. "Actually, I don't believe that Guan Tong can do anything extraordinary, but why did he hide it from me?" Gu Xiaoying was still cold. "Maybe he is just a little bit of effort, helping others to look after their children..." "He doesn't look after his own child, but wants to help others look after the child?" Gu Xiaoying finally leaned on the sofa weakly, closed her eyes, and sighed, "Xin Xin, I understand him enough and trust him enough. What does he want from me..." Xu Xin didn't know what to say. In fact, Guan Tong is quite innocent - he is really just helping someone to look after the child for a while. He did have business this weekend according to the original plan, but the business was in the afternoon, so when Jiang Manlin called in the morning to ask him to take care of his son, he didn't think of any reason to refuse. On the contrary, he sympathized with Jiang Manlin - it was rare that her mother-in-law would let her bring her son to City B for two days. Guan Tong was about to go to the office when Tong called. Hearing her anxious tone, she told her not to worry, and agreed to help her look after the child.After making an appointment, her son refused to come to Guan Tong's place, so Jiang Manlin had to call again and ask Guan Tong to go to her house to help take care of the child... Finally, Jiang Manlin left with a hundred worries when Guan Tong came to work.When she left, she turned her head three times at a step, and she seemed not sure that a man who had never taken care of a child would be okay. She even hesitated for a moment: "How about I ask the little girl from our unit's office to come..." "Let's go," Guan Tong waved his hand and sent Jiang Manlin out, "You don't have to look down on me so much, just treat it as an internship for me, anyway, I will be a father soon." Jiang Manlin smiled wryly, said "thank you" and left the door.Guan Tong looked at Jiang Manlin's anxious and unbearable expression, and felt that it was like a lifetime ago - before, she was flamboyant, proud, and full of aura. At that time, he would never believe that she would be like today. In this way, worry about the child. It turns out that after having a child, no matter how smart and capable a woman is, she will change. What Guan Tong didn't expect was that a child, especially a four-year-old boy, had amazing destructive power—after Xiang Xiang's high-decibel scream almost exploded Guan Tong's eardrums, a fruit plate He was knocked to the ground by the running little boy, and his body was smashed to pieces.Guan Tong hurried to find a broom and a dustpan, and while avoiding Xiangxiang's Nth round and run in fear, he cleaned up the glass shards. I was worried after sweeping, and looked at the ground several times, and finally straightened up after confirming that there were no remaining glass shards on the ground.When he raised his head, he almost lost his breath, and saw five red palm prints on the wall, and Xiangxiang was holding a box of ink pads in his hand, and was pressing the sixth one intently... Guan Tong's head was getting bigger. When Gu Xiaoying called, it happened that Xiangxiang wanted to drink yogurt, so he "ordered" Guan Tong to go downstairs to buy it. If this is Guan Tong's son, Guan Tong feels that he will never have the bad habit of getting something even if he thinks about it.But this is Jiang Manlin's son after all, since he promised to help her take care of his son, he can't wrong the kid.What's more, he was so shocked by Xiangxiang's roar that he couldn't help but compromise—fortunately, the small shop was on the first floor. After hesitating for a while, he decided to go back quickly, locked Xiangxiang in the room and went downstairs alone .It turned out to be such a coincidence that Gu Xiaoying called at this time, and Xiangxiang happened to pick up his mobile phone on the coffee table, and in Xiangxiang's eyes, all men's mobile phones belonged to "Dad"... In this way, within two or three minutes, Guan Tong finished buying yogurt and went upstairs, but the machine stopped beeping.He didn't notice the missed calls on his phone either, he just cared for Xiangxiang to drink yogurt and prevented him from spilling yogurt everywhere.After finally waiting for Jiang Manlin to finish her official duties and return home, and took over the guardianship of her son, Guan Tong only felt that she had been reborn from the inside out—caring for a child is really not a human job! With this sigh in his heart, Guan Tong didn't go home, but went directly to the office.As a result, as soon as he entered the office door, he heard the phone on the table ringing non-stop, Guan Tong hurriedly answered it, and then heard Gu Xiaoying's cold voice: "Guan Tong, are you finally willing to answer the phone?" "Have you called me?" Guan Tong was a little happy when he heard Gu Xiaoying's voice, and hurriedly took out his mobile phone to look at it, only to see that there were several missed calls, and quickly explained, "I went out just now, and I didn't hear arrive." "Going out? From whose house?" Gu Xiaoying sneered, "Why didn't you tell me that Jiang Manlin was also in City B?" Guan Tong broke out in a cold sweat the moment he heard these words. "Guan Tong, why are you hiding it from me? Give me an explanation, and I can forgive you if it's reasonable." Gu Xiaoying said while feeling her heart constricted and aching with anger. "I'm not trying to hide it from you. I really think she's just an ordinary colleague. We don't work in the same unit. We don't have many chances to meet each other on weekdays. We just live a little closer. So she has something urgent today, so I thought of asking me to take care of it. Child." Guan Tong couldn't tell what was going on in his heart, but anyway, he was a little angry, a little impatient, and a little bit wanting to redress his grievances, and he spoke faster than before, and even raised the volume, "Even if we have been in love before, do you think I am The kind of person who is irresponsible to his family? You want to explain it, don't you... Do you think my explanation is reasonable? " "Guan Tong, why are you so loud? My ears are fine, so I don't need you to yell! You are so loud when you do something wrong yourself, you are shameless!" Gu Xiaoying's voice became louder, and she also yelled, "I will call you several times. You don’t answer a call, and when you finally pick it up, it’s still a child talking, telling me this is his father’s cell phone, and his mother’s name is Jiang Manlin, Guan Tong, don’t you think it’s funny, someone is holding your cell phone and telling you My wife said he was your son, wouldn't you be angry if it was you? If you weren't angry, you would be a saint!" "Gu Xiaoying, you are getting more and more inexplicable," Guan Tong was terribly annoyed, "You lack the most basic trust in me! You were not like this before..." "What was I like before? I didn't care about these things at all, right?" Gu Xiaoying interrupted Guan Tong, and complained first, "The reason why I didn't care about these things before was because I could tolerate you and tolerate you leaving me alone. Run ahead, tolerate you wronging me several times for other people's affairs, and tolerate all the troubles you and your family have brought to me! But don't force me, Guan Tong, my patience has a limit. The thing I can't tolerate the most is you Why do you have time to spend time with other people's children, but no time to come back and see your own? I went to the hospital for checkups, and every time I was alone, I was lonely, you know? Now it's cold and the road is icy, I'm afraid It’s not safe. I called your mother, but she couldn’t help me with anything. In the end, I still had to run around with my big belly to mark the price and pay the fee. Everyone has a man to accompany me, so why do I have to rely on myself for everything? " When she said the last few words, Gu Xiaoying finally remembered that she was at home, so she didn't forget to go over and close the bedroom door, and then lowered her voice a little.Guan Tong heard it, and his heart sank suddenly, and he stopped talking. Hearing Guan Tong's silence, Gu Xiaoying took a deep breath, and finally gave up this exhausting and futile preaching.A strong, unspoken grievance welled up in her heart, making her eye sockets a little moist, and she wanted to cry, but she was blocked by something, so she couldn't cry.She was silent for a few seconds before whispering, "Guan Tong, it's not that I don't trust you. Now, I don't trust myself..." After saying this, she hung up the phone and lay down on the bed, tears streaming down her face. Guan Tong was stunned.