Chapter 19
3015words
2022-11-16 15:27
It wasn't until Shen Muxi's figure disappeared at the door of the bedroom that Cheng drawing sat up quietly from the bed.
She didn't understand the meaning of the sentence that Shen Muchen had thrown to her. Was it because she was so clumsy in bed? Was it because she was so stupid that he left her halfway through the incident?
It wasn't until she found the small patch of red under her that she came to a realization.
Even if she had never experienced the world, as a woman and a doctor, she still had this common sense.
The surroundings were once again filled with the silence and emptiness before Shen Muxi's return. The two crystal cups filled with red wine were quietly lying on the fur carpet, and they were bright and crystal clear under the background.
Cheng drawing got out of bed, stepped on the fur carpet, and picked up the two cups from the ground.
If it weren't for their existence and if it weren't for the faint pain in her lower body, she would have thought that everything she had just experienced was just a dream.
That night, Shen Muxi did not step into the bedroom again, nor did there be any sound of a car driving out of the Shen family's mansion. Cheng drawing thought that he might have gone to sleep in the study or the guest room like Lin Yuan.
The next day was the morning shift. Cheng drawing got up early as usual. He cleaned up and changed his clothes in the bathroom. When he was about to go out of the room, he stopped slightly, turned around, and walked to the big bed of Xi Mengsi.
The quilt was carefully lifted by her, and the red color, which turned from bright to dark, was still there.
Should she take off the sheet and wash it with water? Or should she ask the servants to clean it up? It was such a shameful thing, and she really didn't have the face to let the second person know.
Just as she was hesitating, someone knocked on the bedroom door. Then Sister Zhang came in and said politely, "Good morning, Young Madam. Old Madam and Madam are waiting for you to have breakfast downstairs."
"Oh, I'll go down right away." Cheng drawing turned his head and responded. He was about to cover the quilt with the bed when Sister Zhang, who had sharp eyes, suddenly walked up and looked at the dark red on the bed in confusion. "What is this?"
Then he asked, "Young Madam, are you on your period?"
"No... yes." Cheng drawing shook his head instinctively, and his face turned red with embarrassment.
Sister Zhang looked at the bed and Cheng drawing's face with surprise, as if she was thinking about something. Then she said with a smile, "Young Madam, go to have breakfast. I'll ask the servants to come up and take the sheets to the kitchen."
"Then I'll have to trouble you," Cheng drawing said gratefully.
By the time Cheng drawing entered the restaurant, Old Mrs. Shen, Mrs. Shen, and Shen Muxi had already taken their seats. They had to wait for him for the first breakfast, so Cheng drawing was a little embarrassed.
She glanced at everyone and finally fixed her eyes on Shen Muxi's face. She happened to see his half-smile. Everything that happened last night came to her mind, and Tian Tu's face turned red unconsciously. She took a light breath, suppressed the embarrassment in her heart, and greeted everyone politely. Then she walked to the chair next to Shen Muxi and sat down.
The old lady looked at her and said with concern, "Xiao Tu, I heard from Mu Xi that you didn't sleep well last night. What's wrong? Are you not used to it?"
Cheng drawing was slightly surprised, and then he quickly looked at Shen Muxi. The latter was putting a piece of Sanwen Zhi into her bowl, looking like a good gentleman.
She remembered the promise she had made with Shen Muxi. They had to pretend to be a loving couple in front of outsiders.
"It's indeed a little picky in a new environment," Cheng drawing said with a smile.
"That's right." The old lady nodded. "But it doesn't matter. I'll get used to it in a few days."
"Yes."
"What are you talking about? It's so hot." As soon as the voice reached the ears, Shen Yuqing put the earrings on the ear beads and walked to the seat next to Old Madam Shen with a smile. Then she grabbed a piece of bread and milk and opened her mouth to eat.
"This girl doesn't look like a girl at all." Old Madam glanced at her and said with a smile, "Look at your new sister-in-law, how gentle and dignified she is."
"Grandma, when I get married, I will be as dignified as my sister-in-law. Don't worry." Shen Yuqing patted the back of the old lady's hand.
"You are so heartless. It's still a question whether you can get married or not."
"Grandma, you are suppressing me again." Shen Yuqing turned to Shen Muxi and shook his arm. "Big brother, you have to help me judge. Grandma is partial to my sister-in-law."
"It doesn't matter, as long as big brother loves you." Shen Muxi smiled and picked up a piece of ham for her. Then he stood up from the chair and said, "I'm full. You can eat slowly."
"Don't eat too much?" Madam Shen, who had been silent for a long time, glanced at the plate in front of him and asked.
"No, I'm full." Shen Muxi walked behind Cheng drawing and put his hands on her shoulders. He leaned over and said with a smile, "Eat slowly. I'll wait for you outside."
"Okay." Cheng drawing nodded, trying to make the smile on his face look gentle.
After Shen Muxi left, Old Madam Shen seemed to suddenly think of something. She looked up at He Hui, who was watching her leave, and said, "By the way, Xiao Hui, I'll ask the kitchen to stew some tonic soup for Xiao Tu. You go and bring it out."
He Hui came back to her senses, nodded, and went to the kitchen to get some tonic soup.
Soon, a bowl of milky white tonic soup was placed in front of Cheng drawing. The old lady handed the bowl cover to He Hui and said with a smile, "Xiao Tu, I specially asked the!"
"Thank you, Grandma," Cheng drawing said gratefully.
The nourishing soup tasted a little fishy. Cheng drawing drank it one mouthful at a time. Of course, she would not take it to heart and think that the old lady had hired a nurse to nourish her health. What the old lady cared about was just her great-grandchild, whom she did not know when it would exist.
After drinking the tonic, Cheng drawing stood up and said to everyone, "Grandma, Mom, Yu Qing, I'll go to work first."
"Goodbye." Shen Yuqing waved at her with a smile.
"Be careful on the way." The old lady was also full of smiles.
After watching Cheng drawing's back walk out of the restaurant, Sister Zhang leaned over and whispered something in the old lady's ear with a smile. The old lady raised her delicate eyebrows slightly and said with a surprised smile, "Really?"
Sister Zhang nodded.
"I didn't believe it when Lin Yuan told me. It turns out that he didn't lie to me." The old lady nodded and said, "Great, that's great."
"Grandma, what makes you so happy? Just tell me." Shen Yuqing looked back and forth curiously at the old lady and Sister Zhang.
Madam Shen also looked confused and fixed her eyes on the old lady.
"Oh, it's like this." The old lady picked up the milk and took a sip. She smiled and said, "Didn't I ask Lin Yuan about Xiao Tu's character before? Lin Yuan directly threw me a sentence saying that his marriage with Xiao Tu was not real and he didn't know what kind of person she was. At that time, I was still thinking that this guy was too rude. He even dared to cheat me. I didn't expect that he was telling the truth."
"How did Mom know that what he said was true?" Madam Shen asked calmly.
"Wasn't it Mu Xi and Xiao Tu's wedding night last night? Sister Zhang found it."
"Really? Sister Zhang." Shen Yuqing turned to Sister Zhang in surprise.
Sister Zhang smiled mysteriously. "Of course it's true."
"That's really great. I used to think that it was a loss for Big Brother to marry a second-hand woman."
Everyone laughed happily.
"Madam Dowager, this thing can be faked." Just when everyone was laughing happily, a very annoying voice suddenly sounded in the corner.
The restaurant was instantly quiet, and everyone's eyes were fixed on He Hui in the corner.
Upon seeing everyone's eyes, He vaguely realized that he had spoken too much. He hurriedly said, "I... I mean... it's just like many ancient costume dramas. The bride cut her fingers and dyed the white wedding handkerchief red on the wedding night... In order to fake it..."
"Xiaohui, shut up!" Sister Zhang scolded angrily.
He Hui shrank her neck and apologized in a low voice. "I'm sorry... Madam Dowager, I have too much to say."
The old lady looked at her with a smile in her eyes and shook her head. "Right now, the girls are either watching palace fights or Korean dramas."
"Grandma, I never watch costume or Korean dramas." Shen Yuqing protested coyly.
With Sister Zhang's hint, He Hui lowered her head and left the restaurant.
"This child is getting more and more rude. I hope everyone can take care of him." Sister Zhang leaned over to add milk for the old lady and sighed apologetically.
The old lady smiled indifferently and said, "Xiaohui has been raised in the Shen family since she was a child. She can be regarded as my granddaughter. You don't have to be so polite to her."
"Thank you, old lady." Sister Zhang was very touched.
"By the way, Xiaohui is not young anymore. Do you have a boyfriend?" The old lady took a tissue to wipe the corners of her mouth and asked casually.
Sister Zhang hesitated for a moment and began to lie with a smile. "I heard her say that there seemed to be something, but I'm not sure yet."
"Really? Remember to bring Xiaohui back and let us have a look. I'll prepare a big dowry for her. As long as he treats her well, he can choose a house and a car."
"It's the old lady who loves Xiao Hui." Sister Zhang reached out to hold the old lady who sat up and walked to the door of the restaurant together.
"Put me down here." When the car passed by a rental platform, Cheng drawing said with a calm face.
After they left the Shen family mansion, they needed a long private road to see the traffic. Since they got on the car, the two of them had been silent all the way. It was not because Cheng drawing felt embarrassed that he did not allow Shen Muxi to send them. Instead, the Ya'en Hospital and the Shen Group were in two different directions and did not go the same way.
Shen Muxi didn't stand on ceremony with her. He stopped the car in front of the rental platform.
"Wait here for two minutes. Xiao Li will be here soon." He reached out and pressed the lock.
"I can rent by myself." Cheng Tian said with good intentions, as if he didn't want to bother others.
Shen Muxi turned his face and stared at her, saying, "We're still waiting for you in the afternoon. Let's go back together."
Cheng drawing nodded and loosened his seat belt. He pushed the door open and got out of the car.
As soon as she stood firm, Shen Muxi's car left like a gust of wind and blended into the traffic.
Sure enough, as soon as Shen Muxi's car left, Xiao Li's car steadily stopped in front of Cheng drawing. The front window slowly rolled down, and Xiao Li's head was exposed. He still had a sunny smile on his face. "Young Madam, Young Master is in a hurry to see a client. He asked me to send you to Ya'en."
"Then I'll have to trouble you." Cheng drawing opened the car door and sat down. The car started steadily, and she gently leaned her head against the back of the chair and closed her eyes to rest. In fact, Xiao Li's explanation was a little unnecessary. She didn't mind whether Shen Mu Xi would send her off or not.
There were still rumors in the office, but no matter how they spread it, no matter how hard they tried to guess, they couldn't figure out the real result—she had married into the Shen family!
In the afternoon, he received a request from a private hospital for help, and Director Zhang asked Cheng drawing to go to see him together.
Over there, Cheng drawing saw the patient. It was a little boy who was only six or seven years old with a heart disease. The little boy was escorted into the hospital by a nanny. It was said that his heart stopped and he fainted.
"Why didn't you send him directly to Grace?" Director Zhang asked the nanny.
The nanny said with tears in her eyes, "My young master won't go to Grace."
The little boy was lying on the side of the bed with his back to everyone. When the nurse carried him to the moving bed, Cheng drawing accidentally saw his face. A trace of surprise flashed across her face, and she couldn't help but look at the little boy a few more times.
Did she see wrongly? Why did she feel that this little boy looked a little similar to Shen Muchen? Could it be that something had happened between her and Shen Muchen recently, which was why everyone thought that he was like him?
She blinked her eyes hard, but it was true that she looked very similar.
She looked down at the medical record and saw the words "Shen Siyu" written on the name board.
Shen...
Cheng drawing's heart tightened and he immediately shook his head.
There were several billion faces in the world, and it was normal for two people who looked similar to each other occasionally. Besides, there were so many people surnamed Shen in the world, so there was no need to make a fuss.
Cheng drawing and Director Zhang worked together to treat the little boy. It was not until noon that the boy finally stabilized. The little boy was sent to the ordinary ward and went back home after the office was completed.
"Let's go eat together." Director Zhang turned to Cheng drawing as he walked in the direction of the elevator.
The elevator door slowly opened. When Cheng drawing was about to step in, his footsteps stopped in an instant and he was nailed to the ground. He looked at the figure in the elevator in surprise.
What did she see? Lin Yuan and Feng Jing were standing next to each other. Feng Jing was holding a B-list bill in her hand and smiling happily. Cheng drawing could even hear her speaking in an excited voice, "Yuan, who do you think is the older brother? Who is the younger brother?"
"Who knows? They're still so young," Lin Yuan said with a smile.
On the other side of the elevator were Shen Muxi and an assistant-like young man. Shen Muxi stood tall and straight in the corner of the elevator. Except for the faint mockery in his eyes, he had no other emotion.
Lin Yuan and Shen Muxi were left in the same elevator. "Oh my god! What kind of staff structure is this?"
"Xiao Tu, come in quickly. What are you waiting for?" Director Zhang called out. Cheng drawing finally came to his senses. Lin Yuan and Feng Jing also raised their heads at the same time. When they saw Cheng drawing, they were obviously surprised.
Cheng drawing stepped in and stood in the empty seat next to Shen Muxi.
If she didn't stand beside Shen Muxi, she could only stand beside Lin Yuan or Feng Jing. She had no choice at all.
The temperature in the elevator instantly dropped to the freezing point. Only Director Zhang, who had no insight ability, said, "I think the little boy is very poor. He didn't even show up in the morning."
Cheng drawing ignored him. His heart had long been drawn to the B-list in Feng Jing's hands. Feng Jing was pregnant with Lin Yuan's child, a pair of twins, or a son...
What a happy life! No wonder they laughed so happily.
She didn't look at their faces, but she could clearly feel a deep gaze falling on her through the atmosphere.
Lin Yuan, that's right. It's him!
But she didn't understand what this look meant. To show off? But it didn't seem like it.
"Young Master Murong, are we really going back like this?" The assistant beside Shen Muxi suddenly asked.
The latter merely replied with a dull "hmm".
The elevator rang, and they arrived on the first floor.
Cheng drawing suddenly felt his palm tighten. It was Shen Mu Xi who had secretly pinched her palm with his fingers. She raised her head in surprise and touched his malicious smile.
In front of Lin Yuan, in front of Director Zhang...
Cheng drawing was a little annoyed, but he didn't say anything. He followed Director Zhang out of the elevator with a calm face.
Lin Yuan had accompanied Feng Jing to take the check-up. What about Shen Muxi? What was he doing here? Cheng drawing gently shook his head. This had nothing to do with her, didn't it?