Chapter 7
Wu's mother ran down the stairs at a fast pace and saw Lu Wanru standing intact in the living room opposite the staircase before she reached out and patted herself twice on the chest.
"What's wrong with Mister? That face is just too scary."
"Think I've been treating his sweetheart badly." Lu Wanru's face was tinged with a sneer, "He said it was the Lu family that was kind to him, not me? What does that mean? Is it to say that in order to repay the favour, it's okay for him to marry me, and it's okay for him to marry the second young lady of the Lu family?"
"Impossible." Wu Ma was busy shaking her head in comfort, "There is no way the old lady of the Lu family would agree."
"Wu Ma, the status of the Ling and Lu families is not what it used to be." Lu Wanru stopped talking, turned and sat back down on the sofa, leaning back somewhat despondently, "Actually who doesn't want two people to simply live together?"
Wu's mother looked at the once princess-like young lady and wordlessly raised her hand to wipe at the corner of her own eyes.
Compared to the calmness downstairs, upstairs was a different scene.
The room that had been dark was now brightly lit.
Xia Mao sat on the edge of the bed, hugging the quilt with one hand and tugging the thin, seemingly transparent robe with the other, looking at the man in front of her with a raised face.
This man was him?
"How much did she pay you?"
The man's voice was as cold as frost, causing Xia Mao to shiver, and she couldn't help but think of that "baby, be good" from the first night.
"Are you mute?" The man's voice was even colder and harsher.
Summer really wished she was mute now.
She now suddenly realised how delightful it had been to face him in the dark those two days.
"Did you hear me?" The man, who had long since lost his patience, stepped forward and yanked the woman, who was sitting motionless on the bed, to her feet.
The woman was momentarily unprepared and was tugged and jumped to the floor, the thin blanket on her body fell at her feet and the strap of the robe half hidden around her waist was also torn open.
Ling Yichen's eyes flashed with astonishment.
He had long since groped and eaten the woman before him, he knew how delicate and smooth this woman's skin was, and he also knew that her figure, though small, was dimpled and shapely.
But it was the first time he had ever looked at her like this in such bright light, not to mention the fact that she was, at this moment, still hidden and alluring.
Xia Mao blinked her long and curved eyelashes, her almond eyes shining like stars, her cherry lips slightly open, looking at him with some pity.
It made his heart inexorably move.
But then he thought that such a seemingly innocent girl was only a prostitute, and his heart became even more furious.
If it were not for girls like her, he would not be in such an embarrassing situation today.
When had he, Ling Yichen, ever been in such a sorry state? To be reduced to sowing seeds without seeing anyone!
"I'll give you double, you'll ...... leave now!" Ling Yichen looked down and saw her skin, and he changed the word "get out" to "leave".
Xia Mao almost cheered in her heart, but her mouth said something else, "I promised madam first."
"You ......," Ling Yichen's voice was a whimper and his anger shot up again, "What the fuck is wrong with your head?"
Xia Mo clenched her lower lip, of course she wanted to agree to his request, but she knew that was impossible, would someone who could easily come up with a million dollars let her go that easily?
And that Sister Qiu, Mona was still in her hands.
"I just want to do what I have to do and take what I have to take." Xia Mo thought about what Wu's mother had told her all day, and she should feel grateful that the deal had indeed been quite fair.
"Is that so?" Ling Yichen reached out and lifted her pointy little chin, with a few moments of disdain he asked, "What do you want to do? What is it that you want to do? Is it to have sex with me? Give me children? And then use the baby to sell for money, and then use that money to enjoy yourself?"
Each of the man's words struck Xia Mao's body like a whip, causing her body to tremble lightly and bruise all over.
She pursed the corners of her mouth stubbornly, not saying a word.
"You're a real bitch!" The man's thumb gently rubbed against the woman's chin, watching her eyes slightly red, the crystal clear teardrops, trembling, hanging in the corners of her eyes, hanging but not falling.
"In fact, has anyone ever told you that you are quite good looking ...... since you are so cheap, then I will make you whole!"
As the man's voice fell, the man pressed her onto the bed.
Xia Mao gently closed her eyes.
Ling Yichen watched as the teardrops from the corners of her eyes flowed down the corners of her eyes and into the soft strands of her hair.
He moved gently and mooned off the robe she was wearing ......
The last thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you're doing.
She couldn't help but reach out and wrap her arms around the man in front of her, following him up to the peak and down the canyon together, unable to help but marvel, whimper and cheer ......
Ling Yichen looked somewhat strangely at the woman beneath him, who was unusually excited, and wondered in his heart: yesterday he was like a piece of wood, why is he so enthusiastic today? What's wrong with her? Did she take her medication again?
But her cooperation made him feel a wonderful and unprecedented fit, making him either soft or wildly intoxicated.
Perhaps it was not her who took the pills, but himself?
After the storm had calmed down, he looked at her curled up in his arms, curled up in a ball like a kitten.
He felt, like a lion, that the night had been a charming, warm, unreal dream.
As if to prove whether it was a dream or not, Ling Yichen lifted the covers off her body and rolled over on top of her again.
The woman "grunted" twice like a kitten.
The woman, who was in a semi-conscious state, didn't even open her eyes before she started to get excited and kept wriggling her body, rubbing against his, as if she wanted more.
It was as if she had seen something she liked but couldn't get her hands on it, so she was very aggrieved, like pampering, like begging, like the Lele of her elder sister's family.
Ling Yichen couldn't help but lower his head and kiss her on her pink cherry lips.
The sweet and delicious taste made him freeze. He lifted his head sharply, looked at the woman's pink face, hesitated and kissed it, and then stopped at her lips after the bail rolled around.
He hesitated before he kissed.
He never interfaced with those women.
But this one was different, he knew that Lu Wanru would definitely find a clean and innocent girl, and this woman's price was not low, over a million!
Then his heart couldn't help but flash a thought: you get what you pay for, this woman is a little too expensive, but it seems to be worth the price ......
Chapter 8
When Summer woke up again, the sky was already bright and although she was still a little sore, she was more than twice as good as she had been two days before, and at least that humiliating spot was no longer so tingly.
After she had showered, she sat dutifully on the floating window, looking at a large tree not far away, a bird's nest in a bare fork, which blew with the north wind as if it was about to fall off at any moment.
Summer's eyes were fixed on it.
If it did fall down then she would have to pick it up, put it away properly and hang it back on the fork when she had the chance, lest they return as a family next year only to find a home.
The corners of Xia Mao's eyes were slightly astringent, her home was falling apart, so the little bird's home, couldn't fall apart again.
Lu Wanru sat in the living room looking at the newspaper and couldn't help but think of Ling Yichen's refreshed look when he left early in the morning, so she folded the newspaper and put it on the table, saying to Wu Ma who was beside her, "Let's go upstairs and see Xia Mao."
"Didn't Madam say she didn't want to meet with Xia Mao?" Wu Ma reminded.
"I was thinking that neither Mr. nor I would let her look the part, and after she has given birth, we would send her away, and then we would also move out of here, and then she would have no contact with us at all." Lu Wanru took the first step up the stairs and explained, "But now that she's met Mr., what difference does it make if I see her or not?"
"That Xia Mao, she looks like a good boy, she won't cause any trouble." Wu's mother really felt pity for Xia Mao, so she helped out by saying a few words.
"Sister Qiu's eyes are very discerning, she has never missed a person she has seen." Lu Wanru watched as Wu's mother went to knock on the door and took a half step back, "Be nicer to Xia Mao in the future."
Wu's mother smiled and nodded before pushing open the door.
Lu Wanru looked at the girl sitting on the floating window, her heart couldn't talk about pity, but she couldn't talk about liking her either, she let Wu Ma go out first and walked to Xia Mao's side by herself.
"Xia Mao, what are you looking at?" Lu Wanru opened her mouth softly, her eyes also looking out of the window along with Xia Mao.
Because the guest room Xia Mao was staying in happened to face the southeast, outside was a rockery and an artificial lake, in summer, the scenery outside was quite nice, but now it was bare everywhere, there were not even a few pedestrians outside, what was there to see?
"Want to go out for a walk?" Lu Wanru asked again.
Xia Mao shook her head, her eyes still looking out of the window.
Lu Wanru was worried that Xia Mao might be young and scared from being tortured by Ling Yichen in the past few days, so don't have any more mental problems, so she tried to ask her again, "Shall I ask Wu Ma to accompany you for a walk?"
Xia Mo shook her head again and turned back to the woman beside her, only to find that the one standing next to her was not even Wu Ma, "Who are you? You're the lady who hired me?"
"Yes." Lu Wanru had only seen a picture of Xia Mao, this was the first time she had seen her in person.
She also didn't expect Xia Mao to grow up so outstanding in person, and when she thought of the results of the survey, the class flower, school flower, school bully, top exam winner, well-behaved, good at school and a series of other comments, only then did a little pity rise in her heart.
The child born to such a girl and Ling Yichen, regardless of the boy or girl, should be outstanding, right?
"When the child is born, I will arrange for you to go to university, when you have time, you can think about which university you will go to and what you will study, I will do it for you then." Lu Wanru couldn't help but promise.
"Thanks." The corners of Xia Mao's eyes were slightly astringent.
School was the deepest pain in her heart.
"If you can, can you lend me a few books from high school." Summer's end murmured.
"Good." Lu Wanru nodded.
"Madam," Xia Mao looked at Lu Wanru to leave and hastily called out to her again, "There's one more thing, can I ask you a favour?"
"Go ahead." Lu Wanru's eyebrows jumped slightly, she didn't like people who didn't know enough.
"There's a bird's nest in that tree outside, can you have someone get it down ...... It's been so windy the past few days that it seems like it's going to fall down." As if afraid that she would disagree, Xia Mo explained sharply, "I will find a way to put it up again next spring, or else the little birds will come back and won't be able to find their home."
Lu Wanru didn't know whether she was stimulated by the word "home" she said, or whether she was moved by the "little bird" that might not be able to find a home.
Xia Mao's little face instantly broke into a sweet smile, and her beautiful moon-like eyes shone with a dazzling light.
She turned to Lu Wanru and bowed deeply, "Thank you."
Lu Wanru looked at her belly with an understanding, "Take care of yourself, and if you need anything, tell Wu's mother."
Xia Mao was still sitting on the floating window looking at the big tree across the street until the afternoon, when she saw a van with a lift coming, a man standing on the lift, re-securing the bird's nest on the fork of the tree more than ten metres high and installing a small green wooden board underneath it.
The sudden addition of that bit of green to the grey landscape was surprisingly refreshing.
What was even more surprising at the end of the day was that they had not only fixed this nest, but all the others as well.
By the time she received the books and pens and a box of cut fruit from Wu Ma again in the afternoon, Xia Mo revealed a genuine smile, "Wu Ma, thank Madam for me."
"Okay." Wu Ma's heart followed suit, she also hoped that Xia Mo could give madam a healthy, smart and kind child yet, "If you need anything, just tell me directly."
"Mhm." The rest of the time, Xia Mao sat at the table looking at the book and ate a box of fruit platter.
After Wu's mother finished serving Xia Mao's dinner, she said to Lu Wanru with a smile, "She's really like a child, she's been reading in her room this afternoon, she ate her afternoon fruit, she ate all of her dinner, and when she saw me, she was all smiles, and she kept asking me to thank you."
"She's in a better mood, and when she can have a baby, the child can be a little healthier too." Lu Wanru asked Wu's mother to wait for Ling Yichen in the living room, while she herself went back to her room first.
She had to call Bowen and ask him for the medicine that made people lose their memories.
She didn't want to get Xia Mo killed, but she couldn't allow someone like Xia Mo to miss her child either.
Ling Yichen took a shower in the other room and reluctantly pushed open the door to Xia Mao's room in her housecoat.
When he entered, he saw the tiny woman, sitting at the table, one hand on her head, one hand holding a pen, her mouth chewing on the tip of the pen, frowning as if she was thinking hard about something.