Married for a long time

On the morning of the weekend, Qu Zhen was awakened by a phone call from Ruan Mei.

Reminding her of the noon meal, his tone was still his usual strong and authoritarian tone, as if the peach incident a few days ago had not happened.

Perhaps she felt that as long as she didn't mention it, this matter, like all past conflicts, would slowly be forgotten over time.

But she didn't know that all the little things she had forgotten left a small scar on Qu Zhen's heart.

Over time, that heart has been scarred by family affection.

In fact, Qu Zhen didn't have any expectations. She hung up the phone with a cold "Oh", looked at the time, and continued to sleep.

At half past nine, the doorbell rang. It was the servant of the Qu family, bringing the clothes, bags and other things that Ruan Mei bought her last time.

She ignored it, let those things pile up randomly in the entrance hall, fell down on the bed and closed her eyes again.

It was eleven o'clock when she woke up again. She washed up slowly and picked out a set of comfortable yet formal clothes in the cloakroom.

A black dress, a small green fragrant jacket, a simple necklace, a silver watch on her wrist, light makeup, and a pair of black leather shoes.

In fact, she rarely dresses in such a ladylike manner. Even when she goes to work, she mainly dresses in comfort and leisure.

The slightly curly hair was put on with some essential oil and hung casually on the shoulders and back.

She went out carrying Chanel's classic bag and carried the things Ruan Mei asked her to give to Lu Qingru's parents.

She went to the mall two days ago and picked out two items herself.

The things are not expensive, but I always feel that they are more sincere than buying them on behalf of others.

On the way, she sent Lu Qingru a message and asked him if he would come to the banquet today.

Lu Qingru didn't reply until five minutes later: Let's talk about our engagement date. If I'm not here, who will you book it with?

That makes sense.

Qu Zhen: Aren’t you training with the team recently? Is it okay if I ask?

Lu Qingru: We must balance work and rest. We have a rest today and will play a game the day after tomorrow.

Qu Zhen didn’t reply again.

There were not many cars on the road on weekends, but there were many intersections, and the traffic lights at some intersections were long. She was actually ten minutes late when she arrived, and everyone from the Lu family had already arrived.

Lu Qingru sat lazily next to his mother.

Qu Zhen glanced over and was met with glares from her parents.

Then Ruan Mei noticed that she was not wearing the skirt she bought, and her face became even more serious.

Maybe she felt that the outdated-looking clothes she was wearing had lost the face of the Qu family.

But it's definitely hard to blame or belittle someone for blocking the Lu family's face.

At this dinner, there were only Lu family and his wife, Lu Qingru, and Qu family and Qu Zhen.

Qu Zhen was the first to apologize to the Lu family, but did not elaborate on the reason for being late, so as not to feel like she was making excuses to escape responsibility.

After sitting down, she and Lu Qingru looked at each other.

I haven't seen him for more than 20 days, and there hasn't been much change in his face, except for the obvious black spots under his eye sockets.

Lu Qingru's mother, Ye He, quite liked Qu Zhen. She had no daughter. If she hadn't hurt her body by giving birth to Lu Qingru, a bastard, she would have had to fight for a third child to give birth to a daughter.

She had met Qu Zhen several times before when she held a parent-teacher conference for Lu Qingru at school.

I quite like this girl's temperament.

At least, she felt that this was how it should be if it were her own child.

When Qu Zhen presented the gift, she was also beaming.

The one Ruan Mei prepared looked very high-end. The one she bought herself was an jade tassel hairpin. The color of the jade was very pure, but it was not the best. The price was around 20,000 to 30,000 yuan, and the one she chose for Lu Qingru’s father was The price of a high-quality inkstone is around 20,000 yuan.

They had given Qu Zhen a greeting gift before, and this was a gift she wanted to return sincerely.

But Ruan Mei naturally dislikes these things and thinks they are too low-profile. "Children, they don't have any taste, and their stuff is not good. Don't take it to heart."

Ruan Mei suppressed her desire to scold Qu Zhen and showed a dignified smile.

Ye He smiled and said, "How could it be possible? This is Zhen Zhen's wish. Besides, this hairpin has been chosen in my heart. I like it very much."

Qu Zhen also laughed and said, "As long as uncle and aunt like it."

Ye Hedu said this, and Ruan Mei naturally wouldn't say anything more.

It’s just that my daughter, who cocks her tail when given some sunshine, hates the iron.

In the middle of the meal, the two parties began to talk about the engagement day.

In fact, before this, both families had planned their lives, so the conversation went much smoother.

Thinking that Lu Qingru would have to play a game now and celebrate the New Year after that, he simply put the date in March and get married in the summer or autumn.

Things will fall into place, which is good.

When asked about the two parties involved, they had no objections.

The parents of both parties were chatting about family matters, and Qu Zhen wanted to leave for a while on the pretext of going to the bathroom.

But Ruan Mei also stood up and said, "I'm going to go too, let's go together."

Qu Zhen glanced at her and felt tired.

Without saying anything, he turned around and left.

Sure enough, when they got to the bathroom, Ruan Mei started shouting, "Qu Zhen, stop!"

Qu Zhen didn't listen and went in to use the toilet. When she came out, Ruan Mei's face turned even more ugly.

"You are becoming more and more disobedient now. I just asked you to stop, couldn't you hear me?"

"Don't you hear me when I say I need to go to the toilet?" Qu Zhen asked, "Do you have to let me stand there and be criticized by you to feel comfortable? To satisfy your sense of superiority at the top of the food chain?"

"you!"

Ruan Mei was so angry that she raised her hand and wanted to hit her.

Qu Zhen shook the water on her hand and stood there motionless, staring at her for a moment.

"What day is today? Do you think I want to criticize you?" Ruan Mei put down her hand, "Forget it that you are late today, look at what you are wearing? What did you give me as a gift? Isn't it embarrassing?"

"I have prepared gifts for you a long time ago. You just need to give them properly. Why don't you buy those inferior things?"

"In your eyes, those things are not popular, but in Auntie Ye's eyes, those things are true feelings."

"What do you mean? Hey, you are really naive. You don't want to gain our face. You really think that people like what you have."

Ruan Mei became angrier as she talked, "You said that the outfit I bought for you cost me one or two million. If you don't want to wear it, you have to wear these outdated rags of yours."

"Growing up, what have you ever looked up to about me?"

Qu Zhen asked calmly, "Even if I wear the outfit you bought, I'm afraid in your eyes, I'm just a beggar stealing the owner's clothes. Why bother? I just like my rags. What's wrong?"

"You haven't cared about me since my junior year, and now you not only care about my marriage, but also what I wear? Aren't you letting me fend for myself? Aren't you better off dying outside?"

Ruan Mei blushed with anger, "Qu Zhen! Don't think that because the Lu family and his wife were here today, I wouldn't dare to hit you! Don't you even think about it, if it weren't for me, where would you be?"

Qu Zhen laughed, "It's not like I begged you to give birth to me. I wish you had strangled me to death when I was born."

After that, he turned around and left the bathroom.

I saw a familiar figure outside.

She was stunned, and the tears in her eyes were forced back.