It's not too late for Sheng Chong to get married

Chapter 142 In his heart, he can only be second at most

The art exhibition went very smoothly. In fact, there was no Huojiang City to join in, and An Muyang's paintings were quite popular.Although the price is not high, at least some people can see it and are willing to spend money to buy it, which is very rare.

An Shutong asked Huo Jiangcheng to help buy two paintings, one was Jiang Jinghong's masterpiece, and the other was An Muyang's autumn harvest painting.Because she could see that when the sister-in-law's eyes were fixed on the autumn harvest picture, her eyes were full of light.An Shutong knew that Zhao Mengqing was actually a person with a lot of backbone. Her parents were poor, and she was just a nurse with little money.But with strong self-esteem, even though her husband is rich and the eldest son of the Huo Group, which is popular all over the world, she never expected to ask for too much money.

After attending the art exhibition, the three of us had dinner together by the way.When they parted, An Shutong quietly gave the painting to Zhao Mengqing.

"Is this... for me?" Zhao Mengqing didn't expect that An Shutong would give the painting to herself. She thought that she wanted to keep it for herself.

"Yes, I'll give it to you." An Shutong said, "I saw it just now, and my sister-in-law seems to like this painting quite a bit. In this case, a gentleman does not take what others like."

"I'm actually..." Zhao Mengqing didn't expect her thoughtfulness to be seen through by others, but she didn't want to accept gifts easily, "You paid a lot of money for this painting, so it's not good to just give it to me like this. No way. , I can’t accept it. Besides, the second child spent money to buy it for you.”

"Second brother's money is the Huo family's money. You are the daughter-in-law of Huo's parents, why can't you take it?" An Shutong's attitude was also quite tough, and he stuffed the gift into Zhao Mengqing's hands in a daze, "Sister-in-law, don't Can you be polite to me? Big deal, you will give me another gift in a few days. I remember, just these few days, is it your birthday?"

"It's a good thing you can remember, I've forgotten it myself." Zhao Mengqing smiled bitterly, and didn't refuse anymore, she just took the painting and said, "I know, you bought it for me sincerely, then I will shirk it again, It seems that we are a little out of touch. This painting, just treat it as a birthday present from you? Well, I will also prepare a gift for your birthday. However, I have no money, so don’t hold it against me when the time comes My gift is light."

"Why don't you give me a package?" An Shutong was willing to joke, and also regarded Zhao Mengqing as a real friend, "I'm afraid that my brother will beat me."

The smile on Zhao Mengqing's face did not diminish by half, but there were some tears in her eyes.

"You still have your body, go back and rest early." Zhao Mengqing waved at Huo Jiangcheng and said, "Take good care of Tongtong, I'm leaving first."

"It's so late, let's drive you back." An Shutong suggested.

"No need, there is no need for such trouble." Zhao Mengqing waved her hand, stood on the side of the road, and had already reached out to hail a taxi. She stood outside and said, "Go back, I'm home, I'll send you a WeChat message."

"That's good." An Shutong stood in the wind, and Huo Jiangcheng was waiting beside her. She was not frozen, but kept waving at Zhao Mengqing and said, "Sister-in-law, happy birthday!"

Zhao Mengqing, who was walking into the car, suddenly paused.She didn't turn around, but raised her hand high and waved at An Shutong.

While sitting in the back seat of the taxi, Zhao Mengqing suddenly felt wronged and couldn't help crying.Actually, I didn't feel wronged, at least, Jiangli treats her better now than before, doesn't he?There was more and more communication between them, and he was also trying to care about himself.

But because of this, she was even more sad.Because in the past, I still felt that the reason why they lived like that was because there was no communication, no communication, because he had a prejudice against himself in his heart, and he didn't understand himself at all.But now, she felt that she was completely wrong.He will love that man, but he always pretends to be someone else in his heart.He is a good man, he knows what responsibility is, and he is also trying to shoulder his own responsibility.

However, the human heart cannot be deceived.If he doesn't love, he doesn't love. No matter how much he does, it's not in the name of love.

In fact, the love that Zhao Mengqing dreamed of when she was a child was that of Huo Jiangcheng and An Shutong.Maybe you don't need to be so rich, but there must be a strong love between husband and wife, and no matter when, they will give everything for each other from the bottom of their hearts.

She hopes that both husband and wife can be the only one for each other.

Love sometimes, really don't care about the money.What I care about is nothing more than that heart.For this reason, she even thought selfishly, it would be great if he wasn't the eldest son of the Huo family, it would be great if the bad relationship between them didn't start with a one-night love, if they were in normal love and marriage, it would be great.

Zhao Mengqing went upstairs with a painting in her arms. Xiao Weimin was still awake. When he saw his mother came back, he rubbed his eyes and ran out of his bedroom.

"Mom." Wei Min hugged his mother's leg and looked up and asked, "Where did you go? Why did you come home so late? Dad left later than you, and he has been back for a long time."

"Mom went to an art exhibition with your second uncle and aunt." Zhao Mengqing said, "Look, is this painting good?"

"This painting is really beautiful, did mom buy it?"

Huo Jiangli also stayed with his son all the time. He stood tall at the door, put his hands lightly on his son's shoulders, and said to his wife, "Wei Min said that he will wait until you come back to sleep, and he has been holding on until now. However, I told him the story just now, and he was really good."

"It's time to sleep too." Zhao Mengqing said, "Wei Min, be obedient, you have to go to class tomorrow, children can't stay up late."

"Then I'm going to bed, good night, Mom and Dad." Wei Min may have noticed that the relationship between Mom and Dad has improved a lot recently, and the child was very active, and turned around before entering the house, "Mom and Dad also go to bed early, Don't go to the study to stay up late."

Both the husband and wife understand what the son means.Huo Jiangli glanced at his wife, unfolded it from her hand, took the painting to look at, and said, "Did you buy it?"

Zhao Mengqing shook her head: "Shu Tong's elder sister is working in a gallery now, and it's the first art exhibition today, they went to support, I met someone in the hospital, so I went with him." While talking, people have already gone to the bedroom, Huo Jiangli followed.

"Why didn't you tell me?" After entering the bedroom, Huo Jiangli said, "I called you, and the phone was turned off."

"Uh, it's out of battery." Zhao Mengqing took out her mobile phone and smiled awkwardly. She didn't want to mention this again, and asked, "Is the hospital busy today? Remember when I left, your department was doing a surgery, I thought I wouldn't be back until night."

"It's not a major operation, and the operation was relatively successful." Huo Jiangli was indeed a little tired. He frowned slightly on his handsome face, bent down and sat down on the sofa at the end of the bed, and then talked to her about his son's study, "Wei Min is obedient recently. Although he is only in the first grade, he has to start his studies from an early age. I think, if necessary, should I hire a tutor for him. I don’t need to stay at home every day, come two or three times a week after class Just give me some guidance."

"You have to ask your son if he likes it, and don't put too much pressure on it. Children nowadays are under too much pressure to study, and they don't have any childhood fun." Zhao Mengqing actually doesn't want to make her son so tired, but if her son likes it , she has no opinion.

"He doesn't care." Huo Jiangli said, "I think, although tutoring by yourself is fine, but we often work overtime and the hours are not fixed."

"It's good if he agrees, and don't learn too profound things." Zhao Mengqing picked up her mobile phone and sent An Shutong a message on WeChat: I'm home. After that, I picked up my pajamas and said, "I'm going to take a shower first. It's a little tiring."

Huo Jiangli didn't speak any more, Zhao Mengqing just entered the bathroom, and the phone rang.

The phone was thrown at the end of the bed, and Huo Jiangli saw it with a glance.Seeing the words "Happy Birthday", he seemed to suddenly remember that today is his wife's birthday.

Huo Jiangli propped his head on his hands, sat quietly aside for a while, picked up the cigarette case and lighter, and went to the balcony outside the bedroom to smoke.After smoking one and another, it was very dark outside, only the red light flickered.

It wasn't until Zhao Mengqing finished taking a shower that he heard movement behind him, and then he came back.

"Are you smoking?" Looking at the tall man standing at the door of the balcony, Zhao Mengqing could clearly see the exhaustion and pain on his face, and her heart ached.

Her man was wearing a white shirt and black trousers at the moment.His legs were long and straight, and his demeanor was melancholy. How could she be indifferent to such a man whose brows were always filled with melancholy?

"I'm addicted to cigarettes, I smoked two." Huo Jiangli walked to his wife, looked down at her face, then stretched out his hand, hugged him gently, and said in her ear, "I'm sorry, I forgot Today is your birthday, and you haven't even prepared a present."

"How do you know?" Zhao Mengqing was still a little surprised in her heart, thinking, maybe she was really busy and forgot.But thinking about it now, it's not too late.

Besides, I haven't done this in the past seven years. I don't remember it, but it's normal.But after hearing him say that she saw what Shu Tong said on WeChat, she felt as if someone had poured cold water on her heart, and gradually, it cooled down a little bit.

"Go take a shower, your body smells like cigarettes." She forced out a smile and stretched out her hand to push him.

Huo Jiangli gently scratched her cheek with his chin, and said in a low voice, "Okay, let's go."

After he left, Zhao Mengqing's face was red and her ears were hot.

Hearing the sound of rushing water coming from the bathroom, Zhao Mengqing suddenly felt unable to sleep.She remembered that a little girl in the same department was about to take a professional title test and asked her to borrow previous reference books, so she went to the drawers to look for them, but in a drawer of the bedside table, she found an exquisite small box.

There is a pink note on the box, which reads: Today is the seventh year that Xiao Wei has been away, I hope she is well in heaven.Under the box, there is also a receipt for buying flowers and gifts.There are also many stubs of invoices, all from the past few years.

Suddenly Zhao Mengqing couldn't hold back, covered her mouth and began to cry.

She felt that perhaps in his heart, she was no match for that girl named Xiaowei.If she works hard for another ten years, twenty years, maybe a lifetime, she will be the most, but she will only be second in his heart.

(End of this chapter)