At breakfast the next day, the nanny brought a bowl of red dates, angelica and old hen soup to Lin Mai and placed it in front of him.
He smiled and said, "The old lady asked me to make this chicken soup for you early in the morning."
Lin Mai glanced at the others and asked, "Except me, doesn't everyone have chicken soup?"
Grandma Fang picked up a small steamed bun bought from Baohaochi and ate it.
He said angrily: "You are in a special situation now, what do you care what we do?
It’s not like we don’t have steamed buns and dumplings to eat.
The old hen stewed for you is our local Yunyang black-bone chicken from Hu Province.
The weight is only about one kilogram after one year of growth. After slaughtering, the hair and internal organs are removed, which is only six to seven taels of meat.
If it's not enough for you, we won't eat.
You're afraid that we won't have any chicken soup to drink, so I'll ask Xiao Tu to go to your market and buy a Shandong chicken later.
Shandong chicken weighs seven to eight pounds each, and the simmering chicken soup can make everyone's stomachs burst."
Auntie Tu, the nanny, advised from the side: "The Yunyang black-bone chickens from your Hu Province are not easy to buy.
Professor Fang visited several markets early in the morning and finally bought it.
Don't let Professor Fang and the old lady down and drink up all the soup."
When Lin Mai heard this, he immediately drank up the bowl of chicken soup and ate a few steamed dumplings to feel full.
After breakfast, the couple set off for Jiangcheng.
Doudou pulled Lin Mai's skirt and asked Lin Mai eagerly if he could come back tonight. She wanted her and Fang Zhuoran to spend Children's Day with her.
Only then did Lin Mai remember that today was Children's Day.
Fang Zhuoran knelt down and apologized: "I can definitely make it back in time, but I'm afraid I'll come back too late. Mom is tired and needs to go to bed."
Doudou pouted her mouth in disappointment.
Then his eyes lit up again and he asked Fang Zhuoran: "Can daddy spend Children's Day with me?"
Fang Zhuoran nodded: "Of course!"
Doudou suddenly smiled like a flower.
On the way to Jiangcheng, Fang Zhuoran carefully took care of Lin Mai like he took care of priceless fragile blue and white porcelain.
Lin Mai told him not to do this, but he didn't listen.
Five hours later, the two finally arrived in Jiangcheng.
When I got home, Aunt Huang hadn't left yet.
She smiled and congratulated the couple on their baby, and then told Lin Mai that there was pigeon soup simmering in the rice cooker and asked her to have a bowl.
After she finished explaining, she left work.
Lin Mai turned to Fang Zhuoran and asked: "You told Aunt Huang that I was pregnant and asked her to make pigeon soup?"
Fang Zhuoran nodded: "Nutrition is very important during pregnancy.
Besides, I asked Aunt Huang to work more, and I also gave her more money, so she didn’t let her work in vain.”
Lin Mai was not concerned about this, but that Fang Zhuoran paid too much attention to her and the baby in her belly.
Although the pigeon soup was delicious, Lin Mai was afraid that eating three meals a day would make him fat and the fetus would be too big to be born, so he only drank a small part of it and refused to drink it.
But Fang Zhuoran said that it was okay to eat more in the early stages, and that she would control her diet in the middle and late stages, and she had to drink the bowl of pigeon soup.
Lin Mai hurriedly drank the pigeon soup, then went upstairs with Fang Zhuoran to Fang Zhuoran's room.
The room was empty and neat.
There were no empty beer bottles strewn about on the floor. It didn't look like a room where decadent people lived.
The couple looked at each other.
Lin Mai wondered: "If Zhuo Zhuo doesn't stay in the room and act like salted fish, where will he go?"
Fang Zhuoran picked up the phone on Fang Zhuoyue's bedside and called his TV factory.
The call was answered by Fang Zhuoyue's assistant.
He told Fang Zhuoran on the phone that Fang Zhuoran was inspecting the production line in the factory and providing guidance to technicians and front-line workers.
Fang Zhuoran and Lin Mai were both surprised. They took a taxi to the TV factory to have a look.
Fang Zhuoyue was seen clean-shaven and dressed in a crisp suit, patrolling the workshop with several small cadres.
When he heard Lin Mai calling his name, he turned around and saw his eldest brother and sister-in-law, his face beaming with joy.
After explaining a few words to the junior cadres beside him, he trotted over: "Brother, sister-in-law, what kind of wind brings you here?"
"What kind of wind can blow your sister-in-law and I from the capital to Jiangcheng?"
Fang Zhuoran said with a cold face: "You are no longer as big as you. You are still childish and immature. If you say I won't do it, I won't do it.
Your sister-in-law got pregnant, and she had to come all the way from the capital to take over your mess."
After hearing this, Fang Zhuoyue was overjoyed and asked for confirmation: "Sister-in-law, are you really pregnant?"
Lin Mai nodded shyly: "Who is kidding you about this?
By the way, do you still want to work hard?
If you don’t want to work anymore, let’s hand over the TV factory today, right now.”
Fang Zhuoyue patted his chest: "I don't know if the baby in your belly is a nephew or a niece, so I, as an uncle, have to work hard and earn some family business for them."
Lin Mai rolled her eyes at him: "It sounds like you won't have children if you don't get married in the future.
Your brother and I’s children don’t need you to earn a family fortune, you can just earn a family fortune for your own children.”
Fang Zhuoyue smiled bitterly and said nothing.
Seeing that he was in a good mood, Lin Mai said, "Didn't you want to work hard before? Why did you suddenly cheer up? What stimulation did you receive?"
A hint of heartbreak flashed in Fang Zhuoyue's eyes, but he smiled on the outside: "Because I have figured it out, there is no grass anywhere in the world.
People no longer want me and I have gone to study abroad. Why should I still miss her?
Then of course I will leave her behind just like she abandoned me and pursue my career!"
After hearing Fang Zhuoyue's words, Lin Mai and his wife felt relieved.
This kind of childish anger fits Fang Zhuoyue's immature character very well.
It seems that Tao Zhiyun's study abroad stimulated Fang Zhuoyue, and he was finally willing to let her go and get his life back on track.
Although it is out of anger, if you bet and bet, it will come true. This is something Fang Zhuoran and his wife firmly believe.
Lin Mai spent nearly an hour learning about the TV factory in detail with Fang Zhuoyue.
She was afraid that one day Fang Zhuozhou would become childish and unreasonable, catching her off guard.
She must take precautions now and be ready to take over the TV factory.
After the two of them finished chatting about work, it was already past one in the afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Lin and Mai bought tickets for three o'clock in the afternoon.
It takes an hour and a half to get to Nanhu Airport from Hankou. Lin Mai repeatedly confirmed that Fang Zhuoyoro would manage the TV factory well. The couple then left the TV factory and took a taxi straight to Nanhu Airport.
Fang Zhuoyue watched the taxi they were riding in disappear from his sight, the smile on his face disappeared completely in an instant, and his expression was so cold that no one dared to approach it.
He couldn't help but recall how he chased Tao Zhiyun all the way to the Beijing Airport a few days ago and begged Tao Zhiyun not to leave.
But Tao Zhiyun said to him coldly: "Comrade Fang Zhuoyue, my feelings for you are not as deep as you think.
Otherwise, I wouldn't have told you the day I was going abroad. I thought you would understand, but it seems that you didn't understand, and you actually chased me to the airport.
I've said before that I don't like immature men, but have you grown up?
Look at you now, for a woman like me, you don’t even want to take care of the factory.
With you like this, can you be a good husband and father in the future?"
Fang Zhuoyue said weakly: "I will become what you want.
Tao Zhiyun said: "I am several years older than you, and I will be thirty in a few years.
A woman's youth is limited, I don't have time to wait for you to grow up."
She looked up and down at the slovenly Fang Zhuoyue: "Don't you understand that it's not worth putting yourself in this state for a woman?
People who love you will feel sorry for you, and people who don't love you will only look down on you.
I don’t love you, so don’t contact me again.”
No matter how hot your heart is, no matter how fierce the fire is, it will be extinguished if Tao Zhiyun pours cold water on it one after another.
The last little hope in Fang Zhuoyue's heart turned into despair.
He felt that he had let people down with his infatuation.
When he came out of the airport hall, it was pouring rain.
Regardless of whether they are passengers or people who come to see off, unless they have an umbrella, those who don't have an umbrella take shelter from the rain in the airport hall.
Fang Zhuoyue was the only one walking in the pouring rain in despair.
After returning home, he had not been sick all year round, but he had a fever for a whole day.
When the fever subsided, he cheered up.
He told himself in his heart that he would grow into an excellent man and make Tao Zhiyun regret it.
What he didn't know was that after passing the international security checkpoint, Tao Zhiyun pretended to go to the bathroom and hid in the bathroom and cried hard.
She knew that what she just said must have made Fang Zhuoyue sad and painful.
The look in his eyes said it all, he was terrible, extremely terrible.
But she had no better way. His mother was a big mountain between her and him.
Fang Zhuoyue said that he would convince his mother, but she had no confidence and was exhausted both physically and mentally.
The two of them will just forget each other in the world.