Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 275 - 275 272 Separation (Extra Chapter)

Chapter 275: Chapter 272: Separation (Extra Chapter) Chapter 275: Chapter 272: Separation (Extra Chapter) Jiang Yan left, and Ma Zheng, excited and leaning against the headboard, watched an animated film on his laptop, completely forgetting that his head still ached.

Shu Wan sat beside the bed, staring blankly at the computer.

Ma Jiandong walked over from the other side and sat down next to her.

After a long while, he said in a low voice, “I’m sorry!”

Shu Wan snapped back to reality and sighed, “It’s not all your fault. I don’t want any more involvement with Jiang Fengwei, but whenever I see Xiaoyan, I think of him, and I think of that terrible marriage… In fact, the most innocent one is Xiaoyan. When I divorced his father, it’s not that I didn’t think about keeping him, but Jiang Fengwei disagreed, and so did my parents. They said that if Xiaoyan were a girl, they would definitely have let me take him, even if I remarried later on, I could raise him at my parents’ place. But it’s different with a boy; they were afraid that once he grew up, he would care only for the bottomless pit of the Jiang Family, like Jiang Fengwei did, and they were even more afraid that he would be a burden to me.”

But no one expected Jiang Yan to come this far!

Not to mention her, even her father Mr. Shu had long regretted it.

After the surgery, Ma Zheng’s condition stabilized. He stayed in the hospital for two weeks and, after a follow-up examination showed everything to be normal, he was ready to be discharged at any time.

Originally, Shu Wan and Ma Jiandong had taken a month’s leave, and when they first arrived, they felt a month might not be enough and had plans to extend their leave. But in the end, from their arrival to their departure, it was only twenty-two days in total.

And Ma Zheng’s surgery went so smoothly too.

Both husband and wife knew why they had reached this outcome.

Before handling the discharge procedures, they bought some fruit and took it to Dr. Yu’s office.

“You don’t need to be so formal.” Yu Feng accepted the fruit, and casually tore off a sticky note. He wrote his personal mobile number on it and handed it to Shu Wan, “This is my personal number. If Ma Zheng has any problems later on, you can call me at any time. Of course, I’m just saying in case. His tumor was benign, and the surgery was thorough, so there should be no more issues.”

The couple was profusely grateful, knowing that getting Dr. Yu’s personal number wasn’t easy.

Shu Wan wanted to ask about Jiang Yan’s situation, but upon further thought, she felt it was inappropriate and eventually kept quiet.

On the day they left Beijing, Ma Zheng was unhappy as he stood with them on the roadside hailing a cab to the station.

“Why didn’t you let Brother come? I haven’t seen him for a long time.”

Ma Zheng had recovered very well, now speaking as fluently as he did before the surgery.

He wore a cap and stood with his arms crossed, sulking as he looked at his parents, “When Brother goes to the hospital and can’t find me, he will definitely be angry.”

Shu Wan had already sent a message to Jiang Yan, and seeing that he hadn’t replied, she didn’t call him, thinking he might be busy. But hearing Ma Zheng say this, she hesitated.

No matter how Xiaoyan treated her, his mother, he seemed to be quite fond of Xiaozheng.

“Why don’t you call your brother?”

Shu Wan took out her phone, dialed Jiang Yan’s number, and then passed the phone to Ma Zheng.

She was a little afraid of this eldest son, or more accurately, she felt guilty, so ever since she got his number, she had only ever sent messages to contact him. This was the first time she was making a call.

Shu Wan was afraid he wouldn’t answer, especially since her previous messages had never been replied to.

The phone rang until it was about to cut off automatically before Jiang Yan answered.

Ma Zheng immediately spoke loudly, “Brother, it’s Xiaozheng.”

Jiang Yan was silent for a moment, then snorted coldly, “What do you want?”

His tone wasn’t very pleasant, but Ma Zheng didn’t care; his brother always acted like this whenever he saw him, either ignoring him or snorting at him with his nose, acting cool. He was used to it.

If one day his brother spoke to him with a smile and a pleasant expression, that would be truly shocking.

“I was discharged today. Don’t go to the hospital to see me anymore, because I’m not staying there now.”

“Who was going to visit you in the hospital? Stop flattering yourself.”

“It’s not true, big brother is the one who says one thing but means another.” Since he wasn’t around, arguing with him wouldn’t matter. “We’re going home today, are you coming over?”

Yes, come, come, come, otherwise who knows when I’ll see big brother next time.

On the other line, Jiang Yan fell silent for a full minute before finally asking, “The train station right now?”

“No, we’re hailing a cab at the hospital entrance. Mom said our train is at ten twenty.”

It’s only half-past eight in the morning and today is Sunday, big brother doesn’t have to go to classes.

“Give me twenty minutes.”

After that, Jiang Yan hung up the phone.

Ma Zheng excitedly told Shu Wan, “Big brother said to wait twenty minutes, he’ll be right over.”

Jiang Yan was currently at the electronics factory, which wasn’t too far from here.

The family of three, with their luggage, stood by the roadside. Ten minutes later, a black Volkswagen slowly pulled up to the curb and came to a complete stop.

Then the passenger window rolled down, and Jiang Yan leaned over from the driver’s side, shouting to Ma Zheng, “Get in.”

The three of them were stunned for a moment, but Ma Zheng was the first to react, happily exclaiming, “Big brother can drive.”

He ran to the passenger side and pulled the door open, intending to sit down when Ma Jiandong grabbed him from behind, “You can’t sit here; sit in the back.”

All three got in, with Ma Jiandong sitting in the passenger seat, and Shu Wan and Ma Zheng in the back.

“Big brother, is this car yours?”

“No, a friend’s.”

Ma Zheng leaned behind Jiang Yan’s driver’s seat, curiously watching him grip the steering wheel with one hand and resting the other on the gear lever, and asked, “Is this car easy to drive?”

Ma Jiandong was about to tell Ma Zheng to sit properly and not distract Jiang Yan from driving, but when he turned his head, he saw that Jiang Yan didn’t seem annoyed at all and was seriously answering him, “It’s okay.”

Ma Jiandong turned back around, not wanting to interrupt the brothers.

“Big brother, I finished all the cartoons you downloaded onto the computer; are there any new ones?”

“There’s a black bag in the back, with a few CDs inside. Take them out.”

Ma Zheng turned to look, and when Shu Wan saw, she silently took the bag and handed it to him.

Upon opening it, indeed, he found several brand-new CDs. Ma Zheng, holding them up, asked Jiang Yan, “Big brother, are these foreign cartoons?”

These original animation CDs were actually downloaded by Mu Jiawen for the second child, and some were managed by Yu Ci. The dialogue was simple and easy to understand, and by following along, one could practice speaking and listening skills.

The second child watched with great interest and would laugh uproariously like a fool at the funny parts. Jiang Yan thought he understood everything, only later discovering that he had added Chinese translations.

“Yes, can you understand them?”

“I can, the English in them isn’t hard, mom taught me.”

Shu Wan, who taught English at the university, had also taught Jiang Yan when he was younger. His good English grades in junior high were somewhat related to this.

However, when he was nine, he was nowhere near as obedient as Ma Zheng.

The car quickly arrived at the train station, and Ma Zheng reluctantly got out, repeatedly asking Jiang Yan, “Big brother, you have to look for me when you come back to Yunzhou, okay? You’re coming back for summer vacation, right?”

Jiang Yan grew impatient, “Hurry up and go inside.”