Chapter 19 Empty Nesters Little Birds Want to Fly Out
Shen Lin woke up the next day, washed up in a daze, and then went downstairs to the first floor.
The housekeeper was still a little surprised. He led the man with half-closed eyes to a chair, like leading a dazed little animal, "Why are you down? I will send breakfast upstairs for you."
Shen Lin shook his head and slapped his face, “No, Uncle Lin, I have to go to school.”
His injury has healed, and the midterm exam for the school is approaching, so he has to hurry over.
He also had to treat Qinghe to a meal, as he had helped him a lot.
Shen Lin was thinking about these things in his mind, and it seemed that he had not remembered what happened at midnight at all.
The housekeeper asked tentatively, "Did you sleep well last night?"
Shen Lin looked confused, holding his chin to look at Uncle Lin, and thought for a while, "Okay."
The butler understood and thought that nothing should have happened, so he went on to prepare the dishes.
Shen Lin yawned and suddenly felt a pain in the back of his neck. He couldn't help but reach out to touch it, but he pulled his hand back after a rub.
Got a bug bite?
He was too embarrassed to ask Uncle Lin to help look after him, so he didn't pay much attention to it until he learned that Lu Yuting came back in the middle of the night.
“…”
Shen Lin was stunned.
The housekeeper explained: "The young master may have gone upstairs to get some documents, and he left early this morning, so he may not have had time to tell you."
There was actually something comforting about that.
But Shen Lin couldn't understand it at all, he just scratched the back of his neck unconsciously again, his eyebrows slightly frowned.
"Then how long can he be away on business?" The young man has black hair and a pair of eyes with slightly drooping corners that show a bit of anticipation. To outsiders, this may be a sign of missing his family.
The butler automatically changed the question to "When will he be back?" and kindly reassured him, "Soon, probably in less than a week."
"Don't be anxious, Xiao Shen." The housekeeper added, and refilled half a cup of milk.
Shen Lin was very anxious. He had learned dangerous news from Qinghe's "foreign aid". It was abnormal. Lu Yuting should not kiss him.
Ahhhh.
He said he didn't like me, it was very clear that he hated me.
Was it revenge for her calling him "husband"? So he kissed her to disgust her?
Shen Lin's expression became very serious. He thought about it and realized that being called "husband" and being "kissed" happened on the same day, which meant that the other party was testing him in return.
It's okay, it's okay.
As if it never happened.
Shen Lin drank all the milk in one gulp, packed his schoolbag and went to school.
The butler watched the man leave. His gentle aura quickly dissipated, and his eyes returned to their usual coldness.
The villa was too empty. After so many years, someone finally came.
Why does the young master insist on letting Xiao Shen go to school when it is so hard?
"Will Xiao Shen come back at noon?" asked the chef at the back.
Housekeeper: "No, he didn't even bring his lunch box. He said he was going out to eat with his classmates."
Chef: "What time will you be back this afternoon?"
Butler: "I'll pick him up at five."
Chef: “Yeah.”
Chef: "Not even a single person is popular..."
The butler looked at him coldly and walked away.
There is really not much to say about empty-nesters.
*
Shen Lin took part in a mid-term exam for a large class wearing a mask. Fortunately, it was an open-book exam. After he finished, he waited for "Chu Qinghe" on the first floor of the library.
The other party worked part-time in the coffee shop on the first floor of the library. He changed shifts at 11 o'clock in the morning. Shen Lin sat on a small sofa not far away and waited for someone.
He was very well-behaved and stayed alone from beginning to end, without being urged at all.
Chu Xiu still had many doubts in his mind, but he looked at the person not far away for a long time, so much so that the milk foam overflowed, and he made a light "tsk" sound.
The girl next to me asked with a smile, "What's wrong? Is that your brother? He keeps looking."
Chu Xiu frowned: "No."
"Oh, it's a handsome boy, eh, someone went over to chat with him." The female classmate looked over there curiously, "It's a boy, haha, oh."
Chu Xiu's eyebrows jumped, he put down the things in his hands, and told his colleagues in advance that he would leave work first.
"No problem, but...what are you going to do?"
There was also an intermittent voice at the back that seemed to be saying "Haha, it's dangerous for a boy to be too good-looking. I also want a male wife haha."
Chu Xiu's face was filled with black lines.
Shen Lin was a little embarrassed. He shook his head helplessly, but the boy in front of him not only did not leave, but also wanted to sit next to him.
ah--
Shen Lin immediately jumped up and started walking around, just in time Chu Xiu came over.
"My friend is here."
But the boy didn't seem to stop yet. He was clearly talking to Shen Lin, but his eyes had already moved to Chu Xiu. He looked back and forth between the two of them, "Your friend is also very good-looking. Let's make friends."
Shen Lin was shocked.
He must be sick!
Chu Xiu: "If you are sick, go to the andrology department. You are wearing your pants on your head."
The tone of speech was very slow and even the voice was pleasant.
The boy didn't react at first what was going on, but when the people around him laughed, he instantly became annoyed and stood up quickly.
But Chu Xiu was not afraid at all. This man was a regular at chatting up other people during the final week. He had been caught at the campus fair no less than ten times, and his identity information had almost become public.
He said calmly, "Your counselor is xxx. If I remember correctly, he was just here discussing graduation thesis with you. If you want to fight, I'll accompany you. There are surveillance cameras in the store all the time, and there are classmates around. Do you really want to postpone your graduation?"
The boy was speechless for a moment, sneered, and seemed to feel embarrassed, and walked away quickly.
Chu Xiu felt a headache and turned to look at Shen Lin, "Are you okay?"
He had never known that Shen Ning'an was so young before, he was only three years older than Chu Qinghe, and he also learned that he was forced into marriage by his family.
Chu Xiu's mood was inevitably complicated.
"No, no." Shen Lin shook his head.
Seeing that he was indeed fine, Chu Xiu led his people out, but the look in his eyes along the way was really unbearable.
With bright eyes.
"What are you looking at me for?"
Shen Lin: "Youzi, you are so good at scolding people!"
A tone of admiration.
“…”
Chu Xiu: "You don't need to praise this."
Shen Lin mainly wanted to thank the other party for answering the questions for him, and also consult on some small matters.
"Yuzu, do you know Chu Xiu?"
A sudden word.
Chu Xiu lost his temper, but still calmly asked, "Who? I don't know him. What do you want to see him for? Is there something wrong?"
After three consecutive questions, Shen Lin was a little confused. He stuttered, "Ah, it's nothing, I just heard...he..."
I couldn't think of a reason for the moment.
Shen Lin's brain suddenly twitched, and he imitated her and said, "I heard that he is good-looking, and I want to make friends with him."
“…”
The guy who approached me just now also used this excuse.
Shen Lin's face turned red and Chu Xiu felt that there was something wrong with him as well. He didn't know what he was doing.
The two people were disheveled in the wind.
"He, doesn't look good." Chu Xiu finally took over the conversation for some unknown reason, not wanting to embarrass the other party.
Shen Lin was overjoyed, “Yuzu, do you know him?”
“…”
"It's half past eleven. You should eat."
*
Shen Lin actually knew where the plot was going, or in plain words, when he would be "abandoned".
After all, Lu Yuting likes Chu Xiu.
In the later stage, we will have to fight with Rong Ming...
Shen Lin originally just wanted to avoid the ending of death, but he didn't expect that he couldn't get a divorce later.
A bit passive.
Chu Xiu took the distracted Shen Lin to the rental house, rejected Shen Lin's proposal to treat him to a meal, and prepared to go home to cook.
By the way...try it again.
The rental house was very small, and Ana Shen came from a wealthy family, so it was impossible for her not to dislike it.
Your knee-jerk reaction won't fool you.
Actually, Shen Lin didn’t want to go to the restaurant to eat, mainly because there were so many people and the food wasn’t served and he didn’t dare to ask, which was very frustrating.
It was the first time he was invited as a guest, and he felt a little happy and nervous.
After Chu Xiu pushed open the door, he found that no one followed him in. He frowned. Could he not pretend anymore?
But the boy outside the door just put his hands behind his back and said embarrassedly: "I, I didn't wear shoe covers..."
His ears were flushed and his gaze was slightly evasive.
Chu Xiu then realized that there was only one pair of adult slippers at home. Chu Qinghe's slippers were too small, so he directly pulled him in and said, "No need to change."
"The house is not big, you can just sit on the sofa and watch TV."
Shen Lin sat on the sofa carefully, put his hands on his knees, and stayed very seriously.
Chu Xiu originally felt a little embarrassed, but when she went to the kitchen to cook for a while and came back, she saw that he was still sitting obediently on the sofa.
I didn't even watch TV.
Just wait.
When he saw people coming over, he looked up and smiled foolishly.
It really doesn't look like he's pretending.
Chu Xiu was a little distracted. Maybe strange things just happen in groups? Nothing strange.
"Is there anything dirty on my face?" Shen Lin scratched his face anxiously, becoming even more nervous. He actually didn't make many friends, so he mustered up the courage to try to be a guest.
Chu Xiu: “No.”
The cat stopped washing its face abruptly.
"Come and eat."
Shen Lin was eating happily and had turned on the Do Not Disturb function on his phone. He had no idea that a call had come in and had been automatically answered.
The sound of a young boy eating came from the phone, very soft and subtle.
——It’s delicious. It’s delicious.
Like a repeater.
The person on the other side seemed a little embarrassed.
——Ordinary dish.
——That’s delicious too. Delicious.
There was a faint bite mark on Lu Yuting's index finger, which was about to fade away. He rubbed it twice and listened leisurely.
No interruption either.
The little bird will be happy only if it goes out and flies.
After dinner, Shen Lin followed "Chu Qinghe" to the hospital to see his sister "Chu Xiu". He carefully selected the gift for the meeting.
It is an official Valley gift box that is very hard to get nowadays, and he bought it from others at a high price.
Chu Xiu looked guilty: "Actually, I still have to trouble you. She likes the two-dimensional world, but there are still too many people at the comic exhibition. I have an exam, so I can only go at noon. She keeps making trouble with me."
Shen Lin shook his head like a rattle, "No, no, I have no friends since I came here, it's great to be able to play together."
"I'm actually afraid she doesn't like me."
Chu Xiu asked as he locked the door, "Outsider?"
No matter how you talk nonsense, there are loopholes all over your body. What if other people who know Shen Ningan find out?
Shen Lin thought about it and said, "I guess so."
Chu Xiu paused, not knowing what he was thinking and why he was so honest.
"Don't talk so much to others in the future. Aren't you living in Rongcheng now? You are a Rongcheng person."
Shen Lin didn’t understand this logic and was stunned for a moment, but still nodded.
About thirty minutes later—
In the ward, there was a girl in a hospital gown, with long hair hanging on her shoulders. Her face was slightly pale, but her eyes were round and bright.
After seeing Shen Lin come in, he lit up like a puppy smelling meat.
This made Chu Xiu feel very embarrassed.
"Hello, hello, hello." Chu Qinghe shook hands with the person with a smile.
Shen Lin was a little nervous and started to say, “Hello, hello, hello.”
The two shook hands for thirty seconds.
Chen Lin couldn't stand being stared at anymore, so Chu Xiu raised his hand to pull his sister's arm away and pulled down the small table on the bed.
Chu Qinghe pursed her lips. She wanted to see how this "Chen Ning'an" changed his temperament so drastically and made his brother so obsessed with her.
"Oh, by the way, this is my gift for you." Shen Lin took out a box from his schoolbag, "It is..."
The box disappeared instantly, just like the special effects in an anime.
Chu Xiu gave his sister a "friendship punch" on the head and said patiently, "Wait - I'll take it apart later."
"Have a meal."
Chu Qinghe picked up the bowl of rice with a little reserve, not daring to do anything else. He just used his foot to hook the box at the end of the bed into the quilt.
Chen Lin only stayed for a short while before Chu Xiu prepared to send her back. Today's meeting was originally planned for the comic convention tomorrow.
The current situation of "Shen Ning'an" has also been basically determined.
When Chu Xiu was seeing the man off, he was thinking about what to say, but when the words came to his lips, they turned into: "Why did you look for Chu Xiu? Do you know him?"
They were walking on an artificial passage, Shen Lin was on the lower stairs, he looked up, not knowing why he didn't want to lie.
"I don't actually know him."
Chu Xiu's eyelids drooped slightly, and he whispered, "Then why are you looking for him?"
"Well, it's a long story. I just know that this person is related to me, but I have never met him. So I want to meet him." Shen Lin thought about it and said honestly.
Chu Xiu stood on the top of the stairs and said slowly, "Oh..."
"Well, it's okay if we don't meet. I just happened to know that he seems to be also in A University, and you are the only one I know. So I just asked." Shen Lin grabbed the strap of his schoolbag and said gently.
Chu Xiu didn't say anything, just said, "I'll take you downstairs."
Shen Lin nodded with a smile.
When they got downstairs, Shen Lin waved goodbye to Chu Xiu, then walked towards the roadside.
It's not even five o'clock in the afternoon yet. Would it be too much trouble to ask Uncle Lin to pick me up at this time?
Shen Lin thought about it and decided to just call a Didi.
As he walked, he raised his hand and hammered his shoulder. Today was really an overload of action. Shen Lin felt that he was low on energy from the inside out.
Finally, I squatted on the curb and waited for the bus.
But just then, a black Porsche stopped.
Shen Lin: “…”
He realized that he might be blocking the road, so he took a detour and walked away, but the car followed him slowly.
Shen Lin felt that there was something wrong. The car he took was clearly a BYD. Did the owner make a mistake?
He walked quickly forward again and changed his boarding point.
But at this moment, the car caught up again and honked.
Shen Lin was stunned and frowned. Is it Lu Yuting?
I don't think I've seen this model of car before...
He stayed where he was and watched.
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