Several minutes passed, and Lin Minjun was still leaning against the wall, taking deep breaths, still in shock.

Erwa stood beside her timidly, reaching out his hand to pat his sister's back, "Sister, I asked my brother to pick you up every day from now on. I didn't expect to scare you. I'm sorry. Are you okay? Are you scared? Do you want to go to the hospital?"

Lin Minjun was indeed frightened at first. It was a dark and windy night, and she was riding a bicycle alone in a dark alley. At this moment, she saw a man following her, and her heart almost jumped out of fright.

However, after discovering that the people following her were Erwa and Yanli, Lin Minjun was no longer panicked, and her heart suddenly settled down.

Imagine a police officer who has just returned from the battlefield, escorting people every day.

Do the criminals dare to target me?

Does Lu Deping dare to do that?

She waved her hands, "It's okay, I'm fine now. It's just an old problem. Once I get scared, it takes me a long time to recover. It will be fine after a while, don't worry."

After taking two more deep breaths, Lin Minjun stood up, looked at the man behind Erwa and said, "Brother Yanli, why don't you stop picking me up every day? Just pick me up when you are free. Picking me up every day is too tiring."

Yan Li's voice was very gentle, and his tone was light, "It's nothing. It's not safe for you to go to school alone. I heard that someone is bothering you. From now on, I will bring Erwa to pick you up and drop you off every day. Don't be afraid."

When the last three words "Don't be afraid" came out, Lin Minjun's heart sank back into her stomach. It was so strange that she was really not afraid at all. When she thought of Lu Deping, she didn't feel scary anymore.

Lin Minjun: "Then you don't have to take care of the second child. He still has to go to school and go to bed early, otherwise he won't be able to get up the next day."

Erwa, who had just made a mistake, immediately said, "It's okay. My brother said that if you don't bring me along, people will gossip when they see you two walking together at night, but that won't happen with me around."

He glanced at his brother and smiled meaningfully, "Besides, my brother is planning to buy a bicycle, so it will be faster to pick you up in the future. It won't take too long. Sister, just agree to it. It won't be a big deal to pick you up, but if something happens to you, it will be a big deal. We can't just sit there and watch you go to school in fear every day."

Yan stood behind and nodded.

After hearing what was said, Lin Minjun could no longer say no. After thinking for a while, she smiled and said, "Okay, I won't be polite. Since you guys are going to pick me up, don't cook for dinner in the future. Just eat in my restaurant. I cook dinner every day before school anyway."

From that day on, Lin Minjun had someone to pick her up from school every night.

Yan Li quickly bought a bicycle. He did not ride side by side with Lin Minjun, but just followed from a distance behind without disturbing her. Sometimes, Lin Minjun rode on the road and did not even notice that there was someone following her.

But every time she went from the store to school, or came out of school, she could always see Yan Li and Erwa waiting nearby, just by looking up.

After a few days, Lin Minjun didn't want Erwa to follow her anymore.

Of course Erwa refused and asked eagerly, "Why? Why? I want to pick you up too."

Lin Minjun: "You've been dozing off these past two days. You even dozed off during dinner at the restaurant. I saw you sleeping against a tree several times when I came out of school. Can you study well in school in this state?"

"I've been staying up all the time at school. If I feel sleepy, I'll just go wash my face. It's no big deal." Erwa looked very confident.

Lin Minjun burst out laughing, "But I have to tell you, the most important thing for children is sleep. If you don't get enough sleep, you won't grow tall. Do you want to be as tall as your brother, or do you want to be like Kong Laosan from our alley?"

Another courtyard house in the alley has also been turned into a large mixed-use compound. A single man named Kong Laosan lives in that courtyard. He is not tall, which is fine, but he has given up on himself because of his short stature. He likes to steal things and when he meets a pretty woman, his eyes are particularly lewd. He has not married yet and he spends all day whining in the alley, begging the aunts to introduce him to a wife, but who will really introduce one?

When Erwa heard this, he immediately thought of Confucius, who sat at the entrance of the alley all day long complaining about not having a wife, and he shuddered.

Lin Minjun laughed even more happily, "Now you know the importance of sleep, right? You don't need to pick me up anymore, your brother will do."

"What if someone sees us and gossips about us?" Erwa was a little hesitant.

Reliving her life again, Lin Minjun took this lightly, "No matter what I do, there will always be people gossiping about me. If I care about what others say, I won't be able to do anything. It doesn't matter. They can say whatever they want. As long as they don't say it in front of me, I'll just ignore it. If someone is blind enough to gossip about me in front of me, I won't be polite either."

She clenched her fists as she said this, her eyes were fierce and she showed a refusal to admit defeat.

Although she had a slender figure and looked like she couldn't fight, she put on such a ferocious look, which reminded Erwa of a litter of kittens that had just been born in the alley. When he went to see the kittens, they would show their teeth ferociously, breathe at him, and stretch out their sharp little claws to bite him.

Erwa's gaze shifted from Lin Minjun to his brother. He saw his brother suddenly raise his head and look at his sister, then retract his gaze, clench his fists and smile softly, his eyes so gentle.

Yan Li looked up alertly and found that Erwa had been staring at him. He immediately put away his smile and said, "Eat."

Erwa smiled and lowered his head to eat rice: "Okay, then I won't go there anymore, you two can go!"

Lin Minjun always thought that his smile was a sneaky one.

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The team that escorted her to school changed from two brothers to Yan Li alone. Rain or shine, they would always come regardless. As soon as Lin Minjun left the school, she would see someone waiting for her.

After a long time, she got used to it and gradually got to know Yan Li better.

They had never spent much time together before, and Lin Minjun's impression of Yan Li had always remained at the time when he just came back. She thought he was a man of few words, very cold but upright.

Now I realize that although this person is not talkative, he is very considerate, just take his daily pick-up and drop-off as an example.

Lin Minjun found that every time they walked on a dark road without street lights, Yan Li would speed up to catch up with her, keeping a distance of less than two meters, and she was not afraid at all.

When we walk to places with bright lights or more residents, he will keep a distance and follow us at a moderate distance, just like a passerby. On the way to and from school, he basically won't come up to talk, but just follow behind silently, like a guardian angel.

After a long time, Lin Minjun almost forgot that someone was following her, and also forgot the dangers of the road. She even felt like appreciating the scenery along the way. At night, the bright moon hung high in the sky, and the moonlight cast its bright light on the road. Sometimes when she passed by residential areas, she could hear the sound of children being beaten for not being able to complete their homework.

This road is long and free.

Lin Minjun thought she would always be so free, but things never go so smoothly. Within two days, she found something wrong.

When going to and from school, Lin Minjun always felt that someone was following her. The feeling was not strong. It would be more accurate to say that she felt someone was following her in the dark.

Lin Minjun looked back several times inadvertently and saw nothing, but that feeling followed her like a shadow and became stronger and stronger, and was the strongest tonight.

As she rode her bike, she wondered in her heart, who was sneaking around looking at her from behind? Could it be Lu Deping? He didn't seem like such a malicious person.

When they reached an intersection, Lin Minjun couldn't help but stop and turned around to look for Yan Li.

"What's wrong?" Yan Li was also riding a bicycle, a 28-inch bicycle. Lin Minjun couldn't even reach the ground on tiptoe when she rode there, so he stretched out his long legs and the bike stopped steadily.

Lin Minjun had always been guessing and didn't have the courage to tell Yan Li, for fear that he would think she was being suspicious.

At this moment, he mustered up the courage to speak, but when the words were on the tip of his tongue, he suddenly found that Yan Li turned the car around and rushed directly towards a place.

Lin Minjun was stunned, not knowing what was going on, and quickly rode after him.

"Brother Yan Li, what's wrong?" Lin Minjun asked.

Yan Li stopped and said coldly, "Someone has been following us these past two days. I'm going to see who it is."

"You noticed that, too?"

"Yeah, I've always known that."

Yan Li glanced at Lin Minjun and lowered his voice, "I don't know who the other party is. Don't follow me. Go back and wait for news, or find the nearest police station to stay. I will pick you up later."

"I'd better go with you. I'll follow behind you so as not to delay you." Lin Minjun said as she caught up on her bike.

As they were talking, the man ran away. Yan Li chased him to a fork in the road, stopped to observe, and decisively walked to the left. "Go this way. Don't stay too far away from me. Be careful."

After all, a bicycle is faster than walking. After chasing for a while, Lin Minjun vaguely saw a figure on the road, running forward.

Yan Li said, "See? That's the man. Do you know him?"

Lin Minjun initially thought it was Lu Deping, but the figure from behind was clearly a woman. When she ran, her legs were swinging around like a frog jumping around in the fields in the countryside.

Lin Minjun recognized her immediately after a careful look and was of course shocked: "Shen Hongyu? Is she the one who has been staring at me?"

"Yes." Yan Li said confidently, "I can recognize her by the way she walks and the sound of her footsteps."

Lin Minjun couldn't understand why Shen Hongyu was staring at her. Hadn't she learned her lesson from the last incident?

Yan Li wanted to chase her again, but Lin Minjun said, "Forget it, brother. There's no need to chase her. She has no brains and can't do anything big. Let's go to school first."

Shen Hongyu ran a long way in one breath. She mustered up the courage to look back and saw that there was no one behind her before she dared to stop. She propped up her knees and gasped heavily.

After a while, she seemed to have thought of something, and she took a deep breath and ran hard, not towards her own home, but towards Lu's home. She ran to Lu's home as fast as she could, and started knocking on the door in the middle of the night, not caring whether she would wake anyone up or not.

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