Chapter 38 Chapter 38 "No...
"No need to wait."
Lu Yanlin closed his eyes, and the image of Jin Man leaving appeared in his mind.
Before he came, he had a premonition that things would not go so smoothly, and he was prepared to explain.
But Jin Man's reaction was beyond his expectation. He didn't want Lu Yanlin to bow his head. He wanted Lu Yanlin to look forward and not regret.
This sentence is simple to say, but few people can do it, otherwise there wouldn’t be so many relationships that break up and get back together.
Those were not five years of just finding someone to marry, but five years of loving Jin Man wholeheartedly.
But even so, when he pushed Lu Yanlin away, he really wanted to let go.
If it wasn't true, he wouldn't give up his livelihood just for the sake of a divorce.
Lu Yanlin knew Jin Man’s temper. When he said “don’t regret it”, he had already lost.
He spoke so nonchalantly when he was getting a divorce, but it still happened again and again.
The driver looked at Lu Yanlin's cold face and stopped talking.
He was driving when his phone suddenly rang. The cheerful children's songs filled the car, and the driver quickly muted it.
This kind of thing rarely happens under normal circumstances. Drivers are very dedicated and responsible when they are working.
He has worked for the Lu family for so many years, regardless of the weather.
This time he sent Lu Yanlin here because he was worried about her.
However, Lu Yanlin has always been indifferent to human feelings, and he did not expect his employer to know his concern.
Lu Yanlin rubbed his eyebrows, feeling a little unhappy, but when he looked at the familiar man with white hair on his temples, he felt touched suddenly.
The people and things he never cared about never stayed because of him.
Time rolls forward, every minute and every second of the past has passed, there is no medicine for regret, and it will never come back.
Jin Man knew it, so he told him, never regret it.
"Uncle Xu, your phone is ringing."
The driver turned the steering wheel, muted his phone, and said awkwardly, "It's from home. It's Mid-Autumn Festival today."
After he finished speaking, he realized that President Lu had come to the small mountain village specifically to look for her ex-husband. Now she hadn't returned, and she hadn't even celebrated the holiday...
The driver glanced at the rearview mirror quietly.
"Take it."
Lu Yanlin was not angry. He looked at the time and said with a faint smile.
The driver was stunned for a moment, uttered an "ah", and couldn't figure out why, but he still stopped and answered the phone.
The woman's voice on the other end of the phone was very gentle, and the child was crying for his father, asking when he would be home.
"It's almost time, no need to wait for me, go to sleep first."
"How can this be possible?"
"What's wrong? Just leave me a bowl of soup. You can take the child to bed early."
After the driver refused, the woman hesitated for a moment, said goodbye, and as usual, laughed with the child through the phone and kissed him.
The driver's face was filled with nostalgia and emotion.
When Lu Yanlin was on a business trip before, he had received a call from overseas to express his condolences. Jin Man asked him if the weather was good abroad, and Lu Yanlin said it was not very cold.
Jin Man didn't have anything important to say, and he kept talking about this and that. In the end, Lu Yanlin heard the rustling of the quilt, so he told him to go to bed early and hung up the phone.
It's only two minutes long.
At that time, sunlight shone into the conference room, and the white enamel on the spoon reflected the light.
He felt incredibly warm from his palms to his shoulders.
But now, when the same sunlight shines on my body, I don’t feel that way at all.
"Mr. Lu, please get some sleep. You'll be home when you wake up."
Lu Yanlin did not respond. He thought that he might have no home anymore. There was only an empty shell, not a home. Many people thought they had let go when they hadn't seen each other, but not seeing each other seemed to be the beginning of missing each other.
Over the years, he has never thought about loving a more decent person. There are many people in this world who are better than Jin Man. Why hasn't he taken that step?
Every age has its own inevitable journey. Now, when he wants to love someone again, he finds that all love is just a replica of that afternoon, the summer he can never go back to, the sound of lemonade and ice cubes colliding.
The young boy looked at the same place through the car window as Jin Man, who was looking at the sky.
The sound of the carbonated bubbles bursting beside my ears made a soft popping sound.
Lu Yanlin felt a pang of bitterness in his heart, almost making him want to cry, but he was not a weak person.
The wind sneaked in through the window, and he looked out all the way, not feeling sleepy for a long, long time.
The driver took him back to Lu Mansion, and Lu Yanlin gave him a generous bonus. Although the other party expressed fear and did not need it, he still paid it.
It was dawn and Lu Zhi was already awake. He was standing next to the piano in his pajamas. When he saw Lu Yanlin, he ran over.
"Father."
Lu Yanlin picked him up. He had lost a lot of weight recently, and his chin was pointed. "Why are you up so early?"
Lu Zhi hugged his neck and said sullenly: "Wait for you."
Aunt Yu looked back, and Lu Zhi also looked into the yard, but it was empty and full of flowers, and no one came. Lu Zhi drooped his eyelashes in disappointment, like a puppet without a soul.
Ever since he met that little boy that day, he has been unhappy. The words "Your father is very good to you" are like a curse.
He began to think about things one by one, recalling his father's expression and what he had said.
He always holds himself to the strictest standards and uses the same standards to measure those around him.
Everyone met the standards easily, except his father, and he didn't like his father.
But love is never expressed in a formulaic way. When he was a toddler, learning to speak, and when he was learning to walk, he ran into his father's arms. When he had a cold and fever, and was sad, the person he subconsciously relied on was his father.
He has been so outstanding and independent in the past five years, not because he is strong, but because he has a very happy family and someone who is willing to love and care about him even if he is ignored and hurt.
The little whale in the cartoon doesn't like sea water. Only when he leaves the sea does he realize that the sea water has been supporting him, but he is too stupid to know it.
Lu Zhi missed his father, but he didn't want to make his father sad, so he endured it and didn't ask or say anything.
Lu Yanlin rubbed his cheek, and he raised the corners of his mouth to smile, eating and drinking water by himself, without any abnormality.
But he would vomit while eating, and his body would feel hot and cold. Soon a specialist came to consult him, and he was given injections and medicine, and he accepted them all well. Now he could cry.
Lu Yanlin asked him: "Does it hurt?"
Lu Zhi lay on his knees and nodded slightly: "Yeah."
The child's temperature was low and he had been ill frequently recently, so he fell asleep quickly.
Lu Yanlin remained silent for a long time. On the Lu family's Mid-Autumn Festival, there was no bright moon hanging high in the sky, nor were there dazzling fireworks.
He had gotten used to it over the past decade or so, but this year's Mid-Autumn Festival was like a banquet that ended after the excitement, filled with leftovers, which made him feel extremely unbearable.
The famous lawyer called and asked him about the follow-up matters regarding Jin Man’s friend.
Lu Yanlin then remembered that the restaurant owner named Xu Wen was facing the crisis of closing down because he had offended someone.
The lawyer smiled and said, "Mr. Lu, the plaintiff has agreed to withdraw the lawsuit. It's all a small matter... I have a friend who is visiting a hotel recently. I'd like to treat you to a meal when it's convenient for you."
Lu Yanlin said: "Forget it."
The lawyer choked and tapped the steering wheel uncertainly: "What do you mean?"
Lu Yanlin looked out the window and found himself funny. He had never been a good person. Jin Man had wishfully believed that, and he had been acting like that until now.
"Let's handle business as usual."
The lawyer was stunned: "Then how far do you want to go?"
Lu Yanlin smiled dumbly, his indifferent expression was cooled by the morning light outside the window, and his slender fingers gently untied his tie with a strong desire to get what he wanted.
…
Jin Man sent Lu Yanlin away and closed the door. He was so angry that he washed his face and took a shower. His mind was in a mess and he couldn't even notice whether he was crying or not.
All the fatigue in his body was washed away, and he fell asleep on the bed like a wilted cabbage.
Jin Duoduo secretly opened his eyes, glanced at Jin Man, and carefully crawled over and snuggled into his arms.
He was thinking closely of the man in the yard, his round face furrowed in seriousness.
Jin Man was sleeping so soundly that he didn't notice anything.
The next day, the eldest brother Bang Bang banged on the door, startling Jin Man. He opened the window and peeked out with sleepy eyes: "Brother?"
Someone laughed softly. The eldest brother was carrying a hoe, and Yue Wei, wearing a bright white vest, looked at him with amusement.
Jin Man looked up: "What's wrong?"
Big Brother: "I'm laughing at you because your hair looks like a chicken coop when you sleep."
Yue Wei: “…”
Jin Man scratched his head in embarrassment, quickly closed the window, and got up to tidy up his clothes.
Yue Wei glanced at his elder brother, who was smoking a cigarette and looked confused: "Are you looking at chicken feathers?"
Yue Wei sneered: "Are you good-looking with chicken feathers?"
The eldest brother is going to add to the tofu shop at home today, so he takes them to the mountain to chop wood.
Yue Wei said: "Have someone arrest you again."
The eldest brother was inexplicably scolded all morning. He picked a bunch of wild fruits and handed them to Jin Man: "The village has a felling quota, I got it a long time ago."
The three of them worked together to chop wood and sat beside it to rest. Jin Man made a sun hat out of branches and leaves and put it on his head.
Yue Wei was shaving off the extra branches nearby, and Jin Man followed behind him to pick them up. The midday sun was hot, and he started sweating in a short while.
Yue Wei turned his head and looked at Jin Man for a while, then suddenly his face darkened and he said, "Don't move."
Jin Man stood there: "What's wrong?"
A colorful insect fell from the sun hat. Yue Wei reached out to catch it, but the insect fell even faster.
Jin Man only felt a sharp pain in his gland like a needle prick, and his eyes went dark and he saw stars.
"Gold full!"
The caterpillar was thrown out and the sun hat was pulled off.
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