Chapter 96 He actually ate it!

"What?!" Chu Ran's voice was so loud that it almost deafened Li Fu's ears. "How much did you take?!"

"Almost... about halfway."

"Why don't you let me die in jail?"

Chu Ran covered his face with his hands, feeling sad beyond words.

He had worked so hard to save up for so many years, and now, half of it was gone!

Li Fu looked at his depressed and sad face and moved closer, "Chu Ran, I'm tired, lend me your shoulder to lean on."

"No."

Chu Ran pushed Li Fu away. He didn't feel sorry for Li Fu at all now. He felt sorry for himself and even more sorry for his money.

Until the carriage stopped at the door, Chu Ran was still immersed in the pain of losing all his savings and was unable to slow down Jing'er.

So sad. So sad indeed.

Xing Ji knew that Li Fu was going to pick up Chu Ran today, and he happily went to the door to greet him. However, what he saw was Chu Ran with a gloomy face, full of frustration, loss, even sadness and despair.

Xing Ji looked at Li Fu in confusion, but Li Fu looked normal.

Oh, that means there was no quarrel.

But why does your face look so long if we haven’t had an argument?

Not long after, Chu Ran sat on a stool, crying and complaining to Xing Ji, "Uncle Xing, I have no money, I have no money!"

Xing Ji sat opposite him, touched his hand, and looked at him lovingly.

"My wife's money, my retirement savings, the money I used to buy a house and marry a wife, are all gone!"

Xing Ji: "Yes, there will be. There will be in the future."

Chu Ran wiped his tears and looked really miserable.

Xing Ji felt sorry for him, thought about it, and suddenly went out. After a while, Xing Ji came back with a box in his hand, which he put on the table. He opened the box and put a few banknotes on the top.

Xing Ji: "These are all for you."

Chu Ran's eyes were red, but he was very moved. He wiped the tears from his eyes with a handkerchief and said, "No need, Uncle Xing. You can keep these for yourself. I can't take your money."

Xing Ji immediately explained: "It's not mine."

"Ah?" Chu Ran asked with swollen eyes: "Whose is that? Is it the prince's?"

Xing Ji nodded.

"Oh, let me see how much is in there."

Chu Ran immediately reached his hand in. He first took out the top few banknotes and counted them. There weren't many, but the box seemed quite deep. He wondered how much private money Li Fu had hidden underneath. Thinking of this, Chu Ran continued to rummage down.

But apart from a few banknotes at the top, there seemed to be no more money. However, Chu Ran did touch some strange things and placed them at the bottom of the box.

It didn't seem like anything important, so Chu Ran simply took the box and removed the messy things from it.

At the bottom were actually a few wooden figures.

Chu Ran suddenly remembered the wooden figurines that Li Fu had sent to him along with his letters over the years since they had parted. Each figurine was a representation of Li Fu himself, and Chu Ran still had them carefully kept in a box.

Unexpectedly, Li Fu also kept a set for himself. This set should look the same as the one Li Fu sent to Chu Ran.

This was what Chu Ran thought when he first saw this set of wood carvings, but when he looked closely, he discovered that this set seemed to be different from the one Li Fu sent him.

The number and size of the wooden dolls are the same, but the people are different. The wooden sculpture that Li Fu gave to himself is Li Fu himself, but the one that Li Fu kept is not Li Fu himself, but someone else.

Chu Ran arranged several wooden dolls from small to large, placed them on the table, and stared at them carefully for a long time. The more he looked, the more familiar the face seemed to him.

This sculpture, could it be... him?

But what did Li Fudiao do?

Chu Ran looked up at Xing Ji who was standing beside him, and after hesitating for a while, he finally asked, "Uncle Xing, look at this...is it me?"

Xing Ji: “…”

"Really? I think they look alike."

Chu Ran picked up the largest wooden doll and placed it next to his face for comparison.

"Resemble?"

Xing Ji remained silent.

After a while, Chu Ran took the doll down, stared at it closely, and said to himself, "I think it looks like it."

During lunch, Li Fu noticed that Chu Ran's eyes kept glancing towards him from time to time, looking sneaky.

"That..." Chu Ran coughed dryly and said to Li Fu, "I want to eat that. Help me pick it up."

Li Fu: “Which one?”

Chu Ran raised his head to take a look, then quickly lowered his head again, "That piece of meat."

Li Fu picked up a piece of food with chopsticks and put it into Chu Ran's bowl.

Chu Ran stared at the pieces of meat in his bowl. He first shoveled a few mouthfuls of them into his mouth, and then quickly put the piece of meat in his bowl into Li Fu's bowl.

Li Fu frowned and looked at him.

Chu Ran smiled at him sheepishly, "It's not very tasty, you eat it."

Li Fu stared at Chu Ran for a while, then looked away.

Chu Ran pretended to concentrate on eating, but he glanced at Li Fu through the top seam of the bowl with his peripheral vision.

Then he saw with his own eyes that Li Fu ate the piece of meat that Chu Ran had just put into his bowl!

He didn't throw it away! He ate it!

With a gulp, Chu Ran made a swallowing motion.

Perhaps it was because he had been too stimulated during the day, Chu Ran lay in bed at night, tossing and turning, but couldn't fall asleep. His mind was full of the scene of Li Fu eating the piece of meat he had left over at lunch.

Over and over again, like a movie playing on loop.

Li Fu picked up the piece of meat he had put in, closed his mouth and chewed it. His Adam's apple rolled a little, and the piece of meat went down his esophagus and was swallowed.

Chu Ran deliberately slowed down all his movements in his mind. His casual yet masculine sitting posture, his slow and leisurely use of chopsticks to pick up food with his eyes down, and his slow and steady chewing, especially the sexy movement of his Adam's apple when he swallowed the food... There might even be Chu Ran's own saliva on that piece of meat...

Thinking of this, Chu Ran suddenly felt his mouth dry and his whole body hot.

The more he thought about it, the more he couldn't fall asleep. Chu Ran simply rolled over from the bed, walked to the table in his slippers, picked up the teapot on the table, and poured himself a glass of water.

He was holding the teacup and was about to drink some water when there was a knock on the door.

"Are you asleep?"

Li Fu asked outside the door.