Chapter 226 Are you annoying me?
Lu Xingzhi was smoking a cigarette. He looked down at the surprised Lin Ze and laughed: "Why would I stop you? Besides, can I stop you when you get angry?"
Lin Ze: “…”
The irony is strong.
"Lin Ze, what do you think those people would be doing if they were still alive?" Lu Xingzhi suddenly changed the subject, which stunned Lin Ze.
If those people were still alive, what would they be doing?
He thought about this question when he was twenty years old. As time went by, he seemed not to have thought about these questions for a long time, because he had accepted the fact that they were no longer in the world.
He looked at Lu Xingzhi again, but his gaze fell on the scar on the man's brow bone. The scar ran from the center of the brow to the end of the brow bone. According to some people, Lu Xingzhi had this scar, which meant that his face was disfigured. In an era when people still paid attention to physiognomy, a man with a disfigured face like him would not be able to marry.
Sometimes, we should be thankful that we live in a new era, but some people remain forever in that indescribable era.
Before Lu Xingzhi finished college, he did not live in the Lu family, but in the Lin family.
His mother was not Mrs. Lu, whom his father married in a formal ceremony. She was the dance teacher who taught Miss Lu to dance. What the Lu family said to the public was that Lu Xingzhi's mother seduced his father and wanted to become the young lady of the Lu family. Their Lu family could not tolerate such a sinister woman, so they stripped her naked and drove her out of the Lu family in the middle of winter, and sent people to watch the penniless woman all the way as she walked out of the gate of the capital city in the deep snow.
Lu Xingzhi's mother fainted outside the city gate. Some family members couldn't bear to see her go, so they secretly took her away from the capital and settled down in Jiangnan.
The Lin family hired her as a dance teacher.
She taught Lin Yuan's mother to dance and other girls in the Lin family etiquette. Through this job, Lu Xingzhi's mother supported the young Lu Xingzhi.
It’s just that bad luck favors the unlucky, and hemp ropes only break at the thinnest part.
When Lu Xingzhi was ten years old, his mother was seriously ill. The reason for her serious illness was that when she was pregnant with him, she was driven out of the capital by the Lu family in the middle of winter. In fact, his mother's health had deteriorated since she gave birth to Lu Xingzhi. She held on for ten years for the sake of her child, and she relied on the Lin family's treatment during this period.
If it weren’t for the Lin family, it might have only been one or two years.
After his mother died, he became an orphan and was sent to an orphanage. The Lin family wanted to adopt him but was rejected by Lu Xingzhi.
Spent a year in an orphanage.
The Lin family couldn't bear to see a child growing up in that place, so they forcibly brought the child back. They knew that Lu Xingzhi didn't want to cause trouble for the Lin family, because at that time, the Lu family already knew that the dance teacher they had driven away was pregnant, and Mrs. Lu's son happened to be sick. When people were in panic, Lu Xingzhi was a bomb, and whoever helped him would go against the Lu family.
No, it should be said that she was against Madam Lu. Although Lu Xingzhi was an illegitimate child, he had the blood of the Lu family flowing in his body. The Lu family would not take Lu Xingzhi home because of her, the madam, and chose to ignore him, but they would not take Lu Xingzhi's life.
Mrs. Lu is different. How could she let the position of heir that belongs to her son fall into the hands of an illegitimate child in the future?
I learned that the Lin family protected Lu Xingzhi.
During that period, the Lu family almost had no contact with the Lin family, and under the protection of the Lin family, they looked for opportunities to attack Lu Xing.
One of the times was that he bribed the tutor arranged by the Lin family for Lu Xingzhi, and put a large amount of sleeping pills in Lu Xingzhi's food. It was Lin Ze who came back from playing at that time and happened to see it, which saved Lu Xingzhi from falling into his clutches. It was also that time that Lin Ze held Lu Xingzhi's hand.
"Don't be afraid, Lu Xingzhi. I will protect you from now on!"
This statement continued into college.
Lin Ze was born into a pampered family. Lu Xingzhi was often called his henchman. Even when teased, Lu Xingzhi never got angry. Instead, Lin Ze would get angry and yell at those who teased him: "If you dare to say that to Lu Xingzhi again, I will tear your mouths apart!"
After scolding that group of people, he would turn around and glare at Lu Xingzhi angrily, "You didn't open your mouth, they scolded you, and you just took it, and you don't even know how to talk back?"
Lu Xingzhi just felt that what they said was right.
He is indeed Lin Ze's little follower, and if possible, he is willing to stay by Lin Ze's side for the rest of his life.
It's just that these words cannot be said.
Later, he started working to earn tuition fees and began to distance himself from Lin Ze.
Lin Ze was naturally unwilling to do so. His best friend since childhood was Lu Xingzhi. If this person ignored him, he would go find him.
It was also at that time that he met the thin man who made coffee, the waitress Pingping, and the boss, Lao Zhuang, who wiped the cups every time he came.
Lu Xingzhi had a good image. After he started working at the coffee shop, he attracted many working women nearby who came to see the handsome guy under the pretext of buying coffee. Some of them even asked Lu Xingzhi for his contact information, but he always rejected them with the excuse of "I have a girlfriend".
Seeing those girls looking back in disappointment, Lin Ze would always pout and complain: "What girlfriend? He's obviously single."
He would also pester Lu Xingzhi and ask, "Do you really have a girlfriend?"
Lu Xingzhi would just look at him calmly for a long time before answering: "No, and there won't be."
"Why? Haven't you met the type you like? Hey, I heard there are a lot of beautiful girls in your university. If you go out more, you will always meet the type you like. Oh, you think going out will waste your time making money, right? It doesn't matter. I have money. I can give it to you. Go out..."
"Lin Ze." Lu Xingzhi interrupted him.
His eyes had grown dark without him noticing, and they began to show emotions that he couldn't understand. Lin Ze slowly closed his mouth, and after a while he mumbled, "Why did you suddenly call me?"
"Don't come to the coffee shop anymore." Lu Xingzhi opened the lid of the trash can and threw the packed garbage in his hand into it.
Lin Ze stood behind him, his hands in his pockets: "Do you think I'm annoying?"
Lu Xingzhi paused: "Yeah."
When he looked back again, Lin Ze was no longer behind him. He knew that the young master was angry. He would not tell the young master that those girls who asked him for his contact information were not actually asking him for it, but asking him for Lin Ze's contact information.
Later, Lin Ze endured for a year and did not look for Lu Xingzhi. He only occasionally heard news about Lu Xingzhi from his friends. Since they had said those things in the alley outside the coffee shop, Lu Xingzhi moved out of the Lin family. Even though his family tried to stop him many times, Lu Xingzhi still moved out.
He knew when Lu Xingzhi moved out, but he didn't go back to help with the move. He just felt very annoyed.
He didn't know what he was upset about.
Grandpa said that friends can become close or distant, and the relationships between children will gradually become distant as they grow up. One has to get used to this separation. He thought about him and Lu Xingzhi, and he instinctively blurted out that he would not separate from Lu Xingzhi, at least their relationship would not reach the point where there was only silence.
At this moment, Lin Ze was slapped in the face by these words.
He and Lu Xingzhi had reached the point where they had nothing more to say to each other. He struggled in this brotherly relationship, feeling painful and irritated, but could not find a breakthrough until that incident happened.