temptation
One week before Wen Zhili's summer vacation, Wen Zhili returned home from school in the morning with Qin Zhen by his side, saying that he came to have a meal before the final week.
During the summer vacation, Wen Yan took the initiative to assume the responsibility of cooking at home. In the morning, Wen Zhili sent her a message asking her to cook more, but she did not receive a reply.
When I got home, I found that the little guy had slept until noon and hadn't woken up yet.
"You have to cook with me."
Qin Zhen immediately expressed his dissatisfaction, "Please, I'm a guest."
Wen Zhili glanced at her and said with a half-smile, "If you want to eat earlier, come and help."
Qin Zhen had no choice but to accept his fate.
Fortunately, Wen Zhili defrosted the beef before going out in the morning, so the tomato beef brisket and oyster sauce lettuce planned for lunch today were still available.
Wen Zhili went to wash the rice, and Qin Zhen took out the lettuce and washed it.
Everyone was doing their own thing, and when Qin Zhen had some free time, she started talking about her next boyfriend after the "man who missed the date at the aquarium", whom she had been dating for half a year.
Wen Zhili just listened quietly, occasionally agreeing.
After listening to her chattering for a long time, I became a little distracted.
"Last time we went to that Western restaurant I told you was delicious, and he actually..."
"…Hey, he was so sweet to me every day when we first got together, why is it that now…"
What Wen Yan? Wen Yan really likes soft words...
"Hello, hello? Wen Zhili, are you daydreaming?"
Wen Zhili came back to his senses.
Qin Zhen waved his hand in front of her, narrowed his eyes, and there was obvious condemnation on his face.
"what's on your mind?"
"Hmm... I'm wondering when Yanyan will wake up and when it would be a good time to start cooking beef."
She told a little lie to make herself look like she was thinking about something serious.
Qin Zhen rolled his eyes at her.
"I'm really impressed by you. You think about your sister every day."
"Hey, you said before that you and Xiao Wenyan were planning to go to the grassland, right? Do you remember that we went to the grassland together before? But it was quite far from the place you were going to play this time. When did you go there?..."
"When Yanyan was only 11 years old, she was still begging to be with us, but her parents didn't allow her because she was too young."
As he spoke, Wen Zhili recalled his sister's aggrieved look with puffed cheeks and pouting lips, and couldn't help but chuckle.
"Wen Zhili, are you a sister-con?"
Qin Zhen couldn't help but complain unhappily.
"Why do you even record time according to your sister's age? If she grows up and goes to another city to study and live, won't you become an empty-nest elderly?"
Wen Zhili moved his lips but didn't say anything in the end, which was considered as his agreement.
Her time scale has always been that of a younger sister.
It is my sister's gradually growing height.
It was her increasingly clear features and body.
There are also more and more boys around me, some of them are immature and some are just assholes.
Are you happy that she has grown up, or are you unhappy?
Wen Zhili himself couldn't explain it clearly.
It is always gratifying to see the little girl who used to follow me and call me sister in a baby voice becoming more and more outstanding and beautiful.
But - it seems like I haven’t held my sister’s hand enough.
Seeing Wen Zhili's silence, Qin Zhen couldn't help but feel
"Hey Wen Zhili, is little Wen Yan dating in school?"
Wen Zhili replied expressionlessly: "No."
"Are you sure? What if she talked about it and didn't tell you?"
Wen Zhili gave her a neutral look, and Qin Zhen gave up in disappointment.
"Come on, your Wen Yan's mind is probably only thinking about studying every day. Judging from her last mock exam results, she will definitely be able to get into our high school, right?"
"Well, that's right."
Qin Zhen laughed. "Little Wenyan is just like you: smart, pretty, from a happy family, and well-off. There should be a lot of boys chasing her at school, right?"
This time Wen Zhili completely stopped responding and took a few tomatoes to wash.
Seeing this, Qin Zhen smiled and decided to quit while he was ahead.
"Look at you like this, don't worry, Wen Yan is so clingy to you."
"That's right, a guy must be very outstanding and handsome to be worthy of little Wenyan."
"After knowing you guys for so long, I feel like I'm like her older sister. With her silly look, she seems unreliable no matter who she's with."
"Who could treat her better than you, Wen Zhili?"
"If you ask me, you two should just stick together for the rest of your lives—"
"Don't say things like that again."
Wen Zhili stopped washing the tomatoes.
There was a sudden seriousness in his tone.
Qin Zhen was stunned.
Wen Zhili is known to everyone for his stable emotions. Even in the stressful environment of senior high school, she has never seen Wen Zhili lose his temper or have a conflict with others. He is always gentle and amiable in everything he does.
She had never heard the other person speak to her in such a serious tone before.
"Okay, okay. But—why?"
Why are you angry? That's unusual.
She and Wen Zhili stared at each other for a long time, with the faucet still running.
After a while, Wen Zhili turned off the water, and closed his eyes as if he had made some decision.
"Yanyan and I are not biological sisters."
"ah?"
Qin Zhen was roasting beef, and Wen Zhili took the knife to cut tomatoes and seasonings.
"My biological parents are from the mountains. When I was four years old, my current parents came to that mountainous area to do charity work. They couldn't have children at the time, so my biological father asked them to buy me for 200 yuan. They did. A year after I came to this family, my mother gave birth to Yanyan."
Qin Zhen was stunned and couldn't put the words together for a long time.
"...Does Wen Yan know?"
"I know."
Wen Zhili was cutting vegetables, not looking at Qin Zhen, and just calmly told the story of the past that no one knew except his family.
She couldn't explain why she said this.
Perhaps she was also secretly praying that Qin Zhen would discover something that she could no longer bear.
Qin Zhen looked at Wen Zhili's calm profile.
She looks like a lady from a noble family, and you can't tell at all that she comes from such a background.
She really wanted to ask something else, but out of consideration for the other party, she ultimately chose not to get to the bottom of it.
But even though we are not biological sisters, what's wrong with what I said just now? Why did you suddenly bring this up to me?
Unless—a lot of memories suddenly flooded into her mind.
…
She remembered that when she was in the first year of high school, she pestered Wen Zhili to introduce her sister to her.
She followed her example and called Wen Yan "Yanyan".
But when he was leaving, he was suddenly told: "Don't call her Yanyan... okay?"
Wen Zhili's expression was as calm as it is now.
She remembered that every time she asked about Wen Zhili's emotional state, he always remained silent and avoided the topic.
And that photo of the aquarium.
That photo—
I feel like something is churning in my head.
Qin Zhen felt very uncomfortable.
"Sister? Qin Zhen? I overslept."
As luck would have it, Wen Yan came out of the room rubbing his eyes at this moment.
"It's okay. Yanyan, go wash up quickly, the food will be ready soon."
Wen Zhili acted as if nothing had happened and gave instructions in his usual gentle voice.
"Wen Yan, your hair is all tangled up, do you know that?"
"Why are you here to eat for free? If you had told me you were coming earlier, I would have cooked you a nasty meal." Although Wen Yan was harsh in his words, he walked towards them with a smile on his face.
When Wen Yan approached, Qin Zhen subconsciously wanted to help her comb her tangled hair.
Just as he raised his hand a little, he found Wen Zhili looking at him, so Qin Zhen quickly put his hand down without saying a word.
Even though he didn't say anything, didn't frown, and didn't look cold, he just felt guilty for no apparent reason.
Very strange, very strange.
It's very strange.
Wen Yan hugged her sister's waist from behind, burying her cheeks greedily in the fabric of her sister's clothes.
"The tomato brisket smells so good. Sister, it smells so good."
Words of unclear meaning.
"Well...Yanyan, go wash up quickly."
Perhaps because of what he had just said to Qin Zhen, Wen Zhili's body stiffened the moment he was hugged.
Qin Zhen saw everything.
After Wen Yan went to the bathroom, Qin Zhen looked at Wen Zhili with an inquiring look.
This person looks gentle on the surface, but she is not someone who is easy to get close to. Qin Zhen knew this when he met her in the first year of high school.
At that time, Wen Zhili was quite famous in school because of her beautiful appearance and good grades.
There were many men and women who wanted to get close to her, but she didn't have many close friends and often kept to herself, like a beautiful shadow, smiling at everyone.
Be polite, but don't give any excessive emotion.
Qin Zhen thought she couldn't get along with such a person. She was outspoken, straightforward, and had a bad temper.
Until the teacher accidentally arranged their seats together.
Only then did Qin Zhen begin to change his opinion of this "noble goddess".
At first, Wen Zhili treated her just like he treated everyone else, gentle but distant.
But as time went on, she would talk back when Qin Zhen joked with her, would remind him when he was distracted in math class, and even the occasional sleepiness and squinting of her eyes in class were noticed by Qin Zhen.
Later, she took Wen Zhili to have dinner together and take water sports classes together.
Later, Qin Zhen broke up with her boyfriend, and Wen Zhili was willing to join her in criticizing the boy.
She quarreled with her family, and Wen Zhili listened to her troubles.
Only then did she feel that Wen Zhili was a living person, not a perfect program.
Such a person actually has a sister at home whom she loves so much.
She also has an older sister who is seven years older than her. They have a good relationship, but she has never taken care of Wen Yan as caringly as Wen Zhili did since she was a child.
If it's just the elder sister's possessiveness towards her younger sister, isn't that a bit too much?
All the clues seemed to be connected in her mind, and things became clear.
Wen Zhili, tsk, Wen Zhili.
"Hey, Wen Zhili..."
Qin Zhen spoke tentatively.
"Between you and Wen Yan...is there anything..."
"No."
Wen Zhili paused again.
You haven't said anything yet, why are you so anxious to deny it?
Qin Zhen, on the contrary, felt somewhat confident that he would win.
The two looked at each other again, and no one spoke.
When Wen Yan came out after washing up, she saw the two of them like this.
"What are you two doing? Having a staring contest?"
The two of them exchanged glances, and the tense atmosphere immediately vanished.
Wen Zhili served the beef brisket with tomatoes out of the pot, and the lettuce with oyster sauce had already been prepared by Qin Zhen during their conversation just now.
Qin Zhen talked about her boyfriend again at the dinner table.
Wen Yan was different from Wen Zhili. He asked her about the details of her love life with great interest.
"I never thought you'd have another romantic encounter during the year I was preparing for the exam, and I only just found out about it now."
Qin Zhen rolled his eyes at her.
"Isn't it your fault? I asked your sister to take you out to play, but you didn't come. Besides studying, your sister is the only thing on your mind this past year, right?"
After she finished speaking, she saw Wen Zhili glance at her silently.
Qin Zhen quickly buried his head in eating.
…
Wen Yan finally waited for her sister to have summer vacation.
When I was a child, I traveled many times with my parents and sister, and even went abroad several times.
But this was the first time Wen Yan was allowed to travel far away with her sister alone.
On the day of departure, Lu Wanqing and Wen Jie took half a day off to see the two sisters off.
While standing at the airport security checkpoint, the two of them gave countless instructions and warnings.
"Xiaoli, keep an eye on Yanyan and don't let her run around."
"Yes, yes, don't let her eat anything given by strangers."
…
Wen Zhili agreed to all of them with a smile.
Wen Yan felt a little helpless and went over to shake her parents' hands.
"Mom and Dad, I'm not a three-year-old child. Besides, if you don't believe me, don't you believe my sister?"
Looking at her daughter's sweet smile and soft cheeks, Lu Wanqing finally sighed: "Of course we are worried about your sister. But you look so innocent, I'm worried that you will be bullied outside."
"What? It's just a trip..."
Wen Zhili also smiled and said, "Don't worry, Mom, I will take good care of Yanyan."
"Xiao Li, don't be stingy when you spend money outside. If you don't have enough, tell Dad. Got it?"
"I know, Dad."
After a few words, the two sisters finally lined up for security check.
"My parents are too nagging..." Wen Yan said, wiping the sweat from her forehead.
"When I first went out with Qin Zhen, my parents were like this too. You were also there then, and you kept yelling at me to be careful not to get kidnapped. I even consoled you for a long time. Have you forgotten?"
Wen Zhili teased her with a smile.
Wen Yan pouted and didn't argue with her.
Today, my sister wore a polo-neck white T-shirt and denim shorts, and tied her hair into a bun. She looked very cute, and Wen Zhili couldn't help but pinch her cheek.
The plane takes off.
Their summer dream has just begun.
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