Chapter 46
Su Yu knocked on the door, "Doctor Shen."
Su Qiang inside the door was excited, "I'm hidden, go open the door."
Amid these two urging voices, Shen Tingzhou surprisingly calmed down, and even developed a mentality of "as long as he is not embarrassed, nothing can make him embarrassed."
Shen Tingzhou walked over and opened the door in the best mental state.
Su Yu glanced into the room. He seemed innocent, but actually there was something mysterious going on. "Doctor Shen, why did you take so long to open the door? I've been waiting for you for a long time. Is there something in there that I can't see?"
Without waiting for Shen Tingzhou to speak, Su Jiang pushed open the closet and emerged impatiently.
Su Jiang laughed wildly, "Haha, you didn't expect that I'm here!"
Shen Tingzhou: ...
Shen Tingzhou had not expected Daxiang to be so impatient. No wonder he could never defeat Su Yu. She is not cunning at all.
Su Yu took a half step back in shock and sadness, "Doctor Shen, you, you guys..."
"That's right." Su Jiang unbuttoned two of her buttons and walked to Shen Tingzhou's side, "Dr. Shen and I are just as you think!"
Su Yu held her round belly and was about to fall down. "One of you is my brother, and the other is my...doctor, how can you do this?"
Su Qian smiled maliciously and stepped closer to Su Yu. "Sorry, brother, I used your Doctor Shen."
Shen Tingzhou watched quietly as the two brothers performed this bloody drama.
It feels like these two can dance without him.
Su Yu was heartbroken and in pain. He bit his lip and shook his head desperately, "Impossible, impossible."
"Is it fun to lie to yourself?" Su Rong staged a classic villain self-explosion, "To tell you the truth, when you knocked on the door, I was lying on Doctor Shen's bed, wearing the clothes you wore, sleeping in the bed you slept in, hugging your old...your doctor."
Dr. Shen, who was slandered, smiled and smiled.
"Ah, my belly."
Su Yu held her stomach and shouted proudly, then slowly sat down on the ground.
Su Qiang snorted disdainfully, "Don't pretend, brother. You just fell on your butt, how could you have a stomachache?"
Shen Tingzhou frowned. That wasn’t right. It seemed like this line should have been said by this “scumbag”?
Su Yu covered her stomach and said hoarsely, "My child, my child."
Su Rong laughed wildly at the side, "Su Yu, you have come to this day too."
A tall figure walked over quickly, pushed Su Qiang away, leaned over and held Su Yu's shoulders, "What's going on?"
Su Yu grabbed Yu Mingyan's clothes tightly and said in pain: "My children, they..."
Afraid that Yu Mingyan might misunderstand that the child was really in trouble, Shen Tingzhou was about to come out to explain, but Yu Mingyan picked up Su Yu and said, "Hold on for a while, I'll take you to the hospital right away."
"If anything happens to him and the baby in his belly..." Yu Mingyan glanced at him coldly, "I want all of you to be buried with him."
Shen Tingzhou: Poof——
He was overthinking it. Given the tacit understanding between this couple, how could Yu Mingyan not see that Su Yu was acting?
After Yu Mingyan finished speaking, he carried Su Yu towards the bedroom.
Su Yu suddenly stood up and shouted to Shen Tingzhou again, "Doctor Shen, I hate you!"
Shen Tingzhou: ...
"Be good." Yu Mingyan raised his hand and pressed Su Yu's head back into his arms, then carried him into the room.
Su Qiang then chased to the corridor and shouted a few vicious words commonly used by villains at Su Yu's closed bedroom door.
Shen Tingzhou closed his eyes and couldn't help asking, "Is there no one at your house at night?"
Su Jiang turned around and said, "Don't worry, our house is very soundproof."
Shen Tingzhou: ...Okay.
Shen Tingzhou pinched his nose and went back to his bedroom. He stopped when he noticed Su Jiang following him in and asked, "Anything else?"
Su Jiang suddenly became shy, twisting her body and not saying anything for a long time.
Shen Tingzhou has always been patient and waited quietly for Su Jiang's next words.
Su Jiang didn't say a word, but suddenly ran to the terrace. When she came back, she took out two thick photo albums and twisted her body to hand them to Shen Tingzhou.
Shen Tingzhou took it with confusion.
When I opened the album, it was full of Su Jiang's solo photos.
Originally, they were photos with Su Yu, but Su Jiang cut off Su Yu's half, leaving only her own photo.
"You said before..." Su Jiang deliberately didn't look at Shen Tingzhou, lowered her head and picked at her nails, "I was cute when I was a child, is that true?"
Shen Tingzhou was both amused and angry. He made a fuss for a long time, stuffed a note under the table, and climbed through the window in the middle of the night. It turned out that it was just to ask this question?
If he hadn't said it earlier, he would have thought Su Qiang wanted to...
Shen Tingzhou felt a little embarrassed when he realized that he was a little dirty. He opened the album again and said, "I think it's very cute."
He looked up at Su Jiang and asked curiously, "No one told you?"
Su Qiang stopped twisting her body and said gloomily, "My father often said that, but other people prefer Su Yu, including my father. They all think Su Yu is more like my father."
Shen Tingzhou didn't expect to accidentally touch upon Su Jiang's sore spot, and hurriedly tried to make amends, "I was talking about outsiders."
With Su Jiang's appearance when she was little, wouldn't the weird aunt have pinched her face until it turned red?
Su Qiang's face turned even uglier. "Every time we go out together, they always praise Su Yu."
Shen Tingzhou: ...It seems like I accidentally stepped on someone's pain again, Sao Aorui.
Su Qiang said fiercely: "So I will cut his hair off at night while he is sleeping, so that he will be too embarrassed to go out and act like a good boy."
Shen Tingzhou: ...
Su Qiang: "But he was even more cruel. He tied me up and plucked my eyebrows one by one. I always trimmed them while he was sleeping. He always tortured me when I was awake."
Shen Tingzhou: Then you are a very nice person.
"Later, he met Yu Mingyan, and the two of them bullied me together. I hated them." Su Qiang looked at Shen Tingzhou with burning eyes, "Fortunately, you avenged me today!"
Shen Tingzhou: Meow meow meow?
What are you avenging? What are you vengeful for?
In Su Jiang's eyes, he had perfectly turned the tables on tonight's drama, so he went back to bed contentedly with his photo album.
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Mr. Su's birthday party was very low-key, and he only invited some good friends with whom he had a good relationship.
What Shen Tingzhou never expected was that among the people invited by Su's father there was actually a housekeeper.
The housekeeper came over with a smile, "Doctor Shen."
Shen Tingzhou couldn't help but glance behind him, "Why are you here?"
"An old friend is having a birthday, so he came to have dinner." The housekeeper added, "Today, I am the only one here, not the young master."
Shen Tingzhou coughed and said, "Dad Su is in front."
The housekeeper looked at Shen Tingzhou with a smile, "Doctor Shen, come with me after dinner."
Shen Tingzhou heard it clearly and understood it, but he didn't know how to react. He subconsciously said, "Huh?"
The butler just smiled and said nothing more, then went to the front to greet the birthday star.
From the way the housekeeper talked to Su's father, the two seemed to be very familiar with each other. If you think about it carefully, it makes sense, as the housekeeper also attended the wedding of Su's father and Su Yu.
only……
Whose wedding did the housekeeper attend? Su Yu's father or Uncle San's?
Su Yu's father was not here. It was not known whether he was avoiding suspicion or was busy with something else.
Shen Tingzhou couldn't figure out the situation in his family, and didn't waste any time thinking about it.
Although Shen Tingzhou and Su Jiang's "relationship" has been made public, Su Jiang still prefers to observe secretly.
Every time, she would secretly contact Shen Tingzhou when Su Yu was not paying attention.
Shen Tingzhou's left pocket was almost filled with the small notes Su Jiang gave him.
Su Jiang walked over casually for the eighth time, quickly threw the thirty-seventh note into Shen Tingzhou's hand, and then left as if nothing had happened.
Why does it feel like they are meeting spies?
Shen Tingzhou found a place to open the note. The content was very simple, complaining about the ugly tie worn by a man present. On the note above, he was complaining about the man's watch.
Shen Tingzhou put the note into his pocket, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
If they were really spies, they would probably be fired by their superiors because the information they delivered was too boring.
Su Yu came over with a glass of juice. He had completely forgotten what happened last night and treated Shen Tingzhou, the "scumbag", the same as before.
"Doctor Shen, come back with us to have dinner tonight. Ah Yan brought back some Australian shrimps."
Thinking of what the housekeeper had just said, Shen Tingzhou pursed his lips.
Su Yu tilted his head and asked, "What's going on tonight?"
Shen Tingzhou nodded hesitantly.
Knowing that he really had something to do that night, Su Yu did not persuade him any further.
Not seeing Yu Mingyan at the venue, Shen Tingzhou wondered, "Where is Mr. Yu?"
Su Yu drank the juice and said, "I went outside to pick up my father."
Shen Tingzhou's expression was slightly silent. He paused for a few seconds before speaking, "Is your father coming over too?"
Su Yu said as a matter of course: "It's my father's birthday, of course he has to go home."
Shen Tingzhou quickly grasped the key words, "Go home? He lives here too?"
Su Yu smiled, a little nervously, "What else? This is also his home. Where else can he go if he doesn't come back?"
Shen Tingzhou said in his heart, isn’t that embarrassing?
As if knowing what Shen Tingzhou was thinking, Su Yu bent his lips and said in a low voice, "Actually, my father was originally engaged to my second uncle."
With second uncle?
Su Yu: "I don't know if it was because of his constitution or because he didn't absorb enough nutrients in the womb, but my second uncle was often sick after he was born. My grandfather was quite superstitious, so he listened to a master and adopted my father and sent him to a temple for care."
"I don't know if it's a coincidence or if metaphysics really exists, but my second uncle's health has been getting better and better since he adopted my father."
As a staunch materialist, Shen Tingzhou would rather believe that this was a coincidence.
Children get sick very easily, but as they grow older, their immunity becomes stronger and it is normal for them to get sick less often.
Su Yu continued, "My father didn't know about this. After hearing about it, he went to the temple to visit my father and fell in love with him at first sight. He married my father despite his family's opposition, but my father liked my third uncle."
And so on and so forth.
After just a few sentences, Shen Tingzhou's CPU was almost burned out.
蘇爸爸原本是跟二叔訂了婚，但蘇俞的父親半路截了弟弟的親事。
實際上蘇爸爸既不喜歡二叔，也不喜歡蘇俞父親，他喜歡的人是三叔。
關系這麽複雜嗎？
沈亭州不理解為什麽這裏面會有三叔的事，蘇爸爸不是一直住在寺廟，他跟三叔是怎麽接觸的？
蘇俞有合理的解釋。
“我三叔跟二叔是雙胞胎，三叔冒充二叔一直去寺廟見我爸爸。我爸爸知道自己以後要跟我二叔結婚，想着要跟未來伴侶好好相處，所以對我‘二叔’一直很好，但其實那是三叔。 ”
好一出李逵李鬼、陰差陽錯。
如果沒有三叔攪局，二叔跟蘇爸爸可能就在一起了……也未必，畢竟還有蘇俞父親。
蘇俞噗嗤一笑。
沈亭州看過去，就聽蘇俞說，“騙你的。”
沈亭州：……
蘇俞眼角彎彎，搖晃着腦袋說，“沈醫生好可愛，可惜不能把你變小，裝進口袋帶回家。”
沈亭州眼觀鼻，鼻觀口，仿佛什麽都沒有聽見。
沒多久，虞明宴跟蘇俞的父親走了進來。
見蘇俞父親朝蘇爸爸走去，疑似被搶了親的二叔神色正常、現任三叔也神色如常。
這下沈亭州确信了蘇俞的話，他們果然是住在一起的，且大家相處得很和諧。
雖然這種和諧沈亭州不理解，但他又不是蘇家人不需要理解。
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吃過午飯，管家過來找沈亭州，“沈醫生，能不能麻煩你送我回去？”
沈亭州沒問管家是怎麽回來的，只是點了一下頭。
在蘇家待到下午兩點，沈亭州開車送管家回去。
路上，沈亭州跟管家閑聊，“您是怎麽跟蘇爸爸認識的？”
“我認識他的課業師父，順帶認識了他，偶爾沒事的時候就會去找他喝茶下棋。”管家目光悠遠起來，“都三十幾年了吧。”
沈亭州微驚，“那真是認識很久了。”
管家悠悠道：“是啊，認識的時候才十七八歲，記得那個時候，蘇家老三總是爬牆去找他。”
沈亭州心裏一動，看來蘇俞的假話裏還是摻着幾分真的。
管家：“但經常沒待多久，就會被蘇家老大揍一頓，然後拎回去。”
沈亭州：……
見管家跟蘇爸爸的課業師父認識，沈亭州不禁好奇，“您也信佛？”
管家：“不信，過去是蹭飯吃的，寺廟的素豆腐做得不錯，改天沈醫生可以去嘗嘗。”
沈亭州：“……好。”
到了許家，許殉正在貓砂裏鏟屎。
最開始鏟屎的時候，他都是全副武裝，口罩、手套一樣也不少，現在只拿着一個鏟子。
看着面不改色在鏟屎的許殉，沈亭州感覺他越來越像一個貓爸了，心裏莫名湧上一股欣慰。
前面的許殉突然将鏟起的粑粑放到小銀漸層面前，“你自己聞聞臭不臭？”
說完報複性地捧起幹淨的貓砂，澆到小銀漸層頭上。
許殉轉頭就看見笑容凝固的沈亭州，他擡手默默掃幹淨小貓頭上的貓砂。
沈亭州靜了幾秒說，“要我幫忙嗎？”
許殉把小銀漸層抱過來，用力一吹，望着沈亭州說，“幹淨了。”
……他說的幫忙不是這種，算了。
沈亭州微笑着嗯了一聲，抱過貓檢查它的屁股。
許殉已經幫它擦過屁股了，沈亭州将幹幹淨淨的小貓抱着遠離惡評區。
其他兩只貓看見是沈亭州來了，喵喵地湊了過來，讨要魚幹、貓條的意圖非常明顯。
沈亭州抱着小銀漸層，蹲下來去摸橘貓跟貍花貓，兩只大貓一直往他身上撲。
許殉洗完手出來時，沈亭州正以奇怪的姿勢半跪在地上，兩個肩頭各長了一只貓，他走過去把兩只困住沈亭州的貓捉了下來。
“這是什麽？”許殉從地上撿起兩張紙條。
沈亭州看過去，許殉已經把紙條攤開，念上面的字，“今天晚上你也別走了，我讓你看看我其他的照片。”
許殉靜靜地朝沈亭州投去一眼。
沈亭州莫名有些心虛，橘貓扒着他的膝蓋，突發發力跳到了他的胸口。
沈亭州悶哼一聲，向後一栽，口袋裏的紙條又倒出來不少。
許殉伸手扶了一下沈亭州，然後撿起那些紙條，默默地裝進沈亭州的口袋。
“別丢了。”許殉體貼道：“這麽重要的東西。”
沈亭州那點異樣感消失，笑道：“沒那麽重要，就是随便傳的。”
他在蘇家的時候，只是沒找到機會扔掉，所以才會放口袋裏。
沈亭州掏出口袋那些紙條，丢進了垃圾桶。
許殉面色緩和，将沈亭州從地上拉了起來。
看到沈亭州眼下的淡青，許殉微微皺眉，“昨晚沒睡好？”
沈亭州愣了一下，“睡得還好，就是睡得有點晚。”
許殉用一根貓條，把三只貓騙到沙發上，擡頭對沈亭州說，“你抱着貓在這兒睡一會兒吧。”
沈亭州眼睛下移，看着毛茸茸三只仰頭舔貓條的貓貓，心裏泛癢，忍不住走過去，嘴上卻說，“不用，也沒有多困。”
許殉什麽也沒說，挪動三只貓，給沈亭州騰出一塊能躺的地方。
沈亭州糾結兩秒，還是一臉幸福地奔向三只貓貓圍成的貓窩。
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管家換了衣服走下樓，沈亭州躺在沙發上，旁邊圍着三只揣爪爪的貓，還有一個許殉。
沈亭州已經睡着了，許殉近距離看着他。
管家走過去，“別在沈醫生睡着的時候占便宜，男人點，等人醒了你再占。”
許殉平平地看了一眼管家。
管家問，“要給你買個電視機當窩嗎？”
許殉輕哼了一聲，趴在沈亭州肩側不搭理他。
管家很輕地笑了一下，然後離開了客廳。
沈亭州不覺得自己有多困，但等他一覺醒來，太陽馬上就要沒入地平線了。
最乖的貍花貓躺在沈亭州身側，大橘在沙發腳舔毛，許殉坐在沈亭州面前，背對着他，正低頭給小銀漸層按摩腸胃。
最後一縷天光透窗落進來，給客廳鍍上一層朦胧的昏黃，仿佛一張很有質感的老照片。
沈亭州、許殉，還有貓都定格在這幅畫面裏。
這種偏暖的色調，讓沈亭州感到溫馨與安定，他又把眼睛合上，閉目養神。
太陽沿着軌道徹底沉落，黑暗籠罩下來。
清醒的沈亭州坐起，許殉偏頭看過來，他的眼睛像夜色一樣漆黑，卻沒有半點陰郁，反而給人一種柔軟的感覺。
許殉問，“醒了？”
沈亭州眼睫扇動了一下，不動聲色移開視線，點了一下頭，“幾點了？”
許殉說，“六點十分。”
沈亭州應了一聲，沒話找話，“管家呢？”
許殉嘴角很輕地扯動了一下。
沈亭州見狀有些好笑，看來又吵架了。
許殉起身打開了客廳的燈，光傾瀉而下，沈亭州不适應地眯了一下眼睛。
管家從書房走出來，“沈醫生，菲利普王子，晚上想吃什麽？”
菲利普王子？
沈亭州朝許殉看去，這個稱號明顯是針對他的。
管家微笑詢問，“下午我讓人熬了雞湯，用湯煮點面條，可以嗎？”
沈亭州：“好。”
管家也沒問他的菲利普少爺，徑自去了廚房讓人開火下面條。
等管家走了，沈亭州小聲問，“菲利普王子是？”
許殉把臉一癱，“陰陽怪氣的黑稱罷了。”
沈亭州沒再問，自己偷偷查了查，查出瑞典某個王子，還有《睡美人》裏吻醒睡美人的王子也叫菲利普。
嗯，應該是有他不懂的高深含義。
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晚上回去之後，沈亭州一摸口袋，摸出一大把小紙條。
他不是把紙條扔了，怎麽還在口袋裏？
沈亭州疑惑地打開紙條，不再是蘇薔狗爬一樣的字跡，而是淩厲的鋼筆字。
【明天陰，氣溫-1℃，注意保暖。】
【給深深按摩了十分鐘，為了它好，它還要咬我。】
【胖橘今天稱過，已經十八斤了，我決定要給它減肥。】
【床上都它們掉的毛，不喜歡，但我收集起來給你揉成了毛球。】
【今天中午一個人在家吃的飯。】
沈亭州把紙條攤開，一張張全部看完了，嘴角柔軟。
他打開臺燈，拿出筆，撕下一張紙，在上面寫——
【你也注意保暖，多喝熱水。】
【深深很淘氣，我替它跟你說對不起。】
【橘貓确實要減肥了，太胖容易引發并發症。】
【謝謝你幫我收集貓毛，改天戳一個鑰匙扣送你。】
【一個人也要好好吃飯。】
沈亭州一一回複許殉的紙條，拍下了照片，猶豫良久，最終還是沒有發給許殉。
沈亭州把紙揉成團，全部都放進餅幹盒裏，起身去洗澡。
洗完澡出來，他繞着那盒餅盒走了兩圈，表情有些糾結。
收到紙條，感覺不回複有點不好，但一個個都回複又有點怪怪的。
沈亭州內耗良久，最後還是一狠心，把保存的照片發給了許殉，然後把被子一拽，蒙頭蓋住莫名感到羞恥的自己。
半分鐘後，沈亭州的手機響了。
Hearing the message alert, Shen Tingzhou did not immediately pick up his phone. He stayed under the quilt for a while, then stretched out a hand and quickly took the phone in.
Shen Tingzhou closed one eye and clicked on Xu Xunfa's message.
It was a photo of a finger wrapped in a Band-Aid, with two text messages on top:
【It's not just naughty.】
[The lower mouth is very heavy. ]
These two messages, plus a picture, washed away Shen Tingzhou's sense of shame. He lay on the pillow and replied by poking at the nine-square grid.
[Is it a severe bite? Take off the Band-Aid so I can see the wound.]
Xu Xun sent a video. He pointed the camera at his slender fingers, but Shen Tingzhou couldn't find a single tooth mark. Xu Xun said that the cell phone camera didn't capture it clearly and the tooth marks were very deep.
Shen Tingzhou suspected that he was slandering Shen, but had no evidence.
It’s no wonder that Shen Tingzhou didn’t believe him, Xu Xun had a criminal record in this regard.
Xu Xun sent a voice message saying, "I have tried hard to teach it, but it doesn't learn at all."
Xu Xun also said, "This may be because cats are difficult to tame. All cats are like this."
Shen Tingzhou couldn't stand it any longer, "...Don't talk to cats like that, they can understand."
When Xu Xun heard Shen Tingzhou's words, he slipped into the quilt. After a long time, he poked his head out gloomily and pressed the send voice button.
"They understand everything except my teachings."
"..." Shen Tingzhou decided to pay more attention to Xu Xun's fingers, "Is your hand okay?"
Xu Xun's voice was like a marshmallow in his mouth, very light and sticky. "What's the problem? It just hurts a little when I lift it."
Shen Tingzhou immediately said, "I'll talk about Shen Shen tomorrow."
Xu Xun's expression softened. "No need. After all, it's still young, so it's normal for it to be immature."
Shen Tingzhou couldn't tell for a moment whether he was a kind father or a strict father. Maybe he was both strict and kind.
Shen Tingzhou instructed earnestly, "If your finger is injured, rest early."
Xu Xun said, "It's okay. You slept a lot today, so you shouldn't be sleepy tonight. I'll talk to you."
Shen Tingzhou felt ashamed again. He pressed his heart and tried hard to suppress the feeling.