Chapter 13 Intimacy
That person cooks delicious food. When he has stomach problems, she will make medicine and porridge for him. She is considerate and gentle.
I would leave a light on for him when he came home late at night, and when I listened to him talk, I was always quiet and looked at him seriously.
"Lin Yu, you are really not a child anymore. When you were seventeen or eighteen years old, you insisted on having a premature love affair. Now that you are of age, you are hesitant. How come your courage is growing backwards? You were quite unscrupulous before." Lin's mother snorted heavily.
When Lin Yu heard the word puppy love, his heart skipped a beat. "That happened almost ten years ago. Do you still remember it?"
"Have you forgotten that you haven't been in a relationship because you're still thinking about Chu Qin?"
Hearing Chu Qin's name for the first time in a long time, Lin Yu was stunned for a moment, and said in a light tone, "How could it be? It's really not because of this reason. It's just that I haven't met someone I like yet. Mom, don't worry too much about falling in love. I'm old enough and I can think it through carefully."
The topic of finding a partner came to an abrupt end here. Lin's mother stopped talking, sighed, and gave a few gentle instructions about family matters before hanging up the phone.
Lin Yu placed his hands on his forehead, thinking about his mother's words: "When I was seventeen or eighteen years old, I insisted on having a premature love affair."
My boundless thoughts went back to the night of the seventh day of the Lunar New Year. I remembered the vague words I said to Chen Wan when I had a stomachache: "It's good that I didn't fall in love too early."
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but find it a little funny. As someone who had experienced premature love, he was telling the little girl not to fall in love too early.
Somehow, he suddenly wanted to go back to the reckless seventeen years old.
In this way, I will be the same age as that person, and I can indulge myself more and go beyond the limit.
When Chen Wan walked downstairs, he saw from afar Lin Yu putting a paper bag on a pomegranate.
He tilted his head back, and his slender fingers nimbly sealed the paper bag and tied it with string.
Chen Wan walked closer and took a closer look, only to discover that there were words written on the paper bags, such as "Good luck in the college entrance examination" and "Your name on the list of successful candidates".
The most ridiculous thing is that there are things like “get rich overnight” and “money rolling in”.
"What are you doing?"
When Lin Yu heard her voice, he turned around and gave her a happy smile, "Are you finishing school?"
Chen Wan nodded, took a paper bag from the stone table, and put it on the pomegranate together with him. He asked casually, "Aren't you going to work today?"
"Well, the bureau specially approved a day off, so I thought of pruning this pomegranate tree. I always get fascinated by fruit trees."
Chen Wan's eyes curved when he heard what he said, and he asked, "What is there to look forward to about fruit trees?"
"I just feel so envious just looking at them, and I can't help but think about how delicious the fruits must be. Don't you think it's great to have so many fruits?" Lin Yu looked down at her, raised his hand to take the wool from her hand, and said as he knitted, "When I was in elementary school, there was a big persimmon tree in the yard next door. Whenever it bore fruit, the tree was full of small red lanterns. I would stare at it eagerly when I passed by on my way to school."
"Gazing covetously..." Chen Wan was amused by his inaccurate wording. "You mean drooling over me?"
"Hey, yeah, that's about it." Lin Yu clapped his hands, stepped back two steps, looked at the paper bags covered with auspicious words on the tree, and nodded with satisfaction, "It's done."
Chen Wan looked around calmly. Pesticides, shovels for loosening the soil, and unused bamboo sticks were piled up in groups of three or four next to the stone table.
There were green leaves stuck on Lin Yu's apron and mud spots on his trouser legs, which was completely different from his usual neat and clean appearance.
But his open brows were full of smiles, and he didn't look embarrassed at all.
"Thank you, Lin Yu."
Lin Yu, who was immersed in the joy of completing the work, heard Chen Wan's thanks, waved his hands, and said nonchalantly, "It's a small matter. I'll just have two more pomegranates when they're ripe."
Chen Wan heard this and nodded, "I'll give it all to you to eat."
"No, no, no, I marked it." Lin Yu raised his eyebrows and smiled at her, quite complacent.
He pointed to the paper bags with the words "Get rich overnight" and "Money rolling in," and said, "These are mine, and the rest of the kind, cute, and smart ones are yours."
Chen Wan listened to his serious talk, and how he could come up with so many tricks to put a paper bag in it. He said sincerely, "You really took the trouble."
Lin Yu was a person who could not help but be praised. Upon hearing this, he raised his hand and smoothed his short hair. "Maybe I am suitable to be a gardener, although I only found out that I have this skill today."
Chen Wan saw the blood mark on the back of his hand and grabbed his wrist before thinking, "You are injured."
"It's okay." Lin Yu glanced at it lightly and didn't take it seriously. "It's just a little scrape. I've already cleaned it."
Chen Wan frowned and looked at the bamboo support under the pomegranate tree. "Did the wire get torn?"
"It's really okay. It doesn't hurt at all. If you had come a little later, it would have healed on its own."
Lin Yu saw her worried look and said calmly, but a slight cool feeling on his wrist made him drop his nonchalant attitude.
He lowered his eyes and looked at Chen Wan clasping his hands with a focused expression.
Chen Wan's hands were pale and thin, with her long knuckles covering the back of his hand. She was lowering her head and looking at the wound over and over again.
Her eyelashes are very long and flutter slightly, like a black butterfly.
Lin Yu didn't even want to breathe for a moment, for fear of startling the butterfly that had flown into his heart.
"You didn't disinfect it properly, did you?" Chen Wan let go of his hand, looked up at him, and said seriously, "If you got hooked on the wire and bled, what if you didn't disinfect it properly and got tetanus?"
Lin Yu looked into her clear eyes, stunned for a moment before regaining his composure. He subconsciously hid his hands behind his back and said, "It's okay. I'll just wipe it with disinfectant alcohol later."
Chen Wan glanced at him questioningly, "I don't think you will do what you say."
Lin Yu turned his face away awkwardly, laughed dryly twice, and changed the subject, "By the way, my senior sister said that if you come back, let me take you to her house for dinner."
Chen Wan said "oh", walked past Lin Yu, went to the stone table, and put away all the tools he had used.
"I'll take it." Lin Yu took a big step and stood in front of her. "Give it to me."
Chen Wan shook his head. "It's already troublesome for you to prune the pomegranate tree. I have to do something too."
Having been with Chen Wan for a long time, Lin Yu already knew her personality very well. He directly took the things and rubbed her head very naturally, "Don't worry about it."
This subconscious intimate action startled both of them. Chen Wan looked up at him with a puzzled expression.
A pair of clear and bright eyes looked straight at him.
Lin Yu was also stunned, thinking of words quickly in his mind, but no matter how hard he racked his brains, he could not explain this sudden sense of closeness.
"Your hair is so smooth, what shampoo do you use?"
After Lin Yu uttered this sentence for the sake of conversation, the atmosphere became even more awkward.
The two looked at each other.
In this hesitant atmosphere, Chen Wan suddenly smiled, her eyes curled up into willow buds, "Even if you use the same shampoo, your hair won't be very smooth."
Lin Yu scratched his short, thin hair awkwardly, feeling a little discouraged. "That's right, I don't have much hair at all."
Chen Wan originally wanted to say that he had short hair, but Lin Yu misunderstood it and thought he was bald.
"I'm not saying you have less hair, I'm saying your hair is short." Chen Wan wanted to comfort Lin Yu, but the latter walked away with his tools in his hand, looking dejected.
Chen Wan remembered that Lin Yu had asked him in front of the flower shop window the last time, "Am I really old?"
She thought to herself that this person actually cared a lot about other people's opinions of his appearance, especially his age?
Lin Yu lowered his head and walked hurriedly.
In his heart, he was secretly glad that Chen Wan was not the type to ask too many questions, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
At the same time, he also suppressed the doubts and confusion in his heart.
After Lin Yu opened the door, he piled the tools in the entrance hall. When he was about to close the door, Chen Wan leaned in and asked him, "Is it convenient for me to come to your house now?"
"That's convenient." Lin Yu opened the door a crack and invited her in. "Did you drop something at my house?"
Chen Wan nodded and said yes, looking very serious.
"What is it?" Lin Yu looked around the living room, but he didn't remember Chen Wan leaving anything in his house.
"Here." Chen Wan pointed to the wound on the back of his hand, "My guilt is reflected here."
"Ah?" Lin Yu didn't keep up with her rhythm and opened his eyes wide in stupidity.
Chen Wan looked at his stunned expression and smiled, "You helped me apply the medicine last time, so I should repay you this time."
Lin Yu recovered and said with a sigh, "No need to be so polite."
Chen Wan didn't waste time talking to Lin Yu. He put his hand on his shoulder and pushed him to sit on the sofa, then took out the medicine box as if he knew the way.
"I can do it myself, really." Lin Yu stood up awkwardly and tried to stop Chen Wan.
"You will definitely do it carelessly, so let me do it." Chen Wan pressed him back like a potato without saying anything.
Lin Yu had no choice but to let Chen Wan apply medicine to him.
After Chen Wan dipped the cotton swab in disinfectant alcohol, he held Lin Yu's right hand, pinched his knuckles, and applied medicine to him gently and slowly.
The coolness on the back of his hand and the warmth in his palm made Lin Yu dazed.
Chen Wan's fingertips pressed against his palm, like playing an instrument, plucking the suppressed string in his heart.
"Okay." Chen Wan put a Band-Aid on him, screwed the cap on the medicine bottle, looked up and smiled, "Does it hurt?"
The moment she pulled her hand back, Lin Yu also came back to his senses. Looking at the wound that had been bandaged, the first thing he thought in his mind was, "Why is this wound so small?"
The moment this thought came to his mind, Lin Yu felt that he was finished. He must have been living alone for too long and had actually had these impure thoughts about the little girl.
He closed his eyes with a heavy heart and cursed himself in his heart.
In order to distract himself, he turned his face away, not looking at Chen Wan, and silently recited the core socialist values to divert his attention.
Thoughts: I have basically made the love line clear by now. The ambiguous period of mutual crush is so cute. In fact, I have written up to chapter thirteen. Although there are not many rival scenes between Lin Yu and Chen Wan, they are all tender and affectionate. Lin Yu does a lot of small things for Chen Wan without making a sound. In chapter eleven, Mingyue, although they talk to themselves, one talks about pomegranates and the other talks about pets, but they both understand what they really want to express. I think this feeling of mutual understanding is particularly good, hehe.
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