Chapter 313: Comfort
After the IV drip and a full meal, Lu Donglin felt a little more energetic. He was determined not to be hospitalized, but Wen Wan was so stubborn that she couldn't do anything about him. She found a doctor, completed the discharge procedures, and took him back to Tonghua Lane.
"Calm down, please. You really need to take good care of yourself. Your family never treated you badly when you were hungry and cold a few years ago. Now you're almost twenty, and you've messed yourself up like this. Look at yourself! I'll give you a mirror. You're just skin and bones."
Wen Wan said, and actually took out a mirror and stuffed it into his hand: "Take a good look at what you look like now, ah! Let's not talk about anything else, just look at the injuries on your body, how can you be so strong? You dared to jump off the train when it was running. You are lucky to be sitting here now, don't you know? Yesterday when your brother came back, I told him not to scold you. Now I want to slap you when I look at you. Anyway, I tell you, when your brother comes back this afternoon, tell him everything yourself, I don't care."
It’s terrible. If I continue to interfere, he will be so brave that he will dare to do something bad.
Lu Donglin touched his head and smiled foolishly: "Then beat him up. I guess he won't be able to get rid of his anger if he doesn't beat me up."
Lu Donglin
Lu Dongping really wanted to give him a good beating, but when he thought about how he was burned like a furnace last night and lost consciousness, and the doctor saw the torn wounds on his shoulder blade and leg when applying medicine, he couldn't bear it.
Now seeing his pale face and pale lips after his fever had subsided, his face was tense, which made people feel scared.
"I sent a telegram home today, and then I don't have to go to work tomorrow."
Lu Donglin didn't know what he was going to say next, and he was very nervous.
"I'll go back with your sister-in-law tomorrow. The child is still there. You stay here first, and then I'll take you back the day after tomorrow."
"I'm not going back!" Lu Donglin stood up suddenly: "I'm not going back. Since I ran away, I will never go back." What's the point of running away from home and then going back? Was all the suffering he suffered in vain?
Lu Dongping leaned there and looked at him coldly: "If you don't go back, what are your plans? I asked you to go to school, but you didn't want to go. You didn't even graduate from elementary school. Your household registration and food supply are all in Lujiazui. Tell me, what do you want to do? Lu Donglin, you are an adult now, not a three or five-year-old child who does whatever he wants on impulse."
"Then I won't go back anyway. If you think I'll be a burden to you if I stay here, then I'll just leave. I'd rather go out and beg for food than go back. Dying out here is just my fate!"
Lu Dongping hissed, gritted his teeth, and stood up, pulling him up from the sofa. "Very impressive and promising! Huh? Then I'll just fulfill your wish and beat you to death right now!"
"Okay, come on, just kill me!"
Wen Wan rushed out of the room and desperately pushed them apart: "What are you two doing? Can you please talk properly? Lu Dongping, can you act like a brother? Look at him now, can he withstand a beating from you? Even if you beat him up, what will happen? Can you really kill him?"
After saying that, Lu Dongping turned around and scolded Lu Donglin: "What's wrong with you, kid? What did I tell you this morning? What's going on at home? You need to talk to your brother about what you're thinking. Now we need to solve the problem, not just insist on having him beat you up. You ran away from home, but have you ever thought about how to deal with it? You say that this is a ridiculous thing that happened at home, but are you doing the right thing?"
"You're just thinking about escaping and running away. Have you ever thought about what to do at home? Mom and Dad spent energy, used favors, spent money and food to bring her home, and now we don't know what the situation is. You left, and the girl is still at home. So what to do? There has to be an explanation. If she is willing, there is an explanation. If she is not willing, there is also an explanation."
Lu Donglin leaned back and leaned there weakly: "Anyway, I just won't go back. If I go back, it means I'll bow to them and admit it. I've suffered so much, I'm not afraid of suffering again. I won't admit it!"
Lu Dongping calmed down and said, "I will go back and deal with this matter. If you don't want to, no one can force you."
Wen Wan pulled him and told him to be quiet.
"If he doesn't want to go back, then he can stay here. You can go back and take a look. Here, he can go to school in the spring and go to night school. I'll see if I can ask someone to find him a job, maybe at the cement factory moving cement. After all, even if he has no education, he can only work hard, and at least he can earn a living."
Her instincts told her that she had to calm him down first, otherwise, with Lu Donglin's bad temper, he might do something. He had the guts to run away from home penniless, so he might not be afraid to run from here.
This time he was lucky. He knew that he had to come to the capital to seek refuge with his brother. If he was not accepted here and he ran away, he would not be able to find him in the vast sea of people.
"Chun'e has already gone home for the holiday, with her boyfriend. Your brother has also been planning to go back to take care of your situation. It's okay if you don't want to go back, just stay here. Your brother will transfer your household registration when he returns, and you won't have to go back in the future. Think this matter through. He's not leaving right away. Think it through and tell him before you leave."
"It's not like you don't have food to eat here. As long as your brother and I are here, you won't go hungry. I'll find a job for you. If you don't have any education, you can only do hard labor, but you really have to pick up your studies, work, and go to school. As long as you keep your feet on the ground, your brother and I will support you."
Lu Donglin wiped his eyes and said, "Don't think about it. I won't go back. It's not like I can't endure hardship."
"Okay, then it's decided. We won't go back. Let your brother go back on his own. After the New Year, your brothers and sisters will all be here, and the three of you will be reunited. There's nothing wrong with being here. And now, you just need to take good care of yourself. Look at how you look now. Forget about carrying cement. I can poke you down with just one finger. What else do you want to do if you're not in good health? Go, get some water, warm your feet, and go to bed. I'll change your clothes for you tomorrow. I've prepared some for you. Look how much bigger your brother's clothes are when you wear them. You two should be about the same height if you stand together, okay?"
Wen Wan only breathed a sigh of relief after Lu Donglin went into the house and fell asleep. She collapsed on the sofa and rolled her eyes. Still not satisfied, she took off her shoes and kicked Lu Dongping, causing Lu Dongping to grab her feet and hold them in his arms.
Wen Wan pointed at him: "Do you know how to speak? Don't you know what kind of temper he has? If you use force against him, you——"
She was afraid that Lu Donglin would hear something, so she kept quiet.
After washing up, he rolled onto the bed. Under the covers, Lu Dongping said, "He's been spoiled since he was little. He doesn't know how high the heavens are or how deep the earth is. I really wanted to beat him up back then. I couldn't get enough of him even if I beat him half to death. He thinks he's so capable. He feels wronged! He's grown up, but when faced with problems, he doesn't try to find a solution. He just walks away, leaving the mess for others to clean up. He feels so confident about it."
"We can't clean it up right now. No matter how angry you are, you have to suppress it. If he runs away again this time, where do you think he'll go? At least you can keep an eye on him from here."
Lu Dongping sighed: "I have already caused you a lot of trouble. If he comes again, I will have to trouble you again."
Wen Wan twisted his waist and said, "I'm going to get angry if you say that again!"
Lu Dongping kissed her and said, "I must have been a very kind person in my previous life and the life before that. I did many good things and accumulated great blessings." That's why he met Wen Wan in this life.
Wen Wan laughed and twisted in his arms: "Why are you becoming more and more conceited? You must be a kind person. I think you were a bandit leader in your previous life."
"If I were the bandit leader, I would have kidnapped you and made you my wife!"
The two of them burst into laughter.
"Can we go back to the compound tomorrow and leave him here alone?"
Lu Dongping said, "Why not? We have food, meat, vegetables, and everything at home. I'll give him a few dollars to put on his back, so he won't starve. There's floor heating in the compound. If you're not afraid of the cold, then stay there. Bring everything you need tomorrow. There's space there too, and there's a sewing machine, so it's very convenient for you to make whatever you want."
He just wanted Lu Donglin to stay alone and see what would happen. If he did something stupid again, no one would be able to control him.
"I'll be back the day after tomorrow."
"Um!"
Lu Dongping said: "I can't spend the New Year with you this year."
"I'll forgive you for this year, but not in the future."
Lu Dongping agreed: "No later, just this once. I might come over later after the New Year."
"Um?"
"I want to go directly to the south from Xinxi to explore the route and take a look around."
Wen Wan pursed her lips: "I heard it's very chaotic over there." She was a little worried.
"I'll be careful. I'll go over and take a look."
Wen Wan thought for a while and said, "Then I'll go get some money tomorrow. Oh, it would be better if you bring the note with you." A poor family can be rich on the road, so it's always a good idea to bring more money.
Lu Dongping shook his head: "No, I still have some money on me, so I'll go over and take a look first. You don't need to bring too much money. It's not safe to carry too much money. I'm just telling you that it may take a while for me to come back, so don't worry."
Wenwan responded sullenly.
Lu Dongping noticed that she was in a bad mood, so he lowered his head and started kissing her, and his hands began to move in a disorderly manner. Then, her worries disappeared and she no longer had the energy to worry.
After sending her back and having dinner with Wen Shihua, Lu Dongping did not stay overnight in the compound. He came back and talked with Lu Donglin again. Early in the morning of the third day, he went to the train station and boarded the train back to Xinxi.
It’s only a few days away from New Year’s Eve, the festive atmosphere is getting stronger and stronger, and the trains carrying people home are getting closer and closer.
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