Chapter 399: Flattered
It always gets dark early when it's cold. The street lights on both sides light up early, emitting dim light, illuminating the avenue.
Lu Donglin rode his bike against the cold wind, and the breath he exhaled turned into white smoke in an instant.
The car stopped in front of the Wen family's door. Chen Wenqin jumped out of the car and looked at him: "Thank you for taking me back!"
Lu Donglin said: "You're welcome, it's on my way."
Chen Wenqin took a breath of cold air: "Lu Donglin, every word I say to you is very serious. If you don't have any good feelings towards me and don't like me, then just pretend I didn't say anything."
After saying that, he turned around and left, but he didn't leave quickly and was stopped by Lu Donglin.
"What time do we go to school tomorrow?"
Chen Wenqin felt a little embarrassed and wanted to pull her hand back, but she tried several times but failed to pull her hand away from his warm palm.
"Tomorrow, I don't have classes tomorrow morning, so I'll be there a little later."
Lu Donglin nodded: "Okay, I'll take you there tomorrow morning!"
Chen Wenqin's eyes widened: "You're sending me off?"
Lu Donglin nodded: "Well, aren't you dating? Sending your partner to school should be okay, right?"
Chen Wenqin's eyes lit up instantly. Just as she was about to speak, the door to the Wen family's living room opened. The street lights outside came on, and Chen Wenqin ran away with her bag in her hand like a thief.
Lu Donglin looked at her panic-stricken look, which was quite different from the bold and foolish girl who had said she wanted to date him before. It was quite interesting.
If you're dating, then you should just talk it over for a while. Only after you've gotten to know each other can you tell if you're a good match. You can't always let a girl initiate the conversation.
Aunt Zhou called out, "Donglin is back. Why are you standing outside? Come in quickly. It's freezing cold."
As she said that, she helped to open the yard door. Lu Donglin drove the car in and thanked her.
I parked the car under the eaves and then went into the house in the cold.
He greeted Wen Shihua, "Uncle Wen!"
Wen Shihua nodded: "I'm back!"
"Yeah! Brother, sister-in-law!"
Dandan lay on the chair and looked at him: "Uncle, what about me? You've already shouted, where am I?"
Lu Donglin pinched his face with his cold fingers: "Little brat!"
"Hiss, stop pinching my face!" The two of them started quarreling as soon as they entered the door.
The living room was bustling with activity. Wanwan looked at him and smiled, "I was just talking about you! Your brother said you came here this afternoon, but now there's no one around. Have you had dinner yet? Ask Auntie to make you something."
Lu Donglin said: "I ate it."
Lu Dongping raised his eyebrows and looked at him, as if to say, "Didn't I invite you to come over for dinner? Why are you eating out by yourself?"
"I went to the store and met a friend and went out for a meal together."
Wen Shihua asked him, "How is the business in the store?"
"Fortunately, it's getting colder now, and it's almost the twelfth lunar month. Business is always better than usual at this time of year."
"I heard from your brother that things are almost done outside the city. You've been spending the past six months there, so it's time to take a break."
Lu Donglin ran over and sat down next to him. "Rest, you're resting every day. I'm just helping out over there. I don't understand blueprints or anything like that, and they're professionals. My sister-in-law asked someone to help draw it, and they just follow the instructions to fix it. I can't do anything but watch over there. I'm so bored."
Wen Shihua smiled and said, "The rest I'm talking about is different from the rest you're talking about. What I mean is, if you're not busy, stay here for a few more days. You're not young anymore, you know. Wanwan was just saying that you're old enough to find a partner, and you can't keep running around like this. If you delay any longer, it'll be hard to find someone when you're older!"
Lu Donglin turned to look at Wen Wan and the others: "So you were really talking about me just now?"
Dandan looked at him jokingly: "Uncle, your ears are not hot, and you are not sneezing? We have been talking about you!"
"What are you talking about me for?"
"Tell me when you come to your senses, bring me a little aunt."
Lu Donglin reached out and knocked him: "Kid, what do you know?"
Dandan was as timid as a loach and couldn't stand being knocked. He hid behind Liu Dongping and made a face at him: "I know more than you. My dad said you are a blockhead and you don't understand anything." After saying that, he ran upstairs.
Lu Donglin turned to look at him: "Little thing, are you trying to provoke me? Do you want your aunt? I'll bring her back to you tomorrow."
The adults in the room were stunned for a moment. Wen Wan turned around and leaned on the armrest of the sofa, looking at him tentatively: "Are you really talking?"
Lu Donglin said: "I plan to talk. It seems that you are so worried, so I might as well try to talk to one."
Hearing him say that, Wen Wan suddenly smiled: "Okay! Then you work hard and try to bring the person back to us as soon as possible so that we can have a look."
After that, she asked Lu Donglin: "Do you know a girl named Chen Wenqin?"
This time it was Lu Donglin's turn to be stunned: "I know him!"
Wen Wan asked, "Are you two familiar with each other? I saw that girl and she seemed to be interested in you. She even came to my house and asked me if I had a boyfriend. At that time, I didn't know you already had one, and you told her that you didn't. That would have been troublesome."
Lu Donglin was really surprised: "She even came to you to ask about me?"
"Yes, I came to find you. I told her that you didn't have a partner yet, and didn't say anything else. I just let her ask you herself."
Lu Donglin asked him, "Sister-in-law, are you familiar with Chen Wenqin? What's she like?"
Wen Wan shook her head. "Although our two families live close together, I haven't had much contact with her. She was still young when I was in school. Later, I went to the countryside. I've been away for so many years. When I come back, I stay at the school and rarely come back to the compound."
Lu Dongping frowned: "Don't you have a partner? If you have a partner, then you shouldn't ask about other girls' affairs."
"I'm planning to talk about it. Who said she's pregnant? It's Chen Wenqin. I'm planning to talk to her."
After hearing this, even Wen Shihua, who was originally concentrating on watching the news, turned around and looked at him with interest with his ears perked up.
Lu Dongping looked at him, then at Wen Wan, and finally his gaze returned to him: "What do you mean by just chatting? If you like her, then pursue her sincerely, and then get along well with her and talk about dating. This is a big deal, don't act like a child playing house. It's not serious at all."
Wen Wan asked him, "Do you like Chen Wenqin?"
"Huh?" Lu Donglin scratched his head. "No, nothing! I just thought she was interesting, so I wanted to see if we could get along." He really didn't know what it felt like to like someone. You can't just see a girl on the street and have feelings for her, right? Aren't feelings between people just a product of time spent together?
It's rare to find someone like his brother who wants to take someone home as a partner at first sight. The main reason was that his sister-in-law was so beautiful at that time, and his brother, the old rogue, was tempted by her beauty. He is not that kind of person.
Even so, Lu Dongping still reminded him twice: "Dating is a lifelong event, so don't mess around."
Lu Donglin assured him again and again that they were just trying to get along with each other, and that was it.
After going upstairs to rest, Lu Dongping asked Wen Wan: "Chen Wenqin, what do you think of this girl?"
Wen Wan knew what he meant.
After thinking for a while, he said, "Well, it's really hard for me to say. I don't know anything about her personality. Only after Donglin gets along with her can he know."
"But it's hard to say whether it will work out in the end. Those who can live here all hold important positions. Uncle Chen is in the military and is a very serious man, but because Chen Wenqin is the youngest in the family and a girl, he loves her very much. Her mother is in the Ministry of Education, and her brother is a teacher at school. Both of them are very strict with Chen Wenqin. I haven't seen her brother in a long time, so I don't know what he is like. Anyway, when we were in school, he was a grade older than me and he was a very serious person."
"As for her mother," Wen Wan pondered, unsure of the right words to describe her. "Her mother comes from a prominent family and is known for her pride. Apart from her superiors or Uncle Chen's superiors, she doesn't really care about anyone else."
So Lu Donglin was a little annoyed if he really wanted to date Chen Wenqin. One was family background, and the other was education level. These two things would definitely be criticized by Chen Wenqin's mother.
After she said this, Lu Dongping knew in his heart that this thing would most likely not succeed. Not everyone is gentle, not everyone is as peaceful as Wen Shihua, and not everyone is as unlucky as him.
Wen Wan gave him some advice: "If Donglin really wants to be with someone, he should try everything first. Nothing is absolute. Don't let superficial factors stop him. Back then, when Ai Shang was just starting out, I thought he and Chen Dongshuang could be together. They were close, but in the end, nothing came of it. I never thought about it that way. Now he finally has some ideas, which is really rare."
Lu Dongping sighed, "I know. I won't interfere. He's old enough, and it's time for him to think about this. But I'll still tell him what needs to be said, so that at least he knows what's going on."
Lu Donglin really didn't think too much about it. He just thought that it took a lot of courage for a girl like Chen Wenqin to take the initiative to tell him that she wanted to date him. The girl was not bad looking and was a college student. He had these conditions -
Just as I fell asleep, there was a knock on the door. Lu Dongping's voice rang out from outside: "Open the door!"
Lu Donglin got up before the bed was even warm, turned on the bedside lamp, opened the door, and let Lu Dongping in: "Brother, why aren't you asleep yet?"
"Shall I sleep with you tonight?"
Lu Donglin was stunned for a moment, then took a few steps to the bed and hugged the quilt in his arms. "Did you make my sister-in-law angry and get kicked out? I'm telling you, if that's the case, I definitely won't take you in. I'm on my sister-in-law's side."
Lu Dongping stood by the bed and smiled, then turned around, opened the cabinet in the room and took out the neatly folded quilt.
Lu Donglin's eyes widened: "What the hell is this——"
The lights were turned off, and he immediately became obedient: "Brother, we haven't slept together for many years. No, we have never slept like this." In the past, they slept in the same room, each at one end. He had never slept together in his memory, and he was a little flattered.
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