Chapter 5 Pioneer Volume 05 Lu Changfeng, I still like you. …
Chapter 5
As a native of Yancheng, Yue Fanglin naturally knew where the delicious food was in Yancheng.
The hotpot restaurant he chose is doing very hot business.
It took them several minutes just to find a parking space.
The four of them walked into the hot pot restaurant and were greeted by a waiter.
Yue Fanglin asked the waiter: "Are there any private rooms?"
The lobby on the first floor was too noisy, making it inconvenient for them to chat.
The waiter used the intercom to ask his colleagues upstairs and asked them to go up the stairs to the third floor.
There was someone waiting on the third floor and took them to a private room.
After they sat down, the waiter brought the menu and Jing Jue and Lu Changfeng sat together.
Yue Fanglin handed the menu to Lu Changfeng: "We are welcoming you here, so of course you order the dishes. Order whatever you like. Don't save money for me."
Lu Changfeng didn't hesitate, he looked at the menu and said, "I'll order what I like first, and then you can order what you don't order later."
Jing Jue sat closer to Lu Changfeng, and Lu Changfeng handed him the menu. "What do you want to eat?"
"I'll eat whatever you order." Jing Jue didn't want to order food, he just wanted to find an excuse to sit closer to Lu Changfeng. He would be very happy if he could sit closer.
Lu Changfeng outlined a few of the things he usually liked to eat, and also some of the things Jing Jue liked to eat.
Jing Jue looked at me with the corners of his lips slightly raised: He hasn't forgotten what I like to eat.
After Lu Changfeng ordered, he handed the menu to Jing Jue, who then gave it to Zhou Yu.
Zhou Yu said: "You don't even check, what if your favorite food is not available?"
Jing Jue said, “It’s lit.”
Zhou Yu ordered two more dishes and passed the menu to Yue Fanglin. Yue Fanglin glanced at it and said, "I told you not to save money for me. This is not enough for four grown men."
He added a few more words with a pen and said to the waiter, "Double the servings for everything."
"Too much to eat." Lu Changfeng said, "Money doesn't come from the wind."
Yue Fanglin: "I didn't ask you to pay. Just eat as much as you want and then go back home and run 10 kilometers at night, and you'll digest it."
He told the waiter, "Do as I say."
The waiter smiled at them politely and said, "Okay sir, wait a moment and your food will be served."
After the waiter left, there were only four of them in the private room.
Zhou Yu's cell phone rang, and he said to the others, "You guys chat first, it's my wife's phone, I think there's something going on, I'll go answer it."
"Go ahead."
Soon Zhou Yu came back.
Yue Fanglin asked with concern: "Is there anything wrong with Xiao Zhou's family?"
Zhou Yu said: "It's okay, my wife said I can take the kids to stay at grandma's house tonight and go home tomorrow."
"Xiao Zhou already has a child at such a young age."
Zhou Yu hummed, "I have known my wife since childhood and have a good relationship with her. We got married right after graduating from college and had children early."
"How old is the child?" Lu Changfeng asked.
Zhou Yu said, "More than three years old."
Speaking of this question, Yue Fanglin realized that Lu Changfeng was not young anymore. "Changfeng, do you have a partner?"
Lu Changfeng shook his head: "No, I'm still single."
The corners of Jing Jue's lips rose slightly.
Zhou Yu was a little surprised: "Captain Lu is still single? You are so handsome and you are still single?"
"There are quite a lot of people who like me." Lu Changfeng admitted openly that he was indeed handsome since he was a child. He was the most handsome guy on campus when he was in school, and he was also the most handsome guy when he worked in the Municipal Bureau. He was recognized as a handsome guy. "Criminal investigation often requires non-stop work. Sometimes I am so busy that I don't even have time to sleep. How can I have so much time to spend with my partner? Relationships require the joint efforts of two people to maintain. It is not respectful to use the spare time I squeeze out to date a girl, so it is better not to date her in the first place."
Yue Fanglin took a sip of tea and agreed with Lu Changfeng's words. "What you said does make some sense. When you are busy with work, you really can't take care of your family. It's the same with my ex-wife. After a long time, our feelings faded and we divorced."
"How many children does Captain Yue have?" Lu Changfeng asked.
Yue Fanglin said: "Two, the older one is a daughter and the younger one is a son. They will take the college entrance examination next year."
Lu Changfeng counted ahead and said, "Then you got married very early."
Yue Fanglin nodded: "In our era, it was not common to get married in your early twenties. If you were not married after twenty-five, people would suspect that there was something wrong with you."
Lu Changfeng smiled.
Yue Fanglin looked at Jing Jue who was standing beside him, "Xiao Jing, are you in a relationship? Do you have a girlfriend?"
Lu Changfeng also looked at Jing Jue with a smile, and Jing Jue felt inexplicably uncomfortable.
Lu Changfeng knew exactly what he was thinking, but still came to see what he was doing.
Jing Jue said: "There is someone I like, who is much older than me."
"How much bigger?" Yue Fanglin started chatting with them before the dishes were served. It was better to have a topic to talk about than just sitting there doing nothing.
"Twelve."
Yue Fanglin did the math, "The other person is thirty-five years old. It's said that a woman three years older than you is rich. You've got four."
Zhou Yu chuckled, then felt something was wrong and immediately looked at Jing Jue, "I don't mean to laugh at you, I just think Captain Yue's words are very interesting."
Jing Jue shook his head. "It's okay. The age difference is indeed quite big."
"As long as you really like it, age doesn't matter."
But if he is really twelve years older, I am afraid that people will look down on Jing Jue, who is so young, and think he is unreliable.
Yue Fanglin didn't dare to continue the conversation. He also had a daughter, and if his daughter was liked by someone twelve years younger than her, he, as a father, would also be worried.
One can imagine the situation Jing Jue is facing.
Zhou Yu: "The age difference is not a problem, but it's too big. I'm afraid there will be a generation gap when we get along with each other."
Lu Changfeng nodded in agreement: "People in their teens and twenties, and people in their twenties and thirties, think about things from different perspectives. At my age, I'm no longer passionate, and I just want to go with the flow."
Jing Jue just nodded silently.
Age is indeed an insurmountable gap between him and Lu Changfeng. Lu Changfeng will not always be 35 years old. Every year he gets older, Lu Changfeng will also get one year older.
After finishing the meal, it was already 9:30 in the evening.
Yue Fanglin asked: "Where do you two live? I'll take you back."
Zhou Yu said: "Let's send one to each person, so that everyone can go to bed early."
Yue Fanglin thought it was okay.
Lu Changfeng glanced at Jing Jue and said, "No need to see me off. Jing Jue and I haven't seen each other for a long time. We have a lot to talk about. It's getting late. You should go back and rest early. We can just take a taxi."
Jing Jue also nodded immediately.
Now that the matter was made clear, and both of them knew that they had known each other before and that their relationship was unusual, they stopped worrying about it.
"Okay then, when you get home, send us a message in the group to let us know you're safe."
Lu Changfeng smiled and said, "It's not like the two old men will get lost."
Yue Fanglin smiled.
After watching the two of them leave one after another, Lu Changfeng asked Jing Jue: "Where do you live?"
Jing Jue: "I live at my friend's house."
"Don't you have an address for your friend's house?"
Jing Jue told him an address, and Lu Changfeng searched it on the navigation. It was six kilometers away from where they were having dinner, and ten kilometers to the police station.
I looked around and saw a cafe nearby.
He pointed to the coffee shop and said, "Go sit over there for a while. I'll buy you a cup of coffee and we can chat."
Jing Jue hummed.
Lu Changfeng looked at him and saw how cowardly he was now. He didn't know why he was so energetic and bold in the morning and dared to kiss him in the bathroom.
"What do you want to drink?" Lu Changfeng asked him.
Jing Jue said, "Whatever."
Lu Changfeng ordered two cups of lattes, with less coffee content, so as not to have trouble sleeping at night.
"Where have you been in the past few years? What have you done? You have returned all the living expenses I gave you. How do you support yourself? And why did you come to the Serious Crime Unit 9? You should give me an explanation for all these."
Jing Jue looked at Lu Changfeng, unable to hide the emotion in his eyes, "Telecom fraud has been very serious in Southeast Asia in recent years, and I was sent undercover."
Lu Changfeng had seen news reports that China and Cambodia worked together to destroy several online fraud parks.
"After I left your house, I used the compensation money from my parents. Later, I worked part-time at school, applied for scholarships, and did odd jobs outside during holidays. It was enough to cover my daily expenses."
He looked at Lu Changfeng and said seriously, "When I was undercover in the fraud park, I almost died. At that time, I thought that if I could return to China alive, I must stay by your side. Even if you don't like me, even if you don't accept me, as long as I stay by your side, like when we were little, I can see you anytime, and I will be satisfied."
The waiter brought their coffee.
Lu Changfeng took a sip. He didn’t know how to respond to Jing Jue’s confession.
Looking at the vehicles coming and going on the road, Lu Changfeng calmed down and said to Jing Jue: "Jue Jue, your feelings for me may not necessarily be love, but dependence on me. I helped you when you needed it most, and this emotion made you mistakenly think that you liked me."
"Lu Changfeng!" Jing Jue interrupted him harshly, "At 18, I may not have been able to tell my feelings for you, but now I'm 23. We've been apart for five years. I've been through a lot in these five years. I've tried not to think about you or like you anymore, but I tried but I couldn't. You're the one I think about the rest of my life. Before I went undercover, I passed by Chuncheng and my only thought was to see you. I was afraid I'd never see you again."
"I know very well that my feelings towards you are love, not dependence. You are not the only one who treats me well, and you are not the only male around me. I have classmates who are very close to me. I would not even look at them twice when we take a shower together. I have never thought of kissing them, nor have I ever thought of having sex with them, but I want to kiss you and have sex with you."
"When I was in puberty, I knew I didn't like girls. When my classmates got together to watch movies, I didn't feel anything. I didn't have sexual impulses towards girls. But I have feelings for you. When they were discussing girls, I was thinking about you."
Lu Changfeng was very surprised. He didn't know this before. "Did my behavior cause you to misunderstand?"
Jing Jue shook his head, "No, I like men. If it wasn't you, it would be someone else. It's just because you're so good to me. No man I can meet in my world can treat me as well as you do. It's not entirely because you're good to me, but you're a very good person. I can't skip someone as outstanding as you and like someone else. If nothing happened to my family, and you didn't become my guardian, and didn't take me home and take care of me meticulously, and I grew up normally, I would also find that I like men, but the person I end up falling in love with is not you."
"There aren't that many ifs in this world. Assumptions are meaningless. I live with you and I love you. This is something that cannot be changed."
He has grown up and is no longer the Jing Jue who could only hide by yelling when Lu Changfeng discovered his secrets.
Now he can sit down with Lu Changfeng and discuss these topics calmly.
"Actually, I thought about it. I thought that after we met today, I would tell you, Lu Changfeng, I don't like you anymore. But the moment I saw you again, everything I thought before became a bubble."
Jing Jue paused, his heart beating noticeably, his Adam's apple rolling, and he said very seriously: "Lu Changfeng, I still like you."
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