Chapter 816: Is he not worthy of trust?
On the way back in the car, Lu Yuanqiu took out his cell phone and sent three words to Liu Chengye.
『Lu Yuanqiu』: Lin Ping'an.
After waiting for a while and seeing no response, Lu Yuanqiu put the phone in his pocket. He didn't expect Liu Chengye to respond.
"I have to stay in Lucheng these days, so I won't go to Zhucheng with you." Bai Songzhe said in the back seat.
This was the first time that Lu Yuanqiu and Bai Qingxia were in the same car, but they did not sit together. Instead, Bai Qingxia and Bai Songzhe were in the back seat, and Lu Yuanqiu was alone in the passenger seat.
Bai Qingxia: "Aunt Zhang isn't going either, right?"
"I didn't ask that," Bai Songzhe responded, and after a moment he said, "She shouldn't be going, right?"
Lu Yuanqiu blinked quietly, Bai Qingxia blinked quietly, and Bai Songzhe looked at the two of them with a strange expression.
He asked himself and answered: "She definitely won't go."
Lu Yuanqiu smiled and said, "So Uncle Bai, you knew that Aunt Zhang was interested in you."
Bai Songzhe sighed and turned to look out the window: "At my age, I can be her father... If Ruo An were still alive, I might be a grandfather."
Bai Qingxia let out a light breath and turned to look at her father.
But forget about grandpa, I don’t want to be a grandfather so early... Bai Songzhe glanced at his daughter and added silently in his heart.
“Ding ding ding.”
Lu Yuanqiu's phone rang, and he saw that it was Ruan Yueru who tagged someone in the group chat.
Ruan Yueru: The most unhappy Mid-Autumn Festival! So boring! What are you doing? @Lu Yuanqiu @Bai Qingxia @Cao Shuang
Lu Yuanqiu sighed: "Well, if you want to ask, just ask. Why do you have to bring us two along?"
Bai Qingxia looked at her phone and smiled. Lu Yuanqiu responded in the group for her and himself, but Cao Shuang didn't say anything.
Lu Yuanqiu sent a private message to Cao Shuang to demand an explanation.
Cao Shuang then responded in the group chat. Ruan Yueru responded to the message quickly, but Cao Shuang's response was not as active as before. It was not known whether he was busy or depressed about the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Logically speaking, Cao Shuang shouldn't be so stingy.
Seeing that Ruan Yueru was almost performing a solo in the group, Lu Yuanqiu couldn't help but send a private message to Cao Shuang to ask about the situation. Ruan Yueru obviously wanted to chat with Cao Shuang in the group chat, but she chose to do so in the group chat instead of private messaging. The atmosphere of the private chat between the two must be different from before.
Cao Shuang’s reply left Lu Yuanqiu stunned.
『Cao Shuang』: The reason her mother didn’t let Ruan Yueru come to my house during the Mid-Autumn Festival was because she knew that I used to hang out with people from society and often got into fights with them.
『Cao Shuang』: Brother Qiu, with this kind of experience, doesn’t it mean you are not worthy of being trusted?
『Lu Dasheng』: You did it for your mother.
"Cao Shuang": But I was too embarrassed to even use my mother's affairs as an excuse to tell her. I was afraid that her mother would dislike my family situation even more after knowing it.
『Lu Dasheng』: How did her mother know about this?
『Cao Shuang』: I don’t know. Her mother called me alone and told me to stay away from Ruan Yueru, just like in the TV series. Of course, she didn’t say it so directly, but it was pretty much the same meaning. Ruan Yueru probably doesn’t know about this yet.
Lu Yuanqiu bit his fist. Seeing Bai Qingxia looking over from the back seat, he said, "One of the two couples you're currently rooting for has gotten into big trouble."
Bai Qingxia took the phone.
She looked up: "Could it be Li Bowen who said that?"
Lu Yuanqiu: "That's possible, but it's also possible that her mother found out about it herself. After all, Cao Shuang was quite famous in school."
Bai Qingxia shook her head: "I don't know what to do, what about you?"
Lu Yuanqiu sighed. He actually had no energy to get involved in other things recently. He already had a lot of things on his plate. The Xia Yiwan Noodles at the branch office was about to go into production, and there was new progress on the car accident.
The most important thing is that Cao Shuang’s situation is indeed difficult to solve. He chose to mingle with people in society in order to take care of his mother. This decision was wrong.
But Cao Shuang, who was still a child at the time, had no power to choose. He had to let himself become bad so that he could take care of the whole family. If he didn't let himself become bad, he could only choose to live the hard life that Bai Qingxia had lived, and with Cao Shuang's character, he could not persist.
In the bedroom, Ruan Yueru, who was sitting at the table, saw that the entire interface of the group chat was gradually filled with her speech. Cao Shuang had no response. Her typing fingers paused, and she silently deleted the content in the dialog box and put the phone aside.
"Sister, it's not barking anymore."
The cute little brother ran over holding a toy gun. Ruan Yueru turned her head to help him fiddle with it, and the toy gun started buzzing again. The little brother ran away happily, but Ruan Yueru still had no expression on her face. She tucked her long hair behind her ears and rubbed her face with her hands.
"Knock knock knock." There was a knock on the door from behind.
Ruan Yueru turned around and saw that it was her father, and a smile appeared on her face.
A man in a white shirt walked in and said with a smile, "Whose girl is this? She's getting more and more beautiful."
Ruan Yueru said in a gloomy tone: "What's the matter?"
Ruan's father sat next to them and chatted about some insignificant things until Ruan Yueru couldn't stand it anymore and asked her father, "What do you want to say?"
"Uh." Father Ruan smiled, took a deep breath, and seemed to hesitate. He said, "Dad heard something recently. It's about your friend named Cao Shuang. He seems to... He used to like hanging out with punks. Did you know that?"
Ruan Yueru was stunned for a moment. She immediately turned around and looked outside the door. Sure enough, she saw her mother sitting in the living room glancing over here.
"Did you say anything to him?!" Ruan Yueru frowned.
Father Ruan was stunned. He didn't expect his daughter to be so smart.
Ruan Yueru was not smart. She just didn't believe that Cao Shuang would suddenly become cold to her for no reason. It was absolutely impossible just because of a Mid-Autumn Festival.
Brother Shuang will not be like this. Brother Shuang will always be enthusiastic towards his friends.
Father Ruan didn't know how to respond, so he turned and glanced at his wife. Seeing this, Ruan Yueru got angry and asked again, "Is that so?!"
A faint response came from the living room: "Yes."
Ruan's mother sat on the sofa and responded, "You still want to follow him to such a faraway place to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival? Are you really confident? No matter how brave you are, you are still a girl. Do you know that you are a girl?"
Ruan Yueru was anxious and stood up: "His mother is seriously ill, and he has had to take care of her since he was a child. What can he do?"
Mother Ruan: "This has nothing to do with us, and it has nothing to do with you either. Let's contact each other less in the future."
Ruan's father didn't want to make things so difficult for his daughter. Seeing Ruan Yueru's anxious look, he said with some heartache: "Mom and Dad care about you too. Dad sympathizes with his experience, but he can't empathize with you. We only care about your safety. Besides, your mother has said everything. It probably won't be easy for you two to reconcile. How about we stop contacting each other for a while?"
"You and Bowen have a good relationship, don't you two hang out together often?"
Ruan Yueru responded loudly: "I don't want it!"
Father Ruan was somewhat helpless: "Why? You and Bowen have known each other since childhood."
Ruan Yueru turned her head away, thinking about what happened at Lujiajiao that day, thinking about the noodles Cao Shuang made for her at the Polytechnic Institute, and thinking about her mother going to Cao Shuang to talk about these things. She felt a tightness in her chest. She knew that Cao Shuang must be very sad. Thinking of this, she suddenly felt very sad too.
Looking at the group chat where she was the only one performing a solo show.
"because……"
Ruan Yueru was breathing heavily.
"I like Cao Shuang."
After she said this, she clenched her fists sadly and two lines of tears flowed from her eyes.
(End of this chapter)
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