Chapter 60: Zhou Xun Extra (Part 2)
In the end, Zhou Xun followed Lu Sheng back home.
"Why did you take me in?"
He still asked. Lu Sheng was going upstairs. Hearing his words, he stopped and turned to look at him for a while.
Suddenly he came down jumping, took a bottle of mineral water from the refrigerator, half leaned on the sofa, and crossed his legs.
"Want to hear the truth?"
Zhou Xun looked at her without saying anything. Lu Sheng clicked his tongue twice, took a sip of mineral water, and said with a smile:
"Your sweetheart, Xia Beibei, asked me to help her. She wanted to take you back, but then she decided that was not right, so she asked me to keep you for a while."
Zhou Xun didn't understand, "You two probably don't have much friendship, and we don't know each other very well. Did she ask you to take her in and you agreed?"
Lu Sheng gulped down half a bottle of water and cheerfully corrected the mistakes in his words.
"She just asked for my advice on how to take care of you. I said you need a professional doctor by your side. Well, actually, it was me who recommended myself. She just thought it was feasible. As for you and me..."
She raised her eyes to glance at Zhou Xun, and seeing him looking at her defensively, she couldn't help but smile:
"Don't worry, I won't eat you. Your Xia Beibei said that she will take care of your food, drink, and toilet. She will pay on time every month. I am your landlord, so you don't have to be so reserved."
Zhou Xun knew that her words were half true and half false, but Lu Sheng did not give him the opportunity to continue asking. She had already stood up from the sofa and walked upstairs. Before going upstairs, she suddenly remembered something and turned back to say:
"Handsome guy, please don't tell Xia Beibei about this. I promised her to keep it a secret. But if you really care about her money, I won't come down until tomorrow night. You can run away during this time and I'll pretend I didn't see anything."
After saying that, she turned around and ran upstairs, quickly disappearing from Zhou Xun's sight. Zhou Xun stood there in a daze for a long time. He felt that she acted strangely and it was always difficult for people to follow her train of thought, but he understood the last sentence.
She was giving him a choice. If he wanted to leave, he could leave now, avoid Beibei and the others, and disappear without a trace...
Thinking of Xia Beibei, Zhou Xun always felt heavy-hearted, his chest felt uncomfortable, his handsome face was full of decadence and despair. While he was daydreaming, a few pieces of paper fell on his head.
Zhou Xun looked up in a daze, and saw Lu Sheng lying on the stair railing with his cheek in his hand.
"If you don't want to run, you can order these takeout orders. I pay each store monthly. You can just call and say my name."
Zhou Xun mechanically shifted his gaze to the takeout order on the ground, damn! There must be at least a dozen of them, and each one gets paid monthly? This woman lives on these takeouts?
Zhou Xun finally settled down at Lu Sheng's house because he really had nowhere to go, and secretly, he didn't want to be too far away from Bei Bei.
After a few days together, the two got along quite harmoniously, except for their habitual bickering every day and the takeout that they were almost sick of.
He was really bored today, so he opened his Moments at noon and casually posted "I want to eat dumplings".
As a result, at five o'clock in the afternoon, adoptive mother Xia Yuan brought two large boxes of dumplings. Not long after, Gao Bochuan also came and left four large boxes of dumplings.
After Zhou Xun deleted his circle of friends, he put the dumplings in the kitchen and lay in the living room waiting for Lu Sheng to come back. About half an hour later, the doorbell rang and he got up to open the door.
"you……"
He stood at the door, dumbfounded. Lu Sheng was soaked, with two obvious slap marks on his face, and his shoes were gone. He looked disheveled and miserable.
It was late at night, the wind was biting cold and she was shivering with cold. Zhou Xun didn't have time to ask more questions and quickly pulled her into the house.
Lu Sheng's eyes were empty. The air conditioner in the room made her a little warmer. She grabbed Zhou Xun who was trying to get a towel, and her teeth were chattering.
"I...I'm going to take a shower. Don't let anyone come...don't open the door...don't open the door."
After she finished speaking, she walked upstairs with her arms folded. Zhou Xun looked at her overly embarrassed back and realized for the first time that someone as strong as Lu Sheng also had such a fragile side.
What happened to her?
Only three minutes later, someone came knocking on the door. The doorbell continued to ring for a long time with no sign of stopping. Soon, faint crackling sounds of banging could be heard from upstairs.
Zhou Xun waited for nearly ten minutes, the doorbell was still ringing, and the noise upstairs was getting louder and louder. After thinking about it, he took the key and opened the door.
The person who came was a middle-aged man who had been waiting impatiently. When he saw the door finally opened, he subconsciously walked in. Zhou Xun stopped him with one foot, pushed him away, and then locked the door with a slam.
As the two looked at each other, the contempt and disdain on the middle-aged man's face were obvious, "Are you Ah Sheng's new boyfriend?"
New boyfriend?
Zhou Xun was stunned for a moment, but before he could answer, the man had already taken out a gold-stamped business card from his arms.
"I'll give you three days to leave Ah Sheng. Call me after three days to get the money you want. Also, tell Ah Sheng that she can't refuse this marriage!"
After the middle-aged man left, Zhou Xun waited in the living room for more than an hour. He reheated the dumplings twice and finally decided to go upstairs to take a look. He had just knocked on the door twice when he heard Lu Sheng's voice from inside.
"The door is unlocked"
Zhou Xun opened the door and walked in with dumplings in his hand. He was hit by a strong smell of tobacco. He frowned and walked further in. The floor was a mess. The stools and tables were all over the floor, and cosmetics were scattered all over the floor.
Finally, Zhou Xun found Lu Sheng at the end of the bed.
She had already taken a shower and was wearing pajamas. Her hair was scattered loosely behind her back, wet and with a few drops of water dripping down. She was sitting casually on the ground, holding a cigarette in her right hand, puffing away. Beside her were cigarette butts and ashes all over the floor.
Zhou Xun kicked the cigarette butt away, found a clean place next to her and sat down, holding a plate of dumplings and waving it in front of her, "Want to eat?"
Lu Sheng skillfully put out the cigarette butt, stared at the dumplings with his dark eyes for a while, and suddenly smiled at Zhou Xun:
"Don't try to ask about my private affairs with a plate of dumplings. I don't want to tell you what happened to me today."
Zhou Xun placed the dumplings on the floor between them, glanced at the obvious slap marks on her face, and said in a low voice, neither hurried nor slow, "Do I look like a gossiper?"
He handed her the chopsticks in his hand. Lu Sheng shook her head and took out a cigarette from the cigarette box on the ground.
"I'm angry and need cigarettes to suppress it. Otherwise, I'll go crazy and scare you to death. Eat first."
After she finished speaking, she already had the cigarette in her mouth, but the lighter just wouldn't light it. Her face gradually became ugly. Zhou Xun snatched the lighter from her hand and lit it in just two strokes.
Lu Sheng's irritable mood was quickly calmed down. He leaned his head over, and the scent of mint shampoo and lemon shower gel rushed straight into Zhou Xun's nostrils.
He subconsciously leaned back, but Lu Sheng didn't notice his movement. After lighting the fire, he took a deep puff. In the smoke, Zhou Xun picked up the towel that she had casually placed on the ground and put it on her head.
"If you don't dry your hair quickly, you might catch a cold. I'm a patient and I can't take care of you."
Lu Sheng smiled and didn't move. He even pulled the towel down twice to cover his eyes. For a long time afterwards, neither of them spoke. Lu Sheng smoked and Zhou Xun ate dumplings.
Zhou Xun thought she wouldn't say anything, so he finished his dumplings and prepared to leave. But when he stood up, Lu Sheng suddenly said:
"Zhou Xun, can you be my boyfriend for just three days?"
The light in the room was a little dim.
Zhou Xun sat down again and turned his head to look at Lu Sheng. He saw that her slender shoulders were slightly hunched, her cigarette had been extinguished, her head was buried in her knees, a towel covered the side of her face, and only her white and slender neck was vaguely visible.
He didn't answer her question, but just said: "The man just now looks a lot like you, is he your father?"
Lu Sheng turned her head and the towel slipped off her head. She stared at him and smiled coquettishly, "He's not a dad, he's just a biological father who provided the tadpoles."
Zhou Xun's mouth twitched, and then he handed her the gold-embossed business card in his pocket.
"Your biological father asked me, your new boyfriend, to leave you within three days. I can name any price. I think it's very tempting. I happen to be short of money."
Lu Sheng reached out to take the business card, without even looking at it, and tore it into pieces. Yes, he tore it into pieces, very pieces, and in the end not even a complete word could be found. Mixed in the ashes, it seemed as if the business card had never existed.
Zhou Xun looked at the gritting teeth on her face and was surprised without showing any expression. Lu Sheng looked at the fragments in the ashes, exhaled, reached out and patted Zhou Xun on the shoulder, and said with a smile:
"Okay, I feel relieved. Don't be discouraged. He will come back to you if he loses his business card. He may give you a check then. Don't be polite. Just fill in the largest amount."
Zhou Xun couldn't follow her train of thought and was a little speechless. He went downstairs and got a bowl of dumplings from the microwave. This time Lu Sheng was not polite and didn't even use chopsticks. He just put the dumplings into his mouth with his hands and gobbled them up.
“It’s delicious. Where did you buy it?”
She ate more than a dozen cigarettes before she thought of this question. Zhou Xun was silent for a moment, picked up the half-pack of cigarettes from beside her, took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth.
"My mother and Gao Bochuan sent it."
Lu Sheng put down his chopsticks and stopped eating. He turned around and saw that he looked listless and seemed to be in a heavy mood, so he kicked him with his foot.
"Hey, you haven't answered my question yet, do you want to be my boyfriend?"
Zhou Xun turned his head and glanced at her, "Guess"
Lu Sheng sighed, put one arm on his shoulder, and said jokingly: "Okay, it's just a woman. You're embarrassing everyone. Gao Bochuan's dumplings must have been sent by Xia Beibei. I heard that they are getting married, but they haven't held the wedding yet."
"As an outsider, I know why. The more you act like this, the more guilty Xia Beibei will feel. She feels just as bad as you do. Since you like her so much, don't make her feel so bad."
Zhou Xun flicked the hot cigarette ash and said, “You don’t understand.” He also wanted to let it go, but human emotions were always so strange. The more he tried to let go, the more he felt constrained.
Lu Sheng paused with his hand on his shoulder, was silent for a moment, and ran to get two bottles of red wine.
"I don't understand your complicated stories, but if you want to compare your misery with mine, you definitely can't compare with me."
She handed the poured red wine to Zhou Xun, but Zhou Xun didn't take it. She didn't insist and drank it herself very quickly. After drinking two glasses of red wine in a row, her vision became a little vague.
"My biological father, who is worse than pigs and dogs, had a first love, but unfortunately the other person thought he was poor, so he ran off with a rich second-generation man after graduating from college. When my mother married him, he was extremely poor. My mother accompanied him all the way without any complaints and suffered a lot with him."
"After he became rich, that beast became arrogant. His first love came to him again, and he approached her like a dog. He kept her outside openly. Later, my mother was finally tortured to death by them. On the third day after the funeral, he brought his first love home."
Lu Sheng's eyes were fixed on the fragments on the ground. No hatred could be seen in his eyes. After taking a sip of red wine, he even wanted to laugh.
"You didn't see how badly I beat that couple. When they were sleeping, I went in with a rolling pin. I didn't turn on the light and hit them on the head. It was a pity. I should have used a knife at that time."
Zhou Xun had already put out his cigarette and was staring at her face, trying to capture her sadness and grief. However, she had a smile on her face, as if she was telling someone else's story, which he could not see through at all.
"How old were you?"
He didn't know what to say, so he just asked softly. Lu Sheng shook the goblet in his hand and sighed:
"He's thirteen now. Sigh, the more I think about it, the more regrettable it is. I should have used a knife at that time. Thirteen is not yet an adult, it's a good time to kill someone."
Zhou Xun couldn't help but slapped her on the forehead.
"You are really beautiful but you are actually a dangerous person. If Gao Bochuan heard this, he would probably lock you up for two days."
Lu Sheng chuckled, patted her face with her hands, and said with a bit of pride, "Yeah, I think I'm pretty too."
After saying this, he sighed with emotion and said casually:
"What a pity! Since ancient times, beautiful women have always had a tragic fate. A forty-year-old toad has fallen in love with a white swan like me. My biological father, who is worse than pigs and dogs, wants to marry me to him for the sake of his business. He is forcing me to die."
Zhou Xun was stunned, and suddenly remembered what the middle-aged man said, "Tell Ah Sheng that she cannot refuse this marriage!"
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