Chen Yanli ignored Meng Shuchi's greeting and looked directly at her muddy right leg. The corner of his eyes trembled slightly and he asked in a hoarse voice, "Are you hurt?"
His voice was full of concern, and anyone with a discerning eye could tell that the two of them were very familiar with each other.
Meng Shuchi didn't expect that Chen Yanli actually knew this girl. A hint of surprise flashed across his face. He subconsciously thought that the girl was from their compound, but why didn't he know that there was such a beautiful girl in their compound before?
Zhou Yunwan slowly came back to her senses after hearing this and gave him a faint smile: "It's okay, it doesn't hurt too much."
But her eyes would occasionally fall on the girl who came with him. She was wearing a gray coat, black pencil pants, had neat short hair, and wore black-framed glasses. She had an elegant and generous temperament, and it could be seen at a glance that she was an educated woman.
It seemed that she was the one who was talking to Shen Yanli in the corner just now.
Hearing her answer, Shen Yanli's eyes became even colder, and he turned to look at Meng Shuchi who was shrinking his head to the side, his breathing stagnant, as if he was holding back again and again: "How do you ride a bike? How can you hit someone on such a wide road?"
“I came to help my mother with soy sauce. When I was about to go back, I didn’t look at the road carefully, so I was careless…” Meng Shuchi lowered his head, and his voice became smaller and smaller as he explained himself, and he became less and less confident, like a little brat who had made a mistake and was being trained. He was very afraid of Shen Yanli.
Later, Zhou Yunwan found out that the Meng family was right behind the Shen family, which was the family she saw raising a Chinese native dog yesterday. The two families were separated by just one street and had a very good relationship, and were considered a prominent family.
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Chen Yanli received a military education since childhood, with balanced development in physical, intellectual, moral, aesthetic and labor aspects. He was what his parents called the "other people's children". His peers could neither learn nor beat him.
In addition, almost everyone has a sense of admiration for the strong when they were young. Various psychological factors such as respect, admiration, envy, and fear are intertwined, which makes Meng Shuchi and other peers in the compound basically grow up following the ass of the older brother Shen Yanli.
When their elder brother gave them a lecture, they naturally had no choice but to accept the punishment.
That being said, this was the first time Zhou Yunwan saw Shen Yanli's emotions so exposed, and she couldn't help but look at him again and again. After a while, her peach blossom eyes curled up, and she kindly spoke to help smooth things over: "It's not all his fault, I am also responsible."
Seeing her speaking for Meng Shuchi, Shen Yanli's dark eyes became deep, his brows slowly knitted into a "川" shape, his gaze lingered on her face, not knowing what he wanted to see from her face.
Zhou Yunwan looked him straight in the eye, blinked her watery eyes, and added softly, "I was in a hurry to find you after leaving the mall, so I didn't notice him on the side of the road. I would feel bad if you scolded him alone, how about you scold me too?"
Shen Yanli choked slightly when she heard this. How could she tell from his words that he was cursing?
After a moment of silence, he pulled down the corner of his mouth and said in a deep voice: "I didn't scold him."
Zhou Yunwan pursed her lips and said sternly, "Then why are you so fierce?"
“…” Shen Yanli didn’t know what to say.
Seeing that his expression had eased, Meng Shuchi, who was standing by, immediately followed the steps Zhou Yunwan had given him and said righteously, "Brother, I promise to watch my way carefully in the future and never let this happen again."
"But how did you two know each other?"
After this was said, the girl next to him who had been silent all this time also asked curiously: "Yeah, I don't think I've seen it before."
Li Jinning maintained a perfect smile on her face, and her gentle tone did not make her sudden interruption seem so abrupt.
She was a colleague of Shen Yanli's research institute and also a college classmate. She had been secretly in love with him for as many years as they had known each other. Some time ago, she learned that he had left Jing City because of his father's affairs, but she didn't know that he had returned.
She didn't expect to run into him when she went out for a stroll. It was such a surprise that she ran over to say hello to him and chatted with him for a while.
Because I knew he didn't like to have too much private contact with his colleagues, I specifically picked some work-related issues, such as when he would return to the institute and the progress of his research. However, I didn't expect that after just a few words, I saw a small accident happening here.
The circle was so small, and she also knew Meng Shuchi, and knew that he was familiar with Chen Yanli, so she told this to Chen Yanli, who was in the blind spot of her vision, and he left her behind and rushed over in a hurry.
After following him, she realized that he was not worried about Meng Shuchi, but the girl who had a conflict with Meng Shuchi.
The girl was very pretty, but she looked young, probably about the same age as Meng Shuchi. The alarm bells in his heart finally relaxed.
After all, in her heart, Shen Yanli should like intelligent and mature women, like her, rather than the delicate little girl in front of her who only knows how to act coquettishly to attract attention.
However, looking at Shen Yanli's nervous reaction, she guessed that the other party should be one of his relatives, or a very close one.
Zhou Yunwan glanced at Li Jinning. Because of a woman's accurate sixth sense and the inexplicable hostility she showed when she first saw her, she could basically determine that she was a little peach blossom around Chen Yanli.
Excellent people, regardless of gender, will definitely have no shortage of suitors around them. As long as the person herself does not treat the peach blossoms specially, she will not care about them particularly, nor will she take the other party to heart, let alone regard the other party as an imaginary enemy.
What she wanted was to possess Chen Yanli, not to kill off the women around him one by one and then possess him. This was too tiring and boring.
Her thoughts turned back, and she stared at Shen Yanli's dark eyes intently, secretly expecting something in her heart, wanting to hear how he would introduce her in front of acquaintances, would he still say that she was his sister like last time?
Not long after, Shen Yanli’s deep voice was heard: “She is my sister… Zhou Yunwan, the daughter of my father’s comrade-in-arms, and she will live in my house from now on.”
That’s it? Zhou Yunwan was not very satisfied with this answer.
In her heart, such an official answer is not as good as her younger sister. At least her younger sister seems closer. But there is nothing wrong with introducing her like this in front of outsiders, it's just that it's inevitable that it will be a little unfamiliar.
The other two were slightly shocked. They actually knew about Zhou Yunwan's existence. After all, Chen Yanli left Beijing for so many days, it could be said that it was just for her, and he even brought her back for the first time.
Almost everyone has been talking about this these days, but they didn't expect to meet him in person so soon.
The atmosphere was strangely silent for a while. Zhou Yunwan took a deep breath and took the lead in breaking the deadlock: "Hello, I'm Zhou Yunwan. I hope you can give me your guidance in the future."
“Hello, I’m Li Jinning, a colleague of Comrade Shen.”
"I've introduced myself just now. My name is Meng Shuchi. I live behind my second brother's house. It can be said that we met in advance by chance."
After a few brief words, Li Jinning said goodbye to them, and Meng Shuchi went back with them since they were going the same way, and his bicycle could also be used to store some things.
The two young people of similar age seemed to have endless things to talk about, especially Meng Shuchi, who had a good impression of Zhou Yunwan. He kept finding topics to chat with her, and when they talked about common interests, he was so excited that he almost jumped up and down on the spot.
As time went on, the quiet Shen Yanli seemed to be excluded by the two.
Chen Yanli walked alone on the outside, Meng Shuchi was pushing a bicycle in the middle, and Zhou Yunwan was walking on the innermost side.
Shen Yanli looked straight ahead, his face indifferent, but his slightly furrowed brows still revealed his unhappy mood at the moment, and his mind kept replaying his previous answer.
He originally wanted to say "sister", but for some reason he changed his words at the last minute, as if at that moment he had forgotten the pronunciation of the word "sister". He had no choice but to change his words.
The noise in his ears continued. He glanced sideways and saw two youthful smiling faces.
His frown deepened.
For the first time, he felt that Meng Shuchi's face was annoying.
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