Chapter 102 Grandpa

Grandpa Gu told him about the child.

But Lu Ran thought about it carefully and said, "I can't remember clearly."

At this time, Shen Xingyu and several other young people came in.

Grandpa Gu glanced at Shen Xingyu and said, "Xingyu is here too."

He looked at the others behind Shen Xingyu and said, "It's lively with so many people, let's eat something."

No one of the young people present dared to refuse Grandpa Gu's invitation.

Regardless of whether they wanted to eat or not, they all sat down at the table and picked some desserts.

The only one who didn't eat was Ji Min.

Even Shen Xingyu took a small dessert.

Ji Min had just glanced at it casually, and when he saw the dessert in Shen Xingyu's hand, his eyes paused.

Shen Xingyu was holding a piece of lemon mousse in his hand.

"I can't tell that you like this flavor?" Ji Min said.

Shen Xingyu didn't answer, but just looked at Grandpa Gu intently.

Grandpa Gu sighed.

He looked at Lu Ran and said in a low voice:

"I feel sorry for your child, Ranran, but the affairs of the Shen family are too complicated. This time, our Gu family can't help much."

Hearing this, Lu Ran raised his eyebrows slightly.

He looked at Shen Xingyu, and thought of Shen Xingran's request to Gu Ningqi today, and he knew that Grandpa Gu would be wrong.

"Grandpa Gu, I came to you today not for the Shen family." Lu Ran said.

"Huh?" Grandpa Gu was stunned.

Shen Xingyu, who was standing by, was not surprised.

"And one more thing." Lu Ran did not avoid telling the others and directly corrected him, "My name is Lu Ran now."

This time, Grandpa Gu was really surprised:

"You haven't changed your surname yet? If your grandpa knew, he would be so angry that he would flip the coffin lid."

All the people present were young, and only Grandpa Gu dared to tease Grandpa Shen like this.

The others lowered their heads and said nothing, even if they wanted to laugh, they held it back.

Grandpa Gu ate something casually.

He turned back and wanted to talk to Lu Ran.

But after looking at the others present, he muttered again: "If I had known that you were not here for the Shen family's affairs, I would not have let these guys come."

Lu Ran: "..."

He thought it was Gu Ningqi who was doing something bad, but he didn't expect that it was Old Man Gu who didn't want to talk about the Shen family's affairs, and deliberately made the scene lively so that they, the Shen family members, would not find a chance to speak .

"Then you guys eat, Xiao Ran, come here and chat with this old man like me."

Old Man Gu stood up with his crutches and took Lu Ran back to the main hall.

When Lu Ran left, he subconsciously glanced at Ji Min.

Ji Min followed him.

Old Man Gu looked at the two of them and said nothing.

After leaving the restaurant, he said, "Yes, if you really want to make up for the loss of the Shen family, just go to Ji Min directly, and don't come to me, the old man."

When they arrived at the main hall, there was no one around except Gu Qing.

Old Man Gu asked,

"Then why did you come to me?"

Lu Ran pondered for a while.

After he returned to the Shen family in this life, the Shen family never talked about his past.

As a person who was lost as a child, Lu Ran subconsciously wanted to ask many things.

For example, why did he get lost

? What was he like when he was a child?

But after thinking carefully, he felt that it was meaningless.

And although Old Man Gu treated him very gently, he was not his grandfather after all.

Lu Ran thought for a moment and said, "I heard that my grandpa often brought me here when I was a child."

"I also received the photos you sent me, so I want to ask..."

"You want to ask what kind of person your grandpa is, right?" Grandpa Gu said.

Lu Ran was stunned for a moment and nodded.

Grandpa Gu sighed.

He looked at the child in front of him who had grown into a teenager, and felt a little distressed.

Children who are stranded outside are born without family affection.

After finally returning home, they found that their parents and brothers with blood are worse than strangers.

They said they were disappointed, and even their surnames were not changed.

But after seeing the photos of himself and the elders, he couldn't help but come to ask.

But the people in the photos have been buried long ago.

The child wanted to know what happened in the past, and after going around in circles, he could only ask for help from him, an elder from another family.

"Your grandfather and I started a business together when we were young. Your grandfather is my predecessor and also a very good friend."

Grandpa Gu paused, but still said, "But your grandfather is really a piece of shit."

Hearing this, Lu Ran did not react.

Gu Qing, who was standing aside, coughed a few times awkwardly, thinking that his grandfather had hurt the child's feelings.

How can you say such things about your elders in front of the younger generation?

If you want to say something, you have to say something nice!

As soon as he coughed, Grandpa Gu glared at him and said, "You can tell what kind of father I am by looking at what kind of son I am."

"Look at how stupid your son is, and you can tell that you, the father, are not very good."

Grandpa Gu pointed at Gu Qing and scolded him again.

Gu Qing was even more embarrassed.

This sentence of Grandpa Gu not only scolded him, but also obviously scolded Shen Hongyuan.

Lu Ran was surprised to hear it.

He thought it was quite interesting, and couldn't help but whispered in Ji Min's ear: "Grandpa Gu is really interesting. When he gets angry, he even scolds himself."

According to Grandpa Gu's theory, if Gu Ningqi fails, it's because Gu Qing is not good enough. If Gu Qing fails, it doesn't mean that Grandpa Gu is not good enough as a father.

Old Man Gu: “…”

“You seem to be fine, and you seem quite cheerful.”

Old Man Gu took a sip of tea, “Your father does things in an unkind way, but it’s inevitable with a father like that.”

“When your grandpa was young, it was okay. He worked very hard in business and was busy all the time. He built the Shen family’s foundation on his own.”

Old Man Gu looked at Ji Min again, “Your Ji family wanted to poach Old Shen at that time, but Old Shen was stubborn and refused to agree.”

After saying that, the old man looked between him and Lu Ran, and said with a smile,

“So… Xiao Ran never went to your Ji family to play when he was a child.”

Ji Min: “…”

There’s no need to specifically mention these.

After Mr. Gu made some jokes, he returned to the point: "It was fine when he was young, but when people get older, they are inevitably confused."

"At that time, the Shen family was on the rise, but your grandfather was old and had diabetes."

"He built the Shen family with his own hands, but when he was looking for a successor, he saw that your father was very dissatisfied."

"When your father was young, he also had his own ideas and impulses, but your grandfather couldn't stand it. He forced your father to follow the route he planned and raised him to be obedient."

"But when your father got married and was ready to take over, your grandfather felt that your father was too obedient and too incompetent."

"I don't know whether your father was pretending to be good or was really good at that time. He obeyed your grandfather in everything, and everyone who saw him had to praise him for his filial piety."

But Grandpa Shen always held the position of the top leader of the company and did not give up power until he was seventy years old.

Shen Hongyuan waited until his eldest son was in elementary school, but was still thrown to the grassroots by Grandpa Shen.

Grandpa Shen dragged it on for too long, and some tabloids outside have begun to report news about the heir of the Shen family.

The more rumors there were outside, the more Shen Hongyuan wanted to do everything he could to please his father.

He was just waiting for Grandpa Shen to make the decision to give him the position.

But the more he did this, the more Grandpa Shen disliked him.

Until one time, Grandpa Shen was on a business trip and his blood sugar fluctuated too much and he was hospitalized in shock.

Because of complications from diabetes, he was almost blind.

When Mr. Shen was hospitalized, everyone in the Shen family was in a panic.

But Shen Hongyuan finally got his chance.

He might have been holding it in for too long, so he was a little embarrassed. He

immediately convened a board meeting.

Mr. Shen was not dead yet, so he moved directly into the chairman's office of Shen's.

Everything seemed to be on the right track.

But before Shen Hongyuan could get comfortable, Mr. Shen was discharged from the hospital.

At the age of nearly 70, the old man underwent eye surgery at great risk.

He took his assistant into the chairman's office with the gauze on his eyes still on, and asked someone to throw out all of Shen Hongyuan's things.

The scene of the fight between father and son was very noisy.

Shen Hongyuan suddenly became the laughing stock of the entire Shen family.

During that time, several cousins ​​of Shen Hongyuan showed up and showed their courtesy in front of the old man.

They were just waiting for the chance that they would be valued and rise to the top.

But old man Shen did not choose anyone.

He suddenly seemed to understand the importance of practicing the trumpet, and directly took his grandson to raise him.

This was like giving Shen Hongyuan another slap in the face.

"When a father is old, he probably doesn't like his son."

Old man Gu glanced at Gu Qing again.

He added, "But your grandpa really has a problem. I think your eldest brother Xingyu is a good guy. He is responsible, capable, quick to learn, and his age is suitable. If he is raised for another ten years, he will be able to take the position."

"But your grandpa was still not satisfied. He said that the child was older and had inherited your father's bad habits."

"He then looked for your second brother, but felt that your second brother was too noisy and naughty."

Grandpa Gu clicked his tongue twice, and he was almost telling Grandpa Shen how difficult things were.

But he was silent for a moment, and suddenly sighed:

"When you get old, you watch yourself go from being able to do everything to being powerless, and finally have to rely on others for even the most basic life. It's natural that you feel bad."

"Your grandpa is picky, but it's also because he can't accept the fact that he is old."

"Later..."

Old Man Gu looked up at Lu Ran, "your grandpa took a fancy to you because you are the youngest and your personality is not yet formed."

"This old guy, he doesn't look for an heir, he clearly wants to create another himself."

"Your grandpa took you in when you were two years old. Your mother seemed to have made a scene at that time, but she couldn't defeat your grandpa."

Hearing this, Lu Ran was a little surprised.

Grandpa Gu said he was tired, and Gu Qing helped him get up and walked for a while before he looked at Lu Ran and said with a smile,

"Later, I guess you were too clingy when you were a kid, so your grandpa became much quieter now that there was a baby by his side."

People like to talk about the past when they get older.

Grandpa Gu said he was addicted, and he dragged Lu Ran to talk about a lot of interesting things from his childhood. It was not

until lunch time that Gu Zhi ran in:

"Dad, are you still chatting? What time is it now? Aren't you hungry?"

"Who is like you, thinking about eating all day long!"

Grandpa Gu said angrily.

As he said that, he glanced at Gu Zhi, and then looked at Ji Min who was sitting quietly beside him.

Suddenly, he approached Lu Ran and whispered, "Back then, your grandfather and I had an engagement between our two families."

"But then you got lost, and Ning Qi was a fool, so I thought it would be okay to find someone with more brains to mediate, so I agreed to let him get in touch with Ran Ran."

"Now..." Grandpa Gu lowered his voice again, "I think you don't like Ning Qi either, but Gu Zhi's age is quite suitable, and you also liked to play around him when you were a child, so you can consider it."

Grandpa Gu was trying hard to sell.

Ji Min, who had been sitting quietly on the side, suddenly said: "Grandpa, it's noon, we won't bother you anymore."

"What are you in a hurry for?" Grandpa Gu smiled and glanced at Ji Min.

"Grandpa Gu, but I don't like Uncle Gu."

Lu Ran suddenly said.

Grandpa Gu was stunned, and then laughed: "You young people are really interesting now."

Later, Grandpa Gu kept the two of them for lunch.

When they couldn't stand the sleepiness any longer in the afternoon, they let Lu Ran and Ji Min leave.

It had just rained a little two days ago, and the weather was still gloomy today.

Lu Ran and Ji Min walked out of Gu's house together.

Other people who were invited today were also leaving one after another.

There was a lot of noise all around.

However, Lu Ran and Ji Min didn't say anything.

Lu Ran was still digesting what Grandpa Gu had just said.

Before coming here, when he saw those photos, Lu Ran had also wondered if his grandpa would love him very much.

Now, after listening to Grandpa Gu's description of Grandpa Shen, Lu Ran couldn't tell what he felt.

Grandpa Shen is such a "tyrant" with a strong desire for control that he doesn't even trust his own son. Obviously, his purpose of taking him in as a child was not simple.

It's hard to say that he was disappointed.

Lu Ran even thought that this was more normal.

In a family like the Shen family, if there was a grandfather who loved him very much and doted on him very much.

It didn't seem possible.

Lu Ran was thinking.

Ji Min suddenly said: "What Grandpa Gu said was just his own judgment. He is old and may have remembered it wrong."

Lu Ran was stunned.

He leaned on the back of the wheelchair, bent forward to look into the man's eyes, and asked with a smile:

"Boss, are you comforting me?"

Ji Min choked.

"Go your way well." He said.

Lu Ran lay on the back of Ji Min's chair without moving.

Suddenly he reached out to touch Ji Min's hair.

Ji Min grabbed his hand and sighed: "Tell me, what did my head do to offend you? Why do you always want to take a picture of it?"

The boy didn't struggle when he grabbed his wrist. He

just said without any context: "Boss, you look like a little bear."

"..." Ji Min was silent for a while, and said, "Is this a new type of insult?"

Lu Ran: "..."

"It's the kind of little bear that is very nice to touch." He explained.

Ji Min: "..."

There was no way to connect that kind of thing with himself.

After leaving the Gu family's garden, it was quite lively outside.

A group of middle school students were on a spring outing and crowded in front of a small gift shop to choose gifts.

Shen Xingyu and others also came out.

Shen Xingyu glanced at Lu Ran from a distance, walked over and asked, "Aren't you going home together?"

Lu Ran was opening the car door to get in Ji Min's car, and he raised his eyebrows when he heard this.

Shen Xingyu said in a calm voice, "I thought that after listening to what Mr. Gu said, you would want to go back home."

"No need." Lu Ran said.

Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye, and retracted his foot that had already stepped onto the car.

He said excitedly, "Boss, wait for me."

Then he crossed the road and walked towards the crowded gift shop on the opposite side.

Shen Xingyu had nothing to talk about with Ji Min now, so he returned to his car.

Ji Min did not get in the car either.

His wheelchair was parked on the side of the road, looking at the boy who squeezed into the gift shop on the opposite side.

Suddenly, Ji Min asked the driver: "Why hasn't he asked recently?"

"Huh?" The driver didn't understand.

He didn't have the mind-reading ability of Butler Chen, so he could only utter a single sound of doubt.

Why doesn't he ask... whether he likes him.

But Ji Min didn't say this out loud.

In fact, when listening to the conversation between Grandpa Gu and Lu Ran today, Ji Min was not as calm as he seemed.

The Gu family was obviously very close and friendly to Lu Ran.

Grandpa Gu even doted on Lu Ran a little, and he understood the precious time of this child when he was a child.

Although Lu Ran didn't say much, he was obviously very happy to listen.

At that moment, Ji Min couldn't help but think... Lu Ran and Gu Zhi seem to be a really good match.

The child can live in the familiar Gu family and chat with Grandpa Gu every day.

People of Gu Qing's generation also love children, and if Gu Zhi can be more careful, he is a good person.

Gu Zhi has high scores in the class, and Gu Ningqi can't find trouble with Lu Ran.

Ji Min evaluated it seriously, and his heart was broken.

He even thought...

was it too selfish for him to take Lu Ran away.

Across the street, Lu Ran came out of the crowded gift shop again.

He was holding a furry bear in his arms.

The bear had soft black fur and a blue bow tie around its neck.

It was very similar to Ji Min's tie.

The boy waited for the green light, and ran breathlessly towards this side of the road holding the little bear.

When he ran across the center line, he raised the little bear and waved to Ji Min: "Boss, look!"

Suddenly, the harsh engine sound suddenly rang.

A car waiting for the red light suddenly started up and rushed straight towards Lu Ran on the road.

Ji Min's pupils shrank.

Shen Xingyu and Shen Xingzhuo turned their heads to look at the same time.

In an instant, the air seemed to be sucked dry.

All the noisy sounds became distant and blurred, leaving only the slow and distorted roar of cars and the screams of pedestrians nearby. There was

also a vague, muffled sound of heavy falls to the ground.

And the vibration of the car crashing.

Until the nearby red light turned green.

A black shadow flew to Ji Min's feet.

It was the black bear that the boy was waving in his hands just now.

"Ah!"

This was the screams of students on the other side of the road.

Ji Min came back to his senses.

The man tried in vain to maintain a posture of stretching out his hands and leaning forward.

It was as if he wanted to pull the boy who was a few meters away to him.

But the wheelchair bound his legs tightly and he could not get close.

The speeding car crashed through the railing, plunged into the green belt and turned over.

Ji Min's assistant and driver hurried over and asked worriedly:

"Chairman, are you okay?"

Ji Min's throat seemed to be grabbed by someone.

He waved away the hands of his assistant and the driver, and was at a loss for a long time before he remembered to remotely control the wheelchair.

Walk to the road.

Suddenly, a pedestrian's surprised voice came: "It's okay! The person is fine! He got away!"

Ji Min's heart, which was tightly squeezed, trembled.

He looked around in panic, and finally saw Shen Xingyu crawling up on the road. He

bent down again to pick up the boy who fell to the ground.

Ji Min pressed his fingers twice in vain before he successfully controlled the wheelchair to walk over.

His hoarse voice finally uttered a sentence: "Go call an ambulance."

Shen Xingyu frowned and looked at the trembling boy in his arms.

When the car hit just now, Lu Ran also dodged subconsciously.

He was able to rush over and pull the person over.

Fortunately, he just fell.

But it seemed that he was frightened, and the boy in his arms was shaking uncontrollably.

Shen Xingyu held the person and wanted to put him in his car.

But he was stopped by the person in the wheelchair.

Shen Xingyu lowered his eyes and saw Ji Min's appearance, and he couldn't help but be stunned.

The man's black eyes were red.

It was an unspeakable ferocity.

Ji Min had always been calm and composed.

This was the first time Shen Xingyu saw him like this.

"Give him back to me." Ji Min said.

His voice was like the rubbing of rough sandpaper, hoarse and sharp.

Without waiting for Shen Xingyu to reply.

The man repeated word by word: "Give him back to me!"

When saying this, Shen Xingyu even saw that the man was supporting the wheelchair with his arms, almost making a move to get up.

"Boss..."

As if hearing Ji Min's voice, the boy in Shen Xingyu's arms said muffledly, "I'm fine..."

Shen Xingyu pursed his lips and said, "He's still shaking."

As he said that, he turned around to avoid Ji Min in front of him.

"He's shaking because he's afraid of you!"

Ji Min shouted hoarsely.

Shen Xingyu was stunned, and the image of the child being startled after being scolded by him flashed through his mind again.

After a long silence, he bent down and gently placed the boy in his arms on Ji Min's legs.

When he felt Lu Ran's body temperature, Ji Min felt that he had regained some reason.

He did not restrain the boy's limbs, but examined him gently. He

asked in a trembling voice: "Where do you feel uncomfortable? Is there any pain?"

"No..."

Lu Ran recovered a little when he sensed the familiar and reassuring breath on Ji Min.

He moved his hands and feet to show Ji Min: "I'm fine, I wasn't hit, boss, you don't have to..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by the man's sudden hug.

Lu Ran felt that the force holding him was very heavy.

With full of fear, he tried to restrain himself for fear of hurting him.

Lu Ran even saw that the ends of the man's hair were trembling.

He didn't know whether it was his own trembling that was transmitted to Ji Min, or Ji Min himself was trembling.

Lu Ran couldn't help but think.

Would someone like Ji Min be afraid?

"Boss... don't be afraid, I'm fine..."

After the words fell.

Lu Ran felt a warm and soft touch, gently falling on his eyelids, forehead, cheeks...

and the corners of his lips.

As if sensing his presence, kisses came down one by one.

As softly as petals blown off by the wind,

but with hot and heavy breath.