Chapter 119 Ice Cream

In the study.

Ji Min returned to his desk, his stomach and the video conference on the computer. He said, "Continue."

Several assistants who participated in the video conference: "..."

Although this weekend meeting was very boring, Ji Min's frequent absence twice was still quite shocking.

Their boss was back, but his soul seemed to be still outside.

From time to time, he glanced outside the study door and moved his body.

He looked very restless.

Just when Ji Min couldn't help but go out for the third time, the door of the study was pushed open.

Lu Ran walked in.

He leaned over to look at Ji Min's computer, and seeing that there were only a few familiar assistants in the video conference, he didn't avoid them and said, "I want to go out and play with Fang Chen."

Ji Min: "..."

Seeing his expression, Lu Ran couldn't help but want to laugh.

But when he thought of Ji Min in a meeting, he forced himself to hold back.

Ji Min made a pause gesture to the people on the screen.

He turned off the microphone and turned the camera to the side.

Then he reached out and grabbed the boy's wrist, and said unhappily, "Are you doing this on purpose?"

Lu Ran laughed out loud.

After laughing, he raised his chin again, pretending to be unhappy and said: "Obviously you did it on purpose. When you go out again, Fang Chen will be angry."

Ji Min sighed and looked up at him:

"Okay, Lu Ran, you are worried about him getting angry, but not me getting angry?"

"Didn't you say that you would let me play with people of the same age more often? I'm going to play now, why are you angry?" Lu Ran said.

Ji Min was speechless.

Lu Ran argued: "Besides, when you were not here, you called people to play with me, and when you were here, you asked them to stand aside. Is there anyone like you?"

Ji Min thought to himself that letting Fang Chen come over was a deal between him and Fang Chen's father.

Who would have thought that you two would actually have such a good time.

After a long silence, Ji Min still sighed.

The man took the boy's hand and put it on his cheek, and asked in a listless voice:

"When will you be back?"

"In the evening, we young people have a rich nightlife." Lu Ran said deliberately.

Ji Min was so angry that he patted his waist.

"Okay, be careful not to come back too late, and bring the people I arranged for you." Ji Min instructed carefully.

"I know, I know, Uncle Ji."

Lu Ran called him again and walked out.

Ji Min had no choice.

He could only sigh and turn the computer camera around.

Who knew that he had just turned on the microphone in the conference room.

The person who just slipped away came back and gave him a loud kiss on the cheek.

"Mua", and then ran away after the kiss.

Ji Min didn't have time to react.

The people in the conference room turned around and saw this scene, and they all fell silent.

Then, they saw their boss who was just fidgeting.

Like a big cat with its fur smoothed, he immediately calmed down.

He coughed at them pretentiously, forced down the corners of his mouth, and said with a straight face: "Go on."

Everyone: "...Ha."

Lu Ran and Fang Chen went out together.

The two went to a VR game experience hall, played a shooting game, and played billiards for a while.

When they found a place to eat nearby, they met Shen Xingzhuo.

Shen Xingzhuo looked depressed, and sat in a booth in the corner drinking.

Chen Sheng and a few others were surrounding him to comfort him: "It's okay, it's just a failed investment, just find a way to make up for it..."

Seeing Lu Ran, Chen Sheng waved and said: "Brother Ran! Come over and persuade him!"

Shen Xingzhuo looked up when he heard Chen Sheng's voice.

When he saw Lu Ran, he said: "Don't let him come over!"

During this period of time, the Shen family's wealth rose, and there were more messy people around Shen Xingzhuo.

His studio has made good profits recently, so he made several investments boldly.

But it happened that several investments had problems.

Not only did he invest a lot of his own money, but he also mortgaged some of the Shen's stocks in his hands.

If this gets to Shen Hongyuan's ears, he will definitely scold him.

What made Shen Xingzhuo even more uncomfortable was that this completely proved what Shen Xingyu said that day, making him feel very frustrated and embarrassed.

Especially since Shen Xingran also told him that Lu Ran had been very close to Shen Xingyu during this period. Shen Xingzhuo

didn't dare to think about what Lu Ran would think of him when he heard about this.

Lu Ran hadn't planned to come over originally.

He just hadn't seen Chen Shengji for a long time, so he said hello and prepared to leave.

But when he turned around to leave.

Shen Xingzhuo, who told him not to come over, stretched out his hand and handed him something out of the blue.

Lu Ran lowered his eyes and took a look. It was a yellow Transformer.

The kind that children play with.

Judging from the design, it was not a toy produced in recent years. There was a light dust in the joint buckles.

It was full of traces of time.

Lu Ran subconsciously reached out and took the Transformer.

He twisted it again, twisting the two arms of the model into a twisted shape.

He was very familiar with doing this.

It seemed that when he was very young, he had also fiddled with this toy in this way.

But this familiarity, after all, spanned more than ten years.

Shen Xingzhuo snorted and said,

"I went back to the old house the other day, and suddenly I remembered that you seemed to hold this often when you were a kid."

Lu Ran looked at the Transformers in his hand.

He restored the joints to their original positions and put the familiar toy back on the table next to Shen Xingzhuo.

Shen Xingzhuo was stunned and asked, "Don't you like it?"

Lu Ran didn't say whether he liked it or not, but just said, "Da Huang doesn't like these."

But maybe it was because of this toy.

Lu Ran, who was originally preparing to leave, finally said hello to Fang Chen and sat in the booth next to Shen Xingzhuo for a while.

Seeing him coming, Chen Sheng, who was so tired from talking, finally breathed a sigh of relief and ran to the side to drink.

Lu Ran didn't move the things on the table, just asked: "What's wrong with you?"

Shen Xingzhuo touched his nose and told him about the millions he lost and the Shen shares he mortgaged.

Lu Ran still thought of himself as an ordinary and poor college student. When he heard this amount, he subconsciously cursed: "Fuck." Even

he, who studied veterinary medicine, could hear that it was obvious that someone saw that the Shen family was in a good position and wanted to take Shen Xingzhuo's shares.

Shen Xingzhuo didn't even see it. He was really overconfident.

"You also think I'm not as good as Shen Xingyu?" Shen Xingzhuo stared at him and asked.

Lu Ran rolled his eyes to the sky.

He asked Shen Xingzhuo: "How many times have you lost money on your investment?"

Shen Xingzhuo paused, seeing that there was no one around, and he wanted to complain too much.

He poured out all his failures from childhood to adulthood.

Shen Xingzhuo has a thorn in his heart.

This thorn is Shen Xingyu.

Because Shen Xingyu is too outstanding, he has been living under the shadow of Shen Xingyu since he was a child.

The more this is the case, the more he wants to make a shocking statement.

So many people provoked him with words, and Shen Xingzhuo got angry and confronted them.

But he is not the material for this. The more he invests, the more he loses.

The shares in his hands have been mortgaged many times.

Several times, Shen Xingzhuo redeemed them at double the market price.

After hearing this, Lu Ran was completely silent.

He couldn't help but asked, "After all these years, haven't you ever thought about changing your career path?"

Shen Xingzhuo said, "No, I just want to be better than him."

He wanted his parents and relatives to admit that he at least had the ability and advantages.

Lu Ran looked at Shen Xingzhuo sideways for a while.

He said, "What's the point? People who think you can't stand up to the stage will never notice you. It's better to do what you are good at."

Shen Xingzhuo has heard many similar words.

But when he heard Lu Ran say this, he was stunned.

It was not because the person who spoke was Lu Ran, but because Shen Xingzhuo suddenly remembered that when Lu Ran was just taken back to the Shen family, the boy seemed to have been proving his excellence.

Trying hard to prove that he was no worse than Shen Xingran.

But...

what was his reaction at that time?

Shen Xingzhuo was a little flustered for a moment.

He knew that when there is no one in one's eyes, no matter how hard that person tries, in the eyes of others, he will be like a little clown.

"I..."

Shen Xingzhuo subconsciously wanted to explain.

He couldn't help but ask hopefully: "So...it's just that they didn't see me, right?"

But Lu Ran didn't want to talk anymore.

Fang Chen called him not far away, and Lu Ran stood up to go over.

Before leaving, he took another look at the Transformers in front of Shen Xingzhuo.

"Thank you, but don't send me these things anymore in the future."

After Lu Ran finished speaking, he turned and left.

Because of this Transformers, this was probably the calmest conversation between Lu Ran and Shen Xingzhuo in history.

But the next day, Lu Ran finished his final exam.

When they walked out of the academy, they saw Shen Xingzhuo waiting outside, furious.

All around them were classmates who had gone home early after the exams.

The boarding students rumbled past them, pulling heavy suitcases.

Shen Xingzhuo suppressed his anger, looked at Lu Ran and asked:

"Do you have to be like this?"

"What?" Lu Ran raised his eyebrows.

"Am I better to you than Shen Xingyu? He slapped you, and I paid you three times the salary and gave you gifts. Why are you closer to him?"

Shen Xingzhuo collapsed:

"I told you all those things because I trusted you. Why did you have to tell Shen Xingyu everything?"

"What did I tell him?" Lu Ran asked calmly.

"It's about the time when I mortgaged my shares."

Shen Xingzhuo obviously wanted to suppress his anger, but he couldn't control himself and yelled, "I only told you about this!"

Lu Ran didn't say anything.

He casually looked at the teaching building of the Elite Academy next to him, and saw Shen Xingran in the corridor.

Lu Ran looked at Shen Xingzhuo.

He said coldly: "First, it is a fact that you mortgaged your shares. If you want to hide it from people, then don't do it at all."

"Second, you said I told Shen Xingyu?"

Lu Ran stretched out his hand to him, "Give me the phone."

Shen Xingzhuo was stunned by what he said, and subconsciously handed the phone over.

Lu Ran called up the address book, found Shen Xingyu's number and called it.

It took a while for the other side to answer.

Shen Xingyu's voice was very deep: "Why did you call me? You dug this mess yourself, solve it yourself, Shen's shares must not be leaked!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Ran called out: "Shen Xingyu."

Hearing the voice of the young man, Shen Xingyu immediately paused, a little surprised: "Ranran?"

"Do you know about Shen Xingzhuo's mortgaged shares?"

Lu Ran asked.

Shen Xingyu was silent for a while and responded.

Shen Xingzhuo thought that Lu Ran would let Shen Xingyu prove that he did not leak.

But the young man said:

"Oh, then you probably don't know, this is not the first time, and not only is his shares locked up this time, he also lost more than one million, and before..."

Lu Ran quickly told him everything that Shen Xingzhuo told him.

After that, without listening to Shen Xingyu's explanation, he hung up the phone and threw the phone back to Shen Xingzhuo.

He pulled the corner of his mouth and smiled and said, "Since you said that I leaked the secret, how can I not leak it completely? How can I be worthy of you?"

Lu Ran looked at Shen Xingzhuo's phone again and asked very considerately:

"How about it, do you need me to tell Shen Hongyuan again?"

Shen Xingzhuo was stunned.

He whispered: "I..."

Lu Ran looked at him with a smile and asked:

"Why? When you talked about these with Shen Xingran before, did you question Shen Xingran like this when you found out that the secret was leaked?"

Shen Xingzhuo froze instantly, as if falling into an ice cellar.

Lu Ran ignored him.

He still had experiments during the summer vacation, so he turned around and went to the laboratory building.

By the time Lu Ran came out of the laboratory building, it was already evening.

Many professionals had already left school today.

The school was much quieter.

Lu Ran threw the garbage into the trash can, and when he turned around to leave, he saw a person sitting on the stairs of the laboratory building.

It was Shen Xingzhuo who had been waiting.

Seeing him come out, Shen Xingzhuo hurriedly stood up.

Lu Ran ignored him and walked forward on his own.

Shen Xingzhuo hurriedly followed him.

"I'm sorry, I..."

He wanted to explain, but didn't know what to say.

Because all explanations were so pale, he was the one who suspected Lu Ran, and he was also the one who came to cause trouble.

Lu Ran carried his bag and walked towards the school gate.

He didn't walk very fast, and while walking, he held his mobile phone and sent a message to Ji Min who came to the gate to pick him up.

He ignored Shen Xingzhuo behind him, but he didn't hide from him either.

Shen Xingzhuo followed him in silence.

For a moment, he felt that he had messed up everything.

When he walked out of the school gate, Lu Ran looked at the ice cream shop at the school gate and stopped.

He walked over there.

Lu Ran often bought ice cream here, four at a time.

The proprietress was already very familiar with him. When she saw him coming, she immediately said familiarly: "It's still one strawberry, one lemon, and two vanillas, right?"

Many people come to buy ice cream.

But buying four at a time is still not much for oneself.

Besides, Lu Ran always buys fixed flavors.

After the boss lady finished asking, she said, "The vanilla ones are sold out. You have to wait a few minutes for the fresh ones."

Lu Ran smiled and said, "I only want a strawberry one this time."

The boss lady laughed and teased him, "Is one enough?"

Lu Ran touched his nose and did not explain.

He took a strawberry ice cream cone and walked out of the store.

He did not eat it himself, but turned around and handed it to Shen Xingzhuo who had been following him.

Shen Xingzhuo was flattered.

Lu Ran ignored him just now, and he didn't know what to do.

But now Lu Ran suddenly handed him an ice cream, and he didn't dare to take it. He

turned his head and said awkwardly, "I don't like this stuff, especially strawberry flavored, pink and tender, only girls like to eat it."

After speaking, Shen Xingzhuo paused again.

He didn't know if Lu Ran liked strawberry flavored food.

Would Lu Ran be angry if he said that?

But when Shen Xingzhuo looked up, he found that the boy in front of him was very calm.

There was no expression of anger or displeasure on Lu Ran's face.

He just calmly pushed the ice cream to Shen Xingzhuo's mouth again and said, "Take a bite."

Shen Xingzhuo paused.

He really didn't like ice cream, and he didn't like this pink color even more.

But at this time, he didn't want to refuse Lu Ran.

So he took a bite hesitantly.

The sweet and sour strawberry flavor, mixed with the aroma of cream, exploded on the tip of the tongue.

Shen Xingzhuo widened his eyes in surprise.

He felt that this taste was more to his taste than most desserts he had eaten.

Shen Xingzhuo looked up at Lu Ran again.

There was no surprise in the boy's eyes.

His face was as calm as ever, as if he was not surprised by the strawberry flavored crisp cone. Shen

Xingzhuo was a little confused for a moment.

This confusion was just like when he saw Da Huang.

That feeling was like suddenly discovering that there is someone who knows all your preferences and remembers them firmly.

One day, even you have forgotten them.

But he still remembers your favorite things firmly.

This kind of memory even exceeds the limitations of time and physiology.

It has become a vague habit engraved in the nerves.

Shen Xingzhuo's fingers were shaking.

His throat seemed to be blocked by this mouthful of overly delicious strawberry ice cream, and it hurt so much.

He stretched out his hand to take the ice cream from Lu Ran's hand.

But at the moment when he was about to take it, the boy holding the ice cream suddenly exerted force.

He smashed the whole ice cream on his face.

The cold and sweet cream covered Shen Xingzhuo's face.

"Lu Ran!"

Shen Xingzhuo shouted subconsciously, but his voice was hoarse.

The man who smashed the ice cream turned around and left, getting on the black commercial vehicle on the side of the road.

But the second young master Shen, who was hit, rarely got angry and chased after him.

He just covered his face with his hands.

Ji Min watched the whole process in the car.

When Lu Ran approached, he opened the door and reached out to take the boy's schoolbag.

Lu Ran quietly got into the back seat and wanted to sit down, but the man grabbed his waist and pulled him into his arms.

He snuggled into the familiar embrace and felt the reassuring body temperature.

Lu Ran relaxed instantly and collapsed tiredly in Ji Min's arms.

"I'm so tired, but the exam is over," he said.

Ji Min laughed and reached out to touch his hair.

Lu Ran didn't say anything else and quietly put his head on the man's neck.

Ji Min gently stroked his back.

Asked in a low voice: "Are you in a bad mood today?"

"No."

Lu Ran denied it at first, and after a while, he muttered, "I just remembered some unhappy things."

"You still call it no?" Ji Min laughed at him.

The young man sat up straight, raised his chin, and vowed: "I'm not so useless as to get angry because of these messy things."

After that, he nestled back into Ji Min's arms.

He thought the man would laugh at him.

But he felt Ji Min touching his head and whispering in his ear: "It's okay to be useless occasionally."

Lu Ran was silent for a while, then put his hands around the man's waist and hugged him tightly.

After a while, he raised his head again. He

secretly glanced at the front seat.

The car was moving, and the rear seat barrier fell down at some point, forming a small enclosed space.

This time, I noticed that there was no rearview mirror.

Lu Ran moved over and looked up to ask for comfort.

"Kiss." He whispered.

After saying that, he moved over first and kissed the man's chin.

It was like an advance reward.

Ji Min laughed, lifted the boy's chin with one hand, and kissed him lightly.

The kiss went from shallow to deep, but maintained a gentle base tone, which never changed.

Lu Ran looked up and was kissed gently and soothingly by the man.

After a while, the kiss ended.

He leaned on Ji Min's shoulder and panted.

After getting comfort and taking advantage, he took a look at the barrier and whispered to Ji Min:

"Why did you lower the barrier?"

Ji Min raised his eyebrows and imitated him, lowering his voice and whispering:

"Who was it that was sneaking around last time, afraid that the people in front would see us?"

"But you lowered it, so others couldn't see us, and they thought we were doing something shameful."

Lu Ran argued. He thought about it and felt that he was really a little bit disappointed, so he said, "We just kissed, and didn't do anything else."

Ji Min's eyes darkened.

He whispered to the boy's ear: "What else do you want to do?"

Lu Ran narrowed his eyes and deliberately angered him: "Uncle Ji, we are in the car."

When Ji Min heard the name "Uncle Ji" again, he didn't react as much as the first time.

He just raised his eyebrows, lowered his head and bit the boy's lips lightly as punishment.

Lu Ran came out of the laboratory quite late.

He had three exams today, and was busy in the laboratory for so long, and he also threw an ice cream at Shen Xingzhuo.

After returning home, he fell asleep on the bed after washing up, and even forgot to feed Dahuang.

Ji Min took the dog food and fed Dahuang, and brushed the puppy's teeth.

After washing up, he did not rest immediately, but went downstairs again.

Butler Chen was waiting downstairs.

Seeing Ji Min coming down, he handed some things he had packed to Ji Min.

Ji Min went to pick up Lu Ran today, and he did not go, so he sorted these out at home.

These were some of the things that Ji Min prepared before the operation in order to prevent the worst outcome.

Now that his operation was successful, of course, none of them are needed.

Ji Min raised his hand to take the thick brown paper bag, shook his head and smiled:

"Fortunately, he didn't see these, otherwise he would be very angry."

Hearing this, Butler Chen shrugged his shoulders.

The next day was the first day of summer vacation, and Lu Ran got up late as a matter of course.

He never stayed in bed late before, because he had to take Da Huang for a walk every morning.

But after leaving this matter to Ji Min, Lu Ran finally enjoyed the fun of staying in bed late.

When he opened his eyes, it was already bright outside.

Light golden sunlight poured in through the balcony of the bedroom, shining on the light-colored bedding.

Lu Ran turned over in bed.

He rubbed the pillow again, then reluctantly sat up, picked up his phone, and checked the messages in the class group.

It was already a holiday, but those who stayed in school to do experiments during the summer vacation still had some troublesome procedures to arrange.

Lu Ran looked for a while and downloaded some files.

He washed up casually and walked out of the bedroom in slippers.

He first held Da Huang who came over and rubbed him for a while, then took his mobile phone and walked into Ji Min's study.

Today is the weekend, and Ji Min is having a meeting in the study again.

This meeting looks quite serious.

Lu Ran yawned, but did not disturb him. He turned on the printer to print the documents.

After the printing was done, he came to Ji Min again and whispered:

"The day students who stay in school have to report again. Where is the parent commitment letter you filled out for me?"

It was hot, and the boy only wore a thin T-shirt and loose sports shorts.

His muscular and beautiful calves were exposed.

The upper body T-shirt was not put on properly, and the hem was half rolled up, revealing a small section of his thin waist when he moved.

He swayed over, and Ji Min was distracted for a rare moment.

The man stretched out his hand to straighten the hem of his T-shirt, then pointed to the cabinet beside him and said, "In the drawer in the second row."

Lu Ran rolled his eyes.

There are hands to tidy up his clothes, but there are no hands to help him get the documents?

Lu Ran slowly walked over and opened the drawer.

After Ji Min pointed the direction, he threw himself into the next meeting.

He didn't notice that the boy looked a little stunned after seeing the things in the drawer.

Looking at the several documents marked with "invalid" in his hand, Lu Ran raised his head and glanced at Ji Min again.

He pursed his lips and calmly took away the documents with his name on them and the letter of commitment from his parents.

He took the things back to the bedroom.

Lu Ran threw the letter of commitment from his parents aside and carefully looked through the other documents.

He skipped the printed documents and took out a handwritten paper.

This was Ji Min's handwritten suicide note.