Chapter 126 "Happiness"
Shen Xingyu and Mrs. Shen rushed to the hospital and saw Shen Xingzhuo lying on the bed in the emergency room.
One leg was in a cast.
The driver who sent him over had a look of wanting to cry.
Seeing Shen Xingyu and Mrs. Shen coming over, he hurriedly explained: "The light was green at the time, I didn't expect him to suddenly rush over, and I wasn't speeding..."
Shen Xingyu's face was not good.
There have been too many things going on at home recently, and Shen Xingzhuo's car accident was undoubtedly adding fuel to the fire.
But looking at the driver, he still sighed and said, "We can just communicate directly with the insurance company."
Who knew that at this time Shen Xingzhuo directly said:
"It's okay, you go, I will pay for the medical expenses myself."
The driver was even more confused after hearing this: "This..."
"I crashed the car myself, what does it have to do with you, you go." Shen Xingzhuo said.
When he said this, Shen Xingzhuo was in high spirits.
A car accident seemed to make him suddenly get rid of his previous predicament.
Mrs. Shen was a little absent-minded, just standing in front of the bed.
She didn't look at Shen Xingzhuo, nor did she talk to the driver.
Shen Xingyu looked at the driver and said nothing.
The driver hesitated for a long time, not understanding the situation, but still left a phone number: "Call me if you have something."
When the driver left the ward, Shen Xingzhuo didn't even look at the phone number, and threw it into the trash can.
After closing the door of the ward, Shen Xingyu looked at Shen Xingzhuo with a sullen face and asked: "Did you deliberately crash into the car? What's wrong with you?"
"Nothing happened." Shen Xingzhuo was lying on the bed playing with his mobile phone. He didn't look at the two of them, and only said, "Okay, you can go. If you need someone to take care of you, I will call a nurse myself."
Looking at Shen Xingzhuo's appearance, Shen Xingyu closed his eyes.
"Shen Xingzhuo, can you be more mature? Do you still think you are still the second young master of the Shen family?"
"I'm quite mature now, don't use your tricks to pua me." Shen Xingzhuo said.
Shen Xingyu glanced at Shen Xingzhuo's leg in plaster.
"What do you mean by this?" He sneered. "Atonement?"
Neither of the two brothers said it clearly.
But they all knew what "atonement" meant.
Shen Xingzhuo's face suddenly turned pale.
The relief just now disappeared quickly like a punctured balloon.
Shen Xingyu said in a deep voice: "This is because you are still alive. If you were dead, the driver just now deserved to be implicated by you?"
"Don't say it!" Shen Xingzhuo shook his hand violently.
The IV on the back of his hand was thrown away, and the transparent liquid medicine and bright red blood flew everywhere.
Shen Xingyu suddenly had a headache again.
He sighed and said nothing more.
Shen Xingzhuo pointed at him and Mrs. Shen and said, "That's better than you!"
"I didn't beat him! I didn't help the old man deceive him and guard against him knowing the inheritance!"
Shen Xingyu lowered his eyes, clenched the railing of the bed with his fingers, and squeezed until his knuckles turned white, and then gently let go.
He didn't say anything to refute.
"And you! I didn't lose him either!"
Mrs. Shen, who had been in a trance, suddenly woke up.
Hearing similar words in her memory, she suddenly raised her head and looked at Shen Xingzhuo.
She saw the familiar condemnation on her son's face again.
"Is it all my fault?"
Mrs. Shen trembled and took two steps back, "Which of you is not wrong!"
Mrs. Shen pointed her finger at Shen Xingyu, then at Shen Xingzhuo, and she gasped:
"If it weren't for you, how could your brother be lost?"
"Mom, that's enough." Shen Xingyu reached out to pull Mrs. Shen.
But Mrs. Shen waved his hand away.
On the way to the mountain, she and Shen Hongyuan quarreled because of Shen Xingzhuo.
The last piece of cake in the car refrigerator was eaten by her younger brother.
Shen Xingzhuo was unhappy because he ate one less piece than his younger brother.
He pestered Mrs. Shen and clamored to go buy it.
Mrs. Shen was browsing her phone and coaxed him casually: "You are the older brother, what's wrong with giving in to your younger brother."
The child who just turned four years old had chocolate crumbs on the corner of his mouth.
Standing aside, pinching his fingers in embarrassment.
He pulled Shen Xingzhuo's clothes and said, "The cake is so delicious, I couldn't help it, I'm sorry."
The six-year-old Shen Xingzhuo looked at him and said nothing, just said, "I'll go back and buy some more."
"Okay, your brother has apologized to you. See how well-behaved your brother is? Look at you again!"
Mrs. Shen was a little annoyed by the noise.
But Shen Xingzhuo burst into tears because of his words:
"Why does my elder brother have things that I don't have, and my younger brother also has things that I don't have! I have nothing!"
Shen Hongyuan happened to get out of the car and walked over after hearing the noise.
He looked very bad, as if he hadn't had a good sleep for a long time.
Seeing Shen Xingzhuo howling, he scolded him, "Why are you crying!"
Mrs. Shen also had a headache. In her opinion, a small cake was not a big deal at all.
How could a family like theirs lack a piece of cake?
So she said to Shen Hongyuan, "He wants to eat the cake from the dessert shop we just passed by. Husband, why don't you drive back and buy some more? It's delicious."
Unexpectedly, Shen Hongyuan grabbed Shen Xingzhuo's neck and threw him back into the RV: "Eat, eat, eat!"
Mrs. Shen was startled by him and stood up quickly: "Hey, what are you doing? It's only a few minutes to drive back. If you don't want to go back, just let the driver go. Why are you so angry?"
"Aren't you used to him being like this? Look at Ranran, she wouldn't make such a fuss!" Shen Hongyuan scolded.
But when he lowered his eyes and saw his youngest son beside him, he paused and looked away as if nothing had happened.
Mrs. Shen was also provoked by him: "What do you mean? Shen Hongyuan, are you sick? It was you who said you wanted to come for vacation, but now you are acting like this?"
"Can you save me some worry? I've already taken you out for vacation, what else do you want?"
The couple quarreled again.
Shen Xingyu reached out and closed the curtains of the RV.
Shen Xingzhuo was in his RV, being hugged and coaxed by his aunt.
He seemed to have heard the sound of his parents quarreling, and he cried even louder.
The youngest stood there, looking up at Mrs. Shen for a while, then at Shen Hongyuan, at a loss.
After the quarrel, Mrs. Shen went back to the RV to cry in anger.
Shen Hongyuan got into his SUV.
Only the child was left there. He stood for a while and then slowly returned to his and his brother's RV.
In the RV, Shen Xingzhuo was still crying.
The aunt brought him other snacks, but Shen Xingzhuo snatched them away and threw them away.
Seeing his brother coming back, he pointed at the child and said loudly: "It's all because of you that my father scolded me!"
"Brother, don't cry."
The child came over and said in a crying voice, "Next time I'll give you the cake, okay?"
Shen Xingzhuo held back for a moment, but he couldn't help it in the end. He rubbed his eyes and cried again:
"I don't want to eat cake, I, I want to go to the amusement park, I want... ice cream!"
Hearing the word ice cream, the child's eyes, which were originally red, lit up.
Because they all remembered that they had been to the amusement park just a few days ago, and everyone had their own ice cream.
There was no quarrel, no anger.
Mom and Dad did not quarrel, and there was no murderer.
Everyone was very happy.
That was the happiest time for them.
Children do not understand anything else, they just think that if they reproduce the original scene, the happiness of that day will come back.
There is no playground, but ice cream will do!
And they also remember that there was an ice cream shop where they just passed by.
"Brother, I'll go find Mom and ask Mom to buy ice cream."
The child got out of the car excitedly.
Then he ran to the RV where Mrs. Shen was.
Auntie looked over and was relieved when she saw him go in, and she concentrated on coaxing the one in the car.
"Mom, Mom!"
The child stood in front of the RV and knocked on the door.
But the person inside did not respond.
Only sobbing sounds could be heard.
The child knocked on the door twice more.
Seeing that the car door was not closed tightly, he raised his foot to pull the door handle.
But he was too short and couldn't grab it after a while. He could only use his fingers to pry open the gap of the car door and squeezed in slowly.
In the RV, the woman was crying.
The child went over, hugged the woman's legs, and comforted her: "Mom, don't cry, let's go for ice cream, and you'll be happy after eating ice cream!"
He also knew the distance, so he explained:
"The ice cream shop is very close!"
The child counted on his fingers: "It only takes one, two, three... five minutes to walk! Let's go back and buy it..."
But this sentence annoyed Mrs. Shen:
"Go back and buy it! Go back! Can you be more sensible?"
The child was stunned as he looked at the woman who suddenly got angry.
She called out a bit bewilderedly: "Mom?"
Mrs. Shen collapsed and said: "Can you leave me alone for a while? If you want to buy it, go find your dad!"
With a "bang", the door of the RV closed.
The sky was overcast and gloomy.
Shen Xingyu turned on the lights in the RV and was still worried about the financial class cases in his computer.
After a while, there was a knock on the door of his RV.
The weather was too stuffy and the door was not closed.
Shen Xingyu thought it was the driver who came back to remind them to leave. But when
he looked up, he saw a child with only his head exposed.
The door was obviously not closed, but the child did not get in directly.
He seemed to still remember the "order" not to step into his study.
He just called softly outside: "Brother."
Seeing that Shen Xingyu didn't say anything, he slowly walked up the stairs.
The stairs were very high, and the child had short legs, so he had to hold on to the car door and climb up little by little.
After climbing up, he just stood by the door, looking at the boy sitting in front of the computer inside, and whispered:
"Brother, can you take me to buy ice cream?"
Shen Xingyu frowned subconsciously.
Irritability is probably contagious. Just now, Shen Hongyuan and Mrs. Shen had a quarrel.
Now Shen Xingzhuo is still howling.
Shen Xingyu was also in a bad mood.
He couldn't help but say, "Can you please stop bothering me?"
The child immediately took a step back.
Shen Xingyu pursed his lips again and added: "You go find mom first, I'll go buy it with you when I'm done."
"But..."
The child said nothing and climbed down the stairs obediently. He
wandered on the road for a while.
He still trotted to the last SUV in the team.
Dad's angry look is scary, scarier than his eldest brother.
The child hesitated for a moment before reaching out and patting the car door.
The shots were taken very gently, as if afraid of waking up the monster inside.
He called out twice more softly: "Dad? Dad?"
But the dark SUV stopped silently.
The anti-sight windows reflected the dark light, making it difficult to see the scene inside the car.
After looking up for a while, the child withdrew his hand.
He wandered there for a long time, and then walked towards the RV of himself and his brother.
Shen Xingzhuo was still howling in the car.
A cold and irritable atmosphere spread in the convoy.
After walking a short distance, the child stopped again.
He lowered his head and flipped through his little yellow duck bag to see the pocket money inside. He
clenched his fist to encourage himself: "I can buy it myself!"
He walked towards the ice cream shop in his memory.
But in the end he was a little scared and stopped again.
"After eating ice cream, Mom, Dad and my brother won't be angry."
The child said to himself.
This sentence seemed to give him courage.
He counted silently again and said, "It only takes five minutes!"
The child finally got up his short legs and ran in the opposite direction of the convoy.
He held the little yellow duck bag in front of him and ran on the road for a long time.
It was a short distance, but because he walked slowly, it seemed particularly long.
It was about to rain, and there were few people on the road.
Every stranger who passed by seemed particularly dangerous.
The child was a little scared, and beads of sweat oozed from his forehead.
Until he saw the colorful sign of the ice cream shop and the huge crispy cone models on both sides of the shop.
"It's ice cream!"
The child's eyes lit up, as if he was sharing this short and dangerous path with the imaginary companions around him.
He trotted again, ran into the store, and put his two little hands on the counter.
He said to the boss inside: "I want ice cream."
The boss looked out and saw such a small child, and asked in surprise: "Little boy, are you alone? Where are your parents?"
"Mom and Dad are over there." The child pointed in a direction, nodded and said, "Very close!"
The boss thought he was referring to the tourists outside the store, so he asked: "How many ice creams do you want, and what flavors?"
The child counted silently:
"One for mom, one for dad, one for my eldest brother, and one for my second brother."
"Mom and dad have vanilla, my eldest brother wants lemon flavor, and my second brother likes strawberry flavor."
Finally the count was finished.
He didn't realize that he was left out, and with a sense of pride that he had figured out a difficult problem, he raised four fingers to the boss and said, "I want four!"
"Four...then they have to be packed well..."
After a while, the child walked out of the store carrying four ice creams.
The way back became pleasant and exciting.
The child jogged all the way, but he was very careful when holding the packing box.
It was like he was holding a family full of joy.
The road he had walked before made him no longer afraid.
The child was still looking forward to the happy expressions of his parents when they got the ice cream.
He even felt a little proud. He
secretly praised himself in his heart, "You are so awesome!"
Until he returned to the place where the convoy was stationed.
The child stared blankly ahead.
The sky was dark.
There was no car left, only an empty and unfamiliar land.
He mustered up his courage, crossed the unfamiliar and dangerous road, and carefully and laboriously brought out the most beautiful happiness in his memory.
But no one was waiting for him.
Mrs. Shen finally said those words:
"If you hadn't been clamoring for food, how could your brother have gotten lost!"
"Mom! Don't say it!"
The person who spoke was Shen Xingyu.
His voice was deep and urgent, with a low hoarseness.
His face was too pale.
But Shen Xingzhuo had already heard it.
That night, Shen Xingzhuo left the hospital before the plaster was removed.
At the airport.
Shen Xingran, wearing a hat and a mask, looked at the multinational flight ticket on his mobile phone.
He was handsome, and his every move was filled with the calmness that came from being rich.
Some people at the airport thought he was a star from somewhere, and took out their phones to secretly take pictures of him.
Shen Xingran used to enjoy this kind of gaze.
But now he quietly avoids it.
Shen Xingran sat in the corner of the terminal, stunned for a long time.
Too many things have happened recently, too quickly.
The Shen family, which was on the rise, suddenly fell and faced bankruptcy. They
were also involved in a lawsuit.
The originally harmonious and beautiful family has become fragmented.
Shen Hongyuan's fake inheritance scandal is still making a big fuss in the media.
Until now, Shen Xingran still can't react.
Even though he was the one who instigated the incident.
Shen Xingran sat in a chair, staring at the tarmac outside.
What he recalled in his mind was the scene of himself scolding Mrs. Shen, Shen Xingyu and Shen Xingzhuo in the Shen family.
In fact, when he returned to the Shen family, Shen Xingran was a little scared.
He was only nineteen years old, and although he had experienced a lot, it was his first time doing such a thing.
The incredible expressions of Madam Shen and Shen Xingzhuo were still imprinted in Shen Xingran's eyes.
He was a little confused.
How did things turn out like this?
Just a year ago, he was the most beloved young master of the Shen family.
Shen Hongyuan depended on him and protected him.
Madam Shen doted on him unconditionally, and so did Shen Xingzhuo.
Obviously... he was also dependent on Madam Shen. He
also truly regarded Shen Xingzhuo as a brother.
But now, everything has become very ridiculous.
Shen Xingran recalled carefully.
It probably started when Madam Shen knew about the rumors of "illegitimate children" outside.
At that time, Shen Xingran realized for the first time that Madam Shen did not dote on him unconditionally.
Shen Xingzhuo also inexplicably regarded Lu Ran as a younger brother.
The rift suddenly appeared and spread.
Until that day, he heard Shen Xingyu say that he wanted to let Lu Ran enter the Shen family.
Also at Shen Xingyu's birthday party, he saw Lu Ran and Shen Xingyu talking, and heard Shen Xingyu's promise to Lu Ran.
Shen Xingran suddenly panicked.
He always remembered that he was just an orphan with nothing.
Even in the Shen family, he had no one he could really rely on.
So he had to do something himself.
With the trust of Shen Hongyuan, Shen Xingran took advantage of the summer vacation to enter the company and became Shen Hongyuan's assistant.
He checked and copied Shen's technical data under the name of Shen Hongyuan.
At first, Shen Xingran did not intend to do anything with this information.
Until he started to contact Jin Lino and heard the conditions offered by the other party, Shen Xingran gradually began to be tempted.
Originally, Shen Xingran was just carefully contacting and trying to deal with it, hoping to seek benefits from it.
Until Jin revealed to him that Shen Hongyuan had forged a will.
Fifty percent of the shares under the name of Mr. Shen, as well as most of the rest of the property, belonged to Shen Xingran.
Shen Xingran was not ecstatic when he heard the news.
He was just hit on the head.
He suddenly realized that perhaps his adoption and the name Shen Xingran were a scam from the beginning.
I'm afraid...
At the beginning, Shen Hongyuan needed a "Shen Xingran" to inherit Mr. Shen's legacy, so he would adopt him.
Later, he was worried about this orphan who had no blood relationship with him, so he simply tampered with the will.
And this "Shen Xingran" was Shen Hongyuan's backup choice.
Keep him by your side, in case the will tampering is exposed, there is still "Shen Xingran" to support him.
It turns out that he has been a complete joke from the beginning.
Shen Xingran originally felt a little guilty about his plan to betray the Shen family.
After hearing the news, the guilt disappeared, and he agreed to Jin's conditions.
Shen Xingran thought very clearly about this "inheritance".
If luck is good, Lu Ran will not be able to prove that he is the "Shen Xingran" in the will.
Then of course he will fight for this inheritance.
By then, the entire Shen Group will be his, and he can stand firm in the industry by cooperating with the Lino family.
If not, the inheritance will be taken by Lu Ran.
He did not suffer any losses. He took the money and shares given by the Lino family and went abroad.
The Shen family was entangled in the inheritance crisis and had no time and energy to trouble him.
By the time the Shen family reacted, he had already gone abroad.
Shen Xingran had already thought about it.
But now he was staying at the airport, but he felt surprisingly low.
But soon, Shen Xingran cheered up again.
He thought, he and Lu Ran were different.
Lu Ran had an inseparable blood relationship with the group of people in the Shen family, but he didn't.
They were not his relatives at all, so what was there to be sad about?
Shen Xingran even had some hope again.
He now had a lot of money in his hands, and unlike when he was in the Shen family, the money was completely in his own hands.
With this money, he will live a good life.
When the storm is over, maybe he can return to his country to find his biological parents and enjoy the family love that truly belongs to him.
Thinking of this, Shen Xingran became particularly relaxed.
He was about to board the plane with his suitcase.
But a shadow fell in front of him.
Two civil servants stood in front of him and showed him their ID cards.
One of them said:
"Hello, you are being sued for the crime of infringing on trade secrets. Because the situation is serious, it has been converted to public prosecution. You are currently restricted from leaving the country..."
Shen Xingran underestimated Shen Xingyu after all.
At such a chaotic moment, he still calmly searched for good information and brought him and the Lino family to court.
Throughout the summer vacation, the Shen family had one thing after another.
Apart from the troublesome identity verification process, Lu Ran's life was relatively peaceful.
His experimental process came to an end, and he could finally laze around at home for a while.
After walking the dog in the evening, Lu Ran squatted on the ground and sorted out Da Huang's several leashes and chest harnesses.
Da Huang sat on the side and watched.
Lu Ran picked and chose, and took out the beige leash with a rabbit doll. After
looking at it for a while, he threw the rope into the trash can beside him.
He said to Da Huang, "This one is dirty, don't want it, Dad will buy you a new one."
Da Huang did not disagree, and sat there, quietly looking at him with his big eyes.
I just don't understand why a clean rope is said to be dirty.
Lu Ran put away the remaining few traction ropes.
When he stood up, he stumbled and almost sat on the ground.
Ji Min pushed the door open and saw this scene.
He immediately reached out and pulled the man into his arms.
"What's wrong, does your knee hurt? Or does it hurt somewhere else?"
Ji Min was a little nervous, with his brows tightly wrinkled.
Recently, although Lu Ran didn't say anything, he could feel the tension in Lu Ran's body, which was sometimes light and sometimes heavy.
Lu Ran was speechless as he was held in his arms and touched for a long time.
Finally, I couldn't stand it anymore and explained: "Thank you, I just squatted for too long and my legs are numb."