Chapter 135 Extra Proposal (End)

"Some people act very serious outside, but say anything behind closed doors."

Lu Ran teased.

Ji Min continued to pinch his waist and admitted frankly:

"You're the only one who heard it anyway, so what does it matter?"

The two were still hesitating on the bed.

Ji Min was just about to ask him to turn over again.

Then Lu Ran's cell phone on the bedside rang.

Lu Ran picked up the phone and took a look, then jumped up.

The movement was extremely fast, and it seemed that his legs and waist were no longer painful.

"Who is it?" Ji Min asked a little dissatisfied.

"My mentor!" Lu Ran said.

Ji Min suddenly calmed down and sat aside waiting virtuously.

Lu Ran answered the phone and listened carefully to what was said on the other end.

Not knowing what he heard, he paused, glanced at Ji Min, and asked into the phone: "How have you been lately?"

Ji Min suddenly had a bad feeling.

When Lu Ran hung up the phone, Ji Min knew that his bad feeling had come true.

Lu Ran's advisor had to go to Africa for a project.

And as a prospective graduate student who was guaranteed admission to graduate school, Lu Ran would obviously have to go with him.

In other words, Lu Ran's senior summer vacation lasted only a few days and disappeared just like that.

After hearing the news, Ji Min's face immediately fell.

"Are you angry?" Lu Ran leaned over to see him.

Ji Min had a cold face and said nothing.

After being silent for a long time, he still couldn't get over his anger and complained: "How did your school arrange it?"

Lu Ran also felt a little reluctant, and leaned over to kiss him:

"Don't be angry, don't be angry, I'll give you a kiss."

Obviously, a kiss didn't work.

Lu Ran kissed him a few more times, and he felt a little reluctant.

He comforted him again: "It won't be long, you will be back after the summer vacation."

Ji Min's face became darker.

"Yes, the summer vacation is over." He said.

Lu Ran coaxed him for a while, and saw that the man was really disappointed.

After thinking for a while, he said: "I haven't reported for graduate school yet. I'll tell my supervisor. It should be okay if I don't go. Otherwise, I will refuse."

He picked up the phone to call his supervisor.

However, Ji Min held his hand, hugged him in his arms, and sighed, "Such a good opportunity, how can I not go?"

That is, the proposal plan had to be put on hold again.

Although he was unhappy, Ji Min quickly accepted the reality.

Because Lu Ran's instructor was urging him.

So Ji Min immediately started to help Lu Ran pack his luggage.

There are many things to pay attention to in Africa.

Ji Min has also been there on a business trip, so he immediately notified his assistant to prepare some necessary items.

After receiving them, he checked them himself. After

making sure there was no problem, he packed everything.

Because they were going there in the name of the school, Lu Ran had to gather at the school on the day of departure.

Ji Min could only send him to school.

When the car stopped outside the school, he pulled Lu Ran and talked for a long time:

"It's not like in China. Don't run around there by yourself, and don't bring in things of unknown origin. I've added a few numbers to your phone address book. I've said hello there. If you encounter any trouble or need anything, just contact them directly..."

Lu Ran listened for a while, then smiled at the man.

"What are you laughing at!" Ji Min tapped his forehead with his finger, "It's your first time going away from home, and I'm not allowed to say more?"

"I know, I know, you are right, parent."

Lu Ran nestled in his arms for a while.

Hearing the title of "parent", Ji Min was slightly startled.

He wanted to say, parents are not necessarily, can they really be your family members?

In the legal sense?

But time was too tight after all.

After hesitating for a moment, Ji Min didn't mention it after all.

He just patted Lu Ran's waist and urged him: "Go quickly, don't let other people in the team wait."

After Lu Ran left.

Ji Min asked the driver to drive to catch up with the car arranged by the school, watched Lu Ran enter the airport, got on the plane, and then went back.

After more than ten hours, he received the news that Lu Ran's plane had landed, and he finally felt relieved.

After that, it was another long wait.

Missing spread in the waiting.

Lu Ran had a strong desire to share. He would often send messages and take a lot of photos.

In addition to the scenery of the grassland, the most photographed were animals.

As soon as Ji Min opened the chat list, it was covered with photos of various animals.

Giraffes, bison, lions, hyenas...

and birds with colorful feathers, and sturdy pythons.

There was another picture, which looked like an ordinary pile of dirt at first glance.

Ji Min looked at it for a long time, but couldn't see anything.

He asked Lu Ran.

As a result, this guy circled out an ant from the pile of dirt and showed it to him.

Ji Min: "..."

Ji Min inexplicably read Lu Ran's surprise and excitement from these photos.

He flipped through these dazzling animal pictures for a long time, but didn't find a selfie of this guy.

Someone is really a blockhead for years.

In the end, Ji Min logged into the official website of Lu Ran's school himself.

I just saw the photos and videos of this project in the official website news.

The person in the video had his back to the camera the whole time.

But Ji Min still recognized him at a glance.

A group of people were treating and releasing a wounded python.

Several people carried the cage to an open space, and after a while, a large colorful python tried to swim out.

Ji Min looked carefully for a while and found that Lu Ran had sent him the photo of this python.

Like a child who was excited to share his experience.

After work.

Ji Min would often open the plan again and occasionally add a few strokes.

Slowly polish this proposal plan into the most perfect appearance.

But the more perfect something is, the less useful it seems to be.

Time passed by little by little.

One month had passed since Lu Ran left.

Ji Min looked at the proposal plan in the computer. He

suddenly closed the computer and asked the assistant beside him: "Does the group have a project in Africa recently?"

The assistant who was reporting other work: "...Ah? Yes, yes..."

But it doesn't seem to be a project worthy of your presence as the chairman.

But Ji Min probably didn't want to care about these.

He started working overtime again.

And gradually began to let Da Huang at home get used to the company of other people.

A week later, Ji Min boarded a plane to Africa with the simplest luggage.

After the plane landed, many people came to pick him up.

Ji Min simply dealt with the company's affairs, and then contacted the project team of mentor Lu Ran to prepare to visit.

The person in charge personally sent Ji Min there.

Ji Min observed Lu Ran's accommodation along the way.

The project that mentor Lu Ran is working on is quite important, so the living environment of the team he leads is pretty good.

Ji Min knew the general situation when he had a video call with Lu Ran.

But now that he has confirmed it on the spot, he is completely relieved.

Ji Min came here in the name of the company this time.

After he came, the project team immediately brought people to welcome him warmly.

There are always times when they encounter difficulties abroad, and the local branch of Ji Group has given them a lot of help.

But after learning about Ji Min's purpose, an embarrassing situation arose.

The person in charge of the project said to Ji Min, "Boss Ji, it's a bit unfortunate. Today, Teacher Hu led the team into the grassland and planned to set up camp there. It will take three to five days for them to return."

Ji Min was stunned. He didn't expect that he came at such an unfortunate

time. The person in charge hesitated for a while and said, "Someone will go there to deliver supplies tomorrow. Why don't you bring the student you want to meet here?"

Hearing this, Ji Min waved his hand and said, "No need."

The person in charge thought that Ji Min was going to wait for someone to come back before coming back.

Unexpectedly, he heard the man in front of him say, "I'd better go there myself."

Ji Min didn't wait any longer.

He found a guide that day and entered the grassland according to the direction of Lu Ran and the others.

Instructor Lu Ran's team cooperated with some tribes in the grassland.

The camp was set up around the tribe.

When Ji Min rushed to the camp, she caught up with some of Lu Ran's classmates who were returning to the camp to get equipment.

The guide was an acquaintance, and immediately shouted to the girls: "Xiao Zhu, Xiao Liu, this is Mr. Ji, who came from China to see your instructor."

The guide didn't know why Ji Min came. He

only knew that he was a big boss, so he thought Ji Min came for the team leader.

Xiao Zhu and Xiao Liu turned around and saw the man standing next to the guide, and their eyes lit up immediately.

The two mouthed to each other: "Wow, handsome guy!"

"The boss is coming true!"

"This height..."

Xiao Zhu walked back, muttering:

"Oh my god, my eyes filled with giraffes, lions and buffaloes can finally be washed!"

Xiao Liu whispered: "I don't need to wash."

Xiao Zhu rolled her eyes at her: "Of course you don't need to wash, you and our class flower are in the same group, but at least have mercy on me, I've been driven crazy by that idiot surnamed Guo."

When they walked in front of the guide, the two girls immediately regained their generous and decent appearance and greeted Ji Min politely: "Hello, Mr. Ji."

Ji Min nodded to the two.

"They are almost done, our instructor will be back soon." Xiao Zhu said.

At this time, the man in front of them explained: "No, I just came to see Lu Ran. Is Lu Ran here?"

Hearing Lu Ran's name, Xiao Zhu and Xiao Liu were both stunned.

Then, a look of "digging" flashed in their eyes at the same time.

Xiao Zhu frowned at Xiao Liu crazily: "Looking for the class flower!"

"Could it be..."

"Yes, yes! Our class... Lu Ran is in front. The equipment over there is broken and he is waiting for us to move the equipment over."

Ji Min looked at their car and said, "The road is not easy to drive. The chassis of your car is not high enough. Move the things to my car."

Then he asked the accompanying assistant to tie up the two girls to move the heavy equipment over.

When they set off together.

Xiao Zhu and Xiao Liu sat in the car with their hands and feet restrained, but they still couldn't hide their burning gossip hearts.

After a while, Xiao Zhu couldn't hold it back anymore, so he poked his head and asked cautiously: "Mr. Ji, what is your relationship with our class flower?"

After asking this, the man sitting in the passenger seat was stunned for a moment.

Then he smiled and asked with a smile, "Is he your class flower?"

Xiao Zhu smiled awkwardly:

"It's because classmate Lu Ran is handsome that many people secretly like him. We've gotten used to it."

Ji Min raised his eyebrows when he heard this.

Xiao Zhu and Xiao Liu heard the man laugh in an ambiguous way: "Many people like him."

They didn't understand what Ji Min meant by this laugh.

Then they heard the man say frankly: "I'm his boyfriend."

"Ah?"

Even though they had doubts, Xiao Zhu and Xiao Liu were still surprised when they heard this answer.

They made a sound of regret and excitement.

Lu Ran had said a long time ago that he had a boyfriend.

But due to various small thoughts, many people in the class thought this was an excuse to reject them.

This time Guo Zhou also came with him.

I don't know why, but Guo Zhou, who used to be obsessed with Lu Ran, has been saying bad things about Lu Ran behind his back recently.

Although he didn't say it explicitly, he implied that Lu Ran found an old man for money.

But Guo Zhou's popularity is terrible, and no one likes to listen to him.

Even if they heard it, they just thought that this guy was smearing others because he wanted to get something.

Now that they have met Ji Min in person, Xiao Zhu and Xiao Liu realized how serious the smear was!

What the hell is this called an old man?

Is there such an old man who is 1.9 meters tall, looks more handsome than a star, and has an excessively superior figure!

Besides, this Mr. Ji looks only about 27 or 28 years old, right?

Isn't this younger than Guo Zhou himself!

Perhaps the only truth Guo Zhou said was "I'm rich."

Soon, they arrived at the place where Lu Ran and the others were hanging out.

This is a high ground with a good view, but it's difficult to drive.

After the car stopped.

Ji Min got out of the car, looked up, and saw Lu Ran sitting by a cage, watching two little cheetahs who had lost their mother and were injured and receiving IV drips.

The others were standing on the high ground, looking into the distance.

As soon as Xiao Zhu and Xiao Liu got out of the car, they waved and called Lu Ran.

Lu Ran raised his head and saw the man standing by the off-road vehicle. His originally calm eyes suddenly lit up.

He immediately stood up from the cage, ran to Ji Min, and grabbed the man's wrist.

"Huh? How come you're not surprised to see me?" Ji Min asked with a raised eyebrow.

After a month's journey in Africa, Lu Ran got a little tanned, and he looked as lively as a wild animal.

He looked at Ji Min and smiled, "Because I called Uncle Chen, someone in the dormitory has also contacted the tutor."

As he said that, he pulled Ji Min to the highest place, urging him as he ran, "Come here quickly!"

He ran fast, panting as he explained, "I only know that you're coming today, but I don't know if you can make it."

Ji Min was a little confused.

He followed Lu Ran on the high ground in two steps.

Then he saw the person next to him, still like the boy three years ago, excitedly pointing to the distance and said to him, "Look!"

Ji Min raised his eyes and looked over.

It's a great animal migration.

The sky was extremely open not far away, and the grassland was endless, with only a few shrubs dotted in between.

In the open field of vision, herds of buffaloes and zebras ran through the grassland, over the shrubs, and across the river below...

Large pieces of dust and water splashed up.

Accompanied by the vibration of dense footsteps, it brought a huge shock from life itself to the onlookers.

Ji Min rarely stopped to watch for a long time.

He turned back and looked at the people around him.

Lu Ran looked at him with a smile and said, "When I first came here, I wanted to show you these."

As he said that, he frowned in distress:

"But I'm not very good at taking pictures, and I always feel that the pictures I take are not as good as what I actually see."

"Now, it's a good thing that you came and happened to make it, otherwise it would be difficult to see after this season!"

Ji Min looked back and stared at him.

Ji Min thought that when he just came here, others were already standing here and watching.

Only Lu Ran stood by the cage, staring at the two little cheetahs.

The man asked in a hoarse voice:

"If I can't make it today, will you keep staring at those two little things while they are dripping?"

Lu Ran squeezed his wrist, did not answer, but said:

"Anyway, I took the best position in advance, and they don't dare to compete with me!"

Ji Min laughed dully and held his hand instead.

Lu Ran pulled his arm again, urging: "Look! Look!"

Ji Min raised his eyes and looked over, and the running bison and zebras had disappeared.

A red sun fell in the western sky.

The sun was so red that it seemed to melt, and the red spread from the horizon to the grassland, dyeing the scattered shadows of the trees into a gorgeous red.

It also dyed the foreheads of the people around him red.

Lu Ran stared at the sunset on the grassland for a long time.

When he turned his head, he found that the man next to him was not watching the beautiful sunset on the grassland.

Instead, he was staring at him.

"Why are you looking at me? The sun is almost gone." Lu Ran said angrily.

Ji Min chuckled: "Nothing."

He just held Lu Ran's hand tightly again.

He just suddenly felt that the boy who was once confined to the hospital bed was

now standing on the vibrant African savannah, admiring his favorite animals, watching the beautiful sunset, and working in the field he loved deeply.

This in itself was a scene more beautiful than the sunset.

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Before dark, everyone returned to the camp together.

Ji Min moved down the supplies he brought and handed them to Lu Ran's instructor.

Then he and everyone else ate something together.

This was the first time that Ji Min, as Lu Ran's boyfriend, really came into contact with Lu Ran's classmates and friends.

He restrained his aura and sat casually in front of the campfire.

While Lu Ran was away, a group of people surrounded Ji Min and asked him questions with their gossipy hearts.

As soon as they saw Lu Ran, they immediately shrank back and sat upright.

Seeing this, Ji Min couldn't help laughing.

He joked, "Why are you still afraid of him?"

Seeing that Lu Ran was busy again, the group of people breathed a sigh of relief and said,

"It's scary when the class flower gets angry."

"We really saw the class flower get angry some time ago. My god, it was really... very satisfying!"

It turned out that it was still related to Guo Zhou.

When Ji Min went to pick up Lu Ran before, he "gently" greeted Guo Zhou.

Guo Zhou was also scolded by his family and finally calmed down a lot.

But once he went abroad, this person probably felt that Ji Min was out of reach, and began to relapse and spread gossip about Lu Ran behind his back.

One time, Lu Ran happened to hear it.

He kicked the man into the pile of cow dung.

At that moment, everyone was stunned.

Someone described the scene to Ji Min in vivid detail:

"You don't know how clean and sharp that kick from Class Flower was!"

"After the kick, Class Flower laughed and said: My temper is much better now, I actually waited until now to kick you."

"Class Flower really did what I always wanted to do!" The person

who spoke was Xiao Zhu.

"That Guo guy never does his job all day, complains about being tired and dirty, and pushes everything to me. I wanted to kick him in a long time ago!"

Ji Min imagined the scene, but unexpectedly felt a little nostalgic.

He listened to some more interesting stories about Lu Ran.

It was not until the break that he returned to Lu Ran's tent.

He lifted the tent and went in.

Lu Ran had already washed up and was wearing shorts and a T-shirt, lying on the blanket, looking at the data recorded during the day.

Hearing the voice, he turned his head and looked at Ji Min. He

raised his eyebrows and said, "Why are you coming back to my place? Didn't I set up a tent for you?"

"I gave it to my assistant." Ji Min swaggered in.

He lay down next to Lu Ran.

It was dark in the tent and a little stuffy.

The ceiling was not very high, and there was a sense of privacy as if one was crawling into a quilt. There was

only a small lamp, and the warm yellow light shone on Lu Ran.

After Lu Ran finished reading the data, he packed up his things while chatting with Ji Min for a while.

The man chatted with him casually.

But he listened carefully to the sounds outside the tent.

Until the voices outside the tent slowly disappeared.

Ji Min's gaze fell on Lu Ran's gently shaking calves.

It was a hot day, and under the light, the exposed calves and ankles seemed to be covered with a layer of honey-colored water light.

It was inexplicably tempting.

Ji Min was still answering, "Da Huang's physical examination results last week were good. The doctor said he was very healthy." But

his fingertips had already touched Lu Ran's calves.

In the silent darkness, this slight touch became extremely obvious.

Lu Ran hissed and moved his legs away.

He turned his head and smiled at the man, and asked, "This is still in the camp, such a dangerous place, what are you doing?"

He stepped forward and said, "Aren't you afraid that a lion will run in halfway through!"

He bared his fangs as if threatening.

"Who are you trying to scare?" Ji Min patted him on the shoulder, "Do you think I've never been here?"

Seeing that he was not scared,

Lu Ran sat up straight again and said seriously, "It's really dangerous."

"Huh?" Ji Min raised his eyebrows to see what nonsense he could say.

Lu Ran smiled and leaned close to his ear, explaining,

"Do you know that there is an insect called horse fly here? Its larvae will parasitize on the bodies of mammals through mosquitoes."

Ji Min: "..."

He regretted that he should not have let Lu Ran open his mouth.

Ji Min reached out to cover Lu Ran's mouth.

Lu Ran dodged his hand while laughing, and continued to threaten:

"I saw a case online, where a man was bitten by a mosquito on his testicles. He didn't care at the time, but after a while, he felt unbearable pain."

Ji Min: "...You can do it."

Lu Ran continued: "Later, when he went to the hospital, the doctor cut open his testicles during the operation and found a big one inside..."

He also gestured: "A horse fly larva as big as a finger knuckle, wriggling inside. Um...it looks like a large maggot."

Ji Min: "..."

Why did he have to listen to this kind of nonsense at this time.

Seeing the man's stiff face, Lu Ran laughed and pounded the ground.

He also did not forget to "advise": "So don't choose this time to do bad things."

Ji Min: "Your mouth..."

He could not bear it any longer and kissed her.

Lu Ran laughed and pouted.

But Ji Min really did nothing this time.

After the kiss, he half-raised his body and looked at Lu Ran with a smile in his black eyes.

Lu Ran was stunned for a moment, raised his left hand, and looked at the slightly cool touch on his fingers.

Under the warm light, a low-key ring on his ring finger was reflecting the light.

He pressed the ring and could feel two letters and a puppy pattern on the inner circle of the ring.

Lu Ran raised his head.

The man was still looking at him, with a smile in his eyes, making this cold-tempered man look extremely gentle at this moment.

"You have made it, Ji Min." Lu Ran said.

"Huh?" Ji Min raised his eyebrows.

Lu Ran touched the ring on his finger and said with emotion: "I told you such a terrible story, and you still remembered to propose."

Ji Min laughed.

He prepared for a long time, but no matter how he prepared, he felt it was not perfect enough.

But in the end, he gave this ring in this narrow tent, in a camp in the wilderness.

Lu Ran rubbed the ring for a while, then looked at Ji Min and said regretfully:

"You got there first, I thought I would be there earlier."

Ji Min was a little surprised.

Then Lu Ran turned around and continued to search in his bag, which he had been searching for for a long time.

Finally, he took out a small black velvet box from the gap in the zipper.

The young man held the box and moved his hand under the light.

Then he opened the box. There

was a pair of rings in the box.

Unlike the pair of rings with a strong sense of design that Ji Min asked the designer to customize,

the pair in Lu Ran's hand was relatively simple in style.

Each of the two rings was inlaid with a deep sapphire.

Under the dim light, Lu Ran raised his head and looked at Ji Min.

He stroked the sapphire on the ring and said:

"There seems to be a legend here that this gem can allow lovers to meet in every life."

Lu Ran smiled beautifully under the light.

At this point, he felt a little embarrassed and frowned, saying, "It seems a bit nonsense."

But he soon smiled again, looking up at Ji Min and said, "But it's a good sign after all."

Ji Min was speechless for a moment.

Gems of this quality are not easy to find, and it takes time to customize a ring, and it is necessary to know the size of his finger in advance.

Ji Min didn't expect Lu Ran to prepare these.

In his plan, Lu Ran didn't need to do anything. He just needed to continue his studies and continue to delve into his favorite profession.

Now, Ji Min found that, unknown to him, Lu Ran was also trying to get closer to him.

And... he was extremely greedy like a child.

Once he opened his mouth, he was ready for life after life.

In the dim tent, Lu Ran took Ji Min's hand and pushed the sapphire ring onto the man's finger.

The two held their fingers together.

Although they were rings of different styles, they contained the same meaning.

After waiting for a while,

the lights in the tent finally went out.

Only the two rings pressed tightly together were still flashing with tiny lights.