Chapter 136 Extra if Line (1)

"It's so annoying, is he coming or not?"

The tall and long-legged boy leaned against a simple plastic chair.

He didn't know how to sit properly, and the chair was too small for his tall figure.

As a result, his long legs had nowhere to rest. He bent them for a while, then stretched them out.

After stretching for a while, the boy's sharp eyebrows wrinkled, and he raised his hands and slapped his bare ankles hard.

With a "snap" sound,

the boy lowered his eyes and looked at the palm of his hand.

A big mosquito that was full of blood died.

He took a tissue with an expressionless face, wiped the blood stains on his palm, and crumpled the tissue into the trash can beside him.

There were already several bloody paper balls lying in the trash can.

"So, how long do I have to wait here?"

Ji Min, who was only fourteen years old, looked over.

Butler Chen held the phone in his hand, maintaining a smile on his face.

In fact, he was already lamenting in his heart, wondering how he could tell the increasingly bad-tempered teenager in front of him what was on the phone.

But he didn't wait for him to speak.

Ji Min glanced at him, leaned back in his chair, and smiled:

"Tell me, is his wife sick, or is his beloved son sick?"

Hearing this, Butler Chen sighed and replied:

"It is said that Young Master Jiang's school is holding an event, and Ms. Jiang can't leave for the time being, so the gentleman can only go."

Ms. Jiang is Ji Min's stepmother.

The so-called Master Jiang is the son of Ms. Jiang and her ex-husband, and Ji Min's stepbrother with no blood relationship.

Today is not a big deal.

It's just the anniversary of Ji Min's mother's death.

Ji Min has lost all feelings about this day.

Those who left have left, and those who stayed have to continue living.

Originally, Ji Min was just preparing to do what he should do after sweeping the graves as usual.

As a result, his biological father, who was obsessed with his first love, suddenly had a whim and asked him to visit the homestay where his mother had lived.

Ji Min squatted here, with mosquito bites all over his legs.

Hearing what Butler Chen said, there was no surprise on his face.

He was not resentful of being released by his own father, and was too calm.

Hearing this, he just stood up and shook his legs, and said lazily, "Oh, then I'll go out for a walk."

After that, he lifted his legs and walked out .

Butler Chen hurriedly chased him out and said, "The weather is not good, it will rain tonight, you should come back early."

But this young man was fearless, he just responded casually and walked away without looking back.

Just after walking a few steps, another teenager caught up with him.

He held a bunch of lilies in his hand and shouted to Ji Min: "Brother Min!"

Ji Min was in a bad mood at the moment. He just turned his head and asked coldly:

"Is there something?"

Ji Chi embarrassedly shook his head and said awkwardly:

"Well... I heard that the lady likes this kind of flowers the most, but my identity is really not suitable for giving flowers to the lady, so... I'll leave it to you, Brother Min."

Ji Min glanced at Ji Chi.

After all, it was because of today and the flowers in his hand that he stayed for a moment.

But Ji Min didn't take it, just said: "Her grave is not here, you can put the flowers in the car."

After that, he ignored Ji Chi and continued to walk out of the B&B.

There is nothing fun nearby.

Ji Min just didn't want to stay in the B&B.

He walked around the street alone.

Passing by a flower shop, he thought of the flowers prepared by Ji Chi and stopped for a moment.

Ji Min remembered that during the years of sweeping graves, the flowers were prepared by Butler Chen.

They were all common types that were not easy to make mistakes.

Ji Chi said that his mother liked lilies when she was alive.

In fact, Ji Min had no impression.

He stared at the flowers in the flower shop, but he really couldn't remember which one she liked.

After all, it was too long ago.

And... in Ji Min's memory, the person who married into the Ji family because of a family marriage seemed to have always been indifferent and had no special preferences.

Ji Min thought for a while and felt a little annoyed.

He stood up and prepared to buy a little of each type. He would still have time to take them back and drive to the cemetery.

But at this moment, some vague memories about his mother suddenly flashed through Ji Min's mind.

She didn't like flowers, but she liked trees that were growing vigorously.

It was summer, and a breeze blew.

The dense trees not far away made a "rustling" sound.

Ji Min raised his head and walked towards the place where the trees were lush.

The road was a bit far.

He picked up a bicycle and rode while looking at the lush trees around him.

When he came to his senses, he had actually ridden more than 20 kilometers and arrived at the foot of a mountain.

It was already dark, and raindrops were falling.

Ji Min got out of the car, his throat was dry and smoking.

He looked around and cursed himself for coming to such a hellish place.

Summer rain started to fall without warning.

The raindrops immediately got heavier.

Ji Min wanted to buy a bottle of water, but there were not many people at the foot of the mountain. There was only a fast food restaurant and an ice cream shop, both of which were closed.

Further into the mountain, there was a vending machine flashing.

The rain was getting heavier.

Ji Min hesitated for a while between finding a place to hide from the rain and buying water, but he finally rode his bike into the mountains.

When Ji Min stopped in front of the vending machine,

he was soaked like a drowned chicken.

The boy smoothed his hair, wrung the water off his T-shirt, and bought a bottle of water from the vending machine in the rain.

Holding this hard-earned bottle of water, he once again wondered if he had a brain seizure today.

He pulled his bike to a big tree to shelter from the rain.

Just as he opened the bottle cap in his hand, he suddenly heard some rustling sounds coming from behind the tree.

Ji Min frowned.

He looked behind the thick tree trunk, thinking it was some small animal.

But he saw a wet little yellow duck satchel.

Ji Min kept the action of screwing the bottle cap.

He stared at the satchel that appeared so unreasonable and pondered for a while.

If he was not mistaken, this should be something that children in kindergarten would carry.

Why would a child stay outside at this time?

It seemed that he noticed that his satchel was exposed.

The owner of the satchel carefully stretched out a little hand and clumsily pressed the little yellow duck back.

Ji Min stood there for a while.

Suddenly he turned sideways and looked behind the tree.

The child hiding behind the tree did not expect to be discovered and was startled.

He sat down in the puddle.

The child was holding a large box in his hands. He fell down, but his two short hands were still tightly protecting the box.

"Hey."

Ji Min quickly picked up the child by one handle.

The child struggled to run away, his eyes full of vigilance.

After a lot of chaos.

Ji Min squatted down, frowned and looked at the child in front of him, and asked: "Why are you staying here so late at night? Where are your parents?"

When asked this, tears welled up in the child's eyes.

But he quickly held them back.

He just hugged the sticky box tightly in his hand again and said,

"I'll wait for mom and dad here."

Then he looked up and said warily, "My dad will be here soon! My dad is very close here and can see me!"

Ji Min didn't understand at first.

After hearing the child's words, he looked up and looked around, wanting to see where the careless father was.

When he looked down and saw the child's expression of looking at the vendors, he suddenly realized.

He sneered, "You are quite smart."

Hearing him speak, the child took a step back warily.

Ji Min roughly understood that the child must have been separated from the adults.

Ji Min is not a caring person.

Without saying anything to the child, he took out his mobile phone to call the police.

By the way, he called Uncle Chen and asked him to pick him up.

But when he took out his cell phone, Ji Min found that it was turned off.

When he went out in the afternoon, his cell phone had only a few bars of battery left. He just bought water with coins and did not pay attention to the battery level of his cell phone.

Ji Min lowered his eyes and stared at the child, hesitating for a while.

At this time, the shops at the foot of the mountain were closed, and there were few pedestrians on the road.

It was too late to go down and ask for help.

The child looked fair and clean, and the clothes he wore, including the little yellow duck shoulder bag, were all branded children's clothing of the season.

The family must be very concerned.

He stayed here with the child for a while, and the child's family should come over soon.

But the rain was so heavy that the treetops could not block it at all.

The child was also completely wet.

It would be even more troublesome if there was thunder later.

Ji Min remembered that there seemed to be a pavilion not far away.

He wanted to go there in the rain to take a look, and then come to pick up the child after confirming it.

But he lowered his eyes and glanced at the toddler beside him. He was still worried, so he reached out and picked up the child.

The teenage boy didn't know how to hold a child at all.

He simply put one hand on his waist and tucked the child under his armpit, and walked forward.

The child was picked up suddenly, and the box in his hand almost fell to the ground.

He hugged him hurriedly, and struggled and shouted: "Help, help! There are bad guys!"

Ji Min: "..."

He was numb from the child's shouting. He

immediately lowered his head and glanced at the child, snorting and laughing: "Go ahead and shout, it's raining so hard now, your parents can't hear you."

These words scared the child to tears.

Ji Min: "..."

"I really don't know if you are brave or timid." The boy muttered, and explained in a rare good-natured voice,

"Let's find a place to shelter from the rain and wait for your parents, otherwise you will be soaked by the time they come."

Perhaps the words "wait for them to come" gave the child hope, and the child finally calmed down for a while.

But he still retorted: "Grandpa said that we should stand here and wait for adults, and we can't run around."

"Your grandpa is not here, and his words don't count." Ji Min said.

After that, he pulled up his T-shirt and covered the child's head.

At least it blocked some rain.

Ji Min quickly ran to the pavilion with the child in his arms.

He put the child down, and the child immediately checked the box in his arms.

Ji Min then noticed that what he was holding in his arms was a takeaway box of ice cream, which contained four packages.

But now the ice cream had almost melted, with only four cones still standing inside.

The child stared at the box for a while, pursed his lips, and said to himself: "The ice cream has melted."

Ji Min felt that he was indeed a child.

At this time, he was still thinking about ice cream.

He took off his shirt, squeezed it dry, and put it back on.

After thinking for a while, he squeezed the wet clothes on the child.

The child was wearing a coat on the outside.

When taking it off, the child was willing.

But when Ji Min was about to take off his short-sleeved shirt and shorts, the child immediately looked at him in fear and shrank aside.

"I'm going to squeeze the water out of you." Ji Min explained helplessly.

The child argued: "But the teacher said! You can't let others take off their clothes!"

Ji Min looked up at the sky speechlessly: "Forget it, then you just get wet."

The pavilion is not big, only two meters square.

Two children, one big and one small, each occupy one side, separated by a long distance.

The rain was pouring outside, and the rain almost merged into one.

For a moment, the pavilion was extremely quiet.

The child lay on the railing of the pavilion and looked at the place where he was standing.

Looking forward to seeing someone coming to find him.

The boy looked at the rain with impatience.

But he also glanced in that direction out of the corner of his eye.

Suddenly, Ji Min's stomach made a "gurgling" sound.

The child lying on the railing immediately turned his head and looked at him.

Ji Min: "..."

He didn't have dinner.

I didn't eat much for lunch because I was angry with my own father.

I rode another 20 kilometers.

I was really hungry now.

In the heavy rain, there was obviously nothing to eat.

Ji Min subconsciously glanced at the box in the child's arms.

After seeing it, the child immediately hid the box in his arms.

But the box was too big to hide.

He simply put the box behind him and blocked it with his body.

Seeing him like this, Ji Min sneered: "Who wants to eat your ice cream that has turned into a ghost shape."

The boy turned around, crossed his arms, and sat in the pavilion.

The pavilion was quiet again.

The heavy rain continued, and only the dim light of the street lamps was still on.

The rain curtain is like a natural dividing line, separating the pavilion from the outside world.

Surrounding it are lush trees and the "patter" sound of rain hitting the leaves and eaves.

Ji Min sat for a while, and his mood, which had been irritable all day, unexpectedly calmed down.

He leaned against the wet pillars of the pavilion and looked up at the wooden eaves of the pavilion.

"Hey."

Ji Min spoke and asked the child next to him, "What's your name?"

Hearing this, the child turned his head to look at him, and the vigilance in his eyes was still there.

He only whispered: "Grandpa said that you can't tell these to strangers."

Ji Min wanted to roll his eyes again.

"Okay, okay, then what are your parents' names?"

"Why are you asking these questions?" the child said.

Ji Min was surprised for a moment.

This kid is so young, yet he actually asked back.

Soon, the child repeated: "My dad will be here soon!"

As if to strengthen the effect of this sentence, the child tried to describe it:

"My dad is taller than you and very awesome!"

Ji Min was so angry that he laughed.

He deliberately asked: "Oh, how awesome is he?"

The child seemed to be stumped by his question.

He was stunned for a long time, and then pinched his fingers hesitantly, and then opened his hands and made an "Awoo" gesture.

Then he said: "It's, it's that awesome!"

Ji Min couldn't help but laughed.

The child seemed to be angry at his laughter, turned his head to look outside the pavilion, and stopped talking.

The pavilion became quiet again.

Ji Min listened to the rain quietly.

It was dark outside and the rain was heavy.

The ten-year-old Ji Min felt that it was rare to have peace and quiet, and he wanted to hide longer.

But the three- or four-year-old child was eventually scared.

So, the dumpling, which was originally far away from Ji Min, moved a little closer, and then a little closer.

Finally, it stopped at a distance that was very close to Ji Min, but not touching.

Ji Min did not tease him.

He looked at the box in the child's arms and asked curiously, "Your ice cream has melted, why don't you eat it?"

The child looked down at the transparent box that was already filled with cream, pointed at each grid inside, and said,

"This one is for Dad, this one is for Mom, and these two are for the eldest and second brothers."

After saying that, he remembered, and said, "Ah," and suddenly realized, "Ranran forgot to buy one for herself."

The child's voice was so childish that Ji Min didn't hear it clearly, so he lowered his eyes and asked him, "Huh? What's your name?"

At this time, a gust of wind blew over.

Raindrops hit the pavilion with the wind.

The child subconsciously shrank his body.

But he didn't feel the rain hitting him.

He quietly opened his eyes, but saw that it was the boy next to him who leaned over to block the rain for him.

"The wind is blowing this way, let's sit on the other side." Ji Min said,

and moved the child to another place.

Just after sitting down, Ji Min's stomach growled again.

Ji Min: "..."

He lowered his eyes and looked at the child beside him.

Compared with his initial vigilance, the child has not completely let down his guard.

But in those dark and bright eyes, there is a little more slight curiosity.

At this moment, those eyes are staring at Ji Min's stomach.

Ji Min suddenly became playful, holding his stomach and wailing: "Oh, I'm so hungry, I'm going to die if I don't eat!"

The child was startled.

He subconsciously took a step back, and then walked towards Ji Min with some worry. After

hesitating for a while, he stretched out his dirty little hand and patted Ji Min's arm.

Seeing that Ji Min was still holding his stomach.

The child was a little scared at once, and said in a trembling voice: "Don't die..."

Ji Min couldn't help laughing so hard that his shoulders shook.

Suddenly, he heard a soft "click".

Ji Min looked up.

He saw the child put his precious box on the bench.

Then he reached out and clumsily opened the box.

The box was a mess.

Several flavors of ice cream had been mixed together and flowed to the bottom of the box.

Only a few cones were left standing, barely visible.

Tears welled up in the child's eyes again.

But the child didn't cry.

He took another look at the ice cream in the box and pushed the box towards Ji Min. He

took the initiative to speak to Ji Min for the first time: "Big brother, do you want to eat it?"

Ji Min was stunned by this.

He just wanted to play with the child on a whim, but he didn't expect the child to actually open the box.

This made Ji Min feel a little embarrassed.

Ji Min coughed lightly and teased him:

"Didn't you buy this for your father, mother and brothers? What will happen to them if I eat it?"

Unexpectedly, this question almost made the child cry.

Ji Min was startled and quickly said: "It's okay, I won't die if I don't eat it, keep it for them."

The child held back his tears again.

He choked and said, "It's okay, I'll go buy a new one."

After that, he didn't know what he was thinking about, and he repeated it again: "Mom and Dad will be here soon."

The child finished muttering, touched his face with the back of his hand, pushed the ice cream to Ji Min, and said, "Big brother, you eat it, your stomach is growling again."

Ji Min: "..."

To be honest, the box looks no different from a trash can.

It really makes people lose their appetite.

But when he lowered his head to meet the child's eyes, Ji Min paused, and still reached out to pick up an ice cream cone.

Just now he was desperate to eat it, and now the child opened such a precious box.

It would be a bit pretentious for him not to eat it.

Ji Min is at an age where he eats a lot, and he has never been hungry at ordinary times.

He was hungry now, and thought that the soft ice cream cone was the most disgusting thing he had ever eaten, so he ate two cones.

There were two left, so he looked at the child and asked, "Aren't you hungry?"

The child shook his head and said, "I don't want to eat."

Then he closed the box and continued to hold it in his arms.

But he thought of something, raised his head again, looked at Ji Min, and asked hopefully,

"Big brother, is the ice cream delicious?"

Ji Min: "..."

Although Ji Min's father and mother didn't love him, he had been pampered since he was a child, and he had never lacked material things.

He would never wrong himself in terms of temper.

It was probably because the pavilion was too quiet at the moment, or maybe the eyes of the child in front of him were too bright.

Ji Min rarely went against his own will and said, "It's delicious."

The child's eyes suddenly became brighter.

He held the box and moved closer.

The wet box almost rubbed against Ji Min's knees.

The child asked again: "Then big brother, are you happy now?"

This time Ji Min's answer was not forced.

He smiled and said, "Happy."

Hearing his answer, the child laughed out loud for the first time.

He even jumped twice with the box in his arms, showing his two little canine teeth, and said, "That's great!"

Ji Min didn't understand the child's happiness.

He still remembered that he was waiting for someone with the child.

He glanced at the place where the child had just been.

After looking over this time, Ji Min's smile slowly faded.

If he remembered correctly.

When he first saw the child from behind the tree, the ice cream in the child's arms had already melted.

Just now he saw that there were still ice cubes in the box for packing.

Although it is hot now, the ice and the ice have melted so completely, which means that the child has been waiting for a while.

His parents, no matter how carefree they are, should have noticed that their child is missing, right?

Ji Min wanted to ask something else.

When he turned around, he saw that the child was sleepy.

He thought the child was tired, so he didn't pay much attention.

Although it was summer, the heavy rain was coming down like this, and his body was soaked, but he still felt cold.

Ji Min was only wearing a short-sleeved shirt and couldn't help hugging his arms.

As if noticing his action, the child looked up and asked him, "Big brother, are you cold?"

Ji Min was about to say that he was not cold when he saw the child take off his jacket and said, "This is for you."

Ji Min couldn't help laughing.

He asked, "How should I wear it?"

The child looked at his own small clothes, then at the tall and strong boy in front of him, and was also stunned.

After hesitating for a while, he slowly put the small jacket on the hole in Ji Min's jeans.

Ji Min was stunned for a moment.

Then he laughed breathlessly.

"Okay, okay, you put it on yourself."

Ji Min laughed while putting the jacket on the child. When

his fingers touched the child's arm, the smile on his face disappeared abruptly.

He frowned: "Why are your hands so cold?"

"Aren't you cold? Why are you taking off your jacket?" Ji Min asked.

The only answer he got was the child's blank look.

Ji Min's mind suddenly flashed with a point of knowledge that he didn't know when he heard.

Children themselves don't know the difference between hot and cold.

So adults need to pay attention to adding or removing clothes.

Ji Min quickly put the coat on the child.

But the coat was wet from the rain.

Ji Min, a grown-up, didn't know how to take care of a child.

He only knew that if the child continued to get cold, something might go wrong.

Ji Min simply held the child in his arms.

The child was so wary of him just now, Ji Min thought he would struggle.

But when he held the child in his arms, he found that the child's limbs were soft, as if he didn't have the strength to struggle.

While holding the child in his arms, Ji Min looked outside the pavilion.

After waiting for a while, he found that there was no movement in his arms.

Looking down, the child nodded his head, looking like he was about to fall asleep.

But his hands and feet were still very cold.

No matter how inexperienced Ji Min was, he knew that this was not normal sleepiness.

He immediately patted the child's cheek and called him softly: "Hey, don't sleep, otherwise your parents will come later, what if you can't see them?"

Hearing his words, the child tried hard to open his eyes, but was still hazy.

The relaxed and comfortable feeling on Ji Min's body slowly dissipated.

He frowned and looked outside the pavilion.

The place where the child had been hiding before was empty, and no one came.

The rain outside continued to fall, and there was no sign of stopping. Instead, it was getting heavier.

Ji Min's face began to become solemn.

We can't wait like this any longer.

Otherwise, something will happen.

The view from the pavilion is very high.

Ji Min could see the bike he rode here parked in front of the vending machine not far away.

If he remembered correctly, he did not lock the bike.

But the car did not have a back seat.

Even if there was, the child would not be able to sit steadily in his condition.

Ji Min pursed his lips.

He looked at himself and saw that he was only wearing a pair of jeans and a T-shirt.

His phone was still out of battery.

Ji Min put the child on a bench first.

He took off his T-shirt and tore it into long strips. He

then used the strips to tie the child to himself.

Although it was not tied very steadily, he held on with one hand, so it should be okay.

After making up his mind, Ji Min lowered his head and rushed into the rain.

He ran to the bicycle, got on it, held the child in one hand, held the handlebars with the other, and rode hard down the mountain.

The rain was pouring down, and the road ahead was not visible.

Ji Min rode the bicycle with his bare chest.

He felt that he had never been so reckless

in his life. Fortunately, there was no one on the road and no obstacles.

Ji Min knew that the most difficult part was the road at the foot of the mountain.

When he went to the city, he would find pedestrians or open stores, or even just a telephone booth, and everything would be easy.

Ji Min rode the bicycle all the way.

The rain was pouring down on his head.

The rain was so cold that the temperature of the child in his arms became unnoticeable.

Ji Min, who always didn't care about anything, suddenly panicked.

He felt a little regretful.

The child has been silent since entering the pavilion.

Maybe he was already feeling uncomfortable at that time.

He didn't notice it.

If only he had gone down the mountain earlier.

Amid the "wailing" sound of the rain,

Ji Min suddenly heard a few very low sobs.

He was stunned for a long time before realizing that it was the child in his arms crying.

The child who had been talking to himself, saying "Mom and Dad will be here soon",

finally told the truth.

He sobbed and whispered, "Big brother, I lost everyone and can't find them..."

Ji Min felt a little sad for a moment.

But because he heard the child's voice, he felt a little relieved.

The rain was very loud.

He was afraid that the child couldn't hear him, so he rode while yelling, "Don't cry! I'll help you find it, okay?"

"Don't worry, I'll find it!"

Ji Min didn't know how long he had been riding.

Suddenly, a car appeared on the empty road, stopped, honked, and flashed at him.

The door opened.

Butler Chen came out with an umbrella and hurriedly shouted, "Master! Ji Min!"

Ji Min braked and stopped.

My heart finally settled down.