Chapter 140 Extra if line (5)

"...I...didn't cry." Ji Min said in a muffled voice.

Ran Ran blinked and thought, the big brother obviously cried.

Ji Min sat on the carpet holding the child in his arms.

The fragility in him was only indulged for a moment, and then he took it back.

But even if it was just a moment, it was a rare comfort and relaxation for him.

Ji Min loosened his arms slightly.

The child in his arms was still wearing pajamas, and his slippers had fallen to the ground. Now his feet were bare.

Ji Min reached out to help him put on his shoes, pinched the child's hand, and asked him: "Are you cold?"

The child shook his head.

As if sensing that his mood had improved, the child finally showed a little smile on his face.

Ji Min also laughed and rubbed his cheek.

It was still a little chilly on a rainy night in summer.

The child stayed at the door for a long time, his cheeks were chilled.

Ji Min paused and asked him: "Brother has been ignoring you, are you angry?"

The child shook his head, looked up at his well-behaved eyes and said: "Ranran will not be angry with brother."

Ji Min lives in the Ji family.

He is also very smart and has seen through too many things that he should not have seen through at this age.

If Ranran was two years older, Ji Min would probably think that the child was deliberately trying to please him.

But the child, who was only four years old, looked at him with a pair of pure eyes.

The child didn't understand anything.

He just simply cared whether he was happy or sad.

This kind of pure care makes people feel soft-hearted.

Ji Min asked him again:

"Others are avoiding me, afraid that I will lose my temper. You are so close to me, aren't you afraid that I will get angry and scold you?"

This time the child looked at him for a while, tiptoed, stretched out his hand and patted Ji Min's forehead, and said:

"Ranran knows that brother is just in a bad mood."

The child said again: "It doesn't matter if brother scolds Ranran."

Ji Min was stunned.

His eyes collided with the child's eyes, and he unexpectedly found that Ranran was serious.

It seemed that as long as it was someone he liked and was close to, it didn't matter if he was angry or lost his temper with him.

"Who taught you to say such things?"

Ji Min reached out to knock the child's forehead, feeling a little ridiculous, but couldn't help feeling distressed.

He earnestly instructed,

"Ranran, don't let yourself be wronged for others in the future."

"But my brother is not someone else, and Ranran won't be wronged either." Ranran said.

"That's not okay either!"

Ji Min reached out and hugged the child.

Thinking back to how he had just left the child aside and ignored him, he wanted to slap himself a few times.

He pursed his lips and said, "No one can do that, not even me."

The child looked confused and didn't quite understand what Ji Min meant.

It was already late, and he yawned first.

Seeing this, Ji Min didn't say anything.

He picked up the child and walked towards the children's room on the side.

But halfway through, he temporarily turned a corner and walked towards his bedroom.

The child was sleepy.

He leaned on Ji Min's shoulder and rubbed his eyes, looking at the children's room that was getting farther and farther away from him.

The little hand patted Ji Min and said, "Brother, you are lost, where is my room!"

Ji Min paused and still carried him to his side. He

also said confidently, "What does a child need his own room? He should sleep with adults."

After that, Ji Min saw the child looking at him and sighed deeply.

Ji Min: "......?"

Ran Ran looked at his big brother, shook his head, and said seriously, "Brother, you are so old now, you should learn to sleep by yourself."

Ji Min: "..."

The child looked like an experienced person and advised him, "A man should not be afraid of the dark. If you are afraid of the dark, just bury yourself in the quilt."

Ji Min was stunned for two seconds.

A feeling of not knowing whether to laugh or cry surged up, instantly dispelling the sadness brought by Grandpa Ji.

He put the child beside the bed, squatted down, looked at the child and said, "Huh? What did Ranran just say?"

Ranran thought he didn't believe it, and tried to explain:

"It's true!"

As he said that, he also pulled open Ji Min's quilt and demonstrated it.

The child pulled the thin quilt to cover himself tightly.

Then covered his head as well.

Curled up into a small ball in the quilt.

The child's voice came out vaguely through the quilt:

"Really, you won't be afraid this way."

Ji Min looked at the outline of the little man curled up under the quilt.

The smile on the boy's face became a little lighter.

He stretched out his hand and patted the child lightly through the quilt.

It was like patting a little snail that had shrunk into its shell.

The child slowly crawled out from under the quilt.

The weather was still a bit stuffy, and after only covering himself for a while, the child's cheeks were red.

Ji Min then remembered that every time he went to see Ranran sleeping, his face was very red.

Ji Min always thought that children were like this when they slept.

Unexpectedly, it was because of the quilt.

"Is Ranran always scared?" Ji Min asked.

The child, who was so excited just now, suddenly stopped talking.

He knelt on the bed, lowered his head and pinched his fingers.

After a long while, he whispered, "I'm only a little scared."

"But brother is very scared." Ji Min said.

After saying this, the child opposite immediately brightened up his eyes, showing a little surprise of finding a similar person, and a little distress.

He stretched out his little hand and patted Ji Min, saying, "Then Ranran will accompany brother, and brother will not be afraid."

Probably because he was too sleepy, the child fell asleep quickly.

The child in his arms was warm.

It was the warmest warmth Ji Min had ever had.

The boy was also tired and slowly closed his eyes.

Wait for Butler Chen to get up in the middle of the night.

He saw that the light in the living room was not turned off.

The door of Ji Min's bedroom was also open.

Butler Chen went in and saw two children, one big and one small, sleeping soundly with their heads close to each other.

The next day.

Ji Min asked someone to clean up the room next to the children's room and moved in.

He also asked someone to find a few fairy tale books for children.

The child goes to bed early every night.

Although he is a little scared, he has developed a good habit of sleeping on his own at a young age.

Ji Min also has classes at night, so it is not realistic to accompany Ranran to sleep.

But he can tell the child a bedtime story.

The rooms are close, so when Ranran is scared, he can come directly to him.

After cleaning up these, Ji Min went to the study to teach.

In the study, the lecturer had been waiting for a while.

When he saw the boy come in, he was about to prepare for the lecture.

But the boy said to the little kid who was like a tail beside him: "Ranran, my brother can't find his pencil case. Go ask your uncle where the pencil case is."

The kid nodded and ran away.

Watching the kid leave, the boy walked into the study with a calm expression.

He skipped the PPT prepared by the lecturer and sat down in the chair.

His posture was not very formal.

"Young Master, today we are going to talk about the industrial structure of the group..."

The lecturer said halfway and slowly stopped talking under the boy's gaze.

The boy didn't say anything.

He was only fourteen years old, but the sense of oppression of being a superior had already taken shape.

The lecturer couldn't help but put down the lesson plan in his hand: "...Young Master?"

He was a little nervous.

He probably guessed why Ji Min had this attitude.

Most likely it was because he told Grandpa Ji about Ranran's performance in class without permission.

Ji Min spoke slowly: "Teacher, my grandpa should pay you a very high salary, right?"

The lecturer laughed dryly.

Ji Min did not mention Ranran, but just talked about something irrelevant.

He asked: "Teacher, you should know that before you, my grandpa hired many financial lecturers."

"Yes, yes." The lecturer hurriedly said, "I heard that they were not good enough in learning and were all fired."

Ji Min smiled at him: "Teacher, who decides what level a private tutor is in your opinion?"

The boy pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled indifferently.

Although he didn't say it clearly, the lecturer immediately understood what the boy meant.

At this time, there were footsteps outside the study.

A child ran over with a pencil case. The

boy, who had just shown his sharp edge, immediately put away all the sharp things on his body.

Slowly, Ranran has been staying in Ji's house for more than a month.

Ji Min was afraid that the child would have problems, so he often took him out for a walk.

No longer as restrained as when he first came, the child's naughty side slowly showed up.

Sometimes, he would even secretly pour the vegetables he didn't like into Ji Min's bowl.

He would also deliberately dig bugs to scare Ji Min.

Ji Min didn't like to eat vegetables either.

But looking at Ranran like this, he felt an inexplicable sense of accomplishment.

The weather was clear.

The child was holding a small shovel and shoveling in the flowerbed.

All the precious flowers originally planted in the flowerbed were pulled out.

The whole flowerbed looked like it had been plowed.

Suddenly, he dug up something.

The child ran to Ji Min excitedly.

Then he opened his dirty little hands and showed him the squirming soft animals in his hands:

"Brother! It's a bug!"

Ji Min got goosebumps all over his body.

He sighed and corrected himself, "It's an earthworm."

"You can feed it to the birds!" The child put the earthworms that were twisting around in his hands into his pocket with a baby look.

Ji Min's eyelids twitched for a moment.

In the end, he couldn't bear to blame the child, and didn't want the child to put such a dirty thing in his clothes.

So he endured the discomfort and stretched out his hand, saying, "Come, brother will hold it for you."

The child put the earthworm into Ji Min's palm, and said, "Brother, hold it well, don't let the worm run away."

Ji Min: "..."

Ji Min just picked up the child and fed the caught earthworms to the two chickens raised by housekeeper Chen.

Someone came to the front yard.

They were two policemen. They happened to be

the two people that Ranran had seen in the hospital before.

After more than a month, I saw the police again.

The child recognized the familiar police sister and police uncle, and waved to them with a smile.

Ji Min's heart lifted, and he didn't know what to feel for a moment.

He called out to the child, "Ranran."

The child ran back to him, pulled his clothes, looked up and asked, "Brother, what's wrong?"

"Nothing." Ji Min pulled the corner of his mouth at him and said, "Can you go and pour tea for everyone with your uncle?"

The child liked to follow Butler Chen around and busy himself. Hearing this, he immediately nodded vigorously and followed Butler Chen.

After looking at the child's figure for a while, Ji Min looked at the police in front of him and asked,

"You two came here this time, is..."

The boy paused for a while, and then said in a dry voice, "Did you find Ranran's family?"

The police didn't hear the complexity in his voice.

He sighed and said, "There has been no progress. Four years ago, the collection of newborn DNA was not popular, and the information reported recently does not match."

One of the female police officers thought for a moment and said, "Some time ago, an old man called the police and said that his grandson was missing. But the child's father came to submit some specific information, and the place where the child was lost was a bit different from Ranran."

Hearing these words, Ji Min couldn't help but breathe

a sigh of relief. Soon, he felt embarrassed because of his relaxation at this moment.

The police said, "This time, we are here to remind you that Ranran has been missing for almost 60 days, and his identity information needs to be stored in the welfare home."

Ji Min came back to his senses and frowned, "Ranran can't live here anymore?"

"This..."

The police looked at each other and said, "We need to contact the staff of the welfare home. Director Lu should come over in a while."

After the police left, Ji Min was relieved and a little worried.

Only the child didn't understand what happened. He was still lying in the study, drawing insect illustrations with colored pencils.

He sat on the sofa anxiously for a while.

The young man suddenly stood up, lowered his voice, and said solemnly: "Ranran should take my last name in the future, I can adopt Ranran."

Butler Chen: "..."

Butler Chen reminded ruthlessly: "Excuse me, young master, you don't meet the requirements of adopting a child."

Ji Min thought of this after he finished speaking, and sat back angrily.

Then, he looked at Butler Chen again and said: "Uncle Chen, then you adopt Ranran."

Butler Chen said with a smile: "I don't meet the requirements either."

Ji Min was silent.

Seeing that the young man was really worried, Butler Chen was silent for a while and suggested:

"If you really want to keep Ranran, you might as well let a member of the Ji family who meets the conditions adopt Ranran."

Hearing this, Ji Min was silent for a long time.

Finally, he looked at the child swinging his little feet happily in the study, and whispered, "Let me think of a solution."

A few days later, Director Lu of the welfare agency came over.

Director Lu is a very kind old man.

After arriving at Ji's house, he played with Ranran for a while before asking Ji Min about the child's situation.

After leaving Ji Min's house, Director Lu met with Grandpa Ji again.

Ji Min informed Grandpa Ji in advance.

This time when he left, Director Lu did not take Ranran away.

Ranran stayed at Ji's house as a sponsored orphan.

A few days later.

Director Lu sent a registration data and an identity card.

The registration data has the two characters "Lu Ran" in the name column.

Ji Min showed the data to the child.

The child was a little excited: "Wow! Ran Ran finally has a complete name."

Ji Min asked: "Do you like this name?"

The child nodded: "Yeah!"

The boy couldn't help but feel a little jealous and said: "That Dean Lu has only come a few times, do you like him so much?"

But the child hugged the boy's legs and said: "But the name was given to Ran Ran by my brother!"

Ji Min couldn't help but laugh.

He looked down at the child in front of him.

The child had been missing for nearly two months, but no family member came to look for him.

Ji Min didn't know what the child's previous name was.

He also didn't know whether he had lived a happy life before.

But Ji Min hoped that this new name would bring a new future to the child.