Chapter 39: Seeking Help

The streets were deserted in the early morning.

Lu Ran was holding the dog in one hand and chewing a bun in the other.

The weather has been good recently.

The weather was clear, and after the winter solstice, the sunrise time gradually became earlier.

The golden sunlight was warm on people's backs.

Lu Ran led Da Huang to the pet foster shop.

Da Huang stayed close to him, with two dark eyes glued to the bun in his hand.

"Da Me." Lu Ran chewed the bun calmly, "You have already eaten dog food."

Da Huang yawned and squeezed out two anxious hums.

His eyes were still staring at Lu Ran without blinking.

Lu Ran couldn't stand being stared at.

"Okay, just a small bite."

As he said that, he pulled off a small piece of bun skin and stuffed it into Da Huang's mouth.

Dahuang's walking posture suddenly became cheerful.

After sending Dahuang to the pet shop, Lu Ran turned and walked towards the coffee shop where he worked.

He has been a little annoyed recently.

Because of his experience in his previous life, Lu Ran hated it when someone he knew came to disturb his work.

But in recent days, either Ji Min, who had contact with Shen Xingyu, came up to him and wanted to introduce him to a job.

Or Shen Xingzhuo seemed to have changed his personality and ran over to give him money, which was unusual.

Things seemed to be all good.

But it made Lu Ran feel a little uncomfortable.

He took a shortcut through the park next to him, walked a few steps, but saw a familiar figure in front of him.

Lu Ran subconsciously took a few quick steps, stepped forward and looked around, and said in surprise:

"Uncle! Is it really you?"

Butler Chen was also a little surprised.

He looked at the dew on the ends of Lu Ran's hair, smiled and asked: "Little classmate, you are also working hard today."

"Of course."

Lu Ran often thought that Ji Min was a bad-tempered psychopath, but he liked Butler Chen beside him very much.

Probably because Butler Chen always looked at him kindly.

He never treated him differently because of his background and his ambiguous relationship with the Shen family.

"Uncle, didn't you go to work today?" Lu Ran asked.

Butler Chen smiled and said, "As I get older, I always need a few more days off each week. Today I made an appointment with an old friend to play chess."

He showed Lu Ran the chess box he was carrying.

Lu Ran was a little surprised.

Ji Min, the big devil, would actually give people a day off?

Butler Chen saw what he was thinking, shook his head, and asked with a smile, "Do you think I work 24 hours a day, all year round?"

Lu Ran nodded awkwardly.

Butler Chen thought it was quite interesting.

Does Ji Min know that this little classmate has this image of him in his mind?

The two walked along the path at the edge of the park.

From here, you can just see a half-finished construction site next to it.

The construction site is now sealed off.

The court staff are putting seals on it.

A security line has also been set up around it.

Lu Ran and Butler Chen stopped and looked for a while.

Suddenly he realized that this seemed to be the construction site of the Hu family.

Before, Huangmao hit his dog with a sports car.

Lu Ran posted a video on the Internet, which triggered a chain reaction that no one expected.

The Hu family was investigated.

All kinds of hidden problems were dug out.

Butler Chen reminded: "It was found that the load-bearing materials of this project had problems, and it will be demolished in the next few days."

Lu Ran was surprised and said: "Fortunately it was found out."

A shopping mall was originally planned to be built here. If something really happened, the casualties would definitely be serious.

"I have to thank you, classmate." Butler Chen looked at him and said.

"Me?" Lu Ran was a little confused.

He turned his eyes away and said, "Didn't Mr. Ji do it?"

Butler Chen walked forward with the chess box in his hand: "Mr. Ji has limited energy and doesn't often interfere in the affairs of other companies."

Lu Ran fell behind.

Because the Hu family was mentioned, the scene of that night reappeared in his mind.

When he was exhausted from making a scene, Ji Min's empty and dark business car compartment became the first place in his life where he slept soundly.

"What do you mean?" Lu Ran asked Butler Chen.

Butler Chen looked at him in surprise.

He thought to himself that he really did a good thing today.

He looked at Lu Ran and explained softly:

"Sir had no intention of dealing with the Hu family. He just wanted to help you on a whim and give the Hu family a warning. He didn't expect that after finding out these things, he could solve the problem."

Lu Ran paused.

He raised his head and looked at the elder in front of him.

The bright golden sunlight in the winter sprinkled on his long and thick eyelashes.

It also shone into his dark eyes.

It made his well-behaved eyes finally carry the confusion that belongs to this age.

The young man moved his lips and asked in a very soft voice: "Why did he help me?"

Butler Chen looked at him with a little pity in his eyes: "Because you asked him for help."

Butler Chen still remembers it now.

Before Lu Ran got on the bus that day, the partition of the back seat had already been lowered.

The back seat was very quiet.

The only sound he could hear was the boy's childish voice talking to the puppy.

Later, the back seat gradually returned to silence.

In this silence.

Behind the thin partition, came a very light, very dumb voice, as if it was filled with all the desperate pleas:

"Save me."

"Save me."

Butler Chen raised the partition and found that it was the sleeping child talking in his sleep.

Even at Butler Chen's age, he didn't understand.

How could a 19-year-old child make such a desperate request for help in his sleep.

Obviously, this is the age when he should be full of energy.

But he seemed to be sinking in the abyss of death.

Ji Min sat in the wheelchair without moving.

He closed his eyes tiredly and didn't respond at all, as if he didn't hear the call for help from the back seat.

But after Lu Ran got out of the car.

But Butler Chen heard an order: "Go check the sports car."

This led to a series of subsequent events in the Hu family.

Butler Chen looked at the stunned boy quietly.

It was because he had heard Lu Ran's request for help that Butler Chen always had a bit of kindness every time he saw this child.

He always felt that this little classmate must have a hard life.

Lu Ran was still in a daze.

Until a child with a schoolbag ran by.

He suddenly came back to his senses.

It turned out that it was not because of... Shen Xingyu?

He did sleep for a while while sitting in the car.

In a hazy dream, he dreamed that he was back in the hospital bed.

He couldn't move his body.

There was no one around him, not even a sound.

He could only look at the ceiling in vain, silently asking for help in his mind.

But he didn't even know who to ask.

But he didn't expect...

that someone actually heard it.

Facing the gaze of the elder in front of him.

Lu Ran intuitively felt that this uncle who looked a lot like Dean Lu would not lie to him.

Recalling his misunderstanding of Ji Min...

Lu Ran's earlobes suddenly felt hot.

The heat climbed up his cheeks, mixed with a slight embarrassment, and the shame of trampling on other people's kindness.

"That... I..."

Lu Ran stepped forward and grabbed the sleeve of Butler Chen.

"What's the matter?" Butler Chen asked gently.

Lu Ran slowly retracted his fingers, lowered his

head and said, "It's okay." He said it was okay.

But Lu Ran had been thinking about it all day.

He was distracted several times while doing things in the coffee shop and almost made the wrong order.

It made Xiao Wang very curious.

Lu Ran was not completely embarrassed.

In addition to embarrassment, there was something else.

Lu Ran recalled a volunteer sister he met in an orphanage when he was a child.

When the sister went, she brought a Lays gift bag.

Lu Ran was very shy when he was a child.

When the other children surrounded the sister and asked for snacks, Lu Ran pretended to have no interest in snacks and lay down on the seat to do his homework.

In fact, in his mind, he had secretly described the taste of potato chips.

When the rich tomato aroma exploded on the tip of the tongue, it must be delicious.

But it can only be described in the mind.

Little Lu Ran wanted to get closer in his heart, and wanted to call his sister for food sweetly like other children.

But he didn't dare. He

could only bury his head lower and lower in his homework book.

When he raised his head to find an eraser.

Without warning, a piece of potato chips came to his lips.

His sister asked him gently, "Do you want to eat it?"

The face-saving child swallowed his saliva, still thinking about how to refuse in a reserved manner.

He opened his mouth, but it was filled with potato chips.

Lu Ran was not obsessed with the taste of potato chips.

But at that moment, the feeling of exploding in his mind and chest made him remember it forever.

It was like a pot of boiling water in his chest, bubbling out.

The heat surged to his limbs.

It made even his fingertips numb.

That was the first time Lu Ran encountered the kindness of a stranger.

These things were as rare in his life as green plants in the desert.

But the touch left behind was long-lasting and lingering.

Little Lu Ran fell in love with that sister at once.

Every day he leaned on the window and waited for the sister to come.

But later, the teacher said that the sister had graduated and left the city.

Now, Mr. Ji is obviously nothing like the sister back then. They are of different

genders.

He has a sullen face all day long and is not as cheerful as the sister.

He also often confronts him.

But after listening to what Butler Chen said, Lu Ran suddenly had the same feeling as he did back then.

The pot of hot water in his chest was bubbling again.

It lasted for a long time.

It boiled for a whole day.

It turned out that he was going to be sent to study abroad and to find a job for him.

They were all going to help him?

Wait!

Study abroad? !

Suddenly, Lu Ran, who was packing takeout, froze.

He looked grim.

Xiao Wang was startled and asked, "What happened?"

Lu Ran beat his chest and stamped his feet: "Nothing." I

just missed 100 million!

After packing the takeaway paper bags,

Lu Ran raised his head and was about to say, "How about I deliver it?"

He looked up and saw Xiao Wang carrying the paper bags and leaving in a hurry.

In the evening,

Xiao Wang went to deliver the evening's takeaway again.

Lu Ran was thinking about how to tell Xiao Wang that he could deliver Ji's takeaway himself tomorrow.

He simulated eight hundred plans in his mind.

He hasn't made a decision yet.

An acquaintance came to the store again.

Lu Ran looked up and saw that it was Chen Sheng.

"What are you doing here?" Lu Ran asked bluntly.

Chen Sheng was a little embarrassed by his question.

But he still said, "Aren't you here to make amends?"

"What are you apologizing for?" Lu Ran asked.

Chen Sheng scratched his head several times, but finally walked closer and said, "It's about what happened before. We can't get over it. Let's treat you to a meal together."

Lu Ran wanted to say he was not interested.

Chen Sheng immediately said, "Let's have a seafood dinner."

Lu Ran was silent for a while, and felt that he should give people a chance.

And give those seafood a home.