Chapter 96 Confinement

Shen Xingzhuo took his coffee to the terrace on the second floor.

Shen Xingyu was sitting at the round table on the terrace reading documents.

The two brothers did not have a good relationship. They looked at each other from a distance and then went about their own business.

But Shen Xingzhuo could not sit still. He sat and stood from the terrace to look down.

He kept muttering, "Even my brother is being held back. That Ji Min is really shameless."

Shen Xingyu was annoyed and closed the document to leave.

He was about to get up.

Shen Xingzhuo looked downstairs again and frowned, "Why hasn't the Lino family's car left yet? The old man has a problem with his brain. How did he get in touch with their family?"

The Shen family and the Lino family are enemies for generations.

Even though Shen Xingzhuo was a second-generation rich man who didn't spend much time at home, he didn't have a good impression of the Lino family.

He looked down for a while, then turned to ask Shen Xingyu: "Hey, does the old man have any bad intentions? Do you know?"

Shen Xingyu frowned, but didn't answer. He just said: "That's our father, what are you calling him?"

Shen Xingzhuo rolled his eyes and ignored him.

After a while, Shen Xingyu walked to the door of the terrace, and Shen Xingzhuo suddenly said:

"He came back today, and he brought two bodyguards with him to his own home."

Shen Xingyu was stunned, and soon realized who this "he" Shen Xingzhuo was talking about.

The fingers pressing on the door handle loosened, and Shen Xingyu slowly withdrew his hand.

He turned away from the door and returned to the terrace. He found a seat and continued to read the documents in his hand, but he was obviously absent-minded.

"Aren't you going down to see him?" Shen Xingzhuo asked.

"No need."

Shen Xingyu flipped the pages in his hand one by one.

Shen Xingzhuo didn't go down either, but just leaned on the railing and looked down empty.

After a long while, he said, "Is Ranran not at home today?"

"I don't know." Shen Xingyu replied coldly.

Shen Xingzhuo was annoyed to see him like this.

He wanted to leave the terrace, but his feet did not move.

Lu Ran downstairs was doing something.

To be honest, Shen Xingzhuo didn't know how to face Lu Ran.

He was used to being casual since he was a child.

Because of his family background, his playmates usually revolve around him.

Except for Shen Xingran, Shen Xingzhuo has never tried to please others.

But it seems a bit strange to treat Lu Ran in the same way as Shen Xingran.

Besides...

it's generally difficult for people to face the mistakes they have made, let alone make changes.

Shen Xingzhuo was in a bad mood, so he was particularly displeased with Shen Xingyu.

"Hey, do you think he carries bodyguards with him because of you? It's because you treat him so badly."

Shen Xingzhuo said.

Shen Xingyu's hand holding the document page paused.

Suddenly he thought of Ji Min's words.

"I'm afraid he treated me so badly at the time because I knew you as his brother."

But in just a moment, Shen Xingyu recovered.

Shen Xingzhuo simply walked over and sat on the sofa next to him.

After thinking for a while, Shen Xingzhuo was a little indignant: "On what basis? You treated him so badly, why did he show you so much mercy?"

"Show you mercy?"

Shen Xingyu raised his eyebrows when thinking about what he had experienced since returning to China.

Shen Xingzhuo made a serious comparison.

Compared with being hit on the back by dog ​​shit and eating cockroaches,

Shen Xingzhuo still felt that he was more miserable.

"I just put some bugs to scare you. Do you fucking know what I have experienced?"

Shen Xingyu didn't know and didn't ask.

He just felt that Shen Xingzhuo's nagging was annoying.

Shen Xingzhuo was still there indignant: "He showed mercy. This guy has liked you since he was a child and sticks to you, right?"

Shen Xingyu suddenly closed the documents in his hand.

He got up and left the terrace.

He returned to his room and put down the documents.

Shen Xingyu hesitated for a while, opened the door and walked out.

He had not seen Lu Ran since the last time he met Ji Min. He

walked down the stairs slowly, expecting to see Lu Ran and Shen Hongyuan quarreling.

But surprisingly, the first floor was unexpectedly quiet.

Not only was Lu Ran missing, but Lino's family and Shen Hongyuan were also gone.

Shen Xingyu frowned and glanced at the yard.

Lino's car was still there.

He stopped a servant passing by and asked, "Where are the master and the guests?"

Seeing that it was Shen Xingyu, the servant was very respectful and said, "Just now, Master Lu Ran seemed to have something to do, so he stopped the master and the guests and asked them to go..."

At this point, the servant paused, then pointed in the direction of the bathroom on the first floor and said, "He went to the bathroom."

"Going together? How long have they been gone?" Shen Xingyu asked.

"A while." The servant replied.

He thought for a while before saying, "It seems that the two young masters of the Lino family followed Master Lu Ran into the bathroom first, and then Master Lu Ran ran out to find the master and said something, and then the master went over."

Hearing this, Shen Xingyu's eyebrows wrinkled into deep grooves.

He didn't ask any more questions, and walked straight to the bathroom.

As he walked along, his eyebrows became more serious.

Shen Xingyu could probably guess what Shen Hongyuan was planning.

The Shen family was expected to fight the Lino family to the bitter end in the HZ project.

There is a serious financial deficit within the Shen family right now, and the Lino family has just moved to the mainland, so their foundation is unstable.

Cooperation between the two families is indeed a good idea.

Marriage is an important bond that can stabilize cooperation.

Even if the cooperation really fails, it is a good strategy to use marriage to stabilize the Lino family first.

For the Shen family, Shen Hongyuan did the right thing.

Logically speaking, Shen Xingyu should not interfere at this time.

But...

Shen Xingyu closed his eyes.

He thought of the eldest son of the Lino family, who was an unreliable person.

There have been many excessive scandals abroad.

But this is in the Shen family, it shouldn't happen...

Shen Xingyu stopped in front of the bathroom door.

He didn't knock on the door, but reached out and opened the door.

In just a moment, the horrific scene behind the door came into view.

Shen Xingyu subconsciously raised his hand.

With a snap, he closed the door.

This subconscious action was due to fear.

Please forgive him for never seeing such a chaotic scene in his life.

"What... happened?" The servant following him asked cautiously.

Shen Xingyu took a deep breath.

The responsibility as the heir of the family came, and he prepared himself mentally for a while before opening the door again.

Now there was only the "victim" left in the door.

The eldest son of the Lino family was seen leaning his face on the toilet, looking like an idiot.

And the second son of the Lino family was trying to pull the toilet brush out of his mouth, bending over and spitting.

Old Lino had a plunger on his forehead.

And Shen Hongyuan, with a large wet patch on the front of his clothes, was leaning on the toilet, muttering in a daze: "Rebellious son! Rebellious son!"

Shen Xingyu confirmed the scene again. It

was indeed the bathroom.

Silently wiping his face, Shen Xingyu finally understood what Shen Xingzhuo meant by "show mercy."

"Go... call an ambulance?"

He hesitantly ordered the servant beside him.

Unexpectedly, the three people from the Lino family reacted so strongly to his words.

They jumped up from the ground and said, "No!"

They saw that it was Shen Xingyu who was not watching the scene outside the door.

They tried to explain: "No, nothing happened! We were just playing around, there's no need to go to the hospital!"

If this matter of being pressed into the toilet and rubbed gets out, how will the Lino family save their reputation!!

Shen Xingyu: "..."

Over there, Lu Ran hadn't left yet.

He took the key and opened the door of Shen Hongyuan's study.

When he went in and found the cabinet that Shen Hongyuan mentioned, Lu Ran realized that the old fox had lied again.

Because this cabinet was equipped with a combination lock.

Lu Ran's eyes darkened.

He walked out of the study, saw Shen Xingyu, and went straight up to grab the man's wrist.

"Come here."

Shen Xingyu, who was about to find someone to "question the crime", was stunned, and let the young man pull his wrist forward.

The force on the wrist was very strong and it was clenched tightly.

Shen Xingyu suddenly thought of his childhood.

When his relationship with his brother had not deteriorated, and the child was not afraid of him.

Occasionally, he would have time to play with the child.

It seemed that he had just got out of school that time.

When he entered the house, a soft little hand grabbed his wrist.

The child excitedly pulled him and took him to the backyard to show him the small nest he made for the rabbit.

Shen Xingyu blinked, and the blurry scene in front of him disappeared.

The hand holding his wrist was no longer the weak and chubby little hand.

Instead, it was a hand with a layer of rope on the palm and fingertips, which was very strong and belonged to a teenager who worked frequently.

The person who pulled him was no longer the short and stout boy back then, but had grown into the slightly thin appearance he is now.

Shen Xingyu was still in a daze.

He felt a chill on his fingertips.

His hand was pressed hard on a fingerprint reader.

What was waiting for him was not the soft little nest made of tissue paper and cotton.

Shen Xingyu came back to his senses, frowned and asked, "What are you going to do?"

But Lu Ran did not answer him.

He stared at the fingerprint lock that showed the fingerprint error and cursed.

Then he left Shen Xingyu behind, went downstairs, and picked up Shen Hongyuan who was washing his face.

He pulled him to the cabinet and pressed it.

"Ding", the lock opened.

Shen Hongyuan was furious at his robber-like behavior, and finally pointed at Shen Xingyu next to him and asked,

"Look at him, don't you do anything about it?"

Shen Xingyu's lips moved.

Finally, he sighed and asked Shen Hongyuan: "What on earth did you hide?"

"Hide something?" Shen Hongyuan was furious, "All the things in the Shen family are mine! What do you mean I hide something?"

Lu Ran ignored the two people.

The cabinet was basically empty.

As he expected, Shen Hongyuan was a man who didn't trust his sons at all, and wouldn't leave anything important at home.

Only at the bottom, there was a box that hadn't been dealt with yet.

Lu Ran looked at the pattern and found it was the same gift box as the watch Shen Hongyuan had given him before.

He took out the gift box and shook it at Shen Hongyuan: "Old man, I hate it most when others hide my things."

"But if you have any special hobbies, like drinking toilet water, then you can continue to hide it."

After that, he ignored the father and son.

He took the box and left the Shen family.

In the evening, Ji Min returned home from work.

But there was a missing figure on the dinner table.

Ji Min waited for a while, but didn't see him.

He was a little surprised, turned his head and asked the housekeeper Chen beside him: "It's strange, what can make him not even eat?"

Housekeeper Chen said: "He said he was a little tired, and he went back to his room to rest when he came back."

Ji Min paused and said nothing more.

He ate something simple and called the two bodyguards who followed Lu Ran over.

"What happened today? Why is he so tired?" Ji Min asked.

Hearing Ji Min's question, the two bodyguards' expressions suddenly became very interesting.

After doing such a big thing, he must be tired!

Seeing that the two did not speak for a long time, Ji Min frowned slightly: "Speak."

He usually feels very stressed.

Now that a word has been uttered, the two bodyguards themselves feel a little guilty, and immediately began to repeat like pouring beans:

"Sorry, boss, we didn't mean to let Master Lu Ran do it."

"Although pushing someone into the toilet is very explosive, we still went to help in the end, um... I stuffed the toilet brush!"

Another one also raised his hand to take credit: "I got the plunger!"

Ji Min: "..."

He held his forehead and sighed, then said: "Wait, this is not important. I'm not asking this..."

The bodyguards' pupils trembled.

This is not important?

This is still not important? What is important!

They thought they were not sincere enough, and hurriedly said:

"Don't worry, leave this matter to us in the future. We will press whoever Master Lu Ran says!"

"We will never let Master Lu Ran roll up his sleeves!"

Ji Min: "..."

These two were quite reliable in the past.

How come they became like this after being with Lu Ran for so long?

Raising his hand to stop the two people's detailed description, Ji Min sighed again and asked: "I'm asking, where did he go today?"

"Oh, the master went back to the Shen family."

Hearing this, Ji Min had a vague idea in his heart.

Let the bodyguard leave.

Ji Min stayed downstairs for a while before taking the elevator to the second floor.

After exiting the elevator, he turned his wheelchair toward his bedroom.

But he glanced at the room at the other end of the corridor.

Half of the lights in the corridor were turned off, and the light was very dim.

Ji Min paused for a while, turned his head and looked at Butler Chen beside him, and said:

"Go and see, if he is not asleep, bring him some food."

Butler Chen said, "I have to see what else is in the kitchen."

Without waiting for Ji Min's response, he went straight into the elevator and left.

Ji Min: "..."

He paused for a while, then slowly turned his wheelchair and walked along the dim and quiet corridor to the room at the end that belonged to Lu Ran.

The wheelchair stopped in front of the door.

The door was still not closed, let alone locked.

Ji Min bent his knuckles and wanted to knock on the door, but then thought, he might be asleep, don't wake him up.

In the dim light, the restraint that was usually strictly enforced seemed to be relaxed.

Ji Min gently opened the door and walked in silently with the wheelchair controlled by remote control.

Entering the suite, the door of the bedroom was still open.

There was a warm yellow light on.

For some reason, Ji Min suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

Still awake...

The boy in the bedroom should have just woken up.

With messy hair, he was sitting at the head of the bed, looking at something seriously, and didn't even notice someone entering the room.

Ji Min coughed lightly and knocked on the bedroom door with his fingers.

The boy sitting on the bed was startled and hurriedly tried to collect the things scattered on the bed.

Because of the big movement, some things flew out directly.

Ji Min raised his eyebrows and glanced at the boy, then bent down and picked up the piece of paper that floated to his feet.

It was a photo.

In the photo, a chubby child was looking at the camera with his arms outstretched, asking for a hug.