Chapter 98 Little Bear

Lu Ran didn’t expect to hear such an answer.

As soon as he raised his head, he met Ji Min’s dark eyes, which looked particularly dark under the warm yellow light.

In these eyes, there was no embarrassment and speechlessness when he usually mentioned similar topics.

There was a strong aura that matched Ji Min’s aura very well.

Lu Ran suddenly lowered his eyes and reached out to pull the loose hair on Da Huang’s body.

“Oh, I…that…”

The boy changed his words several times before finding the most smooth one.

He raised his voice: “Don’t worry, I’m very dedicated!”

Facing the man’s focused gaze, his voice weakened a little and said: “So boss, you don’t need to be jealous.”

“I will…”

Lu Ran didn’t know what he would do.

This seemed to be beyond his previous knowledge. He couldn't explain it clearly, so he felt a little embarrassed and anxious, "I will..."

"Yeah."

The man in the wheelchair responded.

The cold voice was inexplicably gentle.

The strength that had been exposed before gradually melted away. He looked up at the boy on the bed and said with his usual tolerance like an elder:

"Okay, then, my extremely dedicated 'ex-boyfriend', how should you ask questions to Gu Zhizhi now?"

With one sentence, he returned to the familiar situation of Lu Ran.

"Well...then ask for me?" he said.

Ji Min returned to the bed with the phone in his hand.

Lu Ran glanced at him secretly, and then looked away when he looked over.

Like a small animal carefully assessing whether the human in front of it is dangerous.

The man pretended not to notice his little action and sighed, "If I don't ask you tonight, you might not be able to sleep at night."

"No, nothing can disturb me from eating and sleeping." Lu Ran said.

"Oh, then why didn't you eat dinner?" Ji Min said.

Lu Ran: "..."

Ji Min sent a message to housekeeper Chen, asking him to send some midnight snacks up.

Then he leaned against the boy's bed so that the person on the bed could see his mobile phone when he looked up.

"Go ahead, what do you want to ask?"

Lu Ran moved over little by little.

In fact, when Lu Ran saw the photo of him as a child, he was not calm.

But to be specific, he was a little hesitant about what he wanted to ask.

After thinking for a while, Lu Ran said, "Ask him if I can go to Gu's house next week. I want to meet Mr. Gu."

Ji Min nodded.

He lowered his eyes and typed on his phone.

Lu Ran then secretly raised his eyes to look at him again.

After looking for a while, the man suddenly stopped and turned to look at him.

Lu Ran quickly looked away, pretending to be very busy, and reached out to pull the fur on Da Huang's body.

But Da Huang was annoyed by his pulling and jumped off the bed and ran away.

He could only pretend to look at the photos in the box again.

After flipping through it for a while, he heard no movement beside him.

Then he looked back.

It happened to meet Ji Min's eyes.

"...Why haven't you asked yet?" Lu Ran said hurriedly.

"How do you ask?" Ji Min looked at him without moving, "Ask in your tone or in mine?"

"What does it matter? Anything is fine." Lu Ran said.

"Then use yours."

Ji Min handed him the phone.

Lu Ran took over the heavy business phone again.

He lowered his head to type in the input box. When he

really typed it, he realized that something was wrong.

He was using Ji Min's phone and Ji Min's WeChat.

Looking at Ji Min's avatar and his usual tone of voice.

I always feel... something is strange.

"Uh, why do you have to ask in my tone?" Lu Ran said.

"No reason." Ji Min said.

It's just because it seems more intimate and can make that guy Gu Zhi clear his mind.

But Ji Min will not tell you this reason.

Lu Ran pursed his lips, and felt a little uncomfortable.

When he came to his senses, he looked down at his phone. He

said, "It's over..."

"Huh?" Ji Min raised his eyebrows.

Lu Ran showed him the chat page.

He accidentally pressed the emoticon package just now, so he sent out more than a dozen in one breath.

"Is this also my tone?"

After he finished speaking, he looked down and felt even more numb.

Gu Zhi made a video call directly.

Lu Ran was about to hang up.

But Ji Min's voice came to his ear: "Connect."

The man seemed to move closer to look at the screen of his mobile phone.

The voice and breathing hit Lu Ran's ears.

Lu Ran shrank his head.

But someone whispered, "Come closer, I can't see you anymore."

"Oh oh." Lu Ran hurriedly moved over with his phone.

Over there.

As soon as Gu Zhi's video call was connected, he saw the two of them huddled together.

Late at night, a critical hit.

Gu Zhi, a single man, subconsciously wanted to hang up.

But he still said, "You sent so many emojis in one breath, I thought it was a signal for help."

Ji Min sneered, "I won't send you a signal for help."

Gu Zhi: "..." To be honest, Gu Zhi was almost scared to death when

he saw Ji Min sending him emoticons. But when he saw Lu Ran in the video, Gu Zhi felt that he seemed to have asked a stupid question. Sure enough, Ji Min pointed at Lu Ran with his chin and said, "He sent it." When Lu Ran saw Gu Zhi, the discomfort he had just felt disappeared. He thought of the business, holding the photo and asked Gu Zhi: "Uncle Gu..." As soon as this title came out, Ji Min silently "tsk". Lu Ran didn't notice and continued to ask: "Is the person in the photo my grandpa?" Gu Zhi looked at the photo in Lu Ran's hand and became excited: "Hey, did you get it? This is your grandpa, and the one next to him is you!" "I took this photo. I asked you to smile, and you subconsciously wanted to smile, but you secretly glanced at your grandpa and frowned again." Gu Zhi seemed to think of the child's funny behavior at that time, and he talked nonstop. Until Ji Min said with a wooden face: "You are too loud and disturbed me." Gu Zhi: "..." Lu Ran: "..." Lu Ran suggested at the right time: "Then how about you sit farther away, boss?" Ji Min: "..." He didn't say anything else, and leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes to rest. Lu Ran suddenly wanted to laugh. He had no impression of the details Gu Zhi said, nor was he very interested. After thinking for a while, he continued to ask: "What is the relationship between me and my grandpa?" When he asked this question, he was like a stranger who had nothing to do with it. Gu Zhi was stunned for a moment, then said: "You really don't remember?" Then he said: "Yes, you were only four years old at that time. If you really remember, you can't wait so many years." "Your grandpa loves you very much... right?" Gu Zhi's tone suddenly became uncertain. He shook his head and said, "This man, Mr. Shen... Uh, he's not very close to anyone?" "But you should have been with him when you were a child?" Gu Zhi waved his hands, "It's been so many years, I can't remember clearly." He thought that children were more interested in their elders, so he said, "Why don't you ask my dad? He's old, and he always talks about the past, and he's very familiar with Mr. Shen." Lu Ran didn't shirk his responsibility. Shen Hongyuan hid the gift given to him by the Gu family, and called Gu Ningqi over to cause trouble. It seems that he didn't want him to have contact with the Gu family. Lu Ran was also a little interested in Mr. Shen. He agreed and asked Gu Zhi the time. Gu Zhi was embarrassed again: "My dad is old, his temper is sometimes good and sometimes bad, you have to wait for me to ask for you." He hung up Gu Zhi's video. Lu Ran subconsciously wanted to throw his phone to the bedside, but when he raised his hand halfway, he remembered that it was Ji Min's phone. He hurriedly returned it to Ji Min. The man stretched out his hand slowly, he looked up at the boy and said: "If you want to see Mr. Gu, Gu Zhi can't do it, but I can." "Huh? What can I do?" Lu Ran asked. Ji Min didn't answer, just said: "But I need a reward." "...What reward do you want?" Lu Ran asked. Ji Min glanced at him. The boy still had a bit of defenseless confusion on his face. Ji Min's fingers moved. Finally, he reached out and picked up a photo from the box, saying, "Give me one of the photos." "Ah?" Lu Ran turned his gaze to the box. "But, but these are just some photos of little kids, what's good about them?" Lu Ran's voice was hesitant. "But I want them." Ji Min said. "Oh." Lu Ran lowered his head and pinched his fingers for a while, and finally pushed the box over with a generous look: "Then you choose!" Ji Min's mouth curled up into a smile. He picked up the pile of photos and carefully selected them. Lu Ran pretended not to care, while curiously peeking at which one Ji Min chose. When he was not sure whether the child in the photo was him, he didn't care. But now he knows. Then he watched Ji Min's fingers stroke the cheeks of the children in the photos one by one. Lu Ran felt uncomfortable . He changed eight poses in one minute. Finally, he couldn't help but urge: "Boss, why are you so slow!" "The reward is hard-earned, of course I have to choose carefully." Ji Min said righteously. Lu Ran was speechless again and just stared at Ji Min's fingers. There were a few photos in which he sat obediently on the stool, looking clean and cute. Lu Ran thought Ji Min would pick those. Unexpectedly, the man picked and chose, and actually picked the one with his hands full of mud and a worm in his hand. Ji Min stared at the child in the photo for a while, and curled the corners of his lips: "This is it." Lu Ran was a little embarrassed. He didn't say anything and silently took back the other photos. Ji Min looked at the remaining photos in his hand. Suddenly he said, "I feel a little disappointed." "Hmm?" Lu Ran looked up at him. The man bargained, "It's rare to see Mr. Gu. I should take two." Lu Ran: "...Don't push your luck!"

He hurriedly put away the remaining photos.

He caught a glimpse of one of them out of the corner of his eye, and his movements paused slightly.

"What's wrong?" Ji Min asked.

"Nothing, I'm just sleepy. Boss, why don't you leave yet?" Lu Ran said.

Ji Min: "..." He

was really ruthless in his rush.

But looking at the photos in his hand, he felt that it was not a loss.

"Remember to have a midnight snack, otherwise you will be hungry in the middle of the night."

He said, and left Lu Ran's room.

Lu Ran looked out for a while.

He was inexplicably relieved when the man's figure completely left. He

walked over in two or three steps and closed the door.

When he returned to the bed, Lu Ran took out the photo he had just glimpsed and looked at it again.

At first glance, this photo was ordinary.

But after looking carefully for a while, he found that the bib hanging around the child's neck in the photo had a few small words "Happy Birthday" printed on it.

And at the bottom of the photo, the date the photo was taken was also printed.

Lu Ran stared at the photo for a while.

He suddenly sat up, opened the calendar on his phone, and checked the date printed on the photo.

It was neither too early nor too late, it was exactly the day he was officially recognized by the Shen family.

It was also that night that Ji Min took him out.

It was a grand birthday in advance for "Da Huang".

There were beautiful lanterns, candies and colorful balls all over the floor, and a big three-layer cake.

There were also many people singing Happy Birthday.

Lu Ran sat quietly on the bed for a long time.

When the midnight snack beside him was almost cold, he bent down and picked up the puppy on the ground, saying:

"It's bad, Dahuang, I was deceived."

Lu Ran had a dream at night.

Although he saw many photos of his childhood, what he dreamed of was not the memory before he was lost.

Instead, he was in an orphanage.

At that time, someone donated a batch of plush toys to the orphanage.

When it was assigned to Lu Ran's class, there was a cute little bear in it.

The little bear was black, but had very soft hair and eyes like sapphires.

Lu Ran liked this little bear very much.

But the things in the class belonged to everyone.

They could only play with these toys at the specified time, and each student in the class had to take turns.

Lu Ran could touch and hug the little bear only when it was his turn.

But soon, when the time came, he had to pass the little bear to the next classmate consciously.

But Lu Ran didn't really want to give the little bear to others.

He took the initiative to find the teacher and said that he could do all the duties in the class. He

could do it for a month, a year, or even longer.

He asked the teacher if he could give the little bear to him alone.

But the teacher refused with a smile, and told him that doing the duty was too tiring and he couldn't do it alone.

That night, Lu Ran did all the duties in the class by himself.

He mopped the floor and ran over while the teacher was still there.

With a dirty face, he proved to the teacher: "I can do it all, can you give me the little bear?"

But the teacher still refused with embarrassment.

Because the little bear belongs to everyone.

Lu Ran has no choice.

But he still likes it very much.

But it is useless to like it no matter how much.

He can only hug the little bear gently within the specified time and rub the little bear's soft fur with his cheeks.

When the time is up,

he has to hand the little bear to another classmate in person.

Watching others holding his beloved little bear.

As time goes by

, even the short and precious time to play with the little bear becomes unbearable.

Lu Ran hugged the little bear, but he was counting the time nervously in his heart.

Until the last moment, he gave the little bear away in person.

Liking seems to have become a difficult thing.

Slowly, similar things happened again and again.

Lu Ran forgot what it feels like to like.

When he thought about it, what came to his mind was the sadness of giving away his favorite thing.

And the feeling of helplessness of never being able to have it.

But in this dream, the little bear seemed to run towards him on his own.