Chapter 138 The Meaning of Family
"Why aren't you eating? What are you staring at your phone for?" Shen Yunqi sat next to her and, seeing that she hadn't touched her chopsticks and her complexion wasn't good, asked softly, "Are you feeling unwell?"
The moment her brother spoke, Yan Buyu turned off her phone screen.
With her phone face down on her lap, she forced a smile and said, "Eat, brother, I want to eat crab."
"Are you really alright?" Shen Yunqi frowned. "Don't do it yourself, I'll peel it for you."
She ate her food silently, head down, taking small bites, finding it hard not to think about that text message.
"Little sister, eat some meat. Have you lost weight these past few days?" Long Yu's shout brought Yan Buyu back to her senses.
She took a deep breath and forced herself to forget about it for the time being.
She smiled and raised her face, "No, I've had a good appetite these past few days."
Shen Yanzhou picked up a piece of osmanthus-flavored glutinous rice lotus root for Yan Buyu, saying, "You should eat more. Girls shouldn't blindly pursue being thin."
"Okay, big brother, I'll eat more." Yan Buyu took a big bite.
Shen Yunqi peeled another plate of crab meat for her.
She obediently ate it.
He Run looked on with envy, "They're all younger sisters, so just do whatever they're asked to do. My brother doesn't even call me 'brother' anymore if he doesn't give me money when we meet."
Long Yu scoffed, "Be content. If you don't call me 'brother' even after I've paid you, you're the one who'll have nowhere to cry."
Without saying a word, her phone rang twice more, and her heart sank.
They're all a bit stressed.
I put down my chopsticks, opened my phone, and saw WeChat.
Messages in the three-person group chat of "Anti-Brother Alliance".
Coco: [Silence. I'm returning tomorrow. I'll come find you in Suzhou, okay?]
Without saying a word: [Okay, I'll have my older brother send a car to pick you up. Your cousin happens to be here too.]
Coco: [I'll think about it some more.]
Sweetie Girl: [Look at you, so pathetic. What's there to be afraid of with just a cousin? I'm not even afraid of my own brother.]
Silent: [Your own brother is here too, are you coming or not?]
Sweetie Girl: [He's always interfering with my friendships, it makes me angry just looking at him, so I politely declined.]
"Whose news is this? It makes our sister so happy." Si Jingxu also took a bite of the glutinous rice lotus root, feeling sweet in his mouth but sour in his heart.
Yan Buyu's smile remained. She looked up and said, "Nian Ke is returning to China tomorrow and wants to come here to find me."
"Let me know when you've booked your flight, and I'll arrange for someone to pick her up," Shen Yanzhou said, placing another piece of beef on his sister's plate. "After eating some crab, don't eat anything cold, or you'll get a stomachache."
"Okay, I understand, big brother." Yan Buyu was in a good mood, picking up a piece of meat and chewing.
Forget about spam or prank texts, she's no longer all alone.
The meal was a lively and enjoyable affair.
After the meal, everyone went back to their rooms to rest.
Long Yu was afraid that Si Jingxu would bully the child again, so she took it upon herself to take him back to his room and pushed the wheelchair away.
Yan Buyu followed behind her two older brothers.
"Buyu, do you remember what your elder brother told you before?" Shen Yanzhou walked quietly beside his younger sister and suddenly spoke.
"Huh?" Yan Buyu looked up. "What?"
“I said, I’m the same as my brother, you can tell me anything,” Shen Yanzhou stopped in his tracks, “Now tell me, what happened?”
Shen Yunqi turned to look at her as well, "Even your older brother noticed something was wrong, and you still want to hide it from me? I didn't want to talk to you when there were many people around, but now it's just the three of us, so tell me."
He lowered his head and remained silent for a moment.
Then she took out her phone and showed the text message to her two older brothers.
Shen Yanzhou frowned deeply.
Shen Yunqi echoed, "Which bastard sent this junk message? Does he have a death wish? I'll find him and kill him!"
Yan Buyu slowly began, “You all remember when I wouldn’t let my brother go skiing, right? Because I dreamt that he had an accident while skiing. Similarly, I dreamt that I had an accident on July 17th.”
“So this isn’t a prank.” Shen Yanzhou wrote down the unfamiliar number and sent it to Gu Feng. “Did you tell anyone about this dream?”
Now that things have come to this, there's nothing left to hide.
Besides, her mother appeared in her dream, and she couldn't let herself harm her mother.
“I suspect it’s Yan Qihang.” She mustered up her courage and uttered the name she had always avoided mentioning.
After hearing what she said, Shen Yunqi pulled her into his arms and patted her head tenderly. "Alright, don't think about anything now. Leave it to me and your older brother. You have to trust us, okay?"
Yan Buyu nodded. "Yan Qihang is not a good person. He has no humanity. I'm afraid he might..."
"I'm afraid he might harm Aunt Lan," Shen Yanzhou said confidently.
"Um."
Shen Yanzhou understood; everything suddenly connected.
“Listen to your brother, you don’t need to think too much about this, leave it to us,” Shen Yanzhou came over and patted his sister’s head. “You have to believe that your big brother can support the whole group and can handle these things.”
The business world is a battlefield without gunpowder, and he has seen plenty of people who will stop at nothing and resort to underhanded tactics for profit.
How much trouble can Yan Qihang, a piece of trash with no status or position, stir up?
"Besides, we're not even sure if it's him yet, so don't scare yourself. Maybe it's just a prank," Shen Yunqi said with a smile, looking down. "Will your brother carry you back to your room?"
Yan Buyu found that after talking about these things, he felt much, much lighter.
Perhaps her previous ideas were all wrong.
Keeping everything bottled up inside is pointless and only leads to self-inflicted stress.
Mutual help and sharing of burdens—that's the meaning of family.
Otherwise, if she were all alone and helpless, what difference would there be between her and her previous life?
A smile finally appeared on her face, and she nodded.
"Wait a minute," Shen Yanzhou said from the side. His younger siblings looked over, and a hint of awkwardness flashed across his face. "Let me carry it once."
He's never carried his younger sister on his back before.
Every time I see Shen Yunqi carrying it, I'm incredibly envious.
Shen Yunqi raised an eyebrow, "Is your body up to it? Can you handle a little 'meat bomb'?"
Shen Yanzhou chuckled lightly, "Two of them can withstand it too."
After saying that, he walked up to Yan Buyu and squatted down. "Come on, Buyu."
He rubbed his hands together silently, his eyes gleaming. "Big brother, are you ready?"
After saying that, he pounced and landed on Shen Yanzhou's back.
Shen Yanzhou laughed out loud; he had finally managed to carry his sister on his back.
Shen Yunqi lazily followed beside him, took out his phone, snapped two photos, and posted them to "Happiness Sharing Home".
Lan Xinyan: [What a beautiful scene! I'm going to print out the photos and hang them at home.]
Shen Zhiye: [Let's take a family photo when we get back to Beijing.]
Shen Yunqi: [Old Shen, I'm behaving really well now.]
Shen Zhiye: [Received]
Shen Yunqi: [Could you give me a reward? I want the same Rolls-Royce as my older brother.]
Shen Zhiye: [Your older brother bought his car with his own money, and you did too.]
Shen Yunqi: [I don't have any money, you buy it for me.]
Shen Zhiye: [Can someone kick him out? It's too noisy; I can't even see my son carrying my daughter anymore.]
Shen Yunqi: ...
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