Lin Shen had told Xia Wenxi about the Lin family's preferences, and since she was going to give a gift anyway, she might as well put more effort into giving them something they liked.
Take Lin Shen's mother, for example. Lin Shen told Xia Wenxi that his mother had recently started chanting Buddhist scriptures, so Xia Wenxi specifically looked it up online. She had previously gone to the most efficacious temple in Fanshi and had someone copy the scriptures, which she then placed in front of the Buddha and worshipped for a while.
Sure enough, Jian Yuxiang was very happy when she received it, and kept praising Xia Wenxi for being so thoughtful.
Xia Wenxi simply smiled and said obediently, "I'm glad you like it."
"I love it, I love it so much, I couldn't love it more."
At lunchtime, the Lin family kept piling food onto Xia Wenxi's plate. Each member of the Lin family took a bite, which was enough to fill Xia Wenxi's stomach.
She felt she might be forced to eat three bowls of rice today.
Xia Wenxi nudged Lin Shen, who was sitting next to her, under the table with her foot, indicating that he really couldn't eat anymore.
"Mom, please stop putting that in your bowl. Wenxi is already full."
"Oh, oh."
Jian Yuxiang immediately stopped eating, but still asked Xia Wenxi, "Are you really full? You're not just being polite, are you?"
Xia Wenxi felt like she was about to burst out laughing, so she quickly nodded.
"Auntie, I'm really full."
"How is it? Is the food at home to your liking?"
"It's especially to my liking," Xia Wenxi said with a smile. "These are all my favorite dishes."
"I'm glad you like it. Come eat with Xiao Shen often in the future."
Xia Wenxi naturally agreed with a smile.
After dinner, Lin Shen took Xia Wenxi to see the room he had stayed in before.
"Actually, there's not much left in the room. I've rarely lived at home since I went to college."
Even though the school wasn't too far from home, he insisted on living on campus from the start of university, even on weekends and holidays, trying to go home as little as possible.
Later, after I went abroad, I went home even less often. Then, after I started working, I moved out of my family home, just like my older siblings.
"Nothing at all?"
Xia Wenxi's tone betrayed a hint of disappointment.
Lin Shen understood her meaning and asked with a smile, "What do you want to see?"
Upon entering, there is a space resembling a study. However, since Lin Shen may not have lived here for a long time, most of the books on the shelves are those that would appear on the list of essential reading for middle school students, and there are even IELTS study materials.
When Xia Wenxi saw this, she naturally thought of Lin Shen from her middle school days, sitting here doing homework and reading extracurricular books. In college, Lin Shen would occasionally sit here and do IELTS practice tests.
Xia Wenxi turned her head and looked at Lin Shen with a smile, "I thought I would see Lin Shen when he was a child."
Yes, it is.
Lin Shen opened the drawer of his desk, took out a photo album, and handed it to Xia Wenxi, saying:
"But I had a boring childhood, so the photos probably don't look very interesting either."
"It's okay, I will spoil little Lin Shen."
Xia Wenxi sat down at Lin Shen's desk and opened the account book with great anticipation.
Once you turn to the first page, you can't help but stop and examine it closely.
"100 Days in the Deep Forest"
Xia Wenxi leaned closer to look at the chubby baby in the photo. She looked at the photo, then looked up at Lin Shen, trying to find similarities between them.
Xia Wenxi touched the baby version of Lin Shen's face in the photo with her hand.
"He's so young, but you can already tell he'll be a handsome young man when he grows up."
Even Lin Shen himself was embarrassed to look at this photo closely.
Hearing what Xia Wenxi said, he bent down to take a closer look, but he really couldn't see that the chubby little boy in the photo who seemed to be drooling looked like the handsome guy she described.
Xia Wenxi stared for a long time, even taking out her phone to take a picture. Lin Shen was about to stop her, but after hearing her say something...
Do you think our future children might look like this?
Lin Shen then abandoned his intention to stop her and began to imagine the scene with her while staring at the photo.
"I think the child might be better looking like you."
“You’re beautiful too, and our child might look like both of us at the same time. Maybe the eyes and ears will look like mine, and the nose and mouth will look like yours.”
Xia Wenxi pieced it together in her mind and felt that no matter how their facial features were combined, they would definitely look good.
There were many more photos, but I spent half an hour looking at the first one before flipping to the next.
"Lin Shen's First Anniversary".
This baby Lin Shen is even fatter than the previous one, and he's wearing a red bellyband.
Xia Wenxi burst into laughter and fell into Lin Shen's arms.
Lin Shen's ears turned slightly red; he had completely forgotten that he even had such a photo.
"Next one."
Lin Shen turned the page himself, but Xia Wenxi's mind was filled with that red bellyband.
"I'll buy you another bellyband later, can you wear it for me?"
Xia Wenxi laughed until tears streamed down her face. She wanted to flip back and take another picture, but found that Lin Shen had already reached out and pressed down on the album.
Lin Shen leaned closer to Xia Wenxi and whispered, "If it were at night, in the room, I would be willing to wear it for you to see."
This time, it was Xia Wenxi's turn to blush.
Lin Shen, wearing a bellyband, oh heavens! Xia Wenxi reached out and touched the tip of her nose. Thankfully, she wasn't bleeding from her nose.
"Next... next one."
In broad daylight, let's think about something healthy and stop shivering!
The picture Lin Shen is holding now is of him at two years old, and the next one will be of him at three years old...
There are four-year-olds and five-year-olds behind them.
Even the designs are similar. Little Lin Shen sits at the table with a beautifully designed cake on it, but the child facing the cake doesn't smile.
When they were four or five years old, they still had a bit of a smile, but by the time they were seven or eight, they had a completely expressionless face.
He's lost weight and looks more like Lin Shen now.
However, Xia Wenxi felt that the Lin Shen she knew was a very cheerful person.
Seeing that she was flipping through the photos faster and faster, Lin Shen laughed and said, "I told you, my childhood photos are boring."
Xia Wenxi felt a pang of heartache and certainly didn't want to hear him say that about her.
“I don’t find it boring. I want to get to know Lin Shen, whom I’ve known since childhood.”
It wasn't until high school that the album gradually started to contain more photos other than those from my birthday.
In one of the photos, she is wearing a school uniform and carrying a backpack, looking back at the camera and smiling.
The sunlight happened to fall on his hair, giving the photo a sunlight filter effect.
Xia Wenxi asked him, "Where was this filmed?"
"This... was taken during the school's spring outing, right? The teacher brought a camera, took the photos, and then developed them for us."
"Did anyone pursue you in high school? Be honest."
"have."
"I knew it! If my high school had someone like you, I would have passed by your classroom eight times a day."
"And then, can I know why you didn't agree?"
"I don't know," Lin Shen said frankly. "I just didn't have that thought back then."
"So, when you saw me, you had those kinds of thoughts?"
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