Chapter 155 I Can't Sleep
Shi Ming went to take a shower.
Ning Yan stood by the window with one hand in his pocket, and while waiting for the call, he subconsciously lit a cigarette.
He doesn't smoke either, and his main purpose is to provide psychological comfort when he has a smoking urge.
He pointed the burning cigarette butt at the small crack in the window so that all the smoke could drift outside. He stared at the heavy rain outside the window with a frown.
I can’t figure out how Shi Ming managed to get back.
And this is Shi Ming, whose mental state is only that of an 8-year-old, no different from that of an elementary school student?
"Hello?"
The call went through, and Lin Fang didn't sound anxious at all. He asked him, "Is Shi Ming with you?"
Ning Yan frowned: "Did you send him back?"
"Didn't you say that he made me pull over to buy him ice cream because he was making a fuss?"
"And then he ran away?" Ning Yan was speechless.
"Then he took off in my car."
“…”
There was a long silence on the phone, so quiet that the only sound was the noisy rain outside.
Ning Yan felt that his expression must be very interesting. After a while, he turned his head to look at the bathroom and said, "You said that 8-year-old Shi Ming drove away your car, right, Mr. Lin? He was only 8 years old, not 18. Can he drive?"
"If he was really 8 years old, I'm sure his short legs wouldn't be able to reach the accelerator, but unfortunately, at 26, he has two long legs and he can definitely reach it."
Ning Yan felt that the world was truly insane. After taking two sharp puffs of his cigarette, he said in a deep voice, "He's been hypnotized. Logically, he shouldn't have remembered that he could drive. Why is he still driving?"
"Even a dog can drive an automatic," Lin Fang said. "Besides, he's watched you drive all the way, and I've watched him from the passenger seat. With muscle memory, it's entirely possible he can learn."
"You were careless. I should have asked you to tie him up and send him back to Gu Jiujing."
"Do you need me to come and pick him up again?"
"Didn't he drive away your car?" Ning Yan pinched his brows, took a long breath, and sighed: "Think about how you are going to get back first."
"I called a helicopter, it should be here in half an hour."
Ning Yan was more silent than ever before. He had been in Continent M for so many years and had met many wealthy people and even owned helicopters, but Lin Fang's actions at this moment still impressed him.
No wonder Shi Ming drove his car away, he was not in a hurry at all.
It turns out he can fly.
"I'll take him to see the Third Young Master." After a long silence, Ning Yan grabbed his hair and said resignedly, "Send me the Third Young Master's contact information here, and I'll contact him myself. I don't believe I can't get rid of this burden."
After saying that, he hung up the phone, took a puff of cigarette, turned around and prepared to knock on the bathroom door, asking Shi Ming if he had finished washing so that he could go and wash too.
When he turned around, Shi Ming was standing behind him in a bathrobe, his two dark eyes looking straight at him.
The skin was red from the hot water, and the wet black hair was pressed under the snow-white towel.
He looked like a stray cat that had just been picked up from the rain and washed clean. He had regained his beauty and looked non-aggressive and cold.
"..." Ning Yan calmly put his hands behind his back, stuffed the half-smoked cigarette into the crack of the window, and then threw it out with force. He laughed and said, "Are you done washing? Are you sleepy? Do you want to go to sleep?"
"Who is this burden you're talking about?"
“…”
Shi Ming stared at him intently and asked stubbornly, "Is it me?"
Ning Yan immediately said: "No, really, how could it be you."
Shi Ming didn't say anything and continued to stare at him, with an expression of disbelief on his face.
Ning Yan hurried over, put his arm around his shoulders, and pressed him down on the bed. Then he went to the cabinet to get a hair dryer and stood beside him to blow his hair.
The hair dryer was very loud, so even if Shi Ming wanted to ask something, Ning Yan could pretend to be deaf.
But he seemed to have forgotten one thing, that Shi Ming was a logic genius who could argue with others for three days and three nights and still get back to where he was.
After he finished drying his hair and put the hairdryer back, he turned around and came back to see Shi Ming still sitting on the edge of the bed. He frowned and asked him, "If I'm not the burden you were talking about, then who is it?"
"..." Ning Yan really wanted to pick up the vase on the table and knock him out.
"It's Lin Fang." Ning Yan thought for a second and said decisively. Then he walked over, lifted the quilt, and put him on the bed like a doll. Then he covered him carefully and coaxed him, "Be good, go to sleep. We have successfully gotten rid of that burden."
Shi Ming grabbed his hand and asked in confusion: "Where are you going?"
Ning Yan said as a matter of course: "Go take a shower."
"Then I'll wait for you at the bathroom door."
As he was about to throw off the quilt and get out of bed, Ning Yan was so scared that she quickly grabbed his hands and feet, stuffed them all back, and said directly: "Okay, okay, I won't wash anymore, I'll just go to sleep, okay?"
"No, you have to wash."
“…”
"It's dirty not to take a shower." Shi Ming looked him in the eyes and emphasized seriously, "It's really dirty."
"I'll sleep on the floor." Ning Yan said quickly.
"The floor is dirty, let's sleep on the bed together."
"Shi Ming, tell me the truth, are you afraid of sleeping alone?" Ning Yan frowned.
"……no."
Ning Yan went to the bathroom to take a shower, and Shi Ming sat on the stool at the bathroom door to watch over him. He held Ning Yan's mobile phone and quietly played the puzzle game that Ning Yan had just downloaded for him.
He played for a while, then stopped for a while, and every now and then he would turn around and ask if Ning Yan was there.
Ning Yan's patience and temper were good now. Shi Ming asked him every five minutes, but he didn't get angry. He even asked him if the game was fun.
There was no answer. 8-year-old Shi Ming had never played with a mobile phone and was addicted to games.
After washing, Ning Yan came out wearing a bathrobe. He took the phone from Shi Ming and called the front desk to ask them to help buy new clothes.
Two simple casual outfits, similar in style, in black and white.
After hanging up the phone, he looked down and saw Shi Ming still sitting on the stool, staring at him eagerly.
Ning Yan suddenly became happy and asked him, "Do you still want to play?"
Shi Ming didn't say anything.
"Call me brother and I'll let you play, okay?"
“…”
Shi Ming moved the stool back to its original place, climbed onto the bed, covered himself with the quilt, and ignored him.
Although he didn't say a word, it was obvious that the child was angry.
Ning Yan leaned against the window, laughing so hard that her body shook. When she finally laughed enough, she returned the phone to him and went to get a hair dryer to blow dry her hair.
Shi Ming looked at the phone in his hand, stunned for a moment, and a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
When the lights were turned off, Shi Ming obediently put down his phone, stopped playing with it, and curled up in bed.
He closed his eyes and tried to sleep for a while, but couldn't fall asleep, so he turned over and looked at Ning Yan beside him.
Ning Yan still had his old habit of sleeping neatly dressed. His sleeping posture was similar to the soldiers Shi Ming had seen on TV, but more lazy and casual.
He rested one arm behind his head and bent one leg. He did not close his eyes and had no expression, as if he was thinking about something.
"Ning Yan."
"Um?"
Ning Yan responded subconsciously. After realizing that it was Shi Ming who called her, she was stunned for a moment and turned to look at him, a little surprised: "Finally you call me by my name?"
Shi Ming was kidnapped when he was a child. He was not found by his family until he was 12 years old and was taken back to Beijing. It was also after he was 12 years old that he met Lin Fang and Ning Yan through Yu Li.
Therefore, when his memory went back to when he was 8 years old, he did not recognize Lin Fang and Ning Yan at all during this period.
He neither called out their names nor communicated with them, treating them as human traffickers.
Being called out like this out of the blue, Ning Yan actually found it quite strange and fresh.
"Scream again."
“…”
"Look, did I just let you play with my phone?"
"Ning Yan."
"So good." Ning Yan reached out and touched his head, smiling and asked him, "Why isn't our Shi Ming asleep yet?"
"Can I play with your phone for a while? I can't sleep because I didn't finish that level just now."
“…”
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PS:
Shi Ming is addicted to his phone, Ning Yan is addicted to taking care of his children, Yu Chengbai and Gu Jiujing are both on their way to kill him.
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