Shen Yu always felt that Tang Li's mood was not quite right, especially when he left, the sullenness in Tang Li's eyes made him more and more uneasy.
It is indeed for Lei Yumeng that he lost his temper with Tang Li, in case Tang Li vented all this resentment on Lei Yumeng...
Then the consequences are unimaginable.
The more Shen Yu thought about it, the more uneasy he felt. In the past, he would have unreservedly believed that Tang Li would not do anything to Lei Yumeng, but now, his trust in Tang Li has been shaken.
Like a broken bucket...
No matter how hard he tried to fill in the water, there was still water leaking out of his mouth.
"Bring him back first." Shen Yu ordered, "The rest will wait until tomorrow."
Uncle Zhang said, "Okay."
Shen Yu warned again: "Don't let him do anything to Lei Yumeng."
Uncle Zhang hesitated for a moment, then explained carefully: "I guess Young Master Tang Li wants to apologize to that little girl."
"Really..." Shen Yu paused, facing Uncle Zhang's act of defending Tang Li without hesitation, and suddenly felt at a loss and an indescribable embarrassment.
Even Uncle Zhang chose to think in a positive way.
He still looked at Tang Li with tinted glasses.
After hanging up the phone, Shen Yu still couldn't sleep, so she got out of bed and sat in front of the floor-to-ceiling window to wait.
Looking down from his point of view, he could see a lush forest shrouded in darkness, and the looming lights circling the woods along the path.
In the distance, there is a calm lake.
The faint street lights circled around the lake, and the light spots fell into the water, like stars sprinkled in the night sky.
Winter nights often bring a dull feeling, and tonight, this feeling is especially strong for Shen Yu.
Dull to the point of suffocation.
He closed his eyes, recalled all the things that happened in the afternoon, and suddenly became a little confused - although Tang Li indirectly caused the incident of Lei Yumeng being bullied, Tang Li was not the one who bullied Lei Yumeng himself, after all, what he did Wouldn't it be too harsh...
Thinking of this, Tang Li's cake-covered and aggrieved face gradually appeared in front of Shen Yu's eyes.
Tears flashed in the little villain's eyes, his eyes were red, he stubbornly pursed his lips, and tried to explain to him the truth of the matter in a seemingly calm but trembling voice.
After all, it is the child who has been with him for more than three months, and has been raised by him as his own son.
Even though Shen Yu was so angry a few hours ago that she wanted to drive Tang Li out of the Shen family directly, but after calming down now, she felt unbearable and a little regretful.
Maybe he shouldn't be so angry.
If he had known it would turn out like this, he should have calmly communicated with Tang Li first.
Shen Yu stroked his forehead with a headache, and sat abruptly for nearly two hours. He still didn't hear the movement of Uncle Zhang bringing Tang Li back. He even took a wheelchair to the stairs to look around.
In the large and quiet living room, only a dimly lit floor lamp was lit.
Aunt Chen sat on the sofa, holding her head drowsy.
After hearing the sound of the wheelchair rolling on the floor, Aunt Chen woke up immediately, looked up hastily, and found that the person was Shen Yu, she was relieved: "Sir, why did you come out?"
"Uncle Zhang hasn't come back yet?"
"No." Aunt Chen shook her head, "I called Lao Zhang, and he said he would be back later."
Shen Yu understood and said, "Go and rest."
Aunt Chen was so sleepy that she could barely keep her eyes open. After being instructed, she got up and went back to her room to wash up and sleep.
Shen Yu stayed in place for a moment, looked down at the silent living room shrouded in dim yellow light, and was silent for a long time, he sighed slightly, controlled the wheelchair and turned back to the bedroom.
When she came to the floor-to-ceiling window again, Shen Yu realized that there seemed to be fine things falling in the night sky.
He turned on the flash of his mobile phone, pointed out the window, and took a closer look, and found that those things were actually snowflakes.
Aunt Chen was right, it really snowed tonight.
I don't know when Uncle Zhang and Tang Li, who are still outside, will come back...
After waiting for a long time, Shen Yu was a little worried, and after thinking about it, she called Uncle Zhang again.
This time, Uncle Zhang answered the call very quickly. Before Shen Yu could speak, Uncle Zhang was the first to say, "Sir, go to bed first, Master Tang Li and I may go back later."
Shen Yu said, "It's snowing."
"Yeah." Uncle Zhang sighed in a low voice, "This first snow is really untimely."
Shen Yu felt that Uncle Zhang was always avoiding the topic, and simply said directly: "Don't stay outside, come back quickly, if Chestnut is still angry with me, please help me to appease him."
"Sir..." Uncle Zhang said embarrassedly, "I persuaded him for a long time, but Young Master Tang Li refused to go back. He said he knew he was wrong, and he wanted to ask that little girl's forgiveness."
Shen Yu laughed, helpless and distressed, and the anger in his chest didn't know when to dissipate.
"Don't be in a hurry to apologize, tell him that if he really wants to apologize to Lei Yumeng, I can take him to see Lei Yumeng's family."
Hearing this, Uncle Zhang was silent for a few seconds before he said, "Why don't I give the phone to Young Master Tang Li, tell him in person."
Shen Yu replied, "Okay."
Soon, Uncle Zhang's voice changed from clear to blurred, and he seemed to be talking to Tang Li next to him.
At this moment, Shen Yu felt a little nervous. He involuntarily clenched his mobile phone. Just when he was racking his brains to think about how to start this conversation, he suddenly found that the other side was too quiet.
There was no sound at all.
Shen Yu noticed something instantly and took out the phone to take a look.
The call was hung up.
Shen Yu: "..."
What the hell!
I don't usually see it, the little villain's temper is big enough!
Shen Yu's face was full of surprise, and the hand holding the phone stiffened in mid-air for a full minute before slowly putting it down.
For a time, he felt angry and funny.
never mind.
Tang Li has made his resistance to him so obvious, why should he go to the hot face to stick to the cold butt, and Tang Li did something wrong and should have been left to dry.
Besides, with Uncle Zhang accompanying him, nothing should happen.
Shen Yu thought about it for a while, but still sent a message to Uncle Zhang, asking him to take the blanket prepared in the car and put it on Tang Li. He couldn't finally catch a cold without apologizing.
After Uncle Zhang's reply, Shen Yu restrained her thoughts and went to bed again.
·
It's a pity that this night, Shen Yu's mind was a mess, and he couldn't fall asleep. He stared at the ceiling for a moment, so he stayed up until dawn.
At seven in the morning, Shen Yu got up and got dressed.
When he came to the restaurant in a wheelchair after washing, Aunt Chen had just cooked the yam porridge, and in a blink of an eye, Aunt Chen was startled when she saw Shen Yu looking sluggish with two dark circles under her eyes.
"Sir, are you all right?"
"I'm fine." Shen Yu came to the fixed position in front of the dining table in a wheelchair, and smiled reluctantly with the corners of her mouth pulled, "It's just that I didn't sleep well last night."
Aunt Chen put the prepared porridge, fried dough sticks, steamed buns and other food on the table, and then said worriedly, "Otherwise, after breakfast, you can go back and rest again?"
Shen Yu waved his hand: "No, there is still work."
And Uncle Zhang and Tang Li didn't return overnight, how could he sleep
When Aunt Chen heard what Shen Yu said, she didn't persuade any more.
After breakfast, when Shen Yu passed the living room to the study in a wheelchair, she saw that the scene outside the floor-to-ceiling window had turned into a blanket of white snow, and the lush scene before was completely lost in the courtyard. Three servants wrapped in coats were in the open space. Clear snow.
A servant passed by and saw Shen Yu staring out of the window, and couldn't help sighing: "It snowed all night, and it didn't stop until more than five o'clock in the morning. It is estimated that it will start falling again soon."
After finishing speaking, the servant carefully told Shen Yu: "The temperature has been so bad recently, sir, pay attention to keep warm."
Shen Yu's thoughts were pulled back by the servant's voice, his absent-minded eyes gradually focused, he raised his head and smiled at the servant: "Thank you."
After coming to the study, Shen Yu picked up her mobile phone and called Uncle Zhang again.
Still off.
When Shen Yu woke up this morning, Uncle Zhang's cell phone was turned off, but Tang Li's cell phone was able to get through, but he refused to answer Shen Yu's call.
Shen Yu was helpless and could only wait.
Wait until he has finished processing the mountain of work in the study, wait until he calls Kang Lin and a few assistants for a brief meeting, wait for about half an hour of rehabilitation exercises with the help of the doctor, wait until the evening. It's past six o'clock...
Uncle Zhang, whose phone was turned off, finally came back.
But he was the only one who came back.
Shen Yu, who hurriedly greeted him from the study, looked behind Uncle Zhang. The smile on his face quickly solidified, and he asked, "Where's the chestnut?"
"It's still there." Uncle Zhang had snowflakes on his hair and clothes, exuding the smell of ice and snow all over his body, he smiled helplessly, "Master Tang Li is too stubborn, that little girl doesn't want to see him, he is here Wait downstairs and don't go no matter what I say."
It sounds like he has lost his way, and he sincerely wants to apologize to Lei Yumeng.
But Shen Yu couldn't be happy at all, and an indescribable anger swelled in his chest, rushing up the throat, burning his cheeks red.
What does Tang Li mean by doing this
Do you grit your teeth and fight him
He had already softened his attitude and offered to take the initiative, but Tang Li not only refused to accept it, but was determined to spend it with him in this cold snowy day.
Shen Yu pursed his lips, his eyes were dim, his face was blue, and the thick dark circles under his eyes made him look extremely decadent.
After a long while, Shen Yu squeezed a sentence out of his teeth: "Does he really want to come back?"
Uncle Zhang lowered his head: "I have persuaded me."
"Okay, since he's so reluctant, then don't come back." Shen Yu was so angry that her voice was shaking, her fingertips tapped the touch screen of the wheelchair armrest many times before pressing the button and controlling the wheelchair to walk away .
He has always been calm and self-controlled, and since he came to this world, he can count on one hand the number of times he has lost his temper at people.
This time, he was really pissed off by Tang Li.
He even had a naive idea of never caring about Tang Li. Even if Tang Li came back, he would have to fight with Tang Li for a month, making Tang Li deeply aware of the seriousness of this matter.
However, when Shen Yu saw the goose feather snow falling outside the window, those childish thoughts disappeared in an instant.
The snow is getting heavier and heavier, and I don't know when it will stop.
It was as if the whole world was buried under heavy snow.
At the same time, Shen Yu regretted it.
He later realized that Tang Li was just a child who had just turned eleven, and was abused by the Tang family for more than a year. Naturally, his way of thinking and behavior was different from that of ordinary children.
He's an adult who has a lot of trouble with a traumatized eleven-year-old...
Shen Yu's anger when she first discovered the truth, to her distress after learning that Tang Li had apologized, to her embarrassment for not waiting for Tang Li to come back just now, and finally to her guilt now.
In less than a day, he experienced emotional ups and downs, as if he had been on a roller coaster all day long, and the severe sense of drop had tortured him to the point of going crazy.
But the only thing he can be sure of is—
No matter how badly Tang Li was wrong, it was the child that Shen Yu had raised for more than three months, and his heart was full of flesh, so he couldn't watch Tang Li starve and freeze outside.
After thinking about this, Shen Yu suddenly felt a lot more relaxed. He called Uncle Zhang: "It's so late, let's pick up chestnuts and come back."
·
After careful calculation, Tang Li waited downstairs at Lei Yumeng's house for a night and a day.
Later, it snowed, and the cold snowflakes fell on his hair and clothes, turning into ice water, soaking his hair and clothes, and the coldness almost soaked into the bone marrow along the ice water.
Tang Li was so cold that his teeth were chattering.
He was still wearing a school uniform, and the slightly thin woolen coat could not block the cold wind blowing in his face. In the snowy winter, even the air seemed to be piercingly cold.
Although Tang Li had been restraining his body from trembling, his pale face seemed to blend in with the snow-white background, making him look miserable and pitiful.
Butler Zhang stayed with Tang Li all night long, and persuaded him earnestly.
It's a pity that Tang Li couldn't hear a word, and stubbornly refused to follow Butler Zhang back. He opened his lips that were already blue with cold, and said numbly: "Uncle Zhang, Brother Shen Yu is right, it's me. If you make a mistake, you should bear the corresponding punishment, you don't have to sympathize with me."
Butler Zhang sighed, and then persuaded: "Mr. asked you to go home, he is waiting for you at home."
"I'm not going back." Tang Li lowered his eyelids, stared at his feet in a daze, and exhaled a cloud of white mist, "I won't leave until Lei Yumeng comes out to see me."
Butler Zhang looked at Tang Li's stubborn expression, hesitant to say anything, and finally drove away - his mobile phone has long been out of power, and he needs to go back and report to Shen Yu in person.
After Butler Zhang left, Tang Li was left alone here.
Lei Yumeng's family lived in a high-end community with strict security and few pedestrians. Tang Li was able to come in thanks to Butler Zhang's blessing. During the night and day they waited, they rarely saw other passers-by.
It snowed heavily.
There was no intention of stopping.
Tang Li stood motionless in the white snow, like a sculpture without a soul. In fact, only he knew that his body had been frozen to the point of unconsciousness.
As if a century had passed, the sound of shoes squeaking on the snow suddenly came from the quiet air, from far to near.
Tang Li's consciousness quickly returned to the cage and looked up.
I saw Lei Yumeng was wearing a long black down jacket that was wrapped from head to toe, with only a pair of big eyes that showed no expression. Even if she wrapped herself so tightly, she could still feel how thin she was during this period of time.
It was like a bamboo pole supporting a down jacket walking over, completely losing its previous beauty.
When he walked in front of Tang Li, Lei Yumeng slowly stopped.
A month ago, Lei Yumeng was still looking down at Tang Li, but now, a month later, she has to raise her chin slightly to meet Tang Li's gaze.
The two of them stared at each other with big eyes. About half a minute later, Tang Li broke the silence: "I'm sorry."
Whether it was Tang Li's demeanor or tone, he was very sincere. As he spoke, he took out a retro red square box from his pocket, which contained the bracelet he bought temporarily last night.
"This is the bracelet you've always wanted, for you."
Lei Yumeng lowered her eyes, and her indifferent gaze fell on the delicate small square box. After hesitating for a moment, she slowly reached out and took the box.
"I know you came here last night, but I don't want to see you." Lei Yumeng put her fingers together, clenched the box tightly, and looked straight at Tang Li with resentful eyes, "If it weren't for my mother seeing you just now , even if you stand here forever, I won't care about you."
Tang Li crooked the corner of his mouth: "Thank you auntie for me."
Neither light nor heavy sentence ignited the anger in Lei Yumeng's heart.
"Don't think that you can make me forgive you for doing these self-moving things. It's my mother's intention that I come down to see you. I accept your things for my mother's sake, and I will never forgive you. ,will never!"
Lei Yumeng was panting slightly, her vicious eyes were like a poisonous snake spitting out letters, and she couldn't wait to rush over and bite Tang Li to pieces in the next moment.
When Tang Li heard this, not only was he not annoyed at all, but he raised his lips to reveal a faint smile. He said in a sincere tone, "I just came to apologize to you, and I don't need your forgiveness."
Lei Yumeng was stunned: "What do you mean?"
Tang Li smiled and said, "literally."
Lei Yumeng was stunned for a moment, but she was still smart for a while, and soon she understood what Tang Li was talking about, and her eyes were rounded in anger, and flames almost burst out of her head.
She threw the small box in her hand to the ground, and pointed at Tang Li half ashamed and half collapsed: "I knew you didn't come to apologize to me at all, you're clearly just doing a show, and you sold it to Shen Yu, okay? Let Shen Yu continue to support you!"
Tang Li looked at the emotional Lei Yumeng expressionlessly, and said nothing.
"How can you do this? You are still doing this to me!" Lei Yumeng said halfway through, tears welling up from her eyes, she wiped the corners of her eyes, crying, and suddenly laughed again, "It's really pitiful, you're only eleven years old, right? You have to use this method to ensure your own life."