After school, Lu Yan ran to Lu Zhen's class with her schoolbag on her back, and handed a brand new two hundred yuan note to him: "Take it, and pay back all the money owed!"
"Where did you get the money?"
Lu Zhen knew that all the pocket money that Lu Yan had saved in the past had been given to him to pay back the burnt homeowner's money, and now her pockets were tight, so there was no money left for him.
Lu Zhen looked towards the bicycle lane, but he didn't see Lu Yan's car, so he asked with a sullen face, "Did you sell the car I gave you?"
"Our home is quite close to the school." Lu Yan gave him a guilty look: "I don't think it's necessary to ride a bike."
Unaware of the evil fire coming from there, Lu Zhen stuffed the money into Lu Yan's arms, turned around and left, walked a few steps, then turned back angrily, and snatched the tickets.
"Dad, what are you doing?"
"Who did you sell the car to?" He said with a sullen face, "Bought it back!"
"I can't buy it back. The store said it has changed hands."
Lu Zhen turned around and kicked the tree trunk, and said angrily, "Who told you to make up your own mind! I'm not so downcast that I want you, a little girl, to sell a car and pay me back the money!"
Lu Yan blinked her eyes, the area around her eyes was red and wet, she was very wronged.
Liang Ting couldn't stand it anymore, came over and pulled Lu Yan behind him, and blamed Lu Zhen: "What do you mean little girl, she is doing it to help you."
"Just like Shu Mengfei, you also think of me as a worthless piece of wood, don't you!"
"No, I haven't."
Even though everyone said that Lu Zhen was a worthless rich young man who was raised and abandoned, Lu Yan never thought about it that way.
She has witnessed the difficulties of her father's entrepreneurial era, and she understands better than anyone how hard this man can push herself.
Liang Ting came over and pulled Lu Zhen: "Even if you are broken in love, you shouldn't vent your anger on your sister."
"He's always like this." Lu Yan gasped, her eyes turned red, and said in a muffled voice, "He's always like this, leaving the worst side to those closest to him."
If it wasn't for Lu Zhen's bad temper that chilled grandpa, no matter how Shi Xuexian played tricks, the father and son would not be divorced and no longer communicate with each other.
Grandpa has only one son, him.
Lu Zhen calmed down, seeing the little girl's aggrieved appearance, her heart suddenly softened, and she lost all temper.
He looked at the crumpled two hundred dollars in his hand, feeling distressed and anxious.
Whoever asked her to sell the bicycle to pay him back the money, no matter how poor he was, he wouldn't let this little girl sell everything to raise money for him.
"Just sold it for two hundred yuan?"
Lu Zhen patted Lu Yan on the head angrily: "I bought that car for one thousand, but you sold it for two hundred, what a prodigal."
"Woo..."
Although he despises it, he accepts the two hundred yuan at least, and carelessly puts his arms around her shoulders: "Most of them have gone out, what a prodigal."
"It's not because of rushing out."
"I will have money in the future, and I have to buy you a new one."
Lu Yan leaned against him and leaned on his arm affectionately: "Dad, no matter what difficulties you encounter, don't give up. Even if everyone doesn't understand you, Yanyan will always be by your side."
This is what Lu Zhen told her when Lu Yan encountered difficulties when she was growing up and couldn't hold on for a while—
Don't give up, even if the whole world doesn't like you, Dad will always be by your side.
Lu Zhen moved his arm away and said with disgust, "It's too nasty."
Lu Yan smiled and rubbed against him, took his hand and wrapped it around her shoulder. Lu Zhen raised her to be both a father and a mother, so Lu Yan has been clinging to him since she was a child.
Liang Ting smiled and said to Lu Zhen: "Shen Kuo can earn money, so can we, earning more than him!"
Looking at the sunset in the distance, Lu Zhen suddenly stood up as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, and shouted loudly, "I want to earn a million!"
Qin Hao was also affected by him, and together with him shouted against the sunset: "Earn ten million!"
"I want to hug left and right! Let Shu Mengfei cry!"
"I want to marry ten wives!"
Lu Yan and Liang Ting looked at each other in dismay, feeling the weird gazes from the people around them, and felt so ashamed!
Lu Yan knew that when her father was young and frivolous, he committed a lot of stupidity, and he was a complete boy with secondary illness.
In the past, Lu Yan could only imagine it through the oral narration of her uncles, but now she can experience it personally, and Lu Yan feels very interesting.
That night, when Lu Yan came home from school, she saw a pink bicycle parked under the drooping green radish branches in front of her house.
She stepped forward and found that the car was exactly the same as the one she had sold before!
Lu Yan looked around curiously, but there was no one else around except the neighborhood.
Mom! How did it... come back
Lu Yan hurriedly got on her bicycle and circled the grass a few times, making sure that this was the one she had sold. She loves this bicycle very much, and it was a pleasant surprise and surprise to find it back.
She simply rode her bicycle directly to the dealership and asked the shop owner what was going on.
The shop owner was very familiar with this car, and said, "A handsome guy bought this car before, why is it in your hands again?"
"Who bought it?"
"I'm only in charge of selling cars. How can I know who the buyer is. They look as old as you."
"As old as me."
Lu Yan pushed the car home, feeling very puzzled.
It couldn't be Lu Zhen. During this time, Lu Zhen was so poor that he ate free soup and rice in the cafeteria. He couldn't protect himself and had no money to redeem the car.
The tall boy stood at the door of the non-staple food store, lowered his head, lit a cigarette, and looked at Lu Yan's petite back from afar.
Shen Kuo is definitely not some kind of Lei Feng who does good deeds without leaving a name, on the contrary... He is sophisticated and smooth, and if he does it, he will definitely let others know and let others appreciate it.
In this world, the road of the poor is very narrow. If he wants to widen the road, he must accumulate contacts and favors.
But this time is different.
Looking back at the beginning of school, there was a math tutoring workbook on his desk for no reason. It was the one he had been copying questions from the bookstore, but he was still reluctant to buy it.
Lu Yan bought it for him and secretly placed it on his desk.
Shen Kuo didn't understand why Lu Yan did this, maybe... it's just that the rich lady was full of sympathy, like feeding a stray dog on the road, and she might even have forgotten that she had helped him.
Shen Kuo also knew that he shouldn't think too much, shouldn't be happy beyond his control, and shouldn't think that there might be girls in this world who care about him or even... like him.
Shen Kuo never owed anyone anything, this time it was...repaying her unintentional kindness.
He extinguished the cigarette butt on the tree trunk, turned and left.
That afternoon, Lu Yan took a leaflet and ran to the door of Lu Zhen's class with great interest, and wanted to tell him important news.
Unexpectedly, she just passed the corner of the stairs and bumped into a man head-on.
The man's chest was very hard, and it was that kind of hard muscle mass, which made Lu Yan's forehead hurt.
She covered her forehead, raised her head dizzily, and met Shen Kuo's narrow dark brown eyes.
When he was not smiling, his facial features carried a certain kind of unique indifference, which always gave people a feeling that strangers should not get close to him.
"Oh, it hurts, it hurts!"
Seeing that it was Shen Kuo, Lu Yan immediately entered the status of actress, covering her head and shouting: "It hurts!"
Shen Kuo seemed to have just finished physical education class, and the bangs on his forehead were slightly wet. Lu Yan could feel the masculine heat emanating from his body, continuously encroaching on her senses.
"I didn't bump into you, so I rushed forward by myself, what are you pretending to do?" Shen Kuo mercilessly exposed her.
Lu Yan stopped pretending, lowered her head and pursed her lips and smiled.
Anyway, in front of Shen Kuo, she had to "touch porcelain" a lot, relying on him, relying on him to be able to be a large number of adults in the future and hold her hands high.
Shen Kuo couldn't understand what bad intentions this girl had, so he casually asked, "Why are you running?"
"Look for my brother, I have important news to report to him." Lu Yan raised the promotional paper in her hand and smiled at Shen Kuo.
Shen Kuo's eyes welled up, and his long and slender fingertips suddenly touched her lips. Lu Yan immediately seemed to have been immobilized, and did not dare to move. She was fully alert and nervous.
His eyes were calm and gentle, and he gently wiped off a broken cookie stuck to the corner of her mouth.
Lu Yan could even feel his rough fingertips brushing past her lips, and a tingling electric current passed through her heart.
Recalling back then, the 40-year-old Shen Kuo rarely looked at her with such soft and fiery eyes. He seemed to be standing in the shadow of the sun forever, watching her calmly and indifferently.
When Shen Kuo was a teenager, he was a little less sophisticated and shady, but more enthusiastic.
"Well... "
Lu Yan stepped back, showing a little defensiveness.
"He's in the playground, maybe he's not in a good mood."
"What's wrong with you?"
Lu Yan instinctively felt that Shen Kuo might be messing with him again, and every time he said something lightly, it could drive Lu Zhen into a rage.
Shen Kuo smiled lightly, but did not respond. He loosened the collar button of his shirt, revealing a part of his fair collarbone.
Lu Yan said softly, "Don't bully him."
He raised his brows and eyes: "If you want to."
"If you must bully Lu Zhen, I will show you too!"
Lu Yan compared her fists to him, but her little fists were pink in the white, not threatening at all.
The smile in the corner of Shen Kuo's eyes became even bigger, and he dragged his tone, saying every word: "Oh, look good for me."
Lu Yan realized that she was a little stupid, so she quickly withdrew her fist and said softly, "Only, as long as you let him go, I will repay you."
Shen Kuo found that this little girl was really afraid of him.
He felt that he didn't seem to have done anything particularly terrible to Lu Zhen, and even if he did, it wasn't now.
He lowered his head and approached her, his thin lips fell on her ear, and his voice was low and mellow: "How will you repay me?"
"I-I haven't thought about it yet, I'll talk about it later!"
Lu Yan staggered away from him and ran down the stairs to avoid letting him see her burning face.
Shen Kuo turned his head, staring at the little girl's thin and slender back, the corners of his mouth slightly pursed.
Most of the time, his smile is not sincere.
At least, facing her, he was really happy.
…
Lu Yan found three dejected teenagers by the playground.
Wearing a red basketball uniform, Lu Zhen threw the basketball out angrily. The basketball rolled a few times and landed at Lu Yan's feet, where she stepped on it.
At first glance, these guys were hanged and beaten by masters.
"I don't play basketball anymore, I won't play basketball in my life."
"Brother Lu, don't give up. Although we can't beat him in basketball, our grades are not as good as his, and we can't beat him in a fight..."
Lu Zhen said angrily: "That means he is inferior to him in everything, right?"
Qin Hao quickly turned around: "But we will become the big boss in the future! Crush him in every way!"
Lu Zhen rubbed her nose, and said unwillingly, "When I become a big boss, I'll look good with him."
Lu Yan actually wanted to say, in fact, when you become a big boss one day, Shen Kuo will still crush you to death with one finger, just like crushing an ant.
Lu Zhen turned her head and asked Lu Yan: "What are you doing here?"
"Oh!" Lu Yan quickly took out the crumpled promotional paper: "Rookie Cup Campus Talent Competition!"
Lu Zhen took the promotional paper and looked at it casually: "What the hell."
"It's a talent competition for singing and dancing. I heard that the school organizes it every year. There is a prize of 1,000 yuan!"
"Are you going to sing?"
"That's right!" Lu Yan looked at him expectantly, "I'm sure I'll win the prize, and when the time comes, we can pay back all the money we owe, and grandpa will be happy too."
Lu Zhen and Liang Ting looked at each other and burst out laughing.
"What are you doing!" Lu Yan frowned, "What are you laughing at?"
Lu Zhen patted Lu Yan on the shoulder: "Girl, when you were in junior high school, you went on stage to sing Grasshopper's "Broken Love Front Alliance". Have you forgotten how tragic the car accident was?"
Lu Yan: ...
She's not a little aunt, so she won't be out of tune! She was a woman who almost made her debut! Back then, many brokerage companies were scrambling to sign her.
"Hmph, don't look down on me!"
Liang Ting also said: "It's really not that Lu Zhen looks down on you. From junior high school to now, Lu Zhen's ex-girlfriend Shu Mengfei has participated in this competition every time. She has won the championship twice in a row. This year she is full of ambitions to win the third consecutive championship. What do you think?" Getting her down is a pipe dream..."
"If you say so, then I must participate." Lu Yan said smugly: "I will get her down this year, let her three consecutive championships fail, and avenge my father!"
Although Lu Zhen and the two uncles were not optimistic about Lu Yan, Lu Yan still signed up, which would definitely surprise them.