During the winter vacation, Lu Yan's interest in studying was very high. She didn't go to relatives for New Year's greetings, and she didn't want any lucky money. She locked herself in her room to read and study.
Lu Zhen worked hard for almost half a semester, and her grades improved a lot, at least she wasn't at the bottom of her grade.
But everything has a bang, then decline, and three exhaustion. Slowly, a certain person also began to be a little neglected. If Lu Yan hadn't urged him, maybe this guy would return to the life of a salted fish.
That night, Lu Yan received a text message with no content, only a punctuation mark: .
She texted back: "Who are you?"
"it's me."
"Shen Kuo?"
"Um."
Lu Yan immediately regained her spirits, sat up from the sofa, and wanted to call him back, but she saw Lu Zhen wearing earphones, humming a melody, twisting his 1.87-meter tall man, walking from the handrail of the stairs. slide down.
Lu Yan decisively cut off the call and changed to a text message—
"You bought a mobile phone!"
"Well, not very good at it yet."
Lu Yan saw that he couldn't use it anymore, and it took him five minutes to edit and send just these few words.
She pursed her lips into a smile and asked, "Are you trying to contact me to buy a mobile phone?"
"think too much."
She snorted softly and was editing the text message when Shen Kuo added another one: "It's for you to contact me."
Lu Yan looked at the message, rolled around on the sofa, buried her face in the pillow, and was excited for a while.
Lu Zhen took off the earphones, frowned and looked at her: "Nervous."
Lu Yan stretched her leg to kick him, Lu Zhen ducked to the side, grabbed her foot with her backhand, and pulled her closer to him: "Who are you texting?"
"No one!"
"Give me the phone."
"No!" Lu Yan kicked him away and rolled to the other end of the sofa: "This is my privacy, you must not invade my privacy!"
Lu Zhencai didn't care about anything, pressed her on the sofa, and snatched her mobile phone: "I am your father, you have no privacy with me."
"Ah, you are too domineering!"
Lu Yan struggled to get up, but Lu Zhen grabbed her feet and dragged her back: "Are you texting Ye Jiaqi? I knew it was him! You brat... You are so wicked!"
At this time, Lu Jian came out of the study: "What are you arguing about?"
As if seeing a savior, Lu Yan kicked her father away and ran behind her grandfather to seek shelter: "Lu, Lu Zhen, he wants to snatch my phone and read my text messages! It's too much!"
Lu Zhen ran over, pointed at Lu Yan and said, "She... she has a puppy love! I will take care of her."
Of course, Lu Jian wanted to protect her little daughter, so she immediately took off her slippers and pointed at him: "You're still taking care of your sister like this, so take care of yourself!"
"I...she..."
Lu Zhen was too anxious to speak.
After all, an elder brother and a father are still different. As an elder brother, he can ignore his sister, but as a father, no one cares if he does.
With the sense of responsibility of an old father, Lu Zhen must not let his daughter be cheated away by bad men at such a young age.
Lu Yan poked her head out from behind her grandfather and stuck out her tongue at Lu Zhen, making Lu Zhen blush with anger, but there was nothing she could do.
"Don't you want to go to a key university?" Lu Jianhu walked to the sofa in the living room and said to Lu Zhen, "Go back to your room and read."
Lu Zhen said angrily: "Then she doesn't care about her puppy love?"
"I don't have a puppy love, he's talking nonsense!"
Lu Jian is really a crazy nurse, she said to Lu Zhen: "If you can get your sister's score in the test, I don't care if you fall in love early!"
Lu Zhen was finally discouraged, turned around and went upstairs, and kept turning her head to threaten Lu Yan with her eyes, signaling that the matter was endless.
After he returned to the room, Lu Jian turned her head and said seriously to Lu Yan, "You are not allowed to fall in love early."
"No, no, no puppy love!"
Lu Yan was afraid that her grandfather would ask more questions, so she hurried back to the room.
Lying on the soft big bed, holding the phone, she smiled again.
In the past, there were only her and her father in the family. Although they always played cat-and-mouse scenes and lived a lively life, there was always...something missing.
Lu Zhen is both a father and a mother, taking care of Lu Yan in every possible way, but... After all, the family is still missing family members, mothers, and grandparents.
Lu Yan secretly made up her mind that when she comes back this time, she must protect her family, especially... mother.
She will never let her mother have any accidents again.
Shen Kuo sat at the desk, under the warm yellow desk lamp, on the black and white screen of the mobile phone, there was a short message of "good night" sent by the girl.
He is more used to writing more content in a text message, which will be more cost-effective.
"I still owe you a movie. When will you be free? Although your family has a movie theater, this time, I'll buy the tickets."
After receiving this long message, Lu Yan smiled unconsciously again, rolling around on the bed excitedly.
He still remembered the stalk of "her family opened a movie theater".
She edited the text message—
"See when you are free? I can do it, it's all up to you."
After writing this message and preparing to send it, Lu Yan suddenly remembered the warning her grandmother Meng Zhining gave her, saying that girls should never lose themselves in love.
She paused with her fingertips for a moment, then replied, "Tomorrow night."
"Okay, go to bed early."
"You are the one, don't stay up late reading."
Everyone said that Shen Kuo was smart and had a high IQ, but only Lu Yan knew that Shen Kuo's ability to maintain such achievements was absolutely inseparable from his hard work.
No one can achieve success easily. When others are working hard, he is working hard.
"Don't stay up late! Don't stay up late! Don't stay up late!"
Shen Kuo received three short messages saying "Don't stay up late" in a row, and the corners of his mouth slightly pursed.
He closed the page obediently, got up and walked out of the room.
Father Shen Jianxun was still awake, sitting on the sofa watching TV.
Zhao Benshan's comedy sketches are being played on TV.
Shen Jianxun likes to read sketches, and always picks up the jokes in the sketches and turns them into jokes to tell Shen Kuo, sometimes he has a sense of humor.
He likes to tease Shen Kuo, but Shen Kuo doesn't like to laugh very much.
In the years of growing up, his son, the laughter is really... very few, very few. The burden of life made him silent and reticent, his whole temperament was sinking.
Shen Kuo pasted the homework paper with the mobile phone number on the wall of the landline, and turned around and said, "Dad, I bought a mobile phone. If you feel uncomfortable at home, you must call me in time."
"Hey, what are you wasting this money for? During my time...cough cough, I feel much better. Don't worry." He said distressedly: "Is the mobile phone expensive? Don't waste money for me in the future. Look at you." I have worn this dress for several years, and I will buy new clothes for myself during the Chinese New Year."
Shen Kuo explained: "It's not all because of Dad."
Shen Jianxun looked at him, under the light, his brows were lowered, with a hint of tenderness—
"I have a girlfriend."
Shen Jianxun was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed: "Okay, brat."
Shen Kuo was precocious and learned to behave like an adult when he was very young, so Shen Jianxun rarely saw such a gentle expression on his son's face.
"Is it the girl who came to the house that day?"
"Um."
"That girl looks very good." Shen Jianxun didn't have many adjectives, and very good already covered all of his praise for Lu Yan: "It's just...seeing that the little girl has a good family."
No matter how plainly a child from a wealthy family is dressed, he can still feel the calmness on his body.
Shen Jianxun walked to the cabinet, took out a few wrapped tickets and handed them to Shen Kuo: "The future is uncertain, and you are still young, but when you are with girls, you can't be too stingy."
Shen Kuo smiled: "Dad, I know, I also have money."
"Take it."
Shen Kuo knew that this was his father's wish, so he didn't refuse any more. Anyway, he was in charge of the family, and at worst it would be spent on buying medicine for his father.
"Dad, it's going to be alright." He said firmly, "I'm going to make everything alright."
You have to wait.
On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, Lu Yan was waiting at the entrance of the cinema wearing her brand new pink and white padded jacket.
Twenty minutes earlier than the agreed time, she was a terminal procrastination cancer patient in her previous life, and every time she had a date with her girlfriends, being late became commonplace.
When the accident happened, scenes of the past played back before her eyes. The time she wasted, the friendship and kindness she wasted... all became her most difficult regrets.
If she had another chance, she would never waste her life in meaningless consumption.
She wants to become a better version of herself, and only such a self is worthy of the sacrifices given to her by thousands of beloved family members, and worthy of... that outstanding and hardworking young man.
On the way, Shen Kuo kept sending text messages to her with his head down, and when he learned that she had arrived, he asked her to wait inside the cinema, don't be silly and stand outside to blow the cold wind.
The winter wind in the northern city was chilling to the bone, and it was like a knife cutting flesh on the body. Shen Kuo raised his eyes to look at the sky, and the dark clouds came from a distance, and it seemed that it was going to rain.
He was looking for shops selling umbrellas around him, but at this moment he received a call from Zhong Kai——
"Brother Shen, where are you now?"
"Outside, what's the matter?"
Zhong Kai was impatient, so Dang even started to curse on the phone: "That bastard Tang Fengpei, he agreed to rent it to our warehouse to put firecrackers before, but now that the goods have come in, he said he would increase the price when he piled them up outside the warehouse! Mom... really hit a ghost!"
Shen Kuo looked at the dark cloud-covered sky and asked in a deep voice, "How much?"
"Fifty percent! He's just stealing!"
"If you add 50%, we won't make any money."
"No, I didn't agree. I'm guarding the goods outside the warehouse right now! Brother Shen, if you don't have anything important, just come over here. That old fox Tang Fengpei will definitely eat me, come and tell him Say, there might be a turning point."
Shen Kuo frowned: "I... don't have time right now."
Zhong Kai couldn't believe his ears. For Shen Kuo, besides his father, making money was the most important thing.
"Shen Kuo, we paid a lot of money for this batch of goods. It will rain soon. If the warehouse business is not resolved, the money will... be wasted."
Why doesn't Shen Kuo know the importance of this batch of goods, but the appointment he is going to go to now...is equally important.
"I've made an appointment with Lu Yan."
Zhong Kai had an idea in his mind, so he stopped insisting.
Shen Kuo never breaks his promise to others, this is his principle in life. What's more, that person is still his beloved girl.
"Okay, I'll bargain with that old fox again, you...don't think too much, go on a date, it's still your age, hey, it's your first date with a girl."
Shen Kuo smiled lightly, hung up the phone, and quickened his pace.
Lu Yan stood at the entrance of the cinema, and when she saw Chen Kuo approaching, she kept waving at him.
Shen Kuo walked over at a faster pace, took off the scarf around her neck, and wrapped it around her fair and slender neck.
He lowered his eyes, his dark eyes were exceptionally gentle, he wrapped the scarf around her neck twice, then tied a knot seriously, and put it on her chest.
The scarf is soft and warm with his body temperature.
Lu Yan looked down at the light gray scarf, and asked him with a smile, "Give it to me."
"This is a men's style, I borrow it from you."
Lu Yan cheated: "It doesn't matter, it's mine if it's hung around my neck."
Shen Kuo patted the back of her head and led her into the cinema together: "I'll go buy tickets first."
"Okay."
Looking at Shen Kuo's back, Lu Yan felt that something was wrong with him today. Although his face was calm and calm, a girl's sixth sense was generally very accurate.
From time to time, he would unconsciously look at the sky outside the window, and then look down at his phone.
There is no news from Zhong Kai, probably because he doesn't want to disturb his date. Shen Kuo turned the phone on silent, and waited with her to enter.
Lu Yan asked him tentatively: "Is something wrong?"
"Um."
He didn't hide it: "There is a small problem with the new batch of goods, and they can't be put into the warehouse. It doesn't matter, Zhong Kai can take care of it."
Hope he can figure it out.
The movie started to enter, Shen Kuo put his hand on her shoulder and led her into the theater.
One second before entering the arena, Lu Yan suddenly said: "Shen Kuo, I just remembered that I have something to do this afternoon, and I asked Qi Yuhuan to go shopping."
Shen Kuo's hand landed on the top of her forehead, shaking it: "Stop talking nonsense."
"Really." Lu Yan looked at her watch and said eagerly, "It's over, Qi Yuhuan is sure to be waiting for me at the door of Century Department Store."
"Lu Yan, today is our first date."
"That's right, it's the first date, and it's not the last. I don't want Qi Yuhuan to say that I value sex over friends."
While talking, the little girl was already holding onto his sleeve, and pulled him out of the movie hall against the flow of people, came to the side of the road, stopped a taxi within minutes, and stuffed Shen Kuo into it.
"I'm sorry, girlfriends are more important, bye!"
Shen Kuo suddenly grabbed her wrist, Lu Yan felt a little guilty, and stepped back: "What, what?"
Shen Kuo didn't answer, but just looked at her deeply.
"I'm really going to be late, bye!"
Shen Kuo let go of her hand and said to the taxi driver, "Master, go to Warehouse No. 4."
Lu Yan closed the car door and waved at him.
The taxi drove out and disappeared at the end of the road. A gust of wind picked up, and Lu Yan stood alone by the side of the road, sighing softly.
Meng Zhining's text message came in, asking Lu Yan: "Baby, has the date started yet?"
Lu Yan fell in love with Shen Kuo, she hid it from everyone, but she didn't hide it from Meng Zhining.
Meng Zhining studied abroad in his early years, and he is very open-minded. He will not treat his children's love as a scourge like current parents. Moreover, she is intellectual and mature, and can give Lu Yan a lot of advice.
She grew up without a mother, and the appearance of Meng Zhining filled her desire for maternal love.
Although Meng Zhining is open-minded, she is still worried. She knows that Lu Yan likes Shen Kuo, and sometimes she likes someone alone. There are many things that cannot be controlled.
So I couldn't help sending text messages to ask her about the progress of the date.
Lu Yan squatted on the side of the road and edited the text messages, briefly explaining what happened just now.
"Mom, I'm too sensible, you let me love myself more, but I can't seem to do it."
In the past, Lu Yan was always a spoiled and rich second generation loved by her father in the palm of her hand. She seldom considered other people's thoughts and was proud of me.
But now... She found out that the price of thinking about others is wronging herself, and she was actually a little sad in her heart.
As Shen Kuo said, this is their first date. For this date, she was so excited that she didn't fall asleep in the middle of the night last night, rehearsing today's scene over and over again in her mind.
Lu Yan seldom has negative emotions, because many people love her, and she has been growing under the sun with abundant nutrients. It is precisely because of this that she is afraid that she cannot understand Shen Kuo's difficulties, and that she is not worthy of his love.
After a long time, Meng Zhining replied to her: "Baby, although mother has warned you not to lose yourself in love, but mother has never done it. Although the way of getting along with indifference and reservation is smart, it is not at all Cool. If you like him, treat him from the bottom of your heart, so you won’t have any regrets even if we separate.”
"The person who will never forget for the rest of his life must be the one who owes something in his relationship."
…
When Shen Kuo rushed back to Warehouse No. 4, Zhong Kai was arguing with the owner of the warehouse.
"It's been agreed before, and now our goods have arrived, and the price is going up now, you are too dark!"
"Oh, the prices have generally gone up this year, and there's nothing we can do about it."
Shen Kuo knew that it was not the first time Tang Fengpei, the owner of the warehouse, had done this. There were many twists and turns, and the price was raised only when the goods arrived. If he disagreed, he had to agree.
Zhong Kai was also impatient, and he almost got into a fight with Tang Fengpei. Shen Kuo came over, pulled him away, and said, "It's going to rain, the goods must be put into storage today."
Seeing Shen Kuo coming, Tang Fengpei smiled embarrassingly: "It's not our intention to increase the price, you go and find out, the prices of the surrounding No. 3 and No. 5 warehouses have all gone up, and you are still fireworks, the risk ratio Other goods are big, and my price increase is also reasonable."
Zhong Kai scolded: "Why didn't you tell us about the price increase! Now that our goods are here, you just say so."
Tang Fengpei knew that they had nowhere to go, and that they had no choice but to accept his conditions, so he had no fear, and said, "Whether you want to let go or not, don't let go."
Shen Kuo looked back at the fireworks and firecrackers piled up in the yard, and said to Zhong Kai: "Go find a car and come here, let's move the things away."
"Move away, where to move?"
"My Home."
Zhong Kai was stunned, and lowered his voice and said to Shen Kuo: "Your house? Is there any mistake? How can your house pile up so many things?"
Shen Kuo glanced at Tang Fengpei lightly, and said, "Go find a car and move it."
Zhong Kai hesitated for a moment, and finally took out his mobile phone and called his friend.
Seeing that Shen Kuo seemed determined to move away, Tang Fengpei felt a little flustered, and said, "Are there any mistakes? These are all fireworks. How can I keep them at home? It's too dangerous."
Shen Kuo turned a deaf ear to his words.
After Zhong Kai made the phone call, he said to Shen Kuo, "The car will be here soon."
At this moment, the sky has started to rain stars. Seeing that Shen Kuo is determined to leave, Tang Fengpei is also a little anxious. If their goods don't enter his warehouse, it will not be easy to find another home at this time.
"Then what, it's already started to rain, you can wait for the car, but you can't wait for these goods."
Shen Kuo said calmly: "It's too wet to use. I consider myself unlucky, but I, Shen Kuo, are the first to do business, and I will never be threatened by anyone."
Tang Fengpei is an old fritter who has been in business for many years. He has dealt with all kinds of guys. He originally looked at Shen Kuo and Zhong Kai when they were young and couldn't hold back. The courage to break the boat.
The raindrops gradually became heavier, and Zhong Kai couldn't hold back anymore, and kept pulling Shen Kuo's sleeves.
These fireworks and firecrackers can't be wetted, and they can't be used if they are wet, and they will lose their money.
Shen Kuo said: "All the losses will be counted on me."
Of course, Tang Fengpei was more anxious than Zhong Kai. If the goods got wet, not only would he not be able to receive a penny of the warehouse fee, but this matter would spread, and I am afraid that no one would rent his warehouse in the future.
"In this way, you move the goods into the warehouse first." Tang Fengpei said: "We can negotiate the price."
Shen Kuo rejected him: "No need."
"Oh, you young people, you have never suffered any setbacks, so you are so impulsive." Tang Fengpei said quickly: "So, the original price is still the original price, how about it?"
Shen Kuo raised his dark eyes to look at him, and said in a deep voice, "20% off for storage."
"Hey, you man, don't push yourself too far!"
Shen Kuo asked Zhong Kai, "When will the truck arrive?"
"Soon." Zhong Kai said, "It's nearby."
Seeing the heavy rain falling, Tang Fengpei finally gave in.
"Okay, 20% off for storage, move things in quickly..."
Zhong Kai quickly said: "Then it's settled! No more changes!"
"No change, hey, come a few people and help move things in!" Tang Fengpei called a few workers over to help move things together.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the goods above were almost wet, and what could be salvaged was only the goods below. Shen Kuo found a cart, loaded the goods into the cart with Zhong Kai, and trotted into the warehouse.
The rain poured down.
"It's over, it's too late." Zhong Kai, who was soaked all over, sat on the ground and said in embarrassment, "It's all wet."
Shen Kuo didn't say a word, just carried the goods that could be rescued in a muffled voice.
He won't give up until the last moment.
Even the few workers around have given up. There are too many things to move, and now that it is raining heavily, they don't want to wet their clothes and catch a cold in this cold winter.
The rain fell down Shen Kuo's hair, his face was tense, and he continued to carry the goods in his hand.
"Shen Kuo, forget about the rest." Zhong Kai held him back and advised, "It's too cold."
"The ones below are still usable." After Shen Kuo finished speaking, he rushed into the rain again.
Zhong Kai knew that Shen Kuo was stubborn, so he could only continue to carry the remaining goods with him.
At this moment, a pink and white figure rushed over, took a coiled round firecracker in his hand, and carried it into his arms.
"How did you come."
The heavy rain soaked the little girl's hair in an instant, and she almost couldn't open her eyes: "I'll bring you an umbrella."
"Give me a fart umbrella, let's go."
"Oh!"
Lu Yan ran into the warehouse with the firecrackers in her arms, turned back after putting them away, picked up as many goods as possible, and ran towards the warehouse.
She worked very hard and didn't mind her clothes getting wet or muddy.
Shen Kuo couldn't call her, and it was useless to worry, so he could only give up, and moved the remaining goods into the warehouse in one go.
Zhong Kai and the rest of the workers were counting the remaining usable goods in the warehouse. Lu Yan squatted beside the goods, watching Zhong Kai nervously count—
"Can this work?"
"what about this?"
"What about this and this?"
Zhong Kai said: "It can still be used, but fortunately there is water-proof plastic on the outside."
The little girl breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good."
Shen Kuo finally couldn't stand it anymore, he walked over with a sullen face, picked up Lu Yan's collar, and carried it to a corner sheltered from the wind like a bunny.
"Who asked you to come." His complexion was not very good, and he looked slightly angry.
The little girl said aggrievedly, "I'm here to give you an umbrella."
Shen Kuo looked down at her, the pink and white padded jacket on her body was completely soaked, and there were a lot of mud spots on her body, her hair was wet and stuck to her face, her outline was soft, her eyelids were stained with water, she looked pitiful. The appearance is breathtakingly beautiful.
The words of reproach were stuck in his throat, and he couldn't continue. He pulled her into his arms and rubbed her back and arms with his hands to keep her warm.
The little girl leaned docilely in his arms, obediently rubbing the sweater on his body.
Shen Kuo looked away, and murmured slightly reproachfully: "Add to the chaos."
Lu Yan was still thinking about that batch of goods, and kept turning her head to ask Zhong Kai: "How much can I use? How much is lost?"
"Hey, there are waterproof plastics. We were lucky and saved most of them."
"That would be wonderful."
Lu Yan sneezed, and Shen Kuo took her hand and walked out of the warehouse.
Just in time for Zhong Kai's friend to drive over, he could not help but push Lu Yan into the car.
"Where are you going, Shen Kuo?"
"Go to my house to take a hot bath and change clothes."
Lu Yan said worriedly: "Ah, will it be inconvenient?"
Shen Kuo said casually, "My dad went to the hospital tonight and won't be back."
Lu Yan blinked, suddenly a strange blush appeared on her cheeks.
Parents are not here, it seems... more inconvenient.