Although he did not make a reservation in advance this time, his luck was pretty good. When he arrived, he caught some freshly baked osmanthus candy. The boss still remembered him, so he bought two portions of osmanthus candy and water chestnut cake, and also gave them some freshly made lotus cake to try.
When Sheng Min smelled the scent of osmanthus candy, he was suddenly hungry and ate a piece as soon as he got in the car. However, he had just eaten lunch and his appetite was not good. He sighed reluctantly and repacked the rest.
"Why do you like his restaurant so much?" Li Xuan thought he was childish and couldn't help laughing, teasing him on purpose, "I didn't find it special when I ate it."
"You don't like sweets, and they're all the same." Sheng Min glanced at him, paused for a moment, and then said softly, "The first time I ate candy from this store was when my father bought it for me."
The smile on Li Xuan's face froze, and Sheng Min pinched his fingers to indicate that it was okay.
"He was only four years old, probably. It seems like every time I talk to you about the past, he's about this age." He propped up the car window with one hand. "There's nothing I can do. From the time I can remember to the time he left, the time was too short... On Children's Day in the kindergarten, our class won first place in the performance, and each child was given a red flower and a box of small cake. Shenghui had just learned to call me brother at that time, so I wanted to take it home and eat it with him... I didn't know that children couldn't eat this, so I fed him a little, and my mom saw it. She was very angry, so she threw it out to me and the flower too. I ran downstairs to pick it up, but there was a drainage ditch under my house, so I couldn't get it out and rolled into it. I kept crying, and my dad was called back by the neighbors."
He turned his head and looked out the window: "He didn't know where to buy the cake, and he carried me for a long way but couldn't find it. Finally, he bought me sweet-scented osmanthus candy at a shop next to Binjiang Road. He didn't know how to fold the little red flowers, so he passed by a newly opened clothing store that had those opening flower baskets, and asked the owner for a red gerbera. I was ignorant and thought the sunflowers were very big and beautiful, so I kept looking at them. Dad had to go and ask for another one for me... In fact, he is a very shy person and is afraid of bothering others. If you have met him, you will know..."
Sheng Min's voice became lower and lower. Li Xuan stopped the car on the side of the road and put his arm around his shoulders.
"I didn't cry." Sheng Min turned her head cooperatively, her eyes were dry, and she smiled at him, "I hope I'm not his child, really."
When the topic was brought up for the second time, Sheng Min's expression was still sincere.
"I understand." Li Xuan choked and said immediately.
"I used to think about him often, and when I thought about him, I felt that things were not so bad. Lately, I think about him less often. I found out the other day that I couldn't remember what he looked like. It's been so many years..." Sheng Min was silent, then laughed again, "He's a good man. He just picked me up and ended up having Sheng Hui. It's difficult to raise two children in a family like that. I'm indeed a burden to my mother. Even if they are husband and wife, it doesn't mean she should bear all this for him."
"You are not." Li Xuan said in a deep voice.
"Of course not for you, you are partial to me. You can't expect everyone to see me the same way you do." Sheng Min's eyebrows moved slightly, "Selfishness is not a mistake, it is human instinct and bad roots, it cannot be a crime to be judged, just like the trolley problem, if the people on the other track are those you care about, sacrificing a car of people will become the choice of most people."
"Will it be your choice?"
"If it were you, then yes."
Li Xuan looked at his thin cheek for a while, and slowly took his hand off Sheng Min's shoulder, but Sheng Min grabbed it first.
"You want to persuade me again." Li Xuan sighed.
"Don't you listen to me?" Sheng Min held his palms with both hands and shook them.
"That's what I want to hear." Li Xuan frowned with a normal expression, "It's too late."
Sheng Min's hand froze for a moment, and then was held tightly by Li Xuan. He unbuckled his seat belt with one hand and leaned over, and the whole person was hugged in his arms.
"They won't appear in front of you again." Li Xuan whispered in his ear.
Sheng Min raised his head suddenly, his voice still calm: "What did you do this time?"
What to do this time.
I asked him the same question on the phone last night.
"How did you plan to deal with it?" Li Xuan asked back.
"Tell me first that you didn't kill anyone." Qin Zhengchen's bloody end was still before his eyes, and Sheng Min's head was buzzing.
"No."
Sheng Min closed his eyes, bit his lower lip hard and said, "I will give them one last sum of money, which will cover Sheng Hui's remaining few years of tuition and living expenses."
"Will they agree?"
Sheng Min was silent for a while and said, "I have done my best."
"I understand, but they don't. Besides, Sheng Hui doesn't need your money. He was expelled from school last week for multiple fights... I guess you don't know either." Li Xuan glanced at Sheng Min and lowered his voice. "This has nothing to do with me. He was expelled on his own. As for Wang Shuying, she owed too much gambling debt and couldn't pay it back, so she moved away with her good-for-nothing son. I also think that N City is not suitable for them to live in. This is just right."
Sheng Min pursed her lips, a little confused: "What debt? I paid off her gambling debt."
"I said she owed it, so she owed it." Li Xuan said bluntly, "Don't worry that she will come back to find you. Child trafficking carries a long sentence, and at her age, she may not be able to get out once she goes in."
"Trafficking?"
Li Xuanyi pulled the corner of his mouth and smiled indifferently, not forgetting to flatter him: "I still listened to you, really. So I have restrained myself very much, and you are also aware of this."
"Yes, I know." After a while, Sheng Min lowered his eyes and sighed tiredly, "You didn't intend to hide it from me, you just never asked me."
"It's just the second time." He looked like that, and Li Xuan's casual smile disappeared.
"This time is all? Will it be different next time?" Sheng Min gently broke free from his arms and shook her head. Her tone was not disappointing. "I'm a little tired. Let's go back first. You should go to the meeting."
On the way back, they didn't talk anymore. Li Xuan knew why Sheng Min was silent, just as Sheng Min knew him.
However, no matter how slowly Li Xuan drove, the car still stopped in the garage downstairs. Sheng Min said to be careful on the road and reached out to open the car door, but did not open it.
Sheng Min pressed his brows and looked at Li Xuan, but the latter just looked straight ahead, as if he was completely unaware.
"Wait for me to beg you?" After a two-second pause, Sheng Min said softly.
Li Xuan didn't expect him to say such a thing. He turned around, looked a little panicked for a moment, and turned on the main control switch.
Sheng Min didn't look at him and got out of the car. The elevator happened to stop at the basement floor and he walked in without looking back. Li Xuan looked at his thin back and couldn't help cursing himself. It was not that he didn't know that Sheng Min was in a bad mood these days, so why did he provoke him like this
He also got out of the car hurriedly, subconsciously wanting to chase after him, but surprisingly found that the floor button did not move. After an unusually long few seconds, the door opened and Sheng Min walked out again with a cold face.
The two looked at each other for a moment, Li Xuan walked around to the other side and opened the passenger door, looking at him a little nervously. After a long time, Sheng Min sighed softly and slowly walked back.
"Didn't you bring your keys?" Li Xuan knew he had passed this test, so he pretended to be relaxed and joked. He pulled her hand again and kissed her: "Why don't you keep your word? You clearly said you wouldn't be angry with me, but you did it for someone who doesn't matter."
"Is an insignificant person worth all your trouble?" Sheng Min didn't want to pay attention to him, but she couldn't keep a cold face for too long in front of him.
"Because you are not insignificant."
"Is that you?" Sheng Min shook him off and asked another question, "Do you really think I'm worried about who will come back to find me?"
Li Xuan said decisively: "No."
"You're always like this." Sheng Min knew that his quick admission of mistakes was just a superficial effort, but there was nothing she could do. She gritted her teeth and cursed him softly, "Every time she asked me for money, I thought, even though she didn't raise me, she still gave birth to me. I crawled out of her belly, so naturally I'm a head shorter than her. Nezha cut off his bones to return to his father and cut off his flesh to return to his mother, but I can't do that. She just wants money. If I had earned a little more at the time, maybe my father could have lived a few more years, and I could have given her that share as well... Now I know that's not the case, but at least, after my father died, she didn't throw me away."
This was actually because Sheng Min was already acting at a young age and could make money. But if Sheng Min didn't say it, Li Xuan couldn't say this.
Because his next sentence was: "If you really throw me away, then I won't meet you. Thinking about it this way, my luck is still very good."
This time, he really regretted it. Li Xuan felt a pang in his heart and had to cough to cover up his loss of composure: "No, we will meet each other sooner or later... Maybe, I will find you earlier, and you will find me earlier."
"I want to, but there's no way to do it earlier." Sheng Min looked at him, her brows still furrowed, but her voice finally softened, "I want my good luck to last longer, for a lifetime. Yesterday you said you wanted to live with me for a hundred years, but you're always like this, how can I dare to live with you for a hundred years? Are you the only one who's worried about me? I'm afraid you'll shorten your life because of me."
He got angry again, mixed with an inexplicable grievance, but Li Xuan said: "No. I have a very strong life. Even if the King of Hell comes, I will wait..."
Before he could finish his words, Sheng Min covered his mouth with his hand: "You keep talking nonsense all day long... ... I will be really angry if you do this again, don't do these things behind my back... ... Whoever wants to pick you up will throw you away."
"You are the most soft-hearted, so you can't bear to let go. Now you come to pick it up again." Li Xuan kissed his palm, and the moment Sheng Min pulled his hand back, he forcefully intertwined his fingers with his, lowered his head, and kissed him hard again.
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