When the two arrived home, Pei Yue had just returned.
Seeing that there was no sound or light on the third floor, Pei Yue thought the two of them had gone to bed long ago, and now they were turning the lights on the French windows on the first floor to the brightest, and then held up the selfie stick to take pictures of her new hairstyle for the day.
When Lu Xingyan and Shen Xingruo entered the door, there was a "click" from the light source.
Shen Xingruo was taken aback, then recovered and greeted her.
Lu Xingyan was so speechless that he wanted to roll his eyes, and stopped at the entrance to change his shoes, without turning his head in Pei Yue's direction.
Pei Yue's psychological quality is excellent, and she didn't feel embarrassed at all. Putting away the selfie stick, she naturally made a surprised expression, "Why did you two come back, I thought you were already asleep."
"Going out to eat."
Lu Xingyan responded lazily.
"What did you eat?"
"..."
"..."
Both Lu Xingyan and Shen Xingruo were silent.
Two minors sat at a small wooden table in the open air and ate a hot pot meal worth 903 yuan, as if it was not an honorable deed worth mentioning repeatedly.
Fortunately, Pei Yue didn't really care about what they ate.
She had to go to Huize tomorrow, so she started talking about something else, said a few words, and then told the two of them to go upstairs to sleep.
When going up the stairs, Lu Xingyan deliberately took a few steps behind, and when Shen Xingruo passed the corner, he looked back.
Pei Yue was winking at him.
He stretched out a finger and waved it.
Pei Yue sighed.
Every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite, and she has no choice but to try her best.
Early the next morning, after Lu Xingyan washed up, he went downstairs to have breakfast with his chicken nest head on his head, which was in a mess of sleep.
As soon as he opened the door, he saw Shen Xingruo walking towards the stairs with his schoolbag on his back.
I don't know if it's because the background of the vicious stepmother's oil bottle story that I imagined was too real. Seeing Shen Xingruo's thin back, Lu Xingyan felt that she was really pulling Shen Derui.
He couldn't hold back and said "Hi".
Shen Xingruo turned around.
He paid attention to his image, and after brushing his hair, he leaned loosely by the door and asked, "Where are you going with your schoolbag?"
"Library," after a pause, Shen Xingruo added, "then go back to school."
It was probably because he woke up in the morning not so clear-headed, and his poor language organization ability was down to the bottom. He obviously wanted to say something, but he still could only put out a picture of "Oh, I just asked a random question, you don't have to answer like this." "Detailed" indifferent face - watching Miss Shen Deruila go downstairs.
In the afternoon, Lu Xingyan and Pei Yue took the high-speed train to Huize.
Compared with waiting for a plane for two hours, getting off the bus and sitting for an hour to the city, and having a very high risk of flight delays, the high-speed rail that is only one hour's drive to and from Huize is obviously more convenient.
Lu Shan was busy with work, and originally planned to go back to Star City to attend the wedding with his wife and son, but he couldn't get away for a while, so he had to fly directly from Yuncheng to Huize on the day of the wedding.
This is Shen Guangyao's second marriage, and he is an artist himself, so the wedding should not be grand and extravagant, otherwise it will collapse the elegant personality that regards money, fame and fortune as dung.
Except for a daughter who was not present, the man didn't even have any distant relatives, and the woman's relatives rarely came.
All relatives and friends add up, and there are less than fifty people.
Although the wedding scene is small, the details are arranged exquisitely and thoughtfully.
Lu Shan's family had received the wedding invitation card drawn by Shen Guangyao himself a month earlier, and when they arrived in Huize, there was even a special car waiting at the exit early to take them to the hotel for proper placement.
Huize is a good place, with beautiful mountains and rivers, and a comfortable life.
Even though developers have built each city into a collection of cuboids with similarities and minor differences, when you walk into Huize, you can still clearly feel that the pace of life here is a few beats slower than that of Star City.
The wedding was on the next morning at a hotel under Junyi.
After all, Shen Guangyao is a serious artist. He is in his forties and understands romance. He has booked half of the hotel floor for a lawn wedding.
Lu Xingyan actually didn't like attending such occasions with his parents.
Because on such occasions, children seem to be viewed and praised as capital to show off or an excuse to come and go.
Lu Xingyan didn't know how to read, so Pei Yue and Lu Shan naturally didn't even say a word about his reading.
Those who come and go and talk to each other are all good people. If you don't take the initiative to mention it, it must be worth mentioning.
In addition, he doesn't seem to have a good temper, these uncles and aunts can only catch "Your Lu Xing is really tall!" "Your Lu Xing is so handsome!" .
After listening too much, Lu Xingyan had a question deep in his soul - apart from being tall and handsome, do I have no merits
While waiting for the newcomers to enter the arena, Lu Xingyan asked Pei Yue casually.
Pei Yue sighed with relief: "Son, although you have no merits, you are quite self-aware."
biological
Soon, newcomers enter.
A black suit with a white wedding dress, followed by two little flower girls, and next to them are hostesses lined up in two rows to sprinkle flowers - after all, the man is in his 40s and the woman is in her 30s. At this age, I want to find some unmarried friends to be best man and bridesmaids , it is too difficult.
The last time Lu Xingyan saw Shen Guangyao was three years ago, when Shen Guangyao came to Star City to hold an art exhibition, he stopped by his house.
At that time, Shen Guangyao was as elegant and refined as he is today, and he was obviously a cultured person, but besides being refined and refined, he also had a decadent and melancholic temperament unique to an artist at that time.
Now, that decadent melancholy has been swept away.
The woman looked very gentle and beautiful, and her appearance was relatively high in her 30s and 40s, but she was 108,000 times worse than Shen Xingruo's mother, Song Qingzhao.
— But this does not prevent the couple from holding hands and smiling sweetly and warmly.
The wedding soundtrack is a niche piano piece.
The two walk forward, the rose is delicate and beautiful, the lily is pure, and the petals of two colors are mixed together and scattered all the way. The picture looks happy and romantic.
Sitting at the wedding scene, Lu Xingyan's indifferent expression when Shen Xingruo said "not going" frequently flashed through his mind.
Probably Shen Xingruo's resistance was too obvious, and even with him, it was difficult to empathize with this romance.
The wedding soon proceeded to the link of the couple exchanging rings, swearing and kissing.
Lu Xingyan was really not interested in seeing a pair of fleshy and affectionate people who were almost eighty years old together. His eyes flickered and he glanced to the sidelines.
Suddenly, he stopped yawning.
"Hey, what are you doing Lu Xingyan! Sit down for me!"
Pei Yue tugged on Lu Xingyan's sleeve and reprimanded her in a low voice.
Lu Xingyan seemed to have never heard of it, "I'm going to the bathroom."
"You will die if you suffocate?!"
"meeting."
he got up.
Lu Xingyan left his seat a little abruptly, and many people followed him.
He didn't care about other people's gazes, he just grabbed Shen Xingruo's wrist and dragged it to the side corner.
Shen Xingruo remained expressionless the whole time, and was dragged backwards without attempting to stand still. It was Lu Xingyan who helped her and pressed her against the wall before she stood up straight.
But her eyes were still looking at the end of the flower road.
Lu Xingyan supported the wall with one hand, licked his back teeth, and asked, "What do you want to do?"
Shen Xingruo was silent.
"Be sober, you are making a fuss now, where is your father's face? In a rage, he left all his property to his stepmother and Tuoyouping. What if he didn't even leave you a painting?"
Shen Xingruo looked away, "I don't want to make trouble."
Lu Xingyan was choked up.
Shen Xingruo said: "My mother's property is all mine. In addition, he has transferred four of the six properties under his name to my name before marriage. The beneficiary of the insurance and trust is also me. I want to give the mother and child To keep his property, I am afraid that he will have to wait for him to paint a few more paintings, find more people to praise his bad feet, and die so strangely that there will be room for appreciation."
"..."
Dad got married and cursed him to die a weird death, this grudge is not small.
Lu Xing slowed down, and asked again: "Didn't you say you won't come? Your father was quite disappointed when he heard that you really wouldn't come last night."
Shen Xingruo said indifferently, "What are you missing, aren't you also happily married now, smiling like a rejuvenated child?"
"..."
"You are really poisonous."
The master of ceremonies announced that the newlyweds were officially married, and there was a burst of applause and cheers not far away.
Shen Xingruo's expression became even colder.
Just as Lu Xingyan was about to say a few words of comfort, Shen Xingruo suddenly met his gaze with burning eyes.
She looked like she had fallen into the calm before going crazy, and Lu Xingyan instantly imagined the scene of Tianlei where she wanted to kiss herself forcefully and pissed off her father on the spot—then he unconsciously licked his lips.
Shen Xingruo lowered his eyelashes, looked at his hand on his side, and said, "Don't take advantage of me, stay away from me."
Lu Xingyan reacted for three seconds, stood up straight quickly, and put on a disgusted look of "who the hell wants to take advantage of you, and I feel I'm at a disadvantage".
It seemed that Shen Xingruo really just wanted to come and see.
There was no fuss at the wedding scene, nor did she cry so hard that she died on the spot. When the wedding process was over, she turned around and left.
Lu Xingyan also followed out.
He had long legs and big strides, with his hands in his pockets, he caught up with Shen Xingruo leisurely.
After leaving the hotel, outside is the busy traffic of the city of Huize.
The sun was shining brightly at noon, and the dust in the air was illuminated into bunches by the light, giving it a hazy aesthetic feeling of tranquility.
Before coming, Lu Xingyan glanced at the weather forecast sent by his mobile phone. Huize had been cloudy and rainy for many days, but today was sunny.
He suddenly asked: "Could it be that you came here to wait for the rainstorm when the two of them exchanged rings?"
"childish."
Shen Xingruo glanced at him, feeling very speechless about his brain circuit.
Lu Xingyan originally wanted to tease her, but he didn't care.
It was almost time for dinner, and the two of them walked around the street for a while, and they were both a little hungry.
Lu Xingyan proposed to find a restaurant for dinner, and it happened that there was a nearby restaurant where the boiled fish fillets that Shen Xingruo had marked for him were delicious, so the two followed the map to find it.
After eating, Lu Xingyan paid the bill, and teased her lazily, "Hey, you just went to the bathroom, so you didn't pay again."
Shen Xingruo looked at him with a look of "I don't have the money to pay the bill".
The store sent a plate of cantaloupe and a plate of sliced watermelon. The two didn't leave immediately, but sat down and chatted while eating.
Lu Xingyan thought of something, and asked, "By the way, I don't seem to have seen the little oil bottle that your stepmother brought today."
Shen Xingruo: "He may have to make up lessons, learning about competition."
Lu Xingyan slightly raised his brows, "You also go to high school?"
"junior high school."
Lu Xingyan saw that it was rare for her to answer all questions, so he asked a question that he had been wondering for a long time, "Actually, your father has been single for many years, and I think he treats you well. Why can't you accept his remarriage so much?"
Shen Xingruo remained calm.
She raised her head and said, "That woman is the head teacher of my first year of high school. She cared for me in every possible way at school. She often enlightened me and helped me get out of the shadow of my mother's death. She learned about everything in my family from me, and then went back to me in a blink of an eye. Being with my dad behind my back, I'm going to be my stepmother, do you accept it?"
head teacher.
No wonder she's changing schools.
Lu Xingyan didn't know what to say for a while.
Shen Xingruo wiped his hands with a tissue, "Lu Xingyan, you lend me three hundred yuan, and I'll buy a ticket to go back."
After she arrived in Star City, she has never used the living expenses given by Shen Guangyao, but she has always been generous with her money, and she is not used to being thrifty, so all the scholarships she saved before have been spent.
Lu Xingyan didn't get too distracted, and transferred five hundred to her directly.
The two got up and walked out. Suddenly, Lu Xingyan thought of a question and asked, "Did you come here by high-speed train?"
"Um."
Lu Xingyan: "Then you come to Huize, where did you get the money to buy the high-speed rail ticket?"
Shen Xingruo was silent, "I went to that store last night and got back the overpaid money."