19. Stepmother and younger brother
Chapter 19 Stepmother and Brother
After Lu Boyi, who was far away in Xinnan, learned about his son's behavior during this time, he said "a little fight", and he didn't take it too seriously, but his wife Wei Shan said: "It's good that Xiaoyuan can make such achievements, you are too strict with him, his birthday is coming, you should go and see him." โ
"The land in the south of the city is open for bidding, that is, I can't leave in the past few days, you can help me take a look." Lu Boyi rubbed his eyebrows and said, "Take Mingyuan, didn't he say that he missed his brother." โ
When Wei Shan's plane landed at Pinyang Airport, Lu Junyuan learned the news that their mother and son were coming, and his face couldn't help but become ugly.
Zhou Jiayi saw that his expression was wrong, so she leaned in front of him and looked at her phone, it was an MMS message.
In WeChat, SMS with pictures is uniformly called MMS, and the price is about three cents a piece, which is much more expensive than text-only SMS.
At this time, the best mobile phone brand in China is still Nokia, which is not as clear as the clear pixels of various smart large-screen mobile phones in later generations, and can only see that the picture is a young man about โกโก years old, carrying a small schoolbag, wearing a hat, and grinning with a V.
The text below reads, "Brother, my mother and I came to help you celebrate your birthday, and now that we've got off the plane, we'll be able to see you soon!" โ
"Your brother?" Zhou Jiayi confirmed the identity of the other party, and then asked, "It's almost your birthday?" Why haven't you ever mentioned it? โ
Lu Junyuan pursed his lips, "Let's memorize the English essay just now." โ
If you don't agree with each other, you can still have a happy time! Zhou Jiayi complained in her heart, but she didn't continue to ask, but memorized the English composition.
This is her latest planned task for herself, to memorize English compositions to improve vocabulary and grammar application, after all, in the English test, multiple choice questions and true or false questions, wrong is wrong, right is right, but as long as English composition uses more grammar and words, you can definitely get a high score.
"Hey, I'm done." Zhou Jiayi shook her hand in front of Lu Junyuan, and found that he was distracted, and said helplessly: "I'm still thinking about what happened just now, even if they come, what can they do, they won't eat you in broad daylight." โ
"My brother ...... him" was a little difficult to say, Lu Junyuan hesitated, did not finish the words, but said: "After my aunt and brother come, I may be busy, your current grades are more stable, that is, mathematics, physics and chemistry need to be strengthened a little more, do more questions, imprint the question type in your mind, and you won't make mistakes when you take the exam." โ
"I know, I'll worship you, the god of the exam, before the exam, and you're the first in the year." Zhou Jiayi laughed and teased, and asked again, "Your brother should be in the first or second grade of primary school, he is still a playful child, do you need me to help you prepare some toys or something." โ
Lu Junyuan shook his head, "He doesn't like these. โ
Zhou Jiayi thought about it, the children of rich families have seen more things than she has seen in her two lifetimes, don't you see him can take pictures and send MMS, mobile phones can be played, how can ordinary children like toys be seen in their eyes.
However, when Zhou Jiayi really saw Lu Mingyuan, she finally understood that Lu Mingyuan didn't like toys, but that he liked his brother more.
The eight-year-old Xiao Zhengtai in front of him, but a senior brother control, looked at the cold temperament from a distance and Lu Junyuan, but as soon as he got closer, the little guy had already broken free from his mother's embrace, and quickly pounced on his brother, revealing a puppy-like aggrieved expression, and complained: "Brother, why don't you go home during the summer vacation?" I miss you so much. โ
Stepmother Wei Shan took two quick steps to follow, and said with a smile: "Mingyuan is talking to you every day at home, I heard that you are very worried about your foot injury, and I begged your father several times to come to see you, your father is too busy...... However, I heard that you took advantage of your injury to open an online store with good results, he is still very happy for you, this time for your birthday, although I can't come, but I am invited to take good care of you. โ
"My brother is the best!" Lu Mingyuan interjected in a hurry, with an expression of adoration, "Brother, I also brought you a birthday gift, it's the latest computer, I specially asked my mother to bring it back from the United States." โ
The little guy was finally reluctant to get off his brother, pedaled to Wei Shan's side, opened his suitcase, took out a bag from it, and held it in front of Lu Junyuan with great difficulty, "This is it." โ
The most familiar silver apple logo in later generations was displayed in front of her, Zhou Jiayi knew that this thing was very expensive, seeing that Lu Mingyuan was very laborious to hold it, and wanted to take it and put it on the table first, who would have thought that her hand had not reached out to her, the little guy snorted, squeezed to Lu Junyuan's side, and asked Lu Junyuan to take it himself.
Zhou Jiayi couldn't cry or laugh, this brother was in control, and it was estimated that he was hopeless.
Unlike Lu Mingyuan, who was desperately clinging to his brother, Lu Junyuan's attitude towards his half-brother seemed to be just mediocre, he took the computer and thanked Wei Shan politely, before turning his head to look at his younger brother who was only on his waist, "Let's put the luggage in the room first." He pointed to the other two rooms, "You can sleep with your aunt or by yourself." โ
"I'm going to sleep with my brother!" Lu Mingyuan said categorically, and without waiting for Lu Junyuan to answer, he quickly pushed open the master bedroom, dragged his small suitcase in, sat at the head of the bed with a big grin, and said, "I have a lot of whispers to talk to my brother at night." โ
Wei Shan smiled helplessly, "Mingyuan is like this, don't worry about him, if you don't want to, I'll persuade him." โ
"Don't, don't!" Seeing that his own mother was coming over, Lu Mingyuan's little head shook like a rattle, and begged: "Brother, the second child will be obedient and won't disturb your studies, let me sleep with you, okay?" โ
The name Xiao Er made Zhou Jiayi laugh out loud and said, "Your brother is quite funny, he should listen to you, right?" โ
Lu Junyuan glanced at the poor Lu Mingyuan, and did not answer Zhou Jiayi's words, but turned his head to Wei Shan and said, "Anyway, he can't stay for a few days, if he wants to sleep here, let him be." โ
The little guy jumped twice excitedly, then rushed out of the room and hugged Lu Junyuan, "Brother is the best!" The child has a simple heart and an exposed personality, and no one can stop him from being happy, even Zhou Jiayi also received a compliment of "Sister, you are so beautiful".
"It's sweet with a little mouth." Zhou Jiayi half-squatted and took out a yo-yo from her pocket, "This is for you, although it is not a valuable item, but your brother accompanied me to pick it out for you, you should like it!" โ
"Oh! Sister, you're amazing! Lu Mingyuan laughed with two shallow dimples, swept away his polite attitude towards Zhou Jiayi just now, and talked to her affectionately, "Does my brother usually mention me to you?" Did he say that I was very well-behaved and obedient, very good and smart? โ
Zhou Jiayi looked at his expectant eyes, and she really couldn't bear to tell him that Lu Junyuan usually didn't talk much about her family, she smiled, "If I had a brother like you, I would be very proud." โ
When Lu Mingyuan heard this, he straightened up his little chest and said proudly: "Of course! โ
Lu Junyuan on the side saw a harmonious picture of one big and one small, and somehow felt a little uncomfortable, he coughed deliberately, and immediately attracted the attention of the little guy, "Brother, are you uncomfortable in your throat?" โ
"It's not." Lu Junyuan shook his head and looked at Zhou Jiayi, "Congee Congee, you go back first, tell your uncle and aunt, I won't be there for the next two days." โ
"Ahh There was a resoluteness in the young man's tone that could not be refused, Zhou Jiayi was stunned for a moment, and then she realized that Lu Junyuan was letting her go, did she do something wrong just now? Thinking back to her behavior, there didn't seem to be anything excessive, and even taking care of Lu Junyuan's mentality, she didn't talk much to his stepmother, who looked very young.
Wei Shan took out the things she brought from home one by one, put them on the table, noticed the movement on their side, and asked with a smile, "Is classmate Zhou leaving?" Don't worry, I brought some specialties from Xinnan, you can bring some back and taste them with your parents, and thank you for taking care of Junyuan all the time. โ
"No need, thank you, Auntie." Zhou Jiayi, who was swept out of the house for the first time, was puzzled and embarrassed, but it was more of an inexplicable grievance that came up from the bottom of her heart, she didn't even say goodbye, and when she reacted, she had already gone down several steps, and the girl in the corridor sniffed hard, and secretly told herself in her heart, what a mess, it is the right way to go home and do a good job.
However, when she got home, she couldn't avoid the topic of Lu Junyuan, Li Qiumei was cooking in the kitchen, heard her voice entering the door, said a word back, and then asked: "Seeing Xiaoyuan's stepmother?" How, are people difficult to get along with? Is it okay with Xiaoyuan? โ
"Good, good, everything." Zhou Jiayi slandered, he and his stepmother respected each other like guests, how could it be torn up, but it was me, who was inexplicably "invited" back.
"That's good." Li Qiumei breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Xiaoyuan's child doesn't like to go home, I thought his stepmother was not good to him, since it's nothing, then you go over and ask them to come to our house for dinner, they have worked hard all the way, and they have a child." โ
Zhou Jiayi was reluctant to move, lying on the sofa with a book covering her face, and hummed twice, "I'm not going, the family of three is happy, I said Mom, can you join in the fun with everything, is it appropriate?" โ
The speaker was unintentional, the listener was intentional, the girl's perfunctory words fell on Li Qiumei's ears, she thought about it carefully and felt that it was not appropriate, and asked her daughter, "That Xiaoyuan is on his birthday, what kind of gift do you prepare for him on behalf of our family, aren't you students popular now?" How much does it cost, Mom will give it to you. โ