Chapter Twenty-Three: Hypocrisy and Grievance
At nine o'clock in the evening, Lin Yun dragged into the house full of exhaustion.
When he returned to the company in the afternoon, he was reminded by his superiors that he had been absent from work recently. Then I went back to the office, turned on my mobile phone for work, and there were more than one missed calls from my subordinates and customers.
It's also a shame that he turned off his mobile phone and threw it in the office, otherwise he would be harassed by phone calls when he encountered the remnant beast.
After a busy half a day, I ended up getting off work at night and catching the tram back home.
Walking into the living room, he saw Xia Liang sitting on the sofa in the living room playing with his mobile phone.
Because she didn't bring a change of clothes, she seemed to be wearing Lin Xiaolu's clothes, and some of the loose pajamas that were originally put on Lin Xiaolu were worn with a slimming effect.
And because there was movement in the entrance, Xia Liang also looked in the direction of Lin Yun, when she saw that it was a strange uncle who entered the door, she was stunned for a moment, and then quickly understood the situation, stood up, and said with a rather well-behaved and well-behaved attitude:
"Hello uncle!"
The appearance of the summer cool itself is easy to make people feel "quiet" and "well-behaved", and at this moment, it does give people a good impression of these elements. It fully fits the stereotype of "other people's good children" in the minds of parents.
It's quite similar.
Lin Yun loosened his tie and made an evaluation in his heart.
However, he is not qualified to say Xia Liang in this matter, at the moment he is Lin Xiaolu's father, not Delphich, so he has to react that he doesn't know Xia Liang at all.
"Oh, is it Lulu's classmate?"
He wasn't used to smiling, but he just tried to raise the corners of his mouth to make his expression look more kind: "Come and play with Lulu?" ”
"yes, we just did our homework together!"
Without changing his face, he said that eighty percent of the words were lies, Xia Liang said happily: "It's finally finished!" ”
"It's so late, aren't you going back?" Lin Yun's face was as usual, and he didn't intend to poke her.
"Xiaolu asked me to stay with her, so I made my own decisions!" Summer cool and courteous.
"I see, I told your family?" Lin Yun's voice was gentle.
"I said the situation, but I haven't decided yet, I have to wait for your uncle."
"Hehe, how can you disagree, you young people are ...... everywhere"
The two chatted happily in the living room.
Lin Yun used his identity as a parent to ask a lot of questions about family learning, trying to understand his family situation. It's just that Xia Liang's answer is also leaky, and while pretending to be full, he didn't reveal any of his own information.
A short time later, a head with a single ponytail protruded from a room not far away.
Lin Xiaolu was at the door, curious about what the two people in the living room were talking about, and secretly observed the situation.
It's just that this kind of hiding is somewhat low-level, and it was soon seen by the sharp-eyed Lin Yun. He didn't accommodate Lin Xiaolu, and shouted directly at her:
"Lulu, did you entertain your classmates well in the evening?"
"Hmm......"
Lin Xiaolu, who was caught, had to stand up from behind the door, looked at Lin Yun, and then looked at Xia Liang, who was snickering next to him, and reluctantly responded: "I ordered takeout." ”
"You let your classmates stay at home at night, are you ready to let the family sleep somewhere?"
"Uh......"
Lin Xiaolu fell into a stuck state again, and was speechless for a long time, and finally could only say sullenly:
"Not yet."
In fact, what Lin Yun didn't know was that until half an hour ago, Xia Liang was still in Lin Xiaolu's room.
But because she had nothing to do when Lin Xiaolu was doing her homework, she harassed Lin Xiaolu from time to time, and was finally kicked out of the room.
Not to mention that it was a place for Xia Liang to sleep, Lin Xiaolu couldn't wait to drive this person out of the house directly, but he couldn't do such a ruthless thing, so in the end, he drove Xia Liang to the living room and stayed in the room alone.
"Wait a minute, if you have a futon, there is a spare one in the master bedroom, I'll look for it."
Fortunately, Lin Yun didn't expect his daughter to be so thoughtful, and it was beyond his expectations that she could give clothes to others. In the spirit of the most ordinary hospitality, it is necessary for him to prepare a place for Xia Liang to stay.
Back in the master bedroom, he turned out a few sets of bedding that he usually didn't use from the upper layer of the wardrobe, and picked out a relatively suitable one in size and pattern, he unfolded it and shook it, and after confirming that it was clean and usable, he folded it up again, and sent it to the door of Lin Xiaolu's room with his arms.
"I'll put these here for you, and I'll go find a cushion."
handed over the quilt in his hand to Lin Xiaolu, and he instructed him like this.
“…… Thanks, but that's enough. ”
Lin Xiaolu hugged the quilt and lowered her head slightly: "This is my business, I will do it well." ”
"Do you know how to lay a floor?"
Lin Yun was used to this, and Lin Yun didn't feel that he had received any cold reception, but raised his eyebrows and asked, "Or are you going to sleep in bed with your classmates?" ”
"I know, no problem, you go about your business." Lin Xiaolu was resolute.
Obviously, she didn't want Lin Yun to continue to host and entertain Xia Liang.
After getting along with her daughter for so many days as a delphinch, Lin Yun has become a little able to guess her thoughts.
Probably, even if she doesn't like Xia Liang anymore, Xia Liang is someone related to her magical girl identity after all. Lin Xiaolu has her own ideals and aspirations for being a magical girl, so she doesn't want this aspect to intersect with her annoying father.
It's really an awkward child, and I don't know who I'm with.
If she is now a delphinch, then she is probably happy to accept her help, right?
sighed in his heart, but he was helpless, so Lin Yun could only retreat and raise his hands to show that he did not intend to continue to interfere: "Okay, then follow your ideas." ”
The somewhat strange and stiff atmosphere at the bedroom door also attracted Xia Liang's attention.
She had been secretly paying attention to the situation not far away, and after seeing the communication between Lin Yun and Lin Xiaolu, she finally realized that the relationship between the father and daughter seemed to be a little too cold and hard.
Gotta help reconcile it.
So she put away her phone and stepped forward as if she was unconscious and still out of the situation:
"Ah, are Xiaolu and Uncle planning to prepare a bed for me? I'm sorry, thank you! ”
A somewhat forcible thank you broke the frozen atmosphere and eased the originally somewhat deadlocked father-daughter conversation.
Lin Xiaolu didn't like Xia Liang or her father, but when the two of them were in front of her, she couldn't show too much rejection to anyone, so she could only echo dullly: "Hmm." ”
"Great! It just so happened that I was a little tired. ”
Clapping his hands a little exaggeratedly, Xia Liang smiled and pushed Lin Xiaolu's back and walked towards the room: "Then I'll help you, let's make the bed together." ”
Lin Yun stood in place, watching the two of them walk towards the room step by step, during which Lin Xiaolu turned his head to look at him, he just waved his hand and said "good night" silently.
Anyway, I hope young people get along more.