Chapter 11: The Cage
After coming out of the "new look", Mu Xinan re-got into the luxury car of Shi Yanchen's family.
The boy asked her for the address of her home and told the driver to turn around and send her back first.
On the way, Shi Yanchen explained to her the work of the alumni association.
Together with Sheng Yuzhe, she is mainly responsible for taking alumni on a tour of the school and explaining the history of the school.
When it was almost there, Shi Yanchen handed Mu Xinan a pile of materials, "This is the information that the alumni association needs, you'd better memorize it tonight." ”
She reached out and took it, feeling the thickness of the stack of documents, "I have to finish memorizing it today?" "That's too much.
Shi Yanchen looked at her with a smile, "Before attending the training meeting tomorrow, you have time to memorize." ”
Afraid that she would be reluctant, the young man added another sentence, and his tone seemed to be inducing: "I believe you can do it, right?" ”
Mu Xinan was in a trance for a while, mainly because he spoke to her with a clear face, she really couldn't refuse!
"Okay, no problem!" She smiled in response.
Soon, the million-dollar luxury car drove into the narrow and dilapidated old streets, attracting passers-by to stop and watch.
Mu Xinan was stared at uncomfortably by the curious eyes of the neighbors, "Why don't I go down here?" Driving any further, it may be a little difficult for the driver's uncle to make a U-turn. ”
Hearing this, the driver who was concentrating on driving without saying a word suddenly said unconvinced: "Uncle driver's skills are good!" ”
In addition, when the eldest young master didn't speak, the driver wouldn't stop, and still drove forward, until Mu Xinan pointed to his own house, he slowly stopped.
"I'm home!"
Mu Xinan got out of the car and waved his hand at Shi Yanchen and the driver, "Thank you for sending me back!" Thank you Uncle Driver! Be careful on the road! ”
Shi Yanchen turned his head to look at her and saw that she was integrated with the old building behind her.
On one side is the dilapidated house, and on the other side is her warm smile.
It's not harmonious, but I feel an inexplicable weird beauty.
"See you tomorrow." He bowed slightly.
"See you tomorrow!" She answered.
Shi Yanchen closed his gaze and said to the driver, "Uncle Wang, let's go." ”
The car started slowly again, and the windows were closed.
In a few moments, the white luxury car disappeared into the old street, leaving no trace, as if it had never been there.
After leaving the place, the driver Uncle Wang said with some embarrassment: "Young Master, today is the family day of the Shi family, you go back so late, the master is ......."
As early as the moment the car window was closed, Shi Yanchen faded his disguised smile, and his expression became indifferent and detached.
"It doesn't matter, anyway, whether I go to participate or not, it won't affect anything." He replied coldly.
Uncle Wang sighed in his heart.
The eldest young master is also pitiful, his father doesn't love his stepmother, if he can learn from the little young master to be coquettish, maybe he can still get the favor of the master.
On the way into the courtyard, there are two rows of neatly manicured bushes and century-old ginkgo, and the narrow and carefully selected cobblestones are paved on both sides.
The wheels drove over the stone pavement of the avenue and into the yard.
When getting off the bus, Shi Yanchen glanced at the seat next to him.
There was still the smell of cheap laundry detergent on Mu Xinan's body in the car.
He frowned and instructed Uncle Wang: "Uncle Wang, please wash the car tonight, it's a little dirty." ”
Uncle Wang wondered, the car had only been washed recently, where was it dirty?
However, the young master had a request, and he would never dare to refuse.
Since the beginning of the first year of high school, the personality of the eldest young master seems to be different from before, but he can't say what the specific difference is.
In the past, the eldest young master was gentle and easy to speak, but now, I feel that there is a majesty in his gentle words.
This attitude is naturally even more unpleasing to the master.
Uncle Wang looked at the back of the eldest young master and sighed for him again.
The main house of the family covers a huge area, and there are several living rooms alone, and the family daily dinner is generally located in the main hall.
Shi Yanchen entered from the lobby, and the further he went, the clearer the laughter in the main hall became.
"Daddy! I'm going to eat that lobster! A childish voice came from inside.
Shi Bowen, the young master of the Shi family, can always make Shi Chaowei's heart soften at once.
"Okay, good, dad will peel it for you!"
"You, what should you do if you are used to being a child and get used to it in the future?" Zhong Ailin's tone was slightly coquettish.
"What's wrong with my children's habits?" Shi Chaowei fed the peeled lobster to Shi Bowen, "Don't listen to your mother's nonsense, we are going to become superheroes in the future!" ”
"That's right! Superheroes! Spider-Man looks good! Dad, will you take me with you every week? ”
Zhong Erin said considerately: "Your father is very busy, where can he play with you every time?" ”
Shi Bowen was coquettish, "I don't care, I don't care!" I just want my dad to take me! ”
Shi Chaowei responded with a smile: "Okay, good, Dad promised you, how about going to the amusement park this weekend?" ”
The family talked and laughed, warm and peaceful.
Shi Yanchen stood outside the hall and raised the corners of his lips self-deprecatingly.
He should have seen clearly that he had nothing to do with these people other than having the same surname as them.
Thinking about it now, everything he did in his previous life, his sensibility, and his forbearance, in Shi Chaowei's view, were just a puppy wagging his tail and begging for mercy.
When the laughter in the main hall was loudest, the boy changed into his usual smile.
Although the smile does not reach the bottom of the eye, it is enough to hide people's eyes.
"I'm sorry, I'm late."
Shi Yanchen walked over with steps, and as soon as the words came out, the conversation between the three of them stopped abruptly, and they all looked at the outsider.
"Brother!" Shi Bowen was the first to call him.
Only then did the other two react, Shi Chaowei's smile was not there, his expression became serious, and he looked like a big parent.
"You should remember that today is Family Day, why are you late? I don't have any concept of time at all, where is it like my family? ”
Shi Yanchen chuckled, and his tone did not have any remorse, "What you are educating is." ”
Zhong Ailin put on a motherly smile and said politely: "Don't stand, sit down and eat together, right?" ”
She was just polite, and she didn't really want him to sit down and spoil the atmosphere of their meal.
Who knows, Shi Yanchen directly pulled out the chair and sat next to Shi Bowen.
He picked up a lobster in his hand and looked at it with interest.
There was silence at the dinner table for a moment.
The young man's slender, white fingers contrasted with the red shrimp shells, and only the sound of peeling shrimp shells could be heard in the entire main hall.
After he finished peeling one, he put it in the bowl of Shi Bowen, and said to the three people on the table with a smile: "You continue to eat, don't worry about me." ”
This is the first family day after the opening of Shi Yanchen High School, so it counts...... I haven't sat down with Shi Chaowei for many years and had a meal.
After all, it won't be long before Shi Chaowei is going to die in front of his eyes again.
He cherishes the few days that father and son get along.
The three of you here only Shi Bowen didn't understand the undercurrent surging at the dinner table, he was only eight years old, and he was not sensitive to the grievances and grievances of these adults.
Whoever is good to him, he will be good to him.
For example, when Shi Yanchen peeled a lobster for him just now, he felt that his brother was a good person.
"Thank you, brother!" Shi Bowen broke the situation and picked up the lobster with children's chopsticks and took a bite.
Shi Chaowei looked at the interaction scene between the two sons quite warmly, so he didn't keep a straight face.
He took two mouthfuls of rice and asked, "I heard your grandfather say that No. 1 Middle School is going to hold an alumni reunion next week?" And let you be the head of student activities? ”
"Hmm." Shi Yanchen did not look up when he answered.
"How's the preparation? Don't make a mistake and lose the face of our family when the time comes. ”
"Don't worry." The boy replied briefly, only with these two words.
After dinner, the family was ready to take a walk in the courtyard, but Shi Yanchen didn't join in the excitement.
It was already completely dark, the moon was obscured by a thin layer of mist, and a few inconspicuous stars hung in the sky.
The boy walked under the lamp, but his figure faded into the darkness.
Although the Shi family is big, there is an abandoned place that no one dares to enter.
It was the place where Shi Yanchen's biological mother lived, a cottage far from the main house.
The surrounding area is overgrown with weeds and vines, and creepers cover the walls, which are left untended and unattended.
However, it has long been transformed into a closed space by Shi Yanchen, with a secret passage leading to the basement.
He stepped down the stairs, the sound echoing throughout the hallway.
The boy pushed the door open and stood in the darkness.
After a while, he pressed the light switch, and the room did not light up instantly, but glowed red.
And the thing that made his eyes gradually show excitement was placed in the center of the room, handmade-
Cage.
The young man stared at the iron cage in front of him, and his eyes gradually darkened.
What he didn't get in his previous life, he wants to take it all back.
The Shi family will be his, and Xia Yuning will also be his.