dark crossing

For dinner, Lin had a bandit appointment, but Lu Xinghe made it clear that he didn't want to have dinner.So, I had to release the pigeons of the partner temporarily, and the two of them went back to a bungalow in the city center together.

Lu Xinghe's parents immigrated overseas for many years. He was originally an only child. It wasn't until he was almost 20 years old that Lu's mother unexpectedly became pregnant. She got a younger brother at an advanced age.

The little guy's name is Lu Xingyuan, and he's not yet in elementary school, so it's the most fun time.

When Lu Xinghe had a video call with his parents, he ran wildly in front of the camera, his silver-toned laughter melted the frost on Lu Xinghe's face a little, and the corners of his mouth turned up slightly.

"Xingyuan, what day is it today?" Lu Xinghe asked him.

"May NO.14." The child's clear voice attracted Lin Youban to put down the book in his hand, and he also joined in the video.

Lu's father and mother who immigrated to the United States are very open-minded, and they have long known about his relationship with Xinghe, and they are very happy to meet him.

Five-year-old Lu Xingyuan was more affectionate to him than his own brother, and greeted him cheerfully, "Brother Bandit! I miss you so much!"

Unlike Lu Xinghe who doesn't like to fly long distances, Lin Youbi often travels between the two countries, and the Lu family is often taken care of by him in a foreign country.

The number of times Lu Xingyuan saw him was even much more than that of Lu Xinghe.

"Xingyuan, have you listened to your parents?"

"Yes!" The little guy boasted: "I am the most obedient!"

Lu Xinghe who was outside the camera suddenly stopped talking, and the smile on his face disappeared. Lu Xingyuan was still chatting with Lin Youband, but he suddenly interrupted: "That's it, I'll hang up."

Lu's father and Lu's mother haven't said a few words to him yet, and they are very reluctant.In the end, it was Lin Youban who smoothed things over for him: "Xinghe is tired, and I will urge him to contact you when he is free in a few days."

The more Lu's mother saw him, the more she liked him, and she boasted with a smile: "You are still sensible, that brat I gave birth to has a very bad temper! Ordinary people really can't stand him!"

"He's very good." Lin Youban also smiled: "Better than me."

"I'm not as good as you!" Lu's mother insisted, "I have always wanted a son like you, but I just don't know if I have this blessing."

Lin Youband is so smart, he immediately heard what she meant.

He glanced at Lu Xinghe, who had a complicated face and was pretending to lower his head to study his nails. In the end, Lu's mother was not disappointed, and he called "Mom" affectionately to the camera.

Mother Lu immediately agreed, her eyes were red.

Papa Lu, who was not good at words, also entered the mirror when he heard the sound.

Lin Youban called "Dad" again in a low voice.

He was still smiling, but his heart seemed to be poured with vinegar, and even the roots of his teeth were sore.

The last time these two titles were used was as far away as a lifetime ago.

He was very grateful to Lu Xinghe, it was he who made him care again, and had a relationship that he would rather be restrained and suffer than cut off.

Before hanging up the video, Lu Xinghe suddenly grabbed the phone and asked, "What time is it?"

Father Lu raised his wrist to look at his watch: "It's 07:30 in the morning here, isn't it past ten o'clock in the evening where you are?"

Lu Xinghe breathed a sigh of relief, "Then I'll hang up."

Lin Youban looked at him knowingly, he knew what he was suspicious of.

He always suspected that he had other plans, always suspected what he had done to his family.He didn't believe him, and even suspected that he had recorded the video with his family in advance.

Lin Youban couldn't tell, so he stroked his hair in silence.

On the other hand, Shen Ting and Chu Huainan went back to the Chu family's old house together.

When Grandma Chu saw him, she liked him very much. She took him around while the servant was preparing dinner.

The house is very large and consists of two buildings, one main and one auxiliary, surrounded by green forests. In the evening, the sky turns blue, and the gradually dimming rays of light folded several golden and red folds on the sky. Looking from afar, there is a row of Ribbon-like emerald wood, the end is a realistic painting of beautiful scenery on a good day.

Shen Ting remembered that when he first went to Binjiang, Tangcheng, he guessed that Chu Huainan's home must be a magnificent palace.After seeing the minimalist apartment, he deeply felt that the residence of a capitalist is quite different from the palace he imagined.

It wasn't until today when he saw the old house of the Chu family that he realized that the palace was waiting for him here.

Shen Ting grew up in the Jianghu city center in Shili Yangchang.

Although the Shen family is just a very ordinary middle-class family, they have also benefited from the superior resources of the city and have seen a lot of things in the world.

Even the small bungalows in the old concession, which are very mysterious in the eyes of outsiders, are not so unattainable in the eyes of many locals in Jianghu.

But the Chu family's old house still shocked Shen Ting.

Rather than saying that this is a villa, it is better to say that it is an exclusive hilltop of the Chu family.

Grandma Shen walked in front to lead the way. There were two elevators in the house, but the old man didn't take them. He pulled Shen Ting up the stairs and pointed him to the small stained glass window at the corner of the stairs.

The colorful stained glass is very beautiful, making people feel like they are in a non-religious, reduced version of the Sainte-Chapelle.

Grandma Chu Xu Jingping kindly introduced: "I believe in Buddhism, and this place was not originally a stained glass window. Huainan smashed it naughtily when he was a child, so someone repaired it."

Shen Ting couldn't help laughing, and cast a playful glance at Chu Huainan: "You are skinny."

Chu Huainan came to grab his hand, and said poorly: "Yes, you should have come earlier, so you can take care of me, and save three days from not being able to rent a house."

Shen Ting secretly withdrew his hand, frowning to signal him not to move, not to frighten the old man.

Chu Huainan shrugged cheekily.Xindao: She already knew, otherwise how could the more I look at you, the more I like you?What's more, she was the head mistress of the Chu family, how could she be scared so easily?

When going down the stairs, Shen Ting faltered.Chu Huainan reached out to help, but was dodged, like a vigilant chick, hiding from a weasel who came to visit with New Year's goods.

His face was flushed, and he lowered his head to hold the stairs and moved the handle down step by step.

Suddenly I heard Chu Huainan say, "It's all my fault." Suddenly, like a cat whose tail has been stepped on, it turned around abruptly, and said through gritted teeth, "Chu Huainan, if you dare to speak out, I will kill you."

Chu Huainan, who received the death warning, smiled brightly: "You don't want to."

The words were almost close to his ears.

Xu Jingping smiled and waited for them at the end of the stairs.

Shen Ting couldn't help strangling his only grandson to death in front of her, so he walked forward with a dark face and said, "You can try it."

During dinner, the servant who was in charge of serving dishes stood by with his hands down.

To some extent, many of Shen Ting's living habits are similar to animals living in the wild.Chu Huainan knew that he would not be able to eat being stared at, so he waved away the middle-aged aunts who were serving Xu Jingping.Only the grandparents and grandchildren were left in the restaurant, talking about themselves.

The four generations of the Chu family were dignitaries, with strict family education and many red tapes.

The same goes for eating.

When serving the bowl, the mouth of the bowl should be clasped with the thumb, and the bottom of the bowl should be clasped with the index finger, middle finger, and ring finger, and the palm of the hand should be empty.This is the posture of "dragon holding pearls", while chewing slowly while eating is like "phoenix nodding".

Shen Ting found that although the Chu family was particular about serving dishes, they would never take an order if they served two dishes.

But in the mansion, there are no broken rules about tasting food face to face.

Thinking that Chu Huainan once asked Aunt Zhao to "test the poison" in front of him, he couldn't help but glared at the cheerful capitalist with complicated emotions.

How long had he been "running naked" in front of this person?

Xu Jingping likes sashimi, and she ate it almost every day when she was young.Now that I am older and have a cold stomach, I can only relieve my craving occasionally.

Today was the first time Chu Huainan took "the person he likes" home for dinner, Xu Jingping had an excuse, and immediately asked the kitchen to prepare a large sashimi platter.

The family's health manager was originally a Chinese medicine major, and he was most disapproving of the old lady's eating raw and cold, so he tried to persuade her.But she turned a deaf ear to it, and argued with reasonable grounds: "It's the first time my daughter-in-law has come to the door, so why don't I have a good meal and enjoy myself?"

Well, when it comes to negotiating, the old lady is a professional, and no one can beat her.

Shen Ting poured half a dish of soy sauce into his dipping dish, and asked Chu Huainan if he wanted it.

Grandma Chu lovingly put the peeled translucent lobster meat into his plate, and said, "Leave him alone, he never liked the red soy sauce staining the color of sashimi since he was a child."

This is the most ridiculous and hypocritical "dislike" that Shen Ting has ever heard.

Do you want to eat it without soy sauce?he thought scornfully.

Until the servant served a plate of transparent soy sauce for Chu Huainan alone.The eye-opening Shen Ting finally couldn't help but rolled his eyes silently in his heart.Sashimi only dipped in decolorized soy sauce?Damn capitalism!

After dinner, Xu Jingping took Shen Ting to visit her little greenhouse.

It is said to be a "small flower house", but it is actually not small. Six or seven gardeners help the old lady to take care of the greenery in an orderly manner.

In front of the flower house is a herb garden, in which a large area of ​​rosemary, basil and mint is planted. Passing through the path paved with pebbles, a quaint Taihu stone rockery is piled up in the center, and there is a row of floor lamps in front of it. The brightly lit pillar courtyard copper lamps illuminated the entire courtyard brightly, as bright as day.

The flower house looks like a tropical botanical garden, with palmflowers, frangipani, and colorful iron, it is hard to tell where you are. Only the loofahs hanging on the vines in front of the house and the brocade crawling behind the house can vaguely tell that this is still in China. .

The old lady believed in Buddhism, and planted many lotus flowers in the back lake farther away. It is just summer and the flowers have not yet bloomed, but the lotus leaves are already infinitely green.

The old lady wanted to take Shen Ting to Houhu again, but Chu Huainan thought it was a long way to Houhu.

He couldn't help but glared at him angrily, and almost threw his white eyes on his face: "Then you have to bring me back home often! I have so many flowers, how can I see them all once or twice?"

"The days to come are long, Grandma." Chu Huainan meant something.

Xu Jingping patted the back of Shen Ting's hand with a smile, then turned her head and asked, "Is that so? Be good?"

The old man in Shen Ting's family died early, and his parents treated him very strictly. He has never been so "intergenerationally favored" by the elderly elders, and it is not easy to refuse for a while. Come to see you."

Chu Huainan blinked at Xu Jingping. After all, it was her own grandma, she really loved him, and she was afraid that he might not be able to handle her lover, so she was in a hurry to help him.

Before leaving, Xu Jingping personally sent her to the door, and waved to Shen Ting: "Hey, come and play often! If he bullies you, tell grandma."

The meaning in these words was too ambiguous, Shen Ting felt a little toothache, but still took chances.Grandma Chu looks like she's in her [-]s, maybe, maybe, should, definitely not be so enlightened?

He pretended not to understand, and dealt with it obediently.

After bidding farewell to the enthusiastic Grandma Chu, as soon as the car door was closed, she immediately charged Chu Huainan Xingshi with a crime: "How did you tell your grandma?"

Chu Huainan looked innocent: "Tell me the truth."

The driver in the front row just drives, eyes closed and listening.

Shen Ting hesitated to speak.

It wasn't until Chu Huainan put the partition up that he frowned and said, "Are you sure you didn't talk nonsense in front of her?"

Chu Huainan cried out: "No! I'm just telling the truth."

After last night, Chu Huainan's truth-telling may not be very "innocent". For the first time, Shen Ting felt the guilty conscience of criminals "covering up the crime", and asked, "Why are you telling the truth?"

The capitalist is frank and lenient: "I told her, I like you, and when I catch you, I will immediately bring you back and show her."

I covered my ears and eavesdropped all night long listening:...