Inferior by Nature

With a trembling hand, the spoon fell to the ground.There is nothing wrong with Mr. Jin's expression, nor his tone of voice, but the combination of the two makes people feel creepy.

"Feel sorry……"

I hurriedly bent down to pick it up, and under the table, I met a pair of curious big eyes.

Jin Yuanbao, the youngest son of the Jin family, got under the dining table at some point, and now he was at my feet, and even picked up the silver spoon for me.

"Thank you." I thanked him in a daze, and took the spoon.

"I saw you last night, on that stage." Jin Yuanbao looked like seven or eight years old, with a round head and a round head. too smart.

"Well... I'm a cellist," I said.

"Cello?" He glanced at a row of musical instruments against the wall, and suddenly smiled with narrowed eyes, "I like cellos."

His smile is innocent and immature, without any utilitarianism. If you say that he looked a little like his father and brother before, then this smile has no resemblance at all.

"Yuanbao, why don't you eat well? Come back soon." At this time, Jin Chenyu also found that his brother had disappeared, and his tone was a little more helpless.

Jin Yuanbao curled his lips, didn't listen to him at all, jumped out from my side of the dining table with a short body, and quickly disappeared.

Jin Chenyu frowned, and gave the maid beside him a look. Without words, the other party understood what he meant, and quickly chased after the young master.

When the maid disappeared, Jin Chenyu looked away, and apologized to everyone at the table: "I'm sorry, I made everyone laugh."

Fang Luosu quickly waved his hand: "No, no, it's normal for a child to not be able to sit still."

The rest of the people echoed one after another, just to let him not take it to heart.

I raised the water glass and took a symbolic sip, my mind had already flown to nowhere.

This Lion King Island is like a dragon's pool and a tiger's lair, and Jinchen Island is like a ghost like a monster. Although the restaurant is spacious and bright, and the food is delicious, I feel like I'm sitting on pins and needles, and the taste is like chewing wax.

I don't know what happened to Ran Qingzhuang, is there any danger to his life?

What should I do to help him?

He has become what he is now, and I am more or less responsible for it. I can't just sit idly by.

"Everyone has eaten enough, I'll ask someone to take you to the pier." Jin Chenyu raised his finger slightly, and his bald head, which had been in the shape of a wallflower, stepped forward automatically, waiting for orders.

I don't know what Mr. Jin said to the other party, but he nodded with his bald head and went out quickly.It was only then that I realized that there was a crooked piebald snake tattooed on the back of the bald head, which made me feel disgusted just by looking at it.

Everyone stood up, took their instruments, and went forward to thank Mr. Jin for his warm hospitality.

"I hope we will have a chance to meet again." When it was my turn, Jin Chenyu extended his hand with a friendly look.

I stretched out my hand without hitting the smiling face, even though my heart was full of chills, I still held that hand.It was cold and the touch was not very good, so I let go of it in just two seconds.

At this time, the door of the restaurant was pushed open from the outside, and a tall figure strode over and stopped beside Jin Chenyu.

"The car is ready, you can leave at any time." Ran Qingzhuang's eyes lightly passed over my face without stopping.

His face was very pale, and the eyebrows raised subconsciously, as if he was enduring some kind of pain.

There was nothing unusual about the body exposed outside the clothes, but the parts under the clothes did not know what kind of torture they had suffered.

Jin Chenyu wasn't joking, Ran Qingzhuang was really punished.

It was as if my heart was pinched by a giant palm, making me unable to breathe for a moment.

Jin Chenyu looked at me, then at Ran Qingzhuang, and suddenly burst into laughter: "Oh, so you two are really good friends."

As he spoke, he patted Ran Qingzhuang on the back twice, not too hard, and saw that Ran Qingzhuang fell forward as if standing unsteadily, and his expression became even uglier.

"Are you okay?" I hurried to Furan Qingzhuang, but he waved my hand away.

"What? Did you quarrel? I'm not talking about you, you can't stand it for an ordinary person." For some reason, Jin Chenyu seemed to be in a much better mood. He put his arms around Ran Qingzhuang's shoulders and walked out the door regardless of the others.

The rest of the people looked at each other in blank dismay, not knowing what was going on, so they had no choice but to follow behind.

Fang Luosu and I were last.I carried the cello on my back and looked at Ran Qingzhuang at the front through the crowd, and Fang Luosu looked at me.

"Do you know that person? Ji Ning." She asked.

"I know, it's my... friend from high school." I retracted my gaze and stared at the ground.

"That's the celebrity around Mr. Jin in recent years, the upstart of the United Group." Fang Luosu lowered his voice, "You... work is one thing, and dealing with him is another. You'd better not talk to him Getting too close. They're not like us."

This is advice from a friend, and it's a good intention. I should accept her favor.But for no reason, I felt that her speech was harsh and not very pleasant.

Ran Qingzhuang doesn't have an arm more than me, let alone a leg less than me, so why is he different from me?

"I have my own plan." Throwing the words hastily, I quickened my pace and passed the crowd, and arrived behind Ran Qingzhuang and Jin Chenyu.

"You should take good care of it these few days. There is no need for the company to rush." ​​Jin Chenyu said affectionately.

Ran Qingzhuang nodded, but said nothing.

"I also did it for the people below, so you can't hold grudges against me." Jin Chenyu said, turning his head and looking back at me.

The two looked at each other, and my heart sank heavily. The other's upturned eyes looked like a fox who was full and thinking about how to make trouble, which made me subconsciously feel defensive.As soon as he hesitated, he was bumped into by the person behind him without checking.

"Sorry, sorry." The other party apologized again and again.

I shook my head and let the other party go first.

There were several seven-seater commercial vehicles parked outside the gate. I followed Ran Qingzhuang into the leading one, sat down and looked out the window, and saw Jin Chenyu still standing where he was, with a kind smile on his face, looking at us. wave goodbye.

Suspicious little fox...

At this moment, I also figured it out, he didn't intend to keep us for dinner at all, he just wanted to test me, to test whether Ran Qingzhuang and I really knew each other.If Ran Qingzhuang hadn't entered my room last night, he might have revealed his secrets just now.

It's just that walking at night has to be punished so severely. If someone knows that he is the "rat"... I was so shocked that I didn't dare to think about it anymore.

Ran Qingzhuang sat in the co-pilot's seat, folded his hands, closed his eyes and meditated, and did not speak all the way.When he got to the pier, he got off the car first, and went to pick up other people's musical instruments one by one to make it easier for them to get off the car.

My musical instrument is a bit big, and it was put in the trunk early in the morning. I saw that Ran Qingzhuang had opened the rear cover and was about to help me take out the cello, so he hurried forward and carried the case on his shoulders first.

"No need, I'll do it myself." I always felt that he was injured, and I didn't want to trouble him for fear of aggravating his injury.

Ran Qingzhuang glanced at his grasping hand, and said with a smile: "What? Afraid I'll break your piano?"

I was at a loss for a moment, not knowing how he could have such a misunderstanding.

"I'm not……"

He didn't want to listen to my explanation, interrupted me, looked elsewhere and said: "Ji Ning, don't come again." After saying this, he passed me to go elsewhere.

I stared at his back, and always felt that what he said was not out of disgust.

Everyone lined up and boarded the yacht one by one.

I walked at the end, looked back to the shore, and saw Ran Qingzhuang burning a cigarette, staring at this side with dark eyes.

Before I got on the boat, he exhaled a mouthful of white mist, turned and left without looking back.

When I returned to Chonghai, I obviously left for one night, but I felt like returning to the world.

Saying goodbye to everyone in the orchestra, I dragged my body exhausted and returned home. As soon as I entered the door, I received a call from my mother.

As soon as I heard it, it was my younger sister calling.

My mother is very strict with us, and my younger sister is not even allowed to have a mobile phone when she is under [-].Therefore, when I need to find me, I usually borrow other people's mobile phones.

She called to ask for my opinion on college choices.She wanted to come to Chonghai to study, but her mother was worried that she was so far away from home as a girl.

"What are you afraid of being far away? Aren't you also in Chonghai? Brother, help me persuade my mother to agree to my admission to Chonghai Dance Academy, okay?"

The younger sister has learned to dance since she was a child, and her dream has always been to become an excellent ballet dancer.Chonghai Dance Academy is one of the best dance academies in China, so it's no surprise that she wants to be admitted here.

Unable to stand her soft and hard talk, I asked her to give the phone to my mother and promised to try to talk.

After a while, my mother answered the phone and said, "Do you think Chong Hai is good?"

"Lingge wants to take the test, let her try."

"Since you are all in Chonghai, then I can follow."

I couldn't laugh or cry: "We've all grown up, you don't have to keep following..."

"I'm worried."

I wanted to say more at first, but after thinking about it, my mother's decision has never been changed. No matter how much I say, it's just a waste of words, so I won't persuade her any more.

This topic is over, there is no need to discuss it again, Ms. Bai began to care about my recent situation.

"How are you doing?"

My illness is a foregone conclusion, and I don't want to make my relatives suffer more, so I plan to hide it for a while, and it will not be too late to say it as a last resort.

"Very good." Rarely, I lied to her.

After chatting for a few more words, my mother was going to hang up the phone, but I somehow stopped her with my mouth faster than my brain.

She waited there quietly, without asking or hanging up, as if she knew that what I was going to say next was very important.

"If... I have done a wrong thing, which led to very serious consequences, now I finally have the opportunity to make up for it, but it may cost a lot. I should do everything to make up for it, right?"

"Is it a serious mistake?"

"Ah."

The other side was silent for a few seconds, and said, "It's because I didn't teach you well."

The five fingers holding the phone tightened unconsciously, I lowered my eyes, and my heart was swept by great shame.

"sorry."

My mother sighed and said: "You have remembered for so many years, it must not be a trivial matter. If it disturbs your soul, you must smooth it. People have to pay the price for doing wrong things. The more you avoid , the greater the final price. You have the courage to bear mistakes, and I will be proud of you no matter what."

I don't know why, after listening to my mother's words, my anxious and anxious heart suddenly calmed down, as if I finally found the right way out in the fog.

"But," the other person changed the subject and became stricter, "I can't make any more mistakes, understand?"

My life has entered the countdown, and in the last six months, I don't think I will make any mistakes again.

"Okay, I will never make mistakes again." I promised her.