For the favor of Mr. Shen

"I don't want to make Uncle Shen sad."

Shi Yiqing turned her head: "Huh?"

Zhang Liang just smiled, raised his eyebrows and said nothing.

Shi Yiqing didn't understand what he meant, he just waited for Uncle Shen to pick him up after school.He didn't know what the teacher said to Uncle Shen, but when Uncle Shen left, he said that he would pick him up after school and take him to eat delicious food.

Looking forward and looking forward, finally after school, Shi Yiqing rushed out of the campus, leaving Lin Lian and Zhang Liang behind.

As soon as he left the school gate, he saw Uncle Shen's car parked at the door. When he saw Shi Yiqing coming out, he quickly got out of the car and helped him remove the bicycle and put it in the trunk.

"Where are we going to eat?" Shi Yiqing excitedly got on the co-pilot, and when he was about to put on his seat belt, Shen Mu also came up.

He said half helplessly and half teasingly: "I still want to eat."

Angry. Angry.

Shi Yiqing immediately sat up straight, and waited for Shen Mu to start the car before timidly saying, "I'm sorry..."

"Tell me, why did the monthly exam drop so much this time?"

Shi Yiqing secretly looked at him, and found that Shen Mu seemed to be either really angry, or to be interrogated as a matter of routine after being told by the teacher.

But I can't say that I was restless and unintentionally studying for a month because I suspected that you were going to marry someone, and then I deliberately didn't do my homework to attract your attention.

Shi Yiqing coughed twice: "Recently, I always feel that I can't concentrate, I don't eat well, and I don't sleep well."

Sure enough, Shen Mu immediately changed his tone, and asked with concern: "What's wrong? Are you insomnia? Is the pocket money enough? Go eat whatever you want, don't be afraid to spend money."

Shi Yiqing pouted slightly: "I can't sleep well when you're not at home, and the food in the school cafeteria isn't good recently."

Shen Mu: "Then..."

"Sometimes when you finally fall asleep, you go home again, wash your face, brush your teeth and walk around outside."

"Sorry, Ah Qing..."

"I always go out to eat, and I can't order anything by myself, and I waste time. I have so much homework at home, I have to practice drawing, and I have to go to my mother's class on weekends. I have lost weight!"

Shi Yiqing's voice was a little choked up after finishing the output.

He didn't think of it himself, because these things are not what he really cares about at all, he can only understand that when he confides to Uncle Shen, he will be particularly wronged and his emotions will be amplified a lot.

Tell others it's hypocritical, tell Uncle Shen it's coquettish.

Shen Mu was silent for a while, not knowing what to say.

He knew that he must have neglected Shi Yiqing's feelings because he was so busy now, and tried to make up for it in other aspects. Like many of his friends now, he gave his children a lot of money and gave them whatever they wanted. He thought that Shi Yiqing would also like it.

I didn't expect to bring him so many negative feelings.

It was originally intended to investigate the reasons for Shi Yiqing's decline in grades, but out of nowhere, it turned into Shi Yiqing's accusation meeting against Shen Mu.

After saying the "no" from Shen Mu, Shi Yiqing changed his tone, looked into Shen Mu's eyes and said softly: "I also know that you are very busy, and doing business is so hard, you are alone and no one will help you. I used to be tired from working at the Wanzheng Automobile Factory.”

"It hurts me to see you come home so late every day..."

Shen Mu sighed and lowered his head slightly, looking at the dishes on the table.

After a while, he raised his head again and smiled at Shi Yiqing: "Uncle knows, it won't be like this from now on."

"No..." Shi Yiqing explained coyly: "I just want you to pay more attention to rest, and remember to care about me more."

He put on a shy and cautious face, but what he said was not reserved at all.

Sure enough, until the arrival of 2012, Shen Mu kept eating at home at least three days a week. He wore a shirt worth several thousand yuan each and an apron to cook for Shi Yiqing.

January is the coldest time in Yongnan City, the air conditioner in the living room is whistling, Shi Yiqing is wearing a hooded polar fleece pajama jacket with ears, lying on the coffee table in the living room to draw his own works.

Soon Shen Mu brought out the first dish from the kitchen, put it on the dining table and walked over with his hands behind his back to take a look: "There are so many paintings."

"Yeah." Shi Yiqing lazily hummed for a while, and after finishing the stroke in his hand, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Last night, I drew it past one o'clock, so hurry up and hand it in to see if there is anything that needs to be changed. New Year's Eve You can have a good New Year if you finish painting before.”

Shen Mu: "Don't stay up late, take your time, anyway, the school celebration is next semester."

Shi Yiqing sat up straight and looked at the panorama, then looked up at Shen Mu: "Uncle Shen, this isn't just pasting the school gate after the painting is finished, but it needs to be scanned and printed. In addition to the panorama, there are also various surrounding details that need to be made."

He looked like you didn't understand, Shen Mu raised the corners of his mouth, and teased him: "Okay, we Ah Qing are great painters, male workers on the assembly line of my spare parts factory, and don't understand art."

"What are you doing..." Shi Yiqing stretched out his foot, and lightly kicked Shen Mu's calf.

Shen Mu laughed. In the past two years, Shen Mu's appearance has become more mature, adding a bit of the charm of a mature man with ease.Subconsciously, he reached out and snorted Shi Yiqing's hair.

"Eat in 10 minutes."

"Oh, it's oily." Shi Yiqing tilted his head pretending to be disgusted, but he had a happy smile on his face.

This task was given to him by the school. April is the [-]th anniversary of No. [-] Middle School, and the school plans to hold an event.Because he has won many awards, Shi Yiqing is well-known in No. [-] Middle School. His grades have not been very good, but this is also the reason why he has been in the key class.

This time, the school is going to have some themed activities for the school celebration, and do some surrounding things, the most important of which is a long print of the history of No. [-] Middle School. Let Shi Yiqing paint a large-scale watercolor, which will be made into a wall at that time The tiles are pasted on the wall of No. [-] Middle School.

The school attached great importance to this matter, and Shi Yiqing also stayed up many nights for it.

From reading the history of the school to understanding the changes of the No. [-] Middle School campus, I read a lot of materials and photos, and four drafts were rejected just for the sketches.

The final exam is coming soon, and Shi Yiqing has been a little out of energy in class recently because of the painting for the school celebration, and often dozes off.

"Shi Yiqing!"

Shi Yiqing immediately sat up straight mentally.

The English teacher has a master's degree studying abroad, and she dresses in a very European style. The school spirit of No. [-] Middle School is open and does not restrict teachers from wearing heavy makeup, so she always wears raised eyeliner, which looks very sharp.

"The teacher knows that you have school assignments recently, but you are a student, so you have to distinguish between priorities. You paint day and night, and use it to catch up on sleep in class. What about the exam? What if you don't study for your college entrance exam?"

Shi Yiqing was already used to being told by the teacher in front of the whole class, and he was so angry that he almost said directly that you should go to the ordinary class and don't occupy the latrine.

Shi Yiqing lowered his head, pretending to have admitted his mistake, but actually squinted his eyes again.

The teacher was still talking about the truth on the podium, and the students in the class looked at Shi Yiqing boredly, and so did Zhang Liang, who was sitting at Shi Yiqing's back table, and he knew that Shi Yiqing was dozing off.

Seeing that the teacher was about to finish speaking, Zhang Liang stretched out his legs and kicked his chair.

Shi Yiqing came back to his senses, and when he heard the teacher say to go home and take a good rest and stop doing this, he hurriedly said: "Understood, I'm sorry teacher, I won't do it in the future."

He was also really exhausted. He fell asleep on the desk within a few minutes after returning home that night, thinking that Uncle Shen would definitely wake him up for dinner when he came home.

But unexpectedly, Shi Yiqing woke up more than an hour later because of neck pain, the house was still quiet, and Uncle Shen didn't come back.

He took out his mobile phone and saw that there were two missed calls from Shen Mu and a text message on it.

[Ah Qing, the company is in a hurry, you have dinner by yourself, don't wait for me. 】

Shi Yiqing frowned slightly, usually even if something happened and he couldn't come back, he would notify him at the time when he was out of school, why didn't he say it until seven or eight o'clock today.

But thinking about doing business like this, there is nothing to do if something happens temporarily.

He wasn't very hungry now, he just felt sleepy, so he just took a vacation for himself, took a shower and went to bed.

Waking up by the alarm clock the next day, Shi Yiqing was still in a daze, wondering if Uncle Shen came back last night?Because Shi Yiqing could hear him when he came back at night.

Thinking back for a moment, the answer I got was that I didn't come back.

After he got up, the house was exactly the same as last night. When he opened the door of Uncle Shen's room, the quilts were stacked at the same angle as yesterday.

Shi Yiqing called Shen Mu, the phone was connected, but no one answered.

Shi Yiqing frowned even more, did he fall asleep now after working too late?

He looked at the time and found that he would be late if he didn't go out, so he had to pack up and go to school. He didn't eat last night and now he was so hungry that he was rumbling, but he didn't have time to buy breakfast, so he sent a message to the class monitor and asked him to bring a bag for him. share.

He ran into the teacher stepping on the bell, and there was a hand pie on the table.He quickly put down his schoolbag and sat down: "Thank you monitor."

"Eat quickly, before the teacher comes." Zhang Liang said.

Shi Yiqing agreed, took out a box of milk from his schoolbag, grabbed the pancakes and ate them, and then turned around and muttered: "I'm not full."

From the corner of Zhang Liang's eyes, he caught sight of the figure at the door of the classroom, and quickly kicked his stool: "The teacher is here."

Shi Yiqing quickly sat down, picked up an English book to cover his face, and drank two mouthfuls of milk.

The chair under the ass was kicked again.

Zhang Liang gritted his teeth and said, "Chinese class!"

Shi Yiqing silently put down the English book and opened the Chinese bookend.

After class at noon, Shi Yiqing called Shen Mu again, but still no one answered, Shi Yiqing began to feel strange, it was rare that he could not contact Uncle Shen for such a long time.

When school was over in the afternoon, Shi Yiqing called Shen Mu again, but still no one answered, Shi Yiqing became anxious, instead of riding a bicycle, he went out of the school directly and took a taxi to the company to find Shen Mu.

Shen Mu's company is located in the new industrial park of Yongnan City. There is a small three-story office building next to the factory, and Shen Mu usually works in it.

The doorman recognized him as soon as he got out of the car.

"Ah Ching is here."

"Well, is Uncle Shen there, Uncle?"

"I went out at noon. I said I was going to meet a client, but I haven't come back yet."

Shi Yiqing quickly said thank you, turned around and ran, he was wearing a jacket, the fabric rustled when he ran, and finally caught up with the taxi that brought him at the gate of the factory.

"Master!! Master!"

"Why did you leave as soon as you came here?" The master laughed at him.

Shi Yiqing panted heavily: "No one was found."

"Where are you going now?"

Where to go, where to go Shi Yiqing didn't know, just now the doorman uncle said that he was going to meet a client, and Uncle Shen usually invited clients to dinner at the Southern Grand Hotel, so Shi Yiqing said to go there.

Try your luck.

Shi Yiqing arrived at the entrance of the Southern Grand Hotel, went to the front desk and asked if there was a client named Shen Mu.

Shi Yiqing was a bit familiar at the front desk, because he would occasionally come over for dinner with Shen Mu, the adults chatted about business, and he ate roast duck beside him.

"Mr. Shen is here, the old place on the fourth floor." The front desk replied to him.

"Thank you," Shi Yiqing asked for the news, but didn't go up, just sat and waited in the lobby.

After a while, the sister at the front desk brought him a bottle of water, "Why don't you go up and look for it?"

Shi Yiqing: "He's talking about business, I'll just wait here."

It's impolite to go in halfway.

After waiting downstairs for more than two hours, Shen Mu and a few guests finally came down when it was almost ten o'clock. He had drunk and his face was not very good.

Shi Yiqing saw him at a glance, but Uncle Shen didn't see him.

Shi Yiqing didn't say anything, he wanted to wait for Uncle Shen to send the guests away before going forward to find him.

A group of people walked to the door, Shi Yiqing hurriedly followed, separated from them by a glass door, he looked at Shen Mu's back and heard them talking.

"Mr. Luo, we were wrong this time, and I want to say sorry again." Shen Mu's voice was low and his mood was very lonely, as if he had said sorry countless times this night.

The other party didn't look at him directly, and held the cigarette ash between his fingertips and said, "Don't talk about it, I'm unlucky this time, and it's not the first time we have cooperated. I know you as a human being. But friendship is friendship. , business is business, you should also understand."

Hearing this, Shi Yiqing couldn't help taking a step forward, leaning against the glass door to hear more clearly.

Shen Mu lowered his head: "I will definitely pay you the money within this month."

The other party took a puff of cigarette: "Okay, long live the understanding, it's also difficult on my side, isn't it, I also have so many employees to support."

Shen Mu nodded and didn't speak again, but his back never straightened up again.

Shi Yiqing looked at his back silently, his mind was in chaos.

When all the clients left, Shen Mu turned around and wanted to find a place to sit down.

Shi Yiqing originally came to look for him and wanted to go home with him, but at this moment he didn't know how to face Uncle Shen, so he turned around and ran like a conditioned reflex, and hid behind the decorative sculpture in the hotel lobby.

Shen Mu sat down on the sofa in the lobby, put his elbows on his knees tiredly, lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking.

The sister at the front desk looked at Shen Mu, and then at Shi Yiqing behind the sculpture.

Shi Yiqing hastily stretched out his index finger to his mouth, signaling to his sister not to say that he was here, and raised the mineral water in his hand.

The sister at the front desk immediately understood what he meant, and walked over with a bottle of mineral water: "Mr. Shen, drink some water, do you want the kitchen to prepare some hangover soup for you?"

Shen Mu looked up, smiled at her, took the mineral water and said, "No, thank you."

Even though he was so tired and lost, his tone was polite and gentle.

As long as Shen Mu sat on the sofa, Shi Yiqing hid behind the sculpture for a long time, until Shen Mu took out his mobile phone from his pocket and saw Shi Yiqing's missed call.

He unscrewed the bottle cap and took a sip of water, took a deep breath and called Shi Yiqing back.

Shi Yiqing's cell phone was muted, and when he saw Shen Mu put the phone to his ear, he picked up his own cell phone, and the first call he made was to himself after he finished his work.

Shi Yiqing didn't answer, but just sent him a text message after Shen Mu hung up: Uncle Shen, the squad leader and I are watching a movie.

Shen Mu looked at the text message with no expression on his face, then stood up, arranged his clothes, walked out with some floating steps, and got into a taxi.

Only then did Shi Yiqing come out from behind the sculpture. He was carrying a schoolbag and stared blankly at the hotel entrance.

He had never seen Uncle Shen look so lost and tired.

"Why are you hiding?" the sister at the front desk asked.

Shi Yiqing turned around and smiled: "I don't want to make Uncle Shen sad."

Others don't understand, but Shi Yiqing understands that Uncle Shen definitely doesn't want to see him like this.

He arrived home later than Shen Mu, and Shen Mu hadn't gone to bed yet, so he changed into comfortable home clothes and sat on the sofa. When Shi Yiqing came back, he said to him: "There's white fungus soup in the kitchen, drink some."

Shi Yiqing agreed, and went into the kitchen to fill a bowl by himself, then came back and sat next to Shen Mu.

"Uncle Shen, are you busy these two days?"

"Well, a little bit." Shen Mu changed the channel with the remote control board, and said calmly: "It's the end of the year, and customers are urging for goods, and they are working overtime to make them. It will be fine after a while, and you can take a good rest during the New Year. .”

"okay."

Shi Yiqing was sitting next to Shen Mu, sipping the white fungus soup, without saying a word, moving to Shen Mu's side little by little, and sitting next to him.

Shen Mu smiled, and put his arms around his shoulders: "Is Ah Qing unhappy? I'm busy all day, and I don't have time to accompany you."

"It's okay, I can stay with you." Shi Yiqing took advantage of the situation and leaned on his shoulder.

Holding shoulders was originally a kind of intimacy between elders and children, but Shi Yiqing's leaning on made Shen Mu feel a little uncomfortable.

Shi Yiqing is no longer that little dumpling that can be hugged and kneaded. He has grown to the height of his shoulders. He is completely the skeleton of an adult male. He leans against his body and feels warm. His breathing seems to have a soul. Get into your ears.

"Ah Qing..." Shen Mu retreated a little stiffly, and then pushed Shi Yiqing out.

"It's getting late, take a bath and rest."

Before Shi Yiqing could say anything, Shen Mu stood up and entered the room without looking back.

Shi Yiqing sat cross-legged on the sofa, scratching his neck: "What's the matter, this is... you don't like hugging anymore?"