Tolerate

The album was quietly turned upside down on the ground.

Chi Muyun bent down to pick it up, patted the album lightly and put it on the bedside table, without stopping his gaze. "Xiaolu, it's time to take your medicine."

The woman with long hair bowed her head and carefully put the pills on the palm of her hand, while holding a water glass in her other hand, she brought it to Lu Qingming.

Lu Qingming didn't dare to look at her, but took the water and medicine she handed over, and replied vaguely "...OK." She thought of the picture book she was reading just now, and felt uncomfortable all over...

Because the book that Xu Yanfeng gave her told a story about adoption and being adopted...

The protagonists in the story are not related by blood.But despite this, the "those things" they did were still opposed by everyone.

Lu Qingming always seems to understand the rules and constraints of this world slower than others.

Lu Qingming suddenly felt ashamed of reading this kind of book for himself—especially when Chi Muyun saw it.

Lu Qingming stared blankly at the pill in his hand, and didn't even see the hint in Xu Yanfeng's eyes next to him.

Xu Yanfeng's eyebrows almost flew out, and Lu Qingming didn't even look at her, she was so anxious that she wanted to hit someone.

If Lu Qingming said something and did something to attract Chi Muyun's attention, Xu Yanfeng could take the opportunity to put away that album...

I don't know if Chi Muyun saw it clearly...it only took a few seconds to pick up the book, maybe he didn't pay attention to anything...

Seeing Lu Qingming staring at the pills with big eyes in a daze, Chi Muyun stood beside the bedside table and said with a smile, "Why are you in a daze, take it quickly."

Xu Yanfeng watched Chi Muyun pick up the album and put it in the drawer, then gave up struggling, carried the schoolbag on his back, coughed and said, "Aunt Chi, I'm leaving first, and I'll come to see Qingming tomorrow."

Chi Muyun sent her to the door, watched her leave before returning to the room, and filled Lu Qingming's water glass with boiling water.Lu Qingming huddled on the bed, still bowed his head, his messy long hair covered half of his face.

She raised her hand to wipe the water stains from the corner of her mouth, and secretly glanced at Chi Muyun a little uneasily.

Chi Muyun's profile was calm, as if... he didn't find anything.

In the evening, Lu Qingming sat on the hospital bed sleepily after eating and taking medicine.Chi Muyun slowly lowered the head of the bed, and then tucked the quilt over Lu Qingming.

"Go to sleep."

There was dim light in the corridor, Lu Qingming rubbed his eyes, and looked at Chi Muyun's blurry face against the backlight.

"Yun..." Lu Qingming asked softly with half-closed eyes, "Does that dress look good on me?"

She really wants to know.

Chi Muyun paused.Lu Qingming's question was a bit sudden, and Chi Muyun reacted for a while before remembering what she said.

"It's pretty." Chi Muyun couldn't help but stroked her hair again.

Lu Qingming closed his eyes, smiled contentedly, and rubbed his head against Chi Muyun's palm.

Chi Muyun touched the bandage on her head, and his heart softened a little. "In the future, if you wear short skirts, you must wear leggings, you know?" She said to Lu Qingming in a warm voice.

"Ah..." Lu Qingming asked in a daze, "Is that the kind of tight trousers?"

Chi Muyun was amused by her description, "Yes. I'm also to blame, I didn't buy this for you. You don't wear leggings, and the skirt is short...it's easy to lose everything."

"Falling out?" Lu Qingming recalled this somewhat familiar word, and suddenly realized, isn't this what the girls in the class often say.She said "Oh", "Okay, I see, I will definitely wear it next time."

Chi Muyun nodded, "I'll take you to buy it when you're discharged from the hospital. There should be some at home too, but they're all too small..."

Lu Qingming became drowsy under the influence of the drug.She yawned, put her arms around Chi Muyun's waist, and said lazily, "Yun, I'm sleepy, shall we sleep?"

Chi Muyun froze for a moment, put her arms back under the quilt, lowered her head and said softly, "Go to sleep."

Lu Qingming closed his eyes.Suddenly, a thought flashed to Chi Muyun, how did Chi Muyun know that she wasn't wearing leggings that day?

She thought Chi Muyun didn't notice what she was wearing that day, but it turns out... Chi Muyun did.

She remembered that Chi Muyun asked her to tie her coat around her waist that day, surely it was to prevent her from "losing all her clothes", right?

In the past, she always thought that the older she got, the farther she would be from Chi Muyun.At this moment, she suddenly understood that Chi Muyun had been caring about her, but she was too slow to feel it.

She dazedly pulled out a smile, unable to restrain her joy at her discovery, as if something had been lost and found again.

When she was half asleep and half awake, she felt something warm and soft falling on her forehead, like a feather gliding across and disappearing.

"Quickly."

She heard someone say this.

Lu Qingming had a faint smile on his face, his sleeping face was peaceful, and a strand of hair on his head was curled up disobediently.Chi Muyun sat by the bed and watched her for a while, then turned his gaze to the drawer under the bedside table.

Her fair cheeks flushed.

When she picked up the book today, she saw the cover at a glance...

Seeing the explicit cover, she was startled at first, then became embarrassed, so she had to force herself to remain calm, pretending not to see it, and put the book in the drawer.

There are two women on the cover, one is mature and beautiful in a suit.The other is wearing a princess dress and has big innocent eyes.

Chi Muyun never expected that Lu Qingming was reading these... But after thinking about it carefully, she knew that this book must have been given to Lu Qingming by someone else. Xu Yanfeng looked sneaky, so it should be her.

Chi Muyun didn't think that "children shouldn't read this kind of book", but... Lu Qingming felt a little ashamed for no reason when reading this kind of book, after all, she had read it too...

That book seems to be quite interesting.

Lu Qingming's even breathing came from the hospital bed. Chi Muyun glanced at her, turned his head and gently opened the bedside table, hesitated for a moment, and took out the book.

With the light from the corridor, she glanced through the comic hastily, and then put it back in the drawer lightly.

Early the next morning, Lu Qingming rubbed his eyes and was awakened by the aroma of breakfast.

She called "Yun" subconsciously, and looked around the room. Chi Muyun was not there, and the steaming breakfast was placed on the bedside table.

She subconsciously grabbed the cell phone next to her, opened it, and there was a text message from Xu Yanfeng——

"Look at that book! Is it still in the drawer! If it's not there! I'm going to cry! I haven't read it yet!!!!!!"

Lu Qingming quickly replied, "Yun won't confiscate my things casually, it must be there."

She put down her phone, got up and opened the drawer.

The book was placed in it in its original place, and its location had not changed.

"Here." Lu Qingming sent another text message to Xu Yanfeng "reporting safety", and then took out the book and stuffed it into his schoolbag.

She clumsily closed the zipper of her schoolbag with her bandaged hands and breathed a sigh of relief.Anyway, Chi Muyun didn't notice this book... But, she also thought that Chi Muyun didn't notice her skirt...

Thinking of this, she lowered her head and smiled silly.

Chi Muyun cared more about her than she imagined.

But where did Chi Muyun go?Lu Qingming picked up his phone and called Chi Muyun.

Xing Shujun has been waiting for several days, but has not waited for any news from the Chi family.He couldn't sit still, so he called Chi Muyun early in the morning before he had breakfast.

"The number you dialed is active..."

The cold mechanical female voice made Xing Shujun a little annoyed, so he hung up and called again, but he was still on the phone.

He frowned and put down his phone, deciding to have breakfast first.

"Hello? Xiaolu, are you awake?"

As soon as the phone was connected, Chi Muyun's deep and mellow voice came from there. Although it was accompanied by some noisy voices, it still made Lu Qingming feel happy.

"Hmm! Yun, where have you been?"

Holding the mobile phone in one hand, Chi Muyun brushed his wind-torn hair with the other, and said with a helpless smile, "Just now I saw that there was a seller of dried mustard meat on the side of the road, didn't you want to eat it a long time ago? When I bought breakfast, I I saw that there were too many people at that time, so I came out after sending my breakfast back. Don’t move around, I’ll be back in a while.”

Air-dried mustard meat is a special snack in my hometown, but it is difficult to buy authentic ones.Grandpa Chi and Grandma Chi are getting old, so they didn't cook this anymore, and Chi Muyun himself hasn't eaten it for several years.

Chi Muyun walked back with a bag of mustard meat.Smelling the unique smell of this hometown, she suddenly missed it.

At that time, she had just graduated from university, and Xiaolu was only ten years old.At that time, Chi Muyun was still very arrogant, and occasionally choked up a few words when he met his cousin, while Xiaolu was a dark and thin "silly girl", who couldn't even utter a complete sentence, and was trembling under the eyes of his stepmother live...

"Yun, it smells so good!" Seeing the mustard meat in Chi Muyun's hand, Lu Qingming shrugged his nose and his big eyes lit up.

Chi Muyun helped her get out of bed, "Brush your teeth quickly, after brushing your teeth, we'll have breakfast."

"Yun, aren't you going to work?" Lu Qingming looked at her sideways.

Chi Muyun smiled, "I've already taken annual leave." She walked into the bathroom with Lu Qingming, squeezed toothpaste on the toothbrush, and handed it to her.

"Yun, is it because of me?" Lu Qingming said bitterly with a broken face.

"Yeah...it's because of you little troublemaker." Chi Muyun said with a smile, looking at her.

Lu Qingming brushed his teeth, and mumbled in frustration, "It's all my fault..."

Chi Muyun looked at Lu Qingming in the mirror, and said softly, "Xiao Lu, when you get better, I'll accompany you to the countryside, okay?"

"Really?" The frustration on Lu Qingming's face was swept away, and he opened his eyes wide in surprise.

"Hmm...really." Chi Muyun tilted his head slightly, leaning his forehead against Lu Qingming's face, "Want to go?"

"Think!" Lu Qingming nodded violently, until his head became dizzy.Chi Muyun hurriedly stopped her from nodding.Lu Qingming obediently leaned against her and continued to brush his teeth.She kept staring at Chi Muyun in the mirror.

These days, why did Chi Muyun treat her so well.

It made her so happy that she wanted to jump twice...