Chapter 3 He is the light that illuminates the way forward 03
Shen Chuxue was surprised that there was a fountain in the middle of winter, but she was happy that she didn't have to stay at the An family at night.
Shen Chuxue waited in the room after dinner without changing her clothes.
Li Qiuhe came in: "You look very happy today!"
Shen Chuxue stood up from the table. When facing Li Qiuhe in private, she was finally better, at least she smiled and was no longer so cold, but she couldn't do more.
Shen Chuxue nodded and said, "Well, I'm going to go out for a while, so don't lock the door at night. I won't be back too late."
"Okay, don't run too far, don't get sick in the winter."
"Know."
After An Yannan finished dealing with the student union's affairs, he called Shen Chuxue and asked her to go out - she didn't go into the house because she was afraid that An Cenxi would see her and make a fuss. Now that An Yannan didn't go into the house but Shen Chuxue went out, An Cenxi would not suspect that the two of them were together.
"It's inappropriate to run outside so late at night," said An Wei.
The more he looked at Shen Chuxue, the less he liked her. How could he like a child born to his wife and someone else? In addition, Shen Chuxue was not a likable person. She didn't like to laugh or talk. She didn't look like a girl at all. She just had a pretty face. An Wei also had a daughter. An Cenxi knew how to make her family happy. In An Wei's mind, girls should be like this.
Li Qiuhe smiled and said, "She's already this old, there's no need to be too strict with her."
"I'm too lazy to care about her. Just don't bother Anan." An Wei sighed and went back to his room.
Shen Chuxue saw An Yannan's car after she turned an intersection. He was leaning on his bicycle with his back to the road, standing there watching the traffic lights change, and did not notice that she had arrived.
"Let's go." Shen Chuxue sat on the back seat of the bicycle and whispered to An Yannan.
She sat in the back seat of An Yannan's car many times, and year after year, she was also aware of the changes in her weight. Sometimes she would ask An Yannan if she had gained weight again, because she would notice it when An Yannan rode slower. An Yannan smiled and said nothing, but Shen Chuxue always wanted to lose weight.
Meeting Lin Jianluo in the park was unexpected for Shen Chuxue.
All the boys in Lin Jianluo's dormitory were here. When they saw Shen Chuxue walking out behind An Yannan, they started laughing.
Lin Jianluo went to see Shen Chuxue many times, and many people in the school knew about it, and the students in the same dormitory must also know about it. Someone also reminded Lin Jianluo that Shen Chuxue and An Yannan had a good relationship, and the two always went out together. Now they actually appeared in the park together, their relationship was self-evident.
The sound of a group of people laughing did not make Shen Chuxue embarrassed.
"Why are you out so late?" Shen Chuxue asked Lin Jianluo.
Every time she saw Lin Jianluo, she always felt like a sister. It was not her fault. When she was at the Lin family, Lin Jianluo always called her "sister, sister", and she also took care of Lin Jianluo like a sister. This relationship was deeply rooted, so when she saw Lin Jianluo, she felt like an elder.
When Lin Jianluo was asked, he ignored An Yannan's question and said with a smile: "It's my classmate's birthday today, so we went out for dinner. I heard that this park is newly opened and the fountain will be open in winter, so let's come and take a look."
Shen Chuxue nodded, and then she realized that Lin Jianluo really did not go home, and really stayed in the dormitory. She rolled her eyes: In this case, wouldn't Lin Jingpeng be very angry?
Shen Chuxue took the milk tea from An Yannan, smiled at him, asked him what flavor he bought , turned around and whispered to Lin Jianluo: "Didn't your parents call you?"
Lin Jianluo noticed this tiny movement. He remembered that the milk tea he placed on Shen Chuxue's desk in the classroom last time should have been bought by An Yannan because it tasted the same.
He said, "Yes. I said, if you don't let me stay with you, I won't go back."
She stopped talking.
On the left is An Yannan, on the right is Lin Jianluo, and Shen Chuxue stands in the middle, surrounded by trees and with a fountain behind her. This position is a bit awkward.
She cleared her throat and said, "Let's go over there. Standing in the middle will block other people's way."
Along the way, everyone in Lin Jianluo's dormitory kept asking about Shen Chuxue's relationship with An Yannan and Lin Jianluo. None of the parties spoke, An Yannan was unwilling, Lin Jianluo was embarrassed, and Shen Chuxue was just too lazy to speak.
When they got there, she was finally tired of being asked. She looked up with a cold look in her eyes: "It's boring if you talk too much. Girls don't like people who talk too much. I remember you. I think you pursued Fan Qi, right? What is my relationship with An Yannan and Lin Jianluo? There is no need to report to you. Just take care of yourself."
The boy got anxious when he heard this, and stood up and said , "Why, you are with An Yannan, and you are still hanging around our Lin Jianluo? Girl, you are too smart, don't be too smart and get yourself into trouble! I've seen a lot of girls like you, there are a lot of them in the bar! Don't think I don't know what you are thinking!"
After hearing this, Lin Jianluo became anxious and almost started a fight.
"Whether you have seen a girl like me or not is none of my business. I have seen a lot of men like you, not to mention in bars, even standing on the side of the road there are a lot of them. You can't guess what I'm thinking, and your thoughts are too disgusting and there's no need to talk about them."
Shen Chuxue sat on the chair, feeling cold all over.
An Yannan was displeased and tried to pull Shen Chuxue away, but he failed to move.
Shen Chuxue didn't stand up. She turned her head to look at An Yannan and said, "My feet are frozen. Wait a while."
Shen Chuxue had heard such words many times and didn't care about them. She just looked at Lin Jianluo with a complicated look in her eyes.
"No one else has the final say on what kind of girl you are. In my heart, you are mine." This is what Lin Jianluo said to Shen Chuxue with sweat on his forehead.
She pondered for a long time, smiled lightly, turned around and said to An Yannan: "Let's go, if we go back too late, our uncle will be unhappy."
"good."
In a few days it will be grandma's death anniversary.
From the Shen family, I learned that Grandpa Lin and Grandma were in the same cemetery, but they were in different directions. Grandma's cemetery was the worst, while Grandpa Lin's was the best. Shen Chuxue thought, why not go and see Grandpa Lin when no one is around? Thanks to Grandpa Lin, she was loved all those years.
Thinking of this, Shen Chuxue felt a little puzzled.
Grandma was in good health, just coughing. The doctor said that as long as she received proper treatment, she would get better, but she should not do heavy work in the future. Shen Chuxue was thinking that she would stop going to school and find a job so that her grandma could rest and recuperate. But who knew that her grandma would die just like that.
But how could this happen? The doctor said it could be cured just a few days ago!
Shen Chuxue couldn't understand this at all.
The anniversary of his death happened to be a Sunday, and the An family started eating early.
At the dinner table, An Cenxi slapped the table and solemnly announced that he had someone he liked. An Wei and Li Qiuhe were very surprised, even An Yannan took a second look, only Shen Chuxue lowered her head to eat her meal - she had to go out after dinner, there were too many people in the cemetery during the day, she could only go before closing at night.
She calculated the time very accurately.
"Who does our little princess like? Come, show daddy." An Wei was happy and coaxed An Cenxi to take out his mobile phone to look at the photos.
An Yannan took a look at the photo and frowned suddenly.
It’s Lin Jianluo.
"That's him! The most handsome guy in our school's animation department! Isn't he super handsome?" An Cenxi said proudly.
Anime department girl?
Shen Chuxue, who was concentrating on eating, felt that it sounded very familiar. Then she remembered that Lin Jianluo was from the animation department. Or was it An Cenxi and Fan Qi who told her...
She looked up and saw that, sure enough, the photo on An Cenxi's phone was of Lin Jianluo.
"Lin Jianluo?" Shen Chuxue asked softly.
An Cenxi's look towards Shen Chuxue was not friendly, and even a little provocative. She said: "Yes, sister, you should be very familiar with him, right? I see him visit you often. Sister, you won't compete with me for him, right?" The subtext of this sentence is that Shen Chuxue has nothing to compete with An Cenxi for.
Just like prey...
Shen Chuxue lowered her head again: "It's only because we're deskmates that we can talk to each other. We're not familiar with each other."
An Cenxi pouted and said, "I'm not familiar with him... I thought that my sister knew Lin Jianluo, and I hoped that my sister could help me. There are so many people in school who like him now, and I can't let others get there first. Sister, you have to help me."
Does An Cenxi really like Lin Jianluo?
Shen Chuxue was not sad when she had this idea, she was even a little excited.
If this is true, he can kill two birds with one stone, not only can he dampen An Cenxi's arrogance, but he can also suppress Lin Jianluo and the Lin family. This An Cenxi is not an easy person to deal with, if he really causes some trouble in the Lin family, it is not impossible.
As soon as this thought came to her mind, Shen Chuxue thought of what Lin Jianluo said, "I will take care of you."
My mind is a little heavy...
However, all these thoughts changed after she came back from the cemetery, because Shen Chuxue met a person at the cemetery, Lin Zhirou, Lin Jianluo's aunt, Grandpa Lin's niece, and someone who treated her very well in the Lin family.
"Grandma, I saw Lin Jianluo. He still looks the same. He has hardly changed from when he was in the Lin family. He is just much taller now. The young boy is taller than me now!"
She spoke for a long time in front of her grandmother's tombstone, telling her everything that happened in the past year, and that she and Lin Jianluo were now in the same school. She was not going to tell her grandmother about her revenge on the Lin family, because her grandmother did not want her to become a person full of hatred and hoped that she could live a happier life.
But grandma, you think so, what about them?
She saw someone in front of Grandpa Lin's tombstone from a distance, but it was a little blurry and she couldn't see clearly . The Shen family told Shen Chuxue about this tombstone. She groped her way over and didn't get lost.
The cemetery is now as big as a maze and just as winding.
It was getting dark, and there were not many people in the cemetery, which was a bit gloomy. She heard the crying and walked over.
"Aunt Zhirou?" Shen Chuxue's tone was full of surprise.
Today is obviously not Grandpa Lin’s death anniversary, and Shen Chuxue had calculated that no one from the Lin family would come, but she didn’t expect to meet Lin Zhirou.
Come to think of it, I haven't seen Aunt Zhirou for some years. Lin Zhirou still looks the same, very delicate, and can warm Shen Chuxue's heart, but Shen Chuxue is very different now.
Come to think of it, from the time she entered the Lin family to the time she left the Lin family, Shen Chuxue was still a child and had not grown up at all. But now she has changed a lot and become very beautiful.
"You are... Chuxue..." Lin Zhirou was also surprised to see Shen Chuxue, and then she smiled and said as if she thought of something, "I was just saying, today is Grandma Shen's death anniversary, you can't not come. I've been waiting for you for a long time, and I thought you wouldn't come."
Shen Chuxue smiled and handed over a tissue, saying, "How could that be? Not many people come to see Grandma. If I don't come, she will be so lonely. I only found out this year that Grandpa Lin's tombstone is also here, so I came to see it."
Shen Chuxue didn't ask "Why are you here?"
Lin Zhirou wiped away her tears, took Shen Chuxue's hand and said, "It's cold here, you can see grandpa another day. Come, get in the car with me."
