Chapter 8 A Handsome Young Man 04
From that day on, An Cenxi paid more attention to Shen Chuxue. Every time he ate, he would stare at Shen Chuxue for a long time. Even Li Qiuhe didn't know what was going on. An Cenxi wanted to ask Shen Chuxue about her relationship with the Lin family in private, but he was afraid that Li Qiuhe would find out and alert the enemy, so he could only investigate secretly.
Shen Chuxue didn't know why An Cenxi looked at her like that, and she was too lazy to guess what An Cenxi was thinking.
After dinner that day, Shen Chuxue went upstairs and suddenly remembered the photo in her closet. She wanted to find a place to burn it - Lin Jianluo's name was written on it, and this copy was originally intended to be sent to Lin Jianluo.
But Shen Chuxue never gave up.
She didn't want to see Lin Jianluo's sad expression, and this result was enough.
The hatred faded in his heart. Lin Jingpeng got his retribution. There was no point in Shen Chuxue continuing any counterattack.
An Cenxi looked at Shen Chuxue through the crack in the door and clenched his fists tightly.
People who were not familiar with Lin Jianluo did not know that something had happened to the Lin family, not even An Cenxi. As a result, she asked someone to find out that Lin Jianluo's parents were getting a divorce, and the reason seemed to be that Lin Jingpeng had an affair. An Cenxi finally understood that it must be because of the photo in Shen Chuxue's hand.
"Then what is the relationship between the Lin family and the Shen family?" An Cenxi asked very vaguely. She did not ask about the relationship between Shen Chuxue and the Lin family, but only about the relationship between the Lin family and the Shen family.
The woman sitting opposite was a relative of Li Qiuhe. The two families did not interact much, but this woman had business dealings with the Lin family. This woman also learned about this matter from the newspaper. Now Anna and Lin Jingpeng have almost become a joke. Anna is a woman who wants to save face. She always talks about how good her husband is to her when she meets with her sisters. Now all of this has become a lie.
The woman turned the ring and thought for a long time before she remembered: "The Shen family? They are the old woman and the girl who were kicked out of the Lin family back then, right? What kind of relationship could they have? The old man of the Lin family and the girl from the Shen family didn't get married or get a marriage certificate. After the old man died, Lin Jingpeng definitely didn't want to keep a sickly woman, so he kicked her out! It's really pitiful. The girl is still so young! Alas..."
An Cenxi was very sure that the little girl this woman was talking about was Shen Chuxue.
After finally finding out the whole story, An Cenxi also realized that Shen Chuxue must hate the Lin family, and doing this was nothing more than revenge on the Lin family!
Shen Chuxue, just wait!
An Cenxi did not tell Lin Jianluo about this incident immediately, but pretended that nothing had happened, and got along very harmoniously with Shen Chuxue at home, pretending to be so in front of Li Qiuhe and An Wei. However, Shen Chuxue and An Yannan felt something was wrong. In the past, when An Cenxi saw Shen Chuxue, he either pretended not to see her or acted in a weird way. What happened recently?
On New Year's Eve, Shen Chuxue was woken up early by the sound of firecrackers. She squinted her eyes and looked out the window, but the window was already frosted and she couldn't see clearly outside. She stood up, put on a simple piece of clothing, walked to the window, stretched out her hand, and melted the thin layer of frost with the warmth of her palm, and then she could see the fiery red outside.
During the Chinese New Year, there is joy everywhere.
Shen Chuxue finished washing up and sat on the bed to doze off. An Yannan knocked on the door and asked her to come downstairs.
Shen Chuxue slept too late last night and was still sleepy, so she said, "Can I not go? Can't I go down at noon?"
"Uncle will be unhappy, hurry up!" An Yannan said and went downstairs, not giving Shen Chuxue the chance to continue to act like a spoiled child.
Shen Chuxue cursed An Yannan's back for a long time before she started to change her clothes.
Another year has passed...
Downstairs, An Wei was sitting on the sofa, Li Qiuhuo was busy in the kitchen, and An Cenxi was accompanying An Wei, talking to Li Qiuhuo from time to time.
"Are you awake so early?" Li Qiuhuo asked with a smile when she saw her daughter and An Yannan coming down.
Shen Chuxue yawned and said, "Well, the sound of firecrackers outside is too loud. Mom, Happy New Year." Turning around, she and An Wei also said " Happy New Year". It was New Year's Day, and no one wanted to ruin the atmosphere. An Wei didn't say anything, just nodded, but his expression was rarely irritable.
Having lived with Shen Chuxue for so many years, An Wei and Shen Chuxue didn't seem to talk much, and they mostly got angry. For example, last time, An Wei listened to An Cenxi's words and thought that she was pestering An Yannan. He didn't want An Yannan to be influenced by Shen Chuxue, so he got very angry with Shen Chuxue. After all, letting her live in was for Li Qiuhe's sake.
Over the past few years, Shen Chuxue has become not only well-behaved but also docile. Most of the time, she just calls him "Uncle" and rarely speaks.
An Wei thinks that girls should be sweet-mouthed to please others, just like his daughter. Shen Chuxue is just too quiet. An Wei wonders if Shen Chuxue is sweet-mouthed, will she please him? Will he have let go of his prejudice against Shen Chuxue?
Looking at the warm smile on Shen Chuxue's lips, An Wei finally let go of his guard against her.
"Don't stay upstairs all the time. Anan is studying when he stays upstairs. If you have nothing to do, come down to the living room and accompany your mom. She's bored at home alone. Xixi is always running around and has no time to accompany your mom. She's bored."
Hearing what An Wei said, Shen Chuxue was stunned for a long time. She stood there, tugging at the hem of her clothes. After a long while, she nodded and replied, "Okay, I know, but I'm also reading and studying upstairs!"
"Just those books of yours? Then you'd better not read them. What can you learn from them?" Li Qiuhe teased her daughter with a very beautiful smile. She used to go to Shen Chuxue's room to clean up for her, but as her daughter got older, she didn't like her mother to go in all the time, so she simply stopped going, and only occasionally opened the door to see the novels on the floor.
Shen Chuxue didn't expect that she would be standing in the living room on the morning of New Year's Eve and being teased by the whole family. She felt a little helpless, rubbing her brows and said, "That's also education..."
Shen Chuxue couldn't cook anything else well except making pear soup, so when An Yannan went to the kitchen to help, she could only stand there and watch. She didn't want to sit with An Cenxi and An Wei.
"What are you doing standing here like a door god?" Li Qiuhuo said.
Okay, then she goes upstairs.
The phone was flashing on the bed. She saw it when she entered the room. She took it and took a look. It was a New Year's greeting from Lin Jianluo. The first text message was sent at midnight. She smiled and replied "thank you".
She never knew how to handle Lin Jianluo. She was afraid of warmth if she was too close to him, and afraid of indifference if she was too distant. She had been carefully controlling her heart, but she became flustered and her heart beat wildly when she saw Lin Jianluo.
It seems like everything is getting better...
When An Yannan came up, he saw her smiling with her head down. The angle was perfect and she wouldn't be discovered and wouldn't be missed.
"Come with me to do some shopping."
"Um."
She stood on the side of the road, counting the cars one by one.
Beside her, An Yannan was picking and choosing. Shen Chuxue didn't understand anything and could only stand there stupidly, treating the greetings from the grandparents with some embarrassment - on this day, everyone seemed particularly enthusiastic.
She also greeted them one by one. Speaking of which, she had lived in the An family for so many years, and she didn't know many of the neighbors. She couldn't even tell who was who when she greeted them. But An Yannan was very good. When someone greeted him, he could call out the last name, and then add grandpa and grandma, which made Shen Chuxue admire him very much.
After shopping, the two went back and stood at the door of the An family. Shen Chuxue grabbed An Yannan's hand as he was about to open the door and grinned, "Happy New Year."
An Yannan was stunned for a moment, but suddenly raised the corners of his lips, his eyebrows and eyes were full of smiles: "Happy New Year."
