Re-engraving the Spring - Chapter 11

Chi Qiu was stunned.

“I’ll feed you.” Lu Ming handed the chopsticks of fish over and explained, “I was just wondering if I needed to hire another person to take care of you.”

“Having Aunt Zhang and Xiao Yan taking care of me is quite enough.” Chi Qiu didn’t like having more people in the house. He opened his mouth and swallowed the fish wholeheartedly when it touched his lips, “Usually when you’re not home, I never ask Aunt Zhang to make fish.”

From the age of eleven, Chi Qiu, in order to adapt to life as a blind person early, and also in order to give less trouble to his family, would rarely ask to eat fish or other dishes that required the help of bystanders.

This fish with scallion sauce could be on the table solely because Lu Ming loved it.

“Got it.” Lu Ming glanced at the plate of fish, “Do you still want to eat?”

Aunt Zhang’s sauce was well mixed and brought out all the fresh sweetness of the fish. Chi Qiu sip the melt-in-your-mouth fish, thinking of Lu Ming’s thoughtfulness. He hadn’t seen him for half a month, and when he met him, he fed him fish. Chi Qiu enjoyed it so much.

He blushed and nodded involuntarily.

Lu Ming said, “In front of me, you don’t have to feel embarrassed.”

“I’m not.”

Lu Ming patiently removed his fishbone, dipped it in the sauce, and fed it to Chi Qiu one bite at a time. After watching Chi Qiu nearly finish half of the fish, Lu Ming reached out and naturally pinned Chi Qiu’s slightly long hair behind his ear: “Then why are you always blushing? Your ears are also hot. The temperature doesn’t seem to be high today.”

Chi Qiu thought about it and decided to be frank: “I only do this in front of you. But not because I’m embarrassed, but because I like you, so I get nervous.” He took a deep breath, “If, you could spend time with me more often, maybe I wouldn’t be nervous all the time…Sure! It’s under the premise that it doesn’t affect your work.”

The chopsticks that removed the fish bone paused, and Lu Ming quickly accepted his words.

Chi Qiu was always expressing his love for himself. Compared to the months when he was first married, the current Chi Qiu seemed to be more cautious and more diligent in expressing his feelings and telling him about it.

He was not sure what Chi Qiu was doing, but Lu Ming did not dislike it.

He had checked the information, and sweet talk was also an intimate interaction that was necessary to maintain a partnership, and he should abide by it.

“I’m almost done with the company. In the future, I will try to leave work on time and have dinner with you.” The work that could be brought back, he would try to bring home to do.

Speaking of this, Lu Ming silently picked out another piece of fish and handed it over: “Open your mouth.”

Chi Qiu opened his mouth in disbelief. Today’s scallion fish was sweet after eating, “Really?”

After Lu Ming fed him with the chopsticks, he wanted to say: When did I lie to you?

But after thinking about it carefully, he replied: “Won’t lie to you.”

A plate of fish with scallions made Chi Qiu satisfied. For this dinner he also had half a bowl of soup, two pieces of boneless salted chicken, and half a bowl of green beans and beef mixed with rice.

“Aunt Zhang’s handicraft is getting better and better.” He touched his stomach, completely forgetting that half an hour ago he was still in a mood of feeling that dinner tasted like chewing wax. He smiled at Lu Ming, “I’m full.”

Lu Ming also had finished eating. He put down the dishes, and finally talked about the business.

He had never liked to beat around the bush; he didn’t mention it just now because he didn’t feel the need to talk about it while he was eating.

Lu Ming told Chi Qiu: “This Friday night, it’s Lu Yinliang’s birthday. It will be held at the hotel, he invites us over, grandpa will also be there.”

That means that some relatives of the Lu family would come.

Lu Ming said, “If you don’t want to go, you don’t have to go.”

Chi Qiu didn’t hate Lu Yinliang.

Compared with Lu Rongtian and his wife, Lu Yinliang, who was raised by Elder Lu, had a more upright character and treated Chi Xia well before. Speaking of which, it was thanks to Chi Qiu that Chi Xia managed to ‘run away’ smoothly. Therefore, Chi Qiu felt very sorry for Lu Yinliang.

…

At first, in order to prevent Chi Xia from meeting with the poor classmate, Chi Lanyan cut off all of Chi Xia’s cards and confiscated her cell phone, grounding her at home.

Faced with Chi Lanyan’s dictatorship, Chi Xia, who had not been wronged since childhood, ushered in the first strong rebellious period of her life.

She went on a hunger strike, broke things, hissed and cried, and became a completely different person.

Chi Xia didn’t understand why she just couldn’t do what she liked.

Since Chi Qiu went blind, Chi Lanyan put all her expectations on Chi Xia. The obedient Chi Xia was forced to become the heir of the Chi family company. She seemed to have suddenly carried a mountain on her back. She was not born with this character and grew up very hard.

And this love matter, although it was a small stone, made the mountain suddenly overweight and overwhelmed her emotions.

Seeing his sister who was out of control, Chi Qiu blamed himself for no reason.

He tried to comfort his sister, but Chi Xia did not want to pay attention to him. Since childhood, the relationship between them was very cold, most of the time it was Chi Xia ‘s one-sided indifference towards Chi Qiu.

Until Chi Qiu took advantage of the time when the nanny went to prepare dinner and quietly said with Chi Xia, “I’ll help you.”

Chi Xia indifferently replied: “What can you help me with?”

Chi Qiu said seriously, “I can give you money, enough money to get you out of the house for a while.”

Chi Xia was speechless, she didn’t want to talk to Chi Qiu anymore, but it was Chi Qiu who stubbornly held her hand and didn’t let go. Chi Xia originally wanted to shake him off, but when she thought of her brother’s inconvenient eyes, she couldn’t bear it. She sank her shoulders and pressed down a breath.

“If I remember correctly, although you are three years younger than me, your card is also given by mother, so she still can find you.”

This was undoubtedly telling Chi Lanyan that she wanted to run away.

Chi Xia wasn’t stupid enough to do that: “Let go, I’m tired, I want to go to my room.”

“Xiao Xia!” Chi Qiu hurriedly took out a card that had been long prepared from his trouser pocket and squeezed it into Chi Xia’s hand, anxiously proving, “Mom doesn’t know about this card, it’s my own money. Not much, but there are two or three hundred thousand.”

Even if he knew it was wrong, he still handed the card to his sister who had just turned twenty-two: “You just have to promise me! You will definitely go home afterwards, and you will definitely keep in touch with me in the meantime.”

Chi Xia hesitantly did not dare to accept: “…Where did you get the money?”

“I earned it myself.”

“You are at home every day, and your eyes are even blind, how do you earn money?”

“This is something you should not care about, it is…Yanchen who helped me.”

Speaking of Ji Yanchen, Chi Xia felt relieved. He was Chi Qiu’s childhood friend, and he had been in contact with the blind Chi Qiu for so many years. Besides, the Ji family had a big business, and each one looked quite capable. Maybe Chi Qiu made this money by investing in stock.

“You know, Yanchen will not lie to me. These are all money that can be used with peace of mind.”

If anything, if the whole world would lie to Chi Qiu.

Only that Ji Yanchen wouldn’t. Chi Qiu saved his life when he was a child.

Of course, Chi Qiu didn’t tell Chi Xia in the end how the money was made.

Including the fact that he helped Chi Xia escape; he didn’t even tell Lu Ming. He and Chi Xia concealed the information from related parties and perfectly cut off her marriage with Lu Yinliang.

So, this time Lu Yinliang took the initiative to invite them to the birthday party, Chi Qiu thought about it and could not refuse.

In any case, they were now ‘family’.

He asked Lu Ming, “Do you want to go?”

“I will go. Grandpa doesn’t want my relationship with Lu Yinliang to be too bad.” Lu Ming hated noisy places and was estranged from many of the Lu family’s relatives.

If it weren’t for the fact that Lu Ming’s mother’s surname was also Lu, he would have changed his surname a long time ago.

Moreover, back then, his own mother’s affairs made a big splash and was on the news. For a good while, many relatives avoided him and only liked to talk behind his back.

If it wasn’t for Elder Lu who pressed the matter down again and again, there was no telling what the rumors would have become.

…

Lu Ming’s purpose of returning to China had not yet been achieved, and he couldn’t make the relationship too bad for the time being. He didn’t mind what others said about himself behind his back, and verbal attacks were completely harmless to him now.

Chi Qiu didn’t understand the twists and turns he had in mind and only stated, “I’ll go with you.”

“En.” Lu Ming said, “Some of your family’s relatives who are in business should also be present. However, your mother seems to have politely declined.”

Chi Lanyan, due to the matter of Chi Xia, hardly interacts with Lu Yinliang’s side anymore.