Re-engraving the Spring - Chapter 4
RES Chapter 4
“Going to deliver soup again?”
Without waiting for Chi Qiu to make a sound, Chi Lanyan already spoke slowly.
Chi Qiu pursed his lips and said, “Mom, why are you here?”
Chi Lanyan reluctantly put down the tea cup in her hand and walked to him, unhappily holding Chi Qiu’s hand and rubbing it: “It’s so cold outside today, you just wear this to go out?” She had a pair of phoenix eyes and a pretty face. When she was not smiling, there was a sense of coldness and distance.
Aunt Zhang brought a new cup of tea and put it on the coffee table with her head bowed: “Sir, your tea.”
Chi Lanyan coldly grunted: “You know how to make tea, but don’t know to ask him to add more clothes before going out.”
Aunt Zhang opened her mouth, but didn’t dare to talk back. She was speechless; in front of the prickly Chi Lanyan, everything she said would be wrong.
Chi Lanyan looked at her upset: “You go to work.”
“Ai, okay…”
Aunt Zhang received the ‘amnesty’ and finally slipped to the kitchen to prepare dinner with a sigh of relief.
Chi Qiu was led by Chi Lanyan to sit on the sofa, and replied with a good temper: “It’s not cold today.”
“Your hands are icy cold, and you still say you’re not cold?” Chi Lanyan took the cup of tea, and gently blew a few mouthfuls before carefully handing it to Chi Qiu, taking care of everything, “First drink a mouthful of hot tea.”
Chi Qiu smiled and nodded.
With his smile, Chi Lanyan’s heart softened a little: “Didn’t I tell you, try to go out as little as possible.” If you want to go out, you must be accompanied by a reliable person. With the driver who had not long been on duty, who could be rest assured?”
She blamed Lu Ming for being careless in her heart, but did not say so explicitly on the surface.
Chi Qiu’s palm was warmed by the cup of hot tea, and his throat and stomach were also warmed a lot. He carefully wanted to put it back on the coffee table.
Chi Lanyan took it and put it down on his behalf.
The silence between mother and son was like a white mist of tea, indistinct and silent.
For a long time, Chi Qiu fumbled to hold his mother’s hand and took the initiative to pick through the worry in Chi Langyan’s heart.
“Xiao Yan is very careful. He used to be a driver for a blind person and knows how to take care of me. Aunt Zhang is also very good; she cooks delicious food and talks with me to relieve my boredom. She even knitted a scarf and gloves for me a while ago.” In order to prevent Chi Lanyan from talking about it, he said, “They are all the people Lu Ming hired. Don’t worry, he has always done things safely.”
When it came to Lu Ming, Chi Qiu’s face was full of trust.
Chi Lanyan’s face, however, darkened. She withdrew her hand and looked around the cold villa, knowing that Lu Ming was not really interested in this marriage: “How long has Lu Ming not been home again this time?”
Facing Chi Lanyan’s question, Chi Qiu pretended to be calm: “Not long.”
“…”
Chi Qiu smiled sweetly and tried to lighten the atmosphere: “You know, he just took over this company not long ago, it will be fine after a while.”
He and Chi Lanyan did not look much alike, but someone had said that Chi Qiu looked very similar to his own grandfather when he was young. Unfortunately, his grandfather had passed away before he was born.
He familiarly reached out and pointed in the direction behind him and said to Chi Lanyan, “I casually said before that I like sweet osmanthus, and he had someone plant sweet osmanthus trees in the backyard…”
“Xiao Qiu.” Chi Lanyan interrupted him helplessly.
This silly son of hers was always so good at coaxing.
Chi Qiu knew that it was not good enough to pass Chi Lanyan’s side, so he closed his mouth in a weird manner.
Seeing him not speaking, Chi Lanyan felt a pain in her temples. She sighed, “I asked you not to marry him, but you didn’t listen. It’s only half a year since you two got married. Has his time at home added up to more than a month?”
“…Have.”
“Are you sure?”
“Well, I’m sure.” Chi Qiu replied with a guilty conscience.
Chi Lanyan said a little impatiently: “You can’t always protect him and speak for him.”
“I am not, Lu Ming is just very good to me.” For example, the sweet-scented sweet osmanthus tree in the backyard was really something he casually mentioned, and Lu Ming took it to heart.
But Chi Qiu didn’t mention the sweet-scented sweet osmanthus tree anymore. He put the words he was ready to speak back into his mouth.
“…”
Chi Lanyan looked at the short-sighted son. She didn’t know what Chi Qiu wanted to say, but it was just a sweet-scented sweet osmanthus tree, and it was not Lu Ming who dug the dirt and planted it himself. Just gave a random order, spent a small amount of money, and it would naturally be planted.
If this was good enough to Chi Qiu, then to Lu Ming, it really was nothing.
Chi Lanyan didn’t get angry, but she felt that Lu Ming’s promise was a scam.
Chi Qiu was at a loss for words and added fuel to the fire: “Mom, I’m really fine.”
This repeated word of ‘fine’ made Chi Lanyan, whose heart was as clear as mirror,1将心里和明镜似 – someone who seems to know nothing but actually know everything. completely angry.
Everyone with a discerning eye knew that Lu Ming, the second young master of the Lu family, did not go home every day, and would rather live in the company than at home. That was because of various reasons; his partner at home was a man, he was also blind…
But who knew that the blind man who ‘married’ to Lu Ming because Lu Ming took the initiative to chase him.
Otherwise, half a year ago, even if same-sex marriage was legal, Chi Lanyan would never agree to this absurd marriage and let her blind son be wronged.
Now, Lu Ming’s treatment of Chi Qiu was nothing short of emotional abuse in marriage.
She really hated iron for not becoming steel and her mouth quickly said: “If you were a normal child, I wouldn’t worry about anything, but you don’t…” In the middle of her speech, her words stuck in her throat and she swallowed them forcefully.
It was like swallowing a brick, it hurt.
What followed was Chi Qiu’s usual silence.
Chi Lanyan rubbed her temples irritably, biting her lower lip remorsefully: “I’m sorry.”
She had been taking care of Chi Qiu wholeheartedly all these years, fearing that this defective child would be bullied or bumped into. She was carelessly overprotective, that Chi Qiu obviously was already twenty-five years old, but was still like a flower in a greenhouse, making people worry.
After all, she had a great responsibility for the fact that Chi Qiu was completely blind.
All of it, in Chi Lanyan’s own opinion, stemmed from her negligence.
Chi Qiu was not completely blind at birth; he once had a healthy right eye. This right eye compensated for his left eye, which was born without light, and became the only way for him to get all the colors of this world.
When he was young, he had seen the sky, grass, trees, the skyscrapers and the lights of the city. He was more like an ordinary child, studying in a normal school and making friends.
At that time, Chi Qiu was as pleasant to look at as he was now. Both teachers and classmates were full of kindness to him, who was inherently flawed.
In his right eye, there were countless hopes and wishes for the future.
Later, this fire burned into the darkness and was silently smothered.
The bifurcation point between Chi Qiu and the world shattered in the winter when he was eleven years old, when an accident caused him to lose the light in only one eye.
The accident, in fact, was indirectly caused by Chi Lanyan’s current husband, Chi Qiu’s stepfather.
……
Every time Chi Lanyan recalled this past event, she regretted it.
She covered her face for a long time before she gradually calmed down and explained her intention: “I previously thought that he pursued you, maybe it’s the same as you said, he likes you. But I don’t think so now, you shouldn’t become a bargaining chip for their family business. I will go and explain this matter to Elder Lu.”
The implication was that she did not want Chi Qiu to continue to maintain this boring marriage.
Chi Qiu heard this, and got up in a hurry. The next second, Chi Lanyan resolutely sat down again.
“It’s already late today, I’ll go back first.”
Chi Qiu shook his head and suddenly took Chi Lanyan’s hand. He whispered, facing his mother’s incomprehension and outbursts, he suddenly said sadly: “No, Lu Ming didn’t mean this. Don’t talk to Grandpa about this…”
Chi Lanyan gestured for Chi Qiu to let go.
Chi Qiu refused.
With Chi Lanyan’s character, today she might have come to say hello to Chi Qiu with good intentions. But once she had decided something, she would not change her mind. Chi Qiu was afraid that Chi Lanyan would break up his marriage with Lu Ming, so he had to confess: “Lu Ming once suffered a great blow, so there’s a psychological problem. The doctor said he’s apathetic, and needs some time to get over it.”
Chi Qiu didn’t know about this until after marriage.
“Mom, Lu Ming is sick, so don’t be angry with him. He’s not treating me badly, he just can’t express it. If he didn’t like me, how could he remember our previous agreement and come back to me after so many years?” Saying that, Chi Qiu’s eyes were slightly red and tears came out of his eyes.
Chi Lanyan couldn’t react for a while, and even asked: “What did you say? What apathetic? How could such a problem arise? Then why didn’t he say so before the wedding?”
“I don’t care!”
“Xiao Qiu!”
Chi Qiu choked up and said, “The person who informed me said that Lu Ming did not want to mention this past, so I can’t continue talking about this. I’m sorry, mom.”
While saying the words, Chi Qiu also hoped that Chi Lanyan could pretend to be unaware about this afterwards.
At the same time, a black car slowly drove to the front yard of the villa.
Lu Ming especially left work early.
He got down from the driver’s seat and turned around before opening the door of the back seat, holding a bunch of bright roses in his arms.
With a slender figure and a straight suit, he stood in the front yard holding a rose, looking like a painting. He closed his arms, and the petals of a rose fell quickly and landed on the bluestone slab.
Lu Ming raised his eyes, and through the villa’s floor-to-ceiling windows, he saw the mother and son frozen in front of the sofa, as well as his poor partner’s face full of tears.
