CH 39.1

Lu Xiao firmly supported his arm to prevent him from falling.

Ye Cheng looked up at him and said in a low voice, “I only came to see when I heard movement in the room.”

He thought of what Jiang Yirong had said, that Lu Xiao’s family matters are very taboo, and he was a little worried that he would misunderstand.

Lu Xiao’s eyes were bottomless, and there was no blame or anger.

“‌‌Wait at the door for a while, I’ll take care of it.” There was a hint of comfort in his tone.

Ye Cheng nodded dazedly, watched him walk in, turned around and closed the door.

The moment the door was closed, Meng Li raised his head and looked over, as if he had just noticed their presence.

After a while, there were struggles and screams, and the sound of things falling to the ground.

Ye Cheng’s palms were sweating a lot, and he couldn’t help but feel nervous. He leaned against the crack of the door and listened to the movement in the room, sweating in his heart.

Lu Xiao seemed to be talking all the time, but he couldn’t hear what he said. Meng Li’s shouting gradually turned into a whimper.

Ye Cheng could vaguely hear her crying, repeatedly saying “he played with me”, “he did it on purpose”, “I’m not going”.

Lu Xiao’s voice was vague: “Okay, if you don’t go, don’t go anywhere, just stay at home.”

He stayed inside for almost ten minutes, and then came out while making a phone call.

When he opened the door, he made a “sorry” gesture, Ye Cheng nodded.

Lu Xiao closed the door and took Meng Li’s cell phone to the side to make a call.

“Yes, Huang Yuan, she doesn’t seem to be stable these days.”

“Well, I’ve injected her with tranquilizers. Are you going to the hospital tonight?”

“…Okay, then I’ll trouble you, we’ll wait for you tomorrow.”

He made a polite remark, and then hung up the phone.

When he called out “Huang Yuan “, Ye Cheng’s heart skipped a beat, and he understood everything in an instant.

It turned out that the “sick relative” in Qingshan was Meng Li.

No wonder she looked like she was not in a good state of mind. She was often sad and happy, and she couldn’t control her emotions.

Lu Xiao walked up to him and said in a low voice, “I can’t afford it, which frightened me.”

He heard the noise and ran out hastily, without even wearing his shoes.

Ye Cheng shook his head. At this moment, Sister Wang came up with the cleaning tools.

She was as skilled as she had done this kind of work a hundred times, without even looking at them, she pushed the door and walked into the room.

The eyes of the two fell on Ye Cheng’s feet at the same time, and they blurted out, “YAre you hurt?”

When it came out at the same time, they were both stunned.

Immediately, Lu Xiao saw the red blood spots on the back of his feet.

“Did it reach you?” He crouched down and grabbed Ye Cheng’s instep with his hands.

Ye Cheng was startled, he shrank back, and said unconvincingly, “It’s okay, it’s just a little skin injury.”

“The skin trauma also has to be dealt with. If it is infected, it will be troublesome.” Lu Xiao said, and took him back to his room.

He asked Ye Cheng to sit down on the bed and rummaged through the cabinets to find a medicine box.

The wound doesn’t look bad, it’s just bloody white skin, which makes people feel a little shocked.

Lu Xiao squatted down and put his feet on his knees.

This posture made Ye Cheng feel very awkward, but he was embarrassed to move around.

Lu Xiao wiped off the blood with a cotton swab, moving very lightly, and occasionally asked, “Does it hurt?”

In the end, he picked the smallest band-aid and carefully affixed the wound.

Seeing that Ye Cheng was silent, he took the initiative to say, ” Don’t you always grunt when injured? Why are you so quiet today?”

“I don’t grunt as soon as I’m injured.” Ye Cheng retorted.

Lu Xiao sneered.

Ye Cheng said, “I’m just worried.”

This time, it was Lu Xiao’s turn to be quiet.

He slowly withdrew his smile.

Ye Cheng watched him put away the medicine box and put it back in its original place, with no expression on his face.

He said nonchalantly, “There’s nothing to worry about, I’m used to it.”

Ye Cheng hesitated for a while, but asked, “When did Auntie’s illness start?”

Lu Xiao didn’t seem disgusted that he knew, then he had to figure out what was going on. The lack of protection was related to his dropping out.

Lu Xiao stood on the bed and looked at him, and said lightly, “For many years, no one took it seriously, and I always felt that she was forced by my father. Later, when she got sick and jumped into the river with me in her arms, the family realized that she was sick. ”

Ye Cheng was stunned and said, “Jump into the river?”

“Don’t be nervous, isn’t it okay, I’m still alive.”

Lu Xiao seemed tired from standing, walked over and sat down against the edge of the bed.

Ye Cheng also got up from the bed and sat next to him.

The floor heating keeps the whole room at a constant temperature, and the floor is also warm.

It was snowing outside the house, and the two of them leaned on each other’s shoulders, and both felt very relaxed.

Lu Xiao said slowly, “She and my dad didn’t live a day in harmony. When my dad was in China, she suspected him of cheating all day long, and sent a private detective to follow him. Afterwards, he really cheated, and my mother went crazy. In the middle of the night, she was at home sharpening knives, twisting ropes, and said that the mistress would be killed.”

“There is no history of mental illness in our family, it is all caused by my father.”

Ye Cheng took a deep breath. He didn’t expect Meng Li to be so sick.

“When she’s not crazy, she’s fine, and when she’s sick, she’ll attack people.”

“Sister Wang was afraid that she would hurt me, so she had someone take me to Bai Ze, and she stayed here to take care of my mother.” Lu Xiao was very calm, like telling someone else’s story.

“I didn’t know about mental illness when I was a child, I just thought my mother was a lunatic. I fought with a bunch of gangsters all day long, and no one cared about me.”

“Didn’t you ask me, why do I have so much fighting experience?”

“It was cultivated from that time. Because people laughed at my mother as a lunatic, I would fight with them one by one.”

Ye Cheng stopped talking, and couldn’t help feeling a little uncomfortable.

It turns out that he also lived in Bai Ze, why didn’t he meet earlier? If only he had known him as a child, he thought silently.

Lu Xiao continued: “One day, our school organized a movie, and I sat in the last row. Suddenly the back door lit up, and then my mother came in and came over and sat next to me.”

Ye Cheng looked at his profile, with a smooth nose profile and jawline, stubbornness with a touch of warmth.

He laughed: “It’s like a dream, do you understand?”

“When I was eating popcorn, I raised my head and said, ‘Mom, are you coming to pick me up?’, my mother hugged me and cried on the spot. The next day, she took me from Bai Ze and brought me back.”

Ye Cheng didn’t know what Lu Xiao was like when he was a child, and there were no photos of him when he was a child in the old house.

But he could imagine that when a fierce little boy asked Meng Li this question with anticipation, how could she not cry.

“When she’s not sick, she’s really fine.” Lu Xiao reluctantly reiterated.

Ye Cheng suddenly wanted to hug him, and he did.

He stretched out his hand and wrapped his arms around Lu Xiao’s shoulder, he hugged him in a brotherly gesture as much as possible, and patted his shoulder.

Lu Xiao’s muscles stiffened, he raised his eyebrows and said, “Why, pity me?”

Ye Cheng put down his hands guiltily, and said, “It’s not pity, I just think… so there’s a reason for being so bad-tempered.”

In order to cover up his mood, he deliberately found a reason to tease him.

Lu Xiao: “Don’t think I wouldn’t dare beat you.”

Ye Cheng asked him, “How is your Mom and Dad? Have you ever had a quarrel or… a fight?”

Lu Xiao laughed and said, “He doesn’t hit women, he only hits me.”

Ye Cheng was even more confused, so Jiang Yirong really misunderstood?

“And he never comes home, even if he goes back to the south.” Lu Xiao said, “Even if he comes back to quarrel with my mother once, my mother will be happy to eat three bowls of rice.”

“Understood, cold and violent.” Ye Cheng said, “So are they going to divorce?”

Lu Xiao sighed: “To be honest, I look forward to their divorce every day. But that’s impossible. My mother can’t leave him.”

Ye Cheng nodded, it is really difficult for a partner with mental problems to get a divorce.

The two were silent for a short while, and the wall clock in the room was ticking.

Even though it was a mess that night, Lu Xiao still liked this talk, as if he was a little closer to Ye Cheng.

He has always disliked others meddling in his own business, but Ye Cheng is different.

He wanted to understand this person, and he also wanted him to understand himself.

Lu Xiao turned to him and said, “Don’t just talk about me, what about your mom? Don’t talk about it, let me guess.”

He looked at Ye Cheng very intently, “To be able to give birth to such a good-looking person, Auntie should be very beautiful, and she must have a very gentle personality.”

The corners of Ye Cheng’s mouth twitched,

“Guess what, what else?”

“Auntie should also be a top student, the kind with first in English class.” Lu Xiao really speculated seriously.

“Well, she’s good at math, so she’s a math professor in Southern Metropolis,” Ye Cheng recalled.

Lu Xiao hissed, “Fuck, it’s really all heredity. My mother didn’t study after graduating from high school, and my father was a good cook, so he dropped out of junior high school, and then he just bought a diploma.”

Ye Cheng couldn’t help laughing: “No way, my uncle can run such a good company anyway.”

In his impression, Lu Yaoshan is a ruthless and tyrannical boss. He never knew that he had never even studied in high school.

“These days, wouldn’t he be able to do business with some stinky money? He said that he has a military adviser and his staff are all Ivy League students.” Lu Xiao disdainfully said.

Ye Cheng felt that what he said made sense: “No wonder, people with high education often work for others, and my mother also has to work for the school.”

Lu Xiao wondered, “I went to your house last time, why didn’t I see Auntie? Does she live in a dormitory?”

The corners of his mouth twitched: “My mother has been gone for many years.”

Lu Xiao was stunned, and it took a long time before he opened his mouth and said “Ah”.

“I-I didn’t mean to…” He sat up straight and explained stumblingly.

Ye Cheng smiled and said, “It’s fine, it’s been almost twelve years, and I’ve been desensitized long ago.”

“So when you said that aunt went to the cinema to pick you up, I was quite touched.” He said, “I don’t remember my mother at all, and I don’t remember her going to kindergarten to pick me up at all.”

Lu Xiao had always been expressionless, but when he heard this sentence from him, his expression was so sad that he almost cried.

He pulled Ye Cheng’s sleeve and shook it, and said in a low voice, “I’ll pick you up when you want to watch a movie later.”

“I will also wait for you after school, and accompany you to dinner.”

“Don’t be unhappy.”

Ye Cheng wasn’t unhappy, on the contrary, he still wanted to laugh, and was a little moved.

Just as he was about to speak, Lu Xiao asked softly, “Can I give you a hug?”

Not to be outdone, the same impulse arose.

Lu Xiao looked at him nervously, as if afraid that he would refuse.

After all, in his impression, Ye Cheng seldom took the initiative to have physical contact with others, let alone hug.

The air was quiet, Ye Cheng opened his arms and said, “Yes.”

Lu Xiao took a deep breath, took two steps towards , and stretched out his arms to hug him lightly.

He wanted to follow the gap between Ye Cheng’s open hands and wrap his arms around his waist; but he felt that this posture was a bit inappropriate, so he put his arms on top of him instead.

This moment of hesitation seemed clumsy and green.

Ye Cheng couldn’t help but burst out laughing, moved closer and hugged his waist.

Because of the mistake just now, Lu Xiao’s whole body became even more tense, the heartbeat in his chest was deafening, and he himself was afraid of disturbing the person in his arms.

This is the first time he has completely embraced Ye Cheng in his arms, in a gesture of possession and acceptance.

Not as soft as expected.

He thought that Ye Cheng would be soft. After all, this person had fair skin and a soft face, and he looked like a kind of stuffed toy.

He is actually completely different.

The boy’s bones are slightly slender, and he is so thin that he can wrap it all around with one hand.