CH 3

Three dishes and one soup were served to two of them. Lin Ran followed Song Zhi Xu and washed his hands before sitting at the table. 

As they ate, Lin Ran didn’t say anything, just kept his head down and ate quickly.

Song Zhi Xu frowned slightly at his appearance. The Lin family was also a wealthy family so every time he ate with Lin Mu, Lin Mu always ate extremely well. He didn’t expect this Lin Ran to be so different. 

Lin Ran’s hands were so quick that he dropped a clip of vegetables onto the table because he didn’t clip it stable enough with his chopsticks. Then, he quickly picked it up again and stuffed it into his mouth. He looked around the table nervously. He then saw a piece of paper before he took one and carefully wiped the oil stains off the table.

“So…sorry, I already wiped it clean.” Lin Ran apologized to him after he finished wiping it.

Song Zhi Xu felt that there was something wrong with him, but he was not a person of many words, so he just said “Hn”.

When Lin Ran saw that he really didn’t get angry, he lowered his head and ate quickly again. 

Before Song Zhi Xu finished eating, Lin Ran had already eaten half of the dishes on the table, but his speed was getting slower and slower. He was having a hard time swallowing, so he probably couldn’t eat anymore.

Until Song Zhi Xu finished eating, only then he looked up and found out that Lin Ran’s mouth was stuffed full. He looked so much in pain but he was still desperately trying to swallow it up. 

“If you can’t eat anymore then don’t eat.”

Song Zhi Xu poured a glass of water and handed it over.

Lin Ran struggled to swallow the food in his mouth, then he bit his lip. He didn’t dare to look at Song Zhi Xu, and said in a timid and overcautious low voice.

“Ran Ran…can’t eat anymore. Is that okay if I eat the rest of it tomorrow? I’m sure I can eat it all, there won’t be any left.”

“No need to eat it, just dump it if you can’t eat anymore.” Song Zhi Xu himself also eats these dishes, if he couldn’t eat it anymore, he poured the rest of it out. He never ate leftovers.

“No, I can finish it. Then don’t, it can be eaten.” Lin Ran immediately started to stuff the food into his mouth again.

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Lin Ran’s eyes shone brightly at him, then immediately stood up and carefully combined all the dishes into one plate, carried it and put it in the fridge before he cleaned up the table and washed the dishes.

Song Zhi Xu didn’t quite understand. Lin Ran who was supposedly the young master of the Lin family, even if he stayed abroad, he should have someone that specially to serve him, but why was he so skilled at doing these kinds of works?

Song Zhi Xu sat on the sofa, after Lin Ran came out from the kitchen, he slowly walked to sit beside Song Zhi Xu, looked at him and suddenly said.

“What Gege said is right, you really are a good person.”

Song Zhi Xu looked at him sideways and asked with some curiosity, “Then how can you consider someone as a bad person?”

Nowadays, apart from children, there was still a person in society who had the impudence to use concepts like good and bad people to define a person.

Song Zhi Xu felt that it was somehow ridiculous.

“It’s just…that you’re not angry, and there is still meat to eat.” Lin Ran touched his belly that was bulging, propped up to the point it was really tight.

If he had leftovers before, the aunt would get angry and scold him, even to the point of slapping him. Once she even dumped all the leftovers on him before then he was told to clean up again.

Just now Song Zhi Xu didn’t get angry. He even told him to put the leftovers in the refrigerator.

There’s meat in it, he hadn’t eaten it in a long time.

Song Zhi Xu wanted to laugh, but when he thought that he was a little fool, he didn’t say anything after all.

He was originally stupid, so it was already good that he knew this.

While he was thinking, Lin Ran’s face suddenly turned pale and he curled up from the sofa to the floor, covering his stomach.

Song Zhi Xu saw his face full of pain so he immediately said, “What’s wrong?”

“It hurts, Song Zhi Xu, Ran Ran’s stomach hurts.” Lin Ran was basically skinny and small, so he crouched down between the sofa and the coffee table. Song Zhi Xu picked him up and put him on the sofa.

“Tummy ache?” Song Zhi Xu touched his belly. The bloated belly had already swollen so he must have eaten too much.

He took out his smartphone and made a video call. It didn’t take long for the call to be answered, the man opposite was sitting by the side of the french window with a glass of wine in his hand while he looked at him and raised his eyebrows slightly.

“What’s wrong? You got entangled in sinful acts when you’re eighteen years old and then the kid’s mother came to your door to claim for the family connection?” Mu Qingting sized up the teenager shrinking beside Song Zhi Xu, yet he didn’t feel like that was the case either so he rejected the idea again, “Song Zhi Xu, you wouldn’t be too lonely that you lay your hands on the teenager, would you?”

Song Zhi Xu’s expression was somewhat unpleasant. His voice was cold as he directly said, “He seems to have eaten too much and his stomach hurts, what should I do?”

“Huh?” Mu Qingting’s voice paused for a moment before he said, “There’s a small medicine box in the drawer of your TV cabinet, so there should be aid-digestion tablets in there, see if they’re not expired and give him a few.”

Song Zhi Xu stood up and immediately went to look for it. After finding the medicine, he looked at it and saw that it hadn’t expired yet, and poured four tablets for Lin Ran to take according to the instructions.

He put his smartphone on the table. Mu Qingting on the other side of the video was watching the two of them, putting down the wine glass in his hand and looking closer at the screen a few more times.

“Song Zhi Xu, why do I feel that he looks familiar?”

Lin Ran was a little scared at the sound of the outsider’s voice and pulled tightly on Song Zhi Xu’s sleeve, shrinking into his arms.

Song Zhi Xu didn’t push him away but only explained it to Mu Qingting.

“This is Lin Mu’s younger brother. He has no way to take care of him right now, so he’s temporarily placed here at my place.”

“Lin Mu?” Mu Qingting’s expression suddenly became serious and pursed his lips as he said, “Zhi Xu, you still haven’t let go after so many years, huh? Even if he and Lin Mu look alike, he still looks like a child, you can’t…”

“He’s twenty, he’s only apparently small.” Song Zhi Xu interrupted him.

He had seen Lin Ran’s ID card so he was indeed twenty years old, only he was a bit skinny and looked like a teenage student.

“Twenty years old?” Mu Qingting repeated and said again, “Even if he’s twenty, you also can’t have those kinds of thoughts ah! He’s not the same as Lin Mu.”

“I don’t.” Lin Ran was still here, Song Zhi Xu didn’t want to talk to him more so he directly hung up the call.

Just now Lin Ran heard his elder brother’s name, so he called out in a small voice, “Gege.”

Song Zhi Xu pushed him away with some annoyance, walked to the window and looked outside as he lit a cigarette.

He was not a heavy smoker but sometimes he would smoke one when he was annoyed. When the smoke was sucked into his lungs, while holding his breath, it allowed him to empty his mind for a while, letting him to calm down.

Lin Ran lying down on the sofa by himself and rubbing his stomach, he had been told by the aunt when his stomach hurt before that it would get better if he rubbed it.

So he kept doing that?

Translator’s Note:

*Most readers probably already know, the aunt here is a nursemaid in a family, not the blood related one.