Chapter 16：

During the whole summer vacation, Lu Nian hardly went out. She was in poor health and feared the cold and heat. She was not so well in winter and summer.

She was born again in the summer, when the heat was in full swing.

Lu Zhihong organized Lu Nian’s fifteenth birthday party very grandly. After all, the Lu family is regarded as a famous family in Ancheng. Lu Zhihong’s family is not very popular. Lu Nian is his only daughter at present. Naturally, he is a pet and loved by everyone. With.

This time it was even more grandiose than in previous years, and Lu Zhixin also came.

Lu Zhixin is now forty, well-maintained, looks handsome, and has some liveliness and lightness as a child. "Big brother is now in Europe for meetings, and time is really out of reach. I brought the gift for Nian Nian. ."

Lu Zhihong said, "Troubled."

The Lu family’s old house is in Ancheng, but due to work reasons, only Lu Zhihong stays here. The three brothers are busy, so they also gather less and leave more, and have not seen a few in a few years.

Lu Zhixin has only two sons in his family, so he likes Lu Nian very much. As soon as he walked in, he shouted to find Lu Nian, "Nian Nian, let my uncle take a look. He has grown taller again."

Lu Nian walked over obediently, letting him make a few gestures on his head.

My niece was very eccentric when she was a child. She often locked herself in a room and talked to herself. Anyone who approached her would either cry or get angry. In recent years, it has improved a lot. Lu Zhixin also found her as an uncle with her little niece. The warmth and fun.

Lu Zhixin is the youngest of the three brothers in the Lu family, but he got married early, but the child is the oldest in the next generation, and he is now studying in the United States.

"The end of my stinky boy's term is not over yet, otherwise I would have drawn them back." Lu Zhixin mentioned his boy, his warmth was gone, gritted his teeth, "If you don't do good things outside, it will cause me trouble."

Lu Zhihong smiled, "It's important for them to study. In the future, there will be time. Boys, the skin is normal at all."

Lu Nian had no real feelings about the two cousins ​​who had been abroad. After all, they had gone abroad to study very early, and she had never seen them much.

She was cleaned up by Miao Miao and several babysitters today, and now she only feels uncomfortable, like a doll.

However, even without these relatives, there are still a lot of guests. There are many people in Ancheng, especially those with children of similar age, or those who have close business contacts with the Lu family.

Lu Nian was like a puppet, was pulled to smile at this, cut cakes, and accepted cheers and gifts.

The huge hall of Lu's family has been carefully decorated. The violin sound is very melodious, balloons and decorative flowers can be seen everywhere, and the cake in the middle

Lu Zhihong took her around in the banquet hall and introduced her to this person, and Lu Nian followed him obediently and numbly accepted all kinds of flattery.

It wasn't until she saw a familiar face in the crowd that Lu Nian's face was numb with laughter and finally showed a hint of surprise.

Zhao Tingyuan blinked at her and replaced the wine with a drink, "Happy birthday."

Lu Zhihong looked over with her. The young man in front of him was a little bigger than Lu Nian, dressed decently and had a handsome face.

"Hello, uncle." Zhao Tingyuan saw Lu Zhihong looking at him. "I have heard of Uncle Lu's name for a long time. Today is the first time I came to visit. My name is Zhao Tingyuan."

Lu Zhihong said, "Are you... Zhao Rulan's son?"

He has a good memory and remembers this name. Haicheng Zhao’s family is a physical entity. In recent years, he has had several small-scale cooperations with Lu’s Capital. Because his hometown is in Ancheng, Lu Zhihong has a special impression, but he and Zhao Rulan have not met. He was very impressed when he saw a visitor from Haicheng Zhao’s family on the list of visitors to this birthday party.

Zhao Tingyuan nodded, "My father and mother are still in Haicheng now, and I am the only one who will come back temporarily."

The sixteen-year-old boy is obviously very accustomed to this kind of social occasion.

Lu Zhihong liked Zhao Tingyuan very much, stopped here with Lu Nian, and chatted with him a lot.

The Zhao family can actually be considered as Ancheng people, but they were all moved to Haicheng for the needs of industry expansion. Zhao Tingyuan was also born and raised there, and has not returned to Ancheng until now.

"In the future, Mom and Dad will still plan to return to their hometown. When they are old, they still miss their hometown more." Zhao Tingyuan said, "Ancheng has also developed better than Haicheng in recent years."

Lu Zhihong smiled, "There are scenery everywhere,"

He asked again, "I heard you have a younger brother?"

"Yes, but my brother is not in good health." Zhao Yayuan said, "So for the time being, I am still with my parents in Haicheng, but he will be soon, and he will return to Ancheng probably next year. He will be in the same year as Nian Nian, maybe in the future. You can still be a classmate."

Lu Zhihong glanced across the face of the young girl, and asked with a smile, "How did you meet?"

Lu Nian wore a small white dress with taffeta on the back, knotted into a small bow, which made her waist look very slender and graceful, with only a beautiful face still childish.

She didn't say a word, looked at Zhao Tingyuan with big eyes, obviously waiting for him to answer.

"It's my school girl at school." Zhao Tingyuan felt helpless and wanted to laugh. "I met several times in school, so I met."

"Then you guys talk first." Lu Zhihong said, "I won't bother you young people."

When Lu Zhihong left, Zhao Tingyuan whispered to Lu Nian, "Today is very beautiful."

Lu Nian, "...thank you."

She really didn't expect it at all. Zhao Tingyuan would actually appear at her strange birthday party.

After all, they have seen it a few times, and they are still far from familiar with that they can come to a birthday party, right?

Zhao Tingyuan didn't seem to think there was anything wrong, Lu Nian talked to him casually.

In fact, rather than being led by Lu Zhihong to continue seeing other people, she would rather stay here and wrangling with Zhao Tingyuan.

Lu Zhihong has other guests to entertain. He Tian looked at the pair of young girls in the distance and teased him, "Didn't you always want to find a son-in-law? I brought you here."

Lu Zhihong glanced at her, but didn't deny it, just took a sip of wine, "Niannian is still young, I'll talk about it in a few years."

He is obviously in a good mood today.

"I'll prepare everything for her." Lu Zhihong became a little drunk, "Let her sit back and relax for the rest of her life."

In the future, I will choose a good husband for Lu Nian, and find some right-hand men who will help her manage the company, so that she will have a carefree life.

The son-in-law has a good family background, and the personality of the talent is so important, but talent does not matter, or even mediocre. After all, his Lu family industry does not want to give it to outsiders like this. If he is too skilled, he is afraid that Lu Nian will not be able to eat.

As for the person who does the real thing, he has already planned.

"When the kid graduates, Lu's family left him something to do." Lu Zhihong said, "It's the mule that pulled out for a walk, and I saw that it was a talent that can be used by Nian Nian, or a useless waste."

He Tian raised her eyebrows and glanced at him, "I thought you had forgotten him."

Lu Zhihong played with the goblet in his hand and said lightly, "I'm just getting older, not my brain is broken."

"Aren't you afraid that the child will have a foreign heart in the future?" He Tian chuckled, "After all, your Lu family is not very kind to him."

Lu Zhihong said indifferently, "Our family has raised him for so many years, and we have given him a job opportunity. If this is the case, there is no need to stay."

Halfway through the banquet, Lu Nian found an excuse for himself, saying that he wanted to change his clothes, and sneaked out.

Lu Nian walked slowly, and couldn't help but step along a familiar path.

The bushes moved, like a human figure, her eyes lit up, but the gardener with garden shears came out.

The gardener also saw her, "Miss? Why are you here?"

Lu Nian said vaguely, "Come out to get some air, Uncle Li, can I fix this one later?"

The gardener worked for the Lu family, and Lu Nian had already spoken, so he turned his head and went to other places to clean up, leaving her alone, squatting under the tree in a daze.

Lu Nian remembered that when Qin Si was still living in the Lu family, they would often come here to play.

Qin Si is very good at climbing trees, but at that time he didn't want to pull Lu Nian up every time. He just stayed alone on the tree. Lu Nian didn't respond when talking to him, so that she could only face up and talk to him. He speaks, his neck is sore.

Once Lu Nian was really upset and asked someone to move up a staircase and said that he would climb up and sit with him.

The result was that Qin Si was also taken down, and the two of them sat under the tree together.

Although Qin Si could **** her off when he spoke, he had never said a good word, but he was at least willing to listen to her.

Lu Nian held his cheeks in a daze.

In front of Qin Si, it was the only moment when she felt that she could relax completely. It was strange to say that his personality was so bad and his mouth was so poisonous, and he had never even wanted to be too close to her, but she just felt relaxed.

Talk and do things without restraint.

At this time, in the huge garden, there was nothing but the sound of cicadas.

The small attic where Qin Si once lived was already shelved, and it is probably covered with dust again.

Thinking of the current Qin Si and that cold IOU, Lu Nian suddenly lost interest in staying any longer.

This summer, she couldn't lift up her energy, and seemed to have nothing to do.

After summer passed, Lu Nian entered the third grade, and Lu Nian's lifespan in the original book will also be exhausted at this time.

She deliberately avoided news about Qin Si, until now, she didn't know where he chose to go to school.

Because of these years of care, her physique has improved a bit compared to when she was a child, but she is still a little weaker than ordinary people. Although the previous examination in the hospital has confirmed that there is no major problem with her body.

However, Lu Nian didn't let her down, she always felt something faintly wrong.

In the first month of school, she suffered a small car accident at the school gate.

Lu Nian found that she ran out of draft paper after school that day, and planned to stop by the stationery store next to the school to buy new draft paper. She and Gu Yayan walked out of the school together.

They parted at the school gate and said goodbye to each other. When Lu Nian turned to cross the road, he suddenly heard Gu Yayan yelling from behind, "Niannian!!!"

Fortunately, she had been in fear during this period of time, and immediately stepped back vigilantly when she heard the sound.

A small van broke through the railing and dashed towards her, almost passing by. The tip of Lu Nian’s hair was lifted by the air current, and the car finally hit the flowerbed on the road, and the driver was half of his body covered. Throw out from the window.

Lu Nian's mind went blank, and only felt that his legs were weak, and he slowly sat down on the ground.

Fortunately, she ended up with bruises and sprained ankles.

"I was scared to death by Nian Nian." Gu Yayan was really scared and his face paled, "You don't know how dangerous it was that looked at that time, fortunately..."

Lu Nian pressed her lips tightly, unable to say anything.

With this car accident as the dividing line, she started all kinds of bad luck.

After the fall, she fell ill again and coughed more after she recovered.

Lu Nian will have a minor illness every fall. It has become a common practice, but this year came very early and very urgently.

This is an old problem. Lu Nian's mental state was particularly sluggish during this period, and he didn't care much about it, so he just let it go.

Until the end of the second class, she went out to get her homework, and when she returned to the classroom, she found a tied white bag on the desk.

Gu Yayan said, "It was sent by a boy who didn't know him in the first grade of junior high school, saying that someone asked him to give medicine to his family."

Lu Nian thought, Lu Yang was not there, and Lu Zhihong was on a business trip during this period. He Tian couldn't give her medicine. She said, "Is it the wrong person?"

Gu Yayan said, "I don't know about that...but it's also possible that the little boy said vaguely and ran away as soon as he put it here."

The medicine in that small paper bag was the cough syrup she used to drink when she was caught in the cold in winter. She used to take medicine often and knew the taste of all kinds of medicines. Especially did not like the sticky cough syrup. The taste, so I haven't bought medicine for this period of time.

In addition to the bag of cough syrup, there were two other things in the bag. Lu Nian took out a bag of green apple-flavored jelly.

Gu Yayan looked into it, "This person who prepares the medicine is so careful."

Lu Nian coughed, his face a little pale, "It's so happy to be thought of."

Makes her a little envious.

After all, money cannot be exchanged for warmth, nor for caring.

She is so rich, but she doesn't feel happy at all.

So she couldn't let down the good intentions of others. Together, she and Gu Yayan delivered the bag of medicine to the school's lost and found office.

However, Lu Nian finally bought the medicine by himself.

After all, no one looked at her, she could only look at herself.

It was the first time Lu Nian was so depressed in so many years, and she couldn't tell why.

Little accidents continued throughout the year, Lu Nian began to get used to it, and finally stumbling to the second half of the year in the third year.

That winter, there was a robbery that shocked Ancheng. The suspect fled in this city. Although the murderer was still a 17-year-old minor, his modus operandi was extraordinarily cruel, and he was armed with controlled knives. The whole area is extremely panic.

Lu Nian is very sensitive to those things now, so he asks people from home to pick him up every day, and he doesn't dare to leave alone.

Until that day, between class, Gu Yayan and the others were watching a piece of news, the murderer was arrested, and the arrested teenager admitted all the crimes.

Lu Nian was working on his homework, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief when they heard about the murderer who was arrested.

She finally relaxed some of her vigilance, and was no longer so close to the enemy.

When school was over that night, Lu Nian had something to do with the driver at home, and Lu Nian hadn’t walked home for a long time, so he decided

When passing by the middle school attached, a rough hand suddenly grabbed her schoolbag. Before Lu Nian could make any sound, he was dragged backwards into the alley.

"Brought money?" The voice behind him was vague and ugly.

Lu Nian is so small that she has no resistance at all. Her heartbeat is fast, her face is pale, and sweat is already on her forehead.

"I'm asking if you have any money!" Lei Chi snarled at her with wide-open eyes, and pressed her mouth tighter with his hands. Lu Nian felt dizzy and had difficulty breathing.

After Tong Xi was taken away, he was the only one left. The search continued. During this period of time, he had lived almost like a mouse in the gutter, and the irritability in his heart had accumulated to its peak.

"Woo..." She made a faint voice, and at the last second before she lost consciousness, she saw the light of the knife raised high in Lei Chi's left hand.

really.

... Is it impossible to reverse the fate like this?

She thought dimly, she didn't seem to have done everything after coming here.

...

The knife was not stabbed in the end.

A long, cold hand intercepted the knife halfway.

Lei Chi didn't notice when the ghost-like teenager appeared on his body.

He had a pain in his mouth, the knife had landed, and then with a fierce kick, Lei Chi fell to his knees, speechless in pain.

Qin Si has had a lot of fighting experience since he was a child. He was beaten and used to being beaten when he was a child. He wandered on the street. When he first came to Lujia, the nearby children bullied others with weak strength. The Lu family never cared about it. He never took a new one. Injured to sleep.

In recent years, in such street fights, few people can get anything cheap in his hands.

He looked thin and thin. In fact, the stocky Leichi pressed him with his knees and fell to the ground hard, unable to move at all. The young Jin's thin and slender fingers pressed his head and slammed down on the ground. , One sound is duller than another.

So... almost honest.

"Do you still have a knife?" Qin Si looked at the knife with a faint smile, "Who do you want to stab with?"

The blade was as light as snow, and half of the boy's indifferent face was reflected on the back of the blade, the lines were cold and thin, and there was no smile in his black eyes.

A cold sweat broke out behind Lei Chi's ear, and he shivered and said, "...Brother, I haven't used that knife, I just scared her, please don't call the police and let me go."

He cried out of breath, "Before the robbery and murder was done by Tong Xi. I just took some money. I was an orphan. I had no father or mother since I was a child. It’s not like you can go to school with peace of mind. Looking at people, I can’t do anything to survive. I flipped through buckets and picked up rubbish. It was freezing to death at home in winter... I couldn’t do it either."

"Brother, you are handsome and go to school. Your family must be very happy. Have mercy on us orphans. I'll kowtow to you..." Lei Chi really wanted to kneel down for him.

Qin Si's face turned colder.

The thin lips of the young man slowly aroused, and his expression was indefensible, "Orphan? That's why it should be?"

Lei Chi nodded desperately, "We are born with a father and a mother but not raised by a father and mother. We are born inferior and have no way out. People look down on it wherever we go..."

The sharp blade slowly approached, and there was no trace of emotion in the young boy's narrow and long pupils, and it was so cold that it didn't look like a real person.

Lei Chi felt cold.

He felt that the boy in front of him was not normal, and might even be more abnormal than him.

A boy like a devil.

He already felt the ice-cold touch of the blade on his skin, and his hairs were standing upright. He was shivering, and he couldn't utter a syllable.

...

Not far away, the girl suddenly whimpered softly, but still did not wake up.

The sound was very soft, like a drop of water in this quiet alley, dripping onto the calm lake.

The chill gradually left his neck.

The young man slowly lowered his left hand, glanced at Lei Chi, who was soft and muddy, and kicked him away, "It's useless."

When the police car arrived, Lei Chi was limp on the ground, like a puddle of mud, his lips were still trembling, and there was a pungent smell under him. He was scared to pee on his pants.

After Lu Nian lost consciousness, he dimly noticed that someone seemed to be beating her up.

In the ear, someone seemed to whisper something.

The voice is familiar, but the owner of that voice has never used this tone to her before.

Immediately, she smelled a very good smell, which was the smell of a strange boy that hadn't been smelled before, lingering on the tip of her nose, very light, but also very refreshing.

Her cheek seemed to be exactly on his neckline, Lu Nian smelled the light acacia scent on the T-shirt, which was reassuring for some reason, so she continued to sleep peacefully.

...

The girl was pale and fell asleep on the hospital bed. She seemed a little haggard, her lips were pale and her long eyelashes drooped aggrievedly.

However, at least on the outside, there was no injury.

Qin Si stood by, looking at her in silence.

"Contacted the Lu family?" Brother Ming opened the door and came in.

The boy nodded, showing undisguised disgust on his face, "Go ahead, I don't want to see them."

"Don't you want to see them the same when they come?"

Qin Si said, "I'll leave right away."

At least before Lu Nian woke up, because he didn't think it would be so pleasant to meet them.

After all, he didn't want to see Lu Nian, and Lu Nian... didn't want to see him.

He also didn't want Lu Nian to know that it was him just now.

I don't know what he recalled, the young man pursed his lips and his ears were a little red.

"Tsk, why are you doing this? Isn't it good to be a hero to save the United States? Isn't it good to let her open her eyes and see you at first sight?"

Qin Si was too lazy to say anything and just ignored it.

However, after saying this, he did not leave immediately, but stood quietly by the bed, watching the girl's sleeping face from a short distance.

Brother Ming cocked his legs and stared, watching him look like this.

I hate the Lu family so much, but isn't the one lying on this bed also the Lu family's daughter?

Brother Ming thought about it and asked, "You hate the Lu family so much... why do you still keep so obsessed with other people's daughters."

I was afraid that something would happen to her. For such a long time, I always took time to follow her secretly until she was picked up by her family, but he did not expect him to run into it.

Qin Si, "Return her favor."

Yes, yes, return her favor.

Brother Ming sneered, "Do you want to pay back in the future?"

The boy stared at him coldly.