In the evening, Shen Kuo still had a fever as expected.Lin Cheng drove him upstairs to lie down, and went into the kitchen alone.

“You boiled… ginger soup? Oh, the young master doesn’t drink this. I boiled it several times before, but I still poured it all down.”

Lin Cheng smiled, thanked Aunt Ning for her concern, and went upstairs with ginger soup.

Half an hour later, Lin Cheng came downstairs with an empty bowl, and Aunt Ning looked at him in surprise: “Oh my god, Xiao Cheng, what method did you use, the young master actually drank the soup.”

Lin Cheng smiled, and naturally used some… special methods.

“Are you making dumplings?” Lin Cheng changed the subject calmly.

“Yes, I’m going back tomorrow. I’ll make some dumplings in advance and freeze them, and eat them when the young master is hungry.” After saying this, Lin Cheng remembered that today is the 28th of the twelfth lunar month.

“Let me pack it together with you.” Pulling over a chair next to him, Lin Cheng sat down, and when Aunt Ning came to his senses, Lin Cheng had already packed one.

“Xiaocheng, your bag looks better than mine.”

Facing Aunt Ning’s praise, Lin Cheng smiled lightly and didn’t answer. He used to go to the dumpling restaurant in the alley to make dumplings during Chinese New Year, and the package cost [-] cents a piece. His skills were practiced at that time.

Aunt Ning returned home the next day, and then Uncle Hu also left. By the time Shen Kuo went downstairs quickly, it was already the New Year’s Eve, and there were only him and Lin Cheng left in the room.

“Are you awake?” Hearing the movement behind him, Lin Cheng turned his head, got up and touched his forehead again. “Well, no more burning, no need to drink ginger soup.”

A trace of unnaturalness flashed across Shen Kuo’s face, and he changed the subject stiffly: “What’s that on the table? Who sent it.”

Lin Cheng followed his gaze: “It’s a New Year’s gift from Uncle Shen. I’ll accompany you to the old house in the afternoon.”

Yes, every New Year’s Eve, he would go to the old house to deliver New Year’s goods, and then come back alone.Sometimes when I am in a good mood, I have dinner there, and when I am in a bad mood, I come back to cook dumplings by myself.

“Then why do you want to accompany me?”

“Because you’re going alone, I’m not at ease.” Lin Cheng’s eyes were so gentle that water dripped out.

Shen Kuo turned his head away in amazement, suspecting that the person who had been burned for two days was not himself but him.

Anyway, in the end Lin Cheng followed Shen Kuo back to the Shen family’s old house.

Compared with Shen Kuo’s current residence, the Shen family’s old house is much more grand, and every inch of land reveals the smell of money.

“Young Master, Second Master is waiting for you inside.” Shen Kuo’s car had just stopped when someone greeted him.

“Yeah.” Shen Kuo replied indifferently. Since the car drove into the front yard, Shen Kuo has returned to the Bai Wuchang in the eyes of the public. Only when he turned his head and saw Lin Cheng did his eyes reveal a little tenderness. .

Shen Kuo strode ahead, and Lin Cheng followed behind him unhurriedly, with a calm expression, as if he had been here many times.

A person like Lin Cheng can quickly adapt to any environment, whether he likes it or not.

“It’s Xiao Kuo. Xiao Liu, hurry up and get some tea.”

“Yes.” The maid took the order and left quickly.

“No, I’ll leave after putting away my things.”

“Is this your attitude towards elders?” The one who spoke was Uncle Shen who had never shown his face before.He sat in the middle of the sofa with a throw blanket over his legs.Lin Cheng was a little surprised, Uncle Shen’s legs seemed unable to move…

“Uncle, Uncle. It’s getting late, I’m leaving first.” After speaking, he pulled Lin Cheng and walked out, regardless of the reaction of the people around the room.

The sun was still shining, and Uncle Shen made Shen Kuo flush with anger, “You!”

“Brother, don’t be angry. If you get so angry during the Chinese New Year, let Xiao Kuo go.” Second Master Shen winked at the woman next to him, “Meng Zhi, you stay here with Brother, I’ll go Send Xiao Kuo outside.”

Although Shen Erye’s figure is middle-aged and fat, but fortunately, his physical strength is not bad. When he finally caught up, Shen Kuo happened to be driving the door when he was out of breath.

“Xiao Kuo!”

Seeing the familiar false smile on Second Master Shen’s face, Shen Kuo motioned Lin Cheng to sit down and wait for him, then closed the car door and walked back.

“What’s the matter, Er Bo, what’s the matter?”

“It’s nothing, I’ll catch up with you.” Shen Kuo was too lazy to argue with him here, and turned around to leave.

“Take care of that kid in your car. I have a good temper and don’t care about some things with him, but if he does something to let the elder brother know, be careful that he won’t be able to eat and go around.”

Shen Kuo heard it funny, and his eyes finally turned cold, “Second Uncle, last time I was the one who didn’t have anything wrong with Lin Cheng, so you don’t care about me like you. If I find your hand reaching out to him again, then Don’t blame my nephew for being rude.”

After finishing speaking, Shen Kuo slammed the car door neatly, regardless of the expression of the person opposite.Back in the car, Shen Kuo’s complexion finally improved a lot, but his frown still did not loosen: What does this have to do with uncle?Could it be that the identities of Lin Cheng’s parents have not been found out because it has something to do with what happened back then?

He gave everyone a holiday for the Chinese New Year, but he couldn’t get an answer right away. Shen Kuo was upset and knocked on the window hard.

The driver in front was so frightened that he dared not move, and even turned off the music on the car.

At this time, a hand stretched out without a sound, forcefully opened his fist and interlocked his fingers.Perhaps because of the ten fingers connected to the heart, the irritability in Shen Kuo’s heart disappeared miraculously.

The two of them held hands all the way home.

After entering the house, Shen Kuo was lying on the sofa in the living room, and Lin Cheng took the initiative to go to the kitchen to heat up dumplings.In previous years, when he was thirty, he would turn on the TV alone, cook two dumplings and eat them casually. Although there was only one more person this year, Shen Kuo could smell a hint of Chinese New Year’s smell when he heard the clanging noises in the kitchen.

After recovering from a serious illness, Shen Kuo worked hard all afternoon. Shen Kuo leaned on the sofa and fell asleep without knowing it. When he woke up again, it was already dark. There was only a small lamp on in the living room, but the kitchen behind him was still lit. Tongming, attracted by the fragrance, Shen Kuo couldn’t help walking over.

“You did all of this?” Shen Kuo stared dumbfounded at the table full of meals.

Rock sugar knuckle, plate sauce duck, kung pao chicken, eight treasure sweet rice, pine tail mandarin fish…

I just picked up a snail girl and came back.

“Here, how can we finish eating?”

“Then you can eat more.” Lin Cheng winked at him playfully, and went back to the kitchen to get the bowls and chopsticks.

Shen Kuo: …

After putting away the bowls and chopsticks, Lin Cheng turned around and took out two crystal goblets and…a bottle of Coke.

“You can’t drink alcohol just after your fever has subsided. Let’s drink this to make a living.” Lin Cheng only poured a quarter of Shen Kuo’s glass, but poured three quarters of it into his own, and put some ice cubes go in.

“Happy New Year.” Lin Cheng raised his glass first, “Happy New Year.” Shen Kuo also raised his glass, and the two glasses touched together with a “ding”.

At this time, fireworks were just lit outside the window.

“That’s right, the time is just right.” A smile flashed in Shen Kuo’s eyes, and he looked out the window.Lin Cheng also turned his head, but he kept looking at the person beside him from the corner of his eye, yes, everything was just right.

Naturally, the two of them didn’t finish their meal in the evening. Lin Cheng was sitting on the sofa watching the Spring Festival Gala, while Shen Kuo was walking around in circles on the empty corridor behind him.

“Okay, it’s almost done, let’s sit down and have a rest.” After the meal, Shen Kuofei said that he had eaten too much at night and was exercising, and he had already walked for half an hour.

“Well, it should be almost there.” Shen Kuo’s forehead was covered with a thin layer of sweat, and he collapsed on the sofa panting.

The familiar hormonal smell drifted over, Lin Cheng was a little distracted for a moment, the voice from the TV disappeared suddenly, only Shen Kuo’s light breathing was in his ears.

He couldn’t help but want to get closer, and he did.

Shen Kuo was still resting his eyes with his eyes closed, when suddenly something pressed on him.He opened his eyes and looked at the clock. It was eleven o’clock, and Lin Cheng usually fell asleep at this time.

He looked helplessly at the person leaning in his arms. Lin Cheng’s back was evenly rising and falling, and he seemed to be fast asleep.Unable to bear to wake him up, Shen Kuo simply picked him up and planned to put him on the bed.

I don’t know if it was an illusion, but when Shen Kuo put him on the bed, it seemed like Lin Cheng had touched his chest?Shen Kuo’s heart was beating like a drum for a moment, and he stared at Lin Cheng for a long time. After making sure that he was really asleep, he was finally relieved, gently turned off the light and left.

Almost the moment the door was closed, Lin Cheng opened his eyes. He stared at his hand for a long time in the dark, and the conversation between him and Qin Zixi during the day was circling in his mind:

“Xiao Lincheng, you have to be patient.”

“Ok?”

Lin Cheng was still proofreading the list of New Year’s goods when Qin Zixi suddenly made a noise, but he didn’t react.

“I have known Shen Kuo for many years, he… can be said to be a person who does not understand love.”

“His mother Song Qingshu’s marriage to his father was not a touching rich love story, it was just to deceive people’s eyes and ears. The person she really wanted to marry was…Grandpa Shen.”

“Shen Kuo was just a cover-up that was born to avoid suspicion.”

“He never got a mother’s love, he was thrown to a nanny when he was a child, and he was locked in a bedroom when he was a little older, watching his mother and his grandpa having sex.”

“Uncle Shen…” Qin Zixi smiled wryly, “Uncle Shen actually attributed all of this to Shen Kuo. He spent his days in the company during the day, and when he came back at night and saw the marks on Aunt Song’s body, he beat Shen Kuo violently.”

“He didn’t dare to resist his father, so he vented everything on Shen Kuo.”

“The reason why Grandpa Shen was willing to take Shen Kuo back to the old house was because he looked more and more like Aunt Song…”

Qin Zixi sighed, “He has been alone for so many years, I thought he would die alone, but I didn’t expect you to appear suddenly.”

“Don’t worry.” Lin Cheng, who had been listening silently, suddenly said, his eyes were bright, like the first light shining in the darkness.

Don’t worry, I will wait until the day he fully accepts me.

I would like to be his light.

We are each other’s salvation.

Qin Zixi didn’t speak any more, just rubbed his head with a smile.

“By the way, don’t let him know that I told you, or I will be thrown to Siberia by him. Did you hear Xiao Lincheng?”

“Um……”

Lin Cheng gently kissed his palm, just as the New Year’s bell was ringing, and the lights of all houses were shining.

Happy New Year, Shen Kuo.Lin Cheng said silently in his heart.

We come to Japan for a long time.

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Originally, I wanted to post it yesterday, but I fell asleep all of a sudden…