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After being comforted all the way, Lu Ci's mood has calmed down.Sitting in the co-pilot, he called home and learned that Shen Mingxi's father had flown abroad alone a few days ago to attend a friend's child's wedding.The mother on the other side of the phone explained that it might be due to jet lag that he couldn't get in touch with people for a long time, and asked Lu Ci why he wanted to contact the elders of the Shen family at this time.

Lu Ci responded with a few casual words, threw the phone aside, and stared at the clouds passing by and the dark sky outside the window.

When he called just now, he didn't turn off the receiver on purpose. Chen Qianxia listened to the explanation on the other end, and didn't say anything, just hurried on in silence.

Since Shen Mingxi's accident, the relationship between the Lu family and the Shen family has become more delicate.The Shen family has always had no special affection for the eldest son who was not liked since childhood, and Shen's mother wished that Shen Mingxi would disappear as soon as possible, so that all the family property could belong to Shen Zitong in the future.After Shen Mingxi fell ill, their attitude became more obvious.

Lu Ci knew in his heart what the Shen family was planning, and he had hated and complained, but after all, he was not qualified to judge from the commanding heights of morality.On the one hand, it was because he did not yet have this ability; not to mention, Shen Mingxi's illness was ultimately caused by his Lu Ci.

He is the one who wants to complain the most, and the one who is least qualified to complain.

Lu Ci's family naturally liked Shen Mingxi.Shen Mingxi can only be regarded as an innocent victim among the grievances and grievances of the previous generation that were unclear.What's more, he himself has been a child with outstanding looks and top grades since he was a child, and he played the role of a gentle and considerate brother in Lu Ci's youth.When Shen Mingxi had an accident, Lu Ci also reached the age to go out to study.Lu's parents didn't want to see Lu Ci always staring in a daze at the fence of the next yard with a sad face, so they bought a new house in the south of the city while he was going to school in other places, and even purposely built a new house in the place where Lu Ci lived. A bedroom was reserved for Shen Zitong on the first floor.

"Here we are." Chen Qianxia's voice rang in his ears, and Lu Ci pulled away from the complicated memories of the past, looked up and saw the small gray building in front of him that had stayed in his memories for 18 years.

He pushed the door to get out of the car, walked a few steps forward, and was thinking about what kind of excuse he would use to hide Shen's mother and bring Shen Zitong out later. He didn't expect to glance at the front yard, where the small table under the parasol was sitting in front of him. There were quite a few people sitting there.

"Brother? Why are you here?" Shen Zitong also saw Lu Ci, got up immediately, put down his teacup and opened the door for him. "I was also trying to contact you, why..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Shen Zitong had already sensitively noticed the abnormality in the air.He hurriedly pulled Lu Ci in, and said in a low voice, "Why did you two come here together? What happened?"

Lu Ci followed Shen Zitong into the gate, and glanced at the people at the small table—Shen Zitong's mother, a middle-aged woman who was about the same age as that woman, and a girl he looked familiar to him.After noticing Lu Ci's appearance here, Shen's mother's face changed immediately, the other two looked quite calm, and greeted them both, and the girl waved to a few people here.

Lu Ci turned around, stared at Shen Zitong without blinking, and asked as calmly as possible: "Why didn't you answer so many calls and hung up all of them?"

Shen Zitong took him a few steps towards Chen Qianxia, ​​and complained in a babbling voice: "It can be said. I didn't know that I was tricked into having a blind date meal until I came here. But I remember Chen Qianxia tonight It seems that I want to come home, afraid of disturbing you, so I want to go back later after dinner."

After Chen Qianxia parked the car, he walked over to meet the two of them. Considering that there were elders beside him, he didn't directly reach out to pull Lu Ci into his arms, but stepped forward a few steps and stood next to Lu Ci.After hearing Shen Zitong's answer, even he frowned, and added: "I called you several times later, but none of them came through."

"I don't want to waste time here either." Shen Zitong spread his hands, "I planned to send a message to my brother, but a few people over there said that they accidentally shook their phone out and dropped it on the ground while hanging up my coat. When I saw that the screen was all shattered, I simply took out the phone card, thinking that when I go back at night, I will get a new one before the shopping mall gets off work."

Lu Ci rubbed his temples: "When did it happen?"

"Just after seven o'clock." Shen Zitong said, "And that girl is still our junior high school classmate, brother, do you remember?"

Lu Ci recalled the girl's appearance, and barely matched her with a slender figure with short hair in his memory.When he was in junior high school, he was busy with homework and exams and spent time coaxing Shen Zitong who was arguing with his parents. Naturally, he didn't have a long time to focus on girls of the same age.After so many years, the girl's dress and makeup have changed drastically, so Lu Ci was not able to recognize it immediately.

But now he can also understand what happened.When contacting Shen Zitong at the beginning, Lu Ci not only sent a message but also made a phone call. Most likely, Shen's mother happened to see the few messages he sent while hanging up her clothes, and in order to hide Shen Zitong, she didn't want him to catch up in time. In the past, simply broke the phone directly.

Although Shen Zitong had no intention of dating that girl at all, we were old classmates who had known each other for many years after all, and he would only lose face of the girl when he just dropped his chopsticks and left.Shen's mother was sure that Shen Zitong didn't want to embarrass the girl, so she found an excuse to call her back and forcefully eat such an inexplicable meal, and then detained Shen Zitong in the old house for so long.

"You..." Lu Ci knew that Shen Zitong was also busy with work these few days, and it was too much to devote all his energy to dealing with a table of strangers, so he couldn't be more cruel to blame him.After all, the most urgent task is to take the person to the hospital.

"Hurry up and come back with me to accompany your eldest brother, and we'll talk about other things later." Lu Ci waved his hand, not even bothering to find another excuse to deal with the people at the table over there, and grabbed Shen Zitong's arm and walked out of the gate.

"What happened to Big Brother?" Upon hearing that something might have happened to Shen Mingxi, Shen Zitong's voice became tense.

"Why are you running around, are you in a hurry to see the monkey? Xiaozhen came here on purpose."

The two voices sounded at the same time, directly colliding with each other in an already tense and delicate atmosphere.Compared with Shen Zitong's anxious inquiry, Shen's mother's piercing yin and yang words seemed even more unsettling.Lu Ci turned his head, just in time to see the middle-aged woman with heavy makeup standing up and walking towards them with a look of disdain, followed by the little girl whose name was "Zhenzhen" or "Zhenzhen". The appearance is very cute.

"Lu Lu." Sensing the trembling of the people around him, Chen Qianxia patted Lu Ci on the back lightly, "Don't get angry with this kind of person, it's not worth it."

It's not worth putting down your face and wasting time arguing with this kind of person who can't get on the stage, and it's not worth being entangled with this kind of shrew who wants to get revenge, and embarrassing yourself out of thin air.

Lu Ci quietly stretched out a hand and touched the back of Chen Qianxia's hand, signaling that he understood.

Then he turned around and stepped forward, once again forced to face up to this middle-aged woman whom he would not even bother to look at on weekdays.The last time the two of them confronted each other like this was nearly seven years ago. Lu Ci remembered that he was standing in the living room of Shen’s house, speaking word by word to the two middle-aged men who were sitting on the sofa. It took a lot of effort to finally pull Shen Zitong, who was on the verge of collapse, out of the cage.

"Auntie." Lu Ci's tone has lost the respect and compromise of the past.After so many years, the seemingly elegant and dignified middle-aged woman in front of her reminded Lu Ci once again that her heart had been corrupted by greed and indifference.

"Don't stop us anymore, you can fool Tongtong for a while, but you can't fool him forever." Lu Ci said in a deep voice.

What's more, you don't have many chances to stop us.He didn't say the last sentence.It's not a good feeling to accumulate a bitter smile full of sadness and helplessness together with those unspoken words, but Lu Ci is the last thing he wants to lose his composure in front of this woman.

Shen Zitong had already deduced the whole story from Lu Ci's helpless words: "Let's go, brother."

Before Lu Ci could finish his sentence, he took the initiative to drag people out of the yard, without looking back at the woman who was yelling wildly behind him.

He backed down again and again, and he was still reluctant to tear his face directly. It was nothing more than caring about the indelible blood relationship and the kindness of nurturing for more than 20 years.As a result, he compromised for so many years, but he still couldn't get them back.