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 reborn in the summer, when the summer heat was in full swing.
Lu Zhihong organized Lu Nian’s 15th birthday party very grandly. After all, the Lu family is considered a famous family in Ancheng. Lu Zhihong’s family is not very popular. Lu Nian is his only daughter at the moment. Naturally, she is naturally spoiled and loved by everyone.
This time it was even more grandiose than in previous years, and Lu Zhixin also came.
Lu Zhixin is now forty, well maintained, looks still handsome, and has some liveliness and lightness as a child. "Big brother is in Europe for a meeting now, and the time is really too late. I have brought the gift for Lu Nian."
Lu Zhihong said, "Thank you."
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 your uncle take a look at you. She has grown taller again."
Lu Nian walked over obediently, letting him make a few gestures on her head.
His niece was very eccentric when she was young. She often locked herself in a room and talked to herself. As long as anyone approached her, she would either cry or get angry. In recent years, she has improved a lot. Lu Zhixin also found the warmth and joy of being an uncle with his little niece.
Lu Zhixin is the youngest of the three brothers in the Lu family, but he got married early, but his child is the oldest in the next generation, and he is now studying in the United States.
"The end of studies of my stinky boy is not over yet, otherwise I would have drawn them back." Lu Zhixin mentioned his boy, his warmth was gone, and he gritted his teeth, "If he don't do good things outside, he will cause me trouble."
Lu Zhihong smiled, "It's important for them to study. In the future, there will be time. Boys, it’s common for them to be a bit naughty"
Lu Nian had no real feelings for the two cousins who had been abroad. After all, they went 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 the same 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 everyone, 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 an entity and has had several small-scale cooperation with Lu’s Capital in recent years. Because his hometown is in Ancheng, Lu Zhihong is particularly impressed, but he and Zhao Rulan have not met each other, so he was very impressed when he saw a visitor from the Haicheng Zhao family on the guest list for this birthday party.
Zhao Tingyuan nodded, "Mom and Dad 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 are actually from Ancheng, but they were all moved to Haicheng after the expansion of the industry. 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 beautiful scenery everywhere,"
He asked again, "I heard you have a younger brother?"
"Yes, but my brother is not in good health." Zhao Tingyuan said, "So for the time being, he's still with my parents in Haicheng, but he will be here soon, and he will return to Ancheng probably next year. He was in the same year as Nian Nian, and maybe he can still be a classmate in the future."
Lu Zhihong glanced across the face of the young girl, and asked with a smile, "How did you meet?"
Lu Nian was wearing a white little dress. The taffeta was tied on the back and formed into a small bow, which made the girl's waist more slender and graceful, and her pure and beautiful face was still childish.
She didn't say a word, looked at Zhao Tingyuan with big eyes, obviously waiting for him to answer.
"She's my school girl at school." Zhao Tingyuan felt helpless and wanted to laugh. "I met her several times in school. Just like that."
"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 had only met a few times and were far from being familiar enough to 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 people in the distance and teased him, "Haven't you always wanted to find a son-in-law? Here you are."
Lu Zhihong glanced at her, but didn't deny it, just took a sip of wine, "Niannian is still young, We'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's family is good, talent and character is important, but talent doesn’t matter, It’s okay to even be mediocre. After all, his Lu family industry didn’t want to give it to outsiders like this. If he is too capable, 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 has left something for him to do." Lu Zhihong said, "It's a mule or a horse, let's see if he has a talent that Nian Nian can use, or a waste that can't be used."
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 didn't treat him very well."
Lu Zhihong said indifferently, "Our family has raised him for so many years and given him the opportunity to work, such a white-eyed wolf. There is no need to stay any longer."
Halfway through the banquet, Lu Nian found an excuse for herself, saying that she 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 this piece be repaired 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 was reluctant to pull Lu Nian up every time, just staying alone on the tree. Lu Nian talked to him, but he didn't respond, so she could only talk to him with her face up, and her neck was sore.
Once Lu Nian was really upset and asked someone to move up a staircase and said that she would climb up and sit with him.
The result was that Qin Si was also also got down, and the two of them sat under the tree together.
Although Qin Si could piss 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 her 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 that 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 note of indebtedness, 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 the summer passed, Lu Nian entered the third grade, and Lu Nian's lifespan in the original book would be exhausted at this time.
(T/L: At this point in time, the original Lu nian in the book died of sickness, I think. It is mentioned in Chapter 2.)
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 guard 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, she 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 crashed through the railing and came across to her side, almost brushing past her. The tips of Lu Nian's hair were raised by the air currents and he car eventually hit the flower bed on the road. The driver was thrown most of his body out of the window.
Lu Nian's mind went blank, and only felt that her legs were weak, and she slowly sat down on the ground.
Fortunately, she only ended up with bruises and sprained ankles.
"Scared me to death Nian Nian." Gu Yayan was really scared that her face turned pale, "You don’t know how dangerous it looked that time, fortunately ......"
Lu Nian pressed her lips tightly, unable to say anything.
With this car accident as the dividing line, all kinds of bad luck started.
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 they didn't care much about it, so they 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 junior boy whom I did not know. He said someone asked him to the deliver medicine."
Lu Nian thought, Lu Yang was not here, Lu Zhihong was away on business during this time, He Tian could not have sent her medicine, she said, "It was sent to the wrong person, right?"
Gu Yayan said, "I don't know about that.... but it is also possible. That boy spoke vaguely and ran off 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 medicine, especially the sticky taste of cough syrup. So during this period of time, she haven't bought medicine.
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, her face was a little white, "It's so happy to be remembered."
She was 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 took the bag of medicine to the school's lost and found office.
However, Lu Nian finally went to buy the medication herself and took it.
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. People in this area are extremely worried.
Lu Nian is very sensitive to those things now, so she asks people from home to pick her up every day, and she doesn't dare to be 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 her homework, and she finally breathed a sigh of relief when they heard about the murderer who was arrested.
She finally let her guard down a bit and was no longer so much of an enemy.
That night after school, the family driver had something to do, and Lu Nian had not walked home for a long time, so she decided to.
When passing by the side of the secondary middle school. A rough hand suddenly grabbed her schoolbag. Lu Nian had not had time to make any noise has been dragged backwards into the alley.
"Have you got any money?" The voice behind him was slurred and unpleasant to hear.
Lu Nian is such a small one, she has no resistance at all. Her heart is beating fast, her face is white and her forehead is already sweating.
"I'm asking if you have any money!" Lei Chi snarled at her with wide-eyed eyes, holding her mouth tighter with his hands, Lu Nian only felt dizzy and had difficulty breathing.
After Tong Xi was taken away, he was the only one left. The search was still going on. 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. The last second before she lost consciousness, she saw the light of the blade raised high in Lei Chi's left hand.
Really.
... Is it impossible to reverse the fate like this?
She thought hazily that everything she had done since coming here, she seemed to have failed to do.
...
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.
The knife had fallen to the ground when his mouth hurt, followed by a vicious kick, and Lei Chi fell to his knees, unable to speak in pain.
Qin Si has had a lot of fighting experience since he was a child. He was used to being beaten and wrestled as a child. He had wandered the streets and when he first came to the Lu family, the children in the neighbourhood bullied him for being small and weak. The Lu adults never care about him and he never sleeps without a new injury.
In recent years, few people have been able to take advantage of him in these street fights.
He looked thin and skinny, but in fact, the sturdy Lei Chi was pinned to the ground with his knees, unable to move at all, and the young man's long, lean fingers held his head down, knocking it to the ground with a dull thud.
This way ...... is almost honest.
"And with a knife?" Qin Si looked at the knife with a smile, "Who do you want to stab with it?"
The light of the knife is like snow. The back of the knife reflects the young man half a handsome indifferent face, its lines cold and thin, without a hint of laughter in his dark eyes.
A cold sweat broke out behind Lei Chi's ear, and he shivered and said, "...Brother, I have never used that knife. I just scared her. Please don't call the police and let me go."
He cried out of breath. "The robbery and murder were done by Tong Xi before. I just took some money. I was an orphan, I grew up without a father or a mother, unlike you guys who can go to a good school without worrying, and I can't go anywhere without looking at people. I can't help it. There’s no way to survive. I’ve rummaged through buckets, picked up rubbish, and it’s freezing to death at home in winter...I can’t help it either."
"Brother you are handsome and go to a good school, your family must also be very happy, have pity on us orphans. I'll kowtow to you..." Lei Chi really wanted to kneel down for him.
Qin Si's face turned colder.
The young man's thin lips curled up slowly, his expression inexplicable, "An orphan? So So that's the reason?"
Lei Chi nodded his head desperately, "We, who were born without parents, were born cheap and have no prospects at all, and people look down on us wherever we go ......"
The shiny blade was slowly approaching, the young man's narrow pupils had no hint of emotion, they were so cold that they did not look like real.
Lei Chi's heart chilled.
He felt that the young man in front of him was not normal either, maybe even more than he was.
A boy like a devil.
He could already feel the cold touch of the blade on his skin and his sweat stood on end as he shivered, unable to utter a single syllable.
...
Not far away, the girl suddenly gave a small whimper, but still did not wake up.
It was a soft sound, like a drop of water falling onto the calm surface of the lake in this quiet alley.
A chill gradually left his neck.
The young man slowly lowered his left hand, glanced at the paralyzed Lei Chi and kicked him away, "It's useless."
When the police car arrived, Lei Chi was paralysed on the ground like a pile of mud, his lips were trembling and there was a pungent stench underneath him, he had wet his trousers.
After she lost consciousness, she was dimly aware that someone had picked her up horizontally.
Someone seemed to whisper something in her ear.
The voice was familiar, but the owner of the voice had never used this tone of voice with her before.
Immediately, she smelled a very good smell, which she hadn't smelled before, the smell of a strange boy, lingering on the tip of her nose, very light, but also very refreshing.
Her cheek seemed to be pressed right up against his collar, and Lu Nim smelledthe light scent of soap on her T-shirt, which was somehow very reassuring, so she continued to sleep peacefully.
...
The girl was pale, sleeping 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.
"Have you contacted the Lu?" Ming pushed his way in.
The young man nodded, his face showing undisguised disgust, "You go ahead and say, I don't want to see them."
"Aren't you going to see them when they come?"
Qin Si said, "I'll leave right away."
At least it will be before Lu Nian wakes up, because he doesn't think they will be happy to see each other.
After all, he doesn't want to see Lu Nian, and Lu Nian ...... doesn't want to see him.
He didn't want Lu Nian to know that it was him just now.
Not knowing what he remembered, the boy pursed his lips and the tips of his ears turned a little red.
"Tsk, why are you doing this? Isn't it good to be a hero that save the beauty? What's wrong with that? Why not 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, looking at the girl's sleeping face from a distance not too far away.
Brother Ming crossed his legs and looked at him like this.
He hates the Lu family so much, but isn't the one lying in this bed also a daughter of the Lu family?
Brother Ming thought about it and asked, "You hate the Lu family so much... why do you keep thinking about their daughter so much."
He was afraid that something would happen to her. For such a long time, he always took time to follow in secret until she was picked up by her family , but he never expected to come across her.
Qin Si said, "Return her favor."
Yes, yes, return her favor.
Brother Ming sneered, "The kind of return that you want to give your life to each other in the future?"
The young man stared at him coldly.
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