“Wait!” Suddenly, he opened his mouth.
Zige’s heart skipped a beat, but the child turned back immediately and looked at daddy in surprise, “Daddy, do you want something from mommy?”
“You stay for a bit.” Lan Yu Feng slowly opened his mouth, his voice deep and slow, “The children’s body wash and shampoo in the house have expired and need to be replenished. There is also … a need to buy new pajamas for him. I think it’s better for you to take care of these things yourself.”
Ziggy didn’t make a sound.
The child cleverly immediately answered, “Yes, yes, mommy, you stay and accompany Little Douzi to go shopping later! I have so much to buy!”
Ziggy looked at the child and picked her lips and smiled.
Turning around, he picked the child up and pinched his little nose, “Then Mommy will accompany you later.”
Lan Yu Feng was eating breakfast at the dining table. The kid and her had already eaten, so the two were sitting on the couch watching TV. I don’t know how many times, Lan Yu Feng looked up to see them.
For a long moment, re-lowering his head to look at the contracts that had been accumulating for so long in the meantime.
Throughout the house, it was quiet.
Occasionally, one could hear her and her child’s thinly veiled voices discussing anime on TV. Obviously a 20-something adult, but watching cartoons also watched with great interest. He lost his smile, and suddenly felt that this home, until this moment, began to be alive again.
Zige was sitting on the couch, and for the umpteenth time, she glanced sideways at him. He was eating his breakfast, and the early morning sunlight draped down, making his entire body look like it was gilded with a layer of golden light, making him feel warm just by looking at it.
The years are really nothing more than that.
Just …
How many more times can you look at him like that?
In the near future, in front of him, there will be another woman …
That person is the one he promised to take care of for the rest of his life – Su Xi …
A while later, Lan Yu Feng had already finished his breakfast, so he ordered the driver to bring the car out.
Zige first let Little Douzi sit in the backseat, but then she saw Lan Yu Feng pushing his wheelchair out as well. She looked at him with some surprise, “Are you going too?”
His face darkened, “Too much trouble for me?”
“I didn’t mean that!” Ziggy was a little annoyed that he was misunderstanding himself like that. With his legs the way they were now, she wasn’t any better off in her heart than he was.
“Hold me up.” He couldn’t have been more natural, passing his hand toward her.
Zi Ge was busy bending over to help him up, and as soon as he wrapped his long arms around her, his entire weight leaned on her. The rich, warm fragrance, drilled into her nostrils, Lan Yu Feng slightly inclined his face to look at her. Obviously, he was heavy, and it was a bit of an effort for her to support him. However, she always said nothing, clenched her teeth tightly and supported.
Lan Yu Feng glanced at her and slowly opened his mouth to call her, “Meng Zige.”
“Hmm?” Ziggy responded with some difficulty.
He’s lost a bit of weight but, really, he’s still so, so heavy …
“Don’t you realize that you have a button unbuttoned?”
“What?” Zige looked down. Her face instantly turned red.
Only one of the buttons on the neckline was tautly open from the tossing and turning that had just taken place. From his position, he could just about get a glimpse of her spring color inside.
With one hand she was concerned with holding him up, and with the other she was busy fumbling with her buttons.
Lan Yu Feng picked his lips, seemingly smiling, ”I’ve just seen it all. Various angles, various places. So, it’s already too late to cover up now.”
“Hey!” Ziggy glared at him in exasperation. Subconsciously, she remembered the image of kissing him deeply out of control in his bed this morning. Her face, for a moment, turned even redder.
Obviously … Lan Yu Feng also tacitly remembered this morning s incident, his mouth was dry and dry cough, and he skimmed his face.
Actually …
By this moment, he was beginning to have some regrets that he shouldn’t have let her go so much.
“Daddy, Mommy, what are you dawdling about?” The child poked his head out of the car window, hyperventilating. Over there the driver had already folded the wheelchair and put it in the trunk.
“Coming.” Zige was busy helping Lan Yu Feng towards the car, helping him sit in the car before sitting down close to him.
Along the way, he wrapped one arm around the child.
He wasn’t a man who was too talkative, or, for that matter, would take the initiative to find a topic of conversation, so even if his son, whom he hadn’t seen in the past few months, sat down at the moment, all he knew was to stay close to him, and closer …
The child, however, is very much alive.
“Daddy, where have you been for the past few months?”
“Daddy’s in Moscow.”
“Oh, but why not come back to see Little Bean in Moscow?”
“Isn’t it back now? In the future, Daddy won’t even go back.”
“That’s good. But is Daddy’s leg getting worse now? It seems like you can’t stand up oh.” The childish child, asked.
Zi Ge was busy glancing at Lan Yu Feng, fearing that he would feel bad in his heart, so she spoke up to round off the conversation, “Baby, let’s change the topic, okay?”
“Daddy’s leg, there was an accident.” Instead, he had opened his mouth, gently.
“What accident?” The child was unforgiving.
This time, it was Zi Ge who took over the conversation, “Daddy had an accident because he was trying to save Mommy. Okay, daddy is a little tired, stop noisy daddy and let daddy have a good sleep.”
“Oh … then okay!” The child nuzzled his little mouth, thought of something, and suddenly added, “But, in Uncle Xiao Ke’s story, when the warrior uncle saves the beautiful sister, they all have to promise their bodies to each other. So, should Mommy also promise a daddy?”
Ziggy rolled her eyes.
What kind of bedtime stories does Ko Heng Joon usually tell, anyway?
“Does he tell his kids all these juvenile stories?”
Childish?
The corners of Ziggy’s mouth twitched, “And it’s not often told.”
No wonder, the last time they discussed the topic of ‘eunuchs’ the discussion was so heated!
Inexplicably, there was some blockage in his heart. Glancing at Zige, “So, do you want to talk to the child like that?”
“What kind?” Ziggy was slightly puzzled.
“By the body.” He said those four words with a bland ease.
Ziggy was confused for a moment.
It was only after a long time that he somewhat bitterly averted his face to the window and said quietly, “There are too many people who want to be promised to each other, and it’s not my turn.”
Lan Yu Feng frowned slightly, “Something in your words?”
“No.”
Lan Yu Feng wanted to say something else, but his cell phone suddenly rang. He then didn’t pursue the matter any further, but just took the phone out, looked at the number on it, and subconsciously looked over towards Zige.
Ziggy didn’t mean to look, but with just one glance she scanned the two words that couldn’t have been more obvious.
Su Xi …
The heart tightened, and for a moment, it was a few moments harder to even breathe.
Turning his face away, he looked out the window as if he didn’t really care.
“Brother Yu Feng.” Over there, came Su Xi’s voice.
“Uh-huh.” His tone, as always, was flat.
“Are you up?”
“Just up.”
“Oh. I didn’t sleep all night last night and I kept having nightmares. I was so afraid! So afraid that you’ll leave me behind, so afraid that all of you won’t want me anymore … ” Over there, Su Xi suddenly lost her voice and cried.
Zige’s heart couldn’t help but feel a little bitter and saddened.
She’s proud, but vulnerable …
Apparently, that one car accident took away almost all of her strength.
“None of us would not want you. You don’t want to take the bull by the horns.” His ability to comfort people was really bad. Two words, completely flat and no warmth.
“I know, I know you promised I would take care of me, and you definitely won’t go back on your word.” Su Xi choked over there.
Ziggy clenched her hands quietly.
“Since you didn’t sleep well last night, you should get some rest today. I have other things on my side right now.” Lan Yu Feng said to hang up the phone.
“Brother Yu Feng, don’t hang up yet.” Su Xi called out to him sharply.
He paused in his movements, “Anything else?”
“Are you coming over to … today?”
Lan Yu Feng glanced at the child, then swept over the figure that was turning its back to him, and slightly lowered his eyes, “No, you have a good rest.”
“But … I want to see you. I was able to get out of bed and walk today, and my brother said he was going to show me the sights.”
“Since Su Chen will take you there, let Su Chen lead you. If you have anything to say, let’s talk about it tomorrow when we meet.”
Without waiting for Su Xi to say anything else, Lan Yu Feng had already hung up the phone decisively.
I don’t know whether it was an illusion or not, but he clearly felt that a certain woman beside him, without a trace, let out a long sigh of relief.
Looking at her stiff side, he finally said nothing and closed his eyes. It was a while before he spoke again in a quiet voice, “Lend me your shoulder to lean on.”
Zi Ge was staring out the window in a daze, and for a moment she didn’t hear the voices in the carriage. Until the child peeked over and tugged at the hem of her coat, “Mommy, Daddy wants to sleep and is looking for you to borrow his shoulder!”
“Huh?” Ziggy looked a little confused, looking at the child and then at him.
“I’m your savior, and since you don’t want to give your life in return, lending you a shoulder shouldn’t be considered a stretch, right?”
Ziggy smiled bitterly and wordlessly leaned toward him.
His head, then, immediately collapsed onto her shoulder.
The moment …
They were all trembling at each other.
How many other times have we been able to get this close without avoiding suspicion?
Meng Zige …
Couldn’t he use some more means to keep her again? It was just that … if he did that, it would probably … only push her further and further away!
Suddenly, uncontrollably, he reached out, took her hand, which was resting in his lap, and held it.
He did not open his eyes, but he obviously felt the hand in his palm and was slightly stunned. He thought that she would break away, but she … surprisingly did not move a …
The next second, he opened his palm and wrapped it tightly around her.
Zi Ge looked at each other’s entwined and clenched hands in a daze, and couldn’t help but look at him again with downcast eyes.
Ten Fingers Tied …
Life and Death …
That time Tang Yao Yang’s threat of life and death didn’t make him leave her behind. But now …
A Su Xi, but has completely separated and pulled them apart …
Feelings, said fragile, sometimes strong to impregnable. Said tough, gently touched, but shattered …
The children’s mall was filled with a wide variety of goods. Zige pushed the wheelchair with one hand while the child followed along.
Little Douzi grew tired and wanted to go to the children’s playground to play, Zi Ge only had to send him there first, followed by pushing Lan Yu Feng all over the mall.
“If you’re tired, just say so. We’ll just go back early.” Ziggy said to him, looking down.
“Uh-huh. You’re not working today?” He didn’t really care to pick anything out. But she picked carefully. Sometimes crouching, sometimes standing on tiptoe, picking the best thing for the child in each item.
“Uh-huh. It’s the night shift today.” She took a soothing, non-irritating body wash and put it down in the cart.
“How’s your foot?” He asked again.
“What?” Ziggy, obviously not remembering, glanced sideways at him from the edge of the shelf.
He compared her ankle with his lower jaw, “Didn’t you break it last time?”
“That ah …” Ziggy smiled, “That’s just a small thing la, it’s long gone.”
“You’re still crying over a small thing?”
“…” Ziggy bristled and cooed, “It’s not like those tears were shed for your feet.”
“What?” He didn’t hear clearly.