Chapter 149#
Chapter 149: Year End Approaching#
Lu Siyuan took a long time to digest the fact that Wei Dong was younger than him.
He had always thought Wei Dong was older than him. Moreover, the maturity and stability Wei Dong displayed, the kind of substance that should be settled by time, was very heavy and deep in him, without any of the flightiness or instability that his age should have.
This man possessed all the characteristics of a mature man: resolute, open-minded, strong-willed. His speech, behavior, and style of doing things all highlighted that this was a man who had been baptized by time.
Although he had a pile of shortcomings, none could cover up that fascinating, extraordinary mature male charm of his.
He made one feel safe and reliable. But for such a man to suddenly tell him that he was younger than you, the feeling was very strange.
In the first few days back from the hospital, Wei Dong clearly felt that Lu Siyuan’s mood was unstable, and he seemed to have some difficulty digesting his age.
It took many days before he gradually stabilized.
Probably because his mood had stabilized and his complexion had improved, when Lu Siyuan mentioned going to work again, Wei Dong didn’t forcefully stop him.
He just forcibly forbade him from working overtime.
Because Lu Siyuan had to go to work and commuting from here was a bit far and inconvenient, the two moved back to the apartment to live.
In the afternoon, the two had just arrived home. The hourly worker cleaning up hadn’t finished yet.
“I’m sorry, Mayor… I came a bit late and haven’t finished yet…” Seeing Lu Siyuan return early when the house wasn’t finished being cleaned, the hourly worker was so flustered her face turned red, apologizing clumsily.
Wei Dong watched, slightly furrowing his brow, and carried the suitcase Lu Siyuan had packed for him last time to the separate courtyard into the bedroom.
Lu Siyuan knew this person wasn’t used to having extra people in the house. These past few days in the separate courtyard, as long as this man was there, no third person besides him had appeared in the house.
Lu Siyuan shook his head. “It’s okay, you continue.”
“Um, the bedroom and study have been tidied and cleaned. Do you want to, um, stay in there for a while? I’ll be done soon, very quickly! Very quickly!” The hourly worker apologized repeatedly.
“En.” Lu Siyuan didn’t say much, nodded, and followed into the bedroom.
“Um… Mayor, I’ll try to be as quiet as possible. Maybe you should close the door…”
Even without the reminder, Lu Siyuan would have closed the door. He closed it as he went in.
Seeing Lu Siyuan enter the bedroom, the hourly worker breathed a sigh of relief, not daring to delay for a moment, and hurriedly cleaned up.
When Lu Siyuan went in, Wei Dong was taking off his clothes. He threw the taken-off jacket onto the bed and turned to go to the bathroom to take a shower.
Looking at the big suitcase on the bed, the corners of Lu Siyuan’s lips curved slightly. This man’s expression when carrying the suitcase was very unhappy. Before coming back, he had fiercely warned him that if he packed his things and threw them out again, he should be careful about not being able to get out of bed…
Opening the suitcase, the things inside were still the ones he had packed. The man had brought them back untouched.
He put the ashtray back on the bedside table, took out the man’s razor and towel, then moved the suitcase to the wardrobe and hung all the man’s clothes back in the wardrobe.
When Wei Dong came out, Lu Siyuan was still tidying up.
Wei Dong watched, the corners of his mouth twitching faintly.
After hanging up all the clothes, he turned to see Wei Dong leaning against the door frame watching him, with only a bath towel wrapped around his waist. Lu Siyuan stood up. “Why aren’t you wearing clothes?”
Only he would dare to come out naked with just a bath towel in this cold weather.
“Didn’t bring any.” Wei Dong raised his chin towards the wardrobe behind Lu Siyuan.
Lu Siyuan frowned, turned around, and found underwear, trousers, and a shirt for the man from the closet he had just tidied, handing them to him.
“Going out again?” Looking at the clothes Lu Siyuan handed over, Wei Dong asked.
Lu Siyuan nodded. “En, it’s still early. Let’s go out for a stroll.”
“Shopping?” Wei Dong looked at a certain person strangely.
Lu Siyuan looked at Wei Dong’s strange look and looked away somewhat uncomfortably. “It’s almost New Year. I want to buy some things for Grandpa and my parents.”
Was it… strange for the two of them to go shopping?
“New Year?” Wei Dong frowned.
Lu Siyuan looked at this man who seemed completely unaware of the New Year. “There are still more than ten days left. You didn’t know?”
Northerners seemed to care a lot about the Spring Festival, right? Why did this man’s reaction seem so unfamiliar…
“En.” Wei Dong responded directly.
He really didn’t know. He had never felt much about these festivals, big or small.
He had no concept of festivals before. In the past few years in the army, missions were tight and heavy. During the New Year, he was almost always executing missions, huddled in the jungle. How could he notice these irrelevant things?
Really didn’t know? Lu Siyuan was a bit surprised.
“Then do you want to stroll around?” He looked down at the clothes in his hand and asked.
“En.”
Taking the clothes from Lu Siyuan’s hand, Wei Dong hummed, turned and walked to the bed, threw the clothes on the bed, pulled off the bath towel around his waist, and started changing clothes carelessly in front of Lu Siyuan.
Picking up the bath towel the man had pulled off and thrown on the bed, Lu Siyuan took the razor and towel he had just unpacked from the suitcase into the bathroom.
Looking at the tidied things, Wei Dong’s lips curved faintly. This was what living together looked like, right?
Hearing the sound of the bedroom door opening, the hourly worker wiping the floor in the living room was startled. She stood up and looked at the two walking out of the bedroom together, slightly stunned. It felt a bit strange, but seeing them looking like they were going out, she quickly asked, “Mayor, are you…”
Lu Siyuan said, “I’m going out for a bit.”
“Oh oh… Hello, I’ll definitely finish cleaning before you come back.” The hourly worker nodded repeatedly.
“No rush.” Lu Siyuan waved his hand.
“Um… should I prepare dinner for you and your friend?” Looking at the time, it was almost five o’clock, so the hourly worker asked.
Lu Siyuan glanced at the man who was already putting on shoes in the entryway and shook his head at the hourly worker. “No need.”
“Alright then.”
When Lu Siyuan went to put on his shoes, Wei Dong had already lit a cigarette and was standing aside waiting.
Watching the two leave, the hourly worker still felt strange. These two felt a bit weird, didn’t they? But she couldn’t say exactly where the weirdness was.
Looking at the man’s appearance, Lu Siyuan was puzzled again. Where did this man look like he was twenty-seven years old?
Because of his doubt, Wei Dong had even shown him his ID.
But no matter how he looked, Lu Siyuan still found it hard to believe that this seasoned and steady man was only twenty-seven.
Regarding the doubtful looks Lu Siyuan occasionally cast now, Wei Dong didn’t know what to say.
He reached out and rubbed his face. This person obviously didn’t believe his age, but this face was naturally not tender-looking. What could he do? Before going to the army, it was slightly better. After two years of torment in the army, there was even less he could do.
“Mayor Lu, are you despising me?” Seeing Lu Siyuan’s gaze drift over again, Young Master Wei expressed that he also had an opinion on his wife’s reaction.
Lu Siyuan was slightly stunned upon hearing this. Despising him? With which eye did he see that?
“No.”
Wei Dong snorted coldly. “No? Are you sure?”
Lu Siyuan nodded seriously.
Wei Dong smiled ferociously. “It’s too late to despise me!”
regarding Wei Dong’s somewhat unreasonable reaction, Lu Siyuan just curved his lips imperceptibly at an angle he couldn’t see. Was this appearance another interpretation of his real age?
When the car stopped at a traffic light intersection, Lu Siyuan couldn’t help but ask, “I wanted to ask you before, are you going back to Beijing for the New Year?”
He had wanted to ask several times before but didn’t. Now that the end of the year was approaching, he didn’t know if this person was going back home for the New Year…
Wei Dong frowned and turned his head to look at him.
Lu Siyuan said faintly, “I’m just asking.”
“Not going back.”
The red light turned green. Wei Dong followed the car in front, quickly merging the car into the traffic flow. The person beside him didn’t speak again. He sat quietly in the passenger seat, occasionally glancing at the scenery outside the car window, but mostly looking at the traffic ahead.
He turned his head and glanced at the person sitting in the passenger seat, looking at that exquisite face as always. Only that face, which usually didn’t have much emotional change, revealed a gentle curve. Looking at the faint downward traces at the corner of his eyes…
Wei Dong turned back to face the road ahead, a facial expression called a smile appearing on his face.