Chapter 88#
The other side was still silent.
Yan Heqing’s eyes darkened slightly. This was Lin Fengzhi’s new number. Lin Fengzhi had three mobile phone numbers in the original text.
The second number was changed when he decided to give up loving Lu Lin, and now it appeared ahead of time.
Yan Heqing repeated calmly, “Can you hear me? Lu Lin is not here right now. If you have something to say, I can pass it on.”
Every word was like a sharp thorn, piercing deep into Lin Fengzhi’s heart.
He covered his mouth tightly, tears streaming down his face.
Thinking that Yan Heqing might be with Lu Lin, he didn’t dare to answer Yan Heqing’s call, but he couldn’t help but hold a glimmer of fantasy. What if he wasn’t? Otherwise, why not just listen to Lu Lin’s phone call, but use his own phone?
He harbored a humble hope. Just at this moment, the moment he was injured, he hoped that Lu Lin was alone, perhaps still grieving for his fall.
Anyway, Yan Heqing didn’t know this was his number, so he answered it.
However, Yan Heqing’s words completely shattered his hope.
Lin Fengzhi bit his lip and was about to hang up the phone when Lu Lin’s voice suddenly came from the receiver.
“What are you doing?”
A few minutes ago, Lin Fengzhi had hoped so much to hear Lu Lin’s voice. He couldn’t hold on anymore. He missed Lu Lin crazily. Even a word, a shallow breath, he just wanted to listen secretly.
At this moment, he felt cold all over and hung up the phone in a flurry.
Yan Heqing listened to the busy tone, put away his phone and said, “Calling my brother.”
Lu Lin buckled his seat belt and took the phone smoothly. There were eight missed calls from unknown numbers, just now.
He casually added them to the blacklist, started the car and said, “Do you want to go see him?”
“No need.” Yan Heqing put away his phone, “He needs to rest quietly during this time.”
Lu Lin smiled and didn’t speak. The car drove onto the road, and he continued the topic just now, “When does your apartment lease expire?”
Yan Heqing replied, “November 8th.”
“Renovation takes about two months, plus airing out the smell, it’s about right.”
Chatting occasionally, they soon arrived downstairs at Yan Heqing’s place. Lu Lin didn’t go up. He asked for Yan Heqing’s ID number and asked, “Do you have plans for the evening of the 30th?”
Yan Heqing shook his head, “No, the 30th is Thursday. I don’t have classes on Thursday afternoon. I want to go see Auntie Lu first.”
The peonies were blooming well at the end of April. He hadn’t forgotten his promise to Lu Ruchan to make lipstick.
Lu Lin smiled and said, “Okay, I’ll arrange it.”
Watching Yan Heqing go upstairs, the small window on the third floor lit up before Lu Lin got into the car.
First, he sent Yan Heqing’s ID number to his assistant to book a flight ticket. The date of birth was—October 28th.
Lu Lin lowered the car window again, took another look at Yan Heqing’s window, and then drove away.
A few minutes after Lu Lin’s car left the residential area, Lu Muchi bit into a sandwich and maneuvered his electric wheelchair out of the convenience store in the residential area.
With gauze on his face and a cast on one hand and one foot at the same time, he looked particularly comical, but he truly possessed a good-looking appearance. Passers-by couldn’t help but look at him curiously.
Lu Muchi was annoyed to death, but at this moment he was looking forward to Yan Heqing even more.
He came at noon, but Peking University had finished school early, and Yan Heqing still hadn’t returned.
Lu Muchi wanted to wait downstairs at Yan Heqing’s place, but thinking that Yan Heqing forbade him from coming to his door, and afraid of running into Lin Fengzhi, he cursed a few times and honestly stayed at the gate of the residential area.
Even when he liked Lin Fengzhi the most, Lu Muchi had never experienced the treatment of squatting at the gate of a residential area.
He was unhappy, but he wanted to see Yan Heqing too much.
Looking at his phone every day, all kinds of people he didn’t know came to find him, but Yan Heqing didn’t even send a message.
Lu Muchi missed him so much that he became ill, so he came over by himself.
Afraid of missing Yan Heqing if he left, he was hungry all afternoon until almost eight o’clock before he went into the convenience store to buy a sandwich.
The cheapest sandwich he had ever eaten was surprisingly delicious. Lu Muchi even gobbled it up a bit. After finishing it, he bought another one, still wanting more.
After blowing in the cool wind for another half an hour, Lu Muchi made a phone call.
“Are you fucking sure Yan Heqing doesn’t have evening self-study today?”
Answering him was a cautious male voice, “Haven’t waited for Yan He… Student Yan yet?”
Lu Muchi laughed angrily, “Zhao Weifang, is there something wrong with your brain? If I had waited for him, would I fucking have time to contact you?”
Zhao Weifang apologized repeatedly, “A-Chi, don’t be angry. I’ll find someone to confirm Student Yan’s schedule right away.”
He was the junior software engineering student who discovered that Yan Heqing and Lin Fengzhi looked similar and brought Lu Muchi to Peking University to see Yan Heqing.
Lu Muchi didn’t make a sound or hang up the phone, so Zhao Weifang didn’t dare to hang up either, urgently contacting Zhao Yong on WeChat.
[Brother, do you have evening self-study tonight? Reply to me quickly! Urgent!]
Zhao Yong replied instantly, [I don’t, what’s up?]
[Not asking you, it’s the new transfer student in your class, Yan Heqing.]
Zhao Yong and Zhan Pingting were eating barbecue. He put down the skewer and looked at Zhan Pingting, “My brother is asking for Yan Heqing’s schedule.”
Zhan Pingting was baffled, “How does your brother know Yan Heqing?”
Zhao Yong quickly said, “Not my biological brother, just the head of the software engineering publicity department. We have the same surname, so I call him brother.”
Zhan Pingting always looked down on Zhao Yong for sucking up to people. Last time in the firefly cave, she was momentarily infected by the atmosphere and impulsively agreed to him. She was planning to find a time to break up.
Hearing Zhao Yong’s meaning, she guessed someone wanted to pursue Yan Heqing and asked for the schedule to force a chance encounter, so she said casually, “Ask Yan Heqing then.”
Zhao Yong knew that Zhao Weifang was good at making friends and knew a lot of people, so he deliberately tried to get close to him. Now that he had a chance to please Zhao Weifang, he actively dug out Yan Heqing’s WeChat, “Heqing, do you have class tonight?”
Yan Heqing was standing against the wall reading a book. His phone vibrated on the coffee table. Thinking it was Lu Lin, he moved away from the wall.
It turned out to be Zhao Yong.
Yan Heqing was thoughtful. Clicking on WeChat and seeing the content, he was basically sure that Zhao Yong wouldn’t ask about his schedule for no reason. Someone was asking Zhao Yong.
The original text didn’t mention it, but Zhao Weifang, who brought Lu Muchi to Peking University to find him, was the head of the software engineering publicity department, and Zhao Yong was a member of the biology college’s publicity department. It was highly likely that the two knew each other.
This was also the reason why he agreed to team up with Zhao Yong for the field internship.
Yan Heqing didn’t reply. Sure enough, urged by Zhao Weifang, Zhao Yong sent several WeChat messages in a row.
[Heqing, are you still at school?]
[Went out to play?]
[Still not replying, really playing outside?]
…
Yan Heqing wasn’t sure. He thought for a moment, changed his clothes, and went out again.
He took a different route, leaving the residential area from the back door of the garbage dump, and circled halfway to the main entrance. After walking for a few minutes, he saw Lu Muchi.
Lu Muchi was sitting in a wheelchair with his back to him, talking on the phone.
Not pleasant to hear.
Carried by the wind, it was all classic national curses.
Yan Heqing stopped. After Lu Muchi finished cursing Zhao Weifang and threw his phone angrily, he stepped forward.
Having thrown the phone, Lu Muchi had to pick it up again. He didn’t let the bodyguard driver follow him, so he had to contact them by phone to pick him up. Lu Muchi’s face was livid. After sulking for a while, he had to slide forward and bend down to pick up the phone. With casts on his hands and feet, the only hand he could move swiped past the phone several times, but he just couldn’t pick it up.
After a few times back and forth, Lu Muchi’s waist hurt badly, and his face turned green from pain. When had he ever been so embarrassed? Just as he was about to grit his teeth and reach a little further, a slender hand picked up the phone.
Lu Muchi looked up unconsciously and saw Yan Heqing pick up the phone, stand up straight, and hand it to him with a calm expression.
The convenience store sign flickered with warm light, falling on top of Yan Heqing’s head, plating a layer of warm orange light on the tips of his hair. Lu Muchi was stunned. He didn’t expect that Yan Heqing, whom he had waited for so long, would appear when he needed him most.
“Qingqing…” He took the phone, his fingers about to touch Yan Heqing’s hand.
Yan Heqing let go first. He frowned slightly, “We are not in a relationship to call each other that.”
Lu Muchi gripped the phone tightly. His heart was agitated. He looked up and stared at Yan Heqing, “I missed you.”
Yan Heqing didn’t waver at all. He looked down at Lu Muchi indifferently, “That’s your business.”
Lu Muchi wanted to slide forward again to be closer to Yan Heqing, but he was afraid Yan Heqing would get angry and leave. He suppressed it forcefully, “Okay, let’s change the topic. Have you eaten? This store’s…”
“Ate.”
The word sandwich was blocked. Lu Muchi couldn’t bear to look away from Yan Heqing, so he changed the question again, “Did you go out to play? Coming back so late.”
Yan Heqing didn’t answer him. Those extremely light pupils looked at Lu Muchi quietly. Lu Muchi’s heart palpitated inexplicably. He forced a smile, “I don’t mean to interfere with you, just worried about you.” He quickly changed the topic, “When I get out of the hospital, I’ll take you out to play.” He searched in his mind and found an activity, “There is a wine tasting in June at the largest private winery in the Southern District.”
Yan Heqing knew this winery.
Another place where Lu Muchi and Lin Fengzhi were intimate, in the wine cellar.
And that winery was also a place for celebrities and merchants to seek pleasure. They tasted wine, and also tasted beauties. The first floor was the event hall, and the second and third floors were suites for pleasure seeking.
Zhao Weifang often was active there, getting to know rich people.
Yan Heqing suddenly got distracted.
Lu Lin was the richest of the rich, but he never went to these places.
After getting distracted, he said lightly, “We’ll see.”
Yan Heqing didn’t refuse immediately. Lu Muchi was instantly happy. He controlled his expression, “Okay, we’ll talk then.”
Yan Heqing ignored him and left. Lu Muchi watched Yan Heqing enter the residential area before reluctantly withdrawing his gaze and contacting the driver to pick him up.
Time flew to the 30th. Yan Heqing came home from school at noon. Lu Lin was waiting downstairs. Yan Heqing went upstairs to get his luggage bag, then went to the kitchen to get the gift for Lu Ruchan, putting it into a dark green frosted paper bag he bought specially.
Last time he visited, he noticed that Lu Ruchan’s clothing and home decorations were basically green tones. He guessed Lu Ruchan liked green.
Arriving at the villa, Lu Ruchan indeed expressed her liking for the dark green paper bag, took out the glass bottle, and asked the nanny to put away the paper bag.
Inside the glass bottle was a nearly transparent beige liquid. Lu Ruchan opened the lid curiously, and a fresh and sweet fragrance wafted out. She was pleasantly surprised, “Such fresh lychee honey, it must be very delicious when mixed with water.”
She was rarely in such high spirits and personally went to make three cups of honey water.
After drinking the honey water, the three of them went to the garden.
Lu Lin watched from the side. Yan Heqing picked a few peonies and roses selected by Lu Ruchan and patiently taught Lu Ruchan how to make lipstick.
Yan Heqing brought several small ceramic boxes of different greens. Pouring the prepared lipstick liquid into the containers, he carefully sealed them one by one and said to Lu Ruchan, “It can be used after cooling for another two to three hours.”
Lu Ruchan’s eyes were full of smiles, “I know. I won’t keep you for dinner today. Set off quickly, it takes three hours from here to the airport.”
After exhorting a few more words, she hurried Lu Lin and Yan Heqing to the airport.
The flight was at 8:30, and it was almost 10:30 when they landed at the small airport in Ershiqiao.
At the end of April, Ershiqiao was drizzling. Walking out of the airport, the wind blowing on the face was still a bit cool. Yan Heqing didn’t ask anything and followed Lu Lin into the car that picked them up.
The car drove towards the city center. The flashing neon lights passed, and then it drove into a secluded road.
Yan Heqing looked out the window and vaguely glimpsed a road sign. Did they enter a scenic area?
Only then did he turn his head, “Where are we going?”
A smile rose in Lu Lin’s eyes, “Asking only now.” But he answered him immediately, “My grandmother’s old house.”