Chapter 67
Arrived half an hour later than expected, the old man looked forward to see, several times walked to the gate to see, finally the people waiting to see Zhou Yuchen stride in front, the old man frowned, feigned anger: “Just focus on their own walk, how also do not help Orange carry some things.”
Su Orange was carrying a fruit basket in her hand, bought on the way here, she hooked her lips and smiled, politely said, “Grandpa, good.”
The old man looked sideways at Su Orange’s face smiled, and treated Zhou Yuchen completely different attitude, smiled with a kind face, “Orange is tired at work, right, go, go in and rest.”
Su Orange said with a smile, “Not tired.”
Zhou Yuchen reached out and took the fruit basket in her hand, and said to the old man, “Grandpa, you’re too biased, I also just came back after a long day of work, look at you, you don’t even have a good eye.”
“Serves you right, just look at you.” The old man grunted and scolded him, “I want you to arrive at six o’clock, you’re only here at almost seven o’clock, you’re not afraid of being hungry with your thick skin, but how can Orange be a girl, you, you really don’t know what’s going on.”
“Yes, I deserve it,” Zhou Yuchen smiled a muddy smile, “Then why don’t you guys eat, I’ll go first.”
Saying this, he handed the fruit basket to the nanny who greeted him and turned towards the outside.
The old man called out to him, “Come back.”
Zhou Yuchen did not move, Su Orange also called out to him, “Zhou Yuchen.”
Only then did he slowly turn around with a pleading look on his face, “Grandpa, stay or not?”
“Hmph,” the old master glared at him and turned his head to talk to Su Orange, calling out with a mouthful of Orange Orange Orange Orange.
Su Orange saw the old master inexplicably remembered his grandmother who passed away many years ago, and was a bit more enthusiastic about the old master, asking questions and answering them, saying a lot of words to make the old master happy.
The atmosphere during the meal was also very good, the old man talked eloquently, and would also say a few lines of the most popular Internet terriers, making Su Orange laugh all the time.
Zhou Yuchen did not talk, just watched, a thick smile flowing between his brows, this scene was too happy, he wanted to save it.
As if there was some kind of induction, after the meal, the old man proposed to let Su Orange accompany him to take a picture, Su Orange was of course willing.
Cooperating with several shots in a row, the old master reached out and pointed all the way to Zhou Yuchen, “You come.”
Zhou Yuchen handed his cell phone to the nanny and stood on the side of Su Orange, with the old man in the middle, they took a photo of the three of them together.
Zhou Yuchen called this a family photo, counting, this is his first “family photo”, from childhood to adulthood is only this one.
And the parents of one did not, when I was small parents do not shoot, after the big after he did not shoot, the most is and the old man shot.
But the number of times is just a few.
Eight years have passed since the last time.
The old master sized up the two of them, then stood up, “Come, you two take a picture.”
Without giving Su Orange a chance to retort, half-heartedly, Su Orange and Zhou Yuchen took the first photo of just the two of them together.
The last time the group photo was still taken in the restaurant of Jingbei University, and there were many other people around them at that time.
The old man shook his head, “The one just taken doesn’t work, take two more.”
Just like that, under his authorization, the nanny helped take ten or so pictures in a row, saying as she did so, “What a match.”
Su Orange’s cheeks rose with a faint blush, looking elsewhere with some embarrassment.
The old man knows what it means to progress gradually, covering his lips and coughing, sent Zhou Yuchen to the kitchen to wash the dishes.
Su Orange also said she wanted to help, and was called to the study by the old master, who mysteriously said, “I have photos of A-chen as a child here, do you want to take a look?”
Su Orange arched her eyebrows and said, “Can I look?”
“Of course.” The old man said.
From the time he was a baby until he was in junior high school, part of the photos were taken normally part of them were capture shots, especially as he grew older, the later photos were basically capture shots.
The old master explained: “A-chen this child it, look stubborn and unbearable, in fact, temperament is a bit heavy, what matters of the heart are not willing to tell, and always report the good news not to report the bad news, so many years he has lived how hard I am aware of it.”
The old master held a smile and said, “I’m very happy, A-chen can meet you, it’s you who changed him, he used to be more mixed up before, and only tightened up after knowing you.”
“Orange,” the old master sighed softly, “Grandpa has an unkind request.”
“You tell me.”
“Help me take care of Sam, he’s really pitiful.” The old man’s eyes were a little wet, “You’ve seen that father of his, he’s strong, egotistical, unreasonable and controlling, and that mother of his, my daughter, is weak, incompetent and obedient, it’s a miracle that Sam didn’t turn out to be bad when he grew up under both of their extremes of character.”
The old man said a lot of things about Zhou Yuchen, each of which called for heartbreak.
“He went to the United States for the fourth year before we got in touch, that night he drank and called me, he told me that originally there was nothing in the world that he cared about, it did not matter whether he lived or died, but you appeared, so that he had expectations, but it was all because he was not good, and lost the expectations.”
The old man said in a serious tone, “Sam has never cared so much about a person, you are the first and the only one, the reason why he came back from the United States this time is also for you.”
“For the sake of the old man, try to give him a chance.”
The old man hadn’t said so much in a long time, his eyes were wet and moist, Zhou Yuchen saw that they hadn’t come out and came in with fruits, and was driven out again, the old man told him to go and tidy up the flower beds, and asked him to turn over all the soil.
Zhou Yuchen put down the fruit tray and left, reminding before he left, “Don’t eat mango, you’re allergic.”
Su Orange nodded and hmmmed.
The old man lightly grunted, “Rabbit child, I haven’t seen you care so much about me in so many years.”
Zhou Yuchen stopped walking, folded back, picked up the grapes on the plate, peeled the skin and handed it to the old master, “Grandpa, open your mouth.”
The old master looks disgusted, “Don’t eat.”
Zhou Yuchen turned around and stuffed Su Orange’s mouth, Su Orange was forced to eat it, and the flush on her face increased.
The old master picked up his cane and knocked Zhou Yuchen’s leg, “Quickly go turn over the soil, turn it over before you can go back.”
Zhou Yuchen left, the old master continued the topic of the party, “I know that A-chen’s father looked for you, ignore it, what he says doesn’t count.”
Su Orange handed the old master a mango and gave a shallow hmmm.
The old master knew that the little girl still had a knot in her heart, didn’t continue to say anything, picked up the photo album and looked at it for another ten minutes or so, the two walked out of the study.
Nanny has already brewed chrysanthemum tea, Su Orange accompanied the old master in the living room to drink two, almost eight o’clock when Zhou Yuchen returned with a dirty hand, went to the bathroom to wash his hands and came out to sit directly on the side of Su Orange, and I do not know if he was intentional or what, next to very close.
Knees and knees inadvertently touch.
Su orange did not move to move, he chased after him again, seeing that she had been holding the cantaloupe and did not have the intention to eat, he held her hand, lowered his head, opened his mouth, and ate the cantaloupe in her hand, saying while eating, “So sweet.”
Su orange don’t know what to say, the blush spread from the cheeks to the back of the ear, the old man saw him this kind of no interest hummed, stood up, “It’s not early, you guys go back first.”
Su Orange also stood up, “Grandpa, goodbye.”
The old man smiled and said, “When you have time, remember to come back to see grandpa.”
Su Orange nodded obediently, “Good.”
When he left, the nanny loaded a lot of food, there are small dishes, fruits and all kinds of seafood, the old man urged, “A-chen, remember to help Orange carry upstairs.”
Zhou Yuchen lazily asked, “All for her? Not for me?”
“No.” The old man said.
Su Orange was embarrassed, “Grandpa, it’s too much.”
“Not much,” the old master lifted his chin lightly, “I’m afraid it’s not enough.”
On the way back, Su Orange wanted to buy something as a return gift, hoping that Zhou Yuchen could help send it back, Zhou Yuchen gently knocked on the steering wheel and said, “If you want to send it yourself, you’ll have to go back later anyway.”
Su Orange pursed her lips, her head slowly turned to the side, looking out the window at the flickering lights, muttering, “Who said next time you have to go.”
Zhou Yuchen’s ear is good and hears her words, “What? Going back on your word? This is what you personally promised Grandpa.”
Su Orange was disliked by him, grunted and continued to look at the twinkling lights outside the window, ignoring him for a long time.
The man knew he said the wrong thing and opened his mouth to coax, “Eating sweet potatoes?”
Su Orange ignored.
“How about ice cream?”
“……” Su Orange still ignored.
“Strawberry cake?”
“……” She ignored it again.
Ahead is a red light, the car slowly stopped, Zhou Yuchen unbuckled his seatbelt and leaned over, Su Orange was startled, turned to look at him, “What are you doing?”
Zhou Yuchen raises his hand and pinches her red face, “Angry?”
Su Orange glared, “No.”
“Still really angry.” He grabbed her hand and rubbed it back and forth at his chin, playing tricks, “My fault, don’t be angry.”
This Baba pleasing look of his, like a dog pampering his master, too much of a sense of contradiction, Su Orange froze, reached out and pushed him, “It’s about to change the light, you sit down.”
“Then are you still angry?” He still grabbed her hand and wouldn’t let go.
Someone in the back was already urging, Su Orange said hopelessly, “Not angry, not angry, you drive quickly.”
She took advantage of the time when he went to buckle his seatbelt and pulled her hand out, hiding it behind her back and not giving it to him to touch.
The back of the road he was quite disciplined, did not do anything out of the ordinary, peacefully sent her home, the trunk is too much, Su Orange pushed back, “or you take it away.”
Zhou Yuchen didn’t respond, carried the things down one by one, and one by one into the elevator, said very seriously, “This is what Grandpa gave you.”
“But I–”
“You want to make his old man sad?”
Su Orange of course did not want to, helped Zhou Yuchen move things together, Zhao Xiao Xiao and Yu Lele were not there, after the things were put into the refrigerator, Su Orange sent off, “Be safe on the road.”
Zhou Yuchen approached, looking askance at her with downcast eyes, “This is the end?”
Su Orange blinked, “Then you have to-”
She didn’t finish her sentence, she was grabbed by his chin and kissed, a touch away, Zhou Yuchen’s fingertips gently rubbing her pink lips, coloring her breath before withdrawing.
When he left, he also thoughtfully helped her close the door to her room.
Su Orange’s legs fell to the floor, her fingers subconsciously touched her lips, as if his breath was still there.
The next day, Su Orange was woken up by Yu Lele, who disliked Su Orange with her cell phone in front of her, “What’s the situation?”
Su Orange just woke up, still blinded, rubbing her eyes, “What?”
“Look at the group.” Yu Lele reminded her.
Su Orange touched her phone, unlocked it, tapped into WeChat, found the group, there was a group photo of three people.
Below were Zhao Chuan’s snarky words: [Fuck, eating dog food early in the morning, what’s up, meeting the parents this is.]
Feng Zhao: [Brother Sam, beautiful, right?]
Song Zhou: [This is coaxing people well?]
Zhang Yang: [Can you not be so irritating.]
WeChat was sent in the early hours of the morning, and there was a rain of red envelopes, dozens of them.
Yu Lele looked excited, “You guys got back together?”
“Nope.” Su Orange explained, “The photo was taken by the old man’s call.”
“Okay, don’t explain, if you don’t want to shoot who can force you.” Yu Lele laughed, “Honestly, you still have him in your heart, right?”
Su Orange’s eyes dodged, “No.”
Yu Lele didn’t believe it, “You, sooner or later, you will be taken down by him.”
Because of the photo and last night’s kiss, Su Orange hid for a whole day, when Liu Mei called near the end of the day, asking Su Orange to contact Zhou Yuchen, tonight Yanhai side of the host, treat him to dinner.
Other things Su Orange can avoid, but when it comes to Yanhai, Su Orange has no way to avoid, she knocked on the door of the president’s office, “Mr. Zhou, our director would like to invite you to dinner, do you have time tonight?”
Zhou Yuchen did not lift his head and said, “No.”
Su Orange truthfully relayed, Liu Mei sent a WeChat, [No time for dinner, then go sing, make sure you get an appointment tonight].
Su Orange suppressed the palpitations and asked again, “Then do you have time after dinner? Go to the bar together?”
Zhou Yuchen raised his eyes to look at her, a meandering light flowing from his deep phoenix eyes, “Are you sure?”
“Sure.” Su Orange said, “Can we go?”
“Can.” He said.
A group of ten people, booked the largest private room, Zhou Yuchen was seated around the center, Liu Mei clinked glasses with him from time to time and drank, he said nothing, and drank one by one.
In the corner, Zhao Xiao Xiao raised her elbow and touched Su Orange, signaling her to look at her cell phone, Su Orange took out her cell phone and looked down to see.
Xiao Xiao: [Your ex-boyfriend is about to be eaten by the Superintendent, you really don’t want to go help?]
Orange: [Not going.]
Xiaoxiao: [Quite ruthless.]
After three rounds of wine, I don’t know who proposed a game, play guessing, compare the size, the loser drinks, Su Orange is not good at this, played a few times and lost a few times.
The last time, Su Orange lost again, picked up the cup to drink, was sitting on the side of Zhou Yuchen stopped, the crowd look at Su Orange and look at Zhou Yuchen, some people use the strength of the wine to make bad, coaxing said: “Mr. Zhou, on behalf of our orange orange drink a cup of it.”
Normally these people wouldn’t dare to make such a mess, that is, they drank too much tonight and forgot their identity.
“Drink one, drink one, drink one.”
In the light and shadows, the man stretched out his cold white long and slender bony fingers, took the wine cup in Su Orange’s hand, brought it to his lips and tilted his head back to drink it down in one go.
The sleeve slipped down, the place where he originally wore a wristwatch was empty, and in a trance, a touch of black was reflected.
Su orange is very sensitive to this color, the “S” on his chest is this kind of black, lightning flash she thought of something.
When the others were not paying attention, she grabbed his wrist, hid in the corner, peeled off his sleeve and looked down.
Drinking too much wine, vision is a little blurred, the first glance did not see clearly, she fixed her eyes again to see, with the sleeve off the number in front of the eyes.
It was “7”.
Her favorite number.
And the reason why she liked it was because both numbers had something to do with him.
Fingers trembling over, slowly rubbing, tears soaked her eyes, she had thought that their involvement ended eight years ago, no longer entangled, but she did not know that he was everywhere in her shadow.
The “S” on his chest, the number “7” on his wrist, and ……
Su orange eyes saw his other hand, under the sleeve vainly blocked is a faded red string, is that year she sent him that.
“Boom–” there was a sound, something rang, her frozen heart was shaken, several voices sounded in unison.
Su Orange, are you going to reject him like this?
Su Orange, do you really not like him anymore?
Su Orange, can’t you see him doing all this?
Su Orange, after missing eight years, do you still want to miss it?
Su Orange, you love him…
Su Orange trembled and went to touch his face, he grabbed his hand, he inclined his head and kissed her palm, restrained and asked her:
“Su Orange, do you really not want me?”
Several voices gathered into a single one, like a dyke of the sea surging to, chest was violent heartbeat shocked numb, she could not care about anything, tiptoe initiative to kiss his lips, trembling voice said:
“I want, I want, I want.”
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