74 – They know I like you and won’t object to our relationship.
The man is having a low-grade fever, and unlike the usual time when he can not control every muscle very well. When he leaned over and hugged him like this, An Xing felt that the man was like a big warm toy bear hanging on his body, and he was a little bit heavy.
The voice in his ear was scorching hot, and An Xing suspected that the man was breathing into his ear at the same time as he was talking.
He shook his shoulders and, with an inexplicable sense of crisis, he said aloud:
“Of course I’m here to take care of you! After all, you are my suitor!”
Lu Tian Shen slightly tilted his head, resting on the young man’s thin shoulders, looking intently at the young man’s delicate white ears. The jade-like ears, starting from the fleshy earlobes, turned crimson little by little, making him inexplicably want to take a bite out of them.
The man with a burnt and somewhat confused brain thought, once he was sick he unexpectedly had a great appetite ah.
An Xing has been hugged till he is sweating and stumbled a few steps forward. With all his strength, he bent forward and put the man on the sofa.
“Shen ge, you sit down properly! Take your medicine first! I’ll go and cook for you, after eating you can go to sleep!”
The teenager put his hands on his waist and ordered the man to obey, his round almond eyes staring at the man to take the medicine. He then turned around satisfactorily and tried to adapt to the inexplicable sense of crisis, carrying the groceries and going to make the meal.
With warm water at hand, the man ate some very bitter Chinese medicines without changing his face, and leaned back on the sofa to close his eyes slightly.
Recently, he has been a bit busy with a big project in hand, working late for several days in a row, and coupled with an irregular diet, he caught a cold. This time, the symptoms of the cold are a bit serious, with fever, headache, and sore muscles. Until now, he had no appetite and did not eat anything.
When An Xing made a good sour soup noodle and walked out, he saw the man sitting on the sofa. He seemed to feel cold, and grabbed the milky yellow pillow next to him and hugged it in his arms. Even with his eyes closed, his brows were slightly furrowed.
As if he was having a temper tantrum, it was inexplicably a bit cute.
The teenager secretly touched his cell phone, adjusted to vibrate, and took several pictures of the man, trying to hold back his smile.
When he finished taking pictures, the man still did not wake up and An Xing also did not call him. He put the sour soup noodles out on the tea table, and placed several side dishes next to it. He then dragged two big soft cushions over and threw them on the ground.
Hua Hua walked over with its tail upright, purring and arching the man’s hand to wake him up with its head.
“Shen Ge, wake up, eat something before going to sleep. I have stewed beef brisket with tomatoes for you to replenish your energy by tomorrow!
Lu Tian Shen opened his eyes and saw the back of the teenager walking towards the kitchen. He sat up straight and rubbed his aching head. When he lifted his eyes again, the teenager was already holding a cup of lukewarm water.
“Drink! Drink it all!”
An Xing put his hands on his waist and ordered the boss Shen condescendingly.
Lu Tian Shen took the cup and the warm water soothed his dry and sore throat. When he finished the cup was taken away by the teenager, and he stood up and said in a hoarse voice:
“I’m going to wash my face.”
Slightly refreshed after the nap, Lu Tian Shen walked back to the coffee table and sat down cross-legged.
The aroma of sour soup noodles stimulated his taste buds, Lu Tian Shen looked at the noodle bowl in front of him, then looked at the teenager beside him and picked up chopsticks. An Xing ate the noodles while changing channels, and finally stopped at the animal channel to watch the big cats in the grassland.
Lu Tian Shen rarely got sick, but when he did, he lost his appetite. He didn’t want to eat, but he also knew that he had to get more nutrients in order to recover earlier, so he forced himself to eat every time. During the year that he lived in the An family, Lu Tian Shen was also sick and pretended that he had eaten on the grounds that the An family was not aware of his habits. He fooled the wise An Zhaoming and the meticulous Shen Ying, but did not fool the little dumpling.
Little dumpling was able to cook. He prepared a bowl of noodles and brought it upstairs with great difficulty, and then came to him with anxious eyes, asking him to eat.
Who can refuse the kindness of a little dumpling, anyway, Lu Tian Shen could not refuse.
From now on, there is no such thing as a refusal.
The sour soup noodles made by An Xing had a poached egg laying inside, and many cabbages, pickled vegetables, and chopped mushrooms were put inside, which made people’s appetite rise, and it was the most familiar flavor. After just eating a bowl, Lu Tian Shen broke out in a sweat.
The teenager quickly got up, hugged his bowl and ran away, returning in a short while with another bowl.
Fortunately, this bowl was not big, and Lu Tianchen had not eaten for a day. The sour taste stimulated his appetite, so he continued to eat.
There was a cat beside his leg, and in his ears was the sound of a teenager gurgling and drinking noodle soup. On TV, the prairie cats were lying on their backs on a rocky outcrop basking in the sun, nibbling and licking their companions in an affectionate manner.
Lu Tian Shen put down his chopsticks and remained silent for a while, then reached out and rubbed the boy’s head.
An Xing is in the middle of eating noodles and was suddenly rubbed. Inexplicably, he chewed the shredded vegetables and turned his head sideways, his cheeks were round and in his almond eyes was a justified and sticky complaint.
The man smiled a little, and did not say anything about the moment just now. He was a little emotional, wishing that time would stop forever in this moment of time. He just smiled and asked:
“Let’s watch a movie after dinner?”.
His voice was slightly hoarse and tired because of the cold. An Xing was suddenly struck by Lu Tian Shen’s rare and weak behavior, and even felt a little moved.
Jeez, when a normally strong and reliable man shows his weakness, and only in front of you, it’s like Godzilla’s petulant behavior, which makes people want to stop!
An Xing tried to be serious: “Do you have the strength to watch?”
“After eating the noodles you made, I sweated a lot and got much better.”
The teenager solemnly reached out and checked the man’s forehead temperature, and only then did he reluctantly agree.
“Okay then! But you have to rest early!”
Tomato brisket is still stewing in the pot, and the two of them cleaned up the tea table, put the sofa down and turned on the projection, and picked a movie with a healing theme.
An Xing changed into the small monster pajamas left at Lu’s home, and Lu Tian Shen was forced to wrap an air-conditioning quilt, and the young boy nestled close to him.
By the end of the movie, Lu Tian Shen had already fallen into a deep sleep due to the effects of the medicine. The sofa is very comfortable. An Xing was too lazy to move and was a little drowsy, so he simply turned off the TV, flattened the sofa and slept like that.
Somehow, he felt like he was bound by something all night, unable to roll over, without the sense of freedom that he usually feels when he sleeps.
The next morning, when An Xing woke up, Lu Tian Shen had already asked someone to bring him breakfast, and put the beef brisket with tomatoes on the table.
The man’s health was very good and overnight the fever subsided. He was just a bit lazy and didn’t want to move. So after eating breakfast and stewed beef brisket, the two of them nestled back on the sofa, intending to watch another movie.
When An Xing thought that he could spend the day in such a lazy manner, Lu Tian Shen’s cell phone vibrated. He glanced over and realized it was a video call.
The teenager had already hugged the cat and flopped onto the man’s shoulder. Seeing that it was a video call, the teenager quickly sat up straight and rolled to the other side of the sofa, hugging the cat and pulling away from the man.
Lu Tian Shen looked at the cell phone with displeasure at being disturbed, and then saw that it was a video call from his parents.
He paused and picked up. “Father, mother.”
An Xing was still curious about what kind of person was directly video calling his brother Shen, and when he heard the address his eyes widened in surprise. He quickly covered his mouth and hid in the corner, then curiously looked at the man’s cell phone screen.
On the other side of the video appeared a man and a woman with very good looks, the man was dignified and cold, the woman was powerful, neither of them seemed to be approachable.
The man did not say anything, and the woman began to say:
“Xiao Dong said you are sick and did not go to the company yesterday,” he said.
The tone was light, and the mood was calm, there was no concern at all.
An Xing: ……
Lu Tian Shen was very calm, and did not mind that the secretary of the director told his mother about the illness, and only nodded his head.
“Yes, I have a fever. I was not very efficient, so I returned home to rest.”
“How is it now?” The woman continued to ask.
“The fever’s gone down.”
“Will you go back to work on Monday?”
“Of course.”
An Xing was at the side, listening to these two people’s simple and sharp conversation, his eyes kept widening.
Oh my god, even though he knows that Shen gege’s relationship with Uncle Lu and Auntie Lu is cold, but Shen ge is sick now! Why does Aunt Lu care about Brother Shen’s work at this time? She is so cold!
If he was sick, he would be hugged and held high by the whole family. ……
Oh, well, that’s not the style of Shen gege.
The young man glanced over with sympathetic eyes, and Lu Tianchen couldn’t help but notice. He looked at the two people at the other end of the video, his heart moved, and he glanced at the boy.
An Xing suddenly had a bad feeling.
The next second, he saw the man say to the Lu family couple:
“Xing xing is next to me. As soon as he heard that I was sick, he came over to take care of me. Thanks to his care, I was able to recover in one day.”
After saying that, he turned his cell phone screen over.
An Xing was not prepared for this, and when he saw the faces of the Lu family couple, the small curly hairs on top of his head exploded.
The teenager in the camera was wearing little monster pajamas, holding a cat in his arms, and his little curly hairs were tilted randomly on top of his head as he stared blankly at the camera. It took a moment for him to realize what was going on, and he stared beyond the camera with hateful little eyes.
Then realizing that something was wrong, the boy quickly withdrew his gaze and smiled at them pleasantly.
“Auntie Lu, uncle Lu, how are you …… uh, how are you?”
The young man was so silly and cute.
Although he was on good terms with Lu Tian Shen, An Xing did not meet with the Lu family couple very often. The Lu family’s domestic business is managed by Lu Tian Shen, and these two people stay abroad all year round and don’t come back much.
When he met their eyes, An Xing remembered that he and Lu Tian Shen were nominally engaged to be married. He is not sure if aunt and uncle are aware of Shen ge’s thoughts about him. ……
The more he thought about it, the more embarrassed he felt, and he didn’t know how to talk to them. What he didn’t expect was that the Lu family couple was very gentle, chatting with him for a few minutes, concerned about their daily lives, and then hanging up the phone in a friendly manner.
An Xing: ……
It was only after they hung up the phone for some time that An Xing turned his head sideways suspiciously and looked at the man.
“Shen gege, do uncle and aunt know about you?”
Lu Tian Shen squeezed his cup to drink water, and asked back with a smile on his face:
“What about me?”
“……”
The young man clenched his small fists and said loudly.
“It’s about you pursuing me!”
“Oh, they knew that three years ago.”
The man put down his cup and turned to look at the teenager, the corners of his lips slightly raised.
“But you had a college entrance exam at that time, and it was more important for you to take the entrance exam.”
“So don’t worry, they know I like you and they won’t object to our relationship.”
An Xing: ……
TRANSLATOR’S CORNER:
I am not a native speaker of either Chinese or English. I basically MTL and edit the text, sometimes I also use some sites for reference. I can’t guarantee that everything here is accurate, But I try to stick to the author’s work as much as possible. Please feel to comment any mistakes🙂🤗.
