Ni Jiu (Intoxicated) - Chap 40

“It’s time to eat.” Auntie put the food on the table, and without looking for anyone, called out, “Tongtong?”

“Hey, here we go.”
Auntie saw Kang Tong sticking out his head from behind the sofa and holding the kitten in his arms, and said helplessly, “Put the cat down and play with the cat after dinner.”
Kang Tong replied, “Got it”, looked at the kitten in his arms, and then sat on the floor and patted the kitten’s head, only then did he reluctantly put the kitten down.
“Go wash your hands first.” Auntie reminded him.
After Kang Tong washed his hands, he sat down at the dining table. He picked up his chopsticks and couldn’t help but ask Auntie, “Auntie, did Dad call today?”
Kang Tong has a sensitive personality and is also good at observing words and expressions. He can see the result from his aunt’s hesitant expression. He doesn’t speak any more and eats quietly.
He hadn’t seen his father for a long time. Every time he called, Uncle Lin answered. When he asked about Lian Jue, he said he was busy.
He is about to take the final exam, and there will be a parent-teacher meeting after the exam. The teacher said that this parent-teacher meeting will require all parents to be present. In addition to communicating about school performance, there are summer camps to talk about. But… Lian Jue shouldn’t have time to go, and he might find Uncle Lin or someone else.
Since Kang Tong came to Lian’s house, my aunt has been living at home to take care of him, treating him no different from her grandson. She knew that Lian Jue was always busy, but no matter how busy she was, she had never seen anyone for almost two months like now. Seeing Kang Tong’s appearance, she couldn’t help but feel sour in her heart, mixed with pity and pity, and she couldn’t help but recall what Lian Jue had said to him before he left home last time.
“There may be another child in the family next year.”
So this child is gone? Then why did you bring it back?
Auntie knew that her thoughts exceeded her duty, but she really couldn’t understand Lian Jue’s practice, and it was inevitable that she would complain.
So that night when Lin Chen came to deliver food and clothing on behalf of Lianjue, the aunt called Lin Chen to the door, with a lot of resentment in her tone: “What’s wrong with Mr. Lian? You can’t have children of your own, so take the children away. Don’t you leave it alone?”
Lin Chen is often able to maintain a consistent professionalism and standard in the face of official business, but he is really not good at dealing with such parental shortcomings, so he can only say stiffly: “Mr. Lian has been too busy recently, I really can’t walk away…”
“You always tell me he’s busy, I know he’s busy, but he can’t be so busy that he doesn’t even have time to go home for a meal, right?” Auntie knew that she shouldn’t make things difficult for outsiders, but out of distress for Kang Tong, her tone Unconsciously heavier, half complaining and half blaming, “People can’t come back, but I have time to buy a cat and send it…”
“This…” Lin Chen was silenced by her, and because Lian Jue had told Kang Tong not to tell Kang Tong about him, he had to tell a little lie to defend it, “Boss Lian doesn’t want the cat to accompany him. little master.”
“Forget it, I can’t take care of you. What the hell is going on with the child that Mr. said? Why all of a sudden… Isn’t he going to tell Tongtong? Or wait until the child is born?” Auntie frowned. asked quietly.
Lin Chen didn’t know what Lian Jue was thinking, so he didn’t answer. After a long time, he said, “Let’s wait until President Lian comes back and then decide.”

After seeing Lin Chen away, Auntie sighed deeply and closed the door.
Turning around, he saw Kang Tong sitting behind the cabinet in the entrance with the kitten in his arms. The cat stretched out its paws in his arms and moved the pom-pom that fell from his hoodie. He bit his lip and looked at Auntie, Ask: “…Dad is going to have a child of his own?”

The lawyer needed to confirm too much with Lian Jue, and he went to the detention center to meet again.
Lin Chen waited and waited until their conversation was over, thinking that he still had to tell Lian Jue that Chen Xu had gone to Shen Tingwei’s house to make things difficult.
He repeated the incident one by one, Lian Jue listened quietly, his expression remained unmoved, only when Lin Chen said, “When I arrived with a lawyer, Mr. Shen was pushed to the villa by the people brought by Chen Xu. At the door,” a faint trace of displeasure flashed in his eyes.
“How is the person?” Lian Jue interrupted in the middle.
Lin Chen’s voice paused and replied, “Mr. Shen’s health is fine.”
Lian Jue gave an “um”, and after a while he said, “Replace everything he touched.”
Lin Chen was stunned: “But Mr. Shen said…”
There was no obvious emotion in Lian Jue’s tone, but he insisted: “Change.”

Lin Chen had no choice but to nod: “I’ll do it in a while.”
“… Besides, President Lian.” Lin Chen suddenly called him in an uncertain tone, as if he didn’t know whether to say the next words.
Lian Jue looked up.
Lin Chen probably struggled mentally for a while, and said to Lian Jue, “When Chen Xu left, he said…”
Lian Jue couldn’t get used to the hesitant speech of the people around him, so he asked impatiently, “What did you say?”
“He said you—” Lin Chen paused and consciously deleted the insulting words in Chen Xu’s words, “In short, he saw that Mr. Shen and a lady spent the night in Changqing Mountain, and they seemed very close. .”
Lin Chen didn’t tell Lian Jue, but Chen Xu’s original words after he learned that he donated the property to Shen Tingwei were actually: “Lian Jue is really affectionate, if he knew that he had only been in for two days, his ‘legal partner’ ‘ I went on a trip with my newly found concubine, I wonder if I can still be as self-righteous as before.”

“Well.” Lian Jue didn’t show any strangeness and asked him, “What else is there?”
Lin Chen looked at Lian Jue, he clearly didn’t show the slightest emotion on his face, but Lin Chen felt that the air pressure around his body dropped a little out of thin air. He didn’t continue the topic, and instead said: “The property under your name has been temporarily frozen, the factory is also under investigation, and it was forced to shut down. The goods could not be dispatched on time. Mr. Alex made a lot of calls.” He quickly glanced at Lian Jue, “He is very angry, saying that he will go to judicial proceedings and sue you if he can’t get the goods at the end of this month.”

Lian Jue frowned slightly and said, “Got it.”
Lin Chen went to Shen Tingwei’s place in the afternoon. He didn’t know what furniture Chen Xu had used or what he had touched. He simply asked people to carry all the furniture in the living room away, intending to change it again.
Shen Ting didn’t feel it was a waste, and his mental cleanliness had not reached such a serious level, so he said to Lin Chen, “There’s no need to be so troublesome…”
“It’s what President Lian meant.” Lin Chen said.
Shen Tingwei had no choice but to say, “Okay.”
That being the case, he went to the kitchen and let them take the casserole for soup and a few indistinguishable bowls and spoons for them to deal with: “Then change these too.”
——Lin Chen said that when he entered the door that day, Chen Xu was sitting on the sofa drinking chicken soup that Shen Tingwei had simmered for two hours.
Although this house is now under Shen Tingwei’s name, he has no self-consciousness as the owner at all, so he simply asks Lin Chen’s people to choose the furniture. They know Lian Jue’s taste.
The casserole and cutlery are his own choice. Lin Chen drove him to a high-end furniture city in the urban area. He went to the underground shopping mall to choose kitchen utensils, while Lin Chen and his party went upstairs to buy furniture.
It hurts a bit when paying. Even if he knew that he now had a row of zeros in his bank card that he needed to concentrate on to count.

After he finished shopping, he gave Lin Chen a big call. Lin Chen said on the phone that they might take a while. Shen Tingwei found a small shop and ate dinner alone.
It was very late when he returned to the villa. Lin Chen brought in the furniture one by one and arranged them neatly according to Shen Tingwei’s wishes, so as not to disturb Shen Tingwei’s rest, he was ready to leave soon.
Shen Ting did not send them to the door, but after thinking for a while, he suddenly stopped Lin Chen.
Lin Chen stopped and asked him, “What’s wrong?”
“Well… the wound on Mr. Lian’s face, is it okay?” Shen Ting didn’t expect that he would see Lian Jue today, so he asked worriedly.
He can’t quite believe Lian Jue’s words, he thinks that Lian Jue doesn’t seem to be able to do something stupid like he said “accidentally touched it”, like he would do it himself. He didn’t know whether there really was absolute justice in this world, at least in the world he once lived in, he had heard news of prisoners being lynched while in custody.
“The wound on Mr. Lian’s face has healed.” Lin Chen seemed to remember what he said to Lian Jue during his last visit, and saw through his worries, so he added, “…There are no new injuries anywhere else. .” He did not remind him that it is a society ruled by law like Lian Jue did, but only said, “You can rest assured about the personal safety of President Lian during his detention.”
Seeing his sincere answer, Shen Tingwei had no choice but to nod and say thank you.
When they left, Shen Ting didn’t close the door and went back to the living room to look around.
I planned to tidy it up, but looking at the brand-new house in front of me, I suddenly lost motivation.
He suddenly felt tired, as if he was always adapting to the environment.

So he stood there for a while, turned around, and went back to the familiar bedroom to rest.