Ni Jiu (Intoxicated) - Chap 41

On the th day of Lian Jue’s detention, Shen Tingwei was struggling with the loose waist of a pair of jeans he wore last month when the phone rang.
Shen Ting didn’t pick up the phone, it was Lin Chen who hadn’t contacted him for nearly a week, and he almost immediately realized the purpose of Lin Chen’s call. He stroked his suddenly pounding heart, sat down beside the bed, and answered the phone.
As soon as the call was connected, the voice on the other side came quickly: “Tomorrow at eight o’clock in the morning, Yizhou No. Detention Center!”
Lin Chen on the other end of the phone was uncharacteristically, but Shen Tingwei stood up from the bed with a thoughtless remark: “It’s Mr. Lian…”
“Yes.” Lin Chen’s slightly faster speech and softer tone all showed his unrestrained mood, “Lian Zong is all right!”
Although Shen Ting didn’t have a hunch, when he heard the result, it seemed as if the big stone in his heart suddenly fell to the ground.
It took a long time to say, “That’s great.”
Lin Chen should have notified Shen Tingwei as soon as he received the news. Now that the notification was in place, he had other things to do, so he hurriedly left the sentence “I’ll pick you up tomorrow morning, Mr. Shen have a good rest” and hung up first.
Shen Tingwei held the phone that had been hung up, and sat back on the bed again.
Only then did he stand up again, looking down at his slightly bulging belly and unfastened trouser buttons, and said to himself, “I’ve grown up.”

Early the next morning, when the sky was beginning to turn white, Lin Chen arrived.
It’s already August, and it’s not too cold in the morning. Shen Ting’s four-month-old stomach was already difficult to hide completely. Thinking that he wouldn’t see too many people in the car, he casually took a white T-shirt and put it on, and pulled out a slightly larger size from the closet. Grey sweatpants, with an elastic waistband that wouldn’t squeeze his stomach.
The distance from the villa to the detention center was not particularly close, and it was already past : 0 when we arrived in the city with traffic jams.
It was still early, so Lin Chen got out of the car first, and stood by the car, pacing anxiously, waiting for the door to open.
At this moment, there were scattered family members waiting at the gate of the detention center. Shen Ting sat in the car and waited before it was inconvenient to get out of the car.
He can’t say much about how he feels now. Lian Jue is a special existence to him, and it is difficult to define their relationship with any words. In fact, from a rational point of view, he is not familiar with Lian Jue, but from an objective point of view, Lian Jue is the person he is most familiar with here.
At first, he felt that Lian Jue was a very vile and powerful person. From his behavior to his personality, Shen Tingwei felt an inexplicable sense of oppression and fear. But later on, he realized that Lian Jue was actually a very careful person, and this carefulness was reflected in many details that he almost didn’t notice himself.
Because Lian Jue often showed a cold and hot look, he also thought that Lian Jue was a cold and unfriendly person at heart. But at some point, he can see the manly and thoughtful side of him.
This sense of constant self-contradictory conflict makes Shen Tingwei feel confused when he thinks of Lianjue from time to time.
The only thing that can be said for sure is that Lian Jue is not bad for him – if he removes those pictures that he is not willing to recall too much.
Other than that… I feel sleepy.
Shen Tingwei was too sleepy. The days when Lian Jue was detained did not change his life much, but it still had some impact on his emotions. He is not a person who falls asleep easily. Some time ago, the insomnia and anxiety were relieved by the characteristic signs of early pregnancy. During this period of less fatigue and headache, just in time for Lianjue’s accident, his sleep quality was not good. Straight back to where it started.
Because he remembered the news of Lian Jue’s release this morning, he couldn’t sleep well last night, and woke up too early in the morning. He passed through the isolation belt several times on the way, and the slight vehicle bumps made Shen Tingwei almost fall asleep.
Sitting here now, waiting for the time to pass, is even more sleepy.
At eight o’clock, the door opened.
Shen Tingwei was sleepy with his elbow on the window frame, and suddenly heard Lin Chen shout in a low voice, “Boss Lian is out!”
Shen Ting did not lift his head and looked at the gate of the detention center. Lian Jue and a prison guard walked out of the door in tandem. The prison guard stretched out his hand to Lian Jue, and Lian Jue held it, and said something to him with a polite and distant expression. Maybe it was a thank you, then he nodded slightly to him, turned around and walked towards the car.
Lian Jue was still wearing the black formal suit he had seen in the news before, and he didn’t bring anything in his hands. He probably told Lin Chen in advance that he didn’t need to bring anything in.
When he was still some distance away from the car, Lin Chen quickly walked up to him and said something to Lian Jue. Shen Tingwei guessed that Lin Chen told him that he was here, and then Lian Jue narrowed his eyes slightly, raised his head and looked at Shen Tingwei’s position.
Lian Jue was a little short-sighted. This was known to Shen Tingwei early on. There should be no conditions in the detention center to wear invisibility.
Shen Ting didn’t see Lian Jue walking towards him through the car window, and wanted to move in.
There was plenty of room in the car, but he wasn’t quite able to adapt to his bulging belly. No matter how he moved, he felt uncomfortable. After struggling for a long time, he finally moved it, but the car door beside him was suddenly pulled open from the outside.
He raised his head in a daze, and found that Lian Jue had come to his side at some point, standing at the door of the car, looking at him with a very speechless expression.
After staring with big eyes and small eyes for a moment, Shen Ting didn’t show any embarrassment, whispered apologetically, and wanted to move back quickly.
Lian Jue didn’t expect him to change positions so quickly, and then watched him clumsily crawling in with his lower abdomen, his eyes were full of words, he paused, and said to him, “Don’t move.” Then he closed it. The car door, he went back to the other side.

Shen Tingwei felt that he had done something stupid, and embarrassedly flushed from his cheeks to his ears, and didn’t say a word until he even got into the car.