Ni Jiu (Intoxicated) - Chap 44

After temporarily dealing with the matter at hand, it was already dark when I looked up again.
Lin Chen put away the documents on the table. Seeing that Lianjue didn’t move, remembering that he hadn’t left the company for several days, he hesitated again and again, but persuaded him, “Mr. Lian, it’s been a long time since you went back to see the young master. , young master, he… misses you a lot, why don’t you go back tonight.”
Lian Jue seemed to be reminded by him, rubbed his eyebrows and asked, “What date is it today?”
“August th.” Lin Chen guessed what he was going to ask, and then said, “Little Master’s study held the final exam at the end of last month, and the school held a parents’ meeting on the day of returning to school. When the young master called, you were talking to Mr. Alex’s video call is from the aunt at home.”
Lian Jue was not impressed by the parent-teacher meeting he mentioned, nodded and asked, “What time is the summer camp?”
“Wait.” Lin Chen took out his mobile phone and checked the record book, and said to Lian Jue, “August th, the day after tomorrow.”
Lian Jue said that he knew it, and then told Lin Chen to let someone buy the items needed for the summer camp, and Lin Chen recorded them one by one.
As soon as the car entered the courtyard of the urban villa, the gate opened.
Lian Jue got out of the car and saw Kang Tong running out in a hurry. Auntie called out from behind, “Slow down, don’t run so fast just after dinner.”
He probably ran out when he heard the sound of the car. Kang Tong’s face was a little red and his breathing was short. He stood a few steps on the steps, his face couldn’t hide his excitement, and he shouted loudly: “Dad!”
“Yeah.” Lian Jue walked over, Kang Tong hugged his leg and said happily, “Dad, you’re back!”

Lian Jue’s body was not very obvious for a moment. Although he had adopted Kang Tong for nearly two years, and had hugged Kang Tong when he was sick or fell asleep, he was obviously not used to such intimacy.
After a while, he touched Kang Tong’s head, then took a small step back invisibly and asked, “What’s for dinner?”
Children’s attention is easily distracted, Kang Tong thought for a while, and replied obediently: “Beef, egg custard, mashed potatoes…” When he followed Lian Jue into the house, he thought, “Oh yes, and broccoli.”
He was also very excited about the unexpected surprise of his return home, and even when he sat down for dinner, he sat next to him and chatted about what new things he had encountered these days.
Lian Jue basically didn’t respond much, and only occasionally responded to indicate that he was listening.
When Kang Tong was almost done talking, he picked up a few questions about grades and school and asked Kang Tong. Kang Tong answered them earnestly. Tell him to study hard.
But Kang Tong’s excited state only lasted for a while, and then he returned to his original state of being obedient.
Lying on the coffee table, he was reading a book, but his eyes occasionally glanced at the kitten running around at his feet. He realized that he was being distracted by Lian Jue, who was sitting on the sofa and looking at the tablet, and quickly returned to the look of reading a book obediently.
This house is much smaller than the villas in the suburbs. Usually, the aunt and Kang Tong are at home, but now there is another cat, so it should be lively and lively.
But the house was too quiet. Apart from the rustling of the kitten tugging the ball of wool, and the occasional sound of Lian Jue swiping the screen, there was only the ticking sound of the hand of the wall clock.

It was obviously the same scene as returning home in the past, but Lian Jue gave birth to a feeling of desertedness.
“Why don’t you turn on the TV.” Lian Jue said.
Kang Tong was stunned and asked, “TV?”
In fact, Kang Tong occasionally watches animations, but usually when Lian Jue is at home, he will habitually avoid doing things that may affect Lian Jue’s rest or work, and his aunt will subconsciously remind him to keep as quiet as possible.
It took a while for Kang Tong to react, and hurriedly ran to the TV cabinet and took the remote control to Lian Jue: “Dad here.”
Lian Jue glanced at the remote control in his hand, took it and put it aside, and said to continue reading.
Then the living room fell silent again.
Lian Jue couldn’t help but think of Shen Tingwei, he felt strange, why Shen Tingwei could create such a vibrant atmosphere when he lived alone.

Kang Tong lay down on the coffee table again, but he still didn’t pay attention to the book in front of him. Instead, he changed from peeking at the kitten to peeking at his face from time to time, making Lian Jue feel tired.
Lian Jue raised his face and said to him, “If you want to read a book, just sit up straight and take a good look.”
Kang Tong hurriedly sat up straight, afraid of making Lian Jue angry, and stood up again: “I, I’ll go back to the room to see…”
Without waiting for Lian Jue to speak, he took the book and ran away quickly.
Lian Jue often felt that he could not get along with Kang Tong very naturally, and even noticed that he would deliberately avoid the normal interaction between father and son at certain times, so that sometimes he would think about whether the decision to adopt Kang Tong was wrong. .
In fact, he already had the answer in his heart, but he deliberately tilted the scale toward the answer he wanted, so he continued according to the current mode of getting along.
A few years ago, Kang Tong’s biological father, Kang Lijun, suffered from bone cancer. However, due to his poor family background, his condition dragged on again and again. When he finally couldn’t stand up and was sent to the hospital, it was already in an advanced stage. Chemotherapy to maintain. His mother left him and the -year-old Xiaokang Tong to go out to work, saying it was part-time work, but in fact he never came back.
At first, it was a family member of a patient in the same ward. Every day, watching the well-off boy who was just over the height of the hospital bed at that time run around and run around to carry feces and urine for Kang Lijun, he couldn’t bear it and posted the incident on the Internet. Later, many reporters suddenly came. , and exposed the incident to the local news, which caught Feng Jue’s attention.
Since Lianjue took over the Chen family’s medical industry and founded Fengjue, the company’s charitable projects have set rigid targets every year, and Kang Lijun has naturally become their funding target that year.
But the good times didn’t last long. Kang Lijun’s condition was getting worse day by day, to the point that no amount of money could save him. Even if Fengjue’s financial resources were behind him, he only spent two more years on the hospital bed.
When Kang Lijun left, Kang Tong was less than eight years old, but his mind was much more mature and sensitive than children of the same age.
After being adopted by Lian Jue, he has always kept Lian Jue’s kindness in mind, and he speaks and does things carefully at home, for fear that an inadvertent one will make Lian Jue angry. Finally, the relationship eased after completing the account registration at the beginning of the year, and because of not seeing each other for more than two months, it became cold again.
Lian Jue rested his elbow on the armrest of the sofa, his knuckles touching his temples, feeling a little upset.
He put down the tablet and went upstairs to his room before Auntie could cook the tea.
Approaching lunchtime, this high-end psychological clinic, which is located in a prime location in the city center and billed by the minute, has temporarily stopped receiving services.
The assistant knocked on the door and came in with a troubled expression: “Doctor Liu, a gentleman is looking for you.”
Dr. Liu was frowning and using his chopsticks to move back and forth in the take-out lunch box. He heard the voice: “It’s time to cook, let him come back in the afternoon if he has something to do…” Halfway through the sentence, she raised her gaze past the glass door of the office, looking at him. When he arrived at a familiar figure, a look of surprise flashed in his eyes, and he quickly stopped the assistant, “Wait a minute.”
She put away the lunch box and threw it into the trash can, got up and walked out of the office, smiling at the man waiting at the front desk: “Long time no see.”
The other party nodded to her politely: “Doctor Liu.”
“Take me a meal.” Dr. Liu said, “I won’t charge you this time.”
The nearest place to eat was the western restaurant downstairs of the clinic. Dr. Liu put a piece of sirloin steak in his mouth, looked at the tall and handsome man in front of him, and said, “If I remember correctly, you haven’t come to me for two years. Here it is.”
She still clearly remembered the first time this man came to her. At that time, her psychological clinic was still open in a humble office building on the second ring road. At that time, the man was just a teenager with a schoolbag.
The reason why she remembered it so deeply was not only the young man’s handsome and upright appearance at first glance, but also what he said directly to her when he pushed in the door: “I need psychological intervention.” He did not let the doctor judge like many patients when they came. Is there anything wrong with him, but told the doctor straight out that I need treatment.
Her clinic has only one simple clinic, and the teenagers have received psychotherapy in her clinic for nearly ten years one after another, from his studies to work, and later the teenager has grown into a man. Maybe it was because of work, or maybe she was no longer needed, and the number of visits decreased less and less until she changed her address, and the man hardly ever came back.
Dr. Liu still remembered what he said to him at the last meeting, so he asked him, “Have you tried to do my previous suggestion?”
Lian Jue said “yes”, paused, and said to her, “I adopted a child.”
The steak that Dr. Liu brought to his mouth was in the air, and he was stunned: “Adoption?”
“Well.” Lian Jue said, “A patient sponsored by my former company passed away, and I adopted the child.”
Dr. Liu was speechless for a moment when he misinterpreted his advice.
She looked at Lian Jue thoughtfully for a while, and based on his behavior of finding him again, she guessed, “Is the effect bad?”
“……Yes.”
“Well…” Dr. Liu didn’t show much surprise to his answer and asked, “What problem did you encounter this time?”
Lian Jue glanced at her calmly and said, “I’m married.”

When Dr. Liu heard this sentence, his face was full of surprise, then he frowned and asked him tentatively, “It’s also because I told you…”
Lian Jue shook his head and said, “No.”
Dr. Liu looked at him, and after a long time, he said, “It’s a good thing.”
She asked, “What kind of person is the other party?”
This question caused an instant blankness on Lian Jue’s face.
He frowned slightly, and many images about Shen Tingwei appeared in his mind.
He was a little sleepy, like a low voice that was not intended to be heard clearly, a frown when he couldn’t understand things, always had a soft spot for some childish things, and often made something stupid.
But the last picture in my mind was fixed on the villa at noon that day, the abundant sunshine, the soup on the fire, the lines in the TV series, and the eyes that were bent in the curling heat.
Lian Jue was silent for a long time, struggling to extract an appropriate word from this scene, with a somewhat blunt tone, and said, “…warm.”
“Warm?” As if it was incredible to hear the word from his mouth, Dr. Liu opened his eyes wide, then smiled lightly under Lian Jue’s obviously displeased gaze, “No, no, I don’t mean anything else. , I just think, you don’t seem like someone who would use this kind of word to describe others.”
“But I feel very uncomfortable.” Lian Jue frowned.
Dr. Liu asked, “Are you feeling resistance?”
Lian Jue nodded hesitantly.
Dr. Liu understood that he was still somewhat at a loss about the sudden family formation. She didn’t talk to her quickly, thinking about how to organize language in her heart.
“Doctor Liu.” The opposite Lian Jue suddenly asked, “I want to know, how do other people get along with—” He paused when he said this, as if he didn’t know how to ask this sentence.
Dr. Liu quickly followed his words: “How do other people get along with their families?”
Lian Jue quickly said “um”.
Dr. Liu was already very familiar with his questioning, and after thinking about it, he answered him: “Every family has its own way of getting along, I can’t tell you this, you need to experience it yourself… Before that, The first thing you have to do is to accept, it may not be easy for you, you can try to feel them first, and then try to release yourself.”
The two chatted over meal time, and Dr. Liu gave him a lot of advice, but he was afraid that he would misunderstand his words again, and he emphasized: “These are just auxiliary functions, the most important thing is that you can open your heart and let yourself first. Go out and let others come in.”
After lunch, the two of them left, and Dr. Liu returned to the clinic. The assistant at the front desk followed up and asked, “Dr. Liu, what happened to that handsome guy just now? He looks normal.”
Dr. Liu sighed and said, “He has a very severe affective deficit disorder.”

“Ah.” The assistant blinked, “It’s a pity, but why have I never seen him?”
“He hasn’t been here for a long time.” Dr. Liu walked with her to the office, “I remember he was in high school when he first came to see me. At that time, he was only a teenager, and his adoptive father’s daughter went with him. Climbing a mountain, I broke my leg in front of him and cried so hard. He didn’t respond when he was beside him. He didn’t think of going over to help until his sister called his name. After this incident, he found me by himself and said that he If there is a psychological problem, let me intervene psychologically on him.”
The assistant’s eyes widened: “High school? Isn’t that many years?”
“It has been many years. When he was young, he was abandoned by adoptive families many times because of his emotional indifference. I guess it was related to the experience of his parents’ death when he was very young.” Dr. Liu recalled that he once gave Lian Jue In the days of psychotherapy, “You know, I rarely meet a patient who is as cooperative as him, asking everything, but it just feels useless. He’s like a robot, I’m like a program for him, I He will do whatever he tells him, and sometimes I feel like he doesn’t want me to treat any psychological problems at all, but wants to learn from me how to be a normal person.”
“He said he wanted to be normal.”
“Later I suggested that he try to establish some spiritual and emotional connections for himself, and he adopted a child directly… I have to say, his ability to learn is very strong.” She smiled wryly, “but how can a normal person learn come.”

After listening to her words, the assistant was also silent for a while, but couldn’t bear the curiosity, and asked her, “Then what did he come to find you this time?”
Dr. Liu thought about it and said, “I want to integrate into the family.”
“Then what did you say?”
Dr. Liu glanced at her with a sly smile in his eyes: “I said, let him start by preparing a surprise for his family.”
“Surprise?” The assistant frowned, “He doesn’t look like someone who can do this kind of thing. Wouldn’t it be a bit overkill to ask him to do this all of a sudden?”
Dr. Liu smiled and flicked her forehead: “Yes, if he wants to learn, then try it. I didn’t charge him anyway.”
“Ah, that’s too much, Doctor Liu!”
She smiled and said nothing.
—Might be a way to get him to make some changes.