Originally, Lu Xuandong also wanted to have a dinner date with Team Xiao Qin after the game, but unfortunately, after the chilly wind at the airport and the small fan in his headgear, he had caught a bit of a cold.
The indoor temperature of the Rolling Wheel Sports Center was fine, because volleyball matches had strict requirements for temperature, and in Qin Chunxiao’s place, even if he would be uncomfortable after tossing and turning in a low-temperature environment, he would be able to recover quickly even if he was tossed to a warmer place, but Lu Xuandong couldn’t, and his physical fitness was only up to the qualifying line of an ordinary person, and there was no way to compare it to a hundred-year old life star reservist like Qin Chunxiao.
There was a fun consensus among those who knew Qin Chunxiao that he was the most promising person on the planet right now to challenge Gillespie’s world record for longevity, but whether or not Qin Chunxiao would be able to break the record was not something they would ever know while they were alive.
Halfway through the game, Lu Xuandong had already appeared dizziness and other cold symptoms, could insist on watching the entire game, but also stood up from time to time to wave the Hamster, Lu Xuandong’s “Iron Blood Fan Power” enough to give the reason.
When the match was over, Lu Xuandong quickly got up and left, also not wanting to spread his cold to Team Xiao Qin.
As for the dinner date and all that, hey, let’s wait until he gets better in the hotel.
Who knew that a punt like this could actually happen a second time ……
Lu Xuandong was struggling on the ground, looking hilarious and pitiful due to his cute goat-beast costume, and just then, a pair of Fly Wolf appeared in front of him, along with white calves tied with knee pads.
A sigh containing helplessness came to his ears.
Lu Xuandong stiffened, trying to tilt his head, and saw a pair of gem-like blue eyes, the whites of the eyes were clear and clean, without the slightest trace of blood, the skin was held up by full collagen, and the lips were full of blood, and the arm that stretched out was a smooth muscular texture, like a growing wild animal, with a pristine, healthy, and natural beauty through.
Qin Chunxiao crouched down, passed his hands through Lu Xuandong’s armpits, and with a single push, he set the man up, which didn’t seem like much of an effort.
Lu Xuandong silently exerted his legs and stood up with Qin Chun Xiao’s help, always feeling that the little Qin team’s posture in setting him up was like holding a child.
He wondered in his heart, how come he could never save the face of an adult in front of this teenager? It was obvious that he was more than 3 years older than the little Qin team.
Qin Chunxiao looked at him, opened his mouth, then gave up and shut up, helping the man to sit down in his seat as the venue’s staff rushed over and asked in Russian, “Are you okay? Are there any injuries?”
Qin Chunxiao: “He’s a foreign viewer, it’s better to communicate with him in English.”
Lu Xuandong nodded his head and replied back in English, “I’m fine, I just accidentally fell down, can someone please call a cab for me? I want to go back to the hotel to rest.”
The staff at the Roller Sports Center was full of confusion, but they went to get a cab as instructed.
Lu Xuandong shook his head and followed them outside, Qin Chun Xiao wanted to follow and Lu Xuandong pushed him back.
He physically felt that he wasn’t seriously ill, so he didn’t need to bother the Xiao Qin team.
Lu Xuandong bumped his head on the car again as he got in, which was something that happens a lot to big guys.
Qin Chunxiao stood at the entrance of the dugout, looking very worried at his clumsiness.
Is this guy really okay?
He sent a text message.
Qin Chunxiao [Send me a message when you arrive and tell me the hotel address as well].
Lu Xuandong [Good].
Since he had been left unattended since childhood, Lu Xuandong was very used to taking care of himself, and when he returned to the hotel, he took out the Vitamin C infusion and cold medicine from his backpack, soaked them up and dunked them down, and changed into his pajamas, wrapping up in the blankets in the room where the heat was turned on.
For young people, unless it was a serious illness, sleep was the best recovery meds, after all, doctors nowadays would not just let the patient infusion, went to the hospital after a series of tests, maybe the final result was still infused with medication and rest.
Before going to bed, he messaged Qin Chunxiao, and the two of them chatted for a while, and considering that he still had the buff of jet lag hanging over him, Qin Chunxiao sent him an audio, which was said to be the little Qin team’s favorite sleep aid goodies when they were jet lagged.
Lu Xuandong opened it, and a cool female voice came from inside.
[In the silent village, Xiaohong holding a big black dog, their paws on the snow, making a crunching sound, behind someone to chase over, the big black dog uneasy low barking, but she can not help but look back, it is the next village’s Uncle Li San ……]
This story called “Red Girl” tells the story of a girl who was thrown off a cliff by a rapist. She took out her hand from the wasteland, and the police followed this clue to find her body and caught the real culprit.
Lu Xuandong was not afraid of ghosts, but he couldn’t help wondering, could this thing really help sleep?
He sort of realized that the little Qin team should have a lot of guts, and belonged to the kind of people who could listen to paranormal stories as bedtime stories.
But the strange thing was that after this story, Lu Xuandong really fell asleep.
Maybe the story of what goes around comes around is more soothing than the comical relief when a person is having a hard time.
The sleep was over 10 hours and the dreams were light and strange. He seemed to be floating in the sky with people screaming in terror all around him, while he seemed to be holding someone’s hand tightly and trying to say something but just couldn’t make a sound.
Until a phone call woke him up, Lu Xuandong struggled to get his hand out of the covers.
He still felt weak, with the usual weakness after an illness, the high temperature had receded, only a low fever remained, his throat was itchy and sore, and he had to cough every now and then, but he was still glad that he had a good fitness regimen in the last few months, in the old days he would not have recovered as fast as he did.
After the phone was connected, Lu Yunchen’s voice came from inside: “Brother, I told dad that I want to take the domestic film academy in the college entrance exam.”
Lu Xuandong’s head started to hurt again, “Have you thought about it?”
Lu Yunchen said firmly, “I’ve thought it over, I’m not interested in Zhe Yue, my father had given me something and I didn’t do it well, that’s when I knew I wasn’t suited for this line of work, and I didn’t like managing work in the first place either.”
Lu Xuandong indifferently, “Oh, did dad promise? What about mom and grandma’s side?”
Lu Yunchen: “I told them that I wanted to pursue my dreams, and if they were going to stop me, it meant that their love for me was nothing more than that.”
Lu Xuandong sat up, took a deep breath, and called his brother’s full name, “Lu Yun Chen.”
Lu Yunchen, who noticed his elder brother’s tone was off, had a chill on his back, “What, what’s wrong?”
Lu Xuandong: “I raised a sister before you, and if she told me that I didn’t love her enough if I didn’t let her do something, I would have cleaned her up before arguing about the question of love or not.”
Q: As the daughter of a gambler and a human trafficker, Mei Xiangnan was able to go to elementary school thanks to the fact that she was born in a country where education is compulsory. How did she manage to excel in her studies in such an environment, without any bad habits, and even managed to get into a major high school on her own?
A: My brother keeps a tight rein.
There was no environment in the Meijia Village that allows Lu Xuandong to be gentle and patient, but whenever he was not firm enough in disciplining Mei Xiangnan, there were people who instill in her the idea that “a girl who learns so much will be fine if she marries someone else,” Lu Xuandong didn’t eat that kind of thing, and in order to allow his sister to have a way out other than marrying a man, he decisively lifted up the rolling pin.
So Mei Xiangnan may have grown up as a scholar under the intimidation of a rolling pin.
Until now, Lu Xuandong just needed a phone call, Mei Xiangnan would consciously bury herself in the mountain of books and the sea of learning.
What Lu Yunchen didn’t know was that Lu Xuandong’s adoptive mother was bullied by several men when she was crazy, and the Mei family’s gambler adoptive father was short, dry and skinny, and he dared to be angry about it, but only Lu Xuandong rushed out with a hoe, and he not only beat down several adult men, but one of them also broke his leg.
The one with the broken leg was the grandson of the village chief. After Lu Xuandong that, packed up his things in the night, and decisively fled from the mountain village carrying his mother and sister.
But not knowing his brother’s fighting strength didn’t mean Lu Yunchen didn’t fear this brother.
Still he mustered up the courage to say, “I just don’t want to take over from my family, I have my own things to do, I want to act and sing, I want to pursue music.”
Lu Xuandong: “So in your eyes, I’m the one who doesn’t have my own business, right?”
Lu Yunchen hurriedly denied, “No no! I didn’t think so, but our ambitions were originally different ah, so isn’t it just right for me to go to the entertainment industry and you to inherit Zhe Yue? This is the arrangement of fate!”
Lu Xuandong’s face was expressionless: “You’re only going to take the college entrance exam next year, think more about your future direction, the entertainment industry isn’t that good, I still have a week before I go back to my country, let’s talk about it then.”
Duh, he hung up the phone and lay back down, intending to sleep.
Lu Yunchen hugged his cell phone, only feeling that life was incredibly difficult.
Soon after the return of the Lu family, Lu Xuandong began to take some work from Lu Hao, and all completed beautifully, learning than Lu Xuandong was good, seemingly quiet, but came with a “not to be messed with” aura, Lu Yunchen at time had that kind of taste.
Obviously two people took the gene that the same pair of parents gave, but Lu Xuandong’s learning was as easy as eating and drinking water, there was also the absolute sound sense, on the looks and height, but also Lu Xuandong was more out of the ordinary.
Lu Yunchen touched his face, feeling that he was considered a top-notch looker even if he put in the inner recreation, but he looked mediocre compared to his continental grass level brother.
But Lu Xuandong really let Lu Yunchen fear, or a “ruthless” word.
Their uncle, Zhao Zhaoyan’s younger brother also worked in Zhe Yue, this uncle was also a graduate of a prestigious school, managing finances in Zhe Yue, holding a lot of shares, the outside world had always regarded him as Lu Hao’s beloved.
After noticing that Lu Yunchen was not interested in Zhe Yue, his uncle mentioned twice that he would help him manage the family business, so that he could pursue his dreams without fear, but when Lu Xuandong appeared, the uncle immediately broke out the “tax is not clean” package, and then Grandma Zhao went straight to Lu Xuandong crying, Zhao Zhao Zhaoyan and Lu Xuandong talked about it.
Lu Yunchen watched with his own eyes as this home suddenly filled with arguments, full of confusion and completely unsure of how things had gotten to such a point.
How does uncle have a problem with taxes? What does his problem blowing up have to do with brother? Why did Grandma and Mom decide that the brother did it?
As for the accusations of his relatives, Lu Xuandong only pretended not to hear them, and Zhao Zhaoyan was quickly coaxed by Lu Hao to take the resources given by her husband and join a drama group to play the role of a high-profile female supporting actress to go.
This incident began inexplicably and ended in a way that Lu Yunshen could not comprehend, and only when he learned that the country had begun to check taxes and several large companies had fallen prey. This uncle had a problem in the first place.
Lu Yunchen was also originally angry at his brother’s ruthlessness, and when he realized that his father had very joyfully gifted all of Uncle Zhao’s shares to his brother, and complimented him on the results of his work, Lu Yunchen winced.
As for mom? She positioned herself as “Mrs. Lu’s wife”, and her IQ was at its highest during the period when she snatched Lu Hao from her best friend, and she didn’t fall behind in the circle, but as long as Mrs. Lu’s position is still secure, she could still be a rich fairy for the rest of her life, and she was very good at ignoring some things.
After letting the things Lu Yunchen had not wanted to face surface, he realized that this family was not as harmonious and beautiful as he had imagined, and that the real dominant person in all the cruelty that his brother had laid down should have been his father.
Grandma Zhao said something later that made Lu Yunchen feel the same way.
“This house is full of mean people.”
Lu Yunchen felt that Grandma was right, and that not only was Dad, Mom, and Brother ruthless, but Grandma was ruthless as well, because Uncle was able to have delusional thoughts about Zhe Yue’s property, and her encouragement was inseparable.
Then the more Lu Yunchen did not want to take Zhe Yue’s,He had a sense of self-awareness. He understood that relying solely on his own limited abilities would not be enough to navigate the challenges and uncertainties ahead. It would be wiser to leave the family’s wealth and responsibilities to his older brother, who could handle the significant portion while he took on the burden of managing those aspects that didn’t involve cash or real estate, allowing him to enjoy a different kind of life.
Lu Yunchen wanted to be salty, his dad would 80% nod his head because Lu Yunchen really wasn’t capable enough, and mom should be upset for a while, but dad could handle her, and Grandma Zhao’s opinion on the other hand no longer mattered.
But what Lu Yunchen didn’t expect was that Lu Xuandong himself might not want to take over the job.
He lost his grip on the phone, “Why didn’t my brother say yes? Isn’t dad’s money enough to impress him?”
Lu Hao was also puzzled by this question, so after Lu Yunchen threw this query at him, he also called Lu Xuandong.
Lu Hao: “What the hell are you thinking? Isn’t it better to give you several billion dollars of Zhe Yue’s family business than to give it to your brother? Do you realize that by acquiescing to you moving your uncle, I am paving the way for you?”
Lu Xuandong who was woken up again, “Packing him up is to keep Zhe Yue, aren’t you clear about how unclean his ass is? If he’s not finished, we’ll be dragged along with him, and can you really give me Zhe Yue’s family business?”
Lu Hao: “Why didn’t I really give it to you?”
Lu Xuandong: “When you give it to me, you’ll be completely decentralized, and I’ll say what I want? You won’t tell me what to do? And I don’t have to burden Yunchen’s life from now on just because I took over the family business?”
Lu Hao choked, “He, he’s your brother! Moreover, Zhe Yue was at least founded by me, how come I don’t even have the authority to say something from now on?”
Lu Xuandong: “……”
He hung up again.
By the time the phone rang for the third time, Lu Xuandong had already begun to consider going to find a gentleman to do some calculations to see if he was in conflict with his relatives in this life.
The phone was open, and the opposite side never made a sound, Lu Xuandong was confused at first, and when the sound of the vehicle’s horn was transmitted along the other side, he immediately came to his senses.
Ah, the opposite side hung up the phone, Lu Xuandong hastily opened his cell phone and found that Xiao Qin team had already sent him several WeChat messages.
Qin Chunxiao [Have you eaten breakfast?]
Qin Chunxiao [Awake?]
And after that call ended, Qin Chunxiao sent another message.
Qin Chunxiao [I’ll meet you at the hotel].
Qin Chunxiao [Are you not feeling well?
Lu Xuandong [a bit of a cold, but I’ve gotten better, I’ll go down now, I haven’t had breakfast yet, we can eat together, wait for me].
He hurriedly washed, combed his hair neatly, put on several layers of clothing and a down jacket, hurried on his feet to the first floor of the hotel, and then stood in his place.
Qin Chunxiao stood straight in the doorway wearing a leather jacket, one hand in his pocket, the other carrying a bag of piroshki.
Leaving the volleyball court filled with giants, Lu Xuandong realized that the small Qin team was really a very tall and upright man, there were many people coming and going in front of the hotel, and Qin Chunxiao was not at all short compared to them.
Seeing Lu Xuandong approaching, Qin Chunxiao took a mask and handed it to him, Lu Xuandong obediently put it on, and then Qin Chunxiao placed his cell phone in front of him.
[Take you to the hospital.]
Lu Xuandong wanted to say that he was already better, but as if he knew what he meant, Qin Chunxiao raised his hand and pressed it on his forehead.
Low-grade fever. Still need to get it looked at.
See Lu Xuandong clothes were not thick enough, Qin Chunxiao put his “Misha Mouse” pattern of the scarf around his neck to give him a good wear. Seeing Lu Xuandong feet float, for fear that he fell again he took his hand.
Qin Chunxiao stopped the car and took Lu Xuandong to the nearest hospital to register for a checkup; he was already fluent in spoken Russian and had no trouble communicating with the doctor or reading the checklist.
The test results were pharyngitis, with anti-inflammatory medication, but no need for a hang infusion.
Lu Xuandong sat on the chair, his neck warm, his mind empty, the low fever put his mind in a stagnant state, but the whole person was not uncomfortable.
After that, Xiao Qin team took him to breakfast, there was piping hot porridge and sweet bread in the dining room, Qin Chunxiao didn’t move a single bite, Lu Xuandong didn’t have a good appetite but he knew that he couldn’t go without food, so he slowly took a fork and forked the food into his mouth.
While Lu Xuandong was eating, Qin Chunxiao went to the nearby mall to purchase clothes. In the Russian winter, wearing less would really cause an accident.
Lu Xuandong saw that he came back with a big bag and hurriedly fished out his wallet to give money, and Qin Chunxiao handed over the receipt.
5000 rubles of things, converted into rmb was more than six hundred yuan, Qin Chunxiao rarely deliberately picked expensive brand-name, practical and wearable was good, so this body of clothing was not expensive.
Qin Chunxiao [How long do you plan to stay here?
Lu Xuandong [One week.]
Qin Chunxiao [OK, then why don’t we just take this opportunity to spend our countdown more, and I’ll introduce you to a friend later].
After saying this, Qin Chunxiao started to add clothes to him, Lu Xuandong was wrapped up as a bear in only 1 minute, the only thing that made him more distressed was that there was a pair of plush pants inside, the outside was in the style of a sweatpants but the inside was full of wool, at a glance, he knew that it would be very warm but he couldn’t just change into it at the restaurant.
Changing your pants in public is hooliganism that will get the police called.
Qin Chunxiao also realized this, and he pulled out two thick knee pads, the kind of woolen knee pads that many people in China who rode electric bikes in the winter would wear, and they were especially long, able to wrap all the way up to Lu Xuandong’s thighs.
Knowing Lu Xuandong’s height was 193 centimeters, legs were also long, normal size clothing hangs on him was always very constricted, but this pair of knee pads could protect his calves, knees, mid thighs all the way up, one meter six people could completely wear this thing as pants.
Lu Xuandong’s movements were slow, and his exhaled breath was hot and dry, and he inevitably looked sluggish when wearing the knee pads, Qin Chunxiao simply squatted in front of him, and sharply pulled his legs into the knee pads, and zipped them up again.
Xiao Qin team even bought a few pairs of very thick wool socks and snow boots, Lu Xuandong silently put them on, sweating in the restaurant with the heater on, he consoled himself in his heart, after sweating the disease would be cured.
However, when they left the restaurant, the chilly wind outside immediately made Lu Xuandong glad that he had worn a full range of cold-proofing equipment.
Qin Chunxiao turned her head and smiled at him, holding up his cell phone in front of him.
It’s -22 degrees in St. Petersburg today.
Qin Chunxiao was still in the same leather jacket, only wearing a hat with ear protection and a mask with a mishap pattern, walking with his head held high and in high spirits, unaffected by the cold wind.
Lu Xuandong couldn’t open his eyes from the wind, so he could only keep his head down and be led forward by Team Xiao Qin.
As he walked, he realized that the direction they were heading was not to the hotel.
Lu Xuandong turned his nearly burnt out brain with difficulty and pondered over a question.
He was now so weak that three or more fit adult males would have been enough to drag him into a dark alley and rob him of all his money, and as he did not know his way around St. Petersburg and did not understand Russian, there was a certain probability of his dying in the streets if his money and papers were taken away from him, and he was thrown at the intersection.
Little Team Qin wasn’t a grown man, but he was a six-foot-eight athlete with single-digit body fat! Ninety percent of grown men were not as healthy and strong as him.
Even if Lu Xuandong wasn’t sick, it would have been difficult for him to defeat Team Qin without a weapon in hand. They had the potential to take away all his money and even endanger his life by throwing him into the sea.
Ordinarily, weak individuals wouldn’t willingly accompany such menacing people to unfamiliar places, as they would be at their mercy if the other party acted recklessly.
However, Lu Xuandong continued to move forward with the Xiao Qin team, undeterred. He felt a calmness within his heart, accompanied by an indescribable sense of security.
Li Ling was humming in the kitchen, drinking congee and nibbling on a sandwich, which Xiao Zai had left for him for breakfast.
Qin Chunxiao said, “My friend came to Russia to watch our game and froze and caught a cold, I’d like to take him to the apartment to rest for a few days, he’ll share a room with me, do you mind?”
Li Ling: “Of course I don’t mind, your friend is my friend, they came all the way here to watch our game, how can we let them stay in the hotel alone when they are sick, in case they have a high fever, no one will take care of them.”
Qin Chunxiao let out a laugh, holding Lu Xuandong walked for a few minutes, entered a cell, pressed the code lock on the door of the unit building, went in, got on the elevator, and finally went to the 2nd floor, and used the key to open the first door on the left.
Hearing the sound of the door opening, Li Ling turned back cheerfully, “Xiao Zai, you’re back~ Hello friend, I’m Li Ling, what’s your name”
Lu Xuandong, who recognized Li Ling, was a bit at a loss for words, he clenched his fists and was thinking about how he was going to introduce himself to Team Qin’s partner, when Qin ChunXiao had already opened his mouth in a very bashful manner.
“He’s Lu Xuandong, my soulmate.”
Li Ling pulled out his ears, “What mate?”
Qin Chunxiao: “Soulmates, implicitly, but we’re just friends, so don’t get any ideas, and don’t tell anyone else that I have a soulmate.”
Qin Chunxiao didn’t tell anyone else about this, including his parents, because in the eyes of the public, soulmates were equivalent to “lovers”, and this year’s 16-year-old Qin Chunxiao really didn’t want to explain to her parents, “I really don’t intend to fall in love with Lu Xuandong.” “Yes, we’re just friends”.
So he wasn’t going to let everyone find out about his friendship with Lu Xuandong until the countdown was over.
But if he wanted Lu Xuandong to move into the apartment and brush his countdown, he still had to say hello to Er Leng, Qin Chunxiao pondered for a while and realized that his heart rejects talking to his parents about this matter, but it was okay to talk to Er Leng.
That’s probably the difference between a parent and a brother.
The milk tea hamster thermos cup in Li Ling’s hand clattered to the floor.
Qin Chunxiao was the only calm person in the room, he went up and knocked on Li Ling’s head and admonished, “Wake up, you’re my best friend, so you’re the first person outside of Xuandong and I to know about this, I’m going to the hotel now to pick up Xuandong’s luggage, so wash the bowls after you finish your breakfast.”
Then he patted Lu Xuandong’s back like he was calming a child, pushed him to sit on the sofa, took Lu Xuandong room card from the hotel, and opened the door to go out again.
There was only silence in the room, and Li Ling’s mouth was open, his mind swirling with words.
“You’re my best friend.” You’re my best friend too!
“He’s my soulmate.” When did you get a soul mate?
Joy and surprise swirled around and around in Er Leng’s brain, making him uncontrollably giddy.
At this time, Lu Xuandong was instead the one with a clear brain, he stood up holding onto the sofa, helped Li Ling pick up the thermos cup, placed it in his hand, and greeted him with a smile, “Hello, I’m Lu Xuandong.”
Li Ling stammered, “You, hello.”
Lu Xuandong: “When Chunxiao said to me that he was going to introduce me to someone, I guessed it was you, and I was right.”
Li Ling’s chest stood up unconsciously.
Originally, Lu Xuandong also wanted to have a dinner date with Team Xiao Qin after the game, but unfortunately, after the chilly wind at the airport and the small fan in his headgear, he had caught a bit of a cold.
The indoor temperature of the Rolling Wheel Sports Center was fine, because volleyball matches had strict requirements for temperature, and in Qin Chunxiao’s place, even if he would be uncomfortable after tossing and turning in a low-temperature environment, he would be able to recover quickly even if he was tossed to a warmer place, but Lu Xuandong couldn’t, and his physical fitness was only up to the qualifying line of an ordinary person, and there was no way to compare it to a hundred-year old life star reservist like Qin Chunxiao.
There was a fun consensus among those who knew Qin Chunxiao that he was the most promising person on the planet right now to challenge Gillespie’s world record for longevity, but whether or not Qin Chunxiao would be able to break the record was not something they would ever know while they were alive.
Halfway through the game, Lu Xuandong had already appeared dizziness and other cold symptoms, could insist on watching the entire game, but also stood up from time to time to wave the Hamster, Lu Xuandong’s “Iron Blood Fan Power” enough to give the reason.
When the match was over, Lu Xuandong quickly got up and left, also not wanting to spread his cold to Team Xiao Qin.
As for the dinner date and all that, hey, let’s wait until he gets better in the hotel.
Who knew that a punt like this could actually happen a second time ……
Lu Xuandong was struggling on the ground, looking hilarious and pitiful due to his cute goat-beast costume, and just then, a pair of Fly Wolf appeared in front of him, along with white calves tied with knee pads.
A sigh containing helplessness came to his ears.
Lu Xuandong stiffened, trying to tilt his head, and saw a pair of gem-like blue eyes, the whites of the eyes were clear and clean, without the slightest trace of blood, the skin was held up by full collagen, and the lips were full of blood, and the arm that stretched out was a smooth muscular texture, like a growing wild animal, with a pristine, healthy, and natural beauty through.
Qin Chunxiao crouched down, passed his hands through Lu Xuandong’s armpits, and with a single push, he set the man up, which didn’t seem like much of an effort.
Lu Xuandong silently exerted his legs and stood up with Qin Chun Xiao’s help, always feeling that the little Qin team’s posture in setting him up was like holding a child.
He wondered in his heart, how come he could never save the face of an adult in front of this teenager? It was obvious that he was more than 3 years older than the little Qin team.
Qin Chunxiao looked at him, opened his mouth, then gave up and shut up, helping the man to sit down in his seat as the venue’s staff rushed over and asked in Russian, “Are you okay? Are there any injuries?”
Qin Chunxiao: “He’s a foreign viewer, it’s better to communicate with him in English.”
Lu Xuandong nodded his head and replied back in English, “I’m fine, I just accidentally fell down, can someone please call a cab for me? I want to go back to the hotel to rest.”
The staff at the Roller Sports Center was full of confusion, but they went to get a cab as instructed.
Lu Xuandong shook his head and followed them outside, Qin Chun Xiao wanted to follow and Lu Xuandong pushed him back.
He physically felt that he wasn’t seriously ill, so he didn’t need to bother the Xiao Qin team.
Lu Xuandong bumped his head on the car again as he got in, which was something that happens a lot to big guys.
Qin Chunxiao stood at the entrance of the dugout, looking very worried at his clumsiness.
Is this guy really okay?
He sent a text message.
Qin Chunxiao [Send me a message when you arrive and tell me the hotel address as well].
Lu Xuandong [Good].
Since he had been left unattended since childhood, Lu Xuandong was very used to taking care of himself, and when he returned to the hotel, he took out the Vitamin C infusion and cold medicine from his backpack, soaked them up and dunked them down, and changed into his pajamas, wrapping up in the blankets in the room where the heat was turned on.
For young people, unless it was a serious illness, sleep was the best recovery meds, after all, doctors nowadays would not just let the patient infusion, went to the hospital after a series of tests, maybe the final result was still infused with medication and rest.
Before going to bed, he messaged Qin Chunxiao, and the two of them chatted for a while, and considering that he still had the buff of jet lag hanging over him, Qin Chunxiao sent him an audio, which was said to be the little Qin team’s favorite sleep aid goodies when they were jet lagged.
Lu Xuandong opened it, and a cool female voice came from inside.
[In the silent village, Xiaohong holding a big black dog, their paws on the snow, making a crunching sound, behind someone to chase over, the big black dog uneasy low barking, but she can not help but look back, it is the next village’s Uncle Li San ……]
This story called “Red Girl” tells the story of a girl who was thrown off a cliff by a rapist. She took out her hand from the wasteland, and the police followed this clue to find her body and caught the real culprit.
Lu Xuandong was not afraid of ghosts, but he couldn’t help wondering, could this thing really help sleep?
He sort of realized that the little Qin team should have a lot of guts, and belonged to the kind of people who could listen to paranormal stories as bedtime stories.
But the strange thing was that after this story, Lu Xuandong really fell asleep.
Maybe the story of what goes around comes around is more soothing than the comical relief when a person is having a hard time.
The sleep was over 10 hours and the dreams were light and strange. He seemed to be floating in the sky with people screaming in terror all around him, while he seemed to be holding someone’s hand tightly and trying to say something but just couldn’t make a sound.
Until a phone call woke him up, Lu Xuandong struggled to get his hand out of the covers.
He still felt weak, with the usual weakness after an illness, the high temperature had receded, only a low fever remained, his throat was itchy and sore, and he had to cough every now and then, but he was still glad that he had a good fitness regimen in the last few months, in the old days he would not have recovered as fast as he did.
After the phone was connected, Lu Yunchen’s voice came from inside: “Brother, I told dad that I want to take the domestic film academy in the college entrance exam.”
Lu Xuandong’s head started to hurt again, “Have you thought about it?”
Lu Yunchen said firmly, “I’ve thought it over, I’m not interested in Zhe Yue, my father had given me something and I didn’t do it well, that’s when I knew I wasn’t suited for this line of work, and I didn’t like managing work in the first place either.”
Lu Xuandong indifferently, “Oh, did dad promise? What about mom and grandma’s side?”
Lu Yunchen: “I told them that I wanted to pursue my dreams, and if they were going to stop me, it meant that their love for me was nothing more than that.”
Lu Xuandong sat up, took a deep breath, and called his brother’s full name, “Lu Yun Chen.”
Lu Yunchen, who noticed his elder brother’s tone was off, had a chill on his back, “What, what’s wrong?”
Lu Xuandong: “I raised a sister before you, and if she told me that I didn’t love her enough if I didn’t let her do something, I would have cleaned her up before arguing about the question of love or not.”
Q: As the daughter of a gambler and a human trafficker, Mei Xiangnan was able to go to elementary school thanks to the fact that she was born in a country where education is compulsory. How did she manage to excel in her studies in such an environment, without any bad habits, and even managed to get into a major high school on her own?
A: My brother keeps a tight rein.
There was no environment in the Meijia Village that allows Lu Xuandong to be gentle and patient, but whenever he was not firm enough in disciplining Mei Xiangnan, there were people who instill in her the idea that “a girl who learns so much will be fine if she marries someone else,” Lu Xuandong didn’t eat that kind of thing, and in order to allow his sister to have a way out other than marrying a man, he decisively lifted up the rolling pin.
So Mei Xiangnan may have grown up as a scholar under the intimidation of a rolling pin.
Until now, Lu Xuandong just needed a phone call, Mei Xiangnan would consciously bury herself in the mountain of books and the sea of learning.
What Lu Yunchen didn’t know was that Lu Xuandong’s adoptive mother was bullied by several men when she was crazy, and the Mei family’s gambler adoptive father was short, dry and skinny, and he dared to be angry about it, but only Lu Xuandong rushed out with a hoe, and he not only beat down several adult men, but one of them also broke his leg.
The one with the broken leg was the grandson of the village chief. After Lu Xuandong that, packed up his things in the night, and decisively fled from the mountain village carrying his mother and sister.
But not knowing his brother’s fighting strength didn’t mean Lu Yunchen didn’t fear this brother.
Still he mustered up the courage to say, “I just don’t want to take over from my family, I have my own things to do, I want to act and sing, I want to pursue music.”
Lu Xuandong: “So in your eyes, I’m the one who doesn’t have my own business, right?”
Lu Yunchen hurriedly denied, “No no! I didn’t think so, but our ambitions were originally different ah, so isn’t it just right for me to go to the entertainment industry and you to inherit Zhe Yue? This is the arrangement of fate!”
Lu Xuandong’s face was expressionless: “You’re only going to take the college entrance exam next year, think more about your future direction, the entertainment industry isn’t that good, I still have a week before I go back to my country, let’s talk about it then.”
Duh, he hung up the phone and lay back down, intending to sleep.
Lu Yunchen hugged his cell phone, only feeling that life was incredibly difficult.
Soon after the return of the Lu family, Lu Xuandong began to take some work from Lu Hao, and all completed beautifully, learning than Lu Xuandong was good, seemingly quiet, but came with a “not to be messed with” aura, Lu Yunchen at time had that kind of taste.
Obviously two people took the gene that the same pair of parents gave, but Lu Xuandong’s learning was as easy as eating and drinking water, there was also the absolute sound sense, on the looks and height, but also Lu Xuandong was more out of the ordinary.
Lu Yunchen touched his face, feeling that he was considered a top-notch looker even if he put in the inner recreation, but he looked mediocre compared to his continental grass level brother.
But Lu Xuandong really let Lu Yunchen fear, or a “ruthless” word.
Their uncle, Zhao Zhaoyan’s younger brother also worked in Zhe Yue, this uncle was also a graduate of a prestigious school, managing finances in Zhe Yue, holding a lot of shares, the outside world had always regarded him as Lu Hao’s beloved.
After noticing that Lu Yunchen was not interested in Zhe Yue, his uncle mentioned twice that he would help him manage the family business, so that he could pursue his dreams without fear, but when Lu Xuandong appeared, the uncle immediately broke out the “tax is not clean” package, and then Grandma Zhao went straight to Lu Xuandong crying, Zhao Zhao Zhaoyan and Lu Xuandong talked about it.
Lu Yunchen watched with his own eyes as this home suddenly filled with arguments, full of confusion and completely unsure of how things had gotten to such a point.
How does uncle have a problem with taxes? What does his problem blowing up have to do with brother? Why did Grandma and Mom decide that the brother did it?
As for the accusations of his relatives, Lu Xuandong only pretended not to hear them, and Zhao Zhaoyan was quickly coaxed by Lu Hao to take the resources given by her husband and join a drama group to play the role of a high-profile female supporting actress to go.
This incident began inexplicably and ended in a way that Lu Yunshen could not comprehend, and only when he learned that the country had begun to check taxes and several large companies had fallen prey. This uncle had a problem in the first place.
Lu Yunchen was also originally angry at his brother’s ruthlessness, and when he realized that his father had very joyfully gifted all of Uncle Zhao’s shares to his brother, and complimented him on the results of his work, Lu Yunchen winced.
As for mom? She positioned herself as “Mrs. Lu’s wife”, and her IQ was at its highest during the period when she snatched Lu Hao from her best friend, and she didn’t fall behind in the circle, but as long as Mrs. Lu’s position is still secure, she could still be a rich fairy for the rest of her life, and she was very good at ignoring some things.
After letting the things Lu Yunchen had not wanted to face surface, he realized that this family was not as harmonious and beautiful as he had imagined, and that the real dominant person in all the cruelty that his brother had laid down should have been his father.
Grandma Zhao said something later that made Lu Yunchen feel the same way.
“This house is full of mean people.”
Lu Yunchen felt that Grandma was right, and that not only was Dad, Mom, and Brother ruthless, but Grandma was ruthless as well, because Uncle was able to have delusional thoughts about Zhe Yue’s property, and her encouragement was inseparable.
Then the more Lu Yunchen did not want to take Zhe Yue’s,He had a sense of self-awareness. He understood that relying solely on his own limited abilities would not be enough to navigate the challenges and uncertainties ahead. It would be wiser to leave the family’s wealth and responsibilities to his older brother, who could handle the significant portion while he took on the burden of managing those aspects that didn’t involve cash or real estate, allowing him to enjoy a different kind of life.
Lu Yunchen wanted to be salty, his dad would 80% nod his head because Lu Yunchen really wasn’t capable enough, and mom should be upset for a while, but dad could handle her, and Grandma Zhao’s opinion on the other hand no longer mattered.
But what Lu Yunchen didn’t expect was that Lu Xuandong himself might not want to take over the job.
He lost his grip on the phone, “Why didn’t my brother say yes? Isn’t dad’s money enough to impress him?”
Lu Hao was also puzzled by this question, so after Lu Yunchen threw this query at him, he also called Lu Xuandong.
Lu Hao: “What the hell are you thinking? Isn’t it better to give you several billion dollars of Zhe Yue’s family business than to give it to your brother? Do you realize that by acquiescing to you moving your uncle, I am paving the way for you?”
Lu Xuandong who was woken up again, “Packing him up is to keep Zhe Yue, aren’t you clear about how unclean his ass is? If he’s not finished, we’ll be dragged along with him, and can you really give me Zhe Yue’s family business?”
Lu Hao: “Why didn’t I really give it to you?”
Lu Xuandong: “When you give it to me, you’ll be completely decentralized, and I’ll say what I want? You won’t tell me what to do? And I don’t have to burden Yunchen’s life from now on just because I took over the family business?”
Lu Hao choked, “He, he’s your brother! Moreover, Zhe Yue was at least founded by me, how come I don’t even have the authority to say something from now on?”
Lu Xuandong: “……”
He hung up again.
By the time the phone rang for the third time, Lu Xuandong had already begun to consider going to find a gentleman to do some calculations to see if he was in conflict with his relatives in this life.
The phone was open, and the opposite side never made a sound, Lu Xuandong was confused at first, and when the sound of the vehicle’s horn was transmitted along the other side, he immediately came to his senses.
Ah, the opposite side hung up the phone, Lu Xuandong hastily opened his cell phone and found that Xiao Qin team had already sent him several WeChat messages.
Qin Chunxiao [Have you eaten breakfast?]
Qin Chunxiao [Awake?]
And after that call ended, Qin Chunxiao sent another message.
Qin Chunxiao [I’ll meet you at the hotel].
Qin Chunxiao [Are you not feeling well?
Lu Xuandong [a bit of a cold, but I’ve gotten better, I’ll go down now, I haven’t had breakfast yet, we can eat together, wait for me].
He hurriedly washed, combed his hair neatly, put on several layers of clothing and a down jacket, hurried on his feet to the first floor of the hotel, and then stood in his place.
Qin Chunxiao stood straight in the doorway wearing a leather jacket, one hand in his pocket, the other carrying a bag of piroshki.
Leaving the volleyball court filled with giants, Lu Xuandong realized that the small Qin team was really a very tall and upright man, there were many people coming and going in front of the hotel, and Qin Chunxiao was not at all short compared to them.
Seeing Lu Xuandong approaching, Qin Chunxiao took a mask and handed it to him, Lu Xuandong obediently put it on, and then Qin Chunxiao placed his cell phone in front of him.
[Take you to the hospital.]
Lu Xuandong wanted to say that he was already better, but as if he knew what he meant, Qin Chunxiao raised his hand and pressed it on his forehead.
Low-grade fever. Still need to get it looked at.
See Lu Xuandong clothes were not thick enough, Qin Chunxiao put his “Misha Mouse” pattern of the scarf around his neck to give him a good wear. Seeing Lu Xuandong feet float, for fear that he fell again he took his hand.
Qin Chunxiao stopped the car and took Lu Xuandong to the nearest hospital to register for a checkup; he was already fluent in spoken Russian and had no trouble communicating with the doctor or reading the checklist.
The test results were pharyngitis, with anti-inflammatory medication, but no need for a hang infusion.
Lu Xuandong sat on the chair, his neck warm, his mind empty, the low fever put his mind in a stagnant state, but the whole person was not uncomfortable.
After that, Xiao Qin team took him to breakfast, there was piping hot porridge and sweet bread in the dining room, Qin Chunxiao didn’t move a single bite, Lu Xuandong didn’t have a good appetite but he knew that he couldn’t go without food, so he slowly took a fork and forked the food into his mouth.
While Lu Xuandong was eating, Qin Chunxiao went to the nearby mall to purchase clothes. In the Russian winter, wearing less would really cause an accident.
Lu Xuandong saw that he came back with a big bag and hurriedly fished out his wallet to give money, and Qin Chunxiao handed over the receipt.
5000 rubles of things, converted into rmb was more than six hundred yuan, Qin Chunxiao rarely deliberately picked expensive brand-name, practical and wearable was good, so this body of clothing was not expensive.
Qin Chunxiao [How long do you plan to stay here?
Lu Xuandong [One week.]
Qin Chunxiao [OK, then why don’t we just take this opportunity to spend our countdown more, and I’ll introduce you to a friend later].
After saying this, Qin Chunxiao started to add clothes to him, Lu Xuandong was wrapped up as a bear in only 1 minute, the only thing that made him more distressed was that there was a pair of plush pants inside, the outside was in the style of a sweatpants but the inside was full of wool, at a glance, he knew that it would be very warm but he couldn’t just change into it at the restaurant.
Changing your pants in public is hooliganism that will get the police called.
Qin Chunxiao also realized this, and he pulled out two thick knee pads, the kind of woolen knee pads that many people in China who rode electric bikes in the winter would wear, and they were especially long, able to wrap all the way up to Lu Xuandong’s thighs.
Knowing Lu Xuandong’s height was 193 centimeters, legs were also long, normal size clothing hangs on him was always very constricted, but this pair of knee pads could protect his calves, knees, mid thighs all the way up, one meter six people could completely wear this thing as pants.
Lu Xuandong’s movements were slow, and his exhaled breath was hot and dry, and he inevitably looked sluggish when wearing the knee pads, Qin Chunxiao simply squatted in front of him, and sharply pulled his legs into the knee pads, and zipped them up again.
Xiao Qin team even bought a few pairs of very thick wool socks and snow boots, Lu Xuandong silently put them on, sweating in the restaurant with the heater on, he consoled himself in his heart, after sweating the disease would be cured.
However, when they left the restaurant, the chilly wind outside immediately made Lu Xuandong glad that he had worn a full range of cold-proofing equipment.
Qin Chunxiao turned her head and smiled at him, holding up his cell phone in front of him.
It’s -22 degrees in St. Petersburg today.
Qin Chunxiao was still in the same leather jacket, only wearing a hat with ear protection and a mask with a mishap pattern, walking with his head held high and in high spirits, unaffected by the cold wind.
Lu Xuandong couldn’t open his eyes from the wind, so he could only keep his head down and be led forward by Team Xiao Qin.
As he walked, he realized that the direction they were heading was not to the hotel.
Lu Xuandong turned his nearly burnt out brain with difficulty and pondered over a question.
He was now so weak that three or more fit adult males would have been enough to drag him into a dark alley and rob him of all his money, and as he did not know his way around St. Petersburg and did not understand Russian, there was a certain probability of his dying in the streets if his money and papers were taken away from him, and he was thrown at the intersection.
Little Team Qin wasn’t a grown man, but he was a six-foot-eight athlete with single-digit body fat! Ninety percent of grown men were not as healthy and strong as him.
Even if Lu Xuandong wasn’t sick, it would have been difficult for him to defeat Team Qin without a weapon in hand. They had the potential to take away all his money and even endanger his life by throwing him into the sea.
Ordinarily, weak individuals wouldn’t willingly accompany such menacing people to unfamiliar places, as they would be at their mercy if the other party acted recklessly.
However, Lu Xuandong continued to move forward with the Xiao Qin team, undeterred. He felt a calmness within his heart, accompanied by an indescribable sense of security.
Li Ling was humming in the kitchen, drinking congee and nibbling on a sandwich, which Xiao Zai had left for him for breakfast.
Qin Chunxiao said, “My friend came to Russia to watch our game and froze and caught a cold, I’d like to take him to the apartment to rest for a few days, he’ll share a room with me, do you mind?”
Li Ling: “Of course I don’t mind, your friend is my friend, they came all the way here to watch our game, how can we let them stay in the hotel alone when they are sick, in case they have a high fever, no one will take care of them.”
Qin Chunxiao let out a laugh, holding Lu Xuandong walked for a few minutes, entered a cell, pressed the code lock on the door of the unit building, went in, got on the elevator, and finally went to the 2nd floor, and used the key to open the first door on the left.
Hearing the sound of the door opening, Li Ling turned back cheerfully, “Xiao Zai, you’re back~ Hello friend, I’m Li Ling, what’s your name”
Lu Xuandong, who recognized Li Ling, was a bit at a loss for words, he clenched his fists and was thinking about how he was going to introduce himself to Team Qin’s partner, when Qin ChunXiao had already opened his mouth in a very bashful manner.
“He’s Lu Xuandong, my soulmate.”
Li Ling pulled out his ears, “What mate?”
Qin Chunxiao: “Soulmates, implicitly, but we’re just friends, so don’t get any ideas, and don’t tell anyone else that I have a soulmate.”
Qin Chunxiao didn’t tell anyone else about this, including his parents, because in the eyes of the public, soulmates were equivalent to “lovers”, and this year’s 16-year-old Qin Chunxiao really didn’t want to explain to her parents, “I really don’t intend to fall in love with Lu Xuandong.” “Yes, we’re just friends”.
So he wasn’t going to let everyone find out about his friendship with Lu Xuandong until the countdown was over.
But if he wanted Lu Xuandong to move into the apartment and brush his countdown, he still had to say hello to Er Leng, Qin Chunxiao pondered for a while and realized that his heart rejects talking to his parents about this matter, but it was okay to talk to Er Leng.
That’s probably the difference between a parent and a brother.
The milk tea hamster thermos cup in Li Ling’s hand clattered to the floor.
Qin Chunxiao was the only calm person in the room, he went up and knocked on Li Ling’s head and admonished, “Wake up, you’re my best friend, so you’re the first person outside of Xuandong and I to know about this, I’m going to the hotel now to pick up Xuandong’s luggage, so wash the bowls after you finish your breakfast.”
Then he patted Lu Xuandong’s back like he was calming a child, pushed him to sit on the sofa, took Lu Xuandong room card from the hotel, and opened the door to go out again.
There was only silence in the room, and Li Ling’s mouth was open, his mind swirling with words.
“You’re my best friend.” You’re my best friend too!
“He’s my soulmate.” When did you get a soul mate?
Joy and surprise swirled around and around in Er Leng’s brain, making him uncontrollably giddy.
At this time, Lu Xuandong was instead the one with a clear brain, he stood up holding onto the sofa, helped Li Ling pick up the thermos cup, placed it in his hand, and greeted him with a smile, “Hello, I’m Lu Xuandong.”
Li Ling stammered, “You, hello.”
Lu Xuandong: “When Chunxiao said to me that he was going to introduce me to someone, I guessed it was you, and I was right.”
Li Ling’s chest stood up unconsciously.
