ATBWSTBP Chapter 45
by VolareAfter Jin Baiyan internally processed his emotions for over ten minutes, his mood gradually calmed down.
He understood that the person in front of him was special to him.
But he instinctively felt a sense of fear!
He decided to continue to shut himself off! To continue living his bland, uneventful life.
Such a life may not seem exciting, but it allowed him to find peace!
In a remote mountain village like this, wasn’t peace the most important thing!
Otherwise, why would he have chosen to settle down here!
Having found his direction, Jin Baiyan reverted to his original indifference and aloofness.
Jin Mo completely observed the emotional changes in the person opposite him.
He chuckled bitterly in his heart.
His brother had retreated back into his shell again!
Fortunately, he was mentally prepared and wouldn’t feel sad about it, nor would he give up!
If he could pry Jin Baiyan out of his shell once, he could do it a second time!
Seeing the person opposite him close the book and prepare to leave, he woke up at the opportune moment.
Jin Baiyan saw that Jin Mo was awake, paused his movements, then picked up the book, stood up, walked to the bookshelf, and placed it back in its original position.
Standing in front of the bookshelf, he thought for a moment, then walked back to the desk, picked up the cup of milk tea he had taken a sip from.
If he hadn’t drunk from it, he could have just left, but since he had taken a sip, it wouldn’t be right to leave it on the table.
“Thank you!” Having not spoken for a long time, his voice was very hoarse.
Jin Mo smiled as he looked at him. “You’re welcome!”
Jin Baiyan turned and walked towards the door.
Jin Mo stood up with a “whoosh,” and as he passed Xu Jiahao, he patted him.
“Let’s go!”
Xu Jiahao was still complaining to Xiao Feiwu and the others about Jin Mo’s bizarre behavior when he was startled by Jin Mo’s pat.
Jin Baiyan, wearing a straw hat he had pulled out of nowhere, walked slowly ahead.
Jin Mo held onto Xu Jiahao with one hand and shielded them from the sunlight that occasionally filtered through the trees with the other.
“How was it? Did you get anything out of him?” Xu Jiahao knew that Jin Mo had been asleep but asked him anyway on purpose.
Jin Mo thought for a moment and shook his head.
“I never intended to get anything out of him!”
Xu Jiahao looked puzzled.
Jin Mo fanned himself and explained slowly.
“You don’t know, once my brother retreats into his shell, it’s very difficult to pry him open.”
“When I was three years old, I met my brother. He was five then, didn’t speak, didn’t smile, didn’t cry, like a doll.”
“I’ve been a chatterbox since I was a kid!”
“I thought it was strange that this older brother never spoke!”
“Hehe!” Jin Mo couldn’t help but laugh when he thought of his childhood.
“I was an orphan, remembered things early! I vaguely knew that I was an unwanted child, so I desperately wanted to please my brother!”
“That way, Uncle Jin wouldn’t send me back to the Little Mo’s Orphanage!”
“At that time, I was like a frog, croaking endlessly in front of my brother!”
“Really, I’m not lying to you. Uncle Jin still has videos of me from that time!”
“Talking non-stop, saying whatever came to mind! My mouth never stopped!”
“I kept talking to myself for almost half a year before my brother, probably annoyed beyond endurance, reluctantly opened his mouth.”
Xu Jiahao couldn’t help but giggle non-stop.
“Don’t laugh, really! Although my brother started speaking, I wasn’t satisfied.”
“He couldn’t just say ‘Mm’ or ‘Oh’ after I said a long string of words, so I continued to croak in his ear.”
Jin Mo spoke while smiling.
“Finally, my brother started saying ‘Shut up’ or ‘Go away,’ oh right, and ‘Don’t bother me,’ hahaha, it cracks me up! Every time I watch Uncle Jin’s video, I admire myself even more.”
“Back then, I was just a little kid! But I already understood the principle of ‘pounding an iron rod into a needle’! Hahaha!”
“Oh, right, that wasn’t good enough either. Uncle Jin said he wanted my brother to speak normally, which meant saying more words!”
“So I continued to work hard! Not only did I talk myself, but I also demanded that my brother talk to me!”
“By then, I had become familiar with my brother and wasn’t afraid of him, so I clung to him every day!”
“If he didn’t talk to me, I would hold onto him and refuse to let go!”
“In the end, my brother was afraid of me!”
“Hahaha!”
“He had to say a hundred sentences to me every day, each sentence with five or six words. Oh, if there were more words, my brother would refuse to open his mouth, no way!”
“It took about two or three years before the number of words my brother spoke began to increase, but even then, it was only when necessary. If it wasn’t necessary, he would say as little as possible, if he could avoid speaking, he wouldn’t!”
Jin Mo’s eyes were fixed on the figure about ten meters away, his eyes sparkling, and his expression was radiant.
“So, what’s this little thing?”
Xu Jiahao couldn’t help but give Jin Mo a thumbs up!
“Then how long do you plan to take to win over your brother this time?”
Jin Mo thought for a moment. He had been full of confidence just now, but suddenly he felt a lot less sure.
“I don’t know, my brother is not the child he used to be, the difficulty of Guideing him is probably much higher!”
Xu Jiahao chuckled twice and patted Jin Mo on the shoulder.
“Young man, keep going!”
The two of them were sweating profusely from the heat, panting as they walked.
Jin Baiyan in front remained calm and composed!
Perfectly Interpretationing what it means to have a calm mind that naturally feels cool.
He naturally knew that there were tails following behind!
And the tails were exceptionally active, chattering away.
He couldn’t hear what they were saying, only occasionally catching snippets of laughter.
He “hmph”-ed, pulled the straw hat further down, and quickened his pace down the mountain.
The two behind him quickly followed.
“Are we going to get beaten up for following so openly?”
Xu Jiahao had been following and taking pictures for many years, always secretly, never so openly, so he felt a little guilty.
Jin Mo blinked.
“There’s only one road down the mountain, how can you call it following! We’re just going the same way!”
Xu Jiahao muttered, “Sophistry!”
Jin Mo raised his leg and wanted to kick him. He had seen people gilding themselves, but never someone smearing themselves.
The three of them, one in front and two behind, walked for half an hour down the mountain path, finally reaching the foot of the mountain.
The shade made it much cooler.
“I wonder where my brother is going?”
Jin Mo muttered as he pulled Xu Jiahao a few steps forward, afraid of losing sight of his brother in the blink of an eye.
“Can’t lose him!”
Xu Jiahao rolled his eyes. With a track expert like him around, how could they possibly lose him!
Jin Mo grinned, he forgot he had a professional by his side!
The person in front turned right after descending the mountain, and continued forward along a small road beside the mountain, passing Slow Residence along the way, and finally entered the greenhouse base.
Jin Mo and Xu Jiahao were dumbfounded.
“Is my brother growing vegetables here?” Jin Mo stared with wide eyes, full of disbelief.
Xu Jiahao shook his head, pursed his lips, and put on a profound look.
“You think, could he also be here to buy vegetables?”
Jin Mo suddenly realized and nodded repeatedly, “Right, right, buying vegetables, buying vegetables, my brother is a good cook, so naturally he buys his own vegetables and cooks his own meals! Haha, I misunderstood just now!”
“No wonder Boss Cai said your brother’s eyes looked familiar! He comes to buy vegetables every day, looking at those eyes every day, how could he not be familiar!”
The two squatted by the roadside in the bushes, exchanging information while staring at the greenhouse not far away.
Jin Baiyan walked around the greenhouse, picked five or six bell peppers, a handful of okra, and a white radish, and prepared to leave.
He looked up and saw the two guys squatting not far outside the transparent plastic shed!
He couldn’t help but frown.
The temperature was almost thirty degrees, and the two outside were obviously very hot, constantly fanning themselves with their hands.
He couldn’t help but feel annoyed.
He walked out of the greenhouse, paid the bill, and quickly returned.
The two obviously did not expect the person they were following to make a sudden U-turn, and they panicked, almost falling into the ditch by the roadside.
Jin Baiyan passed by Jin Mo, raised his eyebrows, glanced at him, and walked straight ahead.
Jin Mo was stunned by that look from his brother!