MLROCSHR Chapter 43

Chapter 43: Not Wanting to Separate

Chapter 43: Not Wanting to Separate

Go home?

From the moment he left the Lian Family Manor/Estate, he no longer had a home.

Lian Xun raised his head to look at Qi Luzhi and asked, “Do you want me to go back?”

The car’s interior lights were dim, Qi Luzhi’s face hidden in the shadows, not clearly visible.

After a long while, he slowly opened his mouth, “If you want to go back, then go back. If you don’t want to go back, then don’t.”

“Oh.” Lian Xun slightly curved the corners of his lips and continued to lean on Qi Luzhi’s shoulder, closing his eyes to rest.

He could tell that Qi Luzhi wanted him to stay, didn’t want to separate from him, but just wouldn’t say it directly.

Qi Luzhi was always like this!

The car returned to silence, Qi Luzhi lowered his eyes without speaking, but his tightly pursed lips and tense jawline betrayed his emotions.

What did ‘Oh’ mean? Was Lian Xun going home for the New Year?

Wouldn’t that mean being separated for many days?

After a while, Lian Xun heard Qi Luzhi say, “It’s going to snow heavily in a few days, flights probably won’t be able to fly.”

Lian Xun: “It’s okay, it doesn’t snow every day.”

Qi Luzhi: “Tickets for the New Year are tight, they’re hard to buy, right?”

Lian Xun: “As long as the money is there, there’s nothing you can’t buy.”

Qi Luzhi: “…”

The car stopped at the villa gate, and Qi Luzhi got out of the car without saying a word, walking inside without looking back.

Even from his back view, you could see the extremely low pressure emanating from his whole body. Lian Xun hurriedly quickened his pace to catch up, grabbing Qi Luzhi’s hand to appease him, “Don’t worry, I’m not leaving.”

Qi Luzhi looked at him, puzzled.

Lian Xun shrugged indifferently, his tone deliberately light, “I’ve long been kicked out of the house, what home do I have to go back to?”

“Why don’t you have a home? Isn’t this your home?” Qi Luzhi held Lian Xun’s hand tighter, his face visibly changing from cloudy to clear.

“Yes, yes, yes, let’s go home.” Lian Xun chuckled, how was he like a little kid, needing to be coaxed.

After entering the house, Qi Luzhi helped Lian Xun take off his coat and considerately brought slippers for him to put on.

Lian Xun had moved in for so long, and he was still wearing Qi Luzhi’s slippers.

“Let’s go shopping at the mall again tomorrow, there aren’t any slippers that fit you at home,” Qi Luzhi said.

Lian Xun looked down at the shoes that were one size too big, and replied, “Okay, then let’s just buy matching couple ones, and couple toothbrushes, couple cups…” Lian Xun counted the things he wanted, his face full of longing.

“Buy whatever you like,” Qi Luzhi smiled dotingly.

Now they lived together in the master bedroom, because although they had been living separately for a while, every night either Qi Luzhi found an excuse to run to Lian Xun’s room, or Lian Xun found an excuse to run to Qi Luzhi’s room.

Later, both of them found it troublesome, so they simply lived together.

These days, Lian Xun no longer felt sad about his mother’s matter. It wasn’t that he had let it go, but on the one hand, he didn’t want Qi Luzhi to worry about him anymore, and on the other hand, he needed to consider the matter carefully. A gentleman takes revenge, ten years is not too late.

Originally, he didn’t plan to go back to the Lian family, but now he had changed his mind. He would go back one day, and he would go back in a big way.

In the capacity of the Lian family’s only heir!

Wasn’t Lian Feng dreaming of becoming the Lian family’s heir? He just wouldn’t let him get his wish.

Right now, with only a letter, Lian Feng would definitely deny it to the death. But it didn’t matter, Lian Feng had done too many dirty things. He would collect them one by one, completely ruining Lian Feng, the culprit who killed his mother, and leaving him with nothing!

…

On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar year, Aunt Liu came early in the morning with two people to do the final cleaning, and also brought a lot of her own dried cured meat for Qi Luzhi.

Seeing that Lian Xun was also there, Aunt Liu smiled very happily, just like looking at her own daughter-in-law.

Learning that Lian Xun was going to spend the New Year with Qi Luzhi, Aunt Liu was even more gratified, holding Lian Xun’s hand and exhorting, “You must be good to each other. In the past, he always spent the New Year alone, I felt sorry for him when I saw it. I asked him to come to my house for New Year’s Eve dinner, but he wouldn’t come.”

Lian Xun smiled embarrassedly, “Auntie, don’t worry, I will spend the New Year with him every year from now on.”

Hearing Lian Xun’s words, a hard-to-describe warmth surged into Qi Luzhi’s heart like a tide, causing ripples in the lake of his heart.

He had long been accustomed to a solitary and independent lifestyle. The past holidays were just ordinary days among the 365 days of the year.

But at this moment, perhaps because there was Lian Xun by his side, this New Year actually gave him such a strong feeling of anticipation for the first time in his life.

Spending the New Year with the person you like must be very happy, he thought.

Aunt Liu chatted with them for a while, then went to get busy. The annual cleaning was not as simple as ordinary cleaning, it took a lot of effort. It took three people a whole morning to clean up.

Lian Xun and Qi Luzhi planned to tidy up the garden. Since those snowdrops were planted, they hadn’t been taken care of much. Some of them were not growing well and looked like they were about to wither.

Lian Xun said they could find a gardener to take care of them, but Qi Luzhi insisted on doing it himself.

He said that this was a gift from Lian Xun, and he couldn’t bear to let others touch it.

Hearing this, how could Lian Xun not be happy? He had no choice but to help Qi Luzhi take care of them together.

Qi Luzhi dug out the poorly growing flowers and handed them to Lian Xun. Lian Xun threw them into a cardboard box, and then handed the new seedlings to Qi Luzhi to plant back.

The two of them cooperated tacitly, and it really looked like something.

After Aunt Liu cleaned the villa inside and out, Qi Luzhi and Lian Xun were also almost done. Before leaving, Lian Xun picked out two boxes of hairy crabs and ginseng, insisting that Aunt Liu take them back.

“Auntie, you’re so good to us, and you even brought us cured meat to eat. Please accept these things.”

Aunt Liu repeatedly declined, “No, no, this is too valuable, I can’t take it.”

She was good to Qi Luzhi because she felt sorry for this child, not because she wanted to gain any benefits from it.

“Aunt Liu, please take them, if you don’t accept them, Lian Xun and I will be embarrassed to eat your cured meat.”

The two of them were so insistent that Aunt Liu couldn’t refuse any longer, “Then, then thank you, I’ll bring you some mutton dumplings to try tomorrow night, they’re very delicious.”

“Okay, thank you, Auntie.” Lian Xun replied with a smile.

After seeing Aunt Liu off, Lian Xun sat on the sofa, planning to rest for a while. Qi Luzhi walked around the house a few times, then came to Lian Xun’s side, “What are we going to do next? Do we need to paste up the couplets? Do we also need to buy some fireworks? It seems like we have to set off fireworks on New Year’s Eve.”

Lian Xun slumped on the sofa, not wanting to move. He tugged at Qi Luzhi’s sleeve, asking him to sit down, “The couplets are pasted up tomorrow. We need to buy fireworks, and firecrackers too. Let’s rest for a while, then go in the afternoon.”

Qi Luzhi didn’t sit for two minutes before pulling Lian Xun up again, “Let’s go now, and buy some groceries on the way. The two of us have to prepare a good New Year’s Eve dinner. What do you want to eat? I’ll make it for you tomorrow.”

Looking at Qi Luzhi’s uncharacteristically talkative appearance, Lian Xun found it both funny and heartwarming.

This was probably the first time in so many years that he had properly celebrated the New Year.