Red Line Resurrection Chapter 91

Chapter 91

At 4:30 in the afternoon, the entrance of Huahua Kindergarten was crowded with parents coming to pick up their children from school.

Although there were many people, the order was very orderly, and most of them were picked up by nannies or housekeepers. Everyone did not seem impatient. They just looked eagerly at the clusters of children wearing yellow lace hats, uniforms and schoolbags running out like joy, and accurately found their goals among them.

Shen Lingjun is usually very active after school and often rushes out of the kindergarten first, but today he was a little late in making the invitation letter, so he stayed at the end of the crowd and walked out slowly.

But he seemed to see something suddenly. As soon as his eyes lit up, he hurriedly accelerated his pace. Liang Jian squatted down and steadily caught Shen Lingjun who was rushing toward him.

“Brother!” Shen Lingjun called him crisply. She was so happy that she couldn’t help fluttering in his arms. Her hat tilted back and her hair was messy. But her big eyes were bright. She looked at Liang Ji’an and called him in a long voice, “Brother… I miss you so much.”

Liang Ji’an said: “Didn’t we still have dinner together in the morning?”

Shen Lingjun thought for a while and said, “But you haven’t come to pick me up from school for a long time.”

Liang Ji’an held him with one hand and opened the car door with the other hand. However, Shen Lingjun tightly hugged Liang Ji’an’s neck with his two short arms and refused to let go. Her whole body clung to him like a sticky cake, as if she was afraid that Liang Ji’an would disappear in the next second.

“Junjun.” Liang Ji’an coaxed him, “Be good.”

Shen Lingjun turned his face, hesitated for a while, and finally got into the car at his words. When Liang Ji’an also sat in the back seat, he quickly leaned over and took out the invitation letter he had worked so hard for all afternoon from his schoolbag.

“Brother, can you come to my graduation ceremony at three o’clock on Friday afternoon?” Shen Lingjun said the words he had silently rehearsed two or three times in his mind completely and smoothly, and then pushed the invitation letter to him. “The teacher asked us to send the invitation letter to the person we like the most. I made two copies and one for my mother.”

Liang Ji’an opened the invitation letter. Considering that the child could not write much, the kindergarten printed everything except the name. Shen Lingjun carefully wrote his name with a pencil, and put various stickers next to it. On the back, he drew two stick figures holding hands with watercolor pens.

There are also a bunch of small flowers and grass dotted around the feet of the two people, which shows that they have been painted with great care.

Liang Ji’an carefully put the invitation away and promised him, “Okay, I will go on time.”

“Is it the performance you told me about before?”

Shen Lingjun straightened his back and nodded.

A month ago, their class decided on the play for the performance, which was an adapted version of “Puss in Boots”. Because every child who wanted to participate had a chance to show their face, the change was only about 50% similar to the original story in the end.

“There’s another one.” Shen Lingjun opened his mouth and ate the orange peeled by Liang Jian for him. He felt a little embarrassed talking about another character for some reason, “I want to help the next class play the princess who has been sleeping.”

Liang Ji’an listened to his intermittently explanation and finally understood why he came to make a guest appearance.

The class next door adopts a campaign system. The role of the prince is played by a very heroic girl. She is the tallest in the whole class and the most suitable. As a result, the other boys are frustrated when they see that the hero role they want to fight for is not available. Even the princess role, which has never had a role and is only a background, no one is willing to play.

The teacher had no choice but to borrow Shen Lingjun.

Shen Lingjun didn’t have any objections, and he had a good personality. He could make new friends quickly wherever he went. He was neither restrained nor overly public. A string of children followed him all day long, vying to play with him.

Liang Ji’an listened to him enthusiastically share with him the interesting things that happened in the kindergarten recently. In his opinion, those things were so ordinary and even boring, because he had never had such an experience. Most of his courses from kindergarten to elementary school were completed at home, and the corresponding teacher would come to his home every day to teach him.

He hates the noisy classmates in school.

But these things are all about Shen Lingjun. Everything that comes out of his mouth becomes special because it is filled with his various emotions.

Liang Ji’an was rarely distracted.

In the year when Shen Lingjun was about to graduate from kindergarten at the age of six and a half, an inevitable practical problem was once again placed in front of Liang Ji’an.

His studies are doubling year by year. Although Liang Ji’an can take care of it for the time being, the matter of going abroad is becoming more and more urgent. According to the original plan, he should have studied abroad three years ago.

But three years ago, Shen Lingjun had just arrived at the Liang family.

Liang Ji’an’s plan was repeatedly disrupted. His original plan to wait for Shen Lingjun to adapt to life in the Liang family before leaving gradually changed to waiting for him to be one year older, and then gradually delayed it. Until now, he didn’t even know how to speak to Shen Lingjun.

Although his time to take care of Shen Lingjun is getting shorter and shorter, it does not affect the child’s attachment to him. Liang Ji’an used to think about too few things, and he was the only one in his stipulated life from beginning to end. But now that Shen Lingjun has intervened, Liang Ji’an is happy to rearrange his plans.

He looked down at Shen Lingjun, who was sitting in his arms counting candies, at the top of his plush hair, at his long eyelashes and cheeks with obvious baby fat. He also heard Shen Lingjun humming a children’s song he had just learned not long ago because he was in a good mood.

Until those big eyes suddenly crashed into his sight.

Shen Lingjun looked up at him, his round eyes blinking with a bit of doubt and confusion, “Brother, why haven’t you spoken?”

Liang Ji’an was startled for a moment, and could not recover for a long time when he looked at his pupils that were as clear as ink. In a trance, he seemed to hear a drop of water falling into the empty valley. It was light and fleeting, but the tremor left behind made Liang Ji’an clearly realize that for him, there was still a unique and irreplaceable connection between relatives in this world.

There are so many children of the same generation as him in the Liang family, but Liang Ji’an never wants to be anyone’s elder brother or younger brother, but it is Shen Lingjun…it is Shen Lingjun.

This little one came to him by accident.

He is very happy to be Shen Lingjun’s brother.

He will always be Shen Lingjun’s brother.

“Listening to Junjun singing.” Liang Ji’an rubbed his hair, “Singing too softly, I have to stay quiet to hear clearly.”

Shen Lingjun suddenly felt a little embarrassed. He sorted the candies according to color and put them back into his own snack box. He whispered: “I will sing to you when I get home. The teacher said I sang very well!”

Liang Ji’an smiled. The words he originally wanted to say seemed particularly inappropriate in the warm and peaceful atmosphere at this moment, so he swallowed them all in the end.

Shen Lingjun didn’t know what Liang Ji’an was thinking, but he vaguely sensed that his brother was not in a good mood. This was too rare for Liang Ji’an. Shen Lingjun thought for a while and said, “Brother, I will sing to you now.”

He turned his face and looked at Liang Jian and said seriously: “Don’t be unhappy.”

*

At 2:30 on Friday afternoon, the auditorium of Huahua Kindergarten was packed.

There are less than 400 students in this kindergarten, but the auditorium is built according to the regulation of 2,000 people. Under such circumstances, it can still be full. Obviously every child has more than one favorite person.

Kindergarten teaches them a truth very early on. Children do not have to make choices when faced with certain unnecessary problems.

Liang Ji’an and Ms. Shen Junhe sat together, both holding a program list in their hands. Shen Lingjun’s two programs were separated by nearly half an hour, so that he would not be in a hurry.

Although the two of them are nominally the closest people to Shen Lingjun, they don’t seem to be very familiar with each other. They didn’t exchange a few words from when they sat down until Shen Lingjun came on stage. They just nodded to each other when they met. Now they can’t spare any energy to focus on anything else. They look at Shen Lingjun who is trotting on the stage in an unusually synchronized manner.

The child was wearing a custom-made orange cat doll suit, with a pair of blunt-shaped boots on his feet, and a few cat whiskers on most of his exposed face. He walked to the center of the stage, first bent down and bowed, and then quickly found his position and set up his pose, waiting for the opening music.

There are not many lines in the fairy tale, and the rich body movements are easier for children to remember. He straightened his back, and the tail behind him swayed with his running and jumping movements. He circled the field and helped his master to scare away the sparrows squatting by the mill, the rabbits lying on the grass, and the old cows working in the paddy fields. Then he took them and stood in front of the master as if he had won trophies.

He raised his face and still had no lines, but the expression on his face was very vivid. He frowned for a while and then smiled and curled his eyes. Finally, he crossed his arms and nodded seriously with a cold face as if he had taken on some new task.

At the curtain call, this kitten who helped its owner successfully escape poverty and become rich was very proud. He put his hands on his hips and cutely accepted the applause from the audience. When he saw his mother and brother sitting below, he couldn’t help but tiptoe and bounce a few times on the spot. The ears on his head also bounced along with it. Coupled with his sweet smile, it made people’s hearts melt.

The young actors, like a connected flock of sheep, left the stage in an orderly manner at the instruction of the teacher.

Liang Ji’an was not interested in the upcoming program. He just looked through the photos he had just taken carefully. Before he finished looking through them, Shen Lingjun’s guest princess role had already appeared.

This character really saves effort. As soon as the curtain opened, the little princess was already sleeping peacefully and sweetly on the bed surrounded by flowers.

For the first time, Liang Ji’an experienced the anxiety of being a parent.

He was a little worried that Shen Lingjun really fell asleep.

After all, the child’s sleep quality is a bit too good. Every time I hold a pillow in his room and ask his brother to tell him a bedtime story, Shen Lingjun will fall asleep completely before he can finish reading the first two paragraphs.

Liang Jian kept looking at him closely, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief until the princess slowly woke up when the prince held her hand and kissed her on the back of her hand.

But it can be seen that Shen Lingjun is indeed sleepy, his expression is a little dazed, and his eyes are slightly confused.

In the end, he was carried off the stage by the teacher.

Huahua Kindergarten has a lot of money. Whether it is doll clothes or princess dresses, they are all customized and given to the young actors after the performance.After receiving the child, Shen Junhe became more playful, coaxing and coaxing: “The baby is so beautiful, can you please wear the clothes for a while longer and show it to mother?”

He didn’t wear that blond wavy wig, but his sister’s original hair style was with a princess crown. No matter how satisfied Shen Junhe was, she didn’t want to take it off for him. She held Shen Lingjun’s face and kissed her several times.

Shen Lingjun’s double eyelids almost formed three creases. He couldn’t receive Shen Junhe’s words at all. He nodded confusedly and looked at Liang Ji’an again, “Brother, did I perform well?”

Liang Ji’an straightened his sweaty forehead and said gently: “Junjun acted very well.”

Shen Lingjun got the answer he wanted and fell asleep happily in his mother’s arms.

The three of them were silent all the way until the car that came to pick them up stopped at the door. Liang Jian suddenly said: “I have to go abroad in two months.”

“Originally I planned to take him with me.”

“But now that I think about it, it would be a very cruel thing for you and him to separate him from his mother too early.”

“Also, at this stage, I really can’t put all my energy into him. Even if I want to, people’s time is limited. If I forcefully take him with me and fail to take care of him, I will be very dissatisfied with myself.”

“If he stays with you, he will at least get more complete love and companionship.”

Shen Junhe was not surprised by his words, but she was still a little surprised that a boy under fifteen years old could make such a decision so decisively, “I thought you would at least ask him what he thought.”

Liang Jian took Shen Lingjun from her arms, patted his back gently to prevent him from waking up, paused for a while and then said, “He can’t give an answer.”

Shen Junhe sighed lightly.

*

Liang Ji’an made a decision, but how to speak to Shen Lingjun was difficult. He thought for a long time and chose an afternoon when Shen Lingjun was in a good mood to tell him about it.

In fact, Shen Lingjun rarely was in a bad mood, but Liang Ji’an rarely hesitated and delayed. At the moment when he could no longer escape, he could only say two or three sentences and a few seconds.

Shen Lingjun had just finished watching an episode of Yellow Sponge at that time. After listening to Liang Ji’an’s words, he neither cried nor collapsed. It seemed that his brain was slow to respond. He was stunned for two or three minutes before saying, “Brother, do you have to leave?”

Liang Ji’an responded, “Yes.”

Shen Lingjun asked again: “Will you definitely come back?”

Liang Jian replied: “Yes.”

“Oh…” Shen Lingjun said a syllable dryly, hugged the pillow in his hand tightly, and realized something belatedly. His eyes turned red, and tears fell down, “But I will miss you very much.”

He suddenly felt that half of his world had collapsed. As soon as Liang Ji’an left, he would no longer be able to wait for his brother to feed him, see his brother pick him up at the school gate, and watch cartoons with him or listen to him talk about so many things that happened in the kindergarten.

Even though these moms can do it too, it’s just not the same.

He cried so hard that Liang Ji’an was so coaxed that he was helpless. But even so, Shen Lingjun never said a word from beginning to end that he didn’t want Liang Ji’an to leave. He knew that his brother had his own things to do, and Liang Ji’an was always right with him.

Tears flowed faster than they could be wiped away. Shen Lingjun sobbed and said, “Will you come back to see me often?”

“Of course.” Liang Ji’an put his forehead against his and comforted him, “You know my brother won’t lie.”

Shen Lingjun listened to him repeat it several times, and finally managed to stop his tears. He took out two pieces of paper and blew his nose hard. He lowered his head and looked at his hands and said, “Okay, I understand.”

Not only did he not make trouble unreasonably, he even seemed very reasonable. During the time he grew up next to Liang Jian, the establishment of family ties was like an invisible net that enveloped him. He had gained a strong sense of security, which was enough for a child.

He won’t be afraid, nor will he worry about gains and losses.

But this did not prevent him from crying for a while every day when he thought about his brother going abroad.

But fortunately, the child’s attention was easily diverted, and Liang stayed with him wholeheartedly, spending his longest summer vacation so far.

By the time Liang Ji’an actually set out, Shen Lingjun was much calmer than expected.

Although he soon burst into tears, lying in Liang Ji’an’s arms and clutching his clothes tightly, trying to stay in bed for as long as possible, he didn’t resist much when his mother reached out to take him, and just waved her hand towards Liang Ji’an with a face that was not crying properly.

“Goodbye brother.”

Liang Jian bent down and pressed the side of his face against Shen Lingjun’s cheek, wiping away most of his tears.

“Lingjun.” He whispered, “Don’t cry.”

The airport was crowded. Liang Ji’an looked at Shen Lingjun through the crowd. He was not as calm as Shen Lingjun saw. He clearly realized that time was misplaced for them.

Shen Lingjun will suddenly grow up a lot when he can’t see it, and until one day, this growth will become concrete one by one. Shen Lingjun will no longer childishly sing children’s songs, tell him about the insignificant things around him, and will not fill his pockets with snacks to share with him at any time.

Even the steps towards his arms were not as joyful as when she was a child.

But he will still run towards Liang Ji’an without hesitation.