TRMLCM Chapter 88

Chapter 88: White Furry Strip

Chapter 88: White Furry Strip

At half past five in the morning, the sky was still dark, but the rain had stopped. Under the yellow light, the pile of firewood had extinguished at some point, and the tragic afterglow of the ashes had long been exhausted. The wide courtyard was only a wet ground and small pools of water.

Grandma Liu steadily walked across the courtyard with her flashlight, seeing the open door, she turned off the flashlight without hesitation and went inside.

“Chang’an, you…”

Her words suddenly stopped, looking at the two people in front of the mourning hall, her eyes froze for a moment.

“Uh…”

She wanted to say something, but seeing the man sitting and slowly burning paper money quickly turn his head, his sharp gaze warning her, her heart skipped a beat, and it took her several seconds to react.

Paying attention to the movements of the person beside him, after a few seconds of silence, the coldness in his eyes slowly receded, and he calmly returned his gaze, unhurriedly continuing his actions.

Grandma Liu let out a soft breath, her footsteps subconsciously lightening. She walked to the brazier, casually grabbed a stool and sat down, her rough and wrinkled hands also picking up the pile of paper money beside her and burning it in the fire.

She was plump, and although she was old, her face still had a layer of collagen, and the wrinkles were still shallow. She raised her head, her turbid eyes glancing over there again and again.

She had met the man before, and he was not too unfamiliar to her.

Grandma Liu glanced at Shen Chang’an, who was wrapped tightly in a thick blanket, leaning his head on the man’s shoulder and sleeping soundly. The curiosity in her heart couldn’t be stopped, and finally overcame the trembling she had felt just now. After a few seconds of silence, she lowered her voice and asked softly:

“Are you Chang’an’s friend? Did you come back today?”

Cheng Yi steadied his shoulder, his body unmoving, only his head turned, his dark eyes staring at her, his sharply defined chin raised slightly, and he nodded slightly.

“Do you work in the city?”

Cheng Yi nodded again, still not speaking.

Her hands kept working, seeing his cold attitude, Grandma Liu glanced at the person beside her with her eyes closed, and let out a sound as if she understood.

Grandma Liu looked at that delicate and well-behaved face and shook her head slightly, the usually proud eyebrows becoming calm and kind, her eyelids drooping, her eyes full of affection.

“Chang’an is a filial child, and he hasn’t slept well for several days. I couldn’t persuade him no matter what I said. I didn’t expect that as soon as you came, he was willing to sleep obediently today.”

She sighed, not caring whether the other person was listening or not, and said to herself, “My old sister-in-law’s illness came so quickly, in just a few days, she was gone before she could even be sent to the hospital. She hadn’t even enjoyed a few days of good life yet.”

After expressing her feelings but receiving no response from the other party, she sighed and closed her mouth.

Grandma Liu had only dozed off for four or five hours last night, because she was worried about Shen Chang’an being here alone. Thinking about it in her heart, she couldn’t sleep soundly. After vaguely waking up, she couldn’t fall back asleep.

So she ran over before dawn, just thinking of letting the other person go to sleep for a while.

But she didn’t expect that someone was already helping her accomplish the mission.

Thinking that the person she hadn’t been able to persuade for two consecutive days was now sleeping peacefully on someone else’s shoulder with relaxed brows, she suddenly felt a little unaccustomed, what was going on?

But looking at that delicate and well-behaved sleeping face that she had watched grow up since he was a child, even if she was angry, it subsided and couldn’t be stirred up. Instead, she felt a little relieved.

The room became completely silent, only the smoke from the burning paper money lingering around.

Grandma Liu looked at them from time to time, her eyes skimming over Shen Chang’an’s face, focusing more on the man he was leaning on.

Hiss, what was his name again?

She seemed to have heard Mrs. Li mention it before, but now she couldn’t remember it no matter what.

Cheng Yi finished burning the paper money in his hand, steadied Shen Chang’an’s head with one hand, slowly turned around, and carefully wrapped the person and the blanket together in his arms.

The movement was small, but the person in his arms still frowned, his brow furrowed, faintly showing signs of being awakened.

Cheng Yi’s heart rose, he reached out and gently patted the person’s back, coaxing him carefully, until Shen Chang’an’s brows slowly smoothed out, he breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the dark circles under the eyes of the person in his arms, his gentle eyes darkened, and a trace of heartache leaked from the bottom of his eyes.

“Grandma, it’s not very comfortable for him to sleep like this, I’ll take him back to the room to sleep in bed. Can you help me watch this place for a while? I’ll be down soon.”

Cheng Yi’s eyes looked at the other person, his voice was very low and his breath was heavy, deep and husky, with a magnetic quality.

Grandma Liu’s ears weren’t very good either. She squinted her eyes, leaned forward and listened carefully, slowly receiving and thinking in her mind. The corner of her eye suddenly caught something moving.

Before she could think, she fixed her eyes and saw that the blanket wrapped around Shen Chang’an had moved slightly.

She hadn’t paid much attention just now, but now she saw that after being moved a little, Shen Chang’an’s abdomen was bulging, and the soft blanket wrapped out a semi-circular shape.

Her loose eyelids were pulled up by her muscles, and she widened her eyes, dumbfounded, her face full of astonishment.

Her fingers trembled as she pointed there, her open lips moved, but she couldn’t speak.

Cheng Yi looked at her expression, stunned for a moment, his brow furrowed, his heart filled with confusion. His gaze followed the direction she was pointing.

Huh?

There was nothing behind him?

“What’s wrong?”

Cheng Yi looked back at Grandma Liu in confusion, seeing her so surprised that she couldn’t speak. Although he was puzzled, he patiently waited for her to speak.

Grandma Liu’s world was shattered, she was so shocked that she almost couldn’t hold back her voice, “Chang…Chang’an, isn’t he a boy?”

“Huh?” Cheng Yi frowned, looked at the person in his arms carefully again, and came to the conclusion, “He is.”

Did Chang’an look like a girl?

The prominent Adam’s apple, weren’t the male characteristics obvious enough?

And…

A scene from the bed quickly flashed through Cheng Yi’s mind, his Adam’s apple twitched for a moment, he coughed lightly and quickly stopped his thoughts.

Although he had taken into consideration his grandparents and hadn’t gone all the way at home, he didn’t know how many times they had been honest with each other and helped each other.

There was no problem, he was very sure that the other person’s gender was exactly the same as his.

Cheng Yi didn’t know why Grandma Liu asked this, and Grandma Liu didn’t know how to explain that bulging thing.

She opened her mouth and closed it again, her heart still in a state of shock, but her face returned to calm. Pouting her lips, she looked away, waved her hand casually and said, “It’s nothing, I…I, my brain is acting up, you go ahead.”

Considering Shen Chang’an’s face, she didn’t want to tell his friend.

Looking at that little ball of trouble in her heart, her hands itched uncontrollably wanting to lift the blanket and take a good look. Even the speed of sorting the paper money increased a lot.

The brazier was burning vigorously, and the pungent smell stung her eyes.

Grandma Liu’s eyes were filled with tears, she turned her head away in disgust, but couldn’t help but look to the side again.

After receiving her answer, Cheng Yi didn’t care what she was doing just now. He just tightened the blanket around Shen Chang’an, and when his large hand reached the bottom along the corner, it touched a soft mass.

His fingertips suddenly stopped, Cheng Yi suddenly reacted, his lips pursed, the thin corners of his mouth gently hooked up, and a bright smile spilled out from his dark eyes.

He didn’t speak and kept moving, his wide palm reached into the blanket.

Grandma Liu squinted her eyes and couldn’t see his movements clearly. Just as she was about to say something, she saw the hand retracted.

The cuffs of the black coat were a bit wide, she only saw a soft, fluffy, white furry strip?

A cat?

A cat?

Grandma Liu’s wrinkled face remained calm, her eyelids drooped, and she calmly looked away.

Hmm…

The smoke was making her eyes hallucinate.