Chapter 29: Willing

Seeing Chen Lu agree, both mother and daughter were very happy, but also a little nervous.

After all, Chen Lu was the first boy Liang Zhirou had brought home.

The house was so simple…

Some inferiority complex was ingrained in their bones.

Liang Zhirou opened the door, and Chen Lu took the initiative to push his wheelchair into the room.

The lighting on the first floor was not very good, and the interior was a bit dim.

The space was very narrow, and as soon as you entered, you could see the kitchen through the small living room, and next to it was the only bedroom.

The small door opposite the bedroom seemed to be the bathroom and shower room.

Despite this, everything was cleaned and tidy by Liang Zhirou.

Xiao Xunfang hurriedly greeted him, feeling a bit awkward, “Chen Lu, come and sit down, there’s no air conditioning at home, it’s really a hardship for you… You must find it uncomfortable here, right?”

In her eyes, children from big cities were all born with golden spoons in their mouths.

Chen Lu was not pretentious at all, he pulled a stool and sat next to Xiao Xunfang, not showing any signs of disdain.

“Auntie, you’re making me feel bad,” he got up and went forward to help Liang Zhirou move the fan, “I even went back to my hometown with my dad to harvest corn, I’m tough, what’s there to be uncomfortable about?”

After that, Chen Lu sat there chatting with Xiao Xunfang.

Liang Zhirou secretly glanced at Chen Lu, then tied up her hair and hid in the kitchen to busy herself.

Her face was still burning, and she hadn’t calmed down yet.

What mother-in-law…

Nonsense!

Thinking of Chen Lu’s handsome appearance when he stepped forward just now, her heart warmed, and she washed the vegetables even more carefully.

“Are you in the same class as Zhirou?” Xiao Xunfang asked curiously.

“Strictly speaking, I’m her senior, I’m a junior.” Chen Lu replied seriously.

“How old are you?”

“Twenty-one.”

Xiao Xunfang understood, and secretly calculated in her heart, “Two years older than Zhirou.”

As they were talking, she felt thirsty and wanted to push her wheelchair to get the water cup on the table, but before she could move, Chen Lu brought the water cup over.

Then, as if nothing had happened, he continued chatting.

He was not flattering or insincere.

She felt warm in her heart, then she sighed and looked towards the kitchen, “Zhirou really works hard to take care of you, this girl is sometimes silly and stubborn.”

Xiao Xunfang sighed deeply, took out a photo from the drawer and looked at Liang Zhirou’s childhood photos with Chen Lu.

In the faded photo, the little girl was smiling brightly, full of joy and curiosity, ready to face the world.

“Actually, this child was very lively when she was young, but after her father passed away and I became paralyzed, she changed completely.”

Chen Lu remained silent for a moment, then slowly said, “She will get through it.”

Xiao Xunfang turned her head and only saw Chen Lu’s determined eyes.

Suddenly, Chen Lu noticed a string of bracelets in the drawer and curiously picked it up to take a look.

It was very similar to the one lying in his drawer.

“This is what she made herself when she was a child.” Xiao Xunfang said proudly.

“Really? She’s so skillful…”

It turned out that this was popular at the time, and Liang Zhirou actually had one too.

Chen Lu thought about it, it didn’t seem strange, things that were popular when he was a child changed every now and then, he had missed some too.

Back then, when the cartoon played with spinning tops, everyone in school gathered together to play with spinning tops, when it played with yo-yos, everyone played with yo-yos after school.

If you often took a leave of absence and went back, you would find that your classmates had started playing new things.

He smiled and refuted his own fleeting thought.

The world is not that small.

He looked up at the kitchen, feeling that he was not doing anything, so he said, “Auntie, you rest, I’ll go help.”

Xiao Xunfang quickly refused, “You’re a guest, how can you go and help?”

“I’m not just coming here once, if I come more often, I won’t be a guest anymore, will I?” Chen Lu put the stool back in place, “Auntie, if you don’t let me help, you’re not welcoming me to come again.”

Hearing this, Xiao Xunfang couldn’t refuse anymore, so she could only smile and watch Chen Lu walk towards the kitchen.

……

As soon as Chen Lu entered, he felt like he had walked into a steamer.

The small kitchen was very crowded and stuffy, making him almost suffocate.

The girl had her hair tied up in a ponytail, wearing an apron, and was carefully cutting vegetables, completely unaware of anyone approaching.

As everyone knows, girls wearing aprons have a special charm.

Chen Lu was a little dazed by her delicate profile, just like today, sitting in the passenger seat, then going shopping together.

It felt like they were living together.

It made him want to marry her home, for some reason.

Unfortunately, the good times didn’t last long, after Liang Zhirou recovered, she immediately stood up straight, blushing as she fixed her bangs.

“You’re taking advantage of me again, I’ll have to get you back next time.” Chen Lu said with a smile.

Unexpectedly, the girl suddenly turned her head, looking straight at him, her eyes misty and aggrieved, “You’re breaking your promise…”

Chen Lu felt a wave of curiosity, “When did I break my promise?”

“…Before, I only leaned on you to sleep for a while, then I said I’d give it back to you, you… you just leaned on me to sleep for the whole afternoon…”

“Are you unhappy about it?”

“It’s two different things…”

“So are you willing or not?”

Liang Zhirou turned her head back and continued cutting the cabbage, after a long time, she finally squeezed out a sentence.

If Chen Lu hadn’t listened carefully, he would have missed it.

“Willing.”

The girl said so.

Chen Lu felt his heart beating fast, this silly girl, how could she deal out critical hits so easily.

Is she equipped with a critical hit set?

He could only help wash the vegetables to distract himself.

“Thank you for this time.” After a while, Liang Zhirou spoke again.

“Oh, it’s nothing.” Chen Lu didn’t think much of it, he automatically found a plate and put the washed vegetables in it.

Unexpectedly, the girl’s voice suddenly took on a crying tone, “Not just this time, thank you for the last time too…”

Seeing this, Chen Lu sighed and said seriously, “I suggest you thank me less.”

Liang Zhirou looked up at him, her watery and beautiful eyes full of confusion, “Why?”

“Because no matter how many times, I will stand up for you.”

Then he smiled softly, “If you thank me every time, you’ll be exhausted.”

“……”

The girl quietly sniffed, her vision blurred, she couldn’t cut the vegetables anymore, “You said you don’t like fish, so I didn’t make it. Do you have any dishes you want to eat? I’ll make them for you.”

“Didn’t you wash the cabbage? I want to eat shredded cabbage.”

“Anything else?”

“Well… Cola chicken wings?”

Liang Zhirou wiped her hands with her apron, “I’ll go buy chicken wings for you.”

Chen Lu quickly stepped forward and pulled her back, “I was just kidding, I love everything you make.”

The girl looked up at his eyes secretly, “Really?”

Chen Lu nodded.

She finally returned to the cutting board obediently, curiously asking, “Why can you always make others back down?”

“Because people are mean, they think you’re easy to bully, so they’ll keep bullying you.

But if you act like a tough guy first, then give the other person a step down, as long as the other person doesn’t intend to make a scene, they’ll easily take the opportunity to back down.”

After saying that, Chen Lu remembered something from his childhood.

“When I was in elementary school, I was short, and there were a few bad kids who often picked on me, later, every time they came, I would fight with them, even if I couldn’t win, I would fight, I would just grab one of them and beat them up, after a long time, they stopped looking for someone to bully who wouldn’t fight back.”

Liang Zhirou listened very attentively, planning to learn, but she found that Chen Lu stopped halfway through.

She was curious, then she found that Chen Lu had already leaned over to her ear and whispered, “You don’t need to think about these things.”

“I’m here.”