Chapter 85: The Little Follower of the Wealthy Young Master (Part 6)
Most of the people outside had dispersed, and the rest were gathered around the fire, talking. The mountain forest was quiet at night, and the starry sky was hanging down, making it seem empty and quiet.
Yu Lin and Zhao Yanjing came out. Chu Qiuwang was sitting by the bonfire, and when he looked up and saw them, he coughed twice, and he held the roasted fish in his hand and greeted them, “Come and eat?”
Zhao Yanjing glanced at him, walked over and sat down, his posture casual, and he took the roasted fish from his hand.
Zhao Yanjing was actually not picky, and sometimes his demeanor even gave people a gentle illusion. If it weren’t for his innate noble air, which always made him seem out of place in a simple environment, for him, it was nothing to sit by a pile of dirt and eat roasted fish.
Yu Lin walked over and sat down by his side. Chu Qiuwang also handed over a roasted fish. Yu Lin lowered his eyes, and just as he was about to reach for it, Zhao Yanjing reached out and stopped him.
“What do you mean?” Chu Qiuwang withdrew his hand, in disbelief. “No, then you’re going to let him starve?”
He withdrew the branch, and after thinking for a moment, he lowered his head and took a bite of his own fish.
His suit was casually draped over his legs, and he was supporting his chin with one hand, and he muttered in a small voice, “If you don’t feel sorry for him, then let him starve.”
Zhao Yanjing glanced at him, and his eyes were dark and bottomless.
He had just taken a nap, and his meticulous hair had become soft, and it was resting on his forehead. His fingers were long and slender, and he was turning the branch, and he was looking down at the poorly-looking roasted fish in his hand.
A moment later, he did not speak, and he put the poorly-looking fish back on the fire.
Chu Qiuwang was dumbfounded as he watched from the side. “When did you learn to roast meat? No, how did I not know that you could do this?”
Zhao Yanjing looked at him strangely and frowned. “I can’t.”
Chu Qiuwang: “…” Fine.
He looked at the roasted fish, which had gone from ordinary to inexplicably fragrant and crispy after a few turns. He had never thought that Zhao Yanjing’s talent was actually in cooking.
The roasted fish was too dry. Zhao Yanjing tore it apart and fed some to Yu Lin, but he did not give him much. He had a soup in his car that the butler had specially chased him to the airport to give him, and he had brought it with him.
The container for the soup was of a special material. When it was opened, the soup was still warm. The two of them sat together, and they shared a fish and a can of soup. In the bewildered and dazed eyes of the others, they went up the mountain together.
The air quality on Lanfeng Mountain was very good, and the soil was soft. The air was filled with the unique smell of the mountain trees.
This piece of land was now actually owned by Zhao Yanjing, and it was in the initial stages of planning and construction. A road had already been built, and the flat stone slabs wound around to the mountainside. There were viewing platforms around. Zhao Yanjing sat by the viewing platform and scanned the flickering lights on the mountainside.
Construction was underway there. Lanfeng Mountain was said to be a mountain, but its location was actually very good. Zhao Yanjing’s gaze fell on the flickering lights, and the lights were shining on the buildings that were rising from the ground. In a few years, this place would become another center of Mingcheng.
This piece of land had actually been negotiated by Yu Lin.
Zhao Yanjing turned his head to look at the person by his side, and the first thing he saw was his lustrous and fair skin. Yu Lin was looking at the scenery, and his fingers were casually resting on the side of the viewing platform. He was tall and slender, and he was clean. His pair of eyes were looking into the night, and they were distant and gentle.
He was still young at that time, and he was at an age where he was not afraid of anything, and he was extremely ambitious.
At that time, Zhao Yanjing had just begun to show his talent, and he had taken a fancy to this piece of land. He had dared to compete with others in the midst of the circling wolves.
He had Zhao Yanjing by his side, and others did not dare to openly go against him, but there were definitely no fewer stumbling blocks in secret. He had pulled them out one by one and had cut them down.
Dangerous and charming.
Day after day, Zhao Yanjing had nowhere to express his infatuation for him.
The wind in the mountains was both cool and quiet, and the moon was bright and the stars were few. There was a thin and invisible mist.
The two of them were walking and stopping, and they had been together for many years. There was no need to say much, and they could understand each other’s meaning with just one look.
Yu Lin took a step up the steps, and when he looked up, it was as if he could lightly touch the stars. Zhao Yanjing was half a step behind him, and he was always following. Their fingers were intertwined, and they were overlapping, as if they could not hold each other enough.
In the night, a mountain bird suddenly chirped somewhere.
In the midst of the chirping, the night was hazy. Zhao Yanjing suddenly spoke, and his fingers lifted, and they passed between Yu Lin’s knuckles. He said, “Be good. When we go back, let the doctor check you. If you’re well-raised, I’ll give you the new project I’ve just negotiated, and this place.”
The project that would move half of Mingcheng’s economy, he had given it away casually, and he had said it lightly.
However, although his words were domineering, they had no force at all. It was just a Zhao Yanjing-style coaxing. In these years, he had never been on guard against Yu Lin, and their lifelines had long been tied together.
His things, Yu Lin had a very high authority, and he could take and use them as he pleased. When he was busy, he even had the power to make decisions for the group.
In the early years, the others had looked at this with surprise. After a long time, the crowd had gone from their initial daze to shock, to disbelief, and now to taking it for granted. They felt that it was nothing, and it was as if it were a normal thing.
After all, no matter how amazing something was, after being tempered by time, it would also become something that people were used to. The relationship between the two of them had been going on for seventeen years.
Hearing Zhao Yanjing’s words, Yu Lin’s footsteps paused, and he did not move forward. He lightly rested his hand on the railing, and he let out a low laugh. He turned his head to look at Zhao Yanjing, and his eyes were covered with a thin mist in the night. He lowered his eyes and asked, “Zhao Yanjing, are you coaxing me?”
“En.” Zhao Yanjing did not play tricks, and he held his knuckle, and his deep eyes looked at him without blinking. “Are you tired? Do you want to rest for a while?”
The road in the mountains was very long, and it wound upwards. The two of them had been walking side by side for a long time. Along the starry sky, and from a distance, it was as if they were going to walk to the sky.
“A little.” Yu Lin felt the soreness of his body and admitted it frankly.
The stone steps in the mountains had been washed clean by the rain of the past few days. He sat down and lightly pulled Zhao Yanjing’s wrist.
Zhao Yanjing came up, and the two of them sat down side by side.
“Zhao Yanjing, I don’t want to see a doctor all the time anymore. I don’t feel uncomfortable either.” Yu Lin had been in the wind for a while and suddenly said.
He turned his head to look at the person by his side and said softly, “Don’t be too worried all the time.”
Ever since the incident that year, Zhao Yanjing had been like he had been injured in the past two years.
What to eat had to be prepared by the butler in advance, and what people to see had to be reported in advance, and there were monthly routine check-ups with the doctor. He had even called a psychologist to come to the door regularly because he thought that the former Yu Lin was competitive, and now he had become quiet.
Yu Lin’s body was indeed a little weaker than before. After he had recovered, his daily life was no longer a problem.
But he was like a tyrant who would not take no for an answer, and he suppressed all uncertainties, which had caused Chu Qiuwang to hesitate and not dare to agree directly when he wanted to take Yu Lin out to play.
As for those who were a little more distant, like Yang Zun, as soon as he had seen that something was wrong, he had run away early, just because he was afraid that Zhao Yanjing would settle accounts with him afterwards.
Zhao Yanjing’s energy was strong. After this thought had taken root in his mind, it had not only affected the two of them, but the people around them had also been in a state of chaos.
But this was very strange, whether it was for Yu Lin or for Zhao Yanjing.
Zhao Yanjing was very smart. He had understood what Yu Lin had said, but he was clearly unwilling to cooperate.
His fingers were lazily resting on the railing of the viewing platform, and his gaze was on the void of the dark night. The wind was blowing his hair, and he seemed not to have heard.
Yu Lin reached out and pinched his ear. “Zhao Yanjing, didn’t you hear?”
Zhao Yanjing raised his eyebrows. “Are you getting bold?”
When he was a little younger, Yu Lin had known that he was a thigh, and he had to rely on him to get what he wanted. He would obediently hold him, and he would nod to whatever he said.
He had become disobedient as he had grown up.
His prestige had remained in these years. When his words fell, the fingers on his ear paused for a moment, and they gently brushed against the side of his cheek, as if they were trying to please him, and also as if they were comforting him.
Yu Lin should have been a vine that had been clinging to him all along, but he had been planted into a resilient tree.
Now, the little sapling he had planted was being wild on his head, and Zhao Yanjing could only be reluctant to refuse.
He said, “This is the last time.”
“If you can pass Smith’s treatment evaluation, I’ll listen to you.” He had given his final ultimatum, but he had added, “Don’t be too far out of my sight.”
He was still despotic.
But this was already a concession for Zhao Yanjing. Yu Lin looked at him, and after a few seconds of calm, he did not refute him, but his fingers went down, and he held Zhao Yanjing’s, and he rested them on the side of his own cheek, and he nuzzled them lightly, and he promised him, “Okay.”
After all, he was the person he had held in his arms and had raised since he was a child, and he had gotten a good grasp of Zhao Yanjing’s weakness.
He had first been wild, and then he had threatened, but Zhao Yanjing could not even bring himself to blame him.
In the end, when he was sleepy, he would just lower his eyes and look at his shoulder, and then he would hold him in his arms and sleep.
In the cold and cool night, he held the thin and slender body in his arms, and for some reason, he thought of his childhood.
At that time, the person in his arms was a soft little lump, and his arms were very soft. He would always pinch them to play. Now, when he touched them, there were only thin and slender bones.
Time was always too fast. In the blink of an eye, he had grown so big.
Zhao Yanjing pressed his lips together and did not speak. He let the night wind blow his hair. He held Yu Lin, and he touched his thin and slender wrist, and he knocked on his wrist.
Before long, a bodyguard had brought up a blanket from the bottom of the mountain. He had wrapped him in it, and he had let time pass. It was not until the sky was dimly lit that he had pinched his mouth and had woken him up.
He was very fast, and he had pinched the beautiful mouth of the young man in his arms into two little ducks.
Yu Lin felt it, and he opened his eyes with his eyelashes trembling, and he looked at him with confusion. He had not had enough sleep, and he frowned slightly, and he asked with confusion, “Zhao Yanjing, what are you doing? I’m sleeping.”
He had a big temper, but Zhao Yanjing was not moved, and he was quite vengeful. His deep and cool gaze fell, and he pointed to the sky without any emotion. “Sunrise.”
The aurora in the sky was brilliant, and at the end of the boundless sea of forests, a red sun was rolling, and the morning wind was blowing.
The sunrise on Lanfeng Mountain was very special, and it was always called a scene from a painting by the tourists who had accidentally captured a fragment of it. A thin layer of mist was floating on the mountain, and it had a little bit of a cold air.
Yu Lin had not had enough sleep, and he was nestled in Zhao Yanjing’s arms, and he was thinking with his eyes lowered. A moment later, he looked up slightly, and in the twilight, he looked at the sunrise that was breaking through the clouds. “…”
He looked for a while, and his wrist rested on Zhao Yanjing’s, and he suddenly asked, “Is it beautiful?”
“En.” Zhao Yanjing said.
“Then what are you thinking about?” Yu Lin asked him again.
This time, Zhao Yanjing did not answer directly. He looked at him and asked with his eyebrows raised, “What do you think?”
Yu Lin was nestled in his arms, and his cheeks were being held by his palm. He squinted his eyes and thought for a moment, and then he suddenly curved his eyes and smiled. “You’re thinking of me.”
Zhao Yanjing did not deny it and nodded lightly. “Smart.”
When they went down the mountain, the camp was quiet. Chu Qiuwang and the others were sleeping soundly and had not yet woken up.
Zhao Yanjing did not call anyone, and he held Yu Lin’s hand and got into the car. Someone silently sat in the driver’s seat, and at the same time as the car started, the partition slowly rose.
It was still early. Zhao Yanjing dealt with two urgent documents. Seeing that Yu Lin was sitting on the side and was looking at him, he paused for a moment and gave him the unfinished work. “Since you think you’re already better, you can do it too.”
“…” Yu Lin, who had been working hard in the plot for many years.
He tilted his head slightly, and his eyelashes trembled. He let out a yawn, and then he leaned against Zhao Yanjing’s shoulder with great sleepiness.
Zhao Yanjing: “…”
My wife’s great love for work in the past ten years was all my illusion.
After he had finished all of it, the person had already leaned against him and had fallen asleep again.
Zhao Yanjing put down his pen, and his eyes were dark. He adjusted his posture to let him sleep more comfortably, and his long and slender knuckles rested lightly on the side of Yu Lin’s cheek.
After a pause, and his hands were really itchy, he couldn’t help but pinch the person’s face again.
The sleeping Yu Lin: “…”
So we’re hurting each other now.