I don't have ulterior motives

Shu Pingyuan laughed through his nose: "Why, are you angry that he lied to you? Still puzzled? Or..."

"To shut up."

Shu Pingyuan shook his head with a smile: "He is so stupid. It's so ridiculous."

"You are unreasonable." Jin Bei couldn't suppress his anger, and yelled at Shu Pingyuan, "You treat your son like this?"

Shu Pingyuan looked at him with disdain: "Huh? It's my failure that I haven't trained him well."

"On the contrary." Jin Bei sneered.

Shu Pingyuan stared at him in disbelief: "It seems that our views on this world are somewhat different."

"completely different."

"...You have a bad complexion." Jin Bei came out of the meeting room, Liao Fangyuan looked at him and said, "You look like you want to kill someone."

Jin Bei glanced at him: "You heard what he said."

"Ah."

"Is it scum!"

"This conclusion has been made a long time ago." Liao Fangyuan pondered, "It's just that I didn't expect Shu Lin'an to know about the case, and if he didn't report what he knew, it stands to reason..."

Jin Bei stared at him.

Liao Fangyuan shrugged: "Only taking active actions to help the suspect escape or cover up is considered a cover-up crime."

"Look at your protective face." Liao Fangyuan pouted.

It was afternoon when Jin Bei returned home.The sky was already very gloomy, and the air was filled with the smell of water vapor.He opened the window, rubbed his nose, and felt that the breath before the rain was like the woody scent on the man by the lake.

He should still be in school.But it might rain in a while.

Shu Linan was staring at the textbook with his hands on his head in the classroom, the teacher's voice was like insects buzzing in his ears.He turned to look out the window.

Listening to Jin Bei, he closed the window.The classroom was a little stuffy, Shu Linan stared at the textbook for a while, then bent over the table.

As he sank into dreamland, the rain began to fall.It was very small at first, bit by bit, like a faucet not turned off tightly.Then it gradually turned into a downpour, drowning out all the voices that were spoken or not.

In his dream he smelled the aroma of rum and tasted a greengage soaked in sugar.

When Shu Lin'an woke up, school was over. In fact, he had been half asleep and half awake, and he could hear the yelling at the end of class.

He smiled self-deprecatingly.I don't know if it was the voice of the classmates or his imagination.

Lately there have been few hallucinations.It's just that after hearing what Liao Fangyuan said yesterday evening, he was always very disturbed.

Why did Jin Bei go to see his uncle?

The rain outside showed no sign of decreasing, but Shu Lin'an didn't care, he picked up his umbrella and walked down the stairs.

The phone vibrated suddenly, and Shu Linan's heart skipped a beat. When he saw the number, he hesitated for a moment, and then picked it up.

"Lin'an, are you at school? It's raining too much, come back later."

"Are you home?" Shu Lin'an asked.

"Ah."

"...It's okay, it won't take long."

"No, you still have a cold." Jin Bei was still muffled when he heard the other party's voice.

Shu Linan walked to the door of the teaching building. It was raining outside, but he really wanted to see him.

"But I want to see you soon."

"..."

"I just feel at ease." Shu Linan stepped into the rain and added honestly.

Jin Bei heard the sound of rain hitting the umbrella, like the frequency of his heartbeat.

"...I still have a bowl of ginger tea when I come back, I must drink it."

"it is good……"

Jin Bei's house was closer than his. Shu Lin'an turned the corner, and the street was deserted due to the heavy rain, making it even more spacious and lonely.

Firefly Road.

Are there fireflies?

Shu Lin'an thought, the corners of his mouth curled up unconsciously, he asked him that the other day.

Shu Lin'an lowered his head in thought, and after a while looked up at the road ahead, and saw the figure walking with an umbrella in the vast rain.

Shu Linan froze in place.He walked so straight, behind the gray rain curtain, under the branches with fallen leaves, in the wind that blew up the rain and fallen leaves.

At that time, he was standing under the eaves of the teaching building, looking at himself in surprise; now he is walking towards himself with an umbrella.

The same is torrential rain.

Shu Lin'an only stopped for a moment, then quickly walked forward, passing through their brief acquaintance.

"Why are you here?" Shu Lin'an raised his head, and the rain passed through his eyelashes and flowed into his eyes. Only then did he realize that the rain was really heavy, and Jin Bei's trouser legs and shoulders were wet.

"Don't you want to see me soon, don't you?" Jin Bei slanted his lips and stretched out his hand to grab his wrist naturally, "Let's go."

"There's no need to get in the rain."

Jin Bei raised his eyebrows and glanced at him: "I just want to get in the rain with you."

Shu Linan was speechless.

As soon as he entered the door, Jin Bei pushed Shu Lin'an into the room: "We are cooking rice and ginger tea, don't worry. Change your clothes first."

"..." Shu Linan thought to himself, he was really in no hurry.

When he came out of the room, he saw a bowl on the dining table that was bigger than in the morning.A bowl full.

Is this a punishment?

Shu Linan sighed, rubbed over, and picked up the bowl depressedly.

"You don't need me to feed you?" Jin Bei leaned beside him leisurely.

"Are you feeding? That's direct feeding. You don't need to..."

"Ok?"

"... Spoon." Shu Linan hugged the bowl, and changed his words when the words came to his lips.

Jin Bei sat down next to him, and when he finished drinking, he leaned in front of him: "Well, I still wanted to—"

As he spoke, he kissed Shu Lin'an on the lips.

Plum flavor?

Jin Bei rolled a piece of candy on the tip of his tongue, and said with a smile, "Is it not so bitter?"

Shu Lin'an was stunned for a moment, rolled his eyes, and licked his lips: "It seems that it's not sweet enough."

He leaned forward: "Is there any more?"

Jin Bei looked at him.Shu Lin'an's lips curved alluringly, like a bend from a god, slightly opened, like Eden's half-closed door.

"Yes." he said.

He took Shu Lin'an's back by the neck, and touched his lips again, the sugar was sent to the tip of his tongue, and touched Shu Lin'an's teeth, making a small knocking sound.

Shu Linan licked the candy, Jin Bei pinched his cheek, he opened his mouth unconsciously, and then Jin Bei put the candy into his mouth.

Full of plum flavor.Like the late spring from Jiangnan.

Shu Linan sat with her head bowed, falling into the dream beside the heavy rain for a while.

"Is it enough?" Jin Bei scratched his chin.

He looked up: "What? Sugar or,"

Jin Bei raised his eyebrows and looked at him.

"you."

Shu Lin'an laughed: "Enough is enough."

Jin Bei rubbed his hair and stood up: "Then eat well."

He should be back early in the afternoon.Shu Lin'an looked at the yam rib soup and thought.The pork ribs were so badly stewed that the meat easily peeled off the bone and the yam was so soft and slippery it melted in your mouth.

back early...

What did he do?

Shu Linan thought of this question again, the good mood just now was overshadowed by the uneasiness that started in the morning.He licked his jaw, trying to find a hint of plum sweetness in it.

The soup was drunk very slowly, and Jin Bei looked at him from the opposite side after eating. I don't know if it was a psychological effect, but Shu Linan always felt that the atmosphere was very strange.

Jin Bei was looking at him in a daze, like looking at a piece of porcelain that he didn't know how to hold and put away.

Shu Linan raised his head and met his gaze, stunned for a moment, and said, "You... finished eating?"

"Huh? Huh. The soup is not good?"

"It's delicious." Shu Linan lowered his head slightly.

Jin Bei looked at his long eyelashes and stood up.Shu Linan looked up at him.

"I'm going to get a glass of water." His tone seemed to be soothing.

"...Mmm." Shu Linan whispered, looking at Jin Bei's back.The muscles of his arms are smooth, his fingers are slender, and the arc of the back of his neck is extremely powerful when he lowers his head.

Jin Bei turned around unexpectedly, and Shu Linan's eyes met the other person's. He should have smiled at him, but for some reason, he hastily looked away this time.

Holding a water glass, Jin Bei walked around the table and sat next to him.

Shu Lin'an involuntarily clenched the spoon tightly.

Jin Bei put the water glass next to him and didn't speak for a while. Shu Lin'an took a few sips of soup and tried to speak in a relaxed tone: "What did you ask your uncle for?"

"No. I went to see Shu Pingyuan." Jin Bei said.

The spoon slammed down to the bottom of the bowl.Shu Lin'an looked up: "What?"

Shu Linan looked sideways at him, trying to find something from his expression.He is good at keeping calm, and also good at observing words and demeanor, but everything seems to be invalid here.Jin Bei's expression...

He found that he could not think calmly at all.So he turned his eyes to the window behind Jin Bei, the rain was still pouring outside, the sound of the rain made his head ache, he rubbed his chair back, as if he wanted to stay away from the sound of the rain.

Jin Bei grabbed his wrist, Shu Linan subconsciously wanted to break free, but the other party's grip was so tight that he was even scared.

"He said that Zheng Cheng and Wang Lianjun were killed by his men." Jin Bei said calmly.

Jin Bei's tone made Shu Lin'an feel as if he had calmed down.He turned his eyes back again and looked into Jin Bei's eyes: "What else?"

Jin Bei felt that looking at Shu Linan's eyes was like a game of chess.His eyes are clear and deep, like a mirror, and also like countless mirrors overlapping and reflecting.

"He said you mentioned me."

Shu Linan's Adam's apple twitched.

One of his hands was held by Jin Bei, and the other was put on the dining table and propped up to his forehead.A thin layer of despair diffused from his eyes, misting the mirror.

Jin Bei sat closer.

"I thought we met by chance during the rehearsal that day."

Shu Lin'an leaned back in the chair, trying her best not to sound so dry: "Yes. I just heard it by accident..."

"At that time, you approached me, including going back with me in the rain, because of this?

"Did you tell me about Xia Ruoxing on purpose?"

Shu Linan looked at him, a small voice shouted in his heart, no.

"What now? What is it for now?"

Shu Lin'an frowned, grabbed the cuff of the other party, and quickly let go, his voice was hoarse, even he was taken aback for a moment.He coughed and lowered his eyes: "It's not for those."

"That day you invited me to dinner on your birthday, what's in the wine?"

Shu Lin'an stared at Jin Bei's hands, those hands were really pretty.He closes his eyes.

"Sleeping pills," he said.He restrained the trembling in his voice.

He felt Jin Bei approaching him, and his breath brushed against his ears.

"What am I going to do with you?" Jin Bei said, stroking his hair.

The author has something to say:

Jin Bei: Are you not afraid of infection now?

Shu Lin'an: ...it's nothing.You can kiss whatever you want.