Chapter 382 "Growing Pains"
Chu Qingmian grabbed his wrist and headed towards the school gate.
Her nervous attitude made Su Chengyi start to reflect for a moment, whether he had been a little cruel to her.
Although the murder weapon was a razor blade, it was sharp but not lethal enough.
However, in order to cover up the small bite mark, he struck very steadily and harshly, like a samurai from the Sakura Kingdom fighting in a gladiatorial arena, so that the wound still hurts a little.
The two of them had their own thoughts and walked against the crowd to the intersection. Su Chengyi saw an unexpected person.
Uncle Gao, who was wearing a suit and leather tie, was leaning against the door of the Maybach with his arms folded. It was late at night and he insisted on wearing his semi-permanent sunglasses.
Uncle Gao's tense face relaxed a little when he saw him approaching, and he nodded slightly.
"Uncle Gao."
Seeing him, Su Chengyi was a little happy and smiled slightly.
He rarely treated anyone with such a positive and good attitude, so even someone as cold as Uncle Gao had to cooperate with him by twitching the corner of his mouth in a symbolic gesture before turning around and opening the car door.
"Well, let's talk when we get in the car."
For Su Chengyi, Uncle Gao's identity is not simply "the driver and bodyguard of the eldest lady's family", but a reliable, Elders who make people feel safe.
Under the same cold appearance, 007 is actually careful and gentle towards others.
And he is taciturn and will not talk nonsense to you.
In addition, his professional skills are also excellent, and the car drives smoothly and steadily. As for the part-time job of a bodyguard, it goes without saying that this man is super strong just by standing there.
For Su Chengyi, of course it is also for Miss Chu.
Chu Qingmian obviously regards Uncle Gao as a real uncle. This guy only behaves like a childish child when he treats people close to him.
“Trunk trunk!”
Chu Qingmian reached out and took off Uncle Gao’s semi-permanent sunglasses.
"Young Ling Ling, stop pretending to be cool at night!!"
Uncle Gao had a look of helplessness on his face, but he could only follow the command, turned around and opened the trunk.
Miss Chu rummaged around in the trunk and brought out a portable medical kit.
"Isn't it necessary?"
Su Chengyi leaned behind the car and tried to stop him.
"Look, the wound has actually healed."
He pulled down his mask and came closer to show Chu Qingmian.
Hearing the word "wound", Uncle Gao immediately turned his face, with an inquiring look in his eyes.
Probably thought he had been beaten.
Su Chengyi coughed and quickly explained:
"The razor was accidentally scratched. The disposable one provided by the hotel before was not very useful."
"Then we have to deal with it. What if there is a scar?"
Chu Qingmian hugged a pile of medical supplies and glared at him angrily.
"Get in the car and get in."
Inside the car.
Uncle Gao looked at the wound through the rearview mirror and looked very oppressive.
Su Chengyi was really afraid that he would see any clues.
On the other hand, I am a little lucky that I thought of such a trick to hide the truth.
If you just get lucky and don't do anything, even if you can deceive the eldest lady, you won't be able to deceive Uncle Gao who happens to be in the capital.
What exactly is going on, an experienced person like him can tell at a glance.
However, at this time, Uncle Gao obviously did not investigate further in the direction of suspicion.
He just confirmed that the source of the wound would not be a fight or someone else's deliberate handiwork.
After feeling relieved, Uncle Gao withdrew his eyes.
Su Chengyi breathed a sigh of relief.
“Why did Uncle Gao come to the capital too?”
He asked questions at the right time.
"What the boss means."
Uncle Gao turned the steering wheel, and then realized that this answer was too perfunctory, and added:
"Miss's school and awakening Xing Entertainment is here, and it’s not convenient to run around, so you just asked me to come over.”
In fact, Su Chengyi had already guessed the next part of his sentence.
And the reason why he consigned his Aston Martin to the capital was actually for this reason.
The X1 studio has officially started operations, and there is no telling what the situation will be like in the future.
But what can be expected is that this summer vacation, he and Chu Qingmian will probably be busy with their own affairs.
After all, both of their first projects are in full swing, and the beginning of everything is always the hardest.
“Hey, don’t move.”
Chu Qingmian poked his face as a warning.
Su Chengyi lowered her eyes and looked at the cotton swab dipped in the liquid in her hand.
"I didn't move, why were you shaking?"
".I didn't shake! I guess it was Uncle Gao who was swaying in the car."
The front row was inexplicable. Uncle Gao who took the blame: "."
Taking advantage of these words, Chu Qingmian finally dropped the cotton swab in her hand.
The soft cotton head is dipped in purple potion and applied to the wound to give it a cool feeling.
No pain, but a little itchy.
"Where to eat?"
Su Chengyi couldn't help but speak to resist the urge to scratch his chin.
"My dad said there is a restaurant with pretty good Japanese food. Go and try it."
"Your dad is here too?"
Su Chengyi's tone was very alert.
"Of course not."
Chu Qingmian smeared it as if painting, making sure that no part was missed before putting down the cotton swab.
"He really wants to come."
The eldest lady put the cotton swab into the paper bag angrily.
"Su Chengyi, you don't know what I went through last night!! It's all because he said he was an old classmate, and I can't refuse his dinner party.
That director He also said that he wanted to invite me to play golf. Please, do I look like I can play? "
Chu Qingmian looked helpless.
"Hmm, it doesn't look like it."
Su Chengyi made an objective evaluation. She looked like the type who would shake herself when swinging.
After completing the treatment task, Chu Qingmian came closer and took a closer look at his face again.
After applying purple potion, the wound looked more conspicuous.
She looked at it for a while and then looked away and muttered:
"Su Chengyi, how old are you? How come you can't even shave! You almost lost your appearance.
Besides, aren't they all electric shavers now? They're so safe."
“I’m used to it.”
Su Chengyi wasn’t lying.
The first time he shaved was around his sophomore year in high school.
At that time, Yang Liu and Su Zelang had already divorced, and he had been living alone for a long time.
My relationship with my parents in my previous life was much worse. Apart from paying tuition fees, I had almost no contact.
Occasionally, when Su Chengyi looked in the mirror while washing up in the morning, he suddenly noticed a few sparse beards sprouting on his face.
He was stunned for a moment and realized that this was a symbol of puberty, the result of the beginning of male hormone secretion.
In fact, it is not obvious. If you don’t look carefully, you can’t actually see it.
But he happened to discover it again.
As a patient with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, Su Chengyi has been struggling with beard issues almost all day long.
So when it came to cutting it off, he went to the supermarket to buy a razor after school that night.
In order to save money, I bought an old-fashioned manual razor, an antique that requires you to install the blade yourself.
By the way, I had an idea and took away the shaving foam sold nearby.
This is thanks to Su Zelang. Su Chengyi has a vague memory of his shaving in his mind.
When he was young, Su Zelang regarded himself as a romantic and handsome boy, and he always attached great importance to that face. This was one of the important reasons why he was able to catch up with Yang Liu. But now he doesn't care at all and has become an ordinary greasy uncle.
After returning home, Su Chengyi read the instructions carefully, blindly and confidently started to rub foam on his face, and then started directly.
The result is of course tragic.
It is completely different from mathematical formulas that can be applied without thinking. In manual tasks such as shaving, the role of instructions is very limited.
And Su Chengyi was a stubborn person. Although his face felt burning pain, he didn't stop and finished shaving himself.
In the end, of course, I grimaced in pain and couldn’t sleep well all night.
When you got up to go to school the next day, you were facing the cold winter wind again. It felt like someone was slapping your ears with a steel wool ball used for cleaning pots.
Now that I think about this incident, Su Chengyi still remembers it fresh.
However, with the lessons learned this time, he learned this skill, so that in his previous life, he was still accustomed to using a manual razor until he was almost thirty years old.
After listening to Su Chengyi’s explanation, Chu Qingmian’s burning fire of education was immediately extinguished.
On the contrary, sympathy began to overflow.
If Uncle Su could grow up with Su Chengyi, he could teach him.
He doesn’t have to mess around at home alone and get hurt.
And this must be just the tip of the iceberg in an entire adolescence without parental presence.
Chu Qingmian suddenly felt that she understood why he acted like everyone owed him money all day long.
In the most sensitive and fragile period of adolescence, no matter what happens, you have to face it alone. It’s good that he hasn’t grown crooked.
Although he looks a bit stinky now, that's just because he looks fierce, at least he is kind-hearted.
Miss Chu, who felt pity for Su Chengyi, did not realize a problem, that is, she actually grew up alone like this.
Chu Yuanjiang was a good father, but he was busy with work and couldn't do what he wanted; not to mention Wei Peilan, who completely disappeared from Chu Qingmian's life for a long time after she was diagnosed with postpartum depression.
There are many people in the family, many of whom treat her sincerely, but they are not related by blood. In the final analysis, it is an employment relationship, and there is a subtle distance after all.
Since Chu Qingmian learned to walk as a child, her favorite thing was to run around in the big house wearing shoes that squeaked when she stepped on them.
It's like fighting against the air, trying to gain a lot of presence.
As she ran like this, she grew up slowly, and puberty came quietly.
Although many things are covered in psychology classes, in fact they are very general and can only give people a corresponding concept.
But when you actually experience it yourself, you will still be confused and confused about the situation.
So when Chu Qingmian had her first menstrual period, she thought she was terminally ill and even wrote a suicide note secretly.
Including the ownership of her pile of named dolls, "Nicole", "Anna", etc., and her great wish to donate all the New Year's money over the years to children in mountainous areas.
I found out afterwards that the nanny aunt was consoling her attentively with "Oh my lady, our lady has grown up" on the surface, but secretly she was laughing with the pastry chef aunt for a long time.
But now, Su Chengyi just glanced at her and knew what this guy was thinking. He immediately reached out and pinched her cheek flesh to block her radiating sympathy.
"Stop it, Miss Chu."
Chu Qingmian blinked her eyes and successfully concealed her emotions, looking somewhat well-behaved.
It doesn’t matter, she thought.
Those lonely days are over, they have all grown up.
That's just the "growing pains" of adolescence.
They will stay with each other for the rest of their lives, and that's enough.
There was a bit of traffic jam on the road, and the journey that was originally scheduled to take half an hour has not arrived yet after driving for more than an hour.
The two people in the back seat were chatting.
Su Chengyi was used to her unconstrained thinking and didn't care that many of her answers to questions were incorrect.
For example, out of nowhere, the topic changed from tomorrow's eight-morning class to her childhood nanny.
"You said that the one who took care of you when you were a child was not the aunt you are now?"
The person in his arms buried his face in his chest and said "Hmm".
“Auntie is gone.”
“Why is she gone?”
With the treatment given by the Chu family, no one would take the initiative to resign, Su Chengyi thought casually, smelling the fructose scent in her hair.
“Because Auntie has other things to do, and Auntie has children herself.”
Chu Qingmian answered even more quietly.
Uncle Gao, who was in the driver's seat, listened to the conversation between the two, and his eyes darkened under his sunglasses.
He has watched Chu Qingmian grow up, so he naturally knows what this is about.
When Chu Qingmian was a child, she was clingy and prone to crying. Naturally, she relied heavily on the aunt who had taken care of her since she was a child.
But the nanny is just a nanny. The Chu family pays the salary, and she pays some care and attention.
The young lady likes her, and the reward from the Chu family is naturally generous. I thought she would be more dedicated to her responsibilities because of this, but in the end she quit.
When she proposed to resign, the Chu family expressed understanding, but hoped that she could stay for a while to give the young lady a buffer period to accept new people.
But such a request was also rejected.
She may have feelings for the young lady, but not much.
When you make enough money, you will naturally leave.
How could Chu Qingmian, who was only three or four years old at that time, know this? She only knew that the aunt who could sing lullabies to lull her to sleep was leaving and would never come back.
It was really sad for a while.
Since then, Chu Qingmian may have learned to treat money and feelings separately, or maybe not yet.
Uncle Gao glanced at the red navigation route and thought back with a sullen face.
Probably when the lady was in second grade, the nanny actually found her again after all the money was spent, and she begged her old employer to accept her again.
In the end, of course, Butler Han drove him away with a cold face.
The nanny refused to give in and actually squatted at the school gate, wanting to play the emotional card directly with the young lady.
Uncle Gao knew that if she was allowed to achieve her goal, the lady would be soft-hearted. Even if she was not allowed to come back to work, he would definitely help.
So this possibility is prevented directly from the source.
The lady is kind-hearted, but there are many cruel people around her.
Never give those who have hurt her a second chance to approach her.
"You should have been crying for at least two weeks."
Su Chengyi asked.
When Miss Chu was a cub, she must have been a tearful slime.
Uncle Gao retorted silently in his heart as he turned the corner and entered the mall.
——It’s two months.
Obviously he was only forty months old at that time, but he spent one-twentieth of his time grieving over this.
“No.”
Chu Qingmian said hard.
"How long was that."
"Yeah"
Su Chengyi originally thought she was reminiscing, but she didn't wait for a response for a while, and lowered her head only to find that she was already in the nest. He fell asleep in his arms.
It was then that I noticed that the circles under her eyes were green. She must have been very busy recently, and she didn't sleep well last night after catching a flight.
In my impression, the squad leader is always full of energy, like a little sun.
It seems that I rarely feel so tired.
At this time, the Maybach turned into the parking lot, and the colorful lights of the mall were reflected through the car window.
Su Chengyi raised his hand to block the beam of light from falling on Chu Qingmian's face and disturbing her dream.
Growing pains.
Growingpains.
Su Chengyi, medically speaking, it is explained as physiological pain caused by the rapid growth of long bones in adolescence and the uncoordinated growth and development of local muscles and tendons.
But people often refer to "youth pain literature", so growing pains actually don't just refer to physical pain.
It is rare that both literature and medicine use the same word to describe it.
In the age when we grow the fastest, those unsolvable confusions and confusions suddenly emerge from the bottom of our hearts, and our spirit and soul collide and rise again and again.
All this is embodied in the flying white test papers, the sound of the bell and the sound of chalk rubbing against the blackboard, the mist in the morning and the street lights at night.
Adults may think it is hypocritical, but only those who are experiencing it or have just experienced it can understand this feeling.
But it’s not bad.
Su Chengyi thought like this, his eyes falling on the shadow cast by Chu Qingmian's lowered eyelashes on his face.
You don’t need to be taught how to use a razor. People who should leave will leave sooner or later. Adolescence is like a long and moist drizzle, and growing pains will stay in everyone’s eighteen years old. .
(End of this chapter)