Chapter 25 Warmth

After a dull few days, the Mid-Autumn Festival has quietly arrived.

Because Xia Xiyue told Lin Zhi in advance that her parents would come to the capital during the Mid-Autumn Festival, Lin Zhi was not surprised when she actually met Xia Xiyue's parents.

The old couple were simple and sincere people. They brought many large and small bags of local specialties and piled them in the living room. When they saw Lin Zhi, they praised them and enthusiastically pulled her to taste the specialties.

"Lin Zhi, right? I always hear Xiyue mention you. Thank you for taking care of her for so long, auntie, thank you." Xia's mother had a slightly cheerful personality. She had already peeled an apple and handed it to Lin Zhi.

Lin Zhi took the apple and thanked her repeatedly: "Thank you, auntie. In fact, Xiyue and I take care of each other, and she often takes care of me."

"That's great, that's great," Xia's mother smiled and stared at Lin Zhi, "You are of the same age and are classmates, so you should take care of each other."

 Lin Zhi nodded, took a bite of the apple with a smile, lowered his head and chewed it.

Seeing Lin Zhi's gentle temper, Xu Xia's mother's topic turned to relationships without a few words: "I heard Xiyue said you don't have a boyfriend yet, right? You are so beautiful, why don't aunt introduce you to one? ?"

 Lin Zhi was chewing an apple and couldn't answer directly, so she had to wave her hands repeatedly.

"What? Are you shy?" Xia's mother said, "It's okay. It's normal for girls to talk about boyfriends. Don't be shy. Auntie will introduce you to him."

Before Lin Zhi could speak this time, Xia Xiyue walked out of the room with her bag on her back: "Oh, Mom, why do you keep asking questions like this? Zhi Zhi doesn't want to think about these things yet."

Mother Xia was very confused: "Don't want to think about it? How can you not think about it? The golden age of girls is very short. It's just these few years. If you miss it, it will be gone. In the future..."

"Mom, don't talk about this anymore," Xia Xiyue interrupted her, "Don't you and dad want to visit my school? Come on, I'll take you there now."

After being reminded by Xia Xiyue, Xia's mother seemed to finally remember the business. She hurriedly packed her things and planned to go out with Xia Xiyue. However, while packing, she kept mumbling: "Zhizhi, wait until Auntie comes back to talk to you." Let's talk."

Lin Zhi curled his lips: "Okay." After saying that, he raised his eyes to meet Xia Xiyue's eyes. Seeing her eyes full of apology, Lin Zhi made a reassuring gesture towards her.

In fact, Xia Xiyue didn't know how much Lin Zhi envied her. Being able to hear her mother's nagging and having the opportunity to be filial to her mother was something Lin Zhi had never dared to think about.

Watching Xia Xiyue and the others go away, Lin Zhi stood up and closed the door, picked up her phone and browsed the news on the Internet out of boredom.

 Mid-Autumn Festival is a day for family reunion, but unfortunately she doesn't need it.

Unknowingly, Lin Zhi fell asleep on the sofa. When I woke up again, I was awakened by the ringing of my cell phone. In a daze, she grabbed the mobile phone next to her and put it to her ear, and said in a low voice: "Hello."

 Hearing her tone, the other party couldn't help but laugh: "Are you sleeping?"

Lin Zhi then realized that the call was from Sheng Langxing. She was a little depressed and said to the phone: "Why do you wake me up every time I sleep?"

"That's because you like sleeping so much. Every time I contact you, you fall asleep." Sheng Langxing did not flinch at all, and his tone was full of pride.

Knowing that she couldn't take advantage of him in terms of language, Lin Zhi no longer struggled with him: "Tell me, what are you talking about on the phone?"

Sheng Langxing also got straight to the point: "My mother asked you to come over for dinner and to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival at my house."

Hearing this, Lin Zhi's right hand holding the phone trembled a little, and her throat was a little choked. Her thoughts suddenly cleared from her sleepiness.

She remembered that a few years ago, she was still an English tutor at Shenglangxing. It was also the Mid-Autumn Festival, and she was tutoring Sheng Langxing with her English homework. Seeing that she had no place to go, Aunt Sheng invited her to stay at home for lunch.

Lin Zhi was naturally unwilling to do so. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the family had a meal to reunite, so why did she stay as an outsider? So she immediately refused, but she couldn't bear Aunt Sheng's warm invitation, and finally left after lunch.

Since then, Aunt Sheng will ask Sheng Langxing to contact her every Mid-Autumn Festival and ask her if she wants to come over for lunch. Aunt Xu Shisheng saw through her loneliness, but she didn't say it directly. She only comforted her silently in this way.

"Lin Zhi, Lin Zhi," Sheng Langxing on the other end of the phone couldn't wait for Lin Zhi's answer for a long time and was a little impatient. "Are you listening? Do you want to come for lunch?"

Lin Zhi pursed her lips, trying her best to suppress the sadness in her heart, and tried to make her voice sound normal: "I won't go. Please have a good time as a family during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Say hello to my uncle and aunt for me."

Lin Zhi had no reason to go. Besides, her mind was now filled with the scene of intimacy between Gu Qingbei and Jiang Nianchu she had seen before, and she was afraid that her inability to regulate her emotions would affect others.

"Yes." Sheng Langxing on the other end of the phone seemed a little unhappy, he responded calmly and hung up the phone.

Listening to the busy signal coming from the receiver of the mobile phone, Lin Zhi sighed softly. His temper was still so willful and had not changed at all.

After hanging up the phone, Lin Zhi no longer felt sleepy. She got up and went to the computer to find an American TV series to watch.

About an hour later, Lin Zhi suddenly heard the doorbell ringing. She was wondering who would knock on the door at this time when Xia Xiyue went out, when she suddenly received a text message on her phone.

 Sheng Langxing: [I'm at your door, open the door. ]

 At her doorstep? Now?

 Why did he come suddenly?

Before Lin Zhi had time to think, there was another knock on the door. This time it was more anxious than before, and it was accompanied by Sheng Langxing's extremely impatient voice: "Lin Zhi, open the door."

Lin Zhi hurriedly put on her slippers and came to the living room. As soon as the door opened, she saw Sheng Langxing walking straight into the house with his hands full of things.

 "Why are you here? And you brought so many things. What are these?"

Sheng Langxing threw the things in his hands on the coffee table indifferently: "I don't know, my mother prepared it, you can see for yourself."

Lin Zhi poured him a glass of water and bent down to sort out the various bags brought by Sheng Langxing.

There are mooncakes, fruits, snacks, and even steamed and carefully sealed hairy crabs in dining boxes...

 There are many kinds, everything is available.

Lin Zhi's eyes turned red before she knew it. In this huge capital, there were only a few people who were really kind to her. Sometimes the relationship without blood is even more real than the so-called blood relationship.

 "Thank you, thank you auntie."

"Thank me, I'll accept it. As for thanking auntie, you'd better tell her in person." Sheng Langxing still had a cynical tone, and his eyes never left the phone when he spoke.

After a while, he didn't wait for Lin Zhi's reply before he realized something was strange. He raised his eyes and happened to meet her pair of peach blossom eyes filled with water vapor. He was suddenly confused: "What's wrong with you? It's just some fruit snacks, you don't need it." Are you moved to tears?"

Lin Zhi's long eyelashes trembled, and she quickly hid her deep emotions in her heart: "It's okay, anyway, I just want to thank you. There have been too many things going on recently, and I will definitely go and thank Auntie in person in the future."

 "Yeah." Sheng Langxing noticed that she was in a bad mood, so he didn't ask any more questions.