Silent Era - Chapter 12
Chapter 12
The weather in Shanghai has not been very good recently. It rained heavily for half a month some time ago, and the high temperature has continued in recent days. You can sweat out of the air for a few minutes. On Saturday, God was finally kind. The weather was cloudy and windy, barely a good climate.
Bai Sihuan and Lin Heng came back from walking their dog outside and saw Lin Huan talking and laughing with Cheng Sutang in the living room. This scene was so rare that Bai Sihuan thought she was dizzy.
Lin Heng looked much calmer, standing not far away and calling out “Dad, Mom” in an orderly manner, and Bai Sihuan hurriedly followed and greeted.
Cheng Sutang nodded towards Lin Heng, smiled kindly, glanced at Bai Sihuan casually, and gathered a smile to arrange her clothes.
Lin Huan leaned on the sofa smoking a cigarette and said to them, “Are you back? Just in time, I have something to tell you.”
The two walked up one after the other, Lin Huan shook his cigarette ashes and said, “Your eldest brother is coming back in the evening. Next week, we will all go out for dinner together in the wild. Then Mr. Zhu and the others will go together. You ah, when you see your elders, you have to look a little, you know?”
Lin Heng smiled like a well-behaved child: “I know.”
Bai Sihuan’s eyes glared, stunned, and thought in his heart, since he came to the Lin family, he has not let his elders take him out. This dinner has to be with a person like Mr. Zhu, Cheng Sutang is even willing to let him go?
Lin Shuo ignored Bai Sihuan’s daze, and then ordered Lao Pei: “By the way, Lao Pei, you take Sihuan to fit better clothes.”
Old Pei nodded yes, ready to take Bai Sihuan out to customize the costume.
Lin Heng glanced at them and quickly came up and put his arm around Bai Sihuan’s shoulder: “I’m going too!” He turned his head and said to Bai Sihuan in a low voice, “You want me to choose your clothes.”
Cheng Sutang frowned and called out, “Ah Heng.”
She didn’t like Lin Heng and Bai Sihuan being together, but before she could stop her, Lin Huan said, “Okay, you young people understand young people better. Let’s go together.”
Cheng Sutang snorted and stopped talking.
La Bella is a high-end clothing custom store that customizes unique pure handmade clothing according to customer requirements.
The person who measured Bai Sihuan was a little girl, who spoke softly and carried a faint fragrance on her body. Bai Sihuan had never been in contact with such a girl, and was somewhat shy. As soon as she approached Bai Sihuan, the roots of Bai Sihuan’s ears turned red. The little girl asked a few words in his ear, and his face immediately turned red like a steamer.
Lin Heng sat on the sofa and looked more and more uncomfortable. He said in displeasure: “Just measure the size. Is there so much to say?”
Seeing that Lin Heng was unhappy, the little girl smiled and closed her mouth knowingly, and stopped talking to Bai Sihuan.
When measuring the bra, the little girl’s hands accidentally touched Bai Sihuan’s chest. Lin Heng stood up directly and asked, “Where to touch?”
The little girl retracted her hand, her polite smile oozing a few words of speech, as if she wanted to jump out from the corner of her mouth a “Where are you looking”. But she didn’t dare to do this, and just said politely, “Isn’t that what measurements are all about? Young Master Heng, you come often, you know these steps best.”
The displeasure on Lin Heng’s face did not diminish. He raised his eyebrows and asked her, “Did you just measure clearly?”
The little girl’s hand froze, her smile a little awkward: “You just cried to me. I didn’t look carefully. I have to weigh it again.”
“You have to measure your efficiency until dawn?” Lin Heng stretched out his hand, “Give me the measuring tape, I’ll do it.”
The little girl chuckled and offered the measuring tape with her hands.
Lin Heng went up to measure Bai Sihuan’s bra. His hands were more polite than the little girl’s. I don’t know if he meant it intentionally or unintentionally, but he touched everything he could. Bai Sihuan trembled, gritted her teeth and asked him in a low voice, “Where did you touch?”
Lin Heng said nonchalantly, “Didn’t you listen to her? The measurements are all like this.”
Bai Sihuan was speechless, and the little girl laughed and wiped the cold sweat from her forehead.
After measuring the size, referring to the silhouette, and setting the requirements in the clothing store, the two got home and it was almost nine o’clock. Just five minutes after entering the door, Lin Siying came back in a dusty state.
Seeing Lin Siying back, Bai Sihuan’s eyes lit up and she shouted with joy, “Brother!”
Strangely, this time Lin Siying did not show the same enthusiasm and kindness towards Bai Sihuan as before. She said “um” perfunctorily, threw the backpack to the maid, and asked Lin Heng, who was standing next to Bai Sihuan, “What about mom?”
“In the garden on the second floor,” Lin Heng said.
Siu-ying Lin went straight upstairs without looking back.
Lin Heng seemed to know what Lin Siying was looking for Cheng Sutang for. Looking at his back as he went upstairs, his expression slowly became serious.
Cheng Sutang sat under a garden parasol on the second floor, holding a Turkish Sanskrit cat gifted by foreign personnel stationed in China. On the table was a bottle of foreign wine, a bucket of ice cubes, and an empty wine glass.
Lin Siying stood in front of Cheng Sutang and shouted, “Mom.”
Cheng Sutang looked at the epiphyllum in front of her that was about to bloom, instead of looking at Lin Siying: “Are you back?”
Lin Siying stood motionless and did not speak, looking awkwardly at Sister Xu who was standing beside Cheng Sutang.
Cheng Sutang knew what Lin Siying was thinking without even looking at his expression. He motioned to Sister Xu and said, “Sister Xu, you are tired too. I don’t need anyone here.”
Sister Xu understood what she meant and left immediately.
After Sister Xu left, Lin Siying opened her mouth and asked, “What happened to Ah Yan?”
Cheng Sutang couldn’t help but take a deep breath and put the cat on the ground. She wiped her hands with a wet handkerchief, and while pouring herself wine, she said, “Ayan? How long ago was this? Why are you asking this?”
“Ha, how long ago it happened, I actually know now, why am I asking this now?” Lin Siying said, she also found it funny, “Did I know now, or did you let me know now? I If I didn’t let my friends help me repair my phone, I still didn’t know that I had been intercepted so many messages!”
Cheng Sutang seemed not to want to go around in circles with him, turning the wine glass in her hand: “What do you want to ask? You might as well ask it clearly tonight.”
With these words, the fire in Lin Siying’s heart could no longer be held back. He half-accusedly asked the powerful mother: “When the eldest sister was here, you said that the eldest sister had to pay for the Lin family. After the eldest sister left, you said that I had to pay for the Lin family. Well, we listen to you, we were all forced on this road, we were forced to leave. Then you told me there would be no next one, and now it’s Ah Yan’s turn? Who will be the next one? What can you say, Ah Heng?
Cheng Sutang finished a glass of wine, threw the glass heavily on the table, turned to Lin Siying and asked angrily, “How did you talk to me? I thought your eldest sister didn’t understand me, you would understand me, but I didn’t expect you to be the same!” She patted her chest and said, “Who am I doing this for? Isn’t it for the Lin family? Isn’t it for you children and grandchildren? Is it for myself?!”
“Isn’t it for yourself! You make a deal with your own daughter, use your son as a scapegoat. After the eldest sister’s matter was exposed, you designed the eldest sister to marry a scumbag in order not to affect your reputation The money from outside is not clean, so I can stand in front of you as your shield.
The eldest son, who always smiled gently and giggled on weekdays, suddenly broke out tonight and said everything he should and should not say. Cheng Sutang felt nervously stimulated and his breath was not good: “What’s going on with you tonight? As soon as you came back, you kept nagging. You and Kingsley are often together, why haven’t you learned anything about others? What’s going on now!”
“Yeah, I’m not as good as Kingsley. I can’t watch my family being pushed into the fire pit and pretend not to know! You’ve said time and time again that there’s no next one, what about Ayan? What’s going on with Ayan!”
Seeing that he was getting more and more agitated, Cheng Sutang knew that if she continued like this, she would have to scold the whole family. She took a deep breath, forced herself to regain her composure, and said the truth that she thought she had a clear conscience: “I didn’t design Ayan to marry a scumbag, I didn’t let her be my scapegoat. She didn’t want this family herself and ran away on her own.”
Lin Siying laughed dryly and asked back, “You didn’t let her marry a scumbag, so did you sell her to a scumbag?”
These words immediately angered Cheng Sutang. She immediately showed her majesty at home, glared at him and cursed, “What crazy are you talking about? After all, you are studying abroad, and you don’t know the importance of your words?”
In the past, Lin Siying, who would immediately retreat when her mother was angry, did not make any compromise this time. He looked directly into Cheng Sutang’s eyes, as if he insisted on an accurate answer.
Cheng Sutang had no choice but to rub his sun and said, “You’re tired. Go back and have a good rest. Don’t mention these things again. In short, Mom assures you that nothing like this will happen again from now on. Ah Heng and that woman’s son will be fine.”
Lin Siying was silent for half a minute, and after thinking deeply, she decided to step back: “You’d better keep your word this time.”
He turned to leave the garden, and when Cheng Sutang looked ahead again, the epiphyllum had been in full bloom for a while, missing the best period long ago. Cheng Sutang stared at it, watching it slowly wither.