Chapter 28 - Milky: I’ll save myself. (2/2)

That was the purple peony flower that he had raised, and was also specifically ordered by the big boss. It was known for being easy to raise, and he had delivered it some time ago. Now that the flowering period had ended and the flower was wilting, he couldn’t help but feel his heart hurt.

Uncle Zhao trailed behind him, followed his line of sight and gave a dull ‘ah’.

Lin Mu went in closer to look at it, and felt that it could still be saved.

As a matter of routine, every time Lin Mu sent flowers over, he would help the big bosses take care of the flowers for free. This time was no exception.

Lin Mu slowly fiddled with the plants in the viewing room one by one and Uncle Zhao followed behind him, earnestly learning what to do.

He wasn’t a stranger to this scene, but Lin Mu felt that it didn’t make any difference.

Anyways, once the big boss went out on a business trip and came back to the viewing room, he would most probably have forgotten how to take care of these flowers and plants.

Lin Mu cut the last flower branch, and just as he placed down the tool, he caught some movement from the main gate and said, “Uncle Zhao, I have to have heard the doorbell.”

The viewing room was far from the house and the main door, and Uncle Zhao didn’t hear anything.

“Then I’ll go check.” Uncle Zhao felt that this time round, he had definitely remembered how to take care of these flowers and plants, so he pushed open the door of the viewing room and went straight for the main door.

Lin Mu also followed behind him, planning to leave at the same time.

Uncle Zhao opened the door and a figure came in like the wind. He looked like he was in a hurry, and his mouth shot out the words, “Old Zhao, Old Zhao, help me to transfer my paintings. The old man is coming to confiscate them!”

He froze for two seconds, but didn’t respond to the person who rushed in. Instead, Uncle Zhao turned his head to glance at Lin Mu then took back his gaze and gave a warning glance at the person who had rushed in.

The man followed his gaze and looked towards Lin Mu, then suddenly froze.

Lin Mu also froze. He looked at the man for a while, then looked at Uncle Zhao and nodded his head towards the two of them. “I’ll be going first,” he said calmly.

Under the silent gaze of the two men, Lin Mu walked out of the yard and left on his small electric scooter.

After he had left, the two middle-aged men in the yard looked at each other, and showed a troubled expression together.

“No, why didn’t didn’t you tell me that Xiao Mu was here?” Lin Hongsheng took the lead in speaking.

Uncle Zhao, who didn’t intend to take the blame, snorted, “oh? You’re calling him Xiao Mu now? I haven’t seen you take care of him for so many years.”

Lin Hongsheng choked, then took out a cigarette as he quietly whispered, “how could I? That old man’s keeping an eye on me everyday after his retirement.”

“Humph, corward.” Uncle Zhao scolded, “two brothers aren’t even as brave as a young lady, useless!”

Lin Hongsheng blew out a puff of smoke but didn’t refute it.

Within the three Lin children, Lin Xueji, the second child, was indeed the most courageous one.

Father Lin had a strong desire for control.

In the past, the eldest brother, Lin Hongkuo, had excellent physical fitness and was selected by the national team and wanted to get involved with sports. The old man had directly broken his legs and forced him to study business.

Lin Hongsheng, the third brother, grew up with his sister and liked to draw. His brother and sister took the money they saved from work and quietly gave it to their brother for him to learn painting, and after it was discovered by that old man, all three siblings had been beaten up and made to kneel for one night, then Lin Hongsheng was forced to go and study politics.

Lin Xueji, his older sister, was the only one who resisted to the end. Every single time her hobby of fiddling with flowers was suppressed by Father Lin, she would fight with him once.

The Lin family’s children had no pocket money, but Lin Hongkuo’s mind was flexible, and he borrowed some money from his classmates and made some small business, saving money to support his hobbies and his brother’s hobbies.

The eldest brother felt that he was doomed, but his younger brother and sister still could fight.

In the end, during high school, Lin Xueji was brought out by their father on several occasions to set up a betrothal, and became so angry that she changed the business studies that her father had filled up the form with and went straight to botany.

She also didn’t plan to take business studies after university and followed her mentors into the wild everyday, escaping from her blind dates quite a few times. She ran and ran, until she ran back with a kid.

Afterwards, there wasn’t any afterwards.

The two Lin family brothers didn’t even get to see their sister a last time, let alone attend her funeral.

Every time the brothers wanted to go and see their nephew, they had to do so secretly.

“What’s the point of living your days like this?” Uncle Zhao asked.

“It doesn’t mean anything, and we’re just waiting for the old man to die.” Lin Hongsheng smoked a cigarette and sighed, “okay, don’t speak about these anymore. If you had such a father, you wouldn’t be in a better situation than to me.”

Uncle Zhao stopped talking, and turned to help Lin Hongsheng move all the paintings in his house over.

Lin Mu exited the community, stopped on the side of the road and froze for a long time, then found his phone and sent a message to Mentor Tan, asking him if Uncle Zhao was a customer he had introduced.

It was rare that the reply came so quickly, and it said that he didn’t know him.

But when Uncle Zhao first found him, he said he was introduced to him by Old Tan.

Lin Mu took in a deep breath and pressed his lips together. His mood was rather complicated.

That man who looked like he had a good relation with Uncle Zhao, according to blood relations, was his uncle, Lin Hongsheng.

Lin Mu thought of Uncle Zhao’s reaction and looked at Mentor Tan’s reply on his mobile phone.

He wasn’t stupid. At this point, he understood who had introduced Uncle Zhao, who had always taken care of his business, to him — one could even say he took extra care of him under somebody’s request.

But Lin Mu couldn’t understand.

When his mother had left, other than his grandfather, his two uncles didn’t even appear.

Now, they were acting like some sort of good person.

“……”

How annoying.

Lin Mu placed his cell phone back in his pocket and stopped thinking about the matter as he silently rode back home on his small electric scooter.

Lin Mu’s mood wasn’t good.

The little monsters were squatting together, and they looked as Lin Mu greeted them very calmly, then went up the stairs without any expression. They turned to each other and finally pushed Milky to the front.

The Ginseng Baby cheered for him in a childish tone, “go Milky! He raised you for a thousand days, just for this day!”6

The potato who looked like a youth said in a very serious tone, “previously, when I watched a video, humans said that fluffy things would help with healing emotions.”

“That’s right, that’s right!”

“Lin Mu’s also half a human.”

The two mimosas said one by one and in sync.

Yan Xuanjing turned to look at the four little monsters, and walked up the stairs under their eager looks.

Then, Lin Mu mercilessly shut him out of his mother’s workshop.

“……”

Milky looked at the door that almost hit him on the nose, went silent for two seconds and turned to go down the stairs.

Looks like Milky was useless.

So Yan Xuanjing had to be called in to save the scene.

The author has this to say:

Milky: I’ll save myself.